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

| } ‘ IBY mali, Out of city, 8) per mon. up to six mos: six t i Published Dally by The Star Publishing Co. Phone, Main 0400. Private 5 x all departments. ; } An Incident of Travel. i HE was a young woman, slig aceful, well dressed ; Came from a home that, if not happy, was well supplied with money. 5 The street car had stopped at the usual place to admit passengers. A number climbed aboard She had time to do} signaled gained a the car's 1 the conductor cramble Bo. She did not move, however, u the motorman to proceed. Then footing, was lifted safely to the platform but by gaining momentum was slightly jarre “W hy did you start the car when you saw #0 enter,” she snap) ped at the conductor “I beg your pardon, miss,” the conductor replied ong you were waiting for some other car, You ity of time to enter. | “Tl report you for this,” shouted as she paid her} And later, as she was leaving, she repeated the threat. | The conductor merely smiled | A spoiled beauty, you say? Undoubtedly. As some hus band will one day discover to his sorrow “Do you have many such experiences,” F asked P “Perhaps half a dozen a day,” ) from young women of her type entitled to special consideration.” ; Here the fault was all her own. But if it had not been, af the conductor, busy with fare-taking, anxious to keep the chedule, had been just a second too hasty, how would you! ive met the experience? Irritably or with good nature? | Tt’s a great place to study human nature, the rear plat-| n of a street car. Even the conductors are human. she I was waiting | “but I} had| she the conductor * he replied. “And mostly They seem to think they’re SCOTT CALHOUN Is likely to get an awful Jolt if he tries to stop | care from running on Fourth av. They're double-troileyed and | an awful kick, you know. . abies and Flowers HAT is a more beautiful sight than an oriole building | a nest or a happy wife in a garden tending a flower | | Orioles are limited to certain areas, but there is land igh everywhere to give every wife a flower bed, if it) only properly distributed. Throughout the country one marriage in every doesn | in the divorce courts, and in some states the ratio is| in seven. Alarmed at this high percentage of domestic infelicity,| Presbyterian General Assembly has gone on record for deral divorce law to make couples stay married when| 4 ws may help some, but flower beds are better. | | Babies and flower beds make home worth while. Tt takes so little room to make a flower bed. /In Minneapolis the other day an investigator found 21 0 he father, the mother, six children and 13 boarders) livin, in three stuffy rooms back of a store. Only one in n 21, a girl of seven, could speak English. " Yet Minneapolis isn’t a crowded city. It has acres and} of parks, lawns and lakes—room enough for every ily to have a fine garden and a number of flower beds. it because you're too poor that wife hasn't a flower “Then that’s unfortunate and you have our sympathy. | Or is it that you expect her to do so‘much drudging work that she hasn’t time or strength to tend one? “In that case, old man, take a shift at the dishes and the thboard and send the missus outdoors. Home won't ever be the place it ought to be if by de- You omit babies and flowers. NOW IT appears the standpattere want John H. Powell to be the oo? given up Loren Grinstead and Henry McBride. But why moke Up 4 PYON'T you rather like the idea of that Denver judge who, while the proceedings were droning along, saw lawyers, | and defendant caressing unlighted cigars and sud-| ended their agony @y saying: “What do you say to} pry “Undignified? Bp Nay, just human. = There was more than symbolism in the Indian custom of} grave councils with ‘the pipe of peace. Smoking with} "brother is much like breaking bread with him; it is a of fellowship. | We've often thought there was a lot of flubdub in the H get "digi" cultivated in most court rooms. Gowns and < owlish faces don’t make real dignity; they're just Justice, sympathy, insight—these are the ingredients of dignity. Lincoln was never “dignified,” but he had true dignity— dignity of a great human soul in intimate understand- of humankind. Simplicity is dignity. The wisest, the truest of men and tn don’t have to put on airs to secure recognition of worth. A human judge on an easy footing with his fellow men Pmiore apt to aid in the administration of real justice than] stiff and prim martinet always on guard lest somebody id exhibit contempt of court. Tt wasn’t the nicotine in that Denver court room which is be admired, for to some that is offensive. But can you il to respond to the judge’s spirit of fellowship? We can’t, We'd like to see it universal. ERRORS IN the marriage llcenses showing them married to the men sort of take the extra romance out of the Casey sisters’ dou- puedding at San Mateo, Cal. People do sometimes run awful risks to overdo the marrying busines: p || Atlanta, Ga. Demanded an Expert Behind the counter stood the pharmacist’s assistant, a boy of about 15 sume “IT wish to seo y boy,” demand 1 ‘He's down town,” replied the lad. “But I can serve you with anything you want, madam.” “Oh, Indeed!” woltfed the aris tocrat. “I think I had better go somewhere else, all the same!’ But I can serve you, I assure you, madam! What did you re- quire?” “Woll, I don’t see how a boy of your ago can possibly take the place of & qualified prescription t can't be ur master, eee A Puzzle A cook who had burned up a plece of veal weighing four Pounds threw {t away and report ed to her mistroms that tie cat had eaten the meat. The lady placed tho cat upon the scales and found tt wolghed exactly four pounds. “There, Hridget,” sho snid, “are the four pounds of meat, but where fs the cat?" eee Jim's Lows d the proprietor of the place, a little gift for you and Jim. Each bottle ts finest Scotch whisky. You drop tn at Jim's on your and give him thie, will you?" “Certainly,” replied the grate- ful one, On his way he fell and broke one bottle “Poor Jim!” he murmured, Picking himself up. “Here,” THE SEATTLE STAR’S LAUGH DEPARTMENT OUTBURSTS OF EVERETT TRUE re BEEN mine eo Feminine Progress The Indy penochle club sur prised Mra, Peter Schmitt on Tuesday, M 17, belng her birthday.—Athens Record. ee Every Precaution Pat—-How much do yer weigh, Mike? Mike—Ol welgh one hundred and siventy-five pounds, ‘at-—You must ‘a’ got weighed with your coat on. Mike—An’ Of did not. O! held it In mo arms all the time) azine of Fun. . ee Agile Folke Old Lady (reading her evening paper)~—Japanese turn agnostics. BUYING. AN AUTOMOBILE, MR, TRUG Now, © THOUGHT You “MIGUT pe WILLING TO Go ON MY NOTE FOR —----- . ae NOT FAST COLORS as r ell or “Now, Benjamin, had the Revo- Jutionary war not occurred, what would have been the result?” “We wouldn't have to be study- ing about it." . dertul things those Japanese ac- robats can do!—Buffalo Express. eee 500 Saves aqhare space an gentle 2 for ie. these goods and years 50e Now is your time to brace up| \,, Sprinkler 20¢ aprinkle and ever We wave | Square Fountain water rain drops Fabers Forget-Me-Not No No. 8 rubber tipped Lead F or 1 doz 25 We save you nearly half pencils, The 5004 have been used for 40¢ Abe Wire Mud or Dress Guard We n U ke unsdort & Mueller Non-Ko Br ried Prick Punch..15¢ The best we can buy ir guards SPINNING’S CASH STOR OF THE BEST HOME $2. 50 Sinch Pocket ” 2%-inch Pocket Sclaser 4-inch Pocket Scissors 4%-Anch Pocket Sclasor 106 15 64inch Scinsor unsdort & Mueller ean bu ihe 1415 FOURTH 1417 AVE. MILES IS BUSY ‘CHURCH SUES TAX OFFICIALS WASHINGTON, June 12,—Act , Have you noticed how pale fling in accordance with a request Nella looks lately “ eis Church of the “You but. only after she ||2%, Secretary Redfield, Senator! Offitials of the Church of I NE ely 7 Poindexter {s working to obtain anijng God yesterday began 6 ee adequate appropriation in the sus. against King county, asking th y clvil bil improvements on r . seth Gen HAD THE ANSWER the Pacific Coast. An increase of| tax officials be restrained fro $60,000 for coast and geodetic gur-|ing the property, and th e la vey work is desired a sment of $ be ann 1 GLASSES ON EARTH Our prices are right, quality of goods unexcelled. O14, reliable men do our fitting. Absolute guarantees goes with all our work. MARCUM OPTICAL CO. 917 FIRST AV ENUE e- Wae Always Hale “To what do*you attribute your longevity?” asked the reporter. ai “My which?" queried the oldest inhabitant. “Your longevity,” reporter An Odd Happening PNever had it. Minister (announcing from pul remember I al ~—I will add that lady’s watch such complaint. é been found in one of the ee aisles, which the owner can have AWAITING RESULTS by applying at the vestry, We will “I use these dumb-dells, my now sing the 117th hymn: “Lord, boy, for the purpose of reducing Her Watch Thy Church ts Keep- weight.” ing.” “Are they any lighter yet, pat” A Surprise Cholly—And was my present a surprise to your sister? Willio—You bet! Sis sald she never thought you'd send her any- thing so cheap, eee repeated the An far as I can 't never had no HE’S OPTIMIST | Crop conditions over the country | President Wilson’s Lad Margaret Woodrow Wilson. at Eilers Tomorrow Night DOCS MEETING Homeopathic doctors of the state are generally eucouraging, says J.C. are holding their sixth annual con- Danziger, who has returned to Seat-| vention today tn thé”Henry building tle from the Shriners’ convention Injassembly room, The sessions will ‘continue two days, Daughter Will Sing Notable concert planned tn which Margaret Wilson, daughter of the prestd will be heard— vin the modern talking machina Concert to be given tn Btlers’ Recital Hall, commencing at $:15 Dp. m., admission free Margaret Wilsop, who recently created no emall sensation tn Washington by having her voice recorded for the talking machine, the leading feature at the concert to be will be popular Baturda: given in Biller morrow night. are given for the purp> aoquainting the peopl BR with the tremen have recently been made in the Feproduction of the human volce ‘The V the Columbia and Mr. Edison's hew’ talking machine (which requires no needles) will all be used to reproduce the Yolces of the singers, The com- plete program follows; Brass Orchestra, “The Red Man,” from Dwellers in the Western World Baritone Solo, “Bendomes Bai 4 Soprand Solo, otalian Street Bong. Edison Needicien at Masurka, 4, No 2 Violin Bolo, “Ave Maria”. Op. Mischa Fiman on the al Walts. uck on the Viotro Soprano Solo, “Carmena,” Gems from “The Laughing Husban Vi 1 Soldters’ Chorus from * Edison Mins Hopping at the Auto Recitals directed by C. V Peasant Overtu yed by means » being piayed neerts and ‘wil ‘The “Post an Autopiano b the Chicker ne innovation at th erimin Thee ating mm ore Music House in cot University Johg ‘Phiit ey J TOPIANO SOLO argaret Woodrow Wil: Bouma. gran Moore Talking from “Naughty startetta”, * Talking Machine. Herbert ae eerere cee Godard Schubert-Wiihelm) fafa. seeeesWalton-Wilson telson Kneass * waite song tn Hong’ Sylvester-h. o+-+- Thayer jetroia. Korn-Wimporis-lyster sevee Gounod oF ones. re" will be od an a duet of the pei od gual by hand. is an entirely new 1 be watet ned with interest by dis- The 1 role a neert Is given by the Bilers’ Talking Machine Company and junction, They are entirely free. Hall is in the Bllers building, on the corner of Third and | |S children and am doting my utmost | THE DIARY OF |e pie ay repeated “waraings, | FATHER TIME scolding, coaxing and whipping, the jchildren will sneak out and play in How much longer, I wonder, is the street. Now is the law to be| io constructed as to put the/| the old folly of heraldry likely to| 4° °F me A CITIZEN. | continue? Td a coatofarms no man, literally speaking, has proten- sions who is not the representative of somebody that bore arms fn the old Engtish wars; yet even today, on the payment of a small sum, obliging gentlemen at the Heral college will put on thelr spectacles, turn over thelr books like astrolo- gers, and find that you are desery ing of a lion's paw, or entitle you to clap three puppies on the door of your limousine. Heralds, indeed are of groat an. tiquity, in the sanse of messengers of peace and war, but in the mod- ern sense they are no older than) the reign of Edward Ill. As to! their keeping records of all the old) blood {n the kingdom, they may) keep them, or not, as they have the luck to find them; but the blood was old before they had anything to do with ft Men bore arms and crests when there were no offi cers to register them. Arms were not originally given; | they were assumed. Men in bat | tle, clad, as they were, in armor from top to toe, found it necessary to have thelr persons distin guished, and accordingly they put! some device on their helmet | shield which would serve t- mar | out the bearer, A coat-of-arms 1s nothing but’ al representation of the knight him-) self from whom the bearer is de-| ascended. The shield ts his body; there {fs the helmet for his head, with the crest upon ft; the flour-| ish is his mantle; and he stands upon the ground of his motto. The| supporters, if he is noble or of a particular class of kulghthood, aro the pages that waited upon him, designated by the fantastic dress of bear, lion, eto, which they) | sometimes wore. THE SPEED FIEND Editor The Star: I have been reading your articles concerning Judge Gordon's remarks to your reporter, It seoms that our dear, beloved city peace officer and servant of the people, has been thinking of trying to get the council to pase jan ordinance making it a crime for parents to allow their children on |the street. I am glad to know he |has been thinking some lately | Suppose he went fishing to keep from getting a headache. the - Kitchen Your kitchen can be as spot- lees and white as your grand- mother’s aras, but without the arndgery, | Front Heel-Proof Floor Paint saves a lot of work because it || washes so easily, But it will not wash off. Easy to apply because It does not pall under the brush. 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