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Breathes there a mati w vent” At heart are little ? * ea out of otty, Se per month; # months #16 fe the State of Washington. 4.60 for F montha oF $9.98 per year Ortntel Ry © THE SEATTLE STAR ith soul so dead who hasn’t said, “I'd like to in A Midsummer human being is an inventor. ; ings of value only to themselves or their own households To be sure, most folks’ age | make discoveries of value to all their fellows arfd rate the title of “wi jus.” lament, thinks H. ‘Gernsback, éditor of Science and Invention, they live in an age “when everything worth while is invented.” UCH is PODAYS BEST BET—The popu | fatien of the United States ts offi | * A 4 by the census bo-/if you figure up the time LIFE @alty announced * Beam an 105,683,108, most of which MA this moment appear to be run —— 044 eight people at the end Mat total are said by the repud ot democrats to represent voters who will make “X" on the straight farmer ticket. “GENCE BASPBALL W. WE SUSPECT have the co-operation of every morning and get teeth same eee Webster says a catspaw ts a dupe ~ @F Mol, put Lucille Taytor, down at fe gs wompany, says 4 catspaw ts — And who can deny AS “FIXED” THAT mMarhed to the sea to from & Georgia grand jury of Science and Invention. from our workers. ; jor your wife. Their daily dishwashing task—partic- ularly where there are no servants—is tremendous, |, Not so, says Gernsback. “Look about you!” writes he in the current number “Strive ta reduce the load Take, for instance, your mother, and the hard, unpleasant work. To be sure, there are some of them on the market today. ° But I've never seen a good one. be too big. It should fit the sink, or be of an equivalent | size. “Dishwasher.—What is wanted is a practical dishwasher. To begin with, it must not It should have a gas attachment to generate steam. Knight’s Dream |Copyright, 1920, by Doubleday, Page Co.; published by’ special ar rangement with the Wheeler Byn dicate, Ino, “The knights are dead; Their swords are rust Hixcept a few who have to hust- Le ali the thme Te ratee the dust” !% was summer glared down upon leas feroctty, It in n to be ious Dear Reafer: ime The sun the ofty with difficult for the Jand exhibit compunction taneously. The heat was—oh, bother whe cares for star It was so thermometers! 4 measures, anyhow? bot that ‘The roof gardens put on so many extra walters that you could hope Hot water alone does not cut the grease from a roasting te eet your gin fire now-—as soon pan. glasses, forks and knives come out perfectly dry, because the | wootly dors heat from the steam evaporates the water, drying every or steaming hot, boiling water. And the dishes, You must have steam, That does the trick, and quickly, too, thing. To be sure, many patents exist on such, but the ideas were|' not good because we recal! few firms using such an envelope-| “Envelope-Letter——Why not combine letter and envelope? etter. Your fortune is made if you invent one that, when opened, does not mutilate the letter and looks respectable after opening. every mail. today. Machines are used. bill. contents of a letter. s' yet, none in captivity. They all break more pencils and chew} “Letter Opener.—Big firms receive thousands of letters in Such letters are not opened by hand any more But there are few that fit the all get easily out of order and-mutilate the Here’s your chance. “Pencil Sharpener.—.Ah, for the genius who ‘will bless our tenographers with a REAL pencil sharpener. There is, as And the as all the other people got thetra The héepltale were putting in extra cots for bystanders, For when little their out tongues nd aay at the fleas that bite ‘em, and nervous old black bombazine | ‘Mad dog” jand policemen begin to shoot, some “iy in going to Ket hurt. The mar Pompton, N. J, who always | wears an overcoat in July, had turn ¢4 up in a Broadway hotel drink hot Bcotchea and enjoying nual ray trem the calcium. thropleta were petitioning the Legis ltature to pana @ bill requiring butld om! © mak tenement fireencapes |more commodious, so that families |might die all together of the heat jinatead of one or two at a time So many men were telling you™ about |the number of baths they took each |day that you wondered how they got jalong after the real lessee of the Apartment came back to town and Hew ncreech | from his an Philan them up faster than you can feed them. A simple sandpa-|tmankea ‘em for taking such good pe thin, you can’t tell from a linen one. apiece. Used once only, then thrown away. wheel, correctly constructed, should be better than any- g containing funny knives and foolish cutters. “Paper Collars—Now for a cheap white paper collar that Sells for 5 or 10 cents But it must be stiff and non-wilting—a man’s collar.” made tremendous profits when prices advanced figures Were steadily advanced Retribution As prices show a tendency thrucut the country to recede to & permanently lower level than the one they have occupied, there is a lowed ery from «peculators and dealers who face the prospect of being “pinched by the deciine. Tt is the mme wall that the sugar speculators let oot when fhe drop in the market forced some of them to dump their holdings than they had paid for them. reserve board and the secretary of the treasury have hatically warned business men that they will not be helped high prices, For instance, the federal reserve board that it will Mnance the legitimate marketing of the bat will not make toans to speculators to enabie thousands of tales of last year’s crop until better prices if i ay i i 5 if i & ij i z I bE of specdiators will lane money on goods now will be @ growing wull about the injustice and E iy Goods bought at low in price as the market. went up, regardiens of the original purchase price. Now we may see the reverse side of the operation. If we do, ft will jeare of it. The young man who call ed loudly for cold beef and beer in| |the restaurant, protesting that roast |pullet and Rurbundy was really too heavy for such weather, .blushed |when he met your eye, for you had heard him all winter calling, in modest tones, for the same ascetic Soup, pocketbooks, shirt actors and baseball excuses arew thinner, Yes, it was summer time. A man stood at Thirtyfourth Street waiting for a downtown car. A man of forty, gray-haired, pink faced, keen, nervous, plainly dresed with a harassed look around the «yen, Tie wiped his forehead and laughed loudly when @ fat man with lan outing look stopped and spoke jwith him. . “No, sree.” he shouted with de flance and mora. “None of your ol Mosquitohaunted ewampe and sky Scraper mountaing without elevators for me. When I want to get away from hot weather I know how to do it New York, str, te the finest sum mer resort in the country, Keep tn the shade and wateb your diet, and don't get too far away from an elec trie fam. Talk about your Adiron. dacks and your Catskillet There's more solid comfort in the borough of Manhattan than in all the rest of the country together, No, sires! No be merely retribution. And the government is right ta refusing to /tramping up perpendicular cliffs and attempt to check the movement by artificial means, Censure A young woman killed hervelf. At 22 she was tired af life; tired because the man she loved hat betrayed her. flo she threw herself over a cllff and perished tn water beneath. The coroner’s jury heard the evidence; how the girl had been do cetved by the man, and how the man. had refuned to give her unborn child his name. severely. severely ‘The jury then returned a verdict of suicide, unanimously agreeing that the man was des@rving of the highest censure. ‘That was the end. There was nothing more that man-made law conk! do. If this man had pushed the girl over the cliff the law might have banged him. If he had struck her the law might have punished him If he had thrown a pebble at her the law might have dealt with him. But inasmuch as be did sothing more than drive her into a suicide’s grave the law can but censure him Such ts the law the world over! The politicians haven't said a word about the plain people since women got the vote The dare-knee and furless-neck era will not be im full moay wentd No- vember. Young America hopes the turkey docen’t miss a meal for the next siz 4 Massachusetts man had a cow's rib grafted in place of injured epine and said afterwards that he felt bully. REAL PAINLESS DENTISTS payer in Seattle, and I believe! ae are 8 tr willing rental, to reduce rent or ask the large real ertate who handle a rental new s Knows, covers very Hite of the foot of the mouth ou ean bite corn off the cob; guaran- 16 yearn. EXAMINATION FREB Whalebone ext of a ane CO ee in to end strongest plate 8 $2 Amaigam Filing .-....----.-.. 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Lite old New York will take a few select summer boarders: comforts and convenience of home that's the ad that I answer every time.” “You. need a vacation.” «aid the fat man, looking closely at the other “You haven't been away from town in yearn, Better come with me for two weeks, anyhow. The trout in the Beaverkill are jumping at any thing now that looks lke a fly Harding writes me that he ied a three-pound brown last week. |.,.'Nonsense!” cried the other man “Go ahead, if you Itke, and borgle around in rubber boots wearing your self out trying to catch fish. When I want one I go to a cool restaurant jand order it. I laugh at you fellows whenever I think of you hustling around In the heat in the country thinking you are having a good time. For me Father Knickerbocker’s little improved farm with the big shady lane running thru the middie of it.” The fat man sighed over his friend and went his way. The man who thought New York was the greatest summer resort tn the country board ed a car and went buzzing down to his offic, On the way he threw away his newspaper and looked up at & ragged patch of sky above the | housetops, | “Three pounds! he eurttéred. ab- sently. “And Harding isn’t a War. I believe, If I could—but it's Impos sible—they've got to have another month—another month at least.” In his office the upholder of ur ban midsummer joys dived, headfore mont, into the «witmming pool of business Adkins, his clerk, came and added & spray of letters, mem. oranda apd telegrama, At 6 o'clock in the afternogn the busy man leaned back in his office chair, put bis feet on the desk ard mused aloud: “I wonder what kind of balt Hard. ing used.” eee She wag all in white that day; and |thereby Compton lost a bet to Gaines. Compton had wagered she |would avear ght blue, for she knew that was his favorite color, and Compton wag a millionaire's sen, and that almost laid him open to the charge of betting on a sure thing Byt white was her choice, Gaines held up his head with twen tyfive's lordly air, ‘The little nummer ,hotel in the mountains had a lively crowd that yetr, ‘There were two or thre young college men and a couple o' artivts and @ young naval officer on one site. On the other there were enough beauties among the young ladies. for the correspondent of a society paper to refer to them as a |“bevy." But the moon among the stars was Mary Sew Hach one of the young men greatly desired: to arrange matters so that he could pay her millinery biils, and fix the furnace, and have her do away with the “Sewell” part of her name for. simul: | and} ever, Those who could stay only a | week or two went away hinting at |piatole and blighted hearts, But |Compton stayed like the mountains for be wld afford it | And Gaines stayed because he was a and wasn't afraid of million and—well, he adored the anelves, “What do you think, Miss Mary? | he mid once, “I knew a duffer in| York who claimed to like ft in the summer time’ Said oler there than you could tr Wann't an awful silly? I don’t think I could breathe jon Tiroadway after the first June” | “Mamma wae thinking of gotng back week after next.” sald Mins Mary, with a lovely frown. } “But when you think of it,” naff Gaines, “there are lots of jolly places jin town in the summer, The roof | warde you know, dnd the-er bad | roof gardens.” | Deepest biue was the Inke that day | the day when they had the mock tournament, and the men rode clum *y farm horses around in a glade in the woods and caught curtain rings op the end of @ lance, Such fun! | Cool and dry an the finest the breath of the shadowed The below was seen thru an opal has white mim from hidden fallx t the green of a hand's breadth of tre half-way p the gorge made merry handinband| young summer, Nothing ike that | The villagers gathered to ee the! clty folks pursue their mad drollery T with the laughter of | pixies and nalads and sprites caught most of the rings, ls was the privilege to crown the queen of the tournament. He was the con-| quering knight—as far as the ring» went. On his arm he wore a white | scarf. Compton wore light blue. She | had declared her preference for blue, but ahe wore white that day Gaines looked about for the queen to crown her, He heard her merry augh, as if from the clouds, She| had slipped away and climbed Chim- ney Rock, « Mite granite bluff, and mood there, a white fairy among the laurels, fifty feet above their} headm Instantly be and Compton accept od the implied challenge. The bluff was eanily moanted at the rear but the front offered amall hold te hand or foot Bach man quickly selected his toute and began to climb, A crevices, a bush, @ slight projection, a vine or tree branch all of these were aida that counted | in the race. It was all foolery there was no stake: but there was youth In it, crows reader, and light hearts, and something else that Mins Clay writes #0 charmingty about. Gaines gave & grpat tug at the root of a laurel and pulled bimeelf to Mins Mary’s feet. On his arm he carried the wreath of roses; and while the villagers and summer boarders screamed and applauded be low be placed ft on the queen's brow, “You are « gallant knight.” aid Mine Mary. “If I could be your true knight al ways,” began Gaines, but Mine Mary laughed him dumb, for Compton scrambied over the edge of the rock one minute behind tima What a twilight that was when they drove back to the hotel! The opal of the valley turned slowly to purple, the dark woods framed the lake ag a mirror, the tonic air sti the very soul in one. The first pale “tars came out over the mountain tops where yet a faint glow of— see woods. he of wine came “ urred topa Youth with Rroadway ne woods Fr “I beg your pardon, Mr. Gaines,” ald Adkina, The man who believed New York to be the finest summer resort in the world opened his eyes and kicked over the muctiage bette on his deak “II believe 1 was aaleep,”. he maid “It's the heat.” sald Adkins. “It's something awful In the city these”-~ “Nonsense!” mid the other. “The ity beats the eountry ten to one In wummer. Fools go out tramping tn muddy brooks and wear themaclves yut trying to catch little fish as long as your finger. Stay in town and keep comfortable—that'y my idea." “Some letters just came,” sald Aa kins, “I thought you might Ifk glance at them before you go.” Lat ux look over his shoulder and read just a few lines of one of them My Dear, Dear Husband eived your letter ordering stay another month. © © © Rita's cough is almost gona 7.39 Johnny has simply gone wild Uke a little Indian, * © © Will be the making of both children © © © work so hard, and I know that your business can hardly afford to keep us here so long * * * best man that ever * * © you always pre tend that you Ifke the city fn sum. mer * * © trout fishing that you uned to be so fond of * © * and all to keep us well and happy * * come.to you ff it were not the babies #0 much good I stood last evening on Chimney Rock in exactly the same spot where I was when you put the wreath of rose# on my head * © * thru all the world * © © when you said you would be my true knight * * © fifteen years ago dear, just think! © © ¢ Ways been that tome. * and ever. he man who said he York the finest summer resort in the country dropped Into a cafe on his way home and had a glass of beer under an electric fan. “Wonder what kind of a fly old Harding used,” he said to himaelt to Just re wn te ing . 20 treatmern tin FREB—Write KONDON MEG. CO. enpolis, Minn. Doctor Frank CRANE’S Daily Article (Copyriant. 1990) A Bulgarian Lesson. Running to Extremes. Fever and Chills. Drafting for Work. It in difficult to keep from running to extre Public Opinion ts a pendulum, and when es far way it quite sure to «wing back just as far the other way We went into the war tremendous We were all for fighting. We out to “lick the kaiser,” and 1 from platforms, vast ts of soldiers sprang up the country, we enforced the draft, everybody was «soldier ing Then we got over our fever. And we «got tremendously over it, We were suddenly sick and tired of war, did not want to hear war talk, read war stories, nor nee war unif Whereas we had fever, have chillin So from frothing militariam we rush to violent ant-militariam, Rut extremes are wrong There is something good tn the army something profoundly healthful and constructive in en forced military service } That good element is thie That the y« made to realize the supremacy of the social and com munal obligation. 1 ( should be permanent, Every boy and «irl should be re red to serve @ certain time in the army of their country Provided, of courne, that this army in drilled, not to shoot, kil! and fight, but to WORK, Work is & perpetual need, fieht- ing an occasional and extraordinary A measure is now belng proposed in Bulgaria by the premier, Alexan der Staumboliisky, which if put into effect, will put that country into the foreground of nations. The bill in Yolves the drafting of the young men of what we have been accustomed to term military age for pervice as laborers instead of #oldiern; they are then to be. grouped according to choice or abliity, and set at various tasks under the direction of ex; Some will carry out trrigation| schemes in arid districts; some will reforest denuded mountain sides; some will build roads and railways or wehoothouses and public build: inex: some will work the government mines and other communal tracts of land, During wuch service the young men will have the advantage of leo- | tures, evening classes and other Means of improvement. And in place} of maintaining a standing army | which deatrpys millions of dollarw | worth of ammunition in target prac-| tice yearly and can perform no pro- duotive labor, the country will be ly. were to npeschon r eantonmer all over rma now we idea, supporting an equal standing army mil [EVE JRETT TRUE: 0 THERS Nou ARE, MISTER And THees YOU ARG, MISTER Orenencezel! “e which is receiving the best sort of| your army's chief business is to training {n agriculture and public, Work, and only upon extraordinary works, and is producing results that | occasion to Fight. will enrich the country by develop: | — - : ing Its resources. Thousands of people take anti-fia There is no reason why women remediesh, $2.08, Herb Medicine Mfg: whould not be required to perform Co., P. O. Box 851, Seattle.—Adver- wuch service. A constructive army | tisement, could use women as well as men, | IT STOPS THAT TICKLING Such an army would not be kept! alive by the spirit of revenge; it You can relieve spasmodic croup, would not need hate of an enemy to| whooping cough, la grippe, bronchial — give it pep. cough, or a cold—either @ fresh It would do mpch to cure us of) or one that “hangs on”—with a the poison kind of patriotism which | doses of Foley's Honey and Tar. functions only in national egoti#m G. Darnall, Bonham, Tex. writes: and destruction. | have been bothered with a It would develop rea) patriotiem, | tickling in my throat, so I whieh means devotion to the busi-| tle of Foley's Honey and ness of building up one’s country | stopped the cough and that 4 equipping it to help ether coun-| in my throat. It is the first tries. | ever got hold of that would It would unify our people. It loosens phlegm and mucus. Clears” It would be @ prolific matrix ef the air passages, and covers in- @emocracy. | flamed surfaces with @ soothing, Military training and enforced | healing coating. Contains ne opiates.” itary joe are good provided | Sold everywhere. | Bh andi z $ 5 ef i Make the next cigar taste better and smoking — cleanse your mouth moisten your throat sweeten your breath , | with i