7ridaj. April 24, 1914
THE ASHEVILLE GAZETTE-NEWS
PAGE SEVEN
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COM1XC ATTRACTIONS.
MONDAY, APRIL 27,
Ruth St. Denis & Co.
FRIDAY, MAY 1, .
Mullner and Night.
Lyman H. Howe's Pictures.
It
lclmt of Kutlt St. Denis.
"After recognition In my own coun
y and Europe," said Miss St. Denis
he famous dHncer who is to appear
the Auditorium on next Monday
vening, "I like to look back and re-
Bicmber the eventful day when I was
Tiered a trial performance in New
ork. It was arranged by a manager
i whom I appealed for a Sunday
Ight concert at his vaudeville thea
r. .
"That's one of the most difficult
Budiences to please that you ever
she said. "The highbrows on
unday nights are all listening to or
hestras or the operatic concerts.
ou'll find a lot of people like com-
rcViil travellers and everyday kind
folk who want what they want
hen Ihey want it. If you've got the
goods' they'll like you.
"When I stepped Into the theater
hnt Sunday night it was with the dis
concerting realization that I had spent
iy last penny for costumes and 'prop
rties.' If they didn't like me, I was
Bankrupt.
"They were not easy i0 win, that
udience, accustomed to broad effects
and obvious points. 1 was offering
hem a subtle bit of Orientalism, a
ymbollc dance, reoealing the iffe lof
he senses, as the Hindu understands
t. Years of effort, my whole training
is an actress and dance's, all my read
ng and studying were embodied In
pvhat I was offering at that trial per
formance. You see what a crisis I
as facing.
"Fortunately for me they grasped
ly meaning with unmistakable pleas
ure, and the response from them as
he curtain fell lifted a great burden
oi anxiety from my mind. That set
tled it. Vaudeville engagements fol
lowed, and 1 could have appeared as
Htadha in her temple dance, - playing
.'ice a day In vaudeville houses from
aine to California, but the fear of
moginLf mere mechanical dancer
lycil me."
Miss SODenls and her company of
isting artlstH. including Rajamal
wonderful Hindoo fakir, will ap
r at the Auditorium on next Mon
evening. Keautjful costuming,
nderful light effects, and handsome
ge settings are carried for all of
58 St. Denis' dances. Seats are
selling at Allison's. Prices range
om 50 cents to $2.
a point at which the use of figures
mere figures becomes almost inade
quate. When statistics run Into the
millions the mind unless it is assisted
by some more or less concrete scales
of measurement, fails entirely to form
an adequate conception of what they
mean. But where both figures as well
as words fall so completely, .Mr.
Howe's films step in and tell the won
derful story In the only way which can
do justice ti the tremendous 'scope of
such a prodigious task.
Yellowstone Park that vast arena
uLtarved by nature In the heart of the
i tocky Mountains where numerous
geysers are the contending gladiators
Is another big feature to be pre
sented. Again the scenes change this time
to the Paris Zoo showing a splendid
collection of animals at close range,
some of them very little known such
as the Rhea orjftouth American Os
trich, the Alpaca, the African Mouf
flen and the acrobatic Tamanda. Then
come lively fishing scenes in British
Columbia and equally vivacious views
of tunny fishing near Palermo. A
ramble through the ruins of Pompeii,
reproduced in nature's own colors, im
parts vivid impressions of the havoc
caused by the historic earthqunV cen
turies ago. Wood turning and decor
ating clocks at Saint Claude: Naples;
symphonies of the sea, and a ride
through the Montana Canyon and over
the Cascade Mountains in Oregon on
the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul's
"Olympian" are only a few of the
many other features. Prices will be
.15 and 50 cents.
AN ODD CONTEST
in'thejimulhyas
Women Seek to Prevent Men
From Taking Rice Fields-Ceremonial.
low
I Conatrufting tin- l'a oa m:i ( ii mil.
IThe world s biggest job as reprodiic-
by Americans greatest exhibitor will
seen at tne Audltomun on next
CHILE'S HANGING GARDEN.
Wondrous Beauty of Santa Lucia Park,
In Santiago.
Santiago, with its 400,000 of, imputa
tion, fifty, miles inland from Valpa
raiso. Is the capital of C'lille. It ilea
In 0 p-eot amphitheater forty miles
Iodk anil eighteen mile wide and Is
inclosed by walls of lofty mountains
covered white with snow. Outside of
IUo.de Janeiro, no capital in the world
has a finer situation. Standing In the
central plain. It looks out on oue side
over fertile fields, sloping toward the
coast range and on the other it looks
op to the Riga title Cordillera 19.000 feet
above it. furrowed with deep glens ami
covered with snowy wastes.
There are beautiful drives and parks
and pleasure resorts on every hand.
The Alameda Avenlda Dellcias. 000
feet In width, runs the entire length of
the city. The finest private houses
front on this wide boulevard. They
are built In Spanish style with court
yards full or flowers and shrubs. The
city lias siit.v seven miles ot electric
car lines. Most of the streets are pav
ed with asphalt. The policemen carry
swords. The city has an air of taw
anil order. A beautiful park was given
to tbe city by Sonora Isadora Cousins.
It. Is ea lied the (Jjulnta Normal.
Hut the park of pnrks In Santiago Is
Santa Lucia. For striking and pictur
esque beauty It Is scarcely equaled
anywhere else In the world. It is a
steep and rocky hill rising 500 feet
right from the center of the city. The
original scanty soil has been added to
by skillful gardeners until it has be
come nn exquisite park, lilting Us ver
durous masses like a banging garden
high above the city. Rowers and
creeping vines trail over rocks In wild
profusion, fountains glimmer In the
sunshine, marbles gleam against the
green. Grottoes invite yon to their
shade and winding paths allure the
traveler to tbe very summit.
Here, a the top of this green rock, a
splendid vista of ibe city lies at your
very feet. Von hear the hum of traffic
and tbe buzzing wheels of commerce
and out beyond you see n fertile plain,
while on the far horizon tbe mighty
summits of the snow capped Andes cut
tbelr silhouettes agnlust a sky of blue.
Beautiful for situation Is Santiago,
unique and fortunate In Its Santa Lncla
park. Peter McQueen In National Mag
MCeTING Of THE ATLANTIC
AND PACinC-OfCOT THf
STRIKING MOMENTS aUYTOM
H HOttS RCPROOUGTIOr
Of THE RftNAnA CANAL.
Three Atmospheres.
The atmosphere is divided by scien
tists Into three parts. Tbe first extends
from sea level to about 10.000 feet
high. In this layer are iilmost all tbe
water vapors or cloud and all tbe
dust In It all tbe storms take place.
Tbe temperature tends to decrease, but
very Irregularly. The second layer ex
tends to between six and seven miles
high In It are the "cirrus" clouds, and
the temperature dec renins uniformly.
Man cannot (to beyond It
These two layer together are railed
tbe troposphere, because In them all
tba vertical movement of tbe air take
place. Reyond them I tbe strato
sphere. In which occur any movement
of the sir In piauea parallel to the
earth's anrface.
Washington. April 2 4. One of the
oddest annual contests in the world,
a mud and water fight, during which
the women of far-off and little known
Bhutan. In the heart of the Himalayas
seek to prevent the men from taking '
possession of an Inundated rice field,
is described by John Claude White,
late political offjeer In charge of Slk
him. Bhutan, and parts of Tibet with
in the sphere of British influence, in
a communication to the National
Geographic society, at Washington.
The event is known as the spring
ceremony of blessing the rice Ileitis.
Victory for the women portends, dur
ing the coming season, fertility of the
soil and Increase among the flocks
and herds.
"Early one morning the sound of a
sweet toned gong warned us that the
spring ceremony of blessing the rice
fields was about to begin," writes Mr.
White. "A long and picturesque pro
cession of men and women, led by the
donyer, came wending down the hill
side until .the first rice field, Into
which water had been running all the
day before, was reached. The field be
low was still dry, and turning in
there they all sat -down and had some
refreshments. Suddenly the men
sprang up, throwing off their outer
garments; this was the signal for the
women to rush to the inundated field
and to commence throwing clods of
earth and splashes of muddy water on
the men as they tried to climb up.
Then followed a wild and mad. though
always good natured, struggle be
tween the men and the women in the
water, the men doing their utmost to
take possession of the watery field,
the women equally determined to
keep them out,
"The donyer, the leader of tht men,
suffered heavily, though the courte
sies of war were strictly observed, and
If one of the assailants fell his op
ponents helped him up and gave him
breathing space to recover before an
other onslaught was made. But grad
ually the women drove the men slow
ly down the whole length of the field
until the last stand was made by a
very stout anil powerful official, who,
clinging to an overhanging' rock, with
his back to his foes, used his feet to
scoop up- such quantities of mud and
water that no one was able to come
near him. However, all the other men
having been driven off, he and the
donyer were allowed at last to crawl
up on the path and the combat for
the year was over. The victory of the
women was looked upon as a very
propitious ending: so they dispersed
to their various homes rejoicing."
Mr. White writes of being enter
tained by the officials, as follows:
"We here saw what capable house
wives the Chilian ladies are. Every
thing was dono very systematically.
jln the morning the provisions for the
nay were given out no easy lusk.
wilh some Hundreds of retainers to
feed and the store rooms to be re
locked, orders Issued, and tasks ap
pointed In spinning, weaving, elc, to
be carried out by the large household
of women, und It was Interesting to
Bee the deference in which these
dames are held. We were shown all
the Industries of weaving in cotton,
wool and silk, the process of casting
metals, chiefly bells and Images, the
making of swords and gold and sil
versmiths' work. Many pieces turned
out by the latter were of exqulsllc
design and finish. It was all most In
teresting and Instructive. We visited
a somewhat gruesome spot, where the
bodies of the higher families are ox
posed on a slab of rock after death
to be eaten by lammergeriers. It was
a beautiful, though terrible, spot,
close under the snows and glaciers of
their sacred mountain. Cho-mo-Uia-rl.
"This country was so little known
that as recently as 1890 a high Indian
official wrote most undeservedly, as
my explorations proved: 'No one
wishes to explore that tangle of jungle
clsd and fever stricken hills. Infested
with leeches and the plpsa-fly, and
offering no compensating advantages
to the most enterprising pioneer.
Science passes It by as a region not
sufficiently characteristic to merit
special exploration.' "
rf THK At DITOnil'M ow
FItItAY NKiHT.
KKXT
rlday. May 1, when Lyman H. Mows
111 present th biggest feature he haa
ver offered the construction of the
fs.na.ma. canal. In conveying Ideas of
lie and quantity to the mind there Is
MONDAY NltJMT. APIUIi OT
Vise toc-tal Event of Uie Meason
Ruth St. Denis
WorUl'a r.rrntnnt Danae Artletn
4 Her company of native Hindoo
and Japanese Presenting Hsr
' Original.
nniKNTAL DAN CI PLAYS
4 the latest modem dsnees-HmI.
tatlon. Maxls. Tango and her
own creation. 'The
Bhee Walls" f
tlal fleanery. Qareeniit Cesium r.
irveonted for Two Teare t Ike
Vn Theatre N, Y.
at Allison's, rrlteoi It :
teattieene's Remantio Marriage.
The marriage or Lord strut h- ona tvat
a romance. He met the lady when oe
was twenty nine anil living on tbe
coast of lAbrador. Mb was a widow
and had a little son There waa no
priest or church within 1X100 miles and
tbe roarrlsfe waa a almpl contract
without ceremony. It waa for thl
reason that when the high commission
er been me peer In I7 a remarriage
was held to be ni rosea ry and It was
solemnised with the roll rltnal ot the
Church of England. The l.snrador
marriage waa. However, rnilhi-d ny
pecUl aet of parllnmviit-Lourtvn I at-lr.
Whistler ee e Ceurtler.
Moat of lbs stories of Whistler arc
rather "waeflsh." hut on (walla a
very Ibat shows hhn In (he llgnt rath
f qf mf ajraeefnt l ourtlet.
II happened that the then Trinre of
Wale paid a Wt t an eihlbttloo of
ietueaa met was Beid hi aa art so
ciety of which Whistler was tor presi
dent Wuiatlar re-nel the iruiw at
tbe dner. end a fnef entered the gal
lery si. nrat iiiuniiMi asked t
"What is the iilsiury ul poor eonlety.
Mr Waletlerr
"dir." refilled lite artist wltb a court
If Pvw, "Its wieurry pegiu laeyl"
WOMANS EXCHANGE TO
One of Asheville'fl Unique Bus
iness Places to Close
Its Dors.
One of Ashevllle's most unique busi
ness Institutions, the Woman's Ex
change and Tearoom, la to lie discon
tinued before the end of tills month,
sn snnounrement in that effect having
Just been Issued by the dlrertors. Con
signors are aaked lo call for Ihelr
goode as soon as possible so lhat the
building nn Haywood street may be
varated before May 1. The reaaon
given for the nd of tha buslneaa I
thai pairnneg haa fallen off to such
an ex, em. while expenses hsvs In
creased, Ii 1 found r.sueaaary to close
ths venture,
Th Rae.hg was spened here
r ihae) II years ago and was one
ef the Mrs. ef Ii kind In th stale, a
plaea where, th ladle of the rlty
enulo d spese ef their fancy work,
and'.ae, eta., and for many year It
haa been .lis sealer for many seclul
saiherinxa The new thai II In to lie
discontinued will ba deeply regretted
in many tiuariere.
SA TISFA CI ION
Is Tailored into the Clothes we make, showing the
Season's Newest Fabrics in Domestic and
Imported Woolens. One Price
Suit or
Overcoat
Made to
Measure
Every Garment ON MA HI? Insuring Highest
We Sell is UlltUil mlUEj Grade Workmanship
We Absolutely Guarantee Fit, Finish, Fabric
and Fashion
National Woolen Mills
Stores in All Leading Cities
Commerce Building No. 18 South Pack Square
One Hundred Ladies' Silk Waists
for To morrow,, the $198 kind,
Special -
ROYAL
0879 Girl's Dres with Body
Bisrres lo One. 4, 6 ssd 8 yura.
Tomorrow Millinery Day
We have recently received a new lino' of cntrimmed
shiiMos, new styles, new trimmings.
SATURDAY Big Millinery Bargains. Sale on Fannma
lints
One lot $2.98 antl $3.50 shapes displayed in the center of
our Millinery Department, remember, tomorrow $1.98
One lot shapes, tlie $1.50 kind, tomorrow 75cts.
Bargains in Children's Hats, bargains in Brrvs Hats.
See our Bargains in Children's Presses- 50c. 75c, 98c and up to $3.50.
See Our Bargains in Boys' Wash Suits.
One lot Boys' Wash Suits 48c.
Como and see them, they are worth more. We have otherr, at 75c, 98c,
$1.25, $1.50 and $2.00.
REMEMBER OUR CORSET DEPARTMENT Thompson's Glove Fit
ing, W. B., Dr. Warner's, R. & (.
Black Cat Stockings are the best. Come and be
convinced. Every n.iir guaranteed.
Come and see the best bargains in Gloves. Call for
the. Kysers GloveB, they are the best.
Quality Always & Low Prices
PALAIS
ROYAL
If It's New, We Have It
A wonderful lot of Wash Presses & Wash Goods.
Atfractively priced an?! in such a beautiful array
of patterns and colors that you will enjoy eeeing them
WASH DRESSES
Every one of these dresses is so well and oareXully
made, so neatly trimmed and of such excellent ma
terial that it is sheer folly to make yonr own Summer
dresses.
WASH GOODS
' Ynn will flm1 the neweet patterns In tho latest rolor combina
tions Hie most pleaslne weaves snd th vty lowest prl iiaj at which
you ever saw such rellnhls msrchanillsa.