The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 1, 1923, Page 4

HEN the corner druggist sells wood alcohol, carbolic acid, bichloride of mercury, nitro- benzol or lead acetate he puts upon the bottle a red skull and crossbones and a warning: ‘‘Poison!” The corner bootlegger sells all those poisons — and more besides —under the labels of ‘‘Old Scotch Whisky,” “Old Rye,” “Imported Gin.” The LADIES’ HOME JOURNAL sent a man to find how hard it is to buy booze under prohibition. He found it so easy that he could have stocked a saloon in a single day in any city he visited. In New York, Chicago, Kansas City, Philadelphia, Richmond, Alexandria, Frederick, Baltimore— wherever he went—the bootleggers sold to him “Old stuff,” the bootleggers called their hooch; “smuggled in from Canada or Cuba,” with labels that were known before prohibition. Actually it was poison! Chemists analyzed it for The Journal and found it loaded with Death. Yet.men and women are drinking it. Along with the report of The Journal’s investi- gator, United States Surgeon General Hugh S. Cumming tells how bootleg kills. Before prohibition, he says, the government assured the purity of bonded liquor. There is no safeguard on hooch. How shall we save the lives 2) WhatDoYour Children Learn atSunday School ? In millions of homes at Sunday dinner, father or mother inquires of Willie and Edna: ‘Well, what did you learn at Sunday school today?’’ be And Willie and Edna squirm feebly and answer: ‘‘ Aw, nothin’.” ai Six times out of nine they are right. An untrained, unprepared teacher, a lesson about Sennacherib or Uzziah, a few worse-than- meaningless songs—and the net result is boredom, indifference, contempt, and a determination on the part of the children to quit Sunday school and church at the earliest possible moment. The religious education of young America is too important a i matter to be handled in a slipshod, inefficient, money-grabbing : { manner. . . . If you doubt this read Charles A. Selden’s article ot | on page 31 of the May Journal. a Other articles of special finclindas are: | i Flapperdames and Flapperoosters, by Freeman Tilden, a | ; humorous study of flapping grandmothers and aged lounge lizards. | The Privilege of Living, by Harry Emerson Fosdick, America’s <4 1 greatest preacher. 4 i Mark Twain, the American Humorist, by William Lyon < i Phelps. som. oI 15¢ the Copy - From Any Newsdealer or Boy Agent openly—even fought for his trade. What will he find when he visits Seattle? of our people? Feet of Clay Before Margaretta Tuttle wrote Feet of Clay ay played with the fun-hunting rich on the Maine coast and she paraded with the foot-weary models in an exclusive Fifth Avenue dressmaking shop . . . . Just what her heroine does . . . . Though its plot lies deep in the problem of the married woman with a job outside the home, Feet of Clay is no dull problem novel—it startles with ee it sparkles with wit, it breezes with fashionable Beginning in the May issue. “Out on ‘The ‘Lonely Road—the title of Appleby Terrill’s bril- liant short story—lived a man and his three little daughters. Past on The Lonely Road came a beautiful lady in a blue racing car. The children loved her, and the man —— You'lI love the story. A vividly picturesque story in a vividly colorful setting—that is But Once an Emperor, by Emma-Lindsay Squier. Illustrated by Soulen. Perhaps you know a man like Pop Henderson—well liked, ambi- tious, but a failure. Perhaps the reason is like that in Edith Barnard Delano’s poignant story, The Gods and the Machine. She was a girl in an animal show—that’s why they called her The Lady of Lions. A story in Albert Payson Terhune’s most popular manner, Also Randolph of The Courier, by William Harper Dean; The Hawkeye, by Herbert Quick; and Jt was Written in Galt, by Philip Curtiss. All in the big May Journal. Read Bootleg Liquor And How it Kills in the big May LADIES’ HOME JOURNAL. Does Your Husband Hate Your Clothes ? The other Saturday afternoon we had to wait an hour in an exclu- sive men’s club thirty minutes from Broadway. It was around six o’clock and during the hour at least fifty women came in to join their husbands for dinner. One woman wore tan woolen stockings with black satin slippers. Another had on a black silk crépe sleeveless dress, embroidered all over in white, and topped with a semi-sports red straw hat. Two had inebriate-looking cloche hats of obscure origin—but to go on is only to pile on the agony. There wasn’t a well-dressed woman in the room. They were horrible examples of money spent wrong. THE LaDIEs’ HoME JouRNAL is spending thousands of dollars each year to get and to publish absolutely authoritative fashion information. - Don’t make the mistakes these women made—get the May Ladies’ Home Journal. Init you will find see from the newest lingerie to a “‘movie” of a correct vacation w: The fashion dricematon in The Joutnal is so smart that anything shown is good for two seasons at least. LAD lose Biggest May Issue ‘NOW ON SALE }HOME JOURNAL | By Mait Subscription You can subscribe through any newsdealer or authorized agent or send your order direct to THe Laptes’ HoME JOURNAL, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ! ‘ —s9