The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 30, 1916, Page 4

NRE EBs 8 ANCES.” RRL RR ARAN RARE RISEN IESE HRM ae ano NR RI ny RSTO a ent STAR—SATURDAY, DEC. 30, 1916. PAGE 4 - AN 1 ; o wig 6 h Cc }°” By A Novel pater Styne S| | A Week rt °C ristmas aro Charles Dickens A Week ty, Be @ month ter ike i om wy TnI Tin F ; : Hit: Feerareccation © WHYRVENYIUUDUUYCATSIUaonceoanoaccdoese | Tegedasesvvesdassts (Continued From Our Last teque) ; the freplac “The the door by | them with the Ghost of Christmas}as if he were trying to overtake) good a master and as good a man MORE THAN 60, 000° COPIES SOLD DAILY 66 NPECTRE,” sald Scrooge, whic h the Ghost ot Ja ib Marle i ivesnat fry walking with h 5 | nine See the good old clty knew. Some o'clock red! Th # the corner wh host of Christmas Pres oo something informa me that | ent ise Siti. re | hands behind him, Scrooge regard: | Hallo!” growled Serooge, in| people laughed to see the altera- nt}ed every one with a delighted |his accustomed voice, as near as/tion in him, but he let them laugh, ur parting moment is at} th hand, | know it, but I know not|sat! Thore’s the window where I| smile, He looked so irresistibly |be could feign it. “What do youl/and little heeded them; for his how I mo what man that was | saw the wandering Spirits! It's #ll| pleasant, in a word, that three or|mean by coming here at this time|own heart laughed; and that was e C whom we saw lying dead’ | right, it's all true, it all happened, | four good-humored fellown sald, jay? la site enough for him ome y in otemn upreme ourt Tho Ghost of Christmas Yet to| Ha, ha, hat" |"Good morning, sir! A merry! “I am very sorry, air,” sald Bo'.| He had no further intercourse Come conveyed him into the re-| Really, for a man who had been | Christman to you!” And Bere am behind my time |with Spirits, but lived upon the #, | sald often afterwa Some time along in January or February—or maybe January or Fe bruary, 1918—- sorts of business men, but showed [out of practice for so many ye : hd ds, that of all You J: M¢ ” or dee ne pl ra out | the blithe " he had © Ye the United States supreme court will hear a “reargument” of the Oregon minimum him not himself, Indeed, the|it was a splendid laugh, a most |t lithe sounds he had ever! “You repeated Seroore. ) Total Abstinence Principle ever : p this |afterwarde; and it was always said Spirit did not stay for anything, |{lustrious laugh, The father of a! beard, those were the biithest in alr of iim that knew how w keep Wage case. but went straight on, as to the/long, long line of brilliant laughs! | his ears It’s only year, sir,”|Christmas well, if any man alive So many justices of the supreme court have died or run for the presidency, or end just now desired, until be} “I don’t know what day of the} He bad not gone far, when com-| pleaded Bob, appearing from the|possessed the knowledge. May something, that there are not enough of the original bunch left to decide the case! sought by srooge to tarry for a|month it in!” sald Serooge I] ing on towards him he bebe ld the |“Tank.” “It shall not be repeated | that be truly naid of us and all of The case : rued about TWO YEARS AGO moment don't know how long I've been | portly gentleman who had walked|1 was making rather merry yester un And 80, a8 Tiny Tim observed, oe wee Dre Brgaed’ show as This court,” said Scrooge, “thru}among the Spirits, 1 don't know | into his counting-house the day be-|day, sir od iene tie, ivory tea At that time Louis D. Brandeis was the counsel who argued the case from the which we hurry now, fs where my|anything, I'm quite a baby, Never| fore, and said, me and Mar-| “Now, I'll tell you what, my (THE E ND) standpoint of the workingwomen whom it affects place of occupation in, and has| mind, | don't Care, ra rather be | ley . 1 believe? It sent a pang! friend,” said Scrooge, “I am not} The minimum wage commission fixed a rate of $8.64 a living wage for women been for a length of time, 1 see! baby. Hallo Whoop! Hallo} acroas his heart to think how thi tand this sort of th I 1 the the house. Let me behold what 1 | here!” old gentleman would look upon him r And therefore h employed in & paper box factory, The factory appealed to the courts t said the shall be, in days to | He waa checked in his transports | when they met; but he knew what leaping from his stool, | rate was “confiscator and that it would be put out of business Scrooge hastened to the window | by the churches ringing out the) path lay straight before him, and {and giving Bob a dig in the walst-| yy, and Vancouver boys wees The case went thru all the Oregon courts Then it came to the supreme court p= ed a es gn us sin eases t geting ty Bye vel as ol for and the efore 1 am about to/on their way home to British Co- ey : ore 7 yea ago. meantime the box factory has 7-7 lilt one is oe Dut nO anon = . i tae nGow, ae _ & A ; : raise your salary jumbia Saturday, after attendin That was more than two years ag (In the meanti The furniture was not the same, |it, and put out bis head, No fog, | auickening bis pa and taking the | Bob trembled, and got a little|ine y. M rm A. “roundup” here, at paid the minimum wage to all its woman employes for two years and has doubled and the figure in the chair was not|no mist, clear, bright, Jovial, stir-|old gentleman by both his hands Jnearer to the ruler ik that its factory and output—but that hasn't anything to do with the story.) himself. The Phantom pointed as|ring cold; ¢ | ry idea of knocking 1g two out of three basketball id, piping for the|"How do you do? 1 hope you suc-| momen winning two out of th ketbal contests for the international cham- o sup ¢ co wants to have the case reargued. In the meantime Louis befor blood to dance to; golden sunlight; | ceeded yesterday, It was very kind | Scrooge down with it, holding him, | jionship D. ipeaida, tee ad shes toleey wane ake an ease than anybody in the United He joined it once again, and} Heavenly sky; sweet fresh alr; |of you. A merry Christmas to you, /and calling to the people in the|? Toys from Everett, Tacoma and . a . e man wiht nows m adout the case be s wondering why and whither he had | merry bells. atr jeourt for help and a strait. waist-| ¢ ttle played on th American States, has been appointed to the supreme court accompanied {t until they} “What's today?" cried Scrooge,| “Mr. Scrooge?” coa' oe So, when the case is reargued, Mr. Brandeis will go to the robing room of the reached an fron ga He paused | calling downward to a boy in Sun “Yeu,” sald Scrooge. “That is A merry Christmas, Pob! sald | 1 pie supreme court, in company with the other cight justices, put on his black silk gown, to look round before entering | day clothes, who perhaps had lolt-| my ne, and I fear it may not! gscrooge, with an arnestness t sae : . 4 ; A churchyard. Here, then, the}ered in to look about him, [be pleasant to you. Allow me tO! could not be mistaken, as he herp lect march solemnly up onto the bench, take his seat, and sit still for about a minute. Wretched man whore name he had| “Today!” replied the boy. “Why,|a#k your pardon. And will you! ped him on the back. “A merrier on Then he will solemnly rise, walk down from the bench, ostentatiously proceed now to learn, lay underneath the | Christmas Da. |have the goodness”—here Scrooge! Christmas, Bob, my good fellow.| down the center aisle, out into the capitol corridor, back to the robing room, and ground, } “Ite Christmas Day! red in his ear than I en you for many | your stomach. Keep ¢ sem ke off his silk ¢ After which he may go to lunch or to play golf, or do any Tho Spirit stood among the | Scrooge to himself, “I haven ' cried the gen! a yoar! ur salary, end/and well, When food di Rake Off his silk gown. pallu dere LS Peal aoe Salil ; Braves and pointed down to one. | minsed it have done |t ux if bin breath were taken!endeavor to assist your struggling grees withit, strength thing he likes so long as he doesn’t show his nose around the court while the case “Before 1 draw nearer to that|it all in one night. They can do My dear Mr, Scrooge, are| family, and we will discuss your is being reargued —one to which you point said | an ‘en they like, Of ity wo they yes ? : ‘ acauene affairs th ve afternoon, over a % en > entirely. preposterously {PROPER f , — Scrooge, “answer me one question. | can allo, my fine fellow! | please,” said Scrooge. | Christmas bow! of smoking bishoy It would be so very. entirely, f - terously IMPROPER for the pene 9 ais hgh Are these the shadows of the Hallo!” returned the boy |“Not hing less. A great many|Hob! Make up the fires, and ri most about the case in the United States to have anything ut DECIDING things that Will be, or are they| “Do you know the poulterer’s, | back ts are included in {t,| another coal-scuttle before you dot) . He might be PREJUDICED in favor of those poor, a fingered Oregon dows of things that May be, | in the next t but one, at the|l assure you. Will you do me that} other 1, Bob Cratehit!” | Ee ‘women! only?” rner? inquired. | favor rooge was better than ‘iat 14 ae 3 : Stull the Ghost pointed down.| hould hope 1 did,” replied My dear sir," said the other,| word. He did it all, and infinitely | 13 It's going to be funny—watch for it ward to the grave by which it | the lad |whaking hands with him. “I don't/more; and to Tiny Tim, who did} 4 An intell boy! 4\ know what to say to such mu tie, he was a second father. | Largest Sale of Any Medicine in the World, ie Men's courses will Do you know whether |He became as good a friend, as Sold everywhere. tn bones, 100,250. P| i: nema —\certain ends, to which, if perse | they sold the prize turkey that t say anything, please * 2 If Wex, the Chicago egg king, is looking for more din, they 1 was hanging up there?—Not the ° Scrooge “ mp a oA oe a o” § But i urKe ttle prize turkey, the big one? Vill you come and see n cold storage facilities, we suggest he investigate the ty Pos il va taxiing tears cout’ eceial hiwtili® epled’ the ola nile : Kinnear park car line. ‘ ». Say | t ith what [the bo» man, And it was clear he mean’ : ! In it?” said Scrooge. “Go and|to do it, to : The Spirit was immovable as | buy it | “Thank'ee,” said Scrooge. 4 Old Age Pensions +l over Walk-cr!” exclaimed the boy m much obliged to you, 1 han! 4 T last, a plan for pensioning city employes who have Scrooge »t toward {t, trem No, no!” sald Scrooge. “I am|you fifty times, Bless you! | ¥ he Ds Te weave de bling as he t; and following |in earnest. Go and buy ft, and| He ¥ to church, and walked | reached the age of 60 or more, and en 12 years ser co the fin read upon the stone of |tell ‘em to bring it hat | about the streets, and watched the Bie Wice to the municipality, has been worked ou : : L UM tele mage fisie his own name, |t a tis pee Bor pi THIRD AVE. AND CHERRY EUGENE LEVY, MGR. Whether or not it will be adopted, depends ultimately Beroc ito tak | ‘ : dID YOU KNOW— That by walking and swimmin and looked down in-| that man who lay upon | man @pon a vote of the people. The city a8 of houses, and up ndows, and found that ey >» under- * There are many individuals, + “a mn could | kD¢ |five ni 0 fs ul demand for an old-age on make the Phi ‘ , about 12; Th® finger pointed from the |acrown could yield him pleasure re) d | discovered the value of humanizing We will no Ps . _ was st whispered 8 | him In the aft ‘bpd apr tba i, KNUTTY KNOWLEDGE pose ee ceed <a cena towiada the New Year inat the | doubt hear from workers in private tpations who do not @njoy the pension system 4 1 eee net EN FoaE the Gea one tt © the nt | He "passed tb tees Gee But the cou evidently takes the position that the city i lthe meee a Poca hand ie whi Ga w had the courage Should be a model employer, and that cities should set th | intere , mo | 4 Was not a Ktea But he made exa i ions as lon 0 they have set it in the eight se his, if | am past all hope?” it be di | pte in pens ome te e } || Holding up his hands in a last | went downstairs to ¢ your master at home, my hour day. There are plenty of statistics which show how pension-| ling aged workers has p foreign cities. Regardless of the great human obligation involved, it is ood business to keep the ranks of city employes rejuvenated) ith young blood. f ; | The employes will contribute largely to the pension fund] roar yo! tear yo! To th Standing over a per cent of their wages, just as the police|wno wear their hats on either th fand firemen do. left or right ear! ry . f Harvey L. Tack, an alderman of more of ° t n-| The plan is, after all, t oe scheme to help city em-| papbish Ind, in his spare moments y 3 Ployes help themselves than ar thing else. prayer to have his fate reverned, | door, ready for the r 10 Ww an aw n the Phan-|poulterer’s man. As he do and dress. It shrunk,/there, wailtir his arrival, collapsed and dwindled down to a| knocker caught his eye bed post. “1 as long as I —— live!” erled Scrooge, patting it with | CHAPTER V. his hand. “I # ely ever looked Yes! the bedpost was his/at it before. What an honest ex “lown. The bed waa his own, the | pression it has in its face! It's a | » own, Best and hap rful knocker'—t a t A aidled f all, the time bi Hallo! Whoop! How are | his face in, round Th s Christmas! j Were looking at the table (which tur He never | ¥as spread out in great array); for stood upon } legs, [these young housekeepers are a if you please He k his ok “Tu his own, to make in the Past 4 hours a da Future!" Scrooge re é neni | prayer by inventing an “ear-caser eated. rambled o He would have snapped | Ways nervous on such points, and * toni | Ite funny you never thought of) “The 1 ike to see tha thing is right But ‘Ae = rig’ Bob proudly claiming credit for |,, Laas, Splatt ot all T | phar eet eave of shovace Baa. frente anand ain Hann, "sna he Ch Wy Senay “ou cca | TOMORROW NIGHT that fits over the top of the ear,/:ime be praised for Fr who's that?” thus pre ing the hat rim from'on my knoe old ted On rting friction with the ri ; . 5 | startlog 6 rim of the! knees!” HE courts have ordered the sale at foreclosure of the|ear when you talk | He was so Mutt ee : i ei with Missouri-Paci Iron Mountain Railw | t an everybody gets to feeling Grsiuis: Voleg endid echoes ®unimum price of $49,450,000. This sale is necessary to sat- j Pre good again, up es somel/answer to his call. He had been|cab, at ekl ck . rip gas 5 VARIETY ‘isfy $89,000,000 worth of bonds. Fcany bepeey 3 baseball. Now it's as\sobbing violently in hix conflict |he recompensed th » only | could d { derty After the water has been got qut of this system, the re- hey are as to where| with the Spirit, and his faeo was |to be exceeded by the le with | party, wonder : —ACTS— ed and so |they’ll do their lwet with tears |which h Pmains will be reorganized under plans of the Missot e | He had frisked int Nboage SService commission. What most railways’ systems is} wow! | and was now > an operation for dropsy, and a whole lot of them are coming| On some automobiles a 5 p winded } ¥ ‘ 1—Young Hackenschmidt—Brother of the Russian ‘" s the sanc at,” ar ore practica to it. | would . speedome Lion, who will challenge anybody to a wrestling was ii natch at Midnight Matinee. ee ng off again ari As we gather it, the complaint against Dr. Whit- Very few people write on the | - - - it; yes, he did! The 2—Th satis Comaty aia: 2 ing’s pet is that he’s just too full of monkey business. | #ide of a post card, and {t in fins nine. No Bob. A i ¢ Coventrys—Comedy Singing and Musical Jered ti m energy opening 7 > Bob. Boy w 7 cntertainers. | f minutes and a half] owe sat With 3—Abrams, Johns and Green—Versatile Trio. 4—Danny Ahern—The Whistling Violinist. 5—Lubelsky and Cohn—Yiddish Comedians, New Idea of Large Size seiggae rat NE of the tremendous new things is the proposal to mc bilize all of Great Britain’s shipping his door wide It's Not Enough to Start tyme a druggist This would mean that every ship flying the British fla /|t and ye, druggist caving money. The big thing is to keep it up, to aan a 6—Andres Sisters—The Singer and the Swede. would be wholly devoted to munition and food cargoes { lidn’t recommend something else add to your savings steadily until you have ac- ‘with his pen,| 7—Virginia and Leilah—The Funny Faced Kids. The silies - ‘. ‘OF |"Just as good” to ye customer, quired a principal which will earn for you a really - babes: | 8~—Paul Wilke—The Alaska Nugget a “8 * ‘ ee | th-while amount of interest. * aia — It seems to be a good time for Uncle Sam to go ahead NOT YET, BUT MAYBE co othe naa: ae a tdi . Is I Veil ¢) 9—The Malcoms—Rube Comedy. Pwith building his own merchant marine. The Billing | _ We have seen so many financial successes grow- s It a Veil or 10—Honey Harris—Blackface Comedian. Having now got the British side real mad at hi Btrect car heat Son mpi syne raiany tongs phe | a Ca aan 11—Van Dyke—Chaplin Imitator. i d at him, * ae } rus Q a 8 n sa - - Wilson can have full confidence in his complete neutralit ing that your chances of success will steadily in- P y: SPICY FOLKS & y' ishalasaapinaeinentehnine | crease when you become a steady saver here. DEXTER HORTON TRUST SAVINGS BANK SECOND AT CHERRY SEATTLE, WASH. Combined Resources of the Dexter Horton National Bank and Dexter Horton Trust and Savings Bank, $20,233,771,38 NEW PANTAGES MATS., 2 NIGHTS, 7 AND 9 caliecin MONDAY AFTERNOON GRUBER’S ANIMAL | CIRCUS Featuring Trained Elephants, Horses and Dogs Wilson Brothers Dan Galt, the gymnast, err Loose a Squad on This hote 5 Albert E. Pepper, plumber, 314 WN the self-same city where a diet squad recently demon-| James st strated w 12— The Stage Will Be Just Like a FAMOUS SOUTH-END = DANCE HALL ™ Drinks Music Everybody GIRL Everybody Dances! Dances! h much acclaim that a human being can live ' anna | on 40 cents a day, a workingman’s wife tries to commit sui- E M 1} Gide because she cannot make her husband’s wage cover the} ditor’ Ss ai I cxcense Rens Take a family of five; father, mother diree chilldren At | complaint arding’ the 40 cents a day for food that makes $14 a week, and leaves |home ers’ boycott, one is led to nothing for clothes, rent, shoes, sickness, or carfare ‘onel at thoze complaining are ’ a | wearing their old, outgrown} The average poor family doesn’t w to learn that hich are beginning to pinch human being can live on 40 cents a day. What it wants to| because of misfit. If this be so, let know is where it can get the 40 cents, and a little demonstra-|them 4 d the old for new ones| tion along that line would, for usefulness, have the diet |fashioned on @ more modern last,| ff jand wh © better fitted to pro. squads on earth backed off the map. Jtect the t orien with the «sical — - — |}, 13—Princess Iona—World’s Greatest Hula Hula Dancer. 14—Prof. Art E, Oril—Famous European Mando- linist. 15—Madam O'Brida—The Nut Soubrette. 16—Fatty Arbuckle—500 pounds Avoirdupois. 17—Kid Walton—Clever Dancer and Warbler. 18-—Baby Adeline—Child Phenomenon. ott seen o have trod. | 4 claimed that we are hurting th icing the price of issourl, and must PaltevaCocon. | toicnantans Iimay be seen in the iarkete this stands all tests of [/"Se"wno nave the mending of «| large part of the salaries and wa, aborat and home. } placed in our hands by the earne 19—Lemle Sisters—High Steppers and Kickers, 20—Percival, the Great—Toothless Wonder. ADMISSION — 50c — ADMISSION have too long been dupe our | * oS hearts have become so indurated : The “Midnight Frolic” does not interfere i ut these “sob stories” no longe BY BETTY BROWN 9 & e in any . It 1S pure, it 1S pom | ae tata te Benes . Pn dead ded el pee way with our regular performance Sunday and bal- delicious, iti is WT hb} our en Heartily we say to you Famous Rhinelander Funmakers lsomething “only a certain kind of jay ance of week, from 11 to 11, 5 vaudeville acts and hi a6 ot mall chicken rancher, follow our girl can wear,” I'll recommend you! last episade of the “Diamond from the Sky.” The ealt thful. fg |example, boycott excessive feed © je |to Peggy Hoyt, creator of fashions winner of the $10,000 prize will be announced in this | prices What if you do thus sacri 1 what Pesay Hoyt calls a fil Also Selig-Trib Weekly log ‘ the lives gold nugget inti Gee Maaae ooaee @aana | ilm. so Selig-Tribune Weekly. Walter Baker & Co Ltd. 6a Ihena? Since they, with all thelr lin New York are wearing them.| IABLISHED 1780 — DORCHESTER, MASS. a | clack and clatter, are causing #0 The face veil of lace is attached to In a Classy Vocal and Instrumental Melange many of you to lose out year after r, why not act as wisely ag ml the draped veil of chiffon. The iw iaped vena? eaten.” r00 MM 11 $011 P.M Tomorrow 10c the owner of the famous goose Io; ago? A READER. Other Big Features—10c and 20c a Japanese trimming of vases and a flowe