The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 15, 1912, Page 4

STAR tn 9400, AGUE OF NBW wire mews aetvice of th Assoc! fered at Beuttln Wash, postoltice ta second: out of olty, $c per mon. up to « tiy by The Siar Publishing Ge, Phone: WHY NOT? A Denvet woman insists that when her little boy knelt, the other night, to say his evening prayer, he made this al: “Oh, Lord, you,have saved many worse men than papa why can’t you save him man over 40 was useless to the advancement of the world,| old to do things, too conservative to dare. Youth must ieee its way, and it was the part of wisdom to trust youth's Vigor rather than maturity’s counsel, There is much to be said on both sides of the question may remark that Alexander conquered the world before was 30, but Napoleon was beaten by a man past 40, and son was 45 at the battle of New Orleans. The fortunes the Southern arms were entrusted to Robert E. Lee, aged| and certainly no one will claim that any commander done better, while theNorthern armies failed again and cer ; until Grant, who had turned 40, also turned the scale|——————— victories Joan of Are died at 20, having done her work, but Mrs. ly was a failure at 50, and afterwards founded a world’s jon. If Chatterton died at 20 and Bryant wrote “Thana- is” at 19, and Poe's genius was complete under 40, still iellow published “Hiawatha” at 48, Tennyson published “Idylis” at 49, Dante's “Devine Comedy” appeared at his 50th year, and Milton’s “Paradise Lost” close to} » 60th. * Lincoln was near 50 at the time of the debates with|* Douglas,“which can almost be said to have begun his career, |* ‘ohn Brown was 59 when he led the raid which was tol, @ race. Peary was 53 when he reached the pole, and) ® mbus was 56 when he sighted the shores of America im at 50 barely got into the “Who's Who” of his day, but then came “The Origin of Species,” and later “The De- is it of Man,” and Darwin became the great name of the 19th ur) Edison was 40 away back in 1887, and it can hardly Katherine—Goodnese! What? said that his work has waned since Margare/—She has formed a society for Of course, im a certain way, the statement of the suc-| forms of auc lon bridge.-Lite ; ul editor quoted above is true. ‘The “AVERAGE man”) "Wy ame CASES. SELF EVIDENT. 40 is incapable of doing big and new things, but so is the VERAGE man” of 20. The moral is, don’t be an average Wan! But the man who is capable and willing, gifted with} ary horse sense and man ‘grit, need not settle back use he is 40. As a matter of fact, he is just getting} to do things. “We are such stuff as dreams are made of.” All of us, at some time, have our day dreams. When we are young, life glitters before us like an endless} nt of beauty, created and gilded by our child-mind)| ms and rations. ¥ To most of us the years bring disillusion. Our castles in air fade on approach like a mirage in the desert, leaving @ a waste of barren and sterile sands | Tt is our own fault that our early dreams are permitted) perish ; and our own undoing. They are divinely implanted} the seeds of individuality. They are heavenly stars set as to our destiny. Dreams are ideals ES and the soul without ideals withers and| “He must be rich, automobile.” That prove nt.” He owns an) irace? = She nothing. ‘Oh, you know takes it seriously.” ‘REAL TEST OF AFFECTION “Why are sobbing a0, Stejar” “Jack doesn’t really love me!” “What makes you think that?” “He told me this morning | had too much powder on my nose!”— I don't think it's fair. whether a woman's married or single by her title, while all men | Baltimore American, ee * THEY CARRY THE SIGN sald Mra, Koagger, “that are called mister.” Well,” titles to distinguish th is Just to look at married ones her husband, m from single Judge. answered * RRR aa MUCH-NEEDED REFORM What can be the matter You ought] though she bad lost b could| to hear him squeal every time tho] on earth,” [price of gasoline goes up another men All you've got to do sho's engaged ani one can tell don't need ee eee eeee Margaret—Josephine has gone in for a new sort of philanthropy, Autotet Ive noticed the prevention of new one eco What are considered proper call-| nomieal thing about your cars ing cards?” Threes or upward are consider The secret of youth and enthusiasm in the grown man|¢d very good.” Salesman Autolst in his loyalty to he verile life is done. | This is the difference between the great and the fittle souls # earth—the little soul, disappointed, ceases to dream. The it soul dreams on and goes out to realize the dream ‘The castle in the air is the home of the soul. Failure} it fade for want of a foundation; highest and truest suc- builds a secure foundation under it. ¥ __ Every great soul of man has seen a vision and pondered| # it until the peers to make the dream comestrue has dom- inated the life. dreams. When the dreams are ended|~ eeeeeee Cheer up, whatever you think may be going wrong. Try a litt Science, a wonderful thing, if you can really get it into your ‘The other day we met a tremendously fat man on the street. to be frying in He feat and his physical torture was, apparentiy,! ENGLISH AS SHE IS SPOKE “Jim certainly Clarisea’s beauty be was so proud of was half paint and powder,” acted in a contrary wh he What Wid he do?” “Why he declared he was pot out when he found out be bad been en in. When a group of visitors was going through the county jai recently, @ burly negro trusty ~Baltimore American. ee 2 HE WAS GOING FAR AWAY was called perform other similar duties for the visitors. “How do you like it “Like it? frum town it'll take §9 to sen News, Society Reporter in this country here” Lawd, if evah Ah gets out o me a postal card re 7 PLANS WERE ALL MADE one of them asked. * * * * to open doors and * * * heah, I'll go so fer * Indianapolty & ‘ . * What's that? When the machine staps does the repair bill ing found out that 1 hear that you are making plans to get “separa | Did he say: “It's hotter than Tophet"? He turned his thought| . Count Nogoodsky--Ab, what shall I say? Making @ plans? No, ‘@ther things. He sald: “It's very likely to be very cold next winter,”|80! 1 haf ze plans prepared ze long time. | am now busy—what you Mental aspect was cool and he persuaded himself that he was not|*#Y—taking ze estimates.—Judge ng. ~r poyresre or a acme Down on the piers sat an old man, fishing and fishing. ABSOLUTELY HONEST. | DIPLOMATIC. : tl was noon. Bad fished since dawn. “What bave you caught?” we asked. He) up. his line deliberately, examined his bait and #aid: Haven't Rothing yet, but my worms fs still alive ang I guess the fish be. hungrier,along towards dark.” Bait still fresh, prospects bright and mental poise fine, you see. ‘There's Tom Smith. Married three months ago. Had a cow ht 60 turkey eggs, planted an acre of corn, two acres of alfalfa for! feed and a half acre of potatoes. Bought 200 week-old chicks./ it thu Three gallons of milk daily at 20 cents per gallon 50; turkeys at $6 each, $250; plenty of corn and other feed n net profit; 300 hens, laying 100 eggs each at 3 cents per egg. $900 income, $1,269. Enough for any young couple to start on | Cow went dry, bugs ate corn and potatoes. Ca! sucked turkey ¢ 298 of the chicks turned out to be roosters. Despair, divorce in mind? No, sir! Says that alfalfa yields three crops per year vead an article stating that the scientists have discovered| to make perfectly good bread from alfaifa 1m and he’s going in} wy on alfalfa, Tightens his belt up one hole further and goes ahead, Tom, Mental poise. Spiritual exhilaration due to the Christian ice policy of looking ahead with expectation and never looking be. with dejection Most of our troubles never happen, safth one philosopher. All of @ur troubles have happened, saith Tom. So, cheer up, take your post illustrated trouble, such as an ulcerated tooth, to the dentist and| it pulled, Pull the troubles you think you have yourself. You can| ag if you will, Practice it daily. Carry your calf troubles up a bill , and by and by you'll find, as did that ancient of the story, that you can easily carry the calf grown to an ox THIS is Seattle's big play week IF YOU feel just a trifle warmish, just think of the 90- @egree temperatures under which the cast is sweltering. ALL THE big democrats are measuring themselves for LEAGUE of German aviators formed. Going to demand higher pay for high flying. Doesn't it sound real nice? . ONE wonders what the Declaration of Independence would have looked like if Tamanny had had the framing of it. Chicago Daily News. LET the merry bells of progress ring. A Californian. is growing two kinds of corn on the same cob—-Egyptian for “thickens at the top, American for hogs at the bottom. And Maybe we'll have two kinds of pickles in the cucumber—dill Bt one end, colic at the other. THIRTEEN more people have “been killed by the rail- : foads. Dispatches say fire started immediately after Burling s _— ton collisiongyesterday, from “gas lights in sleepers.” All new Bteel cars are equipped with electric lights, so it’s a safe bet Yeu, “Ig he absolutely honest? | He wouldn't even|order to get off to go to the He said his wife's mother indeed. steal lumber from the new house! game that is being built next door to his.” | was dead _- —_— | “ft think you Prunes are going up. A littte| heard what he said, Observations more and paragraphs like this will) “Then what was be outlawed. Then prunes will cea to be a joke. his motherdr MERELY THE VIEWPOINT “There is nothing in superlatives to a bride.” “Contentment osopher. “True,” replied Dustin Stax, “but my obse is rich has @ better chance of becoming content than a man who is eon- tented has of becoming rich.” “Suppose you do find your honest man, Dioge: fellows in the crowd; “What do you mean by that?” io matter who may be the best man, she thinks the bridegroom fa a better one.” Baltimore American PHILOSOPHY OF RICHES is better than riches,” said ‘The Washington Star, LESSONS FROM THE PAST how will you recognize him?” are “Dobbs lied to me yesterday in ball mistaken, 1 itr” “He sald he would Ifke to attend jaw's funeral.” the ready-made phil- tion Is that a man who said one ofthe “TH know him,” responded Diogenes, “by his habit of minding his own business and not looking like any of you chaps.” From whicn we learn that men who wear celluloid clothing should |not approach too near a lighted lantern. WEIGHTY REASONING Chicago Tribune, The lad had a face bright and sunny, and @ pair of blue eyes Hke a Then he looked at meant trouble for the Ad man. r i “Dad,” he said, woftly, “# ing 14 been twins,” wrecked train was not built of steel. | etar. esd Me dep sider girl's, and he had just put an end to the earthly existence of a fine, ripe banana, in a manner remarkable for ite neatness and dispatch daddy” and smiled the inquiring smile which San Franelaco Say! If Romeo-ed for breakfast wan it Bacon that Juliet? In Georgia the robins are becom ing \ntoxioated by the China ber ries, And then they want farms for inebriates. If politics was a poker game, Uncle Sam would have a full hand We're Born Kickers. We kick about the service, We kick about the car, We kick on nearly everything,. No matter where we are. We never stop to ponder Over other people's woo, with} We think we're all and only mopes around asf Bo we kick; is that not so? only friend When. we “stick up” for our prin ciples folks call us a grouch. When we give up we're “quitters,” To Change the Subject. The fellow who caf laugh a bit As he goes upon his way In the fellow who can make a hit With all most any day ‘Tf you don't mend your ways the coroner will be sitting on you some day” said the masterful wom an to her humble spouse. “Well, he weighs co: leas than you do, my dear.” jerably More boiled. dinners are roasted than How Fortunate It le— That Christmas comes but once a year! Suppose it came oftener than that! Suppose we had to go) through this holiday spasm every new moon! How many of us would be able to keep out of the lunatic asylum? is a hero to bis bridge And that goes for Five too No map partner Hundred, T. R, Please Notice. “The letter “I i a curious part lot speech, At first a mere letter, it becomes ‘a pronoun.” “Yeu,” replied the plain person, "and then it gets to be a habit Who Ought to Auto. Practical Man--Not all who auto, Se ll WHAT | WOULD DO if ELECTED MAYOR Here are excerpts from the political creed of Mrs, Rae Copley Raum, candidate for mayor of Ban Diego in 1914; Men and women have equal political rights in California, There should be simplicity and economy, allied with effl- ciency in municipal offic There should be the same law for the poor workingman and the rich idler, The streets should be used solely for bi d provide covered places people to speak. A woman naturally hates graft. The people would be mayor, not an individual, SESS SEES SEE ESR RE eee eee SSSSSSSSS ESSE ESSE EEE EEE ES RR tt (My United Prem Le BAN DIEGO, July 15.—Mra, Rae Copley Raum of San Diego, who recéntly announced her candid for the office of mayor at the elec tion in April, 1913, is not going to be the suffragettes’ candidate for mayor “Men and women have equal po litical rights im California, and 1 want to be @ mayoralty candidate for both (ye sexes and all the peo- ple,” she shyé 1 believe in women voting and holding office along with the men, and | would like to be mayor of Diego if the people by their San d and do your best +, “My platform ts briefly this There should be simplicity and economy, allied with effi efency in municipal affairs. “There should be the same law for the poor workingman and the rich idler “The streets should be used solely for business, but I would Provide covered places for peo- ple to speak “A woman naturahy bates graft. | In a time when corruption might! WOMAN TELLS WHAT SHE’LL DO IF SHE’S ELECTED MAYOR OF BIG CITY MAS. RAE COPLEY RAUM | be the Fule instead of the exception, it would be a good thing to have & Woman mayor, Every bonest man in the eclty, from the truck driver to the owner of the biggest fac- tory, would back her up and give her advice. The people would be IN THE EDITOR’S MAIL | (The opinions expressed in this column are not necessarily the opin- jones of The Star. drew pressly given-—but not more than 200 words.) ought to. Editor The Star—In Saturday's | Bocialist—Hamph! Not all whojStar there appeared a letter from jought to, auto.—-Life. . a taxpayer relating to garbage col ee ee ee ee ed * * * Very Likely. * * His Honor (gazing at intoxt & * cated prisoner)—What is he ® *# charged with, officer? * * Officer (newly appointed) — # ® Ol don't kiiow. yer Honor, but & ® O| think it's shtraight whiskey. # * —Judge, * \* * * * es to by r t- > Faro @. | Qmnryre House was badly flooded th’ other | day on account o' th’ porter ferget- tin’ ter replace th’ bucket under th’ washbow!.” A TRANSLATION She—That's a funny French dish on the menn. Do you know what it means? He—Yes; an attack of indiges- jtton if you take it!—-London | Opinion OR MAYBE CHOCOLATES “Why is that spoils politician 60 ardent for wom’n suffrag “Oh, him? He's got a dippy idea that he could go around picking up votes for an ice cream soda apiece.” Washington Herald. TICKET SPECULATION “So you encountered Ucket spec- ulators Yes,” replied the man who was e A lot of people were j@ven speculating in meal tickets."— Washington Evening Star. MARKS OF DISTINCTION “You can tell a great statesman by his dignified appearance,” “Usually, But sometimes you rece jognize him by his wilted collar and }palmleaf fan.”"—-Washington Even- ing Star, A GOOD MEMORY Wifey—Did you mail that letter I gave you? Hubby—Yes, dear. 1 carried tt in my hand so I couldn't forget it and I dropped it in the first box, I te member because Wifey—Theve, dear, Don’t fib any more, I didn’t give you any letter to mail.—St, Louis PostDis patch HER CLOSEST FRIEND “L called him my closest friend,” #ald whe, ‘And it pleased him, too, I could plainly see Hut surely 1 said no more than 1 meant I never have spend a cent.” For known him to Judge, CHILD Loaic Teacher--Now, children, which one of you can decline the word “alek ?"* Livele (in a tragie votee) worke—load.—-Judge, Siok “The lavatory at th’ Beeleysport) jlection. I will say that he tells the | truth but not off of the truth. The fact is that the men really try to the but under Correspondents should append their names and ad- to communications, not for publication—uniess permission is ex- uses his brains,” said Andrew Care an evidence of good faith. Letters should contain ny fer to the St. Paul Daily News it would get some valuable informa tion on the subject. I lived in St Paul for upwards of nine years and can say that there wan worked out there an excellent system for the disposal of all kinds of refuse. 1 will add that I bave no desire to give satisfaction present system for Iack of same) go back to St. Paul, for Seattle has this fe an Impossl tity it on St, Paul except in some minor 1 think that if The Star would ro-| things. JANITOR, ae ee me eS SESS —_ Tha Sw rier0fler Dor ®. yy. july 11-—mrs. isabelier goodwin, she bas a funny job she goes around to all kinds of fake shops, and gets the goods on wot kind of a film joint does the {prisoner run mrs. goodwin she begins to laff, and she ses, excuse the giggel, the fakers, and then the poleece| judge, but on the level this is swell comes and makes the pinch mrs. godtiwin is just as wel- ‘kam ta a quack dockter’s front of- fis an @ rattionnake at 4 sunday school picknick, but she dont never have to go to the same place twice, jand they never know who she is Ul she has went one of her big stunts Is slipping }the wkide under the forchin telle jevery time she drops in on one of }them make-beleave wizzerds, she could tel! him more about wots go ing to happen to him than he can about wots going to happen to her, but he don’t never get wise to that! juntt! he hears the bell ringin on the wagon well, the uther day mre. goodwin she went to see a lady wizzerd up lexinton avenoo, a jnice littel talk with ber, and the next day the lady wizzerd was say in good mornin, judge, youre lookin good and { hope you aint feelin very cross you ketch this time, mrs. goodwin, this year, hey? Chesty Applicant ore of Hackensack down to 3 burg Pink Stockir ee: id she had a} to take my word for it A MARQUARD OF ’69 NEVER AGAIN dope i went In to this dame, and | hands it out to her that | am a old maide and ide like to take a shot at the orange blossom stuff, but | cant get no gink to fall for me and she ses to me, she ses, why i am sirprised, | would advise you to do ike the widders does, dont wait for a guy to clinch when he is | where you can reach him, make a grab yourself and then bang on and is that it, ses 1 you bet it is, ses she, thats the! reason many a widder cops out a live one in 5 minutes when a lot of single geris has been handing him the dreamy lamp for 6 months and aint got nuthin to show for it but a gas bill the judge he has to snicker his. self, he being a old batcheller, and he ses, now tell me, mrs. goodwin, you know and { dont, on the level is that true about widders new york is full of widders, an. well, the judge he ses, wot did|swers mrs. goodwin, you don’t need | emer johny Manager of the Green Stockings (in 1869)—Want to piteh for us What bave you done in that line? What have I done? e in five innings! “This portrait doesn’t resemble me at all!” “Pardon me, madam, but I once made a portrait of a lady that re- sembled her. egende Blaetter, NOT WHAT Sultor—I hope my nomination of antiquities will induce you to trust your daughter to my care, geondorfer Blaetter. HE MEANT to the curatorship of the museum Meg: Noice Undertaking Co. BROADWAY AND UNION Our featuros—reasonable prices, efficient rervice, homelike surroundings, Phone Kast 900, {the mayor, not an individual. “I would be inclined to favor tax against bachelorhood enough to guarantee anti-race side.” Mrs. Raum fs a sister of Com gressman Kaum of Illinois. STORIES OF THE STREET “Every man can find work if he in an efter-dinner address, We shoult all be like the pi tuner I o met out west. f y, 1 sald to him—for we were in a wilt, unsettled country— 7a , ‘surely plano tuning can't be very £3 }plentiful in this region.’ } sir, they're not,’ sai@ the [7 | piano tuner, ‘but I make a pretty |= fair income by tightening up barbed wire fences. | Dugan, the roofer, was sent | millionatre’s palatial home to to find a leak in the roof. i As he entered the front hall the — butler whispered to Dugan: ‘ “You are requested to be careful of the hardwood floors as you €o upstairs, they've just been pok | ished.” “Sure, there’s no danger ev me - slippin’ on thim,” Dugan replied “Ol bov spikes in me shoes.” He had dropped a nickel fn @ slot of a telephone pay station stood patiently waiting. He full to the brim. He read the structions and took down the re ceiver. “Number?” asked central. ‘Fife centsch.” “What do you want?” “Spearmint.” AT THE THEATRES THIS WEEK. Moore—Thuriow Bergen Players in “The Virginian.” Metropolitan — Wolgast - Rivers fight pictures. Seattie—Dark. Orpheum— Vaudeville. Empress—Vaudeville. Pantages—Vaudeville. Grand—Vaudeville and motion pictures Clemmer—Photopleys and vaw deville. Melbourne—Photoplays and vaw- Why, I held the Haymak- runs last Fourth o° July, and the Pitts- 8 got only 29 hits off r deville. te wh AN BLECTRICAL WONDER it multiplies « per: those with uired. ° | CTROPHONE CO, 454 Arcade Annex, Seattte, Wash. Ballard Business Directory BE GUIDED BY THE ADVER- TISEMENTS BELOW. THEY ARE RELIABLE AND WILL MEET YOUR EVERY WANT : DAIRY _ i BRICK ICE CREAM Three Flavors. Try It. You'll Like It. Royal Dairy, 5426 Leary Av, ~~ EMBALMERS Calls Might or Day. Prompt BALLARD 9 Prices in Reach. : “Ballard Sheet Metal Works oT. Simpson 0. B. 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