The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 24, 1920, Page 5

Dear Miss Grey @ay, and I should be finishing my | weentng, but I am geing to write | © few words tn regard to the divorce | Question. Of all the unfair things I have! fead, “Married 37 Years” in the Worst. No doubt she will think fm the “Cat Mark” type, or I'd nave My washing done the first of t Week, but as U live In an apartment, iT wait my turn, Am going to Ppt when I have finished my clothes white, and I don't leave them to for three or four days, also I was married when I was 18 didn't know anything about work, yet f have learned * for marrying a meal ticket That is about all I've had, and I've erned that, just as any woman does, Who does the fair thing. & Why, oh why, will some people Judge every one by the worst type! of humanity? Heaven pity ber hus band if she has spent years looking at things from the point of View her letter would in ate. Tt doesn't that the ause for div be laid to @ither sex in particular, I have seen Bome fine men with wives who were th and I ot half worthy Versa. As much ot em t view around, only once have I the dirty type of woman Years” & scribes, and will my her husband | would have be ber. Any woman with children is en: titled to a few hours’ recreation. If they can't afford to hire some one @ccasionally to mind the children While they go out together, then tb Busband should keep them. The few | hours away does not make her any terse mother, nor does she love any less. | » “Thirty-seven Years” must have Been most fortunate in having met “princely” men and most unfortu Bate in meeting the lower type of Women. Would suggest she move to @ better neighborhood as well as Fead a little more to broaden her Viewa Not that I am claiming any | Medals for perfection, Miss Grey, but | I have learned that “you don’t know | how much you have to know in order | | to know how little you know.” | y Tam living under most trying con P@itions, and see no way to remedy | &t at present, yet I have not allowed | Myself to be n justified in leaving | © 90 narrow as to| Believe that because I have been| Mnfortunate in the selecting of a} ner, that I cannot bring mycelf | fo believe there are not some real, ly men INDIGNANT. Dear Miss G In repty to “Married Woman.” who is proud fo work, I might my that I do not Know what she is proud of, unless! fhe has a worthless husband who) fen't able to support her. She refers to & party who writes in criticising | d women working as a “med-| ome fool” Weill, let me tell her! there are thousands more of *meddlesome fools” who wish to put | Stop to married women working ose husbands are able to supprt uh and lots of them wore the khaki during the war. I suppose Mrs. Proudwoman's bus. | Band was « svidier or a sailor, or Was | he making $15 a day while the boys| wallowing in the mud in France| Belgium? Absolute greed ts the cause of ied women working in most/| © Gases, and empioyers should immedi "ately take steps to replace them with heads of families who are doing their @uty to our country. These women, as a rule, never | have children, as they are usually © deeply engrossed in having a} time at the expense of poor ‘9 children. T am one of these “moddiesome pols” who is too proud to let my fe work, even tho Iam a “PARTLY DISABLED SOLDIER.” a Be | Dear Miss Grey: I have never written you before, but when I read the letter in your columns signed Innocence,” well, it just made my god boll girl, t whoever she may be,/ |) fe @ poor little fool. I am a woman} who has been divorced, and am surely not boasting about it, either. I was married in Los Angeles in| 2910, and in 1912 we had a dear little! baby «irl, and we were very happy. In 1917 we were driving thru one| of the beautiful orange groves, when ‘we met with a serious accident. We) were both taken to* the hospital Fortunately, we had left baby with the maid. I had three operations and was sick a long time, while my | husband met with a minor accident. | While I was ill, my husband fell in} love with my nurse, and they ran| gway together. Needless to say how much I suffered I lived im California until late in| “You Look Just This te Thurs} OPP WOO AL ~ 44 Persona whe have prodlems | which they do wet care to confide | bw private letter or phone, may | see Cynthia "Grey at her off | The Star Bldg. every Tuesday | and Thursday between the hours | Seeati It to Spm Te aocommedate working people whe cannot come at that time, she will be im the office earlier or later by appointment. Please do not come af any other time, as Miss Grey cannot attend to her |) toriting because of the constant || interveption 1918, when I came to Seattle, My} hushanf tried to get a divorce in Salt Lake, and I went there and/ the judge said he could never get a divor But later he left this woman, and I lost track of him. | Then in February, 1919, I received a long letter from him written from Cuba, and he sent me a clipping from the paper of his divorce, Said D 4 me more than he ever had. knew I was too go him | after ‘the life he had been leading I know I would never remarry | him, if he were he I'd be afraid to take the chanct, But I just can't] help still « him. It makes a great differen na man ts the father of your c There is a doctor in C: is coming to spend holidays with us, and he ifornia who Christmas expects me to marry him. I know his family and he is a good man, but I was so heart-broken before that I almost distrust all men now I know there are lots of good men in, the world. But when you try to’ do your part and expect your husband to do his, and he dorm't it Is pretty bad, especially when you have a child, I have never told my | t, but now I don't know what to her. I don't want her to ever know the real truth about her father. | But the big question that confronts | famous question; me now is, What answer shall I givw the doctor? ANXIOUS. Twenty-three years ago the little boy. 1 know there are thousands who feel as strongly about it as I do and | can only say I hope if the boy is hanged that the jurors who con- demned him will hang, too, by hay: | ing it before them for the remainder Oh, the injustice of it! MRS. 8, lau OF Douglas’ mother. now is Laura | party of their lives. ee Dear Miss Grey: We all come to you and your column with our trou bles. Iam jist past 60 with a bus band older than myself, and while we hays had a good deal of trouble in our married life mostly due to | drink, the past five years have been quite happy. We are just “com-|beings have so many different sides fortable renters,” nothing accumu: |to ‘em! growled Daddy Lorimer. lated to help me fiffancially if I took | ‘Our alternating selves," 1 the step I would like to. 1 have proof of my husband's tnfidelity, and he is gray-haired and kindly What géod could it possibly do if a| man of bis years cannot behave him- quoted. bad in every one of us. More sides than we have coats.” r Daddy paused, and seemed to|pher; a jselt, for me to lecture him |dream, aa if possessed by visions of Yet, what ts there for me to do? | his own past. I waited anxiously for)as a ‘tone Grin and bear it? Do other middle- more shreds of the wisdom he had|the thing aged women have this to contend with and still live in seeming peace at home, shutting their eyes and say led up on the various planes of his wn existence. ame of us drift from one of our the saint's and have always kept up my side of | that anybody is justified in slump- the “yoke.” ling because some other person in dis- I would be glad to know if other | honest, or disloyal, or a liarf* | middle-aged women have had this to| ed at Martha, and she | to avoid go thru and how they bear it? | nod standingly, as if to say: Cc. Ww. | ‘The latter is Ewart's way!” lady-killer oo “The worst rascals do the most |») * sajd Daddy Experts have estimated that 20, repenting. I think,” tn | ine Miller 000,000 tons of paper pulp can be| “Some have the repentance habi | produced each year from India’s |!Mterrupted Martha f a whos and grasses “Umam-yes. | say, Marte, it Bwalt| [has got the repentance hahjit, it's bad awful bad, because that sort of re Lik M: P ” morse gets to be a kind of virtue | 4 e 'y apa: with ao Makes him feel fine, a = Mtth ore than respectable, you | know?!" | Here was a confession, from an “Your real rascal, the one you can can never reform, feels powerful and | smart and a regular fellow when he | has succeeded in ‘putting it over’ | somebody That's why you can't change, bim.” Martha sighed and IT gueswed her | thought and turned the conversation from its unpleasant suggestion by a | \ hoer venture nour “I suppose nobody can be labeled or tagged one way for any length of time. Our two selves, or maybe our | dozens of selves are forever strug: gling for the mastery of most of us.” “Now, how do little girhr like you| nut very finely eee sauce. 3 table we've in the up-to-date excu of the best in our naturest* t on | off. | which makes every hon Proved Again! There ISa Santa Claus § Daughter of 1897 Doubter Doubts Not § ¥ THE child anything about her daddy, only |she asks when he is coming back AY I used to tell her he was on a big Santa Claus?” THE BOOK OF MARTHA DADDY BARES SOME REAL PHILOSOPHY | THAT GETS HOME TO MARTHA “The beastly trouble is that huinan ; smile because every human had the same wish as the wise col lege professor who wrote lhe both handsome “Sure Mhing. Some good and some | dressed, a great athicte, and make million a year, be a wit, a bon vivant, |and « lady-killer as well as a philono- philanthropist, warrior, and African explorer as well and a saint poet is impc the | back to consclousness, victim of his old mental malady that this subconscious wish to be a} him tawny-haired tiger-girl, would 1 Drain, poons f valid Laura today the was too busy, getting ready for “Not that I would not, SEATTLE “Of % $;;¢ NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—Laura Vir-y Little Laura was having a party | Christmas. Dear Miss Grey: Comparisons are, | ¢inia O'Hanlon Douglas has received |on per sixth birthday a while ago. }we know, odious, but tell me why |@ letter from Santa Claus. the tenntill to tevme Gsnth tet are they going to hang that boy, She is the little girl of the little r }Isom White, when that man—that| girl who just 23 years ago wrote | #T8nddad suggested she should write fiend-Bluebeard, could in cold, pre: | letter to the editor of the New York the Sun, Just her mother had | meditated murde#, kill those inno-)}Sun asking, “Is there a Santa done, he did. Tho letter said ent women and escape with a life | Claus?” Mir. ithert* Pleane cine an Gants | sentence? ‘This little girl was Laura Virginia! Claus’ address this minute. Honest Is it that the life of one man ts | O'Hanion. Ste received a reply truly, I don’t want to ask him for considered of more value than that|writien by one of the Sun editors anything. I want to do something of many women? It seems so, and| which comforted the hearts of for him beenuse he has been nice to still it seems almost impossible to | thousands of Little Lauran all over me and my family believe that there are any number | the land “I've got a piece of birthday cake of men sitting in justice on that boy, | Ki ¥ TO LAU envel tor tine Wf be: Will oak Ok 121 to deliberately sentence him to exe A FAMOUS CLASSIC W. 90th Gh: bed dak for tan, Laem eution. This reply has become regarded as Virginia Dougits, Tell him to be ‘The boy ts guilty. Sentence him. | 4 classic and been published thruout sure and ask for me.” gg asym en fo corggloag Sod world. None who reads it gan| The Sun printed the letter. to him the punishment due him, | doubt there’s a Santa, By RF CLIT sso ware some | SER BEY, Come that boy the punishment due to a sana yin The Neattie Bar} "| “ut Santa didn’t come to the “I guess) being has if I could, and fat and well ami ble. stateaman, But The mil onaire’s work would run counter to bon vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other ling nothing? Yet the good church | characters to another, fall into evil,| up; the philosopher and the lady people say, “too many divorces.” [and then hunt for our excuses. But| killer could not keep house in the The whole trouble is man's infi-|today, thesfavorite way is more di-| same tenement of clay.” delity. My poor old heart is aching,|rect. I guess it is one of the sad) “One or the other would finally for I don’t know which way to turn. by-products of war. Lots of people's | dominate,” mused Daddy. “Which?” I am a good wife and home-maker ethical standards have been bumped, | Gin guneneited tnd, abit. Satin and good cook. I set my table nicely |and the general excuse seems to bet inate for my peace of mind. It took me back to what I was most anxious my fear that Bob, would be the back to Kather- (To Be Continued) STUFFED CABBAGE 1 cup botled rice 1 cup cold beef or mutton 4 cup cooked celery % cup bread crumbs salt and pepper 1 medium sized head cabbage in salt and water for Open the outer Chop heart Chop onion and fry in leaves and remove heart | Remove cloth and serve lour per butter till a light straw color. ingredients with chopped heart Fill cabbage with stuffing, { cheesecloth in beef broth or salted water. with lemon | and stew for Mix tle In a an | LEMON EGG SAUCE 4 teaspoons butter poon lemon juice flour, and slowly add water, stirring | salt and Let boil 3 minutes while get that dope?” Daddy demanded. | 1% cups hot water “Today you young things know | % teaspoon salt heaps more than old duffers like| My teaspoon pet me, 1 table Read up, Daddyf 1 replied i ess yolk |**You'll find all the new philosophies | sre putter, add and sciences as exciting as film| oor stories! Talk about our ‘multiple | PePpnr f selves’ is in the air!” | aay 4 tirring, adding hen heaven help us all! It} 4/4), sounds to me like just one more of prtellic. lemon juice ia for following the worst instead | TREATMENT ‘FOR | I1ARD CORNS | “1 agree with you! said Martha abruptly A treatment for hard corns that ts | | “Well, anyway, we all desire to be | sald to be ¢ ally succeauful ts to! dozens tastead of a single self, And| moisten the corn with spirits of am-| there's nothing new in the wish,” I|monia after soaking the feet for said. “Why, there used to be the|about 10 minutes in warm water. | | funniest passage about It in my old] Scrape the edges of the corn, being | nchool text book, in my ‘James.’" | careful not to cut. Rub with vase. | lay it off,” demanded Daddy. But | line and wrap the toe in a piece of | I could not, and xo I appealed tolold linen. Another method is to tle who reeled right out of her/a small slice of lemon on the corn head the famous quotation | after all loose skin has been scraped ‘course there's a Santa Claus*” girl at the left, Laura Virginia O'Hanlon, in the center you see her as she is today, and at the right is her little daughter, Laura Virginia O'Hanlon Douglas who has no Christmas doubts. coming | and} STAR ee. her wrote But I have heard from She produced the 4 | 4 I recetved your him now direct letter, It r “Dear Virginia: ecard and will bring you the things you want for Christmas if you are & good Uttle girl, I think I can get the*bobated thru the back window if the fireplace, and 1 will bring Micky’s sweater if I can find one to fit such a big dog from your friend, SANTA CLAUS.” “Be a wee,” she said triumphant Willie O'Neill was wrong.” "Who's Wijle O'Neil who lived near us Ho said there is no Santa. He's ¥ and thought he knew more than me. But I was right! And Mra. Douglas said, “Of course you are right! Never doubt Santa Claus?" not Merry Christmas, | j | “He's a boy last summer Questions of health, sanitation, iKiene, will _be anewered If sent te Information Department. U. 8. Pub- ie Meaith Service, Washingtos, D. ©. LONG TROUBLE Have been bothered with my Q jlungs. They feel 1 cough up heavy my lungs, I feel pretty a cold going thru the a fog, and afterwards it settled In my lungs. And will you tell what is good to get my lunge cleared every day Hexides good. Got Irish Sea in heavy; stuff. me | jof that heavy stuff? | A. A Hittle consideration will |show how impossible it is to give | definite advice as to treatment. In every form of chronic cold, the pa tient should make sure that the trouble is not tuberculous. If the lungs are found not to be involve the examination should be digpeted }to the condition of the nosé and | throat, pr that is often the cause of such symptoms. | SKIN “TROUBLE Q been troubled } with dry, scaly skin, and czema about the nipple and lee and one place on the back, The itching is intense. Please tell me what to do. A. This quently due whieh cau Have very alwaye affection is fre to some article of diet the peculiar skin re action, Usually the food substance is some form of “protein” which, in general terms, is represented by the white of an ege or lean meat Since there are many other articles of food which contain protein, it requires a very skillful physician and the employment of special meth ods to rmine the type responsi ble for the eczema. There is another type of eczema which is of a nervous origin. The |patient should lead a regular life, avoid undue excitement and over fatigue, take pienty of «) with | he windows open; partake of an | bundance of plain, wholesome food, | avolding fried foods, pastries an sweets, Pay due attention to eon-| dition of bowels. Drink plenty of water, eat fruits, and one or two green vegetables every day. quite ep, | || NEW MENU Boston Baked Beans .....15¢ Mexican Beans .. .10¢ ||] Macaroni and Cheese ...15¢ }]] winest Pie, per cut .10¢ | SANDWICHES ||] Cola Meat and Cheese ...10¢ Hot Hamburger 156 Hot Cakes and Syrup ...20¢ Doughnuts and Coffee ..16¢ Best Coffee in Seattle HOYT’S $22 Pike St. at Fourth WE NEVER CLOSE Woe a }ly SSS MAS a Ra a RK | DRY-CLEANING asted Child Hands Reach y we € N tered wuif to shelt their fleshless pleading from Save them! That is the the waters. bone: of Seattle. “But children first. to Europe. ,” some one pleading faces? Obey that impulse. Whitcomb, Arcade Bldg. V EAL TIMB: rAL ES ablexpoons bu Py pes sale bread aounie 1 cup milk 1 cup chopped cooked veal 1 tablespoon minced parsley pa onion juice nm walt % teaspoon pepper 2 exes Melt butter, add bread crumbs and cook, stirring constantly, till thick and smooth. into buttered individual molds and put into a pan of hot water, Cover with buttered paper and bake in a moderate oven for 25 minutes. Serv: on & chop plate surrounded by | peas, MONTESANO.—Dr. Raymond J Cary, of Seattie, appointed in charge of county sanitarium at Elma. JUST GRADUALLY COING DOWN HILL, DECLARES KREMER} —— . |Seattle Man Tried Everything But Got Little Relief Until He Took Tanlac “Tanlac has done me more good than all the other medicines I have ever taken put togeth John A. Kremer, of 4080 Se attic, tallyman for the nber Manufacturing Company Several years ago my health be. gan to fai) and I kept gradually go- ing down hill until I was pretty near played out. I had no desire to eat and after meals I suffered from sour heaviness and griping pains tn my stomach and was nauseated and often felt miserable for hours. “My kidneys bothered me constant and my back hurt like it would break. I had blinding headaches and such spells of dizziness I thought I would fall over, and once I actually fell off of a pile of lumber. My nerves were all out of order, I couldn't sleep ness, \t night, and I got so weak and run- down I felt unfit for anything “But it's altogether different with me since I've taken Tanlac, I eat three big meals a day now, and nothing ever hurts me, and I have | rained ten pounds in weight. I sleep | fine and am no longer bothered with headaches, and in fact &l) my now things of the past. I am strong und active and can stoop over and bend about and handle anything I want to with perfect ease. Tanlac has done all this for me, and it will always get a good word from me.” Taniac is sold in Seattle by Bartell Drug Stores under the personal dl re tative back ailments are Advertisement. “Blue Moon”—the happy drink for happy holidays—all dealers.—-Ady. THE NATIONAL COW The milk that is bought when the sought. Buy It by the Case It Is Fully Guaranteed BEST is ALL Live Grocers Have It But thousands of them of wasting childhood, with rags flapping about with sunken, solemn eyes pinched faces that have grown old. dizziness or pains in the | tion of a special Tanlac represen. | Sve Out For Food 3 YT one hungry child to feed. er, appeal that has come from across It is the appeal that has been taken up by Herbert Hoover, that has been passed on to David Whitcomb and from him.to the people The thin little hands are America for food. Food! your table, they ask. Can we look the other way and pass them by? Still there are the little white hands, pleading. Can you pass them by—or you, who would give your life for your own child? Who is willing to have the birthday of the Christ child haunted by the silent army of Send that check to David |TRIPE FRITTE. as | % batter. | Serve milk, In allow other, | ered) | | a a vast, pitiful army Only a morsel from 1% cups flour | 2 teaspoons baking powder teaspoons lemon juice 1 | Wash tripe and cut in pieces about | “inch square. Simmer in water to cover for 20 minutes, or until tender. Add meat and season-| Drain and wipe as dry us possible, ings and eggs slightly beaten. Turn| sprinkle with salt and pepper, brush over with melted butter and put in deep fat and drain on brown paper. and Chill sauce. To make batter, mix and wift dry smooth. Add egg well beaten, Add | lemon juice, | VENTILATION rather difficult to keep a house well ventilated. Fresh air is just ag sential even if it is cold A window opened an inch or two! from the top draws out the heated, | stale air in a roqm. Another window | | should be opened from the bottom at In @ house with rooms opening out | | of each other, one window maf be opened in one room and one in an- and fresh all the time. PUMPKIN PIE 1% cups pumpkin % cup sugar 3 eggs (yolks) 1 tablespoon butter 4 tablespoons milk % teaspoon ginger % teaspoon salt Beat yolks thoroly jents and cook, stirring to keep from burning, until thick, ja baked ple shell with meringue made of the white of | fee eggs and 6 tablespoons granu- alted sugar, brown, To Wolttan cant affard to iiss Cave —* Swe ord o/ SINLeNDe SLI E OO) ee 4 LIGHT COLORED M KID GLOVES A very useful article for cleaning, ¥ | gtoves ix a wooden shape in the form of a hand f Stretch the gloves on the wooden hands and rub thoroly with a pleoe 4: f flannel dipped in gasoline, The xtrokes should be downward, frome 4 fingers to wrist, and care should be taken to do thin work in the open, # or at least away from any heat, Ae clean piece of flannel should be used % soon as a piece is soled. Wher the « ure utely ary, dust. ~ ¢ them with talcum powder. ‘They will # then be as soft aa when th were Not one tat- 4 new " Wash codf ter stand Cook fish cover till potatoes oft water reaching out to ‘There o be found in the shops. Among ys, “let us look to our own them tus a bag that resembles a Chi- We have already given our share nese lantern, of gayly colored «fli +t EB Do ” and trimmed with ivory. However, ” Let Europe feed its hungry. tho newest tage axe of @aannnnn ularly shellacked sandalwood. They ¥ it a ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥% : ¥ pound pickled tripe | | % teaspoon salt Pyorrhea. | paprika % cup mill good health. 1 ene We Drop by spoonfuls into het | without pain effects. with lemon cuit in quarters ingredients. Stir in| making batter perfectly cold weather it's sometimes fresh air to enter the foom. This keeps the air circulating ion the Add other in-| Pour into When cool cover | Put in hot oven to| Berden Builds we 227 ourer44 ere ALT CODFISH HASH- 1 cup shredded salt codfish cups potatoes cut into dies to measure pepper sh in cold water, Putt into on ds and cov 15 minutes, ‘ and potatoes in water to - ason with pepper and)” butter, and put in enough fat to moisten toes. Str with a thru. Let brown omelet WOODEN HANDBAGS REACH NEW YORK are many novelties in bags condat of two pleces of the smooth wood held togethe: r with leather If your gums are sore and bleeding you have This should be cured to insure specialize in high- | class dentistry at reason- able prices consistent with best work. Ironclad guar- antee 15 years. Extracting United Painless Dentists 608 Third Ave., cor. 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