The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 22, 1912, Page 4

4 THE STAR—MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1912 THE SEATTLE STAR Having fall te Assoctations. “Private Bxchange Main 940 Sh OF THE scr uWeEST FE at Arwer za Wash, postotfioe aa ee Sr mon, up to alk me ix mos. $15 schange Mate notltyiny delivery hone: fav and by reqular The Seattle the paper, or any at pap r . look, kindly this office tion’ De arrive any night by 6 o k for the Cire ain 9400. ta "Tis Here Everythin l Cheer up and get a move on! else is doing so, for spring is here The grass of the city crocus or dandelion, The plowed field of the farm “ under the sun’s warmth, the crow is loudly calling for you to plant that corn, and the brook is singing to the cattails and lawn smiles, here and there, with its smokes” sweet flag Observe goat, if you have one. Her tail is cocked she’s smacking her lips, she’s clumsily gamboling on legs as stiff as a chair’s. Look into the countenance of your horse, if you have one. His eyes have a new sparkle. His nostrils are dilated and quivering, for he smells fresh odors from the south, green things, awakening life, Even inspect your automobile, The blamed thing is ready to bust tires, “sweat” in its carburetor, and spill its oil of life along the dusty roads, isn’t it? Yes, everything is filling up on fresh zephyrs, fresh vigors, fresh spirits. You do likewise. Many of your troubles never happened. ‘Those that you really have can be taken in hand and softened or wholly overcome. Put your best foot for ward, not the one that feels lame and corny. Grease your will power with determination. Open your heart to all the new ness, for often there's great good in new things. Let your spirit go out and meet the freshness that's bursting forth all about you. Rake off the dead leaves from the past and see if, underneath, are not springing fresh shoots of promise, hope, encouragement COUSIN BILL TAFT has our full perm his bile by talking sassy to Mexico. It is estimated that the people contribute something like twelve millions of dollars anr to baseball. This is a lar sum but it is well spent The game draws office and store workers out air and sunshine and, consequently, makes them better folks and more profitable to their employers. It draws the employers out there, too, away from the them better employers. Inc your jon to work off ually worries and, consequently, mak some manutactur ed rs have found it wise and profitable to close their factories part of the da once a week, in order that their employes may “take in the game.” Americans work too fast, ! fast. Brains or hands are} under a strain all the time. There are m relaxation and/ health on a regular bleacher seat than can be in forty drug stores or doctors’ offices. Con ation of natural resources, on which the nation spends ter s nillions, is a great ut conservation ¢ Go out to the game So, go! Never mind if you « out and cat peanuts and haven't anything on hand s thing, b a greater tical and moral a is sound Jon't under: 1 and fine points when | For Psychologice! Reasons | Sir Almroth Wright has got pretty near all feminine Eng land stirred up by announcing, in a public card, that militant sl agettes are women who are phys ally disappe incomplete. “And,” he says, “take my own profession @ medica! man asks that he should t b yoke-fellow of a medical woman, he does so because he w wish to keep as between men and women, some of the n ties and cences upon which our civilization has been built up. No medical woman is, of course, never on the s of modesty or in favor of any reticencies. Her desire for knowledge does not admit of these.” We don’t know what action the London di ors will take in te ither rise and set this matter, but if we were a Lonaon call Sir Almroth a short and ugly word put a complet of leather window panes into our office and residenc Let the Guilty Ponder! wrence, who was jajled at aroun Devonport, F in the Royal Dockyard snooping Se al ret The papers were full of it » make example of this spy. She'd put a q 1 busir ete. Well; they ye arraigned Harry smirch him with any spy busine They con ted Harry of steal ga 1 2 him to 14 days hard labor. Terrible example, all right. Let it sink into your soul! “MAYBE Willie Collier says he got rid of a deadhead once on a time in this way i postal card,” he said m a man I didn’t know from Ad aid he met me in California. He wished.to re- new the acquaintance, a nybe 1 would send him two tickets for the fotlo Wednesday 1 answered his ree r pos and merely said, ‘Maybe I won't New 1 WHY OLD MAIDS PAINT y does that old maid use so much paint on her face? making up for lost time Answers, London PUZZLED A LITTLE BOY smart little city boy loved to put conundrums to Uncle Josh old negro’s struggles to understand, but one day he received answer which is still perplexin : Have you got any brothers, Uncle Josh?” th L. B. inquired. No, honey,” replied the ro. “I ain't got nary brother, but all my sisters has.”"—Philadelphia Ledger THE FEAR OF WOMEN Mrs. A.—They say that the world is coming to a a Mrs. B.—I'll bet it catches me with my old clothes on.—Satire SURELY TAKE “SYRUP OF FIGS” IF HEADACHY, BILIOUS, CONSTIPATED Sweetens your stomach, clears your head and thoroughly cleanses your liver and 30 feet of bowels of sour bile, foul gases and clogged-up waste All those days when you feel d fermenting food and clog miserable, headach bilious and| sed up waste matter is moved on @ull are due to torpid liver. ana|#%d out of your system—no nausea . no no weakness. slugeish bowels. The days when your stomach is sour and full of , ¥°" *!mply can’t have your liver Gas, when you have indigestion; |active and your thirty feet of the nights when your nerves bowels constipated with sour, de twiteh nd you are. rc - nd cayed matter and feel well. The can't sleep could. be avoided with Need of @ laxative is a natural need & teaspoonful of delicious Syrap of PM With delicious Syrup of I Figs. isn't it foolish to be dis-/¥OU 4re not drugging yourself tressed when there fs such a pleas. |". Composed entirely of luscious a cay ts evedanine-ik? figs, senna and aromatics it can Give your inactive liver and ten| Agk your druggist for the full yards of waste-clogged bowels a|nann cra od and Eiixi thorou, cleansing this time. Put) of genna. Refuse, with scorn any an end'to constipation of the so-called tenia. Take a teaspoonful of Syrup of/tions, They are cleve Figs tonight, sure, and just see for you. Look on the The genu yourself by morning how gently ine, old reliable the name, but thoroughly all the sour bil \California Fig Syrup Company | | Frances er of he Arthur—Yes Frances—1 doing there? Arthur--Ohb! to the “Cupid's b lips? we to the fresh} | jof thoughts to the head. | *;hair tixed | roller Sante Harold Hatth 1 have You How fat an Ah, you sl boll on one side other,”—Pele Me 1 suppone, while feeling the pulse of an old humbug? Why Don't rising? No, on the of popular song you The Average Girl head cloth and ph » hide my After the sh bat a YOU GAVE SEATS The passerby; side yard is wel promenade on h The man wt Jonly himself to I'm tired of going to take a traffic art of protecting I love dun can count himse A broken ja When @ peddier, door to hold it oj I keep a Did you notice the qulv. A FULL HEAD ereplied the | woman's though YOURSELF It ITS THE SAME OLD STORY Every Time WE COME HERE AND 1 TIRED OF ITU “lan't she rather old looking for “So you think young women ought A PRESIDENT HELP GE AT THE THEATRES THIS WEEK. grand opera, Wm Faun,’ Moore reisea, Monday to Wednesday Faversham in “T Thursday to Saturday Metropolitan —— Kale The Slim Princess.” Seattle——Jensle Shirley Co, The Boys of Company B.” Coliseum—Oliver Bailey Co. ‘On the Frontier.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. Vaudeville. ville. audeville and Janis in motion plotures Melbourne vaudeville Clemmer—Photoplays and vaud eville Photoplays and The Star interviewer found Else hat it washer ax to join the suffragettes?” vs tel poeple aaoeYes, considering that she i# not} “I do; 1 am in favor of anything “eyo Se oo ce sae I guess it belongs [quite as old as her youngent daugh-|that will take their minds off the) ody. | Aino Mottor cine oe pow ter | Would Hold off as Long as Possible fact that this Is leap year.” NEW VERSION Would you marry a man to ro an idea form him?” em to have a rush Not before I was at least 35 years old DECEITFUL APPEARANCES id well your littie boy looks ould nev He's got a gum of bin fac « by & wasp on the le TELEPATHY aid the physician, auiling and trying to ap witty lady patient, “l suppose you consider me you could ascertain a New York Sun. 1 had no idea ta by merely feeling her pulse “NOT RISING believe the level of buman lady intelligence ts gradually Were there as many writers Chicago Record-Herald contrary. Never before s as there are today THE AVERAGE GIRL Mother, quick! Let me have yo ‘oom and “A man is as old aw he feels.” “fut how about a woman? “Oh! whe is genqrally as old as other people feel she ts i WHAT THEY THOUGHT the duster! I think that’s Charlie at the door! And novel and chewing gum!—Baltimore Evening Sua. NOW WHY? ow a woman can tell you how a Salome dancer had her man couldn't.—Cincinnati Enquirer. US THESE ¥ who helps himself to a drink from the hydrant in my leome to it; but if he walks on my flower beds, P Wwill| is neck | 10 shoots off his mouth too carelessly around me\hag blame if there's a flareback doing all the werk for traffic cops, Some day I'm cop and give him a few strenuous lessons in the pedestrians. bru But the dog that tries to run me off the street If not only a dumb brute, but a dead one w is the best cure for foul abuse. os agent, canvaaser, or what not pen, he leaves with a limp. ra Ra? puts his foot in jny | ball-bearing uppercut for the dontgiveadurn sidewalk “The actors were tired out and diagusted from rehearsing the play Beribble wrote.” “What did they say of the pro jetion “Said it was all work and no pla Very. Gink—He's a very fortunate physician, isn't he? Dink—Ohb, yes! Few of his pationts die suddenly.—Philadel- phia Record. Gaddie—He's in business for him- fself and his prospects seem very go00d. Wise—Oh, he won't fortune In a hurry Gaddie—Think not? Wise—No; his manners are quite refined and he uses good grammar. make a big —Catholic Standard and Times. JOSH WISE SAYS: “A crowd at th’ store got to arguin’ which man had sth’ most keys on Wie key = ring. Th’ winer wuz Jerry Grasshook an’ he tives in Y a tent!” 4 Customer—But he Jooks so short in the legs. Dealer—Yer couldn't ‘ave ‘im no longer in the lugs, guv'nor. They reaches down to the ground.—Tat ler. Alico—So Miss Fortleigh has be. come a suffragette. Whatever in the cause? She probably thought, at a woman ought to espouse London Opinion her age something ff CHOLLY SAW THE LITTLE BROMER SITTING AT THE DESK AND HE READ THESIGN "INFORMATION, HE APPROACHE! LIFTED HIS SKY PIECE AND ENQUIRED; DOES A FARMER NEED A MEDICAL DIPLOMA IM ORDER “To CURE PORK?" THE PoLce STATION, Quick, CeEnTRAL! | | stock cor _jitan this week in “The Slim Prin- coas.” Klsie was not made up—except as to hair, It hung over her shoul- ders girlishly, making her look at least 17, There wasn't a trace of powder, pot a single jewel “Elsie ix the only actress in the family for 16 generations,” said Mother Janis. looked tt up And I bo never will be another.” “lL was wasn't | w there the wonder ched4d. mother?” laughted Elsle Started at Three. “She was,” Ma Josephine agreed She could act before she could) talk. I took her to see Julia Ar thur, in “More Than Queen,” when | she was only 3, and the next morn-| ing | found her with @ finger bow! on her head for a crown and a] gown wrapped around her, mimie- ing Julia Arthar.” ‘How did whe stage?” asked Star man. “The late President McKinley 4,” said Ma Janis. “We lived in Columbus, you know—our name was Bierbower—we adopted the name Janis later—and Mr. McKin- ley~then governor, saw her at one jof the functions at the state house, when th was an amat per formance He patted her head, and said, Litte girl, you would succeed on the stage.” So that settled it.” “Go on, mother,” laughed Bisie. ‘That's great. Now toll the gen- tleman how for a long time you led little Elste around by the hand to smile to the managers, And how they finally came to little Elste with her hair fa a braid and said, Go to work. ” She was only 6 when she ap- peared in a voy part in Commbus, jit seems. At 11 the Gerry soclety jaaid she was too young to play in New York, Then she broke Into jYandeville at San Francisco as the Amert Cissy Loftus.” “She didn't really arrive till she was 16.” «aid Mother Janis. “I jhad a hard time to land her, but finally got her a tryout at $200 a et started on the week for four weeks, and not a cont if she didn’t make good.” “Did she make gqod?” he did,” smiled Bisie back. “I stayed on the bill for three months, and they threw money at me every night.” The public hae been doing that ever since. And little Elsie Janis at 23 appears to be having the time | of her life. KERR hh * * * AT THE MOORE * * * RRR hh “The Durbar” will be shown in jthe Moore the meneing May 10 days. These pl twice daily, com and continuing for ures convey an entirely now ption of motion picture advancement. They reproduce with jall the fidelity of the original scene itself, all its barbaric blending of color, majestic movement, the pomp and panoply of the historic. proce sion, and the brilliant atmosphere prospe ceremonial of the century Aide eee eo 2 * If Aw and act imitat money a Held could look as pretty woll as Elsie Janis , She would be worth the ttle people paid to ee her recently Which may not be saying much for Anna. But it is not saying too} |much for Elsie. The Janis ability j'8 perfect, her fun and lav tagious, She imitated last night with such suce she even drove a lady in a box jto laggh right out loud. Which going ome. With Joe Cawthorne. nan tutor, “The Slim Prin. ily ranks among the best musical comedies of the season. BORIC ICR tok i tht * * AT THE SEATTLE * * The title of the play, “The Boys Com, B by th Shirley ny, at the Seattle this is a trifle misleading, as one jwould quickly imagine it’ was a war-time melodraha, although quite the reverse. Comedy, with alittle | drama thrown in to form the plot is the explanation of the story The Shirley people handle the show in fine style, with their very capa ble cast. The of ny week part given Miss | Shirley afforded her a fine oppor |tunity to show her worth,.and she | took advantage of it in fine style. | Paul Harvey as the captain was ex actly the man for the part | | The sentencing of Ludovic Dalla {siovanna and Charles Berryman who pleaded guilty to maintaining the Areade dance hall during term as mayor, a8 a public nuisance, jhas been pastponed until Wilber | Cummings, their attorney, returns from a honeymoen trip to Honolula “Did you enjoy the opera?” “No; I didn't hear it.” Why not?” “Two women seated next me kept telling each other how they adored music \PSCHOHHHSSHHSHHOHOHOH HOO OSG tive of this most gorgeous | * A lawyer of New York overheard the following conversation be * AT THE METROPOLITAN, #| tween two newsboys: “Say, Harry, wat’s the best way to teach a gift * | how to swim?” asked the younger one eee eee ee re ee eet Dat’s a cinch. First yer puts yer arm under her waist and you *} OR ROTOR tot tt tk kkk ed, * . ED LITTLE ELSIE JANIS T HER START; MA JANIS SAYS IT IS 9 ai.) ne ay =e 4 ag THIS 16 ELSIE COCO OSHO OOOOH OOOO OOOO OOOO ° STORY OF A LUMP OF COAL ° By Old King Cole CHAPTER I +90 eens der back a few million years, Which takes the r Now, Mary and Harry, liste and I will tell you the story of a of coal, But first let me exp’ in that in very early days “coal® spelled “cole,” and was a any substance used as fuel. was known as “cole.” and wood as charred cole, now charcoal. Later the people ped calling wood “cole”” changing the spelling to “goal” plied it to coal alone. Poets have sald stored sunshine—the warming. of a prehistoric sun—hidden im earth for all these millions of Going back to the time when mal Ife had not even" the “fish age,” and long Father Adam appeared, the had what the scientific people the carboniferows era, or the of coal plants. Then gtast growing as big ae our mosses fifty feet long, and a plants, grew in 8 warm, molst mate, suci as is unknown this day, Year after year, century after ces ~ tury, leaves and seed, branches trai lived and died, falling the ground, where they lay in item gied mass of vegetation, many deep. Then some awful came and these monster forests were covered with water. Old King Cole tells the story of his For other centuries the life. remained there. Clay and carried by numerous streams were depostted upon the bottom and ually filled in over the forests until even the biggest trees were Then another upheaval of the earth's surface left the spot below had once stood magnificent forests high and dry, but buried under feet of clay and sand Then again passed long centuries, of which man today knows noth ing. Tiny seeds were carried by water and wind to this barres of mud and sand, and a new vegetation sprang up, and in time reared aloft thelr green heads. Again began the falling of leaves, , seeds, branches and trees, continuing for years and followed by another deluge of water. Another layer of clay and deposited, and when the surface again dry another forest Thus it went on for thousands and thousands of years, forests and lakes, until layer after layer of buried vegetation was away for man to burn when God put him on the earth's surface. But, what, you ask, became of the ferns and mosses buried,by the Jakes, That is a most wonderful story of the mysteries of nature solved I will tell you how the trees became coal. (To Be Continued:) FOUND IMITATION DIFFICULT ert, a Wabash freshman, closed a Jetter to his cousin, Joe, 5 years old, by saying: “Now, I must quit and write five pages on Esther,” The next day his father found Joe armed with tablet and pencil rying to hold down his younger brother, Robert, and said to him: “Joa, what are you doing?” I'm trying to write five pages on Bob, but be won't be still” Te plied the little fellow.—Indianapolis News. TEACHING A GIRL TO SWIM scientific res reh of man. gently takes her left hand ‘Come off; she's my sister.” Aw, push her off the dock.” MAKES HOME BAKING EASY Light Biscuit Delicious Cake Dainty Pastries Fine Puddings Flaky Crusts | The only Baking Powder made from Royal Grape Cream of Tarta®