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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-07-16
THE MELANCHOLY MUSE

Wanting Ia wisdom IL woman, save
arts TO make herself fair.
Sometimes she succeeds.
Powder and paint are used. and stuff
that bicach~s the hair.
Many cosmetics she needs.
Her lips fresh color is often harsh 10
tho taste.
And powder IL often scattered In
reckless haste.
The line OF her eyebrows In too fine
Many things constitute woman. Gre
alton divine.
4 while on earth. ahe endures.
TO practice many lurcr.
sinful. yet simple. great In graft and
In guile.
Woman. oh. woman' are you worth
whiieg
For you the life Of man In spent.
Down 10 his last cent,
In sadness OF spirit. wrctchcd In
heart and In mind
lie iaborn for lures that deceive. and
love that In blind.
Man. The deceived. the dupe. consti.
tutionally led astray.
To work and struggle for woman, In
darkness he lives out his day.
with his nose 10 the Rrindstonc thru
weary. intoierabi- years.
lie makes his iEnobic way thru this
eiouded valley Of tears.
sad In his life.
round OF bitter strife.
Wild words wound him. and swift,
dishes follow
The long weighed measure.
OF ali his earthly pleasure.
Ia stripped of leisure and made
hollow.
Woman who cas-, him from his gar.
den in the first.
gtll purHucs him. and he yields. and
yet shall come the worst
pomer
However. taking u by and large.
Ninn Gertrude Maui IL piano
teacher IN 81 Louis and Mias Ina
swan played at a piano recital In
Dallas, Tex. recently. Wen wager
Imas a bird
And WIN l.. McSut, and Gertrude
AcSut,, OF Sutby. Nova Scotia. were
married recently.
Uncle Joe Cannon L. going 20 run
for congress again. Uncle Joe
doesn't intend 20 give federal officials
an opportunity 10 catch him under
The no.ioafing order,
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-07-16
stu Dreams Her
Mnrrinne Dre0nl

My Dear Miss Grey: why have I
never married. Wen. I've been 10
busy that I had scarcely realized
1 wasn't married until you put w
the question 20 Hquarcly.
Always I've had my beautiful
dream OF love and home and bappi'
ness-but no reality TO mar H.
In the long ago. n romantic boy
In his teens wrote "A letter picturtng
such love and such "a home ana hap.
pineas ms that OF which dream.
and begged the chance 10 prove his
worthineas. After years 81 ~ usfac,
tory effort In proving his earnest
ness. and had said Yes" he
straiRhtway turned around and
made love to another girl and told
me about IL. pretending he expected
me 10 forgive.
For ten long years ! hid my dream
away from my own eyes even.
Then came most practical man.
who would be in reality what the
other had only pictured. His Lack "
sentiment gave me IA sort Of grim
pleasure. But he did me out Of a
sum OF money evidently expecting
"A marriage 10 square the debt, and /
was saved from losing anything -
only paltry dollars and some more
confidence in humanity
More busy years and bachelor
fair fat and forty began 90 entertain
himself and me by relating funny
Htorlcs-the same one. sometimes.
rnaay times. Three years OF this,
when / had begun 20 think maybe ]
needed him-then he suddenly and
emphstically withdrew.
Next. quiet. lonely man wei
coined my coming ycar-into
faraway out.of.theway place In
Alaska. and demanded letter in
every mail during the years he re
,nained In. after had come out
Then he came out and for a week
seemed 20 be trying 10 buy for me
all the things he had been unable to
buy in that barren country.
Then he proceeded TO buy some
thing / couldn't use--lt was before
the town went dry--and used II him
self and disappeared and l never
knew Of him after.
SO dream my dream and do my
work and care not TINT the years
are bearing me on toward fifty. ]
have the pleasure Of believing that ]
could have been truo--that ] could
have done my part-but maybe
couldn't and so I've been saved this
disappointment. ID. ~.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-07-16
The Plan for World Freedom

1t would be well for freemen everywhere. to commit
to memory the excerpts from President Wilson's Fourth OF
July address. given below:
The destruction of every arbitrary power anywhere
that separately secretly and of its single choice disturb
the peace of the world if il cannot be presently de-
stroyed at the least its reduction TO virtual impotence
Such is Americas aim in this and backing it are
all that America has of lives. money and material As the
president says:
"There can be but issue The settlement must be
final No halfway decision would be tolerabe No half
way decision is conceivable"
And when that issue is decided. there shall be-
The settlement of every question. whether of terri
tory sovereignty economic arrangement of pot
ca relationship upon the basis of the free acceptance
that settlement by the people Immediately concerned.
The settlement of international questions and pcrma-
nent peace shall about thru
THE establishment of organization of peace which
shall make it certain that the combined of free
tons will check every invasion of right and to make
peace and justice the by affordng definite
tribunal of opinion to which all must submit and by which
every international readusment that cannot be amcaby
agreed upon by the peoples directly concerned shall be
sanctioneS"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-07-16
DOESN'T UNDERSTAND JIM

II " a good thing. little book that
tho bright young woman who writes
the society notes In Pats paper did
not Rush in the way that the other
newspapers did for / really do not
like such flattcry In public print as
was written about Donna and me
on our appearance at tho tennis
tournament. Ever since the paper
came out. Jim has called Donna and
me The Artists Prides."
However. there are some things.
little book, that happened that day
that / must tell you. for no one
knows them as ! do.
I wish you could have seen Bar.
clay Sili's face as Mollle and Chad
and l Etrolled In.
We did not 20 for luncheon: we
Just went into the Hatton box TO rec
the tennis tournament. Mr.. sill
bent over quickly and spoke to Don.
ma as he caught sight Of us and che
playfully shook her finger at me.
Mr.. SIN turned very sulky. and In
little while. when Donna had eVi.
IDENTIFY asked him 10 bring her over
to our box, he compiled with rather
poor grace. and left her with an cx-
cuse that he wanted 10 speak 10 n
friend In another part OF the stand
for a moment
"Margio. did you know you were
coming out here with Chad and Mol.
le?" Donna asked.
mot until five minutes before I
started" / answered
THAT In what I told Barclay Sill"
she remarked "IIe has acted very
oAcerly all day. and since you came
" believe It Is because you did not
come with us. guess that gentle
man has bad case OF egomania,
Margie. and ! am glad you refused
TO come"
but Donna, you understood that
IL waa the best thing I could do 20
come with Mollie and Chad"
"Of course I did. Margie."
Just then Jim Edle came up, and
seemed very much relieved to find
me with Mollic and Chad.
why did you not tell me that YOU
were coming out with Mollie Mar.
gle? | would have come along"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-07-16
Editors Mail
L. S. IREL.AND,s nEsT rRlENp

L. =. fREI.i>D'S BEST FRIEND.
Editor Star. read with much in
tsresi and delight The fine letter Of
SIR c. J. Gala Cher on the Irish ait
usuon. Mr. Gallagher IL right The
Sim F.insrn do not roprcacn, tho
iriah people. rather they disgrace
them. Thinking irishfnrn know that
this IL not Enrland's war but u IL
lit MANfrY's WAR Tho kaiser at.
tackled civilization Itself and Il IL to
IN. disgrace % ireland that Sim
Felners have cast a blot on the fair
name Of ireland Furthermore. don't
forget that tho United States IL very
much in this war and THE UNITED
STATES ~ THE BEST FRIEND
IRELAND EVER HAD.
The typical Sim Feiner IL Jorc.
miah O'Lcary lie was all buster.
bluff and noise. even carrying u to
such an excess that he grossly In
suited President Wilson. Bu; when
Jerry was captured down In Oregon
he cried. begged for mercy. said he
was crazy and mentally irrcsponsi.
bic Roger Easement trafficking
with the Huns and with his ship
load Of German rifles Just outside
Dublin bay. L. truly and genuinely
representative Of Sim Fcin
was born and raised In County
Clare. ireland. and am just az Irish
as my name. | am proud OF my race
and people. There isn't kinder.
hearted people In tho world than the
Irish. their greatest fault being a
generosity that borders on spend
thriftiHm. But as Mr.. Gallagher
says. don't bcsmlrch that noble race
by thinking they are anything like
the Sim Fclncrs
+. J. BYRNE.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-07-16
Schwab
Welcome to Seattle. Mr.. Schwab.

Welcome to Seattle. Mr.. Schwab.
AS risen from humble beginnings to the man
agement of Of the largest corporations in the world
you familiar with big things.
You will appreciate Seattles bgness-its quickness To
adapt itself to emergencies its marvellous conversion
in the past two to Of the greatest shpbudng
cities in the world.
And want you to know, further. that much OF
this achievement has in company with recent
gard for the needs and the rights of the worker The
shipbudng scale is set in Seattle practically for the whole
country II it has been higher at times than elsewhere
the results have justified it. Seattle builds ships more
efficiently and with greater dispatch.
Seattle bids you welcome representative of the
United States government 1t bids welcome man
Of vision
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-07-16
DESERTERS GIVE UP
IN FACE OF u. S. TROOPS

LITTLE ROCK. Ark. July is.-
Awed by the presence Of troops with
machine guns in the hills in which
alleged draft resisters were hiding.
four Of the band had surrenderedtQ,
Clybournc county officials today.
Other members OF the band were to
follow them soon. they told tho au-
thorfties
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-07-16
He Didn't Take Her
So She Froze Him

Dear Miss Grey: Tho letters writ
ten to you on the subject Of why
Have Never Married" cause me 70
write 20 you. altho am happily
married. \ very dear friend OF
mine has had a career 30 different
from the splnsters who write that ]
have tried to get her 20 write IL out
for you. but she won't. so ! am do
ing IL instead.
She was an industrious. capable
woman when only - years old.
shared her mothers cares and re-
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-07-16

q. dreams sombsr ana dreams glad.
But swectcr dreams a dreamer had
Than the dreams dream Of my soldier lad.
Ny soldier the sea,
For browse at night when the thought grows dim.
l no at the wide worlds outer rim.
And ! watch tho little stars fly swim.
Aa fall to dreams and / drrsn 81 him.
And dream That he dreams ~ me.
I wake at morn and I dream all day.
I dream nj my work and dream az play.
I dream OF my laddie who's FAR away
And the miles that intervene.
go 7 send my Kisses across the sea.
And they meet the ktssrs he sends to me.
md they sing az they paEs In their ecstacy:
They sing Of our love and the days TO DO.
when Ito between.
Copyright 1918 ~ y A.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-07-16

highly nervous condition due TO lack
Of sufficient iron in their red blood
corpuscieR without ever realizing
the real and true cause OF their trou-
bile without iron in your blood
your food merely passes through
Tho body. something like corn
Through an old mill with rollers so
wide apart that the NTH can't grind.
But in my opinion YOU can't make
strong, vigorous. successful. sturdy
iron men by feeding them on metal
lie iron. The old forms OF metallic
iron must go through a semi-di gest-
i've process to transform them Into
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-07-16
THEY'RE BOOBIES ALL

4 couple OF summers
Ago they were just
Plain fly and
Mosquito. but this
summer well go after
Then double strong.
We take the stand
That anything peHky
IL claased under the
Hun colorn. The German
Offensive That's right
From now on anything
Offensive IL German.
And Fritz Mosquito
And Heinie Fly are
Hochea. 30 we've got
Two good reasons for
Wrapping tho swattcr
Around their double
Chin. FIRST. because
They are what they are.
Ana second. because
They belong IN Hunmany.
We all can't jah
Bayonet this summer.
Hut wr can shoulder a
EsAtter and imagine
Every ny and mosquito
II boche. and take
No prisoners.
over tho top
Carry on
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-07-16

WASHINGTON. July 10. ~ The
giant task Of building n bridge OF
ahipa across the Atlantic for Per.
shlns IL coming along better than
even the most optimistic had figured
possible.
The totals for the month OF June
are not yet available. hut for the
first five months of the present year
iiS steel ships. aEgrogating sos. 900
dcadwclght tons. were put into the
water complete. And OF these 26a.
600 tons were completed in May
alone.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-07-16
1t to Kaiser! u. Builds l Is Ships in 5 Month:

the water so fast they will make the
kaiser's head swim.
There arc now siD ship ways In
the United States. Whereas one
year ago not quite $1,000 men were
engaged In building ships. today
there are over 100000.
The tremendous number OF launch.
inRa on July Fourth was very i'm.
preHsiye. but prior 10 that ISL steel
requiAitioned vessels with total
lightweight tonnage Of i.isC,sS7
were launched
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-07-16

According To Charles hehwab. di-
rector general OF nhipbuiiding. the
country la.junt beginning to get into
It's real stride
The biggest hopes are pinned 10
Hog Island and two other fabrioat
ing yards, In these three IL Is hoped
60 turn out In n single year more
than tho great shipping nation Of
England has ever turned out In a
similar period.
When Hog Island IN completed
there will be a launching every other
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-07-16
II Court With Unclean Hands

u. S. supreme court restores industrial slavery of chill
dren.
IT, S. senate refuses political freedom of war mothers
widows wives, nurses, food
We in the court of the world pleading the oil
liberty and democracy Are hands clean? They arc
dirty those of the verest shyster Let's wash Them right
away!
Science plans to eLectrocute germs in milk
Certainly sounds simpler than hanging them.
Hintze has Kuehtmonns job Hints TO Hintze
man be aoasted, but kultr IS the blink Just the same
Who put the Hun" in "hunOer"? Whv old Kaiser
Bill
These the days Of greatest need and least ambi-
tion to acorE in the backyard garden.
There isnt the germ Of peace IN the German
peace propaganda
BIZ the wov, the Victory Girls Carnival also has
couple Of automobiles.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-07-16

feel that IL is such a valuable REM
edy that IL ought to he used in
every hospital and prescribed by
every physician in this country.
have taken II myself and expert
cnccd its health giving. strength
building effect. | am well past my
three score years and want TO say
that ! believe my own great phys
ical activity Is due largely today to
my personal use OF NuNatcd Iron"
while former Health Commission
cr Kerr Is not himself physician.
still hts experience in handling pub
lie health problems must give his
opinion more than ordinary weight
pr. \. J. Newman. Former Police
Surgeon Of Chicago. and former
House Surgeon. jefferson Park Hos
pital. Chicago says: 1T has been
my particular duty during the past
six years To assist in keeping Chi
Cages five thousand blue coats in
good health and perfect fighting
trim. so that they would be phys
ically equipped 20 Withstand all
manner OF storms and ravaCcs OF
natures elements. Recently | was
prompted to give NuNRtcd Iron "a
trial This remedy has proven
through my own tests of IL to excel
any preparation l have ever used
for creating red blood. building up
the nerves, strengthening the
muscles and correcting digestive
disorderA"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-07-16

day.
TO give an indication 81 the steady
progress this nation has made IN
ahipbuiiiing. consider these figures
In 1915 We produced 2iS.G02 dead
weight tons OF ships.
In 1916 we produced G2o,s57 dead
weight tons.
In 1917 We produced poi.223 dead
weight tons OF ships.
In 1918 the shipping board expects
TO produce about 5000 900 dead
weight tons.
And Ia 1919 ships will tumble into
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-07-16

seldom have Cynthia Grey read
ers contributed 30 many interesting
letters 10 one discussion as the one
now In fun swing on why 1 Have
Never Married" Miss Grey cOnsld'
crs the following letter one OF the
best received.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-07-16
Just a Few of Them

We sorry to learn that than 800 penalties for
violation Of food laws have been imposed upon American
dealers foodtufs $50 of whom driven of bust
by the Food Administration That should not have
depressing effect other Americans Several hundred
thousand dealers in oodstuffs all the country have
obeyed both letter and spirit of the laws and millions Of
housewives have done than Hoover has asked of
them. That little band of 800 frst-ads-tohe is
drop in the bucket but at that is fine thing
swat 'em good and hard as fast catch them.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-07-16
.C8 996$%S;dt{R@en

"oh. no, you would not. jim" said
Mollic quickly
why not7"
because We would not have in.
vitod YOU" she said with q smile.
80 I'm going to get snubbed all
around today. am ~" said Jim To me
In low tone, as every one else was
talking about the tennis sets
II did not mean TO be gium this
morning. MarEic but was feeling
all stirred up over many things"
Next time YOU get stirred up
Jim. don't call me on the telephone
Try II on some one who is not as
fond % you as I am"
Now 10 you. little book. I can say
what | did not say 10 Jim That n
nnn--every man. more or lcas
takes his glum humors out Of the
woman hc loves best. Dear old Jim
Ia the Hunnlest tempered person In
all the whole world. but even he can.
not resist making me-his Oldest
woman friend feel that have done
him n wrong by allowing any man
but himself 70 talk 20 me five min.
'h''t iffNi wv NtfAA ~ bH AllNA was iflf
very five minutes he wanted to be
alone with me for some inexplicablc
reason.
Seems 20 mo. little book. that I
don't understand Jim as well as /
used 10 when Dick was alive. / am
afraid he Ia taking hiS responsibility
In regard TO tho business too aeri.
ously. Whenever made some
what sentimental remark about the
moonlight. or anything else. before
him. and Dick. he used 10 make more
fun OF mo than oven Dick did. but
now he seems to take It very serious.
ly, and he usually makes some re-.
mark in an embarrassed way about
Richard Waverly III.
Now, you know this IL not like old
Jim. little book. Dear me, | hope
he is not H. ! would hate to have
him go out OF my life now when
depend upon him so much.
(To Re Continued
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-07-16

King. New York physician and med
lcai author. and others, 30 that the
jcct and protected from the use on
metallic iron. under tho delusion
that IL - Suxsted Iron. or at least
something ~ good as NuSated Iron.
Il, rrvnrd 10 the value OF NuNated
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-07-16

Iron. DR.. sui
Ivan says
II h n y q
strongly eu-
phaEtzed the
great neceE-
sity Of phys
iClans max
ing blood
q Z n m n a.
{ q n = q {
their weak.
= n n G m {.
run down
y n { g ntE
r n ousAnds
Of persons
go on year
after year
= u ering
from physi-
cal eak-
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-07-16

Seattle makes ships easy pies Mr.. Pie- As
nice president Of the shpbudin0 board you for
yourself today
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-07-16
| Stars S}AE;A1LS
|A5H)LE m TINES WORTH MNE
A Friend In Need

Realizing the needs Of the com.
munity. the eminent specialist. Dr
Bert Moore. NJ. u. an acooucheur OF
large experience. recently decided 90
give the people OF this community
the benefit OF his professional sery.
Ices. His nhinRie now swings In the
breeze OF his residence Fleetwood
tOrel Telegraph Herald.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-07-16

II people
would only take NuNated Iron when
they feel weak or run down instead
Of dosing themselves with habit
forming drugs. stimulants and alco-
holiC beverages. there are probably
thousands who might readily build
up their red blood corpuscles, in
crease their physical energy and get
themselves into a condition TO ward
off the millions of disease germs
that are almost continually around
us. 1t is surprising how many peo-
pie suffer from iron deficiency and
do not know it. IL you are not
strong or well you owe u to your
self TO make the following test See
how long you can work or how far
YOU can walk without becoming
tired. Next take two five-grain tab
let's OF Nuxated Iron three times per
day after meals for two weeks Then
tost your strength again and sec.
how much you have gained
Manufacturers Note: Nuxated Iron
which In prescribed and recommended
above by physicians Is not a secret REM
edy. but one which Is well known 20 drug
Eists everywhere. Unlike the older thor
Eanic iron products. Il Is easily assimi-
lated does not iniure the teeth. make
Thorn black, nor upset the stomach. The
manufacturers guarantee successful and
entirely satisfactory results to every pur-
chaser, or they will refund your money.
IL Is dispensed In thia city by Owl Drug
Co, harteil Drug stores and s~ift'o
Pharmacies and all other drussistA
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-07-16

That does It matter II Field Marshal Won linden
bHrg dead? There dozens Of efficient butchers
he in the German army, eagerly rafting for appoint
merits.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-07-16

Ahr tHNAfA
. r . = c rthe
more organ
ic iro u
y n Y n I q Il
Iron for
their nerN-
Gus. 2 "a N
down. weak
h n x * a r d
looking pa
TENTS Pal
lor means
n n a q m ia
The skin OF
the anacrnic
man or wo-
man Is pale.
Z h . flesh
flahhv. the
muscles lack
tone. { n 9
brain Tags
n n a Z h .
m . m O r y
fails, n N d
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-07-16

Austrian prisoners Of wsr are being
employed by the Italian government
in excavation work. A party has
been for some time busy at Veil. on
the site OF n temple OF the sixth
century y. C.. near the castle OF Isola
F'arneso.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-07-16

There was a man IN our town
And he was wondroua wise.
In June he filled his bin with coal.
The Jumps Of goodly size.
And all the ncighbors say that when
lie Jaw what he had done
lie called the dealer on tho phone
Ana bought another ton.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-07-16
Fish at ''Muny" Market

The city has bought several tons of fish and will sell
the same at reduced prices to consumers.
The cty's fish market is maintained merely a
vice to the community.
BY patronizing it, you not only get good fish at
lower cost but you also justify the continued operation
of the "Muny" market