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LALIT ALOE EIR I PT LT SI LITT DATE TTT Ae STAR—MONDAY, D. 2 Next Weak Pudiiahed Datiy The Mar ning Ce, ate A Novel A Week ry 2 second-clame matior * Ne per month up te @ mos » PAAR ARADAY CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 | MORE THAN 60,000 COPIES SOLD DAILY ‘They Who Are Blessed fer pe yy Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom = J/toldnt reviewisn. i te baleen! of heaven. aa sere © Cantina, ehakal Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. God save you!” corte a en Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. Serooxe’s nephew. who came upon Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after right- J) {ii ‘wuimecon he bad. or ms wt eousness: for they shall be filled. eeaki” ald Meoodh | hha Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. i, RE Ns PL, rapid walking in the fog and frost Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the Sas RAPRRY 100 Mer Cine’, tee Ba children of God. 5 Metta tsa te el a Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness main : Christm’ a humbug, uncle!” ear neneeneeneee sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. hall etenege? aaciete 7 tal don't mean that, | am eure'” cA Mattt. v, 3-10. "I do.” said Scrooge = “Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? What reason have} eeemtannainantigih \-— you to be be merry? You're poor| | ‘High Cost of Cold: "come | Hig ‘ost o ‘olds Come, then returned the} aan) ee tak holid t ‘ uephew, gayly. “What right have| oS not reduce your holiday ¢ nses by « g out the you to be dismal? What-reason . h. ¢. of your annual cold have » » be morose? You're} . . e . ich enough ‘ If you are a person of normal health, you probably man tsi aorcnaa’” avin: ae belteeAael # age to keep well up to Christmas, and then you succumb to a swer ready on the spur of the mo Teold in the head, or to the grip, or bronchitis, or tonsilitis, or ment, natd Bah! “angain and fol-| *i } lowed it up wit umbee.” B= influenza. ze Don't be cross, uncle!” sald the ‘ And you do not work very well for a few days while you | nephew are coming down with your cold; then you stay away from | “What else can 1 be,” returned! work a few days more; then you work badly while that mean T'S NEVER TOO LATE TO DO the ;. le. ; when I live in week al “4 . _* world fools hin? Heeling lasts; and then there is the doctor’s bill and the drug, YOUR CHRISTMAS SWAPPING. world of on upon paca . ss : } » store expenses MODERN NURSERY RHYME hr istinas What's Christrnas| } Common colds have been estimated to cost the popula-|rittie Jack Horner sat in a coner “Me to you but a time for paying P {tion of certain states $3,000,000 a vear, Really, considering| Eating a Christmas ple mankie seutaaie oriase atte He P the advanced prices of medicine, and the wages lost, only the|He put tn his thumb and pulled oe cue rtohor: a time for bel = out i food labe | well-to-do can afford to catch cold wei RN ancing your books and ly i But in this matter the poorest can become philanthropists.) pe optimistic in all things, *YC"? erate wee a ven Whoever manages to get thru the winter without his annual) When a dish ts broken don't Bet) ’iite you? If I could work my Sneezing or coughing spell is conferring a benefit on the|peeved. Just say kind of sweet) vi» eaid Sercoge, indignantly “whole community. pol ., Well, there's one less t0).very idiot who goes about with ; There are two ways of cutting the high cost of colds for oe» | reset ce A dig : * roll ith hi own | your own sake and of proving yourself a public benefactor) THE FOX pubding, and Werled with @ ctabe as well: of holly thru his heart, He ‘ 1. Avoid exposure to infection when a member should?’ | . of the family brings a germ cold into the house, and Uncle!” pleaded the hew if you catch a cold, sneeze and cot behind your ephew returned . handkerchief and avoid infecti cont he gg : 4 2. Drink two quarts of wat vi: sleep wit t your bedroom windows wide « never mind the P t!* repeated 8 e nephew, “But you don't keep it snow outside—cover up; sit, stand and walk erect and walk every day in the open air; keep clean; eat Let me leave it alone, then.” | slowty and do not eat too much. The Christmas Peethouigy eee ay goed may te x feast is responsible for many a hard cold. pm dato et Build up your vitality and your physical resistance and} » tdiing cold will cease to be a part of your Yearly health his-| ‘There ere many things from which I might have dertved good * by which I have not profited, | | ter and a tax on your income. that ain't a fox; it's aldare say,” returned the nephew ot . Christmas among the rest. But I But nobody talks of consulting the people as to peace | Wol!, what's the difference? © always thought of tome. | The fox ts a very crafty (or tmas time, when {t has come |grafty) little animal. Notice the apart from the veneration sly look tn | fortunate colleaxues Unitke his leas climb. eye. to ite sacred name and origin! Dolt Now! Why Hesitate? m as a good time; a kind, forgiving, | "Steen resolutions on a person’s mind, ers, second story n and bu charitable, pleasant time only Yo, Ho, and a bottle of beer. manicurists, the fox works 1 know of, in the long calen-| ‘The New Year dawn Is gently chim'd, daytime. of the year, when men 4 And the ‘steen die out with the dying year Did you notice that nice two-bit | we 1 seem by one consent to oT yo , are Jopen thelr shutup hearts fr Resolutions that are not worth making now, 4 Dhl wie: & silly quello. Otlke hee ar ae tee ee worth making simply because a New Year is about to start.|course not. Who ever heard of ales if thes rel, low pas turn over a} per buying a cigar fox ia far-sighted, sengers to the and not an If you've got to wait for some special occasion to plu nd whe “The Green Seal” By CHARLES E, WALK BSSrsstitiseristr ramet i list if OT EC. 25, 1916. PAGE 4 Yes, MINUTE! SPADES 1s TRUMPS! TRY TO REMEMBER THAT SO YOU WON'T HAVE TO BE ASKING IN ANOTHER HALF SPADES SPADES i> EF | geneerstenersrennee tertenaaaersaaeseaenssaeessettagessssggs itgtteeteensateseenesennereetseeggeseatett “Christmas Carol’? cm:bisen pp2333133] SEarEgagesasegssgstatseseststse ts tess [ristsisececessssit § A Novel A Week Li Svea ess PRMtosssscti ones tired —— {toward his door had never believed it until now. | Its humbug till said How now!" said Serocoge, caus- Berooge. “I won't be it tic and cold as ever, “What do you His color changed tho, when with me? without a pause, it came on thru Much!" Marley's voice, no the he door, and parsed into the doubt about ft room before his eyes. Upon its com Who a ou ing in, the ing flame lea jt i fe | wa our partner, Ja tho tt eried, “I know him ¢ ob Marle Ghost!” and fell again Can n sit down?” The same face: the very same. asked Scrooge, looking doubtf Mar 1 his pig 1 inna alat , € tights and boot the el 0 the latter bristling, like his pig tall, and, bis coatskirts, and the 1 the question, be, hair upon his head The chain he he dnt know whether @ Bem) | drew was clasped about his middie so transparent might find It was lony, and wound sbout him n a condition to take a like a tail; and it made (for But the ghost sat down on Scrooge observed it closely) of the ite wide of the fireplace, cash boxes, keys, padlock dg- an if he were quite used to It ers, deeds, and heavy pu You don't belleve in me,” ob- wrought to steel , d the Ghost transparent’ #0 Scrooge, ob 1 don't,” sald Scrooge. serving him, and ng thru his What evidence would you have walsteoat, could the two but of my reality beyond that of your son bin coat a nenses? crooge had often heard aid I don't know,” said Scrooge. I have been a party Hut I bave/think yourself ilused, I'll be made the trial in homage to Christ-| bound?” mas, and Ill ke my Christmas The clerk smiled faintly bun to t last. So a Morr And yet.” said Seroc vo br e don't think me flhused when I pay 1 ott " ! woe o wates for no work * © clerk o hot wa on the cle i ‘ ¢ Wak, man’s pocket eve f Decem “ware tha we; for be ber'” anid ming his returned the Rreatcoat to the chin it 1 sup. T another fellow,” mut-|pose you must have the whole day ered Scrooge, who overhe my clerk, with fifteen shillings a/ing.” week, and ing about a merry retire to Bedlam.” Christmas. This lunatic, in letting Berooge’s| a wife and family, talk-| rm} nd Scrooge walked out with a row!. nephew out, had ‘et two ether|ner in his usual melancholy tavern; people in They were portly and having read all the newspapers, gentlemen, plessant to behold,|went homo to bed. He lived in} and now stood, with their hats off,|chambers which had once belonged in Serooge's office They bad to his deceased partner. They were} books and papéra in their hands/in a gloomy suite of rooms in a and bowed to him lowering pile of building. Nobody Scrooge and Marley's, I be-\lived in it but Scrooge, the cther leve,” said one of the gentlemen. rooms being all let out as offic | Have 1 the pleasure of addressing) Now, it is a fact that there was Mr Scrooge or Mr. Marley?” Mr. Mariey bas been dead Scrooge repited years ago this of new leaves of your life book, those leaves are right], 1 tuiened a ich (akon tee on other race of creati res bound “hl See have un Gott Bie Woeratity liable to blow back again when the occasion dies out dom happens), and gathers up the| une tgp per erator. lin well represented by his surviving If you would be an abstainer of booze, smokes, or « tools, he takes a jot of other things |of gold.» |partne sald the gentleman. ae ‘ 2 §; 1, f * } t this elive seaeo t j words, abstain when the idea first hits you. Do it while the be finds lying « id, by mistake] believe t me §004, | year, tir. Seroces aad ot petite 3 * ‘ oa , § (this mist unit yy the way dw r i bite DOK ¢ je _ jabstaining is good. Then, if you find it does not agree with | |! perpen ane, by the way,/and will and I say,| man, taking a pen, “it is more 4 when New Years comes you can “swear” yourself back) “why does the fox always wear al _ {than usua desirable that we | applaud |should make some slight provisien *to the “old stuff? again. And you're pretty sure of keeping derby? ately ‘that resolution, after you have tried it both ways PP yg ef er ‘dere : t Mine of the priety, he poked was ‘d ~ \ 1 a yesides the toc ren | . 3 The majority of resolutions made as the church bells| if tne id Peavey? Theta awe|the fire, ard extinguished the last Mict mesrymaking on a,wild revel New Year's eve, are bunk,|they never seer cope NTA ma haat betcha aie Ewith a large B. It is easy to resolve, end a blamed sight| EER, | nioed hvenicasta’ ‘Goreme aes feasier to forget. SANTA Dh ga ed aoa |you'll keeo your Christmas by lon * If you have anything in mind that is worth doing to make) noo sfatthews—a haircut ing your situation! You Tthis little old world a better place for you to live in, and for! Phinney ave. cars—a little heat iy shag pe sal Pa everybody in general to live in, DO IT NOW! op sumaallo the state chancellot-| you don't go into parliament." 4 a ge "shaves ¢ lee : Don't be angry, uncle, Come! | +To Avoid Usury, Hang Onto Your Hat! Allen Dale—a sense of humor, | Die With us tomorrow.” | $9) OURTEEN THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED per cent is| Logan Billingsley—time to get|nimn yen indeed he did, He went bd + f ' , ’ } Way th % . " . a pretty high rate of rent! But it’s just what you pay 7 Ea Haten—a modest biash e whole length of the expression, | +4 +f 1 1 " yi sal ae and sald that he would see b | © when you hand the cloakroom pirate a jitney for hing) of reoflgge a ee Blour hat for an hour ecause Secretary Daniels be ase Colas. «Recon oe : lieve man who iaeminded of ohy? | 4 Do you get us : a drink will want one “he has or yor AACE aN | $ = Well, it’s like this en you,pey 10 cénts for the loan|dered cut glass wine services off ! you Ret married?” said | *of a dollar for a year, you pay 10 per cent. But if you pay | United States battleships. We fear I te , : ; ; Say aze the suggestion of the deck will now $10 cents for the loan of a dollar for a day, you pay 365 times) ariyq our sailors to gambling ° gas high a rate, or 3,650 per cent “ms id ; fer B is . ROM ett ase No Oe ee ly thing in the | It’s just the same way wit ur $3 lid. When you pay sae than a Meco 15 cents rent on it for an hour you are paying at the rate of| afternoon B #$438 a year, counting only 12 business hours a day Ana | | am sorry, with all my heart ® *that is at the rate of 14,600 per cent. to find you so resolute. We have | never hal any quarrel, to which # Sing this to the cloakroom boy and get his “come back + But don’t blame us if he’s a bit snippy Hands are flat projections on the end of the arms, each divided equal ly Into five spaghetti looking ob Jects called fin Hands are the ca sales, the “slightly soiled” bar. gains. Some people use their brains to make money, but the ma jority rely on the hands, as is the case with prizefighters, cartoonist se of bargain Remember, there are $15 worth of cash and traffic policemen, prizes. Full particulars were in The Star and ending arguments; that { some people's idea of ending an Friday, December 20th. Call on your neigh- —_} #| arsument is to let the hand float up 4 i 7 } #{] tll the other. fellow's nose stops it borhood druggist and get Contest Blanks. | Women use their hands a great deal for grasping telephone recely (ers, diving into purse |noses and doing up hair wdering Remember, your answer must be mailed not later than 6 p. m. Wednesday, December | Small boys’ hands are never) - |found under water faucets. | 27, 1916. Address your letters to e¢ | | WELL, SOME FOLKS 0O | In our account of the Livingston-! Hoff wedding in last week's our reporter intended to state that after a brief wedding trip the ly married couple would make thet: home at the Old Mans but thre a typographical error which escaped |the proofreader, and which we re |gret exceedingly, “Old Manse made to “Old Man's, Weed Ivort (N. Y.) Sentinel. Neighborhood Druggist Contest Editor Care Seattle St new wa NEW EMPRESS AND CHILDREI for the poor and destitute, who suf. y at the prosent time. A endeavoring to raise a the pe some meat and drink and means of warmth. We| choose this time because it is a time, of all others, when want {| keen! and abundance rejoices. What shall I put you down for?” “Nothing!” Scrooge replied You wish to be anonym be I wish Scrooge self at Chr to let alone, If quite convenien®, sir.” “I's not convenient sald Scroog, “and it's not fair, If 1 was you'd to stop half-a-crown for The new empress of Austria Hungary is shown here with her! two oldest children, She wan Princess Zita of Parma when was married to the new emperor in 1991 Prince Francis Joseph Otto, standing, was born in and Princess Adelaide-Marie, in the tmpress’ lap, in 1914. The third child, Robert Charles Ludwig, was born in February, 1915, 1942, | swung so |deep down below, as if some p | chant's nothing at all particular about the knocker on the door, except that it was very large. It is also 4 fact that y|Scrooge bad seen it, night and |morning, during his whole residence in that pla also that Scrooge bad as little what is called faney about him as any man in the city of London t of Let it also be borne in mind that Scrooce had not b owed one nought on Marley since his last mention of his sevenyears dead partner that afternoon Ant then let any man explain to ine, if he can how it happened that Scrooxe, bay ing bia key in the lock of the door. #aw in the knocker—not a knocker but Marley's face Marley's face It was not an or ferocious, but looked ot Scroog as Marley used to look: with ghos ly spectacles turned up on its ghost ly forehead. The hair was curiously y| said |Stirred, as if by breath or hot air 1 don't make merry my-|494, tho the eyes we r nas and I can't afford they were perfectly motionless to make idle people merry. Good| A* Scrooge looked fixedly at this afternoon, gentlemen! henomenon {it was a knocker Seeing clearly that it would be | ssain useless to pursue their point, the} TO Say that he was not startled gentlemen withdrew would be untrue. But he put his At length the hour of shutting up|hand upon the key he had relin the counting house arrived, With |@uished, turned it sturd walk an ill-will Scrooge dismounted from |!". and lighted his candle, 1 ‘his stool and tacitly admitted the|fstened the door and walked up fact to the expectant clerk, who in-|the stairs; slowly, too stantly put on iis hat Up rooge went, Darkness Is “You'll want all day tomorrow, 1|¢h#ap, and Scrooge liked it, But be suppose,” said Scrooge. fore he shut his heavy door he walked thru his rooms to see that all was right Sitting room, bed room, lumber room—all as they should ho. body under the table; novody under the sofa; a small fire in the grate; spoon and basin ready; and the lit tle saucepan of gruel (Scrooge had a cold in his head) upon the hob. obody under the bed; nobody in he closet Quite satisfied, he closed his door and locked himself in; which was not his custom Thus secured agains suPprise, he took off his cra-| vat, put on his dressing gown and slippers, and his nightcap, and sat | down before the fire to take his gruel As he threw his head back in the chair, his glance happened to rest upon @ bell, that hung tn the room, | and communicated for some pur: | pose now forgotten with a chamber in the highest story of the building It was with t astonishment and with a strange dread, that be saw this bell begin to swing. It softly in the outset that It scarcely made a sound; but soon it rang out joudly, and so did every bell in the house That might have lasted half minute, or a minute, but it seemed | an hour. The bells ceased as they had begun, together, They were succeeded by a clanking noise son were dragging a heavy over the casks in the cellar, Serooge then membered to have heard ghosts in haunted houses were de cribed ax dragging chains The cellar door flew open with | a booming sotmd, and then he| heard the noise much louder, on the floor below; then coming up the stairs; then coming straight chein wine-mer re that Marley had no bowels, but he “World’s Hardest “Work NEW YORK, Dec Hilda Muhihauser, ployment the female Moses who is lead ing the American workingwom an out of industrial bondage! | She is halled as “the hardest working woman in the/ world.” | Mothers of the know thelr daugh study daughters the beat advancemen We industrial and ate and The time ing the em der 18 tn is interstate. more about th ought lite which 25.—M federal em bureau organizer, | ters are | Mise MuhIhauser industry in and which port to in t kind join They advi prepare should 1 maintained is ployment ation ought to} ork ays! shoul4| their | les! rial s,” 8 rr) fon mat girls t ne € by ef federal governments. not far when laws will be passed prohibit- of girls industries whose If 1 bad my would fix the minimum age at From 15 pass thru a a When woman or opportun of her ter fon.” Miss Muhlhauser is head of the| pa Scrooge took his melancholy din-| Women and girls’ division of the| Classified Ad Page. . federal employment service. written has to period unstable by we n and n will ity 19 working hey bod weakened be direc unless the prospective on social employe’ him, {Be hers all the earlier next morn-|has been established to the satis-| jfaction of th The clerk promised that he would, | Other officer in charge of the divis t evil living our plat xirt superintendent ining tab- distant scope | way, I girls { strain which pa She problems for ity.) un. | 19. ° tions. 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