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NORTHWHST Telegraga News Rese dathen MeEERKR OOrl»«= OTHE LRAGUB oF NEWSPAPERA Bervice of the United Prees Manfred ot che pestettien, Genttte, Wosh.. 00 matter, Published by The Star Company every evening cscept Munday. THAT'S A GOOD INVESTMENT BUY SEATTLE MADE GOODS. Women as Cops and as Politicians WO of the principal objections voiced by those who do not believe in “votes for women” have been that women would never do police duty and that no woman could master the intricacies of politics. “Men know how to play politics | and they would make’ it impdéssible for women to get what they wanted even if they did get the vote,” has often been said | by politicians who think they know the game from “cases to Within the last few months all over the country women have been appointed on the police force, even in states which | Wo not have equal franchise. Mayor Harrison has just ap- inted forty women on the police force of Chicago, where they will have special duties that can best be carried out by women. Within the last week on thas been put over by a woman masterly manner Ella Flagg Youn ¢ of the smartest political moves in a perfectly legitimate and g, superintendent of the Chicago schools, hhad seen for a long while that a little clique of politicians on the school board were preparing to oust her from her position She knew if she waited until her term of office expired, in December, she would run about as much chance of re-election as a pupil teacher from one of her schools. : wuietly she went to work, and at the psychological mo- ment she sent in her dignified resignation, written in such terms that it left no doubt in the minds of all those who read - it that the men who were opposing her had not good of B the schools at heart, but were actuated by personal motives. * The entire city of Chicago flocked to her support. The P mayor appointed two more women on the school board. Even those eke had objected to Mrs. Young turned tail and got cover. | “Jz was a clever move by one of the cleverest women in the country today, and it succeeded in taking the schools out of the hands of ignorant politicians and giving them a chance of at least two years more under the acclaimed best common school educator in the country. . INCE HE refuses to participate in Frisco’s Panama | Expo., the horrible thought strikes us that Johnny Bull may | gefuse to participate in the Panama canal. Not Preposterous, Lindley 4 6 ERE,” says Secretary Garrison, “is a nation of 90,- a 000,000 people, with an army of 33,000. Of all the bserve the other facts about this condi- THE STAR—SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1913. The boy was fishing in the stream The parson came that way “It 1s a sin to fish,” he sald, . .. “Upon the Sabbath day.” ‘Sure I'm no sinner,” said the lad, “For not a gosh darned bite I've had.” . An X-Ray Camera. I secured several more the last of pletures, hich show the band feeding peacefully out of sight over the top of the mountain. Outing Magazine. eee J. Ham Lewle, the pink-whiskered senator from Illinois, wants con gress to set aside a day to be!| known as “Father's day.” He ought to seo that ft begins at § p.m. and| ends at 4 a m. Reports are retelved from the Chautauqua circuit denying that our Secretary of State is heid for ransom. | eee Anna Held and her diamond studded stockings have been such a failure in London that she’s quit. We're genuinely sorry. We're fear ful the failure will lead Anna to ap reposterous things! |" ~ But, Lindley, o 3 d in feed- “© About 80,000,000 of the 90,000,000 are engaged in fee 3 and clothing our possible foes. ; is A very koity navy must be wiped out before there's any eat demand upon our standing army for action. } pal many fhillions out of our 90,000,000 are good csmen, and would become good soldiers in a very short Still greater than all other facts is the ability of Uncle to raise money. War is money. : : Nothing preposterous about it. Nor is there anything osterous about a secretary of war who runs about country trying to start a boom for his own department. ‘s natural. A GRAM of mesotherium, used in treating cancer, has ‘been sold in Berlin for $65,000. It's obtained from monazite Look yourself over. Got any? They Voted It Down TANDPATTERS are finding much comfort in Senator Gallinger’s amendment to the tariff bill, postponing final ion until December, 1914, and taking a referendum vote on measure, meanwhile. Sati When Gallinger of New Hampshire goes in sincerely for s like the referendum, initiative and recall, we may expect] Old Boy to set up a distilling plant for the production of oly water, but Gallinger is only engaged in an attempt to de- and to show that “the interests” still have a leader in the mate since Aldrich ‘quit bossing things : "In effect, the people had a referendum, in the last con- onal elections, on the tariff, and they voted robber pro- into the ground. GRADUALLY COL. MULHALL is acquiring the high ecord as to the kinds of a liar a man can be. Worth Observing ee ET us observe the operations of justice in that Diggs- Caminetti white slave case. Diggs has dug up 10 witnesses from California tender- Aoins to befoul the character of the school girl with whom he M Will Diggs be permitted to do this? If he makes the girl to be foul, will or will not justice hold that her foulness 4 © additional evidence of his foulness and add to his punish-| ment accordingly? © The accusation is that Diggs transported a girl from to state for immoral purposes. Is justice going to hold BS pot defense to prove that the girl was especially im- } ? w Bag Harbor, violation of 2 after 9 at night “Good night,” poi not in her home, by any girl under 1 ther WHAT EVERYBODY WANTS is an economical ad- ministration, whether Federal, State or Mu- nicipal. It is the ten- dency of the times. ret requirement of i the present day is of Healt! ” Thrift. The thrifty per- son gets the oppor- When you wear True-to- tunity. Nature Teeth you look well and feel better. You're confi- dent, too; they don’t drop and embarrass you every time you meet a friend. 4 You feel a Joy you haven't The best way to ac- quire the habit is to open an account in this Strictly Savings Bank, which is established for per next in hand-painted ankles. And an actress’ ankle, so we have been Informed, runs up to the knee. eee eee Bombs are a menace so hideous and mean, that fearful need only been seen; for who can te until the darned things bust, whether they are filled with dynamite, nitroglycerine, thorol, rotten Roquefort or spoiled asparagus? eee OUR PRECISE ARTIST (- MOST ANYTHING - { Still in oe Fold It's true that | can sing About my passion With words and tones that ring In loving fashion; In verses | deciare How | would woo you, And yet | do not dare Yet, when with you | meet My nerve is sinking, My tongue will not repeat The words I'm thinking, To all the world I'd cry How | adore you. To send them to you. I'd write upon the sky M jon for you. With every sort of art In palace and in cot I'd like to shout It, But somehow, | cannot Tell YOU about it! 1 chant your prale 1 tell what fille my heart In facile phrases. He's Wise! eee Oldwed—-Do you and your wife Just see how the experts differ | quarrel? on thia army stuff. Secretary of| Newwed—No, we live in a fat Wor Garrison was declared injand there is no room for argu favor of a trained volunteer force. ments. Other experts favor a national — — ——___—_-— + guard. readers develop shrewd judgments of business propost- tions, which serve them well and aa | ALIGHT BROKE UPON HIM! . Boss (to new boy)——-Has the foreman told you what to do yet, my lad? i Boy—Yes, sir; I've got to wake him directly I hear the boss come in. “What,” writes ‘has become of the old-fashioned man who was always going to knock something or somebody Into a cocked hat?” We give it up. We don't even know what has become of the old- fashioned cocked hat For that matter, we never saw a cocked hat. We never even saw a half cocked hat. eee | Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst’s challenge to the government Is “Give me freedom or kill me. Patrick He ‘se epigram wi neater. dack Johnson told Paris news papers he felt like Napoleon. get it. Napoleon's dead and burted known before. Beautiful sets, moysted on vuleanite or celluloid, or gold, if you prefer, $6, $10 and $15 per set, according to matertal used, Fully guaranteed. ‘| Boston Dentists: 1420-22 fecond Avenae. Opposite Bon Marche. In present location 11 years that very purpose. THE BANK FOR SAVINGS Corner Third Ave. and Pike St. PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 9.—The |University of Pennsylvania owns | what is believed to be the first ple- iture of the plow invented by Abra- \ham 60 centities ago | Abraham's plow is a combination \seeder and planter, and three men |are necessary to operate It | ‘Phe pleture was engraved on brick, which has been unearthed re- cently, and plows of the same kind are used in Babylonia today, just as they were 5,000 years ago. he Book of Jubilees, which was Shorty Simms, § eee | WelA FRIEND OF THOSE IN THE Discover Abraham Invented the Plow Five Thousand Years Some people like the picture of September Morn so much that they would hang it In full view. Others would, if they could, hang the fellow who painted it, Rheumatic Sufferers Baked in Curious Roasting Contrivance Dr. In Editor's Loughney, when Interviewed : as to the curative powers of the Mail Hake Oven, made the following statement The Human Bake Oven bea Criticiam From a Reader anything ever before used to re Heve pain and cure Rheumatism. If you are a sufferer from Sprains, Synovitis, Rheumatism, Gout, Arthritis, Neuralgia, Lumbag Gangrene, Phiebitis, Ankylost Uremia or Obesity, the Baky Ov eclipses all other treatments. The immediate local effects on the joint# are at once obvious, espe- a common sense outlook on life, cially in Chronie Rheumatism and and its numerous readers, need Gout. They become less painful ch stuff. 1 think a man who|and much more movable after the gives five cents to the needy and first treatment, and continue to poor deserves more credit than a improve with subsequent treat- man that spends two thousand dol- | ment lars on a dog. LEO VERBON. The American Medical Journal, | published In Chicago, June 6, 1909, Woman Defends Defenders of Flag on page 1836 gives as the rpecific Editor The Star: In Tuesday's |treatment for rheumatism the Hu- edition of The Star I noticed an ar-}man Bake Oven. It also says ticle entitled “Rascality Hides Bo-|"Now that we know the Bake Oven hind the Ping,” written by Victor|to be the best known cure for rhew- Berger, In the article Mr. Berger! matism, why not recommend pa os, “Nowadays we hire men at|tients suffering with this malady a month to defend the flag. Only |to an institution where such treat boys who are no good for anything/ment can be had?” else enlist.” In that Mr. Berger is| What better proof can there be very much mistaken. Asa sister of joffered as to the merits of the sailor and a cousin of @ soldier, 1| Bake Oven than the above words both of praise from the Journal of the American Medical Association? Dr. Loughney cuts his prices in half for a few days only. Rheumatic sufferers and those with kindred jAllments will be given the Bake Oven Treatment at one dollar ($1.00) a treatment by the course. Dr. Loughney's offices are in the People’s Savings Bank building, corner Second Ave, and Pike St. Suites 220-221-222-223. Hours 8 a. m. to6 p.m. Sundays, 9 to 12 only. Consultation Free. Insist Editor The Star: 1 would like to have my little word spoken. It's a small matter, published in your esteemed paper the other day. 1 mesn a photograph and a few paragraphs, printed about a man} that pald two thousand dollars for a dog. 1 do not believe that your valuable paper, taking always such in hi branches, and I have the first sailor or soldier yet to meet who has falled to behave ike a gentleman in even | the very smallest detail, and I have} © met many men entertained both in my home. Take a modern battleship, for in stance. On a medium sized one there are from 500 to 800 men. Line up the lads on a battleship—line up 600 or 800 clvillans here in Seattle, and I'll warrant you'll find more good-for-nothings among the civil fans. SERVICE. Ago Shi C., tells how the Babylonians were |punished when they yielded to Satan. Hirds were sent to eat the grain which they had sowed in their | flelds, and, according to the author. |ity elted; when they repented, Abra- | Bass devised this implement so that |the people need no longer fear the | ra | 6 apparatus had an attachment which rea@hed through to the |ground as a tube, and Into which |the seeds were poured, published iu the second century B, & Case, 514 Fifth Ave. Ww. Chili B & Chili Con Carne , Chicken Tamales 1611 Third Avenue. Wholesale and Retail. ASK FOR 66 4 ” Centennial Best TamaleGrotto Flour FLOUR on In doing this you enable the manufacturer to increase his output, and 1 him t help. REMEMBER, the greater the y weekly payroll, the greater seek. ee ee iets externas == with ofl dsgactmente. PHONES “nme Ca By carrion, in oft, == GIRL WILL BE JUDGE IN NEXT CONTEST IT’S ONE SHE HERSELF THOUGHT OF; WINS PRIZE FOR SUGGESTION #072 ith we Be 20 Stewart at. Cortnne Mui Friday afternoon she will call By cleverly constructing her 1 contest suggestion, which was | at The Btar office, and the lee | je Ny good one, into 8 *~ and 6Tth ot an unusually good one, int tees are to Be given over to | May Leb S6h Om one Orem ot mber who resides at 6667 her, so she may select the win- | So . Firet av. N. W., was th nig contribution. Miss Day ts flerens & Lortio, 193 10th ner of The Star Circle ¢ one of the oldest of the Circle Vera A. West, Auburn, Wi ‘pias McDonald, Conerets, Weam. ites, not in age, but In member- Dexeiee Mejoon i8ii Weerth Ce ship, and one of the most en- contest suggestion competition The contest closed Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock thustastic. She was delighted A surprising number of boys when she learned she was to and girls contributed sugges) , be the judge of the contest tions for Circle contests. 80 The prize which she won by | Setro- Woolley. { N. W. and étoe bh her suggestion ts to be award ed to her next Friday after- noon. many of the suggestions were good that Uncle Jack decided to follow them fn the next few rash, 2002 Palatine aw. Frith % B she will enroll at the Lincoln bigh school Miss Ihrig loves studies and after setting a mark her first year by neither being ab sent or tardy once during the term, decided to strive to make @ record, | And she did. ‘There are lots of boys and girls so inclined but either their sick ness or fliness in the family hae often interupted thelr plans. The photograph of Miss [brig was posed especially for the Circle, cee Dear Uncle Jack: I am spending | vacation in Seattle as I gener-| ally do. 1 visit my cousin Catherine Wallis, and as she is a member of | The Star Circle I became interested jin it through her a I Hive at 1703 Ruby st. Pullman, Wash. 1 am 11 years old and will be in the sixth grade in September I would like to be a member of your Circle. Will you please send me ® membership card?—Catherine Mathews, 6002 Palatine ave \¢ WRITES JOK © WRITES POEM t 4 Dear Uncle Jack: |the following joke | corner: I'd hate to be a poet, | With long hair and dreamy eyes, | They don't c r candy Or jutey apple ples Beatrice V. Smith, 13, 4467 Whit Dear Unele Jack We get The Star every day and I would like to Wanted Time. accosted a friend and sald: ¢ m m-m-minutes?” NEW MEMBER. replied the w-w-want to ha’ minutes t-t-talk with yor |Join your Star Cirele Club. Will you send me a card? Tam 9 years i dl senate, old and i the fourth grade. Grace eee | Bitey, $28 BAR fo. -- Dear Uncle Jack: Here comes iin 2 another one of the many children | READS CORNER. + who wish to join your interesting f. —o jelub, so please send me a member Dear Uncle Jack: I wish you jship card. would send me a membership card I think I shall try with IT am a young reader of The Star, Jare nothing to be proud of. Stanley, Lopez Island, Wash., R. F. D. Box No. 9. ° ba Dear Uncle Jack: Will the Circle. card a few days ago, so I I would, too. I am 8 years Carrie Diehi, 2019 ¥- 64th. | NEXT CONTEST. —H Miss Bessie Day's contest sug-) gestion for next week {s printed} herewith tn poem. The ircle's weekly offer of a dollar cash prize in to be awarded to the boy or girl who sends In elther the most com!- JESSIE IHRIG_ Hight years in school without missing ingle day or ever being tardy, is the record which has been IT am 11 witnessed, or something funny they | pontica. Think of it, Circleites, not 1s Miss Torts last attended the Yes- Contest Suggestion. ‘Tis said that laughter cures the {lls, As well ax doctors’ dopes and pills; And so the plan that I suggest, Is that we have a prize contest, For telling funny Jokes we've read, Or sights we've seen, or things we've said We've all seen comical conditions; Or been fn ludicrous positions, | And {f the laughter caused by these | | Would drive one line of care away, The contest would not be {n vain, Is the belief of BESSIE DAY, | 6557 First av. N. W.| DENVER, Aug. 9.—Blondine we plied with a whitewash brush changed the color of cows coveted |] by A. M. Ryan, according to the | police, and enabled Ryan to claim the cattle as his own, Ryan and his wife Detectives say many stolen | ff recently In Arapahoe county have| been bleached In peroxide and| kept in pens in the mountains near |i Golden. Ryan, it is alleged, served | ff one term for making Rosle, red |[f bossie, into a white animal. 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Arende Bide ° contests As each contest ts Over 100 boys and girls com- Peon f. given, the name and address peted in the contest Irene Munsom, #438 16th 36 of the boy or girl who sug A list of those boys and girls the contest for pert ook, gested it will printed who sent in letters which the suggested by By sus: My oe Mins Day w » the judge | judges found to be worthy of pears !n another pi of her own contest. On next an honorable mention, follow column. _ hl abd - - ler Way school from whitch she VACATION HERE. SETS A RECORD. graduated. Next term, September, her I contribute to the Circle One day a man addicted to stut but who had also a sense of ed, ccan you g-ive friend. ve mm! | stories }and compositions, for my drawings Jand read your corner especially, and, as they rest me greatly Hoping that some time I may re would like to Join. I am 12 years |cetve an honorable mention, I re ol—La Verne Sumner, Portia | main—Ad A ers, 1514 Boren av, you please send me a membership card, for I am very much interested tm My sister wrote for @ Dear Uncle Jack: We take The Star and I am interested tn The Star Circle, s0 please send me @ cal joke they have ever read, or the get by Jessie Annabella thri membership card. years e J K. wi] funniest sight they hava ever! qaughter of Mrs. Fred Ihrig, of ll ie atts Be ~* i have heard said The contest) ansent a day 3 nt y in eight consecutive — — a next Friday afternoon at 3/ years! The Dollar Dinner at the Rath keller, with wine, is popular.—Adv, ASAN the at “J ecurre ‘ki ent se ‘es $25, ea