The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 17, 1921, Page 11

A ate ” ————— ee \ an ws fie ) —TUESD MAY 17, 1921 Cynthia y all We Place Age Limit Picture? One Reader Not Bliss,” Both Sides of Life. Dear Miss Grey: @¢ for bis outlawry? } then. _ What boy of today, after seetng the villamn tarred and feathered, hung. shot, or any one of the numerous punishments, could want to step in his tracks? We must remember that the cinema writers, producers and the Btre owners as well as authors and public demands. What picture or story of 1920-21 could compare tn villainy to “Jesse This letter ts 9 response to "EL L.'x” challen, 1 eertainily do not agree with her in the least. The pictures and pom. ot Bandit, robbers, thieves and gunmen really teach us all a lesson, They Show the fatal ruin that always results from straying from the straight ‘Shd narrow path, Who has ever seen one of the cinema “bad men” reward. | If he reforms he is generally rewarded, but not watil Grey: on the Sensational Motion | eader Argues That “Ignorance Is | and That Y oung Folks Should Know Publishers are producing what the/ James” or “Diamond Dick,” or any of those that as a youngster you an your playmates read? None of them. ‘The majority of our boys today are Teading tales of the North woods,, clean adventures that show | Rihem the better things in lite Of! . there is a small minority who | int out all the old murder stories, sat their percentage is small. When you were young the motto “Ignorance Is Bliss,” was very weil, Indeed, but we have all found that) Ht ten't as Diiswful as it might be. It "fa best that our children should know Tight from wrong and be shown it clearly that they have no desire to do anything but the right. If there are those who, from the) uit of parents or their bringing up. | after having been shown the two ways, choose the easiest, why make; the rest suffer by taking from them “the chance to see both sides? Perhaps some may say, “Why not make our moral and desperado the-| atres set an age limit at 18, the way they used to do?" Here is my answer: The majority of boys and girls who! go Wrong do so tn their early teens. | If they are barred from seeing the} right or wrong unti) they are 18, they will naturally go Wrong, and hen when they become of age it will! be too late. I say let our children go thre life their eyes open that they may up eas good, clean men and that they in time may guide children along the ways of wis | and virtue, and that not in their ce they lead their children ngly to degradation and mis Knowledge can hurt no one, and fm this present day when it ts a neo- essary requisite to get along in this orid, it comes in wery handy, in- I sincerely thank you. Karo, Training Compe. pens imprisonment (for a felony), ty, insanity, neglect, want of adultery. South Carolina does permit divorce for any cause York grants divorce for adul- only. of or Leader Miss Grey: How many sons Samuel Gormpers and is one ot employed by the government? } Samuel Gompers has three sons: of them is chief clerk of the de nt of labor, Washington, D. C. eee Dear Miss Grey: Has the Titanic an seen since it was sunk? How was the ocean at that place? M The Titanic has not been seen zs ft sank. The ocean ts approxs ly two miles deep where the Ti wank. ‘Methuselah Still ‘Holds Record Dear Miss Grey: Who was the istories? Methuselah ts recorded in the Bible ‘attaining the nge of 969 years. “ie at Income Taz ords Dear Miss Grey: How much tm tax did the United States cob Ject last year? 6. H. ‘The total collections of tncome and [excess profit taxes for the fiscal year lending June 20, 1920, were $3,966,- 936,003.60 for Miss Grey: Please recom. nd @ book on teaching dogs tricks don the care of dog. FF. Horse and Dog.” by H. is the only book we have to find which deals ex ely with teaching dogs tricks. Wnfortunately this book is out of int. In general, it may be said almost any dog can be taught by patient repetition. Lessons hould not be so long as to tire the mal. He should never be pun hed while learning. He should al ya be rewarded when he performs trick succensfully—by petting and dainty of some kind. oe . Aske About Submarine Dear Mins ey: To what depth [pan a submarine dive and stay any ength of time? B. R ‘This depends entirely on the size ind make of the submarine. The Jnited States navy record for sub ine depth iy 296 fect. The length pe of submersion depends on the mount of oxygen consumed and the orking order of machinery | resort ‘for London “STUDY WITH AN-EXPERT Business Gllege “The Golden Scorpion” By SAX ROMMER Copyright by Rebert M. Mcliride & Ca CHAPTER Iv. New Scotland Yard had been ad | vised that any reference to @ scor | pion, In whatever form it occurred, | shoukl be noted and followed up, but nothing had resulted, and as a matter of fact, I was not surprised in the least, | I had caused a watch to be kept | upon the man Miguel, whose estab lishment seemed to be a recognized of shady characters. I had Be absolute proof that he knew, anything of the private aftaim of | the Hindu, and no further reference to a scorpion had been made by anyone using the cafe telephone. | Nevertheless, I determined to give him a courtesy call before leaving | * © © and to this determination I cannot doubt ce | (Continued From Yesterday) | once again I was led by Providence. Attired in @ manner calculated to) enable me to pas unnoticed among the patrons of the estatlishment, I entered the place and ordered Eight or nine men were ta the! cafe, and two women. | Another there was In the cafe who interested me as a student of physiognomy—a dark, bearded man, one of the card players. His face was disfigured by a purple scar} extending from his brow to the left corner of bis mouth, which it had/ drawn up into a permanent snarl, so that he resembled an enraged and dangerous wild animal Mental. ly I classified this person as “Le! Balafre.” 1 bad just made up my mind to! depart when Sach, an Apache | FF ig Hi carried In a hip-pocket. At this moment I observed some- thing gtittering upon the floor clone to the chair eccupied by the Al All my arrangements were made for leaving Paris, and now 1 tele | phoned to the assistant on duty tn my office, instructing him to take certain steps in regard to the pro- prictor of the cafe and the Algerian, | and to find the hiding place of the man Jean Sach. I counted it} important that I should go to London at once. | In this belief I was confirmed at) the very moment that I boarded the | channel steamer st Boulogne; for, as I stepped upon the deck I found) myself face to face with a man) who was leaning upon the rail and) apparently watching the pamengers | coming on board. | It was “Le RPalafre.” who had! been playing cards in Miguel's eafe on the previous night! | Arrived at Charing Crom, he stood for a time in the booking hall, | glanced at his watch, and then took | into the station | 1 walked out also. Placing his bag upon the ground, he lingered, looking to left! and right, when suddenly a big closed car painted dull yellow drew | up beside the pavement. It was driven by a brown-faced chauffeur whose nationality I found difficulty | in placing, for he wore large} goxgies. But before I could de-| termine upon my plan of action,| “Le Balafre” croamed the pavement | and entered the car—and the car glided smoothly away, gotng east. But I had seen something which had repaid me for my trouble. As the man of the scar had walked up to the car, he had exhibited to the brown-skinned chauffeur some object which he held in the palm of his hand .. . an object which glittered ike gold! PART Ith CHAPTER L Behold me established in rooms in Pattersea and living retired during the day While I permitted my beard to grow. I had recognized that my mystery of “The Scorpion” waa the biggest case which had ever engaged the attention of the Service de Su rete. I had placed myself in touch with Parts, and had had certain pa pers and licenses forwarded to me. I was now possessed of a French motor license and also that of a Paris taxi-driver, together with all the other documents necessary to es tablish the identity of one Charles | Malet. Everything was in order, 1 presented myself—now handsomely bearded—at New Scotland Yard and applied for a Heense. The “knowle of London” and other testa I passed successfully and emerged a fully fledged cabman! Already I had opened negotiations for the purchase of a dilapidated but serviceable cab, I arranged to garage my cab in the disused stable of a house near my rooms in Battersea At every available opportunity 1| haunted the Fastend streets, hoping for a glimpse of the big car and the! brownskinned chauffeur or of my) scarred man from Paris, Such’ diligence never goen long un- rewarded, One evening, having dis charged @ passenger, @ mercantile THE SEATTLE DOINGS OF THE DUFFS THE SECOND REWEARSEL, fry | OP THE OPERETTA TO BE OFFERED BY THE LADIES BRIDGE CLUB kK AT GLENN HALL w ptt ht THE DiRECTOR seLects fed MR TOM AND WILBUR DUFF Fé TO ACT AS THE FOUR MOVING PARTS OP THE PRIZE RACE HORSE WHICH APPEARS IN THE THIRD SCENE - TT WAS DECIDED HOWEVER ‘THAT THE TEAM WAS NOT WELL MATCHED SO BOTH FRONT ANDO HIND LEGS WERE O_ Excuse” Sd * OT BD and Page STAR YE GODS, THAT WILL NEVER DO! You MEN WILL HAVE TO CHANGE PLACES t SWPPWG DEMPSEY RUSHES- le. 365 AN INDIAN TRAIL “David,” Pegey asked, “what are ‘stick Indians? So many times in pioneer stories they talk about them.” “1 wondered about that, too,” | David answered, “and the other day I met a man who told me.| He's a peach of a rememberer,| Some day I'm going to get daddy to take us to see him “He said the . Indians named people by the sort of place they lived in. “Stick” is the Chinook tor | tree. It means stick, too, and a| lot of other things, but !t means tree. So all the Indians who lived back from the Sound, and in the forest, were ‘Stick Indians,’ because they lived In the ‘sticks, see? | “And the Indians down around | here were canoe Indiana, because they traveled everywhere in canoes, and like that. } “Well, the Swinamish tribe had & rule that the Stick Indians! couldn't come any farther than the mouth of the Skagit river “They didn't have court houses and lawyers and jails, and bie law books, but I tell you they had plenty of laws, and they were| quick enough to get a man if he| broke one. One of their lawn that waa in every tribe was that if one man killed another In a different tribe, the tribe brothers of the dead man could pick out just as/ good a man and kill him. too. “A chief had to be killed to make up for the killing of a chief, & rich man for @ rich man, or & popr man for a poor man, but if a teibe didn’t want to have any of It» men killed like that they could pay whatever the other tride man was worth. “One, time the Stick India came down past the mouth of the Skagit river and that was against the Swinamish rules, and a@ Swinamish Indian got killed while the Stick Indians were there, “So the Swinamish Indians call e4 a council and had « sort of court. “Our brother ts one,’ they wald. ‘He was a good hunter and brave; you shall not return to the stick country until you have paid. Shall we now destroy one of your young men or will you “And the Stick Indians put their heads together and talked and talked and at last they de- cided to pay whatever the Swin- amish asked. My ploneer was there and he saw it. “He didn't know how much they asked for, because he didn’t under stand quite all they said, but it was so many blankets and so many guns and so much money. “The men ran away and came back with their things and put them in a pile-—a blanket, a gun, and two dollars and a half, a blanket, a gun and two dollars and a half, till the pile was almost a yard high. Then the Swinamish chief said, “It ls enough.’* Beene officer, at the Past India docks, I saw-a large car pull up just ahead of me in the dark. A man got out and the car was driven off. 1 saw his scarred and bearded face! Triomphe! it was “Le Balafre.” Having lighted his cigar, he croused the road and entered the sa loon of a neighboring public house. 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GO MAKE THE CHANGE QuiKiy You OT Ry Lee LeT's see — On, (SS, HERS Ir 183s) MISS ANAT UYU TAT A 9 Lat iter’ ADV ENTURES - OF THE Twi “Are you circus-folk?” inquired Zippy timidly.' “What do you mean by saying that you were the person who some- times helped to pull the great golden wagons in the circus?” asked Mrs. Ostrich of Zippy Zebra, Zippy answered proudly. “Why, because I took turns with each of them, One day I'd be at the head of the brown ponies, the nexé with the milk-white ones, and the next y I'd help the coal-black ones. Then I'd begin all over again,” “But why?” Mrs. Ostrich insisted upon knowing. “Because! answered Zippy tm: portantly. “Because I was considered the most ornamental pony in the whole circus, “Hm? said Mra. Ostrich doubt: fully. Zippy got cross at that. “IT was more appreciated there than I sm here,” he retorted. “Other folks think I am, handsome, even if you don’t.” Zippy went on with his grazing and thereafter kept up an indignant silence without any chuckling. Pretty soon he flapped his right ear, then his left ear, then both of them. Not because they were burning, but because he heard something—steps and coming right toward him! He looked up in startled alarm. Mr, and Mrs. Ostrich had heard the steps also, but taking fright, hid Filla house had not one car but three—a limou- sine, a roadster and an electric. “I'm sorry, dear”—I tried to be as gentle about it as I could—“but I am not nearly so enthusiastic as you over what Edith's father is go- ing to do for ua.” “Why, what's the matter?” “In the first place, I don't believe in mixing friendship and business. You and Edith are good friends, but that doesn’t mean that her father must give me @ job. In the second, most men resent having their wom- en-folk interfere in thelr business affairs, and Edith's father probably isn't any different from any other man. (I meant to add that I wasn’t either.) In the third place—well, I don’t think it is a good thing for us to put ourselves under too great ob- ligations to the Slocum«” “Of all the foolish ideas yours ts the gilliest!” Dot was thoroly angry. “Don't you want to get ahead in the world?) Don't you want to amount to anything? When your employe! takes a’ y one-third your salary—" “He hasn't done it yet.” “Well, he’s going to—are you just going to say, “Thank you, it's so good of you not to take more’? Aren't you going to take a good po sition when it is offered to you? Will you refuse It Just because you hap- pen to know the man's daughter? I never thought you could be so fool- ish! “And I don't see why you should be so afraid of being under obliga- tions to the Slocums. You almost fought with George at the restau- rant last night to make him let you pay the check. I don't know what's going on inside your head, anyway. I don’t see where there's any obliga- tion. If you make a lot of money for Edith’s father they'll be as much un- der obligations to us as we are to them. “Why don't you say what you rea’ ly think and tell me that you don’t want to have anything to do with the Slocums because they’re my friends? You don't care if I have to get along without a servant and do without any new clothes!” thetr silly old heads quickly in the ground, thinking that they couldn't be seen. Flippety-Flap, Nancy and Nick were close upon Zippy before he dis covered them, and being tak, by surprise, he started to run. Then he stopped id slowly came back. The fairyman’s enormous shoes caught his eye, also the Magic Green ones the twins wore, Shoes ‘n' things like that made him home- sick every time. a “Are you circus-folk?”’ inquired Zippy, timidly. “Yes,” nodded Flippety-Flap, “but not the way you mean. However, we are going there now, Would you like to come along?” “I believe I should,” “ip nodded nen come right along,” beckon- ed the fairyman. When the ostriches pulled up their heads, Zippy Zebra was gone, hide, stripes ‘n’ all. (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1921, N, E. A) PAGE 11 BY ALLMAN — | BY AHERN THE WUT BROS-CHES 5 WAL * KEED THE WOME FIRES aoa right I was hardly justified in fusing @ chance to better myself sim- ply because of some suspicions . might prove to be absolutely ground: less. After all, what did I know about Edith? 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