The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 28, 1910, Page 4

Member of United Press, Published Daily by The Star Publishin od at Beattie, Wash., po stoffice as sevond-cla SHOW HER OFF? SURE! Mra. Dave Baker is a famous cook and her husband Itkes to show her off; he had a lot of men up to dinner last night.” rhe Atchinson, Kans. Globe editor published the above, and newspaper humortate all over the country are making fun about ft 7 the Golden West” Into Hot California Forty-Niners Look sh ad isn't it a right good iten and legitimate news in every Like Brigands From Palermo To begin with, here's a citizen who get# tnto print because, in the Steerage, and Creasy instead of having a wife oO mauls him, or smokes cigarets, or Caruso Is Truly Great as the starts a nesty divorce F he has a helpmeet who ts a fine cook Road Agent Hero. and he has the uncommon good sense to be proud of it - When a man has a good thing, it is surely fine in him to show NEW YORK, Deo. 28.—~"'Tbe Gtrl ft off and invite others to participate in the enjoyment of It, esp in of the Golden West,” Belasco's atir fatly No, 1 cooking. It broadens him. It renews or encouras lring play of the days of the forty others faith in such virtuos and blessings as family harmony and | nin as turned into an. tallies domestic happiness, and the Lord knows there are enough new® |i. ay Puccini, is called “La paper items tearing at these th Mc or, we'll wager much | POO ue del West” that if Dave is proud of his wife, happy over exhibiting her dome It sounds like that tic virtues to “a lot of men,” Mrs. Dave is a sweeter, more gental, That's well enough, for Italian pleasanter woman to live with than she otherwise would be 4 |srand opera is great stuff In the The husband who isn't proud of bis good wife, who doesn’t [oon way Ike to show that God, for some mysterious reason, has put in his But also it looks Itke that tty dead one, too, very of all jowe and by is a pr the bosom the richest, most and will bear watching by likely pcions his wife, p That's bad, very bad, for an opera that seeks to give us an “American” | atmosphere, and a Western one at! THE STAR—WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28 Fat and Foreign Warblers Turn “The Girl of 1910, THE STAR EDI TORIAL AND MA GAZINE PAGE Eye-Talian Opera of a Western road agent, and Bo- Note the unanimous ! Good boy, Dave! Cultivate your pride tn your famous cook, |.) a." . : and show her off and have tn as big a lot of men as she can and | {oot Pow fat Cafuso in the role of will stand ook for, , to > et i Up for that than to | sings like a choir of angels, as of| serie a why should that Glebe editor be laughed at for printing noite see Pape P ee ‘Destian| such news? Isn't a two-line fact about a wife's virtues worth as | fi) 0) So. il oth ant the m~| much as a two-column account of a bloody prisefight, or a high | toneh abe sings with all the art society scandal, or a horrible murder, or the ruin of a girl? Why ike. ". cnad Nags “a ‘eden not an occasional Mash of sunshine amidst all the social gloom? O Sones rims Conne naturally—and not at all like Min- sede neering nie of the Polka Dot | And the chorus! The chorus of Caruso, the italian, in the role POETRY AND PROSE OF ACTION miners and cowboys” looks like! hemtah Emma Destinn as a California herol the steerage of a steamer outbound | embonpoint, so very typical of the Wild W: from Napoli or Palermo. a more perfect, more beautiful and fuller is simply Knrico sings one of the finest aria: The book of the fers somewhat from the play tab leau scene that closed the? Dlay is 4 | finale, as finales go in grand opera. the Sarda bust Goose: re in all modern opera, and perhaps! It ten't our wild Wont, nor our ; Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute: jeliminated, and a new Int act sub-| the most effective thing that Enrico | "Girl of the Gold West” any What you can do, or dream you can, begin it; | stituted one that is frankly >» has ever eung. Then comes Minale | more Not by a long way~-a way Boldness has genius, power and magic in it dramatic and grand operatic he} with her pewrl handled revolver/about as long as the way from Only engage, and then the mind grows heated; | boys ate going to hang Caruso—and |and rescues her lover, It's a great| Rome to Prisco. Begin, and soon the work will be completed.” = eee ee . " a The same thought is expressed in prose on cards hanging in offices about town this way: “Do it now.” Boy and girl readers—the young: er ones—will find Uneole Jack in The Star next Saturday. | | | THE AVIATORS’ QUARREL Have you ever thought about your moral responsibility in mak- | ing investments? Have you considered only the profit to be re ceived? The famous Lambeth Canference has this to say on the subject: “This moral responsibility extends to (a) the character and general social effect of any iness or enterprise in which money is invested; (b) the treatment of the persons employed in that bust ness or enterprise; (c) the due observance of the requirements of the law relating thereto; (d) the payment of @ just wage to those who are employed therein.” A CARLOAD OF BABIES A whole carload of babies—52 of ‘em—were shipped from a York foundlings’ home to Texas the other day. Some had dark Ne eyes and hair, some blue eyes and golden tresses, but all were with out homes or parents for all the bables they can Texas has the broad acres and the big hearts and, as she’s tending a little toward race suicide, she really this sort of immigration, We congratulate both Texas and the kids. A JOB FOR LAWYERS? Attorney General Wickersham told the Harvard law school that “the college-bred lawyer will solve the problems of industrialism and economics that are now perplexing the country.” He will, eh? Well, then, “the college-bred lawyer” is a good one, and we can tell him right now. that a grateful country will Duiid him the tallest kind of a monument—when he gets the job done. First Birdman-—Did you say I had a mighty high opinion of my- self? TODAY’S GOOD SHORT ONE “I never see the old man around now.” “No, he was hard hit by the coal trust.” How waa that?” “Well, the old lady had to use his wooden leg for flrewood."— Atlanta Constitution. Second Aviator—Yes, but you needn't fly up so over it Daily Death Dangers Faced by Police and Firemen BY “BEST CHIEF” KOHLER. OBSERVATIONS WITH volcanoes and earthquakes on his hands, maybe the ml- kado won't want to lick us, after all, o °o ° DROP in price of hay! Cheer up! It won't be long before the consumer will be able to consume something o 6 o KOHLER KNOWS, « LONG ISLAND boy inherits $10,000 on condition that he does Sones eae ees: Shay © wert Rot become a minister. Say, that's easy money. BY CHIEF OF POLICE FRED KOHLER °o 0 Oo ie g -ER, CHINAMEN allege in court that the right to live in the Unit } Dangers at big fires? P States is worth $10,000. Why, it’s cheap at the price! them, I suppose, all around you, to hit you In the face or grab feet from under you. But the man on the job never thinks of dangers. ° Oo ITALY notifies our government ords into plowshares-—in other w« ° Oo yo she is ready disarm. t her Bully for Italy! ° THAT Jap South Pole expedition didn’t get out of Tokio bay He dashes up an alley where fore it had a fight. It's the correct policy. Fight fore, not af some wall may topple and bury me him, hes through a blazing, WHAT would Christopher Columbus think of a trip from Liver smoking hallway, where the fire pool to New York and back in 12 days—4 day and 16 hours one eaten floor may drop him the next SOMETHING THAT DION’T HAPPEN, way? moment into a furnace of flame— ° © Oo but he isn’t thinking about the UNCLE SAM wants 200 young women nurses in the navy, and danger He sees his duty right somehow finds trouble In getting them. Would have more trouble in front of t goes straight for to keep ’em. the mark and leaves the fear and HOBBLE skirts have scandalized whole neighborhoods, divided The man tn th ©, poles families and broken a good many limb: Now they've driven an mar eman, isn't the sort English manufacturer into bankruptcy. He got stuck with a lot of waste any time on his own troubles. unsold petticoats At a big fire he's too busy dota eo oo what he's pald and told to dé, He BURGLAR entered home of a Chicago policeman’s widow and wouldn't be in the service if He was left $550 in gold and currency onher dining table. The “burglar” th rt hesitate or count the was a detective and the money w ibscribed for her benefit cost. The policeman is in danger hasn't asked to have anybody arrested of « or another every: hotr he but he wouldn't faa! =~ = = nat a 1 ther wa The fire | CHIEF KOHLER mar happlest whe the dangers ‘ It won't happen THIS time, It won't get ME That's what an ¢ fireman thir if i en ¢ ne his migd NEW SINGER SEWING MACHINES | iis: sch corsa He's a fatatist and an optimist. It—the big IT that meats Jeath—-won't come to him until it's due, and it won't come this time, 3 anyhow. The chances are in his favor, and because he's used ta tak e ing chances as regularly as his meals he always plays the favor! Sucecss, in his race of life Why Pay More i t da und tho greatest. acts of real. heroiam are t The spec iar kind, out in the « look ° _ ft I ight a ‘a nows what he Joing, and At the New White Office} te soy Bice 1101 Third Avenue, Corner Spring Street e sm tl any th may happen before you know it. The Telephone Main 16: Independent 955 maida c A crowd at @ fire can realixe New White Machines Rented, 00 Per Month ra the unexpe t ha There are the obvious dangers of All White Machines Repaired Free the fire itself and of the failing wa The unusual may be an over OPEN EVENINGS | pow ave of ammonia fumes, as it was at Chicago, It may be a live ¢ wire, loowe ames, & broken gas pipe, a trick r, a jon of stuff you didn’t know ing death, an arch 1 catches and t a man alive P b Ipl to t its «from the hose or Buy or Sell Real Estate. Business Chances. Ses ene it winter W | My own narrowest escape? 1 can’t tell you. THERE AREN'T | NY NARROW ESCAPES for policemen or firemen | Either you miss it or you get it. If you're hurt or killed, it isn't an escape. If you come out whole, it isn’t a narrow oscape—JUST IN LITTLE OLD NEW YORI NEW YORK, Dee, 28.-—It wa rather dull around Republican State headquarters jon night. From siglo the first fow bulletins came im no ray of hope was ever visible, jane the throng of hangers-on melt ol away, until at midnight there were left only the telegraphers, hewspapermen and committee em- ployes. Nobody had much to say. | Shortly after midnight Herbert Par. jsons came in, with Chairman Gris com and several other G. 0. P. pleaders. c | Parsons, spite his defeat for re- jelection to Congress, was chipper jas could be. With Griscom he | Went Into the back room, wh the [retarns were being studied with j@reat sorrow and anguish by Sec ary Late Gleason and other com jmitteemen. One of Parsons’ friends, lrather than go fnto the chamber of |sioom, remained outside and chatted | with the telegraphers and reporters Somebody remarked about Parsons follity ‘Oh, Herbert's all right.” remark jed bis friend. reat Httle sport Herbert. But he wasn't always like that Down at Yalo he was one of the most proper Iads you jever saw-—-never in on any of the jrongh staff, and much opposed to jit j The last year he was there the boisterous studentd had a@ little jbonfire game, which gave them great joy and caused Herbert in |tense pain, They would Nght their fire in the quadrangle and stealth. ily sneak away to thelr rooms ,|Then, as the blase grew bright, behind window curtains all around the campus would come yells of Fire, fire! “After these died away a sto t with a big bass Voice would w from bebind hie lace cur through a megaphone | WHO LIT THAT FIRET After a fow seconds a high tenor would sing out, a block away The King of Glory, HE lit that | “Like a response in a Handel joratorio, the bass would rumble |King of Glo-ree | This ribald performauce used to jdistree Parsons greatly And when |ho was finally hauled faculty to i how it was that his name Was heard continually ir, these midnight uproars ath. But politics that, and the fun nowadays | “THEN IT HAPPENED” ] tn ang: be rapidest wouldn't ta Ave out | On this bright morning tlan and the Fast Mail ed a grad precise ume time th were in a hurry | With a loose h, Speedenduyvil tried (6 get ac first, but THE END | REMEMBER | We must vacar our tore I Juary 1 and enti rch jot Wine I atch Dia | boing sacrificed re | of cost Chicago Jewelry Co. 1207 econd Ave ‘pack | | ‘And who ts the King of Gloree?’ Then the tenor answer Her-t sons! HE ts the} up before the | it worried him to} A modent violet is T. R., He hates to hie name in print, ver sinee Noy. 8, Teddy's sort of took the hint, Now Zealand and Australia pro od $70,000,000 worth of gold last year, The new steamship Olympic ts 326 ft wer than was Noah's ark 7,000 greater tonnage. Cranford, N. J., boasts of the world. His name is John Lehman, and at one meal he wrapped him- self around 16 eggs, 60 pancake two quarts of maple syrup, five mince ples, nine apples, 10 onions, three poands of frankfurters, seven cups of coffee, two loaves of bread and half a pound of butter. How that? The one-millionth United States patent will be issued some time next summer, 121 years after the first In July, 1790, Aluminum derives its name from the word “alumen,” given by early scientists to earthly substances which they could not otherwise identify. inventor to propel a boat Another Victory for the People. Senators repudiated by their con- atituencios will bt given fat jobs by the senate on its monetary com- | mission Don't yowl when you find a hair in the hash; rejoice that you didn't swallow it. Senator Root has taken $25,000 apartments in New York. This will effect a great saving in his salary of $7,500, 5 For home fire protection make hand grenades by filling thin bot es with a solution of 75 per cent water, 20 per cent common lime and 5 per cent salt There's a scheme on foot to bulld a dam 700 feet high in the Grand canyon. of the Colorado and pro- |duce 1,500,000 horsepower by the waterfall The girl who regards kissing dangerous, might try eating onions. piano without a chaperon.” there is this you ought to know We ain't no Standard O11 Co. | SKINNEY A. NOUGH, THE VIL LAGE CUTAWAY. | Speaking of the war scare, shall wo be Japalicked? | Yes, but have you done your | Fourth of July shopping? Famous Holidays. Christmas. Ecksmas | Xmas. December 26. An ordinary bicycle can be con verted into « motoreycle in a few seconds by attaching a recently tn | vented third wheel equipped with | a motor. | At All Grocers 25c Ib. champion long distance eater of the éan you boll down an item like Jan't It the distressing experience, | |though, to see a bargain in shoes | | just when you have « hole tm your sock? Wave power, obtained through clastic floats attached to the bow and stern, is utilized by an Italian By Mall, out of city-—20 cents for one month, 69 cents for two months, 75 cents for three montha, Twenty-five cents per month when subseription ig for three months or more. -DIANA’S DIARY — Miss Dillpickles Goos to Hunt Up a Neglected Relative and Incldenta, ly to Have a Corking Good Time BY FRED SCHAEFER | | | “Better not go to this address t onight,” grunts the cop, “and when you do, take cab and a bodyguar d.” We agreed that we'd burst in uper Aunt Blanche tn the morning, (Continued. Iv. | We're in Chicago, but not yet at | Aunt Bianche's. | Carrye Caracul and me was going to rush right off to Aunt Blanche’s, |*huck off our traveling togs, slip into evening gowns and sit right | down to dinner with Aunt Blanche, land then go to rest on a two-piece | mattress as 4 change from our corn shucks at home. But there was a [we } We asked a cop In front of the depot how to get to Aunt Blanche’s. fooked at the address and | whistled, sort of funny like. | “Better not go to that address to- |night,” grunts the cop. “And when you do, take a cab and a body guard.” Oh, bow-wow,” muttered Carrye, “1 guess we're buffaloed.” “Don't get woozy,” I advised her. If l'a thought of it I'd a wrote her to bave the train met with her }whizz wagon. The place fs most “In Miss Destylo a stickler for| ely one of those noble old rest- SAVE YOUR TEETH o yp rmrone s om 4 r for! dences that proudly resist the on- Xou Sure = Doilars 1 Make accompany & young man on. the | ass through. We'll go to a hotel.” | of Combine Dentists lose methods in Dentistry Well, we went to a hotel and sat | om "methods io Denti Se a < half the night discussing wheth-| and have free « We'll do our bost, Jawn, to sup:| 6 ea coun port your Chicago university, But |¢? Aunt Blanche would give many | prises, tm Soaccies Sone swell functions in our bonor and whether abe bad a box at the opera. Star “Want” Ads Are Business Bringers tat yor | a Union block. rr evenings unt! §, and en 4 for people whe worm Delivery 10 Cente; Suburbs 20 Cents. Delivery Extended to Green Lake, Fremont and University Districts. SPECIAL TODAY The Best Coffees, Teas and Baking Powder om the Market. Sugar, 5¢ pound; Special Vienna Coffee, 25¢ pound. VIENNA COFFEE CO,, Stall 201. Egg-Phosphate Baking Ow Bo der Raises the Dough