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1 —b— Western Impressions ;V By Bessie Marshall Walker j.*: Did you ever study history from original sources? Usually they are reproductions neatly bound in cloth but this week my sources have not been so prosaic. They were spread over the landscape on the idea that he who runs may s read—a broad, flat terrace—stone, cacti, mesquite, sun-baked eai-th, a gulch to the east filled with scrub oak, gray with dust, arid a few golden russet 'cotton-woods, and all about warm brown hills tufted and splotched with green—a per fect amphitheatre and a setting for a Remington sentinel reading .V a . smoke signal from another "mountain top, a natural fortifica tion. Down on the terrace an amateur can spell out slowly the story of a people about Whom we , { know very little. Their lives have to be dug up like the walls of Troy. Over an area of 165 by 266 _ feet one can see the outlines of about a hundred rooms or dwell ings. The owner, a little brown shred of a woman, had taken a |/' homestead years ago, and then finding a private graveyard and a buried city on her ranch, had annexed five additional acres on the other side the barbed-wire fence so she could have a monoply : i of the show. Even out here where land and drought seem to be the only things that exist, people seem ■v to want to own them. The lady would like to dispose of her hold ings. I mention it in passing in case any readers of the Ventnor News are hankering after a K.' private museum. ■ '£ Just a^small matter of, shall we say, 5000 years ago human beings were laughing and talking, work ing and playing in these little stone-walled huts. Some are larger than others but the usual size is ten by twelve, ahd six or seven feet high. The walls are plastered over with adobe for y> warmth in winter and coolness in summer. Cedar posts support the roof. In the center of the clay -5 floor there’s a depression filled > with fire. A broad flat stone covers the coals and a woman is j parching corn on the cob. Here I are the charcoal and the black- j ened end of a petrified ear. Ij wonder if she wore as many skirts i as her sisters today and wrapped £ herself in a blanket. As far as ’excavation reveals these people & leave no evidences of the styles in clcthes. But there is a little wooden distaff that some copper colored girl wielded in the warm sunshine. Over in the corner is a tall brown jar, a water con :' tainer, and near the fire are two sooty bowls or ollas. Over in the far corner stands the best china, a boat-shaped vessel with a duck’s head at each end, black with bright red eyes and white mark ings. Another bowl, broad and flat, has geometric designs in pine v trees, new moons, and suns. When she wanted to grind corn, she used a shovel-shaped stone, the metate seen in all Mexican homes, and hammered the grain with a pear-shaped stone peStle. 5 \ If there was dyeing to be done, she extracted black dyes from seeds and red dyes from minerals. Someone in the village was ?- artistic enough to create a tall jar with beautiful curves and pS lovely designs in red, black and white. Did the women wear the jewelry or the men? There’s a bone bracelet and an armlet made of sea shell and wampum strings of tiny coral and bone beads with abalone and turquoise pendants. They had Turkish baths without Mr. Fleischman in those days and some Mr. Gillette made hide scrapers. The baths were in the open holes dug in the ground and lined with stones, where they built fires. When the stones were heated they dragged out the fire, poured in water, submerged the patient, and put on a cover. All the friends gathered round and ’> yelled, howled and danced to drive the devil away. When the bath was over they barbecued meat in the same pit. But certainly the main business in life was fighting. Here is a Custom Tailor Still Is King Head of Big Firm Declares Low ering of Prices Has No| . Changed Demand for Fine Clothes ■ By H. C. Test The custom tailor still is the boss. Despite the fact that makers »f ready-made clothing have spent their millions in advertising and calling attention to their wares, the merchant tailor still is king in his line of making fine clothes for men who demand the best sar torial equipment. All this information I secured from Mr. Henry M. Stoloff, of the firm of Stoloff & Son, at 31 and 33 South New York Avenue. And Mr. Stoloff should know. For he jow is head of the firm established by his father over twenty years ago—the firm which made suits for the late Mayor Franklin P. Stoy and many a notable of At lantic City. > “We who are in the business of custom tailoring have no com plaint against the makers of ready-made clothes,” stated Mr. Stoloff. “In fact, now that the ready-made clothing manufactur ers have been compelled to ask higher prices for their wares they have helped us by showing the public that we have really been reasonable in our charges all dur ing the high price boom. "We or tne Stolon nrm still stick to our policy of moderate prices, prices which can be called popular. But we find that al though prices have lowered the' buying public still demands the highest in quality. “And the time has gone past when a custom tailor can hang anything on a customer and call it a fit,” Mr. Stoloff continued. “That is one of the things which has helped our business with its policy of sending every customer; away satisfied. Maybe it is be cause the man who wore a uni form in the war found what a real fit could be, but anyhow we find that the man of today de mands a real fit and good appear ance in his clothes.” The firm of Stoloff & Son has been located in its present place beautifully polished bone stiletto; a quartz arrow-head that brought death to one brave. The toma hawk is shaped like a chisel and there is evidence in more than one skull of its efficiency as a tool. There are heavy smooth stones which wrapped about with thongs, the,men threw at their prey; stone hatchets; stones with grooves which heated, were used to polish arrow staves. Not the variety of weapons but the num bers show how important the men were. Women were useful but the men were in absolute neces sity to defence. These people who lived in the valley were not remarkably in telligent. Their skulls are flat and show "protruding jaws; they are small of stature and every thing they have left is of stone, wood, or clay, in spite of the fact that the hills are rich in gold, silver and copper. One day they were suddenly attacked by larger men. Women were struck down over their fires; men were killed like rats in their little stone houses; the buildings were fired. Every room unearthed shows from one to five skeletons. The sun slipped down over the western hills. Years passed. Earth washed down from the mountains and gradually filled in about the. walls—and today we walk six or seven feet above the old level, and half the story remains untold. SUN PARLORS Made and Completed - Ask for Esttmoto Ventnor Woodworking Mill R. 0. BROOKS. Prop. Phono 70SS-TSS1-B Scroono, Storm Sasboo, Can oral MM Work ul Chao & ■ .W oh South New Ydrk Avenue for the past twenty-one years. The late' Mr. Stoloff established the business which now is in charge i of his wife and the son, Mr. Henry j Stoloff. All through its history j the Stoloff firm has been noted for its fair and square dealing and it holds a high place in the regard of many Atlantic City men who are its patrons. WHILE YOU ARE AWAY— Let Us Protect Your Property Burglar and Fire Alarms Installed Haughey’s National Detective Boreau 224-225 Chelsea Nat. Bank Bldg. Day or Night 1773 We Never Close ALWAYS HUNGRY •;^or—$ • PERKINS' BREAD ^ „ "1 Hud-.’*” ROLLS Why Wish for Naturally Curly Hair? when you can phone us and make an appointment for one of our FAMOUS OIL PERMANENT WAVES, which is given in per fect comfort and satisfaction guaranteed. w On Half Head, $15.00 All Over Head, $25.00 Inquire about our new reduced prices in all branches of the business. Did you know we are the origi nators of “HAIRGRO"? Its use insures an abundance of beauti ful, glossy hair—will rid the scalp of Dandruif, feeds the follicles and invigorates the hair root. “HAIRGRO" is incomparable, as it means luxuriant hair for life. Price, $1, $2.50 & $5 per jar Free scalp treatment with every $2.50 jar of “HAIRGRO.” IDLER & SMITH Beauty Salon 703 Boardwalk Phone 3200 rn'i ii i;!!! m!; i ,n 111! nn; r fm 111; i nrr h ni 11 ititii ■ The Electric Shop CROSBY & ELKINS 11 - 13 GARDEN PIER Displays of GAINADAY HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES WASHER - IRONER - CLEANER HAND IRON - Demonstration* Freely Given - No Obligation TELEPHONE 1928 PAINTER 14 No. Oakland Avenue Phone - - 7504-J ■ ■" / ' . ... ‘ . JIM LEEDS $ 1.50 ROUND TRIP SUNDAY EXCURSION Philadelphia Sunday, December 17 i SPECIAL TRAIN Leaves Atlantic City (So. Carolina Ave.) - - 7.20 A. M.' Returning, leaves Phlla. (Market St. Wharf) - 8.30 P. M. Pennsylvania SYSTEM Tfca Rant* of the Broadway Limited Taber’s Toyland 1313 Atlantic Avenue Direct Importers of The Worlds Greatest Toy Novelties Manufacturers' Agents and Retailers of Everything in the World of TOYLAND At Prices less than orie-half of the usual Toystore Come early and gel the benefit of the large, full assortment. A *®»U deposit will hold any article for you until you want it. JUST FOR YOU We Have Inaugurated a Ventnor Shop That You Can Be Proud Of FAVORS FOR THE PARTY will be personally designed by Mrs. Steacy to suit your wish. Consult her with your dinner problems. DELICIOUS FRENCH CHOCOLATES will be at your command with the famous Steacy Coat ings and Fillings. STEACY’S 5207 VENTNOR AVE., Ventnor Theatre. Building