The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 13, 1912, Page 4

“THE SEATTL Bubsoribers to at once of any paper, or any attempt to subs titute saomes : our Da tay mane office the cous and prom y'nt get by & o clsok inaly phone nce. Main 9400 or ind, 441, Ask for the Ciroulation Depai Broken Homes and Hearts a the One of the greatest tragedies of human slavery was aisaking ea of faunily ties, especially the selling of children away from their mothers. Was this tragedy ended in the United States when Abraham Lincoln signed the proclamation cipation? ae ‘ : Fretwrick BE. Bauer, agit gy of the Children’s Bureau of the Department of Public Charities, is authority for the statement that between 3,000 and 4,000 children are ag from their parents every year in New York City because the rising cost of living submerges the family, making it ‘ome sible for their parents to support them. They are cared for by charitable institutions and a beautiful charity it is. But so far as the sentiment of parental and filial love is concerned, does it make so very much difference whether the faraily is broken at the auction block or at the empty breakfast table Broken families mean broken hearts as much now as in the days of “befoah de wah.” below zero and When you have a wife and six children and it |e 20 below, siva te ‘week, your state of mind is calied “general unre: wae Ori geo worth of work out of you every alx days. . Pierpont Mor, is now investing in ancient armor but not for pu ny py og He has the best modern armor in the | From head to foat he is clad in the shining metal 4 Phe railroads, the industrial monopolies, the banks—these are his hetmet, his shield and his lance. He throws his gauntlet to all comers. unhorsed! Bureaus, commissions, legislatures, congress, even the supreme court of the United States, go down in the jousting with this great knight of the 2th century, “Some small bick- eri they may occasionally have with him, but never once a lost his seat or even his stirrups. He is the unbeaten champion. Dee he and his kind have still to meet the plain people in the new coat of mail they are fashioning at the armory of . The helmet of direct nominations, the shield of {nitiative and referendum, the flaming sword of recall of judges —how, now, Sir Pierpont?. Competitors? All has been tendered the American Cross of Honor. ing rge, His Gracious Majesty, has accepted American Cross of Honor. We are glad of it. Kin il now sleep better, and the American Cross of giving away. 't know much about the American Cross of Honor, ‘is a medal “given for acts of heroism,” and that Emperor William, the King of Italy and Andrew h have an American Cross of Honor. No, we can- ¢ acts of heroism wete performed by these ‘t be downhearted. Maybe St. Peter won't ies on your hands half as long as he will Honor on Bill’s or Andy's vest. ¢ way, haven't they any Cross of Honor for that old hero of heroes, Coal Oil Johnny? "King é : 4 I li £ : g ae et geil ef 's sociological writing lies in the deftness with which she conceals her own conclusions under a smooth, sympa- the reader to fancy himself profound in iiss Addams apparently falls to grasp. tions upon the underpaid working ved theories of the remedy for The clumsy morallat sees too of the streets, a victim of vanity. Mise Ws, NOt an end, but the means. The appearance of gaudiness and gayety, just as the tacks on the bright lights and the tintinnabulation of real or perceives in the snap-notion of a mini- possible good in selected cases, where the woman has but her own support to care for—but she finds, fm her painstaking and tireless investigations, that nearly all working! girls are burdened with the support of others. Th "go wrong.” in cases, from sacrificial motives that are angelically pure, ! al side goes. They sell the body, not for the body’s/ $5 or $6 a week in factory or store, and where she $20 to keep want from her dear ones, what “minimum $12 would suffice? gentlemen and ladies, that you all have a theory, the ancient tradition that the girl and woman wage-| working either for pin-money, or, at the worst, her own fou must know that most of these persons, with the delicacy x, laboring under handicaps and discriminations against that are mainstays of families—little matriarchs. The woman's love own operate against her. Where the boy will cut if necessary, from parents and younger brothers and “It ie as much as I can do now to take care of my-| pours even her chastity upon the altar of family de- be overlooked that Gov. Hay was among those jen’s Republican club meeting last night, not 1g M. TRIBUTE TO A STREET CAR CONDUCTOR’S WIFE RIDING ON A BROADWAY car thereof.” By the way, your business about 6 p. m. last Tuesday evening | and working men ought to keep a I observed a domestic episode which aroused a sympathetic inter- est. It was cold and dreary, but the faithful conductor cheerily per- formed his ‘bousand and one duties besides. KEEPING THE PASSENGERS in good humor. Soon @ tittle wom- an enteréd the car with a basket steaming away like a tea kettle. Bho established herselt near where her husband stood and immediate- opened the magic package. ONCE MORE A GOOD wife was publicly proving the worth of a ‘working man’s home. I guess you know that our street car mon must often eat their meals on the cars, UNCONSCIOUS OF THEIR sur- Foundings, seemingly unaware of the deprivations of evening meals at a glowing table in a cozy room, they laughed and talked. She waited on him ey He called streets, bells, PASSED LAUGHING REMARKS | to his wife, while the lovelight shone from her eyes. Truly Solo- mon was a wise man—or somebody was, for the old book of Proverbs said an up-to-date truth-~“Better is & Ginner of herbs where love is, THAN STALLED OX and hatred your pocket for dally reference. | beats a bank book in some ways. THE WIVES OF OUR city are do- ing their share. They are the best Institution we have in Seattle. A | good wife is above rubies, If the | working men had nothing else but | wives such ay this noble, joyal wom- jan, THEY ARE RICH. The corporat! tions also should take notice. Give the wives a chance for ai |home life as possible, It i |@ matter for rebuke that time is not given employes to have the evening MEALS AT HOME. It is “God's plan for woman to rule the world) throngh man.” When they become conscious of a wrong being done the| jhome life, we may expect. a radical change to come. Women will have| their way, ST 18 WONDERFUL how long a piece of idiocy will stick in tue hu- mah brain. The idea that a wife ean be taken for granted is a hus band’s sin, Without such devotion as I saw that night homes would be shells. Thank God for good wives and for the men who know their value, It copy of the book of Proverbs in|_ THE STAR—SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1912 ‘Keep your eye on our paying teller; he's started | cireulation. to study law, a week.” PERHAPS— If you doa’t, you t glance it over, for the . best stanza Heary Wads' Longteliow over wrote: I remember the black wharves and their alige, the sea tides tossing free; YOU DON'T know this. Toacher—-William the Conqueror | _— Engtand In 1066 A.D. How of husbands!—~Puck, A St. Louis man is asking for @ divorce on the that he was drunk when he married. it ie strange that the of that sert of liquor bavg never tried # market fer it in Boston.—Houston had meat once @ month. No wonder it Journal. HE WAS WISE. it. Jonee——T'm not going to play other game of cards. I threw the lust deck of cards into the stove this afternoon. Mr, Jones—Ob! Warning your bridge behind you, eh? Mr. Divorsey—Ah! Julia, dearest, my heart ts in your Julia Wise—I'm aot running @ storage warehouse for damaged goods. HE UNDERSTOOD PEOPLE Police Commissioner—If you were ordered to disperse a mob, what would you do? Applicant—-Pass around the hat, sir, Police Commisstoner—That'll do. You're engaged.—Satire, CAUSE FOR GLOOM “Why do you look so downhearted this morning? made a thousand dollars yesterday in Wall street?” “1 did, but my wife lost two thousand at bridge.”——Life. Thought you LAYER UPON LAYER Bacon—How were the chickens packed In the cold-storage house? Egbert—Looked ike layers to me.—Yonkers Statesman ~~ HARD NIGHT “I feel rotten—imy cor scheme doesn’t harmonize this morning.” “Your color scheme? What do you mean?” “The brown taste in my mouth doesn’t correspond (to the blue of my feelings.” “It wad my case ot appendicitis that gave Doctor Kuttem his big ation.” es, and it was my case of the same malady that helped pay him for the big reputation you gave him,” HOeeeeeeeeee |dropped in 408H WISE SAYS: “Besleysport hae more | an’ professional jurore than any town if th’ to It seoma billboards. ——~ difficult clothes on the theatrical In the game of life you get no NEXT CONTEST How would you go about giving & party? Cynthia Grey suggested this to the Cirele because so many children have written her asking for ideas, When you come to think of it, mak | ing arrangements for « party for! obildrén is rather a difficult propo | sition, and it suggests a good test Clrele contributors, Include , most of the minor detatis in your | contributions, because usually the little things are the things that count. Nearly every boy and gir! has a different way of getting up * party. Don't forget to mention the games which you think are most do you believe in Three prizes will , and the winning letters and names of the winners will be published im next Saturday's Corner. Letters must not contain over 200 words. Dgn't forget to get your “party story” ta early, FIRST PRIZE The kitten fe the best pet, in my | | ‘estimation, and I ike my pet kitty jbetter than any know of. Its name wes White Spot, and the poor kitty died just two weeks ago. We had @ regular funeral for Whitey, and I made a tiny little grave to bury other pets Because she c See, saw, Marge ag = ea? i, H As Any Boy's Father Knows heart . chance, In 1910, according to Uncle Sam, Michigan had 66,792 goese. For the Michiganders there in 1910 seo the last consus report. Philadelphia North American: “CARNEGIE PREVENTS WAR AMONG PEACE ADVOCATES!” And yet there are those who do say that Andy's millions have done for the cause of Headline from RRA Business Booming “Kind o’ restful at your store, isn't it, now that the Christmas trade is over?” “Restful? Gosht worked nearly to death.” “Oh, I forgot that you run he ‘goods exchanged’ coun- er.”—Chicago Tribune, KKK RK RK Tm bn in in Min hn Mh tn in Sn the nl t t Wife Was Peeved A Knoxville bride is very much in love with her husband and very | willing to admit it. She likes to sound his praises to her mother and to her girl friends, which is quite ad it should be. She has a number of original expressions, When her husband is good she says he is “chocolate cake three layers deep.” When he is very good he ia “choc. olate cake four layers deep,” and so on up the seale. Occasionally, take a turn. however, things The bride's mother the other day. The bride was a trifle peevish, but her mother pretended not to notice this. “And how is George today?" was her inquiry, “Chocolate cake four deep?” ee layers deep?" ‘No Two layers deep?” No.” This with a pout, hen what is het” “Dog biseult!”—Pittsburg sost. CIRCLE MEMBE ELIZABETH DONLAN, 1522 334 Av., City. D PRIZE @ little dog for — pet, and that the dog makes the best all. I think very much of He is very playful, and every day we have « run and frolic to- gether. I think a dog ts taught things much easier than other dumb antmals, and they understand you etter. There is no other friend so true and faithful to his master or mistress as a dog ia FRANCES LLOYD, Sedro Woolley, Wash. era He HERE’S A WINKER The horte is my favorite of all pets, for I think he ts so unusually handsome and intelligent. Whea| Hi. you pay the proper attention to the horse and take good care of him you couldn't find a more loving oreature dor a pet. It makes me feel bad when 1 seo a horse {ll treated, and 1 think drivers would benefit more and the horse would work harder for them if they abol- ished the whip and treated him 1s Grace May who is the Circle’a most successful She always makes it a point get her contributions into The and it's usually Y A Jennie shall have a new master; She shall have but a penny a da * an't work any lea, CEH ig tht y ry Daw, Se+s eee ee * HONOR ROLL * ttkkttnesee Henry Moberg e Mary Lusk Walter Bennett Tania Hittner Leland Brown Frank Parrish, Jr, Nowadays, whon kings are almost a dead letter, the average boy Bas a slim chance indeed of ever becoming a king. Even boys who are born to the king business never feel quite cer- tain any more that they will live to be kings-that the crowns won't all be broken before they get a chance to wear them. And as for the boy with no royal blood in his veins, he has hardly any more chance of becoming a king than he has ‘of getting @ controlling interest in the Ni York Central railroad. Yet here is a boy of today, born in hum- ble circumstances, who has tak billion- toone shot in the game of life—and has won. He has made himself a king—no cong shakes of a king, perhaps, but still a ng. The story of how this wandering boy be- came a king is as strangely romantic as the fact that crowns it. the story of how @ 16-year-old Jad ran away to sea, tramping from Hull to Liverpool to ship as cabin boy on a trawler; of how later he became a mounted policeman in South Africa, and later still a trader in Uganda—and last a king In the land of Ka-Kikuyu, It t# ‘he story of how this white youth, with bu. two Masal boys, came to a Kikuyu village, overawed the villagers by shooting a bullet through a tree; of how he defeated the fighting men of a hostile village with his repeating rifle; of how he became a eo rig “medicine man” among the natives by drinking effervescent salte (which the natives thought was boiling water) and by virtue of the mystery of a nickel-plated alarm clock-—and of how he finally saved his own life and made himself king of the country by breaking single- handed tnto a mass of 600 warriors and killing their chief with a club. Such, in meager outline, is the story of the adventures of John Boyes, sometime king of the Ka-Kikuyu. He has given up being a king now, and come back to civilization and written a book about his amazing adventures. In all the realm of fiction there are few stories, if afiy, more ab. surdly romantic than this true tale. Which serves to swell the overwhelming mass of evidence that goes to prove that truth is indeed stranger than any fiction. A GENTLE REMINDER, “Things a bit queer at home, I'm afraid. There's your wife sticking her tongue out at you,” “Oh, po. She gave me a letter to; post and she's merely reminding me that I must put a stamp on it first.” —Fliegende Blatte; TOO MUCH IRON. Doctor—Did you get that mixture of wine and iron that I ordeerd? Deacon Waters—Yes; it was first | rate. Never enjoyed a_ bottle of medicine better in my life. Drank it up without takin’ breath. But, doctor, there was too much tron in it. me Doctor ine. Deacon Waters—Yes; the iron all went to my feet and made 'em 80 heavy I could hardly walk.—New York Weekly. F FROM IT. Lady Godiva refused to see the re porters. “You can tell them,” she said to her maid, “that 1 wasn't taking a joy ride, anyhow.” Regarding the incident as closed, she calmly braided up her hair.— Chieago Tribune. A SHORT RIDE. Jonah entered the whale, “This is the original wagon!” he exclaimed Herewith none wondered that he remained aboard only three days,— New York Sun. THE RIGHT THING. “So you are a socialist, By the H'm! So I should imag-|¥ ¥ ¥¥ ¥ RRM HMM HH * * SO ILLUMINATING. * “Since Nellie’s engagement * * how bright and happy she & * looks." * “Yes; a match does light up * girl's face so,”—Judge. * * * * * * *~ * KERR EERERAR WHAT THEY ALL SAY “Did you hear Congressman Wom- bat'’s speech?” “I did that.” “What did he say about those charges of grafting which have been brought against him?” “He didn’t touch ‘on that subject. But he said the people must be pro- tected against the greed of the trusta, water “THIS THEORY, Teacher—What is it, Tommie, that Shakespeare tells us “becom j with her. NO MYSTERY ABO Dr. Ronald 4. known zoologist, said in a ture in Charleston “T take no stock in all'tl about the disinterested yarns about animal they turn out like Se There was a rich old ‘Bad an ill-natured cur nai The old maid died, leavis tune to her nephew, who & I met the nep jand ventured to offer cere sympathy. He saldy — “"Yes, it's very aad. morning after my aunt's dog Sophia also died.’ “Grief, T suppose?" said: "4 sald he, ‘prussie New York Tribune. eran eekRK aK eR * * POLITICS. * “Your constituents a % Ing all manner of harsh Gam *& about you just now.” we fF ® of the public. One mij * I was a pitcher who ha |® a game for the home * Washington Star. * RRR REET THE PREVALENT (0 Herbert E. March, the pert of Jacksonville, was about charity, says the Globe-Democ: “The rich give far more ity,” he said, “than is Neved. It's altogether the prevatent idea of the == | callous, stupid attitude ia of poverty and suffering. “That prevalent idea is il well in the story of Mr) Golde, to whom a charity said: “Thousands of poor peo to death every winter.” “Dear mo!’ Mrs. Gobsa @ ‘why don’t they go " CAUSE TO BE PROUD “What is the matter wit He used to be a modest low, but lately he seems bursting with self-impo “Haven't you heard? is suing another woman ating his affections, . 7 damages at $50,00 pei HOME FOR CATS GOT THING “Billings has been dreadtuay since his aunt died. He thought a great deal of “It fsn’t that. The trowd didn’t think of him at all’ ‘Transoript. ‘ Hi8 STANDING “You see that nan Well, he is a nitrate “What are you talking He's a cabman.” wa way, what is the socialist emblem?" “A custard ple—no upper crust,” —Boston Evening Transcript. the throned monarch better than hi crown?” Tommy Hair.—Harper’s Bazar. “Exactly, That where his rate kingship comes in, American,