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ga get aie 2432 DR. Are you eating the right sort of food to fit your daily menu for breakfast, dinner and Chemist of the United States Department of authority on food, Read the first one today on page 4 VOL. 14. NOs. [Dying Girl Recove rs Her Health in a Day i Ss iy7t Bub BgEe | foe. | 2* until eunset,” her mother said. + THE BLIND GIRL, CURED A SBYV A MIRACLE EONTOMS NOTK—This story telling moved, She stretched oft her fletion. Maybe ort | arms again, then drew her hands over her eyes, always smiling ia that wonderful way, For weeks she bad been blind and deaf. Her terri ble weakness, due to tuberculosis and diabetes, had made her helpless. “And then we saw a miracle per- news hte me back!* [never stood upright, For a fort- formed before our eyes. She looked reainag her re at firet squinting and IOON, March 11.~—On the then becoming quite natural in ex morning of Feb. 18, Dorothy Kerin, 1 asked her; ‘Dolly, do itkweood road. you know me? and she reptied: aah rte cs tne Of course, I do. mumuiy. IN THE EVENING SHE WAS) “She sat up and cried, ‘I am to wee! * Ket up!” She seemed under some When the sun rose that Gunday |) sterious influence, ‘You cun't she was blind. | get up. my darting’: I anawered, Three hours after it SHE BUT SHE DID GET UP! ‘The angel peereg SEE AS WELL AS ANY. told me to, she said. She was the rf jcalmest person in the room.” At breakfast time ohe tay amit.) One man present was a professed ten with pain, unable to walk. | atheist She ate supper at the table eur. bing and praying aloud. Next Qay Dolly iaugbingly ran up and down stairs, She wae in the highest spirits when a newspaper man called to see her. “ “Yesterday (Sunday) | was lying [there, conscions for the first time 1 seemed to feel T heard whispers land sob» and prayers of those who loved me beat. Things crew blacker than even my blind eyes had made them before. | didn't fear. 1 dida't even think, { just drittea [night abe was unconscious and de\Stnoatan effort, without « thought a ‘That ee peg gered blackness ee a Eanes tee yaks ethnt | “Suddenly Foaw a dazsting tight te by minttes her life. hrkmgyge Mey any Rg 1 had baad Br soon Om out the great, golden AE Ge We Sa abe. eid “As flame 1 saw two hands, ‘while « falling | Yolee, clearer than any ! had ever we authered aboot out Joved daurhe Dearé, sald: ‘Dorothy, your sutter ‘tors bed, expecting that she would ings are over. Get up! You can herackod. He wai Minor hospital ‘leslie He felt on his knees, ord | WILEY WRITES ON FOOD F you for your special work? Is there a connection between food and efficiency? Deo you OR READERS OF THE STAR KNOW that supper isn't all wrong? These and a hundred other questions are answered by Dr. Harvey W, Wiley, Chief Agriculture, in a series of ar When he makes an announce ment a whole nation reads and heeds it. MAN FALLS THREE FLOORS TO HIS DEATH Frank Miller Stumbles.in Dark, and Crashes Down Staite te Death. be | rank Miller, 30, i). trom third tloor to the ecb, Wintonia hotel, Pike at. and av, Saturday nt, suataini juries that resu! it his two houre later, Miller hax been ee a route boas for the Pure Mik Saturday* eventug he’ rp rush order for a can of Thi the Wintonia hotel, and any drivers in at the ‘inne, the delivery himself, abqut to descend the the third floor be darkness, and, atrikiog | of the. baniaters, he w. from his feet and down between the simire.. Rurbbttag vethert basement “three Heath, almost every » hui body was broken Wy, death. followed two hours tatgn, Miller lived at 606 and leaves a wife and #- j baby to mourn his death, ae yeaa, Girl Aviator Is Killed ETAMPS, March 11—Misd sanne = Hernard, a° 19-yearold ator, was killed today while under. i i going examination for a pilot's Ih) conse. She had passed most of the tents xuccensfully, wien In attempt ing & sbarp turn to the right, the ;Mmachine was caught by an eddy and capsized, It fell 200 feet and the woman was crushed bencam | the motor. and Also Why? A etar chamber sesaion will be held at the morrow night with President Wib shire and the members of the rail road and navigation commit ing the stellar roles, No new mem. bers will be initiated, The old ones will heve to dig up their back dues in order to get in on the fun, And it's going to be some hot time, ae cording to all weather reporta. The important subject wll be discussed of “Who's Who" in the terminal business. It will be recalled that two conflicting reports ov the mer- its of the harbor isiand propositions were ineuca from the Commercial club officials. $200,000 FIRE | “NEW YORK, March 11——A Too | | Commercial club to | ticles especially written for The St Dr, Wiley His articles are straight talk ar is the of vital intere _ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPZ2 IN SEATTLE SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, MARCH 11, 1912.~°*~—”~CSCSCS<CS [BOY SCOUT LEADER TELLS OF TROUBLES | | Sir Baden-Powell, Founder of the Boy Scouts Move- ment, Talking to a Seattle Boy Scout. te my 5 es General Gir Robert Baden-Powell,) we are not trying to make soldier Beer war hero and founder of the * anes ot cnate boys, but, rather onorable and efficient men.” bey scout movement, a small, gray: 4 is Crazy,” Says Sir Robert foh man who looks distinguished in divBian clothes that don’t fit, gave to The Star today his version of disorder which all but broke up his lecture in Portland Saturday night, “A great giany peopk sald the (ehlef scout muster, “believe, mis- jtakenty, that the boy «cout move. tent ia military in character, It in mn. We are doing all we can, both hove and in England, to dix courage ‘the uiftitary spirit among tne boyx. i bat Sunita tons Atierican Boy on the telephone in a great state of Scouts, for example, was organized mind, and said: ‘Wi ‘8 this about by the Hearst newspapers and was nobody being aliowed to take part capeniially military in tte spirit and in the lord mayor's show but the teaching. ft has, | understand, pe boy scouts? the Raden-Powell mov nt ip fo the rivas organization. Seouts of the World” described in the American Maga- sine & few months ago, the general Janghed and suid tration, He tw crazy He wea a pioneer in our movement and made ® lot of trouble, One day the KILLED BY AUTO | Years, the body of Wah Lee, believ- + Arked concerning opposition to | ably wax respon Bugland, expecially with referency | ¢ "the Bby | f which was | fine silken cord in two loops. “That is Sir Francis Vanes organ: | ‘ord mayor of London called me op! most noted living to everyone OR. HARVEY W, WILEY AT BELLINGHAM W. I. Brisbane, Realty Dealer, Killed, and Hugh Eldredge, Bellingham Postmaster, Among the Injured—Machine Collides With a Wagon. iy United Press teuned Wire) BE NGHAM, March 11—W. I. Brisbane, real tate dealer, is dead, Hugh jEldredge, postmaster. of this (sr A. S$: Wilson, of the firm How it Happened It is said the Mghts of the autos eS mobile were accidentally extin- shortly before meeting Brishane was at the Wheel When passing the wagon the automobile struck one of the wheels, which threw the ma- chine into the ditch, crushing Bria- base's chest, He died at the hos pital at 4 this morning Wilson is in the hospital with several ribs broken and otherwise injored. The remainder of the party escaped with less serious in- juries and are at their homes, reat ing easily guished with the wagon. of Wilson, Nobles and Barr, iF. W. Neal and C. E. Abra jhams, attorneys, are badly in- jured as the result of an auto | mobile ident which oe- jeurred night near this city. The party was returning jfrom a fishing tip, and ran }inte a wagon panicanetnastthishe.2 ae last CONGRESS ACTS FOR MOVING PICTURES WASHINGTON, March 11.—Mounting the rostrum inthe house. today, Champ Clark ‘addressed a body of « legislators for the benefit of moving pictures which will be used to boost the speaker in his campaign for the demo- cratic nomination for president The house floor was lighted by electricity, strong mercury lights being arranged to throw a vivid glow on Speaker Clark; With the official, reporters. and clerks lined up before the rostrum, and the sergeant at arms grasping the silver mace, the speaker said: “The house will be in order.” To g Murder 1.08 ANGELES, March 11.—Gar. roted in a chair placed before a ta ble upon which was spread $286 in gold, a portion of his savings for iCoal Industry of Europe Paralyzed ONDON, March t1.—With coal strikes in full swing today in the une Kingdom, Germany and France, it is believed here that the ed to be a tong leader, was found “ today by the police in his Oriental ¥!0l4 coal industry of Europe will wrio store in Chinatown. An ex- ® Paralyzed quickly. The Buro- tension of the tong war from other ine — ny of 5 ee ae nant ahiien, the ¢ probably will be almost exhausted, ia ten ta orlaak The 24-hour strike in France is With wan hound potarely to the thought to be a forerunner of a gen. . a silken bit forming an ef- srtia coma ee BR rag? tive gag. About hin neck was 8 fC tho tel fields. Berryman and | Ludovic Request ‘The appeal of Mrs. FM. McLain, proprietress of the Antlers hote! from the fine of $40 for two viola-| The application of Charice Berry- tons of the eight-hour law man and Ludovic Dallagiovdnna, women, Is being heard before Judue | who ran the notorious Arcade dance Ronald today. Mrs. McLain 18 nal, for a renewal of thel; saloon charged with having permitted Mary and Louise MeArdie, mother No*nse for the Ateskan bar will rome up at the council meeting this and daughter, to work longer than © ¥ eight hours as chambermatds. The *fernoon. | It is generally believed tered eat. It never had anything to de with our movement “The sociahets in Portland, see ing e-equad of local cadets in wnl- forts and carrying eldearns, jump: o@ to the concInsion that they were ture tovight at the Metropolitan the | bay soonts, which they were not. It | Waa neariy a riot while it lasted, bast 1 amt not sorry it bocurred If tt Wil prove the means of convincing the people of Wester America that ‘t told him it was news to me. “Why, he said. Francis Vane tella me that not even solilers will be allowed in the procession General Baden-Powell will Fred Brown, who usseaned $20 » against her in eneh case * Fight Opens Here + moving pictures. No charge will be or Roosevelt : taade. He leaves for Vancouver and| A campaign to send a solid King * Victoria tomorrow, returning to Se beg apie for Roovevelt to - attic to sail for Hongkong, the 16th. | the Fepublican state coavention ai e . Aberdeen on May 15 will he start-)* lee: atre, bie talk being illustrated by | lease was first tried before Justice‘! tte renewal will be denied. RaeReKRRaeERR RAH * GOT A CHECK FOR $10,0007 '# RICHMOND, March 11 ® A bit of bine paper worth $10,000 ix lost in the mails * somewhere in Contra Costa # county. Several weeks’ ago # City Auditor MeVittle drew a #& warrant BOP Hear ute. She auddeniy | Walk!" has el gare raven oes and we thought! “Then [ heard ma@ther asking me not she was Bat with a wonder: |if I knew ber.” #re ful smile, which sone of us can for- tonics are get. she stretched oat her arn and iy of our held them up for a few momenta. “GOT HIS GOAT” Ay of; “Then she lay stil. Presently her! og ANGELES, March 11.—|a score of families from homes in| } . "Someone's got wiy baby'x goat,’| the vicinity. } ree pg pe agen He A AOS | complained Johu Berner to the po-| lences OF BIG BUSINESS Have Ice. “and the doctor says no other, TURNED TOWARD THE DEMO | Mik would be safe,” be explained BLL. CRATIC PARTY. Sergeant Reynoida detailed two de- THE BOARD OF jz . estimated at $200,000 was caused by | a fire which destroyed the Wiarda | }cbemical Works in Brooklyn today + During the fire there were many! violent explosiona which imperiled ithe lives of the firemen and drove | jed at a mass meeting in Arcade * | hall, Priday night, March 15, Among | * | those who have signed the call for * ; in Steamer’s Side |: meeting are Senator Dan Lan- | * George H. Walker, Dr. Waiter * Kelton, Ivan L. Blair, GH. Revelle, (By Waited Prose Leased Wire) | iohn Hi. Perry, T. P. Reveille, C. Al CHICAGO, March 11.—With @/ jon Dale, Otway Pardee, M. J. Car- great hole rammed in its side by | Keek, Max Wardall, C. E. Congle- jee fhe the passenger and freight ion 7. ¥, © steamer Flora Hill, plying between | ton’ Kellogg and K. C. Bea- Chicago and Kenosha, is sinking, | | THE FIRST TIME two miles off this harbor. Thirty CI B t am ests SANTA FE, N. M., March 11— One persons, composing passengers = |The first state legisiat f th Woodrow in Kansas/™* * sae texisiature or tho and crew, walked 500 feet acrose new state of New Mexico opened a Treasurer L. N. Buttner at *% Martinez. The warrant was!t cashed by the Martinez bank & and matied January 31 te the & * First National here for col- * * lection, It has never arrived. # ® United States sleaths are & * \* Be Happy? Wed When 21 ‘Hole Rammed BOSTON, March 11,—The state shovid assist poor young men to marry between the ages of 21 and 26, in the opinion of Professor William F. Boos of the Massachusetts Gene: pital. Speaking .before Twentieth Century trying to get on its tral. * SRE ERERE REE MINEOLA, N. Y., March 11.--Col, Roosevelt today dtopped in at the! court here for jury duty, but wae sad | cused / calculated to raise the standard of morality. Young men should be aided financially in marrying early if they cannot without aid the tee, where they were rescued Mt with thi it whe: Vincent if Daugh-| steady. kissing y say in th of yours, |too; and you were sitting snugly to- maeld pull the |xether on that cozy green Kola of | and low-| your parlor, Swat the fly! DO TO ALMA? COMING SEASONAL ANNOUNCEMENTS Boil the drinking water! Darn moth balls, anyhow! Jobn, the roof leaks aw ful! ‘That furnace will have to be repaired before another winter! Yes, you know, we'll soon have te Can I make pa’s pants Willie? New school books? The Problem Bill Left; How Widow Bill Solved It When Mr. Bill Smith, occasional laborer, died re , Nevertheless, was real great, for she loved Bill, and, | with that beautiful stubbornness of widows, she has managed to forget hie con nt cussedness §=and lehiftiessnese, and to remember only occasional lapses into good be- oe 61d, | the hard and r is sorry |least. Yes, indeed, Alma, ¢ | your arm around his neck: iy 1 was mn) And, oh, Alina! They got ple tures of you all over town on the bill hoards, showing you hugging your And they're advertising that anybody who wants to pay the price can see you kiss your fellow at the Metropolitan next week, And elin big type there's the question “Alma, where do you live?” Rev, Shayler is going to ask the a ood mourns eaehiow. “a loving husband and father, but he had hard luck, He took a drop now and again, but that’s the way with men. I ain't saying he was perfect, but his heart was on the right side, and it’s Jonely Iam without him. He was sober as a judge when he died, and they all id he looked natural. He of | mayor and the board of theatre cen-|always sald he hoped, if he went Al-jsors to tear those pictures down. | first, I'd give him @ funeral to be ¢| They're too shocking, be says, even roud of--nothfi cheap about t for theatre posters. Bu i—and 1 done tt. But how I'm New school books again? Scott! They must be cramming that kid with education! Henry, the coal bill will be smatler, but then, >» begin taking ice over into school pants for Great ever going to pay the undertaker ts more than I know.” A Plain, Simple Problem Bill buried style, Widow Smith had lelsure to contemplate a prob- om in domestic economy—simple enough in its terms—whieh de- |manded instant solution. rs. Smith has four price! | tre: surese—aged 7, 5 and 3 yeare, jand 10 months, But she can’t Ize on ‘em. It was characteriat | jal tic of he late lamented Bill that he un.) | dertook the responsibilities of fath- erhood, and then quit the job. Anyhow, the widow had four |smal) kiddies and a job in pros- | peet-—serubbing floors in a Second avenue office building. Now this was the problem: She couldn't take the kiddies to work with her. She couldn't leave them at home alone. And, obviously, she couldn't hire a nursemaid to look after them. What's the answer? Couldn't Stand Cabbage She Wid try leaving the children with a neighbor, a well-meaning woman. But the first day of the experiment the baby enjoyed a meal of boiled cabbage, and nearly died of something with a long | - undertake the responsibility.” iby tugs. eee aK | RRR RAR * BEARD FROZE TO GROUND—WIFE CHOPPED IT LOOSE * ORTH CALOWELL, N. J. March 11-Until recently Charles Gordon was possessed of as long a beard ax grew in Jersey; for 50 years the pride of Kasex county, now {t's only a goatee. ‘The other morning Mr. Gordon went to the pump for water; on the return trip be stumbled and fell, spilling the Water. So cold was it that the combination of water and whiskers froze to the ground. Mrs. Gardon burried to the rescue with her trusty kitchen knife. Hast ily chopping her hasband loose from the ground, she did a poor tonsorial job of it, necessitating Mr, Gordon's urgent visit to the barber shop-—the first in 60 years, where the remnants of whis. «| Champ Clark *} . * ‘trol the ‘OPEK < r TORRE, Han. Mateh’ 11 Bel irae sneha’ seein han WOR ; turns today from county and dis. |‘! triet democratic conventions indi-| With the republicans holding a two- |cate that 12 of the Kansas delegates | thirds majority in each house. ; to the national convention at Balti The fight for the senatorial toga More will be instructed for Speaker | iit start witht a a ‘dnd stat tor Gor start within ten days, sind may Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey, | !48t the entire session, ag the race While Clark will be in a position to) between the candidates is close. It trol the state convention, which | is generally believed here that Sol eects on Thursday, he does not con-|omon Luna could be elected on the delegates from the con-| first ballot if he would announce | Bressional districts. | his candidacy. Seeeeeeeeeeeeee wane nenee name Which means a violent pain in the tummy, pen if an irresist- it Swer that he went crazy. A po! had that b But the Tt. te The Seattle Day Ninth av. Somebody told Mra, Smith about the nursery, and she took the kid- \dies there carly one morning. Then she went to work. Work done, the children were restored to her. Her problem was solved! There are 25 kiddies at the bursery every day, There 10. times that many if the place wae big enough, It costs 10 cents per day per kiddie. If you haven't got the money, no matter, bring ‘em anyhow. The matron finds out, first thing inatho morning, what children have had breakt and what. ones haven't. ‘The hungry are fed, Then games Games all the morning. ‘Wondet{ul games that make the ten a country mile. ix an answer, Nursery, 1115 ald be} ee oe eg er try to figure out! babies. in immov- | time, » in the eh? Well, Widow Smith's problem | that, kers were rounded into a meager goatee. hours fly, big m Then luncheon—a_ big. Bottles of milk for the sleep-| For the hour of tip-toeing But the best hour} happy day for ail} For the babies afterward A row of anowy cots. older ones an and whispering. whole through the mediu For, in the whispering hour, Miss| Jacobson, a kindergartuer, ’ tells} them stories, They listen, breath- less and wide-eyed. Some of them are stories Invented by good. Fath-| er Froebel, who invented the kin- dergarten. Others Miss Jacobson | | chases by therein, the makes up “out of her head.” Presently the sleep-hour ends with gurgles and cooing and, per- haps, a little healthy squalling. Good for the lungs, Then the mothers, come, tired and eager to see their bables, They are a sight for tired mother eyes, Hair brushed. Faces shining with soap and water. Clothes in ‘order, Little bodies healthily tired and ready for bed, Fine {dea, isn't it? Great. solu- tion of a big problem? You bet! Seattle is full of Widow Smit and just such problems as hers, Every great city 1s, and, as a result, business. delay. 1 MR. ADVERTISER! DON’T NAIL YOUR AD TO THE SOUTH POLE! | Get it before the people. You can use no better method to get your advertising before the people than m of The Star. OVER 40,000 COPIES ARE SOLD DAILY, in- cluding many thousand homes that are reached by The Star, exclusively. The people in these homes read only The Star and are largely influenced in their pur- advertising contained If YOU have not got YOUR ad in The Star you are not reaching these people, are not getting their If.you want to-reach these people, don’t Put Your Ad Before the Star’s Army of Readers