The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 19, 1923, Page 11

TUESDAY LOWING Gat ~~ COPYRIGHT NBR Oy PRUED BY ARRANGE MEST WHT MET aeBeUT (Continued From Yesterday) Again the news his warning, and ner Taaped ou Gray, \ Leave him is my rf custome quarrel and bis axe, off, strange 1 won't 4 buttin’ in, either, I don't ybody to interfere with me} when I'm ¢ have y ting | Gray was checked leas by the ex any peaker’s tone, that the entire ration, by the au rity the complexion anged, The ru who had entered so confidently no lor the aggressor; a mere look, & word, & gesture from this aged, unknown person had put him upon the defendive, More extraor ary still was the fact that hfs power of initiative was for the mo-| ment completely paralysed, and that he was tortured by @ deplorable in Ho was furtous, that was nevertheless his anger had ) halted in mid-Might, as it were He vals no threat Don't come any closer," he erted | Don't-—do It!" There was no longer| hoarsely, "Don't do tt, I tell you Don't do itt! There was no longer any thickness to tongue; he | spoke as ot was o two had Jecision ed hia hands now, but mo: westure of surrender than of his quite sober 4 time y peated, “T allow anybody to ir when I'm eating,” the solitary looker felt an abs id desire to laugh, During intensely dramatic moments nervous laughter ts near so} the surface, and there was some |thing rigidly damatia about the methodical, siding advance of that| man half crouched behind hia over coat. Tom, as he had been éatled. gave Gray the impression of Death itnelf marching slowly forward to drape that black shroud upon his| cowering victim Brief as had been the whole epi sode, already passers-by had halted. staring faces were giued to the fro: not easy| Windows of cafe. Well w med. victim, | ght at those two tense fig {ures one advancing, the other re Hay (eating, as if to the measures of| hia’ shield | #me slow dance. | the charge. But the tempo changed abruptly,| apon,|Th® deaperado's back brought up| silver. | #tinst the swinging kitchen door;| to his weight and decision | born of that instant With al toothpicks frag-|°F¥ he flung himself backward, the pa patter of of1|%?tins door snapped to and swal-| covered the ol4 man| lowed him up with the speed of a chair, and he rose with|cimera ‘shutter; then followed the a cry that drew a swift glance from|*Und of his heavy rushing foot the desperade, seme, | Gray was upon the potnt of| "Hell! exclaimed the olf man: “1 launching himacif~ over the table| bad his buttons counted! With tho| when he witnessed a peculiar trans-| VMs he let fall his overcoat, and formation tn hia eesailant. The|there, beneath it, Gray beheld what man’ “etpreasion altered with al-|h@ had more than halt suspected, moat comic suddenneas, he lowered| What indeed was amplo cause for hia weapon and took a backward|'h® quarrelsome stranger's appre step. Gray, too, had cause for as-|hension. Held close to the owner's tonlthment for the elderly manj|>edy was what in the inelegant was moving slowly toward the dis-| /8reon of the West is known as a turber, his overcoat, moanwhile,| “do leg.” The weapon, n froniter hanging locacly from. tila” tefi|Colt’s Of “heavy caliber, was full shoulder, like a mantic. His gray| cocked under the old man’s: thumb; face, had grown white, malignant,|th@ hand holding {t was as steady threatening; he advanced: with a/@# the biazing eyes above. queer, sidiing galt, edging forward| With a smile Gray sald, “Allow iehind the shelter of his garment|™® to congratulate you, sir upon an if behind a barricade. But what|® Tost impressive demonstration of challenged Gray's instant attention| ‘he power of mind over matter.” wax the certainty of purpose, thet. “A little killin’ helps those scoun. cold, confidant meance behind the| ‘rels.” breathed the white-hatred old fellow's demeanor. There was|W8tior. “Surgin’ around, wreakin’ something appalling about him; he| Vengeance on vinegar bottles! And that fore with me} on quarrel served was sharply “if gun, one of you don't p that go toa b In spite of ra haste In} drawing the weap appeared now to lack the w om ie 1 spirit required s seemed: 9 to goad {t into fina y phenomenon. by nol for it the atare his savagery fellow utter thon, like & warrior 6 «= h his spear before swung ashing at ed. merry-BO hia heavy one blow that ound with its clus ae had been « wo they de when on Jand explained in Gossip of Seattle Shops Finds Variety of Peeling Knives had suddenly become huge and dominant. That he had been recognised was plain, for the armed man cried agitatedly: “Look out, Tom! I don't want any truck with you, The deliberate advance continues |me with a bad indigestion!” "I don’t often permit others to % my fighting, But you wouldn't et" "I don't allow anybody—" dogged: lly began the former speaker, but | the street door burst open, a noisy in a harsh voice Tom answered; “I| crowd poured into the room, a vol- don't allow anybody to Interfere| ley of excited questions was raised, with me when I'm eating!" For| Amid the confusion Gray heard his every step he shuffled forward the| own name shouted, and found him. man Before him fell back a corre-jselé set upon by two agitated sponding distance, friends, Mallow and Stoner. They ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS oberts Barton “How do you do, may “What place Is this?” asked Nick 4s the Choo-Choo Express began to slow op for another station In Choo- Choo Land. "I's called Number Town,” Mister Punch, the conductor “This is where the numbe: So the Twins hurried to get off the little train and see the sights of this queer village. "How do you do, may we button your shoe?" asked two polite votoes. Nancy and Nick were astonished to see & large number one and num- her two with shoe-buttoners stand {ng near, "Oh, no, thank you,” said Nancy graciously We have on magic shoes or shouldn't be here at all, "Well, we just thought we'd ask!" sald the numbers. ‘That's our busl- Hews, No doubt you've heard of us. We're called One, Two, Button-My- Shoe, We're in ® Mother Goose Thyme." / "Will fou please step this way?” Aeked another voice, “right thru this doorway, wo we may ehut the door after your" And a aald wan. large, fat number threo we button your shoe?” bowed as low as his fat tummy would let him. "You see we are Three-Four, the Shut-the-Door Twins,” sald Mister Four, his partner. “Wo can't bend over like Five and Six who Pick-Up: Sticks, We're in the rhyme, too, No doubt you've heard of us." “Yes, indeed, we have," answered Nancy. Nancy and Nick went thru the doorway and found themselves near a woodpile, Two numbers, five and uix, were picking up sticks like good fellows. Suddenly the slx stood on his head “Im tired,” he sald, “I'm going to pretend I'm a nine for a while and [wet a rest,” “He does that often,” complained Mister Five. “I can't pretend I am anything, and have to work away.” Seven and Hight were Inying tho sticky straight. But Nancy and Nick hadn't time to seo what the other numbers were doing, Thoy hid to go back to the train and go on to the next place in Choo.Choo Land, | coarser or finer than you can buy it Newtown for him, | 1 were near by! the excitement What was the attracted by the sidewalk t Was Gray i them that he wae not few words the But other i bef crying, breath 1s coming him all the afternod Mallow he Mac and I don't him, and we figured he might at Anyhow, Mall jumped the Ligate and Hoy! I tramped on he hit right, but turn and | ped low some, until the other » r Bu: Mallow went clean thru top, I gues I smashed the wholo rear t » couldn't walt to her we bottom ee. ‘They'll stripped fore we get back ably, We on wag 1 but it fell one of those dar Jackson didnc get he?” Mallow inquire Get to tires open Uk me? Gray spok his all about? y this, oe setup opped dead when we f Parker kid had laid Why didn't Simp woll ts nearly tia Dry What are you saying? The well's phoney pretwel.” tn oft!” what way? er mind, Lay I think I'm entitled to an planat We then, it's anitedr* Impossible! I saw it pumy "I'll say chuckled, “I of old Mamma Barth at 000. 7 pipe | Jackson's you @ my ard thing and » oll in, back to th Tt can't oh, what What @ laugh it w “Outrageous!” Gray ex can’t believe you are tn ear It ts ah tan't 1t? ight he t just took yumpa it out a Ho's a ree great and the eum company t course, but & well to hand Netson! uld have been imed, “I king Such dis Cynthia Grey: What They Ask—Queries Resemble Chinese Puazle— Some Only Want Pianos; Others Would Rent Rooms to Men Who Like Cats and Chickens—Male Species Would Find Wife Who Has Saved Enough for Two to Live on. BY CYNTHIA GREY Here are just a few of the things the dear public expects the Cynthia Grey department to do: “Please get me a used piano, 1 don’t care if it is not too expensive.” “My little boy wants a bicycle, I told him to write Cytnhia vey.” “I have been in the city four weeks and am very lonesome, Will you put me in touch with a nice lady who would marry a man of little means? Prefer someone between 25 and 10, who has something saved up.” “Is Mary Pickford an advocate of bobbed hair?” will care for two or ono of the family, in ane get me an elderly woman, not too old, wh children, do light housework, and be like exchange for a home and @ dollar or two a week." three “What is your ideal of a man—William Jennings Bryan, or Jack Dempsey, or Billy Sunday?” We are moving to tho elty; please find us an apartment that r from the car 1 boulevards, We want it me but can’t afford to There i five of u: Rep! too near the er $25 a month ge Wednesday mail as we are movir “Have room to rent Nas attention,” Please publish in your column, Vrefer man who no ction to cats or chickens, Will thank you for immediate | These are just a few of the many impossible requests that find their way into this department daily, despite the fact that I constantly inform my readera that this is not a want ad column, And a number of these correspondents have such far-fetched ideas as to the purpose of this department that they write a second or third time to bawl me out be- cause their letters are not printed. Comment on the above requests should be unnecessary— they are printed merely as an example of what NOT to send to thia department, a - ie ier What knowledge of arithmetic had the ancient Egyptians? locate the leak"| Zhew knew the four elemental 1 upon | Processes —addition, subtraction, mule he | plication and division | ee And what an for the company eaty ta Inc nhappy surpr they finally Aible a heavy hand harshly Do you mean to say Mise Parker delibe She don't know it the speaker's shoulder: inquired, that about many men and how many women, between the ages of 18 and 44, are there in the United States? | According to the last census (1920) 22401211 males and 81,805,518 fe- males, anything laid me’ againat it Upped her to She's his sweetie,” Stoner added How can I get static electricity off He's going to marry hor, so Mal-| Waxed paper? thought he'd for it| A perfectly correct from her (Continued ‘Lomorrow) You eald sh N 1 merely t une she's ono of eee low surely tho somewhat ming 2 Miss Grey will receive callers in her office Monday, Wednesday and Friday, from 1 fo 2 p, m, and on Tuesday and Thursday from 11 a m. to 12 m, each week. Pleaso do not come at other times, as It weriously inter. feres with her writing, flippant, reply would be “Wipe tt off Bride Careful About Egg Beater = |) e¢sme agin Electric Plates Makes Life Easier BY KATHRYN DWYER I once knew a woman who hated All her little peoling knives until the blades had worn about half way thru. She had as large a collection of knives asa war lord, but she only had one that she liked to use, When she had the misfortune of breaking that knife she persisted In using the stub which remained rather than break in a new one. hunt Seattle over until I found a knife which would sult her, and, while I was hunting for knives, I found just oodles of handy Uttle things which are too good to! keep. | see First, of course, camo the peeling! knives. I never imagined that they | could be made in wo many sixes and shapes or that they could be #o fas: cinating. 1 found knives, curved and straight, with bone handles, wooden Meh handies and aluminum handles. 1 nearly succumbed to the aluminum handles, but I fled from temptation and, in a little tucked.away store, I came upon the perfect knife. It had a nice, pllable, thin blade set in a handle that was curved go that It exactly fits the abnd. If my friend doesn’t love that knife at first sight T hope she uses stubs the reat of her | life. see In ony of the stores which didn't qualify in the knife line I discovered some funny little grinders. They were so tiny that I almost thought they were misplaced toys until I discovered that they were spice or pepper grinders. If you like to make your own blends of pepper or !f you prefer it a little | just get one of these grinders, take off its lid, pour in your pepper and| turn the little crank. Or let your} little girl do tt eee But {t would really be more fun to grind up allspice, Think of pouring in all those funny little seeds and berries and leaves and puverizing them so that they can be tled up in little bags to flavor the catsup which you will soon bo making. see But while the catsup can walt, | strawberries can't. If you plan to| ean some, don't forget to geta huller, | With one of these little clips you can| take off the most stubborn stem without getting your fingers stained | and strawberry juice under your] finger nails so that you will have to wait and let it wear off, soe Speaking of canning reminds me that I never saw so many helpful devices for canning. There were pressure canners, of course, but if you prefer to use your wash boiler there are special racks made so that you can put the jars in and take} them out without getting your hands wot or running the risk of burning them. And, by the way, if you cook the strawberries in the jars and then pour the julce and syrup over them, they keep tholy shape much better. see For jelly-making I found some spe- olal standards for your Jelly bags. The bag hangs from «@ circular plece of wire at the top and the hottom ts arranged so that you can slip it un der your bowl or Jar without any danger of tipping, Again you avoid (To Me Continued, (Copyright, 1023, by Seattle Star) atainy or possible burny when you nour th tulee out, So I decided to|cups peeling OF © Can you give me a short biography of Charlfo Mitchell, the great prize- fighter? Born November @§, 1861, in Birmingham, England; height 5 feet | For marmalade, you can get & 9 inches; dozing weight 165 pounds, modified ricer, which will save a | the labor of endless stirring an rabble thro sieves, For marmalade, pie dle battle was with John L, Jaina, you can got great big wooden |" 0” |spoons with whose help you can lavold even tho tintest burn and ‘In- sure perfect cooking, And then there are lovely long-handle@ ladolx and specially marked measuring which should make jellymaking a joy even for the youngest of Juno brides. A bride recently arrived homo from her honeymoon with a flat parcel clasped to her breast, Some. one inquired if the parcel were « picture of her husband, and sho re plied that it was a new kind of ome beater which sho had found and which she couldn't trust ip her barpel-‘shaped |add anything to what you are whip sultea Seattle in just full of egg beaters. There are flat ones which are called whisk» and webbed ones and beaters with curls of fine wire uround thy outsides of them and ovory conceiv- able variant of the kind which you turn. The flat kind are best tf you jaro making candy, but the turning |kind whip cream best. Then thera aro beaters like miniature churns which you can fasten to the table or which you can leave unfastened, |"These have little funnels chained to |thoir glass jars thru which you can | should ping without unscrewing tho . ve thin time of year, no one be without an {ee cream freezer. You can get them in any size and you can either get the kind that have to be cranked or you can get the automatic kind. And you can get ico chisels and scoops ‘so that you don't have to get your hands frozen along with the sherbet or the ice cream. * . If it gets too hot you won't want to have a fire at all and you can easily do without one If you get ono of these little electric plates, Set it at your elbow at breakfast time and you can toast bread, perk your cof- fee and scramble eggs on it without getting up. If you would rather, you can get a double socket arrangement and attach 0%» cord to your electrio percolator a. another to your little stove, Thore is something very ap- pealing in a woman sitting behind a gloaming, steaming coffee pot. cee top. At The cooking process will be further simplified If you provide yourself with one of these electric cords which have the switch and control so that it will come right under your hand. You can turn the current on full or medium or off entirely merely by putting ovt your hand, fee You can get electric stoves, wash- ors, jroners, sweepers or curling irons, but I don't think you ean buy an electric duster which will gather up and dust like these nice fuzzy ones which you slip on your hand and uso in all the out of the way corners or on your stubborn carvings, I sus. pect Home of your ancestrossey made tho first one out of a ravelled woolen stocking, but we can't got the stock- Ings today. see With washing and froning, awoep. ing and dusting, cooking and canning | #0 easily dono with theve little aidy, | what 18 thore left to do? Here is a baby who has won Two Prizes for Health Dorothy Loraine Francis has already been voted the best baby in two better baby contests. Her mother, Mrs. Clay Mo Francis, 5204 Barbara St., St. whe be ays she owes her baby’s perfect health to Eagle Brand Condensed Milk, “I don’t believe there is another brand of baby milk that comes up to Eagle and” she writes, “T have started lots of » joung mothers using it.” And what guid be a better proof of hersatisfactio with itthanthat? Better and Better Babies For about sixty-five years the use of Eagle Brand Condensed Milk has been spreading until today itis more used than all other infant foods combined. So many prize babies have been raised on it, so many mothers have testified to its benefits, 50 many physicians have recommended it, that Eagle Brand has become the standard food for babies who must be fed artificially. The purity and the digestibility of Eagle Brand protect You need not fear the evil effects of contaminated milk. is pure to and put upina sealed fe because it is container tokeep it so. Eagle Brand is exceptionally digestible. It makes finer curds in the baby’s stomach than mother’s milk, even. It is ex- tremely convenient, too, forit keeps indefinitely in the unopened cans and can be carried about safely and procured anywhere. ¢ Nothing is better for baby than mother’s milk. But if you cannot nurse your baby, the Eagie Brand way isthesure way. For Eagle Brand has been used by generations. Ask us for your copy of Baby’s Welfare now, while you think of it! It is a very useful guide for young mothers. THE BORDEN COMPANY Borden Building N Bordens EAGLE BRAND CONDENSED MILK, your baby. Eagle Brand begin with, 18, 1888, when he neld the great | American fighter to a draw in $9 | rounds, bare knuckles, ee How much faster is the timber tn the United @tates being exhausted than it is being grown? Department of agriculture figures show that our timber is disappearing four times aa fast aa it is being grown, eee ‘What {8 the correct stationery to use when in mourning? t Chantilly, Fran farch White attonegy is always correct, even when in mourning. Mourning) tank the more the balloon would | stationery with a heavy black border is no longer considered good taste. That which has a narrow black border is correct, After three months weigh. The fact that you have dis= placed all the air in the balloon with @ much lighter gas is all that dock the lifting, As @ matter of fact you have passed, oray stationery may be|put in fust as Uttle hydrogen aa used, possible to keep the balloon inflated, The ideal balloon would close @ perfect vacuum which give the mazimum Hfting power, eee eee ‘What {a the lifting power of hydro- gen as used in balloons? Strictly speaking, hydrogen does not “lift.” Hydrogen, like everything else, weighs something (,00559 1d. per cublo foot, at atmospheric pressure) ‘and the more hydrogen you put in a on the railroads of the United last year? 966,489,000, How many passengers were © 7 ¥ \\ BSS UNI ewer