The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 22, 1933, Page 4

PAGE FOUR THE KEY WEST CITIZEN SOCIETY MARIE CAPPICK, Editor ------PHONE 436 a Program At School House Mach Enjoyed The entertainment last night at Harris school, under the auspices ef the Patriotic Order of Amer- ica, Camp No. 4, was a great suc- cess.. Every seat in the large auditorium was filled and many were obliged to stand during the entire performance. The vocal and instrumental selections, read- ings, exercises, drills and \pan- tomimes were presented as an- nounced on the program, and evérything was carried out in the most entertaining manner. The committee arranging this entertainment is well pleased with the result of its efforts to put on a patriotic entertainment, and thank all who aided in even the the great success it was. Miss Ilma Johnson Weds Wesley Hamlin The marriage of Miss Illma L. Johnson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Johnson; 1122 Southard street, and W. Wesley Hamlin, son of Captain and Mrs. S. W. Hamlin, Sarasota, Fla., was solemnized at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon in St. Paul’s church, with the Rever- end A. B. Dimmick, pastor, of- ficiating. ., The attendants were Miss Annie Gardner and Theron Gato. Mrs. Hamlin was graudated from the Convent of Mary Immaculate with the class of 1931, and is well known and popular here. Mr. Ham- lin is connected with the P. and 0. Steamship Company and has a number of friends in this city, where he and his bride will make their home. Banco Party To Be Given Monday Night “Under the direction of the Cath- oli¢ Daughters of America, Knights of Columbus and young peoples’ sodalities of the Catholic church, a bunco party will be held Monday Teast way in making this ‘ Bridge Tea Given By Mrs. A. F. Ayala Mrs. A. F. Ayala, 707 Division street, was hostess at a charmingly appointed bridge tea yesterday af- ternoon in honor of her sister, Mrs, Lester Abramson, of New York City, who is visiting her. Garden flowers gave a gay color note to the living rooms where bridge was played and tea served. The high score prize was won by Mrs. George Lucas and Mrs. William H. Malone, a tea guest, received the consolation. Mrs. Bascom Grooms won the booby. Those who enjoyed the hospitality of Mrs. Ayala were Mrs. George Lucas, Mrs. Bascom Grooms, Mrs. S. V. Hughes, Miss Eliza Borroto, Mrs. H, S. Dexter, Mrs. E. J. Bay- ly, Mrs. Andrew R. Miller, Mrs. James Roberts, Mrs. W. C. Duncan, Mrs. L. R. Warner, Mrs. L. T. Bragassa, Mrs. John Key, Mrs. Robert F, Lord, Mrs. Sebastian Cabrera, Mrs. Hugh Taylor, Mrs. Lester Abramson, Mrs. W. H. Ma- lone, Mrs. O. S. Long, Mrs. Curtis Stanton, ‘Mrs. A. M. Hewett, Mrs. D. A. Dupuis, Mrs, J. Y. Porter. P.-T. Assn. To Have Program The Division street school Par- ent-Teacher Association will pre- sent a matinee Friday afternoon at 4 o’clock in this school. A play under the direction of Emil Sweet- ing will be one of the leading fea- tures of the program, and it is announced that there will be a number of interesting specialties. This entertainment will be for the benefit of the organization sponsoring it, to provide lunches and other necessities for those children who are unable to pro- vide them. Those arranging the entertain- ment announce that a box of groceries will be given away at that time, streets, formerly occupied as restaurant. Playing will begin at 8 o'clock, and everyone is asked to be on time. Prizes will be given and a night, February 27, in the building | everything done to insure a pleas- at the corner of Duval and Greene | ant evening. Personal mae Mention A. W. Boss, deputy collector of internal revenue, and Mrs. Boss, were passengers leaving on the Cuba yesterday for Havana, where they will spend a short vacation. “"S M. Loftin, receiver’ of the F. E. C. R’y. Company, and R. L. Beals, general manager, here on an official visit with local of- ficials, left yesterday afternoon for St. Augustine. “Wis! Francisco Menendez, who was Spending a week with her son- in-law_and daughter, Dr. and Mrs. J, A: ‘Valdez, returned over the East Coast yesterday to her home in Miami. Miss Lurlene Hardaway, of the! nurse’s staff in the Marine hos- pital, left yesterday for a vaca- tion of three weeks with relatives in Atlanta. D. Aronovitz and son, Charles, were outgoing passengers over the East Coast yesterday for a stay! of a few days with relatives in Dr. J. C. Marlatt of the U. S. agricultural department, who was on a business visit with the local} plant board, left yesterday for Washington, D. C. Mr. and Mrs. Eric Gwynn left! over the highway Tuesday morn-| ing for Miami for a few days’! visit. They will take in the Nebo- Canzoneri fight to be staged in that city tomorrow night. | | Mr. and Mrs. Will Baez left| last night on the steamer Florida for Tampa where they will spend few days with Mr. and Mrs./ Baez's mother and other rela-} tives. GIRLS! OON'T BE SKINRY! MEN ADMIRE CURVES TWAS FLATCHESTED,RUN DOWN AND Charles W. Collins, who was spending some time in Key West with his parents, left over the highway Monday morning for St. Louis. Horace: Thompson left over the East Coast yesterday for Miami where he will spend some time with relatives and remain for the Nebo-Canzoneri fight. Mrs. John Russell was an ar- rival over the East Coast yester- day from Matecumbe for a stay with relatives and friends. Mrs. R. F. Spitz came in on the Havana Special yesterday for a stay of a few days before return- ing to her home in Matecumbe. ODD CONVEYANCE CHICAGO.—Police of this city arrested three-youths who confess- eda series of burglaries, using a baby buggy to cart away their leot, which included bananas, ra- dios, women’s clothing and tinned herring. "STRAND THEATER Motion picture players and di- rectors, speeding from Hollywood to Palm Springs, Cal., for a week- end recently, gazed in awe as aj tiny flivver, with a striking blonde | at the wheel, whizzed past their expensive, high-powered, custom- built cars, at 75 or 80 miles per hour. Efforts to catch it failed. The | flivver outdistanced everything on the road. But those who got close enough to get a glimpse of the/ driver readily identified her as} Mae West, spectacular Broadway | actress-authoress, who was in Hol-/ loywood starring in “She Done Him Wrong.” The picture, inci- dentally, is currently at the Strand Theater. | At Palm Springs, Mae explain-| ed all. Her car had a flivver chas-{ SHONNY UNTIL 1 TOOK VINOL IRON ToNAC.. THEN MYIFIGURE BEGAN TORULOUT AND IGOT MORE CURVES To MY BODY. } is and body, but an eight-cylinder | racing engine. “It'll do a huridred and ten, ithout leaving the ground,” Mae | said. ; to be presented Friday After }! noon 4 O'Clock at Division St } mus j that soon you would } | Earth. Throwing a helograph from. *|Medical Man Expresses Views In Rhyme Toward Keeping Of Young Min It is customary for a writer to begin his epistle or communication with a few lines of verse! verse or poetry, show the mind is still young jand amenable to the beauties of {the environment we live in. it jshows that the blood pressure is still normal, and hardening of the jarteries has not yet begun. The | Sanhedrin and annotators who put the Bible together did not under- stand this or they would have plac- ed the Song of Solomon, which is a book of poetry, at the beginning jof his known writings that were thought worthy of preservation, as he wrote this book when he was young. Next they would have placed the Proverbs, written when he had reached middle lite, when his judgement and understanding was sound and contained wisdom, and last Ecclesiastes. written when he was old and after he had taken up with the Egyptian woman and all was vanity and vexatious to him, knowing these things, it is well for all of us to try to keep young. To keep a certain amount of Poetry in our lives. To see and appreciate the blue sky, the bright sunshine, the flowers and green trees, the smell of the rose and the night blooming jas- mine. To hear the oriole on the bough singing to his mate and hearing the mocking bird answer- ing call for call. It shows that we have not yet reached those days when we are told we will have no pleasure in them. We also know from experience to sit too long in an office waiting for a patient makes Jack a dull boy and holds That was| a frozen north and I said it is time to pack my gladstone and climb the Flyer and make that long trip to the far South. So I got aboard the Limited and soon was roaring over bridges, through tunnels and on our way. Nothing of import- ance occurred on the way until we reached Georgia. As I had been over the route before, several times, and seen the family wash hanging on the fences through eastern Kentucky and Tennessee before. Near Atlanta an old Con- federate got aboard and sat near me. I asked him how he liked the new President-elect. He said he could never support a Roosevelt as ,T. R. had been at Atlanta years before and made a speech, and in |his speech had said that Jeff Davis |was a rebel and he left the state of Georgia without making an apology for saying it, and he could ‘never support a Roosevelt. From the earliest days of my childhood there has been a glamour and fas- cination around these southern shores, with the inlets and coral jislands that strew the coast, my dreams as a boy, I could see an lola three master with. sails spread coming out of one of these inlets with a black flag nailed to her mast with a crew of fierce looking men, with long black-hair, leaning over the ship’s rail, with a red scarf around their heads and gold earrings in their ears, a gaudy sa‘ around their waists, holding a wicked cutlass. All looking for_a Spanish galleon to come sailing down the wind, loaded with dub- loons and pieces of eight. History, nothing ahead for us to keep us! tradition and legend all tell us of from growing old. Now since my|buried treasure on these islands. prologue is complete, I will go on| Prisoners who had to walk with my story— I am far below the Mason line, That Mason run from Oak to pine, I am sitting in the sun beside the Sea While the tide winds are blow- ing over me. I can see far out the Coral Keys, And on my face I feel the ocean breeze. While on that distant point of land or key, A Lighthouse stands to warn the Sailors of the Sea. Here is the place to wear your old clothes out, Here is the place to get relief from gout. You can leave dull care and busi- ness far behind, To build up your physique and doctor up your mind. For so green and fair in this land of the sun, The vines of the ground and rich mellow sun, Where the people are living on oysters and clams With an assortment thrown in of sow-belly and yams. Where the coon-dog is sleeping on the porch by the door, And dreaming of treeing an old coon once more. Where the women go bare foot with a pipe in their mouth, Depicts a true story of life in the South. With the negro with a mixture of France and of Spain, Who, with idioms peculiar to both countries retain, Where work is the very trouble they see, As the tide winds blow from the Carribean Sea. For from sire to son, it is the law, From Florida to Arkansaw. What you must have, first try to borrow, And put off all work until tomorrow. All through the South you find today, A lethargy and slip-shod way. In the way they sow and the way they reap, That shows the South is still asleep. For there are acres of the finest land That in jungle and scrub oak stand, That would raise the truck and garden stuff, Until the North would cry. enough. When I left St. Paul, the wild geese were in the upper air on least in will {their annual exodus to the south- land, The old gander leaders honking to the younger ones to beware of the white lights as they passed the city. An old Indian told me that the fur on the Beaver was unusually long and thick. That; they were cutting down a good any poplar trees, falling them in the pond above their dam so they could get at the tops beneath | ice in the winter. That the rats had built their houses tall with thick walls, and it wou be a hard winter. I knew that old winter was putting on his the — |mackinaw and that Old Boreas was} | Who’s Who In The Home with him and soon they would start on their annual rampage through the States from Meditine Hat. And I knew from experience see in the northern sky, the Aurora Borealis with its rays of light and shadows throbbing like the pulse of Mother \ hese old stories, though I the Plank and of others of the fair sex who were taken in bondage. am getting old, and my hair is gray, still stir my blood. Here was the home and rendezvous of a long list of bloody pirates, like Morg and Black Beard, Gasparilla, and many others who feared no law and were always ready for a fight. Fiction, Poetry and Song all contribute to {make this portion of the United States with such a past and a climate, tempered by its proximity to the Equator and fanned by breezes off the Gulf Stream, one of the most enjoyable to visit in the winter and of the most interest to see. And while I stand here on the sandy shore, looking out over the sea, watching the Gulls in their flight circling around looking to see what flotsam and jetsam will be left from the ebb or flow of the tide, I realize they have not changed their habits and:done the same way in the old days when down the dim avenue of oblivion, come the old chanteys when the chanty man sat upon the capstan, while the men would march around him winding in their anchor chains and following his lead in singing. Fifteen men on a dead man’s chest and a_ bottle of rum—Yo-ho, Yo-ho. We will divide the spoils when the day is done, Yo-ho— Heave-ho, Or, Whiskey for my Johnie. Here came Ponce de Leon in 1513, with two objects in view. First, some islanders in the South Seas had told him there was a land to the north where gold was found in plenty, That yellow metal gold was, and always will be, one of the greatest, incentives to discovery. Second, he was getting old and the infirmities of age were beginning to advise him of the fact, and al- though hs life had been a hard one and filled with many disasters, he still wanted to put off that trip through the Cimmerian Valley and that voyage across the river Styx with Charon for the boatman. To the Great Beyond, and he believed that in this new country some- where, for an old sooth-sayer in Spain to whom he had paid a dubloon had told him there was a Fountain of Youth over the Seas in that new land and that he would find it, and if he would dip himself in it he would renew his youth and become young again. Ah me, how many of us, with a long residence here, have learned | Watch Your ' = Kidneys |] Dont Neglect and Bladder If bothered with bladder ir- Tegularities, getting up at night and nagging backache, heed promptly these symptoms. They may warn of some dis- ordered kidney or bladder con- dition. For 50 years grateful — have relied upon Doan’s to love this old world with its Sun, Moon, and its firmament of Stars. With its seasons, with its disap- pointments, its successes, and its tribulations, and I believe all of us would take a dip in that fountain, should such an opportunity ever: exist. I make this assertion by judging from what I have seen and experienced in my life. The num- bers I have seen at springs with| grey’ heads and faltering steps, who have come here to get out of the cold and lengthen out their idays. From the cripples and wheel chairs I pass on the street. Of paralysed persons in their hands ‘or their feet, 2 And people whose’ minds have too long run in ruts, Until a cold public has classed them as nuts. This is the haven where all of them run, To walk in the park and to sit in the sun, With a diet of fish, that doctors maintain, Is good for the stomach and best for the Brain. But I must go back to my story of Ponce de Leon, when he finally reached the mainland it was Easter Sunday, and there was so many flowers in bloom in the woods, he called the land of Florida. But he did not find the Fountain he was looking for in all his search, but an Indian Arrow found him and caused his death, This brings us back to fealities, and makes us; consider a we grow older, that with all our experience, with all we have read and knowing that all of the surface of this world has been discovered, that’ there’ is no such! fountain, and does not exist, ex- cept that Fountain filled blood drawn from Immanuel’s veins. But the old sooth-sayer might claim his prophecy was correct and he was speaking of his death and like the old Oracle at Ephesus, where the Godess of Diana was located, that people used to consult before at- tempting any great thing, Its an- ‘swers were always ambiguous, they | might think it meant a certain re-! most TODAY IN HISTORY we 1819—Florida United States by treaty with Spain. the and ceded purchase to 1863—Ground broken for the Central Pacific Railway, at Sacra- mento. 1916 — Washington’s birthday observed as a holiday in Belgium. sult would obtain, but after the performance was over, if it went against them, they could then look back and remember the words of the Oracle, and the interpretations would be entirely different to them, and they would say the Oracle was right, and now my story is done of Florida | That lays beneath a Southern Sun, Below the line that Dixon run, That line was run from tree to tree, In seventeen sixty-three. This line was run to divide men, And one of them was William Penn, The other man who took a hand, Was Lord Baltimore of Mary- land, And like Jonah of the olden time, Who sat and watched beneath his: vine, I too sit here to write this tale, For here is the vine, and out there is the whale. F. H. VAN DYKE, M. D. Key West, Florida, Feb. 18, 1933. hundred — and two Subscribe for The Citizen. PALACE Jay Wilsey—Mathew Betz in DYNAMITE DENNY | Matinee, 5-10c; Night, 10-15¢ MELROSE DES ee BSL WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY. 22, 1933, 2—George Washington, first American, born in Westmoreland Co., Va. Died at Mount Vernon, Va., Dec. 14, 1799. 1778—Rembrandt Peale, noted} portrait painter and son of a not- ed painter, born near Philadelphia. \Died there, Oct. 3, 1860. 1788 — Arthur Schopenhauer, celebrated German _ philosopher, born. Died Sept. 21, 1860. 1819—James Russell Lowell, famed New England poet, essay- ist and diplomat, born at Cam- bridge, Mass, Died there, Aug, 12, 1891. 1822—lIsabella B. 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