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Telephone 3-1 111 Page Two (Section Four) The Republican Phoenix. Sunday Morning, August 31930 Though Occasional Visits To Foreign Countries Are Beneficial, Author Declares, Education Abroad Does More Harm Than Good 3 That European Trip By KATHLEEN NORRIS Mrs, Norris Savs: THERE are many good mothers, scattered about Very shortly if Jean is a normal girl, she forgets her French almost entirely. She doesn't need it; and the boy upon whom she has a violent crush considers the single phrase, "Oh, parley vous mon dieu wee wee!" to be more than equal to any language crisis, and witty in the bargain. If you doubt this, ask some 30 or 40-year-old woman of your acquain it i i .5 tance about it. Soon Forgotten 3 Far more valuable than her French, her German, her Italian, to the daughter of the house, will be her close devotion to her own family.

If you can, give her French now, and in a few years all go abroad, and enjoy her pretty efforts to be understood in Paris, together. Developing her, educating her, off in unusual directions, only means creating a chasm between her and her own group and deprives her of the interests and pleasures that are normally hers. Years ago a traveling woman on an Atlantic liner congratulated a returning American girl of 18 upon her beautiful Italian. in. comfortable city apartments, or in eight-and-tenr room country town homes, who secretly dream about giving the little daughter of the house a year in Europe, before she is out of school days.

Secretly, because Dad is not enthusiastic on this head. And then there is Tom, who is vaccillating between a second college year or a job. If he goes back to school, and Dad's business continues to be as shaky as it has been of late, Mother, doesn't see exactly how she and Jean can desert them. There's the trip, too. Travel is expensive, even though "they say" you can "Elinor, didn't you have a year a French board-1 ing-school when you were about 15?" "Oh, yes, Mother carted me over to Berne, I never did know why." "Well, you got French out of it." "Oh, yes, I used to jabber KATHLEEN NORRIS like a native.

And after I was married I went on with "Oh, yes," she said unsmilingly, "I've been abroad four years. I've been taught to despise America Dracticallv everv European language!" Mademoiselle's classes, here remember that winter? But my dear, I havent a word of it now i i if -ai-, wm rxva zj t-st i 1 i It sometimes amounts to that. The rich, common, 8-3-30 hey talk of it incessantly they see titled Europeans baiting rich Americans to their dinner tables, to interest them in investments, they see them selling their There are many good mothers, scattered about comfortable homes, who secretly dream about giving the little daughter a year in Europe before she is out of school days. materialistic, money-grubbing Americans who still must be tolerated because of business and of marriage settlements, that's what much of Europe considers us. Sometimes a few years of that sort of thing demoralizes a girl for life.

Drifting about the big European capitals there are lots of such women, Americans who went over for a visit, and became expatriated, and never really belonged to either country, afterward. These persons hear Europeans talking money they talk of it incessantly they see titled Europeans baiting rich Americans to their dinner tables, to interest them in investments, they see them selling their live for "nothing" in little Swiss pensions. Most of us are perfectly willing to figure that $1,352.65 is well spent on a trip that takes us to some place where we can live at $11 per week for seven weeks. "My dear, two lire, that's less than 10 cents!" women say, displaying a handkerchief bought on the Lung' Arno. They skim lightly over the hundreds it costs to get.

to the Lung' Arno and the 10 cent handkerchiefs. daughters in marriage, try never warm, from Novem will be her to her own of the house, close devotion ing to catch American heiresses for their sons. And still they go on lamentinc: America's low standards, her lack of culture! ness, the discomfort and homesickness she suffers, more than wipe out the memory of those traveling weeks, and Jean never thinks of her European experience afterward without a shudder of horror. She comes back alienated from her old crowd, and daughters in marriage, trying to catch American heir Nothing is finer, educa esses for their sons. And still they go on lamenting America's low standards, her lack of culture! tionally, than occasional visits abroad.

Nothing is worse than European standards of Not the exceptional case, that; the typical one. Most of us don't use foreign languages much, even when traveling, nowadays. It is charming to have girls able to read French and pronounce it correctly. But they don't have to cry and mope and freeze and starve in foreign boarding schools, to do that. family.

If you can, give her French now, and in a few years all go abroad, and enjoy her pretty efforts to be understood in Paris, together. Go to England, and let her trot about with Daddy, while you and. Tom ride on omnibusses and take in music hall shows; go to historic Edinboro', and to France. ber to March. Another 'girl I knew climbed a fence that was topped with murderous broken bottles, slashed herself frightfully, and ran away to me, in Paris, desperate to get home.

Which, incidentally, she did, with some remarks from me on the side, for her father and stepmother. One of the richest women i Nothing is finer, educationally, than occasional abroad. Nothing is worse than European stand morals, their ideas of social More Harmful Than Goodl ards of morals, their ideas of social values, of caste, values, of caste, of title, of idleness, of the leisure class of title, of idleness, of the leisure classes and above all she never catches up with that lost year. To be sure, "she has her French," for awhile. But of America itself for us and our children.

es, and above all, of Amer Living in a pleasant town, under big trees, with the Keep them all together, ica itself for us and our children. (Copyright, 1930, for The Arizona Republican.) that $5,000 letter-of-credit it cost Dad to send her to chere Madame Rousillets. her old friends haven't, and although she gets a little innocent satisfaction out of using it smoothly before them, when rare occasion arises, it is hardly worth Opposite Ideas that is the thing that is go I know put her daughter in an Austrian school 10 years ago. What the girl endured from loyal little war-remembering classmates and ing to mean something to all of you, always. Developing her, educating her, off in unusual directions, only means creating a Legends Of Superstition Moentains JL teachers the mother will never know.

One detail was having to fill lamps; there was neither gas nor electricity in the school. She Arizona Range Dominated By Malevolent Supernatural Power, Residents Believe The ideas of Europeans about girlhood are, to us very peculiar ideas. Little French girls have sophisticated knowledge about everything; men, marriage, birth-control, diseases, and must pretend to know nothing. Little American girls pretend to know everything, and are really rather innocent and ignorant and simple, about life. Athletics, in European schools, are much less important than with us.

In wore, they all did, long hideous aprons, heavy boots. pigtails. chasm between her and her own group and deprives her of the interests and pleasures that are normally hers. Years A ago a traveling woman on an Atlantic liner congratulated a returning American girl of 18 upon her beautiful Italian. "Oh, yes," she said un-smilingly, "I've been abroad four years.

I've been taught to despise America in practically every European Home Contacts Valuable "And I cried because Daddv didn't want me to usual car and country club, the usual civic work, high school work, Girl Scout work, church work, Mother yearns to give Jean a taste of true culture. New York, even for a day, the ocean, Cherbourg, five days in Paris, and then nine months of a Vevay school, and the child would be different all her life, and besides, she would "have her French!" Th us argues Mother. Dad, on the contrary, feels that it would be "more fun" to wait until Jean is say, 17, and then all go; he and Jean and mother and Tom, all together. "But this isn't FUN," Mother argues patiently. "It's her education, dear.

If we can possibly afford it, I feel we owe it to Jean!" For so many of my own younger years I agreed with Mother that I have real sympathy for her. And yet my profound conviction now is such a scheme, even for the mother and daughter who can well afford it, is" time and money wasted, and nine times out of 10 does more harm than good. a half-hearted search, the posse returned. Ike was afraid to venture out into the open. He crawled back "farther and farther into the cave until suddenly his foot slipped and he hot down a long incline.

When he at last stopped, rolling he found himself in a smaller cave. -Far above his head a stray shaft of sunlight made a feeble attempt to brighten the interior of the ill-smelling place but with scant success. Ike arose and looked around him. He shivered as his eyes caught the dim outline of a pile of bones in one corner. Around him lay the remnants of what had once been a magnificent Indian headdress.

Again Ike shivered as he recalled the story, oft repeated, of the Indian who had slain his fellows and then commit BY LEE HARGIS lyTANY, many tales have been written about, that black, forbidding range of hills, that so grimly not many miles from Miami. What a name to conjure with the Superstition mountains full of dark mystery and-blatant evidence of things supernaturaU- The very hills themselves impress one as evil. Those quer rock formations, the enigmatical hieroglyphics, the impenetrable fastnesses all combine to give the nocturnal visitor a feeling of awe and fear. Along the sharply sloping canyons the spirits of the dead seem to linger and the eerie silence and the occasional cry of a night bird as it dives after its prey add to the feeling of separation, from the world. come!" said the disillus- ioned little girl who Swiss schools some girls vived this experience.

walk seven, 10, even 15 miles through snow, and develop an absolutely peasant hardness, which is fine. But some girls break under the strain. Some girls flourish in cold, stony, un- was a lost year. I've never needed my German, always have hated it. I used to lie awake, crying Mother had gone back to Carolina.

How could I ask her to turn ritrht 'round and come res down into a maw of a sloping Incline. On regaining his feet he lit a match, and etared around him. Lying in one corner was a ragged heap of bones and the remains of a rusty six-shooter. By its side and dimly seen in the glare of the match was another dusty heap and a few feathers and beads. And the walls were of silver ore! Dully shining in the reflected light So this was the famous Lost Dutchman mine? The dude shivered for it was said on one would live to tell the tale of having been in its Interior.

He felt death was near but with the sagacity of his race he made a mixture of the mud on the floor and burnt his shirt, taking the ashes and making a sort of sticky substance. This he plastered over his body and with infinite caution made his fight for liberty up the sloping rock. After many attempts he succeeded and was once more at liberty. But his freedom was short; a landslide probably started by the rain shot over his head and the dud was no more. Volumes could be written about things that have occurred in these Superstition mountains.

Seven outlaws were shot to death in Death canyon (where the Dutchman mine is supposed to be) and none knew who shot them. So many legends have been told until now they are almost accepted as fact and the wealth in the lost canyons of the Supersition bids fair to remain in the forbidding fastness of the range, protected bv man's dread of avail and. one night as they camped in the Superstition mountains the father was killed none knew how. Just before he -died, he cursed any and all who attempted to gain wealth out of the mountains that had roobed his wife and daughter of their livelihood. The story got around and when numerous men died in search of the fabulous "Lost Dutchman" mine' the story gained credence and ever since few have tried to gain wealth in these hills that bear a curse, Perhaps the oldest legend of them all is the story of the dude.

Son of a rich father, he had gambled away all his possessions and the. stern old Xew England father had sent the black sheep away from the family fireside into the new West. Not stopping in Kansas City, then the mecca of Western travelers because he hated the sight of a human face, the dude rode for two months until he came to a lonely valley surrounded by a mountain range but 21 miles in their entire length. It seemed to him that at last he had found his sanctuary. He felt kinship with these lonely hills.

The dude found a hidden spot and set up his camp. Day after day he tramped the canyons until one evening he was forced to take refuge in a cave to protect himself from the driving hail and rain that was pouring from the black clouds above. Water arising from the creek outside forced him farther and farther into the rear of the cave when sud-denly his foot slipped and he shot ted suicide. fBut no longer was Ike interested in the pile of bones his Xor are the moderns alone in their dread of these black hills, though a fev times they have sheltered those people who are outcasts of the human race. Renegade Indians, outlaws of the days when America 'Tolerated' It sometimes amounts to that.

The rich, money-grubbing Americans who still must be tolerated because of business and of marriage settlements, that's what much of Europe considers us. Sometimes a few years of that sort of thing demoralizes a girl for life. Drifting about the big warmed rooms all winter, attending classes with frostbitten cheeks and fingers. But some girls can't stand it. One girl I knew actually died of cold, in a Euro cue me? I knew I couldn't get out until June, when Aunt Margaret was coming over to bring me back." Iar more valuable than her French, her German, Arizona was in its intancy, murderers, thieves, wandering cowboys and many are the nights when a full moon has looked down upon a eye had caught the dull gleam of metal silver! The cave was alive with it! In fact the entire walls were one big silver ore vein.

Trembling with ecstacy Ike grovelled in the loose piles of ore on the floor. The dim light began, to fade and Ike roused from his dreams of untold wealth to realize that he was hungry and was afraid. Of whaX he didn't know but something seemed to be near him. Something that seemed both sinister occult. He began to make frantic pean school, and many have were her Italian, to the daughter told me that they lone prospector beside his campfire.

Down the rocky trail of Death canyon one day came. Ipha, a young Apache Indian, full of life and step ping lightly tor ne was going meet his love, a girl of another European capitals there are (lots of such women, Amer tribe a tribe that his own hated Me Another As but he loved her with a love that By JUSTIN SPAFFORD and LUCIEN ESTY the mystical unknown. efforts to escape from the cave. No longer did he care for the rich piles of ore. But the slippery sides eluded his grasp and soon he sank back on the floor, gasping for breath, afraid to live and afraid to die.

Charles Knickerbocker, Miami pioneer who has been in and out of the Superstition Mountains for 30 years, probably knows more of these mountains than any living man. He has camped many an evening beside their rocky fastnesses and he has learned many of their secrets. Even he has not penetrated to some of their innermost canyons for that is impossible but he has been places that no living man has ever been. DM Risf 15. What states furnish the most copper? 16.

How much of the world's supply of gold do we furnish? 17. What is zweibach? IS. Where is Vladivostok? 19. What is a vice? 20. What does "viva voce" mean? 21.

What does "auf Wieder-sehen" mean? 22. What is the battlefield on 3. Where the line: "His enemies shall lick the 4. Where do these lines occur: "Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a 5. Where does this verse occur: "What can't be cured, must be 6.

Where do we find this line: "Care'll kill a 7. In what work of Shakespeare icans who went over for a visit, and became expatriated, and never really belonged to either country, afterward. These persons hear Europeans talking money, It SOUNDS entrancing the trains, the ship, the tickets, the darling little villages with thatched roofs and grape vines, the strange languages, the novelty and excitement of it all. And so it is, and if the whole thing were merely to give Jean pleasure, for a few vacation weeks it might be justified. But wrhen it comes to leaving a little American surmounted all obstacles.

He was watched that day and the next time he came to visit his sweetheart he found her burned at the stake. He swore vengeance on his people and biding his time, enticed many of them there and slew them. Thereafter the mountains were accursed in the eyes of the Red Men and all avoided them for the spirit of he dead was known to remain where the earthly body had fallen. Ike Stoner was an outcast of his people. Born a gambler, he was-fleeing for his life from the angry mob of a mining town that he had fleeced in games of chance.

Down the canyon he ran and took refuge in a small cave. Behind him he could hear angry shouts of the posse and now and then the reverberation of a gun as the owner shot at an imaginary enemy. Even numbers did not bring the hardened miners any feeling of security in these accursed hills. Too i -J. MINERVA'S MIRROR GENERAL QUIZ 1.

Who was the original writer Of fairy stories? 2. Where did he live and write? S. Who wrote 4. Who wrote ''The Tinder Box-? 5. Who wrote "Hansel and 6.

What is archeology-? "7. Who composed "The Pagan Love 8. In what movie was it sung? 9. What does bagatelle mean? 10. Who wrote "The Wonder Book?" 11.

What sea separates England from Scandinavia? 12. Who wrote "Lays of Ancient 13. What Is our most valuable mineral? 14. What Is next in value? the day of judgment called? XTIETZSCHE. once said that the 23.

How many American leagueJ do these lines occur: "Though this pennants has Connie Mack won? be maaness, let mere is method in Perhaps there is a reason for this Knickerbocker doesn't care for worldly wealth Perhaps you've heard of that superstition? No? Then listen: Thirty-two years ago Garry Mc- 24. What tree yields turpentine? Where is Trafalgar Square? 8. Where the line: "Write me great problem of the future was whether mankind could bear to know the truth and face it. Nietzsche himself couldn't, and many others, too. Which is why.

perhaps, so many of us find it convenient and comfortable to -wear several different faces. and why face-lifting has become a profitable kind of butchery. as one wno loves nis 9. Where the line: "For men may come and men may go. But I go on 10.

WTiere the line: "When Adam dolve and Eve span. Who was then the SPECIAL QUIZ QUOTATIONS 1. Where occurs the line: "Red as a rose is 2. Where do these lines occur: "They never fail who die In a great Cann brought his family, to Arizona from Illinois. Leaving a good home they came to the desert.

And all because the father had dreams of wealth in his weakened mind, The mother protested but to no girl a Swiss or French or ti i i many nau men Italian SChOOl, her unhappi-1 depths never to return, and. after The ultimate truth Is that a woman-hater is a man who simply loves himself. Or, if you prefer, a woman-hater Is a simple man who loves himself, very, very simply! Possibly Chicago could solve its crime problem by teaching its gunmen that great fratricidal pastime known as contract bridge. It is, I think, a much faster process than -waiting, as Chicago now is, for the gangsters to kUl themselves off, one by one. In spite of the curiosly projudiced superstition that women are the more lachrymose of the sexes, the cash register of man remains the Great American Tear Duct.

Looking back to the Jack" Sharkey-Herr Sehmelln fich. it FROM SUE TO LOU With Love By Gettier would appear that the old saying should revised to read: "When strong men pale, and heavyweight pugilists fainL- There is no room for even pretty stenographer In the business affairs of a man who carries his office in hi hat. "The paths of lory lead but to the grave:" but love's ways are much more roundabout. When a woman "faces the music" nowadays it is usually a loud speak er. in other words, a man.

Th middle stream between hysteria, Illusory ecstacy, and quiet depression, is QUIET and occasionally some considered Judgement A reformer is a person who has no confidence In God's will on earth. Where therms a -wlU pic there's 1 OWsbt.l930. by ThBn Iwi 4- I ri 11.