The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 22, 1921, Page 9

SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1921, ynthia grey One More Tale of a ‘ather, Irresponsible, Who Went His Sepa- rate Way and Left a Young Mother to Bear Her Burdens Alone. Dear* Miss Grey: IT am a young 0 of an infant son, T months My heatth was so impaired Daby came that J have not been Physically or financially to care him wnti! his own little health Browth has been retarded by the of nutrition, and, in conse the baby ia at present being for in a public hospital in this = But there is an end to all things, the time has come very near IT must have a home for my and baby, so that I might work be near him. I appeal to the Citizens of Seattle, thru you T may get this assistance. This ‘® last resort, Miss Grey, for I have d diligently and faithfully the work I would be glad to do. educated, talented and capable, h reverse circumstances have me down and out, but still I geod woman. fon is a child that any mother be proud of, and it ix a crime fannot have him with me, hout means of livelthood, it bie, and he will be taken from me and adopted out, un Can get work or sufficient help for him at once. His father, ? He deserted me and baby he was born. Can and will one help me? A YOUNG MOTHER: Rope, and 1 am eure some one read this letter who is ino posi- to extend to you the help you a, tf you can help, write me, Grey, care Seattie Star, or call 600, eee pledge Versus of us are familiar with the Of the old Indian who burned iseased man so he could treat burn, because he knew what to for the burn, but not for the and he knew something t to be done for the sick man. o who are trying to cure the evil by working on the di laws, are using about the same @f judgment, because the di evil is only the outskrowth of @inease which is eating at the of civilization. it is encouraging to see peo- at last waking up, and every ef- to combat the evil—no matter what angie—is a step in the direction, because it centers ght on the subject, and we all that thought is the greatest the world has ever known, or and therein is the secret— divorce evil of the day is the @f the unhappy thoughts of ‘women, in countless numbers, for ‘Women are not, even at that, to More than men. It is a thing mast be shared. For the real We must look back down the For the cure, we must take Fesolutely—here and now—and forward into the future for re- saa as the institution we , Gates back at least 2,000 Proof that it was considered that time ‘the foundation of civ- is to be found in the fact it the relations, positions and| of husbands, wives and chil- | Were the only ones of suffi importance to receive definite ons and advice from God— founder of all good. If marriage had been carried out intended, we would not have had of the evils of the past and to contend with. ‘if woman had been given the place companion, been allowed to walk Phe side of her husband, and the had been what it was meant be, the history of mankind would been changed; but man seems BD have thought woman was made a bone of his foot, instead of side, Man has not intentionally erred. thru ignorance caused by his thru eyes which seo the eal—his catering to the phys Woman has ever been more spirit- i; therefore, she was chosen for |) The union of the physical and the| fa am it should be, but there d be progress along both lines ‘Woman has had a tough sht to retain even a semblance of rightful place, History reveals her struggle for , for elevation of the race, her victory to this point. Wo- has never put her shoulder to Wheels of progress that it has eventually turned another revo . and always for the betterment humanity. This is going to be no ption, tho, to this time, she is reling blindly to free herself and offspring from the very unfair they have been forced to for centuries in the mgrriage ton, and to place marriage on high plane it should occupy, as hé foundation of the home, which is ‘that upon which the race ia built and perpetuated. There in a restiessness underneath which will eventually de stroy marriage, as the present insti- tution, unless a concerted, intelligent #ffort is made by both men and wo- Men. This it not from a calamity howler, by any means, but from one Who has put in long years of inten Bive study of the home, and hi one deeply enough to know that the it xituation is not the result of THE SEATTLE The Wreckers Francis Lynde (Continued From Yesterday) | Kver since we bad gone together on the resout run to Timber moun jtain, Mart and I bad been sort of chummy, and after the foreman had | gone away with his foot in his! hand I joshed Kirgan a little about the way he had hammered the roundhouse man, | “Maybe I dia, Jimmie” he eld, an if he were already sorry for the cussing out. “But the shape we're getting into ie enough to make an angel baw! Why, Great Moses! a| crew oan't take an engine out here in the yard to do a common job o *witohin’ without breakin’ something |r hurtia’ somebody! “Rad medicine,” 1 told him. “It's worrying the bosses, toa What's joing it, Mart? | “Maybe you can tell," he growled “I's a hoodoo—that's what it ts. Seven engines In the shops in the last nine days, and three more that haven't been fished ota the ditch yet. 1 wish Mr. Van Britt ‘d fire the whole Jumpy outfit™ | | It didn’t seem as tho firing was heeded so much as a dose of nerve tenie of ne fort ‘Tarbell working hard on problem, ly, and without making any about it, and Kirgan was him all the men he asked for f the shops; quick.witted fellows who were up in all the mechar al de tails, and who made better spotters than outsiders would because they knew the road and the ropes. But jit was no use, I saw geome of Tar Dell's reports, and they didn’t show ny crookedness. It seemed to be Just bad luck—one landslide after another of it | Meanwhile, New York had waked ‘up again. President Dunton had been off the job somewhere, I guces but now he was back, and the things he wired to the boss were enough to make your hair stand on end. I looked every day to see Mr Norcross pitch the whole shooting mateh into the fire and quit, cold | He'd never taken anything like |Mr, Dunton's abuse from anybody before, and he couldn't seem to get jhardened to it jto Mr. Chadwick; and, of course, b jknew that Mr. Dunton's hot wires |were meant to nag him into resign ing. Then there was Mrs. Sheila. I sort of suspected she was holding jhim up to the rack, every day and| Jevery minute of the day. No doubt the was. | It was one evening after he had been out to the major’s for just a little while, and had come back to the office, that he sent for Mr. Van Britt, who was also working late. There was blood on the moon, and I saw it in the way the boss’ jaw was working. “Upton,” he began, ae short as Plecrust, “have you thought of any! way to break this wreck hoodoo yet?” Mr. Van Britt sat down and/ cromed his solid little legs. | “If I had? I shouldn't toning | sleep at the rate of five or s#ix| hours a night,” he raxped. “There's one thing that we haven't | tried,” the boss shot back. “We've been advertising it ax bad luck, Keep- ing our own suspicions to ourselves | and letting the men believe what they pleased. We'll change all that.| I want you to call your trainmen in as fast as you can Tell them—from me, if —~that there ient any about it; that the enemies of this management are making an organ ized raid on the property itself for | the purpose of putting us out of the| fight. Tell them the whole story, if you want to: how we're trying our best to make a spoon out of a spoiled horn, and how there is an army of grafters and wreckers in this state which is doing its worst to knock us out of the box.” Mr. Van Britt untrossed his lege and mt staring for a «econd or t |Then he whistled and said: * Jove! Have you caught ‘em the goods, at last?” | “No,* was the cirt reply in a@ ruse, if you like: it’s justi and it will work. If you giv force something tangible to lay hold jof, it will work the needed miracle. | It is,only the mysterious that terri. | fies, Railroad employes, ax a whole, are perfectly intelligent human be ings, open to conviction, The man-| jagement which doesn't profit by that fact is lame. If you do this| and appeal to the loyaity of the| men you will make a private de |tective out of every man in the| | service, and every one ot} was quiet talk giving m | train So keen to be the first to catch | the wreckers. You can add a bit of | ja reward for that, if you like, and| I'll pay it out of my own bank | account.” | For a full minute our captive mit |Honaire didn't say a word. Then he lgrinned like a good-natured little |Chinese god. "Who gave you this idea of tak-| the payroll into your confi. | | , Graham?” he asked softly | For the first time in all the seca | jand months I'd been knowing him, | |the boss dodged; dodged just like jany of us might | | “I've been talking to Major Ken-| |drick,” he said. “He is a wise old} 01d right thinking and right living, for there is that within every one which Jurges ever onward and upward, if [guidance ix fortfcoming. People do |right if they know the right. | Space would not permit even! touching on the causes of the pres ent day-tonditions, or the teachings |which would bring us out of the DOINGS OF THE Dt Tom, 1 DONT Think OUR. FURNACE 15 ANY Goop! TWe whee House 13 coup! ee. On wa CL SRE & Loourr Ww WoULAS: WOULDIA OW, 1 THINK YouRE “ME SWEETEST Boy. But he wae loyal? GET THe LANOLoRD) OVER Were Rawr AWAYT PFS Look AT THAT THERMOMETER An0 Youn, Thin VTS STRANGE -You BAID WiHEAl 1 SIGNED MY Lease THAT You'd WAVE Twe Furnace 14 TRYING “TO THe Prone AND & HIM Come, ————t ACROSS THE PLAINS” TAT was better than a movie,” Pegxy sald, when the not-veryold Pioneer had fin ished. “Now tell me one about your grandmother or something— wouldn't that be very earty day?” “My father came across the plains In 1853,” she replied. “and he was only 19 years old when he reached Seat He used to tel us about that long hard trip from Indiana to the Coast in an ox wagon. “He She was a dainty little aprite of a had a lovely Mttle sister. child with big dark eyes and black hair, a smooth creamy skin whict grew quite brown in the sunshine. She was @ very beautiful child, and everybody loved her. “She played about among the various families and waa the pet of the whole party. Very soon the n to moet bands of Indians; they were friendly, they ering and suspictous, but al § they watched the little dark eyed chil And, strangely enough, they went on when they woulg meet a band of In dians the Indians seemed not sur. sometimes sometimes were as Se ee lel man, Upton. many t in the ne T could see fool Mr. Van stant, and there was a look eye that I couldn't quite tand, Neither could I make out of what he sald. | “We'll go into that a little deeper day, Graham—efter this leptic attack has been fought This idea—which you confess your own—is a pretty shrewd one. und I shouldn't wonder if it would work, if we get it in motion before the hoodoo breaks us wide pen. And, as you say, the accusa-| n is justifiable, even if we can't up against Hatch That turned-over rail in Petrolite| ‘anyon, for examp! might have | been helped along by that don't get printed pers.” that this excuse didn’t Britt for a single in in his under much epl off. isn't some rove the ard he hears a good! outfit. |" prised to see them, but rather to j de watching for them and looking for something, and before very long they all began to suxpect .|that, for some reason, thore say- ages were watching that little girl. “Then one day a band of war. riors came riding boldly up, and getting off their ponies théy be gan to talk to my grandfather, “'Give back that child! they "no can. steal Indian Your chit dren have white skin, this papodse dark; this papoose hair black; black like the wing of a crow! Ana Black Indian Give us Indian child and we go mid, sternly, ‘you no papoose—nen! eyes! eyes, back to our people.” “Grandfather argued and ex- plained, but they wouldn't believe him, | “And mile after mile, day after day, the settlers saw the Indians following them; night after night lthey placed a special guard about the child, and it was not until they reached the fort and the sol the Indians gave wp, they always “Let's wish ourrelves out of here,” whispered Nick, faster and faster toward the bottom of the ocean and the palace of that wicked wizard, the Bobadil Jinn. | “Oh, yes, let's,” agreed Nancy |clutehing at her brother fearfully diers that and I suppose | thought Auntie was really an In- dian child.” Are you sure that is where we are " Nick pointed to the place on the map, and in spite of the water all often commences to around them, Nancy could see plain ly. Nick was right. So they wished . | ut once, Enrich Your Blood "ii. crn soon voce nerves | Nick, “set 18 on top of one of those Revitaliee Your worme nt ah and energy. {Dig foeborgs floating around ‘on top b contains organic e\|of the water, so that we may your bi | on our journey to the South f “iron, w ‘| But instead of finding themse instantly whisked off to the place of thelr choice, a# had always hap ‘|pened before, when the little shoes |were asked a favor, the twins found themselves & “li continuing their in sativfactory resulta, |awift journey to the bottom of the drugeiets sea, keep | Wi That's Proof Enough, Ien’t It? 1F You THik “THAT FURMACE 1S ALL RGHT, Jus PUT Syove HAND ON “THAT RADIATOR AM 3 cord IT t\ ip 1D SEE HOW ist f SOMETIMES | THINK HE IS WANDERING IN Mister TRY, MY BUSINESS IS THAT OF EFFICIENCY EXPERT. YOU KNOW, OF CouRS THAT £ ENGAGE TO TAKE THE PROBLEMS of MANAGEMENT OFT YOUR HANDS AND Pony ; OuT THE CNTLYS LEAKS AND DiS- CREPANCIGS To . Strange creatures swam by which looked as if they be-| longed on neither land nor sea. “Whwhat's wrong?” gasped | them caus wha | pass | hela wha the free. h |lana to t pre wick could as the whale sank | Nancy. looked are “Now w gone, down, her the wat 1 Away 4 them to disappear. this made no reply, but kept on with his strange firmly lo heard engers. the le’ back they Strange of all Some children were amount of strug kinds, or some evil magic It se tied ling ereatu that's re in for it mething had ha there and ~” swam and objects with “Our Magical what,” bh ha If th conversation, hi powe' to th almost a o| {TO TELL HIM HOW TO Run HIS Buganess HAS NO BUSINESS IN BUSINGSS!S ASour THE FIRST THING You'p TEce ME woucD Be V{] To TIRE My BoseKkkKGEPRR BECALSB We e OF HIS (SSS “" = LONGSE THAN THG 1 -| Jd get them by, r forms and names which look: | nor sea, ed varm: he tour a. But all the while Nancy held fast box containing their 8. She knew that the 1 wizard would get them if he/| (Copyright, 1921, N. BE. A) CONFESSIONS OF A B ed as tho they belonged on neither RID E ee THE BOOK ee OF MARTHA |darkness into the light mt-day conditions alone, but of| Marriage has not progressed suf: wury-old practices and resultant!ficiently in 2,000 years, and will not forance, The divorce evil of today|until the men and women who enter the ripple on the surface of the|into the marriage relation see things , which tells of a disturbance|in the right light, which will bring As well try to stop the rip-|righ® living. | lew that «pread over the surface in| We are each responsible as indi-| widening circles when a stone) viduals, and we hold in our hands thrown in, as to begin at the di-|the remedy which must be applied] force court to stop the evil which|by teaching and practicing ach of the cancer that has been eat-|our boys and girle of today. It is| out the heart of the home. easy. One who has made the study|Durgin has It would require volumes to begin|of child training a hobby for years,|by for a head tell the real facts, the underlying |can see ft all clearly—both cause and | and he's gone crazy en, and the cure, ure, The cause lies with the par ere i a cure within our reach|enty of the past, the cure with thage ] ich will place marriago and the|of today and the future aaare home on their rightful plane, which! ‘The story of the old German, who| mye mont for your they must reach eventually, even if|told the man who failed in his ef at for thie present structure must be torn |forta to teach the pup that, ly Mie to make room for the new|you go to teach the pup, you have to know more as the pup,” gave voice to a great truth. It Kelso, Mr. Van Britt's} stenographer, who emashed in with | interruption, He was In his| as if he'd just got up and he rushed was get well, I'm afraid.” “Does Jim know how Ann spends “He ought to—he's her husband “But I thought you were caring | for his affairs “I did—until December. Then he} got busy himself, At homo, of cour After he found that Ann’s punt overdrawn a he asked for her for the year, Then he wor- wo “made up.” There was little wound which ached con. ntly, Bob had spent most of his leisure for months past with Kath vers that she can't write the bigjerine Miller—so I believed—and drama of her time beside her hus-|what had he and she talked about? band’s invalid chair! She must see/1 hated to guess Katherine couldn't real life, and share its most tremen-|talk about nything which interest | dous, its most tumultuous experi-}ed my hi and, So what had ences, get the good and the bad of/and the tiger-girl in it, otherwise how can she make her|the usual bunk about which | pits characters behave?” idle men and women swap 80 freely | ried. He knew how furlous those “I see where Van comes handy,”|~—8nd #0 dangerously? | bills must have made Dad! Rob's bitter comment Vainly I tried to throw off my an-| “No -wonder Jim don’t get well!” I alking triangle problems with|cient jealousy! It tortured me—and | murmured, Van doubtless has its thrills,” T ug: |it was all Ann Lorimer's faylt! Had| “Poor old buddy! Wish we coutd | gested. “Of course, if I flirt with|she behaved herself, Bob and I/help him! What can you suggest, y »|Van to keep him from flirting with | wouldn't have started to quarrel | Jane?" . and role clea and look at youreel( lu mirror | Ann, us you yourself suggested, my |almost a9 soon as we were recon he budget 0 I'll have to talk erotic ne me—for Every » with him, just Ann doos! od old Jim Bob's exclama-| “Put it up to Ann—if you dare!” emiled Bob winced. 1 was brought me out of my torment-| Bob smiled half-revealing to Bob a hurt in my jing “Ann's extravagance | “Twill take jeust in him which jagn't healed is worrying Mim-so that he'll never “Mur old Jim's could make him more furious—noth ing makes any husband eo furious and so helpless—as the wife's ex- travaganc COLDS ~ Grip, Influenza, Sore Throat | Yamphreys’ Homeo, Medicine Co, 156 William St, New York, and at all Drug Dviuins ead Country Soren, “Annis going to write a play,” groaned Bob, “And Jim ts too sick to orfere “Tlie lines fs Ann's excuse! She phen the hirt-sleeves, from his typewriter in with his mouth open and hia eyes like eaucers. “They —they want you In her's office!” he panted srda out at Mr, Van Britt let Number Five get nder with the ‘Mlyer, the lispat Jerk: | ing the alta no = time, Just bee any Korein 01060 pounds (what ‘ou need w love <Continned Tomorrow) plan—for Ann—for ple. ‘The beginning Hes in individual ning and progress, Every boy| “Know the truth, and the truth i pa girl may be taught that ehall make you free.". ‘The truth is| Seattle + Wedge of tho sis will bring Lrco—lot's AA at te = M.A Gb os Lalumbia BROWN as courage," T admitted “0 revery a Co, MF-B8, Station X, Mew York, MY, sake