The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 10, 1921, Page 6

“I thought you're so awful busy At the office.” I sald I was, and he said: “How did it happen you | Weren't in when Edith called | up?” ‘That was a stinger, and I felt hat recipe burning in my et. But I braved it out and feaid that I was too busy to just then. » “What did she want?” I asked. } Oh, she wanted to know if ] you and I could go to the Moore tonight. She said George (Edith's husband) bad just negotiated a eat in which he made an un- | jed hundred and so he was ing the treats” ‘Ye gods! Had 1 but known it. could have enjoyed spending ‘Bome of George's hundred, be. | it was George who fur my Waterloo the other hen I held a full on kings turned one up on ‘aces. large part of that hundred mine. I would have blown to after-theatre lunch at the or the Bungalow or the ngton. And here I was, it myself, and Dot sore at 00. ‘That nicht I helped wash the . and promised to go with | to the next symphony con- And, the I felt foolish to think Ht, I couldn't help the thought ‘that again Edith was getting my (To Be Continued) tm our the loot the flees. a mistake of a 9-year. may be in Beem but tote of grandmothers FOLK UP THE THINK OF (T? by St. Olafs College uncommonly audience, but by number of banqueters in the petow-—-Ean Claire (Wis.) Leader. ° Tennessee has farren to pitch Uncle Warren uses game horseshoes that have been 4 the past two the governor is beaten now. eee ‘Dolly had been pra; for a long for a baby sister. ‘The other morning her mother, ling the paper, exclaimed: “I see irs. Smith has a little daughter.” “How do you know that?’ asked child. read it in the paper,” answered mother. ‘ ie “Read it to me,” said the daugh- mother read: “Born—On h 5, to Mr. and Mrs, Smith, a jughter.” ‘The child thought for a moment, A WORD FROM J0SH WISE | |. Th’ barkin’ dog may not bite, | ‘bat he c'n wake somebody up. | “Mummie, I know what I'm going a I'm going to stop praying and advertising.” see . Massachusetts has denounced high sola continues to root for high a3 eee Our idea of no sort of a job is that being husband to a lady cop. eee ies movies have solved the prob- of perpetual emotion. eee HOW HE DID IT _ Friend—Tell me the secret of your ‘@uccess. How have you gained so many patrons in so short a time? Grocer—I bought a parrot and trained it to cry, “Oh, isn’t she love- et, time a lady entered my 4 Boston Post. ‘ one A Harvard professor has been ar ested by dry agents, who say he had the finest still they have found. You ean see the value of a college educa ton. eee G. H. Burntrager of Houghton, sends these: 4 A PHILANTHROPIST A bootliegger from Syracuse, Gets vo much dough for his booze, Hoe gives free burial to those Who turn up their toes When they drink his “innocent” brews. AT A LUNCH COUNTER “Give me a sandwich, please.” “Yes; will you eat it here or take it with you?” “Both.” THEIR STOCK IN SOAK Drug store ad: “We keep every- thing in hot water bottles.” oe And what has become of the prin etre who used to say that every. thine was either “cute” or “fierce”? TAXES F COURSE, taxes are higher than they used to be. Everything, else is. And |where. /now than they were ten years ago. jtle a decade ago paid in licenses alone $300,000. THE SEAT it is conceivable that there are many tax extravagances. |There always are. Not only inSeattle and Washington but every-| | There is nothing startling in the fact that taxes are much higher Three hundred saloons in Seat- There were no /mothers’ pensions to pay then, nor were there any administration icharges for invoking There was scarcely | Only ten years ago- $20 for the collection of garbage. This means an addition to the tax rate. also a general saving to the community. ‘back to the heartless days of old? a minimum wage or an 8-hour day for women. | K a playfield in Seattle then. -but even in this meager period, and economic changes have come to pass. Would we willingly forego} these? Hardly. Not even for a certain reduction in taxes. Ten years ago every householder paid a private company $10 to Today the enunicipality does it. | Nevertheless, it means The average homeowner Pays an extra dollar or so for taxes on this account, but saves from | $8 to $18, which he would have had to pay otherwise. Ten years ago, our city firengen worked 21 hours a day and seven \days a week. We have the double platoon now. yast social These are some of the things to be considered. jlisted in | |tency. re It will not join, however, in unconstructive denunciation of Seat- itle’s tax rate. Seattle’s tax rate is figured on a 45 per cent valua- ition. In other cities the rate is figured on full valuation. The waste in government should be eliminated. The Star is en- perpetual war upon official extravagance and incompe- If it is 71 mills in Seattle, it is equivalent really to about 35 mills if That’s the important question. | |figured on the same basis that some cities do. @ Is Seattle’s tax rate higher than it is generally in cities of its class? And if it is, is it not pertinent to inquire whether in those other cities they still cling to barbaric con- jditions such as the single platoon for firemen? Unless we are willing to go back to some of the old conditions, let’s quit knocking this city and state on the tax question. the city a whole lot of harm and absolutely no good unless the criti- cism is directed to specific extravagances and waste. It does By all means, let us eliminate all dead wood in the office-holding ||machinery of the state. Let us eliminate waste wherever it rears its | |head. But that does not mean that we must continually knock our own surface. We have cheaper water and cheaper light than in most cities. We|"™, »|city and state with unfavorable comparisons that only scratch the act humanely towards firemen and towards policemen, too. We have the mothers’ pension, and fieldhouses for children, and play- grounds, and minimum wages for women, and an eight-hour day. When we compare Seattle’s tax rate with some other city, we must know what the conditions are in that city. And, when all is said and done, our officials are probably no more extravagant than the officials of those other cities. This, of course, does not excuse our own officials. Seattleites to knock their own city. But it makes it less excusable for Boost! Don’t knock! Séattle will compare mighty favorably with most cities in the United States on the tax question, as on any other. | Observations Col. Forbes demands cheaper.rent for war risk offices in Seattle. He’s one tenant who can sass his landlord and get away with it. And another fellow who has a soft snap at this time of year is the leading man in bathing girl comedies. Mr. Einstein will confer a great boon upon mankind if his theory of space and time makes pay days occur more frequently. Funny, isn’t it? The fellow who lives near the seashore is planning to go to the mountains and the man in the mountains plans a seashore vacation. Probably the fellow who has a bushel of German marks Jaughs at the worthless stone money used in Yap. BARTLETT’S CHILDREN BY DR. WILLIAM E. BARTON A man named Bartlett, having ealled the seven seas, established him- self as a trader in Alaska. He remained thru the polar night, and pros. pered in his dealings, and sailed the seas no more. He married an Eskimo woman, and was known as a squaw-man, a term understood in that region merely as stating a fact and not as conveying 4 reproach. His Eskimo wife was a falthful tho undemonstrative mate. She learned enough about his kind of cooking to please him, and her attentions to his wardrobe made it leas shabby than that of a bachelor in that region was likely to be. His demands upon her were primitive, and she had no other wish than to please him. They lived contentedly together, each one of them leas unhappy than either would have been alone. Bartlett knew enough of the Eskimo language to buy furs and sell canned beans, but he never acquired the domestic vocabulary, if there is one, of the Eskimo. He and his wife understood what little they needed to communicate to each other by signs and a very few monosyllables. Virtually they did not talk to each other. Four children were born to them, and Bartlett assumed that it was a woman's business to bring up the children, a mistake which in shared by not a few men in good standing in the United States. The children learned their mother’s language, not their father’s. Those children grew, and Bartlett saw in them more and more that |kindled his interest. But when he essayed to teach them to talk his |language, all their experience and his own habits were opposed His at jtempts were awkward, sporadic and futile; and he gave it up. There came a geologist, examining the glaciers; and he had much truck with Bartlett, who knew the region and the people and the tce-fields as no other man with whom the scientific man could communicate, More- over, Bartlett was the man to whom he had to go for food and supplies It is this geologist who is alleged to have brought back the strange story of Bartlett, and I assume that the story as he tells it is essentially true. Whether he is a truthful man or not, I am; and I know fathers who have permitted their children to grow out of their lives almost as effectually as Bartlett did. This scientist saw these four children, play ing about Bartlett's store. One of them was 10 years old, and others were younger. The youngest was just a toddler ‘The scientist noticed after a time that Bartlett had an Interest in these particular four children, and looked on them with a certain shy affection, and @ strange hunger; and at length it occurred to him that these were Bartlett's own children. “Yes,” rtlett, “They're mine. And T kind of like the little fellers. But they t talk my language and I can't talk theirs; and 1 reckon I'm the lonesomest man alive.” Try This on Your Wise Friend How many apples would you need, to give a friend one-third of the total and one-third of an apple more, and still have one apple left? Anawer to yenterdny’s: 121 BY BERTON BRALEY When they say the world is growing Worse and worse, And it’s only fit for stowing . In a hearse, That, tn fact, we're simply staying In @ rapidly decaying 4 Universe; Do not let those mourners fret you When they dourly seek to get you In their clutch; For that style of cheerful chatter Needn't cause your tears to splatter, Since it really doesn't matter Very much. When they say our gitls are awful As can be That our boys have grown unlawful —ldst to me, That's a tale that Age would throw a Fit about when Father Noah Put to sea; Age haz always cried acutely, “Youth wilk—oh most absolutely— Get in Dutch ;” Let the poor old fogies clatter As their prophecies they scatter For it really doesn't matter Very much. Let the croakers and the groaners Have their say, Let tho misery-bemoaners Moan away, Let the flery world-upsetters Talk of slavery and fetters As they may; You don't need to pay attention As they view with apprehension Life and such; If thelr vocal cords they shatter With this line of pleasant chatter— Well, it really doesn't matter Very much. Monkey steak Is a delicacy in Afri- ca. The price of steak here makes a key of the consumer,—Detroit News, Do we want to go TLE STAR SETH TANNER | Every man is different from all others—till he's married, Th’ feller what don't kick is sure to s TODAY'S QUESTION Would you, like a man in New York, stop altering » house to give birds, nesting there, an uninterrupt ed nesting season? ANSWERS MISS BESSIE BARNES, 1422 Fourth a “I certainly would, if | could fp arrange it" M. PE ELL, Edmonds “I don't know what I would do. It all de pends on a lot of considerations.” H. C. BARDEN, 1119 Jackson st “One of my weaknemes is birds. So you can depend on me.” G. G. REEVES, 2002 FE. 55th st “I'd try not do anything rash either way.” 8. L. TAYLOR, 1022 Howell st “Well, it's a mighty fine thing to do, all right. I would if I could.” Vaccines for Rheumatinm Altho I bave previously discussed this matter, it may be well to repeat, sepecially to warn as to “sure cures” for rheumatiam. There are not only a number of different kinds of rheu- matiom, but many entirety unrelated conditions are often mistaken for rheumatiam. Treatment should never be undertaken until after a careful medical examination tn order to eaablish @ correct diagnosis, Vaccines have been used apparent. ly with success in some cases of cer. tain forma of rheumatiam, but even these constitute only a very small proportion of the cases correctly! diagnosed as rheumatiam. Here are two questions recently re | ceived about the heart. One asks for information about leakage, and the Other about a heart that “blows.” The questions 1, WIN you kindly tell me the eymp- toms of leakage of the heart? What is What is the cause of hat can I do to correct Itt erson live a jong life with this he is careful? c Ps defect If OR NITRIC ACID a Nuree—-ltub him well with slycerine every two hours in the day: | time, Foot Nurse—What shall I use at night, nitro-glycerine?’—Science and Invention, DR. J. R. 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I reminded you once the dineusnic the gentle Kenzie) said, pomibly yesterday, that if it were ax concretely known what \thie view of the country was upon this mubject (size of our army) an it |was on the subject of prohibition, that if the people stronger consensudof opinion on this mubject than upon the question of prohibition. and whore soul in, want « dr man sa war; | want a great standing army.” TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1921. From the |{ In the Editor’s Mail q Congressional || NO BIBLICAL PROHIBITION OF STRONG DRINK Editor The Star Aprit 18 forced? centuries people are mentioned unk, commencing w In your temue o law Is En the author states that no in “Wht Every time one of you (repub ‘Chrintian” will have of kind about him, According to anvertion, montof the people that had the misfortu live before the so-called of the 18th amendment us canne “hoow before that Mr Got-te il be; but up till a few yearn perfectly legal to own wine, #0 & good many peo- r all at onee ink wine or prohibition and #0 fre- people who on hypocrites, it them at all © who in publie “blemin ee ‘TAL, TORTURE 1 think it was in this army bill that from Hiinols (Mr. Me MORE ME Mr. Chair nat left their native a that they might worship the Lord as they thought right, brought their lia ye nd drank it. Before the 1 epeak about how great the n law wan passed, many | by of prohibition are and them longing to different denom-| go home and take @ drink on the sly, d wine and beer in mod E. J. aid », who vor along probibit spoken on upon pro mld be in now to act there is @ hey verenm vid kno I think pt feel that the ‘onounce a|“The Editor paid n d forbid us began, Nothing is mentioned| Then a thrill of Joy almost audibl: about it in the Ten Commandments, ran where we are forbidden to stes nnd | Thru our murder. Several times the Bible mayed warns against drunkenness, as well| Hach recalling failure and empty as aguinest gluttony, but no prohibi | purse tion against using wine; and the|And knew his success. “The editor wine used in biblical times was fer. paid mented wine, as many Umes thru the | Not the Ie thus the poet curse on « to une it? 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