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

sDITORIAL— Work—Play The true pleasure of play is as a relaxation from work. ation, rest, is from a contrast of occupations, Play is a contrast from work. Work is a contrast from play. much physical and mental effort in play of earning a living, yet after the play return rested to our work. One is a relaxation from the other. All play and no work, and play becomes a dissipation. All work and no play, and we become stale. Absolute idleness, no activity at all, is degeneration. it is very easy to understand why there is rest, xation, in a contrast of activities—-even with the same ount of effort. While at work one set of brain cells and muscles ; while at play another set of brain cells and mus active. : ; y One set is resting while the other is working. | Bight hours of work, eight hours of play and eight of sleep is the commonly accepted rule. ; Activity during the hours of both work and play is not ful providing it is in contrast. hours of sleep are the only ones needed for absolute stivity—complete relaxation. We would be a better balanced people if those with cal occupation were to take up a mental activity, and of mental occupations were to take up a physical ity during the hours commonly allotted to play. is to say—let the store, bank and newspaper play baseball and do garden work. Let the mill and outdoor mechanics spend a portion of their off in reading or some pure mental effort. a matter of fact the physical workers have a certain tage over the mental workers for the development minds along any desired lines. mental worker uses his mind during all his hours of } 3; his mind is usually too tired for further effort dur- 1 the hours of play. physical worker’s mind is fresh’ for the hours of can use it, develop it during leisure periods. all on the law of rest, relaxation, in contrasting or a Wilson says that the assembly will be the talking body the league, and the senate will consider this another ement on its rights and privileges. Woman and the Treaty ul effect upon the senate is apt to be one of | its of the decision of the democratic national com- to double the size of the committee by adding 17 Man members. It followed the representations of Mrs. ge Bass, Chicago, that from “the Pacific to the Ssippi” she had found the “women aflame with senti- it for ratification of the treaty and the league covenant.” Bre is no reason to doubt Mrs. Bass’ statement. Inci- s on President Wilson’s recent trip corroborate it. yen are against war, and the instrument the republi- (in the senate are holding up offers mankind the best he that is for world-wide, enduring peace. n ‘God bless her, in domestic life no less than likes to be Lady Bountiful. The very arguments by its of the treaty, that the United ould deny itself the privilege of helping the little self. ig democracies, freed finally from of Austria, Russia and Prussia, fail of their pur-¢the value of the presents was not Even more, they arouse in women resentment against r selfishness and bring into action woman's ever- - self-sacrificing desire to aid the needy. | the democratic politicians, realizing that from 16,000,- “to 18,000,000 new voters—ali women—will participate . election of a president in 1920, make half of their |; | executive committee women and announce they thus [EVERETT TRUE | | women into full political partnership. lespite Wilson’s pleas that the treaty fight be kept out tisan politics, it has gotten there. The democrats bring in the women voters, present and prospective, shades of political opinion. reaty opponents in the senate will immediately feel the political effect of this move. _ America and France are the two great republics. And | that explains why it is taking them forever to make up cir minds about the treaty. Our Flag Tt was way past sundown, and the American flag was ng hauled down at a fire station. ding on the pavement were three or four little boys rigid attention while the fireman lowered the flag with indifference. A man passing just as the flag reached the level of his glanced at it as tho it were any ordinary piece of “Gee,” said one little boy, “that guy didn’t salute nor man meant no insult to the flag. He was merel} . It’s a habit we Americans have. We love tht white and blue more than our own life, but we just t show our affection. for the sake of the children and foreign born, who y not understand, shouldn’t we cultivate a more demon- tive feeling toward Old Glory? The National Educational association reports a short- ‘age of 38,000 teachers in this country. If the report is correct, it is our guess there are at least 280,000 small and as many a8 38 small girls who are hoping the shortage will not be filled. In these days of high land prices, it may please you | to recall that we once bought from France a strip of and west of the Mississippi for something less than a ' nickel an acre. The American dollar brings a premium of 100 per cent in Italy, but there is a considerable discount on American ideals. é Gary talks of moral principles. A moral principle, ‘| in our present system of business, is anything that will | guarantee dividends. It may be that D’Annunzio put something over on the talian government, and it may be that the associated governments put something over on the Serbs, et al. The president calls Article X the heart of the cove- mt, Also the backbone and teeth. ceau calls the treaty the “ensemble of possi- ” which is high-brow for compromise. | | THE SEATTLE STAR—TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1919. —By CONDO Sce! He CRUST OF TEN! NGLAND WANTS SIX VOTES TO OVR ONS (IN THe LEAGUE oF NA~ ‘OU GOT To TALK ABOUT “VOTES"F ‘You WERG NEVER KNOWN TO TURN OUT AT ECECTION TIMG AND DO OVR DVTY AT THE Porcs tf HAVG A LITTLE FREEDOM OF THe SEA — MAYGO THE COLD WATER WILL WAKE MOTHERS BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE When, in the cool of night, His mother wakes, She rises, and without a light, Steals, velvet-ehod, to where his breathing makes Soft music, as she stands Feeling with unfelt hands, And from his tip-toes to his chin She tucks him softly, gently in Breathing a blessing on hin rest, Deeming herself more blest When, in the cooling keep Of my last bed, If Mother Earth shall soothe me as I sleep And gently press the sward above my head, Lest I should lose the gain Of sleep and wake to fever and to pain, O, 1 shall know the while And tho I be too slumberous to smile Yet I shall snuggle closer, wrapped and prersed In the great Mother breast. (Copyright, 1919, N. BA) President and Mrs. Wilso: n Make List of European Gifts Public WASHINGTON, Oct. 1—-(Unitedy “A moratc, presented by the pope.” Press.)—Secretary Tumulty, at the! The following gifts were received request of President and Mrs. Wil by Mra. Wilson: son, today made public a list of the gifts received by them while in Eu- Mrs. Wilson's Gifts rope. | “A pin of Persian enamel with ‘The list was iseued to show that tiny diamond chips, presented by the city of Paris “Linen, hand embroidered lunch t follows: set, amail cloth and dozen napkins “A considerable number of #malliin a case, presented by the working gifts such as books, walking sticks,| women of Paris an old silver dish found in the ruins! «, mati medal of Louvain, war souvenirs made bY | cardinal Mercier soldiers from war materials, numer medals struck off in the presi t's honor. “Photographs of queen of England “A book relating to Windsor cas tle “The freedom of the city of Lon don presented in a gold canket “A reproduction of The Wolf and “A water color picture ona bronze us, in gold, easel, premented by the king of ple of Ital Italy c 3 Qn “A bronze figure presented at the) “ e of lace in a leather case, capitol in Rome. : by Signor Orlando on be “A figure of Italia Victoria, sent) half of bis colleagues. to the train at Genoa, | “A small reproduction tn silver of “A bronze figure presented by stu-|a picture found in the ruins of Pom dents in France. presented by “A Belgian tace table cover, pre sented by the queen of Belgium. king and) "A the Libre Rel, shed during complete file per n upation of Belgium. by the king in a leather the presented folder thru In The Grip Of A Man’s Hand — You Find Strength or Weakness— What Does Your Grip Show? Have you the firm, forceful power of a man whose blood is rich in iron—the kind that inspires confidence and wins success—or have you the feeble, hesitating clasp of a weakling, whose blood needs iron? Nuxated Iron builds strong, keen, red- blooded men and women. If you are not strong or well, you ow: it to yourself to start taking Nuxated Iron today and watch its strength giving, — upbuilding effect, In two weeks time see for yoursel what sort ofa chang has taken place in the grip of your hand and the amount of strength and endurance YOu possess. WE'LL SAY SO We were nure the telephone com pany would come thru handsomely to its patron promine ° Be a good animal. It always does— | | PRIVATE CORKESPONDENCE George: Put a raisin in it | worked. bottled it too For, after all our theologie Annie oon, It You probably should stand five un & sample are glad Bring Katie t We un taste tt | ~animals. And your body ha even with your loftiest Emerson said that the Jim: Filter it thru eha what the diw yenitentiary, the b the term fune merely call it foll |lay in the bile duct. | About nine-tenths of the common or gar- | it wept at|den happiness of mankind comes from back who neglects Yeu nixing explat ny the mont that you present. Our We have no Wednesday eve But written | and belly, and often ane confusing t Now would #ug 7 wise, Don't turn up your nor ery “Materialist” mixer r in Main . or appointment for are fundamental, and that justified in who has attended to them. Rev. Dr. M No; we cannot fur nish the address of the bling mention. We lost joint you our money at another one Lake a woman in the rush But it was in wife 1d aig Happy is ANSWERED partner, What is meant b the “He is a sound sleeper”?—« L. F A Green mar reat te hour you have builded your yesterday doesn't evening the man expression gripes and griefs. And It means that he snores They say we are part beast, part angel. |And sometimes it seems the angel is over jing, our education and mental problems, our |social standing, our fame, our ambitions, our politics and other intellectual and spiritual concerns, after all we are first and foremost a deal to do with you, psychic airplaning. real ca difference between Calvinist and Arminian refined nose at this, “Sensualist,” least until you understand what I mean, And what I mean is that the animalities the only person disregarding them is the one If you have duly cared for friend body gave up bie | You may go ahead and forget it; but if not, house sand, and great will be the fall thereof. whose This is an untoward world, and the What letter in the alphabet does| his legs and liver is fortunate. A man always have after he te ir debt?—-W. CH » os The Old Gardener Says « » cab A carpenter h work every take § ing he When the little mint does ature carry?—E. MeG jdages begin to crowd on the stalks We do not know what kind of alot the hammer he carries. But he ought|to break off most of the lower to carry a trip hammer. jlenves. This will give the sprouts - An opportunity to develop, It ts Which ts the more valuable to alalways necessary, tho, to leave a singer, the notes in his upper or his|romette of leaves at the top in order lower register?—J. ¢ jto keep the plants growing. All the Generally the most valuable ones|sprouts on a stalk will not mature are thore in his cash register at the same time, but the larger ones may be eaten as soon as they Washington |are ready and if frost comes while the stalks the roots and Brussels sprouts it is time Are the Pleasant t Bu Not always, Now find a cromroad. QUESTIONS WE CANNOT ANSWER Does = railroad have switches on! Brite. | ite branch lines?—B. G. 8. } Where can I buy « goldheaded) The shrub from which the French sugar cane?—T. I. M manufacture the perfume known as 1 read in the paper that a man found blorsome on his cherry tree| dently in the Philippines: roads in ride over in an auto? ¢ sprouts etill remain may be dug up by and then you/taken into the cellar. If set in boxes of earth they will keep on growing until the little heads are ready to eat. In fact, it ts often worth while growing some Brussels sprouts especially for winter une. t (Copyright. them is upon body man knows how to get pleasure intelligently from a et ou men and women who can’t} get feeling right ache, coated tongue, foul breath, bilious, bothered with a sick, gassy, dis- | cens bile from the liver and carry ordered BE A GOOD ANIMAL BY DK. FRANK CRANE 1919, by Frank Crane) | let the child decently care for his mother, There’s bathing, for instance. Do you really get all the fun out of your daily dip | you might? Or have you reduced it to a negligible routine? not how to eat, that does not care what he not how to eat, that does not car what he eats. Vor eating is pleasurable. And no crumb of pleasure ought to be ted. Jesus even made eating and drinking a sacrament, And certainly God made food and called it good, and should we despise it, like overwise Peter ? And sleeping. oul sav- of the It’s a third of your life, Do you know how to do it? Can you make a daily sacrament, and an exercise in happiness? Or do you never think of it, except as a bothersome necessity? And exercise. Golf, tennis, baseball, run- ning, jumping, motorcycling, climbing, dancing. Children get most of their un- quenchable spirits from moving their bodies. And hay yu never read the saying that is written, xcept ye be converted and be- come as little children, ye cannot see the kingdom’? Come! we are brothers to the dog, the cat and the cow; let us not go back on our 0 They have been much maligned. Things are called brutish that are not ani- malities at all, but deviltries.¢ Drunkenness, uncleanness, excess, glut- tony, also spite and hypocrisy—animals do not do such things—they are the sins of de- based thinkers. There are no fallen animals. not the his is full of that There are Your body is the mother of your brain; | fallen angels. DON’T BE A “MISERY-FACTORY” Stop Headaches, Bilious Spells, Colds and Constipa- tion with “Cascarets”—Ideal Physic! { | | | Cascarets work while you sleep; |they cleanse the stomach, remove prs yet Pro the sour, undigested, fermenting and upset, |f00d and foul gases; take the ex- who have head- dizzin nerve tomach and colds, out of the system all the constipat- u keeping your liver and ed waste matter and poison in the an with Cascarets, or| bowels which ts now keeping you hocking your insides every |in constant misery. Cascarets never few .days with Calomel, Salts, Otl| gripe, sicken or cause inconvenience cannio has been found growing abun: | or violent Pills? i \and Cascarets cost so little too. the other day, which seems remark-|~ able at this: season, Hut the other! day I found a hat on my hall tree len't that wonderful’—-H. P. B. le a Welsh rabbit anything like « Reigian harel-—W. A. F. Does a well-bred man have much crust?—C. H. D. see HOUSEHOLD HINTS A Seattle man has invented a rubber shoestring. It doesn’t mat ter whether you break {ft or not When you break it all you need to do is to stretch it and you have a longer string. | A little nutmeg or cinnamon sprinkled on the bottom of a pan] will prevent it from scorching Every uptodate housewife now keeps an adding machine in the kitchen, It is a great help in keep:| ing track of the grocery bills Coal will burn more slowly if] turned upside down just before it is placed in the furnace Coal wilf burn more slowly if turned upside ¢ just before it is placed in the © Ice will not borax is placed be frigerator a pineh of in the re German newspapers are still dis cussing the question of who started the war. They have settled the| question as to who will not start the next one. eo 8th of October ir zi, the Italian patrio , a revolution Rome which ov w the power of the aristoo racy, was killed. He had been \placed at the head of the Roman government under the title of trib une of the people. His success went to his head and he was finally killed in a riot which his il-consid ered conduct had provoked | In 1793, on the &th of October jJohn Hancock, one of the gre jleaders of the American Revolution died. Hancock was the president of the congress which issued the Declaration of Independence and one of the signers of that docu ment On the &th of October, in 1820, Henri Christophe, king of Hayti was ehot. He had been a slave who saw service in the American war. When the slaves on the island ef St. Domingo revolted, Henri Chris tophe took a leading part in the up rising and for his services was pro claimed king when the island de clared itself independent of French rule In 1822, on the 8th of October, the Jeruption of Mount Galongoon in the island of Jay occurred, At 2} Jo’clock in the afternoon of a clear warm day a loud explo tartled the island, This was followed by a sudden darkening of the sky. A jthick cloud of smoke, rising from] |the crater, wrapped the country in| jdarkness and down the sides of the} mountain poured hug boiling mud and bri force of the eruption ¥ that the mud and lava tance of 40 miles. At 5 eruption ceased, leaving boiling mud, In some mud was 60 feet in depth of 4,000 persons were 114 villages destroyed On the 8th of October, Edmund C. Stedman, je, was born. In 1862, on the 8th of October, the battle of Perryville, Ky., took place General Buell was in command of the Union army and General Bragg of the Confederates, The Confed erates retreated in good order under cover of night he est killed, and in 1833 poet and crit L) Misunderstanding of American trial. organization, and of its benefits to mankind, leads to unrest, dissatistaction, and radicalism. For example, the Federal Trade Com- mission tells the public that the large packers had an agreed price for lard substitute (made of cotton-seed oil.) It reproduces letters taken from the files of one of the packers, showing that such agreed price existed. But it failed to mention that the agreed price was determined at the request of and in co-operation with the Food Administration! Even the Department of Justice, in its unjust attempt to create prejudice against the packers, has made public these same letters, with no explanation. Everything that falsely encourages unrest also encourages bolshevism. indus- How long must this kind of misrepresentation continue? In so far as it is believed, it not only breeds discontent, but results in injustice to our industry, Let us send you a Swift “Dollar.” It will interest you. Address Swift & Company, Union Stock Yards, Chicago, Ill. Swift & Company, U.S. A. Seattle Local Branch, 201-11 Jackson Street J. L. Yocum, Manager ESR aS)p