The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 21, 1923, Page 8

1 not be slow to stop. Folks who find mall, out of pape $300, By city fan Francisco of Bpectal Representat New York office, ffice, Tribune > office, ‘Tremont b Skeeters Do you know anything quite as stupid as a mosquito? She comes buzzing around you, her hypodermic nicely sharpened. You swing for her—and miss, nine times out of ten. Now, you are about 18,000 time: big a mosquito © If a strange beast 18,000 times as large you suddenly swung a giant arm to crush you, you'd have sense enough to start in the opposite direction, pronto But not so with Mrs. Mosquito She comes right back, 222z-ing all the louder, and makes another try for your anatomy ably the neck. May be, after you've chased her half a dozen times, she Il stay away for a minute until 5 » off your gus Then st yeturns—probably to death if she makes a successful landing and begins sinking her hypodermic. — The military mind would call the mo. ‘ito's repeated charges at her prey heroiem in the face of terrific odds. We call it stupidity—outright boneheadedness. And we have even seen mosquitoes alight on an auto that has just stopped and try to sink their hypodermies, in the belief that there must be blood inside this steel beast with the baked-ename! skin. pref aring the mosquito’s in- Somehow we can’t help cor neies of many individuals telligence with the mental t and the so-called ra in general. 2 A lot of us are like the mosquito, escaping from disas- ter only to return inquisitively for another flirtation with trouble. Like the drunkard returning to his cups, the dieting fat man to his box of candy, the saved-by-a-hair motorist to another fling at high speed. Thru many generations, humanity has learned by bitter experience the things to avoid. But it returns over and over again to danger, like the moth to the candle, the mosquito to the swinging blow of its intended victim. Our generation recently learned that war doesn’t pay. We might have learned much from disasters to revious generations. But that isn’t human nature. We ored the experience of the past. And within half a century a future generation will be ignoring what we Jearned—and be ready to pound the drum, wave the flag, fall into line and march off to death, The psychology of all this is that each new generation thinks it has a corner on wisdom, and that the old folks belong to an obsolete era—“they don’t understand how things have changed.” After all, there are very few real dangers lurking for us. Our ancestors, nursing their bruises, left plenty of Warning signs along the path, telling us how to keep out of poverty, most sickness and personal entanglements. They might as well have saved their time and carried | their knowledge to the grave with them. When Smart ‘Aleck newcomers can’t find any other way to ridicule the ) heritage of wisdom from the past, they call it “plati- tudes.” The political traffic cops are trying to hold Henry Ford up at every crossing, altho he has done no speeding at all—yet. The Russian famine is about over. That is, the famine section looks } almost as bad as the others. Miss Mattie Pickles, mayoress of Springfield, 8. D., has resigned, sour ‘on the whole proposition. A check for $1,000 makes a great wedding present, but is expensive, In the Year 2500 | We had a dream last night, that we had come back to earth in the year 2500. Well, you’d never have known the old place. The first thing we noticed was that there were no houses fastened to the ground. People in the year 2500 Were living in enormous airships, with as many as 10 rooms inside. When the family tired of a location, it flew to another. No trouble about trespassing, for all land _ was owned in common by all the people (thru their gov- ernment) in the year 0). , The flying machine had made it possible for the aver- age person during lifetime to visit nearly every interest- ing place on earth. Attached to the big airplane-home was a garage where pa kept the small plane that carried him to and from work at a speed of 500 miles an hour. With such fast _ transportation the great cities, naturally, had broken up except as groups of factories, offices and shops. Inside the airplane-home we found ma cooking dinner. A scientist long since had discovered how to release the | terrific energy locked up in the atom, and a pound of coal did a family’s cooking and heating for months. Thru a window we saw a glass building. “That,” ma explained, “is a farm. As you know, if you recall your history, it was nearly the year 2000 be- fore scientists learned how to cross cereals and vege- tables with yeast growth and produce a crop in 24 hours,” The children and parents looked phenomenally healthy. All germs had been conquered, all disease stamped out. A world war had been declared on rats and insects such as flies and mosquitoes. These had been exterminated _ finally by cross-breeding other insects that were their _ natural destroyers. Radio in. the year 2500 had been perfected until a per- _ fect receiving set was as small as a watch and carried by everyone, enabling people to talk to any person anywhere at any time. The intellectuals, of course, had abandoned ig language and were exchanging thoughts by telep- At this point, the alarm clock began ringing. Prominent doctor says 98 per cent of us overeat. Ow r says this estimate is too low. Apne old teal Preraae rum ship caught fire not one of the boys stood on They are promising to love, honor and dismay. Westward, Ho! Again Flocded with inquiries from prospective settlers thruout the East and Middle West, the Seattle Chamber of Com- merce and all the transcontinental railroads have every _ Yeason to predict another “Westward, ho!” i The movement te the Coast, once under way again, will ; W relief here from suf- fering caused by extreme Eastern temperatures will not he slow to send the good word back home. } . And the tourists are reaching the city in growing num- bers. Every one of them is a potential settler and inves- tor. Let's make the recent “Know Seattle” week an all- _ year-round affair, keep our minds free of petty i: internal troubles and prepare to greet the stranger and omake him want to stay. ‘This is the 100th anniy. “ ” yi is tb lt iat year of “Home, Sweet Home,” and look Ht doesn't matter, but Spaniards have lost 45 men at Ht domant mater, bu © lost 45 men at Thezbz2a, which A hotel on Ml. Rainier ix 11,000 feet high. Wary high these days, All hotels, however, are NOW F THE § STAR OR THE HONEYMOON LATTL Hl the year se fron n aktes, ly climb, don The fi It's noontime, Mr and are you And ha med yo your best? Take count of those moments good? I've done the beat I could"? OF And can you say, “ again; and when you start anew, know thi: God counts the days of men by what they strive to do! OUR ANIMAL EDITOR SAYS have more bullfrogs than you need. which is impossible, Japan wants them. Jap ¢ tens of vernment ie with ty . long tral ahead. * * * pet distressed or t of time depends on what buying Ame up isands in at a to plant In drainage ditches for insect-catching purposes call the “walking ad between hin hit, tw The bi legs oKKn a petunia » end, and wh away behind ¢ yest day? Or haa it acemed he moments gone utilizes all of the shark but his or. ‘They make glue of his head, “ivory ornaments of his teeth, fertilizor of his flesh, “cod liver of!” of his liver and fino Jeath or of his hide, Tip to people of the Pacific coast. ** Jf not, go take your rest For four years, California man has been breeding turken, a cross Editor The Star 1 I wish to call your attention to! the renewed effort to extend Dex-/ ter ave. to Firat ave. thru the un igraded portion of Denny hill. I see frequent mentions in the daily paper as to this much needed “arterial highway” to commodate the travel into the city {from the north. | This plan has been defeated a number of times and as often re appeared thru the constant effort) of those who are guided by a selfish interest. | |, There neem to be two purposes | lin this extension, both of which are| |selfiah—the plan to take down the ungraded portion of Denny hill and} to form another bus center | First ave. and Pike—and, the guise of this fuch ‘arterial highway," seek to wesament district covering ind of the city to pay to wrecking ac corner under needed form the North the damages incident jthe buildings on Denny hill Coupling these two improvements together, they hope to put the plan} across, The present pian and way into the city ix the best plan for the district. The north part of the city has already paid for Westlake and| Dexter ave And it has been at a great cost. And there iy no need of this extension of Dexter ave., the| cost of which would stagger the taxpayers. Should this extension be mado the | district west and north of the im-| provement would be retarded for| years, | The present approach to the city over Westlake ave, is complete. | The present approach to the city over Dexter ave. ia the best for the entire district, Approach the city over Dexter ave., then down Broad | | Girls! Make Harmless Lemon Cream | to bleach away Tan, Freckles Mix the julce of two lemons with three ounces of Orchard White, which any druggist will supply for a few cents, shake well in a bottle, and you have a whole quarter-pint of the most wonderful freckle and tan cream, and complexion beaut! fier Massage this sweetly fragrant lemon cream into the face, neck, arms and hands each day and see how freckles and blemishes natural. ly bleach right out and how youth. fully clear, soft and rosy-white the skin becomes.—Advertisement, to | t ja turkey head and the rest of her he ie just hen. They weigh 10 to 14 Opposes Dexter Extension \ers. between turkey and chicken. Male looks much like ® gobbler, Hen has pounds, Billings, Mont, claims oldest cat In @ puss that died recently, at 24 years, 3 months at. and distribute f the elty over F the travel thru Sa ave, Fourth] The fox loves to follow a cow econd ave, First|Path. To catch him lay good, thick ‘This keeps trat.(#ticke across his path. He'll jump being congested and gives |C¥ery one of them, When ho gets & square deal to the property own.| Used to the sticks, plant a trap at jabout jumping distance from a : | stick saved in m cross) Proposed extension | Duld be lost in the| Beavers in Alaska found telephone delay in the congested and danger. |Poles good cating and put the line 18 croawings out of business. Company had to ‘Taking {into consideration the|#tick up new poles wrapped with cost of this improvement, with no| ¥!* benefit over the present approach to the city, the plan should be de feated. The street distance like th of Dexter a jlands Sanitarium, I noticed the girls [playing croquet, which seems to be |their only means of enjoyment. The | mallets and balls were badly chipped, Pioneer Bi making it difficult for them to play So, If some kind person has an old lcroquet set which is of no use to | them, I am sure that the girl patients Cc uet t jout there would be more than grate- Needed |": if you would send it to them, Re- FAitor The Star: member that it is thelr only pastime thru the summer, While vimting « patient at the Fir- A VISITOR AT FIRLANDS. hil Very respectfully, RE D. AIL. ren Cry for \A pleasant, harmless Substitute for Castor Oil, Pare- goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups, especially prepared | for Infants from one month old to Children of all ages, MOTHER! 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