The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 28, 1914, Page 1

ore Than 200,000 Readers a VOLUME 16. The peatite / The Only Paper | in Seattle ‘That Dares to Print the Hews SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1914, ONE CENT IGHT ‘ EDITION WEATHER FORECAST — Fair tonight and Wednesday—warmer Wednesday, with northerly winds, ON THAIS AND NEWS STANDS, Be Austria Declares\ Win FRENCH WOMAN ISFREED i LONDON, July 28—With war formally declared by Austria on Servia today, Eng-| land, through Foreign Minis- ter Sir Edward Grey, is striv-| ing to bring about an agree- ment with other European | powers to let Austria and Ser- via fight it out. The czar is reported to be stubbornly clinging to his in- tention of taking up arms for Brisk fighti: trian and reported at various points. | Austrians were reported have marched troops across i & : PARIS, July 28—Mme. Cail- faux, on trial for the murder of Editor Calmette of the Paris Rewepaper, Figaro, was thie between Aus- in forces was) Austria Won't Halt. VIENNA, July 28.—Austria’s mi tary m cannot gotiations looking tion. This was Foreign Minister Count Von Berchtold’s reply today to the suggestion from Foreign Minister) Sir Edward Grey of England that) hostilities against Servia be sus-| pended while England, Germany,| France and Italy arranged an am-| | bassadorial conference looking to- | ward the preservation of Europe's | peace. ures and present course interrupted pending ne- toward media- SPLASH PARTIES “Splash parties, ala Annette Kellerman!” Sounds interesting, doesn’t tt? That's what the Y. W. C. A. girls thought when their new home was finally completed and their natatorium ready for serv- Report Servia invaded. | LONDON, July 28.—An ae bee| Berlin report had it that the Aus- trians had invaded Servia at Mit-/ rovitz, the Servians retiring before them. This report, however, was unconfirmed. ice. But the “splash room” without the “splash party” is a damp, dismal affair. “Splash parties” are all the Yorue at the “Y.” Ask any girl who is a member about the new stunt, and she will at once be- come enthusiastic—but perhaps not overly voluble. Any girl who is a member is entitled to give a “splash party” any night she makes arrange- ments for the pool. The guests doff street garments and emerge from neat dressing rooms attired in the unrestricted one-piece An- nette Kellerman sui: After that the splash. Czar Stande Pat. ST. PETERSBURG, July 28. —Despite the war scare, the czar left today on his sched- uled visit to the Finnish Sker. | ries. He arranged, however,to | keep In the closest touch with St, Petersburg. His majesty was said to have taken personal responsibility for Russi firm stand in fa- When the “splashes” are at an vor of interference if Austria end and conventional garb is undertook to crush Serv’ donned again the guests and “We have endured this sort of thing for seven years,” he Supt. Calhoun, of the insane aslyum at Steilacoom, today told The Sta “We have many patients, among them women and giris, who should not be here if there were any other place to send them. King county, and other counties, need psychopathic hospitals for the observation of these people before they are committed here.” GRACE TURNER hostess complete the evening in the tea room, where a “spread” is served | AVOIDING A PRECEDENT | was quoted as saying, “and that’s enough. Wife—I know your firm stands BERLIN, July 28.—Large bodies the expense, but couldn't you get [of troops in field uniform were along without a stenographer at | marching through the Berlin streets your office? today. Officials said the movements | had no sifnificance except that the) Husband (frankly)—Yes. if 1 aid, Vd have to. soldiers were changing quarters. But He's al grandpa, and he was having the time of his life with one of his grandsons. The kid bubbled over with fun and appeared | quite chummy with the old gentleman. | Somehow I feel that the grandpas are the real candy | boys, and the papa’s aren't in it at all. A fellow’s papa is pretty much of the time stern and awesome. If a fellow did anything, and there was company, and ma couldn't spare the time to use the slipper herself, | she'd generally say: “Never you mind, young man, when your pa comes Home! he'll attend to you.” | Now pa probably didn’t realize how far this sort of thing shut him out of the tender places in his son’s heart. Pa came to be associated in son’s mind with punishment and correction j But it was different with grandpa time there was to play with the kids. And my, how he liked | to do it! No whippings, no threats from grandpa. . Instead,| ready sympathy and the chuckle of comradeship every minute) of the day. | A grand old man was our grandpa. I spent the evening at my atiekiorti house Grandpa had all the| Wasn't yours? | HOW THEY RUSSIA O"B1e Bho, 166 eSribs ON LAND AND WATER 1,845,000 MEN (HIGHBROW SCIENTISTS GET INTO peo { Hin Then he sm Are They Going Out? | “It is well to make the most of) COMPARE your blondes during the brief space of time they will yet be| vouchsafed to humanity,” he said, | | beaming at Wiegehts, as the latter | borrowed a spoon from the chair- | | man, “A brief space! For al- | | ready —according to M. Chancel- | blondes are going out and bru- nettes coming in, owing to the ‘in- | tense intensity’ of Hfe In iiss days of strife and struggle and} \ sham.” | “Ah, but you are not right.” in Antipodes Wiegehts, scraping | up the last bit of apple sauce. | “The blondes are decidedly in the! majority throughout the world, The most perfect blondes are to be found, like every other kind of per fection—such as yourself, my dear) Leburre—in France; for in Ger-| many they are too fat, and in Eng land too lean, | “Now and then, however, they are to be found, in a ke form, in Italy and And the Spanish | put AUSTRIA 810,000 MEN SERVIA 195,090 MEN | | Spain. blonde is no Invention of mod- ern times. And does not Cer- vantes dwell with rapture on the long, fair tresses of. the damsel disguised as a peasant, 0 long that they reached to her feet, so fair that Apollo himself might have envied | the “Beautiful, Antipodes, most beau | tiful Yet it gets you nowhere,” re-| \joined the short and rotund Le- | burre, chuckling, “for the blonde | is surely going. | “The Ethiopians, who once were | only brown, are degenerating into | black. The copper-colored Mon | golian ts passing day by day from copper to bronze. “The fair are turning dark, the} dark are becoming black; and thus | within a given time all mankind SERVIA NO SHIPS And now I suggest we adjourn, un til tomorrow, for it is high time we | were at our Work again of seeking the striking exsmples of the two types in Seattle.” . . “T find I have forgotten a tooth pick,” remarked Antipodes Wiegehts, a short distance from the cafeteria, “I note that you, Leburre, have two. May I request | one Note—The 8 M. A. R. C., yes: terday in their study of the most striking Seattle beauties of both types, discovered the young lady whose photograph appears in The Star today, She is an admirable argument against Herr Schnitzel burgher's contention that blondes are the prevailing type, for she is a brunette, Her name is Julie Dey, and she lives at 7844 40th 8. W. She is 16 years old Watch for the next discussion by the commission, and another | photo, HEAD OF BR'DE SPLIT WITH AX SANTA MONICA, Cal., July 23, —Her head split by an ax, which lay by her side, the body of Mra. Julia’ Marino, 35, a bride of a month, was found early today on the estate of King C. Gillet, mil- ional manufacturer. The police are searching for her husband, Francisco Marino, Gillett’s| head gardner. A negro, giving the name of J. W. Ball, was detained by the po- investigation of he lice, pending an the woman's di According to rino another were seen with Ball late yesterday. 1Emma Bremer Victim of a Strange Fate; Heart- Broken Over a Love Af- } fair, She Threatens to End Her Life and Lands in | Insane Ward. Emma Bremer, a homeless girl of 21, practically friend= less in this cour and without money, is in Steilacoom q GETS CHANCE: | Soon We'll All Be Blondes, Says One; Another Says We'll All Be Negrogs } inane assium. She was committed July 6 because she wae | a it ae Z ing er a love affair The physicians who examined 9 T Y ht voth agree that she shouldn’t have gone, and said so at ; the time 3 SHE LL p 10 | Today she is in the receiving ward, mingling with other 7% jinmates, many of them insane beyond a doubt | 3ut there was no other course open, no public home te which to send her, where she might rest and be cared for; 9 | no money with which to place her in a private home—no place : aie | but the Steilacoom asylum for the insane : Uren Pings: pase ahh pee { And because of that fact, Emma Bremer will come out ; | haw weske ago; estes aciew bath. jin a few weeks, bearing the taint of the insane asylum. Always f way th Hfe-tedey whale tie’eWobe | she will carry the stigma of having been an inmate of the in- F Ip the home of a friend, free from | emer : the restraint of the law And Emma Bremer is not the only one. Many, of such © Judge Frater late yesterday after | eaves have been known in King county. There are many in © noon released the girl on her own the Steilacoom atylum—locked up with the real insane in- po from a charge of lar. | mates—who have no business there. ; es Suffering from the ravages of the | aor eee ee: 4 lope” habit, which she formed in | Emma Bremer is the victim of adverse circumstances. |a society frolic years ago in Texas, She was born in Eastern Canada, and denied the right of oe ae teas, eK ol an education. She doesn’t remember her parents—doesn’t Jaymptoms of tuberculosis know whether they are living or not. E tO/ philanthropic Seattle women pe-| But she does remember being forced into a marriage ~ cured a trained nurse for her when 15 years old with a man twice her age. Emma Bremer | an a bog goed diilles shudders “when she speaks of her husband. He beat her with | rater wd Pethahaanties:te te a strap. She suffered terrible cruelty at his hands, until fear charge, f atntINg. aa abe. dd of her life overcame herterror for her Ay band, and she Segre oe Lemma a | away. Once he recaptured her anc waished her terrib! re. viacea Bis ican conivine’ relteatl but again she got away, and this time eo placed the width 190n mote than & went, of the continent between her and her master. B At the time she had to be car. j She found employment and a girl friend in Vancouver, ried from the court room by an at |B. C., but always she was haunted by the fear that her hus- piney, Pn ied MESO Pi und would find her, She decided to flee to the States: | : eee ee ps 8 sienna lll era Bo . | When she arrived in Seattle, the happiest and saddest 7 gained the weight she bad lost } chapters of her life opened |while in jail. She declared that | Soon after coming here she was employed by a hotel, and pel nid onal ane onary ner ae while working there she met “Jack.” ty hospital, and that. she wanted to Jack is a clean-minded, ambitious young chap who fell |live « good. seta lit ite. in love with her on the spot re. 3 He asked her to marry him, At first Emma Bremer’s | wot a gon be heart throbbed with a great happiness. Then it was stab- 7 | gently. “Niltcesber'e We are| bed by a sharp pain, as she remémbered the man to whom lall your friends and ate anxious to| | she was yoked in Canada | give pee pnother chanos tn lite. It) | The laws of her church frown upon divorce. The girl ing weak, let some one know and| i Paces Sad ccnke whe hag Ss og Wise tee gare bree mee | She worked seven months at the home of Robert Trindall, |she left the court room. A woman 2) | 814 24th av. N., where she was treated with kindness. friend who stood by her in her| wy | “I know she has always been a good, industrious girl, trgable, walked from the court) jand she is certainly worthy of a helping hand,” says Mrs, | The president of a Seattle business PReto by Rogers | Trindall of her : _ college, who became interested in Miss Julie Anning Dey Mrs. R. H. Brinker, 1433 38th ay., for whom she alsa the girl's struggle, has offered her worked, says Emma Bremer was the best girl she ever had, ~~ a year's free tuition. At the end of “Well, gentlemen, shall we con- cafeteria today at their regular) will be reduced to the condition of} devoted to the children and a good worker. ‘ that time she will be fitted for a tinue our researches farther? Are | 20on confernce. negroes, and then the devil alone Zoth declare she ane body. position you not ready to admit the authen-| “I think so,” agreed the agree-| will be painted as a blonde.” er Secret SC Wee ee en ee hectares ticity of my assertion that blondes! able Antipodes Wiegebts, as well Off on Search Again | She was heart-broken, that's all,” declares Mrs, MARKET AFFECTED are a more popular type of beauty i= he could, with his mouth filled "The prospect is not an inviting | Trindall a CHICAGO, July 28.—As soon as than brunettes? with whole-wheat biscuit one,” said the aged chairman, “but | Be ag ee 4 It was announced that Austria had — Herr Schnitzelburgher, chairman |, Certpiny NOT.) exploded | the ld le \ gonsttt pap okt of Emma Bremer decided to go back to Canada, and to of trade here. Wheat jumped 6'ed an inquiring gaze at hix col-|'%%—absolutely nothing.” thatethis prediction may be classed ; sisted on seeing her, and she sobbed out her story to him, cents per bushel. leagues as they sat in the Birdsong) ‘eburre gazed reflectively at a with the dreams that issue through | Argument was useless. He gave ber some money. And hate ent wid a row of ples on the marble counter. | the ivory gates of hades, * *Ithus they parted ‘ The girl was distracted with grief. She scarcely knew | what she was doing as she sought food in a restaurant and | engaged a room for the night. In the evening she went out jand sat on the steps of the rooming house, held her ache | head in her hands, and tried to think. The landlady she had half a notiofi she was “queer.” She says she heard the girl |to commit suicide The landlady rested, and held by say called an officer. Emma Bremer was the county, eee | ® | She was examined by a sanity commission, composed of Dr. C. A. Smith and Dr. Helen Babcock. They said she ~ }was suffering from “acute melancholia.” In all probability — it was of a purely temporary nature. Supt. Calhoun of the ~ Steilacoom asylum says per cent of such cases are cured, What could they do? There was no place to put her until her friends could be reached, because the state will not pay the expenses for such persons, except at the asylum. THERE WAS NOTHING TO DO BUT COMMIT HER TO THE ASYLUM. The physicians shook their heads over the matter. Sue perior Judge A. W. Frater signed the commitment papers reluctantly. “Emma Bremer shouldW have been sent to Steilacoon jsaid Dr. Babcock today. “It would only have been neces sary to hold her until her friends could have been sum- moned. In a week or two, under the proper care, she would have recovered.” Said Dr. Smith: “A bill for an observation hospital was proposed at the last session of the legislature, but it appears there are too many politicians petitioning the legi jobs, for them to pay any attention to a little thing like that!” You can't get very far with that pathetic Santa Fe Sidney aggregation of junk, Overland Oswald—-Can't 1? Why I've been towed 500 miles already by auto tourists who thought they were helping a feb low bug In distress,