The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-04

50 per pound. Probably means
cost of fireworks will be reduced
But then, with a safe and sane
Fourth. what's the use of us kids
being gald?
"Cafitalistic allies" is what q
writer calls Great Britain, France
Germany and the u. S. since we
made that great Chinese loan
Nasty long phrase, isn't 1t?
Watermelons grown by dry
farming in Colorado sounds fun
ny, but it's true. What's more
they say they are as sweet OIL
sweeter than those where lots OF
water is used.
Cost of living going up! And
it's yet" not again" The dead
ly monotony is what gets us.
Whatch your cat! Another fell
lows going to try to balloon
across the Atlantic Oct. %.
jeanette l.. Glider, lit'ry critic,
says women are writing decent
novels now. No more tiger rugs
purple gloom and jealous hus-
| bands, but stories of real, clean
weak, strong, HUMAN people
Here's how!
Nineteen mines produce quick
silver in the U. s., and Is Of
them are in California. That's
| the reason there's a Mirror lake
there, of course. Say, have you
made your will?
Jake COxey, who led the "army'
II years ago, is today prosperous
| business man. But he says he
hasn't changed his ideas about
| the poor mans needs. Coxey's
| different from most of 'em, then
| Pavlowa, the Russian dancer
who has been called names from
miracle of marvellous magic" tt
fiery demon of temperament
proved that she is just a woman
the other day. She fell dowI
while dancing with her compan
ion Mordkin, and then she slapped
him.
Young German just back from
the United States, flooded Berlin
with Confederate bills the Other
day and then the police presiden
| isused proclamation saying tina
the civil war was over. Dear viii
helm: We have learned to us,
knives and forks over here.
Gordon setter with broken leg
hoped right into a New Yorl
hospital the other day and got il
set. OF course he did. Wasn't he
a setter? Whoa, Jennie! the
traces are loose.
Expert says sour milk is good
for those who like it, but bad for
them that don't, by becky! Con-
venient doctrine that. Why not
elaborate it to include a number
of pleasant and unpleasant
things?
Demand for cheap cigars has
| lessened, says tobacco paper.
The demand may be less, but well
| wager the sales are just as big.
Ride home on our car tonight and
We'll prove it to you.
Vienna has made it Illegal for
a married man to take an aerial
flight without the consent of his
wife and children. Think of papa
asking baby if he may go up in
the air.
| Women Jockeys! Shades OF
pink and green tight-clothes
won't that make a stir? Russian
jockey wants riders license for his
17-year-old daughter.
/ A clerk i'm a general merchan
disc store at Auburn, Me-, found
| a birds nest in a bunch of ba
nanas last week. In the nest wal
an egg which much resembled {
sparrow's egg.
"For heavens sake quit casting
those goo-goo eyes at me-" saiC
Eve; everybody will be taking III
for just married." And in those
days there wasn't any smoking
compartment for Adam to do hi
cussin' in, either.
Prince Edward of Wales one
said: "Girls are not to my taste
/ don't like lamb, but mutton
dressed as lamb"
Lillian Russell, aged so ant
trained down to 165 lbs, Is salt
to be about to make her fourth
appearance in the squared ring O
matrimony. Name of gentleman
in the other corner, with seconds
and trainer, to be announced
later.
OUR DAILY BIRTH {