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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-09-10

wonderful embroidered riIk scenery
are revealed by the Royal Picking
troupe. which comes to the Pan.
tages To headline the new weeks bill.
beginning Monday matinee. This or.
ganixation OF wonder workers In re-
turning from long tour OF the orr
cnt. aud the act IL said 10 poraess
many novelties.
Tho added attraction will be The
Tale OF Three citios." an tnternation-
al rvvuc typieaily staged and cos
TUNED and with a company Of clever
entertainers. mostly girls. The east
Is headed by stone and Manning. the
comedians producing u. and profni'
ncnt IN their support are the ~ Roy
sisters. Grace Moy and Grace Ches-
ter.
man and the American riri have one
OF tho laughing oddities OF vaude-
viiie In their skit. Mon Chapean--
In Tor No Rragon whatever" mp
pears Garry Owen. jr.
Beautiful Sonia Dc Cafve n a
young giri who posscsscs vfnsome
personality and a lovely voice She
sings number OF swemi.classicai
rongn and then proves that she u
also an artist on the violin
The Edge OF tho World u an ar.
tis,io novelty prevented by IL Teu'
Der
Tho pantarcscope viii show a new
comedy film and the rantarc8 RE.
view.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-09-10

most popular dancing Juveniles. as
sisted by four dainty misses who
sing. dance and chat: William HALL.
gan In ''Highlowbrow- and Harry and
Emma Shamrock In Behind the Grand
STAND are the three leaders.
'Iiighloworow' IL unique II II one
OF tho most distinctive bits OF play.
writing In contemporaneous lltera.
ture.
Novel comedy and battling clever.
ness are found In Harry and Emma
Sharrocks behind the Grand
stand" Miss sharrock's idea OF com.
edy is particularly pertinent and Mr..
sharrock assists with psychic" pow.
ers.
Willard and Marlin In Honey.
incoming have a melange Of songs
bright and clean.
Tony Grey. called ~fun special.
ist-" will introduce his latest method
OF arousing the disabilities OF his an.
ditors.
I>oa and Fay Durbyverie claim to
be the only woman shadowgraphsts
In vaudeville.
Leon Gantiers ~Brfcklaycrs- il a
new canine novelty. His TOY Shop
L. most unusual vehicle for the dis.
play OF animal intellect
) Topics OF the Day and ~Aesop's
Fables complete the bill.
ORIENTAL PLAY
AT WILKES
The Love Of su shong.- an Or.
ientai meiodrama with ia scenes In
New York and China. In announced
for the new week at the Wilkes. be.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-09-10
TOMORROW MINNEsOTANs' DAY
At FORTUNA PARK
SUNDAY. SEPT. IL

Every Minnasotan. his friends and
their friends will meet at Fortuna
park tomorrow 20 attend the largea,
picnic OF the season. This opportun.
ity viii give every Gopher from
Minnesota a chance TO enjoy n day
with his many friends. Free dane.
INK. races. sports Of all kinds will
feature The day. Boats leave Leschi
park every half hour.--Advcrtisc.
nrut
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-09-10

It's good. that's sure. 4oc Supreme
Blend Coffee. Hansen. 40 Economy
Mkt.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-09-10
Chester Morrill, Is
Packer Control Aide

WASHINGTON. Sept. ioe-Choster
Morrill,. assistant chief OF the burrau
OF markets. has been appointed as
siatant TO the secretary OF agricui-
ture TO administer the packer con-
troll act. Secretary Wallace an
nounecd to-day. The administration
Of IN. grain eschang. control law
may be given 20 Morrill, when an APP
preparation IA made to carry out the
provisions OF the act IL was said.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-09-10

TACOMA.--After threatening 10
kill her. robber enters homo OF Mrs.
II. II. Day and steals $40. locking the
woman I'm a porch.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-09-10

VICTORIA. II. C.-Miss Lavina
Frances Dickman is first Chinese
girl appointed teacher In Canadian
schools. She will teach at Rock
BAY,
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-09-10

DAWSON. Y. T.--Bcforr close of
navigation government stores for sal.
OF liquor 10 be opened al Dawson.
Whltshorue and Mayo.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-09-10
GOOD BILL At
PALACE llH

Topping the new show that VIII mp
pear Mt Locw's Palace Hip tomorrow
are two notable Northumberland
mour and company and n versatile
couple OF comedy experts, Bennett
and Lee. A
An exhibition Of exceptional skill
and speed is promised by Brinda'
mour. an internationally famous es
cape artist whose spectacular feat Of
leaping manacled into the Chicago
river In midwintcr attracted univcr'
sal attention.
Avis Bennett and George Lee arc
also toplincrs who are coming in a
delightfully."- inconseaucntial bit OF
fun labeled 'yodvil Etiquette"
women" is the title OF n laugh
able playlct written by Kato Keith
and Frank whittier and played by
Pauline Eckhart and company.
Lawrence Johnston. billed as "the
worlds premier vcntriloquist." adds
further variety 10 the bin with his
iudIcrously funny dummy. his come.
dy talk and songs.
Maurice and Grille win open the
show with a snappy mixture OF come
dy conversation, accordion playing
and startling balancing feats.
1.-THE Marriages OF william Ashe." a
Metro production with May Allison
as the star, IL the feature photoplay
that viii round out the program.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-12-23
The Wine of Life

Of the house, and the man In the
ulster. after standing for a moment
in abstracted contemplation Of his
car. slowly went down the steps.
lighted a cigarette and slithered off
eastward into the night, with a ruby
light winking back as he bobbed
over the car tracks of Fourth ave.
nue..
Slowly Storrow emerged from his
sheltering shadow, feeling his way
up the sandstone steps as blind
man might. He stood under the
faded door-lintel. with one shoulder
against the worn and blistered
frame, staring out at the brown
stone arroyo of blank doors and
drawn blinds and quavering with a
nauseous ague which he seemed un'
able to control.
Biding His Time.
1t was not anger that shook him.
1t was not shame and II was not dis.
gust. 1t seemed at the moment. a
black and all-suffusing hopelessness,
a hopelessness which left his body
cold and his heart numb.
Then a reaction apparently more
physical than mental set in, and he
found himself burning with an in
articulate fury of protest wave by
mounting wave, until relief In action
seemed essential. Yet he fought
against the sudden hot thirst to
mount to the studio and confront
the woman who sooner or later
would have to be confronted. Be.
fore that encounter, he warned him.
self, he must be under complete
self-control. He was sure of himself
now, and Of his line of procedure.
He could afford to await his time.
He stepped out into the midnight
street with poignant feeling OF
homelessness gnawing at his heart,
scarcely conscious of the direction
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-12-23
A STIRRING ROMANCE
BY Arthur Stringer.

feats, sore in body but infinitely
more bruised in soul. At the lunch
counter below stairs he bought q
roast beef sandwich and a cup OF
coffee.
The sandwich of indurated beef
and rye-bread proved UNBEATABLE
and he was staring at it with heavy
listlessness when his attention was
attracted by short and wide
shouIdered Italian with a willow
basket OF plaster casts swung by
strap from his shoulder. Storrow.
as he gulped down his steaming
but stale cup of coffee continued
to watch him. The peddler was
doing his best to persuade an in
differentiated Irish bartender to
purchase two undraped and diminu-
tive wood-nymphs in plaster OF
Paris. But his efforts were I'M
availing.
Storrow stopped the italian as
he replaced the nymphs and started
towards the door.
WHO makes these for your" he
asked, looking over the basket OF
reposing white figures. They were
very badly modelled, Storrow saw.
mostly nudes and demi-nudes OF
Phrynes and Venuses and bacchan-
ties and bathing girls, that type Of
naively Photographic art which had
so firmly established itself beside
the BARRIERS mfrrow and the tap
ster's pyramided drinking-glasses.
II maka dem myself" the Italian
responded, not without pride.
do you ever feel that you'd like
something better?" inquired Stor-
row, taking up an obese plaster
Dryad with ankles sufficiently gen.
erous for a Hercules.
Go BE Continued Tomorrow
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-12-23
THE RHYMING
OPTIMIST
BY Aline Michaelis-
Everyday Heroes.

Some people praise the hero who
toddles forth to war, as wild as
Mr.. Nero, as cruel as a car. They
like to see the saber he carries at
his side for chopping up his neigh
Dor when he's dissatisfied. They
love to hear him telling of win
ming bloody fights, of fearful
shouts and yelling, of guns and
gruesome sights. Some people
praise the fellow who struts upon
the stage, his voice is deep and
mellow, his eyes are all the rage.
They listen to his raving through
acts of storm and stress, they Joy
to see him saving fair maidens in
distress. Still other heroes work.
ing for moving picture fans, with
grimaces and Sinking defeat the
villains plans. Some heroes are
erratic, with temperament to spare.
while some are acrobatic beneath
the spotlight's glare. They strut
like julius Caesar wherever ro-
nance bids; but what about the
geezer who raises seven kids? Tho
man who gives them schooling and
pays their Doctors bills has little
time for fooling with wild, heroic
thrills. While noted heroes frolic
or court the tragic mush, he's
nursing Bub through collie and
buying Busters shoes. Where
scenes are ever shifting these IA
nous fellows swarm unlike the
hero lifting the mortgage from the
farm
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In which he was moving. The sight
Of a belated panhandler or two drift.
ing eastward along Twenty-third
stree. arrested his attention.
He watched those homing birds
beating their way toward the cheap
and verminous lodging houses that
lay near the East river, wondering
why the human body. when ill-fed
and. ill-clad, ambulated thus with
upthrust shoulders and forward
dropping spine. He himself, he re-
membered, would have to find
sleeping place for the night. Being
without hand-baggage. he sheered
away from the more pretentious
hotels.
In The Light Of Day.
He felt the need, in fact, Of OBJ
livion, Of violent submergence in
some neutralizing physical discom-
fort, like that which comes to a
distracted eve flung bodily into q
sheep-dip. So, after walking for
an hour without sense of direction
or destination, he entered without
repugnance a side-street caravan
sery with tiers Of bald little rooms
above its over-gilded ground floor
saloon. There. after paying for
his meager Quarters in advance, he
went to bed.
But he slept little. When, to-
wards morning, fitful and broken
slumber overlook him, he was tor
tured with dreams Of lascivious
feline bodies swarming and climb
ing about a door draped with black.
So disturbing were these dreams
that he was glad to open his eyes
and see sunlight slanting in
through his narrow uncurtained
window.
He got up and dressed with the
slow heaviness of an athlete after
Q field day marked with many de-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-12-23
BY WILLIAM +. KIRK.

WYE had sum steem fig pudding
" for dinner last mite, 1t was
awful good & wanted a
other plate of 1t & Pa sed all rite.
Bobbie, here is a other plate of this
pudding, but beware Of pudding,
sed Pa, It will maik you too fat.
espeshully in the he'd, sed Pa.
Does 1t maik you fat in the hed7 1
sed. You have ate two dishes OF IL
alreddy. I sed.
Thare is no danger of my Citing
fat hedded, sed Pa, beekaus my
work is all brane work & my he'd
newer gifts a chanst to git Fat, but
a yung kidd like you, sed Pa, Is diff.
fernt. i guess that is rong, Kidd, II
shud be kid.
II Is moar dangerous for older pee
pull TO eat sweet stuff than yung pee
pull, sed Ma. A docktor told our
wimmens club that.
That mite apply to old gurls, but
not to old gents, sed Pa, The old
gurls that belongs to yure club, II
they are all like you, is sweet enuff
alreddy. sed Pa.
You better say 80, sed Ma. But I
meen 1t, you shud not eet much
hevvy sweet stuff like puddings.
sumtimes go for weeks without
Getting much sweet stuff, sed Pa.
But this fig pudding is so dceliteful
that l cannot back away from II,
sed Pa. Did you maik II with yure
own dear hands? sed Pa to Ma.
madc 1t, sed Ma. Onst in a vile
you seem to reelize my ability, sed
Ma, but newer for vary long, sed
Ma
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-12-23
MASTODON FOR TOTEM
BY Garrett p. Serviss-

picture when he says, in relation to
this new find:
THE mastedon was the most
conspicuous member of the man.
NAL fauna New York ever had, and
II Is Of special interest to note the
great abundance Of these creatures
In the State during the time of the
recession of the post glacial waters.
especially over the swampy high
lands before the land had settled
down to its present altitude.
After all the disturbances to
which the soil Of New York and its
contents have been subjected, the
wasting by the weather and the
various other agencies attacking
and destroying the integrity Of such
remains, the abundance Of the re-
corded discoveries of mastodon
bones in the State can only be in
terpreted as indicating the fact
that in their heyday these animals
were as abundant here as the buff
falo were on the plains seventy-five
years ago"
The men of the stone ages in
Europe made pictures Of the man.
moth that are astonishingly true to
life-for we know just how that
animal looked through the discov-
cry Of ice-preserved specimens in
Siberia-but although some scratch
tngs on bone recently found in the
United States have been thought
to be possible attempts to repre-
sent the mastodon, yet the evidence
is far from clear or Trustworthy.
In fact, we have no proof that man
existed at all in New York State
at the time when the mastodons
were there. He may have existed
there; he may have encountered the
mastodon, but the evidence that he
did is lacking.
Yet, except perhaps for climatic
obstacles, there Is not a priori rea-
son why man and mastodon should
not have been contemporary in the
Eastern United States, or anywhere
along the central belt of the coun-
try where the borders of the ice lay
during the last glacial period, and
where mastodon remains are now
found. Here is one Of the most in
teresting explorations that could
be undertaken. viz, the systematic
search for pleistocene human re-
mains in North America comparable
If such be the case-with similar
remains Astounding in Europe.
1t may be found that early man
could not live with the mastodons,
because they dwelt by preference
too close to the retreating ice. in
a climate, and amid physical con-
ditions unsuited to human require
ments, even when such require
menta were least exactipp
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BY Arthur Stringer.
Well-Known Author and Novelist OF
Countrywide Reputation.

Author and Novelist Of
Countrywide Reputation.
"HEN he thought Of Robins La
porte de I'Enfer" and the Great
ures OF desire writing and
coiling about that great door. He
would satisfy at least one hunger, he
decided, as he made an effort to
catch the animal skulking in the
corner Of his house-steps. He would
take 1t up to his room and feed II,
give 1t the meal of its life. But that
harried street cat, unused to kindness.
was not easy to approach. Storrow
even followed 1t into the Swallowed
area beneath the steps themselves,
STOPPING low and striving to disarm
its suspicious.
He suddenly stood erect, still in
the shadow, for a motor car had
stopped at the curb within ten
PAGES Of him. From this car he
saw man step slowly down and
swing open the door. At the same
time that he realized this man to
be Donnie Eastman he saw the
second alighting figure.
He knew 1t was Torrie even be.
fore he caught the sound Of her con-
tented little COO of laughter as the
heavily ulstered man ushered her up
the worn sandstone steps, with one
hand clasping her crooked arm at
the elbow.
On the top step they came to a
full stop. No word was. spoken, but
each, apparently swayed by the
same impulse, glanced first east
ward and then westward along the
empty street. Then, still without n
spoken word. they stood clasped for
a moment in each others arms.
And still without speaking, the
woman withdrew into the darkness
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BObbie and His Pa

Oh yes do, sed Pa. You are a
very abel lady. often tell my
trends what a abel lady you are, sed
Pa, & how sweet also, sed Pa, like
this pudding.
Do you RELY? sed Ma. You are a
deer old darling II you do, sed Ma,
really do, sed Pa. After am
ded a parrished, sed Pa, you will
reelize what n RELY deer old gent 1
have been, sed Pa.
Wen do you expeck to be ded 4
parrished? sed Ma.
One newer knows, sed Pa, espe-
shully wen one Gets fig pudding in
large & generous hunks like what
1 have been eating, sed Pa. Life ia
vary vary fleeting wen fig pudding
you've been Getting, sed Pa, 4 thare
Is moar truth than poetry in that,
sed Pa.
II you think that pudding will
intur yure helth, sed Ma why do
you deevour IT?
/ have always been that way, sed
Pa, braiv g. reckless to the last dee
gree wen IT calm to what ] ate &
drinked, sed Pa. l fear no food &
shrink from no drink, sid Pa, per.
viding the drink is temperans, sed
Pa & thare was time wen eeven
that dident matter, sed Pa.
] know 1t, sed Ma, you are a
wundcrful old wunder, sed Ma. &
II YOU ehud happen TO Get too much
fir ~ ld.ng & die, sed Ma, It win
be sweet way to go. sed Ma.
This wurld is awful funny, the
incest things to eet Is the moast un-
healthiest.
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Scrsen Version Noveiized.
By JANE MCLEAN.
r Ew YORK STATE ought to d.
adopt the mastodon for its

AT Ew YORK STATE ought to
adopt the mastodon for it's
totem. The 101st discovery
Of q mastodon's remains within the
borders of the State was recently
made near Temple Hill, in Orange
county. This Is the thirty-first
skeleton, or part Of a skeleton. found
inside Orange county. 1t is a very
fine specimen and almost perfect.
It goes to the State Museum at AL
bany. The state Of development Of
the teeth shows that 1t was a young
animal. though a large one. and
what was probably it's last meal
q quantity of chewed-up tamarack
was found so placed within the
ribs that its nature could hardly
b. mistaken. The skeleton lay on
its side in what was doubtless,
after the close of the last glacial
period, tamarack swamp.
1t Ii decidedly thrilling to look
upon the actual. original bones Of
an animal that walked about and
chewed tamarack and hemlock and
fought flies In muddy swamps,
while it's long golden-brown hair
giinted in streaks OF sunshine that
stole through the tangled trees,
ages in advance Of Adams date.
Evidently this was not one of the
newly-created animals brought be-
fore Adam to be named.
Yet the mastodon was a mammal,
1. e.. a creature belonging to the
highest of all orders, which in
cludes man, and Is specially char
aoterixed by the fact that all Of its
members suckle their young. True
mothers are found only among man,
mails. This sturdy young mastodon
giant, who persisted In that ancient
tamarack swamp, had a mother
alphabetically of the same order as
. human mother, though she lived
long, long before Eden was planted.
DIR. Sherman c. Bishop, Of the
New York State Museum, sketches
the outlines of a very wonderful
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was the environment to bring 1t
out.
Jimmie was eager and grateful;
now IL there is any one thing that
repays the generous for their trouble
1t is the feeling that those for
whom they strive appreciate their
interest.
Mr.. Bascom actually gloried IN
the affection showered on him by
the girl and the boy; they waited
on him; they ran errands for him;
they spent their time thinking what
thew could do for him, and they
were 30 devoted that he began
to wonder If they weren't his own
children after all and he'd just
missed them all these years.
Now and again they asked Tor
young John, but that young man
was busy in New York-and came
home infrequently.
He mentioned them in his letters
and wrote to Essie and asked her
to write to him. That was the one
great incentive for the girl. To
write to John she must be able
to write well. to express herself
well.
Many a night she sat in her room,
SO different from the room in the
tenement, and studied and began let
tiers and tore. them up and started
them over and tore them up again.
AS she improved she wrote easily;
John Bascom got all the news OF
his home town; all the gossip and
Essie Birdsong signed her letters
Your True Friend"
Essie had been with John Bas-
com, senior, a year and half when
young John came home for his
Summer holidays.
Jimmie and his sister drove to
the station to meet him.
We'll, I'll say my true friend
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WHEN WEEK BEGINS
BY w. A. McKeever-

Give the child, the young, his inter-
ests first. Provide in full measure
for the healthy satisfaction of his
then predominant social instinct;
give adequate but wholesome ini
diligence to this predominant emo
tional desire.
Attend to this heart affair Of the
child first. Plan his own program
first in the course of study. Flash
first before the attention Of the
adolescent student a plan for the
happy management of his loves
young dreams.
At a large high school recently
visited 1 found open insurrection.
The school board had foolishly ruled
against all athletic games. The
pupils, ugly with their teachers, re.
sisted management and were max.
ing poor grades in their lessons. (
At another one visited on the
following day / found a liberal lisi
of snappy athletic events supported
by teachers arc all alike. The class
work was correspondingly high.
grade, and the good will of the
pupils a thing to conjure by.
1t is the same everywhere.
Teachers and parents are finding IL
out. The vital things in the course
of training begin on Saturday, tho
weekend, and the pathway Of learn.
ing leads from there into the path
way of higher knowledge and in.
sptratiop
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Widely Known Lecturer and Author
and . National Authority on
Juvenile Problems.

-
Juvenile Problems.
VVYHEN does the week begin?
" Sunday" says the church
father, the chief purpose
of whose life was to worship God.
Monday" says the tradesman,
FOR on that day the stirring activ-
tiles Of business and commerce are
renewed" Saturday" says the
schoolboy. This is the day on
which my fondest hopes and dreams
come into realization"
With each Of the foregoing classes
the first" day Of the week is not
really numerical; 1t is psychological.
1t is the day in which his own pre-
dominant interest is most fully
realized.
Wherefore, I am contending for
a psychologist" definition Of the
week for the half grown child, and
am urging this idea upon the at
tention OF teachers and parents.
The course of study" for the
grammar school should begin with
the Saturday play time and recrea-
ton. For the high school 1t should
be the weekend social and amuse-
ment program For the Junior col
lege, it should likewise be probably
the Friday-Saturday schedule of
athletics and entertainment events.
Thus we are considering what is
perhaps the most reliable secret Of
dealing constructively with the
education Of the young OF all grades: