The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 17, 1914, Page 4

STAR.-~THURSDAY, DEC. 17, 1914. PAGE 4. Give Hospital Patients a Merry Christmas—Fire Richardson! The Star does not knowing whether or not the condition de- On another page today, The Star recites a new chapter in the tale of horrors of the King county hospital. ot ichard- scribed exists with the knowledge and approval of Superintendent Waldo Richardson.’ If Richardson doesn’t know what’s going on at the hospital, he ought to. son is the man who must be held responsible. : Several months ago the state board of examiners recommended to the county that Richardson be fired. He was accused of incompetency, among other things. But the doc still holds his job. Why wouldn't it be a fine plan, County Commissioners Hamilton, Knudsen and McKenzie, to tie a can to the doctor as a Christmas present to the county’s helpless wards? DIANA DILLPICKLES HER GRAND OPERA BEAU STAR “WHY MY HUSBAND LEFT ME” (Continued From Page 1.) NO 4646— CENTER OF Row. BAGUE OF Neweraruns) Preee Ascectation Matt | after much pleading and In the theatres, cafes; dances on my part and auto parties, I discoverel a new That day when he kissed me/ life which threatened to engulf the good-bye he looked into my eyes| old. For several months I led this jand said, ‘Be careful, little girl,| dual life, but the old saying that that you don't play with the fire|*murder will out’ is quite a true and get burned.’ I laughed his | one | fears away ‘My husband learned of my de Entered at Seattle, Was! jecond-Cla! “OH, I'VE OFTEN ADMIRED YOUR VOICE AT THe OPGRA, NENOR RAVIOLI. IDARG 1 HOPS You wiLt “MIas DILLPIccoLe, FAVOR ME WITH A e” 1 BE ONLY Too BELECTION HERE ¢ 2 Decicnr,’ onth up to # mow. 6 mom $1.8 if year §3.25.)| rrier.etty 2bc @ month. of efty, She 8 9400, Private ° he} JOIN THE “Empty Stocking club,” and you can dance with t uties from the Pantages theatre. There'll be 1! of them! night CITY LIGHTING plant saves $87,639 on the construction of the aux Wary steam plant at Lake Union, This must be awful ead news for the} municipal ownership knockers. | He's going to see the naughty PRETTY SOFT for Judge Gorton. the show, I. “Bmovie,” and the police aren't going to 4 THE “CHICKEN” bill got It where the chicken usually gets the ax. it with = oes “Speaking of Municipal Ownership | SAV HE Oregon-Washington railroad is not known to be an enthusiastic advocate of municipal ownership. But facts fare iacts. And here is what the O-W. pamphlet, published | for distribution among tourists, says of Seattle, on page 6:) “Since 1890, there have been nine reductions im water Fates. The minimum rate has been reduced from $1.50 to 50 ents per mouth. The meter rate has been reduced from ents to 6 cents a hundred cubic feet, At the highest rate Seharged for water in Seattle, the change amounts to half a Geent a barrel and larger consumers pay about one-quarter of *& cent a barrel & “The water in the lake cc Whe Cascade range. It is free from impurities and is clear, ‘cool, sparkling, requiring no cooling for use, Its Gpurity is its greatest recommendation. It is abundant and MPheap, as set forth, and the water supply of the city is 4 its valuable assets and best advertisements. The supply mes from the snow peaks of artificial one unfailing . “Water consumption the | Gwhere a quality of the character obtainable here ‘cost is to be had, it is worth considering when casting up the advantages of the city.” ‘ AND MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP PLISHED THIS RESULT! ‘ Let the city’s knockers put that in their pipe and smoke it 1, and such low is an ttem in musehol at HAS xACCOM- ip Now to Our Big Uncle FORE the of the water we had, in tonnage, 17 per cent Since the war forced congress to let, down the bars, tonnage has doubled But even so it is only about one-fifteenth as large as the tonnage of Great Britain. We are still at the mercy of for ign ship owners in the transport of what we sell to other nations. * ‘Just now we are selling quite a bit of extra foodstuffs and War supplies to Europe; but it is done at a big hazzard If the kaiser’s navy should break loose and spill Eng and’s navy beans, the hazard would increase and probably we couldn't find ships to handle our trade & ©Since the war, our trade with South Ameri ar zone, has shrunk almost one-half, notwithstanding th Americans need what we have to sell The reason for the shrinkage isn’t a lack of demand, but a lack of ships That is one reason why Wilson has repeated his tip to fongress to put Uncle Sam into the shipping business Private capital asked for a chance to come to the scratch and it has failed There remains no good reason for our big Uncle to delay getting into the game. The Salvation Army Christmas Dinners and Christmas Tce Contributions of Cash, Produce and Clothing URGENTLY NEEDED! war merchant ships that ply salt our the that a, out of LIEUT. COL. C. W. SCOTT Phone: Elliott 3665. 322 Globe Bldg. COLD HENS LAY NO EGGS You can make your hen house warm and free from draughts for less than the price of a dozen eggs by using STEREOTYPE MATRICES They measure 18x22 inches heavy pasteboard. They We have sold hundreds some to sell at 25c Per Hundred THE SEATTLE STAR 1309 Seventh Ave., and are as thick as are tough and durable of them, but still have Near Union St. Virginia St. and Kighth Ay., Senttle. Modern, Kitchen Priy the beat rtesy for ‘Transient, 606 to $1; q oy. weekly, $2.60 to $4. “WHY, FATHER, WHERE ARE You GOING WITH THE LANTERN §” TH’ CALF BAWLIN’ WITH Covic I" NEW ‘DRY’ MEASURE The campaign |tures for Initiative Bill No, 18, the new “prohibition” bill, filed by| j Ferdinand Schmitz of Seattle, will be directed from room 510 Pioneer building The bill was approved at a meet ing of the Washington State Hotel Men's association, Wednesday night judge Hanford, who drew it, ex plained ite purpose. He said the new bill will eliminate the saloon |Just as effectively as the original | prohibition bill The measure, breweries to operate state and allows liquor to guests, the restrictions sumption OF CITY JUSTICES Is Seattle entitled to one or more ustices of the peace? to obtain signa Judge ‘Tall man wants to know. So, on applt cation of ©. E, Calhoun, he {ssued & mandamus order to the county rommissioners to show cause, De cember 24, why another justice should not be appointed CALL WITNESSES IN RAPP HEARING Witnesses were nesday - afternoon | ment efficiency con-| however, permits within the| hotels to serve It also removes upon home examined Wed. by the depart committee on the charges of inefficiency brought by | Councilman Goddard against FL A Rapp, city bridge engineer, Fred ’. Weyant, assistant civil service examiner, testified Rapp passed | with a grade of 80.78 per cent, lead ing other applicants | Own your own nome. It’s ‘easy. Read the offerings in ‘STAR WANT ADS—then choose. | lite « This time, the woman, panied by one of her slick gentle men friends, brought me home in a machine. “Similar invitations followed, and when I hesitated, the woman sug sewted that I didn't have to tell my husband. It was perfectly proper and all right, as she would see that I got home safely. It was selfish and foolish, she said, for my hus. band to expect as pretty and vive cious & woman as me to mope my ‘ in euch @ manner. “So i argued with my conscience that so long as 1 was true to my | accom ceit 1 was terror-stricken at the |thought of separation, and begged | for another chance. But he left me Nor was that all. The court gave him the custody of our children, and he took them home to his peo ple. “Now that I was free, I went to my heart's content, and temporarily forgot the unhappy conclusion of my married life. Two years of the life I thought so wonderful proved empty and de- lusive. ‘The wine cup became ob- |noxious; the cabaret stale; the ‘MOST AN Enjoined Briscoe has stopped giving peo le checks To "Why? | The banks waste any more * let him checks wouldn't blank A Personage Indeed No man is as well Known as he thinks he ts,” says Caruso. “I was motoring on Long Island recently My car broke down, and I entered a farm house to get warm. The farmer and I chatted, and when he asked me my name I told him mod eotly that it was Caruso. At that name be threw up his hands Caruso, he exclaimed, ‘Robin son Caruso, the great. traveler! Little did | expect ever ta see a man like you in this humble kiteb Wrong Ones (at amateur entertain Mamma ment) [1s tying her strings. Willie — (aloud)—Then she's at it, why don't she fix them that show In the back? ee Swat! | A popular society woman an nounced a “white elephant party.”| | Hush, Willie, the violinist| white YTHING. |Svery guest was to bring sor thing that she could not find use for and yet too good to throw away, The party would have been| & great success but for the wnicok-| e4-for development which broke it| up. Eleven of the 19 women brought their husbands—N, Y./ | Globe. | eee A Time Killer “How ts it, Johnnie, have such a dislike for me | Johnnie's sister's caller. “I have) never done anything to deserve {t.”! “Yes, you have,” replied the boy “When you come to see our Cora she always puts the clock back and it makes me late for school in the | morning A Rare Experience Dropped a little at roulette while | was abroad,” remarked the iceman t beat that game,” said the coal Wasn't trying to. I just wanted | to see bow it feels to lose money.” eee Fore! There was a girl who played golf Who was foolish to leave her hat olf She was caught in the rain | Celebration is famous every-| HANFORD EXPLAINS 'TO SETTLE QUESTION | | District And suffered great pain And now has a terrible colf. | eee Compensation Although to be a man of war | In France I don’t aspire, |A soldier doesn't rise at four . And fix the furnace fire cee | For Home Consumption First Guest—There are four wine glasses at each plate, but the VIA | menu doern't mention a word about Southern Pacific Second Guest—All right, my boy that’s the menu you take home to Portland to San Francisco and | your wife! Return Holiday ~~-TO— | vssansn) | OHIO METHOD IN | DENTISTRY Miasing teeth are replaced by | The Ohio Method by artificial teeth that are natural as your original | ; teeth, Examinations are now be-| _ Of the | ing conducted without charge, and opening of the big Exposition | estimates are furnished in all cases six weeks later new glories| we stand Back of Our Work | will be added | for 12 Years’ Guarantee. $25 Set of Teeth Sale Dates Giliranvesd $8 Dee. 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 28, 29, $15 Set of Teeth 30, 31, 1914; Jan. 1, 1915 Seursaned aN $5 Return Limit, Jan. 4, 1915 LEM ry Bean saa $4 * + .|$10 Gold or Porcelain Spend the Holidays in| Budge Work .... $4 Sunny California | gotid Gold Fillings ....$1 Up si Other Fillings 50¢ Southern Pacifi Office hours, 8:30 to 6. Sundays, Cc 9 to 12 “The Exposition Line 1915.”| OH IO Cc. G. CHISHOLM | 720 Second Ave, | 207 UNIVERSITY STREET Phone Elliott 1256, Seattle. Or lifornia Points in Proportion San Francisco’s New Year her ¢ where. On account Freight & Agent CORNER SECOND AVENUE marriage vows, there wasno wrong! false life unbearable, and gradually in indulging !n a little innocent|! freed myself of its fetters. recreation occasionally | “1 realize now that true wifehood “I went, and acted on the advice)/ and motherhood are a woman's na- of my friend by keeping silent.) tural calling. I would give anything My husband surmised that I had|in the world to hold my children discovered my bohemian friend and/in my arms again, but the barrier had dropped her. of the divorce court divides us.” You throw away money to pay more. it is not good pol- ley to le your surplus coin —you may have use for it by and by. $1.25 Pair Boys’ Steel-Wheel, Adjustable Roller Skates. 44¢ Skating is excellent recrea- tion $2.50 24x1% Hartford Single- Tube Bicycle Tire There's many a little lady and gentleman who would ap- preciate a new tire on the bicycle. 6'4x1'q Nickel-Plated Safety Miner's Flashlight, cut to .. vee e eee, SUIS Fiber insulated; 2%-ineh heavy lens, sliding contact. A dandy present. Box 6 Nickel-Plated Nut Picks, cut to ... Oe Always useful. 50c Thin, Aluminum-Handied, Two-Bladed Penknife ....25¢ Three inches long; several different patterns to select from. Nice for the vest pock- *t, for your lady's work bas- or the office “queen's” with each razor; & new sanitary, well-known razor for less than the price of a shave 20-inch Lorain Coaster Brake Bicycle. Cheice of man’s or woman's model Mud Guards $1.50 Double-Bell, Copper-Plated Alarm Clock cess An engagement ring to a young lady of 18 mean: roseate hues, lots of promises and undying devotion. An engagement ring to a matron of 40 means a Good Alarm Clock (set for 6 a. m.), the reguiar job of hustling some ham and eggs into the slothful system pf “hubby”; also getting him off in time to keep his name on the payroll. 1415 Fourth SPINNING’S CASH STORE 3215 “Ave: New Departure Brake and Give Coke One Trial And You Will Never Go Back to Coal OKE is lighter than coal and more easily handled. It is an ideal fuel for the furnace and requires little atten- It is clean, smokeless—no soot and few lt gives intense heat and lasts a long tion. ashes. time. If you are unfamiliar with this superior fuel or require assistance to get the best re- sults, we will be pleased to call and assist you. The price of Oven Coke at the yards is $6.00 per ton, and $5.50 per ton for Bench Coke. ” All Orders for Coke Receive Prompt Attention SEATTLE LIGHTING COMPANY PHONE: MAIN 6767.