The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 28, 1920, Page 9

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1920, MAN AT AGE OF 81 HAS BEST YEARS BEFORE HIM Dear Miss Grey: I am a man of 31. I always wanted to become a mechanical engineer, but was forced to leave school when I finished the sixth grade, and have never been able to save enough money to go thru college, I have amount- ed to nothing thru no fault of that sometimes I fee! as if 1 not write in the hope that yo will help. I merely want your ‘ou think 1 am any way in the wrong. WITHOUT HOP I think you are. It is difficult to im age contemplating such a thing as suicide. At 31, the b years of your life are ahead mechanical engineer, plete school education is not ¢ Get employment in a machi my own. I am so discouraged want to end everything. 1 do u can really say anything that personal opinion as to whether st of you. If you want to be a start in and be one. The lack of a com- a barrier. ne shop of some kind, and edu cate your self at night, as thousands of men and women have \Doug] ‘Pantages Progr Pi | ‘ine a man of your) done. Night school classes and all of the resources of the public library are open to you. Study history and English Jor general culture, and read every book you can get hold of on the subject of your business. There are several monthly| magazines on the market that should prove of great help to! you. Study it from every angle. soon begin to experience joy in the effort, and, if you perse- vere, you are bound to succeed. For your leisure hours, make friends, so that you will have no time for melancholy brooding. eee HE’S FOR BETTER | " — | colurans and columns berating us for eR jour mercenary characterist nd MOVIES, TOO |now the wrath of the righteous is Dear Mise Grey: Since we have|brought down upon our heads for settled the divorce evil very mtisfac-| lack of appreciation for the many torily, let's get busy and settle the financial privileges showered upon motion picture evil. We can do ft} us R. H. R..” your correspondent who} “A Mother” says her neighbor dl 7 ittacked the beer-hall type of motion} vorcee had a beautiful bungalow ture in your columns recently, hit}home and a five-passenger car—it © nail squarely on the .head. wasn't a Lizsie, mind you—~and this Louise Gtaum says she hates to| Ungrateful creature failed In her wife play vampire parts, and J. Parker|!y duties. Doubtless thie paragon of Read jr, a What the public wants, ao why noe} Virtues because he provided these Write a good photoplay and tell him, |!uxuries, and, of course, he was igince we do knew? lovable, amiable and a companion to In Mise Gtaum’s latest picture, |i young wife; tho those attributes fhe had to sacrifice so much for|¢Vidently are immaterial if he brings & man, tanked up on hop and booze,| home the bacon. I know nothing Spending his time in the underworld, | “bout the case, and I have only a that I had a mental picture of myself | Poor, Mogical feminine mind, but if ! Don't get discowraged if success comes slowly. You will! bill this week, due to the feature act is composed of local talent, Mfrs. Hamilton Douglas and/and graceful young woman, and her dancing is decidedly original, She|rean mpectalty ing School, appear in a beautifully | has studied with some of the mont staged act titled “Artists in Minia ture.” It is the same act in which this clever group toured the Pan-|from fous to 16, include the tny! tages cireuit last summer and which! Richardson Twina, Louise Higbee, | rood. Lace Patterns— its he doesn't know|® husband possessed all the manty | writing a better one. She portrayed |! hadn't learned from reading the | ~~ & good woman, but a fool, and yet) literary effusions of your many cor} true to life, because half the women | Te*pondents that all that is neces | q are doing it. Still, the public wants to be enter. Dine always at church socials playing | “The Prince of Wales Has Lost His Hat,” or at Sunday schoo! picnics, or ¢ hero building fire# mornings and Grying dishes for his wife. Oo. W. T. eee CAN'T SETTLE DIVORCE, SHE SAYS Dear Mise Grey: Pardon me for iterrupting again, but what do they ‘Want of us poor women? We read “These wool socks cost me eight Ducks @ pair, and I've got etx pairs of ‘em, and I wish [4 bought silk) and wanted me, then Paradise and wool Instead, for maybe they wouldn't itch me so! Such was her shocking comment. “I'm not only girl that's suffering torments Dowadays, but I can stand it all right when I'm out doors and It's coid, Dut when I get warm I go crazy.” While she talked, Ann scratched, and Van laughed, and Daddy Lori- Mer, after one startled moment of astonishment, succumbed to the charm of the ingenue, as he always Goes, and laughed with Van; and I 4 Martha looked at each other and jughed also, but not for the reasons that excited the men. “Why wear ‘em,” I ventured, “if they're so horrid?” “Why, what would I wear, Jane Lorimer? Do you expect me to go around looking as if I didn't know what's what in socks? Not me, dearie! Say, Jane, lend me a pair of silk onee while I'm here. I can't keep these on another second!’ “Lend her your goloshes! put in Van. . “We used to wear goloshes on the farm when I was a boy! Daddy re marked. “And now the girls put ‘em on when the walks are dry, and there's neither snow, rain nor wind. ‘We wore ‘em from necessity, but the "a seem to wear ‘em now to show short their skirta aref’ “I say, I can't and J won't wear these stockings another minute!’ ‘Whereat Ann untied her Oxfords and kicked them off, and they barely skimmed past Daddy's nose without skinging it, before they landed against the wall back of Van! to?” demanded Daddy. Daddy Lorimer rose suddenly, tweeked Ann's shell of an ear, and said in a joke back of which was a reprimand. “Young lady, this is net a movie studio! Jane, take care of her!” For the first time since she had been with us, Daddy Lorimer remind ed Ann that her manners might be improved, and for the first time since I had known her, Mistress Ann ao cepted « criticism without a com- ment. Perhaps because Christmas Wag 80 near. And for once I felt truly sorry tor the bebe, altho she deserved her pun- ishment, and I led her, shoeless, to my room, and told her tu help her- elf to any pair of my stockings she preferred. She found some rose-red hose which I had once worn with a mas- querade costume, and the rowe-red satin pumps to match, and arrayed herself with delight, and rushed back to the upstairs sitting room, and would have danced, to take Van's eyes from Martha's hair! Her first pose was spoiled by the; entrance of Hob's nurse “Mr. Lorimer in restiess—he may wake at any moment.” “I'm going to him!’ I said. Daddy rose to go with mé, and I held out my hand to him. “Come; I need you, Daddy dear!” Indeed, I never had needed human comfort and suyvort more than tn that hour. tained, and one can't keep the hero- | THE BOOK OF MARTHA DAD HAD A DIFFERENT REASON FOR WEAR- ING WOOL STOCKINGS AND GO “Young lady, what are you up “T'm taking ‘em off! Jane, get me some silk ones, or I'll go barefoot—"|trounie for fifteen years, and many | sary for a man to do is to support the family, and im return expect and demand the entire number of virtuce in the category, I would wonder jband. (It seems the judge found something) about something cise, We can't set- the best we can, watching the di ought to be divorced that are not MABEL SHES | My future was at stake. If Bob, | returning to consciousness, knew me | opened for me once more. Bat if Bob did not recognize ma, ff | | he were to live again in the old dream world which followed his first | ease of shell-shock, and were to in- | dulge once mort thy wandering fancy |for my Yed-haired rival, then the | Bates of Paradise would be cloned to me forever. | Never again would I exert myself to struggle with any living woman THIS MAN SAYS TROUBLE COST | HIM THOUSANDS, Uniontown Resident Suffered | | Fifteen Years Before Taking Tanlac | “Yes, sir; Tanlac just keeps me | going, and I don't Know of a higher | recommendation I can give it than by saying, if it hadn't been for the | medicine I don’t believe I would be here to tell about it now,” said A. | Wetvoda, well known harness mak- ler, mddier and property owner, liv |ing at Uniontown, Wash. for the past thirty years, while at Murgit |troyd’s drug store in Spokane, re- cently. town with me, and you may know by that just what It’s doing for me. I had been a sufferer from stomach |times was in such intense pain I would have gladly died in order to |have gotten out of the terrible |of milk, but what it made me sim |ply miserable. I would bloat until | almost smothered, and my heart just going to stop beating altogeth er. I don’t Believe my head could | have possibly ached worse than it did, and many days I was laid up in bed unable to do a thing. It looks to me like I took enough medicine to help me any, and I got so bad off I had to quit my work alto- gether. I lost thousands of dollars on account of my condition. “1 started taking Tanlac, and it |helped me #0 much I would have \given anything I had if I could | have gotten hold of it ten years ago. Why, I'm now able to do jus |tiee to a big, hearty meal for the first time tn I don’t know when, and my friends are all eongratuiat |ing me on my wonderful improve ment. I've picked up ten pounds jin weight, too, and as I said, Tan lac just keeps me going and 1 wouldn't be without it for love or money.” Taniac ia sold in Seattle by Bartell Drug Stores under the personal di rection of a special Tanlac represen- talive —AdverUsement what was the matter withythat hus | Pretty group pose, showing the, Douglas Dancers in a local act which, as the headline attraction at the Pantages this week, is winning much praise. Of special interest is the Pantages) won tremendous praise wherever it; Dorothy Compton, Donna Rickard, | kvelyn Hayes, Nellie Reeser, Kita| normal again,” even if adenoidw are Prasch, Grace and*Marcia Crenshaw. child performs a terpsicho | in true professional style, the twins offering a comedy ing masters of the day, | stunt which brings forth an abun-|deal towards correcting the condi The children, whore ages range dance of laughter. he fact that ten children from the Douglas Danc as Dancers Featured on was presented Mrs, Douglas ts a very beautiful famous dan THE SEATTLE am This Week OSS SSeS Fach The balance of the program ts BEEF BROTH 2 pounds lean beet 4 cups water 2 pounds bone 2 teaspoons malt pepper Cut mat in inch cubes; put im soup ettle with water and salt and let! ©, come on, Cynthia, let's talk! stand half an hobr; put over Gre and | Dring slowly to the boiling point tle the divorce question on paper; we | simmer for four or five hours, strain married people must just jog along | thru cheesecloth and reheat with pep per; serve without removing fat: the Yorces hit the hij well know. /lean meat chosen for beef broth | ing that there ere araante folks that | nhould have most of the fat trimmed | Stitches into @ chain or material. off; what little fat remains adds rich jeans to the broth. for the heart of a man, On the threshold of my hustand'y| one open mesh, then turn. Continue room I paused, and put my head on | until you have made 18 rows. Bingle Daddy Lorimer’s shoulder, and kept crochet all around and break thread. very otf, until I could contro! my emotion. fle Be Oomtinen “Well, I just came tm to get six/| more bottles tocarry back to Union-| jagony I had to endure. I couldn't, eat @ thing, not even drink @ glaes | jPalpitated until I thought it waa) to start a drug store, but it fatled | ALL-NIGHT MASQUERADE BALL New Year's Eve, Friday, Deo. 31, under the auspices of Bell’s School of Dancing Greenwood Hall 83rd and Greenwood Gove's Orchestra, from Hall's Lake. Prises will be awarded to the beet costumes. Seasonable lunch seryed. Jitney service all night. |A New Design \Every Week stitches and @ double crochet. Ture— fTo make rose, make circle of 5 chains and connect to make @ ring. fter making ring chain § and 40U-| now number more than 225,000, — A! | ble erochet into the ring, chain 2 and | double crochet into ring, and con-) tinue unt) you have made seven meshes. Fill each mesh with one single) | erochet, three double crochets and| one single crochet. Featen rose to! lend of band and put hook under! neath, with an eye on the other end. No, 70 thread is the best to use, FILET STITCHES Chain Stitch—The thread drawn thru the loop. | Open Mesh-—-A double crochet into & chain or the material, two chain Scald mitk and add meal; add su. jar, emEs well beaten, butter, ruisins, Clowed Meab—Four double crochet | mit and nutmeg; pour inte a but- ; tered baking dish and bake an hour Five chain stitches to turn. and a half in a slow oven; serve with | If your pattern called for 16 stitches | cream. % —chain 21 and double erechet into Between Janaary 1 and October 1| the seventh stitch from the needle, Crescent Cream Coffee It’s Mighty Fine! At Your Grocer’s MADE IN WASHINGTON Crescent Manufacturing Co. j | | Our why of buying the green coffee, then blend. ing, and roasting by a new method, ts what in sures the finest flavor nature produces in Cres: cent Cream Coffee. Seattle, Washington Our Snow-White Palace of Cleanliness NATIONAL BAKING COMPANY BAKED INDIAN . U, & Rabe ington, 1. € ASTHMA | Q—1 have & boy 10 yeers old who, ttD | the age of 6 years, was in perfect health went to bed as well as ever, and at t Kot up with & croup cough. The | aid it was aathim He te sick | days out of ix, He had whooping ch, but not before the ast | Piense advine me. In it pomible in & oer tain climate the asthe will leave him? | | Ae~Investigations within the last | \tow years have clearly demonstrated | the role of certain food substances | which bring on an attack of asthma |when partaken of, In other cases, asthma is anwoclated with bronchial inflammation and children who read- ity contract bronchitis and colds and who suffer from asthma more fre quently in the winter and spring are benefited by change of climate; | usually a high, dry and moderately warm locality, | Asthmatic attacks tn susceptible | individuals are also brought on by | inhaling the pollen of certain plants | and by the odors of certain animals, | such as horves and cats. “MALOCCLUSION” Q 1 have what you called “mal coclusion.” My jaws are very nar- row and the roof of the palate is! highly arched. If the adenoids are removed will the jaws grow back | to normal again? I am 17 years of A. At your age there tn little hope of the “jaws growing back to |removed. However, it may be that la dentist who makes @ specialty of ‘this kind of work (an orthodontixt) might still be able to do a great tion. There is only one way for the pub- Me to protect itself against the dead- ly concoctions sold as “whisky,” but which often contain wood alcohol, | and that is not to buy them; and, fur-| WISDOM for WIVES | problems; whM@ever new hope I can ly during the firet year of your man t | inwtiil—my only wish is to help oth- | ried life, will give you a solid a PUDDING cup cornmeal tablespoons butter cup seeded raisins % teampoon malt % nutmeg (grated) JOSS STICKS $19.00 Silk Dresses $7.98 Women’s $2.50 Union Suits $1.29 Men’s Work Shoes $5.00 Values Turkish Towels $1.00 Values Ladies’ Aprons $2.00 Values ther, not to take even a single drink | of the so-called “bootleg” whisky, | “booze” or “hootch.” Tt ts said that there te practically no pure whisky to be had, as the few who own it are not offering it for | wale, True, there may be some being | amuggied in over the Canadian bor der, but even this «hould be under the ban of suspicion, to say nothing. of the fact that the law forbids both the importation and sale of intext cants of any kind. ‘The one best bet is to play safe and leave it alone for your health’s sake. bodies? . Soap, water and sunshine only @ifference ts we need more clothing. Don't keep your living Wagecarning women im Virginia | rooms too warm and don't sleep in a room with the windows closed, ADJUSTMENT SALE! © Our store has been closed for the last 4 days for the — of adjusting stock. Never before have we made such drastic reductions in staple merchandi but now we have gone through our entire stock and made reductions from %4 to : more on broken lines. We consider our first loss the best way of turning stock and saving you big money on well selected, staple merchandise. See our Second Avenue Windows for prices. The following are a few of the prices just taken” at random from the various departments: 4 SALE STARTS WEDNESDAY, 9 A. M. DOUBLE DISCOUNT TOMORROW , Water te’ both cheap and plenti-| Until recently the composition of| fal; then why have dirty hands or the candies known as joss sticks was unknown to most people. A stem of |are all fine for bealth and comfort. bamboo is rofled in a substance con = | | wlwting of 14 different odorous drugs.| The shut-in season ts at hand. But | One of these protects the candien| don’t get the hibernating habit, The from rats and mice, The eamphor | big outdoors is a gvod place to be in used in the manufacture causes the }winter, as weil as in summer. The | Jona sticks to burn steadily, bear ew, “When in Doubt, Marry the Lover Who’s Poor” BY FLORENCE VIDOR nene In Texas when we were married, I have received nearly 3,000 letters | and wae dissatisfied with the envi in the past two years from girls and| ronment women who have read of my happy| We decided to study the drama, and” marriage, asking advice on various |in a few yeare—heeding the call of” of life’s problems | the motion picture—we journeyed Whatever tiny seeds of windom 1 Southern California, where most ef may scatter; whatever light my own | our dreams have come true. $ experiences may shed on otherw FYalth 2 your husband, partiouiam ers attain the same marital bliss I | tion for the future, have. | Faith puts him on his mettle, 7 If you are approaching marriage | will bring out the beet that’s im and have @ hard time deciding be sits + tween two men whom you feel you, ‘Tomorrow 1 will suggest some ine love equally, and one is wealthy and expensive ways of making bome life the other poor, MARRY THE POOK | attractive, ONE, | i You can be sure in that way that) @ y 7 you married for love, and not in obe |S TL FFED BAKED ; dience to that devilish little voice | APPLES 4 which whispers of fine autos, and ‘ servants, and elegant clothes, and| Ppevetley cgay amusements galore. _f ones preserved cherries NEVER TELL HUBBY 1 tablewpoon butter WHAT HE 18 NOT 4 tablespoons sugar When I married King Vidor, both | % cup water of us were painfully poor in terms of| Pare apples and cut a alice money, This material poverty gave| stem end; remove core; 4 Un something to fight for and helped | stones from dates; fill the apples with” develop character |two dates for each apple and three When a gir! marries, she should | or four cherries with their sirup; first make @ study of her husband. apples in a pan and baste with Never tell him what he is not, but) sirup made of the butter, sugar tell him about his good qualities. By | water; bake in a moderate oven emphasizing these points of excel-| apples are tender: serve with lence, you will help him develop | cream or plain as baked. them Never run home to “mother,” as that means dodging tmues. Do not iJ VY POISONING be o weakling, ‘The symptome of ivy potsoning If your husband ts willing to work | itching and burning, with all day at his business, you should be| forming. The United States willing to attend to all household du-| of chemistry that this poison tee, | one of the most powerful in the Even now, when I am not working | tabie kingdom. The skin should in a motion picture, I assume full washed with a heavy lather of charge of our home, To Grift away and hot water. Care should be entirely from home life it to ultimate | that the skin is not scrubbed, as ly become very unhappy. | poison will be rubbed in. The ff If your husband believes he {s cut | nails should receive particular out for something better than the/| tion, as the poison may be work he is engaged fm, do not ridicule | ferred to other parts of thi him, but help him to grow into the field of endeavor he prefers, THEN THEY DECIDE ploy soldiers and safl who TO STUDY DRAMA lost their eyesight as the result King Vidor was in the lumber busi- the war. SEE THESE PRICES Permanent Hair Wave, per Curl 50c ; Henna Packs $5.00 . HAIR GOODS, BIG REDUCTION, LARGE SELECTION : Our operators are the best and thorough to the © smallest detail. These reductions in a i only a short time longer. . LADIES’ IMPROVEMENT SHOP 520 UNION ST.—MAIN 6507 siggy tae stores have offered to lors ise. At all times our prices were very . , and even Children’s $1.50 Union Suits Cut to $8.50 to $14. Cut Outing Flannel 27 Inches, White Cut to—yard Ladies’ Mixed Wool Coats $20.00 Values Cut to $6.98 to $9.98 Men’s Cotton Hose 25c and 35c Sox Cut to 98 Values to Pequot Sheets 81x99 Inches Cut to—each