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The Seattle Star oa Deity by The Siar Publishing Co, Phene Main $400. Nowe Sty, Ate per month. 2 othe, $1.88 & monthe, $2.00; year, 1860, BF earrier, city. Be a me Ban Franciese of New York office, Love, Frogs and Evolution To the spring. Seer thoughts of love! That's the explanation, so the have figured out, of that shrill chirping you hear around Sthe ponds and in the marshes at this time o’ year, It is the tiny male hyla pickeringi caroling his sweetest T0Ve Song to his future mate, and (need we say it?) not at fall Unlike Romeo mooning beneath the balcony and strum his ukulele for Juliet’s shell-like ear. hey become silent after the vernal chorus has served Pits purpose of bringing the sexes together, which is com- imonly the cause of singing by all male frogs and toads, Says Professor S. A. Aaron, of Lincoln university, whether you believe it or not : Even a bum guesser, after listening to Professor Aaron, an surmise that the evolutionists are right (may Bryan forgive our sins!) and that things haven't changed much Bince “When you were a tadpole and I was a fish in the f Paleozoic time,” as the popular poem had it. Does not the Tearned professor say that the little husband frog never Hsings in joyous notes after the marr occurs—and Thaven't the same traits been observed among the higher biological orders? In the Scientific American, Professor Aaron icture of the particular frog to which he Ordinary “spring peeper,” wi naturali Ppickeringi for short. This little frog has ac that makes us think of Irvin S. Cobb suffering from a bad attack of the mumps, but later we learn that he merely 4 S up this bag when he sings. In tuning up to reach : C, he blows it up almost as big as his body, which is about the size of your thumb-nail. Of course, there are other kinds of frogs which herald "the approach of rain with their hoarse croaking at any ptime during the summer, but not so with the little hyla "Pickeringi, whose gladsome shrill notes fill the evening air wat this season. After the matrimonial event, he becomes 'sad, depressed, and never feels like singing any more. » How can the anti-evolutionists ever answer this? the young frog’s fancy lightly turns to high-domed scientists gives US a refers, the hyla s ¢ Anything can happen now. In London, an Engtlshman laaghed him. death at an American movie. n't bury a bone without worrying over the | It is getting so a dog : s digging it ) This year may go down in history as the year of no coal strike. ‘onder why it is grippe germs don’t catch the grippe? Did Everett Pull a Boner? (From the Seattle Argus) P Are you acquainted with Everett True? He is a protege Hof Condo, the cartoonist, and lives in The Star. | er fond of Everett. He does a whole lot of it I would like to do. He usually beats up the right ly, and does it in a manner that nobody can find fault excepting, possibly, the guy. who is beat up. ce in a while, however, Everett gets peevish and does thing of which I do not approve. For instance, one last week he rough-housed a guy who used more paper in a hotel washroom than he thought necessary. Now, in that case Everett was wrong. While there is question in my mind but that cleanliness is next to Odliness all right, the paper towel is an abomination jn the eyes of everybody. It is a cheap subterfuge for a toy How any establishment laying any claim to being Ss can set such things before their guests is past | understanding. things rst-cl Prohibition has done some good. A Russian poet says he will never return on account of it. Paris being shocked by musical comedies, but the fare from here to ‘Paris is pretty high. Perhaps a bear driven into a Maine town by heavy snows was as as a bear. | “Holland Gin Found."—Headline. Ab, a Dutch treat. Blue Laws for Red Men | With a sob cracking his voice, Indian Commissioner Ch irles H. Burke told a Washington correspondent of this paper the other day how his heart was breaking with yinpathy for his Indian charges. most in the next breath, he issued a warning to the Indi ns that they must abandon their historical dances, on /Penalty of having strict regulations issued, defining a fery special set of rules of conduct for Indians. For in- tance, they would allow Indians to dance but one day a month, and would permit no Indian under 50 years of age the dances. “In brief, Mr. Burke proposes to so strait-jacket the dians that few of them would live until the age of 50 ) even see a dance. Our sympathies are all with those in chiefs who petitioned the Great White Father ask- Ng why, if the white reformers so object to dancing, they do not first abolish the white man’s own dances, Mar more degrading than the Indians’. matter what you plant in your garden you should be chickens out of it. able to get _ Old wine in new bottles doesn’t worry nalf as many people as old feet in new shoes. ‘Many a man’s Sunday suit is a suit of pajamas, Eager for the Funeral Carefully and favorably considering the sick-room bulle- ns, the prospective Gould heirs, who are numerous enough Tequire the services of 23 law firms, get together, while Gould is trying to breathe his last, and decide on what to do when their beloved relative is ready for ie undertaker, He who makes a record of service to his fellows is re- , loved, honored in his passing on. Money-bags es like a dying steer on a parched Arizona ranch, th only the eager buzzards on watch. The meanest boy in our neighborhood is using his mother’s moth- for marbles, ; | dee eae 1, 700 gallons of booze were destroyed. It was an BS People who won't stop at anything should never drive autos, at We Have Enough of Both A California judge has dismissed a $85,000 breach of promise suit against one Sam Kapper, of Tog Angeles, -on the ground that the promise to marry of a man already ied is null and void. Some states have laws under which married men who fomise to marry, and all that, are jailed. And they are od laws. They protect foolish girls and restrain ‘mean led men. Chewing gum is all right in Its place, whieh is not on the plano, manent waves are fino in halr, but not so good In strevts, s THE §& RIGHT ON THE JOB B’GOSH! | ey LETTER FROM | Thorou ess RIDGE MANN | [sams Dear ¥¢ ont with sound bust. SomeThing Tes ‘ ) And he i att 8 nd search may | dt'a . N we WaT 1 Pickeo pg righ cone tS AS MB WRONG MOMENT The signs of Spring are in the alr (11 make another start.) i tg Hi Mgh cepan Phy pecan Brmagensay: oe Peoples Savings Bank myrelf in vain) SROOND AVE. ANU PIKE ST, 6 signs of Spring are in the alr © got ite hooks in be). The girls are wearing aster hate (t from fun)—the longs and shorts and thins and fats (Another verne in done.) LETTERS 2 LDITOR A Plea for a Mental Editor I seo where in to Ket ov Radio The Star t any p from a with @ untversa jh he would put his mind to hat will enable anybody to see # something useful; I wish this in milia away, Just as|ventor chap would maybe invent a can hear }a Id spell a word I think be this Invent the a Hing as @ footnc as gone about fa t et ve mpent years of m eoing The wife » ugh | diacove the ba: BY ROY GIBBONS CHICAGO, April 3.—Woman wed | be the bandit of the future. | Inatead of the movie type of des. | perado with sweater and unshaven| face, a chic young mies, fatltlensly | tallored, will shove her peart-handled | automatic under your nose and re- Neve you of All this is coming If we continu divert woman's normal mater jstinct Into the * a Mies Elizabeth Carter logist here. eminent Drawing on actual cases to Itus- trate, Miss Carter points to Julia Hartnett and Elizabeth (“Honey”) | Bulllvan, two girls recently arrested In the operations | ninal organiza. | | here for compli of a new type of the sheik ba Mins 8) van's relen an queen of a band of y hs whom with her shooter, an indeterminaty 10-/ | year prison term which she now Is j serving. The Hartnett «trl is under relict ment on a charge of Tecelving atolen Property “The inferen Miss Carter eays, “ia th Sullivan and Hartnett girls ap Proached a point on the road which made them want to turn back } “This Is revealed by thir turning | | state's evidence In each instance. It proves they were not innately bad, but made so by circumstances. © to gathered,” | at both the be | “Both were suffering from unsatis- fled social desires. Each wanted a} : | beat. | Julia Hartnett (above) and | “The Sullivan girt, when arrestea,| Elizabeth (“Honey”) Sulli- | told of being inducted into the gang| van (below). | by her own wweetheart, ita leader | “The Hartnett girl wae aleo en snared by impropeg analysis of her | feelings for a certafn member of her | jgang. She thourht she loved him. of channels capable harm, doing "It has a tendency to mixdirect ma- | ternal instinct cure Hes solely | “There you have two exprensions|in prevention with responalbility of the maternal instinct over-exag- | placed entirely on the parent. | Rerated leading to misinterpretation,| «sfost girls, however, who find | @ Mfe of crime and social ruin | themselves nitpping into erotic lives “It Is girls like these who must be|are righted before the time In too carefully watched during adoles- | late. conse, | jatural tendency of the Impulse, “Over-stimulation of the sex inter. | Probably Instilled by the Creator for | est during the plastic stage of youth| moral safety of the race, ix to Ko | later directs the natural good which| along decent paths. That's why there should flow from that source into! are so few confirmed bad women," MARRIED? THEN YOU'LL WANT THIS Are you married? Have you any married friends? give a wedding anniversary party? Want to give one? 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Sarwan EATTLE untold | STAR TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 192%. PUGET SOLIND STEAMER SCHEDULES SAVE MONEY Travel by Steamer TACOMA ee iy & The signs of Spring are tn the air ght) The buds are thought) found the thing I want te budding ¢ here. « Presidential Bee Hums in Capital of Mexico 30th Obregon and de Ja Huerta Say They Won't Run pom 80c VICTORIA, te Fort Angeles Siralt Points Dally, 12:00 ight t go sah to Vie- n Gaturdey night trip.) LINGHAM, ANATOTES Round Trip NOGALES. Mexico to the press in connect withdrew as provisional | with the presk in 1920, giving over the} 1934, that in y to Obregon, he informed Huerta the nation has nothing to|his intimate friends that he would fear haa started speculation and|not be a candidate to succeed Ob-| grooming of preasid 1 candidates. |regon in 1924. He pointed out that} Already a numb of men of sup: |he had renewed pledge last year | PUGET SOUND NAVIGATIONCO OLMAN DotK- FOOT Manion sT posed presidential timber are being |at the time of his successful nego. including de la Huerta, |tiatic with foreign bankers con discussed, oA ol book the first word WAS) 414 ts now finance minister, and |cern @ plan for caring for the there, bt ely disguined as to) 42. ptutarco Elias Calles, minister |external debt of Mexico | form. lot the interior ter de In Huerta has also| Then when he got an automatic) , ong the others mentioned are|published an open letter denying re dict nd a typewriter that/naouw! Madero, brother of the late! 5, t that there 's a secret a mplit Infinitive, 1) President Francisco I. Madero, w between himself and this inventor cuss would go & rege apse Nie, Mager Calles with regard to the presi P eat farther and remove from us pot 1 succession, giving an erro RE ge sr as LE is folks the necessity of wr Fr in ee ho was|neous impression that there ts a di ing. What I x a, 1 would greate| ico, president a time | vision among those who carried out ly em an invention whereby Ilafter the overthrow of Porfirio Diaz, |succensfully the revoluticn of 1920 hd es ts in mentioned as a ponsible candidate] He dec in the letter that all NIGHT SERVICE “ f the Catholic party |friends of that revolution aré united Lorne soar 4 Bremerton nk thoughts, ar te mene Saturday and Sunday, 9:20 P. : ate In interviews gtven to the their tion to secur 0 Pewee opr dg ally tmp: oth Minister de la Huerta a its and will not wt : an pap Bd Hoe yap vee big Preddsay questions occupy thelr atten AUTOMOBILE FERRY b : Hen deplore discussion iraanaanuaie Seattle to Bremerton Dally ng & amned ke t : urely 1 {.. 1:00 PM Serine ek dar (hat Rite the (ME . Gen. Calles has also given out an Sun., 9:20 P. 3 ob sage i ; P 4 n | Intervie wht lares pre. are, 80¢ Round Trip ¥ e F t be almature the 4 ion of the presi all stretched Aidate esident Ob |denting succes & question not quilting frame of your and; on a “no-|due for consideration for an entire| then you alt down and spend halt |e! ‘orm, and who has an-|year yet i an hour making symbols and signs|~ and wrigsly punctuation marks to express your Inspiration, and before you are half thru beating out the) thought Its rhythm and force and fervor hag departed, and you wind! up with @ routine useless meas of/ words. Give us a mental radio, brother, jand forget that all-eecing eye stuff. | aa of SAYS DENVER betier segp. jo FAVORED CITY Says City Will Be Left After! Millennium | DENVER, Colo, April 3.—The | whole world tx challenged by David 1 De self-styled “King of Laraol, located at “Shiloh,” otherwise Der ver, to show proof that the planet | Venus has ever been seen at noon. | The appearance of a planet during the day caused considerable cu | ity in Denver, until local astronomers explained that It was Venus. about at! At itn clonest point to the carth, and jthus vistble during tho day But Dennis, a quaint figure, who is s the and por of the millennium. claim as a prophet. star In the “8 | tenda the cor To bear out hi Dennin declares he predicted the great war several years before it broke out, Denver, or “Shiloh” as |hie terms It, will be ono of the few | cities left standing when the world's! end comes. | The “King” scoffed at astronomers and issued a challenge thru local newspapers, advising unbelievers to | produce thelr proof. —break the news gently to your stom- ach. 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