The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 30, 1917, Page 6

|THE SEATTLE STAR hk Ave. Near Unton st. KAGUR OF NEWSrarEns NORTHWEST vice of the U reas Association as Second-Class Matter, ic Per month up to 6 mos. By carrier, city. Datty by 6 moa. $1 th. America’s Response to Call What is going on in the homes of America? What are plain people thinking of this war into which we have to make safe our liberties and to make secure the of our country? The president and the administration and the patriotic members of congress would like} Nowhere is there manifested any of the hurrah stuff is no wild waving of banners and beating of drums penpaed enthusiastic days of ‘61 and the boyish) Or of 1898 when we remembered the Maine are not being d in 1917. The plain truth is that America is going thing very soberly, very earnestly, even perhaps prayer ily. We have all learned that the days of up-boys-and-at-them ff have passed. For three years we have been reading and thinking about} horror which js latter day war-making. The glamor,| glitter, the gauds have been stripped from battle We know now that it is ¢old, calm, scientific killing, in| h every invention known to science has been utilized. | _. And knowing these things, facing these things, the| , and mind of America have not quailed. The same} American spirit is being manifested—without noise, with- shouting, without boasting. | The fact that congress quickly passed the select conscrip-| act at the request of the president shows that the folk} home willed it so. | The fact that all the other war measures asked for by/| ident were passed, often by a reluctant congress, shows} the folk back home willed it so. The fact that, despite all the machinations of the pro ps, the peace cranks, and other marplots, hundreds of . of young Americans have presented themselves for | Service under select conscription without putting in ex claims, shows that the real American is ready to this war. there are other tangible proofs, too | ‘The regular army of the United States has been brought | to 300,000 men, 182,000 volunteers having enlisted since]. went to war. The National Guard, 300,000 strong, has drafted into the regular service. The navy has been to over 137,000 men, the marine corps to a war strength| 90,000 and there are 45,000 more in the naval reserve and } national naval volunteers. This makes a total of about {000 men—without counting a single man who will be into service by select conscription and without count-| hundreds of thousands of young men who offered) to regular army, militia and navy and were re- for physical and other reasons. All of these facts should hearten the president, the admin- suasive Peggy 'Y MARAVENE THOMPSON Paret Ne! ) \ (Continued From Our Last Iss XUL Ed took her place serenely at the foot of the table, and the husband—coming tn apart from the men purposely on this particularly day—took his at the head. As his gaze swept over the table, he start ed, stood still a moment, staring at it dazedly, He sat down, his lips pallid. He did not look at Peggy, and Pegey, watching him under veiled eyes, suddenly trem bled. She had been waiting for his eyes to meet hers-—had counted on it—and now-—now | The others sidled to thelr places, | fumbled awkwardly with the yard square napkina, that seemed never | to get thru unfolding, looked at the table curiously, searchingly, and Ben angrily, Wh in thunders tion was the grub? Did she expect them to eat silver and glass and/ roses? | But Copyriaht Mrs the door leading from the} pantry opened and an appetizing} odor wafted in also the cook, garbed in {mmaculate white, her) impassive face as awesome as the silver tray she carried. In silence, | a deadly, paralyzing silence, each pceived a twohandled frail china cup and saucer, set on a plate! | What in the devil! Who in thunder could drink this sick-looking coffee, anyhow? And where was the sugar and the cream? But eriminy ¢ were pieces of vegetables in t he bottom of the cup. And here were little toasted pieces of bread being passed. Was this the kid's grub? But no; for Mr, and Mrs. Ed were partaking of it calmly by the spoon fuls. Dazediy, not knowing whether this was a laughing or a “cussing” matter, they followed suit as best they could. Only Ben, who swal-/ lowed his at a gulp and cried out loudly ] “For a sample that wa'n't so bad ow lll have a bowlful, !f you'll call that gal. Er, if you're all out of bowls, then a soup-piateful.” An angry red leaped to the cheeks of the man of the house; but the mistress rang the bell and calmly ordered “A serving of soup, Annie, for) Lake—at the right of Mr. Trow bridge.” “A bowlful,” supplemented Ben gruffly. | Their meat ickets — there disappeared before the potatoes tived, mashed beau tifully In cream, and served in a beautifully shaped dish, and pre- sented most politely at the side of | each on a silver tray f him to serve himself, But—"No, ma'am,” “Ni “No, thanky ma‘am, em,” “Not any fer me in mumbles. Some further clearing away of) STAR—THURSDAY, AUG. 30, 1917. open and dilated with emotion, the red-rose mouth trembling lke @ frightened child's, sent a quick con cern to bis eyes. “Why, what's the matter? he asked anxiously, his anxtety deep ening as Pegay flung herself wildly into his arms. “Come, tell me all about ft.” he soothed, and lifted her up and pat ted her hair, “What fs it, sweet heart? Come, tell me!” But Peggy only tightened her wae? » ED. KK.'s.. | COLYUM “DREAMS we nave ALL KINDS OF PIE . CONFESSIONS OF A HUSBAND Dear book, tonight Lena and I had a long talk, I did the listen ing. From what I could make out it was all about me. I'd join the army tomorrow, but I'm under weight and [t's many moons since Lena made biscuits so there tan't any other way left for me to pick up weight. She got real emotions and the only way I could calm her down was to tell her | was daffy about ber, and if she died I'd go crazy, and she sald, “Yes, and you'd be married again before a month had passed.” But you know, little book, I wouldn't go as crazy as that. Her talk got her so worked up she got in that I-don’t-want-to-live any moremood and wound up by saying she'd be happy “because there was peace and rest in heay en,” and my answer, “there WAS ‘i PAGE 6 Next Novel “The Moss Mystery” BY CAROLYN WELLS arms about his neck; to release them to clasp his face between her hands and kiss him with feverish § abandon, bis brow and cheeks and lips “Oh!" she eried over and over, a little panting, “Ob!” ou're the husband {n the whole world, and I love you almost to death and-—all this time I've been taking you as a matter-ofcou and and I didn’t realize." “Well,” laughed her husband, “if this is a sample, it's rather nice not to be taken as a matterof-course.” ¢ He smiled, humorously. “But you needn't worry if you can’t act crazy about me all the while, pet. I'm the same fellow, day in and day out, you know,” | A less happy sort of grin was on § his face, when the next afternoon in Redville, he was handed a note by litte Willy Dawson. The note read Dear E4, Will you stop tn before you go home, I want to consult with you about the Logan place. I'm thinking of buying it and settling in Redville. I came this morning and I was just going to telephone you when I saw you go by As ever, Belle. Peggy's husband left the Dawson home with a deep confusion within him. He had known of course that the was “managed.” He could not yery well help knowing that Peggy had her own way with him nine times out of ten. But Pesey's methods, tho they enraged him at the moment, always amused him when the struggle between them was over, And there was an ex cltement in conflict with Pegey that gave an added zest to life | Marriage with Peggy was not mon |otonous, whatever else it might be. | terns we have had- —Bou | CHAPTER XV | “Mr. Crosby's in the office wait ing to see you. Don't let him talk too long, darling. You've got to- dress.” It was an unfortunate allusion “To dress”--universally a mascu line trial—sorely tried his good nature at any time Peggy's pretty coaxing glance as she said it, the little caressing smile, ber eyes half-closing to look sbyly into @ his—trying to “meam: e” him in- to passive accep his | tained rage flamed out | Peggy stood stock still on the | veranda, watching him go into the |house, It wasn't so much what h |enid that dazed | but hie dom lineering manner, the harsh voice, sullen eyen. If she had done “some- thing” (Peggy's universal term for her wilfulnesnes), she could under |etand hie rage. But Hd wee almost j charmingly loverlike when all was All at HALF PRICE. con A Friday Clearamce Odd Sum peace and rest In heaven” ended | well between them; and it was al Fraser-Paterson Co. Odd Pieces Imported Dinnerware BLALF PIRICE HE Fifth Floor China Section will close out, beginning tomorrow, a large number of odd pieces in Imported China* Dinnerware. All go at just half price. Included in the lot are some of the most attractive pat- —Plates of all sizes —Vegetable Dishes and Meat Platters —Fruit Dishes and Tea Pots illon Cups and Saucers —Sugar and Cream Sets, Gravy Boats ~—Butter Dishes, etc —Bav arian and Theo. Haviland China. ot = er Apparel FINAL clearance of the few odd lots that remain in the Garment Room. The prices are extraordinarily low, but are made so with the idea of final disposal. with a door slam. the congress and the people themselves. It tells | 4, us what all of us have wanted to know. If we needed! ; here it is. If we meeded renewal of our faith in} 7 d heart of America, here it is. Why” vs. ‘“Verboten” In Germany, under autocracy, they say “Verboten” and ends it. Nobody dares ask WHY? a democracy the multitude is accustomed to ask when any one says “Verboten.” kaiser can kick a premier around the block and the ee may say nothing. autocrat may decree foodless days if he wishes, and betide him who asks questions. | Under democracy we will decree our own hardship: f we must first know the reason. WE HAVE THE) TO ASK WHY. ( | One of the first things American children learn is to ask/and Ben had traded on it, and con-| The One of the first things German children learn is OBEY! And so ALL the children of earth may have their to ask WHY the democracies of the world are going | husband who spoke — quietly, but The |with an authoritative note all had| The jheard before and knew was not to| The kick the last “verboten” sign off the planet. | The eternal desire to ask and learn and reason is going be enthroned as the supremest thing on earth. And that,| very plain, simple way, is what it’s all about Pine Idea for Ministers Rev. James E. Crowther of the First Methodist Episcopal! has a fine suggestion to make to his fellow clergy- It is simply that they read President Wilson's repi io the peace suggestion from their pulpits on Sunday morn- “It seems to me,” declares Dr. Crowther in a letter to! Star, “that it sets before the people even more clearly any former state document the objects for which we taken up arms and the terms which represent the mini- requirement for an enduring peace.” Here’ is a chance for the ministers to deliver the most! hatic kind of patriotic sermons. | | A Pitifully Low Estimate | Washington dispatch says the Red Cross has bought a nds of yarn which, when knitted, will represent million dollars’ worth of American women’s time. | Wrong figures! We've had knittings at our hore. ons’ worth of time would be a good estimate. Stunning Paradox During hot weather, avoid stimulants and heavy foods, as meats. Everybody knows that this is the correct Five _ War policy? Yes. Good health policy, too. Maybe you see in it the remarkable paradox, War is health. EDITORIALETTES | CANADIANS AT the front are certainly writing Canada into in deeds that can never die. | “OUR LEADERS anticipate a favorable conclusion,” is what lan autocracy reports to the German people about the great Maybe the German people can swallow it and feel pleasant. seem to have been able to digest the same dose about the U-boat! ry | WE COULDN’T maneuver a war on house files, but we'll risk the kalser that now is a good time to yell for peace once mor LONDON DAILY MAIL says King George has conf: on James W. Gerard, who is to be called “sir. It, he’s no democrat. 1d knight- if Jim stands i] PRESIDENT MENOCAL of Cuba presents Uncle Sam with four steamers. Well, didn’t Uncie help “Men” to that presidency? | ‘ | NOW THEY'RE talking of exempting medical students. Darn) a / 9 uden' arn _ SOME PEOPLE never make mistakes beca Z use they never ti de anything that Is worth ing—Goethe. 4 nt shea and further brushing away of crumbs. Then something more, at last! place without any foolery. but— “Fergot t' cook yer dessert,” sneered Ben, feeling himself on sure ground here. | “That's Waldorf salad, Ben,” said Mrs. Ed, graciously informative. “You will like it, | know—it’s Ed's favorite.” | Ben pushed it from him. | “T'll take my dessert now, if there is dessert,” he snorted. | “Ed takes what I give him and when I give, Ben,” eeturned Mre Ed quietly. “Isn't that so, Ed? laughing archly at her husband; g,) but in her voice was the pleading | The call of a bird to her mate. | A taut silence fell All had noted Big Ed's grimness,| tinued to trade. “I won't,” he asserted, cocking his head like a bantam. “I reckon y’ will.” It was the be disputed. “I eat what my wife sets before me, and I’m thinking! the rest of you'll do the same.” “Cheese it!” grinned Dave. “We| ain't been insulted. We've been like ft, that’s all. I'm goin’ t’ get treated like the family, an’ we don't the truck an’ go t’ wor! CHAPTER XIV. Mrs. Trowbridge’s guest refuse: to change the subject “I'm not saying that Ed'll get e» cited over Belle,” continued Mre Dawson. “He's too much in lov with you for that. And he neve was smitten on Belle. She came tc Redville visiting her Uncle Will and the boys ran after her as the do every pretty new face. Belle go her clutches on Ed and kept ther there long after Ed was good 'n ready to let go.” “Pout!” said Peggy know all about that. As for Mrs Newell, how could she make trouble between Ed and me? Mrs Belle Dawson Newell's no more dangerous, I guess, than Miss Bells Dawson was, and—”" “That's part of the trouble Newell's aunt-inlaw thinks she’d have landed Ed her self if you badn’t carried him off that night at the Norton dance.” That afternoon Peggy went to see her mother. Mrs. Patton Mist ened to her daughter's tale with palpable dismay “Belle Dawson going t’ Ive in| Redvill cried she, agitatedly. | “Oh, my! Oh my! and here I was restin’ content that everything ‘d always be all right between you 'n’ Ed. But Ed's been all right so far He'd had enough girls, I guess, to know what he wants, and he’s not taking chances on losing you.” “Losing me!” cried Peggy, and sprang up, her grac ung body | trembling with rage. , how could Ed lose me, or I lose Ed?| We're married!” | “Well,” floundered her mother, “a husband and wife separate some times.” “But—Ed and I love each other! And we have a baby!” “Much Belle Dawson cares about that! Her mother set John Bailey against his wife till he drove May and their baby out of his house, In| some way Belle’ll get round Ed—" Like a bird she darted down the walk to the waiting automobile. “Oh!” she gasped, “Oh!” and sent the machine pounding down the pike, regardless of strutting cockerels and scudding cata by the way. Her husband, sitting before a flat-top desk in a room of their home termed the “Office,” account book and papers before him, looked up casually as the door opened. But Peggy's face, the big eyes widely airily. I ~| The The heat. Come, little book, to the ice box, ind set down before each ODly It's too bad you can’t split a} bottle with me. 28 THE HEAT! We all wouldn't Mind the heat So much, if it Wasn't for The guy who reminds Us of it. The articles telling How to keep cool— The red brick buildings. The tar smell of new streets. The women wearing furs. tight shoes. stinging corn. stiff collar. perspiration. thermometer. melter butter. sour milk and cream faucet’s lukewarm water. downtown noonday lunch. coming back from @ vacation work crowded street cars. windless night. fiat tire, And— The The The The The The The The A town of cement bulldings is be- ing constructed {n Montana. E. N. 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Somehow she couldn't satisfy ber heart wit! the explanation of business worries \—Ed never brought his business | worries home. Ed looked even more | feverish and forbfdding as he sian |med his door and came striding | down the hall “Hurry ‘long,” said he briskly “And let's get this fool stunt over.” In the limousine she snugeled close against him, called him “lover” and “darling” and “precious boy” in entrancingly caressing tones. It was a seven-mile drive By the end of the first mile that persuasively sweet Little presence |began to assert something of its |soothing Influence. Another mile }and his arm encitcled her very naturally. Then—Peggy’s fragrant little mouth got in the way of his, a habit it had, and received the | kisses that had not been given it at the head of the stairway that levening. Contentment reigned It was during the wait after the second act “Look, Fd, at that big woman in cerise and the long earrings, there in the fourth row. She keeps star ing at me all the time in the center. The one like a cold ream demonstrator.” Cold cream demonstrator!” Ed rinned. Wish Belle could hear bat! That's Belle Dawson—Mre Newell, Belle said this afternc he wasn't coming. But I k he’d be here all right to look you ‘ver, Chains couldn't have Rept ver away.” | Peggy's heart gave another ah | ! ut a queer wincing start now Belle said this afternoon Ed had seen Mra well while and had been when he me home was an involuntary What's ired?” I feel a little aintly. Peggy had met Mrs. Newell once ( chureh and twice on the street n Redville, but only to speak to her formally. Now, at the end of} two weeks, she went to call on Mrs. Newell. This call, made late In the after-| noon, lasted a scant half hour She} came away from the Dawson home| in a burning fury Oh—oh! that Ed should not onl¥ listen to talk | against her, but should himself be-| mean her! ridicule her to this woman! 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Editor’s Mail WANTS RIGHT Editor The Star I read in a paper a few days ago that a for elgner has the same privileges in/ this country as an American citi zen has, and should, therefore, forced to fight for it, Now, if we have the wame right, why are we not allowed to vote? How about this navigation school to be started here tn Seattle; to qualify for admission an applicant must be an American citizen. Can I be denied the right to attend this school if I wish to do so, because I have not taken out my final papers, when I can be forced to carry arms for the United States? A. LOCKERT. ANSWERS MRS. FOSS Editor The Star: We desire to re ly to the article In your last even- ing's iseue, signed by one Mrs, ©, A. Foss, of Everett. Morrison company did not cancel this bond of C. A. 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