The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 28, 1918, Page 6

May 8, 1899, at_the Postoffice at ve jareh 3, 1878, ct of Congress Sho per month State of Washington, Ov Twenty-five Cents Is All You Need— "How Do They Do It? We would like to catch a baker, or maybe just ‘ 2 cer’s janitor, have him enlighten 7 ht and appetizing and generally “wheatless regime. How do they do it?—that's what we want to know. We would have backed our wife against ny § meal on! & appy pre-| when it came to bread making, in those ric days before “de wah.” __. The good wife has tried barley flour, and rice flour, and > ye flour, and all sorts and combinations of these and other them in biscuits and griddle res; she has put in mashed potatoes and tried to make ffins; she has tried bread of nine different formulas, has tried doughnuts—DOUGHnuts was right—says she raisin cake and currant cookies os and char- Puente ween n ; and she has tried tried gingerbread and all the rest of the things we once grew fat upon, and everything has been vile. The messes are soggy; they are damp in the center ; y are either damp, or so durn dry that they crumble be-/ “eg can get them out of the pan. ; e flavor isn’t there; the smell isn’t there, and we) straw that broke the camel's back” until Int night, I think | slept on it” that the odor of good cookery will be one of the -- esuivnnsirt: nee “a “chief delights of a well-provisioned heaven. But some bakers continue to hand out milk loaves om as white, that heft as light, that taste as t as in the old peaceful days, when you fed wheat to, ckens and you received a big sack of popcorn for yy: ‘4 We do wish they’d tell us how they do it. Sure, we read all the recipes; none of ‘em work at our| i cryin’ 7 milk, \ To Buy a Thrift Stamp— Hitherto it has been considered “cheap” to be thrifty—) Patched clothes, mended shoes, the utilization of any-| must go to work. that has lost its store bloom; these things have been hurt the business any in this country— fpottage and became a wage slave. - thrift is something worth 3. it is not a feed on the nation by the mounting cost of the war. iy caption ako 1, and ed end? anythin~ about an awl, a waxed end? ‘ granddad care. you go to any hardware store and purchase, | ctotnes.” one-third the price of a pair of cheap shoes, a home + 42 ‘ 's outfit. ppose you read the directions therein. n suppose you buy a pair Of half-soles to fit one Of years, biue eyes, dark hair, five feet oe half dozen pairs of shoes in the garret. * soak the soles, per instructions, and hammer) Penis: fav’ punch them full of holes with the awl, and nail Yorn $20.00, °woh and trim them, and put them on and wear them; and with some lady, yong or old. Matet- eee f. buy three dollars’ worth of Thrift Stamps that you have earned. When you have done this and sewed, with a waxed ————— ae and get him off in one quiet corner, and| us as to how bakers’ bread continues digestible under this | ; e, and the bakers’ doughnuts are about as usual ; his pies have a crisp crust and his cakes are light ‘and thesome, but the wife, and every other woman in our jood—so far as we can learn—can’t make it rise, make it jibe, can’t coax it to perform in any manner duty, it is being rapidly knew, and the kiddies’ shoes attested Except where practiced by immigrants, who somehow| *<tr st work, That’ be « novelty a maged to live on what American 1 mpc peaeoy away,| In Central ave. the other day, I | | Take the stay within a generation, to own half countryside, while! saw « sign, “Whitewashing Done Dear Mins Grey: ve taken @ America bartered its rural acres for a mess of city) ere.” 1 went to the back door and A young woman friend out occasional found a good natured looking woman ly. Bach time, when leaving her at gettin: uainted | ** a laundry tub, “Excuse me,” 1) her home, I agg mayo when 1 acl - . "Whitewash- might call again. Was this proper, Sine See pan anak Lies tence tah lor should I have waited for ber to |invite me to call again? If, when leaving, ashe does not invite me to | come again, should I take this as a } hint not to call any more? 1 i} OLIVE DRAP. I don't » You did right to ask when you whitewash < might call again. It is better form for you to express your THE SEATTLE STAR—WEDNESDAY, AUGUST ae — Dear Miss Grey: In your answer to “Misa Sixteen,” you made a state ment which I shall take the liberty to ask you to explain more clearly You said that the fact had to be recognized that al] the men in unt forms had not enlisted, but were drafted, This was one of your rea #ons for advising the "Mins Sixteen’ to be careful when at public dance halls, Do you thereby moan to say that the moral of the drafted man in below that of the enlisted? Thank | c you for answer, | 7 IN LOVE WITH A DRAFTED 3 MAN. What you need to do in to take a long walk in the fresh air and \ on sunshine, and then come back | 4 on 4 read the answer I gave to = “Ming Sixteen” again, I'm afraid your brain ten't working clearly, or you wouldn't take such ex ceptions to my statement, What I mild in that answer I repeat “Mian Sixteen” argued that it was quite proper to go to & public dance hall and dance with any man in uniform who asked her, because, as she put it, “if good enough to fight are good enough to dance with I haven't space to elaborate upon every anewer answering ‘Mins Sixteen,” I supposed everyone who read it would take into consideration the fact that all of the men now in the service are not there of their free will. Kvery man of draft age who iw not deficient, or who has not a dependency claim, in in uniform, When you read every few days about slacker raids in pool halls, you may draw your own conclusions as to whether every man in uniform i» fit for a 16 year-old girl to pick up an ac quaintance with, unchaperoned When I have relatives and very close friends who have been drafted, you may judge for your self whether I would cast any re flection upon a drafte Your intimation is silly row minded, and plutely with out foundation. The uniformed brothers of 1éyearold girls do not wish thelr little sisters to go down into a public dance hail and entertain a man in uniform becaure they appreciate too fully the danger of it The army and navy officers in charge of cur tonments and training stations, university professors, welfare workere in every walk of life not enly ask, but demand, that young and irresponatble girls be kept away from our soldiers and sailors, except when duly chaper ae Ge ee oned. 1 trust the apace devoted a to answering you is not in vain. lcompanies can take pictures of the oxen Man's Privilege “Gee, Herb, d'yu know, I never did believe that story about ‘the a | AH, THERE, EDSEL! We're going to admit our leno rance—we didn't know that Henry Ford's son's name was Edsel until | Representative Johnson branded him as 4 slacker, Probably to the Soft Corn Belt Dr. and Mrs. Howard Weigner, the well-known local chiropodiate, will leave for St. Loula next week to at convention of the National tion of Chiropodists, Matters pertaining to the care of soldiers’ | feet will be discunsed. They also will make « trip thru the Iilinols corn | belt—Eikhart (Ind) Review There's no use| te wer sour elther. Make cottage cheese out uv it. | A WORD FROM JOSH WISE Uncle Sam says the movie actors ing Done Here.” I have a fence that I want to have whitewashed. Shall I> loring it over here, or will the man who does the whitewashing come over to my house?” | “Laws, honey,” she }do the whitewashing. whitewash answered, “' But fences. 1 Cc. 8 pleasure in the acquaintance than for the girl to do so. The fact that she did not ask you need not be constried ag a hint to cease calling | Don’t Write, Girls; Somebody Prob- ably Has Landed Him by This Time Iam a Danish bachelor of 40 | tall, 128 pounds, ship and house car ae | penter; have property property | ‘The Yanks and French have taken | , in Florida | the town of Cohan. Let's turn it| Location of o in Canada| over to George and let him drama-|“No Man's Land to correspond | tize it, } Please explain mony object: hypnotist, clairvoyant and violinist. H. August Larson— | Kansan City, Mo., Post Sign on a garage “Gasoline, Ol). | Cow.” Free Air, Hot or a all the soleless shoes on the premises, and applied 3 few heels, and cemented the rubbers together, and mended oh raincoat, and put the “gum” boots in ship-shape, you n buy $10 more in Thrift Stamps. Thrift? This country doesn’t yet faintly ken the word. And $4.19 Is All It Takes— Jolting Dan Cupid ' _—SC Now what do you think of this? family parlor hereafter. Watch for the exodus of Hazletonjan lads and a sadness on the moon’s face as he beams down upon this “spoonles: ! ___ The mayor may mean well, but he doesn’t know human| Mature. He has forgotten the days—and moonlit evenings | che said K From the time “whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary” there have been kings, °* fernors, mayors and parents trying to curb Dan Cupid They failed to clip his wings _—of his youth. rules and regulations. or blunt his arrows. -. It eannot be done, Mr. Mayor. to your office and ‘tend to your official knitting. family parlor is no place to hold hands and exchange those heart-confiding glances—not as long as her pa insists upon talking about the war and her ma wants to gossip about the weather, and both hang around until a fellow has just ‘enough time to race for the last street car. To Buy a War Savings Stamp— Make Your Money Work This is how you can make your money work: Invest it. But invest it safely. Invest it in such a way that you can ‘always get your} back when you want it. there any investment that is as gilt-edge as all) that? Yes—the War Savings Stamps. They are absolutely a safe investment. a reasonable interest. 10 days’ notice at any postoffice, diers and sailors in fighting trim. So Let’s All Pitch in— _ | And Make Our Seattle Quota Quick. Here’s Mayor Hein- — th of Hazleton, Pa., with an ultimatum that those|her tliness double ig persons who have a penchant for moonlight strolls, benches and shady nooks, shall do their courting in You had better stick! *e The| eve" were bright with fever and it! They bring you You can get your money back upon Put your surplus in War Savings Stamps, help your-| knows more. Some day there in go », protect your money, and also help Uncle Sam, By ig the money to him you enable him to keep his sol-) i} | - that you have come to me at thin a TO | time, so that you will be able when - som the Ume comes to tell Margaret Anne just what to do when the inev itable quarrel arises between big and Uttle ‘Tim. “They love each other devotedly but that makes the catastrophe all the more certain. When the time Tim Lafferty shall say When I arrived at Annie's she was | breathing with great difficulty, and soon afterward Dr. Virot pronounced pneumonia. she was hardly conscious, but as the sun began to come up over the hilltops that you could see from her windaw@comes that she suddenly opened her eyes and | {2 bis son, ‘Get out,’ you will take| pevdeenciwge & him in, won't you, Mise Margaret, | Seould tel! from the look in her /URt! little Margaret Anne shall make yeace between the leyes that she wanted to say some: |* . thing to me, and I bent over her It ts Miss Margaret,” COR, FINST AVE. AND PIKE ST. Vhene Mate 4968 “IF | HURT YOU, DON’T PAY ME.” ‘This in my mensage of deliverance to you from the fear that accom- panies Dental operations. 1 EXT . Fill, CROWN ana TREAT th’ absolutely without pain in al but acute abscessed conditions. | in your et him longer than that, Mine | piphcel 1», guaranteed. hte: | Margaret, keep him until he sees the | right. Timmy is a good boy and he | STERLING DENTISTRY has a lot of good, common sense, but | = 2 2 ffice Meure: © tocnm sometimes it goes woolathering | - * prea ldir | a! with the rest of his mind.” | (To Be Continued) | Use Your Diamonds Watches and Liberty Bonds as security when you need money, Loans taken up from others and more money advanced. Liberal amounts. Lowest rates, You get full amount of loans no interest deducted. Ladies’ Department Loans on Diamonds, Watches and Liberty Bonds Empire Mortgage Loan Co. Established 12 Years, 20123 White Bidg. FALL STYLES and materials for Suits, Coats and One-piece Dresses. RABY TAILORING CO.,Inc. 425 UNION ST. ‘L will not only dear, do that, Annie, but I'll keep him just as long all over 4 alt over, wants to stay.” “Don't say that, Annie. I am sure Virot will pull you thru.” “No, dear, it is the best. I am thru with it all.” 1 could enly look at her with sad ness, for it was borne in upon me| was speaking the truth. Her yaerentaneas oma Big these mighty helpful in Beast of Berlin was agony for her to “Don't try to talk, Annie," I said “L must talk, Miss Margaret ve she said When a person knows that he must do all his talking in the next few minutes, he will not mind a little burt, if he manages to say what he wants to.” uu want to say something, An families days are} swatting the! “You know what I told u the Pay: ey ‘ou know wha old you G {other day about Tim and his tathar |"7° ike, he .O'Gormiaas: of ‘Provir! ‘Oh, Miss Margaret, dear, 1 am|@ence, R. I. The only thing that! | afraid—I am afraid,” kept Mrs, Thomas A, O'Gorman| | Her eyes grew suddenly wide with |from having more fighting sons in error, and J, fMisunderstanding ner,| service was that whe only had six vastened to assure her that Dr. Virot old enough to go. These six went, | would set her on her feet again, jand their mother la so proud of “L do not mean I am afraid of|them that she has joined every dying, Miss Margaret—the blessed | Red Cross, Liberty Loan and Thrift mother will inter » for me with Stamp boosting organization In her) but it is my own son for|town, Not having more sons, this “rte va ha War Mother gave one of her two Ho in aa stubborn as his |Gausnters to, the strvioe, Captain pied f Slizabe YGorman, of the Rhode already he thinks he|tuand Motor Corps, ling to be an awful clash, and I will| ANd, too, it's fine to have plenty | not be here to make peace between | fF grandsons. Now, there's Mrs. thems.” | Mary 1, Chapman, of Vienna, Ill “Can I help, Annie, dear Annie?|WO has Just been presented with | |Tet me pass on to your children |® service flag containing 12 stars # | wore of the care and love you have |!" honor of her 12 grandsons who) || given my mother's child. |are now serving her nation. Right-| || Annie's dimming eyes were grate-|ly this old lady belongs near th || ful a# she said, “I have always loved | head of the roll of War Grand- | you, Mise Margaret, and“1 am glad|mothers of America, nxlous about Anne can take “, my dear, I Margi care of herself. am gone? father, and Reflection Cast on Drafted Man, | Soldier's Sweetheart Insinuates ' a I didn’t imagine, when I started to write the “Confessions of = War Bride” that I was going to net down the confensions of the entire tribe of Lorimer Junt at the present time this fame ily is pushing my story so fast thet I almost forget my worries about Bob It seeme that we're in danger of having © new and very queer kind of war bride forced upon us. | Yesterday Jim, Jr, came home from a school of military aero | He has just finished his ground school, and proudly sports a bright |eord, the color of the newly organized air nervice, above the white ri . d which all student officers or cadets wear on their hats. Has Contempt for Divorce, | Jim, Jr., has a ten-day furlough before he is amigned to « school But Defies marriage Law alr pilots, Now hear what his father, the Hon, James D, Lorimer, | Dear Mins Grey other day |™m as & welcome home you wrote under the heading of “Un Jim hunted me up where he knows he is sure to find me after true Husband and Fickle Giris.”| fast, waiting for the postman under the pines at the far end of the Now, I am forced to take exceptions | He began in his own blunt way to your statements. “There's a girl downtown called ‘The Queen of Smiles.” | 1 am married and have two fine| “Movie actress? Never heard of her,” said 1 | children, and a good, tr wife, but “Of course, you didn't,” he went on superciliously, as if there wa |1 don't love her and never did. 1|*me things he might know very well and I might not know at Ze | atti! live with her because of my | love Jim, Jr, but I wish be wouldn't treat me ae if I were only ideas of divorce. girl +4 I have been in love with another “Well, father's been keeping her. She's not a bad girl, in her man’s wife for years, She was noth. | that is, well—she's always been loyal to Dad,” he stammered aa if ing but a kid when she married her | Couldn't possibly expect me to get this, the man’s distinction between She | nese and badness tells me that she hates her husband, | “Jim,” said 1, putting down my knitting, “are you suffering and whe certainly shows it. Well, | #hell shock this morning?” for thene few years we have been the “I wish I were,” he answered. ‘Well, this girl used to | same as man and wife, but she still) Barnaby’s cabaret when dancing was in fashion, That's where she got lives with ber husband, | with my | mame, ‘Queen of Smiles.’ I saw her there, Must have flirted with | wife, and the more we are together | #4 too, like the other fellows, Anyway, she remembers me, all ri | the more we love each other, all right.” | Now I suppose you would classity Of course she remembers Jimmie. 1 don't think any woman |me as « dog, or beast, and this looked on Jimmie's six feet of blond beauty and forgot him. Jimmie ff lother woman as bad or jworse, for| as naturally as he breathes, But he’s as splendid as Sir Galahad. | ving a double life; but I tell you,| marry? Not Jimmie, so long as there's action in the world, Just | Mias Grey, there are things in thin action and aviation mean the same to him. | life that to sofe are awful, but, if “Dad's been keeping her for years,” he repeated, and he needed to, for | the truth were known, they wouldn't {t was all too terrible for me to grasp the first ume. “She's got the goods seem wo bad A.W. K on him. Now that Dad's going to run for congress, she says that as eure Circumstances sometimes alter | as fate she'll spill the beans, and spoil his election, unless—" Jimmie: canen, but it certainly is not true | stopped short fe in this instance, 1 could hardly “If whe does, it will kill your mother,” I gasped, clutching at bis Classify you as a dog, or a beast, “Trust you to get the point, Jane. You know better than I how Decause the lower animals are | mother has been since Benjie died. And she's so ambitious for father, and not guided in their acts by intel just consider her New England brand of morals! But, Jane, mother will ligence, while man is supposed | have to know unleas—” + to be, | “Unless what, Jimmie boy?" Your adminsion of a double | “Dad says, unless I marry the Queen! She's picked me out, Ji life hasn't made me change my | the price of silence, Think of my mother, and then say if I've got views one fota, It only goes fur. | choice ther to prove that even a stricter | (To Be Continued) marriage law in necessary to the welfare and protection of wom anhood. It's too bad that “the other man's wife” can’t realize that by helping you to live a double life she is only throwing mud in her own face. And it's the term of “No Man's Land.” SOLIABH'S SISTER. “No man's Land” is the zone between opposing trenches, It is not ponnlble for either side to THREATENS THE LOK hold it, and no one ventures on | | IMEK FAMILY j it except at risk of death. Dar (% ry ing soldiers do creep out at night, however, from both aides, to make raids on enemy lines, or to gather information. Eg NEW KIND OF WARK BRIDE se husband, and he is much older ful heritage. { I don’t know what your ideasof divorce are, but, in my opinion, it could hardly be more dishoner- | able than your idea of marriage, | too bad the truth, and the whole truth, can't be known so that the other man and the good, true woman you call your wife might not be cheated out of their right THE TIME TO SET A HEN— Is When the Hen Is Ready Seattle is ready for more homes— five thousand short today! It’s public spirit and it’s good busi- ness to BUILD A HOUSE! Build now and you build for the greatest house market Seattle has ever seen. Build now and you turn that vacant lot into money. Build now and you get materials on a better cost basis than you may see again in years. Labor is on different standards that can never be the same again. More houses mean a more equitable distribution of taxation. More houses mean better values for adjacent property. 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