The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 4, 1909, Page 4

THE SEATTLE STAR. Reis a ae second-class mation BY STAR PURLISHING Co. 1307.1309 Seventh Ave. EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. ed At the Postort at Beattie MURDERING THOUSANDS FOR MONEY Washington. BY PRISCILLA PRIM asional rivalry and competh ver harass the cloak model. | She ie calm tp ‘the assuranee (that | bhe is one of the thousandth elect 4 .» | Molded by Dame Nature into fitness } On the railways of this country in July, August and September j gor jer profesaton Oblast year reached AN INCREASE OF 307 PER CEN'T over His geo ay og apn the ad: The number of persons killed in collisions and derailments that for the corresponding quarter of the year before Tdictation, and stage gtrix are ever This astounding repo as juat been made by the intersiate | Jealous of thetr popularity, but be Th inding report ha ’ 1 gg {Oe the cloak model ‘and her commerce commission, and the gures must be accepted 85) rivals ts interposed a cortain herd Authentic, however impossible they seem [Ae SR Mare ew women ck a cack - | overstep a During the months nained there 734 persons killed and] 99 be etigivie as a cloak model a 16,545 injured, Of these, 191—one fourth—were killed in col-)@ girl must be able to measure up ot to these proportions 44 inches : lisions and derailments bust, 26 inches waist and 4% inches It would be far from fair to say that the people of this |p. She must atso be tall enough . “pen to wear a skirt which measures 42 eolintry are responsible for this terrible death roll; and yet 115) inches at the middle of the front absolutely trac that the people tolerate in silence the wrong] breadth, If she possesses unusual ; : style she will pass muster even if bh conditions that render such a series of disasters possible @ trifle slim: than the {deat These collisions and derailments are not al “accidents mode! While a modet’s first requintte th, of course, her figure man turers that the sults of rail Most of them are the natural and inevitable | ve girl o whe has nothing. bat her figure to bring int way Way manipulation in the interest of corporate gree | Secure roadbeds, high-class equipment and up-to-date sales devices cost money The most money must be got on the least possible invest the business in a “stick services they will dispense » earliest conventence. which Greed-on-Wheels will not pay & adda to her quali ment, though men and women and children be killed and} & distinctive style, jodg |ment and tect, has the world ; mangled by the tens of thousands @ year jalgners and wholesalers at her A comparison of our list of railway disasters with those of |feet. She earns an income from & week rapidly upwards i welt Bugland or avy country in Enrope is a sad commentary upon! ke rnal vigilance ental, Our boasted mechanical superiority and even upon our) matehed only by that of the pugl oe ist or college athlete, Is the price civilization the cloak mode! pays to keep th con It is, of course, impossible to eliminate all clement of chance. | stant trim for duty, She may dote | on chocolate creama and pastry, but she must never indulge her tastes, | because etn are fat producers, jand the inereas of @ fraction of an |inch In the model's measurements }will pat her out of a position. To many a girl the cloak model is an object of envy She thinks that | #he herself would Ike to parade) . through the day in fine clothes and The rail-| sara a goed salary. In veallty the] ways of thé United States are practically under the domination | model's fine figure, grace and style | But the spirit and the system of conducting the railways of this country make distasters chance brit o certainty It is not hard to fix the responsibility trainman or switchman or dispatcher, who, overworked, sleeps | at his post, or, because of defective signals, blunders matter of not a Tt is not with the No; the real responsibility lies back of all these of half a dozen men eh on te fect hem peraog| ‘These men practically set every signal, throw every switch | at night, and never for a moment | sal alia ; » |does she relax that Gibsonesque | and work every engine throttle in the country | potse which is cnlculated to ext off | These men, through their monstrous greed for money and jclothes to the best advantage | Power, are paving their roadbeds with human bones and making] ¢y.,™uinely undersoes doneos Of | the steam in their boilers out of hunian blood. stone image while senme are being | If killing for money be murder, then these men are guilty, |e", 10 and wathors adjumed. | HOt in one case alone, but in thousands every year, of willful,|in proadcloths and furs for the ben-| efit of prospective buyers of winter {stocks ‘She paces back and forth, | and site and rises In a manner to enhance the garment she wears Designers know that upon her cleverness and personal charm largely depend the bulk of their) salon, They pay her aeeordingty | and make her jot one of the best ad vantaged of women who work Perec eee eee ee eee * - * A MILLION FOR ONE * BIGGER'N THIS! * *® WINSTED, Conn, Feb. t-—- @ ® A foreigner living on the sum. & j@ mit of Piymnarh Hill, in #! | ® Thomastown, and employed In * the foot of ¢ * hill, found the ateep road so & fey that it was unsafe for # walking, so he conceived the @ Wen of Wedding Gown to the @ level, a distance of one mile, @ seated on «@ large iron scoop @) shovel. * Midway down the hill the # heeame so great that © & factory at he began to feel a burning # seneation. but he conld not #) get out Of the shovel, and-was @) afraid to steer himself to oor & side of the high road for fear #/ of severely injuring. himeetf # | against a rock. Bo he slid the # outire @stance * He was so badly burned #/ that he hed to be treated by #) *® physician and buy a gow @) palr of trousers. * *) sia diediadindia Andina adnan tated sOMn WORK NEEDED, TOO, | A poiniater of a je whureds | ] SCPC eR Ree eee ee eee eee in Newark had left the} greeting of atran tomdlect | to by the ad the} newapane: noe to | the matter, duppo a representative abould ° BY FREO SCHAEFER. | vt PB, Age © MiegerDense fool! For why do you tock der stuble door afier || “Wauldu't It’ he swte or | Mor baer gone? |. 3 « rainiater admitted. isa Adolf-~Ach, dey might come back und steal der harness! } Sunday evening be | ——= = THE WICKLEBRIDGES “ | momber of tie | | flock. After benediction the | | minister bas and intercepted | | her at th he ald, offer fa BY FRED SCHAEFER. live in. this pariah? The girt looked } if you will give my wife and I will event your addres Hon y me wouldn't need to @o far, wir i the young womun. “I'm | your Rehoboth Sunday Herald. | We would partake of viands litle better than those we now enjoy We would only observe more modish methods of serving meats.” “Cicero, 1 beg of you to be at your best at table this evenin ‘Mrs. Wicklebridge. “I am going 46 entertain Mr. and Mrs, Nexd a Serve the supper In courses.” || yiige’ nqlaee’) shouted Witte | “Oh, rr-rot!” replied Mr. Wickle-| (714% gain headlines: ‘Cab pidge. “Why stick on such ali-|2¢t Meeting Called Off. President fired 7 The Nexd Ht) Delayed at Lunch. First Lady of orang Peete food, not | Land Tortures a Glass of MMIk and ike us. Let's feed, no a ives ot apple Pe Into'a Ten . some * Jourse Dinner," peimitive every day” natd hin) ¢ YOU, vielously exaggerate | | wife, “la your tendency, Ctcero| Cleo,” she retorted. “You ent too Wicklobridge! Do try to be refined | #*t anyhow, and you need to Intervals, at least.” aequire more decorum in your } *, |table manners in order that your Put what's the use of it?” Mr. W. wailed. “Why all this red tape when it comes to mere eats? Why @ repast in rounds, Instead of an OMAFashioned, untrilled — free-tor- ant’ | behavior at a state banquet will not | be such as to mortify me, and Aha!” he shrieked. “Say 1 more. ‘This is an extra; ‘BANISH | BD: President Leaves Home Dis. graced, Ate an Olive Without Peeling it. Referred to a Demi Tasse as Demijohn, and Got Mayonnaise Dressing on His Chin at Mra. Wicklebridge’s Dejewner The Etkte Hleetrifiod! e Which only determined Mra, to give him a course in gastronomic "This ia the use of It,” his spouse Diesed, with tense earnestness “home day, when you are elevated _ te the proud position of presi Ht racing around in that de like a squirrel ip a tin| ‘are you?” interrapted Wickle a The only pe tion ie Mra. } cl nsloner of the revo aN M er w of who resides at West , aged ¥6, fo re, y [ bt AMERICAN WOMEN WHO WORK NO. 8—THE CLOAK MODEL fing Ws Rawe, “1 gee Very Wek (el oad Saretne aun tie Seen ae nen foe he een oi signs cf grrat atacement. “wht, tween hearing grand opera artists sing and | “fuawk Fou." replied the young |he could not have, beautiful Busctee, |STAZMRCHINK business ae «pms Spal ey hearing their beautiful voices on the Victor. Prt. oe car's Sia ota a ee had Jumped out of bed, put ined at you ; But can you? our chusch home? he what oe twa jon tis clothes, wound his red sash aunty f . or |Sre always gind to welcome new [around bis waist and hurried up the ng wome im with county | for In the Opera House corridor scene in “The THE STAR—THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1909. STAR DUST MR. SKYGACK, | Correspondent and Makes Wireless | Me Visite the arth ae « Spe Observations in His Notebook. —$————-— AKARD CRIBS OF AGONY 1M WOUS: ENTERED AND SAW MALE AND FEMALE LARTN- BEINGS ANDLAVORING TO PACIEY YOUNG mmm MITER (NDULGING W PECULIAR GIBBS RISH, MALE LARTN- BLING BLCANA LNRAGED AND TRIED JO YARROR/Z4 YOUNG (N70 SUENCE BY BARKING L/Kk FRONT VARD BRUTE, ALRE, LERK, AERA! OORLEUM musty KIY/ # = OOK/E TO POPSY! Skt, POPSY /3 A DOGG) E-~WOGGgh / Z (opps Bome men are such Mare that they 3ow wow wows | “is A who bas tried it, says the} iy advantage in living Im the ub urbe ja that y are so hear tne happy these . INDENT ina, 1 « than attacked warrior,” own re hildren ole there wae vlan put negro could on.” Object- Lite Our Helptal Matte ms or hawt on the peron-aide-Harper's 1, sweetheart, of that litle bit another dog see _ — _ etn Edis _ — Ail the world’s « stage.” quoted} the Wise Guy Yow. trust magnate orpnts merty mee FATHER added Hichbe-I told Mine Antique that marriage was a lottery Hobhe—What did ab be--Wanted to wid wet & ticket ony? know where sane : ee coreg ® I rode out to West Philadel LOVE ON blipiaitivy PIS NTS a in the same car with you the 1 Bed noe We hoe ued Sones BY ABRAHAM R. GRON, The barge Auticl, as it lay in the Beine. looked like other bargre—bie. ctumay, black. Ono would not b suspected that Tove dwelt tn Ite ugly hui Hut ft is @ well known fact that the little god ts indifferent whether he lives in « cottage or in @ palace Indesd, one of hin favorite shrings river and seemed to emits and nudge and | was standing each other shyly, casting an «eye A Fld now and then at two young people Who stood in the elern of one with —————————— —the whole family— can use our Modern Credit Plan in the buying of New Clothes for Spring. It makes outfitting | j j Puncher dow't expe oe Pierre. aR within the bosom itl weet easy for hi s 4 Pp | t of New York Herald bargeman he ever had? tered anything so long as Re spaired of winning Buse wife’ Rusette was the wirlt te ietwom, crted mk I daren't take « feath with aT! these lovely | time pays for anything selected from our down- to-date, rightly priced showing of Men’s, Wom- en’s and Children’s Apparel. Eastern Outfitting Co., 1332-34 Second Av. 209 Union St. “Seattle's Reliable Credit House’’ A * No ‘Fantatus had | New York #un. | atmmtty | fell through the ating pond near us yes At lease 20 Pierre thought. He had} neon her first on the barge which | her {ather owned and which he had | worked up and down the rij ; jong ae Plorre's memory Pierre bad known her t then she had suddenty into beautiful womanhood Pierre knew he loved hep, Now, Pierre had « goodly of humility which, theotag ie @ firet virtue, Pierre had thet he surveyed Bunctte « himself and decided his ahsolutely im vain, He, eh, vd dee | \@ _—... ty Peomine An amusing little story told of Mies Lillah well-known Granvifte in betng MeCarthy, ° BOWS SINGING A rd WORKED | w When she father, wishing t a re bribed her with bargenmn, marry Susette, the ere eanetereed tuk Seegethal ot} S'S Seles te lente the oanand book tiful, and daughter of the owner 6f)8" the world except onty that world |S Tikive Lost bo raplaly did page bur fam gl which hed suddenly teen eteated for! she comm! bill hem, ffered her | learn and Juliet.” Was no Maht undertaking. Success again followed, and he repeated the with “Macbeth. auiokly 1 Ue off the lines omarked: "It t x the words to memory le, t wh the president's daughter? And so honest Pierre bad wet to A Cold, Cald Were tadere. work to crush the polson which The manager of the big surged like an angry see witht thim. |#toed #tock utili He worked the harder; he clatiered | POX the louder In his wooden shoes; he| he & . tried to whistle at his work asideed. Within Uv though the wound which the Mette | hear Mies Jones 600 had made with an arrow shot | VE, 404 thie b Tight through hie blue blouse could |b be healed by such superficial means. | ' Pierre came out from hia bunk In tern of the Autriel one fine morning When the aun war ristag) over France tp all the beauty of a each wumnier day. He hed awak ned and felt ce Nex TH. They were trying an Trishman, | charged with a potty offense, in an Oklahoma town, when judge 1 love you dear and only you weeping my leer a ay’ Vou who} haracter?” | The Victor—the Fireside Theatre You think you can tell the difference be- the sherift| mined fellow. It may. be that partment.” ae excistived, tcity, °° | Weekly the famous quartet from Rigoletto was sung “viewed with aierne Pierre's brave ide wasn cold” wold, Indeed by Caruso, Abbott, Homer and Scotti on the back to see the “aftaire” through.| ° an,» peepee agen | Victor, and the delighted audience thought aware Gs may be, the fact re- | 940,000 : must on they were listening to the singers themselves. i jerre’s eyes fell upen : {foe the barge of the father of Busette | hot 10 meters away and going In the At Rector’s, the noted Chicago Restaur- ant, when some of the grand opera stars ae Have wame directio ast Auteil And} i ; ; ; there tn stern, hansing clothes | sang, with piano accompaniment, the diners spon Hoe and fing as. she! | listened with rapt attention and craned their inp" hae nee cue or may OMembered | necks to get a glimpse of the singers. But have been accident that Susette || | it was a Victor turned at that very ent and|! * | ' ‘s . r. u ier. seneeut tion ocho tees. eel The Wife—and the Sweetheart— pln Se cotuca of Wenstaker’s tanyia yeu of Pierre. Her look of sur- |! » *hiladelphia store the great pipe organ ac- prime changed to one of plonwure. || One? | " ; ‘pha - aeiehce' lice he seach frow tte tae ee Why Not the Little ie: | companied Melba on the Victor, and the peo reyes fell to eel Save the bonbon spoons that are packed ple ‘rushed from all directions to see the | tt a mM | singer. ‘The barges were now nenrly wide we" | Even in the Victor laboratory employés »; alde n ‘ierre'® revind arome m f i i 7 - valley Shion es te | the Oc/ese | often imagine they are listening to a singer an humble bargeman rae = Car .\ | making a record while they really hear the man. © mm ‘ —* i ; tance bet the with ht ous “WNpra «| Wi Ve Y a | Victor. ‘ : eve, then ran and leaped it wi ane er. @O, a a a i\| Se it to yourself to investigate the tt later he held the “hand ae \| possibilities of this wonderful musical in- hor who still wae ton maueh svat || And take three of them to your dealer—He will give you a box of | strument. sf to raise her « from the grounds | Minette had always lyed an. the : pret fia ON nine Pure Sugar Sticks arta of deception and w rorre | } weg a a These candies please the old as well as the young } ’ gt — |! 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