The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 16, 1908, Page 4

4 THE SEATTLE STAR av STAR PUBLISHING CO, 1907-1909 Seventh Ave, EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY, PHONES | iti. IND, 441. These are exchanges, and connect with all de Partments—ask for department or name of person yeu want, BALL ARD STAR AGENCY 409 Baverd « BVERETY STAR AGENCY One cont per cor livered by mall or __Eitored at the Postottion at =) MAIL sUSCRIMERS s ta boon pat tn & FO aUaSCHINRRS = % more than ain of giving our eu Generally Christy presents may be d 1} into two classes—“use anne Bach is good and each has its place. It depends entirely] on who is to get the present Generally speaking, useful presents given people who do not need them. That is, the man who can afford to buy the b nd in plenty should t ver und gloves f such things. The woman who is but € rited in the gratification of her shopping instincts sh get as a present the new coat and the furnitur grown-ups don’t make h difference one way or the other at Christi the day is the day for children nas time e child wh can have tr year is the one upon whom toys are a waste at Christmas. such let t similar neediul things. to it--they were getting much amuse | ment out of it | It was tke a mime vaudeville | | show | hausting a new toy almost any day in the] cal novelties did a ‘9 | Of stunts that would have made here be given the new shoes, the jackets, overcoats and | jot he useless things be given to those who have but e than necessaries all the year around. Let the man with the shiny coat receive a bit of jewelry or a new pipe; let the work-a-day woman be given some trifle of feminine luxury,| some little useless extravagance that could not possibly be in dulged in on any day of the year except December 25 Most of all, let the child of poverty be spared a “present’ of something that it actually needs and must have What a ghastly perversion of the spirit of Christmas it is to let the child shiver half through the winter so that it have a “ Let the useful things be bought on some other day, but for may present” at Christmas of a new coat! Christmas itself let the pennies of the poor go for something which has but one use and that is to delight legsness of the gift, fice and the giving spirit of the holiday Let the very use in such cases, measure the love, the sacri To think of coupling the spirit of charity and that of Christ mas-giving seems an utterly impossible thing. Charity is a duty, an obligation and a right, while Christmas-giving is just a break ing down of our ar cial social barriers and being children of nature and of God for one day ognize that we are ali children of the same father and so are all brothers and sisters—and shall we give the little brother of the jo & pay of shoes and a little brother of the House of Have a coaster and his sister a big dolly? , Nojhoweyer small the gift, let's have it a real Christmas gift—mot a bit-of-charity sneaked in on December 25 in order Sasa and salve our souls with a double credit In the Christmas spirit we ree Gepator Batley shouldn't have been the first man to laugh when president disclaimed all graft charges in coonection with the canal. There seems to be considerable underground work in connection with the subway franchise apptications. “Seurrilons, libelous, false,” has the linguistic horse-power of both shorter and uglier words, On form, Ole Hanson should beat the race track gang by several lengthy lengths. 7 Holiand battleships are scoring great victories over the Veneaue- lan Yacht club. oe = In ATE, SOMBIE RAS BY ABRAHAM Rf. GRO. At last, after many years, Pedro | America. Gvicet’s dream had come true. He| Twenty years had wrought a found himself on board a steamer change in her. But still her hair bquad for Naples. Pedro had come was biack, and stifl her face had to America hoping to gain fortune |all those lineaments which he had then return to Italy, wed one loved and worshiped all these her dusky daughters and bask away the rest of his life im the lazy of bis native land. ES jlowing this that Pedro had gone to by aneeasing attention to his ba nana business, by crying his wares assiduously early and late, and by unfatiing politeness to his custom- ers, amassed a fortune. Now, dressed in bis shiny brown salt, new pair of shoes and new lack hat, he sat on the bench on the steerage deck of the steamer dreaming of the sunny land to which be was going. Yes, Pedro had succeeded. His | friends would rejoice with him and | his enemies would be stricken sore- ly with envy. He would be the talk of that part of Naples in which he | hed been born and in whieh be had) grown up like a weed. | Fr Stihl Pedro was not happy we! A wise man of Ortental race said ei “A man without a wife is but half 3G - NLS DRIIM HAD COME TRUE like that faded old photograph which even now was preserved in corner of his valise. ' was but haifa man. Gray was already visible amoug bis black curls; wrinkles were plentife! in his healthy bronzed face. But he had no wife. He had lived a life of an- Ucipation, of preparation, “I will get the money first, and then it will be easy to get a wife,” he had said Now he had the money and his heart was longing for that dream old to blush, let Mim realize right now his error, A love stifled for years is & powerful force when it gets the air of freedom and bursts into flame as though it had begun which had been the guiding star of to burn in earliest youth. Pedro hia life. trembled as he looked at Marie. Seated on the bench, smoking his, Then he arose and walked awk pipe, Pedro was thinking of the wardly toward her. home coming. The ship was-two| “Is It you, Marie?” he asked days out of New York. The weath| “Yes, Pedro, it 1s 1,” she an or was fine and Pedro had nearly | swered. fallen asleep when & chtid’s volee| “You are going for a viait to roused him, It was » sweet, cheer Italy?” he went on, a lump rising ful volee, and tt spoke in Itallan He looked toward a littie girl who was leaning on the lap of a woman in black seated at @ short distance. Something in the child's voice roused memories in Pedro's breast, memories of days when he was a gay and care free youth in far off Naples, when flashing, dark maiden eyes looked into his and when bis thoughts were not turned to the serious thing of earning a living He took his pipe from his mouth and listened, while his heart beat faster. He looked with all the fire of his eyes ror again. And at in his throat, as he thought of her husband. He had bated him all these years, and the thought of meeting him was unbearable. 1 am going to Italy—to stay she replied The little girl stood by, wonder ing. And well she might, She had not seen her mama so red cheeked and breathing #0 hard before. Also the strange man seemed to be strangely agitated “Bat—your husband?” strange mao “He has been dead two years, said Marte. avked the years. She looked to him almost! if anyone thimka they were too| Make Your . {the rich and poor child | be equally remembered | that moment the woman turned her) Theresfter the Uttle girl came to head like the strange man very much, Flee, ye thonghts of wealth; be indeed. For he waa a folly man,}| gone, spectres of wordly prefer al buying eandy for her, and | ence; avunt, dreams of fame. Vor besides, her mama had never looked love, who ts greater than you all,|so happy as when the strange man in here. Pedro was in that monent was near, And the day before the transtated to hie first youth. Time ship reached Naples a man in a was not. Nothing had been since long black robe came down from 20 years before when, a lad of 20, the wpper deck and read out of a he had loved the fair Marie, Her! book to her mama and the strange father had not jooked with faver|man. And efter that her mama told on bi t, and had commanded! her to call the good strange man ber to marry another, It was fol’ “papa ‘DOLLS OF ALL DEGREES BOW IN FEAR OF TEDDY'S FIERCE GAZE Santa Claus Has Chance “ to Suit Every Little j Girl's Taste. BY MERLE WANE own-ups are only eblidren con tructed on larger patterns The old folks Instat on taking the annually to the ot and later delude themselves into children derived | ietle ¢ | bolleving that the | the moat fun out of the autics of | the clowns, Neither have they out grown the faseination of the toy There ia still a tender spot inty dolls and droll nimal in the world ts so sug mead of Christmas aa the toy hops during these days! There is no place where one ean be better e d with the jollity of the holl » & child again while I tell my visit to the toy de partment of one of the big stores? ay, | saw many qray-hair ips taking a delightfully ong time in the selection of toys. Though they would not have owned Dolle of All Gorts, Dolls in abbreviated gay costumes smiled alluringly from the cases and struck Daphne Pollard poses Toys with accompliahments worked overtime, even unto the ex point reby, Mechant ontinueus series a jonal acrobat ait up and take And through it all ap red voea | pro the cordial face of the salesman as the cheerfully satisfied stage man ager My, how the changing tastes of the modern child are catered to by the manufacturer! It surely must rack the brain of Mr. Nicholas Santa Claus to provide new novelties each season suit he has dove so again this year and alike, will OSGAR UND ADOLF GET NEWS FLASHES Dose Choiman Commediume Pause oid Form in Front of the Mumoriatisches Tagebiatt Office. BALTIMORE ~— on — WASH OF BGG PLANT STAR BY JOSH A Word From Josh Wise. “A man wante th’ gonrally finds tht th’ earth don't want him.” who earth Just Like a Man, Por some time th had ding down a cc arior. on't you play something for be asked, glancing toward the been piano. “I fear,” she said deprecatingly, “my muale ia too poor to give you enjoyment.” “Oh, but I do enjoy it, agsuringly he replied “It doesn't take much — Husband Buy you a nice Field Glass for Xmas. It will enable you to enjoy more thoroughly lovely view from your home. 25% Discount ON OPERA GLASSES ALSO the 1336 2” ave CROP OF OYSTERS DRO re KANKAKGE —— INTERESTING EXPERIMENT — INDIA RUBBER MAN HAS SCALP yuLa |to satisfy me ip the line of aiusicy of cbatrs tn | THE STAR—WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1908. AGON’S FASHIONS IN CHR 3 BPD 2) ee Lis DIn rss P | The display of dolls is most be-| Roosevelt, in rough-rider wniform,|frewh as when iald by the first wildertng with eyeglasses and teeth, not for Plymouth Rock hen that landed The national taste, yes, and even getting the famed grin. “Oh, what | with the Piigrims tendeney of o oastly be satisfied Janeous collection There ts the French doll whose acquired vocabulary, as yet, consists of only mama” and “papa the nurse maid, the Quaker, the nun, the red croas nurse, and the Teddy bear What amused me the most waa a case filled with an incongruous mass of dolle of afl nations, Here Indians poked their feathers into the fighting vieages of the Irish men; Negro manmies kissed court FYreachn Kaisertike mus tached Germans warmly embraced apous Johuny Bulls and Uncle Same clasped hands with Japanese ladies. And on top of this football h child from the @ fall ia this countrymen!” Just too cute” is the expression Imagine the manly ideal of our for the doi) outfits Spanish war hero first buffeted| There are all kinds of toilet sets about in the semblance of a woolly and jewel ornaments, fur sets, foot bear, and no appearing in the ball suits for the Teddy doll, The clerk tuxedos for the gentlemen and all stzes in knit and flanuel said his underwear to protect ue and and china forma from the chilis of the Seattle mists, The lady doll can be dressed in the height of fash fon. At het disposal are curling frons, side combs, powder puffs, feed and rate and false hair, Gainsborough tempting hats, suspenders, traight-front stage shapes and even se Directoire” and sheath gowns. Poor St. Nick is kept basy reading the fashion magazine to keep bis large my dolls woller. pleased him from Mothers Snook unis crying. Supply Dotte’ Needs. amile | kept The have modern doll ole to a ment must the whereallis clothe ft. Th array of miniature foods on tiny plates ure exhibited at the delicatessen table. I cannot speak for thetr digestibility, but jumble of legs and arms, as the they might sult « sawdust constitu. | family properly clothed j conqueror of all, sat triumphantly | tion, There are fried eggs, which This story ts a hint to “Shox the familiar form of President’ though undeniably hard, look as, Barly wifey was trying to cheer him up.|the visitor to Gyearold Elate, “I “Cheer up. John, and don't} suppose you will married? to Scan the Day's Doings in Tab. | WOFFY,” she said. “It doesn't do ‘Oh, there's hardly any doubt any good to borrow trouble.” about it,” answered the small miss | “Borrow trouble,” echoed her! "Everybody says I am much like )tusband, “Great Caesar's ghost! 1| mamma, and she has been married ain't borrowing trouble; ive got it| three times, you know to lend.” ¥ a It Would Seem So No Consciation, Brown—The game Toowar “Well, it's al! over, my boy,” | *e¢ms to be a mechanical business. |siched Mr. Oldboy, an antiquated) Green—How's that? bachelor. “Miss DeYoung has re| Hrown—Prineipally fall and |fased me.” tackle, you know. Het | suppose she let you down easy by promising to be a sister to Novel industry. " rejoined his friend. | Gyer—Scribbles ts engaged in ad | “No,” replied Oldboy, bitterly. | no industry “She wouldn't even be # grand Myer—So? What's he doing? daughter to me Gyer—Writing ® novel. The Proper Things. Skinner's Business a Fred—I've only just heard of your| Harlow—What’s Skinner do! CONVENTION. prioge CARPENTER | marringe, old hin. ' | now? ee on new onLeans ~~ Riving NAS FASTER Joe—Yos, | was married nenrty | Barlow—He's in the pat! business. TINED 2. 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