The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 19, 1920, Page 6

Ry mail, out of city, 2 30 7 nna She Seattle Star The per month, $4.50 for 6 months, or $9 per year. ly carrier, city, llc pe 4 _ Educating the Girl ~ Yidual rights. instinct was to protect her own. er from the boys; she didn’t run and “tell mother” didn’t do anything but stand up and scrap like the littl A very small individual in very small skirts stood square ly in the pathway of three other breviated trousers. tion of rights w “That's my cat, and you are to let her be! An’ you don’t need to try to chase me, either, ‘cause I ain't *fraid of you! to me what her “under Her eyes were flas 2? An’ it don’t make Understan’?” Understan’ u_ think! n's” ‘Wee foot meant. They understood that here w wot Meeting them on their own ground and planting her feet = foam: *; gp Aged Phos tists ‘ is solidly thereon. PN a” yj ¢ tf ng to Tu them. They could not put anything over on her. question of sex did not enter into either their calculations or y : prs Sead |e hers. The matter in hand was simply a question of indi- We i i 3 “a ny ‘ The cat belonged to the girl-child and her She didn’t ask or expect She could give and take with the human animal she was. She was typical of her kind. under the schoo! age, and s pummeling, hair-pulling, s primitive methods of self-de And then, after she has grown a little olde ed out of her self-relis For, as a matter of fact, this is an age when the girl- child grown up needs some of her primitive pugnacity. The ordinary ching ce. More's the pity! || EDITORIALS — FEATURES small individuals in g. Her declara being voiced in no uncertain tones R ‘ Understan’? Friend H 4 1 are c¢ any diffrunce . With each one of ; + : | Sates that he tort! inte she stamped a wee foot, and her three 1 : ie oe : tormentors very well understood what the stamp of that as a young lady capable of girl-child after it, will resort to and all the rest of the fense as quickly as her brother. he is educat- THE SEATTLE STAR.—MONDAY, APRIL 19, 1920. | | | | | On the Issue of || Americanism There Can || Be No Compromise | EVERETT TRUE CONDO Wiy DON'T YOU ANSWER _ THE 'PHONG 4 ‘ = Pte WE'LL SAY SO | Indecency BY DK. FRANK CRANE 1920, by Frank Crane) ab Sy: 37 kill, or philosophy can redeem indecency No amount of wit, or or ¢ why DON'T YOU, MRS TRUE You'Re ON MOvR FECT BOARD SAYS OUR OUMA ‘ which to conceal. It is not puritan prudery It is not a law igent trait which we will Quite the contrary, it i mature, and trait of development. It is a the essential divinity, my and modesty of the human being. It the symbol of our progress away from the animal and toward fhe dominance of mir and spirit. ulso there are certain can never have any right to a place in belle sttres or any other form of art. Psycho logical analyses of the pervert belong to the field of criminal science and are only to be tolerated in the cold and ely analysis of a Lombroso, When they are taken up by D'Annunzio, broidered with flowers and perfumed with rhetoric, they are no more ‘ nor less than filth, which the healthy nos- trils of normal folk will willingly pass by, » or, having examined once, forget. 1 It is refreshing to see how , are purifying the artists. I can remember rtain parts of the human body mankind agree nor and un outgrow a late, permanent recognition of tery, best of The ubjects that : b [HECCOL NO, Tes ts MRS, TRUS. Ea ee Sue Sines RON heute teenies - A SIDELIGHTS ON THE GLORIOUS ¥ 8 . - CLIMATE VERY GOOD. TOMORROW F Fi Nunn‘'s work has Yes, ree TELL HIM. iiataia Goon BYE E ae We the people than those the “legitimate.” I know a reciter was compelled by the vaude ville r to expurgate Kipling before he was allowed to give poems, Profani coarseness, lewdne of any kind are al. They are quick ways of at- tracting attention, but are sure signs of @ resource No one can afford e in them. And the reason is a is plenty material in healthy human nature for the use of any artist. The heart of man is inexhaustible, The higher rela- tion the masculine and feminine soul present boundle#s fields for artistic inter: pretation, Only it takes sympathy and genius and insight and infinite patience and technique to comprehend and portrayj the emotions of the spirit. There is no plac in art of the better type for the mountey bank. Anglo-Saxondom is peculiarly fortunat in its great master mind who laid the fou dation and set the pace for our letters all time—Shakespeare. There is a breegj healthiness, an out-of-doors purity, an ite nate decency and self-respect in Shakespeare that is not found always in Goethe nor mar some of hi ound one, There of Moliere. Prudishness and Miss Nancyism are in- tolerable. No fini soul can be great. And the opposite is just true; no mind that touches Nastiness lovingly can be great. Give us the uni | experience; treat of God and of mud; go thru every room and closet of life, but-see that it is done with the antiseptic hand, with a mind that is clean, sound, and sane, when the variety ‘theatre was a low and arse performance, patronized by the scum Today the vaudeville has taken its place and patronized by everybody, and the result has been that the level of decency nas risen and the age decent woman can attend the average show of this kind with- out fear being offended or disgusted. In fact, the vaudeville manager has become timid. His rules of propriety are stricter don’t educate it al! out of our boys. We should not, facing @ur new economic standards and relationships, educate it all out of our girls. It was well enough in the Victorian age of clinging vines ‘and sheltered women for a girl to be “lady-like” first, last, and always. But the d of Fe ae —- — — Sweet Alice —— — — — — Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile And trembled with fear at your frown—” &re over. Such a performance would literally enrage a Modern “Ben Bolt.” He wants a girl who can take his praise or criticism with neither tears nor trembling, but like J came The other 4 ng res show there are 100,19 sctesl vidi chia a a aeatatate @ rational human being. ot saan pest j For once more women are accepted as a factor in the ‘ economic world. This old earth has a weird way of repeat- ing its history. In our primitive civilization woman was an equal sharer of burdens with man. She labored WITH him, oY counted on each other as parts of an economic Today in stores, shops, factories, business and professional _ Offices, men and Sorin again stand side by side, equal in Rea? HOUSEHOLD HINTS the fight for existence. wupy the Dr. 0 ei Apaper the law of competition being even more acute toda) n it was thousands of years ago, why not give our little iris a chance at retaining some of the moral stamina be-| hed them by those far-off primitive grandmothers? | Jother 5 they at of nutmeg grater makes ai| '|.| (Laxative Bromo Quinine Vablets”’ led exe Registered Dentists t distriet, per t shows wigns of pe y Conducted Under Direction of DON’T aving ow when making d pia she found 4 not anut, #0 she used places of 5 Wel « | that they must ‘ Government is financing itself now by borrowing from Peter and leaving Paul to posterity. 7 je (Wij I ure many —-Boycev oan Glory Be! = se | ats sa pt, ale ding chewing gum, exchanging pen-| The local or external treatment in| Anaces to get along in spite of the | clls, and the other means by which|of esemntial importance in mont | sh cost of living. We know a shoo dealer and three or four lotions other fol ac |sputum may be transferred from | cases of one person to ane The habit of in playing baseball and of promiscu- | dit ous kissing should also be discour-| addition to th aged paid to the « If ft im necemmry that children | having whooping. pimples, Powders. jand ointments, the composition of |'7¥* Who manage to get along on ount of it It’s coming down! " Old Hi Cost o’ Livin’ has been hit a hard swat at last! The official figures just reported by the United States wnment show that the average family expenditure for od was less in February than it was in January, To as six-tenths of one percent less, That much, true. But small favors are thankfully re- d. A half-loaf is better than no bread, and who will « that six-tenths of one per cent of a loaf is not better nothing? It’s true, of course, that at this season of the year, food Prices usually do drop. Some people are saying that they : ought to drop more than six-tenths of one per cent. They (iat this met m it belleved | fare unkind enough to point out that while the February ; a adie food cost figure is six-tenths of one per cent less than in January, the figure was up 2.2 per cent higher than Decem- “ber, and that hence the decrease in February still leaves ‘the cost 1.6 per cent above that in December, which until had been the highest point reached gince 1913. It is true also that the February, 1920, figure shows an _ inerease of 16 per cent as compared with February, 1919. , And as compared with 1913, the February prices show an ti fe Pajamas & Night ‘i Pee fee ek it Fonuarion xorron, | ( ,20&NIGlTwear of a Nation!” Nevertheless, six-tenths of one per cent is something wo U. & Public Health Service, ne Seay "and if the price curve should continue to go down at that ; Washington, D.C. | scp scanner mae Tate every month from now on, it would only take 14 years |* | apd seven months to get back to the price level of 1913! Every now and ted with rate. Can get rid of them?! “J, 3. C. Tf you will send me Q 1 am tre you tell me how to your name and address I will send you a printed °, W Any dinease full detafis hildren per which ushington, D.C nm tho t “UNCLE 4AM, MOD either in this cotmme in one year, the whole wor This plan to put a tax on sales isn’t original. The profiteer thought of it first. ‘Tifa Largert Mutual Savings ana” Loan Association in he State of Washington For rosy cheeks, happy smiles, white teeth. good appetites and digestions. its benefits are as GREAT as its cost is SMALL! {t satisfies the desire for sweets, and is beneficial, too. While the rest ofthe country has been engaged with such ,)~\.,., | brain-storming problems as the labor unrest, democracy) « in industry, the cost of living and foreign exchange, the | *titute a ver United States department of commerce has not been idle. & This valued limb of the government has garnered some | facts having to do with Trinidad. It may please you to learn that Trinidad now exports 75 tons of manjak annually. But its exports of divi-divi have dwindled. This is sad. However, there is some consola- tion in the discovery that the island is now sending to the United States something like 19,691 gallons of Angostura bitters. This, with the supply of bittemenders in the sen-'” ‘ate, ought to satisfy the normal demand. | Now, perhaps, the department of commerce may turn its attention to solving some of the problems mentioned above. Zs e The senate might be worse. It didn’t kill America’s | two big leagues. | 4 The Old Woman” APPLES ___| Retail and Wholes=!« At the nearby table in the restaurant two young women| ‘°™'"iiwuine were discussing the age of a man employed in the office where they worked. | “J don’t think he is very old,” one said. “Yes, he is; I’m sure he is,” exclaimed the other. “But he doesn’t look it,” argued the first. _ “J know he doesn’t, but he’s old, just the same.” low do you know?” | “Well, the other day I heard him speak of his wife as e old woman,’ and if she’s an old woman he can’t be so} ,,;} youn, do ‘you think?” Yes,” ided the first young woman, “I guess you're ht. When they begin referring to their wives as ‘the ld woman’ they’re as old, or older.” The moral? 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Where Pike Street Crosses Third HOURS—9 em wh pm Go to Stall No. 60, downsairy in the Westlake Market; ask if that Js Dr Rdwin J. Brown's stall, if you bargain in apples, pol Vegetables, fruits and muta soe TLEAS FLAVOR MG,