The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 20, 1920, Page 9

a i WE NEVER BEFORE SUSPECTED IT, BUT A WHOLE FLOCK OF WOMEN BUILD THE MORNING FIRE BY CYNTHIA GREY Here they are, folks—Both warm and cool comments on who should bwild the morning fire. From the large number of letters received today from women who are willing fire duilders, I should say that the poor, mere man who has here- tofore been accused of laziness has been wrongfully judged. Here are some of the reasons given by wives who build the Man is clumsy and covers himself and the y eta running start on her day's work; hubby needs the extra tured husband may turn into a grouch if made to the morning fire. If you have any views on this subject which have not al- ready been expressed, send ‘em in—wwe want to settle this thing right while we're about it Printed below are all of the aforesaid excuses and reasons, Dear Miss Grey: I could not resist the temptatiq to er “Fire Builder's” letter. ays considered it a part of my work, just as the washing ironing. My husband goes to work every day to earn the ng for us and it does not seem right to me that he should have to do the work at home. He is a model husband. I oubt if there is a better one to be found. He gets things to make my work lighter, electrical appliances that I think every the fire? the fire. Another thing, I believe that if some of the wives were a lial eee | Dear Miss Grey: I ame gti 23/| Persons who have problems ‘Years old and unmarried, but I find || which they de net care te confide = firebuilding problenf an interest-|| by private letter er phene, may topic. ce || see Cynthia Grey at har office ¥ T think f ts @ woman's place to; TA¢ Star. Rid, every Tweada Duild the fires in the morning for || 4"d Thursday between the hours her hubby when he has to work out ig fo 11 @ m and 12 te 5 pm june tn and year out. || To accommodate working people || whe cannot come at that ti If a wife loved her by mh sagen When 1 eoute ag torepregpateh fen rng eBypcn Dor nena «shred Sod aries as she would be cuir too | Me" OY appointment. Pleaas do j ey do it. Misa Grey cannot attend to her op Rargghethar Aaaygeembagero writing because of the constent and think too much of their on }longer to clean up than ft would have been to build the fire fn the get married I shall try) comfortable and cheer | husband In our home as 1 will be only too glad to ¢ him tn the morning. WIFE-TO.BE. My hustand gets up and gets his | own breakfast on the gas plate, with- out Dullding a fire and I get up when T please and start the fire and get | my own and the children’s breakfast. |Even on Sunday I start the fire While hubby goes for the milk or does anything necessary out of doors | and then we just visit while I'm get ting breakfast. ‘We are both better antisfied with this way and I think every couple | should manage their own home to mult themselves regardi#¢as of what friends and neighbors say. ANOTHER HAPPY FIRE-BUILDER, eee Dear Miss Grey: I should very tmuch like té enter the controversy RPHEUM MADISON —— HOORAH! HES BACK WITH US AGAIN FOR YOUR PLEASURE! YEP! Irs NONE OTHER THAN YOUR OLD FAVORITE— “SLIVERS: (ERT. C. HUNT) / WITH EVER, AND A BIG COMPANY OF MUSICAL FAVORITES IN “Easy | Money” . —A THREESTARRED REVUE WITH A TRIPLE-BARRELED PUNCH TWENTY-FIVE DAINTY DANCING f re willingly: ’ with ashes and soot; tt delays breakfast; wife may | if-hour’s sleep more than wifie; or an othenvise perfectly | too, am a fire-builder and happy with the fob. I have) little more willing to do some of these things for their hus-| there would be less unhappiness and fewer divorces, because quarreling over the little things soon leads on to big HAPPY FIRE-BUILDER. *lcomfortabte and a good supper ready SPLINE AAO OID of who shall light the morning fire. | Tt seems to mé it should depend | largely on circumetqneesif a man works on night shift and does not fet to bed until midnight or later or is il, then the wife should be glad }to bulld the fire; but the average) man gets as much rest as his wife, jand sometimes mora for if there are | bales to attend to it ls generaily the mother that loses her rest. | If # man i thinking only of hin own comfort, then by all means “let George do it,” but I think if my hus |rand would take the attitude that it was a “crime” for him to get out in the cold I could ile tn bed as long as he | | We have a family of three daugh- }tera, I do all of my work including washing, ironing and sewing, never buying & ready made garment, so 4 buay housewtfe cftn imagine how much time I would have to go back to bed and stay as long as I pleased Thank goodness these problems do | not bother me, for in our mare than 20 years of life together we have worked together as lovers and pals. | A HAPPY WIFE, | eee | Dear Bias Grey: IT have been « hounewife for 40 years and I always make the morning fire winter or! |wummer, and we have not always lived in the West, either, Back Bast | it gets real frosty; but I believe « man should rest as long as pons jth the morning. I won't ay my hu |band never bulldy the fire for he ieadaiidd | does when I am ill, but otherwine I leonsider it a part of my regular | work. a WIFE | eee Dear Mims Grey: I would tke to! add my bit to the fire-buliding ques | tion. I also build the fires in the morning and I'm sure that I'm just |as happy as the wife who bas break: | fant nerved in bed, | My husband t# @ “sleepy-hend,” and it would take longer to waken | him than it would te build the fire, Jand besides I would with him in the kit jing, I'd be « nerw jond of @ week. It would be “fe | love of Mike, dows it take you all day | jto fry an eg,” ete. | | After all, there are too many tm | portant things in life, and as you) | grow older such things as flrelight- | ing lone their importance STILL ANOTHER | FIREBUILDER | ee | . Dear Miss Grey: I would tke to) | say, in answer to “Should a husband get up of & morning and make the! firet™ I do not know if they should. but I know my hustand does and janys he feels better for it, And in- return for Uiat and getting part of | the breakfast, 1 have the house made when he gets home and everything is fine urna. WwW. WwW NERVES AE STRING Michigan Woman, fn Poor Health for Years, Now Feels as as She Ever Did m |ot No. 215 Willow averne, Pontiac, | Mich. “I wae very weak and pale/, and my lips were without any color. |from sour stomach and other dis comforts after eating. I beaame | pervous and had terrible headaches. |My rest was broken at night | “I had known of several people |who had taken Dr. Williams’ Pink | Pilla with benefit se I got @ bax. | After taking the pilie for @ time I found that they were helping me eo | kept on with the treatment My |nervee became stronger and then my color slowly returned. 1 ha healthy color now, food tastes and I can eat heartily of whatever jsehes. I cannot speak too highly of Tr, Williams Pink Ptlls.° When work that you are accus |tomed to becomes @ severe tax on your strength and the glow of jhealth leavee your cheeks, when | Giagomtors, follows a méal, it ls time to tone up the bioo, Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills have a direct action on [the blood. They bulid it up and lenable it to carry more oxygen. As |the blood becomes abundant and jrich it strengthens the muscies, | tones up the nerves and enables the |atomach to digest food properly. Do not neglect yourself but begin treatment now with Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills, If your druggist cannot |supply you the remedy will be sent | postpaid by the Dr. Williams Med+ | cine Co., Schenectady, N. Y, on re ceipt of price, 60 cents per box. An interesting booklet, “Bullding Up the | Blood,” will be mailed free on re | quest. |- Nothing tasted good and I suffered | seen for the f Sharing THE SEATTLE STAR for Theatres Boast Fine Menu of Entertainment CP We ONY OF BNTZODIN NNT) OVA aye PH 7 On re Instance, G Herbert Spencer George it is . 1—kmmett Vogan, with the Wilkes Players; 2—Lew White, comedian, Levy's Orpheum; 3—Laurel Lee, Moor 4~—~Member of Summers Duo, Palace Hip; 6—Mazine Kiff Scandals of 1919," Met; 6—"Teddy,” coming to Pantages Monday. 1 was in miserable heattn tor) MUSICAL REVUE “ id Mra, Almira Phinrook.| AT’ METROPOLITAN Sanday night, at the Metropotftan. new musical revue, White's “Scandals of 1919," will be it time in Seattia In selecting the material for the “Seandaln of 1919," George White, the originator of the revue and co author of the book and tyrion did not Gepend upon the plays, of current interest in the theatre, aa fe ustally @one, but rather chowe to make tun of prewentday conditions in the workaday world; haa travestied the overcrowded condi tion of botels, justice as it Is meted out to beantiful lady-murderera on Long Inland, the HL. C. of L. and, of courve, the all absorbing topic of pro . | hibition. All of these are treated in & manner wholly humorous one of them melanges of song, dance and travesty #0 popular with the play goers of every wort, Just the kind that is designed to boleter up spirits of the tired business jand delight the woman who is borad | your appetite becomes fickle and| With ordinary musical comedien honors = with White as author of the book and lyrica, ls Arthur Jackson; while three composers who have been heard be fore claim the cusical score, namely Richard Whiting, and Al Gumble. A cast of onusual excellence will elucidate the “fcan- dale of 1990," headed by Grace Cam-| with ‘a matines Bunday in “The eron, Jack Edwarda Duke Rogers|Tatior Made Man.” ang the White Way Tria ee MOORE FEATURES OPERATIC SINGERS Madame Doree's Operalogue te the leading attraction at The Moore next Gn love scenes from the better known classics all of which are prop erly staged and costumed Each of the ten singers yossewes an excep tonal vol *The ontanding volces aro the so , Arline Verdikt, and the terior, Sig. Pompeo Tomasini will be the Frances Nordstrom skit in rhyme, “The Magic Ginasea, | which points to @ good moral for a | marriageable mine who has to choose between two suitors, one ridh and one poor, Billy Dale end Bunny Burch tn “The Riding Master” provide e lot of fun and do everything but ride Laurel Lee, an effervencent come | dienne, will contribute a bright spot jon the new bill with songs, chatter and a wealth of personality and good looks. Tiigelow and Ciinton have a mus cal number consisting of plane and vooa! selections, . Lucas and Lee are gymnasts who work rapidly and confine their stunts to new ideas in thrilia, Garcinnetti Brothers are novelty hat throwers, he the eee WILKES TO PRESENT POPULAR DRAMA The Wilkes Players wi offer « splendid and unusually big attrac tion for Thankagiving week, starting The offering will also bring back to the cast Mise Jane Morgan, who is much refreshed after her wellearned week's vaca- tion. Jotm Pant Rart, played by George 4, in only @ taflor’s helper in a Bits from grand opera wit! |*™4ll tailoring shop, but he has big be sung by a cast of ten artirta. The company confines itself to fam ideas—ddens that only he seema to understand and not bis employer. ‘Thru a borrowed dress sult, oodles of GE THE METROPOLITAN THANKSGIVING WEEK Opening Sunday Night 2 BARGAIN MATINEES in Wms ee seehdeae SEATS NOW—BETTER BUY EARLY THE BIG DEMAND FOR SEATS ‘ Already Indicates That the Engagement SS SATIONAL MUSICAL REVUE THAT HAS oF 1919 ‘ONISHED THE WHOLE COUNTRY — Wil Bo PRICES—EVENINGS: 60¢, Plus War Tax $2.00, A RECORD BREAKER A Great Cast of Comedians, Singers, Dancers, and the Chorus Who Are Known to Fame as the BEAUTIFUL SCANDALMONGERS $1.00, $1.50, 92.50 nerve and another man's card, he gains admittance into an elite #o- ctty affair where he comes in con- tact with one of the biggest busipess men in the town. He manages, to get his ideas before him, with the result thag he secures @ position. When everything is looking bright and rosy, something happens—with the result that our hero finds his | dreams shattered, but not his nerve. | The manner in which he wins every. jthing his heart desires, including “tho girl,” forma the basis for one of the best offerings that has ever been Stlered by the Wilkes Playera ee MUSICAL COMEDY ACT ON PALACE HIP BILL ‘The management of Loew's Palace Hip promises a typical all-etar com- bination of vaudeville’s best In the new show that will be offered to morrow, The big headline feature is billed “Fashions a la Carte,” and it is descritfed as a masicalcomedy- fashion-revue, in which the last word of style and elegance in costumes is présented, with incidental songs and graceful dance accompaniments, There are five pretty girls who serve ae medels on which the gown crea- tions are displayed. Merry nonsense, in dialect, and ex- Glusive songs, are scheduled to be given prominence in the offering of Harry Warden and Frank Naldy, Tho mystery of thought transfer. ence Always arouses interest, and a unique demonstration of this psychic power ia promised by Ali Rajah and his company. A versatile Guo are Frank Callan | |latewt star of importance to desert | Running @ clone second for honors io Wolttant cant afford to in iss We RRA RN EWN 88 FOF EE, Bw and Tom Kenyon, two genial young men, who «pecialize in harmony «ing ing. ‘The thrills of the bi are to be provided by the Summers duo, nov: | elty aertaliste, eee RACE TRACK COMEDY AT LEVY’S ORPHEUM rt Hunt, known to his large fot lowing as cast of Le pany in “Hasy Money,’ with & matinee today. “Kany Money” has to do with the race track, The two comedians, Sliver and “Abie,” get into merry mixup when, in order to gain admittance to the track, they m querade as policemen. They get to to a number of complicated ai humerous aityationan Robert Lo renzo, As « jockey, will aftord plenty of laughter, while Billie Bingham, Al Forbes, Bess Hill and Frank | Budd will have good parts. | The musical offerings wm be ef! an elaborate nature, with Bess Hin) leading the entire company of 35 | have him, Janier lingers and dancers in the featured offering, “A Rainy Afternoon.” | eee 'NNETT DOG ON ANTAGES PROGRAM Musical Comedy com which begins she'd eee that I had @ chaperon and how it is. Honest. I'm the peeved| Van! And I'm awfalty mad because | she had some secret understanding which she was putting over me ase joket “Jane, they came down Ihe the tig brotherdn-law, but today She flirted the tips of her white| gloves against my husband's cheek. | “Come on, Deb, Since Kath has taken Van off, and Jane mast walk with Bob! I'll have to put up with you, Debbie, dear.” r Bob stepped to my side 4uttfully |and before we entered the auto he fils for the speaking s#tagn He will be seen “in person” at the Pan tages on the new Il, beginning Monday matinee, in his own comedy | vaudeville act. Keyntone Teddy’s| face and form are already known to picture devotehs, and he is proving no: eensa\ 4 oe mich — oe managed to whisper to me: ‘i The Naval Jars Pight—cignt| “1 came home to get you, Jane young huskies in naval Bon = Ann has told the truth for once. I be the added feature attraction of the | WO™er what we're ever going to do Dil Irene Trevette, the Italian | With the little monkey? Nightingale, and one of the best; “I can tell you one thing—sheTl drewsed women in vaudeville, will be Dever improve until you men stop an eyefilling feature of the new bill. | ‘reating ber ke @ pretty .echool Carl Rosint and his company wit) | 1.” ' | present a handsomely staged act of| “Wel tatk that over some day. magic and illusions. La Pine and| Jat now it’s important for you to emery will appear as vaudeville’s| know that I mw you-and your little “What Nots” in new songs, new | handsome visttor. dances and new conversation. | Kath, of course.” The Zara Carmen Trio, a young| “Your ‘of course’ isn’t ebvious to man and two prettly girls, will be| me.” I maid bitterly. neen in @ captivating novelty offer.| Bob couldn't reply because we had ing. reached the auto, He didn't want to reply, I said to myself as we whirt- | ed Ann to her husband. Then I went for) THE FREEDOM OF THE HES “Do you think men ought to be| Ann was saved from herself once Prohibited from standing on the ‘on. but I bony he rd trouble corner and givi 0 j an ever on her a an the onee ever sinh rege | ‘The Chang Foo adventure left me) “Certainly not—I don’t believe tn | Mit wick for days, Bob and I re anything that interferes with the| mained on terms of strict neutrality. | freedom sees.”—Florida Times- | Union, ets ida Times-| naintain that attitude toward each | other know how exceedingly weary- * Franoa — Forged ing ft can become in @ very short steamship tickets, purchased trom|""T'" . wtery fortorn without my ewindlers, caose 250 emigrants to . husband's sympathy and understand- United States to be stranded here | ing And waa tired of explana. tion which never explained any- BUTTE, Mont-—Murder of James) thing. McAlona and Al 8. Kerrigan by pol-| 1 had an tntoftion that T had been non confessed by James (‘Red”) Wil-| fooled somehow tn the affair at the wil? 2s. 44 4, Aa ba ee MELAS Sores C12 OP NOP Oe THE BOOK OF DEBORAH : vers.” returna to thei BECOME DEEPER IN TROUBLE THAN EVERi ON ANN’S ACCOUNT “Listen, Jane. And then give your) become mont solictious for my haps hubby @ kiss, Here's how it all hap-| pineas | pened,” Ann rattled on. “Kath maid) attentions, as if she knew I had been deeply wronged, and was doing her ‘an. |8h® kept tab on me by phone, and| littie bit to be kind to me Or per | when she found that I'd got away | haps it was only part of her prodigal nd | be Just called up your husband and | reaction. came along out bere after me. Now,| ing up to her husband in the ewest- Jane Lorimer, do be sensitie, That's | ort fashion. After & week of misery, I axid te one! Kath anitched my dear oid) Deb: “You're afl against me, afl ta @ an @ partner at @ tea table, your! plot to spare me somé knowledge E * Bob is one grand grouch! You ean) ought to | truth, Debbie dear, and you're the Ann grimaced af Bob and wink. | nly one who will hand it to me, eM! Actually winked as if be and) W! heart, Jane PG cont eng "Sulicee ete: from | Ammyrians on the fold and poor little ber always. She's fond of you, , | best-known dog in the world, fe the |'™* /ost my Man! Usually I adore my - oa? t sel, ‘ i | sisted. “Tell me about that aflernoom at Chang Moo's when I went to the | @rensing room.” “If I must, I onty éo so to prove | that Ann is terribly fond of you. That day she saw you leave our table and enter the waiting room. She was as- | tonished, that Bob and Katherine were in one of the most seciuded stalls.” {Women Ope ‘Soldier Bureau ‘The Seattle Community service and Ex-Service Wonren’s club opened am enlisted men's information bureau a& * | 157 Stuart building Armistice day. Mrs. Spencer Anderson has been | appointed to conduct this department | for the present. It was brought to ight that hes pitals in apd about Seattle have for~ | mer service men to whom this om ganization may be of value This organization requests thet ministers and church members endeavor to heip them itn any of the following ways: To supply current Uterature and flowers for the elab rooms and hospitals, to Only spouses who have tried to|high class entertainments and to de all they can to make this organign- tion known among church members, | street, or telephone Elliott 1371. Enlisted and ex-service men 2 welcomed at the clubrooms. Often = benedict is but an Gm - bachelor who was overtaken by ‘Chinese restaurant. Lately Ann had fortune and a widow. PAGE'® SAL @WwFZ Ove Bhe bothered me with her For the time, she was play~ ‘© Now I want the t happened at Chang Foo's?* Don't be so hard horrified, for she knew (To Be Continued) ————_ s volunteer _ eae Rha EAS SSCS > ow — LS A *-3 > “ae see “ow aS Rance ® 3 /w— SS aes AUODADOVATHADUDUAA CENA TUUUD UCHR ETE is in disorder, crying children, and on backache, bearing down pains, or some dition have been restored to health and not rest until she has given it a fair trial. ° bel with feels trubie that bSuche US AUUUUUDEUUAIUEEUUUSLUTHUUEREO TATA The Housewifes Burden When a woman is atmost distracted from overwork, her home of ail is suffering from pains, er form of feminine ills, then she should remember that hundreds of women in just her strength by pres, Bag E.. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and Proof that it Restored the Health of These Two Women’ EK Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Std discon ent hte wah —_ pares aes ee een a right side r u apmanet would pain me and I was so nervons I wel Tiowe me of il effect could not hold glass of water. bon nd which 80 often develops at such times. oD poodle Toh gH Ry’ ‘Tht was my first with the ‘and sit down or I would on the Years after floor in a faint. I cohsulted several wards I took it during the Change of ‘tors and every one told me the same Life and along so well I scarcely ¢ but I kept fighting to keep from having ever had to lie down the day the operation. I had read so many nd seldom had dizzy, fain! Poses times of ile EF fathaan’s Vegetable Iam now well and strong, can do ail and it helped my sister so my housework with perfect ease and it I began taking it. I have never felt {s a comfort to me to be able to say to better than I have since then and other suffering women ‘take Lydia E. I keep honse and ain able to do all Pinkham’s medicine and be strong.’ work. The Vegetable Compound is TY ag Rpt hen bbe dcr certainly one medicine.”—-Mre.J. if it will be the of helping any KR. Marrmewa, 3311 Sycamore Street, oue.”—rs. R A. F, bd Cairo, DL , Orchard Ve, Chattanooga, con- their youthful fay we * WIM IE? LE ER “4 WSs re