The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 7, 1919, Page 6

per month: $ mo’ $5.00, in the 8; yeur ini Outside $4.50 for ¢ w Hy carrier, city. he, oF lle per week be per month, per year, The Seattle Star | ‘ | | | But We See Not I'VE DECIDED THAT we'ttL GO TO WILLOW LAKE AGAIN THS suMmMER Most of us miss about all the pleasure of life because r with our noses to the grindstone, and our eyes glued to the mud on our shoes. ; There is hardly a one of us who cannot in an hour's mney get away to a park, a country lane, a river bank or bit of wood. And getting there to nature's laboratory. w here all the tery of creation, all the mating and giving birth, and nal care is manifest, surely there is enough to give our ‘i something to chew on more nourishing than the husks the daily trough. A pocket bird book will cost you one dollar and a half. Take it and go out in the country, the country that lies t the end of any car line. In the spring afternoons or evenings pick a quiet, spot and get acquainted with the dozens of birds it you. Meet the thrush and the bobolink and the wren and the eatcher and the meadow lark, and a score more that just are marrying and giving in marriage. | Or take a flower book and learn the habits and faces) | wild gardens of the fields and woods. j | Or a bug book and scrape acquaintance with the insect) that are marching in orderly array about their na-| business. ‘ ; An ant city will afford edification and instruction and) advice to a philosopher for a year. 3 ‘A bee hive, aye the tiny entrance to it, will give one) food for thought than the average statesman’s address. lay prone on the warm sod and watch the ships of | gail their wonderful voyages is a worth while thing. of us know nothing at all of the worlds all about Our wisdom is of the counter, the ready chewed slang of the thoughtless cities, and a movie or a burlesque, us relaxation. | ur immortal soul deserves better fodder than that. | If You Are Building a Home A great American architect was in the habit of using ion to his clients and students: SE tenersonices distribution of expenditure!” When asked for his meaning, he explained that hq ed in a hotel with a white marble “grand” stair- the posts ahd ballusters of which were «elaborately | e To one side this stairway was the cheapest type nger elevator that most of the time did not run by| § of its being out of order. : e architect went on to explain that it would have| more harmonious distribution of expenditure to) Ye spent less on elaborate marble carving and more on| itor. WHYS WE WERE THERE LAST YEAR, AND IT'S THICK WITH MOSQUITOS! THERE WASN'T A FISH IN THE LAKE, AND NO ACCOMMODATIONS FOR aoeen ae ‘ woos reer ae THE CLASS OF PEOPLE WHO GO THCRE DIDN'T svir US AT ALL! ‘3 e is going to be a lot of home building within the years, and this principle of the inharmonious dis- ution of expenditure will apply to the frame dwelling @ as well as the commercial structwe. - In our home building of the past we have sacrificed th in the way of comfort and convenience for mere big- _and useless elaboration. we are , for instance, that a chicken will as well with the kitchen table or sink alongside to the range, rather than on the other side of a ; room. modern kitchen is small, very much in the nature ory, and is being designed to save steps and as in the case of the modern factory. fe are learning that it is better to expend the cost “towers, dormers, elaborate gable fronts and beveled windows in more‘and better plumbing, heating and e! utilities of a dwelling, that it is the more distribution of expenditure. Going Fishing 7 » Hey there, Mr. Man, wipe that worried look off your|’ ¢, stow your troubles in your roll top desk and pull down and then go fishing. You've not been fishing for long now, not since you were a kid and hauled out of the town creek with a home-made hook and id the jealous glances of all the other fellows. isn’t fair to yourself to mope and browse and fret your office all the time, never getting out into the where way bills cease from troubling and corre- nce is at rest. Come on, old scout! , epurse you may not catch any fish, but what’s the nce? It’s not so much the fish that constitute the ition of fishing as it is the loafing around in the idst of nature with never a worry or care. It’s the scent f the countryside, the exchange of commonplaces with the Me meet, the smokes and the eats and the forgetting frets and vexations of daily life that make fishing cinating. If you do catch something so much the etter. You'll know no matter how small it may seem when a land it, it will grow in size as time goes on and you re- i the story of the day’s outing. 4 fae on, you poor, cross, worried, good old scout, you again. SHERLOCK HOLMES, JK. “Ma, I think baby swallowed that little bell. I shake her and see?"—Judge. eee DOC GOT THE MONEY Shall @ fortnight. Greene—And ¢id he? “Sure, I've had to sell my automobile.”"—-Yonkers State ke eee FIRST AID “Man overboard! Throw hima life preserver.” “Who is i?" “Kelly.” “Throw him an anchor."-Judge. eee. “THE PENALTY “How about that telephone girl who married for love?” “The line's still busy.” t do you mean?” “She's doing the family washing.” — Birmingham Age Herald. eee A GENTLEMAN OF LEISURE landy, do you want a divorce from Uncle Ned?” , do, jedge. Dat nigger ain't no ‘count, '§ & case of Incompatability, I suppose?” “Well, jedge, if settin’ in de sup when the sun shines, ap’ settin’ by de fire when de win' blows an’ eatin’ me out 0’ house an’ heme t# dat incom—whut you af, den I sho’ has got dat kind o' case against ‘im.—Birtaingham Age Herald. eee KINDNESS ITSELY A conscientious objector sald when he was drafted: “I couldn't fight, sir, Ob, no, sir; I couldn't ki) anything. The recruiting officer looked steadily at the pale, lank, writhing creature. “Couldn't you kill a Ger " said the conscientious objector, “Oh, no, indeed, sir. Why, sir, ma ordered me to drown some kittens last week and the poor little things erled. so much I just had to warm the water for them. "EQUALITY BUT ALSO FAIRNESS TO WOMEN _| IN LABOR'S FIGHT, BY REV. CHARLES STELZLE (Speclal Writer for The Star) Women who have permanently entered the indus- trial field have learned that if they are to be upon an equality with men tn Rours worked and wages re- ceived, they have no right to axk for special priv- yourself to get away for a day and get all tuned American goods are sold in England cheaper than e at home, but this doesn’t prove anything except that America leads the world in the production of is one of the penalties of democracy in industry. They will also soon learn that the interests of men and women workers are common—that what injures the men will injure them, This 1 # that any distinet “woman's movement” in industry which is concerned only about the needs mm Lot women is Kure to react upon themselves, Women will have to bear their full share of the re sponsibility and the burden of labor's fight for better things. And women will also discover that if they plead physical limitations—that they are unable to do this or that thing which men are commonly called upon to do, that the bosses will soon discriminate against them—especlally if they insist upon getting the same wages as men. It's going to be a very Interesting—and in some cases a heartbreaking expertence—this entrance of women into the industrial life of the world. Women served the world mightily while ite men were fighting at the front, and it’s only fair that criticism of them should be withheld until they have had a fair cha to adjust themselves to their new positions in in Utopia doesn't mean loafing. The only happy peo- ple are the busy ones. ee Egotism BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE _ (Text: Let us still smile that we may stay sane.) I swung the look of my eye, Circling the rim of the sky. ft I looked and I looked gnd I wondered why, Why God had horizoned the sky to be Precisely swung around the hub of Me High noon on the broad, broad wea! Not to windward, nor yet to lee, Tout set straight over the head of Me! I pointed the noon hy my upheld hand, 1” For I was the Clock of the sun's high stand, *DUBLIC SCHOOL DEATH. — | J | TO CASTE IN INDIA | 9 oa Of Free public schools will be the greatest factor in 1g & moderate, tolerant spirit to India, But the tions of caste make hard sledding for school authorities. ‘The government has refused ald to- any that the Universe proclai: schools which are opened as a protest against the 2 ms his admiseion of children of different caste to any public Joc dang I stood in the shining night, Where, the stars bloomed sweet and bright, Yet seemed to shiver before my hight, And was proud this Garden of Stars was spread To center exactly above my head, ; Is man to blame fa school, In many of the schools castes now mixing vA mali Aa hla ‘THE SEATTLE STAR—WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1919. |Why Men Rush Out and Walk Rapidly Around Bfock—-By McKee! Redd-—The doctor said he'd have me on my feet in | SR Mir eC Hemera: cll. i, scommiphatemserecm me: woe On the Issue of Americanism Jhere Can Be No Compromise —— THE PARE AT THE HOTEL WAS AWFUL — YOU SAID 50 YOURSELF BY DK, (Copyright, The art of arts is the art of quitting. While we are teaching young prodigies all manner of efficiency, why neglect the lerowning stroke? For the culmination of | |mastery is to know when to quit. An advertising man, who is a friend of ; (mine, said he went to church the other morning with his wife. “I liked the |preacher,” he ‘observed. “He was a good talker, and the first 10 minutes he had me sold. If he had stopped then it would have !been fine. But he had to go on and fill up |his allotted 30 minutes,’ and spoiled it all,” | JI have often wondered why a_ public \speaker who has one good point to make ||does not make it and sit down; why he ||thinks he must ramble on and on, until leverybody hates him. And why are there not more little books? }Most books could say their say in one-tenth ||the space. “I wish,” exclaimed George Giss- * ling, “that I could have written something jsmail and perfect!” | A woman lobbyist at Washington, in a lrecently published interview, said that |women who are good lobbyists are scarce, |/not because women are not good persuaders, } but beeause they don’t know when to stop. | |They don’t understand the fine art of get- | ee ee ting a legislator’s mind just to the satura- UG@—600BLE ) |tion point and then leaving him. SPRGVCH—|| So I would like to hear your new tatking BLURB ||machine and your player-piano, selection will do; when you keep on and WE weREe irene) FOR E€veRY ITEM ON THe Bie pon ENOUGH n LAKE, THAT'S BETTER THAN GOING TOA PLACE YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING A eouT and you. And, angel-face, I like to be told my faults. I need it, and all that, but Why plainly, brutally, if you will, just so, and } then change the subject? Why must you | tell me over and over, and tell it again, jand rub it in? AGAINST SKY. SCRAPER JAIL Editor The It ie reported that the county | commissioners considering placing the county jail on top of the ty-clty building. Why coop up the unfortunates in the sky-acraper where the quarters are cramped and where po oppor tunities can be bad for outdoor exercise, when there ie plenty of room d@ut in the open? The jail must be bullt where the inmates may enjoy the sunshine and fresh air; where the fields are green and the trees and flowers wplefty. Where they can keep their hands busy and their bodies and minds) healthy by doing ureful things. Working and living out in the open sa | A jail up in the skywcraper! the com | missioners be thinking of? Taxpayers, consider the expense of building the jail on top of the county: city butiding (or some other equally unsuitable place in ‘the heart of the city) and then moving it away) again, for eventually it would have to be taken away and a better site found. The people of this commun: | ity are too progressive, wideawake and faraighted; they will seo that it pays in dollars and cents to make the environment what it #! id be for every- body—cheerful, roomy and sunny We simply MUST find a place for the jail where the world-weary inmates may find rest in the quiet arms of old Mother Nature, who soothes away the cares of all her children. And let us call Jt an industrial school, or by some much name, and not a jail. Give every man and wo man a chance to learn something useful or to work at some useful occupation. The inmates“murt also have plenty of wholesome reading matter, Food for the mind and soul is more necessary than food for the body. Years ago, when I attempted to give cheerful read ing matter to the inmates of the city jail (whom I knew to have absolutely nothing to do but to sit around, and the deadly monotony drove many insane for some of the prisoners were kept in the olty jail as long a# three months!) I was refused on the grounds that the prisoners would throw the magasines and the papers in the toilets and thus stop up the sewage. So that is only one argument for more spacious quarters. ws seo that our unfortunate brothers and ris & square deal, for are we not “our brothers’ keepers"? STEARNS’ ELECTRIC PASTE their desire is to rush out of doors for water | and fresh air, in a few moments they are dead. | Stearns’ Electric Paste 1s also sure death to COCKROACHES and WATER BUGS Ready For se—_—_____ © to buy. Yours for a wider humanity, ANNIE M, BURGESS, 5406 47th ave. 8. W. Tomorrow {8 siege of Orleans, which was begun by the Brit: ish on the 12th of October, was finally raised by & relieving force headed by Jeanne d’Are on the 8th of May, in 1429, The long line of Wnglish forts, the fruit of seven months’ labor, was set in flames and destroyed in a day by the Maid of Orleans and her relief expeditioin, On the Sth of May, 1535, Henry VITT. of England was moved to have his head shaved, and upon ob: serving the unhappy result he issued orders that all of the court should follow his example In 1816, on the 8th of May, the first American ship of the line put to sea, the U. S. 8, Washington. She had an armament of 74 guns, On May &, in 1846, the battle of Palo Alto, Mexico, took place during the Mexican war. General Zachary ‘Taylor, commanding a force of 2,300 men, encountered & Mexican force of 6,100 under General Arista, The engagement resulted in an American yictory. In spite of the discrepancy of numbers, the American logses were only four killed and 39 wounded, while the Mexican losses, according to Arista's own state: ment were 192 killed and 127 wounded, In 1864, on the 8th-of May, the four days’ battle of Spottsylvania Courthouse commenced, It was a con: tinuation of the battle of the Wilderness. General Lee after the previous battle had intrenched the Con: federate forces in a strong position at Spottsylvanta General Grant immediately attacked him again, and again the result was indecisive, The Union army re ported 13,000 loxt and 1,400 missing; the Confederates did not report their losses. It was following this en: gagement With its indeterminate result, that Grant wired to Washington: “I propose to fight it out along this line if it takes all summer,” his plan of cam paign being to wear out the Confederate army by con mmering and exhausting them by a process years? ' Loans? IN A soft-headed nail and a hard-headed man are both on and on I want to smash your machines | THE ART OF QUITTING RANK CRANE , by Frank but one | Crane why I grow peevish and break the furniture, Once I Caruso refuse loved him before. artist who will ta mother’s grave, duction of an famous, and be populace, A committee from a neighboring state in famine once sent a commission to Sparta to buy bread. The chief commissioner made a long and eloquent speech before the Spartan senate. When he got thru the head man of the senate replied: “Your spe was so long that when you got to the |; part we forgot what you were talking® about.” So another commission was dis- patched, who simply exhibited their sacks an encore, J] Now I adored him, Any >a solemn vow, upon hig never to yield to the se encore, will surely grow mourned by a grateful and said: “Bags. Want Bread.” “And wi returned the senators, “why say bags? We can see them. Just ‘Bread’ would have been sufficient.” I love the Spartans. Salesman, when you are trying to land a customer: Lawy when you are trying to convince a jury; Clerk, when you are applying for a job; Agent, when you are trying to sell a book; Lover, when you are pleading for just one little kiss; Mother, when you are scolding little Willie; Wife, when you are telling friend husband some thing for his own good; Parson, when you are fishing for my soul; Poet, when you have a tail-bolt on a beautiful thought;” Editor, when you are writing an editorial; Novelist, when you are telling a yarn; | Everybody, when you are doing anything can’t you do it just once, neatly, concisely, | You see, now, loved one,! him right up to a front seat. A peculiar Chemical in Stearns’ Electric Paste makes rats and mice who have eaten it feel as if they had a red-hot stove in their stomach. When they eat BUY A BOX From Your Dealer TODAY V Fraser-PatersonCo, V Subscriptions to Seattle’s quota of the Victory Liberty Loan are considerably behind schedule and every possible means of publicity is being utilized to induce those who haven't yet bought THE VICTORY LOAN COMMITTEE asked us for our reg- war newspaper space for today and we are pleased to be of help. Some Facts About Seattle DO YOU KNOW That Victory Bonds mature in 4 years, and that the rate of interest is the best offered by our government in 40 That Seattle is drawing $2,868,872.38 interest from the first four Liberty That Seattle subscribed $11,234,650 more on the last loan that is asked for on this one? And at a less attractive rate of interest? That $8,000,000 are needed this week to save her name? —why don you stop when you get thru? 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