The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 8, 1921, Page 6

L, “There ts an old betlet that ff one St the Hethe gun every Gy a The Seattle Star aut of city, Cee par reat: t Ankles ! Shall They Twinkle or Shall They Not. (CONSIDER THE IMMORAL ANKLE! It twinkles promiscuously down Second ave. | It flirts at every dance, from Renton to Aldérwood ‘| Manor. OUR DAIL Once upon a time we waited at Setond and Pike for a fitney. We Knew that the jits usually were Growded when they got to that corner, Fut We were too laay to Walk down several blocks, and Deaites, there is always room for ‘one more. And soon a jit came along. Al! Me seats were taken, but the doors were occupied by only one Man each. We signalled to the driver to #tbp, but lo and behold, he sald: } “There's no more room.” | ee AT THE AUTO SHOW A girt I love Is Molly Mankles; She won the prize For pretty ankies. eee AT THE CHARITY BALL She'd dress the poor, Wonld Madame Rust; But nature clothes Her own fatr bust. eee Seresey City's chief of police an Dread in that ety on Sunday be arrested. i be. It is much easier to ari ‘BE Gelivery doy than « bandit. : eee Down Bast there tg a movement to a HERE ARE OTHER SI It has made niillions for manufacturers of silk ho- It has figured in every love story from Dante to Jo- seph Conrad. It has been written about, painted, etched and scupled from the time of Ab, the well-known Pleisto- cene artist, to the days of Lorado Taft. Ithas reached the full blossom of its unabashed glory in the advertisements of the million-circulation | magazines. | It is the greatest matrimonial bureau ever created by a beneficent Deity. Consider the immoral ankle! Then consider the tempest aroused over the contest being waged at thé Auto Show this week to determine the prettiest ankle in Seattle. Ho-Hum! This Is the Time When— | SONS of the year, but none j so fall of hope and joyful promises as the first days of gladsome Spring. This is the timé when youth looks |far ahead, and lives many lives, that of today abd of to- | morrow ; life indoors and life outside; lives of marbles, tops and kites as well as lives of pencils, slates and boo! Boyhood is bursting from its winter shell, and believe |mother, it certainly is not doing it noiselessly! This is the happy day when one little boy can track up more square yards of newly scrubbed floors than an army of women can clean in the same time. This is the time when the last ounce of attraction for the schoolroom has withered and fled from the mind of Master Boy. This is the time when one departeth with a light heart and a pocket laden with marbles, to return long after suppertime with a heavy heart and a much lighter pocket for the loser. This is the time when the basement floor is cluttered up with kite sticks and the glue bottle is not to be found in its accustomed place, and mother’s kitchen apron does -lduty as kite-tail. = that any man who tries to This is the time when more energy is spent upon finding And we believe ne | last year’s top than Columbus devoted to the finding ot ithe new world. ; This is the time when young hearts glow with deligh upon hearing that perhaps school will have to be let out hack the waltz to take the|@ few weeks earlier because the school fund is running low lace Of the toditle. Times change This is the time when any little lad would rather be the the waltz was introduced ft/ driver of a délivety wagon which rumbles along the open with as much opposition as the He does today. eee fs reported that the French gov- streets than be president and sit in the White House all day. - This is the time when it’s too early to hoe weeds or mow ft will ask Harding to appolnt | juwns and too late to shovel snow off sidewalks. or a man Who can speak Of all the nerve! Next This is the time when a fellow can begin practicing up|. $6 axking somé president to|on his curves and maybe make the pitcher's job on the Hill & min with brains. eee R records just unearthed is in London show the May. was 91 ft long and 20 ft. Gang team. This is the time when being a boy is the best occupation on earth. .| This is the time when—shucks! a fellow could go on like It hatdty seems possibte that/this all day! i of such smalt dimensions catry enough ancestors for alt | Boston folk who cinien to be May. descendan . ‘ RE ARE MANY ANSWER THE PURPOSE fe realized that the girl was the Him of some fort of poltoning and/ a "| pockets. otes were administered.—Shar in (Pa) Telegraph. eee Bae your head tf you want to ste. the sage. G¥er a sticceds th tite: ese Be that as it may, Mrs. Heeter en Snow in Kewanee, IL eee sneezes at the same time, he wil! to a ripe old age,” writes R. M have s« sneezes €an't locate the cee New York police seized some sau- the other day, and upon exatn-| tt found opium. We're glad) WHO WwoULD | fifth wheel, an unnecessary ap} adtvinen We once|tieularly so since the drought & fellow Who used his in a dime to split bodrds and crack but we can't say the fellow fied A church ciub iit the home for the repose of firearms, and the flask. ved up but Good-by, Hip Pocket! at hy hip pocket is doomed. But it shall not go unsung, unhonored, unwept. For the good old hip pocket was friend in need, in the days when there were uses for hip Laws and other things made the hip pocket a sort of dix, of later years, par- as penetrated even to the \cellar. i ; There were times when some men could have done with- out their right eyes ene = -. eo eT io oR foo i S of the hi cS t wag the handy pla disappearance Pp poe! i aed PB errs | the days of Deadshot Dick and John Barleycorn. Now, however, the world can wag along without hip pockets: eae So asserts the New York Custom Cutters’ association in ian ultimatum eliminating hip pockets from trousers of the 11922 model. 5 t well, we should worry! Of what good are hip pockets when a fellow has nothing but his fist to put in in ‘em? : P, S—Paris has invented a nifty device for pocketless st last somebody has found | men; a cute little bag in which one may carry his loose ing in sausage that could be ONE BIG JOB You Ate “MAIN e000 fiving over the city today? It was painted Brot Curting | . ‘This wir Taxi the Puget Sound Airway Com- , with a hangar ateMadison rk, on Lake Washington If you want a combination of Jand and thy taxi ride, cail MAIN $500, afd we will tke you from the bangar from ar of the business section of the city. Rates, including both LAND and SKY trip are: +++ $10.00 ++ $15.00 SEATTLE TAXICAB COMP: MAIN 6500 wings of wih flyin 4 operated change, key ring, and the makin’ Let’s Make It Equal OWHERE. on Uncle Sam's greenbacks, except by the N fanciful figure of the Goddess of Liberty, are women represented. e Men there are in plenty—men all down thru the years since the days of Washington. If women are to be made equals in the government, it’s only fair that some of the noted members of their sex should appear on the country’s paper money: THE VALUE OF POETRY BY DR. WILLIAM FE. BARTON Bees of postry rarely pay the cost of publicatién. Mitton received $25 for his “Paradiaé Lost.” But poétry has @ value even as values are reckoned in rifiterial “ For instance, a very simple 1 jingle coticéfning General Grant fotined a convention of stippowedly Very level-headed men to the wildest enthusiasm: “It you adk me where he coniée tron, The w r thie shall be: He comes trom Appomator And the famous apple treet* Roscoe Conkling might have eid it tn prose and it would have ¢ar Fled little weight. ‘That little jingle bad a power which was greater than that of reasoned eloquence. Ive surrendered April 8, 1865; Glows Of the Civil War. Do you know that three of the greatest of social reforms, to child-iabor, hours of Work and thé labor of womén have to three poems? What are thowe poems? ‘The first is “The Song of the Shirt,” by Thomas Hood. ber the way it began. and this is the anniversary of the relating been due You remem wlth fingers weary ad worn, With eyelids heavy and r A woman sat in unwomanly Piying @ needie and thread.” ‘That was a picture that drove its message home to the patfins af the sweatshop! The next waa Bitzabeth Barrett Rrowning’s “The Cry of the Chil dren.” You remember, do you not, how it ended? “Put the child's sob tn the silence curkéé deéper ‘Than the strong man in his wrath” ‘The third is Margaret Widdermer’s “The Factories.” yOu have not forgotten the story of “my little sister.” Volumes of légisiation are related inore or lens ifitimatély to the impulse given to social reform and industrial uplift by these poems Tt ia so recent Th’ best way to bust up a bridge whist party ts ¢° tell some wonwtn you've hired ‘br cook away from ‘er, Life seems to be pretty nmch one cheap mage Questions of health, eauiistion, bygione will be apewered if te jarmation Department, U. B the Health Bervice, Washington, D. ©, Spinal Curvature an, 24, whe ! curvature cannes tittle of the pelvis, and hence an little or nO effect on childbirth jeformity if the curvature tn pronoanced, and partioutarty if dus to ricketa, there may be tharkhd pelvic deformity. A ‘ompetent phynician who has made a apeclalty of obatetrices would be to tke acer ne you whether or not nor idbirth could take place. Insomnia From paretng roy bat hie and rate measurements at nteht 1 have of sleepens In addition to the ventilation of your bedroom, attention to your di wtion, the securing of suitable ex reine, plenty of freeh atr and reat, a warm bath just before retiring wii! sometimes produce good results, A hot foot bath ts sometines beneficial or & fines of hot milk or cocoa tity be the means of inducing sleep Had you tholight that poetry wis a futile sort of exercine on the part of unpractical folk? Some postry is of that character, but not ail, Wil you tet If you will send me your name and odtrem, 1 will be very gind to send you & bulletin which will probably help you. “Coltre” is a complex con dition, and one which always requires the services of a qualified phyxictan. In tiost formm of treatment for thin! condition, reat is very important. In tact, sometimes absolute reat in bed! for a long time te the beat thing to! do, In some forma of thyroid trou ble, & surgical operation ts Indioat 4, but such operation should be per: formed only by one who has had con- siderable experience in such work. I would sugfgest that you place your. self at once under the care of a quatt fied physician, and trust the matter with him, (SETH TANNER ‘Letters to the SAYS SEATTEN 18 CITY OF ALOOFPNESS Editor The Star the news item Jinappear I notice in ThE ng the ftar concert tinnton in | your ee atten | lont 2066 girta per your all had dark Joyen, rather than fieht It ts of 6 lepecial interest to any one | whether theae girlie were blondes « lbrunets. The appalling thet rematr that at thant one girl every day tn fonttle ty kidnaped, murdered, com mits mulcide or is tort in the under World—gone, nobody knows where. Th® number tn possibly muck or that $45, as thene are merely the offictal and all that ‘The Star or anybody « about it Is the iille mpec why they bad brown than blue, Ty not this gtter dneonoern one of te reasons why the discouriged no jonker cares to live? ‘The church t# A ndcial affair, rather than an or ganization of Chrtatan, practical helpfulness, What chireh has ever helped a «it! got & Job, or trade, or bits extabtivhed a mit ward or convalescents’ home, or done anything but “turn ber out once she has disgraced the fhia? The Y. W. C. A. is & fnobbish, pensive affair, te of a certain claw ¢ who most need help « there ere ie cheap todeing house and iris records, eyes rather high salaried « The ones not welcome pal or for women wuch as many « ide for the destitute or any woman int Beattie has no f business enterprises employing number of girta, To be a house serv. ant puts @ girt under such untear thle conditions that no wonder most of the “ruined” girts come from this clasa, Did fou ever coolly appraise your clty, seeing tt thry the disinterested eyes of @ at Stand on « crowded #treet corner, as 1 do, afl tay tong, and nize up the passersby Are you proud of Seattle's men? Leeting eyes, sensual lips, sore blotched faces, limping lege—secetng 1 women only tn the felt of sex and in ho other way, What chance has a young, pretty, dnsoptriaticnted, periniléss, lonely girl among euch as they? And are the women—good women going to aid her thuch more? Em. phatieally net! In my five month work here I have met a considerable number of courteous, generouthearted men, buf the number of kindly, weéll-bred women I cin count on the fingers of ne hand. Any one that ts shabbily clad or has to do lowly work, or, in t arty work at all, is uttertg be }? if at even ordinary, cas ties pro or & lived in 18 states and tn a * larger than Seattle, and t never have I scen a womanhood ms arrogant and selfentiefied and snobbieh (and without any qiuse to be) ax I have noticed Gay after day in Seattle. God pity any poor, be “ ced, hesitating or sinful girl who looks to them for even so much an a kindly glance, She Won't get It. Polson in cheap, Thé bity th deap. All the cheaper rooms have a gas fot. For many ao girl, these and the req light dixtrict are the only Ways out. Nobody carea The Star, however, more alert, anks everybody's opinion as to why oh, why, aid they all have brown) eyen? Boattla th a tighteyed town. stand) 12 to 14 hours on a given corner and! watch the thoustnds surge by | Check off the eye-colér. You will | find one pilfr of dark eyes to 99 light | Ones, OF, poadibly, 1 to 99, A bideeyed girl may find even in Seattio nome congeniaity, herice un derstanding, sympathy and help, among ¢yen of her own color. Rut the brown-eyed giri—eyes warm, Gives Tanlac Credit For Splendid Health 4246 Juneau Street, Seattie; Wash, “T used t6 think al thé Tanne tés- tUmonials were ekaggerated, but 1 have felt thahkful a thousand times I ever believed in it strong enough to give the medicine .a trial said T. J, Parker, wellhowh saleemai for Gately's Clothing Store, residing at 4246 Juneau St., Seattle, Wash. “Sever years ago | commenced having pertodic spells of sickness and a few months ago I had an attack that 1 thought would finish me. When I did finally get up, I wad nearcely 1 had no ap. petite and what little I foreed my at caused #0 much gas on nach 1 could hardly get my able to go. “At night I was often so bloated I couldn't breathe while lying down and just had to sit Op and struggle for air, At Umes I had cramps so bad I could Hardly endure ft, “My liver was sluggish and soine t I fot so dizzy | Would fieatly fall, 1 felt tired and miserable all thé time, couldn't even sleep and for days at a time I wasn't able to go | o- Work. “Well, a friend of mine finally got me to try Tanlac, and if certainly has done a good job for me. My lappetite is fine now and although f jam eating just anything 1 want and | aw h as I please, my stomach ne wives me the least trouble, 1 e picked up in weight, my strength has come back to me, and |1 am now enjoying the best of health All the men at the store know Taniac put me back on my feet, and 1 am giad to give this statement for what it may be worth to others,” Advertisement, geome to care! ulation as to} AS OTHERS SEE THE WORLD Pditoriats and Comments Reprinted From Various Newspapers THOSE ILMANS TO EUROPE (Prom the Cleveland Prees) Again more talk about canceling the loans that Whete fam tade to Kurope and starting with @ elean #inte, Many idealists think this would | be a wittipie matter of writing off a low fo make thoes | the governmen Mut that doen't end thé transaction. The Liberty Bonds have to be again retired —when they matnre part of the bonds will be cared for. sold Liberty Bonds. pe paye, nd pay it ih taste to retire the Liberties Which? I cli eee magnetic, gentle, keen, adventurous, Boston society women have turned humerous and ditowether humnt—|trom silk and are now wearing eot can't stand the pasty cheeks, the! 4 10 o time they are looffish hands, the taffy hair, the|*O hose. At the same tm b | enld mioniena, clammy, Ont | But whether | ed eyed whe sen every-| wearing longer skirts. they are wétring the skirts to hide the cheap stockings of weartng the cheap stockings beentune their skirts jare longer is sométhing we make ont a rep devil! it she goes le M. CLARKE. Qurope doewn't pay, then Amorleans must get busy, earn the monéy | can't | Patients for Extractions for the atmnual clinic of the King County Dental Society, Saturday, April 9th, at Masonic club rooma, fifth floor, Areade Building. 9:30 a.m. No charge. 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