The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 2, 1921, Page 9

AY, MARCTT 2, 4; *ynthia WGrey “April Fool Party—Guests Must Prepare Own Supper. Dear Miss Grey: WIM you ktndty @utline a plan for an April fool party for boys and girls? Thank you. JUNE. Ie place of @ door dell, have a dig Gm pan with a potato masher tied if WHA wRICA fo Knock, Have the Rostess receive in a wash dress, cap @nd huge kitchen apron Give the caps ond aprons also, and the market baskets, Let the host- explain that her guests will have get their_own supper, The hostess should def as store- Pe, "FY eee .vv hostess should have the fol- articles in readiness: Char- tiny Mack kefties, tin ple pan, @ set- im patty pans, and coffer in ma @ court jester place a circle of tin with @ red candle in the bowl, held there dy « drop of hot eaTees Grey: Please print names with meantors, for @ group of Campfire CECEILE. “Aye, dence leader; Talsla, wood- ¢ Adsiia, Mossom; Chu-mani, Ogeneque, rosebud, Ma- arr blue 2 Ateila, fire; Wanyecha, firefly, sun or moon; Saleli, squir- | regard to the naturalization of mers who have been residents this country for more than seven Is i necesmry that an dp- 0 to school, and does a wife to become naturalized by sep- Procedure? In fact, does a Wife have to go thru any proceed to make her husband a natural- citizen of the United States, ‘with him their children? Dt RA 8 Lat cunen meee to the surface of the jue gives one nautical 687.27 feet (which wery nearly the value of the ad- ity knot—6,087 fect—adopted by British admiralty office) If a te going 30.9 knots an hour, that be the same as going $5.57 on hour. Our knot is equal to miles, therefore, be $09 times 1.151, which Miss Grey: After a heavy J rain times «mall fish or frogs pcan be ind long distances from eny bedy of water. Do they come Gown with the rain? If so, how are they delivered up from the earth? SUBSCRIBER. . ‘The feather bureau states that or frogs are caught up out of the Bhallow bodies of water by little ed- ies of air, They are often carried © distance of several miles before they are dropped. ee Trish in America Dear Miss Grey: Wil you give Mme facts as to the statement that , there are more Irish people in Amer- fea than tn Ireland; also the aprox imate number’ of Irish people x losive of descendants) in the two countries, IRISH. The figures covering this subject have not yet been completed for the 4 of 1920. In 1910 there were the United Btates 1253251 per ons who were born in Ireland. In 1911, the population of Ireland was 4490219. eee Magazine Subscriptions Dear Miss Grey: Can a person be compelled to continue taking a mag: azine when it ls not wanted? ANNOYED. No. Take the next issue of the magazine back to the postoffice and deliver it to the postmaster or hia representative unopened, and notify the postmaster in writing that you ;}a stunted fir and watched his boat} 30.9 knota| uring a storm, sometimes small fish | 1921. Poor Man's home | BERTRAND W. SINCLAIR | UL Copyrtent, 1920, by Littia, Brown & Oo. Cee eS (Starts on Page One over the rubbing gunwales, The gtri rose, She cast an appealing glance At Macktae, His face did not alter, She stepped up on the guard, dix datning the hand young Gower ex tended to help her, and sprang Nghtly into the cockpit of the yacht | ‘The older man withdrew his hook Young Gower held on a sce nd longer, matching the undiaguised | }hatred/ tn Donald MacRae’ eyes with @ fury in his own, And when he withdrew the boat hook he swung the inch.thick tron-shod pole with a ewift twist of his body and struck MacRae fairly across the face In an hour the yacht was four miles to windward of the sloop. Masterieas, the sloop sailed, laid to, started off again erratically, and after many shifte laid her blunt bows straight for the opening be Jtween Sangster and Squitty tslands, }on the cockpit floor Donald Mao | |Rae sprawled unheeding. Blood | from his broken face oozed over the boards, She struck. As she hung shuddering on the rock, a sea lifted | over her stern and washed MacRae off into deep water. He came up gasping. The cool tmmersion had revived him. He had | | deen cast by luck Into a place from | which it took no more than the | moderate effort of an able swimmer) }to reach shore, | In five minutes bis feet touched | fon a gravel beach. He walked drip- | ing. out of the swell, climbed to | go down. | MacRae’s face worked. His Nps quivered as he lifted hie hands in « swift gesture of appeal | “O God.” he cried, “curse and biast them tm all thelr waya and enterprises if they deal with ber as | they have dealt with me.” eee On an afternoon tn November, | 11928, a man came rowing up the western side of Squitty island and turned into Cradle bay, which lies under the lee of Point Old. He was @ young man, and wore a patch of | pink celluloid over his right eye He turned into the small half. moon bight, staring with surprise | at a white cottageroofed house sit-| ting amid an acre square of bright | green lawn. “Fim-m-m,” he mattered, “Tt wasnt built yesterday, efther. Funny he never mentioned that.” He pushed on the oars and the boat slid nearer shore, the man’s eyes stil steadfast on the house. No Ufe appeared there. “I wonder, now.” He «poke again. While he pushed hjs boat tn en the gravel, a low pre caused him to look behind. A highbowed, «hin- Ing mahogany cruiser, 70 feet or) more over all, rounded the potnt. The «smooth sea parted with a Whistling sound where her brassy shod stem aplit ft like a kijfe She slowed down from this trainlike speed, stopped, picked up a moor ing, made fast. The cruiser blew, her whistle re | peatedly. The man in the rowboat smiled, | “Wise management,” be observed | tronically, under hie breath. The power yacht, ft seemed, had) pot #0 much as a dinghy aboard. A | figure detached itself from « group | of people on deck and waved a/| beckoning hand to the rowboat. The rower shrugged his shoulders | and pulled out and alongside. The! | deck crew lowered a set of steps. “Take a couple of us ashore, will) jyou?” He was addressed by a) | short, stout man. | The young man laid his rowboat | against the steps. “Climb in,” he said briefty. “You, Smith, come along.” The deck boy climbed obedientty | down. A girt in white duck and heavy blue sweater put her foot on | she said. Her father nodded and followed her. ‘The rowboat nosed tn beside the end of a narrow ficeat. The boy in jthe jersey sprang out, r ead a steadying hand to his employer. The girl stepped lightly to the planked logs. “Give the boy a Tift on that boat) to the chuck, will you?” the stout) perron ie further request, indi cating @ white boat bottom up on| shore, A queer expressigg gleamed mo- mentarily in the eyes of the boat man. But he made for the dinghy followed by the hand from the yacht. They turned the boat over, slid it down and afloat. The sailor got in and began to ship his oars The man and the girl stood by ull this was done. Then the girl urned away. The man extended his | 4. 2 Thanke,” he said curtty. The other’s hand had invotuntar ly moved. The short, stout man | dropped a silver dollar in it, ewung jon his heel and followed his daugh- passed her, in fact, for she had only taken. a step or two and halted. | ‘The young fellow eyed the silver coin in his hand with an expression that passed from astonishment to anger and broke at last into a smile of sheer amusement, Then he faced |about on the Jerseyed youth about |to dip his blades. “You don't object te ttps, do you, Smith?” “Gee, no” the boy observed. |“Ain’t you got no use for money?” | “Not this kind You take it and buy smokes.” | He flipped the 4ofar dinghy and the youth salvaged ter tnto the it DOINGS OF THE DUFFS Lon,youRE HOME ARE You? WELL, LHAVE yee] SOMETHING FOR You TO EXPLAIN! | FOUND, k THIS RECEIPTED BiLt IN YOUR COAT POCKET, PM GLAD ITS RECEWTED ANN WAY ! A CERTAIN WONDER | Page 300 AN EARLY.DAY LIGHTHOUSE Acrous the bay the Alki light; away from the tower and several turned and winked, turned and| hundred feet below tt. winked. Om beyond the West; “The road from the house te the Point Nght turned and winked | tower was over a steep, shelving with the same regularity, | ridge, hard to eftmb and far away “What makes ‘em, Daddy?"| from any human aboda As for asked David, as*tf he eaw the| neighbors, they had one family Lights for the firet time “Look | three and a half miles away, and how even tt ia, and it never docs | the nearest town was « Iittle store Go out, does it? IU bet the sail| and a qmall group of cabins 15 ere are pretty good and gind they | mike across the bay Gon't go eut toa, when there's a} “The light tower was of stoma, storm.” kept white by @ yearly coat of Daddy watched the Rghtsa min whitewash, ute before he answered “Flee | “It stood $9 feet high, and ene tricity, som; afl those things are reached the Nght by a winding run by electricity now. But ft was| stats. I've often thonght how it be enay matter to tend lighthouses | must have looked against he tm the earty Gaya. Mon were few | Dacksround of dark forest—a tall and money was scarce, and the| White column with its twinkling Pacifie coast and Puget sound ag the ton “When Dr. Easterbrook took his were strange waters to many @/ sition the brass knob em the mariner. | door of the Iron room at the top of “1 have heard Dr. Fasterbrook the tower had been broken off #0 tel! of an experience of his 58 that one could open the door from years ago that will give you an the inside but not from the out idea what ft meant to keep a bic side. If the door blew shut it was Ught winking before people had imponsttfie to turn the handle of electric lights and power. | the lock. “He was only 17 when he was “He was told that on stormy fealle’d upon to fll a vacaney in nights he must open the door, co the U. 3. lighthouse department. out on the narrow baloony which “He was made second assistant | was bullt around the big light, and in the light tower at Cape Disap | wipe off the fog and apume which peintment. It i# a dangerous dimmed the giass. coast, and at that time was wild) “"But he careful,’ they warned and rugged beyond al! tmaginings. | him, ‘to put a towel or a cont or “Three men had charge of the | something In the crack so the Nght station and lived tn @ «mali door can't fasten.’~ brick house a mile and a haif' (To Be Continued) Raeran & ADVENTURES a OF THE TWINS by Clive Roberts Barton “What's all the fun about?” croaked the frog A BILL FOR $25@ FoR FLOWERS SENT TO MUCH OF P You GENEROUS GAY DecLiveR’ PAGE 9 - By ALLMAN TLL EXPLAIN IP You"L. GvE ME A CANCE MIS3 REED J3 OUR CASHIER! SHE HAS BEEN 1LL AND THE OFFICE” SENT HER SOME, FLOWERS AND | TooK CARE SEND THEM ROSES AND CANDY | SUPPOSE! 1 CAN PICK DANDELIONS IF 1 WANT FLOWERS! WHAT A CHUMP PVE BEEN ALI THESE YEARS AND NOW ~ AND NOW - ANO NOW MISS REED! WHo ts THIS CREATURE THAT You THINK Say TT... vA See if It Was True! “WWE VERY IDEA!! WUAT EVER DoSSESSED You To Bum? Baby ON HE FLoom, Wk a a Alek Wanted to SERENADING FOR Two HOURS AND Confessions of a Bride THE BOOK OF MARTHA negliges, for I had been married long enough to acquire a litte wisdom jabout dress, Whenever a storm low: ered on our domestic horizon, I ab wayn endeavored to look my loveliest. | So I threw on the rainbow-tinted wonder of a kimono and rushed down to meet Bob, | I dif not greet him with tears, | | auestions, and reertiminations. “I've been eo worried, darting™ I | exclaimed Rob was #0 bury taking off his | huge goloshes that he didn’t mine my Or did he keep busy because he difin’t want to kiss me? I couldn't tell which, #0 I amiled sweetly and purred my prettiest, ng a devoted | wife should do: | “I'm going to make you some cof: | | fee right away, dear! Or would you! prefer tea? Or a hot lemonade? Do | you want anything more?” | “Hot lemonade onty! I've had étn ner™ Bob answered and I knew from his tone thay if I got anything ont of my man that night It would be by single words, not sentences. “I'm so giad you haven't suffered! Were you lost in the storm?™ I tried to put the question anxiously, but not too anxiously. | “Oh, no! I was eomfortable—per- | | | DRINKS + fectly—at Chang Foo's™ “Goodnesat there | “My own car was Gone for before | I left town I was picked ap and! “knocked out! taken as far as Chang Foo’s, Then| “It's Martha—and Yan—and| EVERETT TRUE we stalled. I waited for the snow to| Evan!" I murmured. “ow shock- jet up—ene then I walked haa? ithe? : 5 Sec, DID You FIND (To Re Continued) WHAT “YYou WANTED 7 MOTHER! How did you get the hotel; perhaps he had his own reanon for not opening the subject. He patted my hand as I tucked the covers over his shoulders. I sat down on the edge of his bed and) rubbed his cold fingers, and dextred | fervently to talk to him, but kept | atill, and was ontrared and disrusted when he fell off almost Immediately into a sound sleep! IT myself was unable to steep, tn | the early dawn, I heard the newshoy ride up on a horse to deliver bis pa- pers. The stories about the blizzard "California Syrup of Figs’ Child’s Best Laxative “Prick your finger,” commanded the goat, who was guarding the |Room of Diamonds tn the secret lonly way that I can discover wheth- er or not you twins are mortal or enchanted, Prick the frog, too—the one that hopped in when you came. If you have warm, red blood you aro | mortal and cannot stay here.” lhouse ix that, and how long has ft been there?* |We stay here @ good deal in the summer.” |pasnage under the world. “It's the| “Ours,” she answered. “Two years. | Nancy hesitated and looked at Nick. What if the goat should put |them out now, when they were so jmnear to the end of their journey? It couldn't be far to the South Pole, | Then she unrolled the Map that |Santa had given them at the begin |ning of their travels, Sho gave a Nt-| |tle ery of joy. It was just as she| |had hoped. ‘The Room of Diamonds | was directly under the Equator, the| [place at which, |them, all magic | the sun‘s rays. Jat which mpela ceased under Also it was the place no person or object casts t noonday. It was noon |a shadow | now, If they could only leave their will refuse to receive it hereafter,| His gaze rested curiously on the I dare say, means Horace | and that it ts not a paid subscrip-|man with the patch over his eye.|A. er,” he remarked, “E ardon | Preclous pe ye oe Segre = boa tion. | His familiar grin faded. He touched|my curiosity, but I used to know), ‘tow nutes away from the sun, | v S auenmana | tc2?: (ije: piace rather well. I've bee had a wonderful plan. i WOMEN WHO OVERWORK | “t»anx x, ir away for some time, ‘Things seem| wont ane erled happily and whis | “Man weg work stom wun to sun, |_, 1° heaved OM hie cars, The boat ito have changed « bit.” | pered something to Nick | but woman's work is never done.” In |"/4 owt The man turned to look “You're just back from overseas?” |" srw sll the fun about?” croak order to keep the home neat and at.|"#ain at the house up the. sjope|she asked quickly led xe frog, “I don't see anything tractive, the children well drenueq |#84 found the girl at his elbow, “I'm no wounded hero.” he fore|ronny about getting pricked with a and tidy, women continually overdo| “I'm @ 4 I must apologize for|etalled the inevitable question. “I) pin.” He was worried, no doubt, and suffer in silence, drifting along |™Y father,” she said simply. ‘‘It|merely happened to get a aplinter|/apout his blood, He knew that it from bad to worse, knowing full wel] |W#% awfully good of you to bring |of wood in one eye, so I have leave |wag neither red nor warm and he they need help to ove: the |U# ashore, but I feel sure you resent | until it gete well.” was afraid of being discovered. 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