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The Star “Ry-matt, cut of etty, Ste par month: t CONFESSIONS OF A HUSBAND CHAPTER L When I came home that eve. ning, my wife was busy chew ing the rag with a neighbor lady. But I rushed right in and | kissed her smack on the lips, | saying, “You're looking sweet, my dear.” And soon we had our dinner and I chopped up some | wood for the fireplace and the i| } | | furnace, and commented on the day's news, and everything. The phone soon rang. I knew it would. My wife didn't. And Jim Morton’ said the gang was all ready and we could have a nice little game, And I told him I didn't know if I could get away as my wife would be left all | alone. I figured my wife would | then say, “That's all right, Jack, you can go if you want.” And she did. And I said I'd give her half of my winnings. That night I won $17.80. I gave my wife | three dollars and six bifs. (To Be Continued) | — — , © ES ES: EE ES ae a ad eee "Rah for Home Brew. Two days Before the editor of this column in-| vited Vice President already announced he'd land. That's getting results, eh, what? And despite the invitattion ex-| tended to President Harding by Home Brew and others, the presi- dent is still willing to come to Se attle and Alaska if he can see his visit Port. he got any invitations from us, and he still says so. Attaboy, Gamaliel. Just for that, we'll send you an other invitation. EVERYBODY WATCHES FOR HER Jewelry advertisement in a Phila delphia paper: Baily, Banks & Bid- . dies at the age of three. Baby Learns About Seattle | Buzz Brown and How to Brush His Teeth “Buzz Brown came home from town, As crazy as a loon. He wore a purple overcoat And sang a Sunday tune. “Buzz Brown came home from town, As proud as he cou He found three dough Id be— nuts and a bun A-growing on a tree.” . . . OU MAY NOT KNOW this famous poem, gentle reader. You may think it another one of those vers libre things by Amy Lowell or Ezra Pound. But in the House of the Three Bears—that Bohemian re- sort—wiser critics have listened to the mystic stanzas and found them filled with the mystery and enchant- ment of far seas and distant worlds. Your wise critic and your w If y hole-hearted adventurer ‘ou don’t believe this, go over to the Frederick & Nelson auditorium, where scores of chubby-faced children are battling “Goops” and engaging in high emprise with Bobby Coon and Br’er Rabbit. This is Baby week thruout the country, and the |Frederick & Nelson auditorium is jammed with babies | morning and afternoon. Stories are told them in the House of the Three Bears, they are taught how to dance to the “singing book and they are even in- | structed in the mystic art of brushing their teeth. Incidentally, there are a large number of mothers present, intent on learning something of the mystery \of a child’s mind. The lecturer is telling “How to Make Bathtime Into Playtime.” fore she is out of diapers. Somebody once said that a Miss Baby herself gives the practical |demonstration, and if gurglings and cooings are any | | indication, she will be another Annette Kellerman be- baby learns more in the | first three years of its life than in all the other years |placed together. It learns to walk and talk and dis- tinguish all the mysterious and attractive objects in an amazing world. But if the powers of observation and imagination re to be retained past the kindergarten stage, the Coolidge, he| baby must be taught to play right. Play is a baby’s university. While his parents are planning for his fu- ture, the baby is making his o or on the sand pile. wn future in the nursery If you don’t believe this, go over to the Baby show and see a few presidents, and poets, and suffragets, way to do that. He said so before|and statesmen, and generals, in the making. And see how modern science helps the baby help himself. Observations darn good reading. die Cox Watches for women of # ‘Today in The Star. Perior design and perfection of move ment. Submitted by John Reddick. eee Our olf friend, Kit Sap, warbles thusly: Old Sol does climb, the summer time each day is getting nigher. Come now the chills from music trill, made famous in Hawait. Dogs have their day, but, sad to say, the festive ukelele will work all night, and then for spite put overtime in daily. trains a crowd of Janes, strum on with devilish glee. I by heck, the bunch would om the Seach at Walker Key. J eee IT PROBABLY WAS A comma often makes a lot of dif- ference in a line. So does the spac | ing. A goeter wrote: “My soul is a/ ; The printer s o- G. M. K. sends this: Just a line to say the Seattle ball club is well named “The Ral- piers.” Since they opened the sea- son here it has done nothing but rain ‘ere. eee Not for its wit ‘This verse we pinch, But it fills up ~ At least one inch. —Cleveland Plain Dealer. A thing like this Is such @ cinch That we grab off another Inch. —Newark, 0., Advocate. A rhyme like thie Ain't realiy art, But keeps the par. ~ agraphs apart, MODERN SANITATION “Hey, and what do you think of these new sanitary drinking cups?” “Not much. Soon and we'l) have to spit on our hands with an eye- dropper.” o's SOME MEMORY! School teacher had been telling a class of small boys the story of the @iscovery of America by Christopher Gsiumbus, and ended his narrative with: “And all thig happened more than 400 years ago.’ A little boy, his eyes wide open with wonder, said, after a moment's thought: e! What a memory you've got. Percy Pelkey sayn the aost suc cessful way to entertain a woman is to let her do all the talking. And this is also the most successful way to entertain a man. eee Blue law agitators have aroused the opposition of those who have shoved bath night into Sunday morn- ing. eee It's strange, but the same kind of weather that turns a woman's mind to a new bonnet will turn a man's to @ fishing rod, eee “Here's an old story, popular|Then, above these, a ponderous stone, which I judge to be @ yard square pt long, is laid to bind both lower courses 1 | among the Serbians, that about fits the rallroad situation,” writes M. N. K., sending the following: | “There was once a certain old woman who had a hen and t laid one egg a day. She was not satisfied with one egg a day so she On boats and| “My Soul ts a light! son worked slowly. ; Evidently it for that matter. cause we have to dig for it. Just when a stenographer has would destroy the home. building is in Owatonna, Minn. drummers foam at the mouth. After buying all the system have for sale, many a business ye: ing the things that are systemat: highest, the average American's a market basket. soldiers left alive. the call for more production the price of pride. how to spell edits speeches befo' What kind of jobs have the fel and the movies every afternoon? | BY DR. WILLIAM I have not visited Europe since the shall go again; but the next time I ai |Hanover. I nt to see with my own | picture, and to learn whether the story was to remain there undisturbed. | have seen Good Friend for Jesus’ her first desire was that her grave shoul: Must never be opened, So, as the translation lies before me, soul to the tomb. The grave is laid in solid masonry. course above ground of massive stones, them laid with thetr longer axes transve at the enda, and about seven f and those below the ground | | tr Tie place That camera not very well 1 Kaye it more feed to make it lay two|#tands the Uving answer to her unfaith, ‘cg. Then the hen grew too fat tr ata lazy and laid no eggs at Life is iow over things dead and thin the God of the dead but of the living. it can lift not only rocks, but the hopes Congressman Herrick’s assertion that some one who knows | gressional Record, confirms a suspicion long prevalent. The story, as I have heard it, is that of a titled woman, who had no faith in God or tn the life to come, and who caused her creed to be graven on her tomb, with a proclamation that her dust, as she believed, Like Shakespeare's epitaph, which I To dig the dust enclosed here. Blest be the man who spares there stones And curst be he who moves my bones— But a tiny seed got mixed in the mortar, and it germinated ee, which I judge from the picture to be 14 to 16 inches in diam at hen | rows owt of the grave, and has lifted the ponderous cap-sto An honest confession is good for the soul—and makes Begin “Confessions of a Husband.” Attempting suicide, Seattle man complains because wasn’t squirrel whisky. A sales tax is a consumer's tax. So are nearly all others, her hands in perfectly lily- white condition, she has to change her typewriter ribbon. Women are voting and the home is as attractive as ever. Page the gent who feared that giving women the ballot Architects say that the world’s most beautiful bank This must make New York that the business doctors arns for a system for-locat- ized. Department of Labor says that in 1919, when prices were retail food bill was $2.69 a week. Some of these statisticians should be sent out with Apparently, by the time congress gets around to do something for disabled soldiers, there won't be any disabled With all the patriotic hens of the country answering to haughty omelet retains its re they appear in the Con- lows who fill the ball parks E. BARTON war, and I do not know when I m in Germany I intend to visit eyes a grave of which I have a that fs told me about it is true. sake forbear id not be opened by human hands; but she also believed that that grave was the last of her own personality. This grave, purchased for eternity, did she commit both body and The photograph shown the first with another heavy course above erse to those of the lower course. fe about that part of the story ta must have drawn its nourishment from her very dust. It{ } Questions of health, sanitation, hygiene, will be anowered if sont te 1 formation Departen: a, Vab- Me Health Service, Washingtom, D. ©, Malnutritien rh t feet What foo }to make hin Your son is more than 10 pounds underweight compared with the aver age, Let his diet include a liberal amount of milk and green leafy ver etables Wepinach, chard, kale, ete.) in addition to fruits, cereals, eggs, bread and butter and meat. His meals should be taken regu larly, with no sweets between meals, | And the food should be chewed thor. Joly, No toa or coffee. Hie whould go to bed early and sleep | with wide open windows. He should neither Play nor work too hard, either at school or outside, and evening entertainment should be very limited. Constipation should be corrected. He should have, an soon as pos sible, @ thoro medical examination to determine whether there is any defect or dinease that may be re sponsible for bis condition Anemia What can be taken to cure nemia th Anemia is only a symptom of some underlying disorder, Various forme of parasites or bacteria may invade the blood and cause a destruction of the blood corpuscles, This type of a in seen In Malaria and in cer tain forms of blood poisoning In other caxes of anemia, the blood cells are destroyed by some poison | cireulating in the blood. This type of anemia is seen in lead poisoning, in tuberculosis and in Bright's disease. Anemia is also produ by con stant lows of blood, Such loss of |biood may be due to an ulcer or to blood.wucking parasites, such as hook worm. ‘There ts a form of anemia of rather obseure origin, and apparently asso ciated with functional disturbances in the bowels. This type of anemia i# not uncommon in young women. A person suffering from anemia should be sure to consult a reliable physician and submit to a thoro ex Ana rule, such an exam ination shouldsnelude an analysis of the urine and a microscopical exarh ination of the blood. Only by deter. mining the cause of the trouble can proper treatment be outlined for the patient. Rattleships in the next great war will be shrouded in huge gas masks. In gas warfare battles will be short er and more decisive.-W. Lee Lewis, chemical department head, North. western University. eee We are now at the turning of the ways, the status quo or the rupture of the federal contract, annexation to the United States or independ. ence,—Prem) Pypmeseen, Quebec. . . Separate the sheep from the goats on the other side and you will abel ish 90 per cent of our immigration troubles.—Frederick A. Wallis, immt. kration comminat . No man has a right to lay down his own rule for the determination Why is money called “the root of all evil”? Probably be-|ot the patriotiam of others and to condemn them if there is an honest difference of opinion. —Senator Ken- yon, Iowa, id eee We have no interest in the Jap anese-American matter, except gen eral interem in the peace of the world.—David Lioyd George, British premicr. eee Women themacives are responsi ble for the alarming growth in dis reapect for women.—Fishop Thomas Nicholson, Methodist Eplacopal, Chi cago. LIMITED Diner—I can manage to cut this steak, but I'm hanged if I can chew it. Walter—Well, sir, we guarantee our knives, sir, but our responsibil ity does not extend to our custom. ers’ teeth.-Enid (Okla.) News, refreshment. Missed his train—but not sold everywhere. THE Coca-CoLa CoMPANY ATLANTA, GA. SITUTE COMMON SENSE FOR 18TH AMENDMENT » Wash, April 11, 1921 erring to the | questi rained in | Star's editort urday ' the heading of ational Crime, it would seem t that pur quent answered in own article on this subject in the April 8th issue of The Star. The general wave of bootlegring | which t# steadily increasing thruout | the entire country, clearly proves |that there is a demand for Silicit © far in excess of the available , & demand which seemingly | of the generw thruout « depression | country Such facts ag are available regard: | ing the Ulcit sale and purchase of | liquor thruout the land, | clearly prove that literally millions upen millions of our citizens, rich and) poor alike, are wilfully and repeat | edly breaking the law established by | the 18th amendment and similar state laws. In view of thin self-evident condi. tion, are we therefore to assume that these millions of citizens have deliberately become criminals over. night and that they have lost all re spect for constituted law and order in our land? 1, for one, refuse to believe much to be the case, else our fair nation would indeed be facing dark and stormy days—days that| might indeed lead us to the “know | not where” of the incipient revola tionists of 1919, What, therefore, are we to assure? Now, Mr. Editor, you and I both know that, wheras there are un doubtedly a good many people who never une intoxicating Mquor in any form, that there are at least an equal number, if not more, who do use it more or lens, ang in the pres. ent tense, We know, too, if we stop to reflect impartially, that whereas come to & pane where few peo plo dare to express themselves pub: lely on account of the fear of the powerful influence of the prohibi- tion element both in politics and in| all walks of commercial life, that if questioned privately, three out of every four will definitely exprens | themselves as considering absolute prohibition a very grave and serious mistake, Yet we are bound to admit | in all fairn that one class of these people (the wets) in just am | clean, just as moral, and just as high a type of citizen an the other (the dryw: we know that In times of «trea the wets will be found nide by side with the drys, staunchly defend ing their mative Iand and all it | otands for; and we know that in the performance of their civic duties and the conduct of their daily lives | © their communttiea, in their homes and In their religious ctreles, that no| difference exists between these two! laren Why is It then that them other wine law-abiding, Godfearing citi-| zona, are deliberately breaking, or at| the very least winking at the break: | ing of this one law of our country, in ever increasing numbers? The answer appears to be obvious! That | 't is for the same reason that aince | the dawn of history, red-blooded man has ever been prone to resent and) to tenore, if not actually break, laws that he knew to be founded, not upon the justice of elther divine or natural law, but coming from the | well-spring of radical sectionalism or | of a purttanical fanaticiam—taws | which have been enacted not because | of any inherent moraltty or any real | necessity for their being, but due entirely to the powerfully entrenched political posttion of a superorgan- |!zed, propaganda spreading, legisia- tive controlling minority, guided only by that blind bigotry which recognizes no right nor principle, neither human or divine, other than that which it, in its intolerant ego- tam, has set up like a golden calf, for all men to bow to or be de- stroyed. In other words, the average Amer. {can citizen resents the injustice in directly opposed to the letter and the spirit of the constitution of the United States as originally drawn— | an amendment which in actual effect | annuls the original constitution, and / which at the same time violates all the principles of true Christianity, in @ country that has prided itmif, and justly so, upon being a Christian | country—a law, which in states like | oyr own, even prohibits the use of |liquor for medicinal purposes, with the result that countless physicians Coca-Cola is nated In feet there was not one tenth ax much low-breaking under the “Permit La then in effect, ae there in today with “Bonedry” pre hibition in effect thruout the state are almont daily / But wn gg lg PE ES obi to commit, or to caune to be vialene clans: Neal ro — . m . mitted, a crime under the state | Yolo | elm an ected, and good, Kound regulatory ion law, in order that human pe hhibith a | mr In oF ler pooner liagpell wet tie: Bare yra on & p| Sven may ve — wtend ne ious and ‘al ert It i deplorable, indeed, that such ol = - woah 2 sows se e A tod exists should gues. ve yone ary organza > geeag td ry Abe by prohi.|%0ns, which have permeated our na M 7 ' de Jona! and state legiala « alin MNke |bition legislation in a nation like bp ater " : - bi 1 us hall A ours, that holds itself up a# a model pln 4 a r : Ya # > — x for thy ilized world to yt off the face of our legislative |for poe entire elvillzed leah) bo that the ‘seracometiees “TThat a serious mistake has been |Of the people may truly wct as such, a law that his iptolligence tells him | _ With Soups, evil of the liquor traffic waa elimi tn n a4 of being lentlem hounding hibition elen b) ibjected to the re taction of the it to which the oe ed tor wo many yearn Unfortunately the people as such have no means at their dispomal to accomplish this much-needed purifi d be evident to any one not blinded by prejudice and the only redsonable and sensible solu tion will code by facing the leruc squarely and sanely. It is a trite saying that the only people who never make mistakes are out in the committed she Guaranteed Denti By Specialis m. pro cemetery, and thin in true of nations |“atlon: this weertng out process | an well, But having once made a | 1m Be 5 magne ecm hed by the mem: mistake, the y sensible thing to par congres nd our varioun |wtate legislatures cause they alone have the means and the authority it. Have they the necessary courage to do it? BE. V. GRISVARD 308 12th Ave. N. themselves, be do is to take yer mtopn to rectify it aw quickly as posible. Our expert ment of five years of state and three | years of national prohibition should clearly prove to any impartial mind that prohibition, as an absolute con- dition, in @ rank failure in the fullent | sense of the word. ‘The proper thing to do im to take the same steps that have been taken | under other circumstances where unjust or impossible laws were en- | acted, and that is to repeal without | delay, the 18th amendment, | 608 Third Ave., cor. James Elliott 2633 HAVE 'T CHARGED togeth- | er with the national and the various | state’ prohibition laws in their en | Urety—and to substitute therefor, | Second 00d sound, common-sense legiala-| Ave. tion providing for the proper regu-| Igtion in the manufacture and sale of intoxicating Nquor, not only for sacramental and medicinal purposes, but for home use only, under such regulations and restrictions which will prevent the recurrence of the old evils of the saloon and other pub lie drinking places. We know from experience during that period when the state of Wash. | ington had eliminated the saloon, | but still had a permit system for | home use in effect, that all of the can fn 9 BE DONE . f Furnish a good frame, lenses and cane, including thorough examination of your eyen by REGIS. TERED GRADUATE OP- TOMETRIST, complete for $5.00. EYES EXAMINED FREE Oakland, California, has favored us with these low-priced specials, enabling our cus. tomers in Seattle to avail them selves of real bargains in these home necensition. GLOBE OPTICAL CO. 1514 WESTLAKE AVE. Between Pike and Pine Sts. Broths and Bouillon Well begun, indeed, is the dinner which come mences with soup and Snow Flakes—the crisp, delicately flavored soda wafer. And for the He later courses—oysters, salads and cheese. Sold by grocers in red packages and the family tins, | FLAKE | "sonrs| Don’t ask for crackers ag —say SNOW FLAKES © ‘P. C. B, ASSORTED CAKES Another P. C. 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