The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 9, 1909, Page 4

THE SEATTLE STAR > BY eTAR PUBLISHING CO. 1907-1309 Seventh Ave, EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY, Bitered at the Pustottice at Mealtie. Washington, ax second-class matter eee “ . “| WHEN A ‘rela tonacenit iS AT HER BEST BS Rattor The Star: Will you please state, to sottle a dixoussion | a ih Which several regular readers of your paper are involved, at what | Age a woman is at her best?—A. D. 8. I" This is a discussion that will never be led. Tt has gone 6n from the beginning, and will go on until the end | Be. It is as difficult a question as that of a woman's beauty . Different men have different tastes; and it is well that they have, clse ali would want to marry the samme woman . Ask any man at what age a woman is at her best, and he will name the age—as n as he can guess it—of the woman in whom he chances to be most interested at the moment So far as any man is concerned, a woman is at her best when she most attracts him So far as women judge, a woman is at her best when s S)) Gives them the most sympathy and the least rivalry : A woman is likely to be at her best with women when Any woman is at her best to any man whenever he most} admires her, Yo the woman at that particular time which puts her at her best in his eyes; it is his admiration does it. A woman attains absolute perfection in a man’s eyes only! when he loves her. The change is not in her, but in him. whether she be 16 or GET TOGETHER This is the era of combination and of co-ordinated action Help to unite the seven Pacific slope states into a commercial and political, but non-partisan union, to secure united action for developing the great west coast. When Los Angeles, or Seattle, or Oakland, or San Diego, or Salt Lake City wants anything, pull for it. When Tucson, | ‘or Boise, or Portland, or San Francisco asks for public im-| ments, get in and help. | In this way the west will get federal aid in building up| “three navy yards, so that a fleet can be kept on the Pacific coast; in building up a merchant marine so that when we dig harbors it will not be wholly for foreign ships; in irrigating and reclaiming arid or overflowed land; in deepening the chan “nels of our rivers to give our products an outlet; in consery ing | “the forests, building roads and getting federal buildings and Sortifying our unprotected coasts and otherwi equal footing with the coddled and protected Atlantic coast. GET TOGETHER! THE VILLAGE CUT-UP ST ARS AT A MINCE PIE SYMPOSIUM ieeves, One of the Other Judges in the Beeleysport Weekly Scream's Commission Was Much the Wore for the Ordeal. BY FREDO SCHAEFER. standing on an| } “NO. 74 WAS THE MOST TOOTHSOME GECAUSE JUDGE SKOOVER COULON’T DIGENGAGE HIS TEETH FROM IT.” Oh, ha, ha, ba! I'm convulsed with merriment, That fis because I've got a spasm in my fonnybone. i remind myself of « man who choked on a feather dust er and was tickled to death. Hee, haw! You see, the Beeleysport Weekly Scream has just closed a mince pie contest—$2 for the best mince pies baked by home talent Hundreds of ples were sent in, and Excuse me, boys.| some ple was awarded to No. 74, author unknown. No. 74 was re garded as the most toothsome be cause Judge Skoover's store teeth got fastened in it. The judge saya & man has an excuse to mince words while saying grace before mi meat. He sampled the pies pretty freely, wishing to weigh their mer its fully. Afterwards he admitted the merits weighed about two ton, and he had a pretty bad night of the printing plant resembled a pi it. The doctor told him he had (joke). They were surpase gastritis, and Judge Skoover al ogg and they couldn't be im- lowed there ought to be a law red upon in any way cept by against putting gastritis in pies. | wing owt the contest. The ed fior, old Judge Skoover, and my gelf were the committee to decide Now the editor of the Beream Is fig. tring on getting “p.another con test in behaif of humanity for the which were entitled to the prizes. | best antidote for ple. At that he It resolved itself into a contest be. has no kick coming—look whet a tween the pies and the judges. The jot of subscribers he'd have lost if won. Mrs. Nix was awarded they had eaten thetr ples them the prize for the most substantial selves. The next time “m asked ple. It was of mission design, with to be « 5 » of anything, I want f@ concrete foundation, macadam fill- to be a judge at a baby show. You} ing and red tile roof, Mrs was awarded the prize for th Kix rich. don't have to eat the babies. Who's | that saying | got a square meal any: the most going renolatic Of all methods of making another aon angry and disagreeable the + is to tell him that be will do something. How often |f pekton to wait an hour write the ge superinte Prmariiy Washingt HACH KISS A DO Millleent ts truly « iderate We nay find it ¢ ® daimael with the ex ont A Sd certain you think #0? asks Tl coy tn put she direction. in|. He nee te troubled with dys r, much an e other (Pepsin, 80 whe haw had the drugmist tor Win, yom Mand | Pugs, PoP" with her face powder.’ Fules require; a short short. urprises @ girl m planation of Why u certain thing q \nun' daring, to kiss her in that pecemary will aiways work won- jy. in’t do tt before. tn avoiding trouble. Railroad a } REMOVAL NOTICE. for « moito| On and after Tuesday, January 6, Bn ofeupation Ia beneath £m |all Navy Yard and Port Orchard hisy to be able to maken Ein rovite steamers will leave from Cob » living at Kt by industry orn Frees bo sects lman dock, foot of Columbia wt. *** jet | There sho: It is nothing pec uiliar | °° |tavor the power of jot ree erent 4 rehear lore have snatches, (By “United od Preee,) MILWAUKEE, Whe Poot Cuplat Le, th he had to Jan, 6 has fleht againet a mint mum-age-dimit handicap, Often and shot his 4 arrow wl pate often he ha barb int youth only to #ee m balked by wer of and 4 and Kkter for any Cupid who told Harry ttle back bh n along vine That's a hard-w or two tl a ye tough situation rking, well-meaning after day * oO T. Witte urt of Mit wants to put on the end of the mal tine of the cireult ¢ and at rther He age do you th na thine a law fix tena N what When ¥ Sith, 2 Maxi ra may tate to get the n papers. She is at her worst with men. — : ew 7 There is no general best age for any woman. It is wholly Ah, Mr. Jones, I trust you have & question of individual judgment. And even the individual | nl cunt or gpatd = me, oF judgment changes from time to time | Pretty rough On Kara, you may a ss ter of individuali in the women them-|™Y And it is a matter of individuality in the ‘ =| put Judeo Williams saye it tan’t Relves, One woman may reach her zenith of charm at 20, and rough on Bara, He says such a law! thereafter steadily decline into the hopelessly commonplace eved ve erate an ae wong 2 ‘Another may grow more attractive each year, until at 45 oF jo « of financial loss. . fore the Judge only she is the tessence o arm $0 she is the quintessence of charm, i Ji can cas ke eho tae ae Many women fail to “wake up” until they are in the}s: was suing hie wife of 67 for om ‘ divorce, He had married her two c on t othe ma a girl who, | thirties. And, on the other hand, there is many a ¢ Scuinr ates’ tie feet cis aacmcl Until she is 25, gives the greatest promise of charming pet-|and toatified that constantly after | Then she declines to the most uninteresting of wo-|t® Wedding she,had tried by every sonality : Then she declines to the most uninte n4 io noun Vatahk of te okt none! men. If some man marries her at her best, he is apt to repent) m of his bank book and other} his rashness all his life lied Sef It is utterly impossible for several persons—even regular} sy William, “Old people with | feaders of this paper—to agree upon this intricate question | Property are atantly th victoni| destanin, sons of the oppo- | Each must decide for himself, and is privileged to change his} «ite sex. who marry them «imply | mind as often as he pleases }to get thetr money away fr them. | id be a law req went of the adult children “uples overt & certain age, ame there are ring the no children 1 would sent being placed with same judge of a court d—preferably either a pro or cireuit court judge. good reason for such a law is that adult children are responsible for the care and maintenance « aged parents, This being #0, the children should have @ voles in « matter affecting the financial wel fare of the parents, “There is just one objection that children of wealthy parents might raise objections under the law when there no Valid reason for objecting. This could be mat by @ provision in the iaw giving the was } af | and tn} MORE TROUBLE AHEAD FOR D. CUPID! <> JUDGE WANTS A MAXIMUM AGE LIMIT THE STAR=BATURDAY, van denned Ld 1909. WANT A. MARRIAGE LICENSE? proper judge the right to offictalty approve of the marriage when it could be shown by the contracting partion that there was no reasogable objection to the marriage.” 1 Judge Willian ie 65, married, and has been 12 years on the clreult GARVIN’S CORNER BY THE REVEREND JOS: EPH L. GARVIN PASTOR OF FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH JACKBON STRE ‘T REGRADE HELD UP. Beautiful Seattic ix yet to come. Her mighty imp: ents, at @ ritieal stage, ore held up. Hig and aneightiy bh now mock the citizens and the newcomers, It te @ Yital and religious question. It affects the comfort and happiness of thousands and the issue of nelghber- ly good living. The story seems to the at one, ‘The fault riginal Jackson mt ¢ An insion was a le in th regrade anne minent demain firat appointed to fix the district Certain, property owners claimed damages. In the trials that followed juries awarded damages to some. The legal departinent of the city by stipulation, altowed damages of 1 to oth A contesting p wher brought the matter assersment to the supreme ‘There it was court ided that any prop owner who had been awarded Id not be assessed for About $458,000 which was damages ¢ henefits [provided for in the original asseas- carry on and complete the work wae invalidated by this dect This occurred several months steps to pre ting « bond isue, The people failed e Necenmary three-fifths nt bond election. me court refused to and the contract announced their intention ot closing down the Jackson at. Denny hill regrades. The bad results for Seattle will be easily seen it will give Seattle a “black eye” and all visitors will want to koow why the ments are left halt finished. It will arrest the development of city and affect the male of real tate just at a time when property ahues were going up. improve th ‘The city will be crippled finan- cially. The time will be delayed at which rty under improve ment ite taxable value rained city will be deprived of the in revenue The owners of the property in the neighborhood will suffer, seme of them acutely, and will be help: and! jean to help themesives. A case th | point A woman between 60 and % who owned « ptece of property in the regrade district was forced to out and work by the day to meet T aneceaments and now thi deiny, whieh will keep her from ng the value of the improvempnt, am may caure her to lone the property altogether Lewis & Wiley, the co: re unjustly treated. The: be put to financial lows by the tne { the work and baving « jyaltial plant Mie through no ff it record of any contracting at has ever done a large jot’ for the clty, Beventy per cent. of te work in done and they are three months ahead of their contract time on the city portion of the work One thousand men, directly and indirectly, will be thrown out of em- ployment. These men will lise their means of support, Their fariflies will be compelled to suffer the con- sequences. What should we do? The should determine as soon as pe if there in any legal means of ing up the deficit among the prop- erty owners immediately benafited Should much an effort fail, the city should stand back of contractors and pay any deficit that remains to com- plete the work out of the general fund of the city. There is no legal objection to this, and it is a long- standing precedent and a matter of simple common honesty. These con- tractor# entered into this contract in good faith with the city counctt, who are the direct reprenentatives of the people The work should not remain in thie disastrous condition, The of Seattle ts at stake. The shy distance is & straight line between two potnts, The cheapest way out is to go Ahead and finish the work at whatever Inconventence ft may cost the taxpayers at the present tim A eity mite ke ity ia no more than as ily, What dish community dishe live In our city #0 endowed by na- ture as though we were dwelling in a torn-up attic or a muased cellar is bad for the nerves and of the people, to say nothing about material incony “NRIGMBORT BY STUART B. STON It was a very impudent thing for the Maicolm estate to erect the Harbarosso apartments alraost slap dab against Thornleight court, for vurseproud Thornleight court jooked down upon the Barbarosso for its cheapnenm. in No. 17, Thornleight dwelt Madame Tintinelli, the est ple, because how? Not so; all the pies were! imperious Tintinelll; in No» 89, of and a baggage che round. Oh, ain’t | the mad wag! |the Barbarosso, young Phil Den maining prize for tooth- | Ha, ba! He, he! lham eked out an existence, No. 29 were close Madar Pintin 5,000 a night singing Aida” at the Cow ived niu t Late |looked into 17 and they jas opera t elt earned | Carmen-stuff and mopolitan, Young Denham ¢ $4.50 for the accompaniin Why Did Father Stay So jand “When the Night Birds Gently ;Whimper, 1 Will Dream of You, Hetelle.” | Madame Tintinelli was very fll and the voles of priceless quality was heard only in petulant mumb lings at the trim, little maid and in fretting calle for water, Her glorious, golden hair lay in un bound profusion upon the pillow and, wave because she could not sleep, in fitfal, dragon-dreamed she looked over ) of the despised Barbarosso. this Irritated ber the more—for why should straggling medioerity shut out her costly southern: exposure? I'll moyeI'll move from this And court, | great | toward | fretted, un me and ca unbearable place, til the patient maid ¢ ressed her forehead. Then hesitating chords came from No. 29. It waa young Denham and his rented tin-pan of a piano manu TOADAM TOTAL Was Stee PING facturing the harmony for “Hy the Silvery San Jacinto, the Crocodiles are Croaking.” Denham hatct his idea firmly in his curly, boy#@h Wead yet, and the tin-panny instrument temper | THD WAY Yo ‘THE mers TER bench. Ho bas & reputation ax a wettior” of divorce cases which are brotight before h He gee the couple inte hin private office, and sends them forth smiling, to notify their lawyers that “it's been fixed up.” — LONG, LOOSE THE SC Long. of embroidery or fur did rather jangle Ma and jdame's golden voice raised in pro jar. teat “Ninette--stop thie murder—this Wholesale asvassination of music I die—1 rack into ravelings!” ‘It ts the poor, young man in the shabby apartment,” explained = maid He lives that way- dame would not-——" Madame sighed. “Then I move I move tomorrow.” She lay very wtill and fancied herself—the song bird Tintinelli—singing the air the young man composed. How her Berlin master would have raved how the parquet would gasp and wonder—how--oh, what a jest! After that, she tried vainly to sleep, Then the {ospiration came young Denham-—burning, flashin, and, without he his preliminary began on his quaint, He sang as he played: fields are the red-bird as it always did tation, he sound chords and pleasing alr. “When the cotton whitening and calis his mate, I'll be thinking of you, Nellie, swinging on the garden gate.” Denham rambled on with the oth er two lines of the foolish ballad, and Madame stirred upon her pil lows. Before she became famous— and Itallan—her own name had been Nellie and she had played along that same, silvery Ban Ja cinto. What a barbarous, cheap, crude song—~and yet it was a pret ty accompaniment. Denham con- tinued: “Where the watermelons clus. ter and the sugar cane mill grinds, Down where winds, Young Phil Denham had a clear, the San Jacinto loose coata and the direetoi by school girls for afternoon and general made of Velvet, velveteen or cloth, ee = STAR DUST A Word From Josh Wise. people's it ‘ud trip a er a frown, cr ov on see Accepted. The Man—Well, it's just this way if t buy you a new winter coat, 1°) |have to Wear my old one another seapon | The Wife—You sweet, generous thing, you! Cleveland r. } Swell Hello, Jimmy, where'd you get ith’ false fee?” Aw, go on, ‘tain't a false face it's mumps.” -—Loulsville Herald ee Hut those countion that are voting n't think that they n CON the mongers that they are Wrong, | . dry vines booee their thowe . Notwithstanding large tn crease of bawtnens, national banks are just ax grouchy as ever it whose is on the back abo name of it . . ertheless, that manipulating wind shield deep Into his ; 1 te even the one who is ithe wheel bebind a snuggles down pretty collar th days i } Bomm food, 0 has a distressing warm rhe men 01 p that a girl fen't any clothes than susplet lor in her ix cool In her sumer ones, looks in t seen to the contrary notwith tanding “ar With a k appreciation of the inevitable wise man has not jected to put In wome of his re time stropping his snow shovel. eee / Boston Profanity Katy, aged 6, and a resident of Amerten’s seat of cultur ran to hor father one morning, exclaiming Father, Brother Howard swore | “Swore, did he inquired the parent, grimly, reaching for the alipper. “What did he say? “W id ‘ain't,’ reeponded Katy, solemnity. The Resurrection. demanded the indig- this obituary no- I'm not dead!” dead,” “you're o here nant subsertber, tee is all wrong If the paper says you'r sternly replied the editor, dead But,” he edded magnant- mousy, “If you don't lke being dead, we'll print your birth notice.” COAT FOR HOOL GIRLS e models are the ones chosen wear, They are usually and almost always show a touch jaympathetic voice. little air was most alluring, in apite of Alf L. Foster's sentimental lines. Madame raised her regal head “Ninette,” she called. “Send the young man—at once.” |,.,"Hut madame,” objected Ninette |“You do not know-—he does not know is € At once!” snapp | for i madame. “I will not listen! In two minutes young Denham jrecelved a command that almost |prostrated bim; and in ten minutes he crept, silent and abashed, into the shadow of the great. Madame {signed for him to approach and she loo! jong into his eyes. They | Were good, gray ¢yes, and Tintin to /@lll nodded in approval “Sing,” she commanded There is the piano—sing your moving It | Ue crudity for me—pianiasimo, you understand Wondering, young Denham played and sang the popular ballad. He felt deeply and he put that into the crnde song, too. When he had finished, Madame was quiet for many minutes. Then she spoke softly : “L was born along that laay, fe verish, old stream—right amid your whitening cotton blossoms,” Young Denham nodded, sympa thetloally. ‘Your music has merit,” contin- ued Madame. “When I recover, 1) will see that you have your chance. 1 thank ,, you-oh, so much-—and good-bye, Young Denham left, wondering, sympathizing with Madame yet re jotcing at fortune’s strange beck. And Madame slept, peacefully as a little ebild, $4.00 30% Pacific Blk, NOTICE—Men's $2.98 HARRY ABHTON'S HONESTY. 1 In a tumbledown cottage dwelt a po ow wh cal m was a boy, Being without moans, M ucked ny of the luxuries of life. Bomet eh \ with th plano beth tuned, and at other time her a an el of chartott ‘me in the cupboard, So ft chanced ¢ lay that she was on the verge of starvation, At this the lad | a bright, open-faced boy, re solved to set out and make hi ne ' he said to bin mother, “I am going away to become a in the course of 10 or are | will At this Mrs. Ashton wept tears of joy " Harry had gone but some distance when he came upon a perf great merchant, and bring you foo@? return , and feeling famished, sat himself down on a mossy beside « rippling rill to eat a crust of dry bread. While ep in this and listening to the chatter of a gray squirrel which coarse man, our hero nodded to him in a pleasant way. Mr. cream puff, which was to last him until he got to X oti 873 miles sycamore. Then, whistling blithely, Harry fared on his way, knouee lof Men’s, Women’ j—-you see, it sii clothes-buying easy king almonds in a sycamore tree, Mr. Robinson came driving by iy a two-wheeled cart or vehicle, Although he knew him to be “nome son threw him a surly look for his paina and drove on Having finished his repast, Harry bad rematning only a farther. in the kindness of his heart he tossed it to the gray sq : which, strangely enough, had not been able to find any nuts in be ing that soon he would be a substantial merchant with sparse side whiskers i Marry had gone but some distance when he came upon a perf od cart wheel lying prone in the road. He recognized it once as belonging to Mr, Robinson's cart, whereupon the struck him what a jolly lark it would be to pocket it and say ing. He could have done this easily enough, since the wheel sot more than five feet in diameter. But then his conscience him, and he Mosbed with shame. What would his mother think him’? So he setzed the wheel. and running breathlessly, ov. Mr. Robinson a little way off, still jogging on. . b: Te ‘Oh, sir,” orled Harry, “you have lost something.” “Bo 1 bave,” replied Mr. Robinson, with the air of a who is vastly astonished. But for your sterling honesty I not have mirsed it. As @ reward cart while I replace the wheel ‘This done, Mr. Robinson directed a kindly look at our “You appear itke a lad who may be trusted. Will you underti my noble lad, you may Uf @ an errand for me?” be asked. “Il shall love dearly te anid Harry, his eyes glistening. Well, then,” said Mr. Robinson, do you koow the ¥ Ashton’ “Yeu, sir! She is my widowed mother, my father baving éle@4 and I am ber sole support “Then,” said Mr. Robinson, a suspicious motsture gathering fi his eyes, “go tell her | have a surprise for her. I am coming tomor row to foreclose the mortgage on the old homestead.” Yh, thank you kindly, sir,” orfed the upright youth, bow away in glee. 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