The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 1, 1914, Page 1

‘SHOOTS WOMAN AND SELF ON FIRST AVE. | s33¢¢e JOBLESS PRISONERS SING IN COURT wanes] TheSeattleStar [L428 The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News Rectan os Weteereen £08 TIDES AT SEATTLE COPIES DAILY Ue - —— im bow UN THAINS ASD nae 136 tt. Deal " vou UME 16. NO. 240 SEATTLE, WASH., TU “SDAY, D DEC MBER 1, 1914, ONE CENT | NHWH MTANDS, Be 1145 pm, 28 1, 1008 The Editor of The Star Gets a Letter From Old Santa Claus Thigslatter came in the mail today. It's from Santa You and T in the past haye discussed the problem lected in past years. I refer, as you have guessed, to of her own. The bachelor uncle who pursues his lonely Claus of the little chimney. I have always contended that the kids who haven't any mother and father way uncomplaining, but hungers in his heart for a fire- ‘i ¥ 5 7 y 2 7 avin ith, ~ s " ‘ nial alionits laughte: Id NORTH POLE, Nov. 15, 1914 steam-heat and little chimneys are abominations in the My heart goes out, especially, to those institutional ide and the shouts and laughter of children. DITOR THE STAR sight of the Lord, whose birth we seck to celebrate orphans who will go to bed in little iron cots in big Well, I am sure that Joe Schermer, of Dreamland, Dear Sir: Yours of recent date to For how am I, a fat man, to get down the little chim poratotes ee ci bneitas sar nah ea: ws pie Nl dl. excellent uncle. We could have our show 7 neys which are the rule, rather than the exception, now consider, i you please! gong rings, anc ‘4 at Drea: . F hand and .contents noted. In reply would adays, or into the homes of children who ive in tene hop into bed. The gong rings again, and the lights go There are, I do not doubt, hundreds of men and wom- . state that, what with the war in Europe, ae | , y a y s! in Seattle who would be glad to play uncles and ment buildings which have central heating plants? The Ut For orphan asylums must be run by rule en. in. Beattie © : hard times in the United States, and one thing uibply cae’t ‘bevdohe! esha an ht Ns No mother to tuck them into bed. No dad to come aunts to Seattle’s orphaned children. thing and another in other parts of the world, l therefore. tura to you. aitiesfor aid-ané to oiler and kiss them good night and to threaten to spank them The details of this plan, if it meets with your ap- am having the very dickens of a time! suggestion for your approv ‘* re: if they open their eyes—or even peek—-when the clock proval, I leave to you, feeling sure of your sympathy and The market puzzles me this year. It is . di strikes 12. No mother and father to greet them in the active help in any cause which has for its aim the hap- decidedly bearish. Odd, but there is the 0h 7 ge morning with “Merry Christm piness of little children of whom Our Lord has said: fact! Poor as the supply is, it is far ahead of the de Y' )U KNOW, Sir, as well as I do, that, It strikes me, Mr. Editor, that in the orphan asylums ‘Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of mand. next to myself—I say this in all humility we shall find Little Chimney Kids, indeed! these, ye have done it unto Me.” Take Europe for instance, where in the past I have and in no spirit of boasting—next to myself, You have guessed it—a Christmas for orphans Forgive the garrulity of an old man, and believe me always done a roaring trade in toys of the cheaper grades the mother plays the most important part 4 ss acts © ‘ ‘to be always your grateful friend, SANTA CLAUS Nobody wants toys in Europe this year. They all want Christmas-time. And next to mother—dad UT THERE is more than this to my asta es bread.” Think of it—bread for Christmas! Indeed, without the help of mother and plan. What relative comes nearest to HE IDEA is fine! You will agree with me, my dear Mr. Editor, that father, I should never get any work done at all. It is filling the place of the mother whom death Who wants to be an uncle? in this, as in other lines of activity, the best results are mother who tucks the kids in bed, and it is @ad who gets has called? An aunt, my friend. And Who wants to be an aunt? obtained by Scientific Distribution. In these days when the tree or stockings ready what relative most nearly fills the shoes of The letter came late, but we had time be- Efficiency is the watchword of up-to-date business men, lf they have a little chimney, they open the dad? An uncle, to be sure! fore going to press to hunt up Joe Scher- I regret to have to confess that I have failed to attain for me. And, sometimes, if the demand exceeds the You haye seen them in your own ex- mer at Dreamland. efficiency in the distribution of Christmas gifts supply, they go without in order that the children may perience, perhaps—the sort of aunts and “Who?” Me?” said Joe. “Certainly I’m I know of ‘children in your own city who get more not be disappointed uncles I mean. The old-maid aunt who, through lack of an uncle. Uncle Joe! Don’t bother me now. Your than their share of gifts. And I know of other children It occurs to me—and the thought gives me shame! those surface charms which please the masculine fancy, Uncle Joe is going to be awful busy from now finding a who get no toys at all! —that there is one class of children whom I have neg or for some other reason, has never had a mate and babies tree and getting ready for the orphans’ Christma: girt along front. prettiest telephone operator 1A—Campaign lage pend In America, whose picture Ing outcome of Ruseo-German bat. was printed In Monda: tle, Star? GERMANY—Thousands of first oo very good looking, eh? line troops rushed from western : maybe the picture Bone to f jave; East : o1oNt show her at her Prussia officially reported quiet. ' best. But wait till tomorrow. FRANCE and BELGIUM—Heavy a4 “> | The Star is going to publish artillery fighting from Ypres to . n arti ith photograph Germans massing from te ela’ bar pibinn tor tane the sea and active north ba nese gen re png ¢ Twenty-nine members of the|hill two weeks ago because I was NOTE—This ie the first of two etories covering one day's experl- harmed aoe Papen ENGLAND—King George report. | ee “world-owes-me-a-living” fraternity | looking for a job.” ence of an American newspaper man at the front with the Austrian | SOOtGn aM ne rN onan [ed en route home from the front e sat in the bull-pen at police court Leave Workers to Starve? army. The second inetaliment will be published tomorrow. |] you see these pictures. ms y ra} Tuesday, waiting for Judge Gordon.| One man expounded the evils of They sang while they waited: over-production in thi be lene | It tomorrow's Star. : 7 pai er-production in the lumber busi- ss THEY SWAP TOBACCO, Waser die Ge 4 Adolf? aa os 4 Adolt Goad Halletujah, I'm & bam, ness, which, he raid, is purposely By William G. Shepherd ——— = iss |: USES eto: Cucne Gas. Noe jeway. Oscar and Adolf were dea Hallelujah, amen. planbed and carried out. In the dungeon keep, sire. There floated to us on the morn-| Malletujah, give us « hand-out “The empk vork, ; ‘ PARIS, Dec. 1.—French and mee Hovis fi ployers work, © not fom PRZEMYSL, Oct. 29.—(Passed by War Press Bureau.—Mail to New | TAKES LOTS OF LEAD ,?Ar'sor.\ Sa ee ine | Bring them hither, °° ¢ ing sir & doleful eound-—the baying | eee oe ee mgainet the| Product:on, but for profits. . Thay York.)—This is my diary of yesterday, which I spent on the firing line, within a few yards ok paee-aties Oscar and Adolf, have you any pom houn: achshund, to be pre- tenis aes A aay ns overwork us. They must feed their 12 miles from here: BERLIN, Dec. 1.—A “figuring’| er on one section of the front. [thing to say before sentence in| °O Fi ' ¥ jhorses in the closed-down season, 7 o' | 4IN, ? e " itzie The 29 were charged with disor-| ES ee er tae Or oecet: bara the wont oftioer at the front estimates that, By ment, they cease firing [based upon your se ie You are! Oh, boy, call up Sergeant Gregg; derly conduct. Officers’ testified| vetyour houue bei aoiithes! al lor ded 7 c 7 . 5 other, “% ‘American painter; Robert W. Dunn, of the New York | despite the improvements in mod-) at a certain time every day 8 [1 ky Sears We have put |** the dog pound that they entered restaurants, ats,| you had to choose between stealing d et pt f ih water, both usin t pa Se Post, who had just arrived, and myself, We were|¢r warfare and weapons, the fete! wd sing: Ge | ip with your pranks and freakish and did not or sta-ving, which would you do?” _| Welght of ballets required to kill a| same spring. They barter cof- The prisoners made speeches, not| "".. be é bundled into one of the typical springless, basket-| Wclsht of bullets required to WM ore| fee and tobacco at the spring, |Whima, your fads and outhurets “ SCANTILY CLAD Always one ate tee eee ee net) “You know,” sald the court, “tha bodied Galician wagons. [than the weight of the average man| and even brew and drink coffee | temper. and ‘economic. |eating food and not paying for it is 8 a. m.—We are on the main road leading from) pimselt together. You were at one time supposed Why dido’t you tell the restaur. baedtnad that stealing is against the great fortification of Przemys! to the hills, eng to be funny. Now you pall on us ; : : artillery firing is heaviest Your antics and monkeyshines GIRLS ATTACK prima Yon bad no mones “ asked) “Against Nature's Law to Starve bore us “It ‘s against the law of tho land e pl ott | “ ie bik Plat ch oh a gy sev na te| You have taken up much ood Wanted to Be Arrested to sterl,” said a man in rags, “bat : apace on the editorial page, crowd. “I did that onee. Do you know} it 1s inst the law of nature to Mer HaUUY sashes tne ctstiten oe wink 19 oer 2r| ing out true wit and editorial erudi } Two BURGLARS | what it fs to be hungr: starve tion A policeman testified that when) Another said he came West feom P pe ger Races ag 2 had terrae i It now ts the consensus of opin-| six men refused to pay in a Japa-| Wisconsin, where there is more un- fon that yo re not worth the| — hese restaurant, a workingman of-|@mployment than here, and where bi oh ales ine tral. Ore noree space. Thumbs down! | LOS ANGELES, Dec. 1— | fered to settle the bill. are offered $12 a month. gee coy ers hp wondaatel that even the wounded here are a few among us whe | Swinging effective fists, three “But that old fellow—the one “‘Wiy didn't you stay there and love you for your very faults. T) scantily-clad girls drove a pair with the white hair—urged ne a month? That's better keep their eyes on it. are others of us who have for you | workingman to ke thing,” said Vs 0 oO * © have for you » keep his money, thing,” said Van Ruff. ‘The sick men, some with the green faces and| Mrs. Sidney Jennings, waitr As she reached for her watch, | one vee feeling of fondness bern | of masked burglars from the | they curd ta anocpent “I wil! not Scab on another nen’s i Bianchi fired at her, thi hot him. . . loose, open mouthe of cholera victims, hang thelr] at the |. X: & restaurant, First air key atiner, thon ahet him: |® SSSe Use er tatimmte asscete | Plgveres et, nureae’ hore catty ‘The old man indicated was tai,|Job." Sas the answer, heads, half dead | ind ‘Tweedy. werhing from @| . The woman eald. she’ knew: Blan. | UoD today straight and powerfully built, His; The court sentenced them all ¢> See Pig Riding Like a Soldier bullet fired by Angel Bianchi, em- chi only as “Frenchie,” that he had | | 7 will do our duty. thous The young women, after pursuing se wah were cores Rh gebabe apr Pagans yan sald a youth “THam “*: c des 1 7 slowed farm land, huge| ployed in George Hanson's saloon, been eating at the restaurant | We wee the burglars Into the street, rar phe. yl den tcad eee mere!” id bande ot tecnlie are trains has here stafped the wet earth iuto a few doors away, who then turned where she is employed, and had| You 4 eel ome ey phy ab | swagger which betrays the seafur-/have steam heat there Tied talk that thers Wel the weapon upon himself and sent | frequently paid attention to her, | from a fen’ rman (ut ack into the house through al ing mar Another selection rendered dure ¥ are 3 oF pane foe cog thoveasée of sights, we catch a glimpse of |@ bullet into his jaw. She says several days ago he|Ti*ty) Into a cantankerous old cur |drenching rain when a policeman| “Sure, I told him not to pay," he| {ng the song service follows: | udgeon . » sce |said, “Fed today, hungry to eet bye and by >| been tied there to kee; The affray took place in front of asked her to marry him, but she! '! trundied himself into the scene. | ay, gry tomor. & pig, riding on a seat like a soldier. He hae been Pp Mig Baki a Fist, ton, where oabeened hin prepaeel nad teat te And you, Adolf, are a fat-headed row. Why put it off? There is no| 28 that glorious land above the sky, | According to the girls, they were infatuated man shot cher in re Slob , feet tien pic het gs ‘are. | vange. oes re) "You aré no longer true types |awakened by prowlers in their room | Jennings was able to depart after Bianchi, on the other hand, says Nothing you do is funny any more Turning on a ‘ight they were con. 80 why should we not “kill” you? [fronted by two masked men with BALTIMORE MISS RECEIVES HER LETTER jher een sree Se nuer tenn eee ronueetly \neiding We therefore sentence you to be| leveled revolvers. SHOULD GIRL WHO WORKS ACCEPT BALTIMORE, Dec. 1.—Mrs. Philip R. Reese, 1100 Calvert st. The woman said she was going him to her room late at night, giv-|#hot at sunrise! jeizing a blanket, one of the girls the “Helen O. Reese” mentioned in Wm. G. Shepherd's article today |from her. apartment in the Wall-| ing him her photograph and paying, Take them away! sprang for the nearest burglar, and ATTENTIONS OF HER EMPLOYER? | 5 J x and ins work. I was arrested on Capitol il.get ple in the sky whes (Continued on Page 7.) eee from Przemysl, received, last Saturday, the letter Lieut Hoffmann of | first hote! to th restaurant and him other marked Intimate ten. ha h ~ to, sire? oo — to throw the blanket sin : ‘ ‘ fter fo the morg his head the Austrian army showed Shepherd at the front was passing Hanson's saloon when tions. He says he shot only a’ 4 . ee seers | r Mrs "Heese anid she met Lieut. Hoffman while she and her father | stopped by Bianchi, who asked her he became convinced the woman . The man dropoed his gun and}} One Girl Tells Cynthia Gr Grey: “I Believe a Busi- ithe time. had done him a great wrong The echoes of the volley fled, His companion followed bs —} ness Girl Should Be a Good Fellow. | nnn | By Cynthia Grey Dear Miss Grey: I have smiled and raged alternately at the let- ters from the girls who have run up against such terrible things i spin oS HAR ¥ business offices of our city Tom, JusT Look AT Tom, You Just Tew. Just AEAVE IT To (Wear WELL, Do You Some of them seem to have been written by girls whose egotism ZA THis CELLAR FLOODED THE LANDLORD Thar Me, Dit TELL HIM y THINK We'RE GOIN” has run away with thelr common sense. Is it possible that a girl WITH WATER # SOMETHING MUST A FEW THINGS, I'M : dreams for one moment that, because a man is polite to her and : GOING OVER THERE invites her to luncheon that he may possibly continue the business con- RIGH™ NOW 2 2 versation that was begun at the typewriter, he will care for her as @ wy! social companion? I believe that a business girl should be a “good fellow” and accept 4n occasional invitation to luncheon, as would a man in the same position Ever since I have been a typist I have done this, and | want to say that I have never received any undue familiarity from any employ- er that I have had On the contrary, many of them have confided to me their romantic attachments for girls in their own positions in society, and I have sym- pathized with and advised them. Don't be too egotistical, girls. The man who buys your ability 2s a stevographer, or any other office worker, is not always lookin’ tor trouble. PLAIN FACED AND PLAIN SPOKEN It has been my experience in many years of business life that the plain-faced and plain-spoken girl is not so apt to have temptation thrown in her pathway as her prettier and more diplomatic sister, How about it? ¥