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————— — —————— 1 j ——s KD ae othing Sérious . | , lh Cuch PAS l. ORT file paper having full leased wire mews Assoctations, SF icra Wank OSU or weenie aT — i A PRETTY BUNCH OF FLOWERS |VIC_WANTS A FUNNY oi ot eae War aT 4 JUST IDEA FOR CIRCLE Sing Publishing Ge, Phe AN EXTREME CASE a StF Re Vic, the Star artist, wants to er, among #0 draw something funny for the Cire ele, Something awfully fa But many others, |e Vie is an entric cartoonist fa ils © He wants to b Tho Tom Lawson revival is stirring Massachusetts, and attracting | an enthusiastic leg Somek ie -wanis-to hea irom tention in such distant parts as Wall street. You may not care to t Words of Infamous Men. ‘* P ee ee ee all the stock Tom offers, nor even want to see him break into if THE HORSE THIF Thia sus|member of The “ ¥ if rape geen een ae United States senate, but you can't deny that he is interesting and 5 pense is awful, Qtar Crete. the j foe * Br i. a a . toe a educational, i cartoo or eal 4 He is telling the old Bay State that there is but one issue—high} Young man, I saw you put your|i, gy Lillian ©. k Vie wants to see rhe ‘ § Cost of living; but one duty of the hour—to smash it; but one states ¢ : arm around my daughter's waist lot one’s brain rest, letting who knows how to—Tom Lawson himself. Here is the disease, as # last evening Hempel, Miss @r fellow do all the thinkin diagnoses it “And [ suppose you noticed how Vic unearthed his “hunc Watered stock, the money trust, the stock exchange, then paying she struggled?” Hempel obtained Jack thought it would be a K00d the fiddier by means of high-priced commodities, He points at your “ acheme for a contest. So a contest ld friend, J. Pierpont Morgan, as the arch fiend of the whole heart Wonder How He— obtained @ mem it Is, Vie will give the sender of Breaking business of coining a vacuum tnto dividend-paying stocks. A Berlin doctor says 82 per Contlyer ship many i the best idea of a funny drawing for Yea, and Tom says the very first minute he gets into the senate he io of the world’s women are knock children a pound box of chocolates, Fie in his place and demand an investigation that will not inves knood. months ago upon The suggestions must be in by 1% This tittle flow: e Just around the edges, but lay bare the whole squirming mass of : o'clock Friday,in order that Vie mity. Guaranteed result: Coat of living smashed without reducing application. The j may be able to'draw up the ides far Wages or incomes photograph wee Well, old Massachusetts now has direct election of senators, and + hen thinks Tom Lawson as good a successor of George F. Hoar as | Crane, we shan't kick, but just stand off and watch the fur fly How about the sermon?” Jack—How very easily gots “The minister preached on the| embarrassed, Ever notice it? |sinfulness of cheating at bridg Fred—Ob, my, ¥ Why, she'd ful garden, which “You don’t say! Did be mention | blush crimson if she saw @ pile of | Too Much of It lids comme? lundressed lumber 1 ae ge sc MEIC ET : to, and in which Brian Crows ONE EXCEPTION she has cultivat- Richard Manus The trouble with you, Ethel,” he sald, reproachfully addressing bis = Ir neheon fair young wife, “is that you can’t keep yo mind made up for two ed many = hand. F Ruth Bartlett. epee. It interferes seriously with the daily diversions of the people,| Minutes at a time, The thing that you want today you are always in some flowers and Anne Taube and es the le. . for instance, the state of Ohio. Her |doubt about tomorrow Flora Hoffman ecgindag t coesghlely et n dis Oh, no, Tom, not always plants, All of | Herbert Peters : have been through two hot presidential primaries and * led by two national conventions that vitally concerned Yot I've never noticed a tary exception. |Mise Hempel’ — Giady has just bad to nominate state officers, next she will have to vote But I've always wanted you to try to {nerease your income, y Esthe haven't [?"—Chicago Record Herald . sparetimeiss ¥ 7 Grace Monroe. next Saturday's Cirele, snapped while she was in her beauti- Ruth Hauck the alone attends Karla Davison. If we are going to restore self-government to the people, we must Pestore the business of politics to the people. But too much politics is very bad for at least two Important rea her constitutional amendments in September, and then engage in presidential campaign and election. Other states are in somewhat a similar fix Politica. politics all the spring, all the summer and most|* * et tee eeke ee ten ek eh ed jepent among her ‘all the fall. * How can the average voter possibly earn his living and at the same time do bis political duty intelligently and patriotically with all this Politics piled upon him? Seif-government is a tremendous matter, but it should be made a matter, when we consider that it should be a matter for careful | nd deliberate action. The vitally important issues are really not | Bo Very numerous. Why not tle them at onc Why not make If our special business to settle them? scanld Seebens oo ha ( 8 edward Cameron. Edith Cameron. a» a —— is Faro A} 4 ANOTHER WINNER Mabel Stoart CHIAES “A stranger at the Beeleysport = House left a nickel under his plate ys m fer th’ waitress, It now hangs “MOST INTERESTING” framed over th’ sideboard in th’ e Set Cacs dos thee Look at the ridiculous way in which we do one thing. for instan r) 4 r Year we elect a president whom we expect to stand for cer RRR RHRARE RARE ER ee wn room, Ite th’ fret tip ever wishing to become a member plect a congress that may A DISTINCTION What doos badhy spell?” asked Willie Collier of bis 10-year old son. 1 don't know, pop,” answered the youngster “Yes, you do,” said Collier, ar, “What will your little sister be when she grows up?” he added, thinking it would help him A soubrette,” promptly answered the youthful Colller New York World aheeeeneee Seeeeeeeeees execute certain laws, Later on we Atta received at this hote Ns The Star Circle for a long time, for entirely different things and enact laws that our president WHEN IT HELPED We otter tho wreal odda, 8 to § F Shane hee cf. Tivve maeneal Maay consistently refuse to execute henge nig ng! omtnrngeeenstd - To top off an expensive education, a young married woman of no| that the Giants will be in the world in the fourth grade. We hat $B be spread so thin over many matters Mat the masses ¢ SuC|particular ability In any one line, took a course at a dramatic school. | series. taken Th ar for many years, Gessfully make politics their business as they should She never attempted to secure an éngagement 4 Aq rl Aor: ‘And so the bosses grow strong upon the confusion and weakness | r | ad we gpd thie ler Siellrmeend-ene | \ We thtak & te the Reet Ge tm iatooe political Swern Ps _— id — of her husband asked him what good ail that training had The w er bureau ts living on take, I am 11 ars old. The people are sick of the everlasting round of campaigns. Yet,| "go tar as I can eee,” he sald, “that $300 you spent on Ethel's dra Bis ss te ge Riszemay — 2 BeneIs MOORE, we cannot have successful self-government unless the goal aoe matic education has been practically thrown 4 | y roe ee a particular business. If we tire or confuse the people, the ‘Oh, no, it hasn't,” retarned the husband “Her stage ex Honesty te the best politics, : l« AG ieee wt surely profit by the business of politics. perience has taught her to dreas in a hurry ays, when 1 asl |but only a few havo got next to it], Orawn by Marguerite Bugnon, 13;/ 5 DESPITE HIS AGE a a her to go any place with me she can change her clothes in ten minutes e287 Palatine av. — Dear Uncle Jack: I am only It used to take her over an hour."—-New York Times. T rat thing you can say! gye LIKES THE LETTERS Drawn by Chester Teegarden, 13; | years old, but wish to join ye — _ bout an actress ts—nothin, | Cire ister reads UNHAPPY MAZIE ! ROUGH ON REGGY. ra \ sa ase Dear Uncle Jnck: 1 would like | 1909 Minor av: | the pir gpd rea to become a member of the Circle. he Way— y whe 4 | the man Ty Cobb sbagged? — ee pore pin ome pei pot ne children who have been admitted to| test yet, but will be proud to be eee : / ; » Sirsa |the Cirele during the past week, | member The Voice. Irene Selph, Vancouver, Wash. — | Write today for a membership cér: SNOWPALL” SNOWDEN, THAT decoration of electric light posts with totem poles , Above the hovels of want and woo INSPIRATION titleate. Address letters in care of Lincoln Park Pumping Station, Miciwed's touch of real genius. I hoard s Yoleo in the stillness] 1. reat tine in your poom,| Uncle Jack, at The Star office peri da touch of real genius, oe sitor—That line in your poem, a and = the beart of living|“I4ke the scent of the hyacinth," Thelma Brown, 1323! 6th av. ENJOVS CIRCLE eT a ee | must have been Inspired. Were you| Besele Moors, Mt. Vernon. Dear Uncle Jack: I am writing ; ere 7 nen . - Louis Snowden. ‘0 join your Ci lub. roams rca poor oboe for Taft's mca peti jin the gentle words of Christ on garden = ate flower®) Snowball Showden. pl, ol ag tin wr aaa tion should not overlook that meeting set for Chicago Aug. nate: when you wrote it? . ; ayy fester tit 4 . | These are my children every one,| Poet—No; 1 was sitting in tho Coronas oberg eS an adap pth ged gontente. 1 a ‘ f Mi Whatever of kindness you have|*itchen while my wife was peeling) mera oa ne BOSTON is roaring for Dr. Wiley for health officer. Bet | done an onlon—Los Angeles Kvouing| g yyy uueus sxe & ¥ oe) OO pretty, soon, * | BY the way, Italy and Turkey are engaged in a desperate > ag loaf of brown bread that somebody has been tampering with To the weary and lost in their) Herald i TO ANNA TAUBE ha beans rc misery \® Your drawing was fine, and «her beans. In the one sweet gift ye have given 17'S CHEAPER, ANYWAY |* without a doubt would have m “Just back from Baltimore, eh?|® been awarded a prize bad It . You look thin.” *% not been drawn in pencil. The THE average citizen is now pretty well nvinced t at: A chatr in serowauticn bas been} “Tee many Turkish bathe” 1% pales of the contest wore met: Glthough it may be very thrilling to glide through the air, old estditiahadl 4h a Visman collees “Ehl Did you find time for|# tioned Inst week, and es- terra firma is a darn sight a / Turkieh bathe?” * pecially the fact that all the teed f. fva Tanguay has a new costume! “t took them in the toy elevators | # drawings should be in ink. ¥ . . : What's the matter with slazte?" made of Lincot ‘ they run in the Baltimore hotels.” | # UNCLE JACK. WHAT ails us? Even in the prohibition convention at} «Poor Masie is in despair Mande—Ruth was talking about| "rte GF chat although she ‘srove|—Cleveland Plain Dealer Terre rere es 2 Atlantic City, Rev. R. A. Elwood invited one. of the steam] “Why?” you before you came in. What do!ghiy found a quarter's worth| ~ ies “gollers to “come outside and settle it.” Why she has just begun to real-|you suppose she said? | pleaty. — ——— ize that she’s too fat for an actress| Regay—Really, | haven't an idea. |eteeeteeeee z and not fat enough for a primal Maude—Good guess. That's just , USE the old formula, “When you work, work hard; when|donna.” what he did aay. bined Gari aie ae ; ” », 7 EE aeerenaseincneremeee —— ———— Yr 4 you play, play with all your heart Monday Potlatch week In all my life, Susannah; r a out farts. Join the fun with all the enthusiasm at your command REASON TO GRIEVE But once when I was very young wane Pe ha going to play in “The 1 l¢ Millionaire’ next non tT” I slipped on a pink banana, <i a asked Colller. pac oak iat CHAFIN is again the nominee of the prohibition party for No, I'm going to play in a plece without any dancing,” answered Lueky Lad. resident. Although they haven't been elected yet, Debs and] Cohan My neighbor wears a gaudy shirt, : ‘ r : Why's that?” Its reeling colors shout and| ne g' ‘oO ent ant entia ens : | afin have become mighty pror nt and influential citizen Denting io the woth. fork, Ym going to net instead anrtaeh through heading their parties regularly for years. “What sort of « play are you going to act in? And all the girls are wild to Mirt cones Pe. «Se “Oh, a play of comedy and pathos,” answered Cohan They whisper softly, “He's a . i SPAN oe % “And no dancing in it? asked Collier again peach! | BRYAN admit that gir Mo " ie is with I “No—no dancing,” said Coban Ah, Nature, you were kind to him Murphy, but with Hearst hus Murphy and Willie can n Hl etic, all right,” said Collier—New York World. When you your lavish bounties gay they have the hand that shook the hand of Bryan. And a - - dealt; fouple of washes in formaldehyde will restore W. J. to his JUST WORN OUT His talk is dull and stupid, but Pristine purity all right. The teacher of a Sunday school class tn Atlantic tells of the excuse| #'# fat enough to wear a belt.) — — ng late offered by one of her pupils, a boy of 10 years. ae VOLO - 7 . He’ ' ] sked him os, why were you #o late today? Frank iron of Detroit gor #0 days I couldn t it! by ained. And why not? I asked for fighting Weill,’ he I dreamed that I was running, and ftunning, and| | runni. and when my brother woke me up I was #o tired that | went to again, ‘cose I'd been running such a long ways.'”-—~Boston | Editor the Star: The time {s|well as a filthy smoking pen for the| Tr gear when the siren song of the|other sex. Why discriminate? _ ——— Politician and office seeker who NORA GAMPBELL DION'T WORK Want to serve the dear public] pies the legislature,. will be heard| Editor The Star: I just wan and make or mar the laws at their) write a few words to say that | * Probabl Y@wn good pleasure afterward. | think the work that has been dor a] wunst Wi My’ Dollar Do?” h to call attention to what our/in the way of decorations on th \ cca lagen M poll a ) p@erernor seems to think @ very| White, Henry and Cobb buildin vertisement eficent law, viz. the state in-|very pretty. The spectacle of thos Aunwed paurance v, that allows the widow three fine buildings decorated w f Of the victim of accident the munif-|our flag, and the wh nd go = ( Overheard. 4eent sum of $20 per month with an! potiatch colors is very pleasing. If Vou'recatill, Hvtne: tu. Reales additional sum of $5 for each child|the example set by those thre \ Maine Pot exceeding three in number un-| buildings would be followed by th ec ikiilag Wi their sixteenth year. If she) managers of every building in the ; le That All? No, what happened to Fred? Name your reward,” said the grateful father to the youth who had waved his daughter from a} watery grave | “EXPERIENCED. | |, “If it’s all the same to you,” the hero replied, “I'd prefer not to marry the girl Die of lonesomeness. | | | heavy Mne for an "a Bhould happen to have more than) city, think what a beautiful sight it NOTICE TO MEMBERS t Jelty, c Ick ‘MBERS:—Sir Whree children it is her misfortune| would make. Why, we'd make Tu bs Knights will assemble at the Tem ,and not the fault of the state which) coma’s decorations for the 3 4 ple in white gloves and badges at| F ; . Mguakes no provision for overpope|m red went to see his best girl. > a Festo look like a blue y in }}1:30 o'clock for the parade.—-St . jare doi t, but le get to- fe @hild without any limit as to num-| sre, Jone it, but les ALL Kot ieee cans elie in | She said:— Epes, and also considers the earn-|® her and do john Jacobs. | i i iy de as shy a finger and| . fing capacity of the deceased which) - - fut Ge’ dk oe let “ , : : pur law does not at all consider, | Editor The Star: I enjoyed and , Cut off in accident, I sup Fred, you’re certainly the sweetest kisser The whole of this law is founded appreciated the cartoon on speed. | she wm Injustice and was made to pro-|¢f® you ran in Wednesday's paper. | lo, madam,” he replied, wore ever.” recs inoue the big employer| A® one of the great majority of pe-| Dobbs—Why don’t you give your| |that finger off pointing out seenery Bt the expense of the helpless | destrians who undergo harrowing|Wife an allowance? She—How dare you kiss me? s Mictims. ‘This insurance bill 1 was| experiences every time they crosa| Bobbs—I did once, and she spent) He—Oh, I've kissed a lot of worge Wh t d d F d ? ured by its author (not a mem-|the street, as one of the thousands |{t before I could borrow it back lookers than you. neue ais > dugg pe ‘ ‘ a 1 re say Of legislature) was not passed |of citizens whose sleep is disturbed, ~~ a $$ ‘ou American girla haye no As drawn up, but was altered, torn| by the “joy riders” at night, as one THE EASIEST WAY FP Pee. Seently mplexiGas as we id: @sunder and wholly emasculated|of the thousands of parents whose The Wood street man was trying to tell the Smithfield street man Raves paid an Bngilek Cactiegs: Fred said:— from its original form, and it be-|children are in constant danger| how to run his business, always a thankless task. te thy = a srg: oi al ame another bill altogether, re-|from speed maniacs, { can truly say “Every man in your office,” pointed out the adviser, “is in | ith| W@¥8 Wonder why our noblemen 6 , ’ Tice ‘by 2 corporation lavieton|that the cartoon wae very trie to|the stenographer. La s in love with | take a fancy to your white faces.” Well, why shouldn’t I be? Don’t I chew William Hainer, 1118 30th avenue,|life. It is “great fun” for the mo- What of it “Tt isn’t our white faces. that at- Beattie. torist, but for the ordinary mortal wouldn't have that sort of thing going on.” jtract them,” responded the Amert- sweet — who must use his legs to cross the “Why not?” can, “It's our greenbacks.”—Judge. Editor The Star: Seeing Mra.|street it {s anything but funny. I “Bad for busine Charlotte Jones’ letter in your pa-|think that heavier fines should be| “I can't see it. Why should | object? Not a man has lost a day|,, 1% (sy to make epigrams, Just about prohibiting smoking in| imposed in cases where it is clearly |this year. Not even baseball attracts them now."—Pittsburg Post. take @ word at random and cogcoct fpubite places, | want to make my|proven that the driver was deliber senten about it, Take the word . complaint. ately speeding. That would help a LEARNING HIS FATHER'S BUSINESS PEE ieee cama va elie . f am frequently # passenger on | lot “What?” exclaimed the wealthy Cleveland papa who had put his) The mit Maat Gator ‘ fhe Seattle-verett interurban ear,| It also seems to me that there put his) mirror de flatter like , son to work, in order to teach him a few things. “What? Fired after | the ear a where there is large compartment |are not enough policemen, motor-| working one week Tived atver ithe, milbinety 86 ' The mirror cannot join the Ana & if smoking gentlemen(?). The|cycle men, I mean, to look after the “Yes, dad, I waa discharged.” a Ris , dad, I wa scharged. las club. ” ain part of the car is mostly tak-|autos and motorcycles. This town “What was the trouble?” re id up by men, while women are|is pretty big, and it takes a lot of] “They sald I was too green for them.” mee ewran a cw ‘Compelied to stand or sit in the|men to cover the districts, I am “What was your mistake?” jemoker. Now I think the men|certain that more policemen on mo- “1 paid a bill the first time the collector called! i 0 5 ‘or called PROFESSIO Ment and give women seats in the|ping speeding, and I am also cer. “Yes, dad, I'l! never do it again.” poset gut ont of the senatbr's wing Main part of the car—that a de-|tain that there are not enough men “My son, you have served your apprenticeship and learned your | pipe? . : | @ent, clean part of every car|for that purpose now.—Mrs, Mary|lesson. You may now come into the office with me."—Clevel Pt » Xe Whe cyl Rd tai etna tole Coreene eland Plain peice Dectas Oty about a thousand to tourists.”