The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 30, 1912, Page 8

“ll all com the wash tub? aE generally nee (et the Original and Genuine HORLIGK'S ALTED MILK We Make a Specialty of Ladies’ Suits French pe Ped an. and Fure, Quilts, Blankets and Portieres at Very Reasonable Prices Union Dye Works, Inc. Classy Cleaners and Dyers Office, 1025 Pike St. Ptant, 148 10th Av. Phones: Ind. 519%; Male 8167. Perfect Rest Women’s Feet _ The Acme CUSHION SOLE SHOES Made Ute & Dunn, Rochester, ted New: York. Price $3.50 and $4 Raymond & Hoyt 1606 Third Av., Liberty Bldg. ‘The Cheapest Place to Buy Good Shoes. 110 Madison St. “REPAIRING WHILE YOU WAIT” | ut In the wash.” But who wants to throw the past In an anesthetic inatead of a bath. Canton, China. Dear Bill: Last night Dr. Dorsey and T went to a Chinese theatre, We took a Chinese servant along to unravel the plot for ua. He led us through a small door into a dark hallway, and we though we were being steered into a fantan parlor. The tickets cost 60 cents Mex fean, and were like huge trading stamps. Woe sat in the parquet. The women had to sit in the eee At the RaeRKHE EERE AT THE THEATRES Moore—"The Girl of the Gold- Orpheum—' ‘® Grand—Vaudeville and motion ® = pietures. * RRAKRRHHRHEARRANH REARAAKRRHKHRARER * AT THE PANTAGES: * SSS Theatres Seeeeeeeeeeeeee THE SEATTLE STAR Youricd!|WOMEN IN CHINESE THEATRES GO OUT OFTEN TO “SEE A FRIEND” AND TRAMPLE ON THE MEN’S TOES EN ROUTE, ]lery. At the Hongkong theatre the Yomen sat down stairs, and went jout at Intervals to “see & friend.” | They walked on our toes in transit, | giving us a glimpse of what to ex pect when sufGage Is rampant. In Canton the women stay in their |eeats and drink tea and smoke water pipes. Six large are lights, hung from the ceiling, lighted the theatre. No spotlight; footlights, | Men in the fret fo rested thel —— Sn oe ance, McGrath & Yeomen make up the premier aumber with their weird character study, “The Lu natic and the Prima Donna.” Tom Kyle & Co. present « sketch and run of humor that take well. | Their sketch is a shipboard scene styled. “The Doctored Widow.” The Five Merkels pull thelr act through with gusto and swing. Of course, the Texas Tommy dancers, Harvey & Pauline, and Helly Merritt, are very good, and though this is the second featuring of the Texas Tommy dance at the |Pantages witht * | weeks, Kee aeneetnteeannea ‘The bill at the Pantages for this success, Elmore & Raymond sing some good songs, eee =o Se ed THE MAYOR OF INDIANAPOLIS! him making the first trip down a imitable Shanks on the toboggan, unusual. After br BY BURTON BR | Dead? Why, no, he CAN'T be—say, |It was only yesterday | We sat down at d | Eating, talking, making cheer. Just the same old joyous Ji With his ringing I tell you it CAN Joe—the best the world can hold. All @ man—and all pure gold! ‘8 and years to spend, , he was my FRIEND, - Yet after our years together, In all of the world’s rough weather, Winter and Spring and Fall, He's gone, just GONE—that's all. Oh, I tell you it CAN'T be true. Whatever they said to you, How COULD this be the end, Why, man, MAN! he was my FRIEND! You're sure—quite sure it's #0? Well, 1 wish I had seen old Joe |To whisper “solong” to him Before he flickered out, Damn it, my eyes ARE dim, And I look like a fool, no doubt, But he was the best they make, And I'm crying for old sake’s sake, And the thought of our work and fun, And the battles we lost and won, And now—and now it's DONE! Something no man can mend— But Joe—why, Joe was FRIEND! LONG BEACH, Cal,, Jan, 30.—H. D, Duckworth threw a horseshoe over his left shoulder for luck. It janded on the roof, rolled off and took two inches of scalp off Du worth's dome, “Wrong shoulder, be remarked to the doctor, my has turned his attention to public playgrounds. And he was—oh, well, you know! The picture shows new municipal toboggan slide. But it is far front indicating that his political enemies have put the in- Lew Shanks, mayor of Indianapolis. is always doing something the corners on potatoes and turkeys by Or, Jan. 20—-"1 . Where's the guy who knocked me down?” yelled Archie Mi are Jight trimmer, jumping feet. Bystanders finally convicted him that the back of his neck had touched the hood of an electri re Hght and the current had floored him. OUR PRECISE ARTIST “Wanted—A job for an all round man.” A suit for $3,000 damages for al- leged mailcious prosecution was started by J. C. Tynan against the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound railway. Tynan charges the com- pany’s agent at Monroe secreted certain books and papers which re- suited in the arrest of the plaintiff, and that he was held in jail for seven hours and was then dis- churged without further prosecu- tion, feet—some of them bare—-on stage. There were no fies, curtains | or wing, and the actors often changed their clothes on the stage, which sounds scandalous, but ts not.) Moat of the Chinese plays are his-| torical, and take anywhere from six | weeks to six months to perform. But this Canton performance was 8) modern melodrama, with all the heart throbs that sprinkie the floors | of our theatres at home with tears. I enclose the program. You will | readily see that the play is endorsed eieraae sk A CHINESE THEATRE PROGRAM by press and pulpit, that mothers an safely bring their children, and hat the management has spared neither pains nor expense. It ts in: teresting to note that men are re quested to remove their hat! The ming Next Week” announce ment also seems familiar. In my next letter I'll describe the plot, or the parts of get wa seeped through. ours, BILL, YOU'LL FIND IT HERE NEWS OF THE DAY CONDENSED FOR BUSY PEOPLE rushed, with the aid of a steam shovel, to open traffic over Fifth avenue. Arbitration. “Papa, what does arbitration mean?’ “It means that when two gone of equal strength get @a smaller country, they agree to, vide it equally.”—-Life, Already the advance sale of boxes for th ganza, “Once Upon a Time,” given for the benefit of the Antt Tuberculosis league at the Meore theatre Friday and Saturday, amounts to sale of soats indicates @ large at- tendance for each performance, SRST EREEERE * * ® AMES, ta, Jan. 30—It was * ® necessary to administer chloro & ® form to Mrs. A. Fox to stop her @ ® from laughing herself to death & ® over her daughter's story of an ® ® incident at a cirous. She had & ® laughed two hours before the & % doctor came. * * * RARER CORNING, Ky., Jan. 30—Mise Florence Payton, 20, of Paint Fiats, has been fering with hiccoughs for five days, Efforts of physicians to give her relief have failed. 1862, just 60 years Greenpoint, or Brooklyn navy yard, there was launched = the original Monitor, which was to be the most famous warship of the civil war, The Monitor did not look like a war- ship which had sailed the sea from the time of) Mark Antony and Caesar down to then, but was compared to a raft with a cheese box on it, And be- fore the war was over, at that, the Monitor proved that in some re spects she was “the whole cheese,” as it is now spoken in the vernac- ular, January 30, ago = today, at WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—Fifty Washington shop girls lectured cap. ital society women on “bargain hanting” etiquette, deploring “look- ing around,” asking foolish ques- tions and impoliteness. nk WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—Societs women, numbering 150, including: Mrs. Josei Brown, Mrs. Elihu Root, Mrs. Wickersham and Mrs, Nageb are members of an anti-woman's suffrage organization. MEMPHIS, Tenn., Jan, 30.--The strain of waiting for the announces ment, “You're next,” in a barbew shop, caused Henry Johnson to: lose: control of himself, bite a piece off a druggist’s neck, and start to chew up @ policeman, He. arrested. 8ST, LOUIS, Mo. Jan. 30.—A- well dressed man here pawned his false teeth in order to be able to eat. Then it was pointed out to him that he couldn't eat without the teeth, but he kept his money. URBANA, Il, Jan. 30.—“The people are being robbed by tele- phone and telegraph rates,” said Dean Kinley of !ilinois university, discussing the Hitchcock govern- ment ownership plan. NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y., Jan, 30. —Toots, a big tom cat, beat a red fox to a finish. It kept the fox at bay until Reynard was killed with an ax handle, WORCESTE! 8. An epldefnic of mumps is raging through Clark university, conveyed there, it is said, in a letter written by a girl.to one of the students, $1,500. The present if Princess Rospigtiosi, who was Mary Jennings Reid of Washing- | Just a civil cere- mony, eee MICAJAH 5 WISE, 109 years old, appeared in the newspaper of- floes at Scranton, Pa., and made the editors retract their statements that he was dead. eee FRANK A. HARDY, 94 years old, and who has held 109 years of public office, contemplates retiring. He lives in Washington townsbip, Miami county, Ohio, Princess Rospig- Nosl, OLYMPIA, Jan. 30.—In response to the request of President Taft, as president of the American Red Cross society, Governor Hay has issued a proclamation calling upon the people of this state to assist in subscribing to the fund to relieve the starving thousands in China. NEW YORK, Jan. 30—Nine Smiths were drawn on one jury by M. H. Brown, court clerk. All qual- ified and were accepted. CHESHIRE, Conn, Jan. 30— Walter Scott, inn proprietor here, has fitted up a room in his barn where stray cats can find a meal. He had 97 at breakfast and says he is willing to accommodate that many more. NEW YORK, Jan. 30.—A superb work of art “Lake Nemi,” painted by Corot, was sold here for $85,000, the highest price ever paid for a Corot In America, YONKERS, N. Y. Charles H. lera dent of Yonkers, a will which contained the minutest details as to bis funeral. Not a single point was overlooked in the queer doc- ument. NEW YORK, Jan. 30.—~According to figures just out, the public debt of the city of New York is $1,037, $11,718, just a small sum less than the entire public debt of the Unit- ed Btates, CHICAGO, Jan. 30, — Alleging that Daniel W. Wiser made 64 fervid promises to marry her in the last four years and violated ev- ery one, Marie Olson has sued him for damages at $1,000 per promise. | f CHICAGO, Jan. 30.—Municipal Judge Rooney sent Jos, Bosta to the Bridewell for 30 days, and gave his wife money from a fund furnished by John F. Templeton to support the family while the father serves his time. 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