The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 18, 1914, Page 4

Telegraph News Bntered at Seattio, Wash. Postofticn as Secon ae - By mail, out of city, 95 per mon. upt By carrier, olty Published Datty by The Star Pudi Do You Wear a Mask? wer you dare to have your wife peer behind YOUR mask? Would you dare to give your friends a look at your Teal self? ee Perhaps you censured the wife of that New York Chemist who deserted him in horror after an accident had @estroyed his likeness to a human being Two years ago there was an explosion in his laboratory Burning acid was thrown into his face. It burned and @eared. There were weeks in hospitals and bandages. Life Pemained, but even the doctors shuddered as they looked fon the ravages caused by the terrible accident—and they Sent him out in the world with a mask. His wife had been warned not to look. But, as he slept, her curiosity prompted her to lift the veil—she ran, shrieking, ‘Terrified, her soul shriveled by the terrible transformation which had changed the face she loved to a mocking travesty upon humanity. There are transformations more horrible than those be- the mask of the New York chemist. There are distortions more horrifying than those which drove away the devoted wife eee ee see . Many try to hide the scars upon their souls behind a mask. pme seck the Divine surgery which heals and restores. There is the youth who thoughtlessly today is “sowing ‘wild oats”—not knowing that his midnight orgies, his vagrant iasons, his gay marauderings are leaving a scar and burning of his heart the chivalry, the desire for decency, the appre- of goodness. Some day, as he stands at the side of an innocent girl at a altar, he will put on the mask—in an effort to keep BROUGHT QOOD TIMES Husband—I hope you will not be 80 extravagant in your shopping Mouey is hard to get. Wife-—1 hadn't heard any of the tradesmen complain Husband—Well, 1 didn't say money Was very bard for them to get from you. eee TOO MUCH I'm a hearty sort of eater, Not inclined to pick and fuss Commonly no man ts neater, Tecan dine with ttle muss. I can nibble watermelon Without filling up my ears; Slabs of home-made bread with Jell on T can guazie minus fears. I'm a shark at pickled peaches (Though {t ts a jugg! job) T commit no social breache: m her eyes the deformations which would shock and drive away, sobbing, horrified and comfortless. There is the man who lets greed and selfishness eat their ous way into his soul. Generosity and a feeling of kin- for his fellow-man are wiped out. He, too, may put up mask, perhaps a gilded one of gifts to formal charities or p libraries—but a look behind that mask would drive away it who look. The woman who lets jealousy and envy creep into her who sacrifices the love of children for the tango or the , who lets her desire for gaudy dress replace her interest her home—these, too, wear masks so flimsy that the slightest eze may lift and leave exposed the horror of the wreckage. Py ° By hyp eee _ Some there are who show such vigor of soul that the scars youth are forgotten. But it is dangerous—this playing with those emotions h wreck and burn. If you have pity for that chemist, bereft of wife and pends, cond to through life avoided and terrible, inward at and be sure that you will not soon out the horror in the eyes of those you love. Bourbon Bray REAT is economy! Senators at sean p et after voting millions for bar'l” graft, redundant battleships and other extrava-| mnces or wastes, are now exulting with pride that they have! } to the bone the appropriation of the commission which is diy investigating industrial relations. “Can't see that it serves any useful purpose,” says Martin: irginia, a typical standpatter. It is giving a hearing to exploited workers elsewhere ied free speech. It is recording without fear or favor the truth about labor rus! hired gunmen and the parasites of industry. _ It is trying in a careful and thorough manner to find the juses of poverty, crime and social disorder and to learn if we get rid of those causes without going through the frightful of a prolonged class war. _ Though impartial (perhaps because impartial) it is givin; jet to all who profit by existing injustices, and throu | | ba reactionaries in the senate they have marked it for slau ; id $200,000 a year for three years to see if there is a| ul cure for chattel slavery? No, sir; not another penny | the senate Bourbons. | And they cheerfully accept the risk of some day having to a billions as their ancestors paid in blood and treasure for! of slavery. is is the part of the democratic party which gives pro- ive voters a pain. 9 2 s Funny, Bat Nice 667Q1G BUSINESS” is becoming as funny as a monkey with a bag of peanuts. As represented by the Chi- “€ago Association of Commerce, it has just called on Presi- Gent Wilson to talk over his anti-trust propositions and, with ithe terrible screech to “give business a rest” ringing in its has actually endorsed the trades commission measure. 3A id of squealing against the trades commission’s passin, 40M questions of unfair competition and practices, as expected, ‘o's “Big Business” advocated giving that commission jbroad powers of investigation and definite authority to order oY oy Po illegal practices ‘oodrow is not only leading them up to the trough id making them drink, but he’s making them drink all| fe is in the trough and ask that the faucet be turned on| more drink. HOUGE WN JHE stor ie REPAIR MAN school this fal cess day children! will hands in horror when they hear of ft. Chewing sweet corn on the cob T can handle soft confettt, Eat raw oyst with the beat; But f cannot paghett) Without m: up my vest . . Ball Players Hall From Ivory, M4. Mardlehead, Mass. Bone vill Concrete, bh. Bullhead, 8. D. Nut, Pla. A Prize Servant A certain kind of blunder tn Supposed to be characteristically Hibernian, yet this story is told of a Frenchman. Prince Talleyrand was suddenly wakened one night by the discharge of a pistol Seeing his valet in the apartment, he asked what the trouble was. “Your highness,” replied the man, “there was a mouse in the room, and, fearing {t might dis- turd your slumber, I shot it,” LITTLE PRINCESS [CHILDREN AGAINST HORT VACATIONS GIVE AWAY CASH WILL PLAY WITH PLAIN CHILDREN When Princess Juliana starts to he'll learn the do other Ittle same lessons Dutch girls, for the future queen of the Netherlands is to attend the public schools at The Hague, Imagine it, girls and boys, a prin- mingling with common every- Other royal families undoubtedly hold up their But her mother, Queen Wilhel- | mina, believes that the little girl who may some day rule the Nether- lands should know the people over whom she'll reign, We'll bet little Juliana will have a better time, and will lead hap- pier fe than most children of Shope—110 Madison Toyal parentage, What do you think? DO 18 SMEAR 4 DEADBEAT IN THE Face # THE SEATTLE STAR’S LAUGH DEPA A Feccow THAT OWG8 EVERYBODY MONGY HAT NO BUSINESS BLOWING tT I AT A SUMNGR n. y., fridy-—a burg hot elwaye « happy one apeshly not when he brakes {n. to the home of « millitary suffrid- wet, and she ketches him, like mre. billings did tars. billings is a lady that lives on thint avenoo, and she ways 210 pounds in her kimmono there ust to be a mr. billings, but he went away from home one morning soon after mre. billings joined the suffridgets, and he aint never come back the betting around the naber- hood is 4 to,1 that he never will woil, anyway, a cuppel of days ago mre. billings went out to buy & few things, and when she got back from her shopping, there was 5 perfeckt straingers in her boodwar, clawing around in her duro drawers 2 of them got out of a winder = as be was 1-2 way acrost the oll! RGETRT! vhe got him by the ankeis and drug bim back tnto the room, and down the fire escape, but mrs. billings grabbed the 34 one then she swung him around like he wus a fly-ewatter, and banged his noodle against the wall a few times, till] she noticed he was Genting up the plaster then, as she did not wish to damidge her apartment, she drug him out the door and down 3 filtes of stares it te her proud boast that his head did not miss a single stare on the way down after that It was only 2 blocks to the pol station, and the burgier was still alive when she hauled him in the dore the sargent at the desk looked at the burger and then he asked her, maddem, why have you bin #0 crool to this poor man for the morrel effeckt, she an- sere hitting the sargent’s deska whack that bounced the {nk bot- tle 2 feet in the air, what have You to say now of the boasted su- periority of the male sex? . EATTLE schoo! children don't relish the idea of shorter va- cations. not half long e tive ones are con’ in fact, It develops that the summer furiough is ih to sult most of them. The conserva- inted with the length of the rest as it now is. Uncle Jack discovered thie while considering the letters received in @ contest held thi week, The topic wae shorter school vacations, and a dollar prize was offered to the boy or girl whe wrote the best letter opposing or advocating shorter vacations. Only three contestante—Ruth Northern, 3948 Turk et.; Eo ther Freeman, 7704 Sunnyside av., and Ruby McDonald, Issa- quah, Wash. urged sho more frequent intervats. Evelyn Marsoiai 8 enjoyed th benefiting, thi Beth Purrington, if echool year, and breathe — echoolroome the ily E, Stites, 30th were in favor of cutting down the vacation vacations, with vacations through the year at hinke the childre i and W. Hay Ruby living at Sultan, Wash., carried away the for having It prolonged. uitan girl, ivises against should get outside cooped up in hot, it., opposes the idea, arguing that the scholars will have nothing to look forward to, and lose interest in their work. Ruth Purrington, Sultan; Florence Bi Ruby Fowler, 7772/4 Market tive side of the question In HERE’S LETTER THAT WINS PRIZE BY EVELYN MARSOLAIRS I, for one, believe that our vacations are short enough, without mak. Tf all the boys and girls enjoyed their vacation as T think if w of the year and make our grades, we deserv: ing them shorter, do, they would want {t prolonged. play, jo to school nine months Jeast three months of The boys and girls of today need fresh air and exercise in the open. They all like to go to the woods and watch the birds Then they are studying nature. nd gather flowers. nnn JEALOUS, GIRLS? Monday Maj, Ingraham will start SCOUTS ON TRIP Vv. A. Scoutmaster J. Smith with a party of over 60 campfire! started Wednesday with a party of girls for Indian Henry's, on Mt. Rainier. They leave the Colman dock at 7 o'clock for Tacoma, from Tacoma to Ashford by auto stage, and then to Rainier park. Di “SINCE “OU ARE So CLéevaRty Co eee Dea ‘Dillpickles ee “The Cow 4-Ree) ‘Screecher’ Film STUMED 8, I WANT TO PRINT You FOR THE nine Boy Scouts for Mt. Rainier, The party expect to be gone two weeks at the most, going by train to Fairfax, hike to Grand park, climb the mountain and_ return. QUuEAK A FrRem Y Jenn y Muse NEAR THE TOLLWG OF THE O0L«S ROM PLLLG It WHAT A WORLO OF S00 NIN {OUGHT THEIR eronsooy ery a | compet s') ENCE ae | HIOW WE SHIMER WTH ALY RINT | AT WHE MELANCUY MEA WCE THEIR Tome! | muting, maddem, says the sar- gent, not a blessed thing then she turned to give the burgier anuther look, and he hol- lered for them to please lock him up and save bis life, and they done it johny ley” Loose Pin-B. pretty quick at t SPINNING’S CASH Managers of practically all ad motion picture houses in the eity| lare up in arms today, following) serving of notice on them by the! | film supply companies that begin- |ning Monday the companies will serve them qnly with complete pro- | grams, insted of single reels—-or fillers”—as heretofore. | The new ruling, they say, is the) result of the film supplies forming ja combine, with the avowed pur-| pose of driving the feature film/| companies out of existence, It must be understood that the feature | supply houses handle po fillers. 1 Draw Single Reels. At present houses using feature films, running from two to six or} seven reels to one play, draw on | the film supply concerns for single reels with which to fill out their programs Without these “fillers” the fea- tures-—with the exception possibly of the six and seven-reel produc- 260 Pr, 4x4 Old Copper or Dull Brass Finish “Stan. They are the beat to be had They should last work bere, on many other items $3.25 25-ft. Lufkin-Chal- lenge Steel Tape Line Just half price on a high-grade, reliable measuring line. all Top Stee! Butts 10¢ his price, Your money does more 1415 FOURTH 1417 AVE. STORE MOVING PICTURE EXHIBITORS MAY ASK PROSECUTION OF FILM COMPANIES AS TRUST tion re of no value. Ti re managers, who say if they should accept the new cond! tions, they would soon be showing mediocre pictures, are preparing to fight. May Prosecute 'Em, Manager William Symthe, of the lass “A” theatre, declares he will tempt to make bis usual single reel selection from different supply concerns next week, and if they re- fuse to supply him, he will attempt to prosecute thems under the Sher- man anti-trust law. From the office of Warner's Fea- tures, Inc., it was steted today that next week they also will combat the combine by offering single-reel com- edies with their features, thus mak- ing 1t poesible for managers to ob- tain « complete bill from them. It {8 presumed other feature con- cerns will take similar steps, in which event a merry triangular film war is promised, Reading a ‘0 of the stand the rch has taken re- garding choirmasters and organ- ints playing at theatres, I thought the matter over e conclud- ed that it is a joke, to be sure. Such pettiness in these followers of Christ. Why don't these good people be gin with the ministers of the churches and demand their resig: nation from the pastorship unless they withdraw from their Mquor selling clubs. If the ministers think they are such a force for good in clubs— cap not the same be said of the choirmaster in the theatre? Good music is uplifting, wher- ever heard, and church folks shouldn't be so se! fish, NON-CHURCH GOER. GULLS HAVE CLAWS? Editor The Star: Your editorial on “The Gull” in a recent issue contained excellent moral, but why LOOK! STAR WILL IN NEXT CONTEST Here is something out of the or-| dinary for The Star Circle kiddies. This week the boys and girls! have for a subject the naming of a/ title for a picture. Here ts the picture. In it can be seen a little dogete that tried to outdistance an auto, and the result. The driver has Just given the owner, a small boy, | @ ten-dollar bill to “square” him- self. The question {s, what reply did the boy make after he received tho money. Uncle Jack has the answer, and will print {t along with the winning title next Saturday. The title must be a comic exclamation, The title is Nmited to 30 letters. The contest closes Friday after- noon at 3 o'clock Among the poorest paid workers in the whole of Europe are the Sictl- fan farm laborers, whose av weekly wage amounts to le: 50 cents. 1 Do wish MR. SMEARS HADN'T LEFT So ABRUPTLY. However, T See THE Cow UNDSR Youoer TREE,” the nature faking? Can a bird be both web-footed and bi talons? Ever see a duck or any swimming fowl pick up any- thing with its feet? This is not the first time I've heard of gulls carrying food in their claws, but you've got to show me. Start an argument. I've been digging clams in these parts too long to ha anyone make me believe a species of duck has talons. AN OLD-TIMER. WANTS EXPLANATION Editor The Star: I read an an ticle some time ago stating that if « county is in need of an agri- culture or soil expert, the depart. ment of agriculture at Washington, D. C., will furnish him at a salary of $3,000 per year, the department paying half and the county the re mainder. Now if that Is the case, why did not our county commissioners ap- ply to the department and save the taxpayers $2,500? R. W. ANDERSON. RIVERSIDE, Cal., July 18,—Mary Sobde, 2, dropped her doll into an irrigation ditch yesterday, and fell in herself attempting to rescue it. She was taken from the stream un- conscious half a mile below, after having passed through an 18-inch water main. The doll was lost. 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