The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 31, 1917, Page 4

The Seattle Star ered at Beattie Wash. Postoftion as second-class matter Spee, ean ot ah aoe poem $300; ne, 61.00 Ste Ger mann a5 60 Cee Pubitehed De My The # MORE THAN 60,000 COPIES SOLD DAILY Your Best Work Is to Make Your Children Play Are the children of this day losing the vivacity, charm that naturally belong to childhood? Are they old before their time, with grown-up*minds in stunted bodies, shockingly overwise, too indifferent to study and too lazy to play? Are they becoming patsy-faced, thin-blooded, and incapable of taking in- Pterest in anything except cigarets, dancing and the movies? Prof. Ross of the University of Wisconsin has been making re- searches in some parts of New England and declares that in the regions he studied, at least, he finds appalling evidences of a strange juvenile decline. He says educators mourned the total decay of youthful sports and youth- ful vigor. Clergymen declared that by no device could young people be fured to church or Sunday school. Children that will not play f-spy or tag, will not run, shout, laugh or go coasting! Boys that don’t go swimming in summer or skating in win- ter! Boys that don’t even care for baseball! ° i Children that at school recess stand listless about, mgking coarse jokes and telling coarse stories—Prof. Ross found an astounding brood of that kind, not limited to a few manufacturing places, but in many towns, widely spread. Other observers at the national sociological congress, where Prof. Ross Teported his discoveries, intimated they had heard of some such symptoms elsewhere. Many said he was too pessimistic. That means nothing. Everybody that tells us anything painful, how- “ever true, is called pessimistic. The thing for us to do is to tind out how far _ childhood has really decayed in this country and stop the dry rot before it " goes any further. Because seven business panics, one after another, would not represent as big a disaster to the nation as a generation of children too a Pct to play. Prof. Ross said some, things, red cheeks, health and too, about the state of morals he found "among children of this kind. We leave what he said to be imagined. Play is just as essential to growing childhood as food. The coming na- tion is robbed if any child doesn’t have both. It doesn’t do any good to be ‘prosperous and rich as a nation if the next generation that inherits after us to be anything bike Prof. Ross indicates. The egg king has left Chicago. Perhaps he feared 9 many of his subjects would be showered upon him. the Child a Chance % H ate of Washington is big enough, and should be ad enough, to give every boy and girl a chance to live under a mother's care if the mother is capable of assuming that responsibility ‘That is what the mothers’ pension law aimed to do in {ts original Wording in the legislative act made possible a judicial never intended by the mothers’ pension law, and in 1915 ited legislature went one worse, and specifically discriminated © children whose fathers were not dead, insane, or in the peni-| | COLYUM D. K.: I am sending reason why most girls like Dear E. | A child may be hungry whether its father is in the penitentiary or} | 0 he deserted the family. Why shouldn't the pension be ex-| | {he bors arto ene in the latter case, as well as in the former? Why the distinc OCR OUIETe S. M. De THE CONDITION OF THE CHILD IS THE TEST. | Those responsible for the administration of the pension law should the right to ask: “Does ghiff child need the aid of the moth- law? Would a dental of {t compel it to beeraised improp-| Would the child have to be sent to a ‘home’ because the mother, | the pension, would be unable to care for it?” show abundantly and conclusively that it costs the state! ir a he as Money to give needy mothers a pension to raise their children than} prc por vd Piste: them to institutions. | rete. peggy Fromm the standpoint of economy, as well as HUMANITY, Washing-| | “®4 shoved him to the tumult Should be quick to remedy the present defects {n its mothers’ pen- and the sun Jaw. ag v. i ONE SOLDIER'S FATE I By Louis How He wanted only quiet and a book Fate forced upon him battles and a guna She his Beforoa His fragile for quite away; His patience lost . * * A ‘ was battered It is impossible to be just if one is not generous. ita former Bleam of fun. Man! HARLEY THE HERMIT” is dead. Far Rockaway knew him the man who had not spoken a word for 37 years, all because | & girl in Germany, to whom he was sending his money to! her here, proved untrue to him and married his brother, with his | blessing. Foolish Charley! Quite a shock, of course, to find your sweetheart, your brother, father and your mother untrue to you—conniving in cheating you that, and the loss of the $1,500, was not sufficient excuse for Char fs throwing aside his life and living a hermit on the sand beaches of | and fair play He came to think that men are made to slay; unresigned and pain, And to cruelty normal cla And one created only to be slain He died? Oh, no, he lives; « and has at need One hand to hold a book eye to read Island. } | No human treachery should drive a man to this course—or to sul-! or opium, or any other of the means by which men and women to end or dull their sorrows. ip Sorrows don’t last unless you feed them. ° ‘Time will heal the deepest of wounds. — How much better it would have been had Charley, instead of con-| ng himseif to a living death, dismissed the matter with a con-| tuous shrug, cursed his family and his false fiancee for the scoun that they were, and decided that he wouldn't let them wreck his fe, because they weren't worth wrecking it for! It's simply foolish to avenge a wrong by punishing yourself. one ODD, ISN'T IT? ‘not make at least one councilman learn all the words in , othe national anthem? | ! You a Little Rose Garden? F LIF prolongers there are many, but the best we have heard is that which Mrs. Alice Bennett credited with enabling her to Teach the age of 105 in strength and happiness. | ty, the kaiser Her elixir of life was a little patch of roses in the back yard. from Hetr “The English rega There were other flowers, too, and a grape arbor for shade liberty as a wife, the French as In the summer, when the back yard was a riot of flowery flame,| mistress, and the Germans bors used to see Mrs. Bennett working among her plants, plucking | grandmother.” here, snipping branch there, growing older amid beauty. “Stay ‘out of the rocking chair,” she used to tell her nelghbors. "Get out into the fresh open air, if you wish to live to a ripe old age.” Pretty good advice! It's a pity more of us can't have back yards "and flower gardens. [ut those who can have them, should have them. So SHOULD the rest. Record kept by shows he Adamstown, Pa. fai gave ‘ tramps last year KE tral American plan. The morning wire | pleasing note that Truth, crushed to earth, may rise again, but not till after it takes the count. enthusiastic and orderly there being no bloodshed at all.” « rr “This salon for sail, “HENRY HAUSER. “P. S-—If you can't speak mit janitor.” Dear B.D, K.: This sign ap- peared on a saloon window In | the south of Seattle shortly he- fore prohibition THEO, SORENSEN, Ww h and 28th Ave, a ary time of the Baker's Cocoa | is a good drink,as wholésome and nour: ishing as itis delicious, Walter Baker & Co. Ltd. ESTABLISHED 176Q DORCHESTER, MASS. oa |a store unaided, his own cooking and housework We see they've got perfun ent movie stars after fighters would be a pipe Kau de cheese. If they make and wrestlers Only aqacperare was hs 1 clipped ingle victory was won | He judged himself as some ab- food an 7 sleeping accommodations to v22 Tegulate the flow of bile, rope would do well to mode! ite warfare after the modern Cen carried the ‘President Gon zales was disposed from office in ar manner, read, | Blind grocer of New Harbor, Me., has completed 19 years of running in addition doing | acented and named after the differ-| one scent STAR—WEDNESDAY, A Novel! A Week! 7 i | (Continued From Our Last Issue) "So the Colonel ts going to you drivin, again! Well, r needn't afraid he'll for it; if he sald he would he will I declare, you look a good deal as Kiva used to when she was your age. She had just euch golden hair and brown eyes David has blue the bluest I ever saw,” observed Polly “He probably favors hts father, replied Mra, Jocelyn The Doctor's entrance put a stop to the talk, and presently Polly said good-bye and went upstairs Not many days afterwards was sent with & mesa to Mrr Jocelyn’s nurse, and the little Indy caught sight of her at the door “Can't you come in and stay a while?” she called I don't know,” Polly and she looked questionably at the nurse You, I young wo! have to be BY JULIE WW my «i you be eyes wish you would,” the an nodded. 1 whall away for a quarter of an hour or #0, and if you will stay] with Mra. Jocelyn while I'm gone it will be an accommodation to me.” Polly I won began. Oh, I'm always happy!” respond ed Polly that is, here,” she add od “1 couldn't help being, it's #0 pleasant, and everybody ix so good to me.” The seated herself amilingly if you are as happy as the little white-haired lady eyes rested gadly happy while you r sald How ts dull gray on her, “Well, t can be,’ their own David Collins getting on He is ever so much better,” an ed Polly and fan't it too He's almost strong enough to down into our ward, and there isn't any room for him! I've had to go and sleep in Miva Lucy's bed, so they could use my cot.” Is the hospital so full as that?” scowled Mra. Jocelyn, “Dear me, how many sick people there are!” There are three or four waiting now to come down, ahead of Da vid,” Polly went on. “I don’t know what we hal! do if he can't come at all! We've planned so many things He said be'd tell part of the bedtime stories be lovely! haps there'll be a place for him pretty sogg.” the little lady |sponded. “Dr Dudley nays that you are a story-tell too. “Oh, yea! Some days the chit dren keep me telling them all day jong Suppose you tell the little lady Well.” returne !donbtfully, and t think ofer her list denly dimpled | wouldn't 11 he story that Davic ent me It is about little Pr | Benito and a wonderful flower. } “I shall be pleased to bear It.” was the polite reply me one,” In bit to Polly, a stopped Oh!” she sud I wonder if 2 It was a fanciful tale of a beauti-| jful Httle prince who, by sowing seeds of the Wonderful White Flower of Love, transformed his father's kingdom, a country den- olate from war and threatened b famine and insurrection, into land of prosperity and peace and} joy |" At the Jast word, Polly Mushed jwith the spirit of the story, looked expectant; but her listener's weary eetmed to be stutlying the pat of the dainty comfort across lap. Sadiy Polly waited, Thank you, dear,” the little lady finally sald; but the words we spoken as with an effort } “I am afraid I have tired | mourned Polly. No, little one; you have only given mo something to think of. Per we'll have @nother story some day. You d need to stay, if you have anything else to do. If shall want nothing until Miss Par win comes,” For Bilious | eyes That heavy headache, torpid liver, sick stomach, bitter taste in mouth, furred tongue, dull eyes and muddy skin, all come from a supply of bile. These unhealthy conditions are promptly corrected by FECTIANS which stimulate the liver, sweeten the stomach, and While he was talking about liber Tenew healthy bowel action. might have quote’ A household remedy a gp by sixty years of pub- ic service. For every-day *! illnesses, Beecham’s Pills are a tested Remedy Sale of Any Medicine in the World, “ we. 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PAGE 4 secccce OMPKING Polly felt that she was disminsed, yet she bad promised the nurse to remain, She hesitated a moment and then sald, “Good-b and went out, She met Miss Parkin in| the hall, and explained | It was aw or more after thelr | vinit to Mrs, Jocelyn that Dr, Dud-| loy sent early for Polly “Mra, Jocelya wants right away,” the Doctor told her ‘She does wondered Polly “Do you know for what?’ “lL don't know anything,” he smiled but 1 guess a good deal,” “Oh! what do you guess it is?” she entreated Hie shook his laughingly “I should hate to have you dis cover that | wasn't a good guess er,” he bald Run along and find out for sure! Polly was astonished to see how greatly the little lady had changed Hler cheeks reflected the delicate} pink of the robe she was wearin and ber eyes were glad, Her voic was full of cagerness. “Here comes the little sunbeam! | and drew Polly within of her arm, “I couldn't walt another moment to thank you for reading me that story of the little prince, It brought back my own little Lloyd, who was always | planting th needs of love wher jever he went, But since ho left me | 1 have been like that forgetful queen mother, too wrapped up in myself to think of others, Now I am golng to begin to grow those wonderful white flowers,” Her eyes shone thra tears Polly did not knw what to say; she only looked her sympathy and appreciation “Tell me about Jocelyn = went well enough | to nee you David,” on Is to come Mre down: | . he’s all ready.” was Polly's | but he's got to walt for] dy to go. Elsie was to leave or tomorrow, Dr. Dudl 80 I don't know when David can come.” “Il know!" responded Mra lyn confidently He is down to the convalescent let me see, I think it may afternoon, but tomorrow sure! Why! Polly him | bedat “There | chucki ey | Joce cow ward be t t morn how can ” There are t ther gasped | ree ahead of aren't any more and will be bef long.” | the little lady yly ! jhave been having a bit of a talk! with Dr. Dudley, and be tells me| that there ix plenty of room in your! | ward for sIX more cote—and Polly May Is going to buy them! That is, she can If she choones Polly's face was one big tnterro- gation point Why! 1 don’t he began, but was interrupted by a kiss right on her lem “Oh, you dear, precious little tn nocent!” erled Mra, Jocelyn. “Read and «ee if It will tell you any * She took a strip of paper from the table and put it into Polly's hand Across the top, in large letters was the name of a bank. The rest as partly printed and partly written, Polly read wonderingly Pay to the order of Polly May three hundred dotiars. JULIET P. JOCELYN, | “Ohon!” and Polly's face was ‘beautiful in ite Joy; “does this | mean that you're going to give mo \three hundred dollars to buy some new cota witht’ It means that the money is your own to use exactly as you please.” 0) Tean't, I can't, | can’t thank you enough! It is so lovelicious! | } } How to Relieve Rheumatism After each meat and at bed time take a tablempoonful of the following home-made med icine, used all over the United Btaten, and for itn re ? 1? ) on. ‘% pint | ipe formerly called {| but r hisk in very hed by Medical orm- aboratory, Dayton, ©. The Ingredients ‘specified’ can procured from any good drug store. ) ‘ d IT’S YOUR KIDNEYS You have swollen feet and hands Stef, achy joints! Sharp-shooting rheumatic pains torture you. Yo: aching back, pain in the lower aittiouliy when urinating? 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A Week! rrr at once came a blaze of light 9 terrific crash—a great onk | wtreet had eplit top to root! With a gasp of terre the Doctor's nec the walk on @ quick There!” he excl wn inside t nd sound! But next It take Mins Lucy's advice, not run any such risks,” At the foot of the stairs he halted for a few instructions. “Homor the Colonel in every way possible,” he told Polly. “If he names you ‘Eva,’ let him think he right, and call him ‘Uncle most and a ¢ the been from mr and he clung to ped ne 6 med, wetting ou're time and doo | David | take,” jn | | | | wec, ir Uke YOU THINIK — | | SOMETHING OF ME APTER ALLS Gp - David returned and by and by Dr. Dudley came up the walk, and Polly ran to open the door for him. The physician acknowledged the | attention with a grave smile, and) then went directly fo the telephone, calling for Miss Batterson. David sat up. The girls listened breathlessly, Presently they heard arrange ments being made for the nurse to go to the Colonel at once, and they gathered from what was said that David's greatuncle was ill with typhoid fever, and that the Doctor had ordered him to bed. Then, seeing that there w no likelihood of a story or even talk 1 think of aix co’ Mra, Joc to spe arny ¢ Why Polly it?" You couldn't, you blessed child! So we'll have David downstairs just | as soon as his bed tx ready, won't that will cover the . equir watd wish The | # actually twink of course | do! cried What else could I do with t, and to beamed her delig presently was racing upstairs tell her good news to everybody Dr.oD aged to get away before noon the pleasant er rand of purchasing the beds, and Polly was overflowing with biiss,|from the Doctor, she proposed, She had her choice in everything, | softly to Leonora, that they go up with the Doctor and the merchant | stairs, as advisers. | For a few days there was no The convalescent ward was In| alarming change in Colonel Gres- such an ecstasy of excitement that|ham’s condition. Then he grew dinner went poorly; but finally it} Worse. He became delirious, and was cleared away, and the cots| remained so, recognizing no one. moved to make room for those that) The twentieth of September was were coming. | bot and oppressive. Early in the When the beds were actually in| evening thunder clouds heaped the place and all was {n readiness be. Western sky, and occasional flashes fore the hour specified, there was Of lighting portended a shower. nothing to do but to wait for the| After the children were estab- coming of the new- patients. 1 shed for the night, Miss Lucy sat At lest there were footsteps on| long by the open window watching the stairs, uneven footsteps, as of | the electrical display. Finally she one bearing a burden—the children | ag ioe undressed, and throwing on had started’ David was the last, mo, settled herself comfort- | and Polly had begun to be troubled, | ably upon her cot, to await the un- after all, something might| Certain storm, ready to shut the delayed him until another! Windows in case of driving rain. But there he was, stniling to| The nurse dreamed and waked thin little hand turns. At length she was aroused by steps along the corri- dor. They sounded like Dr. Dud- ley’s. She was at the door as the | physic jan's knuckle touched it. 1 want to take Polly over to Colonel Gresham's,” the Doctor ex- plained. “He keeps on calling for ture, Noons were hot, and nights | ‘Eva,’ and nothing will quiet him. were chill, The vines that fes-| He is on the verge of collapse.” tooned the windows of the chil-| “Didn't Mrs, Collins come?” dren's convalescent ward sent an Yes; but he didn't know her. occasional yellow-coated messenger | It broke her all up. I think now to the lilac bushes below—a m that he has gone back to the time senger that never came back. when she was a little girl, and Inside the ward there were even | possibly has confounded her with creater changes. Of the old set of | Polly At any rate, I'm going to summer patients only a few re- | try the experiment of taking Polly mained keep Polly company.|over. It can do no harm, and may Elsie and Brida, Corinne and Isa-|do some good.” | bel, with Moses and Cornelius, had} The hall suddenly burst into received their discharge and had | light, and there was a simultaneous eturned to their homes. | ro ar 0 f thunder. Leonora stayed for more of the! “We're going to have a shower,” reatment that was slowly lessen-| observed the Doctor. ng her lameness and her=pain.| “I should think it was already David had so far recovered”ns to| here,” returned Miss Lucey. “Hadn't have been appointed office bowor | you better wait till it passes, be- Dr. Dudley, a position which was, | fore taking Polly out?” according to David's version, “all| “Oh, no! Wrap her up well and pay and no work.” I'll carry her. It is onlyla few But somebody was needed to| steps; she won't get wef answer telephone calls during the| The rain was pouring as they physician's absence, as well as to|left the plazza, and before they note any messages that might ar-| were off the grounds big stones of | rive for him, and David's strength | hail were pelting their umbrella, was now sufficient for the service. | The Doctor hurried along, the light- | So the arrangement was proving ajning glaring about them and the very happy one, and was especially | air filled with thonder enjoyed by Polly and Leonora Colonel Gresham's house As their acqnaintances drifted|nearly reached, when a sy away from the hospital and/ gust turned the umbrella, ant lest, have | her, and waving by in greeting. CHAPTER IV Polly Plays the Part of Eva Summer still lingered, but signs re abroad of hér coming depar- to was iden al- | till now, | wapt me, | right here all the time! | Doctor's arms, I'm afraid J shall make replied Polly You won't he Just imagin yu are doing everything that is all.” jatterson smiled down on as she entered the sickroom, low voice to the a mis assured his to her. little plei bim Miss Polly, and spoke in a physician Colonel Gresham had been maut- 9 ing indistinctly, and now broke his persistent call: f Eva! Where's Eva?’ Dr, Dudley gave Polly a gentf push towards the bed Here I am, Uncle David!” she answered, standing where the light slanted across her yellow curls. The sick man started up, and jthen dropped back on his pillow. “Oh, you've come!” he cried, | with a breath of relief. “Why did you stay away—so—long?” “1 didn’t know you wanted me Uncle David,” replied the \ soft voice a! Eva! uncle, don't lttle—bit?” “More than a little bit! you dearly, Uncle David!” “Don't go away any more! Promise, F Promise me!” “I'll stay just as long as you Uncle David. Can't you Remember, I'll be t int You love your you Eva? old Just a— I love KO to sleep? Reassured by this, he closed his eyes, and was quiet for a while; J yet only to rouse again and repeat § the same old ery 4 Polly pacified him, as before, and once more he drowsed. The Tittle girl slept, too, in the until towards morn- the Colonel was resting so that they returned to the ing calmly hospital It was not many weeks afterw; that Dr. Dudley, brought Polly a iInessage. “The Colonel says he feels slight- ed because you don’t come to see him, and I promised to send you over. ‘Oh, I shall love to go!” cried Polly. “I'll run right off and change my dress.” Colonel Gresham was in a great chair by the window, and begged his small guest's pardon for not rising to greet her. “I'm not quite firm on my legs yet,” he laughed, “and I mustn't topple over, Miss Batterson has left me for a whole hour, “Oh, then I'll stay and wait on you!” beamed Polly. “And if you get tired hearing me talk, you can go to sleep.” But the Colonel seemed very wide awake, and after a gay chat he be- “Dr. Dudley has been telling me about bringing you over here in that thunderstorm, and how you quieted me when nobody else could.” “Yes.” replied Polly innocently, “you thought I was your little niece, Eva, and—" “What?” broke in her listener, amazement in his tone. “Oh, I s'posed he'd told yout” cried Polly, in dismay. “I ought not ca have—" Yes, you ought!" he interrupt “What did I say?” Polly hesitated. She was not at all sure that Dr. Dudley would wish her to disclose the wanderings of the Colonel's mind, since he had not doné so himself. But there seemed no other so she re- plied simply: “Oh, you didn’t say much! Only you kept calling for Eva, and so [ pretended I was she, and I called you Uncle David.” Polly cast furtive glances at the Colonel. She could make nothing of his face, beyond that it was very grave. She wondered if he were displeased with her. After a time he spoke. “You have done me a kindness that can never be repaid. Such debts cannot be balanced with money. So we won't talk about pay, But I should like to do some- thing for you—give you a sort of © remembrance. I don't know what would make you happiest; bu may choose, ‘to the half of m a anything but Lone Star, afraid I should hate to give up Lon | Star!” Polly laughed, and the Colonel laughed, too, which put the talk on a cheery footing, and she assured him that she shouldn't have choseg Lone Star anyway, because sie didn’t know how to take care of a horse, and hadn't any place to keep him tn, (Continued in Our Next Issue) strangers drifted In, these three be- | came vlose friends, The girls} would join David in the office, when David would be the one to tell or read a story, for his aunt kept him well supplied with inter. esting tales, Sometimes, especially in the story-teller; the children uncon. selously gathering from the physi- clan's rich store bits of wisdom that would abide with them as long as memory lived, They were watching for him, one night, when the telephone bell rang. David sprang to answer the call, and the girls heard him say “No, sir, he Is not in. He went We expect Yes, sir, him every minute now 1 will,” The boy came back looking a lit tle excited “It was Unele David!" he told them. “He says he is sick, and he wants Dr. Dudley to come over, “There's the Doctor!” cried Leo- nora, a8 a runabout stopped at the entrance. “Shall | go tell him? started But way, MONEY FURNISHE SMALE 601-2 Northern Bank Bldg. Seeeccccecessocesecaseoes and Polly the lad was alreedy on his BUILDING LOANS D FOR BUILDING AT LOWEST INTEREST RATES PLANS DRAWN FREE BROS. Elliott 686