The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 20, 1911, Page 4

ATTLE STAR od Pree, Wobliched dally by The War Publishing Oo Wash i cy Ber Six mothe, #178 0 conte per month up to atx montha Spoiiing the Eight-Hoar Law ‘The cight-hour law for women ts being openly violated by many employers every day. Most everybody knows it, The fact has been common knowledge for more than a week, Among others responsible for the proper enforcement of the aw or law ts Mrs. Blanche Mason, assistant state labor commissioner, ng some reasons she is and should be the official most directly responsible | fm the matter. She ts really the labor commissioner for women, She t# & woman herself, She spends most of her time in investigating tm dustrial conditions for wome f : Alleged violations of the eight-hour law are reported to The Star every day, Such reports must be received at the labor commissioner's 4 Seving the law violated, why does not the labor comminsto’ office, and particularly Mrs. Mason, act? If she can not induce any employes to swear out a warrant against employers who are alleged to be disregarding the law, It would be entirely proper and in the line of duty to swear out a complaint herself. Instead of swearing out complaints against firms reported to be violating the law, and thus aiding in the fight for the improvement of conditions for women, Mrs, Mason says she is going to thelr offices and trying to persuade them to keep within the law, They promise—and continue to violate tt x i Perhaps Mrs. Mason is not wholly to blame. State Labor Com- missioner Hubbard is her superior officer, Perhaps he is to blame. Hubbard Is appotuted by the governor, And Governor Hay ts really responsible for the enforcement of the state laws. Good laws, forced through legislatures, are many times spoiled by the inertia, the uicer lack of action, by public officials. Juat think of all the salads and the soup, i} and cake and fruit A-thinking how a feast like this would seem, The dairy lunch where IT tnhale my feed ‘ Is clean and white; the dope tastes pretty good; if And, honest, I get all I rently need. * And all my modest wages say [ should, OPTIMISM A LA CARTE ~ BY JOHN COPLEY. It's funny how ft has become the style To roast the modest ten-cent luncheon place, Where most of us must dine and sup the while We atraggle on our fifteendollar pace, think of how they buy three 1 enough, That bank cashiers and millionatres must eat; Just think how they buy three times enough And ponder on how many drinks they “treat.” oe _ sw Brooklyn, N. Y., to Oregon to wed a farmer she b saw him and It would be safe to say: He wasn't and then lee cream! | Glad to Meter. pase, ovéinasy GneD, | At swatting files I'm agile as an be. My swatting average ts 83. * NIGHT AND DAY. Jack Johnson is to fight a Can dian named Day tn Dublin next Of course an ordinary slave Itke mo ooonrs§ bi May never tak of Canvas Hack; Ta fact, it's d cinch I'l never see The gay caffays, nor at a wine feed crack, But you can betcher life I'll never get Dyspepsia, gout, nor that there nervous bunéh~ In fact, no fetler ever got ‘em yet So long’s he stuck right to that ten-cent lunch! | Jesse Howell, who weighs 300 ounds, wae released from the Yalnut, Mo. jail recently and the lage cutup said tt was ke “let ing out a big Howell.” To Marry, or Not The question of marrying is discussed to the extent of a whole page the Chicago Tribune and the mental condition of the man contemplat matrimony is put thus: b “He trembles for his future happiness; contemplates the loss of : ‘ friends; bids a sad adieu to his beloved freedom; takes on the haunting fear of probable fallure—and bolts.” This may be a description applicable to the Chicago society man, But it strikes us as a close fit on an ordinary, cowardly ead. Thank heaven! the average real man doesn't do any trombliag or weeping over friends or freedom or possible failure, but just loves the girl and cheerfully risks all. The girl's side of the case ts put in this silly language “She pauses to observe the crumbling castles In which her married friends are living; considers the posatbility of making mess of marriage; Wonders at the married woman gadabout; watches her ideals fade, be comes conscious of man’s sacrificial worship of the conventional—and hesitates.” Maybe some silliness of this sort occasionally gets into her bead, and maybe she sometimes does hesitate, but the majority of girls worth marrying do marry There is just one good reason for marrying, and that is genuine love, and this includes a desire for children by the union. Young man, if you tremble for your own selfish happiness, if you've got to putter about loss of friends, compromise with your “beloved free- dom” and quake over probable failure, for God's sake, bolt! the point of grossly, wickedly cheating « fellow being. LS bis “sacrificial worship of the conventional,” keep on hesitating until Some honest, manly man who cares more for bacon and potatoes than for the conventionalities offers himself. But when any one starts in to discuss marriage or advise about It, One must consider the objects of marriage. What are they? The gen uine objects are love, mutual happiness, and the bearing and rearing of children. Marriage for other purpose is mere exchange, like the barter of money made of rags for cattle on the hoof, for instance, and the mar- Biage relation mere sanctioned sexuality. A Woman Hants Lions A Boston woman has gone to Africa to hunt lions As though there were not plenty of big game right here at home! Women al! around us are hunting lions every day There is the woman whose life is being fried away with the ‘@vening potatoes. She knows that when Sunday comes, the best that can come from the difference between the “high cost of living” and the weekly wage is a car ride to the park. And each day she bags lion of envy, the Hon of jealousy, the lion of unrest--just for the of those about her whom she loves and who love her and for whom she is willing to sacrifice and to toll. There is the girl tn the store who handles rich silks all day and who goes home at night to wash her cotton shirt waist that tt may be fresh on the morrow. She has her “lions” to slay. She knows that Seductive music, smiled upon and petted. But she knows the price, and the better one, and she saves “her own conscience and her own self- Young woman, while you hesitate, study the castles in which your |#een any | Married friends crumble; compare the married gadabout to the mother | with some fellers that undertook to with her babe in her arms; consider that most all {deals, like ghosts | handle the $3 | once contributed for and dreams, fade, and if the fellow in mind is too highly impressed with | fod roads. FUNNY CRACKS ~— HIGHWAY ROBBERS. City Girl—Did_ you ever see any You are at} highway robbers? Furmer—Nope; But Pve had experte: First Artist Other girls are sipping cooling drinks in some restaurant, listening to| my palette knife yesterday THE WEDDING GIFT MONTH. Don't groan when you see that IN THE DEEP. fte you got when were wed You may “pass on” this June. you SOMEBODY SLEPT. While Rev. Charles F. Aked, for: Quackenbos idleness makes women fat. the New York Mail remarks: “Oh, woman, in your hours of ease, Be careful lest you grow obese.” says And Aeronauts will try to fly over iko's Peak this summer. “Pike's Peak or Bust” will now become “Pike's Peak or Bump!” A German writer says the kaiser's trousers don’t fit, What's | the difference, as long as his crown {8 comfortable? Gill—Your father is quite an al? party, lan't he? Finn—Yes; he has been in cold storage so long be has entirely for- ian his age. | 1 ain't exactly! VAST WILDERNESS. ONE WAY OUT. Cucumbers, fee cream and green apples for dinner. Jefferson was the first president inaugurated in Washington. An Oklahoma City man left his parrot $5,500 by will, because he taught the bird not to swear. The relatives are doing the cussing now AUTO-RETRIBUTION, A Colorado orchestra leader fired a pistol to accentuate the music and shot the cornet player The age of chivalry began in 77 and began to wane when gunpowder became a factor In war. | Joseph Lee, president of the American Playground Association, Why, poor little Buzzer is fost. | P47" tmuste beats golf as an ald to Yeu; hang it! I lost | or? Second Artist—-Great Scott! What| He went playin’ In the whiskers of [longevity she kills each day and each night the thought that the “Easier Way” ts} do you eat with now? that gentleman over there.” Hat Fespect from the beast of temptat In fact every woman who is Blso “lion hunting.” ping a useful work in the world is She hunts them in her own life. Harlan’s Faith in the Preamble Brave old Justice Harlan, who stood out alone clates of the supreme court on the truat decision York legisiature and voiced his confidence in the people and their future. He said: fore. | am one of those who believe THERE 18 MORE THAN 18 COM. MONLY SUPPOSED in the preamble to the constitution.” Here is the preamble in full: for the common defense, PROMOTE THE GENERAL WELFARE and Secure the biessings of LIBERTY to ourselves and our posterity, do or Gain and establish this constitution of the United States.” Isn't it a bully preamble, though, when you get the emphasis on the Fight words? And wouldn't it enable us to have about everything essen-| him tial to human happiness, if we had nine Harlans—or even a majority of bim.” Magistrate—-What te your business? Prisoner She kills the thoughts that are more ravenous than any beast Magistrate—Where did you come from? —~ She kills the temptations that would destroy her ideals. Prisoner—-Liverpe Jungie women? Why, they save the world over and over again ev- Magistrate—What did you come to Leeds for? You knew quite well ery day. before you came that there were no docks here. Prisoner—Oh, yes, there are, I am standing in one, Mra. Raifuss (crossly, when she learns her husband has purchased inat his eight asso-|an expensive pipe) addressed the New| extravagant Mr. sistent. “I have more faith today in the American people than | ever had be-| $5 for m: You A Cheerless Giver. ‘i understand that Mr. “We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more per-| ny has been operated on for appen-| nickel, kind sir fect Union, ESTABLISH JUSTICE, insure domestic tranquillity, provide| dicitis,” remarked )i “Yes. was known to » It's “Put you see they chloroform Washington Star aifuss (irritably)—For goodness’ sal arrying us. ———_— a Not as an ald to profanity WHERE HE BELONGED. it siete this cee coeds one Lam a docker. The oid maid says; “it's fine NO BLAME FOR THAT. Oh, Henry, | do wish you wouldn't be so foolishly You are throwing your money away all the time Mary, try to be con found no fault with me a year ago when I gave Mr. Joiner Because it is a dandy chance To be a clinging vine.” Music in the wards prevented a fire panic in Bellevue hospital, New York By Installment. Plachpen. Th the | them ‘are in hotel bedrooms FP welitt “Hal The old story, | suppose. ere are 7,500,000 telephones in * time any one) Out of work and your wife and sev. anything out of | en children starving.” “No, sir. The fact is, I'm purchas- had to give\ing an airship on the instaliment get that plan, and my next installment is due tomorrow. the MAN 18 SAFE NOWHERE. A girl married the man she met in & graveyard, | @ne—on the supreme bench of the United States? f Some day, perhaps, we shall live up to the highest possibilities of our preamble! Cecrtalas TALK about earthquakes! Japan recorded 8,231 of ‘em between 1885 and 1392. o o © IT would appear to the uninitiated that this “absolute life” of Evelyn Arthur See and his followers is in direful need of absolution. o o o PH! BETA KAPPA is the oldest fraternity in the United States and was founded in William and Mary's college, Virginia, in 1776. i Ose LORIMER journeyed from Chicago to Washingt In opposition of direct vote measure. raise the Maine. on especially to aid This man Lorimer’s nerve would o 0 6 THE suffragists of Chicago are planning a series of open-air meet ings on various street corners. Any woman who can get away with an Open-air meeting in Chicago bas nerve enough to fight a dog. o oO oO RODMAN, son of John Wanamaker, Philadelphi man, carries ti a half mil! great dry goods most life insurance of any man in the world—four and o o 6 TRUST SUSTER KELLOGG says his connection with the Steel ‘Trust adviser has been “purely local.” This ought to let off R: toothy g! oot and o 0 oO THE king's horses, dashing into the crowd watching him pass, in fared @ number of people, including many children, reads a cable di Patch, But it isn’t the first time the “herd” has been mowed down | royal chariots b- o 0 06 | A MRS. JOHN SCHENCK of Wheeling, who was accused of trying to 4 poison her husband and is now being sued by him for divorce, will file @ cross bill, naming 17 women as co-respondents. The Schenck family skeleton must have been a pretty lively fellow dor a corpse! 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Spokane, Portland, 8an Fran- cisco, The Swatter’s Question, “The Owl” pushed the old-fashioned Miss Wilma Meter (raveled from 1 never seen. She) It's All Like a Big Family, She} Says — And They Save Money, Too, BY CLARA RUEL. Equestrienne With the ells-Floto Circus.) 8 The Star man has askedome if we cireus women have any lelsure, any pleasure, any spare time My" dear Seattle peo more spare time than the girl fice from 9 till 5; we} sure than the wom- en who work in dressmaking shops or in the big stores; we have more Spare time than we know what to do with—that is, if moat of us were not accustomed to making our own clothes. Are we “sawdurt queens” Bo do- meatic all that? Ob, yes, in- deed. The red spangled gown that 1 wear, for tne though it came fr taming house, 1 fact, mother and | spring and saved $110 on it. The circus management paid us the same figure for it that a customer would have charged. The traveling called for by a eir- cus Is not nearly as tiring or wear- ing on the nerves as you might think, We girls have our own private car in the big clreus train After the performance at night we take turns at using the private bath on our car, Then to bed in a snowy berth, clean and fresh with newly laundered linen. We have a little dressing room on the car and a good mald in paid by the cireus people. In the morning we are up and about by ud a new town nearly every d The parade is a pleasure, for we see the chief bust. ness streets of every city we Ko to and when we get back to the lot there is a refreshing lunch—and | much better than many «# hotel or boarding house, | am sure. Between afternoon and evening performances we have dinner and take an hour or two of rest. Our berths ai it made up in the * |so we may tle down if we are a bit jexhausted after the strenuous work | of the matinee, | Yes, the cireus management pays all Living expenses. 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YSIS SS SSSI ILL LLL Ste ees Re 5 eae MITT ere TNT : ll Mi SS i Sin “Owl” stores are conducted along or two Till at last she has fallen asleep, And you slip on tip-toe be- cau +664 she will wake up and w 5 And a wicked old fly comes buzzing along And lights on the poor baby's nose, | !e it time then to swat, or is it n The best time to swat? Goodne knows! Be kind to the Japanese bell-boy. | He may be a prince in disguise, jot 88 Two Stores in Seattle, Spain has 11,597,048 acres of un- productive land 112 Second Avenue. Other Stores A collapsible boat tnvented by a |Frenchman can be folded to carry in an ordinary sult case, land, Los Ange! Sacramento Justice Howard of New York says |high-heeled shoes are as barbarous jas rings in a woman's nose. 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