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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-10-21

A.-You are not entitled TO vote
under the present law. which. TO me.
is foolish and unnecessary meas.
ure. N American women who marry
foreign men are TO be deprived OF
their citizenship. the same rule
should apply to American men who
marry foreign women.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-10-21

C.-When will the Initiative
measure No. 3. II carried November
;, become effeotive7 CORA.
Alt will become effective on
January /. 1916. The bin itself
specially provides that.
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The Greater Seattle Cloak and Suit Co.
Second Avenue Opposite the Bon Marche

white slavery" and do away
with the controversy OF re
stricted districts" than all the
preaching from the pulpit and
the press in an eternity. by try
ing to place the blame on the
shoulders OF women.
A WOMAN'S WOMAN.
More than $4,000 Jews are In
European armies.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-10-21

0.-PIease tell me what 20 serve
for . Dutch luncheon at an evening
party7 w. e.
A.-Smoked herring sandwiches.
picked eggs. picked onions, honey
cakes. cinnamon cakes and coffee or
cocoa. Cheese and rye bread may
be used for sandwiches n preferred.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-10-21

A galloway will soon span the
Niagara river over the whirlpool.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-10-21

Look for v. S. Purple Stamp.
II signifies purity and quality.
Shops OPEN until $50 p. m.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-10-21

Ain this state n note is out.
lawed in six years. but cannot give
you the Missouri law in regard to
this. advise you 10 write the bank
and find out II the note is still ne
gotlable.
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OTHER BOOKS.

Precisely the SORT OF inrorinail"r 'ns'
the hShan would IKE 70 nave ABOUT lne
many medical suoJece mat are &c
Dated nowadays. tupercuiosis. cancer
eusen'cs, the suppression OF gelo"
FEVER ana 10 on Is provioeo oy Dr. Johh
bossnef huper IN Docoore View
point loezette tuolnhne company
Now YORK;. Inc pttio volume 10 mauo
up OF articles tnht were o"nulputed 10
many periodicsisi several touch on SUD
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for the students Of English history
who will follow him.
An annual photography that will
prove useful to many people appears In
new volume. writings on American
History, 1872" by Grace Gardner Grif-
fin CYale University Prcss). II Ia
classified list filing 1874 pages, without
counting the index: a list OF writings
published in a single year that may
well dismay the investigator. The pref
ace describes the vicisstudes OF the
publication till Il was undertaken by
Yale University this year.
Only an expert can decide whether
the theory expounded Ivy Karl Pearson
in "On the Handicapping Of the First
born" (Dulau and Company, Bondon).
namely that the first child has less
chances IN life than the others. Is a
modification or has some scientific
foundation. But experts. II seems, cam
not agree with the author, who is the
director of the Cation laboratory. for his
article IL highly polcmical This fact.
combined with the free use of niscel-
laneous statistics. makes the article
almost unintellglbie to the layman.
The attention given to railroads A.
present lends unusual interest to tho
excellent collection Of articles from al
sources on every phase of the railroad
question that makes w the volume or
1.-THE Railway Library" for 1913. edited
as In previous years by Slagon Thomp-
son Or. r. Donnellcy and Sons Com
pany, Chicago. Tho historical articles
almost wholly disappear TO make room
for those throwing light on tho prob
lens now under discussion
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BOOKS OF INFORMATION.

in "A TraVers Ia Presto" 9Th. INcrt,
ct Compagnie. Paris) a. de
thdmburv gives u rapid, entertaining
survey of the newspapers Of the world
for popular use. or course, he touches
on the history of the press. but Ito dis
poses Of that quickly. The hest part OF
his book is the description of French
newspapers since the revolution; that
supplies all that n foreigner will care
10 know and Is probably accurate
enough for Paris!sns. The chapters on
newspaper work and organization arc
Interesting and often amusing. When
the author deals with newspapers out
side Of Franco he seems Inclined to
accept random Information after the
manner of many Frenchmen. and we
imagine that In each country his state
ments may arouse criticism, As they
must whom he speaks of the United
States However. II Is moro surprising
that he should get 30 much right than
that he should blunder frequently The
book Is illustrated with reduced photo
srarcss Of the first pages OF all French
journals Of importance and OF many
foreign papers also.
\ u.etul piece of worl, In a restricted
Htlu, WORK winch VIII Ugnten the labora
OF special students IN history and IN
time, perhaps, may correct some time
honcred misconceptions in the general
histories, has been carried out by Prof.
sydney Knox Mitchell. ph. D., in
Studies IN Taxation Under John and
Henry Ill" vale University Press,
New Haven) an anIpl'ncation Of a doctor
dissertation, The subject ia not SD re-
mote as Il may seem, for England has
always held close to tradition and has
dislike change In the taxes levied
in tho days of Magma Charta will be
found beginnings and snaloFies ~ taxes
that caused trouble In later times, and
probably even to-day. The author has
searched tho sources. he has described
cltarly all that he could find out abou,
the taxes, the manner OF imposition and
collection. and has cleared thorny field
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SHE WROTE LETTERS AND
WAS WON BY A RUSSIAN

In Rachel Hayward's letters from
La-Bas' (John w Luce and Company,
Boston, the young woman who purports
to write the letters expresses Immediately
her contempt for the French city of Ly-
ons. We find her living with her grand
father. an archeologist, whom she also
dislikes. The reader may learn that
this grandfather's Russian wife ran
away from him and that the writer OF
the letters does not blame her since any
grandfather who goes in" for the Cal
whistle religion and for remains"
richly deserves, IN the opinion OF the
sharp critic who is concerning herself
with him. 10 be run away from. The
Roman remains IN Lyons, the kitchen
pots and tho other things that have
been respectfully deposited in tho local
museum provoke the sneers OF the letter
writer. She let's II be known that her
interest IS in flesh and blood and not IN
Jumps OF anciently manipulated stone.
What did w. J. Locke say OF Lyons?
Why, I've spoke OF It's ''Inonotonous clat-
terng streets" That is tho way no was
moved, possibly not always, but N some
particular moment. Dickens criticised
Lyons. He llltcd 81. Johns Cathedral
and 80 II may remain, but he had a
small opinion OF the rcnt OF tho place.
We remember that IN America lie had
| low opinion OF the endowmc nts OF hotel
walters In the use of the English Ian
guage because they said right away"
| instead Of Immediately" He was a
| critic well loved and feared, but 80 ex-
acting that 10 this day he has not been
| lived up 20. His Immediately, sir" and
| directly, SIR" have passed with Shake
speare's "anon. anon, sir" What a
curious thing Is the habit OF expression,
| Directly he had finished his sherry
| cehbler he ordered another" That IS
| Dickens. AS soon as he had incor-
porated his hiGhball he proceeded TO
duplicate the performance That is OF
to-day. "As soon as" an ancient form,
! has survived directly"
When Disraeli tourneyed through
France ne did not dwell In his letters
upon Lyons. He set down merely the
information that he had arrived
there. He called Il "this place" under
the usual letter heading and said no
| more about Il. mot a word norel'
says this letter writer, and she adds
that the want Of comment In eloquent
At frst, the time being night. she
| thought II beautiful. She was reminded
OF one Of Joseph Pencils pictures OF
Budapest. but as soon as she could
see she reformed this Grant and toe
Nattering opinion Some one told hci
that Lyons wa. Historically interesting
that Pontius Plate had lived there, also
Thomas Beckett and the fourth Henry
Of France, who has 10 his memory 1
bridge over tho River Seine at Paris
with statue upon It, She was not i'm
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rha literary quality IN Algernon
placlvood'. The Lost Valley and
other stories" IS ~ marked as the skin
with which he draws from modern
psychiosl theories all tic effects OF hor-
ror thai once uertaincd TO the super
natural. There arc ton stories IN tho
hook aud all make the flesh creep ss
the old time ghost stories did. all arc
studies of the region lust beyond our
knowledge. IN which MIR. Blacl1wood de-
lights. and all are made to seem real by
the brilliant portrayal of nature The
title story tells Of the struggle with
love and death II two brothers and OF
the Wild wandering. IN the night
through an unl.iluw, wiley IN tho Jura
Mountains, H. district to which the
outl,or r,turue avain and again.
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rison was q rather tremendous per-
sonality IN the opinion OF tho letter
writer. Tie scampcred from orc Ian
guage n another. mixing them ell
French, German and Spanish. A jun
Bile of languages has always had the
most deadly fascination for nue.. 1t was
food and drink. wine and honey, to hear
q clever man talk" He told stories OF
Oscar Wide; no stories moro thrilling
moro wonderful, II you arc inclined
to believe II. He ate little, but dranl;
a good deal OF champagne. Sometimes
he would say coarse things, brutal
things that wcre ugly and unpaydon-
able, and then some beautiful sentence
that one would have walked miles TO
hear" We are not allowed to go with
out a sample. zone phrase of his will re-
mains always engraved upon my mind:
With n man tia always passion. with
woman It's nearly always compass
SION" Forever was her mind to wear
this engraving of n pun. Tho case re-
minds us of the tettooins of n sailor.
We come in tho letters 10 Lconie, an
actress. big. dark, grand, with a Greek
head and profile" and to hen lover,
morose and Jealous who sits in an attic
always working AT fresh play and
cursing tho fates that condemn linn 10
remain unheard and unknown" His
name Is Armand and We are sure that
we have heard OF him before, and We are
exceedingly CORY for him. His cross
doubtless In owing TO the fact that he
does not write like Bernard Shaw,
neither Ike Hall Game; II his genius
would take any direction that would
| enable him TO Catch on" we should be
| relieved. The letter In which we read
| Of Armand is from Paris. The writer
| declares: ct ain drunk with Paris, just
| as l used TO get drunk with Swinburne."
| If there were nothing else In the let
tiers we should recognize IN this the
| priceless gift OF temperament" The
| Paris letter tells us also OF Ida Rubin
stein. the beautiful mime, and OF her
suffocation under piles OF crimson roses.
As che stood bound to a tree in DAN
nunzios play OF "st. Sebastian" she
| called out in a wonderful hoarse voice
| to tho archeNs requesting them TO shoot
again. These arrhcrs were susceptible
| fellows; they begged permission 70 keep
as precious souvenirs the arrows that
they discharged ut Ida Rublnstein. This
play was written IN "DAnnunzios gor-
geous, turgid, exotic verse" but the
public was favored with tho beautiful
production during only a few nights.
number Of tho letters are from
London. In one Of these we have a
man entering the theatre bearing IN his
arms "A great load OF flowers. He sat
down near the emergency exit" He
had cropped fair head and sarcastic
mouth. He carried his head insolently
and he wore blue serge suit. bravo,
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Iceland" W. g. c. Russell ce,cha,

-IorIhhd." w s. e FIN-tIL IEichafd
o. Badger Boston-)
The Silver E1ng." Alfred Wilson Bar
rett. George w Dillingham; Company
"Tess Of the River" Theodore Good
ridge Roberts George " Dillingham; Com
pHnvl
"InS pirst,on." Carol Gordon. George w
Dillinghsm Company
you Should Worry" George " Hobart.
George W Dillingham; Company
"Th- Little rloreniin." II. dc Charlieu.
(The Page Company BOSTON,
The Christina. Surpri,s Party" Caro-
line Z. Jacobs. tThe rage Company =.
"Babs Christmas at stsnhope.' Caroline
Z Jacobs. THE PAGE Company
Tive Tines Pacific Coaet Number" John
Parkinson Bland. Lonion)
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evils fully as great would arise from
the measures the enthusiasts propose
when they have established their social
and economic millennium.
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mcnts or TACT He has selected the
Macrcady riots, the draft riots. the muir
dera of Jim Fisk. OF Bill Poole. of Bur-
dell, Of Richardson and Of Adams by
Colt, with some less noted events.
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Reducing tho Cost of living" soott
Nearing George W. Jacobs aud COM
THE Philosophy OF Radio Activity" Eu-
gene Coleman Savdge tWvhsm n Jen-
bins COMPANY. New YorN)
The Chalif Text Book % Dancing, Vol.
l." Louis II. Chalif THE author, New
'.Thir1y Years" sir Thomas Barclay.
(Houghton. Mifnin Company
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MONTCLAIR. NEW JERSEY.
MONTCIAIR ACADEMY

For Boys orange Mountains. correspond
euce or, better personal visit invited FROM
those desiring the best. Booklet. "Nour Bo1
and Our school," will Interest you, no matter
where your boy 10 educated. Address
JOHN G.. Macv1CAR. Headnsstcr. Box So
Montclsir. y. J.
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New Rochelle, ~. Y,
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For catalogue address, dean, college OF
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HIGHTsTOwN. NEW JERSEY.

An endowed school for $50 boys ofrering
thorough preparation for all colleges and or
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school for boys II to IA years. Rates $3.50 TO
$500, tsth year opens September e3rd. For
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TALES OF TERROR
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Mr.. Blackwoods Psychical Theories in Thrilling
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Advertising Methods. Turkish Life and Manhattan
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English Taxation, American History photography,
Popuarized Medical Advice. Child Labor.
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RIVERSIDE SCHOOL.

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College Entrance and Special Courses.
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HORACE MANN SCHOOL,
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High School for Girls. Elementary for Boys
and Girls. opens Sept rs B'way and i20th 81
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THE LYETE SCHOOL, No. II East doth ST.
Certines for college entrance.
Ian guagcs, art. domestic science.
French and German In all grades.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-31
Lord CoBe's Dictum
Against Women Lawyers
May Be BLotted out

London. Eng. Jan 3I.-A bill is to be
introduced in the house OF commons
net session which aims at giving Eng
lish women the right to practice as Ia ll.,,
yers. 1t is a question whether IL VIII
receive the support OF the government
without which it stands little chance OF
success
The matter has been fought in the
courts for several years and the de-
cislOn to introduce a bill results from
the Judgment of the court of appeal
which in December decided that the
present law did not give women the
right to practice and that the only tri-
bunaI which could give women sucn
rights was parliament The grounds
for this Judgment were not that there
was any inherent Unfitness among
women which prevented them from an
pearing in law practice. but merely thar
there never has in fact, been a woman
lawyer in England The court held that
this common law disability was furtheP
supported by a dictUm Of lord Coke. IS
sued over 500 years ago. concerning
those who had become entitled to prac-
tfce law from time immemOrial As old
as it is. this dictum is stiI binding Ia
ENGLISH law.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-31

talk that way, when the United States
was always having strikes and cleo
lions and panics and things that would
interfere with my hotel business? So
L settled that mighty quick"
How 500" asked Sim Perkins
Il annexed the United States" said
Uncle Ashdod. That's the way to
settle trouble with other nations-an-
mex them Look herer I says to the
captain of the cruiser. Don't YOU
bother no more. I've started a re-
public Of my own here, and your United
states is nuisance, so I've annexed
1t. I annexed ii about a minute and
a half ago. So that's the end of your
United States, misterr I says"
That was the right way to do. and
the easy way" agreed Sim Perkins.
Annex EN-! And when you had the
United States annexed what did you
do?"
We'll" said Uncle Ashdod slowly.
then the captain of the cruiser he said
few things to me- and a few things
to his gun crew, and then me and my
crew set to work and shOveIed our
volcanic mountain island back into the
South Pacific ocean where it come
from. You see I'd forgot to ask the
aneXee if he wanted to be annexed.
And he didn't want to be"-Copyrigh
1914, by the Mcclure Newspaper Syn
dicate.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-31

over the sides, and over the stern, and
1 see 1t was as good a mountain as
anybody could wish, and there was the
ark on top of it like a summer hotel,
with stalls that would do for bOarders'
rooms, and I says, This is goin' to
spoil that Millennial Exposition but
from now on I'm no captain
If you ever was" said Sim Perkins.
From now on I'm no captain
continued Uncle AshdOd. % From now
on this is my mountain, and I'm Mister
Ashdod -Clute, Proprietor of the Ark
Hotel, beautifully situated on the crest
OF Mount Venus, on Clute Island. Re
public of AshdOd, Pacific Ocean. World
Board by the Day or Week, Special
rates to families. So I started down
the cOmpanionway to tell the mate he
was Head Waiter and to tell Fatime
she was Cook, when bang a cannon
Dali Whizzed past my nose. So I looked
over the rail and seen a United States
cruiser down there on the ocean. The
captain of the cruiser picked up a
megaphOne- Look here! he says.
You got no business having a noun
tain island here. This is the main
route to Australia, and you dassn't OBJ
struct traffic this way. You got to
move out Of the way Who say that%
I says The. United States of America
say it! he says. So that made me mad.
What right had the United States to
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-31

comforts, and when you ask them to
produce the goods, they say they are
just out, but they'll let you have
something just as good; and then they
give you rocking chair that won't
rock and water pitcher that leaks
and a lamp with no oil in it.
II we begin passing laws of a dras-
tic character, Furnishing people for
slde-stepplng the truth, professional
people and landladies and lawyers and
others will be forced out of business,
and then what are we going to dO2
There will be an end at once to all
private transactions in live stock. No
man Will dare to sell a COW or a
horse, for it is impossible to sell such
an animal and cleave unsWervingly
to the truth. If a man has a horse
that appears unblemished to the naked
eye, and a prospective customer comes
to him and asks if the horse is sound
shall it be required of him to explain
that the horse has fits2 The bottom
viii be knocked out of American com
merce when such things are eXacted
When go to the sauerkraut store
and ask the proprietor for a genuine
Havana cigar, must he deliver what
ask for, merely to conform to a
ridiculous statute? If he is able to
work off Connecticut cigar on me as
a pure Havana, he should be per-
mitted to do it. The responsibility in
such matters should rest with the con-.
sumner. If my education has been so
neglected llldL I can ulSLluRulSn a,
Connecticut caulifIOwer from Gu
ban smoke. I alone should suffer. The
law that would force a cigar dealer
to explain the difference would be alb
surd.
Il believe in truth If it isn't over
A little of it goes a long
way in commercial transactions When
it is administered by law and made
you viii be punished for
referring to this skim milk as cream,
Mrs Jiggers"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-31
By MAUDE WILLFR


Q UGH dear, bewildering naive little
girl is Miss Frances Starr, who Is
playing in THE Secret with such
distractmgly pretty ways and so much
real common sense back OF it all
Il think beauty is based o ma process
of evolution, she said. smiling up at
me with her whole heart in her eyes.
that Is, we seek BEAUTY. beauty is
youth, and eternal youth is gained
through one thing only, mental activity.
So to begin at the foot of the ladder to
work our way up, we must first keep
mentally active this Will keep us young,
and with youth in our possession beauty
only too eagerly crowns us with her
laurels. All this means that we cannot
approach beauty directly-it is like q
problem in algebra, if X equals and V
equals Q, then equals q
That is lust the trouble with most
people OF today, they all reach out for
beauty; they must have It immediately
at any cost; they are not content with
a roundabout process and consequently
they never really attain it. ImmatUr-
lty IS the result, not youth in its truest,
sweetest meaning.
"And now the secret of learning how
to keep mentally activey Oh, yes. I be.
lIeVe absolutely IN secrets. I think
beauty secret Is valuable simply in its
suggestion. You know if a person has
a beauty secret and believes in it I'M
plicitly, a benefit of some kind Is bound
to be the result. And so. my secret Of
keeping mentally active is simply tn $:
Be interested in everything, no matte
how trivial, Make up your mind to see
good IN everything and to be able to de-