The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 10, 1912, Page 4

THE SEATTLE STAR Phones: Private Exchange Main and Independent 441, Star Pablishing Oo. Member of Whited Prees. Published Daily by The tered at ®, Waah., poatortice a Tall, out of oft 1.70, One pone: 35. 7 cnt or Beatth iar w Sonter @ favor B: Ty br once a on ‘balente “to wecu and remul c delivery of le vt wa batity another paper for The Beatt Blar?*Ht"ig"te ae ak che, Moanaworvont to poture to Yond sory complaint are given courteous and prompt attention. If per failed to o| his youl ive any might by @ o'clock kindly phone Retice at ance. “Main 9400 or Ind. 441, Ask for the Circulation Depart: mont The Problem The new year is bound to be a great one in human progress. Tt may sce tremendous advance in knowledge and application of that almost unknown force, electricity, and higher, more practi- cal understanding of all matters of science and mechanics is bound to come. But greatest, highest, best of all, is the promised ss toward common brotherhood. Hand in hand are the spirit of freedom and the love of our fellow men marching on. Liberty, equality, fraternity, are, more plainly than ever before, the goal of human desire and effort. f 4 Vhat do the people want most? Why, just a FAIR CHANCE to live comfortably and decently on a fair day's wages for a fair day’s work. The people are going to ne tits din Wik, Madina chance, too. Better pitch in and help solve the big problem) sith the poot, nas an porns hehe it. ¥ ly mournful expression? “Just a fair chance!” Isn't that the way to put it? Notalk] “Sure! 1 wonder if it ts caused about the world owing every mana living. “Just a fair chance!" |b @ OApA, Ons So aventaee. or That’s God's truth. That's the whole question, Science, litera- scales big problem, the giving of “just a fair chance.” OT | Gen. Reyes gives this pathetic explanation of his attempted revo- 3 that ad soon as I would cross the border the country ret: ‘ae in Chive alone there were waiting 600 men. Do you hew many I found there? One! Although too iate, at last I that the people wanted no more war. Now my desire is to be victim.” Ww many embryo leaders wait, acroan the border, for the ‘ eet How many fail to glean the truth of history, which | when the people are ready, leaders spring spontaneously | m ranks? Leaders are only the foam which ts the result use, of underlying revolt and turmoil, They are the beautiful hich reflect for a second the radiant colors of glory, But ortan, the bi er, love the fragtle diamonds of the mist, and paint thelr hues for the admiration of the ages, and only between the lines sees the rofl of the water down to the and knows that the spume led nothing—that It was but toss warring waves. The people are, like the waters, clinging certain: Ir storms. . vee ieee tanner: stateaman, reformer and dem-| She--Yes; she claims oa a alike are impelled by thelr own furies of impattence or desire |son's opinions get musty wer, to try to lash the masses into action. Seldom to any of these | aren't aired Fates allied. To the man of destiny, and to the calm, impervi-|————~ serenely poised opportunities alone come the splendid moments they sparkle on the spray. + Clothes Only a Habit John Castellow, of Windsor, N. C., celebrated his 62d birthday re- @ently. What of it? Well, he never wore clothes! Gone naked as a it these years. We hasten to add that he lives “on a se Otherwise he might not have celebrated so many birth The humblest of us can pitch in and help solve civilizatign’s ~ ' ture, mechanics and the arts will all do their big things in 1912 1 | He—Miss Bigmouthe talks incom; santly, doesn't she! a oy He Knew “These kids I teach aren't # bit slow,” observed a school teacher. “In fact, Cm afraid they ‘read the papers. The other day | proj [the following problem to my arith- | metic class ‘ “*A rich man dies and leaves one million dollars. One-fifth is to Ko to his wife, one-sixth to his soo, one-seventh to his daughter, one eighth to his brother, and the rest to foreign missions, What does each ot?” ee ‘A lawyer,’ sald the littlest boy in the class, promptly.”—Case and Comment. that he ts healthy In body and mind, and capable of than most young men. be that wearing clothes is just a habit? keep warm?” asked a white man of your face warm?” was the reply. the white man answered. “Indian all We may all come to seriously considering it yet, keeping the cost of living from climbing the golden He Should Remember [tt Sclentists have found that a) grasshopper ean jump 200 times its! own length. This tact should be! remembered by the collegian who! thinks he is going to be needed in the world because he has broken the jumping record. — Chicago Record-Herald. ’Rah- ‘We begin to feel the effects of the U. 8. supreme the Olt case. One of the “unscrambied” — mt that 5 cents more per barre! will be je oll. He A Complex Accomplishment “I understand you speak French lke @ native.” “No,” replied the student, “I've got the grammar and the accent down pretty fine, but It's bard to learn the gestures.”—-Washington Star. has been throttled, robbed and ground i wesay. ‘Rah! Hear us chortle! ‘Rah! done any rab-rahing over off. We're doing ith it before the refining parts of the octopus per gallon on the price of that elevated Pennsylvania th- refined state. Sticker That Sticks. “Brown has mortgaged his house to buy an automobile.” “Well?” . “The other day he sold his auto- mobile, but still has the mortgage If Jones bribes Brown's agent, the courts will compel Jones to} bis house.”—Detroit Free Press, @urrender any advantage he bas secured by the bribery. But {f Jones mays bribes a legisiature or city council, the courts will not protect the state Afraid of Him. @ the city as they will Brown or any other individual. Has it ever| “You never go to banquets with Qccurred to you that the referendum affords the relief which the courts your husband?” Bave denied? If the courts had protected public Interests as they did} “No. I'm always afraid that they Se interests bribery of public agents would not have been so prot-| will aak him to wake « speech.” A . The public had to protect itself, and it has provided the refer-| “And he can't make one?” ndum to do what courts refused to do. “That's it exactly. But if ha ace were asked I just know he'd get up and try.”"—Detroit Free Press. }the world-famous pianist? THE STAR—WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1917 “Why do you believe in woman euffrage? “Because if my wife had a vote, she Would have something else to think of besides my shortcomings and long-colngs.” TO HOLD Hi8 JOB. Jobnson—You don’t mean to say lyou laughed at that story? Smithson—Yep. Had to. Johngon--Had to? Smitheon—Yep. My boss told it. ‘i | New York The stranger in New York was startled by the clanging of an am- bulance boil. The smlulance posed | stopped at the side door of 6 hotel and the attendants burriediy en tered the building with «thelr stretcher, But there was no crowd, no confusion. “What's” the excitement?) the stranger asked a native. “There's no excitement,” the lat ter repited. “A stage lady has shot & wealthy gentleman, Th: And be burried along. Cleveland Plaindealer, The Bitver Lining “What an awfal cold your hes band has. He coughs and sneezes all the time, . Customer (in barber's chair)—So you haven't heard Von Trumper, Barber—-No. Dose Danists not. fer batronize me, an’ batronize dem. Quick Teacher — What ts Johnay? | Johknny—Velocity i what a chap lets go of & wasp with.-London Answers. velocity, Impossible! Jones—Say, old nit, I want to tell you some'bing fummy about my gas meter, I Smith—Go on, old man, go on! If you know anything funny about & fas meter, make me laugh! Baltimore Evening Sun. Properly Classified. Napoleon of finance,” I didn't know he oo “He ten't. But he ts rateing a family of nine children on $12 a week.”"—Houston Post. G, Elliot Flint, author of a useful book on health and exercise, tells ‘@ that “imagination is an aid to digestion.” | Much obliged! _\_ But can you prove, Mr. Flint, that imagination is also valuable as , an_aid to getting something to digest? If so, you will enable many struggling families to improve their standard of living without striking for higher wages, | Observations DO your registering early. 4 ine to a few months ago there was’a pensioner on the pension roli Pion, Chicago oysters couldn't knock Bob La Follette out, Strong sere e ONE thing La Follette learned in Ohio—the Buckeyes are for re- of judges, see we @ ¢ POLITICS seems to be coming around to this question: Roosevelt and Bryan both stampede their conventions? ee ee AND now Jud Harmon's got tho progressive democratic bee a buzzing about hfs cars, with honey fresh from the blooming Bryan. oe eee Can! Miss Chance—Miss Antique says her engagement ring cost a hun dred dollars. Miss Caustique—I guess means that she spent that entertaining the man she} much before she THE same interests that opposed the city lighting plant, and every other people's movement, will be found opposing Erickson's bank plan. |®°¢ ose ee — TRUE TO HER WO a “Didn't Daisy tefl you going to treat Jack real medi whi he called?” “Yes.” “Well, evening.” ; “My, oh, my! Me djdn’t Hanegve all that brutality.” ’ she sang for him/all § TRUE. BLAINE and Wardall, a year ago, were terribly shocked when Hi ae —— Gill tried to beat the recall on technicalities. Now behold Blaine and ~ Wardall beating Gill at that same. . ee ee IN OREGON It’s no crime for a judge to solicit a bribe, as long aa he is turned down—so sayeth a wise judge sitting in Judgment én an. other judge. Yet they say that judges are godlike! eee ABBOTT, Ontlook’s president, says Roosevelt tan't a candidate, eat the more others say he isn't the more folks believe he is. U: ‘eddy chirps own absolute refusal there'll be suspicions, _— Wave Your Photo saxen In a Real Auto POST CARDS—$1.00 PER Doz. Kodak Films developed, t0c a foll, any size. A. M. FROST 1332 First Ave. Seattle. KODAK DEVELOPING 10c kor. Any Size. LANE’S BOOKSHOP 208 Union st. G PARLORS BROADWAY AND UNION Men like with intelligence. Miss Wise—Yes, provided they have enough of it in them to re frain from impressing the man with| his ignorance, t women ~ PUZZLING. Mrs, Pester—Will something to me? Mr, Pe Yes, m'dear | Mrs, Pester—T want to know why a soft mark is always hard up, | you explain | JOSH WISE SAYS: “Nate Fride mush won consid front 0’ some city farmers th’ other day. He told ‘em he remembered when buttermilk used tor be fed ter hogs” EASY Mra. Grammercy—If you work for a living you'll never have much money. Mra. Park—That's so, I think I'D take up bridge and live on other women's allmony.—-Puck DION'T SEEM FUNNY , Litde Johnny—That young man who comes to see you must be pret- ty poor company, Ho hasn't any sense of humor, Sistor-—Why do you think so? Litde Johnay—1I told him all about the funny way you rush about and bang doors when you get tn a temper, and he dian’, laugh a bit.— Exchange, . HI VAIN REGRET The first parents were leaving the Garden of Eden together, when Eve Py ee stepped behind Adam, with more truth than modesty, “Huh!” muttered Adam, with a boastfulsess that was surprising. “If that order had been followed when the serpent was interviewed, 1 bet we wouldn't be walking out now!"-—Puck. ALWAYS WITH US Air ships! Wireless telegraphy! The new things are innumerable. But the tariff we ha us,—Jobn Bigele Not as Polite as the Neighbors. Mra. Nexdore—Professor Adagio cailed at our house yesterday and my daughter played the plano for him. He jugt raved over ber play- ing. Mra. Peprey—How rade! Why couldn't be conceal bis feelings the way the rest of us Got-—Catholic MIRE, RAZORBACK ANSWERED THE DOORBELL ONLY ‘To Pe CONFRONTED WITH Tus Question, “IF MRS WOLGAST MARS A WOBBLE SkIRT AND A SAWOR WAT, HOW DOES “| Appress? Burnsides, Lady Customer—I'm so disap- pointed. Last month you had such lovely sideboards. Furniture Clerk (blushing)—t know, but my wife made me shave “Why are you moving?” “We forgot to gi Christmas present.” ord-Herald. Chicago Reo: Fatalist. “Wombat is a predestinarian.” “What oa earth ts a predestinar- ian?” “A man who believes he's bound to get run over by an automobile some day.”-—Puck, An Improvement. Customer—Why do you call this a common-sense diary? Stationer—After thé first few pages it’s ruled like a memorandum book.—Judge. Nuff Said. “And you like chicken, Sam?’ “Gee! I certainly does, boss.” “And you get ‘em once in @ while?” “Oh, sure, boss, I gets ‘em,” “How do you get ‘em, Sam?" “Well, boss, you know dat ol’ saying, “Love will find the way.’ "— Yonkers Statesman, Class “What's the difference between a chiropodist and a corn doctor, paw?" “Fifty cents or a dollar, I sup- pose, Tommy.”—Chicago -Tribune. Not So Bad, Hostess—It's beginning to rain. You'll get wet. 1 think you'd bet- ter stay to dinner. Departing Guest—Oh, dear, no! It's not raining so hard as all that.” A Foxy Scheme. “Tommy, if you'll saw some wood (il tell you what I'll do.” “What's that, dad?” “TN let you have the sawdust to play clreus — with.”"—Washington Herald. No Let-Up. Gibbe--Banks married his wife because she was a good conver. sationalist Dibbs—-Yes, and divorced her be- cause she talked too much.—Boston ‘Transcript. Recognition. ee one of our big corporations ing to do something for its old clerks.” “Good enough! it take?" “Well, after a man has b them 25 years they're going to give him a gold stripe on his sleeve."— Loulsville Courler-Journal, What form will n with How’d You Like to Tell Stories to 22,211 Kiddies? That’s What Gertrude Andrus Has “Toll us a story.” jstantly asking us for books on the | story.’ Who ip there who hasn't heard | art of story telling. “We don't force the from some eager littie, “The value of story telliig i#|the children and many fold, to children, especially. | tomatically rT It fami em with good Eng | with the children leh, It creates for them the facul-| for the men have many which make thelp ‘ti Done Can you come up to the occasion and come through with a story?) ty of sustained atiention. It devel-| truths And how many stories can you tell? ops a sense of humor, and raises | worth while Any number of them, you say. Weill, their literary standard, It culti- ranch libraries where ¥ Just begin and see how soon you'l| vates the imagination, and lastly, it |telling department is tir, find yourself at the end of your teaches them moral truths. This|at Ballard, Fremont, Green La 4 story rope. | may sound priggish, but we don't | Collins, University and 3 How many, @o you think, can{t#l! stories with obvious morals.|tle. The biggest story vn hold the interest of the little ones | “@ don't say to the children: ‘See,|was in November, when gy ra [ff you are good, woo, then all these |tended the story Dad with storles day after day, week in £ and week out, for mouths, nice things will come to you like| Andrus has been in beret, 4 are? Not many, to be sure.” they did to the boy or girl im the |local work for four year And that is why Miss Gertrude | =i a HUNGRY Andrus ts the champion story tehier| UNCLE SAM FAILS TO GUARD Sie greenest he Gok ELK FROM MONTANA POT-SHOOT children’s department at the Seat the public brary, and months to 22,211 kiddie: How it’s Done. Of course, story telling is not the ouly work of the children's depart ment in the library, But it is one of the big advertisements, as it were, to interent the children in reading. books, And the Beattle library has one of the best book clreulating departments for children in the country Every Tuesday afternoon tots ranging from 6 to 10 years come to the library immediately after schoo! to Haten to fairy tales and light his torteal stories told by Miss Andrus or one of her assistanté, Every Friday afternoon the bigger chil- dren come to the central Mbrary. To the latter &@ series of stories such as Charlemagne’s tales, stories of King Arthur, and #0 on, are told. The series covers an entire year, SPOKANE, ‘Wash, Jan. 9.— About 999 men out of 1,000 In this country never see a live sure- enough elk outside of @ too, Yet|on the depot platform at Ga thousands of elk are being wanton-| Mont. shows how the sls ly killed in Montana this winter.|goes, There are 42 elk The government has been care-jin this picture. The fully preserving the few wild elk| there were 22 elk care: left by herding them tn the ‘Yetlow-| platform at Livingston stone National park. But the park/three to @ dozen at the stretches for miles and miles, and tions. when the snows come the elk jeave| The government has ti the park and hunt better pasture/soldiers loafing at Wi on the lower levels, Montana has|racks, but only a feeble no especial game laws about elk,|or two are detailed to and the pot hunters le across the | park reserve. line @nd shoot the bands a come out of the park. gan be found. For the children get aa ee Mer) + mightily interested and want to read the stories themselves. But story telling does not end for the young women at the Mbrary with these two afternoons. Thoy are kept busy every day of the week visiting branch libraries, schools, even high schools, where Kipling stories might be told, for example. They also get invitations from women's clubs to epeak on the art of story telling. They tell stories on many different occasions. 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