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These diserect fellows nro
willing to hold roats, deors
um the
ESCORTS
A LA CARTE
the Escort to handle the situation with
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and ebafes, but not hands behaved like gentlemen (for a rea- will hold coats, doors and chairs, but supper, etc. If she wants to appear sonable fee). I could produce with not hands. If the lady has on affee- behind an ambush of orchids, we only a few hours' notier that "extra lionate and loving nature, I expect gladly order them sent to her with a I Gigolo man" guaranteed to save the most tact and above all, with diseretion!timental card she can show King deadly dinner. I would provide a insist that the nequaltonership re- friends. Naturally she pays for the The male fourth for bridge—merely ring up and main upon
strictly professional orchids, ton. ne your system. I assured her my basis, Ladles have a Pekиy It opkins young own made ideal trekground babit of urging their for glamorous girls and Ideal glamour Escorts to just drop Joyce for backword girls. We specialize around "selally for
have in hunching, wallflowers successfully, sucereded We have just the right "nire young in putting man" to take Grandma to the movies
to to take Aunt Allee masculine or charm Sophie's Musical Tea. upon a mentor tried me nut and was impress matter
rotes ed. She passed the glad tidings on, heart. My
Tair. have forty-seven Guide very
business basis.
1
I
now
cocktails or dinner. I naturally nee tu stomp out this evil ov Cousin bankrupt. The social
Now as 10 fees, a
clear to my
are
Five
I originated the Guide Escort Escorts between the affes of enty dollars for an early evening (until ter
Service.
The
Although I prefer American college boys, because <if the de- mand, I did take on one bona fide Russian Prince, The Prince has been a gold mine! rent him out, now, by the season. He was at Bar Harbour all summer and will be in Miami alt win- Prince is scrupulously ta marry
The
I provide handsome one and twenty-eight. However, I ten o'clock), five dollars for every lunest and has refused
My most popular Escort is a Yule young escorts for lonely ladies, do have five mature, distinguished two hours thereafter. The Escort the of our Clients, Indics from out-of-town and gentlemen for these ladies who are pits with me any-fty. I have no man who was a life guard.
He has about being elsend
My Escorts are demand for him is terrific. as difficulty collecting. ladies whose charms have proved usitive
Cradle Snateliers,
gentlemen and I check up anyhow, been presented with a form in Ver- Chryster mont, ruby cuff links, insuflicient.
ladly paya all expenses, taxi, roadster and a saxophone. I'm afrald The My men must be five feet ten or
They must dance well, talk dinner, drinks, Ups, theatre tickets, he'll get rich and retire, However, I didn't start the service taller, on an impulse of overwhelming gal- vasily, order readily and have tact Intry, I started it for the delightfui,and surial expedience. Although I purpose of making money, Never-lave two Adonises, great beauty is theless, I'm a buon 10 my chests, not required. Personality, breeding Unescorted females are not weteume and wit are essential. My men all In smart restaurants and swank night have jobs. The Guide Escort Service remmerative recreation, not a clubs. Now, what are the poor things is going to do?:
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FAMOUS REGIMENTS
men.
SOMALILAND CAMEL CORPS
BECAUSE of tribal disturb-fighting actions at Endow Pass (1817) vocation.
When the lady calls 1 Inquire ances. the Somaliland Camel and DK Pass (19187.
On the termination of the world Widows, divorcees and walltowers, minutely as to the type of escort she Corps was raised in 1912 by Mr. war the Corps was one of the units
If she is "hurvey," we tend
R. C. Corfield from loyal tribes- tokig part in a combined sea, land. debutantes, dowagers and dumb-want:
and air operation which inally over- belles; career girls and business girls; her a man who knows horses from
threw the Mad Mullah. During the they all want to go places! They cars to tell. If the wants the soulful
On September 8, 1913, I fought an purant the Corps animals marched type.
we send her a gentiaanan who
action against superior numbers of 150 miles in 72 hours. want to dance and dine, see and be knows poetry, painting and music.
My Escorts meet all clients in the the Mad Mullah's dervishes from suckers there But
The Indian Company of the Corps lubby, not in her Eving room, bed- 6.30 am. until late into the afternoon, was disbanded. In 1922 is Co- enough to go round.
We only go to the The Corps list nearly 50%. of its pany was replaced by men drawn Founding the Guide Escort Service room, or bath.
recognized smart clubs and rest-
strength.
from 1st Bn. King's African Rifles was not a childhood ambition. It was aurants, No beer Joints, Greenwich
(Nyasaland). an inspiration that followed a bitter Village or Harlem. experience.
seen.
aren't
By Ted Peckham
1 left college with high hopes of
rocking the advertising world to its
very foundation.
I lived in an attic
enough
and ate in the Automat (with rest- raint), and tried to save money for a new pair of shots. One
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The lady is requested to have of the few important men I knew envelopes ready to hand to
her called me. up. He said he had a Escort. In one is the money for sister who was coming to New York expenses. In the other, his fee, Ours is pay-as-you-go organization, for a visit. He wanted me to meet strictly cuth and no eredit! her, In fact,, he wanted me to take The Culle Escorts are allowed just I couldn't say no, so I said one drink an hour. The lady nay drink as much as she pleases. If she Hets stinko, the boys have instruc
her out.
yes.
FUNNY SIDE UP
I gathered together all the money tons to leave her flat. The lady is I'd saved for the new pair of shoes supposed to behave ilke a lady no and called for Sister other sinart matter how much it hurts. My men hotel. Down she came! When I saw that horse, I thought I'd die! She had pop eyes, buck teeth und neck us long ns a giralfe's. She ale like a bea-con- strictor. She ate up a week's salary und drank up my shoes. She said I was wonderful we had found euch other because she didn't know any young men in New York. Then Is That when I had my inspiration! evening would not have been so bad if she had been paying for it! After all, she drank all the liquor (I don't drink), ate most of the food und did all the talking. Yet I had to pay!
It wasn't fair and it wasn't right!
I rounded up some chaps I knew, nice guys from good familica, Har- vard, Yale and Princeton men, stary- Ing decorously. I broached my pro- position. They were not only interest- ed, they were game and eager. Even anxious to escort genteel and solvent females to the hot spots, for expenses and small remuneration
My next problem was to get some eliants. It didn't take me long. I' went to the managers, of the best hotels and they were enthusiastlo. Unescorted ladles are a headache to many a host, in fact, they are a hell of a problem. They take fancies to bellboys and walters. They smile too casily at strangers in the dining room and they are apt to get bolled in the bur.
I dropped a word in the car of a certain social mentor, 1 was an- nounced, ready to produce. a blue- blooded stag line of gentlemen whe
ABVER DEAD
[Cape, 1938 hy Outlet d'en Pécs agadi
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Subsequently
Du Corps was re-
organised, expand-
ed
und officered
from the British
-end-Unditor-Aanies,
In Novermber, 1914 attack Was made on the Mad Mollah's
Shimber
forts at
Beris.
The casualties in-
cluded Captain Carton de Wiurt who
In 1023 the for- ward policy of Di Vecchi, the Gov-
f Italian
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WALT DISNE
GIBRALTAR CAN HIT --AND HARD!
THE outbreak of war in the
Mediterranean found the stronghold at its narrow portal fully prepared to with- stand the shocks and strains of the most furious and pro- longed assaults that may
come.
were
Wornen
chlidren und. evacuated, ali weapons get ready, every post manned, all precaution- ary incisures taken, stores of pro- visions and munitions filled to for capacity, everything geared instant action and grim endurance.
The strength of the batteries has been greatly increased in recent years, and these and range.
contain guns of No exceptional details can be given, but the big, rasa modern Bxed artillery has a range up to 30 miles and more.
an be taken as certam that every tere of land or water within their rench has been carefully "plotted" to enable, the expert gunners to drop their salvos with unfailing piscision, whether by day or night. Gibraltar can hit as hard as sho can be hit, and probably a great deal harder.
Attempted bombardment from the sea would be an 'extremely dangerous undertaking for the at- tacker. Howitzers on the heights above Algeciras in Spain, six miles in Spanish away, or near Ceuta Morocco; I miles away, could bat- lor the town and part, which nakes Spanish neutrality (or factor of "non-belligerence"),
determining great importance in what Gibraltar may be called upen to endure for endure the fortress will, we can be confident, what- ever the trials. The batteries are sited to deal with fire from any quarter, and the guns emplaced to be impervious to any Save dircet
tits.
*
Large-scale air raids, if they
Somaliland, entail.enuld be successfully carried out,
ed unrest amongst
the tribes in East-
ern Somaliland and the Corps Was aclive Again
operations, 1028-1929 and again in 1933 it Just the sight of an eye and gained was employed against the Esa tribe the D.S.O. This officer as a Major in the Zella district. In 1930 the General was recently on active ser- Corps was employed during unrest vite in Norway.
amongst the tribes along the South- In January 1916 a second attack or border of the SomaBland Pro- was made on Shimber Beris and the tectorate. forts blown up.
In the same year the Corps ceased The Corps had originally consisted to be an independent organisation of a Camel Companies and one Pony and became an integral unit of the Company. After the final overthrow King's African Rifles,
of the Mad Mullah one of the Camel
For the remainder of the Great Companies was disbanded, and in War the Cumel Corps was on active 1832 one of the two remaining Comel service against the Mad Muliah, Companies was mechanised.
By Abner Dean
"I koop throwing him out... but the street cleaner keeps
throwing him in again!"
Where Would You Find-
1. The University of California?
2. The only continent completely
south of the equator?
3.
An, ouananiche
4.
Statuary Holl.
5. The "Whirlpool of Europe"?
8. Moon Island?
7. The capital of Illinois?
8. The Aral Sea?
0. The Yellowstone Trail?
10:
Carrara marble?
ANSWERS
1. Berkeley, Calif.
2. Australia.
3. A small Canadian salmon.
1. The popular name given to the chamber in the Capitol, Washington, utilized for. the statues of historie Amarleihs. 5. A nume given the Balkan peninsula, because it is con- sidered the political storm center of modern Europe. ·
7
0. An islund in Boston Harbor,
Moss.
Springfield,
8. A valt inland sea in
Turkeylan.
Russian
9. A highway from Boston, Mass.,
to Seattle Wash.
10. It is quarried at
Italy.
Carrara..
for
de-
might wreck the town, but Italian airfields are fur distant. Intensive bombardment from the air, us from the land, bases on the nish or Moroccan mainland are
while
anti-aircraft required, fences have been brought to the highest pitch of effleleney,
Though assaults in force may scem unlikely, Gibraltar is fully.
It prepared for any emergency. can stand a long siege if necessary, with protection and provisions for the
population. There are enough munitions, stored in bomb-proof ali magazines, to feed the guns of
for rauny cAliures types and months. The elvilians remaining. atter the removal of the women and children brought away,
live like prehistoric troglodytes, if need be, in the immense caverns made to shelter them.
Ton Huge Caverns
For the shelter of civilians, Sir Exlmund Ironside while he was Governor ordered the excavation of huge caverns in the lower part of the Rock, near and in the town, so that none will be caught for from refuge when an alarm sounds.
to
Each of these great grottoes, so altuated that no one need be more than two minutes' hurry from the nearest,
accommodates from 1,000 con- 1,500 persons. To avoid gestion, there are five or six trances to each, and they are fitted and electric light, with benches provided with drinking water and first-aid stations, and have „gar- proet curtains ready.
ond And
A vital nced in withstanding siege is an adequate supply of food and water for garrison and civilian population. Enough food of care- and tested fully selected kinds quality is laid by to last for months, Gibraltar cannot be knocked out or starved out any more than in when 1770, the last of many sieges,' it endured four years of blockade and bombardment, French พ Sonnish thips binxed away there were huge floating batteries of the heaviest guns. Elliott, the Governor, a grim old Scot, was the Ис life and soul of the defence. bad furnaces over rendy for a con- stant supply of red-hot shot for his 00 guns. In the last phase of thei terrific bombardment all the guns on land and sea were Aring day and night without intermission.
H. Phipps Homming.
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Ladies' HATS
going at
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BEACH HATS $1.50
CELLULAR CORSELETTES Sale $2
SILK PANTIES
COTTON VESTS
All Dress Flowers less 25%
Costume -Jewellery
25% disc.
$1.50
$1.50
Ladies'
DRESSES
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Children's Dresses
$5.00
Ladies' RAINCOATS
Fawn & Navy only
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SHIRT BLOUSES, $2
CHILDREN'S DRESSES (small) $2 & $3
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