The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 18, 1919, Page 5

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Such an achievement |lifetime of men still Jaffairs i» remarkable need of eulogy The singleness of purpose with which the leaders of Japan 1885 have worked toward this « has been inspiring ro less to aller visitors than to her own people The willingness to learn }oth the dogged Indystry cqusring of strange arts, the chee | ful payment jas the price of | traits of Japan's t nica! pioneers have aroused the ad miration of all who have come to know their story ‘The sagacity th which n of modern the elements of na h, and the wisdom with which they lakt down the pro erom by which the prosert ¢ nence has been a command |the reepect of all who ap | preciate moral greatrons. mp of the within the Vigorous beyond the rinee knowledge—th T Woodhouse-Grunbaum Furniture Co. you can choose from more than a hundred dif- ferent styles in golden oak, fumed oak, Jacobean oak, mahogany and reed. Also many davenport tables in various Nps styles. All are reason- ably priced—all sold on easy terms. 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Assortment consists of Spoon Trays, Handled and Un- handled Nappies Olive Dishes and Pickle Dishes. has the coffee spout. ten | | Japan from the handicans of extra: | stung this THE SEATTLE STAR— orld Powers huge caterpillar into stupor until Its young, Japan, was porn to eat it Again, only now that Russia ix in collapse, does the world realize how | Japan's antagonist of 1905 was not jthe «lant which people thought her, }but an aggregation of ignorance, not led, but merely fattened upon by an aristocracy whose main activ ity wae intrigue, and whose on | motive was avarice, The actual progress of Sepen, re markable as it has been, today would be known only to the rela tively few observant travelers, If the unsuspected weakness of these (wo bulking adverwaries had not fur nished such a contrasting back-| | kround, The opportunity for assuming the dominance of Ania undisputed, which the world war has just given, is only a fitting climax to the un lented luck which has attended | Japan's throws upon the gaming |table of international polities, The |tria and Germany by forces not of | Japan's making ts another instance of the cost of mistakes of luck making more room for her] Rhapsody, elon the front page of the world’s at trial and tech tention. IMITATIVENESS SEEN AS JAPAN'S WEAKNESS Largely because of this phenomen- al luck, rather than because of her deserving efforts or quality, Japan ;has achieved a position of promi- nence which makes hee an over. rated power; and such luck will not run on indefinitely, | Japan has shown organtaing abil ity, she has ught out funda mentais such as education, sanita }u on and industrial development, she |has achieved a certain administra- | tive efficiency. She has shown amazing factlity in adopting the most improved devices and practices But so far Japan haa pot ad | Yanced beyond the stage of able tmi- | tation, This ts the first fundamental lim. itation a Japan. Faked Drowning to Get Vacation, Lyen Tells Wife ‘The fair citizens of Ellensburg reeelved the shock of their lives when EB. W. Lyen, soldier, who d ared in Lake Washington ber 21, hopped off the train in his home town Wednee day Lyen had come to Seattle to attend a rifle shoot. He rented & canoe, paddied out into Lake Washington and tipped the canoe in front of Mount Raker park. The lake was dragged and in the due course of time it was officially announced Lyen, had drowned. His wife offered $1,000 reward for the recovery of the THURSDAY, DEC. 18, 1919. Japan Called Luckiest [Tschaikowsky Masterpiece on Program| ff A program of an entirely differe: nt | makeup from any presented #o far this season has been ne ‘ted Conductor John Spa for th symphony cone » be given Friday night at Meany ball, The program features one of the Most remarkable masterpieces of modern symphonic — muslc “Pathetle Bymphony,” by Techatkow sky, This symphony was the last by | the | the} | | orchestral work from the pen of the} great Russian composer and its first performance at Petrograd, October wan given only 10 days fore hia death symphony, Twchatkowsky declared it to be the bext and mort sincere of any work he had written, love it," anid Tschatkowsky, “as never loved any of my must cal offaprings before.” The composer || tated that the symphony has a “program,” but “a program of a kind that remains an enigma to all—let from | present destruction of Russia, Aus-|them guess it who ean.” in the} Two novelties are listed on the program. The first, Chabrier’ “Empania,” created @ nen sation at a symphony concert last season by the novelty and fascina- Yon of its Spanish rhythms, this occasion the tnasistant applause compelled Conductor Spargur to play the work thru again, performance of the The other novelty, Georg Schu- mann's “Dance of Nymphs Satyra,” from “Amor and Psyche,” is ® joyous pagan dance, rare skill Gol@mark’s melodious and colorful overture, illustrating the Oriental tule of “Sakuntala,” completes the program. COPS MAY ALL GET NEW MOTORCYCLES City Purehasing Agent W. D. Freeman is expected at a meeting of the board of public works Friday morning to of the bid of the intor ~Motor- to accept 18 used po- yeles and $1,202 cash in return for 20 new machines for the police chug bike squad, A professor in France has invent ed a device called the acalen” which sounds an alarm when it passes over shells on battle fields To Eat or D: ties Often Face This Problem ree Times Dall; Net LJ " ‘They Once Get CY With Stuart's ore pepela Tablets Indigestion, with . sour rin- body. Then the incident was for- gotten. Rut yenterday Lyen appeared and called upon his wife and four children, When asked to explain himeeclt, Lyen declared hia mar. ried life had not been emooth and that he took a ‘Tittle trip. Hie wife in #till wondering how he ex- pected to increase her lowe by perpetrating a fake drowning. \GUN TOTERS ARRESTED Charged with having a loaded re | volver in bis posseasion, Frank | Bxello, 23, in in the city jafl Thure- day on an open charge. Fselle was arrested in company with James Owen, 35, at 16th ave. and Washing- ton late Wednesday night by Sergt iJ. J. Haag and Patrolman FE. W. Pielow. Hugh Kellman, 20, was also arrest ed last night for having a loaded gun in his possession. Kellman was arrested at Westlake ave. and Vir- ginia st. by Patrolman L. W. Miller. | He ls being held on an open hares. “Cure Your Rupture Like 1CuredMine”’ Old Sea Captain Cured His Own Said oan for ained @ forced him to not only remain |kept him bedridden ¥ } ieee doctor after ductor Finally, he must either rows and abbor. i | nimeett, of his conditios he was rewarded by the “anding. of quick vigore the him a well, happy man. method that #0 strong, iso the same meth- an safe and inex- d person in the Capt. 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