The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 12, 1920, Page 6

eat of city, Ho per ments ot the greatest menaces to the rural life of mation, acfording to deductions drawn from Sfarm-home survey made by the department 4 wulture, is the waste of woman-power survey cove 4 10,015 farm home and woes ¢ under the dh r BE. Wart, who urges farmers to P@E thelr increased income in ef living so that women aly Hot want to go to the cities in sear five living conditions and amusemen survey discloses a number of ¢ Many women do not find farm working day of the average farm woman ts hours the year round. In summer, it is 18.17 And $7 out of each 100 women have no vacation during the year. On the average, farm women can find only 1.6 hours of leisure the summer and only 3.4 hours in winter. per cent have water in the kitchen, the Must go to the pump. Seventy-nine per cent Kerosene lamps to trim and fill, Ninety six eemt do the family and only hhit of have washing ‘mac garden work is by 56 per cent spend over some part of Z this in addition to the cooking, baking, sewing, } scrubbing and caring for the children! do you wonder why farm life isn't attractive women and children? profiteer finds that blaming high on the cost of labor works just as well ming it on the war. boy ts having a vacation from school, But certain he is not in @ vacuum rather than ion. “boy who spends his vacation entirely tn idle ia worse off than if he had no vacqtion at p> His mind is in a vacuum that os fertile “for noxious weeds of aught character, empty mind is not really on a vacation. It ~ Mot resting, for the mind rests not by but by change of routine and occupation. je it is well that the parent should give thought it the hey is doing with his three months of ation the aimless vacation time e ation an educa- able” for boys and a m and he would the house easy Te would have them out of ted at 7 them play bard until 11. After that on two hours of, helpfulness about chores, work in the garden and er hours between 1 and 4 he sets aside for the of good story books, and from 4 to 8 he allow more play with time out, of course, | supper and the evening family reunion. that is a good schedule. But its principal Ties im the fact that it is a scheduly, a pro &@ method of menfl discipline. It does away | the aimlesaness that destroys the value of vacations, It gives the parent a regulating ‘on the activities of his child who otherwise his sweet will to follow during the three his release from the discipline of the [tis hard to hate the Bolshevists to please @ government and lave them to please Busi- * . Cutting Corners ows grass seed in his front yard. This makes ‘B “city beautiful,” and a nice? home-spot. Also, money and time. ther man. unthinkingly “cuts across” the lawn a few, seconds of time, half a dozen stepa, Because he has the hahit of “cutting corners.” fan’t fair tot the lawn-grower, and probably “egrner cutter” wouldn't do it if he, for a it, stopped and thought of the other fell Man who spends his time, muscle and mon to make the yard, street and city a bit more nt to the passerby. | With the initiative and referendum, not to 4 mandamus and injunction proceed- ig8, being invoked to solve Seattle's tangled 7 ation problems, isn’t it a splendid that we have a lawyer in the mgyoralty tio Resting or Rusting? | e Seattle Star 2 montha, $1 ’ Waste Woman-Power || | was suspended. Pubttehed Datty » @ montha §1TE) yearn The per month, ty, Le per week. - {a ‘oy may be a miser, but sorrow's purse is free.—Persian yng. A Friend in Need . The whole neighborhood was disturbed. Housework Men, women and children ran wildly here and there, searching, questioning—-looking for ut Mary Ryan le Mary had wandéred—as children will-—out dhru the open door, into the street, on down to the corner, and into a realm of h sho knew nothing She trudged on thru the jungle of the unknown Into the arms of a. kindly-faced policeman, who asked her all sorts of personal and embar ng Jons. The child was too unstrung to reply, #0 the officer took her to a new home—into @ large room, where | she met several other gentlemen in blue What a kind, happy,’ wonderful reception Mary got there! She'll never forget it. Nelther will she forget the allday sucker, and the fee cream cone they gave her, And the funny, fat cop who insisted on holding her on his lap and bouncing her up and down to her keen enjoyment. It was lots of fun | It was great to | pw | teeth upon the grow “git losted.” It was almost a disappointment to be taken to her home b neighbor who ‘happened to call at the sta he had become so accustomed to the new life. And when Mary reached home and had Wipe the glad tears from her she sald: “Cops ain't bad, are they, The tumult and the shouting dies; the cap- tains and the kings depart. Still the Balkan war dog lies, waiting to make another start. mother's eyes, mom THE SEATTLE STAR EVERETT TRUE = = OW, DON'T Nov HOLD ON {St A MOMGN OTHER GUESTS ASKED SAID “OU COVLDON'T — DO You R-R-R-REMEMBGER F ‘ON TO | | wece, Nov Don't HAVE TO PR-R-R-R-ROVE I7 IY | | Strength of Sound | | islet Tt wouldn't be such a difficult job to “shake the earth to pieces.” Experimenters have often butlt little cartboard and paper houses in their laboratories and knocked them down with music. A scientist has said that tf he could place a base viol on every floor of the Woolworth building, tune them exactly allke and station acroms the street with another tnstrument, himself he could in time “play down” the building—leave not one stone on another. When a heavy truck rumbles by your house, sometimes the windows the cupboards, Now suppose that would make every single thing In your house move in sympathy with ft. Pretty soon the dishes would waltz to the edge of the shelves and topple ov The ahétven, rattting to the same nota woul! from their nails and the chimney bricks loosen he mortar and slip down. There ip such a note fof every thing tn the world. It ts called the “fundamental” and it dif. fers according to the size, shape and material of the thing. You could destroy Mfo ttself with sound. You have heard @ note, ‘sometimes, on a church pipe organ that pounded and throbbed “inside” until {t actually hurt you. That was because that organ pipe was very near the fundamental note of your body. Had the organist struck the fundamental and kept !t playing long enough he would have literally torn you to bite, If that is a “hunch” to seme ectentific ertminal —let him make the most of tt Fundamentals are rattle and the dishes in there was a sound in al | mot the easiest things in the world to find. The Poles are still struggling eastward in search of self-determination. Luxuries—Teeth France has prohfbited the importation of artificial that they are luxuries. This seriously hits an infant American tmdéustry, for since the war began the teeth has grown by leaps and bounds ‘in the United States. Before the war Germany was the largest manufactirer Naturally France, debtridden as she tn, should resogt to desperate economy to regain her credit standjng. But when she plans upon getting along without “store teeth” in mouths unoccupied by the home-crown variety, France errs. Teeth are | necessary to the proper eating of food, to the wel fare of the physical body, and to health. The best teeth, of course, are in one’s own gums; the next best are Neither variety may be cl luxury. either are to be labeled “luxuri surely be that stepchild of nature, the artificial tooth; ask anybody just learning to grind food between what France calls “luxuries.” tore tee But it cannot Maybe the price of sugar is made high by the good, rich soil they are putting in it now. AWAY FROM THE NOISE OF THE CITY ee OO eey making of artificial | those that grow |~ | . rage ; : ahs inane te in| Cemary. Gymnastic work ‘is good,|* ¢ _ SPEED UI CAR SYSTEM - it when hp uses the street for a) The s sont 7 fae ye polb sino walking, riding, eycling, row-| Was Mr. a oe ee Flor of Streets July 6.” which the city receives no revenue.| Every girt Pi | 0 is of 6 value, an rk jot é - ang|Why not mark the sones off, and| ‘ne ish bathe are no help. The treat] Ie IS PAID BY THE WORD nder the present conditions lon the pavement pat the ticemes| “To be true te God and country, | ment of most cases of obesity should | (George Kibbe Turner in the Satur city ordi 4 It partly solves the] on oe eevine oar that anerie “To help others at all times, and|>* supervised by @ physician. Much day Evening Post.) problem, but what doen it do neuld OO} won, obey the scout laws.” |hartm can be done by improper re-| *‘Oht Oh’ sald Miss Fisher, an@ Tt has caused a pet joulated, signed by the voters, which in turn will be ve and if | carried, which ne doubt it will be, we rental for the space, take derived therefrom and put on, jare not making expenses, To make them try to meet the expense, the) jelty eliminates the jitney to compel | those that patronize jitneys to ride} mn the street cars, giving more) lrevenue to the cars, In the first place, @ person who patronizes the jitney haa no car of his own, is in @ burry to get to work as well asethose who own their cara, Anpther thing, tf the street cars ‘afforded the same service we would Dot need to regulate the jitney, and in place of speeding up the car wervice tt seems to be slowing up by putting one man on the larger care” Here fa which may be modified, but I think ts fair to all concerned, and not against one individual class aa now is the case First speed up the street cars, as speed is the craze of the people to- day. If this old equipment cannot | |be mpeeded up, then the next would be to limit all auto traffic to 12 miles an hour, or to such epeed ro| the street cars would make the; same running time regulated. ta not Another thing, eliminate auto trucks streets #0 the car system baggage and freight? Columbia Cole, the new beer —Adv. | Second, if the fitney ts to go, then rf |would it not be fair, so all would} be compelled to contribute to the ear, to tax the man who comes to| in his private car, a storage work | | ASPIRIN “Bayer Tablets of Arptrtn™ ts genv- ine Aspirin proved affe by millions and prescribed by physicians for over twenty years. Accept only an Junbroken “Bayer pagkage” which jcontains Proper directions to relieve | Headache, Toothache, Earache, Neu |ralgia, Rheumatism, Colds and Pain. Handy tin boxes of 12 tablets cost wcents, Druggists also sell larger Bayer packages.” Aspirin is trade mark Payer Manufacture Mono ageticacidester of Salicylica WEIGH YOUR ABSTRACT ON THE SCALES A enstomer recently called our attention to an abstract of title so bulky that he de cided to weigh it, and found it tipped the seales at 2% Ibs. And it waa too bulky to go handily into his safe deposit box. |Packed _ |“comfortably” . |—so they’re easy to take |from the | package! At first onty the weigtit and buikiness troubled him, Then it suddenly struck him that in & great long title like that there must be dozens of de. tails over which lavyers might well differ and lawsuits might follow. He was right. He or dered ‘Ditle Insurance, secured complete title safety and got rid of the bulky abstract. Ww shington Title Insurance Company “0 # State Supervision” Assets More Than $600,000 —By CONDO! , R=R=R- R-REMEMBER In the Editor’s Mail fon to be ctr |CUPY that mpace, then charge each | party three or five dollars @ month | mt tea hae 4 treet car fund? The above cata! wie Sock © omg we started, only | 1g that BB ayer, se oa trusted.. Her simple statement is| 6. A girl scout ts courteous She) ~Man Shot Four Times Refuses per hy bout thin as 1|most of the day. The ore ee] worth her oath, Her yen is yea, | is trained in tact. \to Talk."—-Minneapolis Journal. : a cae 4 | course, should not be more than the) “Pd ber nay is nay. | 6 A girl scout ts @ friend to ant-| We should be similarly annoyed. understand, is that the street cars | 2. ‘The girl scout ts loyal ‘You! mals. a cies average monthly carfare of the per sons, which could be figured out and 1 offer the above from what T be-| family, ber friends, and to you and| Neve would be fair to all, and last but pot leant, a little pep injected) And if there is anything better than into the car eystern might help. much logic for the city to also from tain more revenue by hauling the|¢rs and the loafern. Giri scouts are DON M. THOMAS, Diller Hotet. Today's Test Rest: An overcoat. It was a nice warm summer, while i® | lasted. OBESITY Oberity 1s an abnormal increase tn the body weight due to deposits of | |fat in the tissues. It may be due to overeating, to eating too largely of one kind of food, or to faulty In these Gays of much camer by! changes in the food within the the female of the species for equal | '*O" rights with men, itis a to note Peete inition that’ stknde tor | ‘This condition ts favored by hered ity, by insufficient exercise and fre jequal duties. | If 1 bad a little girl T should want |Wuently by the use of aleohollc bev erages. In notne cases, to be sure, | her to join the girl scouts. | the indigestion brought on by the Why? | Recaune tt trains a girl th the|datter results In lows of weight. eee “The excuses men make these antibition days to get # drink with a kick in. it, are funny,” says ©. Onsoward, “Chap came in the other day and wanted something for im somnia, Said he couldn't sleep; the moowing of a cat kept him awake, Said if I could give him something with » little drop of something in it, you know. “So'T handed him 9 small bottles GIRL SOOUTS |three things every woman needa, to.| Obdvsity lowers the resistance of trad wanted to know how te take wit: Outdoorsnens, discipline and|the body to ase. The fat tends ’ I said “Give & to aceumulate around the heart and weaken that organ, causing palpita tien and shortness of breath after| such a thing as girl scouts, You exercise an well as interference with | thought there were only boy scouts, |the functions of the body generally. | }- There are some £2,000 girt scouts, | Tt ‘© two types of obesity, the} ‘They are learning such things as | fat, full-bodied type and the pasty,| | these: Janemic type. ‘To swim, not only for fun, but to) The anemic become fat becanse wave life; of the deficient oxidation going ®n) | To nurse, and qurses cure more jin their tesues due to deficient red! toamplay.* In the which women are | all too inefficient (also men). Perhaps you did not know there ts o , Friends of C. H. Twise @rop tn for call quite frequently. He always shows them eltppings from this colurnn mentioning his name. ‘Then they t to know ff he brews any, and he surprises them by asking if they would like a Uttle real a people than doctorm; coloring matter in the blood. This | Scotch To take care of er body, andlanemia calls for treatment by a| Of courte they would | make it the splendid machine a moth-| physician. The second type becomes| He steps over to the phonograph |and puts on a Harry Lauder recerd. eee Troop No. 1, Fort Plain Gist Scouts, is in camp’ at Fast Caroga Lake, New York, chaperoned by Lieuts. Spooner and Sweet eee “Where WIll They Vacctnate Co |E4s So It Won't Show?" asks the Chicago Tribune. Why not the ears? jer of men ought to be; Woodcraft, and the healing of hu manity, its Joy and strength and | atinpte love of life, lle dutdoors; And, most important of all, home | making, for the best garden of great souls is a good home One trouble with the U. & A by obese thru hereditary tendency, over: |indulgence in food or drink, insuffi client exercise and @ carefree, easy life when the period of youth has| been passed, Diminishing the quantity of fluid ingested will in Steelf tend to reduce corpulency. The weight should be that tob many girls are pursuing art, | reduced gradually; antifat, remedies music, and typewrfting, and notlwnich destroy the appetite by im enough know how to make biscult. | raining digestion should be avolded The girt scouts were originally |m,. quantity of food taken dally [called guidem, and it wasn't @ bad) should be restricted — certain! peti | eho clea — y not . jname, for a man gets nowhere in| f.'re than three meals a day—abeo| SPEAKING ABOUT BEAUTY ny real attainment except a woman | CONTESTS lutely no eating between meals, The carbohydrates, 1 ¢., the starches and sugars, murt be used sparingly. well as butter, cream, oil and other} fats. Exercise, which promotes oxida tion or using up of the materials |ulready formed in the body, is neo |guide him. On all the daring ay | |complishments of the race, from Dante's divine comedy to the prohibi- | tien amendment, could be inscribed | “Dux fetmina ftacti.” (And 4% you don't know what that means, ask any high school girl who is studying Virgil) “Your calf shows were held tn | Pettis county last week, a girl wine ning first and second prizes in every instance but one.”—Missouri Dis patch, ‘We are told that among the earty summer visitors to the National park duction without, with a ory of sudden anguish threw her upper body face downward upom the- miniature directors’ table” . .* ‘These are the scout lnws. Could 4 girl learn to obey them and not be helped? ' 1. The girt scont’s honor ts to be| the profit + uke o women, and to increase the number| of noble women. can depend upon ber, Others may| 7. A girl scout obeys orders. The | fail you, not she, She ts loyal to her| supreme good of an army is the jcountry, ber church, her school, her | discipline the soldier learns. Has not | & woman a right to share this? | % A girl scout is cheerful Which | Mr. Debs 1s going to conduct one © of those stationary campaigns, too, tho it will be a trifle farther back than the front porch. " j ——_$__—— re Columbia Colo is better-“Ady, ine, Even when we not present. is better than being pretty. % ts the economist of the world. She is the housekeeper. A girl scout is thrifty. Woman | we wortt, sb] Doctors Recommend Bon-Opto for the Eyes. Physicians and eye specialists pre- scribe Bon-Opto as a safe bome be. remedy in the treatment of eye j strengthen |love, which ts the best thing in the there as| World, It ts loyalty. % A girl scout's @uty te to be the| useful and to help others. The world could ob.| 1s composed of two clamen, the serv- of the fret clam. Why not your girl in this great & A girl scout te «@ friend te all, | movement? and a sister te every other girt| If you want te knew more about /|troubies and to scout. 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