The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-09-05

~ oUTH. immortal. steel
spring. plastic. never
tirsng youth.
ISXyEl Every night in the
week youth flows out
like a river In this town. Youth
works all day. stands behind the
counter. holds the mad steam ham
sncr, chambers up and down lad
derx. races on errands. works tn
the thousand ways a city's ardu'
Gus work Il done
And then youth powders its
nosr. scrapes its chin. puts on Its
tighf pumps and dances half the
night. without fatigue or worry
over the morrow.
A. stand half an hour on any % a
plf dozen big public dance floors
IN the city some evening and
watch the energy swinging by.
\ These are not the ldlers: these
are not the social buds. who have
taken their ease on tho downy un-
I'll neon. and have come down here
In easy swinging sedans and
coupes.
These are working boys and
girls, and their young feet have
been moving for IL hours since
breakfast.
Youth IL wonderful
We remember when we once
pitched bundles Tor IL hours In the
harvest field. slicksd up. mounted
bicycle. pedaled eight miles
thru the summers dust 20 town.
and flung our steel and rubber
legs half the night: then saw Sel-
lie home. hung over the gate un-
. tn ma called her in. pedaIed eight
miles back thru the dust. slept
three or four hours, and went at
the bundles another ~
Nowadays we sit on n cushion
for seven hours at desk. and aft
er a light supper we seek rcpose
from the heavy burdens Of the
day.
Youth, Youth You are a won.
der
M HERE do these birds come
I~ from that make their
daily roost in the court
l18A rooms Of the town.
The seats In any
courtroom are always cluttered
with these aimless hangers-on.
They have no business. appar.
entity.
The trial means nothing 10 them.
personally.
The courtroom is s,uffy.
The interminable drivel Of the
laws technique would madden any
one who had real business In life.
II would seem.
Yet always these habitues are on
hand when court opens. and stolld.
ly sit and let the waves of duU ~.
iteration splash over them.
Down where they are trying 10
figure out whether Judge Allen. or
somebody. really got three fingers
of Scotch. or only srnelled a broken
bottle, the hanger-on Ia out In
force.
The late corners must stand: 20
they stand.
:. All morning and all afternoon
they stand. first on one foot and
tnfn on the other.
stand thru hours OF dreary mo.
notony; stand without a flicker Of
intelligent interest in their bovine
features
Bovine-aye. that's the word.
give 'em cud and the picture
would be complete.
III HREE small boys were
having a good time yes
- ierday, along the high.
tkASi way In the University
district
The boys had cap pistol that
made an exceedingly loud bang.
They stationed themselves at a
curve in the road. and when an
automobile came breezing along
one lad fired the cap pistol. and
all three cried: Hey, mister.
your tires busted"
The driver would slow IN. tenao
his body 70 feel the thud OF tho
flat tire, listen for few feet he
sure ne ala not have a blowout.
ana get out 10 notwithstanding
the boyish ha-ha for his trouble
Sornetimes stubborn driver
would go on for a couple Of blocks.
GSt usually mind triumphed and no
hhghted and took look.
AZ late hour In the afternoon
the trio was unspanked. which
certainly speaks folio or two for
the selfrestraint Of the bedevlled
autoists hereabouts.