The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 12, 1914, Page 4

THE SEATTLE STAR Press Assoctat the United je Matter, QUEAK Postoftice ae Becond-C na é FROM to six mos. ots moe, $1.80) year $8.25 Phone, Mate 0400, Priv There Is Not One Good Argument | in Favor of War With Mexico ITHOUT having any inside information as to his state statements of mind, but judging solely by his public acts, President Wilson is not going to tes army into Mexico unless he is forced to do so by an itresistible public sentiment As a nation we have absolutely nothing to gain by war © with Mexico As individuals we have nothing to gain Mexico, excepting those few of us who have invested some ) Of our millions in Mexican mines or railways ) As a nation and individuals we have everything to by a war with Mexico , } e cost to us in lives and money of such a war is beyond computation. We have every confidence in the intention and ability President Wilson to keep the United States army on this of the border, where it belongs The great danger in the situation is that the men whose interests will be served by a war with Mexico will advantage of some untoward event such as the killing Americans or other foreigners in Mexico, to create a war nent in this country which even so strong a man as nt Wilson will not be able to resist. As we view the Mexican situation we can scarcely con of anything happening on the other side of the border tt would justify the sacrifice of the lives of thousands of icans that would inevitably result from the United States army into Mexico We are about due for some cagle-screaming speeches in ss by men who will be drinking cocktails in their clubs the fighting is being done | Let us brand the first man who makes such a speech as a to his country Idea of a Rare Joke es 4 CCASIONALLY they get trimmed to suit us Lord Decies, the gent who got one of the Gould girls, | been meandering on the Pacific coast and, in the recent riod, got stalled in a train somewhere near Bakers al. The day the floods subsided, a fine looking man| red at the Bakersfield haut ton hotel and, from the} he dressed and strutted, Bakersfield accepted him as Decies. | Then high society began to grovel. “Me Lord” was) and dined to the limit of his capacity. A dozen te antos were his and he owned the hotel. “Me Lord's” supper table was buried in American Beauty roses Many women who already had supped repaired to their put on their best raiment and supped a second time. to be able to boast, through a lifetime, that they had) supped with a real live lord. | What the habitually silly ones of high society didn't b to get next to “Me Lord Decies” they simply hadn't of in the art of toadying. And when “Me Lord” had got them all with their noses the ground, figuratively speaking, he announced: “You've| M1; but I ain't Lord Decies.” He wasn't. He was only a common American citizen with an ab- ambition to promote a good thing in this country Unanimous equalit Bakersfield society calls him a contemptible hoax, but} "Was a good thing. He produced an almighty fine object send the United by war with * wnt \. ran Oe UF MARE meers?) — (4AM saaes: g sending 4 T THE PHOTOGRAPHER By Jim Manee P. 8. birdie.” look “Please at the Her Only Reply he eaia life henceforth. was all one re le Shet ig It is contended that women over 30 years of eligible to the off ernor of Mitnols. Where Hut where is the Iilinols woman who is over 30? Inn't {t about time the “safety first’ movement should be direct ed toward the man who reaches into the medicine cabinet for a bottle in the night without first turning on the light? eee Tame “What do you think of foot ball?” “Oh, It's rather tame,” replied the militant suffraget. eee Hope #0, Anyway Blobbe—Do you think we shall know each other in heaten’ Blobba—I bh #0. Few of us really know other hei ° . The Medium “Im there any way of crossing the social chasm? “Sure! \ Bridge.” oe ach . Smith in Church “Should Smith go to church?” somebody has inquired. Well, if he does, the churches will be sure of a crowd. She Had Tried Papa, mamma says that one half the world doesn't know how the other half lives.” “Well, she shouldn't blame her- self, dear, It ten't her fault : Johnny Writes mn. = y. fridy—t herd a storey about an awful mean man the uther day sumthing ought to happen to a guy Ike that the storey is this, there tn % a dozen fellera up in harlem gets together every 3 or 4 evenings for a game of cards and a little chat, in a room back of a caftay Well, one night not long ago they talking about their wives, and most of them had hard-luck tales it appeared they dident none of them count for mutch around the house there was just one feller that was different he sald, aw, you guys make mo sick believe me, { don’t let no wom walk over me iam boss d my place, and what f say an arou Koes HYGIENIC FASHION INSTITUTE proclaims that corsets @ause sour dispositions and sow seeds for divorce. It is a cold Gay when some sort of reform doesn’t take a kick at the corset. MEDICINE HAT, regarded as the home of zero weather Qnd blizzards, has a lot to answer for to Eastern folks. DAVE ENGLER of Victory, Wis., is kicking. Got his nose bitten off at a tango dance. But a fellow can tango without a Mose, can't he? When you grow up I suppose you will be an undertaker like your father?’ “Naw, | am gonter be a chauf- fer so I kin help me paw's bus- iness!” In Wool and Combina- tions of Silk and Wool. Fascinating creations tn al fashionable colors and materials and, to be sure, the point that we want to emphasize is the excel lence of BRYAN CALLS GEN. CARRANZA DOWN; ALL LOVELY NOW WASHINGTON, March 12.—Re consideration by General Carranza lof his refusal to negotiate with the 'United Stat concerning any but Mexican-American affairs was ex pected today the wt better than ever before style has been values, leh are Every selected carefull and the workmanship best is of the For today and tomorrow we are featuring two line: attractive values at $16.50 and $19.75 Whenever possible we would sug gest that you make of exceptionally your selection early in the morning, as you will He was considering Secretary find it more satisfactory in every || Bryan's letter, explaining why the “— Washington uinistration is in J. Redelsheimer concerning the lives and of foreigners other than Americans {n Mexico. The secretary frankly referred to the general's demand that the pow- d y & Co ers deal with him directly as ab- ° surd FIRST AND COLUMBIA, United Sta Consul Simpich telegraphed from Nuevo Laredo that — Carranza had taken the letter in a friendly spirit and predicted that henceforth the general will permit United States consuls in Mexico to FREE DOCTOR FOR YOU The only drug store in Seattle that gives the services of a competent, licensed Physician, absolutely free of charge. We charge only for what medicine you may need, and our price for that is leas than you pay elsewhere. of thelr nationality Should he do so, it was sald one great source of possible complica- tions would be cut off. GETS $40,0001IF | HE WINS WIFE We sell the famous German Blood and Rheumatic Mixture, and absolutely guarantee same. LOS ANGELES, March 12 it} Darwin W; Tate remarries the| wife who divorced him within two} ra, he can collect $40,000 from the estate of his grandmother, who! died recently In Milwaukee. Word that such a provision was cont ed in thé will reached here tod GOODBYE, VINC! STAATSBURG, N. Y., March 12.) |—It was announced that Vincent) Astor and Miss Helen Hunting on | | would be married April 30, BRENDEL DRUG CO. 117 YESLER WAY ° Couth Side Pioneer Squa Look for Yeliow Front. safeguard all foreigners, regardless | and a lot more like that some of the fellers bad seen his wife, and they thought it was kind of funny, but noboddy sald « word about 3 nights later this same duck showed up, and he was a site he looked like he had went 3 rounds to a decision with a griz- aly bare he gazed at the bunch for a {x like the shrill of loc my cornshredder and bits of paper into the well hind the cowbarn rises a hillock It# altitude is leas than that of Pike's Peak peak of the cowbarn youth has ebbed, I cannot climb to drink in the scene summit know it is arid climb mountains HE STAR—THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1914 THE SEATTLE STAR’S LAUGH DEPARTMEN Wy fl 7] yy U, ahi) Trailing With Tagore (Written After the Style of the Hindu Poet) BY FREDUPTA SCHAEFERJ! Jack and Jill The laughter of Iittie chi dow, drop Ite altitude tn greater tha Now Besides, up Old men to Idren ate under They play with the bright Re. n the that from its there I don't look for a « the steep slope. Pebbles he seat- ters, and clouds of pale blue in- vectives, In the crash of the landslide 1 notice two stockings, A pair of round limbs with barber-pole stockings. The constancy of woman is beyond human meas ure, My heart sinks for Jill as she follows, unasking The all-pervading note of my being ts for refreshment. 1 close down the window I yield to dead habit. An old man keeps his in the ice box minnit, and then he said drink, But children are differ- @— — if { knew which of you guys It ent f Notice to Ministers | was that called my wife up on Suddenly, with pink palms | A Seattle minister last Sun- | the fone and told her what { maid clutching the handle, Jack | day was horrified to see a boy | the uther night, his Ife would mounts upward and onward. | {n the gallery pelting the hear- not be worth a plugged nickel Bright in the sunshine gleams lers in the pews with horse {aint had nuthing to eat sinse, the tin of the growler, Jill chestnuts. As the good man 1am sleeping on the poarch, and grasps it also, fearing to lose looked up, the boy cried out look at my mug him. “You tend to your preaching, then he give them another sor The whistle that wreathes the mister mu keep them rowful look, and slipped silently ripe lps of Jack strangely awake.” into the night agen Johny ceases. Backward he drifts down @————________________', CURE FOR BOOZE HABIT ! Editor The Star: I want to spread | the gos drunkenness for The rule has been demonstrated, and ite reasons are logical and scientific A large dish of oatmeal, with cream and sugar, followed by a dish of apple sauce for breakfast for a month or six weeks will eradicate the desire to drink, ‘The oatmeal coats the stomach and the tart of the apple sauce following satisfies the longing for alcoholic #timulant MRS, C. D.C NOVELS—NOT SLIT SKIRTS Editor The r The curse of age is no’ immodest dross. t the uncensored literature of the day, reeking with filth that even a sray-headed man {s better for avold ng. It is a question which is the great the hunger of the public for this rentious stuff, or the ability of the so-called authors to turn it out Only yesterday | saw a girl about 15 years old, on a Summit car, so In terested In one of the “best sellers” that she was carried two blocks be yond her destination Mothers might far better let their daughters wear harem skirts and peek-a-boo waists than to let them poison thelr minds with the pollut ed ideas found in this class of hooks th er see HAVE SAME EXPERIENCE Editor The Star: Some of us women certainly enjoy reading ‘Confessions of a Wife.” We sym-| pathize with Margie, for some of us women have had the same experi ence with our own husbands, and we know how she felt when her hus band came home at a late hour at might, drunk, after she had worrled all night | Then these husbancs expect us to love and obey them. ONE WHO KNOWS LETTERS TO THE EDITOR WHY SHE FAINTED Editor The Star Now, Mr. Editor, I was pr the inquest and saw Mrs. I see reference | stances THE DIARY OF I have a remedy for|has been made to Mrs. Werner as| the sincere man. the “fainting widow.” | esent at Werner | take the witness stand, assisted by | and I were in very MRS. T. needy H cireum HIGGINS. two people, being too fll and weak | FATHER TIME to walk alone. Mrs. Werner glass of water, to her. which was answer jed # few questions and then took a handed As she did so, there came al flash of light and explosion from a flashlight used by a newspa tographer. Mre Anybody der similar conditions. Doe strike you as peculiar that thorities allowed the per pho Werner fainted. would have fainted un es it not the au photugraphers to disturb such a serious affair? A SUBSCRIBER eee THANKS THE STAR Editor The Star: TI wish to children when ance, I received the $10 for me a CAS y the much, as Cascarets make you they immediately clean sweeten the stomach, rem sour, undigested and food and foul gases; take cons bile from the liver an off the constipated waste | thank your paper for the kindness | you have extended to myself and | four we needed assist-| fingers and you left d Il appreciated your kind- | bows, children se and nove the fermenting the ex nd carry matter In the frequent discussion and | contests of women striving for their acknowledgment by critics and artists as the “most bdeauciful women,” I am reminded of the sin ple code of beauty of the Arab The Moslem idea of female beauty is that the perfect woman must possess four attributes that are black, viz.: Hair, eyebrows, eve lashes and pupils; four that are white—skin, hands, teeth and the | white of the eyes; four that are red cheeks, tongue, lips and gums; | that are long—back, arms, | legs; four that head, throat, wrists and el and four that are small eyebrows, nose, lips and fingers round ARETS TONIGHT! 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A }iadies’ a racial sha liked beards ' |the ones with the leant factal floss| All these things are matters of : wives, Thus the girls grew | habit custom, and not of ir j smoother and smoother of face,|nate attractiveness. In a certain aa end finally became as we see them |tribe of African natives, the r oF now en possexs a huge } of fatt Pp | This may be a subtle attempt to | tissue, a good deal Ike tn lallay the prevalent sex-revolt by |of the came The aracter lacing the women under oblign-| istics ve high prized in | tion to the men for their most pre-|their natural habitat | clous possession, their beauty, But| Beauty in van or man is the w to all who # ved thereby I average of the charac ties with pa | wish to gt warning. 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Cheasty’s Haberdashery Second Av. at Spring St. Difference The average wage-earner | Spending | Buying never stops to figure out the difference between these two ways of dis- The pay envelope is disposed of—maybe a little is put aside each pay day, and maybe not. posing of his weekly or monthly income. Rent payers in particular should figure out this difference for themselves Spending—Consists in disposing of money for something of no lasting value Buying—Consists in disposing of money for | something of lasting value or some thing that will increase in value. Think this difference over carefully, Mr. Renter, and then figure out how much a bundle of receipts are worth to you. When you’ pay rent you’are sure spending your money The Star next h buy. rent nd fot buying. urday will show yéu how to Read Renters’ Opportunity in The Star Sat- | urday, March 14,