The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 17, 1909, Page 6

Member of the Uptted Peeet, Pub- Mebed detiy by The Star Publish tog Oo, 2 AS TO DECADENCE here are any duels growing out of the tssie made 1 ur anfor rsity, by L'Ambassa ‘ ran th lecadence of France| | in, it would be well to have an official defini decaden France is one of the rich nations. It is well up to the front as to at and navy. It is one of the very greatest in respect of ind the arts, It first produced airships and schinarint In Pasteur it has given to humanity the greatest benefactor e Christ, The average of happiness in France is very hi Phere is no que n as to the country’s pro @ressiveness in tf t material respects, Still, it is an irretu table fact that she is falling backward in an alarming manner ric h emigration, but unnaturally, In this pa lent lan may be right in calling France de- cadent But does tl mean a decadence that is worth fighting about? | a | » be judged and rated on the average € napp ' than on size of Pp ptiath m of percenta of i We on China as a living example of a dead nation Yet sh r decades before Christendom heard of it. She invent paper and ink in the first century of the ut political econ She has forgotten rea Christian era s and arts than we've ever learned, We are ead omy and most of the science and yet her population has grown by tens of million k upon her as not only dec adent, but stone ¢ pleased to lo xore flourishing people Is there a happier, livelier, better, 1 on earth than that within the confines of the tiny, slow-grow ing republic of Switzerland? Take ulation annually is more popular howling about decadence and general “going Why, about half the time we're talking war in millions of increase in pop wir own country, with i Is there a country on the globe wherein there to the dogs”? order to keep off mere numerical increases Isn't the average of happiness of a nation’s people the sole basis upon which to judge of its condition? If so, President Jordan is in the wrong. ee Bryan roasts the senate and “Bil!” | Mr. Haywood gets pinched for having | abroad Rc Pay Streak makes a/twostepping (only a little) and | « ee re've been aching all day | waltsing (a whole lot) at Luna park the makings, and #0 do operand | Coming on top of the Clark ap-| fT & chance for one good, hearty |and from riding on the camels on keep in the public eye between . . }iaugh, We don't have to wait Jong | the Streets of Cairo. aiaations. |polntment, City Kagineer Thomson's] on the “Joy Path.” | elevation to the reclamation service Now, of course if it was Mr.| would about kill a certain militant Gould who did all these bibulous | edttor. things nobody would care to read @bout them. Washington is not alone in misery. litinots is also to have a Anyway, {t wasn't necessary for | 5pecial seasion of the legisiature. Beattle to break a leg yesterday to win. The Income tax ts giving the poor man’s breakfast table a hard run Peace seems to be repugnant to|for popularity In the senate. PICK OUT BRIGHTEST TAR AND W a YOUR FRIEND WELL There's an old custom in France. In the season of the falling stars, you choose some friend and— while you sit watching the heavens—when a star falls you call it after your friend—and you think of him and wish him well. The season of the starry nights is here. The most glorious nights in the world come to us right here in Beattle. Let's not wait for the stars to fall--let's wateh them sparkling up there in the splendid skies--and think of some friend and wish him well, Tonight, let's choose the brightest star up there in the firma- ment and call it after “My friend.” My friend—the man who likes mo, I can't imagine why. My friend, the woman who loves me, and I don't see how she can do it when she knows so much sbout me. My frignd, the man who has sean me make a fool of myself a dozen timed and has jaughed not at me, but with me at my own foll y. My friend—who understands me, and loves me in spite of his understanding. Whoverer he fe, old or young—of two of the beat friends I have in the world, one is a man of §7, and one is a littie girl of 6; rich or poor—for one of the friends I love wears a Salvation Army bonnet and hasn't a penny in the world,and one is a good many times a millionaire; ignorant or lettered—for one of the dearest friends I bave is as black as the ace of spades and can’t write her own name, and she would craw! across the continent on her bands and knees to do a loving kindness to me or mine. My friend, wherever you are, whoever you are, whether any- body else loves you or not, and whether you are worth even my poor affection or not—here's to you—tonight, I shall look at the starry skies, pick oot one bright particular star, name it for you and with you well—my friend. Oe AND THEY SAY THE ENGLISH HAVE NO HUMOR! Carrigan, oither at home or/ bodies heavy as lead GLIDE TO FORGET THE PSYCHOLOGY OF FUN ON THE PAY STREAK. Ordinarily Sane Folks Do Crazy Things and |. Enjoy Them. } * TUNNELS The ‘OLO MILL” AND DAR HE LAUGHS GUT What ts it in our minds that} Pay Streak faco in a makes the Pay Streak such big Milarious face, Its the result sesenas® of thrills, slides = down the mi Ticklef, flying trips on the! We're penned up all day in dinky, | geenic Ratlway and floats “Down | close shops or offices trying to drag | the Yukon" through & © Alaska, lazy bodies around and feeling that} whose cavernous recesses make & our han feet clumay, |girl feel the need of a protecting Minds quick as lightning move in/arm about her waist. It comes | from whirts on the whirly things, Ask the man who Is laughing so age—maybe a suffraget—bumping |28t4 bis collar and his shirt have! the bumps on the “Tiekler™ with | Pafted company, what makes him her spectacles Oying off and her #0 happy, and he can't tell you. Net | front hafr twisted. That #tarte el Seeaeer rs, pera thet eer first laugh. We see how comical |?” * - the looks and then we buy « yard | het head bobs up and down with of Uckets, 10 cents a bump, hilarity The man who built the Tickler| When we were kids we used to probably didn't know what paychol-| get spanked for sliding down the Oy meant, but he's working it on! ceilar door That's what made slid us. Look at that woman past middie ] THE WOOD WINDS BY WILL F, GRIFFIN. THE STAR—THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1909. lyou can have it es 6 YOU'RE YOU, all about the cellar door, but when we see the Mountain Slide we want fo shoot ‘em, Tut ite the paychol ony of the old cellar door at work, not the chutes. Byen the bappy summer gardener sometimes wants to get away from the bands and the cries of the ven ders, No “Midway” ts complete without ite Human Laundry, or its Foolish House. It's the quiet and the darkness that count 7 Pay Streak man knows he furnish you a sun to shin ali night, but he has a lot of sub: | stitutes, Everything ts as bright as it can be. Paychology again. All the batidings and even the peanat stands are painted in some dazeling color.’ When we see that white paint we begin to fee: better. Then there's the music, Nobody ever beard a dirge played on the Pay Streak, even after the battle of the Monitor and Merrimac, and nobody ever will. Anything that has ed. I'm going to wend it to the ners, and when it comes back 1 waa going to get 4 new one, anyway.” The wood winds sing and the tree tops « And the rustiing leaves breathe a lullaby And the songs they sing are sweet to mo, For ever they breathe of mystery, The mystery of unknown years, And yeare agone with doubts and fears. Ever | bear in my waadering The stories told when the wood winds sing There, where the wood winds sing and sigh, And swaying pines loan to the sky; There, where the blue glints thro’ the leaves, And moss to the old dead tree trank cleavea, In Mother Barth and the cooling sod. Where the soul finds peace—for it's And sweet fs the restfulness they bring. The crooning songs that the wood winds sing. near to God! Latty's house on the way from school she told him to come in. “Brother Jack is home tor dinner,” } | ahe said, “and we'll settle it right I} | now." }| Too amazed by her boldness to re- | monstrate, Robby followed her into the Mbrary, where Brother Jack was {smoking bis after dinner cigar. Then, without a word of excuse or Intro« duetion, Letty told him the whole story. Brother Jack Matened attentively, even letting his cigar get cold. “Wait until I'm through,” begited his sister. “Bobby's dreadfully sor- BY ALLEN P. AMES. “T'm sorry,” satd Bobby, “but I'm not e-” po ey Not going to the grand- ont party of the year,” eaapal Letty “Why, Bob Armetrong, what has come over yout” "T'm not going to be laughed at by @ lot of follows smaller than I lam beeause L wear a wack sul swered Bobby. "Why, Letty, 1 guess I'm the only chap over 16 in this whole town that has to go to @ dancing party tn the same old clothes I wear to church Bundays.” Hut Miss Letty Burgess wanted Hobby Armatrong to attend her be- cause he was the nicest boy she knew. So, after pleading for tho rest of the way home without shak ing hie purp she suddenly pro posed a plan. On the long expected evening a short time after, Bobby called for Mise Burgess. Letty mot him at the door. “The room at the head of the jatatra,” she whispered. “I've laid jthem out on the ted and Brother Jack ie out for the evening.” Half an hour later Bobhy dencended the statre a changed = man Brother Jack’ ening clother—no short din- MAN IN FROBK COAT HAD 10 GHASE. BES HARRISBURG, Pa, June 17.— | Pennsyvania’s capitol, once the cen jter of graft charges, now has be come a roosting place for bees. Three swarms of ‘om have come there in the past week. One came a0 close to Gov, Btu art's office that he feared being stung. So he sent for State Zoolo- gist HA Surface, But how ean I stop them?” pro toasted the official ite zoologist f thundered the governor, “What are you here for,” So Dr. Burface, clad in a frock coat, was forced to chase bees around the capitol park the rest of | the day. Now he says he will sell! the insects and make now graft) out of the capitol. CHAPERONS FOR ALL CANOEING PARTIES NEWTON, Mass.—The new rule requiring chaperens for couples who would spoon on the Charles riv- or after dark is now In foree, The young people are indignant—iike wise defiant The five or six middle-aged wom #u who made a tour of the boating resorts last evening looking for em ployment as chaperons got the “cold shoulder.” So far as could be learn. ed, there were only two chaperoned couples on the river after 7, and they were from “over on the Wolles ley side.” The police made no arrests, but} took names and addresses, mostly fietitious Miss Susan Wentworth, 45, chap eron, said “You, the Wellesley girls gave me YOU JUMP, BUMP, DANCE, PRANCE, SLIDE, , ae necond-clane matter THAT'S WHY SUMPING THE GUMPS AGAIN WILLIE S jquickly enough to get our clumsy | feet going will suit us. Long before we've seen half the sights our fect are as light as feath ers. We may have done the full Marthon dixtanoe of over 26 miles, but—surprising (hing— we're feeling better than when we started. People don't like to go to a place for a laugh unless there are other clean, happy people there That's why they go to the Pay! no improper | Streak, There words and no Intoxication Why, an intoxicated man couldn't have a good time at @ summer amusement park Which shows that it takes brains to help enjoy hts there are "WALTZ TAL RROUMO | our minds have been work: |i} ing as well as our bodies, but we jdidn't know it! Never mind the reason; It may be an unsolved mystery of psychol- |i The only think we're sure of |} ie that we're going again tomorrow ling so delightful. We've forgotten |a litte ragtime in it and that moves inight and do it all over again. ory —Y STAR DUST Josh Wine Says The best thing out—an ach’ tooth = a The spiritualist even meat medium. It ye to a me kes be to borrow trouble or we 1 An automobile courtship @epends & good bit on the sparker. who praises generally has a pretty bam vole ‘The fellow who says what he pleases doesn't always say what pleases other people. Pickles early stra much the much cheaper than ries and taste pretty Oecasionally who tf #0 lary pay rent than you will find a man that he would rather move When @ fellow says he doesn't care what happens to him he probe ably means It-—till he meets some other girl. When a man isn’t quite sure whother he ie in love with a girl or not let him marry her and he will goon find out Althoug drink to he should water wagon. 1 should think it would be a Great relief at night to get home and away from thie censelens asking questions,” remarked the stran- The bureau of information man amiled @ wan smile, “It lan't much re he replied “r father of eight childrens me the mitkman shouldn't xorms, at the same time old being seen on the Pot luck t# too often potted juek. uldn’t, fool uppish Just is Pp. te meet a bi et the bill eolloctor. Love Is what prompts a woman A Special in Dinner An $8.50 Value for $6.25 Pe eneoting T Six persons, | a dainty blue atid wi nin Sweden earthenware | 4 | On Sale Tomort A Special in Children’s Hosiery | , in A medium wei tic leg black or tan 15¢ a Pair; 6 P: ith long, clay. for vacation: and girl , T5¢ plen | A Special in Stationery Vacat bie a | A good quality ry, in linen of i | | satin finish; regularly 2 , for cre 7) A Special in Napkins {fe Fine, All-Linen Seotch D ma 194 & size; an extra value at, $1.50 a done ‘vn i A Special in Trunks Regular $7.00 and $7 lwood Trunks, 1 rass trimmed; | heavily ‘slatted, fiber bou | eat 30, 32 and 34-inch A Special in Men’s Collars Four-I in the season's | wanted shapes; a complete line of sizes, is a most unusual value at veeeeee LOG Cj 55¢ a Half Dozen o . . A Special in Waists At $1.25 each—Crossbarred and Striped rds, in strictly tailored styles; lingerie effect in sheer lawns, daintily trimmed, Well-fitting! styles, Sacono Ave © SemnoSt @ _ Be Proud of Your City YOU WELL MAY- what Seattle has inthe matter of mam izes. te Guaranteed Ay Coll Pe OCI (EU worms Represent the highest stan Quality in Candy— The East Sweet superior to these— Bay a Box for Your ¢ Let thom see by test that we ore justified im making tha: Get a Set of the Societe Chocolats Gtris We are giving them awey—in an artistic folder—at oar esti THE KING COUNTY BUILDING Acquaint yourself ana guests with a Seattle Preducl. IMPERIAL CANDY CO., Seattle, U. 8 A POYNOR'S—THE HOUSE THAT SAVES YOU 30 PER CENT. This Week's Special Of Owing to the fact that ¥e an overstock of about « haltat load of high grade Chiffonie and Dressef And not having sufticleat in the store for the ‘ offering every Dresser in stock For One We ( jner eoat, but a real swallow tall and my sister Ida, a year older than | to 6 erable fitted him ax Mf made for the 1 BOBBY ROBE FROM HIS CHAIR! 8m. 50 nts ‘an hour for our than be happy With mectnere ater pone. T IN PILL A TRAY | Services. And they gave us a good, nN i f It was in every renpect the wrand- PULL OF ICE CREAM UPON HIM. | Hberal tip, bealdos.” Lithed, “Mother et” ane Saat ni 25 Per Cent . eat affair of the year, given by thal ggLe, Miss Wentworth closed an eye im-| There's ly on Father's Hoa . ; combined sororities of the town high pressively, as if to show what the - R ber that this school, For the first half hour hia ———_——_————— | tip was for maz Gf the Inga who make the ma dition to our unaceustomed glory sat upon Robby|ry. He can't afford to buy you a —— in the blank cartriige class’ ee prices, All goods a bit stiffly, but the daneing and the|new one; but he has something to| HER MIND WASN'T VACANT. ~ While this offer is fF knowledge that he had brought the] offer in return.” - HHRHAHEERK RAKES selling place includes prettient girl in the room soon made “Oh, he has,” mid fack, witening A Sunday-sechoo! teacher, who had! * DONT'S FOR GIRLS * 2 hint his ofd, Jolly self. At supper oe- | his eyes, “What? & promineat chin, long and peculiar. | * BY MARK TWAIN * BOTH CASH AND curred the catastrophe. Bobby rose “He'll go home and tell ble sister}ly projecting, was trying to interest|* Before the graduating class *| from hie chair Just in time to upset | about it, 4 then toll her how beau-] a class of girla one Sabbath in the|* Of St. Timothy's school for #/ Ja tray full of Ice cream upon himeelt,|tifully you behaved, and how hejlosson. All were mischievous and|* girls in Baltimore, Mark Twain * 7 At first ho did not realize the ex-|thinks you're a trump, He @ , Oxcept Mary, who sat at|* delivered an address in which ®| S H POYNOR— u tent of the disaster. The laughing|anyway, you know, And, boaides, pnd of the class and apparently |# he declared that Edward F. | be ° group serubbed him off with the| he'll promise to atay put of the par-|gave the utmost attention to every|* Martin, New ‘York, who pre. #| 708-10 Pike St—Waldorf Bldg. meapkins, and he finished eating, try-|ior wien you call at his house,” word, The teacher was doligited.|* eeded him, having told the * on Ing to appear as if nothing had hap Brother Jack turned to Bobby with| At the close of the recitation, think-| * girls what they should do, he.) —- ad ‘6 pened, But when he approached |a twinkle in his eye, yet with an évi-|ing that she would rebuke the|* would proceed to tell them & ey we ore AT nearer the Heht he saw that the coat{dent amount of embarrassment naughty girls for thelr want of at-|* what they should not do, His ® If 1 make « 102134 was practically ruined. “And you won't tell Mies Aida/tention and lack of interest by stat-}%* admonitions te the young * OB your Gental w Cor, Lotty's assurance during the walkjanything about our bargain, of|ing that sho would now ask Mary|* women were as follows: i yey me ve-6 ppites N ‘| home that it was all her fault, and@oourse,” said Jack, to name some of the points brought) * “Don't smoke—that it, don't and. damak combine COLLARS K ’ she would take all the blame, was] “You bet I won't,” declared tho/out in the lesson, she was shocked by|* smoke to excess: 1 am 7314 % Yooee: tye doliars a small comfort, But Latty, being a|boy, “She'd be as mad as I thought|Mary suddenly and unexpectedly an-| * years old, and I have smokedee i smadaios mous \ (FS & girl, know one or two things of|you'd be; for J remember she once|#wering: “Oh, Mise Lizaie, | really | # 73-yoars of that time * ; Fas) which Bobby was tgnorant, “It’| sald you looked better in that dress | did not hear a single word you said.|* “Don't drink—that is, don't #| a’ Spee “eren pe come out all right,” wae her final| suit than anybody she knew.” 1 was wondering how. you could) ® drink to @xcess, i} AY ¢ The Conversationalist (to well known authoresa): J am #0 46-|word. “Only you muat do asl aay.”| “Did she, Bobby? Did she really| talk so much without moving your}# “Don't marry—that a, don't #| wo ine people Paloroes Mghted to meet youeit was only the other day—t saw something of| Robby spent the next day in dark | say that?” cried Brother Jack. “Say,|lower jaw."—The Delineator for|* marry to excess.” * ty free Edwin J oursPabout something or oiher—in gome paper!—London Sketch, |forebodings. When they reachad|old man, 1 don't belleve that goat's| duly FORO IOI tetok Firet"avenus 16 years 1 racths .