The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 1, 1911, Page 4

THE SEATTLE STA Fawit siember of United Press =a Co an wi cided that they W i} e t heir own I at and in they were bit © way 1 had been run ‘ affic as it saw rt want a municipal line t railway frat abt r bribers all over the want any how a city could own and wn line. So the people of t ity were FOUGHT I LIMIT ed lawyers and hired politicians lo t the vf San Fran » won and got ready \ k that w end tl att Net on your € pe fa » face with g wheel surr 1 litt « which ‘ at San Fran New Ort Seat la ly n Wa ‘ THE BANKS RE ves Y with first i} « ty e the bank Creations of the people their a ‘ 3 or 4 per i 4 alistic PEOPLE can't fly gener ntil the problem of automat sta bi for the aeroplane 1. The Wrights are said the » om in a new devi to be patented, Soc ma it y have the pri BETTER MOVING PICTURES s said that the moving picture show is not so popular aa it that be true, it is not the fault of the public, but of the show g that recent have given us is richer in potsibilities ntertainment and even valuable education than the moving ravel, history, the jeces of literature—all these ca fore the 8 ar the minds of the masses at i by this marvelous device. Bu » enterprising gentlemen who supply the films appear to think the public wants little or nothing that is really good or inspiring. They sit up nights p nk dy, exaggerated melo- drama and Sunday supplement « to feed our boys and girls. moving picture show sh be erved for the good it may do, even if the public bas to buy it up and supply it as freely as it now does tt yon school education. As now conducted, It is long on chaff and short on wheat WASHINGTON lady of mature age who suddenly decided to marry @ young man, thoughtfully transferred $3,000,000 to her daughters. It is thought there will be no charge of mental incompetence from the daughters, though the young man may be thinking things. MILWAUKEE AND THE OUT-OF-WORK The of Big Business with organs are disposed to make merry Milwaukee and her socialist administration Thousands are out of work,” says one of these newspapers, “and the voters now regret their folly.” Indeed! Is no one out of work except in Milwau! ° Was no one ever out of work in all the world until that city elected a social ist government a year sin And, considered merely as a means of putting idle hands at work and filling empty stomachs, bas Big Business anything to offer that beats socialism? If so, Big Business should trot it out! RED hair on her husband's hairbrush would seem a rather del) cate foundation for a divorce suit, but it served in a Kansas City cai it curiously happened that the husband's stenographer had red hair, which was an embarrassing coincidence. MORE ‘MILLIONS BORN TO MISERY | England beholds the new census of Indiw with a shudder. Popu lation has increased by nearly 25,000,000. Famine or a natite uprising! England can imagine nothing else Ab, the pity of it! It costs as much to keep India down as It would cost to help India up—if only England could abolish her fleets, her armies and her armaments and use the money to employ the people in useful and productive ways. It is a grim tragedy—this business of distnheriting the silent mil Hons and holding them under an alien heel! HENRY DEBOCQ, heir to a million, is lost in New York city.| Don't get excited. Wall st. won't let a nice thing like that get very far away. Star Dust The baseball season had opened. 1 wouldn't mind it a bit,” said }a grouchy person, “If the baseb vocabulary hadn't been opene too Why He Didn't Laugh, | “Don't take it so hard, old chap you know it's April first Ob, I'm not annoyed, I assure lyou, but that particular ‘joke’ has been played on me six times al ready today, and I'm a trifie bored, that’s all.” | — HER IDEA. Kate—if he stole a kiss from you why didn't you lodge a complaint Kittie—I was afraid they'd con viet me as an accessory No Difference. “No,” said Mra, McGudley, pew sively, “I don't know as I want to vote. But it should be your proper privilege as a taxpayer.” “No doubt. But all the men I know are voters, and the fact doesn’t seem to make any differ ence in thelr taxes.” Nature Faker. That woman is a nature faker in her dress.” How so?” She calls it harmonious attire to wear a mouse colored gown with Angora furs, How He Stood. WOULDN’T YOU BE PROUD? This is the proposition, suggested by President Taft, and warmly seconded by Sir Edward Grey, which has fired the heart of England and united her statesmen of both parties That England and the United States—twain of one blood—shall agree never to fight each other, but to submit all questions, even questions of national honor, to a court of arbitration, and accept the award without question. if that shall be accomplished, won't it make you proud of your country, and proud of the time in which you live? OBSERVATIONS SKIMPY trousers is the new spring style—for men. ea STILL, Diaz's cleaning out of his cabinet may simply mean that he believes in “young men for war.” ° the o °o insurrectos REINFORCEMENTS for left Chicago the other day—three boys, with a war fund of 94 cents. Unfortunately they were pursued, apprehended and spanked CORDELIA, Cal., doctors arrived just in time to save the Iife of Mrs. Peter Siene, who was attacked by a rooste And they're boast- ing that it's a great climate where you can raise ee eR CARTOONIST HOMER DAVENPORT sues for divorce, charging cruelty Knowing Homer's command of English, we'd like to hear what he says when anybody is cruel to him, not necessarily for pub- Heation, but just to add to our stock of carbolie adjectives, ee ITALY’S king has broken all precedent by ference with a socialist leader who visited the usual suit of shabby gray, with soft black Emmanuel is beginning to realize that the majority in his kingdom. chickens like that. holding an hour's con- palace, “wearing his hat.” Perhaps Victor “shabby suits” are in a Notice—Cut This Out Str. Flyer CHANGE OF TIME CARD Sunday, April 2d 1911 Leave Seattle LAN DING. GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC DOCK Overhead Bridge From First Av. and Marion St. Telephones: Main 176; Ind, 37, | expected Algernon—So your sister really me to call? Little Brother—Yes, I heard her say that she broke a looking glass this afternoon and knew something dreadful was going to happen.—-Tel egraph, Where Else? “Where do they keep that aero- plane they use on the stage? “Don't know, but suppose they keep it in the flles.”—-Baitimore Amertean. A CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCE Witey—Henry, I will have to |have some new clothes this spring. Hubby—Good heavens, how long is this thing to go on? That's just what you sald last fall, Not Too Early. He entered a lawyer's office to find the attorney busy with fish- pole and hooks and lines, and called out | “Ha! Getting ready, I se es, sir.” “Going afishing, are you?” “I am.” “Expect to catch anything?” “Oh, no. “foxpect to get any nibbles?” Not a one.” hen you are just going “That's it, Just to sit on the dock and bob your fishpol “Just that “Well, there's no law against it.” | “No, no law,” “But isn’t it season?” Lord, man, no! I've been at this New Year's, and you 700th man who has been » asking the very same ques- | rath r early in the tions,” THE STAR—SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1911. WHY PAY RENT? BY JOHN coPpLey, ( k announces a contest just for the boys next weel ' phy Pree % FIRST DAY J vocwe te yd 4 * A nen sary he. * Pitbitiiadai te tn hoi *t We've quit the flat; those smoothly red@ing ads Cause priz mnsist of three fine catch ye * THE BLIND PASSION * That ask us why we keep on paying rent thusiastic baseball players, so the ors * Pale lover, ull of thoughts * Have got me stuck, like other funny fads Unele Jack has a b baseball club in of eg ‘ for that * sublime * Although the Missus says ‘tn heaven-sent! ° salzation this yeat 5 ants the boys of The Star ¢ ( t for that | You little know the while # You betcher life I'd gladly put an end ecadt Gite thie tiedh Wee tans shmitted Uncle Jack | ny as \* you woo * To keep on paying landlords all my cash an . ' Uncle J ‘ |® That sho ts thinking all the * So fe moving van I'm gotng to send Week after ne just t a thir Oy See are ¢ only— * time . But say! I'm scared I'm doing something rash! land the prizes will be something pretty fine gir ep And all boys * She'll make an April fool of #} wee, ae ot Jare invited to enter the contest next week and try har find a y wine on * you *| DI D | » Well, we've moved into our new place, at last thks * *) pla . thet SRRSMARERERORYSS And say, the place Is nifty, to the top! * hte I'm willing to forget the roht that's past pd THE DOG STonigg, * Viewpoints. But now, by Heck, I'm glad ft time to stop. * » * ‘ Of course, there's little things that cost a ptle hhh hhh * au fase ours pine Be Shap: Some things I never knew] \ t 1 can learn M pe iolodiade Ld BelipxVeai i ye “improves | “suse t's a cinch we're herd for quite a while The ¢ he members of y . wine Provided that the durned place doesn’t burn! 4 “DDY Owners of one's figure wonderfully. — New } » letters re. York Tim or ce n the by A } THIRD DAY 1 be ae fhe 1 wonder If I'll ever get a rent fair nd baeeanded JOBH 7 : an . te nKeEeP From all ithe work around this cussed place? “ 4 have been . | OFF THE| When I get home at night, not feeling bent “Mort Fride. e With work and dirt and toll [ run o race RRA GRASS | of course, 1 proudly say, | own the roost * SOME RE 6Us “WinNene® & mush'’s wife had — And all my in rather gladly spent i oo et 8. & seek Henin’ Rut—sometimes | would rather knock than boost He nena tae orn a The plan of us who've stopped a-paying rent! #oa box wren sa ts . 48 Content last her stove with = " 7 week LOOKED LIKE A BIG DOSE Mort's tooth The man in bed had never been sick before, The doctor, wishing to ascertain his temperature, pointed the Uhermometer at him and brush six months tod | M deters Mert n your mouth, Jim.” | Wait a minute, doc,” objected the patient. “I don't believe T can : Wash hp, found it out.” | swallor that.”"—Judge. -" moe Coverdale a, Hn Y 6 A ' Z rou nove AND GIKLS The Star CONTEST NEXT WEEK ONLY FOR THE BOYS Copper is a fine, big, black and white dog. We have no early history of him. My father found him starving | Two-Minute Vy audeville on the thall ae he wa traveling from Valdez, Alaska, to Nome, | | Alaska. ¥ BY FRED SCHAEFFER. He named him Copper Center, that being the place he was MRS found. #003 Nebraska st, ‘ Thud--How much ia your light bill a month? Copper will carry anything that we give him, and is very play ps George 0 ap—It lan't a light bill a month—it'’s a heavy bill. They charged ful; the only time he will bark is in play. | ¥ “ F ayy cour e $4.88 to run three jets I didn't use He never bites, except when necessary to defend me or himself, - ‘ | sow Thud—Paying that is like pulling teeth, tan't it? I have a cart which 1 hitch him to and drive anywhere, as | 4 che Slap. . ewpecially when they don't give you gas. learned to drive dogs in Alaska. 2. Thud » is your brother now? JANE MURRAY, plain Slap—He's a doctor. He's got a pretty big job now, He's attend 2014 East Denny Way, Seattie, Wash. | Th ing the legislature. — i a . “bet Thud—I didn't know it was sick, That reminds me—did you ever] # kkk ke kA RH ARR A EERE RRM EMER E) Levee hear them call the roll tn legislature? ry ~* — Slap—No; I don't believe it’s done. They'd rather have the roll|* SECOND PRIZE *|* THIRD PRIZE. * >» og slipped to them quietly * * cart . Thud—Did vie know that 80 per cent of the people tn the t atten | oR CPSP C ee PC eee eee ee ee el have 8 aren't producers of food? HOW BIG JIP SAVED THE A TRUE DOG STORY. | at all iap--What do you mean by that? HONEY One time when we lived on a in Thud—I mean that they merely live to ent ‘4 farm in Michigan, we had a little wand Slap—tIs that so? Well, I know a lot of restaurants they'd better] Jip belonged to my grandfather | spaniel named Trixie and she dear es stay away from if they want to live and was a large New Foundland |ly loved to go with papa and my| gethe Thud—Are you going to the « ation? who had almost human {ntellj-/t¥o brothers hunting ducks, They in Slap—Yes; I haven't been invited. gence. had to cross ¢ ‘er eae prone | Justi Thud-—Then you aren't billed to go as a guest triste? ‘had lah & tat ot-benes ee, ee porth es Siap—No; I'm billed to come away as Do you know George?| randpa had lost a lot of honey|of our farm. One day in th Thud—You mean the king? I know him as well as I know you, |by having It stolen autumn when the water was real Slap—It's @ pity you and I aren't better acquainted. { wonder| Jip used to sleep on a screen) SO!4. papa went bunting and _ where I can get a pair of satin knee breeches to wear [porch One sight she beotme reat-| "ie ot home with mamma and f. Thud—Why don't you take your wife's harem skirt and cut {t off]. ing parked loudly taped oe Aa =r Thud—Well, then, cut {t off at the laundry | Amorning she could not be found. river and in the marah qui * Siap-—Huh, how would | look at court in a pair of breeches cut Off | arior awhile she was found down iy Drone tape menage gases e' at the laundry? I'd be kicked out. — |by the bee hives lying upon part of looked around there was Trixie * chi Thud—Well, you can tell them you're dressed as a braw Hiclander \" pale of pants Guus her ts dod acnten ts * Gr Slap—Ob, but then I'd be kilt And there was no more honey |pleased as she could. She had * Th z ya | tome swam the river As the Snows of & for SEER OEE EERE EE EE EERE EEE EE EBSE V. CHILDS, Age 11 years MARY E. LUSK, Age 11 years. & sec 7 * *| Wash. Mt. Vernon, Wash.; Box 102. aes *& A HARD ROAD TO TRAVEL *# * FROM BUGVILLE. * wel 2 a chased ® The tariff is a topic warm, ** By Joe Hanover * ee Dea * Its fate there's no deciding, #|# * to ai % With Dills to lead it to reform & ee A RAR ee ee rhe * And amendments for back- | DISAPPOINTED | _ time? aS Spee ‘ eee ere] sl * 7 rr Bip ranbgiptetbapeiliets ad The Brown-Powell Liquor Ca. ond The Two Pipers. 4 e rries, all properly feed an@ a He was a long-batred bard; { not His daddy was a plumber; | ‘ked in cartons, the following food, All winter long dad labored hard, Bottled Beers, viz.: chewe The son worked spring and sum) mer, Lemp's and Budweiser, 8 Dea And, though he saw some verse in Louis. Hable type, No payments came for days, Pabst Blue Ribbon and Scblite, .— And dad makes more at laying pipe niibecidias 1 bea; Than the son makes piping lay®. ‘eipers — Rainier Pale, Dark and Be eon Moving Picture. varias. _ Soon Critic—What is that picture aup- \ pewde posed to represent? Olympia, Old German Lager, well-c: Artist—"Holme Street on the The manufacturers of Royal Bak- |} | s.c:s::°. a First of May. 24 ° * ; ernie Only» maving piclare| ing Powder have always declined |] 1: toca’ neor— lines ' rodi ch baking di Quarts, 3 for ..... of dar aps Bil Bird—What' Bruin? to luce a cap powaer Plats, 2 of it, Real Life Less Strenuous. | Bruin—Why, hang iti Here I've at the sacrifice of uali il “l try to make my characters! been trying to commit @uicide for’ q ty. FREE DELIVERY k like human beings.” You,” replied the playgoer who objects to stage profanity, “but you should remember that there are| other human beings than canal boat men,.”—Washington Star, It looks as if the “war corre |spondents” didn’t manufacture the ltrouble In Mexico, after all | Physicians say that cooking food destroys bacterta, against the claim of those who advocate eating | uncooked foods } An American company is supply ing the equipment for the first ratl-| road in Prussia to use electric trac tion on a large scale. | It’s sad but true that the man pleasant in the office is oftentimes | & grouch at home, and the grouch at the office Is a prince at home An Apt Comparison. Minnehaha—That was a pretty} figure of speech that you got off “As unto the bow the cord is, | So unto the man is woman, | Though she draws him yet she fol-| lows.” Hiawatha ed that wh hard he « And I might have add- n she draws on him too broke. President Diaz of Mexico is said to be half Aztee Indian-—and from this source he probably gets his stern, unylelding qualities: Don't expect to rise by easy jumps, for life’s a great big jump- the-bumps. Eat and drink moferately today, in order that you may repeat the pleasure tomorrow. It is a wise plan to tell no more of your own troubles than you want to hear about other people's. A northern New York paper printed this marriage notice: The bridegroom's present to the bride was a handsome diamond, besides many ot beautiful articles in cut glass Let sky paint, which is sunshine, be your face powder, dear lady, A woman doesn't know whether to be glad or suspicious when het husband volunteers to mind ythe baby while she goes out a-visiting. the last three hours, and that ama-/| teur hunter can't hit the side of a house GOOD IMITATION. Maggie Lady-Bug—I hear you were on a regular toot last night! Willie Love-Bug—Ye I was. 1 slept in a garage on an automobile horn. COOKING UTENSILS Sugar Spoon—I'm one of those golden spoons that get born in peo ple’s mouths, Rolling Pin thing on me in the wealth line. rolling in dough all the time, You haven't got any: New Lyon Bidg. 3rd and James’ Phon: Main 1652; ind, 4598 Charlie Powell. Felix Brown, Royal Baking abet is made obeys pure grape cream tartar, Is the iauictnant of all the excellence possible to be attained in the high- est class baking powder. Royal Baking Powder costs only a fair price, is more economical at its price than any other leavening agent, because of the superlative quality and absolute wholesomenes: of the food it makes, Mixtures made in imitation of baking powders, but containing alum are frequently distributed from door to door, or given away in grocery stores. Such mixtures are dangerous to use in food. 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