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| | The Seattle Star |: lehed Daily tereriee Aten 1807-09 Seventh Ave., Seattle, Wash. Publishing Oe, aad Unit cond class er at Beatty, Wn. winder act of Mar Pranctace phone ™ ean Ave; New 7 eon @ nionthe $2.08. 4, 1879 Confessions of a Confession Writer ERE is the first line I used in one of my confession stories Tam a woman whe has lived too much, too daringly, too dangerously” “The average reader seeking entertain- ment wil! want to go on after reading that line, In this story I assumed the char- acter of a woman writing a story of her girlhood mistakes and trials before hap- piness finally came to her. And who do you suppose wrote that? Mr. Dick P. Tooker! You never would have guessed, would you? Note the “Mr.” Mr. Tooker is a man! The quotation is from an article by Mr. Tooker in the cur- rent issue of The Author and Journalist, in which he reveals the technique of writ- ing what are called, these days, “the con- fession or true stories.” He tells other writers how to do it. Some sentences of advice by Mr. Tooker follow: “The ring of truth is the first and para- mount demand of the story for the con- fession and first-person magazines,” “Second in the demands of the true story is simplicity. Use short sentences and paragraphs, and ordinary wor Con- version should carry few fancy speech labels, and descriptions should be cut to the minimum. The first line, as in good fiction, shoul catch the eye of the most simple-minded reader.” “It is far more desirable to write from the woman's viewpoint, for there is among the true-story magazines an inclination toward the story told by the disillusioned woman or girl, rather than the man. Per- haps some men writers will find it diffi- cult to give their work the feminine tang. A few suggestions may help.” “Simply think of a girl or woman you know rather well and drag her thru the most heartbreaking and unfortunate love affair you can imagine, then make her happy.” And now, Dear Reader, you know how it is done. Take your typewriter in hand, think of some “girl or woman you know rather well” and “drag her thru,” for Mr. Tooker says-in his closing paragraph: “The days of the ‘true story’ magazine are numbered, but there is no reason why writers should not profit while these mil- lionaires scrap with one another. Oh, Paris! How Could You? HEY’ RE using Eiffel Tower, in Paris, now as an electric sign. It advertises the little five-horsepower Citroen, flivver of France. From top to bottom of this 1,000-foot wonder, we are told, the framework is picked out in razzle-dazzle electric lights; while from midway to summit, on all four sides, a sign 160 yards long bli forth the ad: “CITROEN.” On—off—on—off, with maddening, mechanical precision, it flashes forth all the night long, visible far into the country, As the price of this piece of aesthetic sabotage, the flivver maker pays, in rent and publicity tax to the city, some 650,- 000 francs a year. It makes us want to tear our hair, little as we have left. Paris, the artists’ Mecca and beauty’s shrine, desecrated for com- mercial gain! Heretofore Frenchmen have sneered at Broadway's blaze and the billboard disfigurement of our countryside And we've felt ashamed But now we know that the only reason why the Frenchman himself has not been guilty of the same crime is that he did not have, or was too stingy to pay, the price, There is some excuse for New York modern, ug’ hodge-podge, high-in-air, flat-on-the-ground, styleless New York. In fact, the bright lights by night have been her glory. There are so many of them, and they are so colorful and danc- ing, that to her drab has been given a certain touch of beauty all her own But Pa We'll be surprised at nothing now, Per- haps we'll be hearing of the Venus de Milo, in the Louvre, wearing and advertising the Gallerie Lafayette’s brassieres, or being made to stand in a bathroom, sur- rounded by modern tubs and plumbing which she would be hired to advertise. Now that France has started to pros- titute her charm, there’s no end to the money she could make at the game. Oh, well, what's the use? Life’s always like that. Each day sees another idol shattered, another of life’s illusions lost. Is It In or Out? ROHIBITION is out of. politics, said General Andrews, the new boss. Prohibition is out of polities, said Presi- dent Coolidge. Prohibition never will be out of politics, said Senator Jim Watson. Arranging his new administrative dis- tricts, Andrews linked Ohio with West Virginia and Indiana with Michigan. All wrong, said C. Baseom Slemp, repub- lican satrap in Virginia; we want West Virginia hooked up with our state. All wrong, said Senator Watson; we want Illinois hooked up with Indiana. General Andrews has announced a change in the district arrangements. West Virginia is attached to Virginia. Mlinois is attached to Indiana. ? 2 Answers to Your Questions >? >? Q What is the origin of ‘the|point of approach when individuals | name “Wallace”? | pass cach other within saluting dis- ‘OU can get an ‘A. This is of Welsh origin, com-| tance. ing from “walisc” which was the Welsh name for the Norman} Q. When Theodore i any question of fact or in ° ‘ formation by writ tle Star Question | New York ave, ssevelt used French, hence it has the signifi-|the phrase “! inca to Weak i ike of “foreigner” did he refer? D.C, and incloring oe GS | A. The phrase was used to char-| | po. namps for Q. What is the best time to take |acterize radical reformers, fanatics, . ica! x legal or marital ad ee som © geranium? [ete. According his view thera} | Ye, Personal replies, conti | dential. All letters must be A. When the plants have ceased Mlowering. The cuttings should be sand and lightly pressed into pots.| Bide slots which have not flower-| who demand ed, cut close tothe stem, are con-| should be placed in the pots before|reform party. the wound has dried. When the} failed to ace pots are filled give them a gentle) form for which watering, and keep in a tempera-|velt says they eat ipping | maini ture of 50 to 55 deorecs. symmetrical, bushy groicth * Q. What is the Q. What states have ratified and|ing the origin © failed to ratify| bachelor’s button? the child Jaber amendment to the| A. It is related among the peas constitution” jants of Europe A. The satest list from the state|\ this Uttle flower ecrerted a magical) department vives the following|influence over lovers. Jt was the Mates as having ratified the child) custom for young labor amendment: Arizona, Ar-| bachelor's button kansas, California and Wisconsin.| pockets, to inaure The following voted against ratifica-| happiness in love. ton? Georpia. Kansas, North Caro-|old tradition, the blossom was to be which ones lina, North Dakota (senate only),| picked carly of representatir eut, Delaware, u. | Carolina, Ver- only), South Dakota, Jowa (house | w ode: € lin his pocket Q Can you tell me exactly the! bring misery and unhappiness. Be-| way that a private should salute| cause the flower so frequently faded jand superstitious A. A salute is given with the| bachelors rather an officer in the army right hand. The soldier looks the} officer straight in the eye, and! came raises the hand briskly till the tip| button.” The of the forefinger touches tie lower| “true blue” part of the headdress or forehead | superstition over the right eve. Vhe fingers are} held extended and joined, th arm at an angle of 45 is is always a certain group con led with every “planted in pure loam mixed with|who refuse to recognize the neces ities of practical administration and immediate fulfill- extreme program sidered the dest cuttings. They| from every official elected by the When their leaders mplish the whole re- they stood, Roose- sulked, cither re- 9 away from the polls or off the top buds will produce a| voting with the opposition reform movem ment of their tradition concern-| or two in their in the morning with Tennessee, Ulah, Louisiana (house) the dew still upon i® It waa placed 3 only), Connects-\in the pocket, wher mitted to remain for 24 hours. Upon mont, Texas, Massachusetts (senate | being taken from still bright of representatives only), Idaho,\true blue—the Missouri, New Hampshire, Indiana,| happy in marriage Minnesota. loved. If the flower faded and died) wearer would be} than marry and ‘court unhappiness, 1 CA “Tommy”? u hand, wrist and forearm in a| A. The whole nickname ts“Tommy| CT? Are between 110,000 and 150, straight line. The hand ia kept in| Atkina,” This name t- nt signed. the war office for the guidanc company serpeants in making their returns; that in @ certa random set cf names the exhibited by placing the Roe and John Doe, sold initial order of surname kein fore Thomas Atkins was. picked represent the model soldier Riche the flower, the! tate of Colorado taken A. The word is from ¢ pay that at one time Sp lor’; first word, meaniag “reddis applied to the Colorado river then to the entire state men to carry a! Q. How tor their safety and} According to the| ine timed diate it was per | about three times a week: when a0 ings are available the pocket, if it and fresh—still! with the girl he} 14 J word “goohey”? marrage would) 4:4 stupld, blundering person a goose men remained| ey ih 4 A, Giulia the blossom pa ea to be known as “bachelor's familiar expression originated with this Q. How many drug addicts there in the United State A. According to two separate gur ij veya made by the United States ‘ Public Hee ervice and 1 Waicifali: “older ic Health service and the nar 000. ‘The results of both. 4 teas popularized | 90% The results of both, this position until the officer|by the London music halls, and es-| @CT® Practically the same acknowledges the { QIMILE, please, and be at case! There, hold that pose + Stop heaving sighs, and don’t blink your eyes and take your out of your Jap, Nevermind powder and lipstick and such, Try to hold atill for a | A, Allens who have obtained their minute, Glare at the bulb that I'm waiting to touch, Leave your | first papers of declaration of inten neck open; don't pin it |tlon to become citleens of the United Sure you live, you'll be sorry you frowned. Don't make your |Statea do not be eyeutare #0 keon, Try and hold steady; quit movin’ around. This isn't jltisens until they are fully natural Nie \t ft movie machine There, that will do, 'T! ‘» enough for today, them all over Such is the gain. wort of talk do 't pay (Copyright, 1926, for salute, or untill pecially by Kipling in his “Bar he has passed. Then the hand ts\rack-Room Ballads.” dropped to the side. Saluting dis- tion states that the 1 tance is siz paces, or at the nearest found in a model roster issued by A. The cradle in which the Indian Call back tomorrow, and then look the proofs over and throw them away and Vil whoot |avme states, however, they are en | titled to vote and to hold pubdtic| hatter the photograph gent would like to hand women |offlee. Until they are fully naturat each day, But he must consider the money that's spent, and that ised, they are considered aa aliens} or vitixena or aubjecta of a country | ho Star) One explana name wen firat| dle? women carried their babies had |ureat many names, inasmuch cach tribe spoke a different tan guage. The Iroquois called it“Gash osa,” the Chippewas called it it “Urhaata,” Q Do aliens who have their first papers beco: of the United States, or hile dined second or final papers other than the United States, THE SEATTLE STAR OUT QUR WAY bg RR Sete CONT Tin FER ONE MINUTE | cuz IMA rim A PACK MULE Too! | PAPOOS | LEGS N' KIN \ WALK AS GOOD / AST MIN. THE BIGAMIST. Auto Men Invade Insurance Field | ' | Mr. Fixit of the Star || Undertakes Here to Remedy Your Troubles If of Public Interest ° and no doubt of an alphabetical arrangement we 1B 4c neodel entries being “At Thomas,” it was not lang be And must lea ‘I Seen by th’ Papers’ SEZ KITCHE ; And need to be Q. From what is the namo of the are often undec docs it take mail from Bombay and Calcutta to reach an important A. Mail from Bombay to th | United States requires about 25 daya cn foule; from Caleutia to th ery unsightly cond | United States, 28 days. Mail is sent there must by ee SCIENCE ty CONT INENTS _] Q. What ts the meaning of th jurisdiction of olid constituent of the Q. What is the Italian equivalent are s son of matte cotle division of the prohibition unit, | and you will arti with the urveys iporintendent resulted gradually Q What is the Indian name for certain endeavors, not empty our Wegener's theory Put enforcement offic supporting evidence It js known that Green im in this locality that is not enforcement codes, cnen? and the Tuscaroras catled taken out Piatt han Further evidenc they | have to wait until they are furv| naturalized to get citizenship righta’ without complaint doin or can be of enforeement improvement J ots for legisiation bound to bogmuch in makin law that pro A Thought | My presence shall go with theo, and TP shall give thee rest—Iyxo. ome American | id, that is, until they have on-| anything which they that they have a right to, pretty marshal will inve tin God? iy most everything, reed ~ BY ‘WILLIAMS } STANDARDIZATION 1S OME KINDA SKIRT ON AN TAKE TURNS AT CARRNIN’ PAPOOSE. INDIN PAPOOSES AINT SPOSED | T WALK , AN’ CHIEFS HAS MOREN ONE SQUAW ANYHOW. GOOD FOR ANYTHING BUT HUMAN BEINGS STANDARDIZATION works for everything L hue mans, The same money will give more children bet- rooms, clothes and food in orphan a ylums than in cattered homes, where they might be individ ally adopted. Simpl a matter of economic distribution, ~ ‘the larg ale method is the more effi- cient, But, as a matter of human wel fare, the irdividual home is infinitely bet- ter, and we are everywhere coming to it, Education is harder. The wholesale lockstep is being only gradually broken in our common schools. Higher up, uni- versities have grown until they almost need a brigadier general to herd the : ae dents in and out, “This place is like biscuit factory,” said a discouraged nie fessor. “In the factory, they run a train- load of wheat in at one end and a train- load of packed biscuits out at the other. by] ( Hower The sign says that, in the interval, the not been touched by human hands.’ That » to make biscuits, but a bad way to educate sroods *h a fine tudent Criminology is worst of all. The worst way to reform a criminal is to put him in prison. Most criminals are young, the product of bad homes. Many of them could have been saved by putting them in time into good home Few of them are helped by putting them into fry i even good institutions. Most of them are *spoiled by throwing them into prison. Industry is most important, because it affects us all. Mass production turns out more and better steel or shoes. But it does not, inside the works, make for better men. -~ Its wages and shorter hours may give them more chance bd for improvement outside, but, to them, “life” is some- thing apart from work. The man at the lever of the peg machine in a modern shoe factory gets better pay for less work than did his predecessor, the village cobbler. But the cobbler, work- was also often the village philosopher. If the peg tender achieves anything intellectual, the work contributes nothing but money to it. It offers nothing of joy or thought. This is the dilemma of the industrial age. usbands I Like BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON ) ing all day at his bench, and living his life in his work, | ee) Ss At GOOD and hus- {| with free speech and personal ry bands © should ided nstead of an absolute ; with eight, instead of five with friend husband t if question oF ee eae 1 | because of intic | AARC Moab Ok thereon tion, It's com This is the leaven which will to forgive a cont husband, 4] tag the anddec! ut it’s mighty hard to become ij a selfish male who have the grace to olesome and who can't a joke wit! y, “I'm sorry.” out a microscope will be sure he third essential for a hus y| to take himself too seriously, dd is a sense of romance. and is therefore quite likely Many marriages go upon the to become pompous and dull rocks because so many men are and altog nt. to born without this fine quality of A himself worth them sense wife likes to rt. The good must take time ss to give you a i to tell you that you. If he does not do this, tho he bring you the h of the Indies, he is a who can woul which s well as at | the f bbing an: rem: husband s! ' off from busi nat | daily kis the he loves nd with him life. will wea 2 a matrimonial partner 4 | Tolerance do not particularly i | ings, « wizards of finance or ; | for his; f eniuses, or renowned ‘ | be able to rried gures for husban¢ frem your poir vi 18 follow, so much | well as his ow but every woman | to adinit that you may some man who can laugh Pau be right hims avely at who can see in | wrong her the human being as well as ! With such a man the state the wife, and who will never } of matrimony can be made into | forget that romance never dies | a nice democratic institution | in a woman's heart | | LETTER FROM SALLY ATHER-} we had to pretend to the doctor TON TO LESLIE PRESCOTT — | that we were satisfied. q —C a Sette ED | Poor old Dic Now that it fs all ie Of cour in answer to}over and he hasn't yet fully. re l; question Pawat her she would! alized what has happened, he's all r love her baby, 1 told Dick that | at sea. He cannot understand what i would surely come to herself| made Bee fecl as’ she did, and he nd love the baby. very soon. At|Keeps saying to me, “Do you think \ moment, fortunately, the phy:!that 1 was to blame in any way? j that 1 rrived for whom they had] “I tried to do. everythin wo both him that | could, Sally, but it's a terrible thing sure that Bee was not in| to marry and live with a woman mind. some years us I did with Bee in He looked xt sure that. we had gone sudd tho he was] perfect companidnship, to think y in-/that you know her very soul, ¢ the |then wake up some morning with us, he said find that you do not know he go in and see her imme-|all, that her whole attitude in re- sane, but rather than discus diately, and Vil tell you what T| gard to you is that of a stranger, } think after I've been in there.” {that you have never known her | He came out at the end of about| thoughts or the secret places of }15 minutes and said: “My dear Mr, | her soul. |Summers, your wife is perfectly] “Sally, is it I, or was it Bee? I Jsane. She is suffering from the re-| was satisfied with her, or the ideat Jaction th many young women! that I thought was she, and now I {have aft 1e birth of their first/am pretty sure that she never was }) child. The event makes a_ great stied with me, that she knew j {change in any woman's life, you|me much better than T knew her, know, but 1 have examined her very|and that she grew tired not only | ] carefully and I find that physically | of me but of the life we were living she is not losing at all jas well SH | “Do not worry, she will be all, “What was the reason, Sally? q) right i t 1 | T could see that Dick was not Re nel He doesn't know |convineed, and neither was 1, but , UREA ck a ee | | never will know And I'm not sure | that I know, either, Leslie dear, 1t 4 | will take me a long while to work it out, and I don't think I'm going to try, for I want to remember the 7 foe that I knew and not the Bee | DeMolay Chooses First Ex- aye I talked to in those last few cle ecutives of State Body Things went on for a day or two in the same fashion as T have writ ROAM A oie a ri | Ra CURRNG the doctor was Ja bench supper were the outstand-| ‘ere Tee acted very normal, but ling features of the Mriday program| YMenever Dick or I was inthe Mit the DeMelay conclave vat ta.{ Tom she would begin again to try yee and tell us what we should “ao } Tk. Ea Rue Stevenson, ma tor) titer she was dead, and when we counctior of tho Seattle chapter, | PUTACeG AHS. OUIG 180) Yon't feel bad. 1 think 1 am will be the first president of the Jstato of Washington organization, | lly happy to go. In tact, I think which was organized Mriday jeverything is dead within me ex: Other officers elected are; Haw pt the mere physical part of me," ley I. Cold of Spokane, first vieo| Finally, however, the doctor be prosident; Lauren Kufus of Wen-| 8 to get worried, and he called theo, nd vieo presidents Paul] another man’ in. consultatior mold of Vancouver, scribe; Mrank| Neither of them could fathom. ju |W. Plersol, master council) of what was the matter Walla Walla, treasurer | Copyright, The Seattle Star) All of the 400 delegates paraded | { Pacoma’s downtown streets riday| TOMORROW—Retter from Sally | | 4 afternoon, me latte | Atherton to Lestic Prescott,