The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 8, 1916, Page 4

Momber of wel Bortpps North West League of Newenapers Entered at Beattie, Wash, 1 My matt, out " of olty, one y From it we pick this trenchant paragraph “Since reading The Star about Chief Lang’s w The * fore fashionable, : his snow to clean Al that the mailman = tain, Consider the how much prettier, if, esents itself, bordered in front by How much nice anse of concrete I hiteness, and giving evidence that the inhabitants of alike by a spirit of completeness in si dewalk-cleani timate Beauty of the Thorofare. your neighbors are doing in theirs. You cannot overcome the combined except by an adamant alliance of all the inte i. feel certain the men of our city will not band unions over such a piffling cause. $0; @ m onthe, 01.90) te ‘Let Your Wife Have Her Way! She Will Anyway | E HAVE received a long and vociferous communication from a person who signs himself arning to get the snow off of the sidewalks, .. insists that I clean off all the snow from the porch to the fence. * I clear a path down the middle of the walk so that the mailman or a neighbor can reach our domicile, | have done enough.’ feminine mind, dear Rebel, shovel in the morning. Not from a mere utilitarian viewpoint, and <there’s a pathway thru the snowbanks, down the middle of the walk, But look at this question from an aesthetic standpoint. community's copious No, friend Rebel, we think you'd better follow your wife’s advice, and clean ALL the snow off ALL the walks in your yard—like 80 per cent of housewives ested themselves STAR—SATURDAY, JAN. 8, THE SEATTLE STAR ‘SPEEDING WITH THE CARR’S| AGENCY | Povttshed Dany r" hy far | pe “Rebel.” my wife I contend that if is a slave to fashion. It is customary, there L the sidewalk when the man of the house gets out It is cuustomary, fashionable, and PROPER! perhaps. It is true, as you main- Mrs. Jones can reach your hospitable veranda if standards of each residence, a broad hillocks of dazzling your avenue are animated ng—or regard for the UI- of elegance of the neighborhood husbandry—and we into protective HER WAY 4660. ONSCRIPTION” is loathe. As if all citizenship were not “conscription.” : Being forced to help work the roads is con- Scription. Being drawn on the jury is conscription. We shall never be the great people we ought to be until we act on the great principle that most " Social duties are and of right ought to be obligatory. They are obligatory in morals, and they must . * be made obligatory by law whenever the public weal will be furthered by “conscription.” a word which all men A MOTHER AND DAUGHTER of Fresno, Cal. two brothers last week. Maybe you can figure their relationship to one another without yelling for ip. Russia are recompensed. She has proved that she controls the oceans. There is no nation whose export trade ' tions for peace. : The issue would by no means be settled, Germans. Mise Grey: Have Jost read|mal in both sexes h column in Jan, ist I|tended with. There Is a certain lily agree with as tone, | percentage of perreote—both men Pf aber evil has been and| and women—that would not, under will be. It is coeval with so-| any circumstances, keep in the nar- Our world ethics are wrong|row path. They simply won't— as much now as when, 1729/| they want to go the gaite—and they 8. C., Tosnor bilked old/will. No persuasion could or can out of his bracelets, staff keep them straight. Happily, this signet. Wh: the old bloke percentage discovered he wanted to burn y knowingly rec- a man who is gulity of as. the unfortunate and if your correspondents women of the underworld, she but read 38th chapter of Genesis, adds her sanction to the crime of will discover that both Judah it all, Let them put their feet ‘Tosnor were at fault. | down upon the so-called gentlemen Mf the commercial world could |of this class and they can look the anged that young women | fallen one In the face without pene living wages it might | blushing from the knowledge that some extent; but the salle knew the man was a Judah, GASCARETS’ FOR LIVER, BOWELS ~~: |necent gt will have thelr fling at the world.” Now which Is the guiltier? JW. Y. ud Ua steals the character of an in- ent girl—the women say—“Oh, A—The address is 2 Fast dist st., New York. calomel, 5 ils Act: 00!’ a5 number ef young. pedpie bowels like pepper acts in | aij of age and al! good friends, living nostrils. about 20 miles from here, have been |thinking of coming over to the thea- Don’t stay bilious, ltre some evening and returning home by the regular boat after the show. Do you think It necessary to have a chaperone for two or more [couples or even for one couple? HAPPY. A.—It 1s customary for a crowd of young people going any distance to be accompanied by one or several chaperones, However, if the mem bers of the party are all of age and joy life! sick, headachy and constipated, cs * Get 2 10-cent box now. Most old people must give to the 4 # some regular help, else they | suffer from constipation. The con- FP) dition is perfectly natural. It is “Just as natural as‘it {s for old peo- S ple to walk slowly. For age is never capable of looking out for them Hgo active as youth. The muscles are golves, a chaperone 1% not abso elastic. And the Lowels are jutely necessary juscles. So all old people need Cascarets,| might as well refuse to ald ‘Weak eyes with glasses as to neglect this gentile aid to weak bowels. ‘The | bowels must be kept active, This is “Smportant at all ages, but never so Touch as at fifty. Q.—My husband has a business in town, and | am with him all day, helping him. 1 have no children, and scarcely any home life at all My husband in very kind to me, and we love each other dearly, but at times | 80 miserable that | feel 0 Age is not a time for harsh’ life is not worth while. Sometimes ) physics, Youth may occasionally | arm very happy, and then, again, a whip th wels into activity. But 1 long so much for the things other Dm lash can't be weed every day > What the bowels of the old need is & gentle and natural tonic. One | that can be constantly used without pharm. The only such tonic ts Cas 9 , and they cost only 10 cents peer box at any drug store. They jork while you sleep. women have, a home and children and pretty clothes. I'ye never had any money of my oWn since I've been married, and as I've always worked and earned money before my marriage, it seems hard now to do without, and I'd rather do with. ‘out than ask for it. FAMILIAR FORM OF CONSCRIPTION CULTURE AS A VULTURE ONDON TIMES declares that no German ship will be allowed on the ocean until Belgium, France and Add recompense for Britain and you have the situation in a nutshell. endous internal upheaval, Great Britain cannot lose, unless all the navies of Europe unite against can subsist thru transportation by land alone, mal times, and England can dictate the trade relations with Germany to every nation having a sea- port. When the German tradesmen and manufacturers realize Meanwhile, the more Germany sacrifices, thus causing others to sacrifice, the harder with all the Balkans and E ‘CYNTHIA GREY’S LETTERS AND ANSWERS to be con-| HE and the “V typewriter. Very often we strike the wrong key. This morning we started to write something about “Culture vs. Education” and we typed at the top of a perfectly good page of paper: “Vulture Education.” Which isn’t three-quarters bad. Culture is the vulture that hovers over the field of education in this country and makes its prey of many who lack good common sense Guess we won't write that other editorial are side-by-side on our } all. UNDER AN old treaty with the Chippewas, north- ern Wisconsin is likely to be declared “dry.” Cold day for old Demon Rum when even the Indians begin to soak him. Barring some unforeseen | ; | even in nor- this, we shall have substantial proposi- pt in the hands of the | My husband doesn’t seem to un. derstand my longing for a home and children. Do | think too much of these things, or should | just try to forget it all? Please give some of your kind advice to A LONELY WIFE. | men of that community, so gradually! one could see the lines hardening about the features of these girls, until one evening they accepted the “dare” to go across the street and have a dance. With the ice of timidity thus broken, and with no. A.—Would it be possible for you | bedy to ci girls gradually! to “forget it all,” even tho you| “let loose, Ing goes, un-| should try, when a home and chil-| til one fine day they “yumped their! dren {s a woman's natural calling?| yobs" and accepted a position in It will be difficult now, perhaps | the dance hati, impossible, to make your husband| Wagee had nothing whatever to understand, since you are apparent ly so well settled tn the harness of this one-sided partnership. It ts for this reason that I always advise do with these girls going astray The double standard idea that has been Inoculated into the minds of young men by the restricted vice young Ike, or any one ¢ district, which the party signing riage, to be frank himself as “Eva,” endorses, is alone to have a definite responsible for the sale of women's of finances above virtue. The moral standard of wom. It is a well known |en can be gauged by the moral arge percentage of dl-| standards of men, for their business vorces are cause from wrangles|in life seems to be in trying to over mo matters. You are entirely wrong when you go without money rather than ask please the men—this is their stock in trade. | don’t blame a woman for upholding the restricted vice for it. It is true that you should | district, but the man that will do It |not have to ask for what {8 by|ought to be ostracised from the! rights yours; but if you can't get {t| public light—he is a viclous crim ft {8 not only your | inal, A. BEEN THERE. | duty to ask for It, but to demand it if necessary. T thing can do now is to have a quiet talk! any other wa you| Weatherman Salisburv’s dope for with your husband and endeavor to | Decemt nows hi nper make him understand the situation |tuce for that moach was 56, from your viewpoint 8, and lowert 24, on Doc, 30 Dear Cynthia: | have just about | come to the conclusion that + tremes is sin—is the only sin. | wish to e issue with Ella | Stone regarding the social alles lem; the restricted vice district, so| called. In concluding her article, she asks what is the remedy? Con tinuing ehe said: “Institute a sys tem that will give girls engaged in productive work, wages that they can live upon.” The writer waa in the Klondyke in early days, and remembers two young women who came in from IN A FEW I First Dose of “Pape’s Cold Compound” Relieves All | Grippe Misery | Don't stay stuffed-up! decent gurroundings in Eastern) Wt blowing and snuffling! A Canada to wait table in a local “ose of “Pape's Cold Compound restaurant at $150 per month and 1 every two hours until thr found. Just across the street, was are taken will a large dance hall, running wide| Misery and break up a | open The female vultures of that either in the head, chest, body or place, dressed in the height of fasiy an res ee gs P | ion, and bedecked with expensive |). i1./\n pre Pei ae ho up| Jewelry, ate where these two girle|nesty discharge or nose running: | served, and were accompanied by|ralinvon wick headache, alullnecs, | men of all stations In life, These | teverishnoss, sore throat, sneezing, | calcimined clothes-horses would |gorenens and otittnens | often count up their day's receipts Pape's Cold Compound” is the| in language audible to these sweet, | quickest, surest relief known and} innocent waitresses, showing earn: | costs on! ents at drug stores. | ing powers of from $150 to $240 per | it acts without assistance, tast day. nice, and causes no inconvenience. Innocence had no charm for the| Don't accept a substitute CRIM CHIN’ |Everett Boy Wins | guides, 1916. PAGE 4, ‘EM OVER AT THE PEARL , JUST SEF WHAT A GROUCK ‘YouR PA 1S! HE SMARLS AT NO, 2—LOOKIN’ THERE'S THAT Lookit tH MEW SALES MAH) BODY LINES - WITH TH ISNT SHE A | EYEBROW BEAUTY! Your. Prete, THE . || WIFE CAM THAT PLEASANT oun Boy tH SHOP IN VT Xouna MAN YouR DAUGHTER} someTHinG CAN DRIVE TO SCAND Lous! SCHOOL. OF Course, JUST LET HE Ve HE eRUM YOU 5 WONT Buy HE WE LOOKS AS WAPPY AS A CRUTCH! HA! Cs aS A(SET. 1 \eeor’ THAY es {TED LOOKIN’ OU'T|AN HE wort MINE HUNDRE eH WINDER. aks on UM nC Dollar for Essay Nelson; Perry M. Carter, an Everett Cir clelte, is the winner of the dollar offered for the best letter telling why the name of Mt. Ratnter should should not be changed. Here it is ‘This is the third and last of the series written by Edwin Nason, captain of the Junior game wardens of King county, for Uncle Jack This week Edwin's theme ts “Hous ing the Birds. All Circleites and ® | readers of The Star will do well to read this and follow | e ? SHOULD THE NAME OF MT. RAINIER BE CHANGED? By Perry Carter HOUSING THE BIRDS I By Edwin Nelson To bulld houses for the birds, to ad Personally do not think the name of our glorious mountain|® should be changed any more than| should the names of Seattle or Ta coma. On the maps, in the railroad time tables, modern geog: raphies, in fact almost everywhere it In known by the name of Rainier. However, Tacoma being of minute | size, needs must have something to chew the rag over, so the “boost ers” of that city bring thin discus. sion up. The Star, an befits a met-| ropolitan daily, magnanimourly came forth and told the people of Seattle to let the Tacomans have thelr way. The tone of the editor- fal which appeared on the first page of The § indicated the peace- maker, trying to nettle a dinpute between small children However, {f the name of the mountain MUST be changed, let it be renamed Mt. Washington, fn honor of the first president of this nation and in honor of this glorious state LETTERS TO UNCLE JACK FROM BARSTOW GIRLS Dear Uncle Jack: We received A HOME FOR MARTINS many congratulations over the pic-| house them sufficiently so that the tures, and every one thought they| will not be affected by the cold | were very good, expecially for a| weather, is something that every newspaper picture. boy and girl could do in the after: | CLARA BARSTOY n after school or a few hours ° oe Saturday, and it is work that Dear Uncle Jack I think it's a ll give them something to do and dandy contest this week at the same time afford a lot of ANNA BARSTOW. | pleasure. 1 CAN'T TELL WHAT STREET COMES Nexy—// IT'S SO DARK OUTSIDE AND THE CONDUCTOR ISN'T CALLING THEM, ‘@/in proportionate |Last Bird Story From Pen of Edwin Read It, He Is Worth While }t»ere 11 be an appeal to the supe- ! One ¢ { the following illustrations |will give you an idea of how to bulld a bluebird’s summer house Use light-weight pine boards; saw them Into pieces 12 inches long and six inches wide, and make these into a box that will be six) inches d Rore a hole 1% Inches | Wide In the front board—this will be the door, and bore smaller holes in the bottom for ventilation. Now cut more pleces of the board size to make a slanting roof, and also the floor. | Nail a cleat beneath the door for the birds to perch on, and the home | ts complete. Martins will appreciate a home | ke this, as they live in colonies and Iike plenty of room: Secure a keg or small barrel about a foot jand a half in height and a foot in diameter. In this partition off four rooms Place a pole vertically thru the jcenter of the keg so that it will jextend six inches from the top. | From this build the sloping roof— shingles cut into triangular shapes will do—and nail them securely to the top of the pole and the edge of jthe keg. As the top of the keg is | open J] ventilation. Be sure to cut holes in the keg so that each room will have Its door | The pole on which perched should be about 15 feet jhigh, and the farther away it is |from the trees the better the mar. se will like ft BLUEBIRD'S SUMMER HOUSE |Write Snow Story; First Prize to Be One Dollar in Cash The snow ts nearly over, nothing remains but slush, but the children remember what fun they had play }ing in the snow before the thaw Some coasted and some snow balled one ther. But whatever you did, Un Jack is sure you had lots and lots of fun | For next week's contest, Uncle Jack wants you to tell him just] what you did, and if you had a The prize for the best letter will be one dollar Write your name and address on the back of your Stories must be within 200 Friday story words. afternoon at The contest ends | | | | i deai of fun doing it | 8 o'clock. CHIRPS ABOUT BIRD HOUSES e ° Make the bird house comfortable | by scattering straw sior on the floor dust or excel | | _ Keep the birds supplied with food | Suet, bread crumbs, berries and | shelled nuts are good bird diet | Never paint the bird house, Birds | | | keep away from paint Make the door of the wren house one inch in diameter requires a door a bluebird an inch and a halt wide | Place drinking tronghs—pails or pans will do—near the bird house WATCH THE CAT! } Cut this out and keep it, It may jeome in band Birds like to roost after long this will allow for plenty of) the keg ts| [nnn PAGE LAST COLUMN, ee ee ? THE COST OF ACOLD Patrick O'Firien, mill Famil wie ouaire ph at Consulting » One Train One Prescr ayer Judge. don't pass Congressman Humphrey made a speech in congress the oth er y. putting the ekide on all hope of prosperity. Hip, hip for | Will, Let's send him this coupon. |Clip, boys, clip, and send It to Will. Knockers, chance up this sEND vv TO WILL Will FE. Humphrey, c o. MORE ON HEAT We note by the peppers that some jof the city dads are gonna get the public service commission to make | Superintendent Kempster put heat lin his cars. Fine! Along about |ne xt July the case'll be heard. Then rior court. Then another appeal to the supreme court, and by the time it's all over, some of us may still be jliving. me others of us, on the lother hand, will find it plenty hot enough, anyhow ° lt Tt was on one of the Alki cars, and Zum Washburn was a little | late. The car crept along like a | snail. Zum called the conductor | |, over and said | € | this? | “Sure,” came the reply; “but | Ihave to stay with the car." | PR ee Os flights. Make a perch outside the door of the bird house. n't you go any faster than ! OF APPRECIATION —— — i | Dear Uncle Jack: 1 enjoy read ing the Circle and wish to join. | Will you please send me a mem« bership card lam 11 years of age, and in the sixth grade. I think that the a jcles on birds, by Edwin Nelson, splendid. HERMAN EVENSON, st Stanwood, Wash. Dear Herman: You do not need a membership card to join the Cire* cle. Your first contribution makes | you a Circleite. Leona Chase, 6740 h ave. N, |W.; Frank House, 9 Russell lave.; Anna Barstow, 4 10th ave.; |Harriet Baughman, Kenyon jave.; Muriel Smart, Auburn; Clara Barstow, 1524 10th ave.; Robert J. Boryer, jr., 26th ave.; Margaret | Taylor, 6004 Sixth ave. N. W 1 Glass of Hot Water Before Breakfast | ‘| @ Splendid Habit | Open sluices of the eystem each | morning and wash away the poisonous, stagnant matter. ‘Those of us who are accustomed to feel dull and heavy when we arise; splitting headache, stuffy from a cold, foul tongue, nasty | breath, acid stomach, lame back, can, instead, both look and feel as fresh as a daisy always by washing the poisons and toxins from the body with phosphated hot water each morning. We should drink fast, a glass of real bot water with @ teaspoonful of limestone phos- phate in it to flush from the stom- ach, liver, kidneys and ten yards of bowels the previous day's indi. | Seatible waste, sour bile and pot. sonous toxins; thus cleansing, | sweeten'ng and purifying the entire alimentary tract before putting more food into the stomach before break- | The action of lMmestone phos- phate and hot water on an empty stomach is wonderfully invigorat- |ing. It cleans out all the sour fer. mentations, gases, Waste and acid- ity and gives one a splendid appe- jtite for breakfast and it is said to be but a little while until the roses begin to appear in the cheeks. A quarter pound of limestone phos- phate will cost very little at the | drug store, but is sufficient to make Janyone who is bothered with Dil- Nousness constipation, stomach troub or rheumatism a real en- tht st on the subject of internal sanitation, Try it and you are as- sured that you will look better and [feel better in every way shortly, ‘