The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 11, 1934, Page 4

ENTY-TWO SHELLED Wa. TERMENLON SEEDS (My Associated Prensa) SHANGHAI, China, Sept, 11.— China is claiming a new world rec- eed holder in a Chinese student of this city. He ate 72 shelled watermelon seeds in one minute, cracking the husks with his teeth without break- ing a single kernel. What chewing um and popcorn are to Americans, watermelon seeds are to the Chinese, More- over, there is an “art” in eating them. It is practiced with trained nut-! crushing teeth and a_ sensitive tongue. The first bare and the second extracts the delectabie kernel. A carefree manner of blowing the discarded husks on the floor completes the operation. Whether it is a formal banquet or a family dinner party, water- melon seeds are always present. Among sauce dishes and wine cups, each guest has a plate of seeds and almonds to nibble on be- tween courses. SHOWN TO HAVE ATE i | yesterday from Miami for a brief stay with relative: Raleigh Albury, who had been visiting in New Smyrna, returned over the East Coast yesterday. L. J. Golden, representing a} large candy manufacturing con-| eern, arrived here over the East| Coakt yesterday for a conference with Sam Pierce, Robert Manning, manager of the Colonial Towers in Miami, ar- rived here yesterday for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Jack Golden at the Colonial Hotel. Mrs. Willis Wilson arrived here Yesterday from New York for a visit with her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Lumley... Mayor William H. Malone left yesterday over the East Coast on a brief business visit in Jackson- ville. Mrs. G, C. Ledlowe left over the East Coast yesterday for Bonifay, Florida, where she will jor several weeks with rela- Miss Dorothy Knowles left over the East Coast y jay for Mi-! ami where she make her} future home. | w Ed Wil Mr. and Mr have beer friends here their home or jams, whe! tives and! erday for| ada. visi Blake & college of eng versity of Florida. ing here Van “ | ring a Unie! j who was visit-| week-end, left Gainesville over the visit relativ a w few weeks, | | Mre Ean ( home on Pia Visit here wit Sucan Adar Mra P. I been visitir Mee EL A erine street, lef home at Miami Be Samuel Lund left over the ast wenterday for h y after M cis street. } err 904 F w e with who Mr. had} and Cath or her Mr. and whe for past Been the b © guest o Mee JW * te their home — in M Warren J. Watr the Hast Const Philadetphin he he copted a position with the tional Public Utilities tien left over yesterday for where ne. N Corpora Wagner and F. E. € their home Henry over the sister left yesterday for Tampa after visit- for several weeks with} relatives | in ing here Mrs, Wm. Keepers, three daugh- ters, and daughter-in-law, Mrs. W. C. Keepers, left today on the Steamship Cuba for Havana. They will leave Havana for the Canal Zone where they will make residen @ permanent Miss Lula R who has been spending the “> few weeks with Mr. and Mrs. James Me is expected to leave over the Coast this afternoon for her home in Miami to enter high school in that city. ‘ rts, | take,” CE eee TIGERs=ISLAND SYNOPSIS: Before Captain J¥ono Bo and hip radio operator, u scuttle the “Boldero™ the Ineurance. the owner of tte t cargo of wild animals, Angus Mc- Leod, falls it of appendicitis and Hiot be" ous aenore at the Mille Dusen port of Sinbao. Harvey Bow- ers, big game hunter volunteers to accompany the animals to Singa- vad and tries to pick up an as- tant @ derelict ctrous at Binbao. He find a deautiful famer’s uniform. Chapter Six THE BARGAIN “(y8.” said the animal trainer, “we ran out of food and the money to buy food, so I kissed them good- bye and let them go.” “That’s where you made a mis- said Bowers. “You need a trainer yourself, young woman, or @ guardian, or a nurse, or something of that kind. Den’t you know that the price of tigers is way up in G at the moment for instance, I would have bought them myself.” “Oh, no, you wouldn’t,” said she. “Why wouldn't 1” “Because you don’t sell the things you love. You starve first.” It was her first phrase in which there was any expression of senti- ment; and it begar to dawn on him that she had a personality ot many sides; a callous, hard-boiled person- ality to show to the world, and “But McLeod said to hire a man.” others {n which sentiment, fancy and high motives played a part. “When you opened the vases and let them out,” he asked, “weren’t you frightened?” “Me!” she exclaimed. “Me fright- ened? Of tigers? Why, tigers are just like children if you understand them.” “As for instance?” suggested Bow- ers. “Why,” she said, “when they are hungry, you feed them.” Then sud- denly she s.niled for the first time. It was just a ficker of a smile, but there was in it a hint of gayety and mischief. “When their heads ache,” she said, “you give them aspirin; and when they are naughty, you slap them.” Bowers fell into her mood with a chuckle, and she continued: “The worst times, of course, sald, “are when they for the jungle.” “That must be awful,” said Bow- rs. “What do you do for them then?” “Just what you would do for a man who was down on his luck. You flatter them.” “I suppose I am dumb,” said Bow- ors, “but even if. made up my mind to flatter @ tiger, 1 wouldn't know she get homesick | Bow to go abcut it.” “Ob,” she ‘aia, “just prais.. them. | Tell them how handsome they are, | make them feel tmportant ana seit- Satisfied. At suci times, t often re- cite Blake's poem to them.” And she quoted; “Tiger, Tiger, lurring brigh’ In the forest of the night, What !mmorta! band or Could frame thy fearful symmetry?” “That's the stuff that makes 4 tiger feel good all over.” Bowers was secretly astonished and delighted. He hav never imagined that animal trainers had & sense of humor and read literature. “When | came in just now,” he sald, “and you were rude to me without meaning to be, 1 was hurt. 1 didn’t like you a bit. But that’s all ancient history. 1 think you'd get my menagerie to Singapore in great shape, and If it weren't for poor Mc- P& PORT TAMPA—HAVANA—WEST INDIES Effective April 27, 1933 Leave Key West for Havana Tuesdays and Fridays 12:15 P.M. 9:45 A, Leave | ye West for Port Tampa Wednesdays and Satur- days 6:30 P. Tickets, bee and Information at Ticket Office on tae Dock, "Phone 71 be Leave Havana for Key West Wednesday. and Seturdays | Leoa, I’a give you the job like @ shot.” “McLeod?” she said. “Angus? the collector? What’s he got to do with it?” “It's his menagerie,” said Bowers. | “He is in the bospital, and just about now they are separating him from his appendix.” “Still,” said she, “1 don’t see what he’s got to do with it. 1 am compe- tent, and I need the job. Why can’t T have it?” “Only,” said Bowers, “that tho words of a badly worried man, who is about to have his appendix out, have a kind of sanctity. He told me to get a man to help me.” “Isn't that a quibble?” she asked. “It he had known that the oaly avail- ab!e man was a woman, wouldn't he have been willing to take a chance?” “Very possibly,” said Bowers; but still he hesitated. It was hard for him to realize, it always had been, that even oul of her norma! and natural sphere, a woman may sometimes function as effectively as a man, T this moment Helen, the mon- key, drew attention to herself by a sound which rerhaps is a little described by the word chittering. Unperceived, she had opened the little tin trunk, extracted a little felt hat with a feather in it, clapped it « rakishly on her head, adjusted the chim strap, and was asking to be no- ticed. The young woman who quoted Blake to tigers, laughed. “Helen!” she exclaimed. “Tell the kind, handsome, generous, high- born gentleman how badly we need money!” Helen vushed to Bowers, doffed her hat, and pranced about and chit- tered in the way of organ-grinder monkeys the world over. Bowers ex- tended a finger and swung the .non- key to his shoulder. “I suppose,” said Helen's mistress, “that if McLeo] knew that a woman was to be in charge, {t would just about kill him, But couldn’t you do for him what everybody does for the sick? The friend for the sick friend. the doctor for the sick patient; the patient for the sick child; the animal ; trainer for the sick monkey?” | “1am not bright,” said Bowers. “I don’t understand.” | “Why of course ycu do,” said she. “Couldn't you lie to him?” The Boldero was a slow ship, and the ocean-road to Singapore was long, and {it cannot be denied that the thought of having this particular young woman fcr a companion dur- ing the voyage, played an unfair part in his decision to engage her. It 13 | not to his credit to think, nay, to | be humanly certain that if she had been plain and unattractive, he would have made his excuses and | sought elsewhere. A kind of quid | light came into his eyes, and he said: “Of course I could lie to him, I | shall. I will.” Her eyes grew meltingly soft. This was occasioned largely by a | sudden economic relief, and a little by gratitude. But Bowers mistook | the cause of the melting look. Stupid- | ly and conceitedly he attributed it to some undeserved and fortuitous / quality in himself which made him j extraordinarily attractive to wo- men, He said the wrong thing, and j it turned her cold as a stone. “Even if you weren't an animal trainer,” he said, “I'd like to have | you take this trip.” (Copyright, 1934, by Gouverneur Morris) Tomorrow, Gowers and the trainer differ widely on an impor- fant noint. ( | i | i | STEAMSHIP Co. UNITED STATES FAST | MAIL ROUTES FOR H | J. H. 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