The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 3, 1919, Page 13

By conpo| \|GO AHEAD, BUT DON'T BLAME ME IF You LOSE ALL OF yYouR HUMPH — HE WANTS TO PLAY POKER" 1715 FUNNY HOW AGREEABLE A WOMAN GETS WHEN A MAN ASSERTS —__HIMSELF WELL, I'M MY OWN MASTER AN! WHEN ‘YOu SAY | CAN'T Go ANYWHERE == PT MEANS NOTHING IN | MY YOUNG LIFE AN’ DON’T FORGET IT WEDLOCKED— | ca | It Doesn’t Happen Often —By LEO Ta CUIVIA 13 Gone TS HAVE QUITE A DNSTINGUISHED CALLER ToniawT. Foun INMATES OF, THE STATE ADLUM Escape No “TRACK OP THEM So FAR - SA, DocToR, | UNDERSTAND SEVERAL. MMATES OF YouR msriTyTON HAVE ESCAPED - 15 ONE OF ‘THEM NAMED Leo De CuIFFOM, A DESIGNER? | MAY BE AE To TIP You OFF TD A CLUE Kiow “THAT HE PUT ovT BY THORNTON W. BURGESS (Copyright, 1919, b y T. W. Burgess The End of Whitefoot’s Worries RELEASE SATURDAY, May 3..¢ You never can tell, you never can ten! wrong will often end well! IE next time you meet him, just ask Whitefoot if this isn't so. had been going very wrong Whitefoot. It had begun to look Whitefoot as if he would no jong- a snug, hidden Mttle home in m’s sugar house. The under which he @ad Shug little home was dis : uite lost his appetite. Ro longer came out to take food Brown's Boy's hand. right in his snug little Brown's Boy had not thought of the trouble he was | 7 had | what he In hie thinking of this | of wood to the sap Finally, as he icks, he snw him Whitefoot's clevely hid- ‘The crumbs Jed him to the old box. den ‘way down underneath that pile of wood when he had first moved into the sugar flouse. With a frightened little squeak, Whitefoot Fan out, scurried across the little Sugar house and out the open door. Farmer Brown's Boy understood. He understood perfectly that little He Hie, Whitefoot want their F Mm away in the dark, “Poor little chap,” said Farmer Brown's Boy. “He had a regular | €astle here, and we have destroyed hie» Sot the snuggest kind of a to make} [im plain sight, He probably thinks | we have been hunting for this Uuttle | |bome of his, Hello! Here's his storehouse! I've often wondered | how ithe little raseal could eat so! much, but now I understand. He | | has stored away here more than half of the good things I have given him Tam glad he haw If he hadn't, he) might not come back, but I feel/ sure that tonight, when all is quiet, | |he will come back to take away all |his food. I must do something to | keep him here.” Farmer Brown's Boy sat down to think things over, Then fot an id box and made a little nd hole | [in one end of it. Very carefully he ‘carried ali Whitefoot’s supplies over \there and put them under the box. |He went outside and got some ‘branches of hemlock and threw these In a little pile over the box. After this he scattered some crumba Just outside. Late that night Whitefoot aid | come back. The crumbs ted him to | the old box. He crept inside. There | was his snug little home. All in a Whitefoot understood, ona} Next story: Whitefoot’s. Careless whistle | Jump, | SEATTLE WOMAN DIES AT HER PARIS HOME| Mrs. Helen Struve Meserve, sister lot F, K. Struve, president of the| Seattle National Bank, died in Paris) | Thursday, according to advices re jgelved at the bank Friday. Mre. | Meserve was the wife of Harry F. |Meserve, a Paris banker, and had) been a mt of the French me tropolis for two years. Mra. Meserve is also survived by another brother, Capt. Harry Struve, and two sisters, | Miss ¢ McCloskey and Mies |Mary Struve. Mrs. Meserve was a |daughter of Judge H. G. Struve, a | Seattle pioneer, NURSE'S FUNERAL SUNDAY Funeral. services for Julia Bender, 61. one of the best-known profession lal nurses in Seattle for the last 20 |years, who died at the Providence hospital Thursday night, after a gen. | eral } breakdown due to overwork, will be held Saturday morning, at the Butterworth & Sons’ undertaking parlors. ROBS GOOD SAMARITAN D. C. McDougal of the Right ho- \tel, First ave. and Cherry at., found |a sailor on the streets Thursday night. The sailor had no place to | go, #0 McDougal took him to his room for the night. The next morn- ing when MeDougal awoke, the were gone. “back to it as long as it is right out scala Sache Complexion Rosy! Headache Gone! Tongue Clean! Breath Right! Stomach, Liver and Bowels Regular| WE'VE MADE UP A STEEL STRONG BOX To STOP OTTO AUTO - RUN HIM INTO IT AND HIS WILD DRIVING WILL BE TAMED ZREFR 6. W. HILL HEAD OF PARK BOARD Lamping Retires as Presi- dent After Long Service park board will be guided coming year by George W. Hin, whe on Friday afternoon waa elected president of the body by a unanimous vote, Charles 8. Erwin was chosen vice prosident of the com. missioners at the same time. Sena tor George b. Lamping, whosy mom: bership on the board expires May and who was the retiring presiden made the nominations, Lamptng has a long record an executive of th park board. Resignation of Frank L. Fuller as aasistant superintendent of parks in charge of playgrounds was accepted by the commissioners. The board also decided to move ita offices to the fourth floor of the Haller building, Second ave. and Columbia. This step is made necessary by the rearrange ment of the fifth floor of the county: city building for the street railway departm Council Aids Fight on Portland Rates Following the lead of the port com mission, which has filed against the proposal of commercial organizations that freight rates from Portland to the Inland Empire be lower than from Seattle, the finance committee of the city council Friday took steps to defeat Portiand’s efforts. The port commission is endeavor. ing to get united action by Seattle, Tacoma and Everett to defeat the rate change proposed by Portland, and the finance committee has re quested Corporation Counsel Waiter F. Meier to draw an ordinance and take other steps which may be neces: sary to overthrow the Portland cam- paign. Will Study Other City Engineering To study methods employed in dealing with problems of engi- t here, but he won't come sailor, $60 and MeDougal's watch |neering, Walter H, Tiedemann, av- sistant city engineer, left Seattle Friday on « tour of the cities of the country. He wilt investigate thy manner of handling rapid transit problema in New York and Boston, street grading in Chicago and WBaffalo; Baltimore, Md., and Dallas, Texas, sewage treatment plants; and in Los Angeles he will look into plans for improving streets in residential diatrmets. larger OPEN AIR CONC tT SUNDAY The Whitney Boys’ chorus will present an open-air concert to Wea: Seattle residents, Sunday afternoon, at 3:30 o'clock at the Hiawatha playfield, The program will be under the auspices of the W Side Commercial clyb, Ex. tor Samuel H. Piles will DIMOCK TO SPEAK A. H. Dimock, city engineer, was) scheduled to talk on the Skagit river power project before the King Coun ty Democratic elub at its regular weekly meeting in the Good Bats cafeteria Saturday noon, A Victory Loan appeal was to be made by Adam H, Peeler. JAPANESE FORFEITS TRUCK An auto truck, belonging to J. ‘Tsurutome, Japanese convicted in February of violating the federal Mquer law, and sentenced to serve 14 months at McNell’s island, has been forfeited to the federal govern: ment, according to a ruling made Friday by Federal Judge Cushman, Some OF The Tae BI | Jenene na arson recone: | (Continued from Friday.) To K., sitting in the beck of the church between Harriet and Anna. the wedding was Sidney—-Sidney only. He watched Wer first steps down the'nisle, saw her chin go up figure in ite gauzy white an she passed him and went forward past | the long rows of craning necks. Aft- jerward he could not remember the | wedding party at all, The service for him was Sidney, rather awed and very serious, beet the altar, It | was Sidney who came down the aisle |to the triumphant strains of the wed- | ding march, Bidney with Max beside ber! | On his right sat Harriet, having | | reached thé first pinnacle of her new The wedding gowns were successful. They were more than that—they were triumphant. Sitting | there, rhe cast comprehensive ey Jover the church, filled with potential brides, | To Harriet. then, that October aft career. protest | ernoon was a future of endless lace | wrong Portland | and chiffon) the joy of creation, tri} when you say the other thing umph eclipsing triumph, But to |Anna, watching the ceremony with blurred eyes and ineffectual bluish | ps, was coming her hour, Sitting k in the pew, with her hands olded over her prayer book, she said) a little prayer for her straight young | daughter, facing out from the altar | with clear, unafrald eyes, | As Sidney and Max drew near the door, Joe Drummond, who had been | standing at the back of the church, turned quickly and went out. He stumbled, rather, ax if he could not nee. CHAPTER XIV ‘The supper at the White Springs ‘hotel had not been the last supper | Carlotta Harrison and Max Wilson {had taken together, Carlotta had se lected for her vacation a small town within easy motoring distance pf the city, and two or three times during her two weeks off duty Wilson had gone out to see her, He liked being |with her, She stimulated him, For Jonce that he could see Sidney, he saw Carlotta twice She had kept the affair well in |hand. She was playing for high |atakes. She knew quite well the | kind of man with whom she was dealing—that he would pay as little as possible, Fut she knew, too, that, let him want a thing enough, he | would pay any price for it, even mar riage. She was very skillful. ‘The very Jardor in her face was in her favor. {Behind her hot eyes lurked cold eal culation. She would put the thing thru, and show those puling nurses, with their plous eyes and evening prayers, a thing or two. During that entire vacation he never saw her in anything more than the simplest of white dresses mod- extly open at the throat, sleeves rolled up to show her dainty arms |'There weer no other boarders at the little farmhouse, She sat for hours in the summer evenings in the square yard filed with apple trees that bordered the highway, carefully posed over a book, but with her keen eyes always on the road, She read Browning, Emerson, Swinburne. Once he found her with a book that she hastily concealed. He insisted on seeing it, and secured it, It was a book on brain surgery, Con- fronted with it, she blushed and dropped her eyes, Hia delighted vanity found in it LEAING 1918, the nost insidious of compliments, a nhe had intended, “L feel jwith you,” whe said. "I wanted ‘to | know a little more about the thing» you do." new and advanced basis. Thereafter he occasionally talked surgery stead of sentiment. He found her re- sponsive, inteltigent. nealer, book to his women before, lay open to her. Now and then their professional dincusnions ended in something differ: ent. The two lines of their interest converged. . “Gad!” he mid one day. forward to these evenings. “1 look nauseating you of the prettiest.” | |erest of a hill for the ostensible pur- pose of admiring the view. “As long as you talle shop,” she |aaid, “I feel that there is nothing in our being together; but “In it wrong to tell a pret man you admire her?” “Under our circumstances, yes.” y wo. watts inehatt | oH an idiot when T am) ‘That put their relationship on a) in: | Hin work, a) T can| talk shop without either shocking or | You are the most) intelligent woman I know—and one | He had stopped the machine on the | to think that he is a’ bit of a devil Dr, Max settled his tle, and, leaving | |his car outside the | fence, departed btithely on foot in | the direction @arlotta had taken. | She knew her man, of course. He whitewashed | to have a little ti NEXT TIME PUT A BOTTOM “How dare you?" she cried. “How dare you follow me! I-—I have got alone. I have got to think things out,” He knew it was play acting, but rather liked it; and, because he was | found her, face down, under « treg,| quite as skillful as she was, he jail the evidence of a severe mental struggle. She rose in confusion |when she heard his +step, and re | treated a foot or two, with her hands out before her | | looking pale and worn and bearing | struck a match on the trunk of the tree and lighted a cigaret before he answered. ° “I was afraid of this,” he said, playing up. “You take it entirely too hard. —Buy a Home— The pioneer home owners of those cities are their well-to-do citizens today—the pioneer | home owners of Kirkland today should | He twisted himself around in the |weat and sat looking at her “The eli mouth in world!” he said, and kissed her sud denly. She had expected it for at least a Well done also was her silence dur ing the homeward ride. No, she was not angry, she said, tl was only thinking. car, she bade good bye. He only laughed “Don't you trust me?’ leaning out to her. She raised her dark eybe, “It {4 not that. I do+not trust myself.” After that nothin him away, and she knew it “Man demands both danger and | play; therefore he selects wornan as the most dangerous of toys.” A spice of danger had entered into | their relationshtp. It had become in- Anitely piquant. He motored out to the farm the next day, to be told that Miss Har- |rison had gone for a long walk and |had not said when che would be back. That pleased him, Hvidently she was frightened. Hvery man Ii ‘SPRING OF ~ NINETEEN NINETEEN Finds Reconstruction of Lost Health: Tone and Exhausted Strength More imperative Chan ever before be- cause of the war, the dreadful ept |demics and the trying weather. | Hood's Sarsaparilia is the great re- jeonstructive medicine. 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