The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 25, 1920, Page 6

Star he, $2.78) year, per month, per week, The Dictator Woman directs the consumption of 85 per cent of the wealth of the country, | “according to figures compiled by Mrs. Henrietta Calvin, specialist in home eco- nomics of the Federal Bu Righty-five per cent of t treau of Education. ig 2 he industry of the nation busies itself with those - things that minister, directly or indirectly, to the comfort, convenience, pleas- ure or taste of women. Not only does industry es oe _ Common sense in an wncommon degree is} phat the world calls} dom.—Coleridge. { @UCH is D LIFE! “And the part that worries me,” Squire Abner Harpington, h one of ‘em was real? Squire has a way of opening a by concluding it. We handed Squire « stick of kindling. «ft don't, he'll whittle the edge of desk) was experimentin’ yesterday the analgetic state of subcon paychosis induced by nitrous More commonly known as gas,” explained squire misunderstandingly. I drapped in to see young Doe about my defective dent * continued the Squire. “You that ole snag of an eye tooth Deen botherthg me lately, and I o1 he'd snake ‘er out fer me and as Robert W. Beliright ‘Thereby depends an anecxiote.’ hitched a rubber hickey over Rommn nostrils and tells me to deeply eight times; I ob the dictum of science. Great sheet of yellow Mame up and shakes and shimmers. Nt hot and ‘twan't cold, but it be ort of heart warming, if you ~ what I mean. [ felt superior | and happy all over, without fee! inebriated. I can remember I i my Soul and talked with it, and fed about another soul I couldn't “A ent cits on my fence every the night hideous cold mornings it doesn't like to T.do get the engine going and in the clutch, it makes a great on coming out of the garage. 5 Motor runs itself to death and don't make much headway. we slide into second and ‘Up @ bit. on high, the engine settles And goes to work without any » there fy @ little hill down the If we take it going slowly, ft te all car can do to get over without gears, just hit the bottom going at 25 or 30 miles, and the engine s ee new SP A009 00 6 bill fe slide right up and over with effort at all. __ F've learned that my mental motor re about the same way. In the morning it is apt to be cold choked up. imen it takes © lot of enersy ‘to get it started and get into high. Then, if I run along about 10 miles ‘@n hour, it is an effort to get over Hittle “hills.” But once we are in high, the prob fade Mto thin air, you have work to do, speed up Mental motores, turn on every of energy you have, get into and you'll finish with half the effort. # INSULT TO INJURY Bonechisel, the Lawyer-—You ad- crowning the plaintiff with a bat. What was your object in doing, if not matrimony? Skinpants, the Defendant—It was of mistaken identity, I mis- devote the ‘greater part of its energies to making the things woman herself uses, but also to the innumer- able food and household articles the purchase of which helpless man places almost exclusively in the hands of woman. Man eats, but it is woman who directs what he shall eat. He has little to say in the matter. The wife goes to the |grocer’s and, looking over the stock, determines what he jshall eat that evening. It follows, therefore, that the manu- facgurer of food products is governed, as to quality and style of his goods, by his desire to please her who, as far as he is | concerned, is the ultimate consumer, | Aman goes to buy an automobile. He may prefer a cer- tain car because of its engine. But, in the end, the machine he buys is the one selected by his wife on account of the lines of its exterior and the home-like comfort of its inter- ior, Consequently, no small part of the business of an auto- ‘mobile designer is to turn out such machines as will delight the eye of hce who is the supreme court in all issues related to household purchases. ‘ The furniture-maker, the house-builder, the textile- weaver, are concerned endlessly with patterns, devices and designs pleasing to HER. Woman proposes as well as dis- poses, while man only pays the bills. Woman, in fact, says Mrs, Calvin, is the controlling factor in production, since she directs all but 15 per cent of the consumption. It is much more simple to make a list of the industries in which woman has no influence than to call the roll of the innumerable industries that are governed in part or in whole by her dictatorship in matters of style and taste. Universal woman's suffrage is merely an extension of her authority to a field that woman's influence will improve, just as the material products of industry are constantly being improved to meet the progressing standards of good | taste and quality as dictated by, woman. A Full House | Congress soon wilt face the membership problem. ‘This Is owtng to the tnerease In population. The present basie of apportionment # one repre sentative to every 211,877 of population. The increase, if made, will give the lower house 50 members more than ft now haa. Already i» the house unwiekly. A few leaders transect the buntnees, j and by reason of this fact many districts are represented by rubber stamps. A house of 485 members will have an even larger proportion of rubber stamps. Also, the larger the house, the leas chance of persuading | Peally big men to become membera | The increase would be in California ™, New York (®, Ohio (®), Penney} vania (4), Michigan (4), Illinols (3), Texas (3), Massachusetts (2), New Joruey (D, North Carolina (2) and one each for 17 other states, including Wash- ington. If the apportionment figure is increased there will be many states With fewer representatives in the next congress, with the 10 states enumer ated having emalier increases than suggested above. ‘There aré many students of yore his lifetime study. He doemn't mean that ft ts healthful to the Person lightning strikes, “No, he doesn't mean that lightning strokes WM cure the {il, as fakire centuries ago sald they would What he means is this: i “Lightning produces nitrie acid, and of noxious exhalations.” Had there never been @ fash of Nghtning upon this earth tm afl the yeats of its existence the air now would be so foul thaf ving would be impossible, some scientists say, And, by the way, bave you heard that health authority my pis-— that pie you like so well—kills more human beings each week than lightning does in a year? Keep those findings of experts tn mind when next a thunder storm peeks to terrify you with its flashes of fire thru the skies. First “Wash Day” When New England celebrates the tercentenary of the landing of the Pilgrims next month, the housewives of America might, if they cared to, with equal appropriateness celebrate the three hundredth an niversary of the birth of the custom of observing Monday as washday. On Saturday, November 21, 1620, 16 of the bravest Pilgrima, under |Captain Miles Standish, left the Mayflower on a prospecting tour on land. Sunday the party rested, but on Monday, November 12, they again disembarked, and this time they took some of the brave women with them, carrying them bodily thru the breakers, into the shallow | water and so on land. The women at once inaugurated a wash day Since that time, 300 years ago, Monday is the recognized wash day of the country. Lawrence Shows Up Financial Defects of the Carlyon Bill i Cleans the whole atmosphere THE SEATTLE STAR The Brief ‘Debut of |Tildy | Copyright, 1920, by Doudteday, Page 4 Co; puddished by special ar rangement with the Wheeler Syn dicate, Inc, If you do not know Bogle's Chop House and Farmfly Restaurant it ts your lows, For if you are one of the fortunate ones who dine expen sively you should be Interested to know how the other half ¢ * provisions, And if you belong to the |half to whom walters’ checks are things of moment, you should know Hogt for there you get your money's worth—-in quantity, at least Bogle’s is situated in that highway of bourgeoise, that boulevard of Brown and Robinson, Righth Avenue, There are two rows of tables In the room, six in each row Op each table is @ caster stand, con taining eruets of condiments and roanons, Prom the pepper eruet you may shake a@ cle of something tanteleas and melancholy, lke vol anic dust. From the agit crust you may expect nothing, ‘Tho a man should extract a mungulnary stream from the pallid turnip, yet will tim prowems be balked when be comes to wrest salt from Bogle's cracta Alwo upon each table stands the counterfeit of that ben! sauce made “from the recipe of a noble man m India* « The needs of Rogie customers were supptied by two waltremes and a Vole, One of the waltrenms was named Aileen. She wan tall, beau ful, Uvely, gracious and learned in persifiage. Her other name? There was no more tecessity for another name at Dogle’s than there was for finger bowls, | The name of the other waitress was Tidy, Why do you suggest Matiida* Please listen this time Tidy—Tidy, Tidy was dumpy. plain-faced, and too amrious to please to please, Repeat the last clause to yourwelt once or twioe, and make the acquaintance of the duplicate infin! tive, ‘The Votce at Bogte's was tnviaibie. ft came from the kitchen, and did | not shine in the way of originality. It was a heathen Voice, and content od ltaclf with vain repetitions of ex clamations emitted by the waitresses concerning food. Wit it tire you to be told again) that Aflcen was beautiful? Had she donned a tow hundred dollars worth of clothes and joined the Easter pe rade, and bad you seen her, you would have hastened to say #0 your eit. ‘The custamery at Bogte's wore her Slaves. Six tables full she could Walt upon at once. They whe were tm @ hurry restrained thetr tmpa tance for the joy of merely gazing upon ber swiftly moving, graceful Agure’ They who had finished eat- ing ate more that they might con: Jones tinue In the light of her emila Every | man there—and they |were montly Pen—tried to make his impreasion upon her, HUMOR PATHOS O.HENRY| Story a Day ROMANCE and appeared to have been recently rough dried and mtarched. He whe too diffident to aspire to Alleen notice he usually mat at one of) Tildy's tables, where he devoted him | mif to ailence and boiled weakfieh. A day, when Mr. Seeders came in to dinner, he had been drinking beer, There ly two or three customers in the orant When Mr, Seeders had finished his weak fh he got up, put his arm around! Tildy’s waint, kissed her loudly and | impudently, walked out upon the! street, snapped his fingers in the dt-| rection of the laundry, and hied him self to play pennios the slot ma chines at the Amusement Arcade. | Por a few moments Tildy stood petrified. Then she was aware of Alleen aking at her an arch fore finger, and saying | “Why, TU, you naughty girl! Atn't you getting to awful, Mins Sty: | boots! First thing I know you'll be 1 must wo were 6 steuling nome of my fellows. keep an eye on you, my lady.” Another thing dawned upon Tidy *| recovering wits, In a moment she had advanced from a hopeless, lowly admirer to be an Kvesister of the potent Alleen. She herself was now 4 mancharmer, a mark for Cupid, a Sabine who must be coy when the! Romans were at their banquet | boards, Man had found her wats | achievable and her lips desirable. The sudden-amatory Seeders had, as it were, performed for her « mira ulous plece of one-day laundry work He had taken the mck cloth of her uncomitness, had washed, dried, starched and froned It, and returned it to her sheer embroidered lawn the robe of Venus herself, The freckles on Tildy’s checks merged into a roxy Mush. Now both | Circe and Pryche peeped from her brightened eyen Not even Aileen herself had been publicly embraced aod kimed in the restaurant Tildy could not keep the delightful secret, When trade was slack she went and stood at Hogle’s desk. Her eyes were shining; ahe tried not to let ber words sound proud aad boast ful | “A gentleman tnautted me today,” she sald. “Ho bugerd me around the walet and kissed ma” “That sor" said Mogi, cracking open his business armor, “After thie week you get a dollar a week more.” . At the next regular meal when | Tidy set food before customers with whom she bad acquaintance, abe said to each of them modestly, as one Whose merit meeded no bolstering: “A gentleman insulted me today in the restaurant He put his arm jaround my waint and kissed ma~ The diners accepted the reveltion | wooed. She bought ribbona, and ranged ber hair lke Alleena, and Ughtened her waist two inchea She Alleen could ruccearfulty exchange repartee against a dozen at once And every amile that she sent forth Jodged, Uke pellet from a scatter wun, in ae many hearte. And all this while she would be performing Astounding feats with orders of pork and beans, pot roasts, ham-and, bad a thrilling but delightful fear | that Mr. Seeders would rush in aud- idenly and shoot ber with a pistol. He must have loved her desperately; and Blindly Jealous. Rven Aligen had not been shot at with & pistol. And then Tildy rather | | | | torily is to insure the peace, | pomt office, is taken by the impulsive lovers are always) Doctor Frank CRANE’S Daily Article (Copyright 1920) The Government. The Poor Man. Postal Savings. Readjustment Needed. | ‘There are few tmues now alive that are of more importance than} the readjustment of the postal mv- ings system. It has to do with the mort vital Problem of all economies, which in, not what a man who has a million doliars in to do with it, but what the man who has saved up $100 is to do with it To dnewer that question mtinfac prow: | perity and the stability of the nw | tion, | Powtal savings originated tn the United States In 1910. They were tha result of the panic of 1907, People distrusted the banks and the vera. ment offered them the pont office, The plan was good in ite begin- ning, but progress means readjust Whatever will not readjust, breaka It is Digh time to readfust the postal ings system, for it has! not kept pace with the ehanging| order, | EVERETT TRUE— ‘NO TACN WS SPENT THRES DACS THORS, THEN WS WENT WAY VP To THE NORTH FoRK WE RIVER. ANC MSHCD FOR FOUR DAYS. SAY, Bo, TTHOSS TLSH Come AtonG! vue HELP You You've Geen AWAT ON A TWO WESKS’ VACATION, GUT ove NOT GOUFG TO SPEN ANOTHER, Two woCtKS TStLING ABoUT ITI ‘The government, for instance, pays | to the poor man who deposits his $100 in the pont office 2 per cent « year. (It does not pay even that! unless the money is left in the of fice for a whole year. Because of | this regulation the interest on the total deposit averages about 1 per | cent) ‘This money, deposited with the fovernment by the agency of the) ern: | ment and lent to the banks at 2%) per cent } Again the government Around and offers to borrow it back from the banks, by means of its treasury certificates, at least partially tax exempt, at 6 per cent interest Thus both the depositor and the government get the worst of it If the government can afford to pay 6 per cent, why not pay it direct to the poor deporitor, instead of giving him 1 or 2 per cent and the banks | the rest? 4 When the pontal savings system | was inaugurated the government did hot peed money, and acted only as| & favor to the ignorant depositor afraid of banks, Conditions have changed. The government now needs money. It is! borrowing right and lef. Why not) borrow directly from the masa of its citizens thru the post office? Aitho it is doing this, In a way, by means of war stampa, It is signifi- cant that the sale of these has stumped from 211 millions in July, 1914, when the drive was on, to two "] t and ® quarter millions in August, | 1920. ‘The proposition now before fhe senatorial committer is to give the! postal savings system a thoreugh going over, allowing interest on frac- tions of a year, increasing the num- ber of pontoffices of deposit, and making the postmaster’s pay in- crease with the amount of posta! sav- ings he secures, Also by raising the rate of interest & more attractive figure. ‘This is sound sense, and It ts to the credit of the bankers that mom of them favor it. They know very well that the thrift and general prow perity that would ensue would heip them. Thrift ts thrift, whatever causes it. And banks are creations | of thrift. Only the penny wine and} pound foolish fear an effort by the! government to encourage @ more! universal saving. ‘The average sumber of words used by children twe years old i between 200 and 400, to ase. Ask us about it. 325 Pine Street Sear Fovarn. musageand-the- wheats, and any |hoped that he would not shoot at quantity of things on the iron and|her, for she was always loyal to in the pan and straight up and on | Alleen; and she did not want to over. the aide With all this feasting and | shadow her friend. flirting and merry exchange of wit| At 4 o'clock on the afternoon of Rogie’s came mighty near being a|the third day Mr, Secders came in. salon, with Alleen for its Madame|Thero were no customers at the a package Before.the War Recamier. If the transients were entranced by the fascinating Alfleen, the ree ulars were ber adorera. There was much rivalry among many of the steady customers Aileen could have had an engagement every evening At leant twice a week some one took her to @ theatre or a dance. One stout gentleman whom she and Tidy had privately christened “The Hog,” Dresented her with a turquoine ring. Another one known as “Frosty who rode on the Traction Company's Tepair wagon, was going to give her & poodle am soon as his brother got the hauling contract in the Ninth. | And the man who always ate «pare riba and spinach and said he was ® stock broker, asked her to go to “Parnifal” with him. in.” anid Aileen while talking {t ove: tables. At the back end of the ree taurant Tildy was refilling the mus- [tard pots and Afleen wan quartering ples. Mr. Seeders walked back to | where they stood Tildy looked op and exw him, gerped, and pressed the mustard spoon against her heart. A red hair |bow was in her hair; she wore | Venus’ Eighth Avenue badge, ~the jue necklace with the swinging sil- |ver symbolic heart. Mr. Seeders was Qushed and em- barransed. He plunged one hand tnto Nis hip pocket and the other into a freeh pumpkin pile, “Mins Tidy,” said he, “I want to apologize for what I done the other levenin’. Tell you the truth, I was pretty well tanked up or I wouldn't of done it, I wouldn't do no indy ‘hat away when I was sober, So I ope, Mise Tildy, you'll accept my a package During the and a package War with Tildy, “but the wedding-ring’s | Poley, and believe that I wouldn't got to be on before I put a mitch Of done it if I'd known what I was BY J. C. LAWRENCE ! Former Public Service Commissioner The Carlyon road bill presents a! very nice appearance, but it will not bear the searchlight. It purports to be a good roads bill. Yet the pioneer | g00d roads men in this state are not | supporting it, Why? Because they | bglieve more miles of good roads of | @ same class can be secured with- out it than with it, Here is the proof: There is now available the motor vehicle leense fees of $3,000,000 a! year. To this can be added $1,500,-| 000 from the national government | | with nearly $1,000,000 on hand unap- propriated. To this can be added over one million of the highway tax levy, making a total of about $6,500, 000. After deducting for cost of ad- ministration there would remain over five million dollars, with an annual receipt from t ne Kources of about that amount or a total of $30, 000,000 in six years, the period fixed in the Carlyon bill, without interest, @ waving of $12,000,000 in the inter- est on this Carlyon plan, Why mort- wage this state and pay interest when we have this regular income, which will do the same thing within the six-year period? But the advocates of the Cartyon bill say they would leave all the funds, save the motor vehicle li-| cense fees, to build other roads in| this #tate, beside those named in the bilk For the sake of argument, ad- mit this. Mr. Hall, in a speech at Bothell, said it would take two years | to completé the surveys and organ-| ize the highway department for let-| ting contracts, At the end of that time we would have on hand three years’ accumulation of the motor vehicle licenses, $9,000,000, plus $1,- 000,000 now on hand, unappropriated, | 000, inwutng bonds. Then why the Cartyon bill with its $12,000,000 interest? If the bonds are voted, and it takes two years for this highway de-| partment to start work, then atx years to complete it, that would make eight years, or until 1929. In that time we would have the motor| vehicle licenses for nine years. Count it to make sure: 1920, ‘21, ‘22, '23, ‘24,| ‘26, '26, '27 and ‘28, a total of $27,000,-| or within $3,000,000 of the amount of the Carlyon bill. To gain this one year in time Is it good sense | to pay $12,000,000 interest? If it takes two years to get start-| ed under the Carlyon bill the license money does not remain on hand, un leas the bonds are sold. Mr. Hall,| one of the lending advocates of the bill, eaid in a #peech at Bothell that the bonds would not be sold for two years, and the money situation would be easter then. Read Section 10 of the bill and you will see that during this périod of two years the funds would be entirely distributed into @ permanent " maine tenance fund, not available for this work, So that by the showing of this leading advocate of the Cariyon bill It is stripped of its fine appear. ance and excelled by the common | sense plan of using the funds now! available on the pay.as-wego plan, Autos Come Together 2 Men Cut by Glass Otto Carlson, 4055 20th ave. 8. W.,| and Leo Anderson, 4053 20th ave 5. W., were taken to city hospital | Sunday, when thelr auto collided with that of M. 8. Hurwitz, 305 19th ave,, at Whatsom ave, and Atlanti« st, Sunday, Both were cut by glass who worked in without touching the other funds or and brulsed ve ae a into a traveling drese—ain't that right? Well, I guess!" But, Tildy! n meaming, chattering, cabbage scented Bogle’s there was almom a heart tragedy. Tildy with the biunt nose, the hay-colored hair, the freckled skin, the bag-o'-meal figure, had never had an gdmirer. Not a man followed her with his eyes when she went to and fro in the restau rant save now and then when they glared with the beast-hunger for food, None of them loudly “Joltied” her of mornings as they did Aileen, accusing her, when the egen were slow in coming, of late hours in the pany of envied swaina. No one ad ever given her a turquoine ring or invited her upon a voyage to mys terious, distant “Parsifal.” Tidy was a good waitress, and the men tolerated her. They who eat at her tables spoke to her briefly with quotations from Me bill of fare; and then raised their voices in honeyed and otherwise flavored accents, elo. quently addressed to their Aileen. They writhed in their to gare pround and over the im ing form of Tildy, that Alleen's pulchritude might season and make ambrosia of their bacon and eggs. And Tildy was content to be the unwooed drudge if Aileen could re. ceive the flattery and the homage, The blunt nose was loyal to the short Grecian, She was Aileen's friend; and she was glad to see her rule hearts and wean the attention of men from smoking potpie and lemon neue. But deep below our freckles and hay-colored hair the unhandsomest of us dream of a prince or a princess, not vicarious, but coming to us alone, Am the customers at Bogle’s was & young man named Seeders, @ laundry office. Mr, Beoders was thin and had light hair, rrowenseremensreresieasinaterrreas nonsiiae B doin’ and hadn't of been drunk.” With this handsome plea Mr. Seed. ore backed away, and departed, fee! ing that reparation had been made. Rut behind the convenient screen | iTildy had thrown herself flat upon |® table among the butfer chips and | | the coffee cups, and was sobbing her heart out—out and back again to the |kray plain wherein travel they with blunt noses and hay-coloted hair, From her knot she had torn the red |hairbow and cast it upon the floor. | Seeders she despined utterly; she had |but taken his kiss ag that of a pioneer and prophetic prince who might have set the clocks going and the pages to running in fairyland. | But the kiss had been maudlin and |unmeant; the court had not stirred at the false alarm; she must forever. more remain the Sleeping Beauty. Yet not all was lost. Alleen's arm | was around her; and Tildy’s red hand groped among the butter chips till It found the warm clasp of her friend's. “Dont you fret, Til,” sald Aileen, who did not understand entirely “That turnip-faced little clothespin of |& Seeders ain't worth it, He ain't janything of a gentieman or he wouldnt ever of apologized.” Taught after new princtples; bound to revolutionize this study; greatest mental training. No dry finger exercises; no etudes; tech- nic developed from pieces only. Pupils, young or adults, become confident performers; progress three times faster than in older methods, A. W. WHISTLER 404 Montelius Bldg, Ell, 2794, NO The Flavor Lasts So Does the Price! g OUBLEMINT PEP PELPONIIN T > 2 . 4 Z Ng iY REN SN STAN SESS ROA TE SUD RRM Ae UAT: ARE gs