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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-02-18

The hotel scene was more
western than anything / can re-
member "out west" on the Pa
cific coast. Three people stood at
the hotel cigar stand. shaking dice
with the man behind the show
case. Two of them were girls;
one q brunette dressed in bright
Mexican colors; the other a
brown-haired girl wearing a
short, divided corduroy riding
skirt and flannel shirtwaist. The
third was rather small man
whose face was buried some
where between a huge sombrero
and a red bandana.
Waikiki up to the clerk and In
almost the same breath, l said:
II want room. Do you know
where William Duncan can be
found?"
Right here you are," he an
swered, handing me q pen to reg
lister, land right over there you'll
find Duncan. I reckon" he added.
This hotel is his headquarters,
you know"
you Just struck II lucky"
sang out william Duncan as he
turned from the piano In the sec
ond floor parlor and grasped my
hand In q regular Arizona grip.
Been showing for q week. So
all hands had TO lay off and you
an talk to us all Is much as you
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please and as long as you please"
Early the next day. Duncan, as
good as his word. piled us all
actors, camera men, carpenters
and ME-into big touring car,
and started out to work!
Our destination was the big
open air platform, the clever use
of which has made Duncan DIFF
FERENT moving picture pro-
Queer.
Sitting down beside his faithful
camera, curly-haired billy"
leading man, business manager
and general director of the Ari-
zona Selig Polyscope Producing
Co., told now ne 49,. 49,. $1,000
any kind of an interior at mo-
ment's notice, with the use of {
few boards. He showed me hoy
he changes the appearance o.
these boards, using them owe.
and over, by painting them diff
ferent color. or covering them
with cheap paper.
There's a lot OF fun living out
here in the plnes,' concluded
Duncan. but sometimes get
mighty lonesome for the busy
streets OF q real city"
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Society

Pacific hospital.
Miss Bernice Baker is enter
tanning Friday evening at the Ia
coma hotel with one of the smart
dinners of the pre-Lenten period.
She will entertain Is guests.
As guest OF honor at big re-
ception to be given by the Che
halls Women's club. Mrs. John Q.
Mason will go to Chehalis Friday
morning for a brief visit. Mrs.
Mason has been asked to make an
address along the line of work
being carried out by the fore
most women's civic clubs.
The Tacoma Day Nursery board
has been dissolved and a new
organization-the Tacoma Day
Nursery Inc.-has taken its place.
The board announced this week
that it had duly Incorporated un-
der the laws of the state, and
would conduct itself as bust
nesslike organization in the fu-
ture.
The "Over the Teacups" cluI
will meet Friday at 2 o'clock al
the home of Mrs. A. l. Peterson
515 North l street.
At a meeting of the Logan
Social club held yesterday at the
home of Mrs. s. s. King, it was
decided that the club would be,
gin at once to make sheets and
pillow cases for the proposed state
home for widows and relatives OF
old soldiers. The new home will
be built by the Ladies' of the G.. A
r. of the state Of Washington
and will probably be located near
Tacoma.
The WOman's Missionary so.
ciety of the First Evangelical
church will meet Thursday after
noon with Mrs. j. M. Erchinger,
1885 South Yakima avenue.
Vida Auxiliary, o. e. s., will
be entertained Friday afternoon
at the home of Mrs. Margaret
Rutherford, 1888 South Z street.
Mrs. Rose Beyran will assist Mrs.
Rutherford.
|, Miss Ethel Pinder won the gold
medal in the w. c. T. U. contest
last night in the Friends church.
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II. II. SOthern, who will appear
with Elizabeth Valentine in "If l
We're King" ut the Tacoma Mon
day.
Elizabeth Valentine, who sus-
tains the leading feminine role OF
Katherine de Vaucelles, in e. II.
Sothern's revival of "If l Were
King" at the Tacoma next Mon
day, is Cornell graduate who d.
rected her attention to stage work
shortly after receiving her d.
ploma. She Is a young actress of
singular distinction and charm.
and fineky artistic in her imper-
Sonations. Her chief work at the
present time Is being done in "If
Were King" and as Ophelia to
Mr.. Sotherns Hamlet. She has
also, on a number of occasions,
layed Juliet to Mr.. Sothern's
romeo.
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The Confessions
of a Wife c

here as soon as he makes his ap-
pearance.
am almost sure that he had
no business out of town and l am
SO afraid that he is still drinking
that | am nearly frantic, and yet
cannot think 1t possible that he
would be so foolish.
wonder IL l did wrong by not
making more of a fuss about it in
the morning. Perhaps / Should
haev simply been as ugly to him
as | felt, but l cannot storm
around and do things which
make me, as well as him, un-
happy. Because he does wrong
can't make matters worse by
scolding about it. Besides, 1
don't believe that any wife ever
made her husband do right by
making him angry and uncOmfort-
able, no matter what he had done.
II | have learned only one thing
since my marriage that thing is
that men will not be made un-
comfortable II they can help 1t.
They sidestep consequences every
time they can.
The horrible part of this affair
Is that l have never seen a case
of the kind, except that of Annie.
my poor washerwoman, and | am
afraid that my education has
gone too far to let me still have
the primitive idea that: "It is
mans right to do anything he
pleases and womans duty to make
the best of it."
It semes to me that Dick
ought to see that he cannot
keep this thing up without
losing everything i'm life that
he Notwithstanding me
for 1 simply cannot stand the
agony of mind that have
had for the last thirty-six
hours.
l would like to ask Dick q
mother and father IL they ever
knew of him drinking-but
dare not for fear they have.
Is 1t possible that all the thou
sands and thousands of your
wives. whose husbands have made
them as miserable as mine has
done, have tried to work out a
solution?
never thought Of 1t before,
but now my heart stops beating
and my throat contracts until /
am choking, for l realize that one
has only to read the daily papers
or watch the husbands of ones
friends to know how often the
wife fails. Why don't some big
Drained woman write a play or q
book that will tell one what to do
in these matters? l am doing
In q little more refined way, per-
haps-just what Annie did. That,
guess. Is intuitive In all woman,
but | am doing Il with re-
bellious spirit, and, besides, l am
afraid-afraid!
Am / trying the right plan?
cannot be ugly and Cross with
Dick, and yet want him to UNI
derstand that 1 am not only In
dignant, but hurt by his actions.
What shall do about
this? To whom shall
turn? Poor met Poor Dick!
Poor Romance-it Is dead.
ITO Be Continued Tomorrow
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Miss Helen Keller, the world.
renowned deaf and blind student,
is making tour of the onast and
will lecture in Tacoma March 81
under auspices Of the Associated
Charities. Miss Keller was once
also dumb, but has learned to
talk, through patient effort, and
now speaks with clear enunciation
and a perfect vocabulary. She
hears the applause by the vibra-
tion on the floor.
The ladies' Auxiliary to the
Brotherhood of Railway Train
men will be entertained tomorrow
Afternoon with a card party at the
home of Mrs. @. M. Weiland,
3626 East F street. Refreshments
will be served.
The Ladies' Aid of st. Johns
English Lutheran church will
meet tomorrow afternoon at the
parsonage, 800 South 5th street.
Alpha Degree of Honor will en-
terrain at Odd Fellows temple to-
morrow evening, with Mrs. Jones
as hostess. assisted by Mesdames
Grandall and Johnston.
In the interests of the Chill
dren's Industrial Home, Mrs. Luz
cas- H0ska will entertain at sew
eral tables of bridge Friday after
noon.
Interesting to Tacoma music
lovers Is the report that Harry
Hamlin. the well known Tacoma
baritone, has given up his work
as a teacher and is now on the
vaudeville stage In the east. Mrs.
Hamlin is with her parents In
San Diego.
Mrs. N. M. Graybill entertained
with a tea this afternoon In honor
of the women of st. Leo's Altar
society, at her home on South L
street.
One of the novel affairs Of the
week will be a colonial party FRI
day evening in respect to Wash
ington's birthday, at the Whit
worth college gymnasium.
Mrs. 8. w. Mowers and Mrs.
w. G.. Cameron entertained this
Afternoon with an elaborate bridge
tea at the home of Mrs. Mowers,
on the grounds of the Northern
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upheld.
Il am very happy at the de-
cision of the federal court" said
Mrs. Edison. 1T is a great boon
that such fine class of women
as our student nurses should have
protection by the state. They can
no longer be abused by inconsid-
crate doctors and mercenary hos
pital organizations"
Many graduate nurses have
been watching for the decision of
the U. S. court and one of them,
Miss Hope Golden, said:
THE S-hour system for nurses
is one of the greatest benefits of
the state. | was overworked dur
ing my training days and know
that many others were Also, I'm
der the present 8-hour law this
can never be done again. We owe
much to the labor bureau and
particularly to Mrs. Edison and
Mr.. Lyons, father of the bill, for
this square deal.'"
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Tacoma PlayhouSes

Tacoma TheaterAf Temple Shrine Minstrel Friday
Saturday nights E. II. Sothen in IF Were King,
Monday night; Nine. Clara Butt Kennerey Rumford in
concert, Feb a.
Pantages TheaterMiss musical comedy brevy
college Town." with good vaudeville acts
Empress Theaer- Tiffany Cheating
with good vaudeville
Princess Theater "Checkers story
day. John Barrymore American
day.
Melbourne Theater-Maude Fealy in movie drama of "The
Woman Pays"
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SWIM AND BE LOVELY


''If you would be lovely in face
and figure, hair and complexion
SWIM!" So says Victoria Wolfe,
who swims and dives like a fish!
She lives down on the Pacific
coast in a seaside town where the
roll, roll, roll of old ocean is al
ways music in her ears.
ITO learn to SWIM" says this
twentieth century water nymph,
zone should commence at a very
early age so that fear will never
exist. | am sure there isn't a
question that swimming is one of
the healthiest exercises. And I
am quite sure the girls who want
beauty of skin and hair and SYM
metry of BODY should not neglect
the art.
Maybe 1t is because she is so
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CHAPTER Xxx.

Will this terrible day ever
passf .
Poor old Dad looked troubled
when | told him that Dick was
out of town for the day and he
said: There are some things l
want him to do for me at the Of
flee"
Mother Waverly has an old
fashioned notion that IL a nurse
is called in the patient will sure
ly die, and, although the doctor
has said we ought to have a
nurse for Dad, she steadily re-
fuses to have one. She keeps
constantly asking me IL / cannot
find out where Dick is. She seems
to feel that he will agree with
her about the nurse. / know,
however, that ne Will have one
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Those

Every musical show has its
pony ballet, but the Shriners' min
strels at the Tacoma theater Fri
day and Saturday nights will
swing into line with its dancing
dolls" In the second part o, the
show will be a sketch entitled "In
the Doll Shop" 1t requires fancy
dancing from the various me-
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Men Framed Law; Women
Passed 1t; Now Nurses
Will Get Square Deal

Los ANGELES. Feb. 1s.-The
constitutionality of the amended
S-hour law for women, considered
the most beneficial legislation
ever enacted in California, was
recently upheld In decision of
the federal court at San Francis
co,
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chanical dolls and as none but a
Tacoma Shriner can take part in
the minstrel show, it was up to
the men to don French lingerie
and ribbons. Just how well they
have succeeded can be judged
from the photograph which was
taken this week at a rehearsal.
The demand for tickets has al
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You can s.swap'' anythfne by
asine Illness Swap "a. So Wene
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|CYNTHIAI
GREY'S
RS|

Dear Miss Grey: am in
terested in your letters and
am writing in regard to one
that was in the paper recent
ly in regard to a stepmother.
l am a stepmother and
have had a very hard time
TO make the children under
stand that they must do
what is right. Their mother
was sick long time, and
they were just wild.
Now, I've had a little ex-
perience as to how neighbors
have told the children not to
obey me, and have gone. so
Tar as to tell them to club
me when they are older. II
they would only give step
children a word of encour-
agement towards doing what
Is right and help the step
mother; well, there wouldn't
be so many stepchildren
think badly of the one who
has undertaken to raise
them.
l give my children GER
tain amount of work to do
each day, and see that they
have good times. too. They
love to work, and l am try
ing to fit them to be useful,
industrious women.
II you think this letter will
do any good, | would like to
hear from other stepmothers.
Truly wishing you every sue
cess. STEPMOTHER.
A.-There seems to be q grea
many foster as we'll as stel
Mothers in the present age.
ruly know that a great per cen
II flesh and blood parents are no
airing for their own children. Flo
his reason and the fact that steI
Mothers are often misjudged,
I'M leaving this an open ques
ion for their discussion. TIL
etters must be helpful, short an
% the point.
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E'DISCOVERS"v FAMED
ACTOR in ARIZONA
BY GERTRUDE NJ. PRICE.

BY GERTRUDE NJ. PRICE.
William Duncan Prescott,
ArizOna!
With this rather indefinite adj
dress in mind, | stepped off the
train, into nearly foot of snow
and the most buoyant air l ever
breathed, in search of the man
whose reputation has been won
by making moving pictures in the
great outdoors of Arizona.
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1t from the library or can order IL
from any reliable book store.
Dear Miss Grey: have
been keeping company with a
young lady for about six
months. l love her dearly
and know she loves me.
am going back to Chi
cago shortly and want to
take her along. but l haven't
courage enough to pop the
question. She waits table
here. Kindly tell me what
do about it. Thanking you.
ED.
Aft you are sure the girl
loves you what are you afraid Of &?
II she really cares for you it will
not make much difference what
words you choose to ask her to
marry you. II you can't possibly
ask her, why not write it?
Dear Miss Grey: ] am an
old man who has been over
nearly the whole world. I
have noticed that the pro-
ducers are not always the
mothers. l have known of
children whose producer
cared nothing for them. They
were nourished and loved by
another woman. / claim she
was the mother.
The hen sometimes re-
minds me of the class of
woman who does not mother
her child. She makes a big
fuss about her production,
and leaves 1t to some other
hen to hatch, scratch for
and keep warm, hence the
latter is the mother. N. d.
Dear Miss Grey: am in
vited to banquet, and don't
know what to wear. Will you .
please tell me? AS I am
81, will it be suitable for me
to attend with my escort
without a chaperone?
ANXIOUS.
Amy girl of II who has
zen properly raised should be
'elf-prOtective enough to attend
IN entertainment without a chape-
'One. have great faith I'm young
,eople, and IL girl or boy con-
iucts him or herself i'm accord
lnce to the very hest he knows
here Is nothing to fear.
A simple, pretty, light dress
will be suitable for the banquet.
Dear Miss Grey: We are
two girls old enough to keep
company with young men.
The two we are going with at
present are thought by the
gossips not to be respectable.
They have always treated us
lovely, but are inclined to be
rather spoony.
We do not want to give
tneut up bcCdubc We lOV6
them. We would like your
opinion on the matter.
TWO ATTRACTIVE GIRLS.
A.--Many a good person Is Cos
,iped about. II q girl knows
enough to conduct herself prop
srIy ON all occasions she Is sell
Iom In danger; but it Is always
best to go slowly In every circum-
stance I'm life. 1 see no reason
why You should not be friends
with the young man rs long as
hey are manly; but I would ad-
rise you TO allow them no liber-
les In amy way; nor devote your-
elves entirely 10 them. Il ID .
rood idea 70 allow your innate
somanIy intuition, or the still
mail voice we each have. TO a.
ect you.
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u Dear Miss Grey: We have
! organized a horseshoe pitch
( Ing league, and want a book
8 of rules governing the game.
& Someone suggested that Miss
Grey could give information
as to where we can purchase
a book of rules. II will be
greatly appreciated.
LEAGUE SECRETARY.
A.-Quoirts is one of my favor.
lite games. "A good book on the
subject is "Quoirts," by Morris
Beshong. You can probably get
1t from the library or can order IL
from any reliable book store.
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s'Swap' the dog for Z Persian
cat. Sc Wsut' Ad page. -
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Man and woman responsible
for S-hour nurse law. They are
Mrs. Charles Farwell' Edison and
Henry III. Lyons.
Newark post., 1914-02-04
NEW CENTURY CLUB

At the meeting Of the New Cent
mrv Club on Monday afternoon,
Mrs. !. p. Cann reported having
arranged with Miss Jennie Weaver
TO com" to Newark and give a talk
on "PIaygrounds. their Equip
ment and Management, " III the
College Oratory, on Wednesday at
tprnoon. February twenty-ffth, at
four o clock.
4 note from Mrs. E. G. Robinson
expressing her enjoyment OF the
recent meeting of the Federation
Committee and urging a large at
tendance from Newark at Home
Economics Day. in Wilmipet9gn- y9p
FT4s,Sident Mrs. c. b. Evans.
The builAing committee announc-
ed that owing to the meeting of the
npighbolhood club on February
ninth. the date of the moving pic
ture benefit has been changed to
Tuesday evening. February tenth,
and there will be good candy for
sale during the intermissions.
The program for the afternoon
was in charge of Mrs. J. Irwin
Dayett and Mrs. Herbert J. Wat
son. each Of whom read a very in
teresting paper upon "Civics >,
Mrs. Watson giving especial EN-
phaSjs to "Civic Duties in Small
Towns. The afternoon closed
with a pleasant social hour, dainty
refroshm"nts being provided by the
same ladies' who had furnished the
literary feast
Eleanor Z. Todd,
Press Correspondent.
Newark post., 1914-02-04
PERSONALS

AR anI Mrs. Lewis Thomas are
,l;y;nu congratulations upon the
h;rtb [;r Of daughter on Saturday,
.1anuary ia thirty-frst;
'"', Wrs George 6. Kerr, who has
hoan Undergoing treatment IN prl-
D't ,'otn hospital in Philadelphia, re-
t"rnpd t" to her home today.
R :. GaIIaher, station agent at
.La r. A. o.. is confined to his home
with VIII a severe cold.
Vr. II. X. Watson of Whining
ton visited his son, DR.. Il. X. Wat
son, son last Saturday.
S0'' stray dog visited the rabbit
NAM in the yard of Rev. w. j.
Powau early this morning, and
t;Ird seven bunnies, much to the
Dorrow Of the children Of the fam
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Hossinger Ell,
tartainrd the evening card club, last
Tbnr,dav evening. The lady's
nrizr a sandwich basket, was won
bv Mrs. PiIIing Wright, and the
Gentleman $ prize, a pen-knlte, by
Ur PiIing Wright.
Vr,. Ponrosc Wilson and Prof
uilI, were the winners OF the CUES
prizes, .,
Professor Hills and Prof. Pail
tbornc were dinner guests of th'
K i. Fraternity on Sunday
Mrs Daniel Thompson Is enter
tanning large company OF ladle
At Auction this afternoon.
Mr. Bob Lewis and Mr.. Jacl
snro,I were Sunday visitors.
Mrs. Edgar Dawson, who ha
bprn wishing Mrs. c. B. Evans, l
now the guest of Miss Anne Hos
singer,
Mrs. Whittingham has sent on
cards for Valentine luncheon o
twelve covers, to be followed b
Auction.
Newark post., 1914-02-04

to concede. He should be free from
the fear Of petty criticism by indi-
vidual trustees, and from tramel-
ing interference by the board or its
committees. A president who knows
that he has no real power will be
slow to take responsibility or to dis
play initiative.
A mistake now may mean years
of friction and arrested growth.
At such time as this there are al
ways persons ready to press the
claims Of their ineligible friends or
relatives. Narrow local pride also
is apt to have undue weight in the
matter Of such appointments. 1t
is true that a man from the region
bordering Mason and Dixon's Line
is likely to have temperamental
sympathy with the students and
alumni of Delaware College and
the people of Delaware, but on the
other hand, there might be an adj
vantage in going North, South or
West in search for the new presl-
dent. There surely should be a full
expression Of alumni opinion upon
this matter, an expression to be re
spectfully considered by the board
E. n. Vallandigham.
Chestnut Hill, Mass, January 81
Newark post., 1914-02-04
Items Of Interest
From State College

The completion Of the new green
houses will greatly facilitate the
work Of the Delaware College Ex-
perment Station. Hitherto the
Station men have been unable to
carry on many kinds of investiga-
ton, on account of the lack OF a
properly equipped building, the
ignt and temperature conditions OF
which could be controlled. The
greenhouses will also mean much to
tae agricultural students. Instruc-
lon can now be satisfactorily given
Ill plant propagation, vegetable
gardening, landscape gardening,
landscape gardening, and foricult-
ure, and instruction in horticult-
Ore much improved.
Inc greenhouse plant, which IS
sIloated on the back campus near
the heating plant, comprises two
S'dSS-covered houses. each 67 feet
ong and u feet wide, and a head
touSe 80 feet by % feet. The hor-
,lC0Ill'raI department vii, use one
s'aSS-ccoYerrd house for purposes OF
experiment. and instruction; the
r tsuer house will be given over to
I Ie department Of agronomy and
'Iaht pathology,
LNI II ,r,,, I,
'"NIARY RECORDS OF THE REvOLU-
~, TIDNARY WAR
Inc United States Government is
"o0l to undertake an exhaustive
Ia Karen for the military records of
"e{olutlon. These records will
korI,1L published as soon as they can be
= dd"tc'ed td and edited. It is intend
1,t 10 make the collection a COM
,I. Ee military record of the part
'n'n by Delaware and all the
''ar"' hat We're engaged i'll
Newark post., 1914-02-04
Moving Pictures

"'The moving picture is one OF
the great educational factors of the
time. 1t is one Of the things that
is helping to make this old world
over, into better and happied
place"
"The moving picture show
cheers, but does not inebriate. -
"The moving picture show lubrl-
Gates the wheels of existence, rests,
refreshes, stirs the imagination,
brings into play new set OF con-
volutions, and costs dime.
From January Fra. -
Newark post., 1914-02-04
Entertainment At Christiana

An entertainment for benefit OF
Christiana Presbyterian s. 5. Will
be held in Institute Hall on Thurs
day evening, February II, at 8
D. m. The laughtable little play,
Z A Love of Bonnet" and six
C11ps Of Chocolate" will be pre-
sented by best local talent.
The cast in "a Love of a Bon
net" is:
Mrs. Clipper, widow ...;.;,.,..
= . Mrs. Thos. Appleby
Kitty, her daughter ...:.c,';;;;..
Miss Elsie Webber
Amt Jeremiah Hopkins, inqulsl-
old maid Mrs. f. B. Eastburn
Questionable" Mrs. Fastone. -,
Mrs. Oliver RothWell
Kitty, her daughter, :.''...ii.h,, h,
The "six Cups of Chocolate
will show how the maidens repay
nshandsome" Mr.. Edmund Lover,
mo for trifing with their hearts.
The m following will present the pay
Miss Beatrice Won Kordlandt, MISS
Elsie Webber, Miss Janette Dur
and, Mrs. Rothwell, Miss ,S: Ies,el ns"n.
I Raacon, Mrs. Barrett, Miss Doro'
thv Green, Miss Elizabeth Stroua'
Miss M Marion Lee, Miss Sara Apple
by, Miss Adeline van Llndah' WIS