The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 29, 1929, Page 10

eee FRA2ke ere £90 QUREU QHRRR 8Sase2 BOW BATS et 2USUYAS BSBSeReaad QuAZeAEA BGEEEOS BQ4g Se2eR ee : IN NEW YORK Service, toured South America with the Hoover party. Here is another of his interesting obser- vations in Latin America. oe Washington, Jan. 29.—Buenos Aires ts to the Argentine what New York would be to the United States if there were no Chicago, no Philadelphia, no Boston, no St. Louis, no Detroit and no San Francisco. Government, banking, social life and the handling of Argentina's great srops all center here. The city is both so large and so important in this part of the world that it is only possible to offer a disconnected series of obser- vations to suggest its points of dif- ference and similarity with our own metropolitan centers. The Hoover party's visit, attracted plenty of attention, but less than Asewhere and the real excitement through the city at the time con- cerned the big 2,000,000-peso Christ- mas lottery. Argentinians are great spenders and great gamblers. Presi- dent Irigoyen theoretically has stop- ped lotteries and other gambling in Buenos Aires province (a separate Political entity) and has broken up enough roulette games at the fashion- able resort of Mar del Plata to send many addicts over to the tables of Montevideo in Uruguay. But all through the Argentine there is an ‘r:mense amount of betting on every- -hing conceivable. The government itself operates lot- teries in Buenos Aires, clearing up to a million pesos a month for the bene- fit of various public institut: There's also an unofficial lottery, ex- tremely popular though it costs 1000 pesos to be caught playing it. If you pick the last figure of the winning number the lottery pays eight times the size of your bet and if you pick the last number you get 80 times your money. All bootblacks, bellboys and other urchins seem to be engaged in promoting this illicit lottery. Mean- while many of the big clubs live on gambling rakeoffs rather than dues. Huge sums change hands at the ultra- exclusive Jockey Club. Argentine business men are de- seribed as great gamblers, often set- A LETTER FROM BETTY= AT DOES SHE WANT THIS TIME o, WHAT'S THIS ¢ WAVE READ OF YOUR COMING MARRIAGE — AND WHEN You READ ‘THIS - THE BODY OF YOUR WIFE AND CHILD WiLL BE AY THE BOTTOM OF THE RIVER= WHERE WE { MORE TROUB MOTHER ENDS ALL = LEAPS INTO RIVER WITH HER CHILD — SUICIDE ON SHE PART OF A DESPERATE WOMAN = WHO CHOSE Yo TAKE HER [77 Cun. WITH HER To & WATERY GRAVE = ting up an entire fortune against the hope of another. But no one sug- Bests that they aren't also shrewd. oe * | Spending habits of the people of Buenos Aires are quickly noted. It’s |a well dressed town with a large mid- dle class such as one often finds no traces of in other Latin-American cities. This middle class dresses as well or better than its corresponding jtype in the United States. Office jboys dress like young millionaires, sometimes spending nearly all their wages for clothes. Paris sets the styles for women | here, which means that there is no marked difference between fashions i displayed here and at home. Use of the pajama coat by the jlower class is a distinct phenomenon |here as well as throughout the Ar- \gentine. Hundreds of thousands of Argentines, apparently, wear the Pajama coat as substitute for both suit-coat and shirt. You can buy pajama coats without pajama pants and the only restrictions against them are social, although the man who is so indecent as to remove his best | woolen suit coat in a public street on | a hot day will find himself promptly | Freckles and His Friends Oscar Can't Let Them Spoil, By Blosser i arrested. oo 6 8 The leading newspapers, La Prensa and Nacion, often protest editorially at the pajama coat fashion, moaning that it has almost become “the na- tional dress.” But the Argentine be- low the middle class continues to favor it while he gives the razz to any foreigner who may arrive here jin plus fours, The big department stores, which often have as magnificent window displays as any in New York or Chi- cago, are operated by English inter- ests. Among other American arti- cles they sell our furniture, rubber goods, textiles and electrical goods of all kinds, Packard automobiles are frequently used for taxicabs and of the thou- sands of automobiles one never sees an old one. Argentines are too proud of appearances to appear with a car the least shabby. Hence, after a year or two, the average automobile is sold into the interior. There is no second- hand car market among the people of Buenos Aires. HOW TAS-TAG - HOM ThAAAG I! IS FRECKLES AT HONE? IF KE 1S TELL HIM TO COME MIGAT AS WELL EAT ‘EM OMMERWISE TABY'LL SPOIL WITH pehfig thee LUM By half past eight on Tuesday morning, Crystal Hathaway had fin- ished all the “work” connected with setting the stage for her “rescue” m “kidnappers.” She was locked a prison of her own making. The was ingeniously hidden between ‘ae eretonne lining and the leather bottom of her suitcase. The house ‘vas circled by those enormous foot- prints, and two broad trails of them lay between the front porch and the rook. She had forgotten nothing— hed even remembered to obliterate, with the big boots, the small foot- prints she had made the night before, between porch and pump and be- neath the window. She had lacked the courage to go all the way down the lane to the highway and back, squashing out little footprints with | big ones, but she told herself that the hard ruts of the lane, in which she | h-1 walked, would be rivulets of rain water by this time, and that all trace of her two trips up and down the lane ‘ould be washed away. She had not even forgotten to knot three of her little white hand- kerchiefs tdgether, to have them ready to exhibit later as the gag which her mythical kidnappers had “ased to silence her screams. Curled in the morris chair as near the fire as she could get, Crystal tried to read first one and then another of the three September magazines which her unwitting host, Peter Hol- liday, had left behind on his last | visit to his shack. But Peter Holli- day's tx-te was rather too highbrow for his guest. Crystal found little to interest hez in the three magazines, all of which were devoted to articles ° —_—_—$—<$$<<—$— New York, Jan. 29.—Through those romance-haunted auction rooms of Manhattan where “collector's items” fall “under the hammer,” stalk a strange assortment of long-dead his- Personages. ‘Thus, it {s no novelty to hear the al announce that this article has been sold to “Dumas” and that to “Napoleon” and the other to “Shake- speare.” Still others fall to myster- fous and anonymous personages, such as “the Doctor” or “Colonel Q.” It this seems queer—well, it is. answer is as simple as the solution of ; | Purchases under the disguise of “Mus- 3 JUST CAME FROM THE Braccs- \ = 1M GLAD To SEE You | LOOKING SO WELL . SUCH ME TO STAY WITH JUNIOR AND ROSY CHEEKS-MY. WHAT A THE LITTLE FELLOW LOOKED $0} | 1c) it : GETTING ONGR A TERRIBLE 2 CASE OF Cas) PALE I JUST COULDN'T HELP BUT CUDDLE AND KISS HIM on scientific discoveries. art and music. Finally, however, she did become morbidly | interested in a psycho-analyst’s dis- cussion of the inferiority complex. “The victim of the so-called in- feriority complex,” she read, “fre- | quently compensates by creating and living in a dream world, in which he is the hero of amazing adventures, all designed to bolster up his faltering ego and to make it possible for him to endure the painful business of liv- ing in a world which does not prop- erly appreciate him.” “That's me, all right,” Crystal ad- mitted. “I wonder if any other vic- tim of the inferiority complex ever kidnapped herself.” She read on: “An amazing example of the tortuous working of such a | mind came to light a few years ago in Los Angeles, when a young man com- mitted suicide in a hotel, after hav- ing elaborately set the stage to make | his suicide look like murder. His | bruised ego undoubtedly derived enor- mous pieasure in picturing the police hunt for his supposed murderess, and | Was not at all shocked by the knowl- ;edge that he had cunningly directed suspicion against his cousin, a beauti- {ful young girl who was actually larrested and subjected to hideous | publicity as a result of his madly ego- istic scheme.” Crystal dropped the book, startled, |shocked. Tt was exactly as if, the ; Z v article en written for and at ae A ; ‘ her. Would an innocent man be Q Y \21SSud arrested for her kidnapping? ccd mers on current events, politics, ELL ME Quick! Is TH’ Man WHO RUNS OUR LMP HERE? ou, YES He (st IT) Ceau? wecl, (r also HAPPENS THAT darren Saw Him 6o ue! NEXT: A frantic prayer, and a calamity. other rarities do not wish their iden- tities to become known. They protect their personalities for a number of reasons. Some do not care to be bothered by peddlers of all sorts of antiques; others fear thieves who might be out in search of some par- ticular items; still others do not care to be known as collectors and there are some who act as agents and do not wish their connections to be traced. It’s a quite mysterious busi- ness—this collecting of rare things. At one book auction kouse most of the bidders are merely clerks acting for some person whose identity may be known to a fev; other bidders—but they can’t always be sure. One mys- terlous and anonymous collector of rare Dumas manuscripts makes his keteer.” The most famous of the Lire egehing is, of course, “Dr. R.,” Means Dr. Rosenbach, one of the best known collectors in America. It was Variety, 1 believe.