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Serv! fee of the Uni Batered at the postoffice, Seattle, Wash. aa second clase matter Published by The Star Publishing Gemveny every evening except Sunday mires ERA, T Press Aveo Seeeerer| All of Us Humans THINGS THAT 2 COME TO THE EDITOR’S EYES pcmig tn uannr been stopping tango ¢ at th but permitting it = the sassiety folks can dawnce at n folks dance or dawnce downtown cafe Mayor Woody Makes We don't i ne there is any real difference, a Good Suggestion | of clothes and coin, between the folks who dawnce Blackstone and folks who dance somewhere else Editor The Star: gedoff iand proposition has been defeated, but | believe | Some movement should be set | * on foot to secure aid in the | Clearing of our logged-off ag ricultural land As it developed during the re Gent campaign that most of the ition was to certain pro vision of the law and not to its fundamental principles, | sug it a conference be held to Trecuse the subject, and that the leading opponents of the bill who are friendly to the idea as a whole, and those who have been most active in the sup- port of the bili as it now stands, be invited to this con ference, and that the editors of all the daily papers in Seat- the be especially invited to at- tend, it is manifestly true that any bill, to get & upport of the people, must have the Suport of the great daily pa Such a body of representa- tive men could discuss and \ agree on such amendments and ehanges in the law as would re- ceive their united support, and these amendments and changes could be presented to the next Vc ature with practical cer- inty that they would be ac- cepted. 1 suggest that the governor to immediately con- Struct the state powder mil! au- ized by the last legislature. * are "hundreds of settiers all over King county who would clear from five to twenty @cres each, during the next The log So far as morals go, they are not regulated by the jewels wear Whet Drive people the « live in tenements or on Lake they have mmon human passions and as much decency in th a safe gamble there is on the drive that they all t do | The trouble with rmers is others and much as they pretty have serious doubts as to whether Maye And finicky policy o we n the dance thing changes | rison’s status of a single human beir the they It the formerly oth dances, are and new tango as the old ! of the t other downtown cafes de Black it to keep your girls out of it, oral fashioned waltz. in the min person doing danc uch of e dancing done tector’s and was ever ne at the stone neing even at that young no different in swell it If there is girls are than out « any a may | there is as much natural vice there as anywhere else. | In polite sassiety they know which fork to use salad and which one to stab the beefsteak with. instead of bathing their feet in the finger bowl. with a knife and become sword swallowers. insist the perhaps, find the refinements of vice in high society, lancing | e swell Rook to comment as follows :} outside | Black at the at the gowns Shore instincts, ¢ tene-| on them r Har moral doubt ing at just the as but sassicty difference it is in favor of those out of it but on They know enough to daintily wash their fingers They know better than to eat mashed potatoes | | Bee ea cee. peer BUT UNDERNEATH THE HUMAN SKIN THEY) would also facilitate the |ARE NO DIFFERENT ¥ROM PLAIN, COMMON, |— ing of, and cheapen the cost of the many much-needed Rew county roads. . 8. F. WOODY, EVERYDAY FOLKS WHO AND SWEAT SOME. WORK FOR THEIR L IVING of Bothell. So-called culture is largely a matter of clothes and habits eee anyhow. It has little to do with natural impulses and instincts. NoTit, be Even cultured people like to be natural and enjoy them Lagat selves as barbarians when they get away from home where FEILER CAN NEVER] |nobody knows them } SEE TH FRECKLES Dignified and prominent citizens come to Chicago when ON HIS SWEET they want to shed their culture and be human beings. Pngate) is is h ART'S And folks who are too well known in Chicago take alinow isso dry NOSE run down to New York, where they can cut up like the ane JIL SHE HAS Micke: We Bite. Mew, bie THROWN HIM OVER. Life is one four-flush after another. FOR # dee Each of us is trying to make all the others p rg “ the national game. Men who have sermon on the Golden Rule, them swell around in the charity game as philanthroy A may fool his family, fool his nei |he may fool an entire community Why four-flush? ever sit with your man he may o what's the use? Did YOU of your everyday POLLS REAL EPICURES ||» «~~ Parrots are quite numerous in a! you are a whole lot better than wild #tate in nearly all tropical and | ~ If you are not, pres countries. In Mexico practically everybody around you is playing it. life is an inexcusable LIE? to make everybody you really are? not trying d Central America the par ter @ common bird of all believe then you are not playing the game a: believe we are something we ain't. On Sunday it is cheated their neighbors all week long, hang up their business suits and their business habits, put on their Sunday-go-to- meetin’ rags and go to church to listen to a beautiful And plutes who get rich exploiting those who work for pists ghbors, 3ut he can’t fool himself. If and figure out how much that however, Australia seems to| the real parrot country and they are found there in all sizes and colors. Parrots are epicures. Within the last few years parrots fn Aastralia have developed a great Wiking for sheep's kidneys. They sttack the living animal and tear out er thoes organs, leaving the sheep to die. As sheep-raising is the} chief industry of Australia, this is} & serious menace and means war} between man and the parrot | eee BUNCH OF FRENCH SCIEN. tists are on the brink of making an announcement that they are hot ‘on the trail of the anti-hair germ. Rejoice, oh ye bald heads oe DUKE DE TALLYRAND PERI. GORD'S American wife has saved hie seven pipes and ivory back- seratc from his creditors. There's a warning, girls. Look what you might have to do if you marry a title. er sis Flavor? SHARP AND FLAT Have you found that your dishes have a flat taste when you really expected a delicious I must come ahd play my 2 SET: Senta orenne.|| Saemy_howsewives have overcome thet fet Miss Sharp. You like music, pe don't you? | taste by having I do, indeed, Mr. Phiat, but | | come all the same.—Judge. ° sa. Why Eggs Are High Editor The Star: 1 am writ! arna ion i fn reference to the proposed ¢ boycott. I wonder if thoue w know how much it costa to keep nn aa ” ye ehickens? Wheat sells at $2.40 a From Contented Cows » chickens don't Just the same wack, and whe lay, they have to T have 60 chickens and get trom| - ‘ , two Mo three eggs a day. Wo don't| used in all their cooking and baking. It is ogee Bee this Dot po « e| sweet, clean, pure and gives a rich butter and eT gore uiak as cream flavor. It is always ready for instant 70 cents a dozen M high at even the winter. use. . OILY JOHN LIKES JUBLICITY,| When stories of Investigation of| the Standard Oj! Co. grow cold, he gives an old lady a lift in his buzz wagon and gets a front page story ARCHBISHOP HARTY AN nounces that the Filipinos are tak Ing to baseball with great enthu siasm, $8’al! right, but, before free- them, let's see how the heathen take to prize fighting during the blessed Christrnas season. ing—as well as for table uses. At Your Grocers or Delicatessen Try Carnation for thirty days in your cook- jhas w ae for 207 in th Still, it may be that dutge: Gregg his mind that ¢ cowards, die man eir deaths, said Judge Gr course of a tria but I they di often as the cag ju lee ma OHI || WAITING © Roow [e came Your HAT, MR. TRUE, snowbound, but they t there. The You Break An old man, always very polite |) |to ladies, was asserting one day Jthat he had never seen a really woman. A lady with a fiat] | overhearing him. | look at me and confess that | ugly Mada: he replied, “like the rest of your sex, you are an angel fallen from the sktes t it was our misfortune, rather than your fault, that you happened to alight your nose.” | hicago men, y times be “Some people die in the country,” icago in the don't think | y do in Chi know more | CUT-| RATE: DENTISTS | ma in OON--toda free examination and es University St, &nd a at, 12 YEARS’ GUARA Opp. Vrawer-Pate i] one yenr from date | * are the originators of eut-rhte | istry | WE STAND BACK OF OUR WORK ea NTE Amalgam Filling . $1) Gold Crowns 'Bridgework Ful Sets Teeth $5 & Up $3 $3, it you timate, wary | University on Co, woo about Chicago affairs than we do, but we nover rd of a man in that burg who died more than once oe Our Own Encyclopedia There are 17,505,845 dwellings in the United States, There is room for & man to hang his overcoat tn the cloneta of all these houses ¢x cepting 17,805,840, card Smart Children “Why Many is the title Have Stupid Parents” of an article in te American. “The article makes ft) quite clear,” writes E. 8, “but why do 80 many stupid parents have smart children? Please ask the American to explain. 1 haven't time to write a letter to a news paper that far away.” . ee A Kind-Mearted Plaintiff At the request of both Mr and Mra W. P. Rothermel we state today that although Mre ted. Rothermet frowe hae husband Carnegie finds |the way he haa been giving away money, he has $15 000 left. Most men find that aplite of the way they save, they haven't quite $15 eee i f ing up of an instit n that takes highrank among the en's ar “4 ¥ The actor and the taxi man pics hike? kat § the men’s and young men’s Are much alike, to wit r wer ashes The 1 ers seldom meation them We are happy to have had a part in the development of Seattle through nless the ake se 25 vear nt interesting g f nless they make a bh the e 2 ears inte ly interesting growth—the transition period from village- ihaldirhors:gitle are'weerlng pedo hood to metropolitanisr ‘4 And we wish’ to make grateful acknowledgment to imstate on their -gucters whan they the yple of Seattle for all the favors and kindnesses they have shown us through- dance the tango ahd the proper out our business life question now Is, “How far did you] The st ‘ ' ein Maar" yb Noa bahieatiy no’ ceacty he stro St stateme that I ade of Cheasty’s is that at its founding far when you dance the tango. | it was ahead of Seattle's needs, and through all the marvelous growth that has see ttl t I “tle | en attle national reputation the house has continually ke advance Colorado boasts of a 51!-pound/ the y itse : ( A eae tan pumpkin. It ought to be elected to! ; ‘ Fe : |the city council and given an oppor-| Cheasty’s had not celebrated its first anniversary when Seattle’s plague of y to vote Itaelf a higher salary the business heart city and rendered the new institution home- by the follow day the store was open in its new location, at smner of Third Ave lumbia, later moving into the Colman building, on Avenue; next to the le Hotel building, at the corner of Second Ave. and James Street, and five years ago into the Cheasty building, Second Ave. at Spring. Atianta (Ga) | that, In spite of | PHONES “nating with ail dep: one month 'n advance, RATES pei ines, a0; one yout, BoB By cari in elty, 260 © month. [KING OF THE EGG MARKET SHEDS LIGHT ON THE QUESTION, “WHY ARE PRICES WAY UP IN AIR?” | Bince housewives of Seattic | firet became agitated over the | high price of eggs, The Star has attempted to get at the facts | In the situation—tried to learn Just why it le that the price has been boosted until eggs are now | beyond the reach of the aver age citizen. | We think we the solution. Chicago the great center of the cold storage industry. Bimilar conditions | exist in other cities, no doubt | In fact, the federal officials are | right now investigating to learn | whether or not they exist right here In Seattle We let our Chicago respondent tell the story | By Kenneth W. Payne | “Egga? Why, eggs are cheap! | They'd have been a dollar a | dozen by Christmas if it weren't for US!” have reached cor- | Spoke “the American egg | king"—Herbert A. Moran of Chicago. He had just been asked to tell HIS side of the Great question of the day WHY ARE EGGS GOING UP? It ta the question that has arc |the National Housewives’ leag |declare a nation-wid: and has stirred up ne [congressional investigation and fed eral prosecution of dealers Moran's side of the question ems to be the INSIDE | For, together with his partner Jan. E. Wetz, Moran has won the jtitle of “exe king” by keeping In since last spring the moc fortune of 18,000,000 eggs! And, meanwhile, there are barely ough eggs in the country, dealer estimate, te the RE [the American p | APIECE, | year! Wetz and Moran will make about $200,000 on their lucky deal, when they begin to dis tribute to US—AT THEIR OWN PRICE—our five extn each Luck?—durn POOL luck!" That ts the exclamation of other speculatars—other than Moran and Wetz—on the Chicago bu and erg board. They say that in 1912 n who had bought exes the pre DK wpring at about 17 cents a , and had held them all sum lost money heavily, being {forced to sell in the fall 15 cents wholesale! Then. spring, in spite of thes ople's unhappy experience, W and peso bought great quantities of ple to FIVE F between now and the 1G8 new last ene, paying as high as 19 cents. Everybody laughed at them. Then followed the frightfully hot summer, bad for hens. Pretty soon the other dealers began to wake up to the fact that there was an egg shortage coming. It developed, through various unexpected causes, Into | a shortage of about a million cases for one month! The big dealers began to buy ees, too, in order to profit by the inevitable rise in price. The Chi w' the good will anniversary—the The first location was at Young Mr. W. Averill Harriman, Pea who determined to learn the rail | shed road business from the bottom, and It is fortunate that thi who arrived in Omaha for that pur for ‘Cheasty's is. faitly se in a private car two weeks | 1 bilit ago, has gone to work at last tn Christmas possibiliti¢ the Union Pacific's Omaha shops building are fairly cramm It took the young man two weeks to start to work, but we think he can learn the business in less time than that ss Absent-Minded many other Pasteur was at Eating some ries a dinner party to which he was invited, he | was observed to dip each cherry in a glass of water and carefully wipe it before it in his mouth, On sthbor’a uttering some comment on this precaution, Pasteur held forth at con gider length as to the dangerous microbes with which cherries are invari ably covered. When he had finished talking he plcbed up the glass lie had wished | | the frutt in and drank the | contents—microbes and all TAke men, minded great nt cher ° The annual death rate a thousand in tho canal zone, including both employes and civil population, for a recent month was 19.66, The to tal for 1907 was 31.67. In the pre ceding you, 1906, It was as high as As this week is so ni ceiving and greeting every who may recall the begin intimately known te Mr Mr. Cheéasty will be ready come, and he sincerely he visit {t In predicted, | an low as| completion of a quarter of a century of hard work in the build- of Cross (London) leather goods to all sorts of apparel for men. and the leading lines of luggage and wardrobe trunks 5 There e many articles especially for women, such as fine leather handbags and purses, McCallum silk hosiery, street and dress gloves, traveling bags and uit cases, fitted and unfittec surberry (London, and Mandelberg fine English coats (also for men), and many other things ‘ But when it comes to men's gifts, Cheasty’s is in a particularly strong po- sition, for during all its years of life ithas been studying the needs, likes and fashions of men, and features in the Cheasty Special and Benjamin clothing de- partments the foremost lines of suits, overcoats and raincoats made in America. Among the favorite gifts this year are smoking jackets, bath robes and dress- ing gowns (up from $5), evening dress shirts with the new pleated bosoms ($1.50 to $5), velour, high silk and opera hats, fine imported neckwear (neckwear prices from 50 cents to dress accessories of every sort. Gift certificates make most acceptable Christmas presents Cheasty’s Haberdashery Second Avenue at Spring Street. him, disclaiming am, | title CLuCK We have ALI of us colleagues on the floor e4 rand egg board eb fortunate eno to get a few MORE than others THAT'S ALL! “I don't think this egg boycott the women have started will do any good. Somebody has GOT to stop eating eggs, anyhow, until the hens begin to lay again. “AND CONSIDERING THE SHORTAGE, EGGS ARE “Egg King” Herbert Moran CHEAP!” Special Holiday Fares VIA THE , “MILWAUKEE” Between All Points In Washington, Idaho, Oregon and British Columbia December 18 to 24, Inclusive Return Limit—January 6 One and One-Third Fare for Round Trip For further information regarding fares, reservations, etc., please call on or address A. P, CHAPMAN, JR. General Agent Passenger Dept. Chicago, Milwaukee & St.Paul Railway SECOND AND CHERRY, SEATTLE “No Hollday Fares Until the Milwaukee Came” J. L. CRISWELL City Passenger Agent The Salvation Army ‘| Christmas Dinners and Christmas Tree Contributions of Cash, Produce and Clothing URGENTLY NEEDED! Address: LIEUT. COL. C. W. SCOTT Phone: Elliott 3665. 322 Globe Bldg. of the season, and the heartiest expressions of liness to all, Cheasty’s Haberdashery announces its 25th the south of the present site of the Lowman & Hanford Ss quarter-century anniversary comes just at holiday time, hining itself in the magnificence and extent of its s for both men and women. Three stories of the Cheasty ed with useful, practical suggestions, from the famous line otable in our history, we would like the pleasure of re- man and woman in Seattle, from the pioneer residents nings of the establishment—and almost all of whom are KE. C, Cheasty—to the latest comers into this fair city, to greet you personally any day that you may élect to ypes that you will pay him the compliment of a friendly