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THE SEATTLE STAR "BV OFAR PuBLisHina co. 1307 and 1209 Seventh Ave oy EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. nones— Independent 875; Sun Independent 1198; Sunset, Main 1060, BALLARD STAR AGRNCYam Ratierd Ave. Sunset, Dallard 14, One cent per copy, ate om pemih, Delivered OF mail oF carrier Ne free copies. sbacrtption © it your evi a When a, Four wame ts taken from the Mat has Bol change of date os as mecamd-clans matter wy Fou when tt Te this way we BR te the way Sunlight and Plenty a Pure Air Are Better Than Books a perfect eerrive-and an be certain of atving ¢ Thia nation does not need more books so much as it needs more i houses where the poor may enjoy sunlight and pure This ts the proposition which a professional Ubrartan of Phila delphia has put up to It ts peculiar, coming from such a source, Andrew Carnegte. but it rings none the Jess trite, Expert knowledge of the **>efite of Hbraries must lead to recognition aleo of their limitations, He who knows what books do for the public ought to know, too, what they cannot do for us Books are a great blessing. But breathing room ts a greater one Information ts good. But home and health and hope sre dettor, The congestion of our great cities is the menace of civilisation and of learning itself. This was the nightmare which haunted Carlyle, Macaulay, Tennyson and Ruskin, while Henry George's masterpiece is that chapter in which he eres “Whenee shall come the barbarians? Ge through the squalid quarters of great cities, and you may see even now their gathering hordes! How shall learning perish? Men will cease to read, and books will kindle fagots and be turned tnto cartridges! Books are so cheap that we can throw them at the But houses and healthy ones for the poor impossible except cata are dear, airy towne. The as a oo in temperance and incompetency. Can books Nothing can but wholesome conditions of living whieh promote health and hope and pride. “Woe unto them that join house Teom—saith the Lord of Hosts.” Even If the sebolar, the architect, the craftsman can find ta books the means of his advancement, yet it ts fiddling amid a con Magration to sit down and study under daydarkening walls and io Polsomed air Books are man's invention. But let ua not forget that the first and best invention of one wiser than man came at the command: “Let there be Nght!" If all the libraries Carnegie has buflt were torn down and their books burned, the world would lose nothing it could not soon replace. But if upon their beautiful sites were bullt bright, roomy, well Ventilated homes for the poor that are now crowded like cattle, humanity it make a gain that would not wear away in con turies. of id these? shin oxtets, it ta sald, anequence eure to house—till there be no best SPEER EEE EEE EER RRR RRR TEN COMMANDMENTS For the Girl Who Would Marry NO. 6 BY DOROTHY O.LE. SRE REE E TE Bit not idly in the watch tower of thy father's house, for lo, work mak- @th of woman « helpmeet. ‘There ia no more Of un-Americanism ‘Who sits around waiting for a hus- Band to come siong. f From her languid descent to curt. and kimono to dawdle zh the reer-noon breakfast, Which « patient, long-suffering Mother hag saved, till ber appear- im @ natty shopping costume at fp the afternoon, she slumps down, untidy heap, on sofa or arm ir, to thrill over the love affairs some nevel-bullt, carnation- Gream heroine, of scolds at her Joenger brothers and sisters who Gare to interrupt her dabbles and Ble at the plane | What young man, meeting her, a gortesuy. French-heeied, feather- Graped girt. down town in the Sfternoon, or the sparkling. dainttly n evening, could vision of himself hurrying @ut to & restaurant breekfast every Morning if he married her? How Gould he foresee another restaurant dose of half-and-half with a piece af pie at midday, so that he af- eine iso bject spectine than the girl PA ciate. in eccanianieone ford to get the matinee ticket which she must have, and to cap all, the femeage he gots when takes down the recetver at 5 Tl meet you, Si ear, and we'll go to a restaurant fot dinner, for | just can't cook when Tam dressed up.” The woman has to earn her own living l# a thousand time tter fitted to hocome a wife n the obe who does nothing “1 hate to give a responsible ition to a woman here.” says the ft- +4 frarian of « large public Mbrary,” because every time a wornan becomes Fe Paluable she throws up the position to marry.” a Business men everywhere echo the same sentiment - And the business woman makes the best kind of a wife, for, accus- tomed to reaching the office, or the school room, or the f be- wife vt the tween 7 and 8 in the morning, she is to finish a ™ While her husband goes off to @ restaurant breakfast the 7 getting-up h She in as neatly dreamed to recetve « caller 6 «. m. fn her home as she was to take a dictation or Walt on a customer Aguin a little matter of habit. And when her husband comes home tired out after a day of petty not fly inte a annoyances or a series of things rage because he forgot the gi that night of weep herself into a sick headache when he ¥ eve fing at home instead of the play. For the woman who has sat at the typewriter till her temples throb, who has stood hours combining every tint and Je of color to please fussy customers, who has smiled and told fairy tales to forty wizgting cht when she f o ghe would fly ws what It in to cc roms, rain-drenched and ex hausted i ‘The wage-earning woman may not be a chef, but the courage which it stanch!y faces the bread-and-batter question does not go down be ij the making of a pie. urden-bearing gives her eystem, neatr ; knowledge of the valt ney, and, more than all, that ¢ Gerstanding and large sympathy that makes of Woman a hely What's Would you ask “comrades,” pal? me that? 1} the years we've nt Chumming flash. vm together—sometimes An times between us hard Ot we'y things went 1 Hittle had pl And ma in Our r For in’t the smile word the Strolling Mieke wa pais in the ne old ts Riot the hours we wasted sc Nor even the grasp of an honest hand But just to look tn the othe And knew he would al Cast Your Eyes Bim, the butten man, makes buttons while you walt. All {in any direction sizes, 10 cents a dozen. loos A suit of , THE LADYWaAnE svong, = || Wenlly Tfferent ' aa fecedi- nots ate to say it wos made by Daniel of whrman, the tailor, 1016 Second Oppe-ita the Arcade. ave. If you want style, quality and » TREE a awell sult go to Fuhrman one eo SERRE ER EEE EEE RE RRR REE ee ee locked With dead berows Belike we are becom THe SATs eprint THE TRAVELER'S REGISTER--NO. 9 RRR tke ee et * - * . * The girl in the bow of the boat smiled quietly, and her half clowed eyon seomed to find the way ahead tion against the cold sweep of the folds about her The mon he taland for a by been over to Black ball game and had been ingloriously beaten, not even the presence of several college mon saving the day. Their sailboat had , and Fred Miner, 4 mative fahert offered to take them home in his motor boat, Perforce the captain of the defeated and another man bad made way to the bow and sunk dilapidated boredom. The eaptaln was a fine looking fellow, long) limbed, muscular and graceful in | beartug, with a face clean strong. He fished out bis pI started to Hgbt it, watt he caught | { the girt fixed on him, | kod apo | | team | of courne, wented, and her quissteal smile piqued him to a new interest When Maria Kvans came to the Islands she brought a lot of old clo'hes and | determined to rough it. The colo ny at the Islands, therefore, found nothing espectally interesting about her, for whe did not play whist, she seldom changed her gown for din ner; she apparently did not dance. To be « society of one suited her) uly, until one morning she got | inte conversation with Fred Miner at the float, and when he fo ‘The brain begets some Gordian knot Which takes a sudden stroke to sever So let it never be forgot No ciroumetance ts fixed forever. And indeed, indeed, I remember when the FP. D. &@ Q impressed me as a bum road. I knocked tte equipment, tts service and ite perv: itors, But sinee the G. P. A. favored me with « pass over the aystem | somehow have a strong Inclination to aay a good word for it whee ever possible. IT hope I have an honest mind which is oyen to eonvic Hom. Pa . = ae he really knew something about boat and was dressed wenalbly, be asked her to go out fishing. So well did she acquit herself that it became « requiar thing for her to appear when the Meteor whistled for the start Suddenly she turned on Hal Btev | one « smoked and strated ahead. “Are you going into the sports tomorrow, Mr, Stevens?” she asked, He hestiated a moment bo fore answering, looking a little our primed “1 believe Iam scheduled for) something,” be sald indifferently | They eyed each other silently,/ measuring their strength. The look grew so personal that Marta Evans finshed ever so little and turned in to gaae ahead. asked because I am interested im the mile ran. Shall you go into that?” abe persisted. THE DEAD BECOMING MORE DEAD. There ts food for thought tu the swiftness with which the t men of today pass from memory when they croak. Among the fiorst emblems at the funeral it is hard to find one labeled “Gowe, but Not Forgotten,” In fact, we ask whowe it is when the cortege passes. It used to be that all business was suspended so that everybody coeld go to the cemetery, and chief mourners had to have # little prt vate ceremony In the parlor In orter to get even a loo! on the obae- quies, because the vox popull crowded the lawn to rubber. There was always a brass band and « premium on hacks, The papers for a week “Oh, yea, of course, Everybody after would overflow with resolutions and copies of the eondélentes | eeems to think It will create great fired tn from clheowhere. The community hypnotised itself Into a dull jer interest if we go in for our ape feeling that \( bad sustained an irreparatle loss Nothing else as | cialtics” talked of at the morning purchasing bees at the grocery. “Then it ts a settled thing before Nowadays what? Ob, nothing much, A line or two in the paper. | the start,” she sald, with « tighter A funeral that docan’t concern anybody. A hotest into the bell-bex fer jing of the lips Deo pou think it ts} the stereotype cut of the Great One. No long-winded obituary’ nor |auite fair to the people who belong personal tribute by some other Great One who butts in. Congreme fs | he 4 who have been working almost the only place where you see any postmortem held, apd Ht [so bard’ For instance, Joe Miner doeen't prove a drawing card when there's anything doing at Ben the young brother of our skipper “* fs simply dead in earnest over that mile run. He's working night and day to get in form, and he's a sure winner—if the college men y out.” The glance she gave bim sidewlse made the remark personal and he accepted the challenge “If he's that young chap with the Higiously jong legs, | may not his match after all, Mine Keans.” His smiling assurance. however, piqued ber, and she fused to continue the diseusston giving ber attention to makiog « | landing he looked at herself tn the mir ror of the boarding howe bedroom and emiled cynically, “Tl tell you Jwhat it is, Maria Evans, if you'd prink yourself a little and be your old self, Hal @tovens and the rest would «lt up and take potiee, But here you are making a trump of yourself.” Then, stamping ber foot whe exclaimed: “I wan't do tt—fot low the lead of thone iliy girls and drone myself up to seek his favo: Mard to tell, Maybe w re alfeady over more hegsticas w kod What te the reason? Perhaps we inapeet our personages more latimately while they and have penetrated the enamel they wear, Maybe we have them too much to feel that laying palms on their biers te cog: it may be that fame ia too cheap Possibly dead men's shoes are filled toe quickly for them to cool off (The shoes cool off, act the gon Quit that!) There are a lot of plausible reasons Another reason may be that life is too short pr ve re By “JOSH” “Your new cook dide’t stay very{who are too prow to fone. }¥e Siitor is living im he No, she found fault heeause We! Aunt Ruse’ attention is had no mission furnitare im the) to this secko’thewoods wa that Pacted and - }(0)) Heartd kitchen. sigh } eithe SUli she could mot bear the thoaght “He lint te anything fol| A WORD FRO of Joe's Gteappointment if Mai No man ever made « " slnaaats 8. [Stevens should win the run, She the horses.” How about the fellows on] > the canalt™ lowing wondeted if Hal might not after all & pretty deceat chap, and tf his ors weren't thrast upon him 1t witli be for anyway,” she Too Swift for the Northwest. Jas. B. Ferguson, the genie! bow sald as she pulled off her faded iface of the Miduapore hotel, drop Life’d be too short jouse and unlocked a big trunk ped into the office Thureday and) fer ue t work out the looked lou and hard at the ar paid us a dollar for a year'e sub | all th’ good things |T8Y within and finally decided on « erption. Thereafter he handed we've overioceal beautiful embroidered batiste with tle she said emi Hite a low neck and «itt gir “TT! be all in white, reseed her hair us a bar bin for $9.60 have been for our second-iast 4 for we paid cash all the through for the last one, The bar | 2 tender will vouch for this, Mr = The Catino lights twinkled | rr guson's proper ephere of opera am sungestion of bis] through the trees and « light breere | ie Chicago.—-Midnapore (AF| , Beige See Gaal aaariod the eiveien. 42 ic tuto / ; te ay gy ; the night. Hal Btevens leaned neg ; 4 ligently at the top of the font stairs ° hile scorch A Paris dispatch say# Bont may ‘Why he was killed w well ed watched a boat teed of. girs open a saloon, With what? =e . from the boeréing house a6 they Diplomacy. ! od upward toward him, He “Ah, me, wiater has come again, : ap | ROdded carelessly to one or two, sighed the post | Harolé—Whigh would be prope [but eared blankly at the girl whe Yoo,” said his friend, who passed |to say: 1 would like to von “i brought up the rear, She smiled a fomon to all sentiment, “but fm| young lady, or | desire to Kiss 8) Guteriy into his face with a direct not a bit surprised. It generally | 7oune Indy }look, bowed and passed on while 1 don't think either one oe you really Blanche He watched her gra lcomes about this time of the year he gasped would be proper & fal figure in white, noted the ease Was Margaret celebrating the|intended to Kise her 10 Ros. of movement, the haw oot of] |a34 anniversary of her birth? the head, and suddenly embered the Gal’ eautdiag thd -_— the eyes in the pont fifth onnivermury of her celebratir Protensor; (who has fast finished | ony soy he ejneculated, and of the 234 epaiversary of her| playing a piece on the plana) I'd) knocking the ashes out of his pipe | birth.” like to murder the man Who ©¥@T) strotied toward the cnaino. ompored such a piece of mnie 8] ahe «stood at the door watching that for a man to have to play the first couples ewing into a Dude; (who has been Heton | ieions walte its too bad you A I, me deaw fellow, YOU! don’t dance, Miss Kyans,” Hal yutobered doncher kK8OW,| Stevens said softly at her elbow and that should be some éonsole She started and said smilingly, “It tion. would be too bad if I didn’t” He ©. 8. B. |jooked at’ her a moment, then swung her tnto step with b The A-Y.-P. Exposition. fore she could protest he das “4 You may tetk about Chicagp, St.| superbly, and as she allowed herself Lous of Buffalo to develop all the old air of fasct | But the A-Y-P., that is to be, will] nation, she told herself it was all | be the place to for Joe. Bu she thrilled uanar For y, the West, haa al-|ecountabty as the evening progressed ways been in line, and Hal Stevens had eyes for no So let Seattle ve your goal in 1909.| other girl, and people whispered jand nudged their neighbors. When | A stands for Alaska, that Rudsia tol} they parted Inte In the evening it us sold, | was h the promi that she And what was thought a barren) wou ept his escort to the waste, (Une Ott ay Lani Of | en ne wold, | With tin and copper, coal/and oil | | snd finest grazing Inds j Alaska is a cow that-our re xX spect commands Y is mighty Yukon, that flows | { h that great land, | Where ie found in plenty, upon her bars of sud | | Where ships with treasure laden At halt price © also rent fi Tw and mille je @ down to the p| id CHIMNEY SWALLOWS on ee eae Loggers Sup ly Co, COLMAN DOCK, Did I understand you to say|P for the Grand Pacific, and ite Both Shonte Se. jyour uncle in England left a for coast of spruce and pine | The mighty highway to the Kast I said my wnele left a for-} by far the shortest line, Eagiand, He toured the| The on ite borders have | for # month, much of which to boast | “What do you think of that new ee on the P ithe ~ Pica pt miasionar ked the cannibal asa >t You ag > No need to go to Burope for pleas-| CREDI1 You an the on with that wre or for reat trange looking high hat, with his! The coast hae scenery nd, CLOAK eok bound in a stiff white thing the elim is th SUITS nd with that pecullar long coat No need to » to to ; ; | awk wife France or on the Rhine } FUR | y s the one Just come out to Seattle in NINE. MILLINERY He n how.” TEEN HUNDRED NINE A Receptive Candidate Go W ald Hor | 00 P W kK Mrs. Ruswell Sage has announced and many came ¢ $I. er ee that she ts going to give away all] "se true many pi t fortune left her by ber late} b lald a 4, with the exception of a! But tt that followed after, have comfortable « yetence. She also| ed along their tine P ifi 0 f j C states that it will not be given to| How well they've done will, all be acl Ic ut itting 0. college presidents, beggars nor for cen, in Ninete iundre the founding of pubfie institutions; wae” apne 422 Pike Street but to individuals who need It and BOSCO. | ; MARIA PLAYED THE GAME tahly | nearest store to bay a erimeon rib a sore Interesting than the men pea tee In the s#tern several} delay, but the mile ron ad girls huddled under rub ts} without Hal Stevens, with J : And the not too cleanly folds of sail | Miner an easy winner Bome spite a, cloth, showing glimpses of summer | ful creatures sugested that Hal's A finery. The girl in the bow, with }absence was due to the length o ws her hand on the wheel, wore an old} (ime Maria Evans took © her faded biuve blouse, and for protec tollet, but Hal had Maria's assur ance that she had walked to the) 4 wlipped Into a man's coat ; an Hea on mixture of browns) bon for 4 sank, apd when he walke and xrays, that hung In unwieldy |onto the grounds under the shade of her crimson parasol he feit amply repatd for the scowls he re cotved wore a diamond on a suspletously important finger, but they failed to connect It thing, that Fred Miner and his Foley's Honey and Tar, asc size younger brother Joe were being pie ? i z < their |loted around by Hal Stevens Foley's Honey and Tar, soc size P down in| apparently having the time of iets lives.—-BDoston Pont. out and | hav pe and| standards of taste—Bebilling’s matter how lew our competitors better H. LEWIS & CO. % i , GUAKER 1013-1015 FIRST AVENUE’ Jay PRONEE MAIN 1240 (auc Col SEATTLE WASHINGTON porta the next day, “I'll wear your too,” she promised eoquet f The management sweated at the Now Is the T: To Cure That Cold Before It Gets a Hold on You Try any one of these—we recommme The following June at the day exercises several of the nders noticed that Marin Bvane id them: with the still stranger Foley's Honey and Tar, $1.00 size Dr tle Allen's White Pine Balsam- Karl's Kold Kure; 25 The tea and coffee you drisk tarclay’s Original Quaker Cough | good deal to do with your © PSPESEERSSSE. per bottle 25¢ and., size Barclay's Grippe and Cold Cure ; cures Def <g | tap Ra és y Rock Candy—per pound ....... . Horehound Drops—per pound King Frost witha Good Warm Overcoat We are agents for the ger Virginia Oil of Pine—pure in half ounce vials, herr ally sealed 450 An excellent showing here, products of the best makers, in an admirable va riety of styles, materials After your cold is broken take a tle of and colorings—~the kind VINOL. We are Seattle agents. It ars and eng the bronchial tubes and tones the er vis about it that give permanent satis faction. Priced from $15.00 to $30.00—and, if not con venient to pay cash, you may pay “a littl at a time” for the coat you se lect—#o there's little excuse for going a-shivering these frosty days ire sy: EEE. @&@ ERESERRbeaeeete. u Daffy’s Malt Stoltz’ Pure Malt The Quaker Drug $043-1055—FIRST AV.—-1013- PIANOS Steinway ==. Kn FINEST LINE, ONE PRICE, HONEST METHOD EVERYTHING MUSICAL. Sherman Clay &¢ 1406 Second Ave. | CASH REGISTER! 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