The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 12, 1919, Page 6

EDITORIA “The Circulating System " m Christian Science Moniter) a ; ; The Englishman in America misses the circulating library There are new books that he wishes to dip into, such books as “Roose- and I,” by his annual | a postcard | i system. but that he does not want to buy— 0 velt’s Letters to His Children” and “The World Ella Wheeler Wilcox. In England, having paid subscription to Mudie’s Select Library, he sends . on a Sunday, and on the following Tuesday the faithful Mudie van (a motor now, as Mudie is not unprogressive) delivers the books. Or he may call at the branch office and change a book himself as often as he likes; and if the particular book of his choice is not in stock, Mudie will obtain | it. Or he may patronize Smith or any of the other circu- If ‘he lives in the country, the Mudie book comes by parcel post. So it happens that every well-ordered | rouse in Great Britain can, for a small sum per annum, +) adorn its guest bedrooms with the newest books and cur-| rent magazines. 4 For some reason or another the circulating library sys- tem has not taken root in America. Attempts have been made but with small success. Perhaps the reason is the efficiency of the American public librarie E Useful and agreeable as the American ystem of lending ; is, it hardly takes the place of the English circu- lating library. The public libraries of America, with the) best intentions, are seldom able to supply the newest books. Has any library a copy of Seitz’ “Life of Artemus W ard | or Miss Amy Lowell's “New Poems”? A determined Eng lishman can make Mudie supply him with the newest books. Besides, calling for a book and having it left at your house | are very different things. To many people in England a compensation for living in a remote part of the country is | the arrival of the weekly Mudie box. sat lating libraries. Why has not the circulating system been extended to} pictures? Few people are able to pay the high prices |, asked for modern works of art, and there are many who like a change. We seldom look at the pictures upon our | walls because they are always the same. Now, suppose, | } F that by paying a sum per annum.a reputable housekeeper | | a t. could hire a picture for, say three months, would it not add “ ' to his interest in art, and keep that interest simmering: eee The circulating system has already been extended to} pianola records, and it is only a matter of time before it is | extended to movie films. So the householder of the future | may look forward to participating in circulating books, pictures, films, and also gramophone records of all the important political speeches. In that happy. day it will be} * quite as pleasant for retired leisure to live in Barbados as in the Back Bay. a : f | a For Better Babies Pete sg — | wives of Texas are wl bee ‘ecipes It is a startling fact that during the war England actually |toou. cut down its infant mortality rate. The government saw] A man who shows one of his that mothers had’ better care before their children were |{Tiends & picture of a bottle of born and that their babies had better care, cleaner milk and | "Vy {0% commits a kelony. better surroundings after they were born. | Nov. 1 tearing the win t of their cook House This in spite of | done by Uncie Sam when it comes to the fact that the British nation was engaged in a hand-to-|putting the kibogh on the devilish hand fight for its very existence. neas ot John Barleycorn It is an equally startling fact \e that the British infant|,,¢ tere tn i A - nia state if perhap : mortality rate is lower than that of the United Staes. Weltne most @rastie in the 1 ha : Oat Lee have heard much of the slums of London and the terrible | was enacted to “put teeth n the conditions in towns like Manchgster and Birmingham; and Puke ant’ a tae deri Ye : yet with the broad prairies of America, its hundreds of thousands o@ square miles of open land and its wonderful climate and energetic population, the United States allows more babies to die in proportion to the number born than does Great Britain. And those who live—and this is the more important fact—go through life handicapped by weak- ness and’sickness of mind and body due to no fault of their | | TOMORROW ¥ 1002 on the 18th of November,} & great massacre of Danes thru-f a put nd, by order of King! ¢ ; own, but to the condition of the mother even before her|ftneirea’ took pace. Men. women ' child was born. and children were slaughtered and : These are two of many similar facts which have led to the |among the victims was Gur hinter of Sweyn, King of Den: introduction in congress of a bill by Senator Sheppard of Texas to give federal government aid to the work of better | 2°50" yee ret fo, the sword. t i care for mothers and children in the United States. The fore her eyes. The fob! f f plan is a little like the Agriculture Department’s extension year the Danish king in work. The federal government proposes to appropriate |‘*¢e4 ee $2,000,000 as a beginning, to be advanced to state boards, | which will expend dollar for dollar on infant and maternal | care. The would be created by this bill a federal board made up of the Secretary of Labor, the Chief of the Chil- dren’s Bureau, the Surgeon-General and the Commissioner of Education. The state boards and health departments of cities and towns would propose and work out plans for| i f maternal and infant care, including visiting nurses and in-|*“ 4 - struction in infant rearing. These local agencies would re-| yo, ‘1, vpligrisn "iwttes tie ceive financial aid, énstruction, co-operation and supervision |barked at Cape Cod to seek a con-| from the federal government. |venient place for a settlement. In| It is to be hoped that Senator Sheppard's bill will receive |‘"*!" "earch they found baskets of) prompt and helpful attention. corn concealed .by the Indians under} heaps of sand In 1771, on the 13th of November, jan eruption occurred in the Solway Moss in England. The Solway is! bout seven miles in circumference nd i& composed of mud and decom: | posed fibres of heath. It im fed by internal springs, which keep the| |mons thickly muddy. It burst its barrier in the night and laid waste a large tract of country. In 1833, on the 13th of November, | Edwin Booth, the tragedian, was born at Bel Air, Maryland. Booth| was famous chiefly for his imper-| - fonations of Hamlet apd Richelieu. | He died in New York on June 7,| 1893 On the 13th of November tn 1850, Robert Louis Stevenson was born. On the 123t an English of November, tn 1 slation of the e. called Matthew's Bible, was first permitted “of the royal lberality and goodness” to be read in private houses. | In 1553, on the 13th of November, Jane Grey, the ninedays queen, was arraigned at Guildhall. 9. ¥R Up to the Courts Again Mr. Taft says that the Massachusetts election was a great moral victory. Mr. Wilson says it was a great tri- umph for law and order. And Massachusetts declared for 4 per cent beer, amongst other things. However, the courts haven’t yet decided that there’s no morality, law or order in beer that strong. Alberta farmers are beginning to use sunflower seed and stalks as a cattle food, building silos for the food. 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It will make a gray.|¥4fm by buying $400 fur coats |manufacture, and they get $1.50 per haired person look twe yea * = pound for them. Talk about profiteer. younger.—Advertiseme: | This Fellow Must Be a Graduate of ing and hoarding! What ts the mat ond br fiately made b wn, whiche the use of you « ty get atl drug store. rough the hair lead aniline, ¢ zine, mu 30 332 COUGHS PACKED IN SANITARY CARTONS Wiahe story pause t the Texas | taos ° Take up y me betokened have gone « ntiously into the inned as the en-| merits and 4 rite of the mer- hh | tered chants’ association, the lumbermen’s | The box Hlave you | associations, the bankers’ associa HOT | the two black @ ny 7 tions, the chambers of commerce, the | “We have, mother,” sald the two! sugar combines, the steel trusts and n- | crooks, placing the box at her feet, [hundreds of other similar associa- # to circulate or eve recipe for making whisky, | the furr wine or beer, or to dimpiay the pio ture of any bottle streaked or faded bair can owe Full tain on burro. for use and a $100.00 gol! ne in each box guaranteeing the user that Orlex powder do: contain silver mal tar products BY DR. FRA (Copyright, 1919, THE GREAT BLACK DIAMOND MYSTERY | by ‘Tho Author of Shamlock the Sleuth | Who are the Elect? , | They are those who want to find out ‘w°\ their Duty and do it. | (ynopsis—Lady Leevitoft's [Pricelons black diamonds are stolen. ‘They think they are put in this world to | |Shamiock, the great detec tive, 8) Do scales ne Ie Mee oe to to recover them. The) ‘There are always plenty whose purpose in fn Who wear I seat life seems to be play. They concejve of 4 hd fur leegines, appoint | themselves as ere to be entertained, This | Kuku, & member, to k is the theory of children. But to the right aos pie hei tues Bo ‘sort of person this is among those ‘child- pen gy e . ‘ Sete stot < puta fab come peck’ lish things” that he “puts away” with ma- | turity. There are multitudes whose aim appears | to be to get more mon and their work is only an unpleasant means of attaining t + he had tain there Sham.|€nd. So they work as little and as poorly as it know, but when he re | possible; and always under protest. They wuttor |are sorry for themselves. This is a wide n in the head class, meluding grumbling crooks, grafting and soldiering chauffeurs, piddling and lugged the hole in hiv temple dawdling plumbers and carpenters, and the whore the assasin’s bullet had en- whole range of crooks, grafters, confidence tored, and darted back into the m7 |men, ward heelers, misers, and so on, Sor danabae ten Claawien ina’ And there are those who want to know | steps into the alle Kuku ts # shot rings out.) off his dinguine | Just then a pisto Chapter 5 he wa from ® sharp pa the two black diamonds were ¥ first donning the disguise he bad but . ‘ , recently discarded, Entering the|What Their Job is, and having found it, to xcll chamber he approached the!do it well, a ded in my detective mblage and annow others, ppt to ve me another There are more of such than we imagine. | This war showed us some two or three mil- I was v the vance and ft shall lion young men who suddenly awoke to the murder jearry out my errand with honer.” | realization that a great Work was up to |iock touched the shoulder pf the near. (tHeM—perhaps to die—and they marched or nd it hard as away cheerfully to doit In another minute the truth| The spiritual revelation of the war was ‘They | dawned upo: stiff in the conscien- were frozen | the enormous amount of latent tiousness we had on hand. ¥ neata, id bes nals’ a coi st wie vie The U. 8. A. is full of fine men and wo- we ulin the|men who are saying, perhaps through » a SN clenched teeth, perhaps smiling, “This is i wilt be quite | MY Job, and I'll do it.” vf penn't , Women, unhappily married, their dream The rent is due The bat being the best kind of wives they know jmust plu on, He will | plunge » to © drugstore and ola in the ,ing attorney and answer to Dr. | those positions by ded jitney and| Frank Crane's editorial in The Star |the city affairs? November 6th, I would like to| Rev, M. A. Ma: your attention to the fact that|other ministers, to preach thi DR. CRANE ANSWERED Editor The Star: In desperate | « if tant twé a cojiarway Crane and other good writers | tim { them held in his « password, “TR : ve a more worthy caus@ | would arrive more speed | »y ending of the trouble a, then, after you 1 where there | not only # lock it in the secret | tions—unions, all of them, only un the foe wall back of |der different names, Those combb whined the old woman, | nations of force and men and money king the bex and proceeding into|may have been organized for laud. She turned the key able reasons, but tm their inner “Then 1 wi nm) hiding » fr ther room. rr) 5 the lock, jerked off her wig | workings you will too often find that Relieves at once. nd Mother Hubbard and leaped into| same “abuse of power” that the| Directions with tube withe alley via the coal chute old | Doctor refers to in his article of the Gn te 6 Oe, ee |woran was Shamlock, and he had | 6h to din-| The Salt of the Earth | carrying out contracts they wish ¢ shattered, theis hearts cold and numb, are | hand a «mail| would devote aa much of their time | study all by itself. The church would| black box. In the box were the and energy to help strip the power |be more interesting and inviting “if two black diamonds stolen from Lady |from the organized enemies of la-|we could hear more about the Bible. Leevitoff, At the bottom of the stair-|bor os those mame writers do to} FRANKLIN LESLEY, | way they turned to the left, muttered | malign the ranks of organized labor, | Seneca st. amputin,” knocked|he and his fellow reformers would) 000000 ai Scia tica gives in quickly to ANALGESIQUE, BENGUE Always soothing. NK CRANE by Frank Crane) how, are being faithful mothers, are ing straight and cléan, because they feel it's ; Their Job. Men, too, who discover too late they picked the wrong women, are going {and making the best of a bad bargain, be cause that’s Their Job. Clerks are doing well tasks for w) they know they are not fitted, girls are ting along with nagging mothers who don’t understand them, merchants are honestly not signed, parents are bearing wi eful and cruelly thoughtless chil clergymen are doing their best in churches that don’t like them, actors are parts unsuited to their talents, # ficials are performing their duty in spite of storms of malicious and unjust criticism, housemaids are working on day by 1istresses that are tyrannical and and women and men are putting up manner of insolence and ineompetence those to whom they are paying the of good work, all because it’s Their Job, The world is full of unnoted heroes, These are they that see their responsibi. | ity and shoulder it. These are they who shall get fat pay en velopes on the Day of Judgment. The re they who fight the good Th are the Salt of the earth, and if the Salt has lost its savor, wherewith shall the earth be salted? : Ladies and gentlemen, we have with mw to-night a little company of the Elect, i is only on their account that an angry and | disgusted Deity does not burn up this Sodom and Gomorrah globe and have dong with it. | ‘The Salt of the earth—do you know any | of them? § g Why Run-pow: EXHAUSTED W SHOULD TAK! sheriff placed in the people to run tthews, lke many | should find more © gospel, that is a j upset the I have used Fouad medical the gems p Lend your efforts, doctor, Just then a pistol shot rang out| Organize those institutions, then la |nor will disorganize tsself, for there | from hia| Will be no more caw for workers to band together in self defense. We in the darkness (The av ourth floor} | don't want an organization any long- Jer than it is pecessary for us to PICTURES NO ARTIST COULD ®ve one in order to eke out an " existence, Sincerely, vigeotic GLASCOCK Dr, Matthews riding up mountain oS on burro. Ton of coal being emptied basement | Dr. Matthews riding down moun. into | HOARDING SUGAR j Editor The Star: Upon reading] your communication in The Star re- garding the hoarding of sugar, which states that one pound and a half will be the maximum per person, it is too bad that the line should be drawn #0 clorely on the poor people | when there is a retail confectioner | who has 400 100-pound sacks, amount ing to 40,000 pounds, ‘Ten monthly meeting with ta Matthews riding anywhere on of course, if coal should becom pre- dict, the women and girls can keep arce as some folk a School of Advertising } Pure cider from sprayed apples, delivered to you the same day —_ pressed. Warning: As we use no SCORES DR. MATTHEWS preservatives, this cider if left ex-| Editor The Star: As a constant | posed to the air will ferment, form-| reader of your paper, I can not help ing hard cider. Firing your keg and|but pass a few remarks on a news we will fill it Keeline Fruit Farm. |item on “boxing.” Does Rev. M. A Advertisement in Council Bluffs|Matthews know that we have a da) nparell ter about dividing this sugar thruout the city? ONE WHO KNOWS. mayor, several councilmen, prosecut “Without Reservation: You cannot desire. atty better Tea TREE TEA None Better and Only ance, A POUND It pays to Why pay more and Waste money! O M.4J. BRANDENSTEIN & COMPANY OFFICE AND WAREHOUSE 313 OCCIDENTAL AVENUE SEATTLE SunovA Makes Home WHI OX-BL ' BROWN You can shine your shoes 50 times with a bor of SumoA. 50 Well shined shoes add to your personal SmnowA makes shoes wear longer ‘ ‘wax and oils protect the surface, keep the soft and pliable. ee cost so much, easy and convenient. 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