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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 14, 1937)
OEO “ Tropic Nightmare ” By FLOYD GIBBON'S SHIPWRECKED on the African coast! That’s the theme of the story that Christian Brodersen of Valley Stream, N. Y., is going to tell us today. And though a tale of ship wreck usually involves a battle with the sea and a grim fight against thirst and starvation, you’ll find that none of those dangers bothered Chris. Shipwreck is one thing—but shipwreck on the African coast is another, involving perils far more horrible than anything Old Father Neptune has to offer. It was on May 25, 1903, that Chris Brodersen signed as a messroom steward on the steamer Lulu Bohlen sailing out of Hamburg, Germany, for the west coast of Africa. After an uneventful trip with stops at Madeira and Palma in the Canary islands, the ship arrived at Mon rovia, Liberia, on June 16. There they took on 40 Kroo boys and sailed that same afternoon for Cape Palmas on the Liberian coast. But the ship never reached Cape Palmas—arid neither did any of the crew. On the Rocks, Twenty Miles Off Shore. At 11:30 that night the Lulu Rohlen ran on the rocks, 20 miles out from shore, ofT the mouth of the Sanguien river. They didn't know it then, but fires lighted by the treacherous natives had led the ship off its course, and they were in for trouble. The passengers, including about 40 women and children, took off in boats manned by most of the crew. The captain, second officer, chief steward and a few others remained behind on the wrecked ship. Following the captain’s instructions, the boats headed for the trading post at River Cess, 60 miles away. They drifted all night close by the steame- and started for River Cess at daybreak. They reached it that evening—to find that the natives had already started looting the Lulu Bohlen and had part of the cargo drawn up on shore near the post. From that moment on, life was a horrible grisly dream for the pas sengers and crew of the wrecked ship. The minute the boats were beached they were surrounded by a horde of natives, who snatched the small belongings the passengers had saved from the wreck and vanished with them into the bush. It was only with difficulty that they reached the protection of the trading post stockade, and even then the natives threatened until the trader gave them gin to keep them quiet. Week of Terror at the Post. "The natives swarmed around the post day and night,” says Chris. "We had to watch our boats incessantly, as they kept try ing to smash them to prevent us from getting away. After about two days, some of the crew started back to the ship to get the captain and those who had remained with him. That left only 16 of the crew to protect the women and children. And never in my life shall 1 forget the week that followed.” Day by day the natives became more restive and more threatening. Again and again the trader gave them more gin to keep them from attacking the post and slaughtering its inhabitants. Anyone who ven tured outside the gates now, was stripped of all his belongings and The Boats Were Surrounded by a llordc of Natives. whatever of his clothes took fancy of the blacks. When the gin gave out, the trader was forced to part with other articles of his stock. Before the week had passed he had lost everything he owned. And still the natives threatened and demanded more. Things had come to a critical point. The natives, with no prospect of more loot from the trading post, were about to attack and slaughter those inside. Then, in the nick of time, a German steamer, the Kurt Woermann, hove in sight. Inside the post, the trader ran up the distress signal—the company tlag, turned upside down and tied in a knot—and the steamer sent a landing party to investigate. Rest of Crew Found in Sud State. The Kurt Woermann took passengers and crew of the Lulu Bohlen aboard, and then proceeded down the coast to look for the rest of the , crew—those who had set out in one of the boats to bring back the captain •»nd those others who had remained behind on the wrecked ship. “We sighted them,” says Chris, “about 30 miles from the wreck, and the landing party that went after them found them In terrible state. They had barely got outside of the river mouth when their boat was wreeked in a heavy surf. They swam to shore, only to be met by a crowd of natives, who followed them, stole everything they had, including most of their clothes. Some of the natives even bit the plumper ones in the arms and chest until the more civilized blacks drove them off.” Those fellows never had reached the Lulu Bohlen. They had fol lowed the shore line for more than a week, walking first, then stag gering and close to exhaustion. For the entire time they had had nothing to eat, for their supplies had been lost when the boat over turned in the surf. The steamer Kurt Woermann proceeded on down the coast. When it reached the scene of the wreck, they found the Lulu Bohlen, her keel broken in the middle and her decks awash, but no sign of the captain, the mate, chief steward, or any of the rest. The Kurt Woermann moved on down the coast. At Sinoe, they found the captain, but none of the others. The captain had paid two natives to take them to Sinoe in a canoe. That was the last he had seen of them. “They found the missing men at last in a native kraal,” says Chris. “Instead of taking them to Sinoe, the blacks in the canoe had put them on shore at the mercy of other natives. They barely escaped being made into pepper soup. We got back to Germany about the end of July, and a month later British, French and German gunboats shelled the coast villages to punish the natives for wrecking ships—and for cannibalism!” C—WNU Service. Aphasia Aphasia is lack of speech. It may be due to a local trouble, but is usually due to a disorder in some of the brain centers. Very often it is psychic or hysterical in its cause. It is this type of person who under great excitement sud denly regains the power to speak. It may be due to a motor defect which makes it impossible to speak so that one can be understood. Sometimes, according to an author ity in the Washington Star, the patient becomes unable to recall sounds. Aphasia may be due to an abscess or tumor on the brain, or a rupture of a blood vessel. It may be due to some form of paralys s or toxemia. “Bravest cf the Brave” Michel Ney was born in Saarlouis, France, in 1769. the son of a coop er. Entering the army in 1788 as general of brigade in 1796 and dis tinguished himself by bravery in the wars of the revolution and of the empire. He earned for himself from Napoleon’s army and from Na poleon himself the title of the brav est of the brave. When Napoleon abdicated in 1814, Ney attached himself to Louis XVIII, but on the former’s return from Elba he joined his old master and commanded the Old Guard at Waterloo. On the sec ond return of the Royalists to pow er, he was arrested, tried by his peers and shot on December 15, 1815. Glory Vs. Undernourishment. SANTA MONICA, CALIF.— Because their dictators are piling up armaments and building up armies at a rate unprecedented, the German people must, it appears, go on rations, cutting down their daily consumption of foodstuffs and fats, with the prospect of still more strin gent restrictions. But their overlords—a reasonably well-nourished lot, to judge by their photographs — keep right on preaching that such compul sory undernourish ment is all for the greater glory of the vaterland. I know of but one historic parallel to match this. It is to be found in Mother Goose, where it is poetically set forth: There was a piper had a cow Irvin S. Cobb And he had naught to give her So he pulled out his pipes and played her a tune And bade the cow consider. • • • Signs of Disapproval. /"V NCE, in Montana, I heard two cowboys talking about the fath er of the sweetheart of one of them. “I’ve got a kind of a sneaking idea that Millie's paw don’t care deeply for me," said the lover. “What makes you think so—some thing he said?” “No, because he don't never say nothing to me, just sniffs. But the other night I snuck over there to see Millie, and, as I was coming away, I happened to look back and the old man was shoveling my tracks out of the front yard.” The archbishop of Canterbury is likely to wake up any morning and find the British public shoveling his tracks out of the front yards. International “Messifications. ’* TUST about the time the contest ** ing groups in Spain lose the twenty or thirty confusing names the correspondents have hung on them and resolve themselves into the army that’s going to take Ma drid not later than 3 o’clock tomor row afternoon and the army that’s going to keep Madrid until the cows come home, a fresh complication breaks out in China. General Chang gets into a mixup with General Chi ang, possibly on the ground that he’s a typographical error, and the red forces of the north get all twist ed up with the white army of the north and the pink army of the north by northeast and so on and so forth, until the special writers run out of colors. Just one clear point stands out of the messification. When the dust clears away some small brown brothers wearing the Japanese uni form will be found sitting on top of the heap. China’s poison is Nip pon’s meat, every pop. • » • Rationalizing the Calendar. THE plan to adopt a rational cal endar is finding favor in admin istration circles at Washington, as in European countries. Every time this proposition — which is so sensible and seemingly unattainable—bobs up, 1 think of the little story of the venerable Ala bama pessimist who dropped into the general store just in time to hear the proprietor reading aloud from the newspaper that the proj ect for thirteen months of twenty eight days each had been laid for consideration before the League of Nations. 'Tm ag’in’ it,” declared the aged one. “It'd be jest my luck for that extry month to come in the win ter time and ketch me short of fodder.” • • • Stunts in the Films. FOR ordinary Him stunts, current prices are: Tree fall, $25; stair fall, $50 (each additional flight, $35); head-on auto crash, $200; parachute jump, $150; mid-air plane change, $200; high dive, $75; being knocked down by auto, $75 being knocked down by locomotive, $100; trick horse rid ing, $125; crashing a plane, $1,500. It doesn't cost a cent, though, for practically every slightly shopworn leading man, on or of! the screen, to crave to play "Hamlet” on the stage. But it is almost invariably expensive for the producers who occasionally satisfy these morbid cravings. IRVIN S. COBB. © Western Newspaper Union. Our Early Watches The first watches were produced in all sorts of fanciful designs, with cases shaped like crosses or shells or mandolins, says a writer in the Washington Star. A peculiar fash ion was that of a watch-case shaped like a skull, to remind the owner when he looked at it that time was fleeting and death was drawing near. The lovely and unlucky Mary Queen of Scc*> had a skull-shaped watch, and in view of her death on the headsman's block it was gruesomely appropriate. Cavaliers had swords and poniards with little watches set into the hilts. Glamorous Is the New Lingerie By CHERIE NICHOLAS f^OR the fair sex nothing so strikes * the right note as beautiful lin gerie. Seeing lovely "undies,” and coveting, is akin to that feeling one has in a garden of flowers, to add another and yet another to one’s bouquet plucked from among na ture’s loveliest. Just so does the eternal feminine in us keep longing for one more and one more of the delectably colorful lace - trimmed silken nighties, slips, pantie sets, negligees, cunning bed-jackets and others such as designers are this season placing before the enrap tured eyes of beauty-seeking wom ankind. Even so, the esthetic viewpoint is but half the story, for there is a practical side to the question that those skilled in the art of dress keep ever in mind, namely, a cos tume to be fashion-correct and of comely appearance must build from the foundation up. Wherefore, it is as important to have a wardrobe of lingerie as of outer apparel. Which is why creators of modern lingerie are devoting so much of time and talent, thought and study to the fashioning of under garments that because of their perfection of lines and subtle fit, act as "flrst-aid” toward the charm and style-right ness of one’s costume. The nightgowns this season are nothing if not glamorous. Rich fab rics and colors, beautiful finishes end elaborate lace trimmings mark them with distinction. Mostly they are satin, but you do see some of crept and silk ninon and georgette. Slips, too, are reflecting the in terest in the daintier garments and gone are the utterly tailored effects. They are carefully fitted of course and even when they are not elaborately lace-trimmed as so many are, they still have details olj lace and net trimmings, of tiny edgings of val lace to appeal to the well-groomed lady. There are all manner of negli gees and hostess gowns. The satin ones, lavish with lace, are easily the most popular this season. Bed jackets of all shapes and types are more fascinating than ever. Some are made in cape design and tie loosely in front. The model shown in the center inset is of allover lace with wide satin border front. In a way this charming little cape bed-jacket might be classed with the so called lingerie accessories which Paris designers are advocat ing this season. Such, for instance, is the “bib” to be worn over night dresses. It is a grand gift item for a convalescent or in valid. It’s a frilly lace front piece to slip on at a moment’s notice over the “nightie.” The one pictured in| the upper inset is done in circular ruffles of lace with ribbon ties about the throat. It is said that it is becoming quite a fad to make your own lingerie accessories. Describing the lovely gowns pic tured, the one to the left is of shell pink satin with deep appliqued yoke of Alencon lace in the new light ecru shade which is so good this season. The lovely skirt edge, with its lace slit up the front, features the new trend toward fine details. Soft yellow is used for the in teresting nightdress on the seated figure with its diagonal neckline and one-side shoulder strap. The lace motifs applied are carried out also in the matching slip and panties which form the perfect ensemble, © Western Newspaper Union. CHANTILLY DRESS Uv ('llKillK NICHOLAS Nothing is so flattering, so "new” for dressing up in the afternoon and going on for the evening date as the simple, painstakingly tailored dress of black Chantilly. This dress has the street-length skirl which is so much more popular this year than the cocktail dresses of other seasons. It is especially youthful in design, but is as good for the young matron as for the college girl. Note the little flared pockets which add to the tailored effect. SILKS FOR SPRING STRESS HIGH COLOR Edward Molyneux, style author ity. predicts a riot of color for spring. In monotones as in prints, color is the watchword. A wide range of blue tones is being accented in spring silks. Misty blues and strong purple blues are new, and the middle tones of blue also register. Purple is new ly accented. The capucine range is an impor tant one, highlighting glowing yel low - orange and pumpkin tones. Henna and horsechestnut rank high, with the former striking a new note for evening. A hint of ashes-of-roses overlays the copper range as it is interpreted for resort and spring 1937. Brownish gold is another im portant tone to watch. Beige and other neutral tones are expected to prove important, as a contrast to the vivid color ranges. The red range ranks high. Cherry red, cerise, ashes-of-roses, mauve pink and pale mauve red are lead ing tones. A wide range of green tones in cludes bright yellow green, tur quoise green, reseda green and strong hues. Ten New Hosiery Shades Offered for Next Spring Ten new hosiery shades for next spring are shown in the ad vance hosiery color card just re leased by the Textile Color Card association to its members. The ten colors are: Glamour, a sparkling golden tone; carib, a cop pery hue with a rosy glow; cubatan a new “leather” type of tan; Dal matia; a radiant copper; planza, beige, a warm light beige; swanky, a subtle medium beige; Kona, a lively dark beige; noonday, a sub dued grayish beige; avenue, a me dium neutral beige, and moondusk, a medium grey of taupe cast Simple, Practical Frocks 1206 WE WHERE, oh where is the feminine wardrobe that wouldn’t take o n momentum through the addition of just these three simple, wearable frocks? Surely like the Model T, it would be hard to find. And the thrilling thing — the important feature — is that these frocks are planned and patterned exclusively for the modern woman who sews—for you, a member of The Sewing Circle. Pattern 1914 is a house dress with a future. It is young and practical. The new notched col lar, ending as it does in twin scallops below the yoke line, gives the waist front balance and brightness. The bodice is slightly fulled to make this a comfortable style to work in as well as one that is attractive to look at. The skirt is slim lined and simple— as you would have it. Use dimity, dotted swiss or gingham for this number. Designed for sizes: 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46 and 48. Size 36 requires 3% yards of 35 inch material. Pattern 1989 is the polite young model caught with its back this way, perhaps the better to show off the beautiful shoulders and chicest - of - chic descending lines. You’ll run-up this frock in short order but you’ll wear it endlessly and with that happy confidence which only a style with distinc tion can give. Make it of rasp berry wool crepe and trim the collar, cuffs and hem with royal blue. Pattern 1989 comes in sizes 14, 16, 18 and 20 (32 to 42 bust). Size 16 requires 3 yards of 54 inch material with 5 yards of braid for trimming. Pattern 1206 is a most attractive newcomer to the blouse ’n’ skirt category. An alliance of this sort brings glamour and romance to the gay wearer. Gold or silver metallic cloth, or, perhaps shim mering satin for the blouse with a skirt of velvet will make a mil lion dollar outfit. Make it yours in a couple of hours. It is available in sizes 14, 16, 18 and 20 (32 to 42 bust). Size 16 requires 2Vs yards of 39 inch material for the blouse and 2^ yards for the skirt. The blouse with long sleeves requires 2% yards 39 inches wide. A detailed sewing chart accom panies each pattern to guide you every step of the way. Send for the Barbara Bell Fall and Winter Pattern Book contain ing 100 well - planned, easy - to make patterns. Exclusive fash ions for children, young women, and matrons. Send fifteen cents in coins for your copy. Send your order to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept., Room 1020, 211 W. Wacker Dr., Chicago, 111. Patterns 15 cents (in coins) each. © Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. 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