The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 28, 1923, Page 11

MONDAY, MAY ‘ OWING =<. THE SEATTLE PAGE 11 Patronize Local Manufacturers One stove manufacturing concern in this state employs approximately 140 men, with a payroll of over $200,000 annually. If all the stoves used in the state of Washington were bought from Washington manufactur- 71 —_———————— r guaranty any good tis f you to determine offer 1 in As and Wl better | I'll undertake to sel ein and di n » put it thru, » you a safe speculat } u and a quick Wher t more with me, and as is just my speed. Perr emind you that time is flying, and that I have given myself only three hours in which to turn this rty. I in tend to beat Nelsor yply that | beating on account of an old score. This is more than a mere business| deal.” "I like your energy,” the banker confessed, “and I'm inclined to bet some of my own money on you. Now"—he pushed a button on his desk—“let's see if th are any any others here who feel as I It was early evening when ( skow returned to his wife's and} his daughter's rooms at the Ajax He slipped in quiely and sank into a chair “Mercy me! I thought you was! run over," Ma Briskow exclaimed. I feel like I was,” the nester de. clared, with a grin. “Say! y sold the Evans lease an’ more money than ever.” ‘Then mebbe you can aff new suit,” Allie told him. look like sin.” Her father nodded, but his mind| was full of the incidents of that af. ternoon and he began at once to re-| count them. He told the story badly, | Lat in a language that the woman/ understood. He had not gone far, however, when the girl interrupted him to exclaim: “Wait! Why. Pat say Mister “Gray aroney?* “He had less'n a hundred dollars, An’ him livin’ here like a king with everybody bowin’ an’ scrapin’!” Ignoring the effect upon Allle of this) Inteltigenée, he continued his re- vital, “All E done was set around while him an’ them bank people talked it over,” he said, finally. ‘Then they got their lawyer in an’ he examined the title papers. Seem- ed like he'd wever git thru, but he did, an’ they signed some things an’ ‘ve come out, an’ Mister Gray told tue Vd made forty-eight thousand dollars.” “Goodness Ma_ Briskow's cyes widened. hy, that Evans place ain't wuth the taxes,” “It's more ‘n likely wuth a million. But think! Him tellin’ me I'd made forty-elght thousand dollars! It gtve me a jolt, an’ I says I didn’t make it, I told him T’d fell down an‘ turn- ed the hull thing over to him. ‘It's you that’s made forty-eight thous- and,’ I says.” “What?” Allie inquired, sharply. Then when her father had repeated himself, she asked with even greater intensity: “Wha’d he say to that? He didn’t take it, did he?" “He laughed kinda queer an’ says, all I got to do to give him a good! ¥ Mister | we | “You You mean to ‘ain't got no | voice failed her completely ten! uttered a « What at this an diam nd of Aus ‘ Na P thelr wa protest; then are you talkin’ "We t insanity kinda r'iled. feel that way Wouldn't listen to n ment a he says some Finally we'll if in the > pardners: was ripe t an made hin’ else, an ung y-four thansar You fo iskow 4 up nd his daught wous Wastag Gus B Ung start to | ov ver had he dat th He could not » girl had be. is moment ssperous, come a scowl money, seemed upon t him with he was a to ac yur thous: | indeed Wha'd "A she grop-} “You give him ’ dollars? Give you do it for? Wt for a spectacular b The strike at Ran the explosion came of tnflammat farm at Burkburnett a confiagration occu |comprehenstve ‘story of whi ver to him? ad you e's | liquid from the Then ed, the ed at Ker throat, uttering unintel- | &4* ligible, animal-like sounds Fowler Allie, you're mad! ter all he done for m Briskow cried, oughter be ashamed.” . I he make us twenty And at. | Indeed Mre "You | ne can be written, owing to the fact no human mir events of he usingly Sure! mo: Chaos came pha i exc t ‘ Joon "that changed | but it cou bh as} joil fie ot noth ar * him prised at you." A harsh exclamatior the girl—to the astonished it sounded like an oath, not have been—then she swung her- self heavily about and rushed blind into the next room, slamming the} out metal behind her with a crash that threatened to unhinge It “Well, I be— ay" Bris kow turned a slack, empty face upon per f his In ed rl would turn dy Is became a orta tement we rm sup tic ster w flelds. | @ and parched r s much was off it exciting than a happened there. conversation was the and, as Mark Twain said, body talked about but noth. n Within 60 days this be Gus ame a lot wus that ¢ own lerricks rose out of chicken runs, }bollers panted in front yards, mobs of strangers surged thru the streets and the alr grew shrill with their bickerings. From a distance, the sky line of the town looked like al tenance slowly of grief anc he mother's ¢ rinkled into lines worry, she wrung her hands and| rocked from side to side. “I dunno what's come over the child," she moaned, tearfully. “She behaves #0 queer over them silk stockin’s an’ corsets an’ lingeries an’ things that she skeers moe. Sometimes I'm afeerd she's goin’ crazy—or some thing.” Island, The Diack-lime territory farther) south had proven too expensive for) panies to handle, but here the o' |was cloner to the surface and the |ground was easily drilled, hence | | quickly became Known as a’ poor man's pool. Then, too, experienced| oil men and the large companies who had seen townsite booms in| CHAPTER IX No industry can boast a history more dramatic, more exciting, than that of oil. From tho discovery of petroleum, on thru the develop: ment of its usefulness and the vast) expansion of its roduction, the ory is one of intense human in.| ther states, Kept away, surrender- terest, and not-even the story of|!"S the place to tenderfeet and to/ mining has’ chaptera more stirring| Fomoters. Of these, thousands ob more, anectaccier: jcame, and never was there a. har- The average man has never| Yt so ripe for their gleaning. stopped to consider hew ‘close he is), Naturally a little country town to the olf business or how depend.| ke this could’ not “hold the new- ent he is upon St; from babyhood,|COMers. therefore W when his nose is greased with va: line, to the occasion when a motor hearse carries him on his last jour-| ney, there is not often a day when} he fails to make use of mineral oil or some of its by-products. Ocean| liners and farmers‘ plows are driven| hy it; it takes the rich man to his office and’ it cleans the shopgirl's) gloves; it gives us } never were at least a few hotels and somo sort of office quarters—sheds be- neath which the shearing could take place—and there the herd assembled Of course, the cougars followed, and, oh, the easy pickings for them A fresh kill di Warm meat with every meal. Such hunting they had known, hence they gorged themselves openly, seldom qduarrel-| ing among themselves nor even} bothering to conceal the carcasses of their prey. It was easter to pull down. a new victim than to return} to the one of the day before, | Rooming houses slept their guests! in relays, canvas dormitories sprang dominion oyer| the air and beneath the- waters of} the sea, We live in a mechanical} age, and without oll our bearings would rin hot and civilization, as| we know {t, would stop. It Is the] very blood of the earth, Oil production is a highly special. ADVENTURES OF THE They Like to Come Up Out of Their Underground Homes HERE are lots of countries un- der the ground besides Ragsy land. There are Brownie Land and Gnome Land and Pixie Land, Some of these little fairies are good and some are not #0 good and some are not food at all. The Brownies, like the Ragsies, are kind little folk and help people out whenever they are In trouble, The elves, too, are nice, altho they don’t trouble themselves much about other people's affairs. They like to come up out of their under. ground homes and sit on rose vines and dance in the moonlight, and do things like that. ‘The pixies ere tricky. They love nothing better than to play jokes and have fun at other people's ex- pense, But the gnomes am downright mean, They'd just about do any: | thing, #0 they would, | One day after the Twin had helped the Ttugsles put the sauce patch garden into such fine order, Mister Tatters,”’ the nice little Tagsy man, said, ‘Now for the flower gar- Olive Roberts Barton up on vacant lota, the lobbies of the hotels were: packed with shoul dering maniacs until they resembled | wheat pits, the streets ware clogged | with motor cars, and the sidewalks} were jammed like subway plat-; forms. Store fronts were knocked! out and the floor space was railed) off Into rows of tiny bull-pen brok-| ers’ offices, and in these companies| by the hundred were promoted, | Stock in them was sold on the side-| walks by bally-hoo men with mega- phone voices. It seldom required} more than a few hours to dispose} lof an entire issue, for this was credulous and an elated mob, and its daily fare was exaggeration, Stock exchanges were opened up where, amid frenzied shoutings, went on a feverish commerce in wildcat securi- ties; shopgirls, matrons, housemaids gambled in shares quite as wildly as did the unkempt disreputables from the oll fields op the nowcomers spilled out of every train, People trafficked not in oil, but in stocks and in leases, the values of which were entirely chimerical, But this speculative frenzy was by no means local, Burkburnett be came a name to conjure with and there was no lack of conjurers, These latter spread to the four points of the compass, and the printing presses ran hot to meet their demands, A flood of money flowed into thelr pockets. While this boom was at {ts height a new jnool, vaster and richer, was pene- water them. That ougn! to make|trated and the world heard of the them do finely.” +e | Northwest Extension of the Burk- So the Ragwies, helped by willing |hurnett finld, a veritable lake—an little Nancy and Nick, started in tojocean—of oll, Then a wilder mad work for dear life. iness réigned. Daily came reports Ragsy Land, being under the|of new wells in the Extension with ground, no one could see them, but/a flush production running up into they were there just the same, the thousands of barrels, There After while everything was fin-|appeared to bo no limit to the size ished. “Now, then, I'm sure that|of this deposit, and now the old Mrs. Brown will fay her garden has |}ine operators who had shunned the never done #o well," suid Minter}town-site boom bid — feverishly ‘Tatters, ay he wiped his muddy}against the promoters and the ten hands on his overalls and turned to|derfeet for acreage, Farms and go away, ranches previously «ll but worthlews But Nancy had noticed were cut up into small tracts and| thing, "Look!" she sald, drilling sites,,and. these were sold] i Crookabone, the gnome, | for unheard-of pricos, Up leaped] tiptoeing toward the roots of alanother forest of skeleton towers large rose bush, some 10 miles long and half ay wido, (To Be Continued) But this was the open range with TWINS | den! It hasn't been doing a bit well lately. The rose bushes and pansies and peonies nerd to have the earth all loosened around them so they will grow better. Wo'll dig around the roots and carry more rich earth from the woods, and then some: was (Copyright, 1923, N. BA, Service) nothing except the sky for shelter, ts and La Pal mais pert t accessories to certain | and wrap wing than Egyptian lin t marked char full of r flounce that b be ne knees and ends a fow inches above the ankles hele 5 the m teristic “Flounce" ers the payroll of the industry would be at least $2,000,000 annually, and employ at least ten times as many men as at present. Thesi men would need homes and food for their familie benefit every line of industry. and their purchasing power would Build the State by Using Home Products the word «th no under-slip ps hardly ippling folds mi bottom is vist uch garments po of heavy allk nd displays a sill also the wide summer which t wea crepe 4 well-known French de signer do famous, yathia Grey oO Decline of the American Home All the Fault of the| Women, Writes Young Mother, Who Believes|- Solution Lies in Suburban Life. BY CYNTHIA GREY | Another home-builder has written her opinion on what she regards as a possible solution of the problem under dis- cussion, Do you agree with her, that women should be} made to work harder—on farms, etc.? Do the readers feel that this is woman’s sphere? fault of the female of the spe Dear Miss Grey Is the American home pa of your readers seem to think so. Ie it, as she suggeste, all the| sing? Some} The woman blames the man and the man blames the woman, while another blames} the high cost of living. Tho I am a woman, I agree with the man. thick nest of lattice battle masts, today think it is a,crime if their girls have to work. and at night it blazed ike Coney) more girls today were raised as I was, with four brothers, Mothers | If we would not have to worry about the American home, We go! t up at 5:30 o’clock, helped get the breakfast and then individual operators and small com-} went to the fields until noon, when we prepared our own “Alwaye” Good Gold Shield Coffee Vacuum packed to retain flavor and x c/octeré Candies UTMOST’ IN ' a FECTION Wr C: conhe RTISING HEADQUARTERS Blaauw-Hipple-Blaauw, INC, Recognized by American Newspaper Publishers’ Assn. i i +» Seattle eurces Over Suite 300 Fidelity Bidg., Tacoma Bidg. Secon CLOW’S Waftle Wheateake Buckwheat FLOURS Ask Your Grocer ASHINGTON PLASTER Lumber and Mfg. Co. Phone M. 1s OP. 0, Box 1506 FIn DOORS, COLUMNS, ETC. ‘Tacoma, Wash. Centennial Mills Seattle WASH. BLDG. PRODS. CO. SEATTLE LIGHTING CO. SKINNER & EDDY CORPORATION neal, and then went back to our work until dinner time. |' We not only picked the fruit, but took it to market our- si father nearly blind. lves—we girls, for my brothers were in service and my I loved every inch of the 80-acre ranch; I loved the team} of horses I could handle like a man, and the corn and In winter I walked five miles| potatoes that grew for me. so I could go to high school. Now, in a home of my own, a bright and happy baby, a} | starter for a family, we are working hard to get ahead.! Hl “Made Right in the West” 506 Mercer, Seattle Garfleld 3545 High cost of living does not bother us greatly, for, altho|| Pacific Fibre Furniture in the cupboard. hita Falls be-| my husband has to work, I have my garden, so our root-| came thelr headquarters. Here there! house is full in winter and full jars of preserved food shine The grocer doesn’t get rich from the farmer, but from the lazy folk who crowd to the cities. | | Every apartment house should be done away with and bun- galows built on one-acre tracts instead, and the women made} to work, instead of powder, paint and fuss with fine) clothes, then we would not have to worry about where the second generation is coming from. Perhaps this sounds as tho I was an old maid before was married, but I was still in my teens and was not o enough to vote at the last election. To Remove Mildew Dear Miss Grey: Will you please advise me of something that will re- move mildew from a gingham house- dress? N. G. P. Moisten the stain firat with lemon juice and then with buttermilk, Re- peat this operation until the stain disappears. Sometimes mildew may be removed by soaking the garment in sour milk over night and then spread it on the, grass and leave it over night. o* To Rid Window Bozes of Worms Dear Misa Grey: Will you please tell me how to rid my window-boxes of quantitie ing my plants MRS. G. Put a very weak solution of spirits of ainmonia th the toater you sprinkle your plants with, It ts not injurious to the most delicate plant and will eventually rid the Bow of worms. togother— settle. so towns wero knocked greasy, ramshackle ments of flimsy shacks—and so quickly were they built that they outran the law, which is ever delib: erate. The camps of the black-lime district, which had been considered hell holes, “re in reality models of order compared with these mush: room cities of raw boards, tar paper and tin. Gambling joints, dance halls, and dens more vicious flour: ished openly, and around them gath- ered the scum and flotsam that crests a rising (ide. Winter brought the rains, and existence in the new fields became an ugly and a troublesome thing. Roads there were none, and sup plies became difficult to secure, The surface of the land melted and spin ning wheels churned it; traffic halt ed, vehicles sank, horses drowned. Between rains the sun dried the 1d, the wind whirled it into suffo cating clouds. Sandstorms — swept over the miserable inhabitants; tor nadces, thick with a burden of cut.) ting particles, harried them until they cursed thelt that had brought them thither. | Butin Wiehita Malls, whore there was slieltér overhead and pavements} underfoot, the sheep shearing pro: cooded gayly, (Continued in Our Next Issue) ! | | | } false representation, of worms without ruin- | | ' 1| Id} A FARMERETTE. Miss Grey will recelve callers in her office Monday, Wednesday and Friday, from 1 to 2 p. m, and on Tuesday and Thursday from 11 a, m, to 12 m. egch week. Please do not come at other times as it seriously inter. feres with her writing. Cigar ashes sprinkled over them will also Kill insects. ° To Recover Money Dear Miss Grey: céntly a lawyer obtained $200 from foe upon have been Will ft be ver Tn a Jawsuit re- his I me over and above unable to recover this, necessary. to retain another lay to’ get it or'{s there sothe publ fiolal I could appeal to. VETERAN. Take the matter up with Carroll Hendron, secretary. of grievance committee, Seattle Bar association, 1 New York. block, Seattle, for over eighty years has relied upon Gour- and’s Oriental Cream to keep the skin and complexion in perfect condition through the stress of the scason's activities, White Flesh-Rachel, 4 Send 10c for Trial Sten PERD, T, HOPKINS & SON, New York “"Gouraud's Oriental.Crea mi Marcel Waving .. 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