The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 12, 1919, Page 13

RUE r= OVR FRIGNDS ALWAYS LIKE 5 THis One, co MR, TRYE, { >) THis «s my HUSBAND'S PavoRITE. tall and very solem describes him, come Sidney ts 15, ‘ambiti Sidney ix ho: undecided She had been contri with Dr. 4 Wilson and “quite gray over bis ears.” yet not «to “The Street,” and becomes @ roomer jous, Joe Drummond, 21, te in love Aunt Harriet declares her intention buting thra her sewing. and decides to become a nurse. te Bidney ‘and asks bim to remain at the Page home to help out while ‘Was in training. He agrees = Fo disabuse gossip on the “street ‘waike with her during the evening Burgeon, Ed made his career poes! rather a gay young man. He pr (Continued from Friday.) Le Moyne, eager reckless, He difference—the ready to give herself to that life would come man hour at his napkins lay ironed E i : ok Pe ve i ¥ ¥ . Max was suffer. of defeat ax he The night before, pro} to a girl and had rejected. He was not in love fh the girl—she would have been 5 wife, and a surgeon ought j- it gives people con- his pride was hurt. He the exact words of the re- THY i ii are. too good looking, Max.” had said, “and that’s the truth. that operations are as popular Bs fancy dancing and much less ther, half the women I know are I'm too ty about their surgeon of my peace of mind.” But, good heavens! haven't you confidence in me?" he had de jonerwhatever, Max, dear.” She looked at him with level, under ing eyes. put out of his mind as he parked car and made his way to his of Here would be people who be- in him, from the middle-aged in her prim uniform to the of patients sitting stiffly around walls/of the waiting room. Dr. pausing in the hall outside the of his private office, drew a breath. This was the real thing and plenty of it, a chance to the other men what he could a battle to win! No bumanitar- was he, but a fighter; each day came to his office with the same lust. « * 6 eee office nurse had her back to When she turned, he faced an ble surprise. Instead of Miss on, he faced a young and at tive girl, faintly familiar. fe tried to get you by tele ”" she explained. “I am from ‘hospital. Miss Simpson's father this morning, have to have some one. starting for my vacation, so they . i tpather a poor substitute for a ‘yacation,” he commented. | @he was a very pretty girl. He seen her before in the hospital, he had never really noticed how ve she was. Rather stun- she was, he thought. The com- ition of yellow hair and dark eyes ‘was unusual. He remembered, just in tiene, to express regret at Mise ipson's bereavement. “{ am Miss Harrison,” explained the substitute, and held out -his long coat. The ceremony, purely with Miss Simpson on duty, proved interesting, Miss Har- rison, in epite of her high heels, be- small and the young surgeon | When he was finally in the|the cook on the stool, poring over |§ she was rather flushed and pal- ut I knew your nam /* Ned Dr. Max. about the vacation, “that came work. Miss Har-|knew it. Certainly he stood very | A was nimble and alert, but the worked quickly and with few ‘was impatient when she could the things: be called for, ce into restrained profanity the disagreeable recollec: | nd she knew you! 1 was | that she is engaged ble by persot ney about a position In omises [0 see Jover her mistakes, but preserved her | dignity and her wits. Now and then | he found her dark eyes fixed on him, [with something inscrutable but Pleasing in their depths. The situs | ton was rather piquant. Consciously jhe was thinking only of what he | was doing. Subconsciously his busy ego was finding solace after last night's rebuff, i Once, during the cleaning up be | | tween cases, he dropped to a person: | ality. He was drying his hands, while she placed freshly sterilized instruments on @ glass table | “You are almost a foreign type, Mts Harrison. Last year, in a Lon don ballet, I saw a blonde Spanish girl who looked like you.” “My mother was a Spaniard.” She did not look up. | Where Misa Stimpson was tn the habit of clumjing through the morn. ing in fiat, heavy shoes, Miss Harri son's small heels beat a busy tattoo on the tiled floor, With the rustling of her starched dress, the sound was essentially feminine, almost Insis- tent. When he had time to notice it, it amused him that he did not find it annoying. Once, as she passed him a bie toury, he deliberately placed his fine | hand over her fingers and smiled into her eyes, It was play for him; it lightened the day’s work. j Sidney was in the waiting room.! There had been no tedium in the morning's waiting. Like all imagt native people, she had the gift of dramatizing herself. She was seeing {herself in white from head to foot, tlike this efficient young woman who came now and then to the waiting room door; she wax healing the sick and closing tired eyes, she was even imagining herself proposed to by an aged widower with grown children and \quantities of money, one of her patients, She sat very demurely in the wait ing room with a magazine in her lap, and told her aged patient that |she admired and respected him, but that she had given herself to the suf. fering poor. “Everything in the world that you | want,” begged the elderly gentieman. “You should see the world, child, and I will see it again through your eyes. To Paris first for clothes and the opera, and then—" “But I do not love you," Sidney replied, mentally but stendily, “In lall the world I love only one man. He is—" | eee She hesitated here. It certainly | was not Joe, or K. Le Moyne of the gas office, It seemed to her sud dently very nad that there was no lone she loved. So many people went into hospitals because they had been | disappointed in love, “Dr. Wilson will see you now." the consulting room. Dr. Max—not | the Street, but a new person, one she | | had never known-—s#tood in his white loffice, tall, dark-eyed, dark-haired, | compete holding out his long, imn- }maculate surgeon's hand and smil- ing down at her. Men, like jewels, require a net- | ting. A clerk on a high stool, poring lover o ledger, is not unimpressiv: or a cook over her stove. But pla | the ledger! Dr. Max, who had lived jall his life on the edge of Sidney's liarge and magnificent. Perhaps he jerect. Certainly, too, there was eon |siderable manner in the way in | which he asked Miss Harrison to go out and close the door behind her. Sidney's heart, considering what then, She went little pale was happening to it, beet | Blacky the gloved and hatted Dr. Max of | ANNIE, WHAT ARE Wwe | CAN WEDLOCKED— oY They Don’t Have to Move, but— | TO RENT ‘ iia R || Were GONNA Do? WE {|| || Goes TH’ T FIND A House PHONE AN’ WE'VE |] Move MONDAY { ( O THE SEATTLE STAR—SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1919. WHAT'S ‘THAT ?- You'vE DECIDED Yo LET US STAY PROVIDED WE TAKE A LEAS { TELL ‘€m YES TE ‘Em YES Bur ‘You WANT ) $20 MoRE PER | MONTH. ¢ THar i7 @ | | | PAGE 13 = | i alta I et im YES- [2 TICKLED To oeamu Aan ee OUR RENTS BEEN RAISED Sep oaR OUR RENTS BEEN RAISED i | | {} TRALA TRArLA ! TRA-LA SuRB | CAN BUILD A STALL IN ONE HALE op THAT GARAGE | he have The J06 | SQUIRREL FOOD “THOSE INCH-STEP TIGHT SKIRTS: (W OTTO AUTOS ROAD. HELL HAVE To STOP To LET HER WIGGLE BY * OPS ICANT MOVE OUT OF TWE WAY FAST, ENOUGH IN THIS SKIRT ¢ Pax) a ; BY THORNTO (Copyright, 1919, b N W. BURGESS y¥T. W. Burge Prickly Porky Stays in His Tree-Top BY THORNTON W. BURGESS (Copyright, 1919, by T. W. Burgess) When you are safe be wise and stay ‘Till danger passes quite away. If ever anybody felt relieved it was Prickly Porky the Porcupine, s he listened to the noise of Blacky the Crow and his friends and Sammy Jay growing fainter and fainter in the distance. He knew that they were following Buster Bear and by the sound of their voices he could Just about where Buster was. His first thought when Buster left was to get down out Of that tree as quickly as he could and find some other hiding place, So down, | Half way down, Prickiy Porky's slow wits, which had been wonder fully quickened by the terrible fright he had had when Buster so nearly got him, began to work. He knew from past experience that when the Crow and Sammy Jay scream ag they had been screaming. everybody within hearing hurries to see what the fuss is all about Prickly Porky's eyes are dull. This ix because he does not have to use jthem a great deal. Looking down from his perch he could ree no one atall, It was as still as if no living thing save himself was about. But he knew that things are not always they seem, expecially in the Green Forest. The chances were that many of his neighbors had been hiding where they could see what was going on, all the time Buster Bear had been walking round the foot of that tree, It was more than likely that clever Old Man Coyote was one of there. If this were so it would be just Ike him to remain in hiding hoping that Prickly Porky would do just what he had started to do—come down. “If he is hiding down thero,” thought Prickly Porky. “I won't ye a chance in the world once I on the ground. It doeen’t seem to me that I can stay in this tree, I want to hide somewhere where no- | well | “For goodness’ sake, Sidney! said Dr. Max,-"here you are a young lady |and I’ve never noticed it!” This, of course, was not what he | pathy between women graduates and | takes the fr |had intended to say, being staff and all that, But Sidney, visibly palpl tant, Was very pretty, much prettier | versity of Washington to welcome at | than the Harrison girl, beating a tat- too with her heels in the next room: Dr. Max, belonging to the class of men who settles his tie every time jhe sees an attractive woman, thrust hie hands into the pockets of his She followed Miss Harrison into! jong white coat and surveyed her/“mong former quizaically. “Did Dr. Ea tell you?” | “sit down. He said something about/ the hospital, How's your mother and Aunt Harriet?” “Very well—that is, mother’s never quite well.” She was sitting forward on her chair, her wide young eyes on him, “Is that--l# your nurse from the hospital here?” “Yea, But she’s not my nurse. a, substitute.” “The uniform i# #0 pretty.” Poor | Sidney! with all the thitgs she had of | horizon, now, by the simple chang-' meant to say about a life of service, ‘And-—I’m|ing of her point of view, loomed and that, altho she wag young, she | was terribly in earnest. | “It takes a lot of plugging: before one gets the uniform, Look here, Sidney; if you are going to the hos pital beeauee of the uniform, and with any idéa of soothing fevered brows and all that nonsense—' SContinued 1, | body wil know where lam. But 7 guens, after all, this tree is the mfont place in the Green Forest. Buster Bear tried to get me and couldn't, He in the only one I need be afraid of while I am in a tree, and now I he started When He Saw Prickly Porky Start to Come Down He Licked His Lips and Grinned CHAPTER i? (Copyright, N. BE. A) “Holy Smokes!” exclaimed the neighbor who wan kind enough to! come over to our garden and tell us) what he thought about it / } “You wasted a lot of seed,” he went on “Wanted? What do you mean wasted?” my husband wanted to know #n't it all coming up fine as a fiddle “Sure,” agreed the neighbor. “That's what's the trouble with it Too much of it is coming up. Not enough room left for it to grow in. Wetter thin it out.” “My goodness!” [ exclaimed; “and throw away all the nice little plants, we pull up?" “Better throw ‘em away and get good crops of what's left.” he maid. So husband and I set to work thin. [ning our rows of lettuce, radishes, onions.¢and the rest, It was @ cruel job, pulling up thore nice green plants, When we got thru we asked the neighbor to in spect our work. | Why didn’t you thin ‘em out?” he inquired, “Why didn’t we what? my hos band exploded. "Sufferin’ cats! We yanked out half of ‘em.” ' know T don't really need to be afraid | of bim if I stay in this particular tree. I guess I'll stay. So Prickly Porky stayed. It was just as well he did. Old Man Coyote WAS hiding down below. He had heard the news of how Prickly Porky spears. When Buster Bear had at last given up and had gone away, Old Man Coyote had hoped that Prickly Porky would do just what he! started to do, come down. When he saw Prickly Porky start to come down he had licked his lips and grinned, He had felt quite sure that ho'was going to get the dinner Bus- ter Bear had failed to get. Imagine how disappointed he was when Prickly Porky stopped and started up again, Next story: Farmer Brown's Boy Finds His Old Sweater. Alumnae Bond to Be Strengthened In order to keep a bond of sym- their alma mater, a reception com. | mittee will be established at the Uni- Il times the alumnae who return to jvisit the campus, Concurrently. branch associations of University of Washington alumnae will be estab shed in the cities of the state, in jan effort to keep up school spirit Washington coeds. Miss Ethel HH. Coldwell, dean of women, has already launched such organizations in Spokane, Yakima and Ellensburg. At Spokane, Mrs, L, D. Angevine, formerly Misa Mildred Donaldson, was elected president, and Mra, W. L, Barnard, formerly Miss Ruth Odell, secretary, At Yakima, Miss Hleanor Stephens, as president, and Miss Ruth Johnson as secretary, will take charge. At Ellensburg, Mrs. Jay Whitfield president, and Miss R. FE. MeNeill, secretary, are identified with this project. a | Bay a Victory Bond and help | | | bring back our héroes to us, ” | had lost most of his litte | |"now yank | sunlight, and plant food out of the BWM TOM, WuAT ARE 1 You WAVING Done TO | Tne GARAGE ? Wy —y “All right,” neighbor answered; out another half of what's left, and you'll grow some thing.” We did, and we did grow fine a flock of gurden stuff as anybody did. That's something for every garden maker to learn, We all sow seed too thickly. That's not so bad If the seed | is of poor quality, for then much of it won't come up anyhow, but when you buy guaranteed seed, it ia better to sow a trifle less heavily than you VA WAVING one HALF OF IT MADE To A BED Room FoR A COW- Tom You vou"'y MEAM TO SAY YoU ARE Gone To KEEP A COMP WIN, THE NEIGHBORS WONT STAND WELL, A Cow ITS GOING To BE medical MAYOR OLE HANSON THE STOCKADE HELL think you ought to. When the green shoots appear above the ground, read again the di- | rections on the seed package, and| thin out the seedling to the proper distance, Sometimes plants may be | transferred to another part of the! garden, But it is better to waste | them than let them crowd. “That's the severest test of garden ing,” my husband said to me after we | had thinned our rows. Later on we learned that when! plants are too near each other, they grow spindly, form smaller fruit and ripen leas evenly, This is because they can't get their proper share of (To Be Continued) | soil. No Sentimental Stuff When Yankees (My United Press) | PORTLAND, April 12. “The men went Into the fight, not with any sen- | timental mouthings, but in a spirit of ‘fo get ‘em,’ and when they wav-/ ered the sergeants yelled: ‘Come on, | you blanket: nks; do you want to live forever That is the statement of Capt Thomas A, Sweeney, of Portland, who is «till with his company of en- gineers in France, in a letter to a lo- eal friend. “It was not ‘Remember this’ or} | ‘Remember that,’ but just real hu-) | man devila without discipline, ex-| cept that discipline that is wrought FOR ACUTE ACHES OF THE FEET | ‘one or two Allen's Foot-Kase the ating out of Allen's Foot-Kase into your shoes tion from the shoe, It takes Then for ight a to | the feet and | Always use it break In new shoes. ahaa 5 | | ‘A Beautiful Girl [| Thinks So. 'will load @ cargo of lumber for San |Pedro, about $5. Hit the Hun Lines. by a square deal, square living and a larger understanding of what they were asked to do—and why,” the let: | ter continues. “I believe there are more men who | never amounted to much before the | war, but who have learned steady | habits, than there are men who have | forgottert how to work for thelr ex- perience in the army—yes, millions | more. “These men are going to settle their own problems when they get home, as they did over here—in true American style, without the assist: ance of any high-priced commission- ers and politicians of doubtful abil- ity.” ROOSEVELT FORMING INTERNATIONAL BODY PORTLAND, April -12.—Lieut |. Theodore Roosevelt is directing | formation of an international! of overseas veterans, advices which have | recelved here by Lieut. Got H. Kelley, who has been} to direct the work of enroll| members, | HUNTING PRESIDENT FOR CALIFORNIA “U” BERKELEY, Cal., April 12.—Hav- ing found that the job of choosing a president for the University of Californix is a difficult one, a com: mitte resenting the university regents, soon will leave for the East to inspect Atlantic s rd mate. rial, according to a well-founded re- port today STRE! SPOKANE, April a street car at the south city lim- its about midnight Inst night, two armed and masked bandits relieved Park ‘Thompson, motorman-condue- | tor, of all the cash in his changer, | c the organization ording to ing up The steam schooner Phyllis ar. rived at the Stimson mill at Ballard, | Friday, from San Francisco, She | any member of the city BY EDWIN 4d. BROWN profession, and this p to see my clients | beheld one of men #hid to be quarantined b rodent-ridden shed, 13x30 feet had used them. sis, and the others had infectious alle ail |drink out of the same cup; | The inconsistent, impulsive loose | Who were kangarooed into this quar /4_ from the civil service commission | 0urished {f they ‘were honestly ecutor with a political offense, which | men I knew that some ought before the Los Angeles city council | condition; others in tuberculosis sati- as mayor, because he is innocent un- | Without notice or hearing of any turned around with my nose point-| I concluded that it would be vince any man that any public of. | den, and I wondered what Ole attle, only he fires men without aj that the health commissioner as he is, Hanson had been in office about) three months, and he had talked to with taking bribe money from crime | lend a helping hand to Joe Rhein-| anyone on the road who was broke who is fifty-one years old and whom | faith in him and, if he did half France in the meantime, and then| asked them to make Ole Ha Franklin case later, stockade and said to him, “Ole, ha bers of the dry squad brought @ Very | shame the way I have neglected they of suit cases well stocked with booze, | 10:80 4. m,, but we started for the and lady were allowed to proceed on| In my next article I will tell wh: who finally become entangled in its! seat of all filth, disease, degradations The first two persons in quaran-| 80 Vicious and rotten under Hanso’ a every statement I make to any news-; The facts are that the stockade an from a laboratory recognized by the | Gill, unced both of them th and free from dise went out to the sto | Worst and most disgusting that I had ever witnessed; right in civilized Seattle were e! they were alleged by the Health partment to be sick men. They all locked in a filthy, ramsh size; their bed blankets had not | changed or cleaned in months, dure ing which time many nen About eight of these me: from any disease whatever, ¢ | them were insane, two had 1 | ments of different kinds. [had to wash with the | wash their clothes in the \ was absolutely no pretense made for sanitation or to prevent cross infec: — |tion. In fact, the clean, healthy men thinking (not reasoning) of Mayor | antine hell were in danger of contract- _ Ole Hanson is well {illustrated by | ng tuberculosis, and none of these his dismissal of Mr. George Listman ™men were being properly fed and because Mr. Listman signed an ap-| Quarantined by the health dtpart- pearance bond for Walker Smith. | Ment as sick men. Smith has been charged by the Pros. As soon as I talked with healt: to be is bailable, the mayor then appears |in state institutions for their mental and asks them not to even suspend |itariums; others should be treated their mayor, who has been indicted | for infectious ailments; while about for bribery, but to allow him to act| ight had been railroaded in there til found guilty, If this is not rat-| kind and in violation of every Jaw tle-box philosophy the sun rises in| ahd constitutional guaranty of the west, or my head has been! land. ing in the opposite direction from | Possible for any physician to j my toes. | or excuse himself for keeping hi Common horse sense should con-| beings in such a foul, vile, ficial who has been indicted should | Say When he went out and saw wil be suspended until tried, This is the | bis own eyes, and heard with hi way Ole Hanson treats others in Se- | Own ears what conditions were, hearing. Hanson also Jocks people | not been out there in months, in quarantine without a hearing, and | that some of the men there had they are as honest and as virtuous | er even been given a physical xara. { nation. : If Mr. Hanson is well enough to ppear before the Los Angeles city council and plead for a man charged | me so much before his election ‘giving everybody a square and unfortunate women, he ought to be well enough to come home and a, attend to the duties of his office and | friend in his life,” and never passing strom; and Mr, Hanson might also | down or stuck in the mud without lend a small portion of his sympathy | stopping and trying to help to Mrs, Elizabeth Franklin, the lady | out, that T believed him and he kept in Seattle's quarantine hell} much as he promised to do for § for eleven months, and whose son | tle, I could be very well satisfied was killed on the battlefields of | having gone before the people liberated her after I called him to | mayor. shame at the Senate hearing in| I called at the Mayor's office Olympia I will tell next morning after I had visited Mr. Hanson's keen reasoning was | you been out to the stockade sine proven just after he was elected and | you were elected?" before he was inaugurated. Mem-| ‘0, Doc, I have not and it is . prominent Seattle newspaper man) boys out there; let's go out rightl and his sisterin-law from the boat | now.” from British Columbia with a couple| I could not go just then, It but before this powerful man of the | stockade at 1:30 that afternoon and. press was booked Ole was called | a reporter for the Union Record went on the telephone and the superman with w thelr way unhampered by such an in-| the Mayor had to say to the auara: significant thing as the law. Law) tined men and to. me about th is a mere plaything for some men | stockade that is still there. Yes, thy ‘eneghee, | 4nd disgrace to Seattle is still there; I must now be unethical and tell or was the last time I was allo the truth. in it, Seattle's quarantine has bee} tine whom I was retained by were that they fear to allow citizens patients of ono of Seattle's leading! see the torture and hell on. eart surgeons. (I now offer to prove) that human beings are subjected + paper, any minister, any judge, or quarantine under Ole Hanson is fal uneil) and| more vicious and inhuman than they both had negative blood tests | was under the late mayor, Hiram (Advertisement) Lia ey per TP ~ Ne yD x > Erne: STAR WANT ADS BRING RESULYS