The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 11, 1912, Page 4

_ THE SEATTLE STAR Tvate wt ange Main i06 AGU OF NEWEES Sx Only Seattle paper having fall leased wire wows service af the Ualted Preas Assectations. Tntered at on. uy © Pelee ty most useful of all—that of ple —Chestertield. Most arts require long study and applic Ha-claan Matter 2 Hichange Main 9400 six rT Fhowe idn; but the asing—requires only the desire Widowers’ Pensieae— Why Not? An improvement club dc itself on record as in favor of pensions tor small children to support. ‘Th tat first thought. At sober has Portland, Or, put widowers having own in e suggestion is hilariously good second thought it seems still THE STAR—WEDNESDA Nothing SKYGACK FROM MARS WAS PURSUED THIS DAY BY WHEEL~DEMON OF NARROW WIOTH EMITTING “PEUT-PFUT* NOSES AMD EVIL ODERS ~~~ LLUDED = SANE With wYICULTY -——-—~ SOME LUCHKLESS EARTH BEING Serious NOT SO FORTUYATE WAS CHP RIED AWAY BY 17. A CRPTIVE. good, but not so hilarious Why not? There is, surely, nothing funny about a man left mateless A woman trying to hit a nail young children left motherless Y, DECEMBER 11, 1912. Most 1Qg A British army officer vie iting In New York, saye Amer- loan women over 26 00 fat. But the ® no American women over 26, Many large haberdasheries In the Rast have women clerks ox: clusively No simple method of testing the lquality of platioum ever has been devised. Do you Know where your car goes? Neither do we. 4 amme rovoke fanghter. There = oa_the head with a hammer may p x ing i y comic " g to A Chicugo man paid $25 for a may be something irresistibly comic about a _ ab oA Cmca man paid, 925 F thread a needle. And yet the humor is driven from ¢ weed pelier them yon ou situation if there is po man in the house upon whom the think, Jt made the man who sold woman can call to drive the nail, or a woman who will come to the reseue of the man who finds his fingers all thumbs A woman is the complement of man. A man, and a child are as nearly a holy trinity as will be found this side of the River Jordan. You. hear tatk pensions widowers? Take the trip to Tracy Town some day into the country, and you will find “Two-mile” Hansen Raps. you will catch him trying to thread a needle. “Two-mile” Hansen deserves a pension if ever a widower a woman of for widows. Why not for Walk two mileg Per it invinible, Harvard oxplorera report finding es of & prehistoric people in Nebraska, Original Bryan men, Detaile Keough We baptined this dear sinter in a bath tub were pastor in Oregon Cleveland Restitution religious paper Miadirected energy— Feeding a chorus girl, Making a plumber promise some thing. Lighting candles on a Christmas tree. Buckwheat cakes without maple did. His wife died about 10 years ago on tHe birth of his syrup. srg c . - er sons. nere s neve Trying to revive a wither Sym boys. He also had two ee pug vs es . > ° chrysanthemum that, looks like been a woman in the house since the wite ciec i he Edit r Ss Mail sauerkraut “Two-mile Hansen washed, bathed, mothered and spanked fe) } his babies. He made and mended their clothes. Small, creep-| To tna Star: I wanted to greatly appreciated, In dolug ing ‘babies play hob with stocking knees. “Two-mile” Hansen) sead a 6-08. package valued at $7.00 |this, we must depend, to a cor JOSH WISE to Eagland, One express company |tain extent, on the friends and an work as neat a “darn” as any woman. told me the rate would be T5e. Ijretatives of the patients and the | He cooks the meals, dusts, scrubs, washes, bakes. went to another company, whieh |charltably inclined firms and in- : . . 2 < eo ¢ be 1.65. 1 In addition to these wifely duties, which there is no wife} rad vent te te poatetrice soa und Seapel'e ite sae a. away perform, he works the farm, raises hundreds of chickens, | the package sent istered for 480. The Christmas dinner, conslet back when stove- bed 7 * " iret T AIR DEALING, ing of roast chicken or turkey pipe hate were and finds time to deliver a lay sermon in the church at Tracy nee lcranberry sauce, sweet potatoes, much worn by Rditor The Star; Seattle han a /Cte. ix furnished by the state to minimum wage law. Why not ex-/@veryone, but there hes never tend this benefit to the thousands | Deen any fund set aside for the of wage earners throughout the| Purchase of presents. We he wi i ‘ f ‘ lwhote state? at the present *time, 1463 pa- say their prayers before tumbling into |” We hear so much about the pro-|tebta actually present in the ip- He is a remarkable | posed beneficial and progressive |*titution, and only @ little over Town when occasion requires. The boys are fat and fine, and go to school every day When night comes “Two-mile” Hansen sees to it that they ed others besides comedians, corn doctors and cab- “Two-mile” Hansen has but one cye eo —! rith é ote } . i liegistation for the betterment of }balf of them have any knowa rel- be any mien with two Lage ven have not his vision. | 4% cinamen‘e eondition et or trienda FEL i is Si ’ s hat direction true greatness! why not proceed at once to outline ’ ago a we hs ee Ms ™ wait ‘ rs hill tue preevanalon at the open? eb to ageist us in making this! fies, He sees, too, that his is not ling of the nexi tegisiature? It ap-|* Merry Christmas can do go by} one of quiet heroism, being father and mother in one to four|peare to me that this would be the |sending some appropriate gift ad-| growing boys. to be a dramatic role, but} remedy sought, and the only |@ressed to the howpital, im care of! panaces for the ills that now op-|the superintendent Familiar Newspaper Stéries Smith was a poor man two years ago, but today has a fortune of at le@at $2,000,000 Mrs. Smith's lawyer refused to make public the name of the chorus girl. a e > ° ansens We c¢ press the working classes. No| Our postoffice address ts i i ea But wescan't all be Tw mite _ Han ens. We can't all | eee leauselinns vet suggested | Stetlacoom Our nearest express| Chicago barbers sitohan $e with the single eye. Not one widower in 50 can acquire! would give greater relief to suf. ‘4 o ee gg i , prices. Which disposes of the ’s sk i e . Pac . cedle: * fering bumanity than an act of ‘banking you vance [OF ancient theory that barbers always Hansen's skill in the matter of threading needles, Clumsy ving, Mary oud Saute & ath nee ae ae @afs, we men are, and stupid when confronted with problems GEO. G. CRESSEY. ey ) sane ild- ing. — \ ore utte The firet street car in the world of home and child rearing 4 : Be eat, de we , coeed Supt. Western Honpital for Insane. | was run in New York Nov. 26, 1832. We lord it over the wife. But when she leaves us for} orcaching Chistais, t wish to]. Sevelil af un’ deathern etaies —— @ day, we're helpless, and our superigr strength ayails us noth-|remind you of our efforts to dee|have girls’ tomato clubs, The s i . : lthat every patient in the Institu-|members not only raise tomatoes, fag when we try, unaided, to locate the cause of which the | tion receives at leat one present|but can them, There is great rival | baby’s lusty roar is the effect. Why does the youngster yell?/on Christmas eve, aside from the|ry to see who cfm get the greatest | Pin or pain in tummy? |frult, nuts and candy which are/number of cane of tomatoes to the! distributed at that time. Thishas)amount of ground cultivated. A No, there is nothing funny been done for the past #ix years, 1, Miss., girl holds the record, | it 4 jand, needless to say, has been 1,000 cans from a tenth of an acre. | woman it. if widows are to get pensions, why not widowers? i{ Why, George! | that George took advantage of the closing hours to punch Bill below the beit. Cousin Bill reported everything lovely with our foreign diplomats, who had helped to preserve our foreign peace! meeded better pay and better housings, and he showed, most! pathetically, how he had thrown his very soul into the peace | arbitration crusade. And now comes George with the sol-| emn declaration that treaties are not worth the paper they're! Congress might have been badly rattled, had it got these two irreconcilable opinions in a bunch Obser vations PRESIDENT ELIOT ‘ } about a home without a in Gift Certificates In any Amount Desired. Neckwear, Hosiery, Gloves, Dress Accessories ALWAYS MAKE PLEASIN FAVORS. Splendid display of Holiday Neckwear. All the newest shades and silken weaves. Prices. a 50¢, $1.00 and up Hosiery in latest hues, to please the taste of any - recipient ... 50¢ up ets, especially suited as seceee $1.00 up Reading President Taft's message and then Secretary @ Navy George von L. Meyer's report, one sort of suspects and boosted our foreign trade amazingly, and who only | YULETIDE Written on, and that we eught to have about 22 more first | ¢lass battleships. Hosiery and Neckwear S Christmas favors of{day, the 13th, And Walter inmane Hetrey, A The friend sof Law nning *ast of town, have arranged a sur [prise on him tomorrow. —Delaven (HL) Times. The steamer Euplectela arrived in Montreal from Singapore the other day with 1,500,000 gallons of gaccline. No emoking was allowed on the voyage and the galley fire wae lighted only a few times. in addition to w regular crew there was @ squad of watchmen whose duty was principally to see that there was no smoking. Several of the largest railways entering London are planning to erect a freight by for their Joint use, 1,300 feet Tong, 500 feet wide, eight stories bigh, land, building and mechanical equip. ment to cost $75,006,000. National Civil Service league} has 13 letters in his name, too. Women’s Fine Silk Hosiery, new line just received says “it would be rash for the Fae eee idviewerevk seeeeeee, $1.00 and $1.50 democrats to interfere with the| TF ONLY the Griffiths or-| Cross (London) and “F. C. and F." Leather Gloves hialf-merit system” of hanging|dinance could keep people | for Men and Women, dress or street on to jobs, introduced by Ted- from listening through our|) 9 ¢'*"***** thi aie tereee ++. 1.50, $ dy and Taft. Just think of a| keyholes. Who could object Dent's, Fownes’, Updegraff and other leading democrat being rash! then? makes of Gloves for Men............. $1.50 up SALVATION ARMY'S Whanksgiving collection in Wall st..was $5.13. We can See how they might scrape up the 13 cents for charity, but that $5! Some Wall st. shark must have been approached when fmancially seasick. ONE Howell has been ar tested at Woodbury, N. J., for beating his wife with a loaf of bread. Howell's under heavy bond not to use bread that way. WOMAN has entered a new and exceedingly dignified line} the Northwest. “President of the Coolidge- McClaine bank, of Silverton, Ore.,” is the title of Miss Eva Coolidge. EVIDENTLY Walter Ed- wards believes one day is no more a hoodoo than another for aviators, He'll try out a new machine in Seattle on Fri- of work in AH! AT LAST! ‘The pul sating question of the day has been answered. Roosevelt | gets 11 of the 13 electors in| California MINNESOTA jury has ac- quitted John Maki, who shot hunter John Bannon because | he looked like a moose. My,| but they stay mad about poli tics a long time, back there in Minnesota! | HOUSE brooms are full of Drat | the meddling scientists, They're full of bacteria, too. bacteria, say scientists. WICKERSHAM reports :| “Experience at enforcing crim inal liability under the Sher man law is not encouraging,” We're getting discouraged about it, too, George. MORGAN employs no wom en in his New York offices With a nose like his, wouldn't, cither, we Fine Holiday Umbrellas for Men and Women.... ewe $1.50 to $5.00 $5.00 up Heavy Woolen Sweaters and Worsted Vest Dr. Deimel’s Celebrated Linen Mesh, Dr. Jaeger’s Sanitary Woolens, Superior, Duofold, “Vassar, Lewis’ and other lines of finest Underwear made. Smoking Jackets and Bath Robes... Suits, Overcoats, Raincoats arantee with Every Garment.) ond Floor Department, $15.00 and $18.00 Especially fine showing of Blue and Black Serge, Worsted and Cheviot Suits, or heavy ‘Tweed Mixtures in Overcoats, and of Gaberdines Cravenetted Coats, Full G and Cheasty’s Haberdashery Second Ave. at Spring} St. Eleven More Shopping Days Before Christmas. YOU’LL HAVE TO BE PERFECTLY HEALTHY TO WED IF CALIFORNIA WOMEN HAVE Way tally diseased from marrying at all. be regaled wi pis: io At the biennial convention of} bi fal | > eae Which the 3 club women held here laet June, a aid Mrs. J. W. Orr number attempted to introduce sub-| dent of ‘ation? a Bram jects tive to the crusade to be ea greed and undertaken by the Caffornia wom: || pat with the bs en, but they recelved #o little en ealth certificate 7 couragement that they did not go ed before. ‘That 4» it has farther than hint at the great’ re 2 pr sly beens meas forms which they would lwuneh fe and Dut be The teaching of sex hygiene in the down turned norinal nehools waa one of these 0 thai tae The introduction of the subject met gnow : ant your with s¢ant response, and it wa 1¢ state 4 been Pe ne tt SAL even provides dicted to finally dropped The few intervening months have made a vast difference in the point of view, and now it la that the delicacy of discussing re lations heretofore unmentioned tn mixed society has been swept away, and that the legislature ts to a or drugs marri for we seem the appl would bs na MRS. J. W. ORR ident of California State Fed. eration of Women's Clubs. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec, 11-—The California Federation of Women's Clubs ta going to see that posterity ig well born, It ts going to utilize the legisla ture to revive the golden age when, men and women were physically nd sickness was consider jearace. It has talked “eu for a long time now and still the race goes on indiscriminate ly, and men and women continue to fall in love and marry regardless of race, color or previous condition of health. To this end, first of all will come the “health certificates of mar riage.” If the plone of the federa tion carry it will become mandatory for each party to the contract of marriage to show a certificate proving that each is in a normal state of health, just as ft ts now Pr necessary to #werr that nelther is encumbered with other marital im pediments. Mrs. George Kdward Swan, state} chairman of the department of leg islation in the federation, held a meeting of ber committee this week | in the California club, San Fran pecere= cs FR E MACHINE | men decided upon what bills they E saa Sete S| «$4 Down—$1 Weeldy legislature this winter for bet terment of the race The “health cofificate of marringe” was the first subject of discussion, and was} at once voted worthy of primary | NLY a limited number of FREE Sewing Machines with 3 ant pereiotant agitation in Sacra be sold on these easy terms mento. = Mra. Swan says that the women You couldn't find a better gift for your wife do not expect to see any improve ment or benefit in this generation but that the third or fourth genera tion should be as nearly perfect as the ancient Greeks The health certificate would, she saya, tend to minimize the diseases and defections which result from persons marrying regardiess of the j ata e of their health, and should prevent weaklings and the congeni es | she’d appreciate more or that would be of so much help } her-houschold duties than one of these famous FREE Machines, | The FREE is the lightest running and the most impre | Sewing Machine in all the world. It is guaranteed jand is insured for five years against fire or accidental de struction, 5 isa’ 4 Come in and see this wonderful machine. Thi No Pritts or Peathers all we've claimed, we don’t want you to buy it. Matt Denner of Union townshiy ' Shri é ws wee erresied Saturday £ ie ¢ nb s Chris as Cl Ss ope { | Sre Sealesecsuen thre trey Be Remember, thi < wristmas Club is open for a short time meretal. only. Join at once wt Moving pictures are popular in many parts of China. GIFT FURNITURE eer Is displayed on the main floor amid, harmonious surround A Cornell freshman reports that| ings. We've exerted our efforts in making this the “Sensible jhe lived on 85 cents a week. Al! Gift” Store and you'll find hundreds of beautiful, practical had a ready sale in. Germany, is | being crowded out By German fur} |niture. It can be made much cheap- jer, even when the lumber is tmport- ed from the United States, soon anybody could do that—al presents shown in a real Christmas atmosphere. Wel American furniture, which i / GROTE-RANKIN CO, Fifth and Pike—“Right in the Heart of Town” | It will take 34 miles of wire ropes |to operate the clevators in the new Woolworth building, New York