The Syracuse Journal, Volume 23, Number 1, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 1 May 1930 — Page 5

COLLEGE ALUMNI TO VISIT TAVERN FOR BANQUET Reservations Being Sent In Earliei This Year Than Ever Before Good Season Predicted June is usually the month of conventions on Lake Wawasee, but two have been scheduled for the 1 ayern, this month, .according to . the announcement of Matty- Katzer this morning. The group <>f Notire Dame graduates and friends wh> always attend one of the big, gaintfs during Notre Dame’s season, is planning a golf tournament, under the leadership of Ralph Ittenbach of Indianapolis. Forty of these friends will come to the Tavern next week. On May 29tb the Service Club of Indianapolis will hold its convention atf the Tavern .according to Matty’s schedule book. The Tavern was built by Matty in 1926, on a section of Brunjes Park, part of the old location of the Brunjes Inn being used. Before building his own Tavern. had other hotel experience, having assisted the Ballou Boys in their management of the Wawasee Inn. "It was 22 years ago the 16th of this mouth that 1 first came to Wa- | wasee,” Matty said this morning. "And this promises to be the biggest season in those 22 years. “The Li l Wife In Africa’’ s (Editor’s Note; Because so many people have suggested we write some of our African experiences; and because so much is written of big game, and so little of housekeeping near the Equator, the editor's wife !j is writing, from the,diary she kept, about VThe I.i’l Wife in Africa.”) The next day was one <;f those perfect days that people sing songs: about, but as for a scene in Vhe wilds of Africa There were 100 white people living at that post New York never seemed so vast or thickly pqpul '• after those days of -truck riding. They all liyeyl * n brii k h uses, with . enfent A ' eatingvw'..-d. and the houses-had running water, electricity, and .got -ice from the ice h use each day.

Stay At The Tavern Hotel tf/ii/e on your Summer Vacation at Lake Wawasee : The 7 avern Hotel 77«e Tavern Hotel is the lake hotel which remained ... where fathers and mot hers enjoy • open all winter to take care of the » >,W ; fishing, boating, goli, tennis and ‘ fishermen who fished regardless of swimming .. . where children forget I ice .. . has entertained such old • • any early fear of water in a slide of j \_friends throughout the spring... laughs ending with a splash at the and is prepared for the summer vis- water's edge . . . truly a playground itors who have already sent their SHk where both young and old may enreservations. ~ joy life. ! I I l i • • ~ —7 i ''jMHr4kl ■ J/** fL I Catch vour fish ...have S £n - JEWy ?C*' r | them tried .in Matty’s Kir‘-ZOBR&a;/ ‘ ‘ ' ll'-ic ” 1 t*jh vs.,:? \ g-> wi.cii I iiey “g<» L “ ui i”r d>m.or.” J « .*3* ' ■ ISIbIs Write, wire or call your reservations THE T A V ERN HOTEL MATTY KATZER, Prop. Syracuse, Indiana

SCENE ON WAWASEE LAKE 1 To which fishing and boating parties point and -shout, ‘‘There’s - the piac? f>>r bur‘.picnic dinner.”

j- The post was grass planted and hundreds of marigoe, orange and j grapefruit tress lined the roadways. I Vines and flowers clustered around [the houses, which were on top of a plateau where the residents could view the river far below. And avoid tsetse flies and mosquitos, among other things. — | While the editor got out several stacks of- official papers we’d been picking up all the way from home, I and showed them to the Head .Man .and a few more' at the office, bur i hostess took me to visit the gardens, and we talked so hard that my throat ached. Just try talking just by waving your arms a couple of months j and then see to what use ybu can Iput the English language. p->For lunch we had a tropical meal fwitnbut hearing, or tasting a goat, lit wab a highly civilized lunch j»f | iced L rapefruit? cold roast beef and (sliced tomatoes and radishes, follow-. Jed by lemon pie and iced tea. Afterliving for weeks on sour sourdough bread, ancient cheese and sardines three, tm.es .a- day .it began to look as though life and I .'were as full as we could hold. [after lunch, this being the centrdl i post .where official papers from the mine p <s in the country ■ about, : Were t aken care of,. bef'He rec rds ’ were sent to Europe} Emu.uh Belgian, p’remh. English and A• >erican, Won on ’dropped make two tables ~f the si.qipwl bridge :! ever expected to play/bn a-I ' covered | vines in. the sunciy ilYzed ■ depths of | dai k, • ystei Africa

the World’ s Last Frontier. When the drums beat at 4:30 for quitting time, the husbands of the bridge playing wives ca’ine along, and tea and the very goo-iest kind of cakes were served. . When tea got along towards the bottom of the cups, little nigger boys clad in non-cannibal 'white suits, began'to appear, carrying golf clubs, and waited out in front of the house to see if their Mokolingi's had decided to play that xiay. These men were equipped for it, they’d worked in knickers and the hottest looking golf socks all day. A few of them played,.starting out on the five h >le golf course which w ound along on the green; grass between the fronts of the houses and the river, and came back, behind the houses, between. them and the.motor didn’t play golf , divided equally, in . favor of the tennis courts, dr going Swimming with us.- It being after 4:30, an hou- before .sun , down, helmets were no longer necessary . ■ I had felt that the largest discomrbout’Africa was that we couldn’t '.g ■ -swimming, during that hot, : . it trip- up the ri ver, now ages aw ay. But there were -crocodiles, in plain sight some times, along the river banks. And-, 1 do feel a cro. >dile’s jaw Is one 1 won’t argue I wit h. ■ - ■ - :■ . ■ ■ - But hpre w v as a-cement-lined swim-, mum ;> L-i. w illed so wandering croc’s ' couldivt get in, if they ever did leave -.he river and ; climb the hill, and it < d < o.ld springs. You got !•■■. y .rr, suit at home and draped a : .. .. be .- r rain cqat around you,

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as it would be right chilly walking back at dusk, and you strolled to the tropical tank. It was, to say the . least, unexpected. . When you’d dive in, and think of bringing the cement bottom of that • pool up the river—’ It did seem those diamond miners intended to live as pleasantly as possible after I they got there. I After the swim, and before dinner j any number of- people gathered jaround the!veranda•table for cocktails. or what will be yours? And there v. as the Head Mam from Angola, on business, and willing to take us back with him, in ,what wouldn’t be a flivver truck, and the Head Man, it was certain. it w;.s a gay gathering and 10 of us, mer, in white Tux-es, and women I in full evening un-dress, remained to •crowd around a dinner table. BeI tween courses of food served quietly by barefoot black boys, one danced to the Vic one boy played constantly in another room. If hotels or supper clubs had anything dn this, they had to hide their bottles under the tables. The next morning we were readybright and’early to go on with this ■ arriving »in, Africa, But the Head Man’s business took a leisurely, morning, so it was after lunch when we started . And my knickers, which had' served their only use in frontier life on a flivver truck, returned to j a trunk, and out came a w hite frock j for an afternoon’s motor drive thru- | the African wilds. I . During the morning, a nigger boy, | clad in blue-shirt and trousers,. had I dome asking us for work, as a- per- , sonal boy. Out of the pocket of his i shirt he. took a work. card. His name was Nkahga Din.osh. One Egg of a Crocodile! • The editor asked him} • if he were a Good: Egg .or a Bad Q-ne. ■ ! but he didn’t say anything, only} grjnned and rubbed his toes in the dust. So the editor asked him if he , had- a makun.da from his former ein- ’ ployer Expressing an. opinion. Aj Mukanda is any piece of paper, usually a" note, an undecipherable:: scribble. The yare to Africa what a telephone is lit home, a message I from one white to aridther r sent by ' a native. i'. . ! Dimosh’s former employer, had. just started back for Europe, and had said Dimosh was a lazy egg. But we decided to try hint. So after lunch we three whites' . crowded i.ii the front seat of the Head Man’s car,, atid .the Egg rode in the | back. Our baggage had gone ahead , on one of the Fleet of Fiats. ~ [ We had an afternoon's drive' along | a red. dusty road, through some more I homely, monotonous open country, j'

just tall grass, the giant trees having been left to the north. And the Puffed a Blow Out. I wondered if. we’d have to phone a garage for help. But first out of the car was Dimosh, employed to make beds, sweep and dust. But he jacked up that wheel, changeci tires and pumped the new one up, just like he hadn’t been born in the midst of the Dark Ages. One more stop Was made -on the border. At the customs, where the editor made some more customs declarations on-the truck of baggage ■ and we were forced to leave our guns there with the Custoips’ officials. Why, back' home in Chicago people were allowed to carry guns!- ' .. r ——■ -■ " . ■' Esmond Uy'Ruth NOVEL PLAY APRON FOR LITTLE GIRLS “Just like Mother” Is reason enough for little girls to do-a good many things, including the very sound and. helpful practice of helping with the dishes now and then. With a little Hickory rubber apron to wear, a dainty, yet practical replica of Motiier’s big one, she w ill be .delighted to rake on this small task, and alsb to wear it when she is doing the neces sary washing and ironing for a large family of dolls. Jn the style shown here. one-, of many available, the little apron is slipped over the head and fastened at the side, ! — -j ■ • : '■ - - • i i affording complete protection .to th'e | little frock underneath and jet cool II and unconlniing. It has the daimie-r of rutiles .all the way round a d < front ornamented with appliqued r I ber motifs designed to capture i.iiv | childish feminine heart. I These aprons, which an >- su . pfor t>lay as foi work, can h. ■ siA I washed by using .lukeaa.' a. k.it,.r ami j soa(> flakes -‘Do not wriim them out, pl but squeeze gently and wipe with a dry cloth. They should not .lie ironed I

j Soon the census takers will [completed their jobs anu a lot of city j populations estimated by the Cham- ' bers of Commerce will have tp .be re- ’ i vised downward. A dental expert predicts that in one thousand years the human race will be toothless. Well most;/of us : are born that way now. | A famous physician says there is I 200,w>0,'.>00 pounds of excess fat' on . people. . Think howmuch there must have been a generation ago when the corn fed girl was at the height of her popularity, j According to statistics the horse census of the country is decreasing. Sometimes we think that the horse sense of the country is doing ' the j same thing.

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