The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 18, 1921, Page 9

WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1921. PLACES! THE CURTAIN GOES WILL BE POSTPONED TO SOME FUTURE UP IN ONE MINUTE! We Assume the Responsibilities of Others | Aren't We Hurting Them and Ourselves, Too? BY CYNTHIA GREY On duties are not often too heavy for our shoulders, What makes #0 difficult for some of ws is that Wanecessary, We are not oMiged ta, We don't have to attend fo the affairs of owr friends. Our own) i would de detfer off than they now are did we make them rely } OM themselves, It’s foolish to fect that the good of we voluntarily assume so many that | to overburden ourselves with outside everything depends just on ws The | World rolled along just the same before we were in it, [t will still roll | mm we are dut @ memory. A’ mortifying to our sei/-pride as reat mass of humanity. Influence te mot wise to ignore. But when! Pet to thinking that we're “it,” '# time to call a halt. Or presently shall find that we are “out” in- The great prodiem of our lives” # when we are confronted with) tendone work of the shirkers. ere will always de this class of and women, ready to evade and every duty that can be evaded Rd denied. | TE takes s0 little to make some! ‘people busy, says ene correspondent, | i does. But tho we should de ready to give | Bindly doost where we ace 2 need, it is neither kind nor) wise fo take on our shoulders all the | work that is rightfully theirs, in " our own, That's what F the dack sireins of tWe—| end the extra burdens that | imposes on ws. . ee Would Buy Tent Uncle Sam Dear Miss Grey: Is it posible to buy & canvas tent direct from the ment? A CAMPER. Tea, saies are held the first Twes- Bay ef cach month at the following : “Surplus Property, Office, Bupply Base? Canavr Ware- Atlanta, Ga." “Surplus Prop- Officer, Army Supply Base, San infonio, Teras.” eee ine Stains Miss Grey; What will clean stains from celluloid? P. Try rudding the stain with @ wool- Goth and a little tripoli, and then with a clean woolen rag. Sal- ‘atus is also said to be a good cican- egency for celluloid. eee ‘Construction of ‘lanhattan Bridge Dear Miss Grey: Who was the en of the Manhattan bridge of York and his nationality? RL | The Manhattan bridge wos de- signed and built by the department ef Bridges of the city ef New York, and there were several engineers the designing and con- | struction of this bridge, and there- Mo one person is responsible for Dear Miss Grey: How did the first get over on this side of the before Colurabus came over? MARY. ‘The American Indians ere probably in origin, and their an- veached America possibly at when the two continents were at what ia now Behring strait, it may be, we are but atoms of the we have, to be sure—influence that “The Golden Scorpion” By SAX RONMER Copyright by Robert M. Meliride & Co. (Continued From Yesterday) “Le Ralafre” sipped from his glass | and agreed that Iwas right, We chatted together for ten minutes and had another drink, after which my dangerous - looking acquaintance | Wished me good night and went out —_—— Leaving my cab outside the public house, I followed him on foot, down Three Colt st ao Ropemaker st, where he turned Into a narrow alley | leading to the riverside and disap- | peared. I ran to the corner, The back of a wharf building—a high blank wall—faced a row of ram shackle tenements, some of them built of wood, but not a soul was in| sight I reluctantly returned to the spot | at which I had left the cab—and/ found a constable there who wanted to know what I meant by leaving al vehicle in the street unattended, I managed to enlist his sympathy by telling him that I had been in pu sult of a “fare* who had swindic me with a bad half crown | He told me this was a disreputable Chinese quarter His words came as & revelation they changed the whole complexion ot case. Tt dawned upon me ewen as he spoke the word “Chinese” that the golden scorpion which I had seen in the Paris cafe was of Chi- hese workmansh What I might have done or what T had hoped to do is of no tmpor tance; for a» I sat there staring out at the dismal, rain-ewept street, a man came along, peering in my di-| rection, Evidently perceiving that} I drove a cab and not a private car, | he came toward me. He gave an address not 500 yards! from my own rooms! I drove him/ there. The passenger, whose name was Dr. Keppel Stuart, very kindly sux: | Keeted @ glans of hot grog, and I did| not refuse his proffered hospitality. | When I came out of his house again the rain had almost ceased, and just as I stooped to crank the car I} thought I saw a shadowy figure mov- ing near the end of a lane which ied to the tradesmen's entrance to Dr Stuart's house. A sudden suspicion laid hold upon me—a horrible doubt. Having driven eome 26 yards along the road, I jeaned from my seat and Jooked back. A big man, wearing a black waterproof overall, was stand. Ing looking after me. Stopping my engine half-way along the next road, I Jumped out and ran tack, hiding In the bushes which grew beside the gate of a large emp ty house. I had only a few seconds to wait. A big closed car, running almost silently, paswed before me, . . . and “La Balafre” wag leaning out of the window! A moment after he had passed my stationary cab and found It to be de serted his big car was off -like the wind, and even before I could step from the bushes the roar of the pow- | THE OPERETTA BEING A ONE NIGHT STAND ASSURED A FULL HOUSE - ‘TICKETS FoR STANDING ROOM WERE NECESSARY UND THIS OPPICS WA DAZG, ANO Yo CSEN MAKING ALL KINDS oF PLNCERS IN YOUR WORK | WHAr's THO MATTSGR — ———$__—_ FIDDLESTICKS!! THERES’ A RATTLE IN THIS’ CAR SOMEWHERE. NOW “MEN, LET ME EXAMINE YOUR SOMETHING TELLS ME “THE RES WOOD ALCOHOL, a NM DOTH PICKS! TLL GET Him ir’ [WE SCALP ABSORBS) =| $% OF THE ALCOHOL, Page 366 AN AXE TO GRIND Peery was tn a gale of ex citement. “Davie, oh Davie,” she squealed, “who do you think we are going to see? A beautiful lady with golden hgir, and daddy maid she was the prettiest girl who ever or ever did go to the Uni versity of Washington, and she ery and thelr cruelty. “I must have been about 4 or 5 years old when she had the rreat fright. “She was busy about her work, snd we were playing in the yard my sisters and I, when a party of Indians came quietly up thru the woods. There was quite a WILL YA LET ME ‘ DATE! WAVE “TW RATTLE T° ‘TAKE HOME FoR. BY AHERN THE NUT BROS- CHES & WAL- Nos BUT “THE CELLAR’ 1S DOW STARS! ADVENTURES « OF cbs Webets Baten —s , now divides Alaska from Si-) or4yi engine was growing dim in the Jill 5 a were ayrrwoumrarnasi lh ine distance! THEN TAKE XouR CHoIce =—EITHER GeT Or THIS OFFICE, OR TAKE A Five- CHAPTER IL DALAR RAISE AND MARRY THE QGiRU Dear Misa Grey: How much exercise| nome, in my moaet roma “||ANO GET TACK TO did come to our Puget Sound] party and they looked to us like country when she waa a weeny] an army. little girl, and she ts going to tell] “Wwe ran to the house and us some early day stories with In |cuddied close as we could to dians in them.” mother, and watched from the Flippety-Flap looked this way, Nancy looked that way and Vick looked the other. & young collie dog have; how it be fed; what is a pediggee? f BoB T. £ {t should have at leatt 30 min- exercise twice a day. Feed it @ day aff the food it will eat apparent heartiness but do not ¥ it to nose over its food for LA gth of time. The heavy feed ‘ ld be at night. In the morning dog biscuits should be fed, a8 will require chewing and thus te saliva and aid digestion. A is a record of the ancestors @ dog as far back as such a record Dog biscuits and milk are for young dogs, but should not fed together. A moderate amount ef meat should be given at the heavy feeding, also bread, and practically ‘any table scraps that the dog will eat. a That night, well knowing that 1| carried my life in my hands, I drove | again to Limehouse town hall, and} again leaving my cab outside went | into the bar where I had previously met “Le Balafre.” If I had doubted that my movements were watched | must now have had such doubts dis pelled; for two minutes later the man with the scar came in and greeted me affably! He invited me to drink with him. and I did so. As we raised our glasses I made a move, Looking all about me suspiciously: “Am I right in supposing that you have business in this part of Lon. don?” I asked. “Yes,” he replied. “My affairs bring me here sometimes. I tapped him confidentially upon the breast, “Take my advice, as a friend,” I said, “and visit these dangerous parts along populous this I was not sorry; but I did not| and of | ping Its way thru my cloth cap! Yes! That movement had saved ‘And this is one of the ‘be-auti ful’ lady's stories: “My father haf been here a year before we came and had a house all ready for ux Mother was timid and frightened by the very bigness and newness of everything. “Her friends were thousands of miles away and her children were little and tender, she felt, to bring to so new a place. So she was not too happy. “The forest awed her, ax I told] you, but the Indians were her, greatest terror. “Of course she couldn’t un’ derstand their speech, Their strange ways were utterly new to window, “Yes, they were coming toward the house; they were not passing by as we hoped they might. “Mother's face was white and she was sick with fear. “As they came into the yart, not a man spoke, but from his blanket or from his flannel shirt each man drew out a knife. gev- eral also carried axes. “It was a terrible moment. We waited. “One man aid, ‘We want make |sharp on stone,’ and they walked jto the grindstone which father had placed in the back yard and began a long drawn out sharpen- ing of their knives and axes, look- once in a while toward our in the window, but not * mother half sobbed, ‘we shall all be murdered. Look at Where was old Tag Tiger? Flippety-Flap shaded his eyes and looked this way, Nancy shaded her eyes and looked that way, and Nick looked the other. Dear knows, they needn't have jshaded their eyes, for the jungle in jwhich they were searching was a |sunless as a cellar, the great trees, and small onés, too, making a roof as perfect as tar paper. | But it was this way. Tag, as you |know, wears stripes, yellow and \black ones, all over him, and if there is anything jin the world (or in the jungle) that is hard to see, it's stripes. ‘They fool one completely, | especially in a darkish place. Take | Zippy Zebra, for instance! It's as |certain as next Christmas that our little friends would never have seen him at ali if he had not been right out in the bright sunlight, and Zippy things, making you dizzy or half | blind or something so you can't \them. That's why Flippety-Flap |Nancy and Nick were shading their. eyes now. They knew what I have. just told you. E The jungle wna very quiet! Most |unusually so, and every time the fairyman stepped on a snappy | branch with his big shoes, or one of the twins kicked a little stone, everye bedy jumped as though @ cannon- cracker had exploded. $ the matter, do you wondered the fairyman at last. “There doesn't seem to be #0 much as a beetle around these woods, Where's everyone gon Do you suppose that that old rascal, Tag Tiger, has had them all for his meals?” Pe Just then Nick’s quick eye spied something thru the trees, ae ‘To Be Continued) her and she could not forget the|those cruel, wicked knives, See how evil the faces of the men savage scalpings and massacres| 7. she had read about—their treach- PERE HH Confessions of a Husband (Copyright, 1921, N. BE. A) WHAT A WOMAN SHOULD DO WHEN SHE | would at this very minute, most like |}y, be fooling away his time with laxy old Mr. and Mrs. Cstrieh, instead of giving pleasure to so many children lin the circus. Yes, stripes are queer as rarely as possible.” relish the prospect of Thames st.,| my life, for otherwise the knife must He stared at me very hard, his| «long which presently my course led| have entered my shoulder — and teeth bared by that fearful snarl. | me. pierced to my heart! Leming the city behind me, I turn-| Someone was hidden tn the cab! which at night} He had quietly opened one of the 4 eee ; Foteign Consul in United States f Dear Mixs Grey: Where is the| “You are a strange cabman. . Jugosiav consul? 8. R. EB. “Perhaps lam. No matter. Take| ed into that thoroft ‘The Serb-Croat-Rlovene legation ts| my advice. I have things written| is almost quite deser and then I| front windows and had awnited a« Located at 1359 Connecticut ave.,|here’—I tapped the breast of my] pulled up. suitable opportunity to stab me. Washington, D..C., Dr. Slavko Y.|tunic—“which will astonish all the} Ast stopped the cab and prepared | Now, recognizing failure, he leapt “Gruitch ts minister to the U. 8.| world shortly. I tell you, my friend,|to descend, a faint—a very faint—|out on the near side as I lurched Vladimir Bavitch is consul general,| my fortune is made.” sound almost in my ear, set me keen-| and stumbled from my seat, and ran (To Be Continued) Berb-Croat-Slovene Consul- a, New York City. oe Mothers’ ) Pensions Dear Miss Grey: What are moth- ers’ pensions and what states have | them? READER. Allowances to mothers with chil- dren under 16 dependent upon them for support sufficient to enable the ‘mothers to care fur thetr children properly in their own homes. This definition ts variously modified by “the laws of the following states, which have some form of mothers’ “pension: Arizona, Arkansas, Califor- | nia, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Itlinots, Indiana, lows, Kansas, Maine, Maryland 1 (practically inoperative because of defect), Massachusetts, Michigan, Miancsota, |, Montana, Ne- ska, Nevada, New Hampshire, Neto Jersey, New York, North Da- kote, Oho, Oklahoma, Oregon, Penn- m/lwania, Bouth Dakota, Tennessce, , Utah, Vermont, Virginia, gton, West Virginia, Wiscon- sin and Wyoming. Also the terri- | tories of Alaska and Hawaii. cee Circumference of Earth : Miss Grey: What ts the cir- ‘ ference of the earth? BERT. the equatot the circumference the carth 4s 24559 mica, > i I finished my drink and ordered another for myself and one for my acquaintance, “Five thousand pounds,” I whisper. ed thickly, “has been offered for the information which I have here in my pocket. It is not yet complete, you understand, and because they may murder me before I obtain the rest of the fa: do you now what I am going to do with this?” Again I tapped my tunte pocket. “I am going to take all my notes to my friend, Dr. Stuart, and leave them with him, sealed-—sealed, you follow me? If I do not come back tor them, in @ week, shall we say? he senda them to the police. I do not profit, you think? No, but there are some who hang!" On going out into the street I look- ed cautiously about me, for I did not expect to reach the house of Dr. Stu art unmolested. “La Balafre’ must take ft for granted that I actually designed to lodge my notes with Dr. Stuart and endeavor to prevent me doing so, The greater part of my route lay | HalunsTiem y We TAGLETS- WN WR Tonight Geta Tomorrow Feel Right|25 Box, ly on the alert. Just in the nick of| off like the wind, « a8 the blade of @| as glimpsed him (Continaed Tomorrow) time I ducked long knife flashed past my head, rip-| Never say“‘Aspirin'without saying “Bayer” Warning! Unless you see the name| ache, Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Par- “Bayer” on package or on tdblets,| *che, Toothache, you are not getting genuine Aspirin | preseribed by physictang for twenty | one years and proved safe by mil lions. Take Aspirin only as told in | the Bayer package for Colds, Head I never so much Lumbago and for All druggists sell Bayer Tab | lets of Aspirin in handy tin boxes of , and in bottles of 24 and 100. the trade mark of F ufacture of Monoaceticacid of Salycylicacid, (Copyright, 1921, by N. BoA) 11. MY SALARY GOES DOWN ONE-QUARTER That night I did not sleep very well. I had a number of dreams, most of them involving George in some way. Usually George had something ex- tremely important which he wanted to say to me, but he was never able to tell me what it Was—invariably something would interrupt us. One time Edith met us and George warn- ingly put his finger to his lips. An- other time we were separated tn a crowd; another time Dot called me away. Dreams do not usually impress me, but I wondered how I happened to dream of George. I Was hardly aware of having thought of him at all, In my mind he was a colorless, nonde- script person for whom I felt rather sorry. I said nothing about my dreams to Dot, for I did not wish to bring up the subject of Edith, Instead, I hur- ried thru breakfast and got down- town earlier than usual. About 10 o'clock the chief's secre tary asked me to step into the pri- vate office, I knew what was com- ing. There were profuse explana- tions. The chief Was almost apolo- getic, Business conditions had been such, etc, etc., but the upshot of the whole thing was that my ealary would have to be reduced 25 per cent beginning with the first of next month, Of course, I need not give him an answer immediately, and I was at liberty to make inquiries elsewhere, but business conditions, etc., made him fear that I could not better my- self elsewhere and that I had best stay with the firm. He hoped the reduction Would prove to be only temporary and that with the restora- tion of confidence, ete., ete. Twenty-five per cent, One-quarter of my salary. I had been expecting this for some time, in fact, I would not have been surprised at even a bigger reduction, but in spite of this the definite announcement came as a real shock, It would be one to Dot also, altho I had tried to prepare her for it. For a moment all I felt was an unreasoning hatred for the firm. It had made big profits during the war. What business was it of mine if now it had run for a time without profits or even at a lows? If they had not been so greedy during the War this would never have happened. One-fourth my salary! I would be making less than $4,000 a year—- about what I had been making two years ago, before Bobbie came and before we had so many additional ex- It would be mighty hard on Dot. Now I was not worrying about meeting Edith's father. My only Worry was that she might not make an appointment for me, or that he might tell me that he had no open- ing. I made up my mind to take any chance, no matter how desper ate it seemed, Going home that night I met George. “Glad to run into you,” he said. “Edith asked me to ‘phone you but I forgot about it. Can you come and see her father at 10:30 Monday morn- “You bet I can! 1 assured him, “Much obliged to you.” (To Be Continued) SHOES WEAR LONGER When you walk in comfort; so do stockings. A package of Allen's Foot-Ease, the antiseptic shake into the sho ad e shoe” comfor len’ Foot new shoes feel easy. wear shoes one size smaller by shak- ing some Allen's Foot-Ease in eac shoe in the morning, Sold every- where, ISWEAKAND NERVOUS THOUSANDS OF WOMEN RAVE SUR- PRISINGLY INCREASED THE On account of the terrible weakness, nervousness and alarming symj toms, which are often pr iron starvation of the blood, the suf- ferer frequently never suspects the real of her trouble but thin she has some other ailment. Aas result of iron starvation you suffer dach shortness tion, pains acros: memory, weak will power, melancholy oF the “biues,” disturbed digestion, loss of sleepless nights, night sweats In such cases do not walt 1 to pleces and collapse in of nervous prostration but eat more spinach and green vegetables and Nuxated Iron with” them for \d see what a differ- ence !t makes. But be sure the tron you take is organic tron and not metallic tron which people usually take. Metallic trom is tron just as it comes from action of strong acids on small pieces of irom. organic tron like Nuxated Irom 1a, fron in your blood and like the iron in spinach, lentils and apples, Be= ware of substitut he name “Nurxated" on every package and the let~ I, on every tablet. Your money will be refunded by the manufweturere if you do not obtain perfectly satisfactory results, For by all druggiata—ad> vertinement. Hallssnentcle