The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 19, 1918, Page 5

BUT THEYRE NOT ASHICHAS — |(N LAST MAY OR DURING CIVIL WAR ET ein eer, BY MILTON BRONNER Pe Retall food prices are going dewn. ‘This is shown by a table of food costs, just prepared in Washington. Prices have been droppin since last May, when the apex was reached, before the food ad- ministration under Herbert Hoo 5.9 cents a pound; cheese, trom | 7.8 cents @ pound to 25 conta; hogs | per 100 pounds, from $4.188 to $ Other prices were in similar pro-| portion. | If we started with our prewar! | | Prices and figured what our food would cost us if it went up in propor tion to, civil war prices, it would be something like thin: Wheat, $4.32 a| got in its work duahel; hogs, for 100 pounds, $47.63; Sr Official food experts, however, | butter, $1.76 a pound; cheese, $1 a hheld out little hope of further | pound; flour, $23.68 a barrel; lard, 50 cents a pound; bacon, 65 cents a ‘They lay the present conditions to | pound; sugar, cents a pound, [cooperation between food dealers, | tators, $5.43 a bushel cutting out of speculation and hand: | epetieanes aS wheat, flour, pork and) MANY WOMEN DRAWN ON FEBRUARY JURY) Increase 4@ Per Cent | All that can be done now, they | The February jury venire will re-| fay, is to cut out wartime profiteer-| port to the presiding judge February | |4 for duty. The namea of the jury That we are still the most favored | men po | were announced by County f Ration is shown by these compart: |Cierk Percy F. Thomas. Forty-four] sees: jWomen and 71 men are on the list.| ‘The increase in food prices in | Aiton W. Leonard, president of the Germany ts 120 percent; in Eng: | puget Sound ‘Traction, Light & 105 per cent; in Canada, 60 | power Company, Isaac Cooper, real) core country If was | estate broker, and Mra. C. Allen! last May, and now it Dale, wife of the former councilman, During our civil war the ye are named. | @f the world were open to us, | Present we are the market of the | Zoran which Tooks to us for toca | DON'T THROW RICE; IT’S Despite the difference. the prices in| TOQ VALUABLE AS FOOD lesa ton swine "te ggg NEW YORK, Jan. 19.—The old tively much higher. — of throwing rice at newly ¥ weds has been put under the ban at} Higher in Civil War one of New York's leading hotels in| For instance, during the civil war | an effort to conserve food products. wheat jumped from 9% cents to $2.16 | This notice was posted at the room | bushel; butter, from 15.4 cents to 65|1n the hotel where marriages take| ita; flour, from $8.375 to $17 @ bar-| Place: “Don't throw rice—save food | ; sugar, from §.7 cents to 30 cents ®& pound; potatoes, from $2 to $4 a eee say, 3 from 8.8 cents to 24.5| These days, U. 8. means Universal | ; bacon, from 5.5 cents Saving. Buy thrift stamps | PROrLE’S Palace Hip z= CONTINUOUS DAILY—1 TO 11 Tomorrow’s New Show Is a Great One! | Dorothy De Shelle & Co. Present a Novelty Comedy Pinylet in Twe Episodes “HEARTS ARE TRUMPS” nd help win the war.” Bree fe eee* ret J ut tre i ie Comie Cogers in @ the Park’ Esrtes, Jos Ewen in YOUTH” | WEEKDAY MATINEES 10¢; EVENINGS AND SUNDAYS 200 ORPHEUM THEATRE Third and Madison Eugene Levy, Mgr. NEW BIG BILL SUNDAY SESSUE HAYAKAWA The Wonderful Japanese Actor of the Screen —in— “The Wrath of the Gods” A Five-reel Feature Full of Thrills ALSO— TRANSCONTINENTAL § VAUDEVILLE ACTS 4—Seymour & Dupree 5—Addie Stuyvesant 6—Roscoe & Burke 1—Allen, Moore & McCourt 2—Helms & Evans 3—Jean St. Anne 2,100 SEATS AT 20c }cast of ten, and promises much of clean comedy Stan Stanley, billed as the “Boune- ing Fellow,” will perférm his bounce ing repertoire with the assistance of his relatives. Adelaide Roothby, assiated by Charles Everdean at the piano, will appear in songs and tmitations Ima Hraate performs difficult feats. Ben Bernie and Phil Baker play the violin and accordion. Claude Roode opens the bill with slack wire walking | insanitary little places. | Things that STAR—SATURDAY, JAN, 19, 1918. PAGE 5 STENOGRAPHER SENDS AN INTERESTING LETTER TO CYNTHIA GREY © FOOD PRICES 40 PER CENT HIGHER SINCE U.S. ENTERED WAR NEW ATTIRACTIONS AT TIRE TIRIEATIRES ‘VARIED RANGE OF ENJOYMENT IN OFFERING. » sone. J AT THE THEATRES Metropolitan—Mite! Hajos com. ing in “Pom-Pom. | Orpheum— Vaudeville. | Gatety—Burlesque Moore Vaudeville, Orpheum ciroult Wilkew--Stock Pantages —Vaudevilie Palace Hip—Vaudeville. ” Ee! a er eee MOORE Mies Emma Carus, the musical comedy star, will be the feature at t the Moore for the week be y. Miss Carus, whe is assisted by Larry Comer, enter: tains with a selection of decidedly interesting comedy songs, Love Thy Neighbor” ts the sketeh of the week. It is presented by « The Travel Weekly shows scenes from Holland and Japan. The Concert Orchestra will do ite part to make the new bill enjoyable, WILKES Grace Huff and the Wilkes Play ors will appear next week, beginning | with the Sunday matinee, in James) Forbes’ famous comedy, “The Chorus Lady,” the piece in which Rose Stahl won success. The part of Patricia O'Brien will be presented by Miss Huff. Her ability is particularly suited to such chatacterization. “The Chorus Lady” presente an original dictionary of slang, woven thruout a story of pleasing sent! le CONFESSIONS | OF A WIFE HEROES AND HEROISM al “Well, then, I'm to get you a ticket and a lower berth today,” xaid |‘ Dick, as we were finishing break: | fast that morning. “But, you know Margie, 1 don’t really like to have you in one of those cooped-up, stuffy, tastes do change!! we counted luxuries once are almost neceanities now Well, I think the train leaves at midnight, but, of course, you know | you can get on the train at 16) o'clock.” Dick went off in gay humor, and I really believe, little book, that h was thinking that he would have a good time foregathering with Harry and Jim and other of his men friends, I sometimes wonder, little book, if any woman could see your pages, what she would think of Dick. Be cause I had that curiosity, I describ- ed some of his virtues and vices to a group of women the other day—of/ course, not intimating that I was in any way describing my own husband. | “How one’ Said one woman to me, “I don’t) believe such a man exists. He is a Another woman said, “I don't think #0 in the least. I rather like him myself. He seems so human. I think we get a great deal of twad dle these days from books and plays about men and women who are eith- er all hero or heroine. All the women here ought to know that no husband can be a hero all the time, any more than a wife can be a heroine all the time. “Heroism is brief—it in a pass thing. The person who said, man can be a hero to his valet,’ real- | ly meant that no being on earth can practice heroism as a trade, and the woman who looks for it in any hus- band will be woefully disappointed. “Clever woman,” I said to myself, | as I lstened to her. Then, littie| book, I described about the same kind of a man to an acquaintance | of mine, and he remarked, “I do wish some wpinan who thinks she | can write would write a book with a | man in it like the one you have de-| wcribed. He is certainly a real bu- man being.” | “But would you want to appear like the man I have described to the women who would read the book?" | “Most of us appear like that to at least one woman,” he said with a/ grin. “Meaning?” I asked. “The wornan who has to stand for | man's nonsense as his wife,” he an-| swered. “They don't always stand for tt,” I remarked. “I am very sorry to say that that is true,” wad*hia retort. I found out afterward that this man was divorced and living rather | unhappily with his second wife. So} perhaps, little book, his opinion was slightly colored by hin experience. It seems that when one lives #0 clonely with discontent as is neces. sary to two people married to each other, it is very difficult to keep a sane outlook and a clear judgment on each other, Folka who are liv- ing in domestic felicity are apt to think the institution of marriage a generally satisfactory one. Thore who live in an atmosphere of dis- content or discord are pretty sure to regard the marriage ties as the chafing thongs of bondage. Happy married people, little book, it seems to me, think all other ma: ried people happy. Disconten married people think there are no happy | METROPOLITAN Bo Continued) | the merriest musical comedies on the) 1 Rose Gard- | ORPHEUM eireult. Jack Henry ner, supported by a Pes of 13, with | many pretty girls, are featured. The added attraction will be Pres. cott, Geacribed as the master mind) of mental mysticiam, asnisted by! mental telepathy. Other numbers on the p jude Wilkins and V the Kuehns Walter Mercer, o nnetti and § Funland dainty doings neer, and Many Seattle theatre goers will re member with pleasure the appear ance of saucy little Mitzi a few years ago in “The Spring Maid.” She was then not much bigger than « ukulele, and has not grown any since Mitat is coming back again in “Pom-Pom,” and will be seen at the Metropolitan during the week of Janeary 27. Her appearance per mits her to be seen much In boy's clothing, only one of many features the popular little star will present for Seattle audiences eve | PALACE HIP “Hearts Are Trumps.” a novelty comedy playlet presented by Dorothy De €helle and company, feature attraction of the new show opening Sunday at the Palace Hip. The plot develops the fact that real love acts as an effective counter for the word “obey” in the cnarriage contract. Dedic Velde and company have a surprise act, called “Charlie Chaplin Capers in the Park.” Velde in said to be the best impersonator of the famous acrobatic comedian De Forest Brothers and Falk are billed as the “Trio that Sing, Dance and Talk.” Waiman and Rerry, musicians, ap | Mine Hope Eden, in an exhibition of | ys from | | From Zuyder } | turn will be the | Who will | ment. pear in } A with violin and piano. PANTAGES Frank Rogers, ventriloquist, {# Topping the new bill at the Pan-|Known as the “man with meny tages next week, opening with the | Yolces.” matinee performance Monday, will) [le Roy and Paul are comic bar be “The Bachelor Dinner,” one of | Performers. eee Manager Levy will have an unusu- | auty large bill at the Orpheum, Third and Madison, for next week. opening | with a matines Sunday. Besides the six vaudeville acts, there will be a| fiveree! picture production, “The Wrath of the Gods,” starring that popular Japanese actor, Seasue Hay: | akawa As an added picture attrac tion, one of Mack Sennett's two-reel comedies will be shown Heading the vaudeville end of the| bill come Allen, Moore and McCourt, in a@ singing act. Helms and Evans are billed as “The Girl and Boy Yoo,” with a singing, dancing and yodeling act. Jean St Anne comes with a turn that prom: ison to be good, while Roscoe and Burke are mu) entertainers, rand Dupree have a com- neing, dancing and talking Addie Stuyvesant is a singer with a varying wardrobe. eee GAITETY Beauties From a Foreign Planet” will be seen at the Gaiety next week, starting with a Sunday matinee, when the Armstrong Folly company will offer “The Girls From Mars.” The feature character will be the Irish comedian, Will H. Armstrong, wriggle out of a large telescope and startle the professor into believing that he is the first in- habitant of Mars to come to earth by means of a wonderful new transpor- tation invention. “Billie” Bingham will offer “When It's Cireun Day Back Home.” Per queta” will sing Ed Arcnstrong’s new song, “Beattie for Mine.” Joe Corber, the Jewish comedian, will have a supply of jokes, The chorus of 20 girls will brighten the bill Add to the kaiser's worries, Buy thrift stamps. Lovers The management Metropolitan Theatre ing Sunday, day matinees. Mitzi, | America’s the joyous comic opera, entire much praised Pom” opera orchestra. her merriest. To Theatre of the takes much pleasure in announcing that Henry W. Savage, the famous producer of comic operas, will send his most notable attraction to The Met- ropolitan for ™ week start- January 27, with Wednesday and Satur. Then will come the saucy foremost prima donna comedienfie, in ew York cast, the spectacu- lar scenery by Joseph Urban, and even the ‘‘Pom- This attraction is announced as the most re- markable of the year, with the famous Mitzi at Prices, as in all cities, $2.00 to 50c NOTE—Mail orders with checks (including war tax) received now and filled in order of receipt. — lar seat sale Thursday, January 24. “A Show of Rare Delights” Said The San Francisco Call. “Pom-Pom,” with the +! BY CYNTHIA GREY ‘This girl, experienced in office work, has ideals, They are working Ideals, And they have worked out it may inspire other giris to stick to the star to which they may have hitched their wagon. My Dear Miss Grey eet me down as a sour faced old maid, who hates the world and Do not all those about her, because a girl #till in her ‘teens is writing this, It im written in defense of the men employers of this city, whom “Motherlens” just recently #0 bifterly attacked thru your columns. And furthermore, I read no often in your de ment » employing women do not Khow the proper respect to them. I could be Neve this in a few instances, but Cynthia Grey’s | LETTERS | te Explain All | Only to Her Family ] Dear Miss Grey: I am asking your | advice on & serious matter. | came |here three years ago, to be mar | ried to my baby's father He dis Appointed me and the ceremony was not performed. I pass as his wife and the friends we have made do not | suspect the deception. i even told my family that we were married. I want to go home for a visit, but must have my certificate to show them. The man is willing to be married now. Can it be done with out publicity? Please help me I know I have done wrong, accord- ing to the laws of the country; but I wish to make reparation for that wrong as nearly as it is possible to do now. ATLANTA. You can coniuet your mar- riage so that none of your ac quaintances wil! know of it. But you will be obliged to tell the entire truth to your family if OFFICE GIRL DEFENDS EMPLOYERS GIRLS SHOULD READ THIS LETTER when I read it so often, I begin Many times I have had to do to think there is something Uttle things in order to make wrong somewhere, my salary stretch a little fag- 4 BETTERED HERSELF ther, but when I asked for @ raise, the excuse I gave for aak- In many of the offices where I tng tor tt one net tae Na have been employed I wondered that I was always set down as a ig oe chat I was doing being #0 “stiff” and formal with er work and more aw my employers. And, looking to it that I was punctual and : back, I can see where I was all waxing an interest in all that I a of that. | was never dischar, . “in I believe that if the woman and every time I changed port tions I bettered myself finan cially So from this I have drawn the conclusion that one of the rea- sons that I have met with so Uttle of the difficulties that so working out for any man will follow my rule, discuss nothing but business, and sec that the employer does the same, her éif- ficulties will be lessened decid- he edly. When a man knows that many women meet with—that Is, hin stenographer's little boy improper advances from their needs shoes, thru her telling employers—in because I have him, he might possibly Gy am find a way to provide those never, from the first day I step ped into their office, given them the chance to “start anything.” And I dety the woman who con tends that men “make the first break." MEN ARE COWARDS ‘That is where the man is the coward. He leaves it every time to the woman to point the way. I do not mean that she will always do this knowingly, but I have heard women discuss their domestic difficulties with their shoes, while if he knew nothing of it, he would have nothing to offer as an excuse for his ad vances, and, as I naid once be fore, men are such cowards they must have an excuse to work on. —IN THE GAME TO WIN. OLD-TIME COLD CURE—DRINK TEA! Get « small’ package of Hamburg employers on the excuse that “they had known him a lorg | Breast Tea at any pharmacy. Take time.” I maintain that this is | tablespoonful of this hamburg tea, nothing to discuss in a man’s | put a cup of boiling water upon it, house of business. If it is done | pour through « sieve and Grisk @ cupful at any time. It is the — | most effective way to break 0 Se .: and cure grip, as it heap the | relieving congestion. | the bowels, thus pe a cold at | Once. in inexpensive and entirely then, possibly he will overlook his bounds and possibly discuas with her ways and means of making her burdens a little lighter. Then is when she be comes indignant—and writes to you that men are “awful” and MOORE JHEAME jira Giphoumbauleeke M questioned. It will be far better to take them into your confi- dence than to attempt any fur- ther deception. Of course they will keep your secret for you. Thinks Man’s Letter Was Real “Confession” Dear Mins Grey: The letter from & man contributor in your columns |% few days ago is surely some “con- | femsion.” Let's ask the gentleman to advance further data—this inas- much as the writer is fully con- vinced there are about as many good | girls today per capita as there were ten years ago. The writer is a father and has een life from the Atlantic to the Pacific, in most of ite phases, being once a player, and afterwards an on- looker in such Bohemian localities as New York, and last but not least, “Little Old Ban Francisco.” Regarding the letter from the girl covering the men of the Northwest, Wiheir demands for an evening's 90. jclety with a young lady, I am con- vinoed most readers of same who have seen something of life, for In nee, you, Cynthia, would whisper splashy.” “EVERETT TRUE.” Party Invitation Perplezes Stranger Dear Miss Grey I have been in vited to a little private dancing party. My hostess has suggested that I bring along a young lady friend. But as I am almost an en- tire stranger here, and don't know any young woman well enough to take this privilege, I wish your ad- vice. JOHN. You cannot ask a young ‘woman whom you are but slight- ly acquainted with, who does not know your friends. The only thing to do is to explain mat- ters to your hostess and get her to introduce you to one of her friends, that you may bring her to their party. Correspondent Unable to Unravel Writer's Code Dear Mies Grey: Some time ago I received a letter with the letters “D. Y. R. L. A" on it. Now, I never use letter codes, so don't know any- thing about them, but would like to know what those letters mean very much. I wonder if you can enlight- en me? CORRESPONDENT. Code isn't indulged in by re fined people—not personal code. Of course, there are elaborate military codes which are neces- sary for safe transmission of mossages during war times. As I am not familiar with “code,” either, I could only make & guess, at the most, at translat- ing the letters, and, frankly, I don't consider it worthy of that much time. If I were you, I would not con- cern myself about it further. It isn't worth while. ‘These days, U. S. means Universal Saving. Buy thrift stamps. GET NEW KIDNEYS! The kidneys are the most over- worked orga he human and when they fail in their work of filtering and throwing off the poi- sons developed in the aystem, things begin to happen. One of the first warnings AD et ec ety even stone Ve the symptoms Indicate may Jead to that ar malady, Bri; there Is sai You can ain in the lower inky tt) nf, im- DAL For m ous prepai tal tion has ‘been unfailing rem n Sats an urinar; ry ny drug store, F you almoat your money. wilt sure you get the None othe: son In boxes, three for pit kidne PART OF T RY PHONES AIN2* Seattle Home of the ORPHEUM CIRCUIT Here’s Next Week's Big Program It Begins Tomorrow ‘Afternoon Musical Comedy Star —and— LARRY COMER Beau Brummel of Songiand Bernie and Baker Syncopated Funsters “LOVE THY NEIGHBOR” (ALTRUISMD Selma Braatz Renowned Lady Juggler STAN STANLEY The Bouncing Fellow Assisted by His Relatives ORPHEUM TRAVELOGUE CONCERT ORCHESTRA TWICE DAILY—2:30, AND 8:30 Nights, 10c, 25c, 50c, 75c—Matinees, 10c to 50c NEW PANTAGES Matinees, 2:30—Nights, 7 and 9 BEGINNING MONDAY AFTERNOON The Musical Comedy Hit of the Season ‘THE BACHELOR DINNER’ With Jack Henry, Rose Gardner and a Company of Thirteen The Master Mind of Mental Mysticism PRESCOTT Assisted by MISS HOPE EDEN Other Big Features—General Admission 25c¢