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THE SEATTLE STAR \ BY STAR PUBLISHING CO. OFFICKS iT and 18 Beventh Avenue a Winky APTERN VON BROBE: NDAL, TRLEPHON Matn 1080: Tndenenden BALLARD STAR AGENCY—3n Baliard Ave Sunset, Ned 1a “One ev Ont Pet Compr. at nm per w ee or twenty fh t ei c Palivered by mail ow carrier No free’ copl eee eee MAIL BUNSSRINERS— The date wh r address label of each paper, When that & Rot again been paid in advance, me te Shange of date on the address label fe a recetpt e Eatered At the Postoffice at Beattie, Washington, am s-cond-olase matter ANT AD OF FICR-RAGLEYS DRUG STORK, COR BCOND AVE PIKE sThee has recentiy been op 0 leave w e Trying For the Pole ig Every time that an expedition salls for the North Pole and falls to get there. the carping critics bemoan the foolishness of people who will throw away their money and their lives in such attempts ; The fact remains, nevertheless, that the man who does finally ®ucceed in reaching the pole will make for himself a name that will a gO down in history on close speaking torms with the names of Colum prodigtes. jollar-chasing age, think It ts e than to get hold of quan Dus, Caesar, Napoleon and the o There are men who, even tn this better worth their while to try for the p titles of gold for the benefit of their Now that some of the seasoned men of th the idea of going after the North Pole, the Jong-sought goal will yet be reached Yukon have taken up brighten prospect Attacking the Grafters in Tacoma i A (big bunch of Tacoma politicians are badly soared ove . a * Rion of Judge Snell, tn calling a grand jury to probe into charg of grafting made by a committee of prow t cithxens, Nt fa understood that incriminating evidence has been secured by Rhis committee during the course of the last few months whieh will point the way to the successful prosecution of more than one boodier F sam that city The investigation is by no means a partisan affair. Both repub- acoused. The are committee Bican and denocratic office holders Scaomaesiiaannee 4 Beeking for convictions will go after the whole lot impartially a Seatile’s Next Mayor Who will be the next mayor of Seattle? WI he be a good mayor, or a bad mayor? ‘The people know that Seattle has had both good and bad. r Mayor Ballinger, it ts generally understood, declines renomina- tion at the hands of his party. His declination is believed to be final, the mayor stating that pri- wate business interests demand his attention. All parties, therefore, including tne republican, must present new fandidates for consideration. The people of Seattle want these candidates to be honest men, qwho will stand for the enforcement of law and the ousting of all Brafiers in the public service. ‘There will be searching scrutiny of the character and past his Rory of every candidate who presents himself. The voters are in no feed to have any doubtful quantity in the mayor's office. These are Rot good days for corporation tools, or for officials who wink at laxity in the enforcement of law. Genuine reform ts in the alr, from Maine to Washington, and Se- aitle is no exception. Party lines no longer count to hold voters for unsavory candidates. ‘The Star sounds the note of warning to all parties. Be careful, extremely careful, in selecting candidates for mayor, ONLY THE FIT WILL “HAVE ANY POSSIBLE CHANCE FOR satan Some Simple Rules of Health It ie not the business of the press to prescribe for the sick, but ts ita business to educate the people along Use lines of health, Late see. In order to live we must have food, water, air, sun, sleep, ctothes, " ‘fm to food: We eat too much. Medical men say nearty all the ‘Bis flesh is heir to come from overeating. Make the bulk of your "eating smal! and leave out luxuries. Simple food and small quan- titles is the rule. | Aw to water: Not one person in a thousand drinks suffictent ‘water. Not less than two quarts a day is necessary, The water ghoul@ be pure. Dilute your food. Give digestion and assimtiation [ Bchance. Flush the sewers of the body. What happens when the " ganitary sewers of a city are clogged? As to alr: Most persons breathe with only half their lungs. Men “End women go for weeks and months without taking a doxen fillings ‘of the tungs with oxyxzen. Half the cells of the lunge are unused day ‘@fier day. Do you wonder at #0 much tuberculosis? The chief won- Ger is that the “White Plague” does not have twice tts victims. Take ‘Mt least a dozen consecutive fillings of the lungs every day, sending the diaphram down as far as it will go each time. If you will do that You will never die of consumption. As to the sum: Medical science Is just beginning to find out Fitalizing powers of sunshine. You must have electricity to run y« of vitality. Get it from the sun. Even tf you are dell io not fear the sun. It ts one of your best friends, The old Persian @8n worshipers did not miss it so badly. As to sleep: Sleep until you are rested, that's all, When you ‘eff “natore'’s sweet restorer” you are using up vitality faster than you can make it. For the normal person eight hours is about right. Bapoleon got along on four, but Napoleon was an exception, And as to clothes—use good common sense. * Good health is easily had unless you prefer suffering to a little elf denial. If you will eat simple food sparingly, drink plenty of “pure water daily, breathe with all your lungs, take a sun bath at ‘every chance, sleep eight hours andwear sensible clothing you should ring accidents— rich old age. s STAR DUST — — “G@ifton bands his wife $100 every week for pin money.” “You | must mean diamond pin the ut sees ab weren't they?” “Oh, yes, th . scm cieithtie yes, they were surprised, but t yer weak spots. People’ll git onto 'em quick enough. A street cleaner in Peru, the fact that the world learns ther are cleaned, wy 1s a peeullar man. Ev- time it hatis he pulls down all the curtains in his house.” “That's a habit that came from Stage experience. You know barnstormed as ‘Hamlet’ seasons.” i to offend Mrs. Niffty.” “What makes you think so?” asking me and there's no postscript.” “I don't see how that explains it." ‘Simple enough. Every time he hailstone it reminds him of “The girls were very much sur- prised by Miss Mumm’s wedding, not nearly so surprised as angry.” Ind., found diamonds valued at $3,000. Th importance of this find lies in is an American town whose streets ‘T'm afraid I've done something “Why, here's a note from her to take dinner with her, en Nene (oi abies J sia aces os ah ete SS nm AOE ence ING” 'HIS FIELOS TURNED TO GOLD | | The American farmer os, agricultural report in hand, to re mark that it ie all a w nke about his being “staid and stunned, a | He owns the ox, be gowh, aad it Is the fattest and slickest ox that tread (ue earth The ox value, together with that of the reat of the | tock, figures up to the magnificent sum of six Dilllons of wealth of the Ame an farmer ia th wonder of the world | With the m of ® Midas he has turned all his fields to gold. The | wealth pro: mon fa {1906 has reached the highest amount lever attained by the fa f th r any other country | The total figures— 99 10,000 —a stmost beyond comprehen jaion. It may help tm realizing the enormity of this amount to kno that if the farmer keep this rate of production three years more he will have produced an amount of wealth within 10 years equal to | one-half of the entire national wealth produced in three centuries It may help further know that the agricultural othe jaurplus left over after all home wants were supplied—have amount ed in aixteen y to a round billion dollars more than value | all the railroads in the country | | You, the farmer has been doing things on a seale so big thfat dinary comprehension can hardly rise to it And the things he sells, at prices which make fiction tales of | wealth bo runken and mean, by no means represent the total of his jriches. He sll his year yielded him $66 He keeps the hens a billion a year. A sing Increase the value ale the entire national debt He money in it. Indeed, he owns ban) that are numbered by t “ € ntr anke ofyanized in the last five yea ure almost wned by the | The farmer is king of the land stalk iv a humble seep } ter bot It ylelda 2,700,000,000 bushels, and that than any | king's scepter, though of gold andjeweled, ever did for him in all | history. of the world | The farmer may have hayseed in bis hair, but he has $605,000,000 | worth of hay in the market | We may laugh at the straw in his mouth must bow down Jin respect before the most valuable wheat crop ever 1 ed in any | Year in any land | | Magaie Ann, I refused him | And Miss Mag Ann saw tr umph in her sister's eyes la Mr Nab still downstairs? i she asked, suavely. | “Ob, you, | forgot. He asked to see you. Call Jemima, for, of course, he wants worship before he goes. | | You run down, dear | | And Miss Maggie Ann did run | downstairs with nimble Mr ,M Nab weed the same f A an | befo. ° My kirk wlon © to | which Maggie Ann responded grace-| | fully | | “Dear Mr. MeNabb, I have long} valued your administrations, and I/ am happy te vote myself to your! fut w ne | | “Well, will you kindly name the! | day? } “Monday nest.” It was then Sat | jurday. “Good morning.” } | In the meantime Miss Isabel | Jamieson having recovered her composure, and unfelgnedly think jing that Mr. MeN to have worship before going. came down | stairs, and, comis yward the par lor door, ov s most im | portant Sialog recorded above. I was min |giod with mortification. She at-| | ently slipped into an adjoining} room, and, gazing out of the window mournfully, watched the departing | figure of Andrew McNab, while her} sister returned to her domestic du thes, As Miss Isabel gared in bitterness of spirit who should enter her hori-| ron but the subject of her thoughts, (Posed by Mies Marie Nordstrom, of the “Man on the Box” company at Madison Square Theater, New Mr. McNab himself, returning to York.}. E door, Before he could knock, Mise Nordstrom ts an unumally pretty young woman, and In this series of photographs she has she stood before him to know the shown the result of beauty-destroy ing tricks, im which many @ girl waconsciously indulges. as of his return. Pardon me," sald he, “but I did BY KATHERINE LECKIE. chapped or cracked lips, whieh, The woman lip-biter develops = not ask the lady’s—your er’ s— Do you bite your lips when think-| aside from being painful, are home- | uneven mouth, with color unduly | first name, to call the bana, you! ing seriously? ly im the extreme. ft also disfig-|red and irregular. Lip-biting also! know. 1 Do you turn up your nose with a) wres the natural beauty lines of the| Induces wrinkles around the mouth| “faabel—Isabel Jamieson,” was sneer? { mouth as age increases her prompt reply, is one of those Do you twist your eye out ot} No. 6—One of the commonest) A cure suggested for this dises-) happy inapirations that ald us only shape’ manneriams among women, and) trous and vulgar habit is nine hours | once in a life time. a the good ma sure beauty destroy-|reguiar sleep each day, regular| “Thank you. lips. This is expe-| meals and a lessening to the min-| hurried away again, repenting dil habit of the nervous|imum of the nerve-racking habits! gently as he went: “Isabel, Isabel . } of life. leat there should be any mistake on| | the morrow But who can picture Miss Maggie | Ant s Giscomfiture to hear that! jname cried three times in church! jin vain she rose to protest, but Me- | Nab only said: “So, then you are Many a realty beautiful girt de-!one which is faces her physical attractions by | er, is biting some hideous manneriam. Usually | cially the she ts perfectly unconscious of it, woman bat that doesn't make it any aad lens disgusting to onlookers The girl who t# constantly Ntting | her ¢yebrows,, should overcome the habit It isn’t pretty to stick your tongue against your upper lip. Any | not Isabel at It doesn’t make any habit can be overcome with a bit of | 5 \ difference, does it? 1 assure you It} care and thought. Each time you is all one to me; the thing is done realize that you are resorting to an besides. quickly remember Mise Maggie Ann emigrated to ugly manneriem. that you are making yourself} Australia, married to a wealthy hideous. If you forget the first time ————— squatter, who took her home to Tho- don’t let that discourage you, but! rick, where she enjoyed the infinite In the good town of Thorick, far, a mast ladytike simper) I could have! picasuro of driving in her :arriage the next time that you catch your- | self, stop it short north of Tweed. dwelt sober, silent./ dons so, my dear Mr. McNab, long! and pair to hear Mr. McNa), preac No. 1—The young girl, who, In a| rious Andrew McNab, unmarried) ago—at least, that is to say, MANY, passing on ‘be “way Mra Eecreane moment of thought or abstraction, |2%¢ alone He was pastor of a}many times. I have no wish really| who had’ no carriage to drive in. numerous flock. It was decided the elders of the kirk that he ow to get married The good man consented condition that the elders choose a) #ffer.” wife for him. They gravely “Then.” said McNab, “will you that the “twa Jamiewon | me by vending your sister were fitted to be parsons’ wiv to change my name, even for your| sake. Lam very sorry, my dear +. McNab. I cannot bear to make “upon| fellow creature suffer as you will rests her face upon her hand, draw- ing the skin out of shape, is devel- oping wrinkles in that face that cannot be amoothed out by years of massage or restorative care. No. 2—Very few girls have « real- ly beautiful nose, but ft is only the foolish ones who don't make the ine aerate Good jobs to be had. Page 6. *** CHICAGO LOAN OFFICE HARRY SILVER, Prop, 117 Yesier Way. most of the one Dame Nature be-| recommended that Mr. McNab make! Now, Miss Isabel Jamieson was so| A gentest place to borrow money on stowed upon them. The truly wise his choice between thm. elated by what had transpired that| diamonds and all kinds of jewelry. | girl doeen’t sniff, sneer or twist her, Accordingly, Mr. McNab net das| she trip airs and burst in| Strietly Confidential. | nose, for the very reason that sh¢ took his umbrella and went & ¥ upon he ster breathlessly, ex-) ~~ pat understands that by such « habit| house of the Jamiesons, He soqb| claiming i woe nell | she is raining her natural beauty. as standing in the presence af t Maggie Ann! Maggio Ann! I've grey a Ms yan nding lo An e} on the tnatallment plan. No. 3—-Distorting your mouth and) jAughter, had an offer of marriag Think of Pay any time bef your eyes while meditating t* as} “Madam,” he said to her, “Mhatp| that! | am very sorry for him, b Christmas. unattractive as it is harmful. A | been recommended by my kirk » 1 really couldn't, you kr ught common practice consists of draw-| sion to seek a wife; they also gavit}! will get over time wil sd . Ho jon & Hunter ing the mouth to one side. This|mo to ask if you would marry, mi | poor, poor man! 1 refused. bis PEE so cemng 704 First Ave. Seattle | I have come this morning forces the eyelids out of natural po- sition, wrinkles the face and makes|your mind, Have you any ebjab| the mouth pudgy and ugly. | tions?” | No. 4—A girl may be a goddess of| “Indeed, Mr. McNab,” sald the! loveliness, but it won't stand being| blushing and bridling, “I am sur-| disfigured by the tongue habit. The | prised that a gentleman of your tongue should not be abused by |cernment should ask such a ques-| Dressing the npper lip down or by|tion in such a manner. If 1 had any Nothing Will Please ereesng nena, lr down or, by |ttn tn euch u manner. it | hed aay] Him Better | Than something he can wear | | We are making a very attractive showing of gifts for men folks—Smoking Jackets, Cravate, Fancy Suspendera, in fancy boxes; Fancy Vests, Bte., Wte. | Everything rightly priced, and if it'll help your purse out any |J| you may pay us ONE DOLLAR WEEKLY for anything selected [J here. UL of t e €OLLINS-BLDG. JAMES &SECOND fensand) HERE AND Se6 300 BRIGHT, ABOVE-THE-AVERAGE AND WoMEN PREPARING THEMSELVES "FOR THE BATTLE 9 OF Lire, It's A Sight WorTH SEEING. GET OuR @TALOGUE Eastern Outfitting Co., (inc) Cor. Pike St. and Fifth Ave, | | | Seattle's Reliable Credit House. vertise- IN TOMORROW'S SUNDAY PAPERS THE QUAKER DRUG CO. 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Get off New Renton car at Duwamish Bridge 25 salesmen on the ground. ——PIANOS —— We sell better Pianos at lower prices and o: , than ary other house in the city, ea oe KOHLER & CHASE, 1305 Second Avenue G A. Moyer, der. IANOS FOR NT LONDON | LOAN OFFICE 105 Second A FS Next to Guy's Droge a plano and ‘organ house monde and Jeweisys sO" in the Pacifie North- west, ALLEN 4. GiLeert- RAMAKER CO, i yeah Avenu Do e- buy « watoh or diamond u see our dl rt window and our Prices markee te plain 4 LURIE, Prop,