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THE SEATTLE STAR--SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1920. | ADVENTURES THE DOINGS OF THE DUFFS They Get a Chance to Demonstrate oF : HE 7 wi NS T See HERE WHERE SOME Youns \ } 17'S FONNY “Te CANT Car R ac . . Olive Roberts Barton BAWOTS PULLED OFF ANOTHER t Mose Peiows! | quese vet _\ doit saveal Bur rr SetMG Roy bata Mae cn coo ] r |] DAYLIGHT ROBBERY MO GoT : aecoil A MR. RUBADUB AWAY with ir! Don'r Go tor Magic moe Thar | CovLD FD SOME OF WAY SOMETIMES _ Nov wovid Go ovT AND ~ oon alee: Tie . _ On, THEY GET - Wese BIROSTine se CRooxs STAY FIMO DAWNY AND BRING | IAS %) | wont 'eay posh Mr ——-H RIGHT IN THE Hei cnBoR! Him Home FoR, His f ) susie Vy J Won'T 6ET DeTecTives Don'T J Wy prert I be To GET Wood AND THEY 4 A ie Rem tithe Oe e orem 4 ~ . Aime on "EM = ss ' Dor FID THEM... The Mushroom introduced the twins at once. Nancy and Nick stood looking, ahrilled the robin, crowding closs | @round them in mmouthed won “Na me first, me firet.” cried the Ger at the things they saw in Scrub | pussy-willow, shoving him out of the ANNIE 5 T = Up Land. But there was so much | road | | AMR ne j 4 : OA, 1 HAVEN'T GOT A MACHINe- shattering and fussing everywhere! “No, Me! Me! Me®™ came a chorus DOOR-SAYS HB a Garace as (VE GOT NINE CHILOREN AND WOULO You ie ~ vor | | | COULON'T FIND A LANDLORD they hadn't a chance to ask the Mag-| of voices, and the noise started all eau. RENT 2 GNE MEA Meal Mushroom any of the million | over again. our ~ LEASE Z c FOR Two YEARS AT ry ug WHO WOULD RENT To Me Muestions that popped into their} But the fatryman saw the visitors GARAGE FoR y heads. Birds were screeching, ani-| fust then and made his way to them $12 & MONTH THE SAME pR Mals were chippering and chattering | the beat he could, with a hundred WHERE'S My and flowers were rushing hare and | and forty-six creatures hanging onto | Coar ? Rhere anty about half finished. And him be the midst of it all stood a fairy-| The Mushroom introduced the fea) Making dreadful grimaces, and | twins at once, “Mr. Rubadub, this 6 ie at the top of his lungs for| is Nancy and Nick, just arrived by YFryone to keep quiet or he'd never |the Green-Shoe Express, If you | yet them ready for spring. |don't mind we'd like to visit your | “My gociness™ he scolied. “If| country for awhile, They're hunt you don’t behave, it'll be the Fourth | ing a lost monkey and we thought | @f July before I get the first birds | he might be here.” | 7 ready, and people will wonder wh | ‘The fairy-man's smile faded, but wrong in Fairytand. Now be good,|he shook hands cordially, “Sure, | ce? a one at a time, please,” he command. | help yourselves,” he answered. “G ed and he waved aloft a scrubbing | you came, Only I'd adver Drush ~@ porcupine it waa, really) to | help and I thought you were it, show his authority righed Instantly there was easter | Instantly Nancy had an {dea Scramble. “Me first, me first™ N BY THORNTON W. BURGESS Mother Muskrat’s Wisdom ED to his mother’s apron) a trap behind him. Did you ever find strings! Tied to bis mother’s @ carrot or any other things good to @Bpron strings” Jerry Muskrat turn | *@t on this log before™ @4 his head to see Peter Rabbit and| Jerry confessed that he hadn't Bobby Coon dancing on the bank as} “Then remember that when you shouted at him find unexpected good things to eat right along, Jerry,” aid } Muskrat, as she ewam ahead F ef him across the Smiling Pool. Jerry | Shook bis fist at his tormentors on) the bank and then followed his Mother, for he didn't dare disobey. AND Iv K NEW CARS; BUT TH ICOULD ONLY GET AHOLD OF lip eee seme melt,” said THEY CANT DELWER THE #80000 WORTH OF STUFF! Ont ITS AWFUL you kwow it jaws Lightly closed. Held Mother Muskrat. | UNTIL THE FALL! WHAT'LL THAT WONT LAST LONG: ON! ITS AWFUL, YOU between em were a few! \ "and bits of skin. ke was the| Where they have never been before, / 1 po? HOW tT trap which had caught Jerry by |‘they mean DANGER! Leave them tail that morning. lalone until after you have found the “Smell of that,” said Mother Musk.| ‘rap. Then you can eat the pieces 4 around the trap without danger. But ‘To tel the truth, Jerry was afraid | keep away from the trap, Now we'll go Dear tt, bit he was more afraid | ¢4t up the rest of this carrot, and disobey his mother. Very gingerly | then we'll go look for some more | leaned forward and sniffed at it. | ape. ] he made up a face. He didn't} “Tied to his mother's apron the smell. Mother Muskrat) *trings” shouted Peter Rabbit as inned. Jerry swam home close behind bis “Don't Ike tt, do you™ she asked | mother. But somehow Jerry didnt) “No,” said Jerry. mind. “They're pretty good things | “Smell of it again,” commanded his| to be tied to sometimes,” said Jerry to himself a» be nursed his sore tail “I don’t want to,” replied Jerry. i. te “Jerry Muskrat, you do as 1 ten| Next story: The Convention at the ou! You take a good, long smpll of | Big Rock. trap!” said Mra, Muskrat, stamp-| — | ee ae Le € & toot Sir Oliver Lodge | Very meekly Jerry did ag he was | 4, tho the strange scent made Reaches Seattle skin prickle all over with a) Str Oliver Lodge reached Seattle range kind of fear. Saturday from Portland on his lec “Think you'll know {t next time™| ture tour of the United States, the OTTO AUTO ed oth gon sag ae a 2 first in 25 years. He will speak jerry sure would. In-|at the Arena Sunday night at §| - WAM-M~ TWIG AIR © AH T FEEL WELL CHESTEN fred. he was positive that be never | o'clock on ‘The Evidence for Sur: | ¥ ASP pesralbony . AMONG 05 A FAUN CANORTING How's Me BUS ‘Would forget it as long as he lived. | ytval,” submitting what he considers | WOLETS hemth it! gi . ee Miter. “Whenever you get a whitt| COUNTRY AAT, BA CHESTER ] Lahde @f that «mel, just you watch out!| Gladstone firmly believed that “3 3 SPRING AIR * ‘There's been a man or a boy around,| Homer was a real man deacribing d just as likely as not, he’s left historical events. | | | } HITHER ~> WELL SAY IS | 24 HOURS, Thrifty People f ————_— a a = Make Seattle (@ CLEVELAND TO BUILD 200 ISTRATON SAYS FIFTH AVENUE |“"'escve'stut"the'tour nenarea [very tt tprarenen in te ae P | HOMES IN THIRTY DAYS) STARTED RIOT OF INDECENCY | —— > rosperous f | CLEVELAND, April 17—This problem into three parta. | 1 | BY IL P. BURTON indictments, some of high police at: | |eity’s housing proviem is to be! It was decided, first, to curb rent) now yoRK, April 17. “Fifth|ficials, have been returned. solved by efficient, common-sense | profiteering; second, to provide tem- 2 “Society leaders,” Dr, Straton will # . co-operation of al) classes. porary homes for evicted tenants; tell New York in his next sermon, It is thrifty citizens who Headed by the Cleveland real e®| third to launch @ building campaign Straton today, “is largely responsi-|‘start the fashion on wearing have made Seattle what it is | tate board, a joint committee repre-| to put an end to house shortage bie for the depravity which, in apart | clothes which expose far toa much jwenting commercial, civic, technical! pn» city government carried the| ment houses, caftee houses, dance of the body and of indulging in such —one of the most prosperous jand labor organimtions together ment to the profiteers. It has made! hatia and auranta of New York, |inces as the ‘shimmy and progressive cities in the with public officials divided the | eviction suits difficult, collected data ‘ a teoek of deuency.”. MEOnY Shane ere - nie on landlords, listed buildin ‘tes and mise will preach a sermon J peace aiat ameiionteee | leaders are imitated " 1 United States. homes and resurrected an old law relon thie line which will startle the | quiring a tenement tax to enforce| country again, Extravagance is a mere where profiteering exists. After Dr, Straton’s revelation of _ 'The city has asked the war depart-| vice conditions appeared in The Se Means select- flash in the pan. Mone ‘Weed's Sarsaparilia—A Good Bieod-| 5 t Pp y j p Samroortie+ Set I ment for 60,000 tents for the use of|attle Star and associated newspa- Aer \ ing see ds CBind~ avenue,” said Rev. Dr. John Roach poured out by spendthrifts S| st 49.0 medicine in which the peo- | Homeless citizens These tents will) pers, he, and an investigator and & A does no rmanent good. |pie can and do have entire conf |b6 set up in parks this summer un- | myself wha accompanied him on that which will ; pe . M idence as pure, clean and safe der the supervision of the city health | trip to resorts, were summoned be , ‘ ults. e s n r@) Thrift is for the long pull and taded by the tectiaeny of the saci. | sucnortties, |fore the grand jury. Already seven f give results. A . i | fying resuits attending ite use Tut the greatest part of the work ype is % 5 9 ie Nia Md , Woodruff - Ro: ‘see how thrifty people are the ones BP | miuititude of cases of wcrofula, will be done in. the building cam. | builders and in much the «ame way Mis ; wena Oa! Pcl g Little cuts and scratches are aggra- that get ahead. Start Your Re een, trie eon, | palgn, Manufacturers are asked to that war. drives ‘sire conducted s / seeds which are | | vating and painful, and they can even ‘ | of 4 ge themselves to loan money to he campaign ix just getting un. ~ tested, of th It. | become dangerousifinfected. Prevent = savings account today at the - workers to build homes and to re-| er way here, but it is expected that : ~ proviy wctanten Be cap r such a condition by cleansing the in= mot in the spring. strict plant expansion until homes | Within 30 days more than 200 new jured spot well then isighranded: foe : Tt|are provided for workers. Archi. | homes will be under construction, ‘ RESIN e yeles NT! wee Z \originated in a pi ¥ p-| tects are designing standard homes en neon nennen sett antiseptic balsams soothe while | {lon and is recommended and used| and plumbers and carpenters devis FIRE started in the two-story heal. A physician's «nearly 40 years of wonder. |ing cheap systems of building jframe building occupied by the Her- , recommended widely,—it is no loager Material dealers are to supply ma-|rofix Brazing and Machinery Works,| . \. “TheNiGiiIwear an experiment to thousands who have Harsaparilia “makes food) terial at quantity rates, A non-|816 First ave. 8, Friday night, but 7 SEE used it successfully for various skin ee tay ive on cas (Profit company will obtain funds | was extingiushed without appreciable i Pike affections, At ail’ druggists. 6 Hood's Pule from citizens for joan to small home| damace i — J