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August 20, 1940.

By Walt Disney

SHOP

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These discreet fellows are

willing to hold coats, doors

ESCORTS A LA CARTE

and chairs, but not hands behaved like gentlemen (for a rea- will hold cunts, doors and chairs, bul supper, etc. If she wants to appear sonable fee). I could produce with no! hands. If the lady has an affeg behind an ambush of orchids, we um the only a few hours' notice that "extra ti cert to haville het uit de gladly order them sent, to her with a

the Escort the situation with I inan" guaranteed to save the most tact and above all, with discretion! sentimental card she can show to

Gigolo King deadly dinner. I would provide a 1 insist that the acquaintanceship re orchids, too..

business basis.

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strielly professional The male fourth for bidge-merely plug up,and main upon Peggy name your system. I assured her my basis, Ladies have a Hopkins young men made idea! background habit of urging their for Alnerous girls and Ideal glamour Escorts to just drop Joyce for backward girls. We specialize mount "socially", for have ini kanching wallowers successfully, cocktails or dinner, i

have naturally succeeded We have just the right "nice young in putting man" to take Grandma to the movies stamp out this evit or

to Cousin Ko, bankrupt, to take Aunt Alice marsuline or charm Sophie's Musical Tea. upon

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Cradle Snatchers.

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deur to my

rates Arc

friends Naturally she pays for the

Although I prefer American college boys, because of the dc- mand, 1 did take on ne bona fide Russian Price. The Prince has been a gold mine! 1 rent him out, now, By tlic searun,

FAMOUS REGIMENTS

The social Now as to fees, a

was at Bar Harbour mentor tried me out and was impress matter

all summer and will ed. She passed the glad tidings on. heart. My

be in Miami all win- Five fuit.

The Prince is scrupulously have forty-seven Gulde very I now

to marry I originated the Guide Escort

Escorts between the ages of twenty- dollars for an early evening (until for

three of our Clients. Service. I provide handsome one and twenty-eight. However, I ten o'clocks), five dollars for every honest and has refused

My mest popular Escort is a Yale The I have no man who was a life guard. young escorts for lonely ladies, do have Ave nature, distinguished two hours thereafter. The Escort

and gentlemen for these ladies who are spilts with me fifty-fty.

My Escorts are demand for him la terrific. He has ladies from out-of-town

as difeulty collecting, classed

gentlemen and 1 check up anyhow, been presented with a farm in Ver- mont, ruby cuff links, a Chrysler | ladies whose charms have proved sensitive about being

insufficient.

My men must be five feet ten or The dy pays all expenses, taxi, roadster ant a saxophone. I'm afraid

They must dance well, talk dinner, drinks, tips, theatre tickets, he'll get rich and retire. However, I didn't start the service taller. on on impulse of overwhelming gal- easily, order readily and have tact lantry. I started it for the delightful and soclul expedience. Althougla 1 purpose of making money, Never-have two Adonises, great, beauty is to my clients, not required. Personality, breeding theless, I'm a boon Unescorted females are not welcome and v. are essential. My men all in smart restaurants and swank night have jobs. The Gulde Escort Service clubs, Now, what are the poor things is remunerative recreation, not

vocation,

When the lady calls I inquire going to do?

Widows, divorcees and wallflowers minutely as to the type of escort sho dumb- wants. 1 she is "horsey," we send debutantes, dowagers and belles; career girls and business girls; her a man who knows horses from They ears to tail. If the wants the soulful they all want to go places!

type, we send her a gentleman who want to dance and dine, see and be known poetry, painting and music.

there aren't suckers My Escorts meet all ellents in the scen. But

lobby, not in her living room, bed- enough to go round.

or bath. We only go to the Founding the Guide Escort Service recognized smart chubs and was not a childhood urabitlen. It was surants, No Deer joints, Greenwich an inspiration that followed a bitter Village or Harlem. experience,

By Ted Peckham

I left college with high hopes of rocking the advertising world to its very foundation. I lived in an nitie and ate in the Automat (with rest- ruiza), and tried to save money for a new pair of shoes. One

enough

A

men,

SOMALILAND CAMEL CORPS

BECAUSE of tribal disturb- Bghting actions at Endow Pass (1017)

Somaliland Camel and OK Pass (1018).

On the termination of the world. ances, the Corps was raised in 1912 by Mr. war the Corps was one of the units conibined sea, land R. C. Corfield from loyal tribes taking part in a

and air operation which finally over- threw the Mad Mullah, During the On September 9, 1913 it fought an purult the Corps animals marched nction against superior numbers of 150 miles in 72 hours, the Mad Mullah's dervishes from The Indian Company of the Corps 6.50 am, until late into the afternoon, was disbanded, in 1922 this Com- The Corps lost nearly 50% of its pany was replaced by. men drawn rest-strength.

from 1st Bn. King's African Tuftes

(Nyasaland).

Subsequently

the Corps was re- -organised,-expand-.

ed and

officered

from the British aud Indian Armies. In November, 1914

attack

WAIS

made on the Mad Mullah's forts at

Shimber

Beris.

The casualties in-

In 1023 the for- ward policy of Di Vecchi, the Gov- vi Italian ernor Somaliland, entali-

ed unrest amongst the tribes in East- ern Somaliland and the

wns Corps Dgain OT! active operations.

cluded Captain Carlon de Wlart who 1928-1920 and again in 1933 It Just the sight of an eye and gained was employed against the Esa tribe the B.S.O. This officer as Major in the Zella district. In 1030 the General was recently on active ser- Corps was employed during unrest vice in Norway,

amongst the tribes along the South-

The lady is requested to have two to hand to her of the few important men I knew envelopes ready

is the money for one He said he had a Escort. In

In January 1915 a second attack ern border of the Somaliland Pro- In the other, his fee, called me

was made on Shimber Beris and lite tectorate. sister who was coming to New York expenses.

forts blown up. for a visit. He wanted me to meet Ours is a pay-as-you-go organization,

strictly cash and no crediti

up.

l'

In the same year the Corps ceased The Corps hud originally consisted

her. An fact, he wanted me to take The Guide Escorts are allowed just her out. I couldn't say no, so I said one drink an hour. The lady may to be an independent organisation of 3 Camel Companies and one Pony delak as much as she pleases. If she and became an integral unit of the Company. After the final overthrow gets stinko, the boys have instruc-King's African Rifles.

you

FUNNY SIDE UP

I gathered together all the money tlons to leave her fat. The lady is I'd saved for the new pair of shoes supposed to behave like a lady no and called for Sister at her. smart matter how much it hurts. My men hotel. Down she come! When I saw -- that horse, I thought I'd die! She had pop eyes, buck teeth and neck as long as a giraffe's. Slie ate like a bon-con- strictor. She ate up a week's salary and dranks up, my shoes. She said It was wonderful we had found each other because she didn't know any young mica 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 and did all the talking. Yet I had to payl

It wasn't fair and it wasn't right!

I rounded up some chaps I knew, nice guys from good families, Har- vard, Yule 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, ng

My next problem was to get some clients.. It didn't take me long. I went to the managers of the best hotels and they were enthusiastio Unescorted ladies 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 eastly at strongers in the dining room and they are apt to get boiled in the bar

I dropped a word in the car of a certain social mentor. I was on- nounced, rendy to produce a blue- blooded slag. line of gentlemen who

DEAN

of the Mat Muilah one of the Comel

For the remainder of the Great Companies was disbanded, and It War the Camel Corps was on active 1032 one of the two remaining Camo! service against the Mad Mulish, Companies was mechanised.

By Abner Dean

I keep throwing him out., but the street cleanor 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 ounaniche

4. Statuary Hall.

5,

The "Whirlpool of Europe"?

4. Moon Island?

7.

The capital of Illinois?

4. The Aral Sea?

.9.

The Yellowstone Trail?

10.

Carrara marble?

ANSWERS

1. Berkeley, Calif,

2.

Australia.

3. A small Canadian sulmon.

4. The popular name given to the chamber in the Capitol, Withington, ulilized for the statues of historic Americans, A name given the Balkan peninsula, because it 18.com- Eldered the political storm center of modern Europe.

5.

6.

An Island in Boston Harbor, Mazs.

1. Spring@eld.

8. A salt inland sea in Russian

Turkestan.

B. A highway from Boston, Mass.j

to. Seattle Wash,

10% It is quarried at Carrara.

Italy.

WALT DISNEY

GIBRALTAR CAN HIT -AND HARD!

nurrow

THE outbreak of war in the Mediterranean found the stronghold at its portal fully prepared to with- stand the shocks and strains of the most furious and pro- that may longed assaults

come.

were

ta

Ior

recent.

Women

children and evacuated, all weapons got ready, every post manned, ali precaution- ary measures taken, stores of pro- vialons and munitions Alled capacity, everything geared instant action and grim endurance. The strength of the batteries has been greatly increased in year, and they contain guns of exceptional calibre and range, No details can be given, but the bi- gest modern fixed artillery hot a range up to 30 miles and more. It can be taken as certain that every acre of land or water within their reach has been carefully "plotted" to enable the expert gunners to unfailing drop their salvos with

precision, whether by day or night. Gibraltar can hit as hard as sho can be hit, and probably a great deal harder.

from Attempted bombardment the sea would be an extremely dangerous undertaking for the at- tacker. Howitzers on the heights abave Algeciras in Spain, six miles away, or near Ceulu in Spanish Morocco, 18 miles away, could bat- ter the town and port, which

neutrality

"

(or

makes

factor of great importance in determining what Gibraltar may be called upon to endure for endure the fortress what- will; we can be confident, eve: the trials. The balleries are sited to deal with fire frem any quarter, and the guns emplaced to save direct be impervious to any

Large-scale air raids, if they could be successfully carried out, might wreck the town, but tallon for airfelds are far distant, and intensive bombardment from the air, as from the land, bases on the Spanish or Moroccan mainland are required, while anti-aircraft de- tences have been brought to the highest pitch of efficiency.

Though assaults in force may seem unlikely, Gibraltar, is fully It prepared for any emergency. can stand a

tand a long sluge if necessary. with protection and provisions for வயம் the population. There are munitions, stored in bom magazines, to feed the guns of

for many types and calibres months. The civilians remaining. after the removal of the and children brought away, eth live like prehistoric troglodytes, f need be, in the immense caverns made to shelter them.

Ton Huge Caverns

women

For the shelter of civilians, Sir Edmund 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 taught far from a refuge when an alarm sounds.

con-

Each of these great grottoes, so situated that no one need be more than two minutes hurry from the nearest, accommodates from 1,000 to 1,500 persons. To avoid gestion, there are five or six en- trances to cach, and they are fitted

ith benches

and electric light, provided with drinking water and irst-aid stations, and have gas- proof curtains ready.

and

A vital need in withstanding slege is an adequate supply of food and water for garrison and civilian population. Enough food of core- tested fully selected kinds and quality is laki by to last for months

Gibraltar cannot be locked out. or starved out any more than in 1770, the last of many sieges, when It endured four years of blockade and bombardment. French Sonnish ships blazed away

batteries there were huge floating of the heaviest guns. Elliott, the Governor, a grim old Seot, was the life and soul of the defence. Ho had furnacer ever ready for a con stant supply of red-hot shot for his 80 puns. In the last phase of the terrifle. bombardment all the guns or land and sen were firing day and night without Intermission.

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Dress

Materials

ONE OF THE FINEST RANGES WE

HAVE EVER DISPLAYED.

Must

clear at 95c. yd.

Also COTTONS @ 75c.

Ladies' HATS

going at

$1.00 each

BEACH HATS $1.50

CELLULAR CORSELETTES Salo $2

SILK PANTIES

COTTON VESTS

$1.50

$1.50

All Dress Flowers less 25%

“Costume

Jewellery

25% disc.

SILKS @ $1.50 yd.

Ladies'

DRESSES $2 & $3

Children's Dresses

$5.00

Ladies' RAINCOATS

Fawn & Navy only

$7.50

SHIRT BLOUSES, $2

CHILDREN'S DRESSES (small) $2 & $3

CHILDREN'S SOCKS 2 prs for $1

“BUCKLES-&-BUTTONS- 1/2 Prico

VALENCIA TALC. $1.10 monster tin.

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