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department which gives advice on how to get
thin. We asked her what to do. She an
swered She gave us list of things we
must not eat If we wanted to get thin. She
we ought to take. Thus forearmed we
studiously avoided the kind of exercise she
recommended, and the things she said we
should not eat and drink we promptly added
to our diet.
We began with starches, sweets and fats.
We have never cared much for bread and
butter. They meant little in our meals be-
fore we began building up. Now we eat
them regularly. 1t was the same with des-
serts and sweets Pie a La mode was not
particularly inviting to US. We are begin
ming to like it. Sometimes we eat two pas
tries at the close of a meal.
Then about drinking. Formerly we often
refused. Now We always say yes" In
cidentally it is perfectly surprising how one
may train ones self to say yes" upon being
invited to take drink. After a few weeks
of practice it becomes the most natural thing
in the world Confirmed teetotaers have
told us with tears of gratitude in their eyes
that they have cured themselves in few
weeks of a lifetime of teetotaling by simply
bringing their will power into action and
compelling themselves to say yes"
SO we not only did that but in addition we
repeated over and over II will get fat. will
get fat, / will get fat"
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Why Birds Like Certain Trees
And How Deforestation Affects Them

These instructive loves OF nature are
often like the love Of the wolf for Little
Red Riding Hood One species loves an
other because II can eat II: Just ms human
beings love roast beef on the hoof. Some
thing OF this is at the bottom OF the at
traction of birds for trees. Ornithoogists
have noticed that certain trees and shrubs
bring native birds to them. When these
trees and shrubs are cut down or die out
the birds disappear. The denudation Of our
American forests, which has progressed so
geefully with the march OF our civilization.
has led to a rapid thinning out Of our bird
life. OF course there are other reasons. In
New York city one Of the worst offenders
against birds is that unlovely creature the
stray cat. which stalks by thousands in our
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A I the end of one week weighed.
~ We had gained two pounds We felt
better, but it was not enough. We
determined to go direct to headquarters for
advice. We sought Don Marquis We had
an idea that perhaps Don would be like the
fox whose tail was cut Off and who tried
to make bob-t foxes the fashion, so we
did not tell him that we were trying to build
up Instead we allowed him to believe that
we also desired to be thin From that angle
we approached him and wormed our way
into his confidence. We deceived him
grossly.
"Don," we asked casually, as if it were of
no moment at all and thus giving him the
idea Immediately that it meant a great deal
to us, what was it principally that was
making you fat?"
We'll, I'll tell YOU" he replied IT was
very fond of an enormous section of mince
pie with an order of Welsh rarebit poured
over it. | would eat that late at night just
before going to bed and have an idea it
was the most harmful thing / did"
We take pleasure in informing him that
his judgment was correct That one deli
cacy has done more to restore us to the
splendid form that have longed .or than
anything else. We advocate it as a steady
diet for those who would be fat
nat persons are the gentlest. most con-
siderate, most cheerful, best hearted
u of us all. Who ever heard Of a fat
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with nesting sites and with both insects
and berries for food. Among the shrubs the
choke berry. spice bush, bttersweet. swamp
root and others much liked by birds
sThe Virginia creeper is alse popular as a
nesting place. Planting these trees will not
only give a richer bird life but will add TO
the beauty Of our towns and countryside.
That we are losing many birds which for
mery graced us with their presence is an
observed fact One of them, the cardinal
that used to be visitor sn Central Park
and listed as a resident in the Museum
Field book in 1912, has not been seen here
for some years Other varieties are getting
less numerous. II we are not careful our
only bird will be the English sparrow that
hardy and bold invader who has become
used to the tricky ways of man through
thousands of years contact with him. The
history Of the sparrow in this country is a
peculiar one. 1t was first introduced in
America in 1850, when eight pairs were
brought to Brooklyn by the Brooklyn Mu-
p scum. This was against the advice of many
ornithologists, who believed they would drive
out native birds. In 1858 more sparrows
were brought to Boston, and in 1864 seven
pairs were released in Central Park. There
were other importations from time to time.
The sparrow has increased prodigiously, and
threatens to do to many OF our native birds
what our pioneer ancestors did to the
Indians.
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~ course. the work of getting fat
has been considerably increased by
the prohibition amendment. In the
old days a man could polish a rail with his
foot. wear out the elbows of his coat on
bar and spend an evening drinking beer
with reasonable certainty that each quart
was adding its quota to his accumulation.
Now that this is taken away the chances
that we are destined to become a nation of
scrawny. emacated villains each with dirk
in his boot or gun on his hip. and each
ready to engage I'm private quarrel or start
riot, whichever seems the most opportune.
AS matter of fact the newspaper accounts
of various occurrences throughout the coun-
try seem to indicate that we rapidly ap-
preaching this very condition OF life.
We once knew municipal officeholder
who laid by large amount of fat through
a scientific research that he conducted dur
ing a period of several years He undertook
to decide whether peanuts were better I'm
taste than beer. Every evening he would
purchase large quantity OF peanuts and re-
pair TO his favorite saloon. where he would
pursue his study. He ate bushels of peanuts
and drank kegs of beer i'm an attempt to ar
rive at decision. He was a fair minded
man and was not given to hasty opinions.
SO far as we know the coming OF pro-
hibition found him with the question stil
unsettled.
1t Is only another instance of interfer-
ence by the Eighteenth Amendment to the
Constitution with the serious ifework OF a
man who had devoted both time and study.
years of the one and much of the other, in an
endeavor to solve one of the problems that
confronted mankind wherever there were
peanuts and wherever there was beer.
Now we hope that no one is going 10 take
lightly what we have written about the de-
STABILITY of dieting in order to get fat. We
mean every word of It, We know we have
taken the sensible position.
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parents there, and who left an tncendlary
hue in their wake.
Well, as we We're on the point Of saying,
we have seen some girls on the streets re-
Gently whose faces have no more express
sion than could have been painted upon
the double chin of the lady we are referring
to. In other words, while an expression
could have been successfully painted on her
chin, the girls paint out whatever ex
preston they may have had. They accom-
plish this by spreading red paint on their
cheeks and lower jaws from a point even
with their eyes to the place where their
necks start. This is followed by white
paint which starts on the noses just at the
eyebrows and ends well below the chin. The
third application is on the lips 1t consists
of brilliant carmine. The general effect of
all this is to give the appearance of some
thing that started out to be doll but was
changed into a clown.
Anyhow, we didn't start out to criticise
the girls. We were speaking of a lady who
had a double chin. She knew she had 1t
but was sensitive about it. One afternoon,
just before DUSK we were seated in her liv
ing room conversing with her husband She
waddled hurriedly through the front door
and excitedly confronted her husband.
II haVe been insuted," she said "in-
suited dreadfully. and I want you to go
right out and have them arrested. If you
don't VIII most certalnly---
wait minute" interrupted her husband
who insulted you?"
-Four negro women right at the next cor
ner. Now go on out and
please be calm about it," he said. inter
rupting again Now tell me exactly what
they said i'm order that | may know what
TO do"
well" she answered, II got off the street
car and started home. These four negro
women were at the corner, and evidently
saw me coming. Just as / was passing them
they insulted me. That's all there was to it,
But what did they say?"
They just said--er made an insulting
remark to me-"
What was it?'
We'll, If you insist ] will tell you what
they said. but don't either one of you dare
to laugh. If you do you will hear from me
about II. Just as I was passing these
negroes one of them laughed and slapped
another on the arm.
My Gawd! she said. look at her chn!' y
The husband laughed. week later we
him and he told us she was speaking to
him again.
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- AT persons are the gentlest. most con-
siderate, most cheerful. best hearted
of us all. Who ever heard OF a fat
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Birds of Value in the City,
Especially So in the Harbor

The unsentimental may object that after
all, it is not so necessary to preserve. bird
life. Their argument, no doubt, would rest
on the assumption that birds are merely or
namental But, aside from their beauty,
birds are very desirable. They serve man in
many ways. by eating up harmful insects
and by acting as scavengers. Birds eat up
the bugs at an astonishing rate. Frank M.
Chapman of the American Museum of Nat
ural History. reports the case of Maryland
yellow throat, who was observed to eat $500
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villain on the stage? 1t simply isn't done,
that's all. The producers know that fat
villain would ruin the wnole show IT would
be unnatural
wiry men with cavernous eyes and thin
lips are the fellows who carry dirks i'm their
boots and evil words behind a slick tongue
The fellow with a nice, round face like a
ever with an upward curve is the hero of
the play. OF course we will not argue the
question, but 1t may be that we get our
ideas about heroes and villains from the
operas Somehow or other the hero always
has the tenor role, and fat men just can't
help singing tenor
TERE Is another thing that few per-
sons realize. The accumulation of
= fat is directly attributable to good
conscience Those who have souls that are
weighted down with sin do not sleep well at
night. but roll and toss through troubled
dreams. They awake tired in body and anx-
enjoyment Of their meal at breakfast. At
their misdeeds. They grow nervous and
irritable and complain about the dishes that
are placed before them.
Now nature can't successfully pump blood
into the brain to take care of troubled
conscience and into the stomach to take care
of the digestive organs at the same time.
The man whose conscience is clear, who
loves his neighbor. and perhaps his neigh
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Work as
With Success---E

He gives himself over to the business of eat
ing at the proper hours three times day.
His mind is at rest. The result is perfect
digestion, a proper assimilation of food, a
utilization of what is necessary to carry on
the machine until the next meal, storage of
the remainder until the time when it may
be needed. In word the result Is an ac-
cumuation of fat.
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~ NCE we knew a lady who was fat
\ She admitted it. So did all her
friends, that is they admitted it to
each other but not to her. She had one of
these glorious double chins that resemble
face from which the features and the ex-
preston are lacking. competent artist
could have painted quite successfully her
portrait on her double chin. thus giving her
the appearance OF being twins, one above
the, other but with the same body. Now
that we come to think about it we believe
that this would have improved her appear
ance. We always knew there was some
thing lacking about that chin and now we
know that it was expression.
They did not use much paint i'm the days
of her prime, that is the girls did not. The
use or paint. other than that utilized by the
sign. house and portrait painters in an en-
deavor to improve the tone of their re-
spective arts,~was largely confined to the OPP
erations of convivial spirits who wandered
through the community during the evening
hours, lodging the police here and their
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ar invtin &c tw a
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Deemed Poor Policy to .] Bring
 Damaged Boat Back Now

The Coast Guard Cutter Snohomish, Capt. F. L. Aus i'm. t,eo uo at the COCK at noon touay lne entire
 ew o1 the Joseph Pulitzer with the exception or Capau4 Rasmussen renamed with the Pulitzer at Chgmk The
 at was damaged to such extent that it was oeene
 oor pocy lo move at the present time All ot the crew or seven men who no worse atte her expenence Mr. $. A. sholen was probably the mos' pleased member to return to Seward Mrs Sheen who has been worrying about her husband ever since news was received of the loss of the Pulitzer was the happest man in Seward when she located Mr. Shoen on the decl of the Snohomish Engineer Totnison, rugged and wei. whskered and apparently feeling fine and fit ambleo down the gang plank with his dffe bag under one arm and the magneto box of the engine under the other Tho Snohomsh will take on coal before departing for the south The cutter made rapid to and from Chgnik If arrangements can be made with the committee 1T charge of the A. B. Hall for the heating and lighting O the hall this evening promtu dance will be given to' The officers and crew.
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W. F. Lewis'of Cooper's Landing
 one of the best known homesteading ranchers on the Kenai Peninsula is a guest of the Seward Hotel. Mir. Lew is is planning some wonderful im- provements for his ranch during the coming season. There is 2 persist ent rumor going around that his pre- sent visit to Seward has something to do with part If the cargo on the north bound freighter Cord6va which Is due in Seward in . few days. The part that Mr. Lewis Is waiting for is a large shipment of glass. This ;sisss is to be used in constructing large. modern hot house where onions, ra- dishes and early lettuce cahbe grown for the chain of cafes which chsties Cameron is planning on establishiAs along the right of way between Sew ard and Fairbanks. sRumors is just rumors," as si Perkins said but most If the big things ever started in tho world have been talked aboit bsssss they have been onpHshed So;why not the hot house and ths cafss. <;
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Fife Rossing, Janet Anderson md Amy Bern who have been visit ng friends in Anchorage returned .ast night "n the Limited. They are .uests of the Hotel Seward. Miss Anderson and Miss Rossing will pro. ,ably go to the Westward on the S. ,. Watson, which is scheduled to go to Seldovia and Kodiak.
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:, Donations for the relief of the starving children of Europe, are be- ing given by the pupils of the grades and high school, this week It is especially fitting that the scheol children of America should dn their part in this great relief work just as their brothers and fathers did their part in the world wsr. And the Child rsn arc doing their share Picture shows monsy and candy money and monsd earned by the boys and girls themselves h being turned in to swell this budsst $1.oo will save the iife m . child for ono month. $500 VII save:ths Hfs ofsa shild for nvs n,snsha $io.oo .xillssass ths life of . ehild untIl ths next hazvsst
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Tony Martinneck came in on th' train last night from Mile 269. Ton! has been handling cracker jacl gang of railroad men at that poin' during the past year and says tha' the work they have done has beer largely instrumental in putting the steel as far as it has already been laid. He will remain in Seward for g few days and then will return to the old camp.
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GUARDING KAISER THANkLEss JOB

DOORN, Jn. 27-The correspondent, the other day, found confidential mood the state pohce who's. task for the past two years been to guard the Kaiser
 This," said he, "ls thankess job ii wnated to b. dishonest could make thousands or gulders in brlbes but as don't all get is rebuffs from my superiors if answer courteous question of sghtseer; or angry look from the sightseer if dont"
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BRINGING BACK SOLDIERS
 BODIES FOR FINAL BURIAL

PARIS Jan. 27-Exhumation of the bodies of the Am erican soldiers buried at Bony cemetary all men of the 27h (New York National Guard) and 5Oth (Wdcat) di- vision from Tennessee and North and South Carolina be- gan today Of 1 bodies in the cemetary about 900 will be returned to the United States and the remainder will notbe disturbed Bony is to be of the four permanent cemetares in France and other bodies will be moved into the cemetay but this work will not start until the work of sending bodies to America has been completed.
 It is the first big battlefield cemetary to be reached by the army exhmaton units The district is so devasted
 that there is no shelter for the workers and train had to be provided to4ake quarters for them The winter wealth CT has also set in and movea sheds have had to be built to shelter the men while working.
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c. A. Nelson an old timer iron Fairbanks is a guest of the Hote Seward. MT. Nelson arrived, iron rom Anchorage last night on the rain. He reports everything in fine hape in the Inland City and say hat the town of. Fairbanks will be some busy place next summer.
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TO sQUELCH TIMBER GRABBERS

SALEM, Oregon. Jan. Speaker Bean, member f the House yesterday charged the Weyerhauser rus
 ,v and Slez timber company and Porter Brothers with m attempt to obtain vast timber tracts in Oregon with ne object to shut out small saw mill operators He says nat they are trying to exchange land with poor quality timber on it for some of the finest timber lands in the tate which are included in the old land grants The House esterday adopted joint memorial to Congress designed stop this alleged practice. @ .- : .<-.
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T0REM0VEPRICELESSRELI

CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 2z-A precious relquary containing portions of the Prophet Mohammeds beara lca Moslems periodically worship is about to be trans ferred from the mosque where is preserved to mus eu The transfer is stated is due to fear on the part of the Ottoman authorities that the sacred relic may M stolen and is regarded safer place for Its custody.
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CHARGE 24 MEN OF MURDER

WILLIAMSON, Jan27-Twenty-fo men from the
 mining village of Matewan arrived here today to answer to the charge of murder in connection with the shoongs at that place last July when they staged battle with che Mountain Coal Company to come out othe Corpora tion houses in which they had taken stand The defend ants include the chief of police, his aid, and number of workers and union organizers.
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LLOYD GEORGE CENSURED

ABREYSTWYTH Wales, Jan. &-Premier Lloyd George has been taken m,o task by hls forel constituents for playing golf Sunday. The Congrega- tona Church here recently voted unanimously to protest against example set by the Premier in seekng Sunday recreation
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SENTENCED TO DEATH
 FOR STEALING FOOD

WARSAW, Jan H-Edward Peters, 39 years old 6 clerk in the Warsaw postoce was sentenced to death re gently after having been convicted of stealing package of food sent by mail from America. He tried under the law making capital oense to steal from the gov ,rlmcnt His case is now up for appeal
The Seward gateway., 1921-01-27

E. J. Connors and J. c. McNair of Anchorage are registered atthe Ho- el Overland. They arrived in Sew ,rd on the Limited last night.
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Helen Perry has returned to school again after her extended ill., ness. It is certainly with . great deal ,f pleasure, that her school mates rave her in their midst again. It will .,e remembered that before Thanks giving Helen received severe gash n the head from a falling icicle. This accident was very serious and but for the immediate operation fol- owing would have been fatal.
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BANDIT IS SHOT BY TACOMA MAN

OLYMPIA, Jan. ZIG. Marco, of Tacoma, one of a arty of four breakfasting after trp at inn near Auburn, shot and talay wounded unidentified bandit who attempted to hum of his diamonds. Two compan- ions of the bandit escaped but the wounded robDer was brought to Seattle.
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DENIES CLAIMS FOR DOLLAR AN HOUR

OLYMPIA Jan. 27-The Supreme Court today decis- oned denying the claims of Ed Danelson and other mem ers the crew of the cannery oat B. Flint of the b y McNei and Libby fleet sunk in Bristol Bay in April l918 for dollar and hour instead of dollar day for saving the ship after it had gone ashore in the ice.
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DE VALERA IN FRANCE

PARIS Jan 27-The newspapers of this place today print an article in which they state that DeVaera presl .ent of the Irish Republic is in France.
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COUNTRY NINTH. ON LIST

WASHINGTON D. C., Jan. 27-The House Commit tee on Education reported yesterday that the United States ranked ninth among the nations of the world general education It commended the passage of the Smith Iowner bill which establishes federal department of ed- cation and enlisted feoera the increasing prop les of the country They consider this country as being the most civilized in the world from view point of ed- .cationa facilities.
 WOULD HAVE TEN ROUND BOXING WASHINGTON
 OLYMPIA, Jan. Senator Wray of Seattle intro duced bill into the legislature legazng ten round box np He claimed that this would prevent the ham and egg fighters from appearing.
 :z ie3 ---------- @ .---.. THOUSANDS POUNDS AMMUNITION DESTROYED
 CLEVELAND, Jan. 27-Ten thousand pounds of am rntion stored in the basement of the arnory here ex poded wreckng the building which is total loss Three fremen were overrome in the flames that followed The loss is estimated at three hundred thousand dolarA
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L. A. Stephenson of Anchorage i topping at the Hotel Seward.
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SNOHOtlSH ARRIVES WITH CREW OF PULITZER
COULD HAVE SAVED ALL
 LIVES ON PRINCESS SOPHIA

SEATTLE, Jan N-Captan E. Harrington, former st mate lighthouse tenoer Ceoar tesned yester ay at the hearing the committee winch IS investigating e of Sophia He declared that all o1 e passengers coud saved had the captain glv- u .e wolu lie sald that arrangements haa Deen made poard the Tender Ceuar to passengers and that os o not coIlee ad prepared Other boats were a % ready to go to the assistance of the Sophia
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GREAT INJUSTICE DONE sCHWAB

GREAT INJUSTICE DONE SCHWAB
 WASHINGTON, Jan. 27-The Walsh Congressional Committee state that the charges against Shwab have not been proven and not true The members of the commit tee state that great njustc has been done Schwab
 REPORTS WRECK STEAMSHIP ARE FALSE 2 MANILA, Jan 27-Reports of the wreck of the Brit sh Steamer Isabe on January Fl invented by two desertng members q the crew, Governor Harrison an- nounced i-
 BANDITS ESCAPE WITH MUCH CASH
 Marion, Jan. N-TWo bandits entered the office of he county treasurer and knocking him unconscious, aped with fourteen thousand dollars in cash.
 PROMINENT WOMAN KIDNAPPED 5 LOS ANGELES, Cal Jan: Fl lfrs Gladys Witheral1 ifeof CsS Witheral president of the Lopp %. who disappeared Ut Tueaady has ben HAetp4&
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SEATTLE POLICE SET RECORD

SEATTLE, Jan. 27-The police today turned the tab s on some or the bandits who nave operating lately the Sound Ctes They captured one man after wound g him and put to flight three others who were attempt .lg hodup The captured man Willard Wren who de- led compcty in the attempted hodup of grocery store