A Big Shipment
Dresses, Skirts,
Smocks, Middies and
Neckwear
If further prestige could be given the Georgette Crepe
dress, with and without the Taffeta combinations, these new
arrivals would confer it, for they retain only the best of the
style tendencies that summer has inaugurated.
There’s a beautiful assortment of All-Taffeta, some hand
somely embroidered in self color or the new contrasting shades.
A fine lot of Wool Jersey, Serges, Tricotines and Twills
to select from.
Skirts of good style, made of Fancy Plaids and plain Tweed
materials, others of tub qualities, of fancy striped Gaberdines
and fine wale corduroy, gathered back styles, with wide belts,
trimmed with large pearl buttons.
Beautiful Middies and Smocks, some all white, others be
comingly trimmed with bright colors.
A wonderful assortment of new neckwear in Georgette
Crepe, fine Organdies and Silks, reasonably priced.
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The romance of whale lishing is §
still existent, with all its ancient
thrills, according to Captain (i, Karl
ing, an experienced whaler anil owner
of a fleet of whalers near Port Arm
strong. Alaska Here the United ;
States Whaling Company is operat
ing under the snperintendoncy of
Captain Karling.
This veteran hunter has a high re
gard for file sperm whale, tor several
reasons. Primarily it is one of the
most profitable of the big ocean mam
mals to bag. The sperm whale, un
like many of the other species, has a
big throat aperture In the stomach
of one captured recently were found 1
the following: One devilfish, wlth|E
feelers twelve feet long, the creature | !.
being twenty-live feet across with I if
head out: two sharks, one twelve anil , 1
the other eight feet long, and an end-j B
less variety of smaller fish. Accord-, Ij
Ing In the captain, these were all in | B
a state of good preservation, indicat B
Ing that the whale was feeding at the'l
time it was taken
The gender "lie" is correct in speak- j jp
ing of sperm whales of the Pacific!!
coast waters. "It is one ot the warn p
'b rs of the i'ai ill said Captain Karl i
ing. "why no females have ever been I
taken in this ocean "
"\\ e have killed around LCei -perm f
»hales at this station since it was
established in PC. and none ot them ~
have been females I have limited
whales from Panama to (he An lb •
and have ni ith r le ard . f m,r n -
f' limb ." said t . nbl w haler
"The sperm v halt is like a ■ atied.
Pm." aid tin i epiain "It cm
bat they stoic ! in a toil, for t i
a e. just as i aim I -tores w.iiet
'etii.ies t..- , tanks iii" nearly -
• it lit V. and tig ti they are mil The
si/e of tile en are. therefore, i . not !
tm essarily an indication ot tin- x
amount of oil that may be found
"The average amount ol oil found ::
in the tank is from fifteen to thirty
barrels. The blubber also produces';:;
many barrels of a good grade of x
| sperm oil. '■ jx
.! "The sperm Is the favorite game,:!;
| hunted by whalers. But many othnrjij:
varieties are sought and captured ,
Among those commonly taken in Port :j:
Armstrong arc Sulphur bottoms.
| that measure up to ninety feet in £
length: finbacks, which attain a *
Icngtli of fifty to sixty feet, as do £
also the sperm whales, and hump
[backs, that run around twenty-live to , r:
thirty feet in length They will all
average n ton or more to the foot of f:
length A big sperm is valued by £
those who capture him at from $::,onn
i to $5,000.
Most whales have a small throat
and are provided with gill hones that :i
I serve as strainers to let the water1 is
1 out and keep the small fish in as they x
open their mouths and close them :::
again when feeding on schools of ::
small fish, such as herring Hut the x
sperm whale is not tints supple I Op x
the other hand, it Ins teeth it - lower .
opes hm the upper part of it- mouth £
lee. nothing hat gum sockets into
" bleb 'he teeth of the low er j w tit x
" In n t’e- e-nuth is e|o ed These
I"'-''' ..round up and form tie raw
’ ('t out . f which eompouitd ivory x
I illi.u ■ d hulls : re maim fuel u red
’* l"‘ I'" ' inured at tfii t.,1 i,>u x
are : ’’ • unle Into fertilizer alter tip
"II T ’ ' ”i and ivory has been n
There is one other whaling
*i ' located at \ktit.-m, near I'ni
i" ) pass, \laska, and it is understood
■that they are preparin'; to .. the
< hiiii or i ■ hale meat for human
. eonsunipt '< n
fi
r. 8. Food Administration.
Arter do wis® ol* owl spit on do
bait ho way, s< s: oo—**I i;\vino tor
fiprir.e you all wid a moss « r lish 03
'cause you nil5' mug’ nave do im at
on eat sumpin* else instid on Vs kit
out dat ol’ game bag on make it
work, too,” soz oe. Don ho kotch
a big lish and say, ho/ 00, “I-Iiimu—
t-lioot—-t-sub-stl-toot/* soz ee. Wen
ho say dat ho moans dat when you
nils make rlz biscutta jos don’t itiako
’em—use earn meal ter Have wheat
lluur for do aojers
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