Member of United Press. Published Daily by The Star Publishing Co. ono ‘ ° In the Silent Acre “He left an estate estimated at a million The phraso nas a familiar ring. It {s often uttered th everyday gpeech, often published in the news columns, but there is one place -~ in which man has thug far never dared to nerave it If success ts to be meaxured by dollars, ft the chase for money ts the true alm of humanity, and its highest destiny, then of all places it should be graven deep on that mo shaft has never yet been placed—the No marble shaft where it tombstone raised In reverence love, pride or sorrow, has yet borne a dol lar mark Every other standard of worth—save that of wealth—finds {ts place there, Upon he white stones, defying Time, is written svery other tribute to the lives of men their kindness, thelr fidelity to duty, thelr ove of family, their probity and their Integ ity, And yet, dashing along this broad sad of life which must lead to the cow ,on goal, humanity seems to be possessed che one object that In the end has no value. and sees of the desire a. Out in the Silent Acre the vision is perhaps trata nter farther into things that are REAL than in the down town owd. So it {a tRat this judgment of the tombstone upon the true values In life is the reflection of al! human hopes. For the tombstone fs signal station to Ete And it is to the glory of mankind, in a day to be the chief aim of existence, that, deep in our rality when dollars hearts, we k p the » of judgment so well balanced that no man ever yet wrote as his epitaph ee He left an estate estimated at a million And as long as men yearn for love, for friendship, for the syn pathy and regard of the living, no man ever will Nix on a Bigger House patriots are talking about “an Meaning, of course, that with people the United States should have more congressmen than now make—or fail to make-—its laws. They point to the fact that each decade since Feapportionment of the lower house Until 1820, 65 men sufficed to en njunction with the senate, of cour ay i the membership was raised to 200, and the taking of every census has witnessed a further enlargement of the roll. Now there are 391 representatives, Including the vacancies Cleveland, O., is loudly calling for representatly withstanding the fact the two specimens it has do not the majority of the people of the eity Detroit wants another—to represent its present member does. And so it goes throughout most of the country enlarged Already enthusiastic a house of representatives.” 1820 has seen a t our national legislation, in another the interests” presumably The present apportionment allows one congressman to each state for every 194,700 persons in that state At the same ratio and taking into consideration the big in erease in population, the next apportionment would give us a house of over 460 members We will have to cut down on hot now? Better pay one congressman of ability, of honesty, one who will really represent his constituents and the country at large at the game time, a salary of $15,000 a year, than pay two of our average representatives $7,500. Better one man for 200,000 or 200,000 voters to watch and spear when It becomes necessary, than two dividing responsibility rh smaller house of representatives will make the job of watch fing them easier; it will make unwieldy majoritics impossible; it will attract brainier men; it will do away with much of the excess atory; and with many of the evils that beset our legislative aye tem, caused in whole or in part by the inflated membership. ‘The short ballot system has done away with excess city tive officials and has centered the responsibility In a few, who may be kept under the searchlight of publicity at all times It has proved to be a great advance in city government tn many American cities. Why? Because it does away with the spreading of responsib and therefore over none really Let's not talk about a “bigger house” but a BETTER one Let's not ask for another representative .or this state, but let us ask for BETT We need them. the increase some time, Why y over all, OBSERVATIONS BIG INTERESTS shrieked when Tawney fell! ail age MAYBE MAX WARDALL thinks Johnny Clancy Roycroft book. is making a © o Oo seen in Munich cute DR. COOK has been Still wears those little side whiskers. ee 6 MR. ABE GRUBER has some interesting fons concerning Col. Roosevelt oo o A PINK CUFF legal apprenticeship holding the office of mayor in Sea ea WHITE GIRLS who want to marry to open their eyes and look around weir. DENVER highwayman took all the clothes off three men vic- Must be some Colorado politician a ee PULLING HILLSIDE chestnuts out of Red Light fires fs not a “pice occupation for any Y. M. C. A. member °o 0 Oo THE SPECTACLE of Jim Conway investigating vice enough to make the Welfare League laugh ° 0 Oo but ineffective opin seems to be requisite to Japanese should be made tims. graft ts A NONPARTISAN supreme court, owing lstence to the people, will be a refreshing novelty in Washin| ae oa SAN FRANCISCO can't be outdone. Doctor fr Girl's body found buried in basement. Police have blood stained trunk vee HUH! Capt. Bob Peck got fired out of the for saying thinks about the cook. Don't they brave n the army? ec ae What! “O—!" said Uncle Joe, asked to join a vaud'ville show hat the blank means, who can tell? V it “well,” or “Bell,” or —? oe 6 RECALLING MAYOR GILL ongh who have been suffering from f t to be fine exercise for citt zens tty degeneration of the judg ment 0 6 SOMEBODY tell Champ Clark, who has elected himself speak er of the t to burn all his hallelujah powder before the next house, no’ election! CANNON told b tate That the about h anyhow that God alone ts perfect s taught Joe tion vote in somet maelf ° o ° didn’t dare to mention ILLINOIS republican convention fensive old Cullom for fear somebody would get up and ho Cannon! Lorimer! Ballinger!” o oO ery phone to have a meter, tab on flow of gab. make a date when you can greet Every time you want to meet her, her, click, click, click will go the meter. Ee ee CONNECTICUT'S republicaan convention taffied Taft and slapped Roosevelt. Good thing! If somebody will only slap hard enough the whole nation will hear where he stands as to ° o ° ROTHBARTH, the young fellow who pluck bankers are “the eastest picking. ed New York bank ers $300,000 worth, says " Baalest to swindlers, yes. But really honest men can’t pick ‘em, Funny, fan't it? Ever notice it? ee. Sa MRS. C. M. FREEHOUSE and R. A. Custer formed a suicide pact. She's dead 4 alive and well, as usual, There wouldn't be much of the suicide pact business if the ladies would require their male partners to do the suiciding first ° 0 0 Seattle man, in eager zest, ate pork and beans; he liked ‘om best. Ptomaine set in—he went to rest. From heavenly window out he leans, and looks on bygone earthly scenes; for now he knows what might have beans. ¥ HEARD IN WASHINGTON Insurgent—I suppose you ider the face of Providence. as flying in Ol4 Guard-——-Worse; I consid you f ® in the ca 6 Rhode Island ats ; sgl. —— EASILY EXPLAINED. It seems to me strange that it is always the women with the seantlest costumes that do the dancing on the stage “Nothing strange about it. They Beve to dance to k ep warm.’ > j stage tw High Schoo! Girls May Boycott Picture Hats . and Costly Gowns and Return to Simple Style BY MARION LOWE “Give me ba eet,” The old melodramatic ery of the taken mothers of | who that their | who should be little | girls have acquired the} styles and ways of young women Give me back my child Whereas, school girls used to} wear simple dresses and plain hate, | up by realise Seattle, daughters school with their hair braided down thelr backs, they now appear in $30] sewns,” ploture hata and putts and rats. It ian't an impossible recollection when freshman high school girls went to school in fresh, starched “sack” aprons Merey, wouldn't that shock folks now? Nobody but girls in reform schools wear them in this year of grace 1910. But the Seattle high school girls have gone such extremes in the matter of on that « w two sophomores appealed to a Grey, asking for an agitation of | the question, and suggesting a/ school uniform. Not any such unt form as is put on girls in a reform | atory, but Just a simple sult and | hat The mother of a wealthy senior] girl wrote in reply and agrees with | the suggestion of the sophomore’s mother Thetr plan ts this: Tallored |blouse sult of blue serge, felt hat | (rimmed only in the school colors Could a school girl look sweeter and more girlish in anything than j that? She wouldn't look like a convict, would she? There tnn't | —— macnn rT - purpose of the club to do away with [earthing Ghont euch 8 “Uaioe Wationable ‘gowns and collteres jmake a girl want to eseape. 1") 4nd to promote simplicity of dress jthere? Moreover, it is absolutely) “of course some girlie still dress SaEees ys foolishly,” said the secretary of the | What Australian Thought. dub, “but I think we are improv |. ‘The other day a school inspec: | Ine tor from Something's golng to happen pattie achools. How old are these girls?” asked Super! ndent Cooper About 15 and 16," replied the superintendent; “they are second | year girls.” They look like young commented the Australian 1 don't, either,” reptied Superin-| ,,.V RW) YORK. | ——e Cooper, “but that's Amer | 44 nature thereof, causes Mr The high achool girts’ drese has | (einer to hold his head and ery ie Ouch'” an one who has trodden got on the nerves of business: men | i ; ; > Re ee eek ek roo on th upstanding tack with bared men ed to representa Gatued es ® organizations tol). fared whethor some wave of influence | with his family some 10 months et In motion that will WeeD | age ‘To Weat Norwalk, Conn. he thin extravagance of styl@| nied, and there they expied a beau. ltiful cottage with green biinds. A renting agent's sign was displayed, jand to the agent Gainer went The ery. Australia was visiting the Give me back my he Indies,” “I don't BY NORMAN. YORK, Sept. 28. Emannei belongs in New York, bat forth Into the suburbs can be out be effec I want to rent that pretty cot | lation. tage with the green blinds,” he | mistake | watd What ta the price? P equiring « certain style! <pwenty-five a month,” replied would rather see theline agent. (All the houses in Weat od sense ansert itself. | Norwalk are 5 a month, but | er of the Broadway | Gainer did not know that.) high sehool says while there has! go ( gave the agent $25, ch extravagance in the/and moved into the cottage with igh school girls, he thinks the green blinds, and Ived there & decided improvement, | 10 months and that the spirit of simplic ia} sat lately there came home from growing @ « the girl Kurope Harold Austin, and found the Broadway school every/the Gainers living in his cottage, \ high ol ia eligible} He had not heard it was rented, » the Girlw’ club. 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Some of these days all the achool girla will be repeating | Hackward, turn backward, O, time, in your flight, |Make me a child again through school.” That's poor pootry, but it's mighty g00d senses is & | | anti! I'm THE STAR EDITORIAL AND MAGAZINE PAGE # JOSH WISE GAYS: The late Chief Justice Fuller teft an estate valued at $950,000. - fr can't nee any speed to that old wt of yours.” Why, man alfve, rested six times in it.” “Oh, for blocking traffic?” A sanitarium for consumptives is to be erected in Bomba: memorial to King Edward, ur bill fs $700," said t tor “You've missed your calli SINCE GERTRUDE STUDIES PLUMBING (Girl puptle in Chieag plumbing as part of manual training course.-News Item.) Ive been ar By Mail, out of clty—1 year, $3; 6 month mont Entered * 0; 4 Beatile, Wash. fies, a econd-clase { man,” said the patient. ” ought |; - | pected of dishonesty are made pub- |, lic. th endly Then, be ought to The Chinese have a flower which is white at night and red during the | hy lowing sonnet wae written yasa ‘Opportu Callerson—Well, sir, if he you, you won't know there passing over your fa Attles--Is that so? | Callerson—-Yes, sir; ng, old! it’s a guillotine. years ago b of Kansas | he doe thin you'll by nator John J, It is reprinted Bere jy human destinies am tp and fortune om my fog, «1 walk; | penetraiy and seas remote, and, yay sart and palsee—jey vnbldden ones at emg day. marked DESCRIBING A BARBER. vores mind, on OPPORTUNITY, Attles-—What kind of barber is! , that new man on the corner? | (The f “While standin’ on a bar'l to|to have been a nerve specialist nid @ watch th’ K. of P, parade, Mort Stroller, “and thete pride Popbottie fell in with th’ lid. He| The attendance at German uni-! mony of coma ating of felt so small he wuz able ter craw!|versities grows more rapidly than ofont 7h CADE, out through th’ bunghole.” the ratio of population. j One old man nearly JOH 8 tray the « r da The nurse was on the witness! ‘The frost ja on the pumpkin, | blunt anawer tog hls Neemngy stand The fodder’s in the shock yt ‘endly satay B Didn't the doctor make several Almost another year to walt He was rid calls after the patient wan out of Yor another crop of bock sr, when netgear Jataey dange asked the lawyer og him, oat bie ger No, sir,” aid the nurse, “1 con The New York bureau of weights | &. ‘How do fou ‘cont Oh, sidered the patient in danger as and m ure has an exhibit at) 1 man, a Muy ‘4 long a the doctor continued to|Madison Square Garden where the | jad Hanitos lam, call,” | names of grocers and butchers sus: |}, rt to ping, wake—4f feasting . before ts ‘0's schools are to learn the rudiments of [I turn away! It fs the And th hour o a, who follow me Since Gertrude studies plumbing she isn’t Ike of every state yore, Mortals desire, and cong For Gertrude doesn't sweep or dust, or any £ sh foe al chore; Save death; but those who for getting breakfast, she hasn't for a t z —_ ) And week, She stay woe, her hair, Seek me in vain, and uselensly She mended a leak. | plore; bd Our Gertrude wipes no dix ‘jointa” she's ripe 4 down cellar where, with a hairpin from hes now. For wiping Condemned to faflure, peousy aa jl answer not, and I return ‘NO ten, A SEASIDE ECHO, | j 1 | Instead of threading needles, she ts keen for thread yf Side by side they were | ing pipe, af jthe shining sands And when a hydrant ts required, with the neces | “Look,” she exclaimed, sary drain, goes that Gotrox girl with Comgt jdid not know it was rented, but/ She quickly digs a trench, grabs up a monkey Macaroni! Did you ever mes | Who had rented a cottage to Galner wrench, count in New York?" Now behold what has happened And taps the main “Ni repiied the young mm There are two cottages with green the summer scene, “I shaw blinds on the same street in West Our Gert burns now no midnight off in efforts to [ seit” “i Norwalk, and the came agent rents write plays, — engl both. Ba thought Gainer wanted She'd rather tear down chandeliers and hang them IMAGINATIVE, one, when Gainer really wanted the different ways r t ; eAut the other, and took the other. The one Her hobby’s sanitation where once ‘twas litera pe a pape hah a Gainer did not move into stood ture Blox—Why do you thik empty beeause the agent told all We cannot sleep a wink while she tinkers with the Knox—He has just ‘intel inquirere that it waa rented. @ sink, ing a picture of a $1 And now Mr. Austin and the} Or with the sewer. j other owner are cach clamoring | FOR WAGGING PURPDEE for 10 months’ rent, and the agent,| We'll miss our handy Gertrude when she's fully 3p r Byttens has been collecting the rent, | learned her art; PM grasa ih beyond inaiets that Gainer owes him for| She'll pack her kit and go away to thaw the frosen seek ” bot® houses, having rented one heart ~ and lived in the other, and must} Of some master plumber rich, an old and rather tha tone wer bea “io across with 2 iron duca spoony ‘un; a Oe with Then galvanize his frame, and having won a name, FOR new, modern furstehel All of which causes Mr. Gainer] Enter the union! be all wae lto hold hie brow in his mitts, and} i a en cry aloud, an one who bas amitten by mischance his thumb. with the| |hammer. 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