The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 7, 1919, Page 15

fk SEATTLE Prey eo cope JUNE 7, 1919. DOINGS OF THE DUFFS— | Oh, Helen Knows All About It! OW, | MEAN A REGULAR Ber Vii eT somepony FIFTY OR A HUNDRED DoLtAes -% EXKEEVUSE ME, BIR, BUT BE You A Doc TOR, tir # Weir, Wow MUCH Do You WANT To per? ALL. RIGHT, Come ON - ru BeT You _f- "VE HALF A NOTION |7O LAY A LITTLe Bet | on This WILLARD DEMPSEY PRIZE Ficitr- ( Lb BET You FIFTY CENTS a \ NO, UNCLE, I'M NOT A poctor’| I Hwe HURT ea Te ee ee 5. Neg ste Peter Almost Has an Accident BY THORNTO N W. BURGESS (Copyright, 1919, by T. W. Burgess) EN Peter Rabbit left Longbill [our eggs. You gave me a dreadful 4 the Woodeock, he kept on | start.” 3 down the Laughing Brook to the, Peter was puzzied. Ie showed it i Smiling Pool Hight where the as he stared down at Mrs. Teeter just in front of him, “I don't see Laughing Brook enters the Smiling Pool there is a little pebbly beach. | Running along the very edge of the water was a slim, trim little bird ‘witht fairly long legs, a long, slen-| der bill, brownish gray back with) black spots and markings, and a} white waistcoat neatly spotted with | diack. Every few steps he would stand for a second, bobbing up and| down in the funniest way, as if his} body was so nicely balanced on his! lege that it teetered back and forth like a see-saw. It was an old friend, | circumstances + annoyed FP, Sybarite intensely. And why (he asked himself, with impa-| tence) need he remain outside wnen another entered without let or hind-| rance? | Upon this thought he turned bold-| : “Hello! We thought you must! ligently handing a bill to the chauf x Teeter the Spotted Sandpiper. Peter | } have got lost in the shuffie.* feur, ran nimbly up the steps, rang greeted him joyously. ) \ ia you?” sald I’. Sybarite ab the door bell, and, promptly letting “Peet-weet! Peeteweet™ cried/ | sontly himself into the vestibule, closed the ‘Teeter, turning toward Peter and | “Where's Molly? door behind him. bobbing and bowing ax only Teeter | “Mies Leasing P Sybarite| The taxicab swung round and ean. Before Peter could say another | Rha looked surprised. “Isn't «he upstaira! made off. Not so P. Sybarite. Pro- word Teeter came running toward a with Violet?” fo him, and it was plain to see that he | “Nor ‘was very anxious about something.| Ht was an olf friend, Peter the! “That's funny. lto reappear, as baffled as himself. “Don't, _ Peter Rabbit! Don't spotted is “Why, when'd she leave you?" But tho he dawdled away a patient ; | “Oh, ten minutes ago, or #0.” five minutes, nothing of the “Why not?” demanded Peter, for |“"Y Pest oF eee, or anything,” said | “She must have stopped in her| occurred. The front oid coma he could see no danger and vena | gesagt gl room for somethin’.”" closed think of no reason why he shouldn't; Mrs. Teeter stood up and stepped “Perhaps.” | a We move. Just then Mrs. Teeter came | aside. Then Peter saw, in a iitete | “But why didn’t you come on eet liay inaeadl tee’ Men pe hurrying up and squatted down in| hollow in the sand, with just a few | the sand right in front of Peter. | bite of grass for a lining, four white | f exclaimed Teeter, | ergs with big, dark blotches on them. “Well, you see, 1 met a man out-| side I wanted to talk to for a mo- ment, So I left her at the door.” “Well, Vi's waitin’. Run on up (Continued From Yesterday) J hat and followed to the curbir steak » p, gybarite ad-| 7" he shouted after the fast ‘s anawer,” P. Sybarite Ad-| retreating figure—"“here’s your hat! vised; “if you don't he'll lose pa pd ¥ | 1 won't be five minutes. And knock But he wasted breath, The taxt-| on “gra tence and come to fetch you. And| cab wan nearing Ninth ave., its pur. | °° Molly's door and see what's the then—" | A matter.” + would have | bit, you ‘would have stepped right on seen them in the world but for Mrs. Teeter, Hastily Peter backed away concaghis suer sprinting bravély a hundred |" é a’ arite IY UP the steps, pressed the bell | Diphtheria Left Her With ee Gr ce eer aa ett webbed | “But I'm afraid he may—" | feet to the rear, and aa he watched, wet. returned P. Bybarite |v itton, laid hold of the door knob, sites Ht struck Peter tae a | “Melty?” both turned the northern corner ana! " si, esastrustive. mendacity. light | “04 entered into « vestibule ae dark | . ~Catarrh of the Throat |" 2ado't wen nor do it he wouldn't| “Don’t you fear for me; God's good | “nlahed like shaper of dream upon bis conscience, he permitted |“# his bewilderment and as empty | |have known she was there. You nee.|to the Irish.” Sreine, P. Gyparite went SACR 10! Gaergs Ames apenge. te leave theiee (Be DaNE: Of Bis hand, pearing) After Years of Suffering, This Lady she looked so much like her sur “MOLLY !" the stoop and rat down to consider!) ones and gain Clancey's, then| that the young gentleman of fash | _ Sought and Found Relief in roundings that he never would have| «no be quiet,” suggested P. Syb |e mate of his soul (which was! iuistly followed gs far as the gate, 10" had experienced no difficulty in| PE-RU-NA, the Great noticed her at all, “My! he ex-|arite, not altogether civilly j valn-glorious and the condition Of! noo whieh point he cut acroas the| Penetrating farther into fastnesses Catarrh Remedy jelaimed; “I certainly would have| ‘The other started as if slapped, | ‘2%, hat (which was soiled, rumpled) outhern sidewalk, turned west to| °F this singular establishment. And | |atepped on those eggs if you hadn't| “when that?” he barkea im a| 2d disreputable) Ninth ave, and there north to 42nd Féflecting that where one had gone | While there is warned me, I'm so thankful I didn’t. | rage | ‘0 st, where he boarded a croxs-town|*nother might follow, P. Sybarite| nothing unusual in IX doa’t cos how. you dare lay thers |S 1a ness an Se | . Vat. car sen cag abeyance ead | the experience of in the open like this.” “The devil you did” With o Wheels of Chance This was quite the most ineane! Instantly the bare and narrow ves-| _ Miss Louise Bruec- freak in which he had indulged him. | tibule was flooded with the merci- | Mrs. Teeter laughed softly. “It's! enort the man strode in to the stoop.| Turning the affair over in his th oe mone | the safest place in the world, Peter,”|"“Do you know who you're talking | mind, and considering it from every | "lf these many years; and frankly | jes glare apiackgsd ciake he toema | Oakland, Cal, her |said she. “They look #0 much like |to?” he demanded wrathfully, tow-|imaginable angle, P. Sybarite decid. | Admitting this much, he was rather bulbs: nd at the same time he found | ett eyhonl jthese pebbles around her that nolering over P. Sybarite, momentarily | ed (fairly enough) that it was, on| Pleased than otherwise. He was) \ lulll suascnitg fie tittle dark See Angsana one secs them. The only time they | forgetful of the girl the whole, mysterioux; lending at | bound to call on Mr. Bailey Penfield) ny of a pair of inhospitable dark rf are in danger is when somebody| Stepping aside, as if in alarm, #he|jeast some color of likelihood to| 4nd inform that gentieman wh Veicie eae auedent te" the ae vo aly fet comes along, as you did, and is likely | moved behind the fellow, and darted! George's gratuitous guess-work he might find Bis hat, Incidentally |= eee, Cmeeeee te lee Takis to what se |to step on them without seeing them. | thru the gate y Laniig ‘might very ‘wall be] DA: Paped. to surprise sometiiing or | Seme Ue & Seal grille 1p one of the other informing with regard to the But that doesn't happen often.” Pp. don't,” Sybarite admitted Bx me ra- afte 7 pated ae teed tur pints r - anki “Sek sein atakhanage vas." » after fortunes of Mias Lessing subsequent! Though far too dumfounded for yoo Next story: Redwing’s Secret. fe fixed ‘eature with In which case the man with the} to por impulsive flight by taxicab. | speech, ne contrived to return the f wuffering and disappointment, I) Ile fixed that feature an tr of su a ed pase wei la plehdiuans whe twisted mouth was, more probably| ai of which, he calmly admitted with aggressive interest, and gave up hope until I hear: Z “= veaent puppy’ stormed thn not, none other than that same! constituted an i able imperti-| to such effect that he presently wore RU-NA. I tried it. Followed in- 4You impudent pupp rme: | tructions, and have had no catarrh the other. “Who are you? } 4 Shaynon whom the young| nence—he deserved a thoro-going| thru the patience of the other. _ ‘action: Aone Revie Soins rary “Who—me?" echoed P. Sybarite in lady. was reported to Jilted #0) snubbing, and rather antich ‘| “Well? he was gru asked, | RU-NA and MAN-A-LIN in the| surprise. (The girl was now in-| @‘bitrarily fined to find Mr.) The saints be praised!” returned bh seeing of: | structing the chauffeur.) “Why,” Turning tne topper over in his a r, by OMe VAEAFY! p. sybarite. “I find myself #0./And “Tt is not necessary for any one} drawied, “I'm the guy that put the| hands, it occurred to P. Sybarite to| of chance, to encounter Miss Les) our oiem he added civilly, not to i a el | point in disappointment. Sure you| wonder if he did not, in it, hol sing again Sa 0 eg | Se oe eee vonr after yee, oes have heard of me valuable clue to this riddle of 4 But he smiled cheerfully in con: utdone, as the saying is, | with catarrh in any form... PE-RU “What do you want?” | A « curb, the door of the taxi-| tity. Promptly he took the hat in-|templation of this prospect, bu wae serdar agar oxi tb igy Aioir fT to Sell Flowers for BL Ab radi habe yg prt r Simulta pbk go gorge? patigating it | up with a bellef that his unoonecious on ating discourtesy Inhered tn Segfhacans as it is for coughs, Zionist Fund neously the drone ef the motor! mont thoroly by the flickering, bluish |1y idiotic behavior was intrinsloally ph Bing nk gay P. Sybarito stif- thickened to a rumble. The man glare of the lonely gas jet that|more or leas Quixotic, and further | fened ett us to by 08 an agri | ae vith the twisted mouth turned just | burned in the hallway excited by the hope that he might| “To see Mr. Penfield,” he returned 0: t is by regulating the di. w ne ou! ani ba ee nea ‘siding elimination frm A Dower *aay, to raise funds to re in time to see it drawing aw: BF, “ a handsome and heavy hat | possibly be permitted to serve his ee Pa Har a i PE-RU-NA insures a rich supply of |store their ancient home land, will| 411" he cried In surprise and) 0? Ente nant wt hatter In| ot oil aventa, he meant to know after a pause so transient| Pure blood and peter api tse os conducted by Jews thruout the "he taxi dian’t pause; to the|its crown; by the slight discolora-|more about Mr. Bailey Penfield be it was little more than dis-| gq pv fla enor the imucons | United States, Sunday, June 7 contrary, it stretched out toward|tion of its leather, had seen service | fore he slept Unguishable, but which to P. Sybar ee se | a wad ; ‘ Ninth ave. at a quickening pace. | without, however, depreciating in| Alighting at Sixth ave., he walked |ite indicated beyond question that at | 3 membranes healthy, the body is| The Jewish national flower day t uJ y oe “ he | least one Mr, Penfield was known to q better able to repel disease and|Came into existence 20 years ago| With profanity appreciating the/ utility, needing only brushing and|to Forty-fifth st. turned off to the) Must Dil ih | sails wi : ° ‘0 resto »ristine other moment was . 4 ward off such troublea as the Grip| when the Zionist movement first be-|fact that he had on tricked, he|froning to restore its pristine bril-| right, and in another moment ii Datlly Portion hd al] - rnd Spanish Flu. PE-RU-NA ty of| fan to fourish. Since that time all| picked up his heels in pursuit. But] lance; carried neither name nor inj-|at a xtandstill, In the extremist per sy Cras ."" he replied. | 2 — tale 0. annus swer|P- Sybarite had not finished with| tials on its lining; and lacked every exity, before Number 9 no ols , PE are reey, ele ain “aatl dae Laps eiaetins Cane fi Detity. suacing the man’ by|least hint as to its ownership—or| By wvery normal indication, the} During © pause slightly longer ‘ A oe se ae, ee hey oF d in Poteet ae ‘dates he | tt tall of b Tull skirted opera coat! so it med until the prying fingers hous 1 and ¢ ntleax, | than the first, the hostile and sus: : : rem tag it fen ae eet ren tae Saree |S cesadied in teresting tl : Sa " . j picious eyes summed him up a sec-| ‘ablets 7 ish gove e nd resell it to set.| be succeeded in arresting his flight, of P. Sybarite turned down the r to basement its every f ba | oe Laaid, Geld erry Wee. Nee ST umment and resell It to #0t | Sescre it was fairly started, > |leather and permitted a visiting card w was blind with shades close- | ond tr PEER | , ; . | More than 200 A | -“Here!* he protested. What's| concealed therein to flutter to the ‘The front doors were closed, No such party, here,” was the ver- rsh Reg apd girls have 001 ; ant grating likewise. An{dict. The man drew back and made | ra volunteered to sell the flowers ana|¥OUr Urry spy“ De ec peat s . na it to ohesitthe grilte | ~. | aies vo lair ere and)" With « viclous snarl, the man| The hall rack was convenient;) atmospheric accumulation of str None” B. Betasie s | Fs or Headache— attle’s quota of $1,000 jturned and snatched at his cloak.) hanging up the hat, P. Sybarite| debris littered the area flagstones Noneefige, Sybarite insisted, “4 Rub the forehead 7 | fut P. Sybarite adhered tenaciously | picked up the card. It displayed in| together with one or two empty and | Sharply. “I have his card with this } % and temples with CHECK OVER NAMES } t | conventional script the name, Bailey | battered ash cans, in whose shadows | humber—got It from him only to-| Er We were discussing your nose nfield, with the West /an emaciated cat skulked apprehen game OF 3 REFERENDUMS) 4+ discretion, ne interrupted hhim-| 45th st; one corner, me , bore | aively one thing lacking to| “Card?” ‘The face returned to ; i self to duck Wwneath the swing of ala pencilled hieroglyphic which | signify that the Penfield menage*had | the grille. | 4 A force of extra clerks was set| powerful fist. And this last, fail-| seemed to read: "O, K Pr" }moved bodily to the country, was| P. Sybarite made no bones about} ; 3 BODYGUARD ~ 507. 607.926 to work Friday in the city comptrol-| ing to find @ mark, threw its own Whate: mused P. SYbarite,| the shield of @ burglar protective displaying his alleged credential. — | : — ler’s registration department check-|er off his balance. ‘Tripping awk-| ‘that may mean.” | aswoeiation in one of the parlor win: | belleve you'll find that awuthen-| ing over the referendum petitions|wardly over the low curbing of the| He turned tho card over and ex-|dows, P. Sybarite looked for that tic,” he observed with asperity. — | ; s initialing all names of persons reg-|dooryard walk. he reeled and went|amined its unmarked and taciturn | in vain, By way of answer, the grille! istered and qualified to vote. |a-sprawl on his knees, while his hat| reverse. | Disappointed in the seonviction | closed with a snap; but his inclina: | | on s Large numbers of petitions to re-| tell off and (such is the impish habit| Stealthy footsteps on ‘the staira| that he had drawn a false lead, the| tion to kick the door was nullified | i fer to the people the al punish. | of toppers) rolled and bounded sev- | dis ed his studious attention |little man strotied on eastward al when, without | further delay, it) ; ment bill and the measure boout.| eral feet away from the card, He looked up, blink: | little. distance. then on sheer im-|opened to admit him, Nose in ait, , Bought and Sold at Market Rates | ing the salary of judges have been| eleasing the cloak, P, Sybarite|ing and frowning thoughtfully, toj pula, “BmyeoP his project and, | he strutted In, and the door clanged : filled with signatures, Tho petitions | Withdrew to a respectful remove and ssconding With thewnsh | swinging about, started to go home, | behind him. : | ] Th Seattl to refer for vote of the people the | hy Jd himself coolly alert against re-| ppéd in, but by no means | But now, as he approached Number Gimme another slant at that ie ie legislature's ratification of the “ha-| prisals that never came. The other ised By, brown paper, Once at|97 the second time, a taxicab turned | card,” the guardian insisted. | : tional prohibition amendment algo | picked himself up quickly, cast about bottom of the stairs, thit one|in from Sixth ave,, alld to the curb) Surrendering it with elaborate in-| National Bank are coming in.raplidly to the regis. |for the taxicab, discovered It swift: /expreswed amazement in a whisper, | before that dwelling, and set down | difference, I. Sybarite treated him. Bend Departnent tration office. ly making off—already twenty yards | to avoid rousing their landlady, who|a smallish young man dressed in the | self to a comprehensive survey of lists ldistant—and with a howl of rage|held, unreasonably, that it detracted | extreme of fashion—a person of ft Be pro ais vee Second Cotumbie ~ Sa aear gate Pa bounded thru the gate and gave! from the tone of her establishment | ical characteristics by no means to| He stood in the main hall of an ci i aaa be ‘The average woman finds good| chase at the top of his speed. for gentlemen boarders to rush the| be confused with those of the man/| old-fashioned residence. To his right | [looks an expensive babit, Gravely, P, Sybarite retrieved tho] growler, , Hwith the twisted mouth—who, neg-]a double doorway revealed a draw: | ORR, Pe i FIFTY Baars ~ On “THE: want rer ‘i |of genialty. |with a lavish display | chafing dish and discovered a round | dropping into a chair, (ii Derr You _— ing room luxuriously furnished but, as far as he could determine, quite untenanted. On the left a long stair case hugged the wall, with a glow of warm light at its head. To the rear the hall ended in a single door- | way thru which he could see a hand- ly intrigued, he waited hope-|S0me mahogany buffet elaborately | fully for this second midnight caller | @rranged with shimmering damask, | ! silver and crystal, “It's all right,” announced the sort) warden of the grtiie, his suspicions | to all | “Mr. ent seeming completely allayed. Penfield ain't in just at pres- but"—here ho grinned shrewd: ly—"I reckon you ain't so dead set | 1 on seein’ him as you made out.” “On the contrary,” P. Sybarite re torted stiffly, “my business is im- fi 1 will wait” Sure.” Into the accents of the! other there crept anagically a trace “Will you go right on up, or would you like a bite of somethin’ to eat first?” A thumb indicated the door in the rear of the hall. Thither P Sybarite betook himself on the in- stant, spurred by the demands of an appetite insatiable once it had | won recognition, | He found the back room one of | good proportions; whatever the j | “ On A “TWwele Line ThaT- Hy Twa 108A -Yoy Dav'r KMow “Tis 0003 08 MNTWRG ApovT “THE PicWTERS— How SuLLY mediate and personal with Mr. Pen- TONIGHT! NO LONGER architect's original intention, now serving as a combined lounge and) grill, richly and comfortably furn- | ished in sober, masculine fashion, boasting in all three buffets set forth | of food and| drink. In one of many deeply | upholstered club chairs a gentleman of mature years and heavy body, | with a scarlet face and a crumpled | wine-stained shirt, was slumbering serenely, two-thirds of an extrava- gant cigar cold between his fingers. In others two young men were con- |fabulating quietly but with a most | dissipated air, heads together over a brace of glasses. At a corner ser-| vice table a negro in a white jacket | was busy with a silver chafing dish | which exhaled a tantalizing aroma, | This last, at the entrance of P, Syb-| arite, glanced quickly over his shoulder, and seeing @ strange face, clapped the cover on the steaming | black countenance bisected by a} complete mouthful of the most bril- | Mant teeth imaginable, | " he gabbled | t's sho’ a pleasure to} “Yas-suh—coming' cheerfully, * see yo’ again “At least,” suggested P, Sybarite, | “it will be, | | next time.”* “Tha's right, suh—tha's the troof! The negro placed a small table ad- jacent to his elbow. ‘Tha’s what Ah allus says to strange gemmen, fust time they comes hyeh, suh;/ makes ‘em feel more at home like. | Jus’ lemme know what Ah kin do for yo’ tonight. That ‘ere lobstuh Newburg’s jus’ about prime fo’ eat- ing this very minute, ef yo! feel-a/ bit peckish,"” “I do,” P. Sybarite admitted. “Just @ spoonful—” “An' uh lil drink, suh? Jus’ one lil innercent cocktail to fix yo’ mout right “If you sist,” “Yas-suh; and wif the lobstuh, suh, Ah venture to suggest a nice cold il ha't-pint of Cliquot, yallah label? How that strike yo’ fancy, suh? Er mebbe yo'd perfuh—" “Enough! said P. Sybarite firm- ly, “A mere bite and a glass are enough to sustain life,” “Ain't that the troof?” Chuckling, the negro waddled ay, returned, and offerert the guest a glass brimming with amber- tinted liquid. (Continued Monday) insist, Pete—if you in- COMING SUNDAY You won't easy till you — see the last “3 Green Dramatic masterpiece, .