The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 2, 1919, Page 6

18 months, in the GLO M WE'VE DECIDED To CHRISTEN THE CHILD ARCHIBALD PERCIVAL “Grandma Smith, living near Broad Ripple, died Thurs day and was buried in Nora cemetery.” - Our eyes fell on this item in one of the country ex- is only two lines, but to any of us who knew) Smith as a type it speaks volumes. é For a woman to have won the title of grandma in the! battle life in a country community is a more un- +g sincere hence and tribute than the title) > meng the battle of death. : Grandma Smith came to the settlement when it was and when she was young. ‘ : the lack of all the common materials and utensils the privations and struggles of pioneer times, which we of today know nothing, she reared her family | these poe 9 struggles made her resourceful; they) rage and a kind heart. In her broad human sympathy Grandma Smith has ‘more individually useful in the upbuilding of the com- ty than any doctor, lawyer or school teacher that ever been present at more births and deaths than | | doctor in the whole congressional district. iE 4 =the ieibe counsel and sound advice to the brides | She cared ie their children when they came, and) they were growing up—entertaining them with a d quaint tales of pioneer life, both in comedy and || gag ly as they gathered around her rocking chair at — Smi her times cooked thousands |} mea! ‘waned millions of dishes, made scores wpon scores i f and numberless articles of clothing for the whole /}\ ny. i _ And nearly f what she did was for others. Z i from te time when first she came her hands (gf seen no rest ee were ost across her breast ora cemetery. Rl wine of the Grandma Smith type that are the es the trunk and branches of the human tree, this country has grown. had a Grandma Smith or have let us this moment offer a) tribute to her memory. “hijjps give the politicians credit. They would Yip M7 ible things if they thought the folks 4 Yi would stand for it. Garden Sociology ‘Does the “war garden” lead beyond conservation and JOBS FOR SCHOONER PILOTS . 2 Is it yo more thing ag yw weal thia| 220th" wrinkle girrny on the nation’s forehead finished discouragemen tend 01 lor bartenders after the spiggot goee squeaky combination of patriotism, charity, | To cope with the feny and’ amusement certainly ‘sufficiently comple: ation, r te motives. We hope to enjoy ourselves, to hand felt to the H. C. of I, and help our government to feed | Europe, which latter we also hope may help to| they think they see something beyond an! that the combination of factory labor, which obtained such an ee meee me © Sow Semmes a of production. } like their fellows everywhere, are de- shorter and shorter hours. They have put the day behind them and set their minds on six The miners have ordered a strike for Te Ge Ge wens te ce ban only withholding action during negotia-|work up a clientele of barber ; to look after United Mine Workers of America, at their recent the camera and gold wateh raffier. They can teach made preparations for a fight with the same | the coming generation dice and card tricks, and ow to spin fourbit pleces. Job in a gas station - would just be another kind of tank fi! oe ork such movement evolves a “philosophy.” It was|rirms that take in an exbartender can dimples. m 1 the eight-hour day was a “natural” division of |bur towel with ms oamel’s likeness stamped in the it gave “eight hours for work, eight ba for | cente ® token that “An eight hours for sleep.” The advocates of the six-| j,, te sole gre ar ‘day point out that this period permits continuous | nave peace'in urome wo have weet ihe, lime we n of a plant. There is no meal-time break. Conge-|in the United Staten. it is urged, as it was for the eight-hour day, that) . time means larger production. fom rags it ae fer ig - —— ha if we the argument hitches on to the gardens. Six| {he movier and make some money gue ct ineg’” °° } in a factory gives time enough to work a garden. ° nis guarantees ter food production, helps solve the| A WORD FROM ransportation lem, and insures proper recreation. | JOSH WISE hen it was found that the whole idea fitted in splen-| at SE ly with England's already well-developed “garden city” man th’t ; The British government, with the help of} knows he en be ocal authorities, is about to enter upon much the largest| licked easy ain't ing scheme ever undertaken. More and more those in| hard t’ hold out uv | a fight. ‘ e of the plan are coming to favor the idea of building house without a garden attached. It is now proposed it a condition of the lease is to be the proper cultivation| mEBBY HELL TURN IT INTO AN ICE CREAM the garden. This will be but an extension of the plan} FOUNDRY dy endorsed by one of the British reconstruction com-| Lieut. Ed Mueller has received his honorable dis hittees, to make proper cultivation of farm land a condition Cees agen ae eee. cmmentes end to of private control. i : : F |service of Uncle § Behold how great a thing is growing in our war) 8. | One of Hog Island's great ships is to be christened Eo Salvation Lass, and we'll wager a thin dime that the | crew will always call the live preservers doughnuts. MAYBE 1 CAN GET A 308 IN A BAKERY herewith suggest porsible post tions for the fated brew chauffeur: Would = make very sympathetic clerks in) =6com Plaint depart ments, os they had to listen to all the troubles of ginned pa trons, Ax life savers, instead of wing ‘em out m in. Might An exbarkeep works here after nearly two years in the Shoe and Laather Reporter Yonnecticut inventor has asked for a patent on # rail that can be 4 and carried in the and used as a foot at a soda counter {ice Toledo and apply the Lake Geneva An “Old Timers’ Dance" is to be given in Fellevue O., and its managers say y under 30 will be On the| admitted. We'll bet it tur to be a stag party your long} ene learn in Lafayette, A German general has challenged to a duel a Jcount who accused Wilhelm Hohenzollern of coward An idea! Pull it off in Ban Se |receipts on the indemnity | es 34 Cheer Up, Man RR eh = -— |to Litchfield last Saturday, where a big Cheer up, Man, it’s not so bad as your looks imply. It’s} po api & was held The meeting was , pretty serious, of course, but cheer up. The sun's still|{ictory nond being seid loan ite, Sek mone, #8 shining and your family is well and happy and business is| eg tga oe Wee ‘ pretty good, so, for heaven's sake, take it a little more! Anyway, straws show which way the thermometer el eee Conese, tt course, we know all about that|is going ing back and the callouses on your hands and all that,| Rh but it isn’t going to do you a bit of good to fret and stew! Ger your donrhrore Te Se ERS cies and worry about it. It’s got to be done, you know. Waving Satdwhae sore Foi rea It’s only natural, we know, that you should feel sore| see ‘ on the summer time and down-in-the-mouth and disgruntled| But, ae the soldier remarked, “An army of occupa and crusty and cross about it, but why take it out on the|tion doesn’t have much of a job." ' wife? You don’t want HER to do it, do you? Surely you} Bg haven't back-slid so far as to want HER to groan and! ‘ and perspire her way through it, do you? e old top, it’s not so terrible, terrible bad as and your trembling frame would indicate. A burglar cracked six safes in Wall st. offices the Of course no man likes to do, we know that. But you]}other night, Pretty crude, He should the ew that thousands of men WILL do it all summer and|**™* °"4 °P¢" 40 office in Wail #1 ‘T ought to be some consolation to you. Besides it! te that as it may, Rosie Mugg live "surely must be some slight comfort to realize that it is, ind. good for you. | gilie You knew what we're referring to, of course—we're,,79° ,1ePublicin congren may abolish the luxury referring to the job of mowing your lawn! PRT Gey, the. pucctase & fen weeks” tay mp save money, a few week He may Our income tax will never be as burdensome as Ger- But, as the landlord remarked, “Speaking of base ae ee }| The Turning Point in Your Career pepe CS situation, we| By McKee POE 64 MLE ba llild NOT WHILE [ LIVE! HE'S GOING TO BE NAMED gis gre —_— On the Issue of Americanism There Be Mo Compromise al PRINT YOUR NAME BY Dit. FRANK CKANE (Copyright, 1919, by Frank Crane) », please, Mr. Man, and also Mrs. | , | implore yoif on bended knee, sign your name to your letter with the type- || writer, ] value your signature. Yea, admire it. It is so characteristic of you, has so much individuality and all that. When it is a} long, wiggly line, without distinguishable members of the alphabet, or when it is all bunched up in close columns and looks like a centipede M, or when it is adorned with arabesque and decorative curlicues, I am impre 1. 1 am flattered to receive your © personal sign-manual, It is pretty. It d. But I can’t read it. There's the rub. Of what avail, may I ask, to win my J amazement and gratulation, of what avail to show me you are Some name-signer, choke-full of personality, also grand, gloomy, and peculiar, if I don't know who you are? Your name, of course, is familiar to you Since earliest childhood you have heard yourself designated as J. H. Name-slinger. You have seen it written so often, you have read it upon writs and duns, you have noted it in catalogues, you have read it on your front door, on your pew in church and on your place card at the banquet table, and it is doubtless to you old stuff, | jstale, flat, and unprofitable, so that you may be pardoned when you shrink from spelling it out and writing it plainly. Your modesty becomes you. Your shyness bears witness to the fineness of your nature. Indeed, I would te!l you so, only, as I said, | 1 don't know who the Sam Patch you are, except that the post mark on your envelope discloses that you wrote me from Waynes- » ville, either Ga., Va., or Pa. WHEN YOUR FATHER'S FIRMNESS SAVED YOU FROM A TERRIBLE FATE (Coppa, 0018 by Puvele Bete) Tomorrow IN 1657, on the ard of June, William Harvey, an TT section physician, famous as the discoverer of the cireulation of the blood, died. His discovery revolutionized medical On the 3rd of June, in 1808, General F @ied at Albany, N. Y. at the age of Schuyler was one of Warhington’s staff o! On the 3rd of June, in the rame year, Jefferson Davie war born in Todd county, Ky. His father f the border pioneers. Jefferson was the By the time he was | ollegé bis father had amassed a con able fortune, and was able to send him to Tranry! vania at Lexington, and later to West Point. The} training at West Point changed Day han over grown country bey into a competent his graduation he werved for army, In 1835 hej resigned h came & cotton planter in Misr tied the daughter of Zachary the after their wedding career began in 1843, in the state] ring the Mexican war he enlisted and| cuished himself at Bu v At the close of the war he returned to 5 was secretary of war under President Piere The th looked upon him as their candidate for the presidency when Confederate States of America were or ganized from the seceded states, Davis was chosen preside After the war he was arrested on a charge of treason. After two years of imprisonment he was set free, Davis died at New Orleans on the 6th of December, 1889, at the age of 81 In 1898, during the Spanish war, Lieutenant Hob son propored to preven bh squadron from coming out of the har by sinking & ship across the entrar He called for eight volunteers from the American fleet. His call was answered by ndreds of sai Hobson and the eight chosen vy maneuvered the U 8. 8. Merrimac, a col the entrance of the harbor and sank it in the on the 3rd of June rclenoe Schuyler | Gen eral | | at. After weven years in the ommirsion and be There he mar Taylor, She died a one unteers across channel ?PHE WAY OF THE CROSS — IS THE WAY TO THE CROWN BY THE REV. CHARLES STELZLE Staff Writer on Keligious Toples for The Star, The cross is a sign of sacrifice, It ie the emblem of service. And as such it opens the way to the greatest nas in life cure for 10 th liness is by way of the cross. f wheat fall into the ground and F one.” This is dies that Many th s law of life. It fs only as a seed kept alive | e are who complain of the loneliness of life They will be cured only as they are ready to di self and live for The wa © fruitfulness is by way of the ‘ it beareth much fruit” cross. sixty, eighty and women who have tiplied their influence » die for the w been conten d to act with ¢ way to glory is t And I, if I be lifte wald Jesus to th ed the world who have to think yurage nination. way of 1 up, will a e who all men unto wished him to change is course life instead of suffering and live an easy the crucifixion “The hour glorified Even He sam thrust and the slap in way to glory Some is come that the son he added, as he faced then Judas of man shall be death, was getting ready to betray him the cross and the crown of thorns the the spe face—but this wa who hav n Jesus’ preaching or e had their prejudices on the cross. It | low before him * only a¥ men are “crucified” rified—there is no other way e way of the cross not at 1 by his mi reome by impressed by working have e sight of Jesus nich makes men that they shall is the road to the crown. Pointed Paragraphs There is many a slip after the cup touches the lip. “Artistic” is often a synonym for and ex pensive | Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon over takes it The burning thoughts of tomorrow are often thrown into the waste busket of today I note you demand an instant reply, and are somewhat peeved that I did not answer promptly your last letter, and you want to know whether I am a coward or what. I don’t know, J. H. (or it may be I. N., or | J. V.), I don’t kr There are & folks I am afraid of, and you may of them. I don’t know who you are only knew your name I might retw scorn for scorn, or cringe before 0 | wrath, or something. You epistle. did well with the bedy offMyour It was typewritten. I eam read print. But when you came to your name, Mr. H. T. Narmsteller, or maybe M, J, Hapsdinger, or I. N. Martineau, in the ex. cess of your emotion you wrote it in charac ters that only a prescription clerk could d ciper. Next time have the typewriter girl si your name with the machine. Then if you? want to add that personal touch and show © you are not afraid to stand for all that has been written, you may add your mark, In this letter, Mr. T. J. Rathskeller (the office boy says it’s U. R. Henfeather), I may have seemed to be a bit forward. If T had | realized to whom I was writing I would not — perhaps have dared to criticize you. But” that’s it, that’s it, friend Nickearter. I don’t know who you are. And the pleasure, I assure you, is all mine. Text: Doubtless booze ix “accursed stuff,” bub water—even the engineers dam it. 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