Evening Star Newspaper, June 2, 1929, Page 50

10 SOCIAL REVOLUTION THREATENS GEORGIA Soviet Edict Banning Veils in Caucasian Republic Stirs Up Storm. A white veil attached to a black vel- vet band adorned with two artificial | curls is causing trouble in Georgia. This article of apparel s not worn as much as formerly in that part of the | Transcaucasian Federation of Soviet Republics, bat Tecent news dispatches tell of a miniature revolt there result- ing from a Soviet edict banning the wearing of veils by Georgian women “Georgia is famed for its beautiful women and picturesque men,” says a | bulletin_from the headquarters of the National Geographic Soclety. “The Georgian warrior is a tall, bold figure in his tightly belted, full-skirted coat, his poniard and a row of cartridge | cases across his chest. The farmers in their huge, sleeveless coats of lamb's wool, high’ astrakhan caps and bushy beards look like big bears, In the cities many of the Georgian women have adopted Western dress. However, silk stockings are not yet achieved, because even that luxury is beyond the Geor- | glan family’s income. East and West Mingle. “The ancient capital of Georgia was Mtskhet. The present capital of Georgia and the entire Transcaucasian republic is Tiflis. Eastern and West- ern architecture and customs vie here. Beside an electric street car one may see a befezzed Mohammedan from the mountains leisurely riding along on a tired looking horse with two long wick- er baskets of produce slung from either | side of his saddle. There are automo- | biles, but they have not supplanted the | droshkies, the old-fashioned horse cabs, | whose sole concession to modernity is the adoption of pneumatic rubber tires. Occasionally the two-humped Asiatic camels are seen on the streets “Tiflis has twentieth century build- ings of stone and concrete and a mod- | ern hotel. It also has old houses of baked mud with wavy roofs of red tiles. Efficient sales methods prevail in the large, up-to-date shops, but the spirit of the Orient permeates the bazaars of the native quarters, where Georgians, Armenians, Kirghiz and Persians, in tall felt turbans, make their purchases with traditional eastern leisureliness. “A Tiflis ice cream parlor may have for its patrons a Mongol woman with bound feet, wide blouse and_trousers, or a light-haired, blue-eyed Circassian girl in a middy blouse and plaid skirt. Bagpipes in Georgia. iflis and Batum, the latter an im- portant commercial port on the Black Sea coast, have accepted western inno- vations more readily than the rest of Georgia. Out in the less settled dis- tricts the farmers and shepherds have not changed their mode of living in a thousand years. A Scotchman travel- ing along a Georgian highway might think his mind was playing tricks on him upon hearing the first notes of a Georgian orchestra, have bagpipes, which they play with a Scotch martial swing, but their music has an unfamiliar oriental strain. Mandolins and drums complete the Jist of instruments in a Georgian orchestix. “The grapes of the Caucasus are famous and grape wines are most pop- ular, but koumiss, fermented mare's ilk, has many devotees. “An odd sight for visitors is the transportation of Georgian wine. It is poured into the hide of a buffalo through an opening in one leg, and when this leg is tied up the wine is ready for transportation. A wagon containing several of these inflated ‘casks’ looks as though its proper des- tination was a butcher shop and not a wine merchant’s store.” Plane Saves Light Keepers. During the last ice blockade in Meck- lenburg Bay, Germany, an airplafe was used to save the lives of lighthouse keepers at Warnemunde. The blockade marooned the men so that they could not obtain food. The government sent an_airplane to their relief with food and other materials which were dropped where the lighthouse tenders could get The Georgians | poy RCTIC TRIP LIKE The luxurious yacht Mizpah (above) will be used this Summer for exploring the Arctic region. (below) illustrates the elaborate appointments of the craft. EXPLORERS WILL USE | LUXURIOUS YACHT MacMillan-McDonald Party will| Visit Arctic Region in | Elaborate Craft. CHICAGO (#)—Eskimos of the Ar tic _and . sub-Arctic, accustomed to ex- | ploration parties, will have their ey opened this Summer when the Mac- Millan - McDonald expedition arrives aboard the luxurious yacht Mizpah. The yacht, owned by Eugene F. Mc- Donald, wealthy manufacturer and ex- plorer, is equipped with radio direction | finder. Its richly furnished quarters make it the most pretentious vessel ever to venture into Arctic waters. McDonald and Donald B. McMillan, | the explorer, plan to sail the ship from inland waters, an innovation in polar trips. Wiscasset, Me., Labrador. The Mizpah weighs 550 gross tons and is 185 feet long. Twin 800-horse- wer engines propel it. The cruising radius is 6,000 to 7,000 miles. the last stop before ‘There are 18 staterooms on the yacht, | 7 of them with individual baths. The decoration and color scheme:-in each room is individual. A sun parlor, hurri- cane deck, lounging salon and prome- naval officers, will meet here soon to complete arrangements for their depar- ture, Tall Chapel for College. ‘Taller than the famed Salisbury Cath- edral, a chapel is being erected at College, England. Its spire will uncmf be 94 feet 6 inches high, and the only | English churches greater in height are York Minster and Westminster Abbey. After 43 years of work one part of the chapel was completed in 1911. The en- tire structure will have cost $1,250,000 when completed. e That it would be dangerous to na- tionalize newspapers was the opinion of those who attended the recent annual conference of the Scottish Council of the National Federation of News Agents them. at Callander. MONDAY Choice of FROCKS Many exclusive one-of-kind frocks pre- viously sold to $49.50, have been drasti- cally reduced to $23 To you wamen and mi judges of QUALITY . tells of FABRIC, whose eyes know WORKMANSHIP , . . to whom the language of fashion is an open BOOK, here are frocl every requirement. There Are ~—in this fashion assemblage the smart- est models for and sport ensembles . . . chiffon frocks Other parties have embarked at | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. JUNE 2 1929—PART 3. G PLEASURE JAUN F. Collins, . . and 1d him T couldnt write a decent 8“;&",.5-"’:";1 :'“;:’“‘s' IS SRR letter,” Mrs. Peterkin says. “He insisted shail_Timberlake. 50. St. Petersburg, | and I tried several sketches. Then Carl e e il Sandburg came to Charleston on a visit R Lon ey 81 Bumersst; Baj and Bellaman brought him up to | An sch, Johnstown, Pa.; Rev. Fort Motte.” There was hmel tu;—mngd;:t;‘lntso S;nd- e i burg was enthusiastic an e uthern ewart, ar- Woran was won over. | gaxet &, Slocombe, : Rev. | “I asked them for the severest critic William J. McEwan. 35, and Clara Gerry. in America and they told me of Henry |3 both of Richmond. Va.i Rev. John E Mencken. I sent him my sketches and he wrote that he liked them. “Spell” Cast on Readers. ‘These sketches appeared and then | V: came her first book, “Green Thursday” | and, in a measure, “Black April,” were well rounded sketches, but sketches none the less. “Scarlet Sister Mary” was a| novel, breathing the aroma of damp soil | and scorching cotton fields of love and laughter and a code of peculiar morals. “Before I sent the first sketches T0 PULTZERPRZE Author of Winning Novel Wrote Because She Had Nothing Else to Do. Cecil R. Griffith, 21. and Louise Moyer, 20, both of Luray, Va.. Rev. Howard F. Downs. | Thomas A. Davis, 20, and Harriet V. Miller, 19_both of Baitimore, Md.: Rev. C. E. Buck. George E. ‘ann, Jr., Humphre: and Byina E. Abbott, 33, this city: Rev. By the Associated Pre e ®: Bives FORTE MOTTE, S. C., June 1.—Be- cause a boy grew up and went off to school, his mother turned to writing as a means of passing the lonely hours. And because this mother lived on a Carolina plantation where life is placid and strangers are few, she wrote of what she saw and, specifically, she wrote of the colored folk she saw. Mrs. Julia Peterkin possibly would never have written had she not felt the need to do something with the time suddenly given a mother whose child no longer needed her care. She tried music, but her heart was not in music. The suggestion that she write came from her teacher, Henry Bellaman of Columbia, S. C. away,” Mrs. Peterkin confesses laug] is supposed to be able to cast spell asked her if she could cast a spell on | them so that those who read would like them. I suppose she did and maybe the spell is working still.” | Mrs. Peterkin and another Carolinian, Du Bose Heyward, are credited with writing the most intelligent literature | of the Southern Negroes. And as Hey- wood's “Porgy” eaptured the Pulitzer - s award as a play last year, so “Scarlet Scarlet Sister Mary” Wins. Sister Mary” carries on the tradition And out of that suggestion came | this year. “Green Thursday” and “Black April” e |and, " finally, “Scarlet Sister Mary” 2 5 which won the Pulitzer prize. | Al are tales of the same seacoast Marriage Licenses. | ‘lfllnnwtlom of the colored persons who Ng‘!r‘!.\ls l‘; Cnl'lme'r' 26, B\:d Chlnsune J. Di |live as they have lived since slavery | NEDa. 19¢ Rev. Blac | days. “Black April” has his counterpart | and Virginia D_ Haynié, 20, Folss Ve Rev. | and the magdalene who gave her favors | W, §. Abernathy but kept her heart, lives as surely as |, Qeorge By Fitls. 21, Penols, Ve, and Mary | Mrs. Peterkin made her live in her |“Silvar & de Shao. prize novel. !ltl}s‘mmw. 3’1 v. & T, s. | Mrs. Peterkin started to write because | 4 P Rev B | the placid existence in this little town- | “Shward 3" Brico: 24 sud Blanche E. Grey, | Main 4224 | ship was not enough to keep alive her | 20 Bowiing Green. Va.: Rev: John E. Brises. The main salon | intense interest in the world outside | 5o Walter E- Jessgp, 23, and Gladys V. Moore, her door. Music falled and, because ’Georse Hawkins, 33, Nofristown, P —In Painting Our many years’ experience enabl us to give com- plete action always. May We Rev. 718 13th and | she was disappointed with her progress, | Annle Witty, 30. this eity; Rev. Charles A. |- EllNESS I-EAD R e DY, Miller. 22, this city, and Doris | on by telling cidents of her | De Vaughn, 18, Silver Hill, Md.; Rev. John b urge | E_Bri plantation life. He ed her to write | E Bris st s s o] Est. 1891 P. Smith, 25, and Susie A. Sanford, G. G. Johnson Earl A. Keller. 21, and Clara J. Miller, 18, hoin of ‘Philadeiphia, Pa; Rev. Henry' W. olson. Jimmie C_Carr. 23, and Victoria Esposito, 18_ Rev. J. C. Bail El L. Musse . 29, and Helen N. Wrikl iedley, " ¢ o and Naol I o N ! 31 e d Marie Schilling. Va. Rev. Charles and Eliz- 0 a Pink| Trler oseph Degulimio, 27. both of Fort My Earl G. Bunce, 28. 215 D st. n.w abein King, 32 homas W. Slaughter. 28. D Robertson, 23. both of South Richmond, Va. Rev. John C. Ball. In the runeral procession in Berlin of Dr. Karl Benz, the great German engineer, his coffin, carried by attend- ants, was proceeded by one of the first automobiles designed by him. 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