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made fresh daily? Today we are serving
VANILLA—CHERRY—CARAMEL
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or let us put you up a carton to take out.
SPECIALS TODAY
FRESH STRAWBERRY SUNDAE BANANA SPECIAL
DARDANELLA SUNDAE PEACH MELBA SUNDAE
BOSTON NUT SUNDAE CHERRY SUNDAE
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Aurora and First Glimpse of Pale Golden Ball
an Unparalleled Nature Picture—Teacher in
Alaska School Service Must Also Be Able to
Render Medical Aid and Perform Other Duties
Fifty-two years ago, when the Unit
ed States took over the inhabitants
of Alaska, the former Russian posses
sion which was spitefully called by
some “Seward’s Ice Box,” the na
tives of Alaska were savages, or may
be more properly an unenlightened
people. They were not savage in the
. sense that they met the whites with
tomahawk and scalping knife for
their food and climate were not con
ducive to warfare. The Alaskan
aborigines were a quiet, gentle peo
ple, a non-resisting people, glad of
the brotherhood of every passing
stranger, tor strangers were few and
did not come to rob them of their
home and haunts.
When the Russian priests offered
their religion it was accepted as a
welcome addition to the emptiness of
a dull, cold life. When the white
trappers came for furs they were not
opposed, for there were plenty for all.
Then when white men went crazy
over the gold hidden in the sands of
frozen rivers and creeks it was noth
ing to the Indian and the Eskimo.
But when the conquering white
men took the young women of the
North to be their mates and settled
down among their people, the aborig
ines awoke. Their scant language
soon expanded to give names to the
belongings of the whites, to include
f their rude colloquialisms and give a
, glimpse of the great somewhere
| whence the new settlers came. Grad
ually the need for schools in this vast
area of half a million squares miles,
25,000 natives, impressed itself upon
the government and the Alaska
school service began the task of
fitting the descendants of the abor
iginal tribes, both minors and adults,
for territorial citizenship.
nau me prospected pupils been
gathered into a group the task would
not have been light, but when it* is
remembered that schools are in some
places separated by 4,000 miles of
snowy white silence and that others
are far beyond the limits of trans
portation and mail service, the dif
ficulties come within the limits of
imagination.
j On the Yukon, about midway be
tween Dawson and North Bering sea,
and only sixty miles below the Arctic
circle, is Rampart. There many trap
pers and hunters make headquarters.
It has a climate ranging from 90 de
grees above zero in summer to 65
degrees below zero in winter. There
Isabel Ambler Gilman was long sta
tioned as a teacher in the Alaska
school service. Let her tell a few
brief stories of her life in the Frozen
North:
“One morning in January, while the
school children were quietly study
ing, a three-year-old boy appeared at
the door, a stick of wood in his bea
ver-mitted hands. ‘You let me stay,
teacher, I pack wood for you,’ he
announced good-naturedly. The school
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thermometer outside registered 58
below zero and the teacher lost no
time in closing the door, with the
boy inside. ‘He won’t stay home,
teacher,’ explained an older sister
from her corner behind a red-hot
stove, ‘and papa says it’ll be 60 below
tonight.’ Sixty below! The teacher
had never experienced that. The
child serenely tucked himself into a
primary seat alongside other babies
who ‘wouldn’t stay at home.’
“ ‘Baby wake, teacher,5 piped the
last comer, suddenly remembering
something.1 He wriggled in his seat
and peered through a double frosted
window. ‘Baby where?’ demanded the
teacher. But a tall, curly-haired,
half-breed girl had already glided to
the door. ‘Mother told me to stay
home with baby, teacher, and I didn’t
want to,’ she pleaded, drawing the
baby sled into the schoolroom. She
rescued a squirming youngster from
a bundle of furs and ‘mothered’ it on
the little bench behind the stove,
glancing meaningly through the open
door of the girl’s cloakroom, where
two other baby sleds, each contain
ing a sleeping child, had been pushed
out of the way, as though sure that
their presence mitigated her own of
fense.
“There being no age limit in the
Alaska school service, the register
enrollment of pupils seldom contains
the names of all.
“The school house is the regular
calling place for all Indian wayfarers
who have a few hours to spare. If
the corner behind the stove is not
, filled with girl mothers and babies
it may be pre-empted by grandfathers
and uncles.
“That night proved to be the cli
max of the lone teacher’s polar ex
perience. Awakened by the continued
cracking of her cabin walls, occa
sioned by intense cold, she arose to
cram the heater with more stove
wood, and happening to glance
through the uncurtained north win- i
dow. saw the night ablaze with color. 1
Like a huge volcano pouring ethereal
lava over the face of heaven, flamed
a wild aurora. Scintillant, florescent
waves of delicate opal, through which
the stars mocked and danced, flooded
the sky dome, tinting the white ex
panse of earth and river with deli
cate reflection. Like ribbons about
an old-fashioned Maypole, woven by
unseen hands, Aurora’s brilliant
streamers shaped themselves into a
long funnel, from which burst im
mense sheets of living flames that
stained both sky and earth blood
red—a spectacular display never to
be forgotten, never surpassed, and
well worth all the discomfort of the
polar night to witness.
“In the morning, when the teacher
rang the 10 o’clock bell for school,
and the babies who ‘wouldn’t stay
at home’ trooped up the school hill,
the mercury, by the light of a match,
stood at 65 below z$ro. Two hours
later the kerosense was frozen in
the school lamps. But the children
laughed at the cold. ‘Look, teacher,
The sun! The sun!’ It wds the first
day of February, exactly 12 o’clock.
Through the southwest window of
the school room glinted obliquely a
yellow radiance that outlined the re
flection of the window frame on the
opposite wall and lighted up the'
room.
“With one impulse teacher and
pupils moved toward the window,
blinking their eyes, shading them
with their hands, laughing helplessly
as they attempted to look at the
upper rim of a pale yellow ball just
showing above the edge of the hori
zon. After seventy-two days of dark
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nessand dull gray daylight, the hu
man eye refused to adjust itself
quickly to the sudden brightness.
‘Put. on your things, children,’ said
the teacher. Swiftly they obeyed, but
before the foremost could reach the
door the light faded. ‘Look, teacher;
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5 Venus
in the
East”
A Saturday Evening Post story, full of
pep, fun and romance. “Buddy” McNair
struck it rich, fell in love with the newspaper
picture of a New York society queen and
went East to find his Venus.
He came back quicker than he went—
But—
While he was there! THAT’S what
makes this a corking picture.
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