The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 8, 1912, Page 4

THE SEATTLE STAR Phope Private Bxchange Main 9400. Pa WENT GF Fie sont EOF NE WEE NITES nt ews service of the Umi ‘Daly Seatile Press Asso aper having f 4 SUSTRGS Es Seton clans Matton Tos, alk mos. bLNO, year FF 6. Phe age Maia #108 Rntered at 8 elty, 36 For he that wrongs his friend Wrongs himself more, and ever bears about \ silent court of justice in his breast, Himself the judge and jury, and himself The prisoner at the bar, ever condemned Tennyson Less Men for the Guns y gloomy over the figures which show Fr > is exceedin that her population decreased by 34,869 during the past year while that of her enemy, Germany, greatly increased, Cons 1 ering men merely as meat for powder, France's figures may vell for the decrease in population in 1911 very likely ears hence, when startle he means a decrease of a dozen regiments 20 y the boys born in 1911 would be ripe for slaughter , But God reigns, and it is possible that by 1931 civilized, christianized man will have abolished war. Maybe the civili christian women of France are already refusing to bear children for army p urposes, “LET all good democrats pray,” advises Bre’'r Henry Wat terson. Wi Col. Watterson is on his knees, Col. Harvey might start a hymn, thus demonstrating the great moral work consummated by the Baltimore convention . impasse “3 STANDPAT organs now call Roosevelt an Unless this means something good to eat, you'll now hear Teddy give ‘em some cussing in language that will make their hair stand. Hers If She Wants It Miss Mary Wood of New York, one of the brilliant lights at the re cent General Federation of Women's clubs, said that “the first thing to do is to work, not for a minimum wage, as so many women believe, but to work day and night for equal pay for equal work. The point made by Miss Wood Is bound to receive thorough discus sion, because ft is one that has rattled, or positively stack friends of women who propose to regulate wages by legislation, Does woman want @ minimum wage fixed by law at a figure lower than the legal wages of men? Almost every measure seriously proposed for regulating wares makes such discrimination. Or, does she want to trust to a long-drawn Dattle for equal pay for equal work, unsupported by legislation’ Some of the best friends of women’s cause are opposed to any more- ment for “equal pay for equal work." ‘They claim that In the valet ma- jority of cases women are employed, instead of men, simply because: they are cheaper, and that if wages are equalized by either law or custom. ‘women will be driven out of employment; that tn nearly all vocations, wages being equal, there are physiological, social and other reasons to $nfluence employers to pick the man rather than the woman every time If this is so, it behooves woman to know what she wants before she atarts mach of an economic upheaval. GOV. DIX demands that Bryan be eliminated from the y. Every time Tammany loses it wants Bryan eliminated And then Bryan rubs Tarnmany’s nose in the dirt some more WE vote to keep that.houn’ dog song in the campaign just the same. It’s more soothing than any Princeton college yell we ever heard. ‘Observations | THE third party clinches one thing sure, whatever may be its fate otherwise—and that is that Big Bill Taft is now “deader” ever. ———__—_— “ALL that we want is the convention in 2000."* That's the banner carried by the modest Devil's Lake, North Dakota, Eks’ lodge. TWO tons of oysters have been scraped from the hull of the navy ship Iris at Mare Island. Take her ott and set her again and bust the oyster trust. BOSTON preacher says there are 800 kinds of hell, but after reporting that Baltimore convention without a chance to change shirt or collar, we don't scare. AND of course, we are quite swelled up about Clarence Edmundson, the famous Seattle half-miler, who has been mak- ing them sit up and take notice at Stockholm. “SEATTLE, 1915,” is the slogan of the local lodge of Elks at the Portland convention. Here's he mext grand lodge here. Those Elks make things liv pleasant. and y SENATOR JONES of Washington, who voted last year to retain the notorious Senator Lorimer, will have another Opportunity to show the people of this state whether or not he has changed his mind. SCIENTISTS call the habit of scratching one’s head “capil- liorriomania,” which is an elegant improvement on what mother used to call the fool business of sitting, in school next to those bushy-headed Smith young ones. SEATTLE has a population of 300,000 or thereabouts With. diligence, Judge Hanford’s attorneys ought to be able to get at least 200,000 people who could truthfully y they never saw Judge Hanford drunk. WASHINGTON’S woman delegate to the Baltimore con vention, Mrs. May Arkwright Hutton of Spokane, had rather a hard time. She was pledged to Clark, her sympathies were with Bryan, and Wilson was nominated. EVEN though young Ira Courtney did not qualify in the finals in the Olympic games, Seattle is mighty proud that he should have scored the first victory in the trial heats for the Stars and Stripes. Courtney is a real Seattle boy, too. high school here and is a University of Washington student n Seattle yesterday and will be WINDJAMMER arrived in the Puget sound country for @) days. Don't get alarmed! It’s not a political stump speaker, but this windjammer is the last American wooden hull ever built, the ship Ayran, at pier 14 at pier 14 —- IN THE EDITOR’S MAIL Editor The Star—I want to reply| writer knows only one restaurant to that letter recently published inj in the city where your paper about the “rude, unfeel-| “without inhaling the fumes of ing” men of Seattle who “pollute| tobacco.” This is a mistake, 'T the air” by smoking. |are dozens of restaurants in which There are several things smoking is prohibited, and a few letter that I know to be minutes’ investigation will prove 't T've lived in Seattle for several! Lastly, her wish for an ordinance years, ridden on hundreds of ele-| prohibiting smoking “on the vators, and have not noticed that|in public and fn all public the men are very much addicted to| is rather revolutionary, Of cours smoking on them when there are| such-an ordinance is Impossible, women in the It i# true they) just as impossible as an, ordinance’ smoke on street cars; there is pro-/to prohibit women from wearing Vision made for that; a sigh reate| hobble skirts, chewing gum, pow- Frigg permitted in and back of|dering their fares, painting their three rear seats,” and the ladies| cheeks or 4 pe d& not have te ride there. I've neen| would be, eee OM the streets dozens ut @ person can eat in that wrong, treecs places" Semen come in a ear) While it is true that amokin: Zz on and sit in the seats reserved for| the streets is offensive to many, I smokers when there we other} do not think that conditions are os seats vacan) baa as the letter would le: > The letter also states that MOK.” the] believe, SMOKER ig they bring the} attended | THE STAR—MONDAY, JULY 8, 1912. SENSITIVE. suffer any eoult of his “Did that explo you to a ball physical ailment a “Don't trip to the South Pole | “Well, no, I went to one It years “Yea.” ago, “i the home team lost, and I “What was it?” know that everybody considers mo “Writer's cramp.” KNEW HIMGELF, a hoodoo,” THAT GARDEN. Mr, Gotrocks sultor)—But, daughter has been used to every] dent” (to his daughter's my dear er, my De you intend cultivating a gar luxury. Mr, L. M. P. Cuntons find me a luxury, too. No. That would deprive mo of} Well, she’ll| the joy of reading and believing tn) these beautiful seed cataloghes | A TALE OF TWO HATS Ife scowled and frowned as be paid the bill, Said cutting things, and all that While hia wife stood by both mock and still, He paid for her Easter bat Once more be pald, though it broke bim fat; Yot be rubbed his hands in glee This time he bought a Panama hat-— Bat the hat was bis, you see! Judge. RRR Oe A SLIGHT MISUNDERSTANDING Night was coming on, the storm was increasing and somé of the deck fittings had already been swept overboard, when the captain decided to send up a distress signal. The rocket waa al- ope lit and about to ascend when a solemn faced passenger step- up. “Cap'n,” said be, “Ta be the last man on earth to cast a damper on any man’s patriotism, but seems to me thie here's no time for celebration’ and settin’ off of Sreworks.”-—-Christian * * * * * o * * * * * ® Herald. * ® Peeeeeeeeeees ed GETTING A FRESH START “Well, well!” said the man who had wandered back to the old vil lage. “Bo the Eagle house is still the Eagle house. No change after twenty yeara” “There have been a few changes,” responded the oldest inhabitant “Since you've been gone the hotel has been, respectively, tae Grand Cen- tral, the Grand Union, the Grand Junction, the Great Northern, the Great Southern, the Imperial, the Regal, the Empire, the Regent and the M: sion house. She's just starting around the cireutt for the second time.’ —-Boston Post. A SLANDER “Ia it true that your daughter has married a highbrow, Mra. Roek- ingham Tt" “No; that story was started by some of the girls who are jealous, Daisies husband fs a writer, but his royalties amount to over $40,000 a Shicago Record Herald. YES, ‘LL TAKE A Smone 1T ISN'T LOADED, 1S IT? | DONT KNOW ff of WILL SMone iT FOR YOU AND FIND OUT! GOOD DAY N aaureyiny a SINISTER “This bill was innocent on its face, but beneath there lurked a most sinister significance,” The speaker, Senator Clarke, lure of which he disapproved fhe bili reminds me, in fact,’ was discussing, in Little Rock, a meas. he ald “of a Little Rock urchin’s mention His question, innocent enough in appearance, dear knows, was this: Would you mind making a noise like a frog, uncle?’ And why,’ said uncle, with an amused smile, ‘why Tommy, do you | desire to make a noise like a frog?’ ns j ‘Because,’ reptted the urchin, “fhénever I ask daddy to buy me any- thing, he always says, “Walt till your uncle croaks.''" | Tribune. fae I acy BLOCKING TRAFFIC There were times when Meteo gloried in the fact that he was the fathon of aine children, even if they were on the lines of the proverbial human stepladder, but on the day when he " walk he felt chagrined, . n he was taking them out for a He was walking along at a falrly good gait when he w policeman, who asked “I say, you, what you been doin Nothing,” replied McFee. “Why ?’ “Weil, what's the crowd followingyou for? ‘as halted by a oe Nothing Serious ae © | TOO MUCH FOR HIM, xeon langvaiteh! with Poreigner—Oh! Native--What's the matter it? You say “I am down Oh, 2608 Foreigner aod out; I am all in!” langvatteh! NO LONGER PLAY Reformer—-I hope you are sot playing polition? Politiclan—-There's po such thing as playing politics, Politics tb days ls work Mos “Since th’ Gideons have put a Bible in each room at th’ Becleys port House, th’ volumes are gettin’ very much thumbeared at th’ Book 0 Job.” Says Grandpa Gripsack. You can build castics in the air without a permit. But you can't get insurance on them, Time was when a boy thought a velocipede exciting. Mra, Westend—You alwars told mo you cotldo't see anything im socialiam? Mra. Parkway~-But, my dear, I didn't know then that it was going to become a fad A swat in time saves nine million, 1 saw a fellow with a hoe By aceident cut off his toe; My heart with pity chilly grew; I ahed a salty tear or two; Said he: “Please, Mister, mourn ; At last I've cured that gol-dinged corn, do not Now's the time to think up a name for the new half-cent pieces they're going to coin Ha'pennys barred i | * The Patient's Retort Doctor—Well, I hope profited by my advice? Patient—Yes, doctor; not #0 much as you did Th * Bits *! oe ol * you * * but * eeeeeeeex Girls, don't notice the wink of a crosseyed man. It may be meant for someone else, DEFINITION: FOOLISH OR TUR Anyone who asks Roosevelt a question This Beant Bad Grub. A Boston man eats a hot mince! pie and drinks a quart of cham pagne every morning for breakfast, A Tough Proposition. A man who was dining in a vil lage hotel gazed at the second course for a moment, and then ask ed the walter “What is this leathery stuff?” “That is a filet of sole, sir," re plied the waiter “Well, you may take ft away,” said the diner, after attacking it with his fork, “and see if you can't get me a nice tender plece of the upper, with the buttons removed,” Judge, The Duluth woman Who fainted when she found o mouse in her bonnet had a fat theee all the time. It pure remains be food to theor' whether prevent seen ean 3 colic in thé Doe Wiley. baby, _— BY O. P. NEWMAN Author of “The Fortunes of the} OL? Sun” / SHA GIT J, July Be] os iiverybody knows that Woodrow } ite Vilson put a big program ef pro} anive legtala tion through the) { New | felature immed! | ately after he} became governor | but everybody does not know th only one! house wan demo-| cratic nor how! Wilson won the republican senate | over to voting for democratic bills, It happened like this Adjt, Gen, W. F. Badier of New Jersey, a republican, gave a dinner at which Wilson was guest of honor and the republican senators just or dinary guests, The had ver met Wilson, but were agains him anyway, beeanse they believed him to be a haughty college prest dent with whom they could not mix senators Before the dinner had progres ! 10 minutes Wilson had put the | awed senators at ense with a couple of good stories, for which he | ix famous among his friends, After dinner somebody proposed a Vir ginia ree! and Wilson chose for his partner a senator named — ..ols, | who had fought him bitterly in a newspaper in Southern rrey |Ho heartily did he do the r and so human was he in bis comrade |7, R, HASN'T THE ONLY TEET ehip that Nicho’ a all others became 1h friends . before the! - — funeral ofa evening waa ¢ performed waa at t e ° jstate employe, where he was ap Jim” Smith, jr, used to be a proached by an office seeker United States senator from New | who whispered ; Jersey. He wo be one now if Governor, I'd like this man’s Woodrow Wilson had not beaten place.” e. him. Naturally “Jim” doesn't love Pointing to the hearse which Wilson. ther does “Jim” | Was just ready to start, Gov, Wii Nugent, who ts nith's nepnew and son said the bess of Newark Thie ts So far as | am concerned you're Nugent's reason come to bis place. Go and take He called on Wilson in the gov, NEWMAN ILLUSTRATES GOVERNOR WiILs¢ CHARACTER AND PERSONA WILSON HAS A FEW HIMSELF LITIES HIN THE WORLD. {se that he has his college days, ae to ko out of trabming:. plays golf, rides rides @ bleyele ang basium exercises, jhe pumps himself ap. jtwice a day between # two car seats as if the: | parallel bars, : ernor'’s office one day and said: | PS °e * Governor, you are using patronage| If you've ever shaken hands|) |. to get leaialation. lwith Gov. Woodrow Wilson you * Why “No, | am not,” sald Wilson pera g ty » & hours “Do you deny it?” asked Nugent old he ls & mani, ider: may “| most certainly do,” s >t substantial |* |, Ft aly ‘ball on the ew the governor. muscular devel. neck about seam Then you aay what ten’t true.’ opment. He Srive |» answers, London Gov. Wilson rose and pointed to the band flee rer rr | the door, which stood open. fashion that ie "Good day, Nugent,” he said. leav ; ne a Fans And Nugent good-dayed. of his strength. eo yo might think | 46 yatta in Oe Rama Gov. Wilkon is noted in New 0 busy & man an average o tree igh. aa Jersey for his skilt in shutting us would pot have! the Littlest is persistent office seekers, One o! time to keep in| si. mudders batter training, but the the best jobs of that kind he ever Mies Dilipickies Builds a House After Her Own Design, Showing What @ Bright Girt Can Do When She Has Full Swing. BY FRED SCHAEFER. Shopping for Lumber is Difficult. Down Goods and Showing It. IL strong on p but a little wabbl I've got along with my plans for] 0M specifica He got me up the house to the point where I'r “— ery sogpanAbe seesphanalyoa ng part already printes able to sympathize with an archi-| sordid details written tect. Every member of the Dill-! scribed such perfectly ele: pickle familly a different no-| ber that I went out to tion of how it ought to be arran myself, because they say ed, and comes along with a correc ay isn’t what it was, And no tion after I've got everything laid wander, seeing. that all the be out to jibe correctly. I finally told) lumber was used up years ago them this was no rubber house it}make fences. But shopping couldn't stretch to t in eve lumber, I found, is difficult. They thing they wanted. It n mjare backward about taking down dwelling—not a 700-room beach) goods and showing it. The builder hotel. Also there's been too much) told me I'd better leave it to him piffling talk showing ignorance of| because they might poke off lum technical details. y a spe has lumber Pa and ma/ber on me that would shrink or wrangled all of one evening about! fade the first time it was washed. whether cove ceilings had any re-|So TI did lation to cove oysters When I got home ma was trying Just to show thom all where to/ to cut out some gingham by one of wet off I breexed away with the|my bineprints. She thought it was plans to a builder and had him} a dvess pattern get me up the specifications, Tin (Continued.) € oy HIS REASON “I would like to have you take me to the theatre some night, Mr Kwere.” I—I'm sorry, but TI can't “Why not to the theatre? dramatic critic “Yes, I do.” “But why?" “I Ife to sit with somebody who is willing to let the performance speak for itself.”"—Oleveland Plain Dealer, HE'S ONEIN A MILLION There's & man whom T don’t know by name, Who belongs in the fans’ Hall of Fame, When his office boy said That his grandma was dead, He cried: “Sure! Go ahead to the game!” KING OWNS ALL THE SWANS King George's gift of swans to Owen Sound recalls that all I'll take you anywhere else.” I know you go there, for you are a keen Do you always go alone?" tame swans in British dominions belong to King George, and are lent by him | to municipalities or individuals whom he wishes to honor. 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