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Abortive Flight
Here are the three prospective endurance flyers just before the start of the fight of the Bellanea monoplane; "Three Musketeers," from Rousevelt field, left to right, Martin Jensen, Mrs. Marguerite Jensen and William Ulbrich. The flight ended disastrously.
Yankees Land New College Pitcher
Polyandry Still Practised in Asia
WOMEN MAKE THEMSELVES
UGLY
It Is a Sin to Attract Men
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OLYANDRY still flour- istics in Central Asia where the inconveni- ences of a matriarchy are solv ed by never having more than one husband home at a time.
After spending Ave years in the desert and mountain wildernessce of Northern Tibet and Chinese Turkestan, Professor Nicholes Ros- rich, head of the Roerich American expedition, declared today that the women of Central Asia were the Ereatest spiritual force of that re-
ote, wild section of the globe. Three or four husbands are the rute in Northern Tibet Polyandry 19 most common among the lower <l2583. The high. east Tibetans. guided by their lamas, or priests, inclined towards me-
Ere more
rogamy.
Ameng the strange tore which Protesxox
Roerich brought back
with him from his travels is an account of a religion called Shamb- bale. This is strangely parallel with some of our own scientific discover ies of recent date. The Shambhala 1s an evolutionary theory which promleen to show humanity how to master psychle energy, cosmic en- ergy and through theso-the mas- tery of fire energy.
Left, two of the Tibetan women who paint their faces in unrecognizable fashion so as not to be alluring to their men. Right, a typical high class Tibetan belle, painted with great skill by Roerich. Below, telt, a terri fying Tibetan devil-mask used, by the priests in certain of their secret ceremonice. Below, n to t, Prof. Nicholas Roerich, head of Roerich Museum, philosopher, scientist and talented painter, and George. Raorich, his son, one of the meat orientaliste of today.
into Chinese From there they jour
their cheeks with a black" powder Karakoram Passes The high culture of these people mixed with blood. This makes them Turkestan. remarkable. The laman are resingly-and seems to suit their pur- neyed over the Altia Mountains to
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ly enchers, not monks. They try pose admirably. They pick their Mongolfa, the Gobi Desert. Into to-keep this Shambhala religion to own busbands, thus the matter of Tibet. They suffered innumerable
probiem with hardships. themselves. It was manifested about selectivity
Br route, Professor Roerich paus- $,000 years ago and only a few them." know of it or are able to understand Professor Roerich, accompanieded to paint pictures of the impen- by his wife and son. George Roe etrable regions around Altla and the rich, one of the foremost Oriental Himalaya Mountains. He is a fa- lets, set out from Sixhim in India, mous artist, philosopher and selent- crossed over the Soja La Pass to ist for whom the Roerich Muszum Littie Tibet, thence to the great here was founded in 1923.
"The women look ko the Red Indian They are taught that it is dest to attract the attention of For this reason they aint
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Plenty of big league teams were after the signature of Frank Nekola, above, Holy Cross pitching star, but the Yankees grabbed the plum. He reported to the Huggins fold all togged out in the Yankee uniform just to warm up a bit. He looks so good that many think he will be one of the starting pitchers before the season is over.
Helen Wills' Art Works
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In Secluded Corner of Salon
Helen Wills the artist, eclipsed Helen Wills the tennis champion, when a re- cent exhibition of her tennis sketches WAS opened to public view in a Bond Street gallery in London.
among the spectators were portly matrona, straining their sysa through diamond-studded Jorgnätten, along with a number of säänest young artists, who came to sriticize the Won" of a fellow-Draftsman,
"The tannis champion gave up her palović, practice on the courts at Wimbledon to watch spectators and ang verītips tile part her, thirty-four "watar, colors, «. All of the sketches
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Mias Wills is a most talented girl. Har works are said to be excep.. sonally fine, which is really unu masi, um it is buite dificult for person who excels in any art, to get
real perspective of another
son gooupled at the same work, 2
40 admirabla aharacteristic of of dust talant, is that she seems to be darfring all ganch:
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At left "Red Rose Tiger Girl," who slew her lover, though
public sentiment wanted to believe otherwise, is shown as she would
look if she had two right sides to her face, revealing not weak, but
coarse, elementary features. Centre top is prison photo of Fela Palick, or "2822," from which the two portrait analyses at left and right were made. Centre bottom, Wm. E. Benton's invention,
the "Character Study Mirror," with which the analyses were made. At right, top, how No. 2322 would look if she had two left sides to her face, showing rather phlegmatic woman, with eager but not in telligent eyes. Below, the slayer in gayer days, to all appearances
a normal, spirited girl.
"RED ROSE TIGER GIRL"
Not Worthy of Sympathy
Superficially, the action, of a Pough keepsie, N., Jury in pronouncing as guilty of manslaughter pretty Fela Palick, the "Bed Rose Tiger Girl," ae cused of slaying her sweetheart, ap peared to be a "grave miscarriage of justice."!****
to boil.
And thus boiling, she armed herself with a revolver one day and stealing out of the Palick house she set herself to shadowing her erstwhile lover,
When she finally found him the re newed her pleas to be taken back, and when Henry turned on his heel to walk away four shots, broke the city's low hum. Gagnon staggered, collapsed, his back riddled full of bullets
The Gagnon case attracted nation What!" exclaimed sentimentalista... That attractive girl kill a man in cold ride attention. There were still those who said that Fela couldn't have done blood? Impossible!""
it Others, less sentimental, began They, of course, based this theory to look into Mrs. Palick's life and to on an old one formulated by an Italian crutinise her features through her scientist, long dead, that faces are an photographs.
Benton, enormously interested in the case of this charming murderess, gazed intently at her photo, which presented a pleasing appearance. But when be slid the picture into the "character study mirror" the result was astound-
unswerving inder to character, that a Fela Palick was taken to prison and ing man who lenks like a gorilla, for iu- placarded with her official number, The double left-sided view disclosed stance, must be a crimimi, and that, 2122 At that tima a Mr. William a rather phlegmatic, éredulous, overly conversely, a woman of flower-like Benton, field director for a stage-coach emotional woman. The lips were full beauty is incapable of sin and system, had in the course of his duties and soft, with lack of emotional con-
invented a carious httle device which trof clearly indicated. The eyes betrag
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There was no denying the comeliness he found useful in determining the ed a marked eagerness, but they were of Fels; a girl of Lithuanian extrac. honesty of men applying for jche not those of an uncommonly intelligent tou, at the time she marked Sam This contrivance was a "character person. The festural ensemble sug- Palick, with whom she was happy for study mirror, which consisted of gested instability if not positive weak- a time until Henry Gagnon came along, double-sided metal plate placed at right, nesa.»› Henry, who possessed a roving eye and angles on a Bai surface, By lifting When Benton studied the donbly. an adventurous disposition, fell wildly the metal microz slightly on ite hinge right sided view of Feln the difference Here In love with Fela, who answered his and sliding the photograph of any per pleadings and left her husband to share son through the crack, then adjusting the fortunea of the adventurous it so that the mubject's face was a
Curately, bisected Renton, Wan able
Stired of her however, determine how that person would look
had tried all she had two right sides to her face new his interest in and how she would loox if the bad Slavic blood began left sides.
that met his gaze was vast
was no weakling, but a creature with determined jaws, a course, sanguinary nose, thick, spreadin Cheek bodies a forcefu almost masculine per
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