The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 30, 1909, Page 6

} prone ren coer of the Valted Pe lished datly by The Star Publ Ww. \ ardly to be expected that the exposition he « cted to meet the full approval of the membe Mf) t W.¢ \ and that they should begin a systematic cam | paign ion to the fair is not astonishing, when the] ! this well meaning but uncompromising society 18 recalled I the most part, this union is made up of women) who | askance at all those levities of life which the great majorite of the people, regard as harmless Cards, theatri cals, dances and amusements of this character are frowned | upon individaally and officially They hold to a narrow code of morality, to which few of us are willing to subseribe,| They see sin and the lures of the devil where the rest of the world laughs in all innocence It is certainly indisputable that conscience 18 a matter of the individual, and that what one thinks is wrong ts wrong, as far as he or she is concerned And to this extent no complaint can be made against the W. C TY. U. Tf there be anything on the Pay Streak which a member of that or ganization believes she could not witness without injury to her conscience, most certainly she is right in remaining away But when the W. C, T. t of all our morality, the arbiter of our consciences, it ts time) sets itself up as the custodian to protest, And this protest need have no bearing whatev er} on the question of temperance The Star is well aware of the fact that there are people in Seattle who consider the Filipino village immoral, and can only say “God help them” who cannot see the bare legs of a grimy savage with decency of thought; and the same ap plies to the rest of the Pay Streak, Decency is first of all subjective, A decent man or woman is always lacking in a keen eye for indecency, and wrong thoughts are invariably | at the quick command of the prude There are men and women as good and true to their God and themselves as any who have joined the W. C. T. U.} who go up and down the Pay Streak and suffer no moral contamination and without an indecent thought entering their minds, That there are others who cannot is one of the re- grettable mysteries. After a long period of unexplain-jto bulld a few barb wire fenced In able silence Alice Roosevelt Long-| Moroceo, perhaps she could starve worth gently reminds us that she | some of them to death is just dying to take a flight tn ————_— ) an airship, It's time for Rvelyn Thaw to) get a divorce, She's had about Castro, Hamid, Mirra and Clem-| everything else. | enceau are all ready to welcome —_—— Alfonso to the “Used to Be” club. Maybe with the lumber tariff cut —— to $1.25 the poor man can make! If Spain only had General Weyler! his own breakfast table | | THE MUTT AND THE WISE GUY BY WILL F. GRIFFIN, commencing, probably, about the “1 wonder who the cook for the| latter part of October.” new Welcome arch will be,” sald) “Mebby no,” sald the Mutt. “But to change the subject, I want to tel! you of something that happened to when [ was going home in one of jthe 8. B. Packing company's sar dine boxes.” for?* | “Say, are you talking about @ “Well, I thought somebody | street car?” . Would have to run those chafing} “gure. Think I meant an alr dishes perched on top of it,” re) ship?" “Well, cut ft out. I know what happened; you reached for strap and got hold of one In the middie, and rang up a fare on the poor con, didn't you?” “You're the dandy guesser, all right. One of the conductors on our line has mortgaged his house |and Jot so he can make up fares | Pung up by just such yokels as you {jand myself” “Hut what's all this got to do with the Welcome arch?” asked the | Wie Guy, i i 2 & at “T think if more policemen ain't ft drapes so gracefully | put on the force that some nicely dressed gentiemen with rubber if people don’t} heels—I understand there are sev. our etty | eral In the efty—will haul that arch down the hill some night when no- body's looking—I mean a police- man, of course—put It aboard a ship, and sail away with it.” BIG BOY'S BRAIDS CUT. PRANKLIN, Pa, July 26.—Harry pf Sanford, a l6-year-old boy, residiag on.’ near Franklin, bad his batr cnt to- do way that Doe Matthews! 4.y for the first time in his life. was Bown on the Pay Streak once! 1. anced it cat for & number of upon 4 day, as Fra Elbertus of pro noun ‘I’ fame, would put it, and) years, but his parents, proud of its fuxurianes, refused to allow ft, didn’t over jook a “Quitcherkiddin’.” But the boy ts golng to college “Fact. And they do say he gave | next fall and he told his parents to the Turkish Village a thorough {n-;day that he wan gotng to have his spection—professionally, of course.” | hair cut whether they gave bim per “Well,” said the Wise Guy, “I can| mission or not. His locks when see myself where the Pay Streak} shorn weighed more than a pound offers almost unlimited possibilities |Up to the time he was eight years for them that like to study human- | old Harry wore his hatr Joose about ity at close range. and | suppose| his shoulders, but of late yoars that, in days to come, we shall have|he has braided it and let ft hang the pleasure of hearing some elo-| down his back under his coat. Even quent and inatructive sermons with| this was very conspievous and the hoy never liked to come to town fancy and far-reaching titles from the good doctor's pulpit, based on| because he attracted so much at- tention. the human side of the Pay Streak, MR. JELLYFISH. aft gF =3 Fit | f ais ' £ : ( 3 z i F i i i i sewing circles?” i [a a 7 4 UNALTERADLY 414A 30 AueH OM 1GED, THE STAR—FRIDAY, JULY 30% 09, russe rne-raue WILL MEN OF FUTURE [IVE 100. YEARS? YES, Is Emphatic Answer of Dr. Fisher, the Sci@ntist, Who Claims That Proper NEW HAVEN, Conn. July 0 years old. how, according to Prof. Irving Fla at Vale university Prof, Fisher is a world author Roused by the words of exPr presented here for the firat time \t le just ae eaay to live to b tion on national resources, Prof, Fisher got busy and pleted a working plan of passing the century mark Everybody ought to live to be 100 100 as not, if you know her, professor of political economy ity on health, and believes fully he will live to be 100, 110, perhaps 120. esident Roosevelt at the conven Has just com This plan ie it will be noted that Prof, Fisher's recipe on how to live to be the sclence of health. in 1698 Prof, Fisher's own he health for himeelf, he believes he world, BY IRVING FISHER, PH. D, (Editor Yale Review, Educator, | Scientist, Mathematician, Author, | and Chairman National Health) Committee.) What te the normal human lifetime ? Many cat ten been based on all sorta extending | The me reasoning, the figures from 75 to 200 years. dium age at present for death from old age is 83. We may con clude that the sermal life at pres ent is over 83. | tt would be surprising ff the} future should not witness a further lengthening of human life and a increasing rate. Of course, there ia) ®& Hmit to the increase of human! | | | tite but there is good reason to be} lieve that the Hout tw still far off Pure water, pure milk, pure alr and protection from aceldent are the) prolong life. mind to endare no longer impure light, air, milk and unreasonable danger to life and limb, life will longthen olght years and probably a good deal more. My estimate of 15 years as the possible prolongation of fife is merely a minimum estimate. “Old age” bas beon assumed as }Unpreventable. Yet Metchnikoff maintalns, with reason, that old age me last night daring the rush hour|'* * malady that can be postponed.’ 100 ja a combination of cid medioa theories and new dissover FRRMRRERPREN ERNIE EE EY HERE RORES YE * * FIGURES PROVE PROF. FISHER RIGHT — LIFE i6 * * LENGTHENING * ® Average Lifetime in Engtand and Walee— * * Yours Men, Women, * & 1808-1904 409 ‘18 ® ® 1891-1900 “a1 “8 @ * Average Lifetime in France * * Yuare Men. Women, # W UBWTARBL carcesrenes sebeaneveedeades 18.8 40.8 8 ee | eerrrerrerrrrerrrrr trriiityy “7 wi * ® Average Lifetime in Prussia * * Yours Men Women. # ® «1867-1877 46.8 319 8 ® 1891-1900 ; aiden csoeenre 411 “ee * Average Lifetime in Denmark— * * Years. Men Women, * pm Uh 1) Beerrevererrr seese 426 “lo MW WBDGD1DOD cr elesceccereerreeestese + HOD 632 * + . ein alth broke down, and he spent three years in the Rockies studying out this problem, Conquering has learned the secret for the JRE e eee e ee ee eee e 2 | To Portland, Ore, Mra. Mary lL Wood died recently at the age of 120 years. From this we may con clude that if today, notwithstanding fall exiwting chances of deaths It i) over |powatble for some persona tO MHV¥e) sistent followers of some rules of 2\ 120, the chances in the future, if | with better care and more konw!-| edge. for « larger proportion of per sons will be improved. The practice of medicine which for many years has been known as a healing art te undergoing a radi eal revolution. The change ts based on the conviction that an ounce of prevention te worth, a pound of cure. The people them selves are learning to ask their family physician to keep them well rather than to care them aftep@ho; are alok, at) We must conclude that the jength of human life ts dependent chief means Known at present to|on certain definite conditieus and) can be elther increased of dimin When the public makes up ite/fshed by charging these conditions. | in Unree or four centuries we amy gee an increase th the span of life of 100 per cent. When a person le free from all aliments he usually calls himself “well.” Enaduranc however, is moasured by we) nees with which strength through exertion. Of all polgons tp ordin al cohol and tobacco are the most commos, Poisons also may enter the ayytem through food. “Put on yok thinkin’ cap, Bpli, an’ tell me de diffrence atween 8 vohiele Heense feo an’ & chowin' gum label.” “Yo' bab me T ha: ge Rastua” “Well, it am ily dis; One & tag on wax. Kya, eyah, ey “Listen while we rendah, “A Wintah, But Ah hy Got to Est ‘Foah Den.’ ” CESS ET SI LETTERS FROM THE am & wagon tax, an’ de odder am m Gwine to Hab ‘Possum Nex’ Editor of The Star: Witt you kindly explain through your moat popular paper the chief or the general reason concerning jthe protest or such unfavorable }comments of the American people against the marriage between Jap anese and American woman? | earnestly hop you will do thin! |favor for we almost cannot under stand or conceive the fundamental reason upon why such marriage in- cites disapprovation or protest of your people, However, allow me to) | present you the following considera. | ton: Without many circuitous of words, | first must say that In doing this Inquisition (even it comes too late), 1 do not pretend that Uncle Sam's people would think that we have such & fervent desire to get married with American is, but solely | pretend that our Individual or national dignity should not be injured or despised in any way by any other people as we do not like to desplee the dignity of any other people. Now allow me to say that | perhaps the motive of such protest | ogainet such marriage It's Just wo are brownakinned, and that our costuma”, manners and the rules of our soctety are quite different from either European or American cos tum#, manners and society etc.; but as & nation, our vehcangh and power, I suppose it cannot be the reason or the motive of such un fair comments for it's quite com parable to any other nation’s great- ness and power— Generally apeaking, the American people do not protest againat the marriage of a German, French, Spantsh, English and Filipino to an American girl—1 don't see the “why” of such privilege, even though the later | mean the Fillpino {a little more dark-brownskinned than the Japanese; and the proof of such privilege is the atleonce of the, California people toward the numer- Ons marriages between IMiIpinos and American botles performed tn San Franciseo and other Californian cities, I betteve that It ie 90, per haps just because the Fillpino’s re iigion, costuma, manners and so- clety are Semi European, besides that they are undor stars and stripes, 2 Therefore, by such protest™and uch quite unfair comments againat uch matrimonial affairs, | of wb.be. lieve that our personal or natural dignity has been despised—and, therefore I earnestly hope you, sir, Editor of The Star, will publish this letter with your whatever explana tion concerning such matter, lasting to say that there is no chief rule which rules the marriage but Jove. A SEATTLE JAPANESE. OMENS INTERPRETED. To be on a train that goes through an open draw signifies that you will not travel much during the re mainder of the year, r es If you see a man who owes you money and he sees you first you will not add to your bank account, ie ee Should you dream of a number and wake up safely in bed, the number is not that of an automo. bile that struck you, ee To remove a bad spell use a plece of India rubber or an ink eraser, eer A slip in your pay envelope is a | eure sign that you are going to fall out of a good job, ee The luck in leaving for a journey Friday, if it is an un: welcome guest who is leaving. « 4 Fw Care and Safeguards Will Lengthen Average Life Many Years More. PROF, IRVING FISHER, The waste of energy and life from undue fatigue ts probably |much greater than the waste from jeertoun tt s PREVENTION ip the firet step in increasing the breadth of life. Ideal conditions for health and jlong life comprise a pure and dis leasefroe atmosphere; pure food land a pure water supply; protec |tion from nceldent, and a proper adjustment of work and }amusement. Human beings easy to Cultivate as other ant and plants. People who have lived to be 100 have usually been per reat rational byglene—personal health even though they took care of thetunelves unconsciously Recent examples of men who have longthened thelr lives may be mentioned; a young doctor who was given up to die five years axo, but who today can run 25 miles without a rest; and Dr Fletcher, who, at 46, was rejected for life Insurance, but who tater got his insurance and celebrated his fiftieth birthday by cycling 190 miles. The alr a man breathes should first of all be pure--free trom in- Jurtous microbes, dust, emoke and | The ideal conditions of health lrequire perfect balance of work, lplay and sleep. The growing i practice of sleeping out of doors }is one of the most significant signs of the mes The windows of | working and living rooms ought 0 be opened in summer and some what in winter, provided a win }dow board ts used to drive the cold alr upward from the alll. Air bathe are as important for bodily health as water bathe, Tight shoes and tight corsets ought | never to be worn, LOOKING FOR A NICE, QUIET ROOM Ratiatetattattat. knocker on the door.) (Then the door opened, and the ploture shows what appeared.) “Oh, good afternoon, Have you ® sice quiet room here to let, with (Thus the bath, Night, and steam heat?” “Well, ain't you just lucky. I've Just got one room left—the very nicest room you ever saw — clean snd comfortable an’ a beautiful light room, too. Yes'm, an’ only just vacated an hour ago. Neon with me three years ‘ad that young man, an’ no trouble at all, Called east to a better job, Sorry to leave mo, “o sald ‘e wos, an’ with near tears in ‘ls eyes, too. No'm, the ‘alla don’t look very oloan wot with them expresswen, and gettin’ ‘in trunks out, drat the man. Stop this way, mum. I've just the one room an’ I'm shore you'll like it. No'm, | 1 don't call these stairs steep, mum, They may be a little narrer, byt thin ain't no manshun, There, now, |mnm, ain't t “Too dark? eloctrie W'y, I thought you said you wos out all day. Air? W'y, there's a@ splendid breath o Sweet fresh air comes down that shaft “Smell o' cookin’? It must be them people as ‘as ‘ousokoeping rooms below. They allus do ‘ave onions a’ Tuesday “Six dollars a week too much, mum? It's Fair time, mum, and you ‘avon't seen the beautiful bath: room. Smelly and dark? W'y i cleaned out ono't a weok reg mum, by my own ‘ands, an’ ‘oo Wants ight In a bathroom. Bath don't look clean? I think you're a bit pertlokier, mun “Nothin’ laet ‘Wou, T ‘ave on more, In the front, as I dessay could get the you feller to change, an’, in fact, 'o'd prefor it. “Don't like it, elther? Well, come this way an’ I'll show you my Own room, that's bound to ploase you, mum, “Gotn'? Well, the stuck-up thi milex! 1 don't bellevye as 9 knows an wot she does want. Horace | t a beautiful room? | fy math, out of oltre & months, #100) 1 STAR DUST Jon Wine Super “Anyhow, tht Africa iviliete you think that Will exert a Yea. Ihave been looking at the map and trying to pronour " t of the towns. ore Africa needs, it's Washington Star es About the only Vacation some men have te when wife ahd daughters are off at the weashe summer yuting —Viorida T ” The ¥ * are born, mot made know 1 waen't blaming you h Transeript Without friend the world te a witderioss.—diermar yu an inatentti ¥weddy the p ahe replied, looking at “* Who knows most says least Vreneh “ee What” exciaimed Mrs. Fiatiotgt 6 tell we you pay | ouk log? UManvitte & week for Te ie for stay thelr senae by Frank Rensible men show saying much in few words Nea eer “What makes you think they » at home? They're no attentive to one an other to public.” Cleveland Leader, Re oe Het wind your sali sccording to your Italien. . . Piret Hee—What became of that old ow who wae with ue ao be: Second Magione on the stage.At Joneph News: Proms be, . 4 te of leas value than virtue “Conaratuistions, old man. 1 sup w years from now Pt! for going to the ctr roo have an © ous "De Fault of the Goverament, Mra. Offtt Look at what your tniserable eoverument has done! The water rate camed, the gas Fr p, the pi increased, and this pay he birth rate going up! an a Sollettode. "Why woulfin't Jane eat her pork chops?’ m trying to find out. er indigestion er love Plain Dealer. It's @ith Cleveland ered. iT give you #0 curtous! next week! Alroad Hustmind— Whe on your birthday Wite—Oh, don't Youll get the bill Filegende Maetter Jant Callers, “Tou don't have many visitors out here.” said Citiinan, “do yout “Oh, yea,” replied Bubtubs, % t and golng nearly every 4 jeatly women, 1 suppose.” “Yea; servant giria.” — Catholte Standard and Tinea. Mra, Goodeoul — Oh, don't thank me! It makes me only too ha: know that f ran be Of service fo an unfortunate (eliow-being Wand erty) — tr ou ean be happy three times a day the year roun Berapa ee she said as my room was the dirt feat o the lot It's well for ‘or as my William ain't alive no more. "Hd 'a told ‘or. Cat! (Weepa,) REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. When a girl is afraid to go on a dark piasea with a man It's a sign she will Statesmanship is letting some body else play the cheap politics to get the office for you. Men don't understand women be- cause they can't; women don't oderstand men because they don’t | have to. The madder a woman can be over 4 freckled nose, the prouder she can be telling how she got It out yacht | ing. | A man goes into debt because ho thinks he can soon get out; he gone lin deeper because he knows he never can get out POINTED PARAGRAPHS, De your duty—but remember that it ian’t your duty to do your frienda, How oan & young man keep a stiff upper lip when there ts nothing but down on {t? A man wonders whether or not he ought to marry until he does— then he wonders why he did. The man who dooan't owe a dol Jar can look any other man tn the eye and tell him to go to—work, A man seldom realizes the true value of money until be has to hand bis hard-earned salary over to his wife.—Chicago News, THAT BALD SPOT Will grow bigger and bigger un- leas you use a remedy that wil! take away the cause of hair fall- ing out, SEVEN SUTHERLAND SI8- TERS HAIR GROWER AND SCALP CLEANER | the cause of dandruff, and étops the hair falling. 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