The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 22, 1913, Page 4

MEMNER LEAGUE OF NEWSPAPERS Tel Bervice of (he United Freee Association Entered at the pestotfics, Beattie, Wash, as second claee jer, Published by The Star Publishing Company every evening except Sunday, OF THR SCRIPPS NORTHWEST jegraph News Sometimes it seems as if the brilliant rays of a diamond bosom may be the imprisoned souls of inno- © been sacrificed to in- on a woman's 4 cent children of the poor who hav human greed.—N. D. Cochran. The Progress of Time A few years ago, if Jacob] ARK the progress of time the benefits of a Furth had consented to give the city common user clause in a franchise, we would have fallen on We would have hailed him, | with | public-spirited citizen and benefactor Hamilton and Knudsen granted the Duwam his neck and wept joy perhaps, as a great, Friday, Commissioners the Puget Sound Traction, Light & jsh valley lighting franchise with just such Power Co a common user plause in it And while lobby were cla gone far enough giving the county the right to revoke t It illustrates this: A few ago whatever crumbs the corporation w Corporation rule and dictation was nant fact. The corporations were the grantors, grantees. Today, the situation is reversed to realize that it is they who are giving and the Mions that are receiving They have come to realize that they have been | giving franchises free which the corporations capi4 | talized for millions of dollars, and that the people | paid for the inflated values placed on “watered” stock. } So they are not content with crumbs any longer When they are giving up a —%. they want to be assured that they can control it if the ntees attempt arbi | trary tactics and unreasonable dictation of rates | “And that is why the Duwamish valley light franchise a| few years ago would have been considered a great victory for the people, BUT TODAY IS JUSTLY REGARDED AS DEFICIENT IN A MOST ESSENTIAL DETAIL. Your Face Will Tell on You ACIAL expression is the telltale of the Christmas} shopper. If you have ever noticed the variety of grouchy, contented, eager faces that people carry with them on their tour through the shopping district you can appreciate flow true that is. i You can pick 'em out every time;; the expression on the _\@hopper’s face, be he man, woman or child, is the best tip "as to the sort of spirit he or she is carrying around under hhis or her hat. There is a different look for everyone of this 4 8 The person who is out to buy tokens of remembrance E Secouse they are chock full of the REAL spirit; The person who is buying up presents, regardless of cost “(and ones that the recipient can never make use of), for her rich neighbors ;; The person who has a house full of youngsters at home impatiently waiting for the big day; ; The person who is buying any old thing for somebody ‘who, he thinks, is going to give hith a present; The young fellow who is going into debt to buy what “his best girl” wants; The fair young lady who is out to get her ing” an expensive gift—and have it charged on her dad's account; | And last, but far from least, the youngster who has saved| pennies and is out to buy Mother and Dad some present: | also the youngster who hasn't had any pennies to save, but is walking aimlessly about in the toy department, “just look-| in’ at ’em.” | And we can't forget that “Bargain but, then they all, more or less, have that | The whole crowd belong to all Christmas shoppers. We are sorry that all of them haven't the spirit that cught to be pushing the Christmas proposition toward a bet- ter end all the time. As it the faces indi cate a spirit that would push the Christmas proposition to-| ward a BITTER end | If ISN’T WHAT YOU GIVE, BUT THE SPIRIT} IN WHICH YOU GIVE IT | their vote was being recorded, people in the amoring for their recall because they had not because they had not also inserted a clause} he franchise at will.| content to were accept} people | as willing to throw them years the an accepted and domi-} the people the) The people have come} corpora \ sad, cheery Prince Charm sale” expression the same class—they are is, too many of 2 A Gift Certificate Quickly Solves the Problem. Utility and Beauty Combined in Christmas Gifts Articles of Rare Charm Certain to Give Lasting Satisfaction | Cross (London) Leather Goods, in scores upon scores of tasteful, appealing forms, the gift ideal for both men and women Cheasty dress accessories, representing the height of fashion in w York and London Gloves, Dress Shirts, Neckwear, Hosiery, Dre * Mufflers, Handkerchiefs, etc Comfort wear, such.as’ Smoking Jackets, Bath Robes, Dressing Gowns—price $5.00 up Alfred Benjamin fine hand tailored Street Suits and Over coats; Evening and Tuxedo Suit Cheasty’s Haberdashery : Second Ave. at Spring St Store Open Every Night Until Christmas. | THE STAR—MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1913. I'm TIRED OF REPORTING UNCIVIL CONDUCTORS ONLY TO FIND You KEEPING THEM ON THE JOB JusT NO JOB FOR ALPHONSE Alphonse, recently arrived tn London from the sunny south of France, sought his friend Hodge tn great distress, j %Ah, mon aml, tell me queek what fs heem yon Eenglish call | a pole bear™” * | “Polar bear, you mean, old feller,” sald Hodge, with an tndul- gent smile. “Out—onl! What is heem “A big white bear that comes from the Arctic. Ite home ts on | the fce, and ft lives mostly on fish.” "I no do that. I weel not do ft! “You do it? Why should you, my 4ear feller?’ asked Hodge. “Ah, mon ami, a man where | live, he die. and say, will I be a pole bear for him. and eat fish—it Is too much. I will not do It. pf ieratetes il They come to me . What She Thought of Dad Litile Susie (after heing puniah-| a by her father)—I think papa {sat dreadful. Was he the only man you Secure “Do you think Charlie shed to you?” “Oh, yes! But, of course, I hy ‘to atring’ him now and the Judge. could get, mama? A Welcome Change “Retore you said take this house,” honest real estate agent, Found 'Em All Right here!” exclaimed the See . stranger, haw twentieth puddle “It's right next to a boller shop.” As he took out his wallet to make the first payment, Hemmandhaw replied “Oh, that’s all right! The family next to where we now live has a parrot, © phonograph and a patr of twins. Judge . places were on this road?” Well,” rep had volunteered through the dark, them, ain't we? eee Worth the Trouble "You go hunting every year?” fe Saal to guide “we're a-findin » e Willie Knew Now, children, nh when we fer?” Tencher ' “© o thin inate ae. os Dh, I never shoot anything say “on an aver Willle—Average is a thing a thing a hen lays ergs on. family make use I got back alive. and have th over me be Heat in the Cars. litor The Star:® The old friend Seattle Electric as at the same old game again, It now has the cars on our line heated ¥ they were heated twice this winte and two cars, to my knowledge. We hate had raw and cold mornings a-plenty and annoy may pany gives notice that the matter! cakes with each bowl, ° “What kind of game do you pre-| Toacher—1 don't understand, sgiGthelly45 Willie; please explain to us One on Henry what you mean Wife—Henry, you need a rest.) Willle—Papa says that a hen | Let as go to Bongton Springs one egg a day on an aver Hud—That ph Why, it's age only {it for women and fools. | Wife—I know it. Let's go there le @ | together. this winter, also evenings. Of, Possible from the pockets of the course, in the evenings cars on our| People and to give in return the line were not heated even once, | Poorest service possible. This is the kind of stuff that this JAMES TULLOCK. corporation {s dishing out to the e Seattle slaves—and it fe Just what| # we deserve, Of course, it has plenty of dividends to pay on its in ENGAGED Delared We. aa kab ae The young bachelor had #0 press to uphold it. Where else in| | ™&ny girls employed under him the world would an electric com.{| that he had a book of rules e tare to let itn cara go| | Printed and given to each of et 2 But in progressive Seat-| | his employes a is: poutibla ac. Wag The other day he hired a new an we and support a rep maiden till are After she had had time to PHINNEY AVENUR,| | look over the rules her in to see if she was pro- icient | so ener tg Phat ght any | , If I should give you one ring, ee Con eT which tear ng] | 0,204 Know what it would were. denied home tule in cOMtOr| Ten Cider Ome sbt “thie: te Ming public ties, now comes out ee | with a big howl because the public service commission, after a careful| ” * investigation, has decided in favor| In Minneapolis they have done jof the people, that tickets must be|away with finger-bowls, But in St sold on all street cars, The com-| Paul they serve individual soap | Nevaire!" tl —_——--—--- | holde that being fe still) tho| as he stumbled into his “I thought you said you knew where all the bad lied ‘the native, who! him But} it's “ind of pleasant to come home) a fuse will be taken to the court of Inst! resort, thus getting a chance to rob the people for several] | # the consideration we} expect from this Boston cor poration, whose only object seems to be to extract the greatest sum j |My OFFICRS Si el fA wurvna siRAY poe Gur WA weas A PERE “ \AC ART, Ao, wo AMOWS Cornvak alle Come ABACK \ 400 Mi O81% “le? AVVO mumony ? J - a ||LOVE POISONED? ' | | { LONDON, Dee. 2 When one In in love and wants to get out, all one needs to-do ia to take 9 little serum, according to Dr, Maurice DeFleury, But no! To live on {ea | {the “brain storm” specialist. DeFleury makos the serum. He n love is a state of mental poisoning. He rates love as the sixth of the vices, placing alcohol, opitm, mor. phine, cocaine and ether ahead of it. e ° GIVING PUNCH A clergyman was invited to a dinner given by an esteemed citizen at his handsome country | home. During the dinner a milk punch was quietly placed at the plate of each guest, and the good dominte, ike the others, quatfed the delicious beverage with evident pleasure. I feel, brother,” impressive. ly remarked the dominte, as he set his drained glass upon the “that I should congratu ou on the great blessing | “I don't quite get you, Mr. Jone,” returned the host, won deringly are you particularly tal To that milk, brother,” was the earnest se of the pastor. “You should daily xive thanks for having such a aplen- 1 cow e 7 BY A DENTIST ON FIRST AVENUE very day 4 of thelr AV. rer nf thin thief who tenis my lives off my reputation eat patients 713 First Ave., Union Block dentists. You you save a fe 1 come to my offices, be sur F my slen, at fe just Mice ent Browne ‘of dake De EDWIN J. BROWN, D. D. S. Keattle’s Leadng Dentist 713 First Avenue Open evenings until and Sundays unt 4 for people who work, Brown. | EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE STAR GOVERNMENT OFFCIAL O} | By Frederick .M: Kerby WASHINGTON Dee 20 The oe producer and the egg con sume CAN be brought together jand ‘exk corne abolished for ever! The high cont-of and the cost of many other farm | products, too—oan be le dd by ation between the farme Ke tser in the clty or town The PAKCEL POST 18 THE 80. LUTION! | That in the way Charles J, Brand itural yartment expert: on and chief of President 1 “division of agri m: Wilson's newly crew markets,” sizes up the egg situa tion. Test Eggs in Maile | “The division of markets, in co operation with the burean of animal industry and the postoffice dep: ment, has t for more than a month quietly testing out the ponst bilities of th ping egge from the country to the tow It can be done, and it can be done suc fully and at low cost, ‘declared Brand The agricultural department poultry farm at Beltsvill Mary land, has been selling the eee pro duced there in the course of the poultry experiments to the em ployes of the department at the market price Have Remarkable Success | “We have, tn th past month, jbeen using these as, simply to |test the possibilittes of more than a hundred different types of egg containers by sending them through the parcel post ‘Of course, the tests have not |been concluded but at least SIX of the containers are standing mail trips satixfactorily, Out of the first 26 dozen that we shipped,” contin ued Mr. Brand, “there were only five broken eggs and four were in one particular dozen; so that there were 24 dozen exes shipped with lonly one broken.” | Containers Inexpensive | “How about the expense for con- tainers?” I asked “It is not at all necessary that the containern be expensive,” he re “The less expensive types, in re proving to be as satisfactory he others. “But it in quite possible to use a container that is expensive without |hurting the efficiency of the ser | vice “For instance, a number of the containers can be kept until they reach the parcel post limit—20 | pounds—and then returned to the send healthfal WRIGLEY’S We are that thew have post tn ship: | “I do my Christmas shop- ping from my office. clean, WRIGLEYS CAUTION! The great popularity of the clean, pure, scrupulous persons to wrap rank jmitations that are not’even real chewing gum so they re semble genuine WRIGLEY’S. The better class of stores will not try to fool you with these imitations. They will be offered to you principally by street fakirs, peddlers and the candy departments of sonte 5 and 10 cent stores, These rank imitations cost dealers one cent a package or ever less and are sold to careless people for almgst any price. If you want Weigley’s look before you buy. Get what you pay for. Be SURE it’s WRIGLEY’S. the NTL ATS TT ae in 0400, Pri necting with PHONES ™* armchaaes, By mati, Aatiy, one month in aAvanee, RATES ‘Boy six mos, $140) one year, 81.28. By carrier, in city, 260 0 mw OF PARCEL POST” It in worth while. FFERS ADVICE ON USE “Our people ought to learn to de as they do in Burope. | In France, for instance, people country to spend thelp ation, and @ part of their cht in going is to get into direct |touch with the farmer and find out then and there the kind, quantity | and quality of farm produce they wet y get to know the farmer and he gets to know them. They are then able to trust each other and depend on each other.” REAL ESTATE equipped tn @ Northern Uncle Sam is busy testing out va- rious carriers to see If he can find one which will convey eggs safely from the farmer to the consumer, | and thus end forever “egg corners.” Here is a container patented by C. J. Voorhorst of Portiand, Or. it is | eo compact that 50 dozen egge occu- py mo more space than 30 dozen by the old method. Each egg has its |own nest. The picture shows Voor- horet standing on a carrier filled| Gold Crowns (22-k and with eggs. None of them Is broken,| extra heavy) . ...$5,00 id to have “proved! Bridgework (strictly first- i 4 class), per tooth. . $5.00 , Gold Fillings ... 1.00 up. farmer by parcel post |Trueto-Nature Teeth (the finest “Gift” Package Best artificial Teeth in the world), “But no doubt the best type will | per $5 o $15 be found to be the ‘gift package’ | get Work Absolutely Guaranteed type, that can be thrown away after being once used all “But there is one thing that ought! Painless extraction of teeth by @ to be made clear, and that {s that new botanical preparation. consumers ought to go to some trou-| ‘phis office Is reed Seat ble to get Into personal touch with | tie’s leading ed cain peal do, by. 1 farmers in order that both may d | patisfactorily. the Dental profession generally. Boston Dentists | 1420 Second Avenue. Bon Marche, Seattle. leal Dental Office. you pain, you money your teeth. Opposite The We save Our Prices—Examination Free. I pure, twenty packages. My dealer sells it for 85. cents a box!” **‘A whole box of it is a_ real Present and its low cost lets me “remem- ber” people I could not send gifts to otherwise.” Be sure it’s WRIGLEY’S It’s the « gift you're sure will please. healthful is causing un-