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1307 Seventh Ave. Near Unien § OF SCRITs NORTHWEST LRAGUE 1899, at_the Postoffice at sTO, Second-Class Matter May 3, the March 3, 1 + $2 be Beattie, Wasb., under the Act of Congress a Se per month; $ months, $1.50; 6 month State of Washington, Outside the state, montha, of $9. 00 iy eity, ut of cit to ° : ya) “Confessions of a Wife Without question, the greatest heart-interest story duced in recent years—outside the realm of war fiction “The Confessions of a Wife.” This remarkable serial has run in The Star for several Y Millions of men and women have been reading it. t has so faithfully pictured the every day events in hu- life, the heart throbs and the joys, the sorrows and gladness of living, that, as is usual with successful there were soon many imitators of the “Confes- ” There appeared “Revelations” in one place and "s Husband” in another. j he imitations only heightened the touch of genius the author of “Confessions” gave to her work. And now, destined even to outrival the famous “Con- ons of a Wife” is “The Confessions of a War Bride.” Today there are thousands of war brides in America, what mingled feelings did they see their husbands { for the battle front! ~ Proud of them—yet there was a pull at their heart ri that was nearly to the breaking point. Oh, what shall be the story of America’s war brides? day to day as they watch the progress of the wai | their country wins and loses various battles and skir- “somewhere in France’—what are their thoughts, hopes, their prayers? Winona Wilcox Payne, the gifted author who has writ- “The Confessions of a War Bride,” has been the con- nte of thousands of women in her newspaper career. er life work has been the study of human qualities, foibles, @nners, habits. She is eminently qualified to write so bsorbing a story as “The Confessions of a War Bride.” And one may save food by eating more of that hard- to keep, and less of that which may be stored away @ winter day. . King for Us? German war lords are making kings for subdued por- of what was Russia. They are polishing up crowns, ’ scepters, and hand pressing royal robes for divers or to wear on somewhat rickety thrones Ger- n are erecting in Poland, Lithuania and Finland. ist how long these “Made in Germany” kings will last pends upon the fighting now being done on the west and what our FOUR MILLION will do there next and summer. his business of making puppet kings, laying out fron- for other countries and building thrones with con- ing wires leading to Potsdam has long been the aircastle tick impelled the Hohenzollerns to make Huns out of sir German subjects. If America had not gotten into the war when she did l as whole-heartedly as she did, it is very likely that Wil- ‘now would be makings kings for Belgium, Serbia and gro, and would be grooming his sons for the thrones 4 it Britain, France and the United States. And if we defeated, should Germany so overwhelm America, Fitain and France as she has conquered Poland, Lithuania ‘Finland, you and all of us soon would learn what a in Germany” king is like. only way in which we can dodge a King Fritz is the Huns now “over there” and in our fields, fac- mills, railroads, mines, and in our homes. Hunger clings more closely to the Hun than Hun- ‘New York hotels have announced a cut in rates to and navy officers. This is mighty fine, good, and patriotic. If any one id be shown the greatest consideration it is the man h an Rvine his all to down the Hun. Why not include the private soldier? Let’s not have ANY class distinction in this case—let’s “em all the same reducction. And Seattle hotelmen should follow suit. In voting against anti-American congressmen, t overlook those who line up with the profite ° : et Up Before the war, fatigue and its relation to health was subject of many investigations thruout the country. It found that an individual could not work long hours and ntain his maximum efficiency and that in the long run ice was unfavorable to both employe and employer. 4 ods devised in many places to speed up the output ‘industries are bound to have a reaction not only on the put but on the individual. Physical fatigue from the dpoint of preventive medicine, must be given careful tion as one of the important factors tending to blood and tissue resistance to infectious diseases and ally infections associated with poor ventilation. With overcrowding, close contact, bad ventilation and hal infections accompanied by coughing and sneezing, Is vary in susceptibility to such infections, and ptibility seems to vary from time to time in the same dual. Age, exposure, fatigue, mental depression, di- tive disturbances, lack of food and unsuitable clothing it factors in the infection and spread of disease. ‘factory output must be maintained but so must bodily seep. Some things that aid the latter are avoidance of eating or drinking, do not keep late hours, get plenty du impo weather. Learn to relax, avoid needless worry and ue excitement, wear proper clothing, bathe often. We should travel even faster when the Hun’s on the run. > ipting War Profits In fixing coal prices the price had to be high enough efficient mines. ient_ mines. In fixing meat prices the same policy had to be pur- ed. The stock raiser had to get a price that would stimu- luction, and the least efficient packer had to have that would give him a profit and keep him busy. That meant abnormal war profit for the highly effi- og fixing. The only way left to prevent profiteering for the government to recover excess war profit by tio That is, Uncle Sam had to let the efficient win their arbles and then take the marbles away from them. ; ene to be ihe pe ing. also seems to about the only sure way to C profiteering. fleep; eat the right kind of food—only a little meat in| stimulate production by allowing a profit to the least | This meant an abnormally high war profit to the most Epecking trust. ere seemed to be no way to curb profiteering by| policy Secretary McAdoo is pur-| arriage,” monotone continued Donna, “is # than monotony it “Marriage is more exciting than ement the imagination ean Marriage makes the tasks of Her on look ke play “Marriage, is the most interesting of any vocation “Marriage is the most boresome of | human states, | “Marriage im ecstatic bias. “Marriage is daily, yes, hourly, | pain, “Marriage, in short, is all the world can give to mortals and they can make it what they choose “Hear! hear! The two most charm ing widows in town discoursing on marriage,” murmured Barclay Sill, who came in at this moment “Why do you talk about it, my ‘dears? Why don't you live it? he inquired with that little playfully [sarcastic tone that Dick so often used, and which always makes me want to put my hand on his shoul | der | “Marriage is state,” suggested Donna quickly, “and you must remember, Barclay, that the very name of widow implies that we have lived it” not an immortal | “Love in immortal,” I quoted sofuy “Perhaps,” sald Rarelay Sill, “but it says nothing in my curriculum about the object of love being im mortal, In my philosophy, love ts not only immortal, but omnipresent, and all ready to be transferred very quickly from one beloved object to another.” “You are a splendid one to eluci date such theories, my dear Bar clay,” taunted Donna only a year ago that one evening you told me that the reason you had never married was because you had loved beautiful girl when you were young, and that she bad died, and you never could love again?’ “Where are the loves of yeater rr quoted Barclay Sill smi! ingly, | Gone with the snows,” promptly answered Donna, “which means,’ she continued, “that after all we do not know anything about it.” | “"Love comes, love goes, who |knows?" again quoted Barclay Sill | “Mercy! how literary we ail are getting,” I remarked, and all at once it came over me that I was bored a Uttle. Little book, I never , when Dick was talking—and Dick never was literary in his life. On thing that makes me realise that I Am growing old ts that I begin to see | that life in greater than literature. Donna made a move to go and I be came very nervous. I did not wish to be left alone with Barclay Si I felt ke a girl with the knowl ledge that her first declaration of love was coming to her. Truly, lit tle book, I was not sure, and I am not sure yet, whether I am going to accept or refuse Barclay Sill when he proposes. There, I am sure I am growing old, because if it were back in the past back as far as that happy time when Dick was showing me that he was! \rine rained ime | having a hard time to keep from ask |ing me to marry him—I would be very much excited. Now my heart never misses a beat unless Barclay Sill happens to say something in that voice of his that is at times so much | uke Dick's. I think, little book, if Rarciay Sill's | voice were always like Dick's 1 would be like the princess in the fairy tale—I would marry him and | Uve happy ever after— Maybe! (Te Re Continued) THEFTS AT MARKET | Editor The Star: Is there not a | way to stop the petty thieving at the | public market? Things have come to such a state, you dare not take your | hands off a parcel to make a pur |chase without some one making lawny with it! Surely the general public known a lost article should be turned in where found, and failing to do #0 only stamps them as thieves. One cer |tainly can have more respect for a “Was it not} wan bored} | | Herb. 15th, air. tain; Why so? fio I can get into the fi ry * The various discussions carried on | thru Cynthia Grey's department from time to time have brought strange tales and pentup confes sions released under anonymous mea. T recent discussion on Why I Have Never Married” brought forth a number of especial interesting lifestories, Thiam: ing’s mall contained a belated letter on thie subject: but it is #0 intensely interesting that it is printed below Dear Mise Grey: Your discuasion Why I Have Never Married” has no doubt been closed; but it was only today that I decided to tell you my story, and as it is unusual, perhaps you will wish to print tt anyway. = | I was born in New York. Soon! after my birth, my parents both | died, then my aunt and uncle up in} They were very | strict, and because I wan gay lke! my mother, life was very miserable | for me. Up to the age of 18 I had) never been to a single dance or party | and had never met one young man. | #0 St was no wonder that when a cir cus came to town I was wild to go. I bad to run away to go, but I went. There I watched a Ughtrope walker with whom I fell in After it wan all over, chance brought | us face to face outside, 1 was really quite a pretty girl, so after a little coaxing I went away with the circus. After three months I wae a drawing card to this one-ring circus. Soon I discovered that Johnny, the tightrope walker, did not care for love me at all. After having been with the circus a year, I chanced to meet A young man, Dick, by name, who really fell in love with me. I left the circus and went to Dick's moth ers to live while he built a home for us At the end of two months 1 found out that I wanted the gay life of my circus friends, so one night I left quietly, and finally caught up with the circus, They all told me how heart broken Johnny was when I left, so when he himself told me #0, I forgave him Then followed four months of real pickpocket who does not walt until| happiness. The night before we were |you have worn your patience and shoe soles looking for something |only to have some one grab it, not | knowing the contents. One of our men in charge sayn, “If \a Jap finds anything, you will got it, otherwise one chance in a thou | cand.” | What a compliment for our Amert lean people. I knew some of the | good ones had gone to the trenches, but did not think all had gone, M. 8. FIRING SQUAD FOR BILL ‘ditor The Star: In answer to ‘our question, “Where'll we send | Kaiser Bill?" ‘There is a place tn |front of a firing squad. A similar fate befell Charles 1. of England and Louis XVI. of France. Take the kaiver on his own terms, |that “might makes right.” LEVI WRIGHT, $812 46th Ave. 8. WOULD HANG BILL Fditor The Star: You suggest a number of places to which we might |send the kaiser, including Siberia, Laurie istand, Graham Land and the | upper Yukon; most of them 80 or 90 |degrees t wero. | Why send him to a cold climate? Let's give him our hottest; he may as well get used to it HERE, But seriously, I thought we were going to Berlin to HANG him J.C. SMITH, Kingston. | WANTS HUN IN LOWER CASE FAitor ‘The Star: Even with all |the hatred we have for the Hun, we | still put the capital letter in front of | his name I would suggest that the names of all German military men, German cities written with the common letter, Put the whole bunch in the lower case, I would be pleased to see your pa- |per start the program, and T am | sure the American people will appre | elate the change. Yours very truly, / Doug Johnson, of Providence, Ky., had a sow which gave birth to eigh jan eye. | | nd towns, kaiser and all be} potyonn, to have been married I was watching Johnny take his dizzy walk when he slipped and fell into the net. I wait ed fully three minutes, then when he did not get up I ran into the tent 1 called for help. We took him to t, and when the doctor came he said my Johnny's back was broken He died shortly after and I left the circus and went to a town near Chi cago to live—alone ’ I lived there for 10 years. One day | a circus came to town and a neigh bor lady asked me to go and help care for the children, Well, I went and there a fine young man did the same stunts that Johnny had, only |; without the net. 1 began trembling | like a leaf. My friend offered to| take me home, but because of the| children I stayed, Near the end of the act, the same as with Johnny, he fell to the earth. TI fainted. When I came to, I was on a cot in| a tent and around me was a circle of circus girls. One of the older| ones had been with the old circus, and she knew me, too I went home, packed Op my things and came out here. I grew very lonely with only Johnny's picture for | company, so I adopted a 10-year-old girl. It is she who is writing this because I am too old and shaky to| do it Well, I have been out here 35 years, My little girl is well along | in life, and I am up to my waist in| the grave. Even if | was never mar-! By Purifying the Blood | Once you get your blood free from impurities—cleansed of the catarrhal | which it is now a prey to because of its unhealthy state—then | Standing case, be sure to write for | you will be relieved of Catarrh—the dripping in the throat, hawking and spitting, raw sores in the nostrile, | and the disagreeable bad breath, was caused, in the first place, cause east! veted, Possibly a cold contact with someone who had a cold, But the point is—don't | suffer with Catarrh—it is not neces sary. The remedy 8. 8. S., discov- be. | in and tried, is obtainable at any drug THE SEATTLE STAR—MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 1918. Ka 4 FOE Yd lke to get transferred from thin division (83rd) to the ” Life Ruined by Circus Glanner; Sawdust Lured Her From Love ried T am stepgrandmother to two beautiful children, oneg f whom is married now 1 guems maybe thin is more the story of my life than why I never married. It sounds lke cheap fiction perhaps, but how I wish it were not NEARLY 6 Wool Sweater Craze Unpatriotic In it unpatriotic to buy wool sweater? A umber us girls have had an argument about it One of the girls claims that the wood in needed for the soldiers, and for that reason none of us should buy or knit sweaters for ourselves. ELA There is a shortage of wool, dye stuffs and labor, Therefore none of you should use any of these which you do not need The furore for hand made sweat ers haw without doubt resulted in the use of much wool and Ume which could have been used to make garments for sailors and soldiers, Each woman must nettle this question for herself If she studies the situation care fully she will employ her hands in war work, rather than in making garments for herself which she does not necd. ot Anzious to Go To the Front I was accepted by my local boord but when examined at camp was re Jected on account of @ slight defect I feel like a slack Everybody asks me why I am not in service Even the girl to whom I have been engaged acts differently since my return. I don't blame her. I don’t wonder that she is ashamed of me when all her other friends have fone to the war, Could not we men who have been rejected for such slight reason be given something to do? What can I do about this? 1 am years old and ready to go. DISCOURAGED Explain your ¢ase fully to your local selective service board. Many men are operated on for slight defecta and sent back to camp. At least your beard can classify you gor lim ited service. TMB SIMP WHO 1S ALWAYS SPLASHING THE LAKE WW) Best Treatment for S. S. S. Removes the Cause Catarrh store. thousands of cases, your case, Get 8 begin treatment It will do so in S. S. at once and If yours is a long free expert medical advice, We will tell you how this purely vegetable blood tonic cleanses the impurities It| from the blood by literally washing | it clean, We will prove to you that our impoverished blood was | thousands of sufferers from Catarrh, | slight | @fter consistent treatment with 8, 8. | S,, have been freed from the trouble and all it# disagreeable features and restored to perfect health and vigor, Don't delay the treatment, tory, Atlanta, Ga, It has proven its value in| Address | pigs, and not a pig in the litter has| ered over fifty years ago, tested, true | Medical Director, 439 Swift Labora- M the w dr wear its ring?—I when it winds over the hill?~K. T. Dida. TAILORING CO.,Inc. | | | | | | | | ~~ kina, about six months ahead of my in come, wenerally.” wars In my kitchen and never won one yet once between a horse and a fence? | ‘That's an easy one, |electric bulbs in a garden?—Nat E. | Dresser, have on them this season? Questions Mr, C. Grey Cannot Answer wear to a billiard ball? Lamb, waves on Lake Washigton? Chipps. STARSHELLS | MFASURE OF 6PEED a cers “Tow fast is your car?” asked Per FOURTH CHAPTER by the News “well,” anid Parker,” “it keep down state we decided that they were going to be moved from th A FAMOUS BATTLE GROUND Bob couldn't get a furlough. None Parke—You, wir—the war will be| "ne Two MONT of the private soldiers had homg won in the kitchen, FUL MEN | KNOW; MY | [8¥¢. 80 their relatives moved og Lane—Good! I've had several HUSBAND AND-- that town by families and turned the Judge eee Answered by Mr. Cynthia Grey How can & person tell the differ d Tetty Atwood, Bob's cousin, Bob's chum, My mother and an ers mate a heavy allowance of chaperons auto ot suddy. line Rose Bedéy the relatives leave town before the soldiers entrained pitable citizen had to apring a dinner-dance our last hour with our men. suit the soldiers’ hours off duty You tell it by jelr gaits, Where in the best place to plant ter and getting married | igled hysterically Lucy's sure nobody else will get Grant's insurance money.” If 1 could ever loathe anybody, it would be Chryatabel. Near the currants, What do the best calling ecards Les =p R. ¥, R Aces. ing between Chrys and me. She's responsible for my quarrel with Bob Dr. What kind of a costume should I May Spring have had an excuse to come except to see Chrys. He's about en, her. And if he hadn't come, 1 wouldn't be weeping now. Just after he entered the ballroom Jong dints He was gone for hours Now if this is to be a real “Confer all the disagreeable truths about myself. big Oaks grow from acorns and big sorrows from little mistakes. 1 could alwaye get Tony Curt away fram any other girl. Does a heavy storm cause Marcel Kitue I have invented an automobile top joane tell me how to get it patented for and that was @ good many. were pretty nearly engaged Nobody noticed except Chrystabel. pretty hard emotional partings. Well, here can I get a job as a screw iver?—T. M. L. On what finger doen the doorbell M. Knottin. Muet there be eprings in a road what she wanted. pleasures from now on ing, too, for Hamiiton Certels can be the most fascinating man world when he wants to be He can talk cleverly when Bob would be dumb. most stubborn, willful and masterful men I would ever know I can’t imagine anything eo terrible as to have those posed to each other. ia z {To Be Continued) and materials for Suits, Coats and One-piece Dresses. RABY soldiers can slight their fight and reach Berlin. 425 UNION ST. You cannot BUY Bonds; you invest in them. People of Seattle!!! Show your confidence in your Government. Lend it your Savings. It will return your Savings on ten days’ notice. Take your money out of your Safe Deposit Box and put a War Savings Certificate in its place. Make your Savings Account a War Savings account. Seattle is asking ayd receiving her share of Government contracts. Seattle is receiving assistance from the Government in . the performance of these contracts. How long can we make these requests if we are unwill- ing to bear our share of her burden? Seattle will ask the co-operation of the Government in solving its housing problem. * Can we consistently ask such assistance if we fail in rais- ing our allotment of War Savings? Deposits in Seattle Savings Banks have increased $7,000,000 in the past eight months. This is more than dou- ble our shortage in War Savings. No other large city on the Coast has had such an in- crease in Savings Deposits. The opportunity to save will be just as great in the next eight months as in the past eight months. Use a part of this surplus in wiping out our shortage in War Savings Subscriptions. Money is necessary to WIN this War. Either loan your Savings to your own Government or later you will be forced to give them to Germany. Which do you prefer? Put Seattle “over the top” or call yourself a slacker. JUDGE KING DYKEMAN, Director of Captains Q. Q. War Savings Stamp Drive. This space contributed to the Winning of the War by Seattle Machine Works and Alaska Junk Co. Copyright, 1918, Enterprise Ass'n From the way the boys were sending home their nonregulation stuff, hotel into a barracks for women, We drove down, Chrystabel in my and Lucy Dennis, who was en, sad of other mothe It wan a dreadful ume, for I saw Bob only an hour or two a day. the end of a week it was hinted that the colonel would be pleased to have Then some how t the country club, and spol It was an early dinner and a short dance, te Grant and Lucy enlivened the occasion by sending out for « minis ‘The chaperons all cried and the younger girlg Chrys, calm as an oyster, whispered to me, “Now, Bob twin I really ought to love her, I suppose, but if ever there were 4 example of sex antagoniam—like poles repelling each other—tt's the f Hamilton Certetg drove down in his powerful car, at the last minute, and he would never Bob was called to the pho nd hours, it seemed to me, " 1 suppose I've got to What happened next shows So now It reminded me of the time when we The others were all having some I wanted my hard parting moments, too—but my husband seemed quite able to get on without them. As for Chrys, I didn’t care Getting even with her. is going to be one of my dally It will be eaxy, when Tony is around, and pleas He and Hob are Absolutely different in everything. My husband came up at last, and as they stood wide by side, I realised that the two were the two wille We can no more shirk our work and win than our Thrift Stamps or « Liberty At | It in 80 wimple @ child can #pin it.—| «imply snitched him from Chrys just to pay her for what she sald co Andy K cerning Lucy and Grant's insurance. 3 What kind of a boat does a shad A smile did it, As #00n as Bob went to the phone, I smiled on Tony 7 ae roet—G. C. quite casually. In one minute, he had found another partner for Chrys” the | My father is a race track driver. and in two minutes he was kissing my finger tips in that fetching foreign My oldest brother is a truck driver, Way he persists in. | My youngest brother is a cart driver, Bob stayed wo long that Dr. Certels had as many dances as he asked L "QRTRGESS TRESERS GIT OFBGER SS SREEE_SESSEE_32E524_ )eeq_ ems ie 08 OO Ow bes et