The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 16, 1913, Page 1

PE pists J RE CIVIL TO A —_ uL, SOCIABLE TO MANY,.FAMIL JAR WITH FEW, FRIEND TO ONE, ENEMY TO NONE. — FRANKLIN bs * FAIR TONIGHT AND SATURDAY ; WARMER SATURDAY, LIGHT, VARIABLE WINDS, MOSTLY N ORTHERLY, he Seattle Star THE ONLY PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1913. 2 ONE CENT ON, TRAINS AND Mothers, Are You Reading the Star's Scientific Articles on How to Raise Better Babies? SEE PAGE 5. Girls, Are You Looking for a Chance to Star on the Stage? Why Don’t You Go and Ask? SEE PAGE 10. VOLUME 15 NO, 67 HOM EDITION CAN YOU FIGURE OUT THIS PROBLEM? [can SEATTLE GIRLS SWIM? CAN THEY? WELL, LOOK! Sg NET IT'S A MOTHER! BOALT FINDS HER STARVING TO DEATH T0 KEEP HER THREE CHILDREN , By Fred L. Boalt This is a sordid problem in simple mathematics and stomachs. Smifkins—which isn’t his name—exploded the fallacy that “two can live as cheaply as one.” It isn’t true. Besides, the two become three, the first thing you know, and four and five. Smifkins, being a coward, quit cold. That i is, 10 days ago, | Miss Harriette Kral- | owe going off the | springboard at the | Washington Nata. torium, The pho- tographer caught her in midair, | a ~ Ne, Maybe you thought the water too cold? it len't. True, they don't dive headiong into Lake Washington or Elliott bay these morn- ings, but a good many Seattle girls, and women, too, do enjoy the water sport Can they swim? Yes, sirree! And dive. These pictures, taken by The Star photographer at the Wash- ington salt water natatorium yesterday afternoon, might, perhaps, give you some idea of what they can do. he left his home, saying he would return in a few minutes. He didn’t come back. Probably he kept on going. He may be In the upper picture Miss Harriette Kralowec is making a high dive from the spring board into 14 feet of wa’ Below Mi Elliott smiled at the camera man just bef turning a complete somersault before hitting th Yes, they can swim, And the clothes they patrons of the nat—many of them, at | Miss Alice Elliott, one of the girl experts at the “Nat,” ready for plunge. M Elliott may be found in the pool al- most dally, in her tights and chic little red rubber cap. going yet. His mental attitude is known. Being a _ poor mathematician as well as a quitter, he said: “What's the use?” Caustic and v 1 persuasive ative, Pete ‘sy sex PETER MILLER only th con | r . . . . . . gin fins Worthless as he no doubt is, Smifkins’ defection is an im- portant factor in the problem. Because, when you subtract a with short skirts and And of late aftert 10 RECALL HIS Most of the members, from the humble chorus girl up to Mary Gar. | den herself, visited the swimming pool nightly after the performance . vote S at the theatre path, tle Susan Smifkins, aged 2 months, a tury fe Jetee Bo in two rooms of a lodging house, one of them small, win- a from De; | Council today drew no response. . | from the foreign office. He denounced his p: o z . hostelry in Seattle—the Washin gton. Now, this is the problem which Mrs. Smifkins is called upon ventional swimming “gowns.” Tig’ Men and women | ARGUES HIS OWN capable, if spineless, painter, you have a deficiency. the thing in Seattle. LONDON, May 16. — Protests his ow half, ‘ r; és cre aptgye sal agate oman jinterrupted by obje dowless and as dark as a pocket, the rent for which is $3.25 a lceiving W. P. Page as ambassador Prosecutor El and Judge from the United States which have. | Res ald to cauti ve dss paola sal London | “frameup” on the part Charles Tennant of the detectives CR E Willis Taylor. hin alleged accor sah plice, Miller sa fn bie G splash about in the same big pool, under the chaperonage of the imming parties have become quite | When Smifkins decamped, he left— ind hundreds of Seattle people are | M " . oe < > learning to swim fashionable. The Chicago grand | SITS, Smifkins, had Miller t weck. been sent to Sir Edward Gray, for- * are indignant because of the delay fo the eity jail f i a E —————«—«—— | gwimming instructors. opera performers, when they were at the Moore recently, started | Nina Smifkins aged 9 within the rea eign secretary, and to President in opposing Page's selection, WILSON ASKED Casual women visitors wear the regulation swimming sults, the thing going, according to Manager Sheridan of the natatorium. | i awe © i Charlotte Smifkins, aged 3, pument os es. He neglected to leave any money, or any food. pee plage lS ght tog ES OF | vai a coher haa edt Phis lodging house is within eight blocks of the biggest The resolution of the 4 Council, which representa 1 unionists of the city, urges that “te Ps United Preps Leaaed Wire ae the city Jail for APPEALS TO THE AUTHORITIES FOR award Gres decline ae SHUNGTON, aay 16.~Prac'|" in har eonvaraaione withthe |andbealen hy tha noble LP,’ HEY WILL TAKE HER CHILDREN FROM left New York for England yeater day. ¢ In part the resolution says tha at that » dy its members “strongly resent the) resolution of a fe appointment to the court of St. jtion {nto the Paint Creek and asicep, killing seven and Cc James of an ambassador who js a) Creek miners war, is the wounding Bhe said " bitter opponent of labor in his own |cause of the troubles In the Wes'| “None of these murdere cs | | | | company guards on a miner's |the marks of Tennant’s boot dressed | cabin at Stanford mountain in | n. Kern's | 1904 when the specials fired on al invest Ka) the miners while they were * SHE CAN'T rAE CARE OF THEM HER- E SHE CAN’T GO OUT TO WORK. SHE "TT GOOUT TOWORK BECAUSE SHE WOULD BE ALLOWED TO TAKE HER CHILDREN 1 HER. SHE CAN’T LEAVE THEM ALONE AT E. AND IF SHE DOES NOT WORK SHE WILL <T NO MONEY. IF SHE DOES NOT GET MONEY HE CANNOT BUY FOOD. And without food her children will starve. This is not a hypothetical case. It is an actual one. The Star has investigated it and knows the facts. When Smifkins went away, Mrs. Smifkins sold a few sticks of furniture—all she could possibly spare. The second-hand man_ didn’t allow boy wan kept in the black hole » to persur elf, Pe e main stock tn trade of oR, “RSE [ F. .F BECAUS nh support country.” It requests President| Virginia coal ion ever nish Wilson to recall Page and to sub ey's ch bad condi. there a rag afterward 1 found stitute “one who more truly tions In the mining region were| widow of one of the boys cry sents the opinion of the work! ng corroborated by “Mother” Jones, classes of America, and who wil! th Farmers in the vicinity of of mercy Chico, west of Bremerton, are when a mi ed her on! wildly excited today over oll, be more acceptable to organized | d labor tn the United Kingdom talt - _— 7 loyed by the “THE DAWN OF TOMORROW,” | ope: wratore and by state tr DDE a play at which no admission win | hace were sent into the region to|w ley told the senate the United | the ratire dher, and| following the visit of Standard 8 census bulletin proved the ordered her off the right of way.| Of] officials yesterday, who wake cost of producing a ton of | He compelled her to wade into a stated that the Muld found in a coal in West Virginia had been |creek in water up to her arm pits, “pblow-out” on the farm of ver his gr old, was 4 the clay snd come back.’ At aint Creek last summer,” Mother” Jones sald, “a girl of 17 going on an errand ve. Her child, 8 years| ing with his fist into calling "Papa, please be charged, is to be giv by the ‘awe the strikers. Dramatic club of the University of Washington in the campus audi-! gta torlum tonight forced down to 58 cents, as com |crying, ‘Pull your clothes up high. Chas. Olson, is crude petrole 77 . ° e io TT ’ EASY MONEY ALONG ; a itaedaed d Into re her puere maade me wade! am | her much on them. They weren’t worth much. She bought tea er. Options on farm land In the | . —————| vicinity are going up by leaps WASHINGTON STREET «wa Sales MAN’ IS COMING | 2% ints ene S Rer sneer” ih tag ll us epg For the past week Mrs. Smifkins and Nina and Charlotte HERE TO SEEK A BRIDE | 3" s's''s'a's | | “Tasy money” made a slave of Oe er ie coun Cade have lived on bread—that’s all. Last night even the bread gave PEs Natal 22 rears o1d. it tured WHO’LL NEEDNO CLOTHES| a Semcaad eetanlaad oh, trae” out. Today the baby finished the last of the milk. There was | < to Se nrestagort tore etron, is putting down a “wild T Ae Enso eat well.” It 1s reported that no money to buy more. The Smifkinses had no breakfast. _ The rent is three weeks overdue, but the landlord is not bread and milk for the baby. The tea gave out. She shortened the bread rations. She kept a few pennies for the baby’s milk. Chehalis Industrial school, or | the parental school on Mercer Island? It was not what punishment | should be meted out to him. It | was what cure to give him. He “easy money” was the magnet was seized with a malady that the drillers are down 100 feet st. abounds with rts the police of the A togless bride is sought here islands are entirely too partio- SAN FRANCISCO, May 16. a 4nd men of even more dan needed treatment — “easy oday by BE y . Caer = rent father of seven children. | Ho after apen trety ts tee weer be Spe eats Song held | ; “Mrs. Smifkins isn’t much of a mathematician, either. Even Jota Swanton, 50, 0 shoe | to have good education, He | Goo Oot ask much OF the wore, | gg UNfline, #078, he proposed to have been buried. None of the do if she were, how could she solve a problem that would stump the acs i: eet | Set oe fees ore wi break. | S%s,,He # Bot perticnlar es to she turned him down. “He will struction of the sla ecaeeben highest-browed highbrow at the university P ; over, some “easy money"! the boy's mother's heart to | Willing to subsist on uncooked soeetefal tere sas ictho respect is wall sh, > apmaeeammmel On June 14 the mothers’ pension law will go into effect. The man, mb intl - Sole eee (iedsin me | Ree ee = | Some of you who opposed that law, because you were afraid it fell to the t. He was willing to go away He bis Ege He ai at the| was willing to work for his uncle and go to school anil to. some school, “l want to do better,” he bbe be away from Wash- sald * the. boy said to Dr. h In return for e petty sacrifices,” said nature man, today “the woman I wed will get a Darling.” Darling established a nature colony in Tabiti, but admits he Dy hospi putrrng: ’ Mrs. Smifkins doesn’t want to lose her children. They are hers. Under the mothers’ pension law we—the state—will pay The Story of | | would “pauperize the poor,” may take a different view now. | ‘era Merri He made the au. 8 not very popular there. He her a monthly wage for taking care of her three children. ; © wr Moeggin dd atti N, Y, FIGHT FOR ae If she doesn’t do it, we'll have to pay somebody else to do it. 5 | ODD ITEMS a wit MEANWHILE, HOW ARE THE SMIFKINSES GO- Li ait foes not think so. The a « eae, viclow s, bu oe a |X. vor , PY fas For a long time The Hub has made a specialty |H! — CROP Lay . (Soe wren naa pel gel ly QS mls Nota JURORS ACQUIT FIREMEN SAVE 06 BESIEGES — - eet eatared ana yielding Peconvebinelaelite : state vg ih wane a Med oniat suit on the market for the money has become a L. Cant easy | in, it ie pe er 0 e < ay tier, bela $a feo mayo | special interests 1s"greater'in New| “PICK minutes: hobby with the president of the company, M. S. ||| “nga pers | york than in any other state, and| SHE SHOULD WORRY Bornstein. ! 1 Yener Fe eid Te that the interests are making their SHARON, Pa, May 16, (8p1.)- So popular did this suit become, that it be- |f| Guests. at the Grand C i gape , , Gov. Sulzer to only I don orry I ov ° | ae a aaa quel e Grand e- But it was harder 1 Paeiea tie ight Nua alnect pri-|live to @ real age,” remarked M came necessary to open a second store for the leisan abet ee bh eae 8 tel, 214 First av. S, ware held Eee On Washington at. he idn'tset) oo many But 0 Was “egny ino Was an unusual 1, tag arr office. this his Ment Attorneys: iuraday acquitted | SAN FRANCISCO, May 16.—The|onors,m the hotel Thursday for Charlie Loute, the wealthy China-| Blake apartinents on Nob Hill were | over three hours by a Great Dane imam, and James A. Ralston, of con-| partially destroyed by fire today |40s, which stationed itpif at the |spiracy to smuggle opium when flames which had-been smoul-|°@'T@nce of the place and would al- |sp! ‘ eRe + low no one to approach him. |_ Tho verdict camo in spite of Ral-| qoring through the night burst into! ‘The police wore called, but were accommodation of The Hub’s customers. Ac- cordingly, a few weeks ago, a second Hub store a pn |] was opened at 1318 Second avenue, where : Wire | Regal $15 clothes are featured exclusively. In | maries in a statement prepared for | Blizabeth tia Harlow, a lthe United Press today. He de-| ville, upon reaching her one hun-| lctared: ‘The powers of spectal|dredth birthday. | |priviiege are sure to be over-| |thrown by the power of an aro Jobn and his nels, and A Jand righteous public senttmen ADELPHI stone ehtstenion that Ee Waa. thal Fore there. WOMAN pleating heft ad att a || selecting the stock for this new store, Mr. Born- |] "pack horse” for an oplum ring|® Drisk blaze and raged from the siee wa sonia | ITS ~ |fj| which had a reach from the coast |first to the fourth floor, driving all ath mentioned” nis | AUTO HI a stein went East and personally selected the ma as far east as Chicago, He denied,|the tenants{nto the street. A num- “Wrist tx oct atthe | 16th av ton pabhenecrs || terial for, and superintended the making of, the |} however, that he “fixed® any cus: ber of heroie rescues were made Finally D be ¥M the go) a Mr ; . s inspectors,, and ® of a|by firemen and police. was sent for, and, upon he be lett 1. °° Syseg austa vous a atch de suits. In their large display ad, ‘which appears vit Bi ‘Ae Henry W man: BONlt Bearak ob eainan were taken to| M8 arrival, he put his canine cateh- Who couldn't ke de dle ecg gg Sata Py IT'S A BALI on page 2 in today’s Star, The Hub gives many |]|| New York block, as the “ligher/safety from the upper stories ang sbparetus.. ing. <acuon ins ary? aahogton at Hillebrandt, 1102 denny may, | By Lined rene Leated Wi on» convincing reasons why it is to your advantage ff?) Ralston also completely exon | iden. ane ee ratp thomecnte way to the pound, co Beall he be pis employed by the Hammond Milling i on #0: erated brass! LS etl non ve i od ‘ wun cat Was dade ote ee eee oan te lelety girls have organized a base-\| to inspect their line before purchasing. Don’t Ralston was rearrested, and will| were carried out by firemen. The} MRS NATTIO TPAYSSR was be taken to Portland op a charge |property is valued at $75,000, The fail to look up this:ad. Bive him a job, af. | tt hospital, He was booked | ball team, but they shied at bloom te actions I houre? se ae oligo headquarters for reckless |ers. Tennis skirts will bo worn in (| MOA eve pent -to the | driving. tion before the public, narge appointed admiuistratrix of the of engaging in the opfitm traffic|loss 1s estimated between $10,000 | SaPol Paysee, sr, estaio by Judge there. and $16,000, Frater Thursday, °