The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 13, 1909, Page 4

j ; Membe® of the 1 Mehe@ dnity tag Co ted Proms by England’s Problem Is Ours tian will be If the inant pa has its way, an ele in England, within t rex nths, in which every Aft ican will be or s! ld be s¢ y interested rhe issue w be as to abolition of the house of lords In our own country we have not yet got to seriously con sidering abolition of the United States senate, our house of lords, but we have gat well along toward abolishing the idea upon. which that body was founded—the idea that the people are not fit to choose directly their own lawmakers and make CHILD GIRLS MARRIED TO MEN OF ANY AGE BEFORE THEY ARE HARDLY BEYOND BABY HOOD—MOST CRUSHED AND HELPLESS WOMEN IN THE WORLD, their own laws. | Beyond a considerable proportion of th wh Vhere | s woma i crush | 1 1oroug Ma lowest? framed our const n did believe in a th ugh-goin ipotageaien “he 1 sugges predit olitical | zn democracy. They ot uggest hereditary f And 26,000 American women, rep lid the next best, or worst, thing in creating | -osonting all sections of the United power, and so they di tnglish house of lords in a senate not se~| sts an imitation of the os, are fighting for the women | lected directly by the powers and privileges of India. people and given special and pect Thev now the | t crushed | got up a compromise between Here are most crushed | : i Na and most helpless women in all] democracy and political aristocracy, and as sop to the states,| | Joa» stew Caroline P. Wal | each of which had been running its own sort of ¢ NMECNE, | jace from Caleutta, reports India, | It ia to Mies J. M. Holmes and Mra. both of La India ation in the senate equal to that Rhode Island, such back n Verm ; ers eight year rt Mormons, combined, they gave every state represen Angelos, | travel Pigmy Hampshire with th of every other state who vinite as states as Maine, New and nt, Delawar that these and Utah and Idah« fi their 0 American women owe are as powerful in the senate, as to votes, as the seven grea gratitude for an opportunity to and most progressive states of the union, fight for the most helpless wom Did you ever to think why you should have two leg-|anhood In the world. When Miss : ‘ ea | Holmes and Mra. Wallace saw the islative bodies, cither in nation or state? Why pay two CrewWS|rerripie condition in India they of men for doing the one job? If this is a nation, a mn, alimmediately organized the Indo z 4 hve | American Woman's Restoration government by the pec , why have a senate which you don't) jaague choose to interfere with lawmakers whom you do select The! The child wife system of India} lecancer ({* terrible. India is a nation born answer is found in the demands of the aristocracy of Alexander | or habien: child wifehood, child Hamilton’s time, and the action and character of present day| motherhood, child widowhood. ah P a lh ae 1 pro-| Which means that the girl whose senates prove that those demands still have weight and pro-|jushand dies must never part ductiveness. again and mu in seclusion things that We seem to be on the eve of altering the constitution and | , ’ electing our “house of lords” by direct vote. If we do this we oo er emphasize the question, Why senate at all? The English people have got close up to this issue. have got a senate of men elected by birth, noblemen by reason of the midwife’s skill, aristocrats by reason of being in position to put the tax burdens on the common people. They propose to wipe out the government machine which grinds out injus- tice and poverty for the masses. We've got some machines of that sort of our own make, and it will pay us to observe what today on the © of t Statistics taken in recent year They |in india show that at that ti 258,780 baby girls under 4 years of age were betrothed There were 2,201,404 wives whose ages There ranged from 6 to 9 were 8,106,759 wiv ranged from 10 to all 10,307,163 wives under 14 years of a Hundreds of years. ‘our brothers across the water do. India tell . physical wrecks which See wives become. They say that India Anyhow, Mr. Riplinger is conf born of baby girts. they are also born in France every | (ee Carrie A. Tennant wife beside him is only 7. From a photograph taken July at that he can deny informations | minute | An Indian husband has fast as the city can file them. osctrisicoinatenes lpower over his child ‘ r “The Streets of Cairo” in somejcan cruelly punish into nd that’ a sband and ‘his As a sport for white men, jiu instances are certainly no place for| ™/##lon to e : * A me ci or had pp hin child wife paces be eat, [Of the restoration league in n a creek man ex ed Jitsu fs in the same class as typhoid an evening's Nght entertainment. ad 8 hat be was trying to drffb The fever. ng smothere Just now Spokane is a much bet ter town to come from than to go indicating that to. Mme. Steinheil is receiving many effers of marriage, MR. JELLYFISH. THIS 13 SIMPLY: WNBEARABLE! sh4 | NOW A POOR STEPCHILT MATE | GO YO WE DENTIST | EFERYPOTY VISH DEY VASS AND HAVE IT IN HER SHOES, VEN DEY OUT # | COULT NOD EFEN VEAR HER| STOCKINGS j By Fred Schaefer. | Vonce dere wass a prout laty who | Ihat two daughters mit big feot. She alzo at a stepdaughter mit almost ad | Cytinderelia becoss she « nehine room Diss laty a «© hat a hw his name wase Mud Aa soon as der king’s son he of diss he gafe a ball. H Mr. Mud voult nod be p: oen Mra. 5 sbant knew dot race be Mud's daughters voult be wearing hiss conkress gaiters by | der festifities. two ¢ d dey tot dey looked ferry pretty. But den know der olt saying dot beauty ins on! skin dississ. Before going dey |locked Cylinderelia in der coal bin } 80 dot no fairy gottmutter coult j}change her into a chorus girl und vin der prince But to der fairy diss mate no dif you a TOMMY HAD BEEN THERE The minister was a caller. “My little man,” he said to the youngest of the household i “do you know where people go who go to church? | “Sure!” said Tommy, “They go to sleep.” cavihe’ ume tooesmer Oyinederci oa = *| mit a maggic bar of soap und mate said her look like she hat a bath. Den | “I she gafe her a diamont oferskirt und a pearl shirtvaist und some false puffs for her hair, und lended her a pair of glass slippers so der prince coult see she had no corns der GARVIN’S CORNER BY THE REVEREND JOSEPH L. GARVIN PASTOR OF FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH der fairy sent Cylinderella to der ball midould a tnfidation fair As Cylinderella skatet into der ballroom a look passed ofer her “JUST Tam no Dramatic Oritte, like @ mous power and sweeping inf ‘ ar This Particular Play | 1 trea tional value. one who # Kood © People Are Honest and Kawer *, helps man to pane t hink, w t ortals from #ul. I nd the gon, good What These Ministers f fi a Selfint ing. Hi r ir influence et t be the Past Week I have been | w 1 » at tenet F about what is Some Look You Arabetla Smith! Thentre Owne ublic. will be gra Upon the Thentre a and the devil epmutter’s face. diss der prince cigaret he wass smoking Ven id wase dime for der ball to} giaas salt ce co home Cylindereun was eading power horseleas. KIDS.” out of bis baby wife because You here!” she No, Cylinderelia, responde am ofer in China pressing fad * pants mit a waffle iron nearly Ad choked on a or bunions lunch, Hearing der clock strike Dey wass ferry small glass slip-| eighteen, she knew fd wass past pers—nod so small as von of my|mitnight. Seizing a club santwich lippers, but smaller, Den rabidly fled In der texiceb, but de turning @ raw onion Into textoeb,| prince followed tn hiss forty Norse To delude him, der maiten tossed von of her glans into der streed, und der e's tires was punctuatet by der! | | Ef youse don't stop dat cryin’ I won't read 5. 1909, in C This man is named Dhobi He is 35. Hp sald she wae his wife, and a sure sign was a red paint mark of her forehead and up to the part of her hair. alcutta, India, by The child she had repeatedly tried to run home to her mother, who Ived 60 feet distant on other side of the creek A report which the American women have made pte So der prince her back to @ Dere der prince whoefer war on ings dot OSGAR RELATES VON ABOUID CYLINDERELLA coult remain bresent for Cylinderella by diss dime d back into @ onion ametiancely brought | ball room. mate announc coult der und buy a left foot vedding Of course "WIVES AT 7, MOTHERS AT 12; THRALDOM OF MILLIONS OF GIRLS IN INDIA AROUSES AMERICAN WOMEN vear a cut} der prout laty’s daughters coult nod | efen get deir le to t den di to tend der furna r hants Now ¢ Der be map coult und r prow ft foot into a coal st dey coult do was neh bowl, und efen |B hot valk except on t laty’s husbant hass STAR DUST Your remark n't read as well as those of your politioal rival.” No,” answered Senator Sorghum, he has more luck than I have in wetting rt fellows to interview him ington Star Is Detroit Free Pre In ease, called Brown's ure! Tat ae that hi Missour charge was that the his wife place in history nowld think tt 4 ly made affidavits to loesn't deserve it { deaf-mute divorce husband names with his fin | | | + aBe. Wash, poatetfice, matter: | atirred part | | “The faces of Indian women are | |the saddest sight the traveler sees on bis roun®-the- world is a land of stately ruins, and | architecture that is the marvel of jmen, but in the very shadow of its | dreamlike, beautiful Taj Mahal | |there are practices of lcentious | ness, suffering and degradation in-|| | conceivable to the Buropean mind | unleas actually witnessed, and im || | OR | About Buying a Watch all India They say, in tour oe E are betrothed when they are born, and baby girls from 6 to 12 are married to men of any ent tw i age, One case is on record of a Jon't buy a watch from a eat child of 14 being the mother of . " » hree children. We hear much in ra of a mail order house—you will 3 America of these child marriages be disappointed if you ¢ v ’ f it in commonly believed that ¢ eo , you do. Go toa hey do not actually take effect jeweler; for his own reputation, if nti! the child wife reache i tunity, which ie india te the nothing else, he will see that the watch — age ot years, but you buy has been put in npressions are not bn id the facts, according to the order, properly oiled, regula and j mony given out by native writers|| | Faint seb 2 Gulated, s | and travelers of undisputed vo-|| | running right. Everyone knows that ce: JN Ee Oar Waltham Watches are as ‘accurate years one is thought to be old and |} timekeepers as it is possible to immarriageable, and is thereby disgraced and @isgraces her fam | and yet there are a hundred accidents fly. John Murdock, L. L. D, say 1] that may happen to a fed Hindoc over India are «aid|| | a pe watch to be agreed on two points: the j 3 leew wancity of cows und the depravity || | ~. it — ad factory. A good of women.’ } watchmaker knows how remedy | “There is no merey or tender " to such ness shown to these poor child things, and you may be sure he will do wives by the brutal husband, +e he ial on who in too often « man of middie it before he takes your money, age, and death is not the nfre quent consequence of her suffer mes. When the heipleann vietin Waltham Watch runs crying piteously to the par ent th hildren intuitively seek Waltham, Mass, n extre y, the inexorable laws f caste and the superstitions of — Whe: vii 4 er Feligion compel the mother 10 B.— When buying a watch one her ears and steel her heart always ask your jeweler fora Waltham gninest the little one's appeal ‘ ors +48 Hod G tortie ak tae Gai ee adjusted to temperature and position. tand, and she * returned to her nd who knows no im —_ but ‘ mptings of bis te ke ts | Se the restoration i" we ii on founded in . Germany, Italy, England | TODAY'S STYLES TODAY ral cities in the United a headquarters are at} } BOC t. Loe Angel Cal} Striking Values in | Any American woman who really | peal wants to help “downtrodden wom = an” can well afford to give her aid| to this league. This league bas nothing to do with religion and is from churches as is the| vement ni . language shocked her| Made of fashionable fabrics, broad dass ac t cloths, serges, homespuns, manish gant ” ixtures, diagonal serges and Scotch Eye y. He spends his tweeds. Coats are full satin inet} ms er-Sourual. " to 54 inches long and semi or tight! “i . } ting. The skirts are neatly . a TE, | ited, the garments and toniahed at « Roosevelt's « 8 they ker They've iored throughout. nly ween him ir { repose Specia The postal deficit te now $1 a. * ’ 00. Must have been an of congreasiona home under franks ¢ uring Man te really begtnn the alr, Henry Par en, which beats the hun i assist its convenience ar c ord, perhaps pt ‘or by hundre of smartd by the claim that the presence of a soothe demented porsons If prese @ cat on thy nee disturbs in your Eastern Outfitting 1332-34 Second Avenue — hae “Seattle's Reliable Credit House” erything spper story Looking on the Bright Side since—No, Mr, Camerer, 1, Hag that photograph ny rt It makes her look too old sei yh, well, think IL IGS u won't have rs ¢ of her taken * and years © Law! Is your brother still law? No Comic | pursuing the the law i# pursuing him.” Cute. Furnished Free. } SEATTLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA” In Concert at MOORE THEATRE EVENING, NOVEMBER 19, PRESENTS MR. GEORGE HAMLIN Amercia’s Leading Tenor FRIDAY Mr. Hamlin has made the following records for the VIC TOR which can be found in our complete stock: No, 64089-——"The Dear Little Shamrock” (Eng No. 74113—""The Lord Is My Light" @ ty lish)—-Cherry } Allitson. No, 74134—Bohemtan Girl, “Then You'll Re | ry — member Me” (English)—Balfe. } All Halls, Tho No, 74111—Die Walkure Siegmund's Liebes. } beste Hed” (Siegmund’s Love Song), in German rau” (Dream of Wagner srt No, 74133—"Sorrows of Death” (from Hymn of men Praise)—Mendelssohn, } You are tn- bear all of any the rds im the Mint, ont eet, Seattle