The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-09-11
Story About a Hired Girl


their monopoly dyes and other chemicals necessary to
human happiness, and applied for foreign patents they
and to prevent dishonest Americans from stealing their
recipes they filed fake specifications with their applications
for patents with Uncle Sam.
Sure enough war on. Uncle refused to recognize
e patents and his chemists went to trying out the recipes
Behold in almost every found that some essen
& ingredient indispensable step had been omitted from
the recipes formulate The specifications were frauds
and the recipes wouldn't work. Fine Teutonic cunnng
But our American chemists did not lie down and
they went to work to discover why the blamed recipes
And then they took the by the hair by taking
ont domestic patents the Hun having nvadaed his pat
ents by fraud and hereatter II the hun gets ms dyes
Kan brains. It's mighty fine instance OF boomerang and
altogether reminds of Story About Hired Girl.
Many years ago. but it and feels like last week
trust formed in certain suburban community back
a Ohio Tommy Wilson and Bobbe Smith were two-thSds
@ the trust and the remainder There were no Thfft
Stamps in those days and the trust put its first accum
uaton of capital from moving lawns running errands and
swiing pigs into large two-wheeled cart
INDEPENDENTLY with the trusts possession of that
cart mother possessed hired girl buxom Swede named
Katura Jansen. You might forget your first wife, or
grandmother pay day, but Katura, having
met her. Katura the embodiment of emotion She'd
laugh at anything at nothing. easily and when
IL her flood of tears she composite picture of the
Horse Shoe Falls and the emptyng of tub of wash suds
the trust preferred Katura at flood tide.
Well in the cleaning, day, the trust found Katura
resting the kitchen steps and coaxed her into taking
ride in that She laughed like horse with straws
= its nostrls called boys her deer eede ponies and
enjoyed herself greatly until the trst-reached
TIE top of the hill and let go the cart handles Then
Halfway down you could fairly hear Katura's tears
fall and the trust danced its six legs swung it's hats
and cheered her from the top of the hill.
Gosh! but that live trust for the promotion of
fun!
But glancng two-thirds way down the hillside
roadway the trust perceived that father returning
from his daily office toll On side father bore gro
ceries and vegetables, worsed and hairpns for
mother, rolls of music for Sister Ella, etc. ETC.; the
other side of these onghanded wooden garden rake
he trust found four elephants and two pounds of
toes in the adjoining bushes next day. Daned If the fun
didn't out of third of that trust right then
For brief second father and Katura commingled
al miscellaneous and sudden and for the of way
down the hill their best friends couldn't tell which part
father, which hired girl which cart which rake There
was, to be brief flash of Joy when father got
upon his feet with the aid of undlued basphemy but
the rake handle swped him at the ankles and he con-
tinued
Boys will be boys" said mother, later on; and she
hked both father and Katura, too But fathers will be
fathers replied father and after his demonstration of it.
IN the woodshed, where blamed fool had lust de-
hvered load of ath, we never any good in trusts
We hope will not greve those smart Aleck Hun
chemists by adding this moral:
III boomerang tastes lot better when outward bound
than when coming back
American Bar association convention ignores ,com-
an suffrage question, which much like an ostrich
1C0uh handle the problem.