The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 3, 1914, Page 4

rs NORTHWEST LEAGUB oF wawirarnns| the United Press Assoct toffice as & atx mos, $1.80; year $8.26 onth, | A Census of Pronouns OME day, are wondering what to do, stand in a public place with a pad and pencil and take note} when you ‘of what the folks who. pass are talking about, as revealed ) tm snatches of their conversation, If you object to being | Pan eaves-dropper charge this up to social curiosity It} won't do any and _ teresting. _ We suggest that you try the test on a hundred young pmen, a hundred elderly men, a hundred young women and ye hundred women past middle age. That'll give a basis for percentages. To simplify the task still further, confine your notes to the “Stee you'll overhear whether the talk is about a be, “he, “she” or an “it.” I you want to heighten the interest, you can make an “estimate in advance of the pronoun that each hundred will "use most and then see how shrewd a guesser you are, We've this a number of times, in different cities, and found pretty striking law of regularity. But it wouldn't be fair to Bre om figures—if the idea interests you work it out for 1 Then, if you want to report the percentages to us for comparison, all the better. At least it will fill in an idle hour harm the chances are it will prove in-| Woman Soon to Be a Mother WOMAN passed. She was socn to be a mother. The doctor had said she should take walks in the bracing air was obeying in the interest of her unborn child. * As she passed, some women looked at her pityingly and smiled—a smile of disdain. Tt was an ordeal for her just to be seen the child nerved her. | Two men went by. When they had passed, one smirked id winked, as if the sight were in some way humorous Nobody paid deference to approaching motherhood. And} the task for which she was Preparing is the greatest, the ost important, the most hazardous task that one can perform. | man hero on a field of battle ever did anything half as Only her duty | _ YET HAD A FAMOUS SOLDIER PASSED, HOW) $ WOULD HAVE CHEERED! | The woman, however, did not want cheers. She did not anything but just to be allowed to go her way, if unnoticed, then at least noticed not unkindly. There are countries where, as an expectant mother passes, | men give right of way and in courteous tribute lift their Ts there any reason why we should make the ordeal of erhood harder than nature herself makes it? Underlying Cause OR WILSON is a student sociology and as such he knows, or ought to know, that there is some im \ of o THE WAY IT USED TO STAR—MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1914. PAGE 4. WE HAVE No WILL To KILL, BUT To Serve AND LOVE OUR BRETHREN” THE SEATTLE STAR’S LAUGH DEPARTMENT|A PBUSE One MOMENT MARK Antour’ T WAKO HAVE A WORD HiT THEE! Officer of Instruction—N madam, do you think your indies are sufficiently trained to re- spond when I give the command to “Dress Ranks!"? Captain of the Amazon Guards ‘Oh, dear, yes. They're all good dressers. HER SEASON'S STRING AND THE WAY IT IS TO BE server and nearly drowns. in war, says from Ireland. attend Western Federation of Im- provement club convention at Ta- coma Aug. 5. $25,000,000 in year. plenic at Atlantic park Aug. 8, money for land grabbed by govern- GENERATION ago, in most of the countries of Europe, the blare of the war trumpet would have found every worker responsive. At the signal of the king or at the pull of the privileged behind the throne, he would have answered the call to the colors, dumbly assuming the bloody burden and fighting, even dying, in a quarrel in which he had neither voice nor hope of gain. But now a new note resounds. It is the tramp of thou yy in crganized protest, marching to hymns of brother “You shall not press upon the brow of labor ¢his crown of thorns,” a working host is shouting to the despot kings. Unarmed save by the justice of their protest, wholly or in large part disfranchised, they nevertheless gain strength as a tide that is rising; and already the butchers of men are wondering if they can meet the issue. For the moment, perhaps they can meet it and get away with it But not for long. HERE” *“AND ELSEWHERE Gen. Obregon notifies Carbajai ihe ee advance on Mexican cap- tal U. 8. ships 60 tons of gold cel post. Pays itself $ postage. Aerial tram car falls in Califor nia. One killed; one injured, Military stables at West Point burn; loss, $50,000; 118 horses stampede. Meeting of International soolal- ist congress to consider anti-war strike, postponed indefinitely. President Grant, Hamburg-Amer Uner, recalled to New York from mid-ocean. Dutch take up study of eugenica Cohan’s Grand opera house in Chicago robbed of $6,100 by two gentlemen auto bandits, State has’ $4,716,429.83 on hand Members w. °. W. dance on scow, Police can’t find out who shot Harry Chapman, Max Everett siips out of ilfe pre- par Ulster troops will help England J. G. Johnston, here Thirty-five Seattle delegates will Land values in Seattle rise United Commercial Travelers get Chickasaw Indiane_ will | | at the bottom of such outbreaks as have occurred at ence, in West Virginia; at Wheatland, in Colorado, and at Butte, or Pittsburg, to bring the matter closer to that can’t be covered up by a pile of dead | or forgotten in a hail of bullets. » It is that something, the one most deadly of our social} S, that presents a question to the president and to every aking man of the day that cannot be dodged—the question it Thomas Paine voiced over a century ago in “The Rights Man,” the question that has been answered time and again ty conscientious political economists, and yet for all that the, tion that still remains. ment. Bishop O’Dea postpones visit to pope on account of war. cerseet county school poputation Is G@ H. Emerson, Hoquiam, plo- neer lumberman, dies at Provi- dence hospital. Assassinator of Jean Jaures, French socialist leader, is insane, White Wolf, Chinese bendit lead er, once reported Mistaken for % y wurst filled- with arsenic. May die. They Never Go Ory has a legend connected with it,” Niece of Frederick D. Countiss, It is the question of poverty = “Something is rotten in Denmark,” says Hamlet. Hold nose! Something is rotten right here at home, and is rotten is the system that permits child-labor, wage- bry, and consequent misery to be the lot of the greater} Wells, Pennsylvania. Cistern, Texas. “Well, do By What, None? At tell quaint old ham sandwich.” proached Douglas Jerrold, was looking on, and sald: she remarked, when he paused. this me about Deduction. an evening party a very who “Who were all those other peo- ple in that group picture you sent me from the seashore?” “Those? Ob, those were the fellows I became engaged to.” back like a coward he will do it to my face like a man, and not wealthy Chicago broker, weds butcher bey. Liner Lurline strikes reef off | Li Honolulu, Little damage. . is the Fire from lightning destroys 80-| thicker and # appearance.” acre wh field in Idaho. For either the faded blonde's skin po one siti Coyot in Idaho develop rabies. | or the brunette’s olly or sallow com- of the human race, which, according to scripture, is cast NO. NOYES, % elderly lady was dancing with & my back. I hope that the next Mal potitical pariias warking to |Plexion the best remedy ie ordinary n the image of God. IRON WORKS young partner. A stranger ap time he abuses me behind my keep Italy out of war. mercolized wax. Used ery night this will give ona entirely new complexion within about a week Thirteen Coast artillery com en “~ nee e Sign in Youngstown, Ohio. eee time The wax Seenly Peels off the worn-out surface skin, with all its defects, a little each foe hele gg affecting the delicate rs! in the least. ‘The latter will hare the iy beauti = sew ot eh 4, bne may ly lose Bt) or rom her age, so far as ep- by_a course of this The wax, securable is Scan like cold | pantes in three-week encampment in Chimacum valley. | New York banks to issue $100,- 000,000 additional currency, !f nec- essary, for crop moving. Irish suffragettes active despite | war. Priest dies at Aberdeen, | $8,000 estate. “Pray, sir, can you tell me who is the young gentleman dancing with that elderly lady?” go skulking into the thicket to assail a gentleman who isn’t pres- ent to defend himself.” oe ow Do They Figure It? ISS LUCY R. CASE offered to file additional names for the “Seven Sisters,” and Secretary of State Howell re-| d to accept them. There was no provision in the law, he devlared, for re- ing supplementary petitions. | ' At the same time, Howell is receiving from the Sims the names of signers who desire to withdraw their sig- Interesting Relic A tourist at one of the many old fnne had ordered tea and a “One of the Humane society, 1 sandwich. The walter was bor- should judge,” replied Jerrold. ing her with his tiresome de. OR Ao scription of the historic connec Unfair Indeed. tions of ench piece of furniture, This is from Australia: “Gen- and the legends surrounding tlemen, a member of this house every article in the house. has taken advantage of my ab- “So everything in the house sence to tweak my nose behind Their Occupations, The telephone girl follows a calling. The horse dealer a trade. The seaman a craft. ¢ The detective a pursuit The postman a walk of life. Leaves SPINNING’S AFTER-INVENTORY SALE 3. The law makes no provision for withdrawals, either. | Offers You Short Prices on Long Stocks But, of course, that’s a horse of another color, says E «/AUSTRIA CALLS ‘WE MAY HAVE NAVAL FIGHT ‘(MAYBE CHIEF _ .|]] 35 8-0z. Can Matchless Liquid Gloss beg pardon, we mean Secretary Howell | OFF TROOPS. SAN DIEGO, Aug. 3~ A superior smile producer for pianos, furnfture, fl Reports by wireless that the German pro-| WOW’ T RISK IT! oils. You | tected cruisers Nurnberg and Leipste and the British sloop of war) NISH, Servia, “Aug. 3.—Paling| mobiles, etc, Used same as liquid venoer and cedar polish. You | Algerine had met north of Magdalena bay, off the west const of Lower into insignificance in the general get just twice as much Matchless Gloss. $1.25 No. 708 Atkins Ratchet | Will Chief of Police Griffiths go California, are expected today, |to Europe to study police methods, wepaperhead.|uropean war, the struggle be- The Algerine crroseing the tween Austria and Servia ‘is prac- THIS IS the last week for f filing, and no one see: to care a rap. ‘war—well, take It from the politicians, war is what Sherman said | ‘was. Brace 66¢ reported as having sailed from Mazatlan for San/as he intended a few days ago? If you ever expect to need Diego several day# ago. The German ships are known to be cruising) He's on the fence, is the official | ' “CZAR THROWS Army Across Border Line, fine. But there's just as much chance of the czar him a brace, now is the time to get one. | boundary as there is for Will Humphrey to pass up a congressional ‘cally at a standstill. Austria has \. + ty of M word. He is torn by a love of home| : sealed phrey to pi P 9 discontinued her attacks on Servia,| ‘" tbe Vicinity of Magdalena bay |Rnd duty: Also he's sot anxious «| 10c 9x5x3 Tin Bread or Cake and has contentrated her troops at lent it| Semlin, presumably to be prepared for any hostile demonstration on |stop any European bullets. IGNORE TREATY Much indignation is expressed | jhere at the German disregard of | Belgium's and Luxemburg's ne. | trality, The Germans, however, paid | This is a very qu ie $1.25 No. 33 Yale tn Lock THERE ARE 300 residents of the Northwest in Europe. fierce to be rich? BILLBOARDS ARE ROUTED | the part of Russa, The anti-billboard campaign last night received an added impetus OLE HANSON must be the one best bet for senator. Otherwise, | subsidized buzzard weeklies wouldn't be attacking him 0 des-| | Whes: & batch of billboards along the state road in Kirkland wore] perately. You can tell a man by the enemies he makes. lie 1 down and chopped up. Some of the people residing on the road a —_—_—_—— have for some time past kept the stumps and fences free from the| SEATTLE WILL offer prayers to the war, or hasten Its end, | LONDON, Aug. 8—An uncom| ate he and Ludlow? q 61. Oe 28x1!/5 or 15% Cisced: able Butt End inner Tube.. $1.00 & J. or 1% “father, Wonder what they’ H do in Frinide gy Hey aes a by no heed to protests, but pushed Clincher oMng Tube. .91 00 jee London Veronicte, 19. se: the <f their advance with the utmost/ For G, & J. Clincher Tires THE SECRETARY OF STATE may Howell and deny it, but he |r, encsigg ™ : thet < | spears to be more ary of Sims than anything el tect that Emperor Francis Joseph CAILLAUX REPORTED KILLED energy Both are extra heavy, of Austria has been assassinated You can't afford to turn sil si —— LONDON, Aug. 3.—Communtcation with the continent {a so badly these t Cattaré Bombarded interrupted today it is impossible to learn anything further concerning iheneaid Hy nid House atieah vy Muda H 0 U C E N THE SHOE REPAIR MAN LONDON, Aug. 3.—Montenogrin | Sunday's rumor that ex-Finanee Minister Jos, Caillatix. of France, 1415 FOURTH 1 * t—2 Sh 41 troops, mobilize to assist Servia,, whose wife was recently acquitted on a charge of murdering Editor) SPINNING’ bY CASH STORE £16 Union © ope 110 Madison Bare reported to be bombarding Cat-| Gaston Calmette, of the Paris Figaro, had been assassinated by Cal-| 1417 AVE. _[ taro, in Da mette’s 17-year-old som At, SUFFUSED WITH JOY WO SEE YOU AGAIN, MISS DCCPICKLES, NOT BATHING ToDay, eH f° "I THINK JLC SIT HERG AND LOOK PENSIVG. 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