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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-09-21

FOR SALE BY OWNER-7-room
house; plumbing and sewer in; two
lots and good woodshed. Price
$3.50. 1920 Park ave.
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OWNER SACRIFICING CIR.
BUNGALOW

North End, 2 blocks to PIT. Defi-
ance car. one floor, large attic, cor
ner lots; good reason for selling;
$2650 REDUCED FROM $1,000.
GOOD TERMS. PHONE M. 1855 OR
1900.
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FOR SALE by OWNER
For Sale BY Owner

Two fine lots; s rooms; 1 block
from 9th ave-, II from Traction
Will include furniture for less than
value of house. Phone NJ. 5616.
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TO EXCHANGE

LARGE 7-passenger touring car.
In first class condition. Will take
team of horses. Weighing between
2so0 and 3o0e pounds as part pay
lment. Address Box SOC. care Tim Is.
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.I.oST--At Buffalo Bills show Friday
evening, large black fur collar
satin lined Return 70 45a2 SO. NJ
81. Howard.
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FOR SALE-One acre, North End,
$3.50. Phone NJ. 1913
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1f'lI1!g!!sS
| A. HAZARD co.
| PARTIAL LIST OF BARGAINS.
soar. hotel, cheap rent. Price $500
52-r.. steam heated. Price. $4,000
| 70-r.. steam heated. Price -. $4,000
33-r. steam heated. Price ..$1S00
40-r., housekeeping. Price. $4,000
20-r. transient nicely furnish. $500
is-r., = st, cesy cheap at ....$11o0
S-r., Z st. swell furniture IS 700
DO YOU WANT TO SEE SOME
BARGAINS? WE HAVE SOME. IN
WE TRADE ALL KINDS OF PROP
ERTIES AND LOAN MONEY.
A BIG SPECIAL
We have a great snap in a room
lnS HOuSe, steam neat, tight GOWN
town. You can get it for about "
price. Come quick.
CARPET CLEANING
rsNS>>S>c~ N~~>~c>~~>-~~~o~rs>~-o~N> s->>->-~>-@-
Puget Sound House Renovating Co.
Vacuum and evaporation meth
cd: carpets, rugs cleaned like new;
dinginess SCOT. grease, removed;
mattresses, lounges, tapestry reno
waited. NJ. 1894. 1922 SO. 18th.
s----- -=---- -----
SALOON
Saloon in a good country town,
doing a good business, only sa-
looms in town.
Bertelson & Co.
1306h Pacific ave.
CnnfpptinnnrV c a1, aa n
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Ideal Residence for Sale

Seven rooms and bath, 4 fine cor
ner lots, good barn, lots of bearing
from car. Might trade for suburban
acreage or good farm land. See
owner. 1883 So. L or col C st.
o. In. CHRIsToTFERsEN
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indulge in the habit is perhaps the eye
opener for her friends. Something is
wrong. they argue. They probably try
to ferret out the cause of the disinclina-
ton OF the fair-or dark-one. and IL
they could. would burst forth into dis
cussions on their new wonan's attempt
to disrupt the great scheme of life.
But let's to Hecuba.
We are not of that world. And al
though I see no reason why line
should be drawn decidedly to limit
woman. and be wavering and fiuctuat-
Ing where man is concerned. the very
fact that a woman smoking is repug-
nant to the majority of US speaks eio-
quently against it. Our lines are fallen
in different places, that's all.
Most women smokers do so because
they think It Sporty unusual. verg-
ing on the naughty They do not begin
the habit because they feel the necessity
of a stimulant or narcotic. They smoke
their cigarettes because they are striv-
ing for the extraordinary. the bizarre.
And cigarette boxes, with monograms,
are so fascinating. Then. too. there is
something fiendish in nonchalantly pick
ing a white coffinnail Gas one physician
has dubbed IT'D from an ornamental case,
rolling II between the hands and strik-
ing a match in the approved masculine
manner The narrowing of the eyes
comes next, as matter of course, when
getting a light, and then the puff with
the graceful position of white fingers.
that perchance flash a few rings in the
light oh, I have seen them.
I often wonder just where the habit
was formed. Young girls are prone to
steal a few whiffs. just because they re-
joice in fun with an element of danger
in it. II given permission to collect a
few headaches or bilious spells from
smoking. the enjoyment would soon lag
and die natural death. The stolen
whiff may be the starting point for
some. But women who begin the habit
when quite mature are the fools.
Some men will say that they admire
a fair fellow-puffer and will furnish her
with all the pickings and varieties of
ps sY f1y Wheser ets aeep DOWN .. h m
their hearts they do. is another ques-
ton.
Others will strenuously object. Their
reasons may not be lucid, and will re-
solve into the argument That tney just
don't like to see it, that's all. They
put the girl who smokes in the same
class with the man who rouges
1t is hardly necessary to treat you to
a disquisition on the harmful results Of
the cigarette habit Physicians have en-
Iarged on the subject far more strenu-
ously than on any other of the general
minor evils. But the knowledge Of the
injurious effects ought to act as deter
rent on the woman who has not sent all
her common sense up in smoke
Let u.s. IN closing. suggest that a
cigarette f1endess Is one because she
must get attention at any cost. and
lacking the ability to do so through in
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to expect it: they have settled down
into dull apathy that is simply letting
hfe slip by them and consciously or
unconsciously waiting for its end
Not that we shouldn't be or feel or
even look our age If we go about IL
rightly. No sensible woman OF As really
wants to look %; she has learned that
being 45 has graces and privileges OF It's
own She has learned not to dress sklt-
tishly or to talk or act with an affecta-
ton of youth. But she has learned also
that 1t is not necessary for 45 to pretend
to be so. or for 80 to pretend to be So
She takes a live interest in men and
things. keeps up a knowledge Of causes
and debates, tries to live in the present
and the future instead Of the past.
You would never guess that most OF
the elderly women one meets were mere
babies in the civil war; they give you
always the impression that they must
have been middle aged even then As
for the really old women. one might be-
lieve that they had not only fought in
the revolution, but died in IL as well.
Some one has said that every woman
Is % until she Is 70, and that then she
Immediately enters the race for the old
est woman In the world. Perhaps ~
Arst statement is a hbels but the see-
ond seems often most unfortunately
true. And the winner IF that race -
always the woman who dies OF being 9Ot
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But when these same celioates lease VI"
home of a happy couple anu
themselves in by an undisputed iatcn-
key. there is az hidden heart-sicN
feeling when the dark, lonely rooms
greet them.
There is not a man that is Norman
who doesn't like companionship Inc
sweet dependence Of trusting woman woman
has ever inspired man 70 honIs
things and given joy. That oacneior
were unnatural if his choice were Tor
the solitary life. The reasons for MS
blessed singleness are far too complex
and numerous to be mentioned here;
but when it comes to the complete
bliss of the hearth and home, there
isn't a bachelor apartment. with
stag dinners and freedom unmen-
toned. that can be compared with the
cottage love.
So bachelors may warble Of the
"no-rule and no-restraint" life; they
may stretch themselves in the early
morning hours and glory in the fact
that they do not have to get up to
shake the fires or to open the shut
ters; they may call themselves free
and easy of mind. but never will they
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my woman friend if I have to get a
sublimated taste of tobacco with the
caress; and I never Will admire stained
fngertips.
Our ideals of wonankind do not hint
of weakness; they are far different
from those of medieval days; but
characteristic that has for years been
associated with mans traits. and which
is in danger always Of developing into a
vicious habit. Is not for the American
woman.
She can invade the business feld-the
great system of economics gives her that
chance-but there Is mo thorough
fare" sign when it comes TO mans
pleasures, no matter how trifling. AS in
defnable as the blue haze around the
smokers head and as intangible as the
shadow of the smoke clouds is the
aversion of healthy woman to the
cigarette.
If any pastime must rely upon a crav-
ing in order to maintain its hold on
a normal person there is something
wrong.
If you cannot charm in the good,
healthy American womans fashion,
don't try it by way Of the tobacco and
rice paper.
On further thoughts, 1 will take that
cigarette-and throw it into the fire,
BARBARA LEE.
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appreciate the meaning of their own
homes and families.
"It is not good for man TO live
alone Sound advice. that. coming
as IL does down from the ages, and
appealing just as forcefuIly now as
in biblical times.
But what are you going to do about
it? Statistics are appalling. Bachelors
are increasing in number. and scientists
would have US believe that in the course
of several thousand years there will be
thin ranks Of humanity OF course, IL
bachelors were not made comfortable at
home by their adoring mothers and sis
ters there might be an impetus in the
jewelFy market, and an increased line
cynics found heap OF undarned stock
ings and unsorted laundry on the
bureau. and IL boarding house tactics
were followed at the table, there might
be longing for mansions OF their own.
But man is a stubborn thing and will
cling TO a state Of mind with commend
happy by continuing along the single
way.
But his married friends shake their
heads They maintain that nothing
equals the sublime happiness OF love for
wife and children. which spells the
word "home-" The impending rent bill
and the mutual sacrifices OF married
people. by their power to cause unhap-
piness, increase the ability TO realize
great JOY. And they will quote psycholo-
gists. If the bachelor disbelieve.
The argument is advanced by the mar
ried ones that bachelors are in no con-
dition of mind to judge. How can men
say that they are the happy ones, when
they have not experienced the joys OF
the life which claims more joy? Mar
ried men. having passed through both
stages can compare and deduct. No:
bachelors are not happier than their
poor, struggling married brothers. At
least the married brothers say so.
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der at their delicious boldness and un-
conventionality Of taste.
In a milder form OF the disease they
interlard their speech with bits OF badly
pronounced and incorrectly applied for
eign tongues. or with profanity in Ger
man or French they would not dare to
express in English. In the last stages
they even pretend to have done inn
proper or absolutely wrong things SIM
ply to be distinctive: and from oo-
jects Of ridicule they became objects for
pity.
They are the purveyors Of the latest
bit of daring or slightly vulgar slang
the outspoken advocates Of erratic and
unconsidered causes; the discussers Of
topics best left alone. They are the
girls who smoke because they think IL
smart. drink because they think IL inde-
pendent. swear because they think it
fetching
And they are the girls that every SEN
sible person wants to take to a quiet
corner somewhere and teach that being
eccentric Is not being clever; that tough
ness is not self-reliance: that affecta-
ton Is not distinction. Why TRY to be
silly, or bad. or actually insane? II
these things come. they are misfor-
tunes or curses: and to cultivate them
is nothing short OF suicidal
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IlMASD LULUeS Quotations..

all done before Seth Brown. the owner
of the land on both sides. knew of 1t.
They say he swore terribly. and If Lulu
hadn't been a lady and her father not
having any money laid by, there would
have been one of the biggest lawsuits
the county seat ever had. AS 1t was ne
made Jed hire men TO haul barrels OF
salt to kill the daisies. He said he had
been fighting them all his life.
But 1t was in her own home that they
suffered most from Lulu's education.
Her mother had spent considerable time
fixing up the house for her return. Had
Annie Nicely there for a week helping
to make curtains for the windows.
Every window was different; one pair of
curtains was arranged to form a dia-
mond in the center, another cut out to
make square. Indeed, we all liked to
walk out that way just to study those
windows. Martha Haines always had
the name OF being the most original
woman In our town, but Lulu didn't
seem TO appreciate originality in this
form.
Indeed, 1t seems too ungratefuI to tell.
She changed every one of thoSa cllrta aims
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Timely Books

IN o NOT be distressed IL you do not
like time-honored books, or classi-
cal works, or recommended books.
Choose for yourself, plant yourself on
your own instincts; that which is natural
for US. that which nourishes US and
gives US appetite, is that which is right
for US. We all have different minds.
and we are all at different stages of
growth. Some other day we may find
food in the recommended book. though
we should positively starve on it to-
day. The mind develops and changes,
and the favorites OF this year also
may one day cease to interest us. Moth
Ing better. Indeed. can happen to us than
TO lose interest in book we have often
read, for 1t means that It has done its
work upon US and brought US up to its
level and taught US all 1t had to teach.
Professor Henry Drummond.
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1 49,. 80 We uIIereht, somehow, from
our town girls: Not that she dressed
side Emma Stone. the huckster's daugh-
yer. Sne didnt wear jewelry, either:
put every time we saw her we wished
cream and peanuts and sent our daugh-
ters TO college.
Education is all right as long as II
doesn't put notions into peoples heads"
bors, and Lulu Haines has Come
through all right o
But. as we soon found out, Lulu had
no tons She told Mrs. Rice she felt
at home. She had come to look unon
life as full of opportunities for good.
She longed to make the world a little
better and brighter, a little less pros sale.
The next issue OF the Weekly Bee
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CBy one of Our Readers.)

- CBy one of Our Readers)
Typ WITH the sun she -ose-her con
/ science said.
Enough for him 10 frown-" She bowed
her head
And smiled:
And with q sanity resolution tried
T.. To stiu
The bitterness that sought 20 override
some happy 6iS5 mem'ry whispered. Put
-. This cup:
> He once was kind, he may be kind
-. Bear up
And so, she changed her signing to
- song;
: Love lay. they used to sing-it failed.
Ere long
He came:
His dreary presence filing all the room
He ate his morning meal and went.
The gloom
He made
Lay cold upon her heart when he had
- gone.
And this
To be her wretched lot from sun TO suni
No kiss,
no tender word-appreciation none?
She strove
To. quen the troubled stir that had
.--- begun
=. With love:
So when the erstwhiie idol came at last,
~ Her face
Was CAIN, or all the passion that had
-: -. passed.
10 trace
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EIHEMURDrRERGf

Remained: but cheerfully about each
task
She went.
How passed her day? He did not even
But spent
The time in sullen brooding, TIL the
night
And he retired. To her it seemed a
Had gone;
But when alone. she sat and thought
and smiled:
And yet
The smile was hard-the eyes were
coldly wild
And wet.
All night she dreamed OF suffering and
wrong
And woes:
TIL. wakened by the first birds happy
She rose.
Another day Its little tale OF woe
OF famine in the heart-that women
So sped her days. until some years had
passed.
Denied
The bread of woman's life. until at last
She died.
The woman died! There fingered for a
A thing
Who knew not hope-could neither weep.
nor smile
Nor sing;
For she was dead. The consummation
To pass.
While he-but then. to him all seemed
the same.
Alasl
GEORGE KELLY.
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I'VE HAVE no grudge against
wv education in our town: but to
have a young sprig of girl
come back from college and try to turn
the village upside down and do it over
according to her ideas-well. we will
not stand for such things. can tell you.
That's what Lulu Haines tried to do.
Old Jed Haines made a good living
t gno some 20 spare as mouse palnleI.
what they had to spare to give her the
education which they lacked. Some say
that Jed'S wife was at the bottom of 1t.
She was a Porter, and the Porters al
ways were ambitious. 1t was quite a
comedown for them when Martha mar
ried a painter.
Well, Lulu went to college. We didn't
see much of her for four years. She
came back one June day, all pretty and
smiling My. how proud OF her r. JED was!
the minister and said. This is our
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<<0H, I never eat anything for
lunch but black coffee and
~ lettuce" said the girl with the
chalcedony pin.
Why. do you really like such a queer
combination" asked the girl with the
leghorn hat, who was munching cin-
nanon bun.
mo. can't say do replied the girl
with the pin OF chalcedony - because
corals were in fashion. But I like to
feel that I'm doing something different
from other people, and don't mind be-
Ing uncomfortable in the process"
It's very sad-but there are hundreds
OF girls right in this city pretty nearly
as bad as that young idiot. They will
go to all sorts Of trouble. make all sorts
of false and ridiculous statements, get
into all sorts OF scrapes. only 70 prove
that they are above the common herd.
They are the girls who dress Queerly,
or carelessly, or overelab borately. simply
because they do know better; who fire.
Quent strange and sometimes not too
savory restaurants and lunchrooms be-
cause they consider themselves - save
the mark bohemian: who boast loudly
of the books they read and the friends
they have and the men they know, In
the hope that their hearers will shud-
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Happy Thoughts

TIME best things are nearest; breath
in your nostrils, light in your
IL eyes, flowers at your feet. duties
* your hand. the path of God just be-
fore you. Then do not grasp at the
stars, but do hfe's plain, common work
as II comes, certain that daily duties and
St-Iv bread are the sweetest things Of
fife.-Robert Louis Steve nson.
You will find, as you look back upon
your life. that the moments that stand
iout-the moments when you have really
lfved-are the moments when you have
done things IN a spirit OF love As mem
ory scans the past. above and beyond all
the fransitory pleasures of life there leap
forward those supreme hours when you
have been enabled to do unnoticed kind
nesses TO those round about you. things
too trifing TO speak about. but which
you feel have entered into your eternal
Henry Drummond
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sacrifices you make. Don't let them
think you're doormat 1 know a girl
Of IS who spends every Sunday in bed.
while her devoted mother brings. her
breakfast to her. used to think II was
doctors orders. But no; the dear thing
was tired from her school work And
isn't your mother tired from her house
work. I asked her. Why don't you try
the reverse method some week?' All
the good that did me was TO give me
the reputation Of a meddlesome old
woman and hard-hearted mother with
both Of them. I don't think you found
my son had had such a wretched child
hood, daughter-in-law.
when Fred was a little boy he got
into the habit of expecting me to stay
home from things. His father took him
TO the circus, his aunt took him to con-
certs, his uncle took him for walks in
the park-and l stayed home and watch
ed the house. Then one day / heard a
conversation between Fred and his lit
tie cousin Helen. Your mother'u go
with you said Helen, referring to some
project or other. oh, no. answered my
where except TO grandma's. She'd rather
let me go and have a good time with
out her.
That settled me. can't say I
started on any course of wild dissipa-
ton. but | certainly set TO work TO show
my son that his mother could have as
good time as any other woman I've
ing me that lesson" And the wise
grandmother laughed her easy laugh.
And I'm grateful to you for teach
ing IL 10 me" smiled the little mother.
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had a notice inserted that the residents
of Fairville were requested to meet in
evening. to discuss the formation Of a
Village Improvement Society. There
was no name to it, just Committee .
OF course we all knew it was Lulu s
idea. When we met on our way to the
store or postoffice next day we could
only gasp: What does she mean?
What's to be improved In this town-the
cleanest, best scrubbed and whitewasned
town in the country. No one would go
love of the unusual, the craving for
something new in our mOnotonous lives,
was too strong. The hall was filled.
mostly with women.
Lulu sat UP at the desk and said that
she, as chairman of the committee,
would state the object of the meeting.
In nice little speech she told how 1t
would be TO the interest of all to make
the town as attractive as possible, and
how. as she walked up the street, she
saw wonderful possibilities. She had
made note of few Of the most strik-
ing defects.
First-That all fences should be re-
moved and low hedges planted. Well,
you could have heard your heart beat.
1t was almost too much for poor Mrs.
Hillard, for she has a weak heart Her
daughter was sure she was going to
have a spell right there, and no wonder,
because our solid mile of front white
washed paling fence had been our pride
since time began. Some few families
have used coloring matter and made the
tips blue or green, but most Of us pre-
fer plain white.
Mrs. Eyster so far forgot herself as
to Shrek: "Chickens, Cows She and
her right-hand neighbor have not spoken
for a year on account of her chickens
creeping through under the fence and
scratching out nearly all of Mrs. Eys-
ter's little onions.
THAT is right" spoke UP Lulu. I'VE
want YOU to bring up objections. We
hope to meet and overcome all diff
cuities.'' After few minutes of thought
she continued: THE chickens could be
trained lust how far they dare venture
This may take considerable time and
patience, but in so doing we should be
giving ourselves lessons of inestimable
value. This generation OF fowls, be-
cause they have had no disciplining,
may not be taught SO readily, but it will
be easier with each succeeding genera
flon. The cows, of course, must be
fethered. Then followed a whole list,
one after another, of things that should
and should not be done Trees should
not be whitewashed: all outbuildings
should be covered with vines.
No one took favorably to these new
ideas. Most of US had lived so for fifty
years and could see no need of change.
Lulu didn't grow discouraged. She
hired man to plow up the roadside for
two miles along the Browns Mill road
and planted ox-eyed daisy seed. 1t was
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More Stately Mansions

know The Chambered Nautilus The little
" il the astve of the famous good
enough tie shbboh of individual and of every
literary the We feel that each week we are
building stately mansions Inspired by higher ideals and more
the work each week gladly
offer these with belief that this little
appreciabe lowering
standard, apprise us of the fact. We to know
From of reaers is this timethe comes poem
This thinking feeling
incident that life 1t is worth
variety a favor stand the other
little peuaries
compelling bachelors dea discussed and
pathos and touches
the the college girl her who have had educational
her subject
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tellect or beauty or goodness. she is
driven to the blue smoke Of Bohemia.
She hopes to throw lasso over the
head of the onlooker by putting out per-
feet rings of smoke Sometimes she
succeeds generally she fails.
I cannot yet appreciate the fra
GRANGE of the latest brand from the
orient in the tresses of woman. I am
not particularly keen on kissing lips of