The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 12, 1911, Page 4

a THE SEATTLE STAR | Phones: Private Kechange Main 9400 and Independent 441 Wistiber of Uhited Pree, Published Dally by The Star Wy 1, gut of city outs 1 One year, $3.98. On the Soft Pedal, Gentlemen! Certain eastern editors and sociologists are seriously cussing proposed laws requiring women to qualify for mar age. The idea is that the increased cost of living demands special qualification on the part of the housekeeper They point to recent legislation in Norway, under which a girl Cannot marry until she shows that she is of good habits and ¢an cook, sew and care for children in sickness or health This proposition may have merit, but it lacks decidedly in reachitiveness. We mean that it is too one-sided to become legal statute in this country From the heights of our editorial masculinity to announce that every girl contemplating marriage should be of good habits and be able to“cook, sew and do nursing, but the thought will obtrude itself that every man contem plating marriage should also be of good habits and be able to do his. part in the struggle with 40-cent bacon, 60-cent eggs, $15 coal and the like Considering the thing from an economic viewpoint only, the average bridegroom has about four wholly extravag habis to the bride's one, and as to other habits the majority of men had best do no heavy cheering Under such conditions, and when we consider that woman is going to take part in creating laws, we suggest, gentlemen, that it is a glorious time, a proper time, a pious time to sing low on forcing woman to quality for marriage, or most any- thing else. dis it is easy A Primary Grade Lesson “Why did the beet sugar manufacturers of California raise their price just because New York refiners 5,000 miles away did so cause it was good business,” 1 Rupert Willet, of New York. There was 2 cents per pound more profit Why did we of “easy picking” pay more for sugar? swer:, Because the r trust made us. Gee! but rudimentary lessons in economics are easy! answer An- these st Popular Umpire, at Last Oxnard, Cal., will have no more coaches and the bleachers will be mighty ‘umpire hereafter. If they have anything to say it will be with hat in hand and uttered in soft accents. How do we know? Why, the umpire hereafter is the tharming Miss Ruth Jones. She knows the points of the game, too, “Three strikes—out !” she exclaims in silvery tones, where- upon the batsman touches bis hat, says “Thank you, ma ‘arn,” and takes his seat with pleasure and the manners of a Sunday school boy the week before Christ umpire-baiting. The courteous to the Young, Bat a Husky Kid Maybe your baby boy, sometime, turns up his nose, closes his eyes ‘and “makes faces.” There isn’t much that's artistic or pretty bat it eute, surprising, and you say it’s good, laugh at it and bother your friends about it. ad ‘aoe such excuse for being amused and surprised can be given as ‘one observes what the Socialist administration of Milwaukee, young, to- experienced and experimental, like a baby boy in government, has done. ‘The death rate of infants, in one district, has been reduced from 10 to 2. by “baby station” work. The city has an inventory of its pos sessions, even down to curry comba, and petty gouging has been stopped. In a year new capital invested in Milwaukee has grown from 18 million -. @ollars to 23 millions, bullding permits from ¢ to 11 millions, bank clear ‘Bhees have grown 32 millions, and bank deposita have nearly doubled. But you'll miss it if you see nothing behind these smiling figures. They really mean that to have the people govern themselves in their own interest is « good thing. and that there is still investing capital in the country seeking opportunity where the common people are aroused, @nergetic and hence prosperous. The sort of capital that does not de- mand special advantage is the sort that does not take to its heels at the first shriek about political calamity made by old party bloodsuckers ‘That Milwaakee baby boy in government is good to look on. He is showing the folks that the party Jabel isn't worth the paper upon which it is printed. Postmaster General Hitchcock's offer of for steamers carrying mail via the Panama canal did Not much of a predicament, and one eastly got out of. Sam do it! If a man had to have a house and no contractors bid on the job, he'd build it himself, wouldn't he? Why not have the navy carry this Panama mail? When not ac quiring barnacles in harbor, the navy is out exercising itself, anyway, and a little practice on running to and through the canal would be good, even as a war measure, to nothing of delivery of that mail. Whenever there are no competitive bids on necessary national en. terprises, the solution always is, r If Uncle can’t rent a seat in the Big Business auto, he can walk,| always. And you can bet that he won't walk far before there'll be whole flock of autos along offering to pick him | TAFT’S trust message teeth need filling. 0,000 in subsidy * bring a bid, Let Us simply suggests that the Sherman law's} o 0 oO AND now Dr. Wiley says Americans don’t know how to cook he doesn't dare to say it up at our house, ° ° A BAND of 1,900 to 1,500 musicians will play, all together kane next year. It'll be the year of the big ail right a. ie WOMEN of Los Angeles beat prohibition by altogether, sing! We till morning, home til! mornin Ac Bet at Spo- noise 87,000 to 22,000, Now,| needn't go home we needn't go are to blame for the wayward child prob. te. But who's to blame for the incom: INCOMPETENT parer lem, says « New York ma petent parents? JAMES ROWAN, track wa on the Northern Pacific with expenses paid, to Ireland for | r for 32 years in the Yakima canyon| ation or a day off, has been sent, | Maybe he won't enjoy that! | - WEDNESDAY night San Diegans turned out moonlight rainbow It is one of th casionally, to show how inexhaustible of men may well fall on their kne to gaze in awe at a that the Lord exhibits oc His glories, and the biggest] it | o 6 EMPRESS DOWAGER of China says Prince Chun wept and prayed to resign the regency It was becoming pretty hot job for Chun. But) isn’t it nice to see one of the divine righters just howling to be cut| loose from his divine right to run folks? a SUCH MEN ARE DANGEROUS “I don't like the looks of that juror with t pointed chin,” the defendant in the case whist “He has an ugly mug,” said the lawyer “It isn't altogether his looks, though paying too blamed close attention to th big ears and the long,| ed to his lawyer that’s a fact.” | confided the testimony.” GIRL SHOWS WISDOM Jane—That Mr. Shallopate is at the door. Shall I tell him you are engaged? Miss Pinkie—Show him Into the parlor, Jane. Jane—Yes'm. Miss Pinkle—And, Jane, after he lays his box of chocolat table, tell him I'm out,—-Exchange. Be ee NO NEED OF IT One day Mark Twain was being shaved by a very talkative barber and was forced to listen to many of his anecdotes. The barber had to and when he was ready, brush in hand, to commence “Shall 1 go over it again?” “No, thanks,” drawled Mark. “It's hardly necessary. gemember every word.”~-Everybody's, AN EXPLANATION married! husband ‘gn Be Perak” husband die, or what? client he’ Chicago Tribun: T think [ can you have latter.” SOME FROM A FIGATERS. | NEVER JUST / DONT oF PROMINENT PEOPLE. FAMILY OF NATURAL MIND Ti € YOURS. ARE My ANCESTOR THE STAR—TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1911 seamen ac ae aT WE ‘N FACT 1 CAME BORN CAN TRACE MY LINEAGE — ee ARE VERY ‘Ae I! 7 MEME! THAT JUNK f RATHER “Why did you shoot at “Took you for a deer. coat “No; I thought It seemed rather odd, as I shot."—Loulsville Courier Journal. Canvasser—A: NOTHING THE MATTER re you single? Man at the Door—-Yea. “Why, the people next door told me you wore married “So Tam.” “You told me just now you were single.” “You; so I did” “Well, what is the matter with you? “Nothing, “Didn't you see my bright red coat? Does a deer wear a bright red e ir. My name ts Single, and I'm married. Good day, sir.” REFUSING A CROWN Manager take the part of a king You'll get cents a performance. Applicant can't assume the Vat makes der “Dot is because composed of kern BETWEEN Manager- play you take ye and cleave the en De Hamlet Roads take the pa experience carvin, steak. Sorry, but 1 bons, affairs o° for anything like that amount "MILITARY corn stalk so?” its family is all els THE ACTS |, Cae In act two of the new ancient battle ax nemy Let Richard De rt; he's had more % boarding-house WRONY OF FATE |. “What strange sight is this, of the conquered clinging armor?” “No, mystery, me lady ‘have his armor magnetized.” BY MOONLIGHT First Actor two days——-can Second Actor—Sure, If 1 get trunk out of the window! AT THE SHOW Harper—Queer thing about let girls, isn’t it? Parker What's ‘em? Harper queer Why, never seem to grow gray in service, yon Say, | want a super to|knight riding with a dozen swords bie He paid state |a fabulous sum to a magician to = | The hotel clerk just} handed me a bill for $10 for our) you my bal. about no matter how long they remain on the stage they “Th’ only piace where anybody wears yarn mitts hangin’ from a string draped over th’ shoul- ders je in th’ Broadway = rural drammer.” MUSICAL APPRECIATION “Is your boy Josh fond | music?” “IT should say 80," replied Farmer |Corntoswel, "When one o' these here musical comedies comes along t# to be right up as close rchestra as possible.” — Washington Star, of A WEAK CHAP “What does your husband want for Christmas?” “Oh, he is never able to make up his mind. That man doosn't even know what he wants for breakfast.” MISJUDGED Husband What makes you think I sm eruelly misjudged when 1 go out walking with you? Young Wife--1 am #o pretty that 1 suppose everybody thinks I'm your affinity, ACCOMMODATING Boy tn Charge of Rooks (to gen tleman who bad bee rusing @ volume without any si of pur chasing)--Would you like « bit o° carpet to stand on while yer read all the books? It's very cold. THE MOST POPULAR POIBON “It Is incorrect to say that a man said the editor, #0,” replied the writer, 4 besides it's outof-date. The thing to say je that a man cyan 8 EVIDENT “There is one bit of decoration 1 know they bad in that famous Ro tee pala What was tha “A fine frieze. American Baltimore EXTREME TEMPER “Bangs is a very ill-tempered man, I hear,” “Bo ilhtempered that he won't tide in anything bat « sulky.” — Baltimore American. KINDRED SPIRITS “Lady,” said Plodding Peto, “Tt jatn't had a square meal in two days Well,” sald the resolute wo man, a6 sbe turned the dog loose, “netther has Towser, so I hope youll excuse him.” Washington Star. BEFORE AND AFTER “How does this noted healer who ures bis patients by touching m differ from @ regular physi- jan?” Why, he cures | Dealer he touches them them b Cleveland ‘ore Plain Brain-Skid. ¢ A Vigorous Performer. “Does your boy Josh play on the football team “No, plied Farmer Corntassel “Josh wouldn't stand for no molly coddie job like that. He's the fel- ler that leads the mob and wrecks opry houses after the game is er.” —Washington Star Swissco | Proves It Grows Hair Stops Dandruff and Scalp Diseases, | Restores Gray or Faded H } to Its Natural Color. teed it We w rend 106 Pe and send you @ trial Dottie and our wonderful testimentais | ‘There ie no excuse for baldness Write Mair Remedy Co, 8670 Cimeinnatt, Obie. at at rom i Oe and day to Rwiew ©. Bavare. no * For sale in Seattle at Owl Drug Co. Stores Newest Fur Turbans Made of your old furs. Latest styles now tn. || MODEL MILLINERY 527 People’s Bank Bi Wholesale Robbery of Workers--Just Plain, Raw ause of Big Strike in Button Town | ride ten miles in a carioad of mules Larceny, Is C BY E. C, ROGERS. ! MUSCATINE, I, Deo, 12— buttons: per cent of all the pearl buttons used in America are made in Muscatine. Eight factor jes, employing 3,000 men, women and children—quite an exclusive little industry for this nice tittie corn belt town of 17,000 popula tion and something for you to re member the city by But did you know also that most of the Muscatine pearl buttons on your shirt, sir, or on your shirt walnt, madam, were made by na tive born American mon and wom en who got the lowest pay In the world? That too, is something by which to remember Muscatine Work for nothing it? And foolish? Sure! But these foolish men and women of Muscatine thought they HAD to do it, until a few montha ago, in order to keep thelr jobs| and make a iiving Maybe they WILL have to, yet. But in the meantime Muscatine has a strike that is attracting national atten tion. 1 came here to find out these eonditio which breed hatred in the minds of workers and incite to violence To begin with, the manufacturers pay 4 cent to « cent and ao half a pound for the mussel shells, A pound will make many buttons The shells soak a week or two, while the bodies of the mussel tn wide rot away Then machines Uittle round button ‘bh shell. The cut these machines in and out of vilesmelling water all Funny tsn’t have their hands this fetid, day They got $7 to $10 » week—also they get “shell polsoning”—-a seurvy-like disease resulting from soaking their hands continually in the poisoned water. Bianks cut from the thin edges of « shell make poor buttons, 80 years ago it was estimated that 14 dozen would yield ab 12 dozen—good bu’ paid by the dozen, Thus arose ® custom of calling 14 dozen a gross. ‘Then the manufacturers adopted another trade custom. When a/t cutter turned in 14 dozen blanks | drilling, polishing and carding. The they called it a gross. Then they|grinder got nothing for grind climinated the “bad” blanks all|ing “bad” buttons, the machine girl again, deducting from the|got nothing for drilling the holes | groas credited to the cutter. So,/in them, the polisher got nothing in reality, he got a net credit of,|for polishing them, the sorter got say, 9 or 10 dozen, for the 14 dozen /nothing for sorting them. Yet any | he turned tn. one of these girls would have been Of course, the manufacturer fired on the spot for refusing to throws away these “bad” blanks handle them. Only the woman or that have been eliminated thrice |child under 14 working at home over from the cutter’s pay check? who sewed them on a card for! Of course NOT! They ure work-|1% cents a gross, got pald for! o4 up like all the rest, carded and handling “bad” buttons sold. Ob, yes; the manufacturer gets for every dozen of them he utive committee. pl front of the Hawkeye factory. After the blanks are ow t they go paid MIXED The Caller (who has been looking over her b enjoy “Marcus Aurelins”? The Hostess (delayed at her tollet and a little flustrated)—Oh, yes. Where is he now? The last time I saw him he was in “The Sign of the Cross.” Such a manly figure, wasn't he?—Cleveland Plain Dealer EVERYBODY CAME “Yea, our whole department made s desperate effort to save the Property at the fire last night.” “Did they send in a second alarm?’ “They didn’t have to. it was the distiller: ystess’ books)—Do you "—Philadelphia Times. HIS USE FOR SOAP “Lady,” said Meandering Mike, “would you lend me a cake of soap?” “Do you mean to tell me you Want soap?” “You'm. Me partner's got de hiccups an’ I want to scare him. hington Star, A FRIENDLY NATION! enTa Ce 2S cP aus —From the New York American. THE SNUB AVERTED vd me your candid opinion of my painting,” requested the bud iat worthless,” replied his friend, ; I know it's worthless, but let me have tt anyway.” GEMS OF THOUGHT BY OSCAR AND ADOLF Der vorst ding aboudt a cigaret iss ad der odder end of it from vere id tae Mt. Ven a man brags on being a champion kicker, we challentch him to Decision reserfed to see vedder he arrifes in goot order. Vous ina oame? A sunfish hass to go to bed in der dark. Ven @ man iss “in der bands of his friends,” he hat better keep hiss own hands on his pocketbook. Ven Poferty comes ad der door, Lofe shoult vash der vindows und |dischartch der hired girl It iss easy for a amateur farmer to unterstant der operadion of a! cornshredder after he vonce gets hiss hand in. | hrough the processes of grinding, | se At left, Mise Anna Richley, a “sorter” and member of strikers’ epg At right, Miss Nora Dale, a “machine girl.” ieture shows group of men and boy pear! button workers, lined up im you may be su girls 2 got only berculosis and through working in the: shell which cuts the lungs Mke They become, in time, lunged mothers of weak- children Don’t Wear A Tru Si Have Produced An Appliance far Men, Women or Children That Cures Rupture. 1 Send It on Trial. If you have tried. most ev else, come to me. 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