The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 26, 1914, Page 2

YOU SAY, | READER? By Cynthia T found this letter in my mat! this morning. It brings up a very del! > cate convention In the life of the Working girt | My Oear Miss Grey: | am Qreatly distressed bout a __-& Matter so delicate that | can. | ot ask my friends’ advice, so | come to you. i'm a stenographer, and my q only home is a furnished room. ‘The young man with whom | keep company wants to cal! on me, and | don't know what to do. There's no parior, and it’s tee cold mow to go walki eo there's no place to visit except ooo. hat shall | do? If he can't he ome | ind I'll lose him, and that would break my heart. He @oesn’t think it's any harm to come to my room, but I'm a lit: | tle doubtful about it. I want to know what's right, | but | don't want to lose the | man ! love. Will | lose his re- spect if | allow him to cali? STENOGRAPHER. I wish | could sit beside you and/ ‘We could talk it out. Society says we must not admit & man who !s rot a member of our} family to our bedroom. | ‘One of the hardest things for the} girl who works and who has no IN THE HTING =] sz =r —) =) rr PETROGRAD, Dec. 26.-—Re- sisting day and night attacks along the front between the Vistula and Opoczno, Warsaw's Russian defendere were hold. ing their lines against the Ger mans today. The kaiser’s forces have launched assault after assault against them in massed forma- tion, but each time they were be in back, The banke of th eure and Rawa rivers were covered with their corpses, Only at one point, the war office stated, had the Teutone succeeded in crossing the Brura. They were directing their main attack al a spot midw be tween Sochacrew and Skierniewics. The Slavs were not entirely on the defensive. Along the Pilica river they were trying to penetrate) the German front. The fighting in Poland was be lieved here to be approaching a eri Gen. Francois, commander of the German force which recently at tempted an advance on Warsaw from the northward and + beaten back the way it came, wa endeavoring to resume his march to the southward from Mlawa. It | i was conceded that he had map. aged partially to regain the of. fensive. STAR—SATURDAY, DEC. 26, 1914. AT THEATRES NEW YEAR'S PAGE 2. WEEK At the heattes Jor the WEEK | a WHERE CAN SHE ENTERTAIN HI | WHEN HE Visitery home 1s to regulate her social life; go that {t will conform to social) ‘conventions (which always presup-| woman has # home), companionship of the, o my dear, after a num-| years in the great army of; ho work, T want to say! beliere in that old) ition that most men are carnal- going about seeking they may devour. | oung men who visit girls! . for the greater part. are in their intentions as the who receive them. to say right here that) per cent of American young men’s love means marriage. You can make your room look very cozy with a divan covered with a pretty couch cover. As you sign yourself “Steno: Tapher,” you probably can find enough money to buy some art den Am, or even a cheap tapestry cover. for this couch, and you can use it) at night to sleep on. I certainly should invite young men to my room. | You will be no more alone there ; your mother probably was in, the litte country parlor from which) | the whole family took care to ab- Sent therselves when “sis’ beau’) Came to “sit up” with sis. If you should lose your lover's re-| L ENGLAND y FORCE WISHES = ONTO NORWAY?’ CHRISTIANIA, Norway, Dec. 26. —Considerable surprise and some Uneasiness is expresved here at news that Lioyds of London is charging 56 per cent to insure against war between Great Britain and Norway within a year. The rate is low as compared with | the charge for insurance that such countries as Italy, the neutral) Balkan states, Holland, Denmark or even Spain will not be drawn into the war, but the supposition here had previously prevatied that an Anglo-Norwegian clash was 80 near an impenetbility that a frac tion of 1 per cent would be ample to inanre sgainst it The real basis for worry in Nor. way was, of course, England's r~ cent request, which the Christiania government refused, for a Norwe- Bian port as a naval base. | the best way to do this is to get an- other young man. | iN THE spect by so doing, he is a man you would not care to marry, and it will be up to you to immediately forget him. And right here let me tell you, | NEW YEAR'S PRESENT A statue or fancy calander sults them all. Get them at your own price. 709 Fourth Ave. | Every Dollar |) You Spend Might become two dollars in time if you put it at compound interest at the Dexter |] | Horton Trust and Savings Bank. You may think it a long tim-; that depends on from which end of the period you view it; looki backward, ing » the time it takes for |} | a dollar to double it- self does not seem very long. Nothing is more certain, however, than the fact that when your dollar has become two, without any effort on your part, you will harbor no regrets at having saved it. DEXTER MORTON TRUST AND SAVIN BANK AKCOND AND CHERRY jors that dominate Louis N \¢ }a special New Year matinee Fri day. That jolly comedian, Julian Rubell, last seen here in “The Reading From Left to Right (Top): the Empress; George Ariiss, in iow Year's week will have plenty of offerings for Seattie the atre-goers. It will be one of the bysiest weeks of the season. Every | | theatre will have some attraction. And that sort of a week has been rather rare this season. At the Metropolitan “Disraeli” will continue all week to be fol- lowed by David Warfield, in “The Auctioneer.” The Moore will open Thursday night with “September Morn,” a musical comedy, At the ood promised at the vaudeville houses. Sunday matinee, G bills are & METROPOLITAN | _ *X combination of political dipio- macy and love interest are the fact Park-! er’s comedy, “Disraeli,” at the Met-{ ropolitan theatre, which continues! throughout next week. Matinees) will be given on Wednesday, New Year's day and Saturday | In the bands of Mr. Artiss, Dis) raeli readily assumes the diplo-| macy, wit, vigor of mind, masterful! will power and true gentlemanil- nese with which the great states) man of history is credited ee 2 THE MOORE | - | “September Morn,” Rowland and| Clifford's tangoized musical com edy success, fresh from the La Salle Theatre, Chicago, comes to the Moore New Year's eve, Decem- © 31, for five performances, with Prince of Pilsen,” is the principal) of the cast. The company numbers| 50, and the pretty chorus of girls has much to do with “putting over” the tuneful jingles, The dances! are many and have to do with the famous tangoes and hesitation waltz movements. eee — THE PANTAGES "New Year's week brings the Tai Pen troupe of Chinese jugglers, magicians and acrobats to Pan- tages, with the new show opening with the Monday matinee, The act was lately featured with the Ring-| ling circus. For the added feature Manager Pantages will bring on Fred Duprez, whose comedy is known around the world, Another drawing card is promived in H. Guy Woodward and his players, in “The Crisis.” Other numbers will be Raymond Paine and Inez Nesbitt, | former stars of “Miss Nobody From Starland,” and Guadelupe, an equi ibrist . cee ° THE EMPRESS @| Tony Duel and John Makalik cut James Grady, in his well-known character sketch, “At the Toll Gate,” will be the headline attrac tion at the Empress theatre next week, Close on his heels for first honors will be the Ward Sisters, one of whom is known an the “doll girl of vaudeville, the 98-pound doll |no man can lift.’ Grady is a veteran actor who has made quite a reputation in the sketch he brings to the Empress In it he depicts an old man, bent with rheumatism, soured against the world, to whom a little girl ‘omes tripping over the toll bridge | And then—well, that's where the | ng comes in he Ward Sisters offer mystery, dances, an imitation of a mechanic Magna Paxton, in “September Mor n," at the Moore; Ward Sisters. at “Disraeli,” at the Metropolitan. (Bottom): Tal Pen Troupe, at Pantages. Mabel Douglas return with comedy)old standby, Richards & Pringle's songs and dances, Russell's Min-| atrels will offer more fun. Et Ch xylophontat, and Les Casados, Span- ish acrobats, will fill the reat of the} bill. eee j THe SEATTLE—~C~S -—— The merry, merry minstrels are coming to town. GERMAN PRINGE | SCHEDULED TO. RULE HUNGARY’? | THE HAGUE, Deo, 26.—The sug- gestion that Prince Eitel Fred. erick might become a candidate for the throne of Hungary has been| the subject of considerable com ment here since {ts appearance in| the London Morning Post Thurs @ | day Efforts to secure some sort of| confirmation of the assertion made in Petrograd, whence the Post re ceived its dispatch, that the kaiser favored his second son as Hun- ian ruler, had proved unavall- ing up to today. Famous Georgia Minstrels. This company has been coming here so long that the dramatic ed- itor of The Star is at a loss to re member the date of their first ap- pearance. They give a minstrel show, pure and simple—nothing more, nothing lose, It's not a hodgepodge of mu- sical comedy and vaudeville. They appear for one week at the This time it Is not Seattle theatre, beginning Sunday|and to | Seattio the Georgia Minstrels open the white man imitation, but that| matinee, December 27. YOUR COTTON IS - ON OTHER SIDE ROTTERDAM, Dec The Holland-American liner Sommels dyk. arrived today with 13 tons of cotton on board for use in Austrian hospitals. Extra clerks were put to work to expedite the mhiipment’s transfer by parcel post to Vienna and Buda pest. 26 Note—This cotton {s the shipment sent from the United States follow ing publication of the story by Wm G, Shepherd of-the United Prose concerning the shortage of the sup ply for medical use ia the Austrian hospitals. United Raliways announces pen- sion system for employes. ] Y OLD ST. NICK Continued From Page 1 ? ° an, “my boy got a sack, but my lit the girl didn't And she's broken hearted @ the lady « dollar, Tobias, sald Titus. | And Tobias did, Tobias gave away a hatful of dollars before the: afternoon was done Has any one seen my Tommy?” “Tobias,” said Titus, “get a de scription of Tommy and find him for the lady Tobias did Sophie Tucker Is one of the | best. Sophie—we never met her yesterday, but we call headliner at w big and jolly, and she rns her niche in the hall of fame by being the best rag: time singer in the world. eee Sophie said she'd sing for the “little-chimney kids.” She cut her) act at the theatre to do it Frankly, we were worried. Art- ists are temperamental. Kids are) —kida. | “They'll be #0 excited and make #0 much noise you won't be able to |make yourself heard,” we warned. | We thought she would be per fectly furious if her audience didn't live her that respectful and fat | tering attention which is her due) an an artist of world-wide note. | “Leave it to me,” said Sophie, | She mounted the platform. | She grinned and nodded. Then| her big, rollicking volce boomed | out and drowned out the shouts and laughter of happy children, It) is, she informed us, tunefully, a) }long, long way to Tipperary | | We sang the chorus with her— |kids and grownups, big-chimney | and Mttle-chimney. If we couldn't | sing, we whistled And we made Sophie sing again and again °° Will H. Hanna, the county treas- urer, was pressed into service as 4 policeman to keep the kids on the move as they passed the distrib utors, He demonstrated that a police- man can get results without being gruff, The last we saw of him he was holding a sleepy baby and singjng to it @ tuneless but highly soportfic | lullaby eee The Star wants to thank the hundreds of big-chimney folks who) helped us to make the show a suc-| coss—those who gave us money and those who worked. ant to thank the candy deal and Bornstein & Sons, who sold us toys at below cost and threw in hundreds for good measure. We want to thank the Firemen’s band, and Crawford | White, and Jimmie Crehan, the | mayor's secretary | We want to thank the Y. M. C.) |A. a dosen of whose members | worked as distributors. | Expectally do we want to thank the score of men and women who! tolled with me, day after day, all day long, sorting toys, filling candy bags, grading toys, filling the com- pleted sacks, until thelr backs ached, their muscles rebelled and We ers, their faces were haggard with fatigue. eee | To sum up: We gave the “little-chimney kids” yesterday: | 3,800 toys, 1,000 “extra special” toys. 500 A ton and a half of candy. 1,000 fruit cakes, 500 tickets to the Washington the » 2% experts. Prof. Broothroyd lectures at Uni. tarian church Sunday night. Frank C. Dolg buys The Trade Register. Christian church clergy annual parliament opens Y. M. C. A. has big Chrietmas tree Fire destroys home of Albert | Koch, 5563 Holly st Rain puts kibosh on ice skating| in Seattle. | Mies Nellie Waughop gives dinner to 50 poor children at Queen City | sanitarium. Associated Bible students to see “Creation,” Biblical photoplay, Su day. pecial program at Y. W. vesper services Sunday. Liquor petitions favoring adop- tion of amendment No. 18 have 10, | 000 signers. each other with knives following | jargument at Ninth and Spokane ave | Rev. F. O. Lamoreux addresses King County Democratic club at Saturday luncheon Home of Jake Wismolick, 1742 Dawnon at., destroyed by fire, Hebrew Educational and Free Loan association plans series of Sunday lectures | Home of Lewis Barnett, post.| master at Harper, Wash, burns. | Fred De Pasco relieved of pres ents by hold-ups at Ninth and King W. C. Williams, Tacoma, loses jclothes and $11.50 when burglar enters room at St. Paul house 8. Reeves, 3314 20th ave. S., had| pockets picked of $15 on Washing ton at al doll, ete, Lacey Sampson and 8. Gato held up by three men at Railroad ave. and Lander, iio. n occ Lc. HERE and ELSEWHERE ° ry meramreet ce “Arey +9 aaa ra HERE uel ELSEWHERE T ‘ _ ~—~@| rh det . Orthopedic hospital praised by! Chicago boy, in Santa Claus garb, burns to death. Auto hit by train; four Cincinnati residents die, Strip abolished prison, Cal. Superior 1 plant at Pitteburg damaged by fire. Injury sustained playing football results in death of Arthur Jordan. Anacortes high school boy Coroner Thompson of Whatcom at Folsom will refuse to relinquish office abolished under recently passed law. Severe quak registered by Georgetown “U ismograph Thaw spends Christmas with fam- ily in Manchester, N. H Forty killed in avalanche at Val- montone, Italy Bellingham Belgian relief fund reaches $899.70. Forty-six Terre Haute men arrest ed for election frauds, Eleven persons hurt in wreck at Reno. G@ suspends shipping. on Vir nia coas| Seth Geer, son of Judge Geer of Philadelphia, dies in Tecben es De contests elec. nelect BE. J, Hill tion of Connecticut. Oakland man shoots woman after Christmas dinner; ends own life, Two Tonopah linemen killed on pole. California delegation in house will insist on better const defenses. Strong currents in Panama canal caused by mixture of sea and fresh water. Funeral of Col. J. J. Eden set Sunday in Bellingham uh Archbishop J. H. Bienk seri ill in New Orleans, picid North Yakima contributes carioad | of flour to Belgian relief. Striped sults discarded hessee penitentiaries. Los Angeles county employes feed 7,000 poor people C srtimonde liquor license fixed at Duluth-Pacific railroad yards in Duluth wiped out by fire. Plant of Royale Mining Co., Calu met, burns. Aaron Keyser, dies, Elma water found to be fit for drinking purposes, in Ten- Utah capitalist Thomas Co an, powder king, undergoes operation, Trial of ter Charieton in Italy again delayed, Hindu Rheumatism Oil Brings You Instant Relief ‘The most powerful and effective application known — made from herbe which grow only in India, prepared under the personal di- Feotion of the famous Joshi family. Don't suffer from rheumatiam or other aches or pains any longer, ORDERS NOW _ Starting Monday, January 4 Matinees Wednesday and Saturday DAVID WARFIELD In “The Auctioneer” _ Prices $2.00 to 50c. Girl Who Boards Invite Beau to Her Room? ¥ EF IS (METROPOLITAN Tonight and All Next Week Saturday, day, New Ye Q MR.GFORG! RLIsS Liebler Company's Elaborate Production of Louls N. Parker's Comedy “DISRAELI” Evenings, $2.00 to 50¢ Matinees, $1.50 to 50c Matin Wednes. In SEAT SALE THURSDAY PANT Pantages Chinese Jugglers, Ma; Unequaled Vaudeville Means BEGINNING MONDAY MATINEE Famous Ringling Circus Feature THE GREAT TAI PEN TROUPE FRED DUPREZ The International Comedian. OTHER BIG FEATURES AGES Vaudeville gicians and Acrobats. 10c and 20c Seattle Theatre PHONE MAIN 43 ONE WEEK COMMENCING SUNDAY MATINEE DECEMBER 27 Richards & Pringle’s FAMOUS GEORGIA MINSTRELS Evening prices... sesee+-25e, 35¢, SOc, 75¢ Matinees Wednesday, Friday and Saturday........25¢ INNOCENT MAN FATALLY SHOT IN SALOON FIGHT A saloon brawl in Black Dia mond Friday afternoon resulted in the probable fatal shooting of Charles Oientj, an innocent by- stander, and was followed by the arrest of Antone Krall, a miner. Krall ts held at the King county jail pending the outcome of his victim's wounds. Krall, with a number of other drunken men, began quarreling and, after several blows had been struck, Krall left He returned a few moments later, shotgun in hand. As he ap- proached the saloon entrance, Oientj stepped out. Krall shot him. It developed that Olneij was not even in the saloon when the row started. WHEN DID HE WORK? 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