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VOL. IX, NO. 51 DECEMBER 19, 1914 PRICE 25 CENTS

FIRST NUMBER OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTERLY MUSICAL REVIEW THE TOWN CRIER

HOLLYWOOD FARM

BREEDERS OF

Registered Holstein-Friesian Cattle Registered Duroc-Jersey Swine

PRODUCERS AND DISTRIBUTORS OF Hollywood Certified Milk Hollywood Pork Sausage Hollywood Fresh Eggs

FARM AT HOLLYWOOD, WASHINGTON City Office: 1418 Tenth Ave. :: Phone East 1 5 1

Visitors Always Welcome at the Far m I' A G E < > N E THE TOWN CRIER The Last Few Months Give Proof of Better Times iiv the Growth of Popular Savings It has been said that one of the best indications of the well-being of any com­ munity is to be found in the growth of the Savings of the people. Measured by this standard, we think that Seattle has every reason to feel satisfied. In the Scandinavian American Bank, which, having the largest Savings De­ posits in the Northwest, is perhaps the best barometer of popular Savings, the record shows: FIRST—A larger number of Savings Depositors; SECOND—A larger total of Savings Deposits; THIRD—A larger average balance to the credit of each depositor Than ever before in the history of the bank. In addition to these Savings Accounts we should consider:— (A) The Large Dumber of our Savings Depositors who have boughl homes in and around Se­ attle, (we know they have boughl them because in many cases our Mortgage Department helped to furnish tlie money) : and (B) The still larger number of our Savings Depositors who have invested part of their sav­ ings in small mortgages and bonds which they bought direct from the bank. (We supply Seattle Local Improvement (Y Bonds in .+100 and $200 denominations) ; fi, With these further proofs of thrift, it is easy to realize that the savings of the people in Seattle and vicinity, as evidenced in this bank, not only surpass all former Oil totals, but the average or per capita savings is vastly higher. • ill 111, mi It should be remembered also that there are twenty-nine banks in Seattle. IIIJ fi Ifl ,^TT,!!!llli And we are glad to believe what we hear as to the steady growth of Savings Deposits if 0N SAVINGS in all of them. No doubt they also have helped their Savings Depositors to invest­ ments in homes and mortgages and bonds. Then, there is the comparatively new Postal Savings Department of the gov­ ernment. The Seattle Postofflce has a little over $400,000—not very large as com­

Alaska Building, home of the pared with the total of the banks—our one bank alone having considerably over $6,- Scandinavian American Bank 000,000—but it is all additional savings. Of course, even in the best times, there are always some unemployed. And it often happens'that business is dull in one or two trades while very active in others. But take it all in all, there is ample evidence of better times now, and every pros­ pect of still better times to come. THE YEAR'S INNOVATION-OUR NEW LETTERS OF CREDIT The most notable addition to the service of The Scandinavian American Bank during the vear. was the successful establishment of direct relations with foreign banks and bankers. Under this system we are enabled to issue our own direct Drafts and Letters of Credit—Made in Seattle and good all over the world. Could we have foreseen the European war with its consequent disturbance of foreign exchange facilities, we would no doubt have deferred the making of these arrangements. That the plans were thoroughly worked out, however, has been abundantly proved by the success of the system. While the holders of Drafts and Letters of Credit, issued by some of even the biggest Eastern banks, were encountering more or less difficulty on the other side, we have yet to hear of any but pleasanl experiences from the travelers who carried ours. At no time has our service been interrupted. For a long period we were the only bank in the \"oiihwrst in a position to supply general European exchange at all—yet our rates were and are considerably lower than those prevailing in the East. Scandinavian American Bank Use Our Ballard Branch If More Convenient RESOURCES OVER $11,000,000 PAG E T W (» THE TOWN CRIER

Do Your Banking With Union Savings A And Trust Co. Christmas of SEATTLE Suggestion Capital and Surplus - $880,000

OFFICERS:

JAMES D. HOGE, "President J. D. LOWMAN, Vice-President A. B. STEWART, Vice-President N. B. SOLNER, Cashier ROLLIN SANFORD, Jlss't Cashier J. O. WHITTY, Ass't Cashier Bank With zfgF^aa^^fcjap**3^!?1 A General Banking Business Transacted

GKORGK GUND ® HENRY ISRODF.RICk LOANS THE RENTALS INSURANCE SEATTLE REAL ESTATE NATIONAL BANK "An Office That Knows Its Subject v

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Hoge Building Main 8087 4°0 Paid on Savings PAG E T II K E !•: THE TOWN CRIER SAVINGS We Emphasize Three Features SAFETY PROFIT CONVENIENCE Funds invested according to Expenses limited by law You may start with $1 and strict laws Earnings divided according add any amount at any time State supervision and control to law Savings only A compulsory reserve fund Open from 9 to 5. REAL ESTATE LOANS Again We Emphasize Three Features No Commission No Bonus Liberal Contract We extend unusual privilege It is against the law for us to We exact NO bonus or ad­ of paying loans off in any charge commissions vance interest under any cir­ cumstances amount at any time This is a Seattle Institution for Seattle People, Fostered and Encouraged by Law to Serve the Community Well Washington Savings and Loan Association 810 SECOND AVENUE Established Assets: 25 Years $4,100,000.00 Officers

HERMAN CHAPIN, President RAYMOND R. FRAZIER, Vice-President and Manager WM. THAANUM, Vice-Presiden1 and Treasurer H. D. CAMPBELL, Secretary G. A. BRUCE, Assistant Secretary W. S. DARROW, Assistant Secretary

Trustees WILLIAM A. PETERS K. <;. AMES RAYMOND R. FRAZIER HERMAN CHAPIN WM. F. GEIGER JAMES SHANNON II. I). CAMPBELL I YAK -I ANSON WILLIAM THAANUM I). E. FREDERICK L. 0. JANECK EUGENE B. FAVRE P. B. FINLEY HANS I'KDEHSON C. E. VILAS PAG E PO U B THE TOWN CRIER

CORNER EASTLAKE AVENUE CAROLINA COURT MERCER STREET AND BOULEVARD

BATTLE'S newest and m..si up-to-date apartment bouse, I.I. ontalde rooms, public halls 8 feel wide, with an consisting of 2 and 3 room apartments, conveniently Reasonable Rent. Make Your Reservations abundance Of li>-'ht from rear and side, as well as S anil pleasantly located. Now at the Office of the Building. A central court. The most beautiful building anil grounds of the kind Every apartment has • private telephone, large bathroom, north of California. Central conrl 70 feel deep and 80 feel private hallway, dressing room, most Improved gas ranges. wide, with circular walks, lawns, shrubbery, etc. In rear i ling closets, disappearing beds, large closets, latest sta­ of luiiidini.'. half block of ground! for tbe exclusive use of CLAUDE C. RAMSAY & CO. tionary vacuum cleaner system for use of tenants, steam tenants.. heat, electric lights, etc. Liberal space for locker looms Offers the attractions of • beautiful home, with the i Owners and storage rooms in basement. venienies and comforts of a first-class hotel. There is au 310-311 New York Block, Beat ear service in the city. Cour car lines pass tin- office in the building in charge of a courteous attendant, apartment- Bastlake, Coven Park, Huh Avenue and Raven always ready to serve you. Seattle, Washington. na Park. Only 13 minute-' walk lo Fourth Axenne and PifeSj Street.

CLARK NETTLETON i. M. BRUCE PETER J. ESCHBACH

ELLIOTT 4748

Nettleton - Bruce - Eschbach Company Railroad Contractors

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902-3-4 American Bank Building SEATTLE I' A (; E K I v E THE TOWN CRIER

Stuart Building 77|E HAVE in course of erection an \VJI 1 1-story fire-proof office building that will be com­ pleted and ready for occupancy in January, 1915. This will be the fourth large office building erected by the Metropolitan Building Company on the University Tract. The building will contain about 250 offices and will be a first grade office building in every respect. The STUART BUILDING will be connected with the White and Henry Buildings with connecting corridors and will have all the facilities that have been incorporated into these buildings. The White, Henry and Stuart Buildings taken together will con­ tain about one thousand offices and will have more facilities for doing business than can be found in any other office building in this country. The Stuart Building is renting very rapidly and it is quite possible that by the time the Town Crier comes from the press, that there will be no further space available in the building.

For further information about the Stuart Building, inquire of Metropolitan Building Company 115 White Building Main 4984 I • A (: K S 1 s THE TOWN CRIER

THE SEATTLE POST - INTELLIGENCER , (A NEWSPAPER WITHOUT A GROUCH) ,

GROWING ALL THE TIME ON ITS MERITS AS A FREE-HANDED BROAD-MINDED WIDE-A WAKE NEWSPAPER Clean In Its Advertising Columns and Dependable All Through

Over 55,000 Daily Over 62,000 Sunday

A. S. TAYLOR, Publisher SCOTT C. BONE, Editor PAG E S EV EN THE TOWN CRIER

S. H. HEDGES, C. E., President R. M. DYER, M. E., Vice-President GEO. E. HARDENBERG, Secretary

Engineers Puget Sound Heavy And Bridge & Construction Construction Contractors Company Of All Kinds

432-441 CENTRAL BUILDING, SEATTLE, WASHINGTON

We Make a Specialty of Dredging, Harbor Improvements

Bridges, Dams, Buildings and Foundations

The Lippy Building, the Hambach Building and the Elks Temple were constructed by us during the past season. We now have under construction the KING COUNTY COURT HOUSE

Vulcan Manufacturing Tucker, Hanford Co. Company SEATTLE, WASH. Lithographers Bank ond Commercial Stationery GRAY IRON CASTINGS Bank, Bond and Insurance Work Twenty Ton Pieces Our Limit Heavy Forgings Salmon Labels Machine Work All Classes of Steel Fabrication

Office: 87 West Lenora Street Our Engineering Department Factory: Cor.Western Ave. & Lenora St. Is at Your Service Telephone Elliott 300 PAGE 1: i <; ii r THE TOWN CRIER 15he Yuletide Season This is the time for the housewife to le^rn for herself the truth of wh^t we ha^ve said concerning thai Perfect All-Purpose Bread. Cake and Pastry FLOUR FISHERS

'America's Fines! Flouring Mills." BLEND Better for bread baking purposes than an All-Soft Wheat Flour or an All-Hard Wheat Flour. Makes perfect pies, cakes and pastry something an All-Soft Wheat Flour or an All-Hard Wheat Flour will not do. FISHER FLOURING MILLS CO. SEATTLE

HOLIDAY DAINTIES are those home-made confections, cakes and pastries, always so thoroughly a part of Christmas festivities. They will have additional deliciousness and give delight if, in preparing them, you use Maplewood Brand Products Milk, Cream and Ice Cream Maplewood products are unsurpassed in quality and are absolutely pure, making them 1 00 per cent dependable at a time when only the best is de­ manded. But the high quality of Maplewood Milk, Cream and Ice Cream, handled exclusively by the Pure Milk Dairy, renders them equally necessary for your home every day. Remember that, at no greater cost than is asked by others, you can have these products delivered at your home daily by calling up the PURE MILK DAIRY, Inc. Main 2545—PHONES—Elliott 4344 1514 Seventh Avenue. P A <3 B N I N E THE TOWN CRIER ALASKA Next summer in connection with that Expo­ sition Trip is so easy to plan and means such a slight additional expense that the Excusrion should be in your itinerary -:- -:- -:- WHY NOT At once write for sailing dates and general information as to the most delightful ocean cruise to be procured on the Pacific? SAILINGS FREQUENT AND SERVICE FINE The Alaska Steamship Company operates between Seattle and all parts of Alaska. Connects with White Pass Route for Yukon points and Copper River & Northwestern Railway for Copper River Valley interior points. Write today. ALASKA STEAMSHIP CO. LOWMAN BUILDING, SEATTLE, WASH. R. W. BAXTER, JOHN H. BUNCH, Vice-President General Freight and Passenger Agent Colman Creosoting Works

Operated by the J. M. Colman Co. SEATTLE Main Office 527 Colman Building

One of the Largest Creosoting Plants in the United States

Daily Capacity, 5,000 Lineal Feet of Piling or 75,000 Board Feet of Lumber

Over 2,000,000 Lineal feet of Lumber treated by this Company still in good condition after twenty years service in Puget Sound water where the average life of untreated piling is eighteen months. r A G E TEN THE TOWN CRIER

THE TACOMA LEDGER Collyer-Vilas-Elliott, inc. Washington's greatest morning daily Real Estate - Insurance Mortgage Loans - Appraisals THE TACOMA NEWS Surety Bonds - Rentals Washington's best evening newspaper 216 LEARY BLDG. MAIN 5573 All members of the firm have been in Seattle many years and can be of real assistance to investors. IT WILL BE TO YOUR ADVANTAGE TO SEE US SAMUEL COLLYER CALVIN E. VILAS JOHN J. ELLIOTT

The legitimate advertiser who E. C. Neufelder, Prtsldent R. J. Reekie, Vice-President Jos. T. Greenleaf, Cashier WILLIAM W. MILNER desires to reach the people G. B. Nicoll Jas. A. Goldsmith of Washington will find these Peoples Savings Bank Merchant Tailoring Incorporated 1889 for Men and Women two splendid newspaper med­ Second Avenne and Pike Street SEATTLE, WASH. MATERIAL, WORKMANSHIP A*D PIT GUARANTEED iums the best for his purpose Commercial and Savings Business Transacted 4% INTEREST ON SAVINGS AC PRICES WITHIN REASON COUNTS 212 American Bank Bid?. Drafts Issued on All the Principal Points of the United States and Phone Elliott 2439 Seattle, W»tt». Europe. No two newspapers in the state cover the field as thoroughly as the Ledger and News Planning a New Buildjngjjejt_Yearj

If you are, be sure that your architect arranges the w™^ of the house for electrical household appliances that maice housekeeping a pleasure. THE NATIONAL CITY BANK If your architect will avail himself of our offer the sf1™^ A MEMBER OF of our electrical engineers are placed at his disposal ana THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK out any cost whatever. When you move into your new home you should ^d ^ Offers to its friends unexcelled banking service. ready to connect vacuum cleaners, laundry appliances, nr ^ va CAPITAL AND SURPLUS - $600,000.00 cookers and a dozen other conveniences that electricity ~~. economical to use. Electricity spells the last word in the m S.E. Cor. Second Ave. and Columbia St. ern home. OFFICERS: Call at the Electric Building and get a new line of ideas J. \V. MAXWELL. President for the home. F. \V. BAKER, Vke President J. H. BLOEDEL, Vice President K. \V. CAMPBELL, Cashier N. H. SEIL, Assistant Cashier PUGET SOUND TRACTION, LIGHT & POWER CO. Seventh Avenue and Olive Street

SELECTING LARGEST FLOATING DRY DOCK EQUIPMENT INVESTMENTS ON THE PACIFIC COAST fairs that tliey 1>»» "SJJ, of ••" Completely Equipped Shops for Ship, Engine and Boiler opportunity to make a at""* curltles. ,. ,. coo- 1 ora The officers of ft -lnv %Xment con­ stantly in touch w th estrn u ere ditions and are nP^^L^nle d e d exP /; REPAIRS to place their K °" 0 / cUstomerf In

Ship Builders, Engine Builders, Boiler Makers | Iron Founders, Brass Founders, Lumber Manufacturers | Northern Bank & Trust Company SEATTLE CONSTRUCTION & DRY DOCK COMPANY Fourth Ave. and Pike St. I SEATTLE, WASH. PAGE E I. E V E N THE TOWN CRIER

The Tacoma Tribune For Close In Acreage GO TO Kirkland on Lake Washington Is the growing newspa­ Look over the new "Capitol Hill Addition." Excellent Lake and Seattle View Tracts per of Tacoma. It has As low as $375. Terms easy. Bungalows Built to Suit. made more substantial BURKE & FARRAR, Inc. 203 New Yore Block progress in both circula­ tion and advertising dur­ PHONE ELLIOTT 2994 ing 1914 than any other VICTOR PLACE newspaper in the North­ ATTORNEY-AT-LAW 720-21-22 NORTHERN BANK & TRUST west. BUILDING SEATTLE, WASH.

CHRISTMAS DINNER ROSLYN COAL at the Hotel Washington Annex FOR FURNACE AND RANGE FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25th Price $1.00 THE ROSLYN FUEL CO. MENU MINERS AND SHIPPERS Toke Point Oysters, Halfshell, Mignonette WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Chicken Gumbo with Okra a la Creole OFFICE BUNKERS Celery Tomato Bouillon en Tasse Lowman Building Foot of Clay Street Main 1817 Main 1424 Bass Farm Celery Winter Radishes Black Olives Paupiette of Striped Bass, Normandie Cucumbers Pommes Marquise Rack of Yearling Lamb, Browned Potatoes, Green Peas Chicken Patties a la Reine Orange Fritters, Claret Sauce Be Sure to call for Raspberry Sherbet Prime Ribs of Eastern Beef, Yorkshire Pudding CIRCLE "W" Stuffed Young Yakima Turkey, Cranberry Sauce ® Steamed and Mashed Potatoes Browned Sweet Potatoes Creamed Spinach Fried Tomatoes HAMS, BACON AND LARD Fruit Salad en Mayonnaise This Trademark means High Quality Xmas Plum Pudding, Hard and Brandy Sauce Hot or Cold Mince Pie Chocolate Meringue Glace Roquefort Cheese Assorted Cake Toasted Wafers BARTON & COMPANY Tea Coffee Milk Buttermilk Iced Tea WHOLESALE Dinner served from 12 m. to 8 p.m. Music by Brambilla Orchestra. PACKERS AND PROVISIONERS For table reservations phone Main 7192. Seattle Main 3228 PAGE TWELVE THE TOWN CRIER m m IF YOU ARE GOING TO THE SAN FRANCISCO EXPO­ STATIONERY SITION BE SURE YOUR TICKET READS VIA SEATTLE

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Many are Using Coke The Northern Bank In Seattle and Trust In House-Heating Furnaces Building

/^OKE is light, clean, smoke- Stirrat & Goetz Investment Co., Owners ^ less, and highly efficient. It is easily handled, requires little I attention, and is a cheap fuel. We now have two grades of Coke, Oven Coke which is sold for $6.00 per ton and Bench Coke at $5.50 per ton at the . yards,

For Metallurgical Processes m s "Ira]. Use Oven Coke Si * UttSptf. "THIS COKE is unexcelled * where a hard fuel is desira­ ble, for high heats and a lasting fire. The superiority of Coke over other forms of hard fuel is well known to all who have used it for any length of time. The Home of THE TOWN CRIER Shop and factory owners may now secure this high grade Coke right here at home. A High Class Modern Business and Office Building situated at All Coke Orders are Given the Busiest Street Intersection Prompt Attention in the City of Seattle Seattle Lighting Co. Main 6767 Fourth Ave, Westlake Boulevard, Pike St. PAGE FOURTEEN THE TOWN CRIER

Draivn By STUART MORRIS For THE CHRISTMAS CRIER T3tiir lo, Hir $har mhidr Hif^ sam

"Here we have battle and blazmg eyes And chance and honor and high surprise, But our homes are under miraculous skies Where the Yule tale is begun. "

It was in the presence of a merely personal grief that Tennyson wrote these lines: "Tonight ungatherd lei us leave This laurel, let this holly stand; We live within the stranger's land And strangely falls our Christmas Eve." GHAST at the spectacle of strife so colossal that the quickest imagination reels before it, it will be hard in­ deed for many this Christmas-tide to believe in an opened heaven and a divinely proffered Peace. Never­ A theless, quail as Faith may before the painful travail of the ages, we rally ourselves to the assurance, Heaven- revealed, that the fulness of the day shall dawn and strength shall be vouchsafed to bring forth what Hope has con­ ceived. The royal Arthur could not pass away in that "great battle in the west" without a gladdening vision of the deep-meadow'd land "and bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea" where he shall heal him of his grievous wound. Nor shall we, though the war-clouds gather and the cannon-thunder rumble, let the old year die without heartening ourselves in the conviction, too deep for wars to shake, that the peace of Heaven awaits the goodwill of men to flood our earth and hide its scars with flowers. ® ® ® OR need we wait, all passive and inert, for the dawn of the splendid light which shows angels ascending and N descending upon the sons of men. If it be true that never before did the world see so manifested "the heathen heart that puts her trust in reeking tube and iron shard," is it not also true that never before was so gracious an oppor­ tunity given for the outshining of Christian charity transcending all narrow bounds of race and creed, to melt the icy hold of these "clench'd antagonisms" and so subdue the kingdoms of this world to the Kingdom of our Lord and His Christ? ® ® ® ET us speed on wings of love the angels of pity and compassion! Let us bid them fly swiftly above the fields L of earth with messages of healing and gifts of love. As the stable of Bethlehem town, where the homeless Infant found His shelter, became bright with beautiful visitants from Heaven, so may every lodging which the earth has afforded the children of men, every shelter to which sorrow and pain and want have rudely forced an entrance, be transformed into "the open house in the evening" whither all men desire to come. Yet angels of chanty must fly from the heaven of hearts wherein the Divine Babe has been truly born. The old mystic wrote: "Though Christ in Bethlehem a thousand times rvere horn. If He's not born in thee, thy soul is still forlorn" ® ® ® PEN then, ye hearts of men. and straightway lose your straitness. Make room today for every hope that has O ever gleamed, for a faith which shall shame all doubt and put every fear to flight. Make room for heaven itself and all its minstrelsy! Hear again the good tidings with alerter ear! Though the vision tarry it will surely come! Yea, perhaps, ere we are conscious of the change, the light will broaden out into universal day and a new meaning be given to the words of the old evangel: "And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying: Glory to God in the Highest And on earth Peace to men of good-will. HERBERT H. GOWEN. PAG E S I X T THE TOWN CRIER

floater and the purposely idle—the "unionized" to spend $8,000 in lighting the dark and dangerous loafers who say they will not work for less than alleys of the city and yet is willing and eager to THE TOWN CRIER union wages because they know that no such spend $lii.il()it in carrying light up the distant out- Official publication of the Northwest Music Teachers' Association. wages will be offered—all this is but a minor part of-town reaches of the Duwamish, and is figuring, Official publication of the Seattle Pine Arts Society. of the big problem which Seattle must ever strive at no one knows what cost, on lighting the still Published every Saturday by to solve. This year it is many of our own people more distant City of Everett, is certainly showing -WOOD & REBER (Inc.) 703-4-5-6 Northern Bank Building Seattle who are out of work, citizens of Seattle, men and an animus that cannot in any way be traced to Telephone Main 6302 James A. Wood Editor women who are willing to do anything to earn regard for the welfare or the pocket-books of the E. IM. Reber Manager an honest dollar, some of them owning or partly people the councilmen are supposed to represent. Entered as second class matter at the United owning their homes. These are entitled to first The Town Crier earnestly hopes that what now States postofflce at Seattle. and constant consideration, not only at Christmas SUBSCRIPTION: One year, in advance, $3.00; seems to be an awakening of the people of Seattle six months, $1.50; three months, 75 cents; single time, but thereafter until means be found for may be a real awakening, and not a mere restless copies, 10 cents. Foreign subscriptions (countries in Postal Union) $4.00 a year. Por sale by all News­ them to again earn their own living. stirring in their slumbers of sleepers who may dealers. The Charity Organization Society's policy, re­ again be lulled by the specious soothings of those Payments should be made by Check, Draft, Postal Order, payable to THE TOWN CRIER, or by Regis­ cently restated for the benefit of those who may possessed of no other thought than to keep on tered Letter. not be familiar with its work, is to give first con­ squandering the public money. Throughout all the Por Advertising Rates address Suite 703, Northern Bank Building, Seattle. Inquiries within city limits sideration to the family, second to the unmarried years of its publication, admittedly to a limited of Seattle, made by mail or by telephone to Main woman, third to the unmarried man. Here is the circle of readers, The Town Crier has constantly 6302, will be personally responded to by a repre­ sentative of THE TOWN CRIER when requested. central body through which the good people of and consistently given warning of the vers Unsolicited manuscript must be accompanied by Seattle should and must work if they hope to dangers, the very distresses, the very burdens. stamps sufficient for return if found unavailable for publication. relieve those best entitled to relief, if they want that now loom so large. However long in coming. relief to be intelligently directed and not wasted the co-operation of the larger publications and the Printed by R. L. Davis Printing Co., Arcade Building. in haphazard distribution, if they desire to aid in more influential factors in community life are now How Sorry Are You ? the maintenance of homes and families and to gladly welcomed by The Town Crier. The people of Seattle must be fully aroused and kept awake. You are sorry for the poor, the unemployed, the help worthy men and women to self-support and destitute in Seattle. Very sorry, no doubt, that for self-respect. many of these Christmas cheer is likely to be scant By all means let everything be done that can or altogether missing. But how sorry are you in be done to make a Merry Christmas for every one Work To Be Done terms of dollars and cents? What ways have you who can be reached; but throughout this season Seattle has a Central Council of Social Agen, planned and what means are you ready to provide of giving and then on throughout the year keep in serving actively and with good effect in an im­ for a practical showing of your sympathy? mind the fact that the Charity Organization So­ portant field or COmmunitj endeavor. Isn't it There is, as always at this season, much talk as ciety is the city's best and surest agency, not only about to think of forming a Central Council of to what should be done by those who can spare for the proper distribution of relief, but better Economic Agencies? We have our Chamber of much or a little for those who have nothing at all. still for the prevention of the causes and occasions Commerce, it is true, and our Commercial Club, All the churches and their auxiliary societies have from which arise the demands for relief. The our Municipal League, our Taxpayers' League, our plans; the Charity Organization Society is doing Charity Organization Society is supported by vol­ Home Owners' Association, and other organiza­ its utmost to co-ordinate and give best effect to all untary contributions. Never supplied with means tions of many names and purposes. Hut the charitable efforts; the Post-Intelligencer is gather­ sufficient to meet the requirements of the work, Chamber of Commerce, tremendously useful ., ing in money and gifts of all sorts for distribution; the society is just now more pressed than ever is, is engaged in work extending tar beyond the the Times, with its bunch of Good Fellows, will before by reason of the existing emergency. It limits of the city; the Commercial Club is too fre­ bring substantial relief and good cheer directly needs your help. quently busy in planning opposition to what into many homes; the Star is to have its regular tb« Chamber is engaged upon; ihe Municipal Christmas tree with a present to gladden the heart League is getting so that it must wait to ha\. of every child that can be reached. Apparently Waking Up final judgments framed for it by self-serving poli­ there is more general effort than ever before to The people of Seattle seem to have come to a ticians; the Taxpayers' League makes its loudest give all possible happiness, if only for the day, and point where facts concerning the city's burden of noises in the indorsement of chosen candidates for to spread it as far as it will go throughout the city. indebtedness for wholly useless purposes are not office; the Home Owners' Association, though well What part, if any, are you taking in this effort? altogether unwelcome. The address of Judge organized, has not yet made its Influence felt in What have you done? What are you doing? What Thomas Burke before the League of Northwestern any direction. are you going to do? Something, surely. Municipalities on the duties of the good citizen, Perhaps before we can have a Central Council * * * the remarkable expose by Mr. A. V. Bouillon of the of Economic Agencies we shall have to have a few The Surest Agency inefficiency and extravagance inherent in muni­ Economic Agencies of definite purpose. The i In the midst of all that is being said and done cipal ownership schemes, the lively interest shown tion Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce offers toward a manifestation of the true spirit of Christ­ by The Times and The Post-Intelligencer and the a nucleus more nearly suited than any other to the mas in Seattle, let us not lose sight of the fact that space given to certain striking instances of official purpose The Town Crier has in mind, which is no number of Christmas dinners, no number of mismanagement and wastefulness, the strong stand this: gifts, whether useful or otherwise, no spread of taken by Mayor Gill against the rabid radicals in Some central, responsible and trustworthy au­ cheer for the one great day, will do more than to the city council—all these things are being ac­ thority should be engaged all the time in resisting momentarily lighten the gloom surrounding the cepted by the people in the spirit in which they the radical propaganda under the influenc intricate problem of poverty, destitution and un­ were inspired, a spirit determined that the faults, which the burdens of the taxpayers of Seattle employment which is more serious this year than the weaknesses, the idiocies of the course to which have been piled up to the back-breaking point. We ever before in the history of the city. the city has been committed must be known and ought to know by this time that it does not do to It is useless to hark back to the mistakes of last must be corrected. stand idly by during the intervals between cam­ winter, when the efforts of Jeff Davis, "king of the Looking backward over the obligations to which paigns and trust the fortunes of the city to digni hoboes," resulted in the establishment of the Hotel the city council has pledged the credit of Seattle in fled pronouncements a few days before (lections de Gink, operated at city and county expense, and recent years, no honest citizen will hesitate to The promoters of municipal ownership, of single the call was sent to hoboes throughout the North­ admit that the greater part of the burden has been tax, of useless bond issues and all manner of politi­ west that here was the place where they would be incurred, not for the benefit of the people, but in cal experiment, are busy all the time. At the ex housed and fed in idleness until spring called them the hope of hurt to private interests, corporate and pense of the taxpayers themselves Mr. Ross floods to the road again. While that course gave to individual. Money sunk in building, equipping the city with his lying bulletins about the muni­ Seattle widespread notoriety as a desirable winter and purchasing railway lines, and still sinking cipal lighting department. Such men as he. and resort for hoboes and yeggs and brought many rapidly in their operation, has gone and is going Councilmen Erickson. .Mm Bradford, the corpora more to town with the first chills of this year's to the gratification of spleen and in no way to the tion counsel, Robert Bridges and others, are autumn, we have now, fortunately, a city admin­ service of the public. Millions have been spent seeking and gaining hearings for their viewi istration and an organization of citizens far better and more are demanded by the lighting department fore women's clubs, church brotherhoods and other qualified to deal with this phase of the situation of the city, not so much to spread light among the organizations. No matter bow small the gathering than we had last year. people of Seattle as to reduce the revenues of may be, wherever two or three are gathered to­ After all. the question of how to deal with the private lighting concerns. A council which refuses gether, there also will be found some adVOCSJ PAGE SEVENTHEN THE TOWN CRIER

going to wrar. Every true American is hoping, working and praying against any course or event by which our interests might become involved. Political Horoscope Real Estate Loans But with a world-war in horrid progress, and with By J. GRANT HINKLE No Commission nations overseas on either side of us embroiled, (All rights preserved with formaldehyde.) No Bonus it would seem to be only a matter of reasonable If the stars stay out all night. precaution, of fair-dealing with our own people, Who cares for the speaking parts? Prompt Service to make some showing of naval protection along No forecast at this season could extend far SAVINGS & LOAN both the Atlantic and the Pacific Coasts. without finding the central thought that brings In answering the questions of the committee­ happiness, as it has and will throughout all the ages. 810 Second Avenue men a few days ago, Sesretary Daniels admitted The advent of the Star in the Bast together that the naval strength on the Pacific Coast is with the proclamation of Peace on Earth, has the policies which have weighted Seattle with use­ inadequate for any purpose whatsoever; that it influenced all the years that have followed. At less debt, plausible of speech and eager to be has always been inadequate except to participate no time lias this message apparently fallen on heard. in some of our civic festivities or to give oc­ such chaos, and on so many rulers who, hav­ This has been going on for months and years. ing ears, hear not. casional work to some of our yards. Mr. Daniels The signs show almost a continent possessed The predicament in which Seattle today finds itself said that with the Panama Canal open he thought with rabies, and the only madstone being ap­ is due to the fact that the persistent propagandists one fleet could protect both coasts, inasmuch as plied for cure is annihilation. We have criti­ of experiment, wastefulness and revenge have it would take only eighteen days to run around cized ancient civilizations because they sought the survival of the fittest, by destroying the never been intelligently and vigorously resisted. from the Atlantic to the Pacific or vice versa. The city has been dragged along into debt by the weak and deformed. Modern civilization pro­ When it is remembered that the United States claims in principle that its dross will be con­ unremitting and thus far successful effort to de­ navy, in its entirety, is not such a big institution, sumed in the furnace of war, if patriotic prin­ lude the people with false economic theories. Little it is apparent that, in the remote event of an ciples and ennobling purposes are championed, and base designers overthrown. In effecting or no attempt has been made to direct the public attack on both our coasts, the navy would have mind into channels of right thinking. There are this end, however, only the gold of a nation's to spend most of its time simply in chasing back manhood, physically speaking, is poured into thousands of men and women in Seattle who know and forth from ocean to ocean. And in war time ihe crucible. The dross is left to perpetuate that the city has been on the wrong course; who a great many things can happen in eighteen days. the race. By this means civilization advances in leaps and bounds—down hill. do not credit and are capable of controverting Mr. Daniels has done some things for the navy, The aspect is already presented of the loss of the fallacious arguments on which the people have to be sure. Where our ships formerly bluffed the been so constantly fed. How often do we hear of priceless treasure in literature, art, sculpture, buffets of the waves with helms hard a'port or painting and architecture, which for centuries any of them delivering an address? How often do starboard, they are now directed on lady-like has been the inspiration of those who would we read an expression of their views in any of the courses by left and by right, while the mild cheer achieve. Many of the modern masters are al­ ready "in one red burial blent" and we see papers? A few interviews perhaps, for a few days of tea and coffee pervades ward-rooms warmed for before an election, and then the issue, no matter Elijah's mantle with no Elisha on whom it may many years by grog. These things Mr. Daniels fall. Civilization is being penalized a few cen­ what it may be, is trusted up to luck. has brought about; but when it comes to taking turies of decline, against which no money value It isn't fair to the city. It isn't fair to those who a broad view of what the navy is and what our can be placed. pay the city's bills. It isn't fair even to the pur- ships are for, Mr. Daniels does not seem to be The advent of a moratorium for 20 days would be hailed by the world, who know full bullnd and largely non-taxpaying followers of the there. well the powers that may grant it, have also advocates of costly experimentation, for these, too, the power to make it an indeterminate sen­ •mist suffer, and suffer most keenly, when industry tence. and progress are at halt. It isn't fair at all nor to A reckoning from the north star shows Uncle anyone. If people can be induced to think wrongly A Politician Quits Sam treating himself to a Christmas present, of Well, well! And here goes another good fellow all the mud sticking to the axis of the earth. they can surely be induced, on the exertion of He is undecided as to whose pole he will ap­ equal or even less effort, to think rightly. Some out from a job with all apparent willingness. propriate. It should be named a land that will concert of action for Seattle's good should now, President Bryan of the State College at Pullman remain a frigid monument to that despot of the at this time, be undertaken to stem and turn back has resigned. E. A. Bryan is his name. Probably kitchen. lit would never then be Peary-phrased. The signs indicate that since we have left the tide of all that has been done to Seattle's detri­ Ethan Allen Bryan, or it may be Enoch Arden, which would not be altogether inappropriate. 'Tis the front door of Mexico, we are to sit around ment. close to the back door steps. If we get a little * # * said that President Bryan has something of a more vexed from them there greasers throwing come-back in mind. Enoch Arden came back all stuff in our alley, we are like to put our Christ­ Our Sea Lord right—up to a certain point. mas present right through the door panels and While paying all deference due to Mr. Josephus If President Bryan goes right ahead with his then—evacuate. Daniels as a brother in journalism, The Town quitting process, runs quietly away and doesn't Crier has never been able to recognize in him any stop to make trouble for anybody, the State of President Bryan has done all this; President E. super-eminent qualifications as a sea lord; nor Washington will lose one of the most remarkable A. Bryan—whatever the "E. A." may stand for. do any such qualifications appear to develop with men of those who have figured in its political and He has been the best and busiest politician that his continued occupancy of the office of secretary educational history. The Town Crier puts politics ever mixed in what may be irreverently called the of the United States navy. The recent gentle first, for the reason that Mr. Bryan has been, first educational "game" in the State of Washington. grilling given Mr. Daniels by the naval committees of all and nearly all the time, a politician. Politi­ The Town Crier can distinctly remember when the of senate and house went further to prove that cal, and not educational, methods have been ap­ state legislature rebuked and sent home with his ideas of what our navy, at its present strength, plied throughout his presidency at Pullman. By bowed head a president of the University of Wash­ should do or can do, are still just about as hazy political methods the institution intended by the ington—Frank Pierrepont Graves—because, for­ as those of the average landsman, and that his people of the state to afford their children an edu­ sooth, he tried to play a little politics. But there life-long pursuit of sticking close to his editorial cation in the science of agriculture, has been has never been a session of the legislature at which desk and never going to sea has resulted in mak­ pulled along to a rating as a sort of pseudo uni­ President E. A. Bryan of the State "College" was ing him just about as inefficient a type, though versity—all so cleverly done and so cleverly kept not a welcome and a dominating figure. by no means as comic, as Sir Joseph Porter, going that people nearby and actually resident in K. C. B., whose first impulse toward the admiralty Seattle have been sending their children right past The Town Crier has no doubt that the Pullman came with "polishing the handle of the big front the State University to pick up such fragments of institution has been made into a pretty good door." learning as have been offered on the bleak hills school, for which President Bryan deserves a lot There is not much chance of the United States surmounted by the buildings of the State "College." of credit. But there has been a straying far afield

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No general interest was A The Wisemen met the Kings— The resignation of Mr. Bryan should clear the aroused; no attempt was made to arouse it. The "Hail hoary men on asses white, way for the state administration and the next interested officials of the city—interested chiefly Why do you travel through the night state legislature to set the Pullman school, not in spending the city's money—were permitted to So far from water-springs?" back, but forward to a place of genuine service. go banging right ahead, while the protests of engi­ The agricultural interests of the state are surely neers like Ralph H. Ober, Joseph Jacobs, and The Wi.simen. important enough to justify the special training of others of corresponding eminence, fell on unheed­ "We are three sages journeying youth for their larger development. Let Mr. ing ears. To where a wiseman dwells; Bryan's successor as president be a man who can So far as The Town Crier can observe the only The stars have told the place to us comprehend the possibilities of such a future for sensational feature of the recent clamor is the And for his lore we travel thus his school and who will exert himself in the right fact that city officials, past and present, who com­ Far from the water-wells." direction. As for Mr. Bryan—if he has become so mitted the blunders and who bowed their necks in enamoured of politics that he wants to run for obstinancy at professional warning and criticism, "Now by your camels and your crowns, governor or for any other office, who shall deny have now to admit that they were wrong and that And by your rings of gold, him the privilege? the worst consequences predicted for their course Are you not kings upon a quest? have come to pass. Mr. George F. Cotterill, Mr. Why should great lords forsake their rest Reginald H. Thomson and City Engineer Dimock To journey in the cold?" A Better Plan cannot now get away from the fact that, despite In The Town Crier's last issue some space was the splendid dam built for the city by conscien­ The King*. given to belated discussion of the fallacy urged tious contractors, the waters of the Cedar River "An oracle in Egypt said in the recent school district election, that a good will not there be impounded for the reason that That near this barren place. mother has so much greater interest than a good Nature never intended that they should be. There dwelt a king more rich than we, father in the advancement of school work that a It is true that Seattle has done a great deal— And we have traveled far to see place should be made for such an one on the board more, perhaps, than any other city in the world And shame him to his face'' of directors. We then expressed the opinion that —at tampering with Nature. Within the city the better work for women in connection with the limits we have jostled and shoved and sluiced "Here come three ragged ihephorda by. city schools could be done by exercising the influ­ things around much to suit ourselves. But Na­ Ho, worthless wanderers. ence of women's organizations on a school board ture, always at her best outside of city limits, will Why have you left the huddled sheep constituted of business men, as at present, and al­ not be so easily defied and mocked and rudely Your lord commanded you to keep ways easy of access. treated in her strongholds of the hills. She made Unto the care of curs?'' It is a pleasure to learn that work along this no provision for a dam at the site where Messrs. line has already been undertaken by the Federa­ Cotterill, Thomson and Dimock determined that The Shepherd*. tion of Women's Clubs, and arrangements made a dam should be built, and now even her myriad ' We follow voices in the night. for a monthly conference on school affairs between choir of birdlings in the watershed is twittering We are three very lowly men. the five women who compose the Federation's Ad­ contemptuously, for the joke is on the Seattle Some shepherds must have lost their way. visory Board and the five men to whom the people trio, and Nature and her choristers care not how We hope to tind them ere the da.\. have entrusted the management of the city schools. badly the taxpayers of Seattle are stuck. Hark, for the voices call again." The plan for joint sessions originated with mem­ * * » bers of the Federation and was instantly welcomed The .1 iicjels. by the school board. The Town Crier predicts far Picture Books "Glory to God and peace on earth. more satisfactory results and enduring benefits The art of printing may have advanced since Follow the star t hat thrills the sky. from this arrangement than could follow upon the The Town Crier's youth, also the art of making A God has come to mortal birth, election of one or any number of women to the picture-books for children. No memory of those A Man is born who shall not die board. days seems to support such an assertion, however. * * * Kiddies' books displayed in the Christmas stalls Hark to the host of heaven sing, are so matter-of-fact nowadays; there is absolutely Glory to Him the undefiled; Not Nature's Dam Sire none of the indescribable splendor about them He is a Shepherd and a King, But for the tremendous cost already incurred, which still glimmers from the pages of some old He is a Wiseman and a Child." and the certain assurance that Seattle must go print playmates. And yet—the new are just as gay on paying heavily for official blunders and bull- with red, blue, and gold inks; the cheeks of their since, has felt that in some mysterious way the headedness, the present excitement over the way "pretend" people quite as rosy and the eyes and lithographer's hireling who blocked out his ivy-clad the waters of Cedar River have not been im­ mittens all as blue: What is it we miss? belfry and snow-mantled grave-stones, his Christ­ pounded would be funny. The Town Crier fails There was one book never to be forgotten—the mas waits and bell-ringing sexton, and all the rest to understand why conditions near the big dam first one The Town Crier was able to read—it nar­ of those well-beloved, crude old chromos, had most should be made known at this time in the form of rated the charming story of a match-girl in ex­ exactly and radiantly caught and imparted to the sensational disclosures. That such conditions tremely hard circumstances, who, straying into a church-yard in a state of great inanition, was suc­ child-reader a Christmas delight of leaden skies, would follow was confidently asserted by every cored by another little girl who had ventured there jingle-bells, snow, and sparkling holly all unspeak­ to feed certain birdies. The story ended with fes­ able. MADAME H. A. PLAYZE tivities in the manor-house and Christmas glees by There was another book, called "Der Struwelpe- birdies and church-chimes. This anecdote, simply ter," whose illustrations were fascinatingly hor­ MODISTE told in large charactered, one-syllable words, was rible—but that was not a Christmas book, so of it GOWNS AND TAILORING illustrated with pictures which would have vexed The Town Crier will not now speak. 611-12 EITEL BLDG. SEATTLE WASH. an artistic soul. Yet The Town Crier, then and ever Phone, Main 4686 The army and navy heads in Washington are a curious lot. 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The Magi and the Spug

UCH a fascinating story it was—that of the picturesque Magi, who came riding on the "ships of the desert" S from out the mysterious East in search of a little child. Before them, night after night as they crossed the dusky plains where the shepherds tended their flocks, shone a gleaming star, leading them to the humble village of Bethlehem. The Magi—word to conjure with!—bringing gold, and frankincense, and myrrh. Gold! There was nothing wonderful about that, but to the credulous, dreaming mind of a child, frankincense and myrrh were full of tantalizing mystery. And they found the child with his mother in a stable, there being no room for them at the inn. A strange set­ ting for the first Christmas, was it not? A new-born babe; the manger in which he was cradled; the rarest of gifts and the adoration of the Magi. ® ® ® Out of the West rose the deadly Spug— And the Spirit of Christmas grew cold! ENTURIES have passed, and the custom of Christmas giving has undergone many vicissitudes, abuses and sil­ C linesses, but the spirit has survived them all, though the movement inaugurated last year was one of the harshest blows, including as it did, common-sense, with its hard head; paternalism, with its maddening pretense of kind­ ness, and last, but greatest, a surfeited people. We were tired, no doubt about that, and a tired person loses all his his perspective! But to paraphrase— Where are the Spugs of yester-year?. You remember how they took the people by storm—especially those who had indulged in rampant orgies of pro­ miscuous giving? Societies were formed, for of course nothing can be done individually any more; we must be put up in bundles and tied with red tape. Weren't you surprised and a bit disappointed to find some of your nearest and dearest friends bearing the tag of "Spug"? 'Way down in your heart you thought that was carrying matters a little too far! Contrast last Christmas with the first; the utilitarian Spug with the adoring Magi—the difference is as sharp in phrase as in meaning. Granted that it was the reaction of exhausted nature against self-wrought bonds, it neverthe­ less opened the way and set official approval on a movement in which were many who took advantage of the oppor­ tunity to button up their pockets tighter than ever before. The miserly hand and the shrunken heart are close kin. For them the story of the Magi is a fable for children; the loving charity that glows through the gray of the work-a-day world is a myth and Christmas itself is anathema. But there is one phase of giving that works positive injury against the unfortunate victim. Perhaps you have had the irritating pleasure of shopping with a foolishly fond mother for her surfeited children; walking up and down miles of toy-banked aisles looking vainly for something in which Billy or Ethel might be induced to take a casual interest. And perhaps you have seen those children on a Christmas morning, restless and dissatisfied simply because they have been satiated with an over-abundance and robbed of the precious power of appreciation through what is not only use­ less but harmful giving, which carries its own punishment for both parent and child.

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HILE the wise men of our land have been discussing the ethics and the possible results of one particular form of charity, a ship-load of Christmas cheer has been sent across the water to the Innocents, so they may not be W altogether robbed of their God-given right to happiness though the little world they know has been desolated. To them the story of the Magi will take on new color and meaning and the memory of the gifts, though they be not frankincense and myrrh, will remain with them so long as life lasts. As for us, we know beyond a doubt that the Christmas spirit is the most beautiful spirit that ever found its way

into this world of ours. May it continue to enrich and bless us through the usefulness of beauty. The Magi still live. That is not only a belief but a vital part of our creed. ADELE M. BALLARD. P A G E T W B N T Y THE TOWN CRIER

A Christmas Sermon i* % Sy ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON WHEN YOU BUY Y THE time this paper ap­ at all, think of it too much; it is certain self-deception will be satisfied, and there pears, I shall have been we all think too much of sin. We are need be no despair for the despalrer, talking for twelve not damned for doing wrong, but for not II. months; and it is thought doing right; Christ would never hear of But Christmas is not only the mile- I should take my leave negative morality; "thou shalt" was ever mark of another year, moving us to Wellington in a formal and season­ his word, with which he superseded thoughts of sen examination, it is a able manner. Valedictory "thou shalt not." To make our idea of season, from all its associations, eloquence is rare, and morality centre on forbidden acts is to whether domestic or religious, suggest­ death-bed sayings have defile the imagination and to introduce ing thoughts of joy. A man dissatisfied Coal not often hit the mark into our judgments of our fellow-men with his endeavours is a man tempted of the occasion. Charles Second, wit a secret element of gusto. If a thing is to sadness. And in the midst of the and sceptic, a man whose life had been winter, when hi.* life runs lowest and one long lesson in human incredulity, wrong for us, we should not dwell upon the thought of it: or we shall soon dwell he is reminded of the empty chairs of You Have the an easy-going comrade, a manoeuvring his beloved, it is well lie should be con­ king—remembered and embodied all liis upon it with inserted pleasure. If we demned to this fashion of the smiling wit and scepticism along with more than cannot drive it from our minds—one face. Noble disappointment, noble self- his usual good humour in the famous, thing of two: either our creed is in the denial are not to be admired, not even "I am afraid, gentlemen, I am an un­ wrong and we must more indulgently to be pardoned, if they bring bitterness. conscionable time a-dying." remodel it; or else, if our morality be It is one thing to enter the kingdom Satisfaction in the right, we are criminal lunatics of heaven maim; another to maim your­ I. and should place our persons in re­ self and stay without. And the king­ An unconscionable time a-dying— straint. A mark of such unwholesomely dom of heaven is of the childlike, of there is the picture ("I am afraid, gen­ divided minds is the passion for inter­ those who are easy to please, who love of Knowing that tlemen,") of your life and mine. The ference with others: tlie Fox without and who give pleasure. Mighty men of sands run out, and the hours are "num­ the Tail was of this breed, but had (if their hands, the smilers and the build­ bered and imputed," and the days go his biographer is to be trusted) a cer­ ers and the judges, have lived long and You Obtain by; and when the last of these finds us, tain antique civility now out of date. done sternly and yet preserved this love­ we have been a long time dying, and A man may have a flaw, a weakness, that ly character; and among our carpet in­ what else? The very length is some­ unfits him for the duties of life, that terests and twopenny concerns, the thing, if we reach that hour of separa­ spoils his temper, that threatens bis shame were Indelible If we should lose it. tion umlishonoured; and to have lived integrity, or that betrays him into cruel­ Gentleness and cheerfulness, these come at all is doubtless (in the soldierly ex­ before all morality; they arc the perfect pression) to have served. There is a ty. It has to be conquered; but it must Full Value never be suffered to engross his thoughts. duties. And it is the trouble with moral tale in Tacitus of how the veterans mut­ men that they have neither one or other. inied in the German wilderness; of how The true duties lie all upon the farther side, and must be attended to with a It was the moral man, the Pharisee they mobbed Germanicus, clamouring to Whom Christ could not away with. If for the money it costs go home; and of how, seizing their gen­ whole mind so soon as this preliminary clearing of the decks has been effected. your morals make you dreary, depend eral's hand, these old, war-worn exiles upon it they are wrong. 1 do not say passed his finger along their toothless In order that he may be kind and honest, you. it may be needful he should be a total "give them i p, ' for thej maj be all gums. "Sunt lacrymae rerum"; this was you have; but conceal them like a vice, the most eloquent of the songs of abstainer; let him become so then, and tlie next day let him forget the circum­ lest thev should spoil the lives of better Simeon. And when a man has lived to and simpler pecp'e. Free of all waste in­ a fair age, he bears his marks of serv­ stance. Trying to be kind and honest ice. He may have never been remarked will require all his thoughts; a morti­ ,\ strange temptation attends upon upon the breach at the head of tlie fied appetite is never a wise companion; man; to keep his eye on pleasures, even gredients. when he will not share in them; to aim army; at least he shall have lost his in so far as he had to mortify an appe­ teeth on the camp bread. all his morals against them. This very You get the Maxi­ tite, he will still be the worse man; and year a lady (singular iconoclast:) pro­ The idealism of serious people in this of such an one a great deal of cheerful­ claimed a crusade against dolls, and the age of ours is of a noble character. It ness will be required in judging life, and racy sermon against lust is a feature mum of Heat at the never seems to them that they have a great deal of humility in Judging of the age. I venture to call such mo­ served enough; they have a fine impa­ others. ralists insincere. At any excess or per Minimum of Ex­ tience of their virtues. It were perhaps It may be argued again that dissatis­ version of a natural appetite, their lyre more modest to be singly thankful that sounds of Itself with relishing denun­ we are no worse. It is not only our faction with our life's endeavour springs pense. in some degree from dulnesa We re­ ciations; but for all displays of the enemies, those desperate characters—it truly diabolic—envy, malice, the mean is we ourselves who know not what we quire higher tasks, because we do not recognise the height of those we have lie. the mean silence, the calumnious do;—thence springs the glimmering truth, the backbiter, the petty tyrant, Students of House- hope that perhaps we do better than Trying to be kind and honest seems an affair too simple and too inconsequential the peevish poisoner of family life— we think: that to scramble through this their standard is quite dill.'rent. These random business with hands reasonably for gentlemen of our heroic mould; we hold Economy had rather set ourselves to something are wrong, they will admit, yet some­ clean, to have played the part of a man how not so wrong; there is no zeal in or woman with some reasonable fulness, bold, arduous, and conclusive; we had should take this im­ rather found a schism or suppress a their assault on them, no secret element to have often resisted the diabolic, and Of gusto warms up the sermon; it is for at the end to be still resisting it, is for heresy, cut off a hand or mortify an appetite. But the task before us, which things not wrong In themselves that thej portant fact into con­ the poor > human soldier to have done reserve the choicest of their indigna­ right well. To ask to see some fruit is to co-endure with our existence, is rather one of microscopic fineness, and tion. A man mav naturally disclaim all sideration when plac­ of our endeavour is but a transcendental moral kinship with the Reverend Mr. way of serving for reward; and what we the heroism required is that of patience. There is no cutting of the Gordian knots Zola or the hobgoblin old lady of the ing their coal orders. take to be contempt of self is only greed dolls; for these are gross and naked of hire. of life; each must be smilingly unravel­ led. instances. And yet in each of us some And again if we require so much of similar element resides. The sight of ourselves, shall we not require much of To be honest, to be kind—to earn a a pleasure in which we can not or else others? If we do not genially judge little and to spend a little less, to make will not share moves us to a particular our own deficiencies, is it not to be upon the whole a family happier for his impatience. It may be because we are Wellington Coal feared we shall be even stern to the presence, to renounce when that shall envious, or because we are sad, or be- trespasses of others? And he who be necessary and not to be embittered, (looking back upon his life) can see no to keep a few friends but these without Company more than that he has been unconscion­ capitulation—above all, on the same grim 'My Work Is My Best ably long a-dying, will he not be tempted condition, to keep friends with himself Advertisement" PIER 6i to think his neighbor unconscionably —here is a task for all that a man has long of getting hanged? It is probable of fortitude and delicacy. He has an that nearly all who think of conduct ambitious soul who would ask more; he has a hopeful spirit who should look The Town Crier reproduces Steven­ in such an enterprise to be successful. Phones Elliott 500 son's Christmas Sermon by special per­ There is indeed one element in human W. H. Middleton mission of Charles Scribner's Sons. It was written as the closing contribution destiny that not blindness itself can of a series of twelve articles appearing controvert: whatever else we are In­ TAILOR or monthly in Scribner's Magazine during tended to do, we are not intended to tlie year 1888. The Christmas Sermon as here presented has been taken from succeed; failure is the fate allotted It or Elliott 71 the Vaiiima Edition of Stevenson's Com­ is so in every art and study; it is so plete Works. It is also issued by the above all in the continent art of living same publishers in attractive individual Corner Third and James, Seattle Form at 50 cents net.—Editor, The Town well. Here is a pleasant thought for the ^ & Crier. year's end or for the end of life: Only P A G K T W E X T Y - < > X B THE TOWN CRIER cause we dislike noise and romping—be­ they be sometimes needful, though they ing so refined, or becauaM—being so phil­ are often enjoyable, do not yet belong osophic— we have an overweighing to an inferior grade of duties. Ill-tem­ sense of life's gravity: at least, as we per and envy and revenge find here an go on in years, we are all tempted to arsenal of pious disguises; this is the frown upon our neighbour's pleasures. playground of inverted lusts. With a Christmas Books People are nowadays so fond of resist­ little more patience and a little less ing temptations; here is one to be re­ temper, a gentler and wiser method sisted. They are fond of self-denial; might be found in almost every case; here is a propensity that cannot be too and the knot that we cut by some fine peremptorily denied. There is an idea heady quarrel-scene in private life, or, Books make the best presents. They are satisfy­ abroad among moral people that they in public affairs, by some denunciatory should make their neighbours good. One act against what we are pleased to call ing wherever received. The giving of Books is person 1 have io make good, myself. our neighbour's vices, might yet have dignified and not extravagant. But my duty to my neighbour is much been unwoven by the hand of sympathv more nearly expressed by saying that 1 have to make him happy if I may. IV. 111. To look back upon the past year, and see how little we have striven and to OUR BOOK STORE Happiness and goodness, according to what small purpose; and how often we canting moralists, stand in the relation have been cowardly and hung back, or holds many pleasing answers to your problem of of effect and cause. There was never temerarious and rushed unwisely in; and what to give—from rich, rare bindings to simple, anything less proved or less probable: how every day and all day long we have our happiness is never in our own hands; transgressed the law of kindness;—it inexpensive booklets and delightful picture books we inherit our constitution; we stand may seem a paradox, but in the bitter­ buffet among friends and enemies, we ness of these discoveries, a certain con­ for tiny tots, our stock is complete. may be so built as to feel a sneer or an solation resides. Life is not destined to aspersion with unusual keenness, and so minister to a man's vanity. He goes circumstanced as to be unusually ex­ upon his long business most of the time Many worthy suggestions are offered in Fine posed to them; we may have nerves with a hanging head, and all the time Stationery, Engraving, Leather and Brass very sensitive to pain, and be afflicted like a blind child. Pull of rewards and With a disease very painful. Virtue will pleasures as it is—so that to see the Articles, Kodaks and Office Supplies. not help us, and it is not meant to help day break or the moon rise, or to meet us. It is not even its own reward, ex­ a friend, or to hear the dinner-call when cept for the self centered and —1 had al­ he is hungry, fills him with surprising most said the unamiable. No man can joys—this world is yet for him no abid­ pacify his conscience; if quiet be what ing city. Friendships fall through, he want, he shall do better to let that health fails, weariness assails him; year organ perish from disuse. And to avoid after year, he must thumb the hardly the penalties of the law, and the minor varying record of his own weakness and "capitis dimlnutlo" Of social ostracism, folly. It is a frit ndly process of detach­ is an affair of wisdom of cunning, If ment. When the time comes that he Igwman &J(anlor

grate. And the squeals of delight will The Start of a Christmas Story awaken the sleepers upstairs and won't they be astonished when they come down 3y WELFORD BEATON and see it all! Eleven, four and three HE long, straight road was The die was cast. Every day one or are the ages of the little feet and It the hem in the mantle more brave young fellows dropped from will be the Biggest Christmas Yet be­ that reached over the low the mountains to go to the front and cause, you know, a year ago the littlest hills on either side. Push­ every night there was a banquet. Hav­ feet were only two and they belonged to ing their way up through ing started the thing we could not slight a philosopher who refused to become it were the farm houses any of the individuals, or any of the excited over Santa Claus. But at three and the perpetually green towns from which they came, as we were she is beginning to grow young, and if trees, and here and there after the whole district and wanted to I could only abuse his confidence and tell a hoary-headed hay slack. show that we were not playing favorites. you the things Santa is going to bring The clouds were all away It was a long nightmare of banquets; so her! —probably down in the Southland where many of them in fact, that I cut out all And just because the six little feet they were needed to shield sojourners other meals. Even "Soldiers of the rush around with healthy bodies on from the rays of the sun, the very same Queen" palled. At the first banquet we them; just because black eyes dance sun that looked upon this peaceful valley commenced to sing it before we sat down merrily above ruddy cheeks and the joy and picked out the million jewels with and then as we attended the nightly of living i.s strong within all five of us, which the never-ending coverlet ot" snow- feasts we put off tackling it for a little and because there will be coal in the was sprinkled. Even the wind was too longer. It slipped back from soup to furnace and many things on the table lazy to blow and wherever he was he fish, and then to the joint and during to eat—just because of all this I am was paying no attention to the smoke the third week we reached the nuts he- going to put in a whole week before which stood straight up in rather ether­ fore a note of it was sounded. However Christmas trying to leave some of my eal columns whose earthly ends rested as the nuts were reached before eleven brimming-over happiness in homes not on the tops of generous chimneys. On o'clock and the boat did not leave until similarly blessed. Only the children will the frosty air the bells of the chapel six we lid fairly well, for that gave us be the subject of my quest and not a rang out merrily and from the cosy seven straight hours in which to sing it, single useful thing will I take to them. houses there emerged the happy units and singing one song for seven hours There will be dolls and jumping jacks that were to make up the joyous Christ­ every- night for weeks proved us more and whole regiments Of soldiers and mas congregation. As groups formed patriotically heroic than the fellows who automobiles and, oh! ever so many greetings were exchanged, but when the merely went to the front to be shot at. things, bui not one bucket of coal or handsome hays of Reginald Carruthers I was never much at singing, anyway. peck of potatoes. (if course someone Jed-Blake, with merry ringing sleigh- and a large number of toasts had to be will have to supply the coal and the po­ hells, dashed spiritedly to the very door proposed and fittingly honored before tatoes, but I am too young for that sorl of the humble church all eyes were I could di) the stirring words any justice. of thing. turned on the dashing young driver. It was a very cold morning, very cold in­ One night— this is what I started out Next year perhaps I will write you deed, but— to tell you—we had had so many toasts something. If I could have done some­ that I was in particularly fine fettle and thing this time I would have liked to Dear Crier— as singing had become automatic by that include in it my best wishes for a Merry DONALD AND MARY time— it was our fortieth banquet in as I have two Jotters—both of them— Christmas for all your readers. Let the Two of the reasons why Mr. Beaton's story many nights—the hero of the occasion word Merry mean more this year than asking me to hurry with my contribution is unfinished was so moved by my exhibition of en­ to your Christmas number. It was un­ ever before by very virtue of the fact durance that he sat in my lap and sobbed that to some of those among us there is necessary to ser.d two letters, for per­ an obligato. It was five o'clock in the sistency is something that disturbs my am writing for them—that they do not so little excuse for it. Merriment is con­ know that I exist—does not in any way morning by that time, an hour when tagious and when we have given all we muse. For reasons which I will set emotional excesses were forgivable. He forth in detail later I have been unable lessen the value of my formidable array can Of our store of material things let's as an excuse for my inability to find would not let go hut pleaded with me spread the contagion of peace on earth to finish the Christmas article for you to sing him every step of the way to the and send you herewith the opening para­ time to write something for your Christ­ end good will to men. mas number. Of course, in addition to boat. With one arm around the neck of graph of what was intended to be the the mayor and the other over my And to The Town Crier, of course, will leading feature of your paper but which all this literary activity I have to make my best wishes go! a living, for I have many mouths to feed. shoulders he led the way with all the you will have to get someone else to rest of the banquetters bringing up a finish. I started it last summer during Besides the three children, their mother Yours very truly, and a maid, there are two dogs and a wavering rear and mechanically singing that particularly hot spell which drove the song of the war. On to the lorn; WELFORD BEATON. me and my family to a Sound resort turtle, and I understand that a kitten and two rabbits are soon to be added. Wharf we marched as was the niphtly that was almost as cool as our ivy-clad custom. The boat was always at the West Seattle home. I remember the Only one of the dogs belongs to us in fee simple; the other is the property of end of it so we could board it magnifi­ day was very warm and I was enjoying cently without losing a step. We had the wallow in the snow and the chill a neighbor but has adopted us and has contracted a violent dislike for the boys just vociferously vouched a full-chested CHEASTY that flowed from my fountain pen. I declaratl >n thai Britain's sons would ever was getting under way splendidly and who deliver the papers. The turtle does not give much trouble. It leads a damp rule the waves, when we—the hero, the might have turned out something really mayor and myself—walked off the end of magnificent if my four-year-old son had existence in a large bowl that prior to its—the sex is indeterminate but I sup­ the wharf, and still singing lustily and Gifts of Individu­ not come up from the beach just when I still arm in arm, sank splutteringly made the morning so very cold and pose turtles have sexes—advent some­ times appeared on the table containing beneath the cold dark waters where the asked me if fishes spit. I had to take boat wasn't. him on my back to the water's edge salads. ality Marked with and explain to him that the lather with I am sorry my story ends so abruptly And now there is another war and which the waves shaved the beach was but perhaps the person to whom you upon the eve of the state going dry I not a product of the personal habits of give it for its finishing touches can do have to learn "It's a T^onw, Long Way to Stamp of Quality tisli. I never got back to the snow. something to Jed-Blake. I wash my Tipperary," I have a voice of martial ve­ hands of him and as far as I am con­ locity Which scorns the limits the com­ • •? •:• cerned he can sit in his sleigh in the poser put upon its soarings, but as I When I received your second letter cold to the end of his days. have to confine myself somewhat to the 50cto$50.00 the other day I looked up this paragraph, •.• • • narrower imaginations and ranges of but for the life of me I cannot go on In its abrupt ending my Christmas those I sing it with, the strain of con­ with the story as I have no idea what­ stant practice is telling on me. I am story is not unlike an incident that oc­ Here are some helpful suggestions: ever what I had intended doing with curred to me when England was at war neutral in this war—I don't care who Reginald Carruthers Jed-Blake. As 1 with the Boers. Did I ever tell you licks Germany—but I feel I must master ponder upon the name I gave him I hope about it? I was living in a British Tipperary before I renew my literary 50 Cents $1.50 it was my intention to ultimately kill Columbia town that was the outlet to pursuits. Neckwear, Bear! Cross i London > Les him. I am too busy to outline another pin-. Handkerchiefs, Cross i London) Lea­ the East for a large district. Branch V V V Parses, Memo Books, ther Goods, Gloves, story or to manufacture some ending for railway lines brought passengers to the Belts. Canes, Umbrellas. the one I started as I have been doing I hope I have shown you how impos­ town and there they took a boat to where sible it is for me to write anything for so much writing of late that I am quite the road again carried them through the ashamed to look at a dictionary. I have your Christmas number. I would like to, mountains. When the call came for for Christmas means much to me this Smart Holiday Clothes for Men and written a history of Seattle and a three volunteers our little town contributed act comedy, devoting eight months to the year. There will be six little bare feet Young Men $15 to $40 quite a number and as was fit and proper pattering down the stairway very early book and two days to the play. At odd we gave them a rousing banquet on their times I have dashed off articles for the in the morning of the Great Day and the Remember "Values Tell." last night with us. The boat left at six folks at the other end of them are going Saturday Evening Post, Century and o'clock in the morning and we marched It's Cosmopolitan. At present I am engaged to discover that Santa Claus has come with them to it singing, "Soldiers of the down the chimney during the night and on a series of articles for Colliers, and Queen" with all our might. Next day a plays for Frohman, Belasco, George left not only toys, but a tree! And al­ couple of recruits arrived from another though Mumsey and Daddy are still so Cohan and John Cort. The mere fact town and as they were to remain with us that the articles I have already sent out sound asleep that they could not possibly until the boat left we thought it would know anything about it the tree will be have come back and that Colliers and be neighborly to entertain them with a the theatrical men have no idea that I bright with the lights Santa left burn­ AvedtSpring banquet. ing and a fire will be crackling in the PAGE TWENTY-THREE THE TOWN CRIER

TWO EXAMPLES OF THE WORK OF JOHN BUTLER Illustrations for George Meredith's "Shaving of Shagpat"

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The Parable of Another Samaritan

STOOD on the bank of a swiftly running torrent whose swirling flood was white with the bodies of men, women and children—industrial derelicts, crippled, aged and shrivelled with toil; white slaves early old and robbed of 1 beauty; the unemployed with hunted look and slouching step; factory children with hollow-socketed eyeballs and shrunken bellies. Many were dead, some were dying, and others were not yet despairing but from their lips there came anguished cries. Reaching into the waters I saved many, and back of me I heard the Pulpit and the Press of the Unjust Man ac­ claiming loudly that I was a Philanthropist and a Redeemer of men. And I was pleased with the fulsome plaudit, not seeing that those I saved passed by the Unjust Man and came down again to choke my torrent of sorrows. It came to pass that men called my name Blessed, but the number of the miserable ever grew, and a Voice broke rudely upon the satisfied tenor of my consciousness, saying: "Look above you. Go forth to the source of this wretched river to where the Unjust Man has his great machine." In great haste I went even as the Voice had spoken, and I said to the Unjust Man and his wolfish mercenaries: "You shall not longer grind the laughing-eyed innocents into your fearful mills, nor shall you starve them when the pearly breasts of earth swell and throb with abundant suck for them all, and you shall not feed the beauteous maidens into the scarlet maw of vice; and you shall no longer bruise and beat and break and kill the bodies of those who do all the beautiful and all the necessary work of the world." I looked again toward the Press and the Pulpit of the Unjust Man and saw them herding a mob which they set upon me crving, "He preacheth a strange doctrine." —BRUCE ROGERS.

The true Christmas spirit is all-encompassing. The Town Crier would willingly give hearing to all classes at this season. We sought out Bruce Rogers, perhaps the ablest protagonist of the ill-reputed In­ dustrial Workers of the World, and asked him to * say what he chose to say at Christmas-time. It has heen said of Rogers that his harshest words are wet with tears. Whether one thinks of him as pro­ foundly wise or tilled with eussedness, it must be it ted that his Parable is not far from the line of thought ascribed to the Galilean whose birth into the world we all commemorate at this season.—The Editor. PAGK T W E N T Y - FOUR THE TOWN CRIER

NOTRE DAME DE PARIS Etching by Roy Partridge PAG E T W E X T V - I-' I V E THE TOWN CRIER

ON THE RIVER BANK" Photograph by Imogen Cunningham PAG E T W E X T V - S I X THE TOWN CRIER

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"A SEATTLE GIRL" Pastel by F. Tadama PAG E T \V E X T V - S E V 10 X THE TOWN CRIER

'THE LAST OUTPOST' A Scene in the Cascade Mountains

REFLECTIONS" A Scene on the Seattle Waterfront

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TWO EXAMPLES OF THE WORK OF PAUL GUSTIN P A <'. E T XV E X TV-RIGHT THE TOWN CRIER

WIND" Photograph by Imogen Cunningham PAG E T XX' E X T V - X I X E THE TOWN CRIER

"ST. ETIENNE DU MONT" Etching by Roy Partridge PAGE THIRTY THE TOWN CRIER

oughfare, is John Cutler's studio, where, Seattle Artists and Their Work to save liis own time, he has set apart By JIDELE M. BALLARV one afternoon oi each week for his friends to gather round his hearth-stone I.Mi: was when the artist soul what was going on about him. was with keen regret that such work was and talk of man\ things. A cheerful and his work were set One of the most practical men I laid aside. sput it is — in its intense coloring of apart from the ordinary know is an artist whose paintings are Again some of the best work id' Seat­ blue an i gold, and it is liis color, for walks of man; at first the as full of mysticism as a Whistler. To tle artis.s has already been accepted ami which he has a gifted sense, that marks material needs of man him it is his vocation in life and if it sent to the Panama-Pacific Exposition, must precede the spirit­ all his work as peculiarly characteristic, sets us dreaming it is because through and more is in the making, so the major­ both in painting ami in pageantry. Mis ual, and later, after the toil that his hand has achieved the power ity of the reproductions in this issue is age of patronage passed, work in last spring's carnival, embod­ to translate his dreams into reality on limited mainly to the work id' a tew ot the artist was looked upon canvas. ied in that unforgetahle "Masque of as a sort of lustrous na­ the younger Seattle artists. Pan" Which reached high water mark in ture. But it has been a A hit of conversation overheard re­ Among the illustrations that lind a tin- artistic life of Seattle, showed plain­ long time now since we have esteemed cently gave an insight into this practical rightful place here is one from the cam­ ly llis breadth ot treatment combined him as something foreign to the scheme view point. He was speaking to an inti­ era of Imogen Cunningham: "On the with an unusual power of Imagination of life or too fair and good for human mate friend: River Hank." A print of this picture is and Indicating mural decoration as tbe nature's daily food. "By the way, T sold a picture today." on exhibition now being held in London widest outlet for his talent. Tbe two "Oh," came th > regretful response, "1 in the Salon of Photography, and in a pictures by Mr. Butler reproduced in this We naeet-upon the common ground of think it is a shame for you to sell your review of the work Anthony Guest, the number of The Town Crier are illustra­ the days work; he is doing his and we work!" The arti ;t laughed quietly as he well-known critic, has this to say: "The tions for "The Shaving of Bhagpat," bj are doing ours as best we can—by the said, "Why it is simply a matter of busi­ force of Imagination tells no less sure­ George Meredith, and are excellent ex­ mace of God. ness—just as the butcher sells meat!" ly in delicate and poetic fancy, such as amples of Mr. Butler's work. If you happen to find yourself in a Of course that was comparison with an .Miss Imogen Cunningham has devoted Miss Ella S. BUSh is one of the pio­ little group of artists—not the dilet­ intentional vengeance, but it showed so to four small pictures of singular charm. neers in teaching and her conscientious tante sort but the kind that is earnest, clearly that the element of preciosity If these designs transport tlie beholder work with hei' pupils is adding to the alive to the exactions of art and eager was not allowed to bias liis judgment. into a land of romance he should not growth id' art in Seattle. "The Three and willing to meet them in the best way To be sure some of the artists may attribute the influence merely to the Bears," by Margarel Mitchel is a study that lies in their power—you will find have what we consider wierd vagaries, figures or scenes represented, for lovers that attracts through both subject a clearness of vision as to their relation the expression of which must carry cap­ and landscapes can be very common­ and treatment. Aliss Mitchel, who is a to life and their especial line of work tions in order that they may mean some­ place, but to a pervading Inspiration that pupil of Miss Hush, is just beginning to that is one of the durable satisfactions thing to even a brother artist—and lucky goes beyond subject and brings tone. try her WingS, the first exhibit of her of the dally routine in which you walk. if they lo it then!—but vagaries are by composition, and treatment to the har­ work being shown recently at the Pins In love with their work they must be, no means limited to any one class; we monious support of the idea. It is to Arts rooms, where it elicited much favor­ and their faith MI its ultimate value, to are all in on that, "but thee and me— be noted how simplification conduces to able comment. at least their own souls, must be strong and sometimes I think that even thee an atmosphere of mystery, and how, •within them, but it is amazing at times may he a little peculiar." especially in "The Wood Beyond the to catch a glimpse of the impersonal at­ World" and "On the River Bank," dainty, Possibly Paul Gustin might be consid­ titude they hold in regard to their work light accents give animation to the In the endeavor to secure a few illus­ ered the most typical painter of the after it has beer, transcribed to canvas dream figures which, by the way, have Northwest, as nearly all his work lias ,,,• paper; it is as though they had trations for the Christmas Town Crier admirable movement and mace." of the work of Seattle artists it has been been done here in the mountains and on borne no relation to it more Intimate It's a long way to London-town from the "inland sea.' The atmosphere is than that of any bystander. In many necessary to select only those examples the banks of our own Duwamish where whicli would reproduce well and carry unmistaxably that of this country with instances they regard it casually, criti­ this picture was made, but it traveled on its golden mist-, gray fog and violet cising or commending it as a blacksmith witli them into the black and white me­ dium something of the charm possessed its artistic value—and arrived. That it base. In the mountains he gets the ef­ woiihl .1 borse-shoe that he had ham­ was cartooned later in a London publica­ fect nt wind-bent trees and storm-driven mered into shape. by the original. In several cases it would have been unfair to the artists, tion under the title "The Timid Mather" clouds in bis own peculiar, vigorous It is when they are in the full swing especially those whose work is impres­ pleasured the artist greatly. style while retaining poetic expression. of creating, during the rare intense mo­ sionistic, to reduce it to cold black and • • •> liis work is receiving happy recognition ment, that one might glimpse the mood white thereby losing its main reason for Miss Cunningham's studio, while only tiller of llis CanVaSeS having been se­ that is horn of inspiration—providing being—the delicate color and spiritual es­ two short blocks from the busiest street­ lected for thi' southern exposition. Mr. tlmt one might see with the eyes of the sence of the thought portrayed, and it car line in the city, is in a little hollow (iustin's "The Last Outpost" and "Re­ in the wood, while next door, on the thor­ flections" are -nod examples ol' the two PAGE THI R T V - 0 N E THE TOWN CRIER

subjects in which he might be said to excel—mountains and the water. Another of our artists is Clare Shep­ ard whose miniatures have made a place for themselves through being a decided departure from the former accepted and well known method that has prevailed in miniature painting Including tightness and vivi I coloring. Miss Shepard works along entirely different lines, her color­ ing is in elusive grays and all the flesh tones are subdued iii such an artistic manner as to lead one to wonder how one ever cared for such unnatural, bright Color as was formerly the rule in making miniatures. To repeat what was recently said by a connoisseur "l have never seen any miniatures either here or abroad that compared with Miss Shep­ ard'B iii character and artistic value." Poetical to a degree yet there is no sac­ rifice of true values in her work, which has received mo-t flattering recognition Wherever it has been exhibited from the Atlantic to the Pacific. "A Seattle Girl," is the caption Mr. Tadams has chosen for llis contribution to this number, and it is a good illustra­ tion of his work, whether or not it Hat­ ters its subject. It will be remembered that Tadama's "In the Market Place," was given a prominent position among the pictures assemble I here from all over the state which Were chosen to send to the exposition of next .vear. It showed unusual coloring and was im­ pressive While he has been in Seattle only a few years his work is receiving recognition which had already been given it in Amsterdam. Antwerp, and Paris, where he studied, an I many other cities abroad where he has hei I successful ex­ hibitions. Mr. Tadama's work received Honorable Mention in the Paris Salmi ami the lirst prise in a special competi­ tion in landscape work held in Amster­ dam. Gar! Melchers, with whose work We arc all more or less familiar, and George Hitchcock, the American artist, Were two of Mr. Tadama's teachers. • •:• • •lust home from a Stay of several years abroad has come Roy Partridge, bringing with him some of the Joyous- ness and spirit of the studios and streets Of the old world where be has been Work­ ing tor much of the work has been lit­ erally done in the street In that work there is a beauty and niceness of line that reveals thi- aitistie etcher, for ill that branch Of art there can be no cov­ ering up of mistakes, no blurring or careless handling. He has a few exam­ ples of Imaginative subjects that are wonderful one of them. "The Butter­ COooiqfr-r'et Qitck>eJ~, father, may that holy star fect of much of Mr. Partridge's work. to a w ak m to that fact. Choicelj han.lied each detail has its Crow every year more bright. beauty and whether one looks at it in What are you going to do for these And the.v who ih> their souls no wrong And send its glorious beams afar young artists? Not in the way of social Hut keep at eve the faith of morn. hart or is a whole, right side up or up­ To fill the world with light. side down, there vet remains thai beauty attention or of charity but in what they Shall daily bear the Angel-SOng: nf design and workmanship. His work must have —work! Are we such Philis­ "Today the Prince of Peace is born." —William Culieii Bryant ftolm 011 %lisrntno Jar of %\0**

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A White Christmas Bv MARIE GABEL HRISTMAS and Sunday Schools whole land. llis government is both have gone together in the child's wise anil just, and is administered for C mind almost ever since there have rich and | ' alike, without fear or fa­ Cbc Seattle Daily been Sunday Schools. Even If Sonny vor. On the king's birthday the people rebelled at being made to sit still for Observe What is called the White dast. so long a time, and hated like every­ Then are the king and his court as­ thing to learn his golden text, just be­ sembled in a great ro mi ol' the palace, fore Christmas Mother would say. "Well, which is all white, the floor of marble we'd better send Sonny to Sunday School and the walls hung with curtains of and Sunday times tomorrow. They're going to have a big white silk. All are in white apparel and tree and entertainment this year." So, they Offer unto the king white gifts, to The Times certified to the United States Qocernment on on Sunday morning, Bonny would have show that their love and loyalty are his hair slicked down, his cheeks scrub­ without stain. The rich bring to their October I st, 1914, that its average circulation for the six months preced­ bed until they ached, and would don his lord pearls, carvings of Ivory, white ing had been for The Daily Times 71,523 copies and for the Sunday stit't'est Starched blouse. After he'd said chargers ami costly embroidere 1 gar­ the golden text over "forty-'leven times,'' ments. The p • present white pigeons Times 89,079 copies. Mother would send him off. And the and handfulS of rice. Nor doth the great teacher would wring her hands in de­ king regard one gift above another so The Times prints six afternoons and Sun­ spair, for so many Sonnies came that long as all be white. And so do they she didn't have room enough for them keep the kind's birthday." day morning, a publication plan proving most all. Hut she put two on a chair ami Thus the children are told thai a wished that Christmas was over. small gift, if it is a gift of love and successful all over the United States. Repeated Then came the night before Christmas, sacrifice, is a "white gift." and by be­ advertising tests have proved that the After­ ami before the appointed hour the church stowing it upon some otic who needs it, was thronged with youngsters of .1.1 it is acceptable to the King. whose noon and Sunday papers go to the homes and sizes and ages, chattering excitedly birthday it is. about the big tree and the Santa Claus following the reading of the qua'.nl remain there. who was to give them each a box of old legend, each class presents its white candy and an orange. Sonny was there, gift, ami the gitts show that consider­ The Times does not use premiums nor bar­ starched as Stiffly as ever, but as m's- able thought and attention have b< I 11 gain days to bolster its circulation. It does not erable as could be. for he had to spes • Spent on them. One class of boys has a piece. A lump as big as ihe biggest found a family who need fuel. They issue extras on trivial occasions, but sticks to orange shining on tbe tree stuck in his bring to the platform a Christmas t ree throat and swallow as he might, he on which hang white envelopes. in sensibly arranged regular editions. couldn't down it. And his throat was as ca'-h envelope, they explain as thej set dry as mashed potatoes without gravy the tree down, is a dollar bill, each one The Times has for years carried the largest on them. His turn came at last, ami earned by arduous labor. in some magical way, Bonny found him­ amount of paid advertising of any paper in the A idass of little Kills carries to the self up on the platform looking into front a string of mittens, mittens of all that sea of faces, and reciting in th.' sizes, to fit the cold hands of a Pacific Northwest. This advertising complies customary sing-song fashion. " 'Twas si/.eil family. Two classes sometimes the Night Before Christmas." How the in every way with the law. work together and plan for the comfort world began to brighten as he took his of one family. One year, a girl, strug­ The Times advertising contracts and seat with the rest of ihe youngsters, gling through high school, was provid­ and he was ready for Santa Claus, who ed with a suitable, warm wardrobe. And credits are administered on solid commercial was no other than Deacon Jones. be- the little folks, who love Santa'.' Thej principles. pillowed and masked beyond physical bring some loved picture book, a doll, recognition. Prom his great pack he and sometimes thoughtful mothers send distributed with generous hand the cans of milk ami bags of nuts. The Times is owned by citizens of Seattle candy and oranges, and there was a who personally direct the affairs of this publi­ meat clamor, each youngster making a This year the Sunday School is plan­ rapid survey of the contents of the box. ning to follow up their white gifts, all cation. to see how many choice gumdrops were through the year. Thus the girl who is to be found. working against odds to remain in high school will be helped all the year and The Times stands for the best thought in Sonny didn't think about the little the needy families will not be aided for boys and girls who weren't going to a brief time only, but long enough to the business community. It has always pros­ have any Christmas. He was too little perhaps be.put on their feet again. And to worry his small head about such pered with and not at the expense of the City what could be more ia keeping with the things. So he went home to dream of spirit of the "white giving?" the great load of gifts Santa would of Seattle. "Ami so do they keep the kind's birth­ leave for him that night. day. Nor doth the great King regard The Times has just contracted for addi­ Christmas is tiie birthday of the one gift above another so long as all Christ child, and more and more the be white." tional printing press facilities amounting to 40 schools and churches and Sunday per cent, of its present equipment, the new schools are getting away from the idea of the masked and corpulent old saint equipment to be installed in The Times' new who rewards good little boys and girls. Bach youngster is being imbued with 5Ae PARIS FLORIST home at Times Square. the idea that each and every one of them DECORATING AND DESIGNING The Times plans to occupy its new home is a little Santa Claus, with power to E. Matraia, Prop. make the birthday of the Christ child 218 Pike St. Tel. Elliott 3714. bright and happy for other less fortun­ not later than October 1 5th, 1916. This home ate brothers ami sisters. will be insofar as possible constructed of With this idea in mind, the Sunday School 01 the First Christian Church of Washington materials. This home when com­ this city is preparing for the celebration plete will cost $450,000. of the "White Christmas." Prom the " OXFORD " quaint old "legend of Cathay" the ides SPECIALIZING The Times pays for labor alone $365,000 of the white Christmas has been taken. There is no old Saint Nicholas, no fev­ in a year in the City of Seattle. ered excitement, no towering tree. BUSINESS MEN'S SUITS Instead the church is draped in white, the pulpit, the platform, the choir loft at and even the steps. The service begins $35.00 TO $45.00 with the simple reading of the legend, "19 years right her© ls your part of which is this: guarantee." TIMES PRINTING CO. OF SEATTLE "This strange country is called Cathay, and the ruler thereof is one SECOND AND UNION. SEATTLE, WASHINGTON Kubla Khan, a mighty warrior, who by Oxford Tailoring Co. reason of his strong will and trusty 711 Third Ave. New York Block sword, has made himself lord of the PAGE Til I 11 T Y - F I V E THE TOWN CRIER

Two Christmas Wrecks By SAM McCREA

HIS will be a lack-lustre His nets were idle, his boats were spoil­ little story; not much ac­ ing in the sun, and famine was very near tion, and no hero, to speak at hand. of. The young doctor from San Diego And why should there drew on his auto gloves and told Mrs. be a hero? I know where Mike that an operation was quite the there's a million or so of thing. She wept and spoke bitterly of Albert Hansen those; no ink and paper their poverty. The young doctor was ones, either. They shall sorry—he said so. He mentioned the he rewarded—bu< not in song or story. county hospital, whereat Mike, the de­ If they are very brave and diligent in scendant of kings, consigned him direct­ butchery, each shall receive a little trin­ ly to hell. ket of iron, or perhaps a red ribbon. And Later, Mrs. Rios, kindly Mexican JEWELER and a million heroines shall receive neither. neighbor, brought over some pan-ae- These may have, perhaps, a letter with nuevos, and some chicken broth for Mike. a red cross on it. "What dinero," she inquired, "would the SILVERSMITH Coronado Beach is wondrous beautiful. young doctor exact for this so necessary (I could waste pages in description, but cutting out of organs?" "Och-hone," 1010 Second Ave. never fear. I shan't; for a mere nickel wailed the distracted wife, "he'll niver you may secure a photo post-card). stick a knife in poor Mike less'en seventy On a golden Christmas morning, a man dollars." walked slowly along this splendid Mrs. Rios was properly aghast. stretch ox sand. He was young in years, But not so little Ann O'Malley. curly- yet very old indeed—a wreck. I'll tell headed romancer. Her big eyes, wide Established 1883 you Why. and dreaming, had taken in fully, the Life >S most anything you choose to distressing situation. She understood, call it. Among other things, it is a game and in her heart was unafraid. Of draw-poker. For instance, we do not What of this mere money—seventy all receive good, usable cards. Equality, paltry dollars? Had she not her book of course, Is our birthright—if some an­ of wondrous tales? The book that told cestor hasn't played Esau for us. Again, of the Beggar Prince, who walked it is noticeable, that the chap who puts abroad, lending his good right arm to up the most consistent "sandy" is all that were oppressed, and succoring usually tbe one who rakes in the red and all those that were in need? blue chips. Enough! She would go forth and seek Fortune dealt Carson Mead a full- this good prince. She was quite sure house. Brain and ability, sterling pair. that she would find him; for such is With leisure, wealth and position— the power of faith to the innocent. deuces three. The sovereign card of "Don't cry, mother," said the little com­ prudence being not among them, he dis­ forter, "I am going out now, and when carded them all, and sought the joker, I come back I will have a handful of pleasure, in the draw. gold for you. Then we won't be poor Then the jade picked up the deck, any more, and Pa will get well again licked her thumb, and the young man got and—and everything!" Mrs. O'Malley what was coming to him. caught the youngster to her bosom and There was a woman. She might have cried and crooned by turns. saved him. she might have; hut she had common-sense, you see! So it came to pass, that, as Carson So then, Carson Mead walked slowly Mead sat there pondering, a little maid along this beautiful heach. He carried a came suddenly around tbe battered old Tailored Ready Co. piece of cotton rope and a heavy chunk stern-post and confronted him. of scrap-iron. He was seeking a sizable "O-oh"' 'she exclaimed in a panic of 401-403 Pike St. plank or piece of drift-wood; having in delight, and clasped her little hands mind to float with it, far out upon the against her small, heaving breast. sunlit waters, and then to fasten the "I've found you—you're the Beggar iron to his neck and to push away from Prince, ain't you? I've been looking for the simple craft. The man was worth­ Featuring you for most an hour. My! but I came less, also ragged, unshaven and un­ a long ways! What are you going to Tlie Pineal of Clothing for Men and Young Men clean. do with that rope, Prince?" Then a • •> • thousand lies rose up to the lips of the Second Floor If ever you go to Coronado, you might wastrel, and were choked back in lab­ take a walk to the southward on the ored, painful gulps. smooth, firm sand. Within a mile or At length he said: $15 - $20 - $25 two—I'm sure it's not more than that— "Why—little girl, I—I am going to you will find, hurned almost to the sur­ drown a dog. No, no, no! I mean, little face of the moist sand, the charred re­ girl, I am a prince of beggars; yes, a Dress Suits at $15 and up. mains of an ancient ship. If you are a beggar mentally, morally and physi­ dreamer, like me, it will suggest a lively cally." train of thought. You will muse, no Though quite unintelligible, this doubt, on the gallant life and strife of sounded properly mysterious to Ann. Her the buccaneers; pieces-of-eight; the one- eyes snapping with delight, she plunged Style armed mate; slippery, crimson decks and The New Hats Quality at once into a recital of the O'Malley the good clean wickedness of long ago. household's needs $2-$3-$4 Among the bleaching bones of this "But," she ended confidently. "I told once nohle shin. Carson Mead found a mother I would find you and bring home sizahle piece of timber. At this time a handful of gold. My! won't she he glad, the wreck towered many feet above the though!" Her face fairly beamed with USEFUL HOLIDAY GIFTS FOR MEN sand. He sat him down in the shade of the pleasure of expectation. the ruin to take a farewell look at sky Now it was that great agony took and sea and land. Neckwear Underwear Sweaters Bath Robes hold on the poor, sodden soul of Carson • ••• •> Mead. Surely this was the last and Shirts Hosiery Gloves House Coats Not more than a mile from here was most bitter of his life dregs. He had Suspenders Handkerchiefs Umbrellas Pajamas the residence of one Mike O'Malley; if heen weak and wild and utterly bad, hut you might so call such a haphazard col­ still he cherished that strange rever­ lection of driftwood and tar paper. ence for innocent childhood that so Now, great was the trouble in this often obtains among the dissolute. This house of O'Malley, who lay on the Hat unsoiled shred of manhood had survived The Store of his hack and groaned and cursed the wrack and icid wear of dissipation. fate for a mucklehead. What, now, was The few brighter places in his life had That Aims to Please Every Customer. tin sense of Justice in laying out a poor been where he had had occasion to fisherman with such an inappropriate smooth the way for childish feet. And and costly affliction as appendicitis".' now—now at the very last—he had blun- 11 I K T Y - S 1 X THE TOWN CRIER deringly deceived and must needs hurt his shrewd little shoe-button eyes, and to the very heart a poor little waif of a offered a price. Mead dickered with him girl. for ten minutes and the amount was He moistened his bluish lips and spoke doubled. Then Pietro counted out five huskily: golden twenties from his buckskin poke. "Come, little lady, sit down here; we Mead tied the coins up in a bit of must think what's best to do about rag and gave them to the child "Now, To the this." little lady, you hang on to that money "You see," he began, with labored and skip right for home, your mother choice of words. T told you I was a beg- will be most wild about you." gar, but—you see—I—" His voice sank "Thank you, Prince," said Ann soberly, to a whisper. In the stress of emotion, and was away like a flash. Business Public his heel dug deeply into the moist sand; The ragged man stood watching the it uncovered something that shone bright child until the twinkling feet had car- ami yellow. ried her far up the beach. Then he Instantly the man was on his knees, turned to the junk-man who was busy It was the head of a huge brass spike lading his craft with the yellow metal, of Seattle— protruding from a sunken timber. The "Pietro," he said, "it's a mighty nice higher tides had scoured the sand across day, isn't it?" The Italian merely it had taken off the thick coating of oxi- grunted, dization. "Yes, Pietro, sometimes when the Mead arose and walked slowly about weather is like this, and I am feeling the wreck, examining it closely here and g00(i about something, I almost think there. The child followed him, wonder- \tfe is worth while. But, no; I've been ing, but smiling serenely, her faith un- fooled once too often; I know—I know." THE SEATTLE DAILY dimmed. "Yes, ' he said at length, "we'll He picked up his piece of rope and the get the handful of gold for your mother, chunk of scrap-iron and staggered, un- STAR is the only daily news­ all right." steadily, down the beach, weak from his •J« »J» «$• vigorous exertions and lack of nourish- paper in Seattle, which for the The millionaires and shoe clerks who ment- lounged that day at the great inn of Pietro ceased a moment from his labor, pleasure, gazed often to the south and He tapped his wrinkled forehead and first ten months of the present wondered mildly at the dense black grinned, "Hah," he chuckled, "no bodee smoke which arose from the burning up-a-stairs." year (Jan. 1 st to Nov. 1 st) made wreck. »J» ••• ••• For hours, Mead toiled mightily, bring- So that's about all there is to tell. a gain, both in circulation and great slabs of driftwood to aid the Not much of a story, you say? consuming flames. Ann trotted dili- Well, perhaps, I should have gone on advertising, during each and every gently at his side, carrying such small tQ teU of the su(Jden storm that came pieces as she could. The old wreck was lagMng up Qut of the trop-cs thftt christ. dry as t.nder; it gave up readily to the mag day; Qf tne pleasure yacht that cap. month over the corresponding flames many nundreds of the great sized and foundered, and of the beautiful hand-wrought spikes of brass. gociety queen> the Qne with common. month of 1913. As rapidly as the glowing embers sense, and the wonderful fight she made would permit. Mead raked out the scraps for her empty life; and how, when her AS TO CIRCULATION — The net average of metal. Soon he had a sizable mound breath had almost gone, the man came on the beach. He began to keep a look- miraculously out of the wild, watery Paid Daily Circulation of the STAR for October out for the craft of passing fishermen. waste and gave her aid. Yes, and of Then providence appeared in the guise Pietro, who found her, later, lashed to 1914 was 51,837 copies, as compared with of Pietro, the San Diego junk king. a Piece of driftwood by a cotton rope, Mead knew the tubby little gasoline boat alive, but all alone. 42,181 copies for October 1913 from afar; he shouted and waved his These things I might tell you, quite arms. With a gruff toot of acknow- turgidly; but what is the use, when, for ledgement, the boat swerved inward. a mere dime, they will let you into the AN AVERAGE DAILY GAIN OF Pietro sized up the pile of brass with Cinema? 9,656 COPIES OR MORE THAN 22 PER CENT. 32 Years of Square Dealing

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The Unexpected Gift ®y MARGARET PROSSER ANE HILTON raced up and each Christmas for the last ten tage, in a row of neat brown cottages, be­ tin first three broad stone has doubtless jusL meant a fresh instal­ fore she realized bow far they had trav­ steps that led to Mrs. ment. In her place I should grow to eled from her own snug center. Rutherford Channin g's hate Christmas. The really thrilling "Are you quite sure this is the place, front door. Thru, as if thing about it is letting something you Bentley?" she asked, as the chauffeur met by the chill which don't need and don't in the least expect. opened the door. Then the front door seemed to emanate from Don't you love that feeling?" of the cottage opened and there Kath­ W the cold and sombre dig­ Mrs. Rutherford Channing smiled a lit­ erine Hartley, round and ruddy and ex­ nity of the house, she tle wearily. pectant, stood waving a cheery wel­ walked gravely up the re­ "I can't rememher. Jane dear, that I come. maining ones. Symons. portly and im­ ever received anything I really didn't ex­ "I'm so glad yoi. came, my dear," she pressive, was hanging luxurious holly pect. It's like your Aunt Eliza Chan- was saying as she held out both hands, wreaths in the deep-set, richly-curtained ning's gift. It is always a centerpiece. "even if the house is dreadfully upset, windows, but even their huge scarlet The first one 1 remember was done in because the children are all here. They're What is this? bows and glowing berries seemed as in­ gorgeous yellow poppies, and this year, just trimming the Christmas tree for effectual in their joyousness as a wreath I suppose, it will be eyelets and cut tonight and they're so excited!" She of buttercups on a stone monument. See­ work, hut otherwise there's no differ­ led the way into the small front room, It is a Canterbury ing .lane's bright nod through the win­ ence. Even when your Uncle Rutherford where a tree that dwarfed everything dow, he threw open the door with as was alive, he always gave me the money else was being hung with wreaths of pop­ Pilgrim of Chaucer's corn and bright tinsel and gayly colored milch cordiality as his position permitted to yet what I liked." "Oh, I should hate that." cried Jane ornaments. The children crowded around day. him. their mother and the beautiful lady when "It's a wonderful day, Symons," greet­ "I shall never, never let my husband do that." they entered, the two older girls shyly Are there such folk ed .lane, her checks glowing. "We are interested, the three younger children going to have real Christinas weather "You see," explained Mrs. Channing, and there was an edge of bitterness in frankly curious, and Bobbie, the young­ nowadays? this year. I suppose your family are est, round and soft and blue-eyed, hid­ all busy getting ready." her voice, "your uncle was so very busy making money that he didn't have time to ing behind his mother's skirts, to peek Many such. The "<>h, yes, .Miss .lane, hut it's a 'anl spend it. Well, my dear.' and she out adorably. winter, wot with juices so 'lgh." And straightened up suddenly, "of course you •:« .;. .;. Canterbury Pilgrims Symons started toward the stairs, his want your check, and I just finished mak­ "This is mother's friend," Katherine of the present do not load wagging lugubriously. ing it out. It's the nineteenth so far for Bartley was saying, "of whom she has "Never mind, Symons. Aunt Grace is Relief Funds, Charity organizations and told you so much. We knew each other undertake their pil­ expecting me. ill go right up. Don't Church Bazaars. Now run along, because when we were just your age," and she you think, Symons, we should try to I have a dozen engagements this after­ drew her eldest daughter to her side, a grimages yearly; make Christmas as jolly as possible this noon." slim girl with heavy dark hair. Mrs. they make them year, just because things are so very "Oh, Aunt Grace," sparkled Jane, look­ Rutherford Channing had a queer feel­ hard?" ing at the check, "you're a darling. We're ing that she was standing before a tri­ daily. "To he sure, Miss .lane, to he sure, hut going to have the most wonderful Christ­ bunal, with those frank, childish eyes things has got to be very useful—no mas tree at the Settlement House, and staring at her so intently, a tribunal jim. racks, 1 says to the children, this now 1 shall he able to get Peter a pair whose judgment was fixed unalterably, Where do they go? year." He went slowly back to his work. of shoes, and little Nicholas a nice warm and nothing she could say or do now "Poor holly," mused Jane, as she ran coat—he has the loveliest brown eyes— could change it. She held out her hand To up the stairs. "No wonder they can't and Marietta a new dress, and the rest of coazingly to Bobbie, who only crouched look joyful when they are hung like the money I shall spend on just pure farther behind his mother's skirts. funeral wreaths." 'joy things,' if you don't mind. Pepper­ "He's bhy at first," smiled his mother, • • • mint canes and nuts and raisins, and "hut he'll be friendly enough after a The Canterbury Mrs. Rutherford Channing was sitting something 'way in the toe of the stock­ while. Ruth, put the kettle on and we'll at a dainty Louis Quinze desk, an open ing that I know each one would like. have tea. Marjorie, you make the toast What do they find check hook before hei-, as her niece en­ Don't you want to come to see them to­ tered. morrow? They're the sweetest things." there? She was a gracefully thin woman, with "No," said Mrs. Channing, "I can't pos­ FOR TACOMA a face like a cameo, a little weary of sibly come. I met an old friend yester­ day—T don't think I've seen her since we PUGET SOUND ELECTRIC The most delightful perfection. The negligee that fell in soft went to school together—she lives away RAILWAY folds around her was as delicately shade.1 out near Islington and has a round half- luncheons, teas, din­ as the inside of a seashell with the foam dozen children, and I couldn't get away INTERURBAN still on it. ners, Sunday home- from her without promising to come and Limited Trains hourly. Mow cold your nose is, my dear," she see them. You know," yawned Mrs. said as .lane stooped to kiss her. "You've Time of Limited Trains between dinners, and special Channing, "people with large families are Seattle and Tacoma—seventy min­ brought in winter with you," and she always so Belf-rtghteous about it." utes. "spreads" in town at shivered a little, as if the cold frosty air Trains leave Occidental and Yesler wore still clinging to Jane's garments. "Well, 1 shall come and tell you all Way as follows: reasonable prices, in "Why it's glorious out," laughed Jane. about it," and Jane blew a kiss from the LIMITED TRAINS—*7:30, *9:00, •it gives you the loveliest Christmassy doorway. "And oh, Aunt Qrace," she 10:00, 11:00 and 12:00 a. m.; 1:00, the quietest and most feeling all up and down your spine, and trilled back, "1 shall try to give you 2:00, 3:00, 4:00, 6:00 and 6:00 p. m. everyone Is rushing around so intent on something you don't in the least expect, •Daily except Sunday. attractive of s u r - All Limited Trains stop at Kent what he is doing, with that awfully con­ I think," she mused, as she went down and Auburn. centrated look. Why Billy Rayburn al­ the stairs, "that some one should look foundings. after the very rich at Christmas time. LOCAL TRAINS—5:06, 8:05, 10:05 most stepped on me this morning, and a. m.; 12:05, 2:05, 4:05, 6:05, 8:05, lifted his hat anl was going on without They seem to need it almost more than 10:05 and 11:45 (last train). Where is it? even seeing me, when I giggled and he the very poor." Seattle to Renton—*6:05, *6:40, woke up as if he were coming out of a • • • 9:05 11:05 a. m.; 1-05, 3:05, 4:35, 5:05, Fourth Floor trance—'Jane,' he begged, what do you The sun shone so brightly on the hard • 5:35, 7:05, 9:05, *10:05, "11:45 p. m. give an aunt who is half paralyzed, and packed, glisteninjr snow that the air Renton to Seattle—5:55, 6:25, *6:65, EILERS BUILDING has heen ill hed for ten years'.1' " 7:55, 9:55, 11:55 a. m.; 1:55, 3:55, 6:55, seemed full of opalescent, sparkling bits, 7:55, 10:25, «10:55 p. m.; »12:20 a. m. Third and University "What did you toll him?" asked her and as Mrs. Rutherford Channing*s lim­ •Transfer at Renton Junction. aunt curiously. ousine crunched over the road, she lean­ Passengers for Puyallup Short Line, "I told him to get her one of those cun­ ed back with a comfortable feeling of change cars at Willow Junction. Phones— ning little vanity cases with everything contentment. The people hurrying in it you could possibly use to spend through the street looked so careworn Round-trip $1.00 Main 5873 the week-end, except a tooth brush," and and anxious and wistful. Was it worth • lane threw her muff on the rose colored so much, wondered Mrs. Channing, just With transfers to both the P. S. T., Main 3113 lounnge and unfastened the little fur to give some one a gift that would prob­ L. & P. Co. In Seattle and T. R. & P. collar at her neck. ably be put away and forgotten the Co. in Tacoma. We have recently In­ Make your appoint­ "Why. Jane!" exclaimed her aunt, next week? Of course with children it stalled an Automatic Block Signal "how useless, if she is paralysed and in was different, but why did people leave System, reducing accidents to a ments for bed!" things until the very day hefore?—and minimum. "Exactly," nodded .lane, "quite useless, she thought with satisfaction of her own Subject to change without notice. and frivolous, and young. Why, Aunt neat white packages, done up and ready Qrace, she probably has enough dressing for distribution since the first week in C. W. AVERY, The Canterbury sac.pies and negligees and night caps December. Bo occupied was Mrs. Chan­ Traffic Agent, Seattle. and knitted slippers to keep her in bed L. H. BEAN, ning with her own thoughts that the car Manager, Tacoma. the rest of her days just to use them, stopped in front of a neat brown cot­ EIGH T THE TOWN CRIER and we'll have some of mother's home fully was a baby, which she had manan-­ r made marmalade with it." aged to protect with the warmth of her I "Oh," cried Mrs. Rutherford Chan­ body and a thin shawl. The baby was ning, "I really can't stay. I must be strong enough and only needed proper getting back. One has so many things to nourishment; but the woman, the doctor do just before Christmas," she finished said, would do well if she lived until weakly. Classical Dancing morning. The little group around her "Don't say that," begged Mrs. Bartley. numbered the serious young doctor, the "I know you must be frightfully busy, matron of the Settlement House, a capa­ but the children have counted on it so ble looking trained nurse and Jane Hil­ much. I won't take long and we can ton. have a nice chat while they're fixing "I can't die," the woman was moaning things," and before Mrs. Channing could hysterically "I can't die and leave my Ballroom Dancing protest, she found herself sitting in front baby! Won't some one take her? She's of a cozy fire in the living room, and so little and so helpless!" The nurse tried Bobbie, who could contain his curiosity ineffectually to quiet her while the young no longer, was rubbing the long silky fur doctor turned his face away. Tears of her muff. coursed unheeded down Jane Hilton's "He thinks," lisped his sister from cheeks. her two years of superior knowledge, "Won't some one find her a mother "it's a kitty," and smiled tolerantly. before I die?" tne mother pleaded, and The Stately Graces of the Antique "You see," explained Mrs. Bartley, held out supplicating hands to the little in her hurried, rather high-pitched group. Jane Hilton slipped forward and The Fashionable Steps of the Day voice, "the children are making all their knelt by her bedside. own Christmas presents this year, and "I'll find her one," she whispered, for weeks we haven't dared to open a "only you must keep quiet and hold on door into any one's room without first for a little while longer." calling out and then giving time for "Von?" cried the woman, focusing her things to be tucked away. Everything fever-strained eyes on Jane as if from has to have a finishing touch from a great distance. "You're only a child mother, but then," she laughed joyously, yourself. What can you do?" "it wouldn't be Christmas eve unless "But I promise," repeated Jane slowly, Tom and I worked until the wee small "A Christmas promise—won't you be­ hours. You see how selfish I have be­ lieve me?" come. Please tell me about yourself. I The woman looked at her steadily. manage to keep track of you through the "Yes," she whispered finally, "you have papers, but those are only a few of the nice, kind eyes. I believe you," and she things you do, and," closing a roughened, sank back exhausted on the pillow. sympathetic hand over Mrs. Channing's Jane got up quickly. "Come," she mo­ slim jeweled one. "I was so sorry for tioned to the matron, and slipped quietly r ^ you when I read of your husband's through the door. death. He must have been a wonderful •*a •*. a*. man." V V V "He was," said Mrs. Channing softly. An hour later Jane Hilton hurst into By this time there was a circle of eager, her aunt's study, covered from head to interested little faces around them. "And foot with gleaming particles of snow. you have no children?" questioned Mrs. "Merry Christmas. Aunt Grace," she Bartley, incredulously. cried gaily, and began shaking her furs "No," answer Mrs. Channing, an as­ in front of the fireplace, "it's the snow­ sumption of lightness in her tone. "Just iest night ever, just perfect reindeer think of that, Bobbie! Will you come and weather," and then a deprecatory little be my little boy?" cough drew their attention to Symons, "If 'ul buy me a pony," murmured standing irresolute in the doorway. Bobbie, from his soft nest on her knee, "Mrs. Channing, ma'am," he began, and Mrs. Channing felt a chill at her "there's a basket left on the front porch. heart. Would she always have to buy Shall I bring it in?" everything? "A basket," echoed Mrs. Rutherford Just then there was a heavy step on Channing, "did you open it, Symons?" the porch. "It's Dad," cried the older "Not exactly, ma'am," explained Sy­ girls annd got up hurriedly. "Tt's Dad­ mons. "It—it wasn't necessary." dy," screamed the younger children, and "Well, what is in it'.'" questioned Mrs. rushed pell-mell for the hall. "Dadee,' Channing. shrilled Bobbie and followed on his un­ "That," said Symons, "is the queer certain, stocky little legs. part, ma'am. It's a byby." "You'll stay and meet Tom?" begged "A baby!" cried Mrs. Channing Incred­ Katherine Bartley, as Mrs. Channing rose ulously. "Are you sure?" to go. "I couldn't be mistaken, ma'am, wot "Xot this time, but I'll come again if with four of me own." I may." To her own surprise she found Symons brought in a little wicker herself kissing Mrs. Bartley's round, basket, and placed it in the middle of Miss Wald Illustrating a Classic Pose ruddy cheek. "Goodby and thank you the floor, then gingerly turned back the for a lovely afternoon," she whispered covers and disclosed a tiny, sleeping and slipped quietly past the big man who form. Mrs. Channing stared at it curi­ was being hugged by six children at once ously. "It's a beautiful child," she said, in the hall. a;. .;. .j, pityingly. "I'oor little, helpless thing." "Symons," said Mrs. Channing, as she "Shall I take it out to some 'ome, entered her own hall, "you may have my ma'am?" asked Symons. dinner served by the fire in the study. Then, as if in protest, the baby stirred It's less lonely, and if anyone comes I'm uneasily, a sleepy three-cornered little Miss Emma A. Wald not at home, except to Miss Jane." smile passed over her face, and she held Meantime, in the big room of the Set­ up a tiny clenched fist toward Mrs. tlement House, the children were gath­ Rutherford Channing. A light suddenly ered around a towering, glittering Christ­ flooded Mrs. Channing's face and she mas tree, following with delighted, ex­ knelt down quickly by the basket. pectant eyes the movements of a red- "No! you shan't take it away," she cheeked Santa Claus. In a small room cried passionately. "It's a Christmas gift STUDIO Second Floor Booth Bldg. down the hall a little group stood awe­ for me. For years and years I've given struck and speechless around a narrow and given, gladly with open hands, and iron bed, where lay a woman so frail I've never, never gotten anything 1 didn't and thin that she seemed hardly able tn pay for, three-fold over. It must be for Corner Broadway and Pine Street raise the covers, and with eyes that me," and she turned eagerly to where blazed like coals out of a haggard, want- Jane was standing before the fireplace. ravaged face. She had been found early It's the unexpected gift at last, Jane." RESIDENCE PHONE Queen Anne 1272 that morning not fifty feet from the Set­ But there was no one there, and a muf­ PHONE East 1008 tlement House, where she had fallen, ex­ fled, hysterical voice was saving over hausted from hunger and cold. Hugged the telephone at the end of the hall: tight in her arms and sleeping peace "Is it too late, Doctor? 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THE NORTHWEST QUARTERLY MUSICAL REVIEW Published Every Three Months in the Interest of THE NORTHWEST MUSIC TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION Embracing the States of Washington, Oregon and Idaho Published as part of THE TOWN CRIER, owned and edited by Edited for the Association by James A. Wood and E. L. Reber HELEN HOWARTH LEMMEL Address all communications to 703 Northern Bank Building, Seattle

accept his accounts only when audited by a committee of two appointed by the Association, who may employ an expert assistant, if necessary. Sec. 5. The Executive Committee The President's Greeting shall have power to appoint a Vice- President for each state represented in To the members of the Northwest Music Teachers' Association and all the Association, and any necessary com­ mittees with reference to the annual musicians of the Northwest: meetings, the publication of proceedings, Greeting—It is most fitting that the flrst issue of the Northwest Music or for prosecuting any general or specific Quarterly should make its appearance at this time of the year when friend work of the Association. Of such com­ mittees the President shall be a member greets friend in loving salute and when all hearts are turned to the finer ex-officio. harmonies of life. Sec. 6. No person not an active mem­ The annual meetings of the Association have been most helpful and full ber in good standing in the Association can be nominated for any office in this Of enthusiasm and interest, but we always leave them with a desire that they Association. might conn- more frequently— we just begin to get acquainted when the ses­ ARTICLE IV. sions are over. This Quarterly is issued that the members may keep in touch Meetings. With one another during the year. It is desired also that it be a medium Section 1. The Association shall hold through which the members mas discuss subjects which are to come up for an annual meeting, the time and place to be determined by vote of the Associa­ decision at the annual meeting the standardizing of the membership of the tion; in default of such action, by the Association, the revision of the ('(institution, and the advisability of main­ Executive Committee. taining the permanent Quarterly Review, are some of the topics of vital in­ Sec. 2. Special meetings shall be call­ ed by the President if ordered by the terest to the Association at present. Executive Committee, or at the request The Association is desirous of increasing its membership that it may In­ of ten members. Sec. 3. Fifteen members shall consti­ crease its usefulness to the musicians of the Northwest. It gladly welcomes tute a quorum in all matters excepting all musicians who are alive to the needs of the hour, all who are progressive, that of amendments to the Constitution. honest, earnest in their work for the development of a national character ami Sec. 4. All business transacted by the Executive Committee and at the meet­ a national taste in music, all who wish to see a higher standard ol' instruction ings of the Association shall be fully and performance maintained, all who consider music a serious study for the reported at the annual meetings. mental, moral and spiritual development of mankind, all who wish to enlarge 5. No person who is a profes­ sionally active resident in the territory their own horizon and help others to a broader vision. covered by this Association shall be al­ To all such we extend our cordial greetings and an urgent imitation to lowed to appear on the programs unless join us, knowing that in the sessions of our annual conventions and through he or she is a member and has paid the year's dues. the pages of the Quarterly Review they will tind uplift and inspiration. LUCY K. COLE ARTICLE V. LUCY K. COLE, President. Section 1. Amendments to this Con­ stitution may be introduced at any meet­ ing of the Association, if previously ap­ proved by the Executive Committee or pavment at one time of twenty-five dol- by not less than ten other members of lara ($25.00). Any person may become the Association. A two-thirds vote of an Associate Life Member by the pay­ the members of the Association present Brief iistory of the Association ment at one time of twenty-five dollars and voting shall be necessary for the r ai * o,^intinn have 5 00) Life Members shall be exempt adoption of such amendments. The programs ol the Association ha\ e (*-£"«>• payment of annual dues. HE Northwest Music Teachers As- been varied and always full of interest. gec g Each Active and Active Life Convention Forecast •ociatlon was organised in Janu- Discussion of me. s has been found Member"of the Association shall be en- T ery. 1908. a. Seattle. The States extremely helpfaL and the sessions titled1 to v^at J"8^ AnXl Pro^eed- USICIANS of the Northwest will Of Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Hon- have regularly brought to the front a J Associate Members shall have no M find unusual interest in the pro­ tana were at first Included, but after ureat deal of local talent, both in per- vote at business meetings, but all mem- gram for the coming Tacoma convention. 0 the firs, yea, .Montana withdrew, being formance and composition. With the in- beni shall be J^gJ^ert, at the annual At each session subjects of the most removed that it was difficult for auguntlon of the Northwest Quarterly meetingwijeswon. B ^^^^^^^^^^^^ vital importance to teachers and stu­ the musicians of that state ft) attend .Musical KevieW, identified with the week Sec. 6. The fiscal year of the Asso­ dents of music will be presented. The the conventions. lv Town Crier, which for years has de ciation shall be reckoned from January trend of events in educational circles has 1st before the annual meeting, at which The tirst sessions were held in Seat- voted much attention and space to mu tim^^ e annua^ l dues shall be considered contributed to the interest of these sub­ tie, the officers at the time being Lucy sicai matters, it is now hoped that a payabfe jects. Standardization of membership, K. Cole, president; Edmund J. Myer, great deal more of the representative ARTICLE III. school credits, and registration are rice-president; P P. Beale, secretary; musjcai talent of the Northwest will be­ Officers. themes with which teachers must keep Mrs. V. W. Chace, treasurer. The pro­ come identified with the Association and Section 1. The entire control of the in touch. grams of this session were well attend­ affairs of the Association shall be vested its work. in an_ Executive Committee of nine mem- Mr. George H. Street of Portland, Ore., ed and established a high degree of in­ For the benefit of those who are un- bers*elected by ballot at the annual meet- will outline "A Common Ground for terest. familiar with it. the constitution of the Ing In MM^hreo ofVBKJ. -^J^ in I Mr. Blum of Walla The convention of 1909 was omitted, Xortlnves- —< t Musi•*--•c - Teachers"«—-fc—'• Associationi-.~a.-Mnn.. an^ Q ^thre^ e ifom r uonm e vWyeari ; and „ annually Walla will discuss 'The Fate of the Pipe the distribution of dates for State Days adopted at the flrst session in 1908, is thereaftethereafterr threthreee shalshalll Jb^e chosechosenn _ roforr Organ in Movies" Other subjects to be at the Alaska-Vnkon-Pacific Exposition, revision terms of three years. Other vacancies appended. _^^^^_^^^^_The committee o_n I ai the time of the annual meeting shall discussed are "The Neglect of Ear Train­ then in progress, making it impractic­ ing in Pianoforte Teaching," "The Value would be very glad to have suggestions *i flUed for th(, unexpired time. Those able to fix a dale on which members of of Ensemble Playing to the Violin Stu­ the Association from the three states from the members of the Association h ,,.1V0 beep members ol the oommlt- sent in before the next issue of the tee for the full term of three years shall dent," and "The Fundamentals Most could be conveniently brought together Quarterly, in starch, 1915nexl : i„. ineligible for re-election until after Needed by the Aspiring Young Compos­ on a suitable program. Mr. Edmund J. one year. er." The latter subject will be particu­ Myer was president in 1909, but re­ ARTICLE I. Sec. 2. The Association shall appoint a Nominating Committee consisting of at larly welcome to the increasing number signed, and Mr. \V. G. Reynolds was Name and Object. Section 1. This organisation shall be least one member from each state rep­ of ymmg composers. The banquet and elected by the Executive Board to act called the Northwest Music Teacheis resented in the Association, who shall fellowship evening will be thoroughly as president for the sessions Of MM, Association. submit to the Association a list of at . 2. Its object shall be the advance least nine names for the election of the worth while, and the committee is secur­ Which were held in Tacoma. Mr. <'. W. three new members of the Executive ing the best talent in the Northwest for ment of musical knowledge and educa ('ommit tee. Kantner was elected president for the tion in the Pacific Northwest states. the artists' concerts, while many feasts 1911 convention, held in Portland, and 3eC 3. from the members of the Ex­ ARTICLE II. ecutive Committee a President, a Vice- are in preparation for association mem­ for the 1912 convention, held in Walla Membership. tM President, a Secretary and a Treasurer bers. C. W. KANTNER, Walla, Mr. Ella? Blum served as presi­ Section 1. Membership shall consist of the Association for the ensuing year chairman of the Program Committee. dent of Active. Associate and Life Members. shall be appointed, either at the annual Bee. 2. Anv person professionally in- meeting by the Association, or, in de- U-Seattl «r eTT entertaine,. ad. -r,th ea , sessio, . n• of MM, terested in music mav become an Active fault of such action, within one month •MI. w. ll. Boyer of Portland being pres- Member of the Association by the pay- thereafter by the Executive Committee *dent. Mr. Buyer, however, was unable ment of two dollars ($2.00) annually. Itself. Vacancies in these Offices, or in Greetings From Tacoma to be present and Vice-President C W s,,('- :;- Anv person may become an the committee Itself, that occur during vQ„a. \, , ., Associate Member of the Association the year, may be filled for the balance RS. FREDERICK W. KEATOR of kantner was thni brought to the chair. ,,v tll(. payment of two dollars ($2.00) of the year by the committee. Tacoma, wife of Right Reverend The session of 1914 was held in Port- annually. Sec. 4. The Executive Committee land under the presidency of ftfr Edgar s,'r- '• Anv P«non professionally in- shall require the Treasurer to give a MBishop Keator, and chairman of the |,'j , terested in music may become an Active satisfactory bond, shall make rules re- executive committee representing the Life Member of the Association by the garding his payment of bills and shall PAGE FORTY-TWO THE TOWN CRIER musicians of Tacoma, writes to The instead of its being left, as is the case at Town Crier under date of Saturday, De­ present, to the favored few who have cember 5th, as follows: sufficient means to afford it. Musical "The executive committee is looking A Word From The Editor talent is not a gift bestowed upon any forward with keen anticipation to the One must always feel the one class of society but is talent in every coming meeting of the Northwest Music privilege accorded in the assign­ child and should have opportunity for expression and development. Teachers* Association. We appreciate ment of place in the vanguard of not only the honor of entertaining such The State of Washington is particular­ a distinguished body, but we also realize any forward movement, and since this Quarterly Review, in its de­ ly fortunate in having a State Board of what an uplift to the cause of good Education which is very progressive and music in our community such a gath­ parture into broader fields of up-to-date. Last year they included in ering will be. music, is distinctly that, the edi­ the new Course of Study for High "While it is st'll too early to formu­ tor herewith acknowledges the Schools, regularly outlined courses in late definite arrangements for the en­ pleasure, privilege and duty com­ music appreciation, sight-reading and in­ tertainment of the convention, we have prehended in the office that calls troductory harmony. Washington is the -under consideration several tentative forth this word at this time. first state in the country to introduce plans that, if carried out, we hope will regular music courses into its state make for the complete comfort, welfare Several years ago the writer came to the Northwest and with course of study for high schools. With and happiness of our guests. Our pres­ characteristic progressiveness this same ent great desire is to assure the mem­ the first glimpse of the splendor State Board of Education, at the last bers of the Association that a hearty of "the high white silences," of meeting, took up the subject of high welcome awaits them in Tacoma, a wel­ God's great mountains, the first school credit for private instruction for come that comes not only from the mu­ breath of the snow-pure, sea- music. After serious consideration and sicians, but from the laity as well, and toned air, and the first contact discussion of the subject, they requested that we will do all in our power to make with its frank, genial, genuine the State Department Of Instruction this occasion a memorable one. people, came the thought "This (who is chairman ex-officio of the State "Sincerely yours, is the place to do things." After Board) to send a questionnaire to all EMMA L. KEATOR." seven years' subsequent absence from Seattle, a city which typifies the high school principals in the State. Their spirit of the West, a return finds magical things done, and greater doing. opinion was desired on points brought The fact, sometimes deplored, of our being so far out of the beaten track out and especially on the two plans pre­ MARIE GASHWEILER of events, is coming to be realized as a chief formative influence in sented. the development of the Northwest, a development shaped and colored by Pianist and Teacher. If the plan of creating a state examin­ Student of Leecbetlsky and Bauer. an environment unique in all its aspects; and this new branch of musical ing hoard should cany, it might he some­ Students of ell tirades accepted. Per­ journalism is an effect designed to be causative of greater, better things. formers prepared foi eoncertlxlng. Normal what hard to be perfectly sure of secur­ eoarsc tot teachers. The contents of the Quarterly set forth sufficiently its reason for ing competent members for such a board. 310 Fisher Bid.?. Tel. Main 3270 being and it but remains to say that discussion of questions broached, Since there is no state certification re­ Residence Telephone Hast 1488. news items of general interest, and contributions to any department will quired for music teachers and no es- be most welcome from any quarter. tablished standards of education, it HELEN HOWARTH LKMMKL. would materially help matters if there Organist First Church of Christ, were some standardized body of music- Scientist • ians from which the State Board could select an examining board and be reason­ LEONE LANGDON ably sure of their efficiency. The North­ Piano and Organ Lessons Credits For Private Instruction west Music Teachers' Association was Studio, Apt. 6, St. Dunstan By LUCY K. COLE siiKKcsted as such a body and according­ ly a circular letter was sent out request­ 1809 15th Ave. Tel. East 3683 ing the opinion of the membership re­ USICIANS sometimes wonder why music teachers and the general public garding standardisation—the postals which were enclosed were nearly all GLADYS SHRAPNEL M educators are so hesitant about grant the great necessity for crediting being returned and with but one excep­ VIOLINIST. giving high school students credit music study during the high school tion, the standardization of the member­ For Ave years pupil of Caesar Thompson, for private instruction in music. There course. It is evident to alonl thadurint gmusi thec ship of the Association is most heartily Conservatoire-.Ro.. al. Brussels, Belgium. purpose of the studio and the school in STUDIOS is apparently a decided difference in the studhighy schoocannol t coursbe carriee as d an extra study endorsed. This matter will be discussed 607 and 608 Eilers Bldg. Phone Main 1582 their work for the student. The end and outside of school without danger to very thoroughly and acted upon at the 2204 Queen Anne Avenue. Phone Q.. A. 1755 aim of the average studio teacher is health or neglect of other school Tacoma meeting. The questionnaire fol­ performance, virtuosity. The end and branches. lows and discussion of its various points aim of the school is mental growth and Studio East 787 Res. Elliott 3398-W The fact is. music is no longer re- wm be most welcome for the next issue development, education, in other words, garded as mere accomplishment, a luxu- f the Quarterly in March: GEORGTE DU BOIS One often finds an individual studio Q ry. It has become a trade and in the VIOLINIST teacher who obtains finished perform­ 1. Do you favor Riving high school educational world should take its place cr'edit for"pHvate Instruction in music? Odd Fellows Temple ance through genuinely educational pro­ among the other industrial and cesses of teaching, but he does so be­ voca­ 2. If so, what forms of musical study cause of his individual convictions of the tional subjects. All instrumental play­ should be recognised? Vocal? Piano? LEIE SPORCK HASLUND rit;lit or wrong way of presenting the ing is controlled by the musicians' union Orchestral instruments? PIANO subject of music to his pupils. There is —even the pianist who accompanies in­ 3. Have you had any experience with Residence Studio: 520 13th Ave. No. no standard of requirements for him— strument players must also be a member any plan of giving high school credit Tel., Capitol 1349. any one who can procure pupils can of a union. The money earning capacity for private instruction in music? If so, teach music—neither state, city, nor pa­ of music as a trade is evident hy a what was the plan? What are your con­ tron make definite demands in the way of glance at the salaries paid all orchestra clusions as to its success? SILVIO RISEGARI or band players, the theatre and cafe TIA.JVO education or preparation for teaching 4. At what stage of study should the music. musicians, the pianists and organists in work be accredited, that is, should those 1832 14th Ave. Capitol Hill Car. photo-play houses. All pre-vocational Tel. East 7589. just beginning to study voice, piano, or On the other hand, school authorities work in our high schools, such as mil- an instrument receive credit, or only require of their high school teachers linery, dressmaking, cooking, laundry, either graduation from a university or book-binding, pottery, wood carving, those advanced in study? JULIETTE R. SASS college or a state examination. All uni- painting, leather work, carpentry, metal 5. Is there any demand in your school versities and colleges require for gradu- work, foundry work, furniture making, for credit for private instruction in PIANO music? 702 Eilers Bldg-. East 8489 ation at least one year of both psychol- etc., is class work. Instrumental ogy and pedagogy and all teacher's ex- study is usually individual and this is 6. How many of the pupils in your animations include these branches. Thus sometimes given as an obstacle to plac- high school are taking private music les­ the school authorities are assured that ing music among the other trade sub- sons? How many are taking music CLIFFORD W. KANTNER their teachers are prepared not only in jects. This has been overcome in Europe courses in high school? 7. What courses in music are you BARITONE the subjects which they will be required and to some extent in America by class to teach but that the instruction will be work. In violin and the other orchestra offering regularly in high school, and Teacher of Singing-. what is the amount of time required Studio: Tabernacle Baptist Church, so Riven as to insure mental growth and and band instruments, class work has development, that is, thoroughly edu­ proven most successful in the early for each course'.' corner Harrison and 15th. 8. How many of the private music Telephones: Studio—Bast 3263 cational results. stages of teaching. In London. England, there are over five hundred violin classes, teachers instructing your high school Residence—West 254. No one who has studied the subject pupils are non-resident? can doubt for one minute that music this being the favorite instrument. taught on an educational basis brings The time is surely coming, and at no 9. Do you have a regular music just as much mental development as does very far distant date, when music will teacher in the high school? Or do you Telephone Main 21 13 the study of geometry or physics. I am be given its right place in the educa have a supervisor who divides her time MADAME de BIT convinced that when educators are as­ tional scheme of our country. Betting with U»e grades or with other lines of sured that music teaching is on an edu­ aside the trade aspect, it is just as desir- work? COLORATURA SOPRANO cational basis and when educational and able for the home as are the various 10. What are the qualifications of Caruso Method pedagogical standards are established for forms of art and design and, with them your music teacher or supervisor. Il music teachers, they will gladly give should have a place in our educational she a high school graduate? What liter- Studio Room, 214 Liberty Bldg. credit for music study. Educators, system so that all can have instruction ary or academic training has she had PAG EE F ORTY-Tlli: E E THE TOWN CRIER

above the high school? (State institution attended and number of years or The Seattle Philharmonic CARL ELLIS EPPERT months). State the musical training she Composer-Conductor By HARRY KRINKE Just Returned Prom Berlin. has had; institutions attended or music Harmony, Counterpoint, Composi­ teachers under whom studied; number ment of the soloists appearing, with defi­ tion, Orchestration, Operatic and Song* of months or years; musical courses she nite dates, will toon be made. Rehear­ Coaching*. Conducting- and German. Pupil of Prof. Hugo Kaun, Berlin, and has taken and length of time of each sals and performances of the Standard Dr. Ernst Kunwald, Conductor, Cin­ course. Grand Opera Company, which occupied cinnati Symphony Orchestra. the early part of the season, in which Studio, 309 Fischer Bldg-. 11. Should credit for music study Hours, 9-12 a. m.; 1 to 5 p. m. either within or without high school be Mr. Spargur conducted eight consecu­ limited to one unit? tive performances, are responsible for delaying this year's series of concerts. 12. In case credit for outside study As a conductor. Mr. Spargur has prov­ is uiven, what should he the number and en himself equal to the enormous task Edward P. Long length Of the music lessons ami the which he undertook three years ago. Banjo, Mandolin and Guitar amount of practice required for one unit through his diligence and definite aim of of credit? purpose he lias inspired his men with an Studio: 601 Eilers Bldg. There are two general plans which enthusiasm which has made the Philhar­ have been suggested and which have been monic concerts of unusual interest. Residence Phone: Beacon 1895 tried in a few places in Riving credit for An orchestra of this character is a private instruction in music Plan 1: factor in the culture and artistic devel­ The music teachers of a city or town are opment of the city, and if those among approved and the credits which they us who are constantly deploring a lack Mme. Clara Bradley-Dawson recommend to he given to their pupils ot these influences, would exert as much Contralto, Vocal Instruction are allowed. Plan ll.: 'I'he work of the energy, morally and financially, as Mr. pupil is credited after examination be­ Spargur has in organization, not only 213 Fischer Bidg. fore a qualified committee. Ill would the orchestra be directly benefited, Bes. Phone: Capitol 1843. case statements would have to he tiled but through such encouragement, the as to the scope of work, amount of prac­ whole musical atmosphere would assume Send for Circular tice, progress, etc. a new aspect. 13. Which of these plans do you think is better? ALICE R. COE Mrs. Gertrude Drumm Technic of Speech. Dramatic Art, Story Questions about Plan 1. Telling, Oratory PIANO INSTRUCTION II. How would these private teachers Residence Phone Kenwood 902 East 6205 Odd Fellows' Temple he approved? STUDIO: FISHER BLDG. MAIN 3270 i.".. who would assume responsibility 4542 14th N. E. Kenwood 1952 for approving these teachers? Phone Main 4663 16. Would a system of local approval JOHN M. SPARGUR. DR. BtRTHOULD S. ISHAM of music teachers prove satisfactory? Licensed by the Pennsylvania MONG the prominent musical or­ 17. Is there any likelihood of arous­ Medical Board. ganisations of Seattle, and the one Charles Stone Wilson CHIROPODIST ing jealousies which would react against A upon which greatest interest is BARITONE Boom 200 Haight Building- the school authorities or against the suc­ focused, is the Seattle 1'hilharmonic Or­ Hours: 9 to 5 2d Ave. and Pine St. cess of the plan? chestra. Scientific Voice Development. Sunday 10 to 1 Seattle, Wash. 18. Do you have qualified, dlsMterest- This city has supported an organisa­ ed persons who could determine whether tion of this character for the past few 605 Eilers Bldg. or not the local teachers were qualified? years, during which time many changes 19. Would it he advisable to allow wci.' made, both in the orchestra itself Joseph Skrell any private musical organization to pass ami in the form of its management. EDGAR VIGGARS LADIES' TAILOR judgment on the qualifications of music The old organization, known as the Se­ PIANIST AND ORGANIST teachers foi- these purpo attle Symphony Society, had engaged Teacher of Harmony NEW FALL FABRICS NOW READY such well-known conductors as Mr. Keg- 202 Fischer Bldg. 20. Would it be advisable to certifi­ Suite 235 Epler Blk. 811 Second Ave. rize and Mr. Il'iiry Hadley. After the Main S270 cate throiiRh the State Board Of Educa­ Phone Main 1176 tion nr otherwise music teachers who de- departure of Mr. Hadley, came the period of reorganisation under the present con­ Sire their work to be accredit) MORITZ ROSEN ductor, John M. Spargur. VIOLIN i ions about Plan 11. To Mr, Spargur is due the entire credit Eilers Building East 3712] 21. Who should make up the commit­ for the interest, musicianship, and dis­ Madame Morrill tee to examine pupils? cipline displayed by this band of trained Agent for the Goodwin and La Morel musicians. He has worked unceasingly 22. How should the members be SEATTLE ART SCHOOL Corsets chosen? in liis endeavor to create in this city a standard of orchestral perfection equal 420 BOSTON BLOCK 600-602 Haight Building 28. Would the system of choosing to the eastern organizations, and those Phone Main 6170 Established 1894 which you propose he reasonably certain interested in this movement can be justly of providing competent persons for the proud of what -Mr. Spargur has already Main 5160. work? attained in this direction. Ella Shepard Bush, Gertrude Little, Instructors. You will find 24. Are there plenty of local music­ Xot only has Mr. Spargur Riven us Juvenile Class, Saturday. All sorts of finest Imported and ians, fully qualified and impartial, who authentic readings of the classic orches­ may be secured for the work? tral works, he has introduced a num­ Domestic Delicacies at 25. Could this committee serve to ex­ ber of novelties and "flrst-time-in-Seat- amine pupils in the several lines of in­ tle" compositions during the past three TRANSPOSING COPYING. Jacobi's German Delicatessen strumental study? years. SONG ARRANGING 26. If not, what would you do for ex­ In his selection of a soloist for each and Lunch Room concert, he has given us the best obtain­ aminations in those lines in which the M. C. Jacobi, Proprietor. able; the fact must be taken into con­ COMPOSING examininR committee were not profici­ Sausages and Luncheons Our ent? sideration that it is witli no little dif­ 'y PROF WEBER'S ficulty that dates can be arranged to Specialty. 27. Would it he advisable for the ^^^^^^B ' MUSIC STUDIO suit the artists who can be induced to 1224 THIRD AVENUE music teacher or supervisor to serve on > ^S^ 335 LIBERTY BUILDING visit th.- Pacific Coast. ^ .OPP. POSTOFFICC) Corner University St. this committee? State reasons. As an example of the high-Class of Third and Union Streets. SEATTLE. WASH, Phone Elliott 5043. There is another plan which might be artists we have had the opportunity of considered, under which the school au­ hearing with tlie orchestra, we may re­ thorities would employ teachers of in­ call the names of those who appeared strumental music (piano, violin, etc. < as here last season, namely, Mme. Carreno, regular members of the high school Clarence Whitehill, Paulo Grouppa, Cor­ SOFIE HAMMER faculty, possessing as high qualifications delia Lea, and Sybil Sammis-McDermaid. COLORATURA SOPRANO as other members of the faculty, thus Truly, such an array of artists should Providing for free instruction in music. suffice to suit the most fastidious. Available for Concert Engagements 28. What is your- opinion of this Mr. Spargur has arranged programs Teaches How to Sing plan? for the l resent season's work which will Phone E. 9096 Studio 103 13th Ave. N. E. 3924 29. Do you think that it may prove he found equally attractive. Announce- feasible in the course of time-; 30. Would it offer a tinal solution for Song Becitals, Concert, Oratorio. the problem of Instruction in music for 0. HEYW00D WINTERS Mr. Winters, who is here for his health, has studied continuously for 25 high school pupil*. years and with nearly all the great masters, and is considered Of New York City Kill out the blahks and return prompt­ one of the very best voice teachers. ly to state Superintendent Olympia, Vocal Teacher, Baritone and Choir Director Studio: EILERS' MUSIC BUILDING TELEPHONE MAIN 1582 Washington. PAGE FIFTY-FPU& THE TOWN CRIER

FRANCIS R. ARMSTRONG Musical Composers of Oregon Solo Violinist and Instructor By MRS. EDWARD JILDEN BEALS

Graduate Royal Conservatory of Music, Leip­ LTHOUGH comparatively small in own arranging for the different instru­ not destroy was the musical setting of a zig Pupil of Hans Becker. population the state of Oregon is ments, knows the fingering and positions poem by Mr. A. Musgrove Robarts, who A rich in the number and quality of Studio: 314-315 Fischer Building its musicians, among whom may be of all modern instruments, and can play greatly encouraged this young composer. Phones, Beacon 4194; Main 3270. found a goodly number who have gained most string and wood instruments. Mr. \V. Clifford Nash was also much in­ distinction as composers of exceptional terested and it was through his efforts merit, some of them having acquired Since his return from Vienna he has an international reputation. It has been composed unceasingly for orchestra and that Mr. Sharp's compositions were first a delightful experience for me to meet piano, besides many beautiful songs. His publicly performed. So far Mr. Sharp and interview some of the most promi­ H. H. TUTTLE nent ones and I am proud and happy to most pretentious works are a Spanisli has written a dozen songs, two suites Baritone Standard Grand Opera Co. introduce them to our readers. Suite in five parts, a Piano Concerto not for orchestra (the first of five num­ Teacher of Voice. Pupil of Giuseppe Cam- * * * quite completed, and his Symphony in C bers of rather a lighl character, and the panari (New York City), Frank King Clark (Berlin), and other celebrated masters. RANCIS RICHTER came to Portland Minor, "From Darkness to Dawn," which second, which is just completed, of three Prepares pupils for concert, oratorio and in 1898, a lad of ten. He received will have its initial performance in Chi­ numbers of a more serious nature), sev­ grand opera. Studio, 502 Eilers Building F eral detached pieces for orchestra and (Tuesdays and Fridays). Phoue Elliott 4377, his first musical training with his fa­ cago after Christmas. residence phone Capitol 3380. ther, beginning at the age of six. When When concertizing Mr. Richter plays various piano pieces eight years old he began to Improvise the works of the old and new masters, <>f tine,, songs which Mr. Sharp has pieces, some of which were written down and side by side with some of their recently published Musical America says by his father. His first published com­ greatest compositions appear his own the following: "it is not often that a FLORENCE HAMMOND YOUNG position was a march, "The St. Paul Dis­ numbers, which never fail to arouse the newcomer establishes himself at once ;ls patch," which was played by all the lead­ enthusiasm of liis audiences. worthy, and so it is with considerable VOICE BUILDING AND SINGING ing orchestras of the Twin Cities. At • • • pleasure that one is made acquainted the age of ten he began the serious with Mr. Sharp's 'Content,' 'Japanese 1015 UNION ST. study of harmony and counterpoint and HE Rev. Father Dominic Waeden- Death Song,' and 'Daybreak.' In all three of these songs be gives evidence of a Telephone Elliott 4861 R many charming piano and orchestra T schwiler, O. S. B., is the dean of pieces weie the result. While he never the Oregon composers Swiss by birth, musical cense far out of the ordinary. He catered to so-called "cheap" music, his he has lived many years in Oregon, being has little use for the conventional, either melodic inventions were always pleas­ connected with the great Benedictine from the melodic or harmonic stand­ ing. At the age of sixteen he had over monastery at Mount Angel, about forty point, and writes witli a freedom admir­ Mrs. Louise Van Ogle one hundred and fifty pieces to his cred­ miles from Portland. He is now rector able because of the power and knowl­ it. He then began his first big work, a of the parish of Mount Angel, where edge behind it. 'Japanese Death SOUK' PIANO AND HARMONY must be reckoned one of the hi: LECTURE RECITALS comic opera, from which selections have there is one of the most magnificent American SOUKS of the year. But two Studio, Suite E, 1108 Broadway been played by local orchestras. This Catholic churches' in the state and where E. 5244. opera is now in the hands of Mr. H. W. the Rev. Father may be heard every pages in length, it is a veritable trag­ Normal Class for Teachers Savage, who will probably produce it in Sunday presiding at the fine old organ. edy in miniature. The poem is splendid the near future. Father Dominic firsl cams into notice ami Mr. Sharp lias set it as few con­ At the age of nineteen years he went as the composer of a setting of Sam temporary musicians in America could." to Vienna, where he studied piano with Simpson's poem, "Beautiful Willamette." » • • Studio Telephone Main 3270 Leschetizky, harmony and counterpoint This struck a popular note and is BOW Residence Telephone Capitol 3063 OTABLE among composers resident with Joseph Labor and composition with known throughout the length and breadth N in the state of Oregon mention Carl Goldmark. I'lind from early child­ of the state. Another charming work mention must be made of A. MusgrOVS Anna Grant Dall hood, he had been greatly hampered in which has not v-et been heard in public Robarts, whose contributions to tlie song PIANIST AND TEACHER liis work, but while in Vienna studied is "Nature's .Morning Hymn," a cantata literature of the church have .justly won Leschetizky Method the Braille notation in music and now is for solo quartet and chorus. This is a for him a wide an I ever Increasing circle STUDIO: 316 FISHER BUILDING able to write out his own compositions more mature work than "Beautiful Wil­ of friends annum choir singers through­ as well as read others. He does all liis lamette," and when brought to a hearing out America. England, Africa, Austral­ will prove a great favorite. A few asia, India, china and the Philippines. years ago Father Dominic wrote his fine Mr. Robarts' success as a composer is to overture, "The Call of the West." pro­ he found in the fad that he possesses tin- duced last year by the Portland Sym­ all too rare gift of pure melody and the phony Orchestra. Father Dominic has happy faculty of BUperblj wedding words written much church music and many and music, so that the SOUKS carry with 0. Heywood Winters smaller numbers of great merit. One of them a message both to singer and audi­ these, "A Japanese Lullaby," was writ­ ence. OF NEW YORK CITY ten for Madame Schumann-Heink, by Though not an Oregonlan, many of his whom it is frequently sung. greatest successes have been written and • • • composed in Portland, in which city he Vocal Teacher, Baritone makes his home. ARL CRAN8TON SHARP is a young and Choir Director E composer of whom Oregon is justly That this composer's SOUKS are popular proud. He was born in Salem, Oregon, locally is proved hy the fact that one twenty-six years ago, and his musical music house in Portland disposed of Song Recitals, Concert, Oratorio. training has all been in Oregon. His nearly 400 copies of his various songs first work was done with his mother, in tiie brief period of eight months, and who gave him piano lessons. To her during the same period the Pacific Coast he gives credit lor his excellent musical has bought nearly three thousand copies. foundation. When but four years old he and at the time this notice is written a sang in public and was considered a local new edition of all of Mr. Robarts' songs "Wunderkind." At the age of five he be­ is on the press. It is interesting to note that two of Mr. Robarts SOUKS have Mr. Winters, who is here for his health, has studied gan the study of violin and soon gave ev­ idence of possessing the ability to com­ broken all sacred song records in this continuously for 25 years and with nearly all the pose, making a little waltz-melody which country. "Through the Shadows" and his mother wrote down for him, much "The Light Divine." both published in great masters, and is considered one of the very best to his delight. He was always compos­ 1910, have the followiiiK to their credit. ing; but as he says, has been saving The former has heen sung hy L':!7 solo­ voice teachers. things only for the last eight or ten ists on one Sunday, while the latter has years. At the age of fourteen he re­ been sung in L'29 churches on one Sun­ moved to Portland, where he has lived day. Truly a wonderful record. ever since, and here he continued the Mr. Robarts has written the words of study of violin with Mr. E. O. Spitzner, over two hundred published songs, in playing in his pupil-orchestra, an organ­ collaboration with composers of more or ization composed of some seventy pieces. less prominence in this country and in STUDIO It was here that he developed the great Europe, and also wrote the libretto to predilection for orchestral music that tlie romantic comic opera. "The Rajah." the music of which was written by the EILERS' MUSIC BUILDING has remained with him. He took up the study of harmony with Mr. Z. M. I'arvin eminent Hungarian composer. Herr for a short time and later had two or Sehreyer. three months with Mr. Charles Keefer, * • * this constituting all the study of compo­ LEXANDER HULL, who is only sition done with outside assistance. He A twenty-seven years of age, has ac­ Telephone Main 1 582 is entirely self-taught in orchestration, complished wonders as a musician and and strangely enough understands this compos r. Although not a native Ore- more thoroughly than any other branch gonian, having heen horn in Columbus, of the art. < >hio, ic has heen a resident for Bl The first song which Mr. Sharp did years. His mother is a pianist and PAGE FORTT-PIV E THE TOWN CRIER

teacher of great ability and to her he provisation, and later studied with teach- composition and while studying was con- Oregon, but among musicians in general. glves the credit of all his successes as he ers residing in Portland. In 1905 she stantly composing short pieces without He was born at Naples, Italy, and at the says, "I owe practically everything to went to New York and later to Europe, his teacher's knowledge. While most be- age of sixteen was baritone soloist with my mother." where in Paris she came under the notice ginners turn their attention to writing one of Italy's celebrated orchestras. He Mr. Hull is a pianist, 'cellist and vocal- of Wedor, the famous organist of St. melodies, with Mr. Wilson in those early came to this country twenty-eight years 1st, as well as composer, having studied Sulpice. He greatly encouraged her and days all his thoughts were given to de- ago, having been engaged to play at De­ T 'cello with Michael Brand, at one time compared her style of music to that of vising strange harmonies and inventing troit, Michigan, in "W onderland." He director of the Cincinnati Symphony Or- Chopin. The late Frank King Clark also peculiar rhythms. later became a member of Liberati's ohestra, voice, with the leading teachers was greatly interested and advised her After eight years study of counter- Band and with them made his first visit of Columbus, Ohio, and afterwards with to specialize her work to that of song point, canon, fugue form and composition to Portland in 1893. He made his first J. Henry Kowalski of Philadelphia and writing, declaring she possessed "the with Mr. Carl C. Mueller, Mr. Wilson appearance there as soloist at a concert New York. His studies in harmony, be- right idea of melody." went to Berlin, where he studied two given by this band at the old exposition gun with his mother, were continued in She returned to Portland and was soon years at hoch schule, taking up compo- building on October 19, 1893. He de­ counterpoint, composition and orchestra- married. However the love of home did sition with Bargiel (a brother-in-law of cided to locate in Portland and began his tion with Hugh Archibald Clarke of the not altogether overshadow the desire for Schumann), counterpoint with Succo, and work there as leader of the Portland University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Hull musical research and in 1909 she and her musical form with Bussler. Mr. Wilson Hotel orchestra, a position which he held Is at present engaged in writing an opera husband were among the many interested has written many songs, both secular for four years. For two seasons he led upon a librtto hy Mr. E. Frere Champ- students in Berlin. Under the musical and sacred, church anthems and choruses the band at the park concerts, was solo­ ist of the Administration band during ney, of Seattle. The plot is a story of jurisdiction of Hugo Hahn, Mrs. Walker for mixed voices, several piano pieces, the Lewis and Clark fair, and his band, Sir Francis Drake in California and is en- made big gains and she forsook, at least and numerous compositions for the or- composed largely of Italian players, has titled "The Quest of the Golden Hynde." for a while, the pleasant occupation of gan, including a sonata for full organ. been in demand throughout Washington Among his finished works are over a improvising for the more stolid theoreti- Just recently he has had published by J. and Oregon, also in Vancouver, B. C. hundred SOUKS, many piano pieces, sev- cal found in harmony and counterpoint. Fischer and Bro. of New York his "Missa His special instrument is the euphonium, eral for piano and violin, while for or- Her work attracted many of the musical Noctis Sanctissimaes" (Mass of the Holy an instrument of which he is master. Sig- chestra there are several big numbers leaders, among them Hellerman, Kulp Night), a composition which lias met nor De Caprio has many compositions to includiiiK Fantasia, Suite in D, Sym- and Busoni. with favorable comment from musicians. his credit. His songs are sung by solo­ phony, etc. In a criticism of Mr. Hull Upon her return to America this Port- This mass will be sung in ten churches ists with noted bands. He is a personal Arthur Farwell, the well known New land girl was well received in Bos- and in three cathedrals on Christmas day. York critic, says "Alexander Hull is one ton, where Arthur Foote gave her an au- * * * of the most gifted and promising of dience and pronounced her work "original REDERICK W. GOODRICH, born in American composers. His SOUKS show in and well founded." Mrs. Walker has F London and resident for some years CLARA WOLFE a Striking manner the rapidity of bis re- been heard all too seldom since her re­ past in Oregon, lias published some (Chicago, Berlin, London) cent artistic growth. The qualities of turn to Portland. The duties of a mother church music and number^^^^^^^^^s for piano^ . VOICE Imagination and poetic color in these have usurped the rights oi music. The One of his first compositions was writ BOnga Will compel the attention of every compositions of this talented young ten "In Memoriam" for the late Duke of Authorized Instructor in The Jones Diction Technique; endorsed by Mel- musician, though like all progressive woman number from one hundred to one Clarence. It was dedicated to and ac- ha, DeReszke and Bispham. Bongfl they will have to he driven into hundred and twenty-five piano pieces cepted Dy the late Queen Victoria. The Washington Apartments Elliott 2476 the heads of singers with a sledKe-ham- and about twenty songs, the words of anthems "The Souls of the Righteous" mer." Mr. Harwell, after reviewing sev- Which are also from her pen. The work, and "Blessed City," are published in Bos- eral songs, (loses by saying, "The main or rather its style, is not on the popular, ton. Mr. Goodrich is the compiler and Voice Placing and Repertoire thing is that here is a creative spirit at but ever on the classical, having a deep editor of "The Oregon Catholic Hymnal" work with much to say.' sympathetic treatment. for which lie received the personal bless­ ing of the late Pope Pius X. His manu­ MME. MARY LOUISE CLARY rOTHER coast musician who has script works include a Latin cantata, Prima Donna Contralto [A MAM PITTA PVNX. although a "Urbs Beata Hierusalem," several pieces M comparatively recent acquisition to A"achieve d success and distinction is Harold V. Milligan of Portland, Oregon. for orchestra, ind a large number of 514-515 Denny Bldg. Main 3059 Oregon composers, has many beautiful small pieces of church music. •ongs, piano and violin numbers to her He is the son of Rev. and Mrs. J. V. Mil­ * * * credit. These have been published both ligan and received his early musical in America and England. Among them training in his home city. While skillful O. SPITZNER was born and educated are the following songs: "The Vision," at the piano liis chosen instrument is the E in Germany, but has resided for "Eyes of Irish Blue," "Departure," "Say- pipe organ, and his first lessons on this twenty years in Portland, where he is NEAL BEGLEY onara," "Naming the Forget-me-not," instrument were with Mrs. Leonora Fish- one of the leading music teachers. His TENOR etc. Of the piano compositions mas be ST Whipp, who, recognizing his talent and first composition was "Two Marches for named "The Gipsy," "SOUK of the latent abilities, took special interest in Orchestra," published in Germany when Concert Oratorio Opera Hoofs," "Sleepy Song," "Night song" his work and gave him a good founda- he was only sixteen years old. For these (for left hand), a suite; "Summer Rain," tion to start upon He has been a faith- he received a sum of five dollars and Phones: Elliott 71; North 615 and "Rain in Autumn," a dozen duets ful student and has acquired an enviable some music, whic.) was considered a good '"'Hed "A Painy Day," and two violin reputation as an organist and composer, deal. pieces, "Romansa" ami "Legends." A prominent New York critic says: "He Since then Mr. Spitzner has studied Madam Lynn in an interview says. I is one of the coming concert organists much and his compositions number over began to 'pick up' chords before I could of this country." After five years as an fifty, mostly for string instruments. He ALFRED ROLLO organist and choirmaster in Rutgers says, "Composing is a recreation, and it walk, and when I found a pleasing one I VOICE set up such a racket that my mother Presbyterian church in New York, he now gives me great pleasure if my composi- occupies the same position in Plymouth tions are liked," but he does not worry would have to come and rejoice with me 305-306 Eilers Building before I would cease." Her first real Church, Brooklyn, the historic old edifice if the public is indifferent, for "to be composition was a plaintive little piece popularly known as "Beecher's Church." able to compose is a great pleasure in it- which she wrote after attending the Mr. Milligan is a graduate and post self, no matter whether they are classed funeral of a little playmate. She was graduate of the Guilmant Organ School with the best or not." Mr. Spitzner's then nine years old, and this, her first of New York. He is general secretary compositions are of a high order and Associate American Guild ot Organists experience with death, made a deep im­ of the American Guild of Organists. In greatly enjoyed whenever they appear Organist Plymouth Congregational Church pression on her. At fourteen she wrote addition to his manifold duties as organ- on a program, a popular piano piece which was accepted ist, he spends much time in composition * * * Judson W. Mather and in contributions to periodicals upon UCIEN E. BECKER was born at by a Chicago publisher. Quoting again Instruction—Piano and Organ she says, "I was extremely sensitive and musical subjects. He has a score or L Strassburg, Germany, where he fearing to be thought 'odd' I kept my more of songs, some yet in manuscript, studied at the Conservatory, taking piano Studio ln Church Phones—Studio Main 1765 Writing a strict secret." popular in recital and only needing to from Potjes. Fabian and Hertzer and 6th and Unireriity Res. Kenwood 448 Madam Lynn studied harmony with be heard to be praised and appreciated, studying composition under Sering. and Adolf Weidig of the American Conserva­ His most ambitious musical work has Hilpert. He has lived twenty-five years tory and received much encouragement just heen published by Schirmer of New jn the United states and considers him- Busch-Reamer School from him as well as from noted opera York, an operetta in two acts for chil- self an American by right of adoption GUITAR VIOLIN and concert singers. The publishers, dren's voices, entitled "The Outlaws of and development. He has been a resi- BANJO PIANO however, declared her work too difficult Etiquette." It has the swing and dent of Portland for several years and MANDOLIN FLUTE to sell well and finally in desperation she rhythm of the celebrated Gilbert and is at the head of the Becker Conserva- wrote a simple Irish ballad. It was ac­ Sullivan operas and bids fair to become tory of Music, an institution of recog- Theory, Composition and Arranging cepted by a well-known Boston publisher popular. nized merit. Piano compositions of Mr. E. L. BUSCH T. W. REAMER and was a success, and as she says "gave Becker are published by Henneman Pub- 1504 3rd Ave., Booms 309-310 LNIEL II. WILSON, of Portland, was Wshing Co., Kunkel Bros., and the Thiebes her a start"; for there was a growing de- . . Music Co., all of St. Louis. By far the mand for her songs. She does no, wait D^ »'»»>» ^rssy C .t>. He began Ms Becker's compositions Phones: Studio, E. 787 Res. E. 2117 or inspiration, but writes as she finds "^l^^^^™J?% are in manuscript as yet and consist of time also studying pipe organ. At tne age oi * twenty he took his first position as or- P'ano and organ solos, and choral mus.c KARL E. TUNBERG * * ' ganist. in Xew York City, and began to both sacred and secular. PIANIST AND ACCOMPANIST IRS. RALPH C WAPKPP is a na- studv with Samuel P. Warren, the dean Teacher of M' tive Oregonian, having been born of American organists. From the very A S a composer of music for brass PIANO and HARMONY in Portland in '884 At the age of start of his musical education Mr. Wil- /~\ band ami orchestra Signer A. De five she showed a marked talent for im- son became interested in harmony and Caprio ranks with the best not onl; Odd Fellows Temple 10th and Fine PAG E FORTY-SIX THE TOWN CRIER friend of John Philip Sousa, who when playing an engagement at Portland six Our Own Grand Opera years ago invited Mr. De Caprio to direct Ady Thorpe Butterworth the playing of his Festival March, which OMETHING less than a- year since Northwest press greeted the Standard's VOICE BUILDING AND SINGING had been placed on the program. Mr. its birth, the Christmas holiday debut, the directors determined to pro­ Trinity College of Mnslo, London, Sousa complimented Signor De Caprio S season of 1914 finds the Standard ceed upon the verdict with a more exten­ England not only on his composition, but also as Grand Opera Company a recognized and sive program. Accordingly three Italian Tuesday and Friday a director saying "he handled my band honored factor in Northwestern musical operas were announced for the first 712 Eilers Bnlldlng as well as I myse'f could have done. He affairs, already possessing traditions and week of October, a double bill of Leon­ Residence, 3633 35th Avenne West has the real Italian style, combined with prestige and biioily preparing for opera- cavallo's "I Pagliacci" and Mascagnl's Phone Queen Anne 8681 true musical feeling." lovers a treat that shall surpass its first "Cavalleria Rusticana," alternating with Among the compositions of Signor De successes. Now that the dangers of Verdi's famous old "II Trovatore." What Caprio are some beautiful Spanish and launching in tlie surf of disbelief and an increased interest the first psrfom- ABBIE A. DREW Italian melodies, grand marches, funeral disinterest are past and the project rides ances had aroused in musical circles was marches, tarantelles, intermezzos, safely on the current of public approval, evident from the spirited try-outs for PIANO waltzes, gavottes, and many others, all of it is amusing to look back nearly a chorus and principal parts in these pro­ which while popular with the public are twelvemonth to the time when local ductions. 122 FOURTEENTH AVENUE NORTH meritorious, wholesome and far removed grand opera was first suggested. Magnificently staged and costumed, EAST 8655 from cheap rag-time. "What," cried the incredulous, "grand with a great orchestra and chorus and * * • opera in the Northwest? Don't you a body of principals thoroughly compe­ ISS MARION Bauer was born in Know that grand opera even in Newten t in their parts, the triple bill of Octo­ Walla Walla, Wash., but has made Yorfl is operating against almost insuper­ ber won the same approbation from press CLARA M. HARTLE M able difficulties? New York impressarios and critics as had the first venture. Re­ Pupil of Denza, London; Sbriglia, her home in Portland since she was a Paris small child. Her mother, Madam Julie have unlimited means at their call—a ceipts covered practically all expenses, in VOICE CULTURE Bauer, was for many years identified large public of musical discrimination, spite of the fact that the latter were un­ Coaching, Song Recitals, Musical with the best educational interests of a long list of millionaires ready and anx­ usually large on account of royalties for History Class, Opera Lecture Recitals the Pacific Northwest, while her sister, ious to prove their culture by signing the two short operas, and of the added Tuesdays and Fridays Emelie Frances Bauer, has been for sev­ guarantee funds, a roster of stars with­ undeniable fact that upstairs prices were 204 Fischer Building Main 3270 eral years a musical critic and writer out whom all would be lost. And yet even far too small. for some of the most prominent eastern they are discouraged half the time. And At the present time six-score men and musical publications. To her mother and you would put on grand opera—in Eng­ women, constituting probably the finest Main 5600 sister Miss Marion gives the credit for lish—here in the Northwest! My dear grand opera chorus in America, with a Teachers' Needs a Specialty her success. artists! Stage your Balfe and your Gil- talented group ot principals, are work­ FRY MUSIC COMPANY After graduating from the Lincoln bert & Sullivan, an you will; but not ing zealously to make 'Lohengrin" and High School at Portland, Miss Bauer grand opera!" liumperdinck's fairy Opera, "Hansel and SHEET MUSIC AND MUSIC BOOKS attended St. Helen's Hall, graduating Tne group ot musicians who had con­ Gretel," the artistic successes their pre­ 426 Walker Building with high honors. She then went to ceived the idea of opera in English at decessors have been. These will be pro- Second Ave. at University. Seattle Xew York to study music seriously. Her popular prices were not of the stuff to duced during a late week in February, first work was done with her sister and be swayed by that sort of wisdom. Not 1915. Henry Holden Huss. She then went to only artists of the first rank, they were Paris where she studied with Raoul practical folk as well. "In Seattle, Ta­ HALE E. DEWEY Pugno. At the same time she studied coma and the Northwest generally," American Queen Correct Corset Graduate Chicago Musical College theory w'th Mile. Nadia Boulanger, and they declared boldly, "is a scattered 1905 Front and Back Lace composition with Campbell Tipton. While mass of splendid talent of which people TEACHER OF VIOLIN in Berlin she was a pupil of Dr. Paul do not dream, for the reason that it is Perfection Front-Piece Ertel, a well known German composer so scattered. If even a small part of Perforated Back-Section Studio 507 Eilers Bldg. and critic. this can be brought together to work Mmes. Donovan—Smith. Residence Phone East 5744 harmoniously toward a worthy object, Miss Bauer's published songs number 4059 Arcade Bldg. Elliott 3768 over twenty and are being sung by the benefit to public taste, recognition artists both in America and Europe, Of Xorth western importance as a music EDMUND J. MYER among whom are Mesdames Schumann- center, and awakened interest in tlie HELEN ETHEL MYER Heink, Gadski, Anna Gluck, Jomelli, noblest form of all musical expression DR. ISABEL KARNEY Matfield, Messrs Bonci, Dufault, Pas- will repay a hundred-fold. As for the OSTEOPATH The Myer Vocal Studio quale Amato, David Bispham and many York is operating against almost Insuper- Stomach, liver and woman's troubles a specialty; children, male and fe­ 211 Fischer Building others. Madam Maud Powell is playing financial end of it—this is not to be a male. Graduate Klrksville, Mo., In­ violin compositions by Miss Bauer In her money-making scheme. We shall be sat­ stitute. Send for Circular concerts, and one of her greatest tri­ isfied if the bills are paid." 1010 Northern Bank Bldg. umphs last season was, "Up the Ockla- And so in January the call was sent Residence Phone; Main 3840 waha," which Miss Bauer wrote especial­ out and fifty or sixty of the Puget EDITH HAINES KUESTER ly for Madam Powell. This composition Sound cities' foremost singers and in­ TEACHER OF SINGING was described by Arthur Foote as the strumentalists duly organized the Stand­ AND COMPOSER most vivid piece of color in a short ard Grand Opera Company of Seattle. "The Snuggery" Studio 316 Fischer Building. violin number that he had ever heard." Without ado, they proceeded to work, se­ BOTHELL BOULEVARD Residence Phone, Q. A. 2030. Miss Bauer has to her credit some ex­ lecting Bizet's "Carmen" and Gounod's Recent publications: To a Crocus, cellent piano compositions besides sev­ "Faust1 'for the first productions in New Tea Shop—May Be Scoured for The Buttercup, Secrets, Renunciation. eral choruses, trios, etc. She is still a April. Parties, Dinners, Dances very young woman and, judging from At the first rehearsals to which outsid­ KENWOOD 2001 the success whicli has already attended ers were admitted came a number of her compositions, it is easy to predict cynics, fully prepared to find material HERMAN A-SCHDOEDEB. that she will undoubtedly stand at the for criticism. To the intense surprise 3271-328 Li ber ty b\6g. Sea ttle.Wash. head of the women composers of of these persons, as well as others, they America. were carried away by the sincerity and Mrs. E. J. Charlton ^REAL-ESTATE genuineness of enthusiasm which radiat­ Much space is given In this first ed from the company, chorus and princi­ MODISTE ACREACC^FARM LANDS A SPECIALITY Quarterly Urview to the composers of pals alike, and oecame the most ardent TELEPHONE MAIN 3292 Oregon and to a more brief review of 401-403 Haight Building musical conditions in Idaho. As this supporters of the enterprise. publication originates In Washington, At length, after arduous weeks of rigid Second Avenne and Pine Btreot the other of the three states embraced rehearsal "Carmen" and "Faust" were IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE in the Association, it has been thought State of Washington, for King County. proper to give precedence to our neigh­ sung before crowded houses that showed In the Matter of the Estate of Frank bors. Washington composers, of whom the lively interest the Northwest was Messengers The Old Reliable Dana, Deceased. No. 17752. Notice arc many of great talent, will be taking in this newest musical venture. to Creditors. discussed in the later number.—The Motorcycles By order of said court duly made an*i Editor. How they were received is shown by entered herein, Notice is hereby given to The Town Crier's files for April 25, (Parcel Delivery) A.D.T. Co. the creditors >>f, and to all persons hav~ 1914. "The artistic success of the Stand­ Taxicabs (LICENSED DISTRIBUI0RS) ing claims against the above named de­ ard Grand Opera Company this week at cedent or against said estate, to pi Automobiles the same with the necessary vouchers to Orrill V. Stapp the Metropolitan has established beyond MAIN 234 the undersigned administrator of the shadow of a doubt the fact that local- Main Offlce, 112 Columbia Street estate, at 1304 Alaska Building, the phw> Teacher of Piano of business of said estate, in Seattle, in made opera in English is distinctly worth said county and state, within one Studio Fischer Building while; from what particular angle one Phone: East 13 from and after the date of flrst publics.. Third Avenue Between Pike & Pine tion of this notice, or the same will b<> views tlie initial effort it matters not. barred. Phone Main 5615 The outstanding fact is that two great Bonney-Watson Co. Date of flrst publication, Decemb. operas were produced entirely by North­ FUNERAL DIRECTORS 1914. west talent in a manner which should GEORGE E. II A III 'i:\RERGH, As Administrator of said E convince the most skeptical that this Private Ambulancs Service In SyKes music School Connection JOHN W. ROBERTS and GEORGE L MANDOLIN, GUITAK, BANJO, AND should become a permanent institution." BPIRK, Attorneys for Administrator, UKULELE Financial returns having corroborated Broadway and Olive Street 1304 Alaska Building, Seattle, vl 502 People's Bank Bids;. ington. the enthusiasm with which the entire Seattle, Wash. Dec 12, 1914—5t—Jan. 9, 1915. a. PAGE FORTY-SEVEN THE TOWN CRIER

music demands it, and is entitled to it. comparison with that of any other pro- To Standardize Teaching The day of the musical mountebank fessional line. By W. GIFFORD NASH has passed. The greatest geniuses now Therefore, will it not be better to try before the. world in all musical lines, to 'get together' on the best way to ECOGNITION of music study by Kansas as late as November 11, 1914, have added years and years of the most raise the standing of the profession as the various school boards of this and proposes that accredited teachers strenuous and exacting effort to their a whole, the best means of improving R and other states, as a dignified must possess a certificate or diploma, natural talents. the general run of music teaching, so part of a general cultural education, and issued by a music school of good stand After the Study during the grade and that when thase who cannot themselves allowing high school students to obtain jng, accepted and approved by the Kan- high school years, an ordinary course in judge, send their children to any pro- "crsdit" for work done with teachers sas State M. T. A., or shall have the music takes from four to seven years, fessional, the possession of a license or outside of the high schools themselves, privilege of taking examination at any and still the "reach far exceeds the certificate of membership by such teach- has very naturally raised the qhestion one of the approved music schools of grasp" and the musical heaven is still er shall be positive of the thorough as to what qualifications such "accredit- the state, which shall have the power, as unattainable. That of course only ap- preparation and qualification to teach? ed" teachers shall have, and who shall sub-examining committees, to examine plies to professionals, but the length of W. GIFFORD NASH, pass upon them. The agitation of these candidates and submit examination pa- time required in preparation will bear Portland, Ore. questions is by no means confined to pers, and report to the executive corn- Oregon alone. Two solutions have sug- mittee of the state association for con­ gested themselves. Some music teach- firmation and approval. The require- ers advoiate the passage of state laws ments of accredited music schools are Music In Idaho requiring the "registration" of all music then outlined, and the standard ques- By FREDERIC FLEMING BEALE teachers, and compulsory state examina- tions for piano, voice, violin and theory tions. In other words a state license is are given T cannot be said as yet that Idaho is pipe organ in the state; and with it I necessary before being allowed to teach a musical state. The country is too have been able to do my share in help- music for fees. on Movementin WashTngton7Nebraskas of like characte7r Minnesotare goinag much engrossed in its development, ing the community in a musical way. The other plan is, that the different and Michigan physically and commercially, to be able Monthly recitals have been given regu­ state music teachers' associations shall lator of the plans outlined above to give much attention to matters of art. larly for the past three years, with a raise the musical standard of their ac­ At the same time there is a considerable very noticeable growth in popularity and tive membership to such a degree that for as the musical editor of the San body of music-loving people who wel- appreciation. In these recitals a definite the fact of having been passed into an Francisco Examiner says, "The present come and support, as far as possible, educational plan IF kept in mind, as well aotive membership would be a guarantee position of the professional is not a such efforts as can be made at the pres- as the entertainment side. There are to any school board of the fitness of the self-respecting one. The public is be- ent time. It must be admitted that the some excellent voices in Caldwell, and support of concerts has not been such sincere attempts are made by all choirs eacher. ing preye(| upon by imposters; quali- For the state license plan two ways fled teachers are being robbed by un- as would encourage managers to bring to make the church music worthy. My are again suggested. These 1 shall con- qualified rivals; voices are being ruined artists to Boise frequently, and this is own choir gives oratorio evenings once the more to the credit of a few who a month during the season, dense as much as possible without alter- and instrumentalists put on the wrong ing the sense. A—California proposes, track." have been instrumental in presenting I am not aware of what Idaho owns 1st, registration; 2nd, that in making some of the great singers and players, in the way of omposers; at some fu-

Diplomas, if any; 3rd, statement must . ce two years ago M. M. G Middleton, and o'hers. ^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ers In Fran As to local resources, Bois„ . e includei-.a.i..^aas- fron. t musically*.• The University* of Idaho be sworn; 4th, penalties; 5th, that ev- Faure> the renowned head of the Paris , n . . ls a C O Breach accomplishing a great deal, and ery teacher must display prominently Conservatoire, in conjunction with most Symphony Orehestra w:'th ^ __Caldwel_ l ^is locate^ d the College of »hers he teaches a certified copy of bis of the leading musicians of Paris, form- "s d^^ a small but we the dlreCt 1 of Wa r ell-established OSrtiflcatSi Ith, thai any person may ed a society for the same purpose. In Y . . r*Z hiffh^"T school, which is making Pn, rvl or f m S gress worthy mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmobtain a copy of anmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmy teacher's state- Englan d _th e Roya.__ l RoyaCollegl College and eAcadem and Academy P?y f ° T° "\, , f *' *?, t of note. A successful performanceperfc , last ment from the secretary of state for are working on the same basis. The teachers of the city are, many of . them, capable in their respective Junelines, , of Mendelssohn's music to Soph­ fifty cents. This is also Mr. Knund's Tn mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm America we are^gradually over- but are nQt ag yet bound by any organ. ocles' tragedy Antigone was given in (Ed. Mus. America) plan as outlined to coming the popular European dictum ization looking towards cordiality and open air, and next June a performance the New York State Music Teachers' that we are a nation of dollar chasers unity of effort. The signs of the future of one of Shakespeare'. s plays with in- Association, and. I believe, adopted by oniy. We are settling into stable com- them. , , j • at, „„™ii„„a „.^„i, cidental music will be presented by the students. This is not bad in a Jplace B—Ohio proposes, 1st, teachers with are to be found in the excellent work wher. . e . but a .fe w. year...s ago. there .wa s live years' experience shall be exempt munities and are turning away from the done at the high school and the encour- nothing better than sage brush and jack from examination, and entitled to a cer­ chase' towards the Arts. Now that all agement given by the school authorities. rabbits, with Indians on the side. This tificate. All others shall be examined; the European avenues are closed it is Tne earnest efforts of local musicians is a most incomplete review of the sit- -nd, twelve examiners shall be appoint­ especially opportune for musical Amer- will count also in time towards a better ed by the governor, to examine in piano, ica to improve the profession of teach- muSjCal appreciation among the people. to those towns upon whose musical ac­ ing in all musical lines. Outside of Boise, there are not many ^l^^^,.^tivities I cannot 1touch,^^^. I 0hav^ e naPo oldoubt?S'es, . It will not be hard for piano, violin towns large enough to support concerts however, that the cause of music is ad­ violin, organ, and voice; 3rd, fees for and organ teachers to agree on a stan- of visiting artists of high standing, vancing rapidly in all parts of the state. examination. The report further calls dard. Teachers trained in Germany, Tnere is a steady growth in musical ap- tor four grades ot certificates, elemen- Austria, France, England and America preciation noticeable at all places, how- taryTh, e intermediateproposed Orego, advancen Bill—1std and ,artis un-­ flnd much ln common> and there is not ever. CORNISH SCHOOL OF a great deal of difference in the stan- Pocatello has a number of excellent lawful to teach without certificate; 2nd, in the singing profession that disagree- MUSIC superintendent of public instruction dardentss thaseetm havmose t beelikeln suggestedy to occur. , Itan ids teacherworthy s musicaand lha attractionss enjoyed . somMountaie v.iryn m Home is making strides, due perhaps NELLIE C. CORNISH, Director. shall appoint five who shall examine in the opposition to any form of license or FACULTY chiefly to the example of at least one Piano, Advanced—Boyd Wells, Miss Piano, strings, brass, wood-wind and standard is most rabid in their ranks, earnest musician there, and Twin Falls voice. Board must be citizens of Uni- Marie Gashweiler. Assistants, Mrs. ^^_ Cannot all discussions and disagree- ls developing a community effort in sup- Lona Tucker Pope, Miss Martha ted States and two years resident in the ments be eliminated by judging the re- plvin„ entertainments of a musical and Sackett. state. Violin—Miss Marjorie Miller. 3rd,^ rules as to chairman of suit and not the means? How it is done otherwise nature for its people. Other Cello—Mr. Erwin Gastel. board, etc. 4th, all teachers shall regis­ is of vastly lesser importance than the towns in this section show similar signs Flute—Mr. Preston Burns. ter within three months and swear an rssult f progress, and do as well as could be Clarinet—Mr. H. A. Ekstrand. 0 Harp—Mr. Hubert A. Graf, affidavit as to ability. Fee of $1.00, no Let the applicant for license or ex- expected of them, if one considers the correspondence school to teach without animation sing certain specified num- newness of the country, and the fact Booth Building, Broadway and Pine. certificate, no teacher to teach any bers of the songs and arias in every that it requires much effort and many TRAINING CLASSES FOR other branch than that covered by regis- trained repertoire, with style and cor- sacrifices on the part of the people to tration without additional certificate, rect intonation, read a lyric poem with take care of the practical side of life. MUSIC TEACHERS »th examiners to meet twice a year and expression; pronounce correctly and in- T may be pardoned if I speak more in Phone East 579 endorse diplomas from reputable char- telligently English, German, French, detail of the town in which I give my tered schools, colleges, etc, certificates and Italian; read simple music at sight, OWn efforts—Caldwell. And, in greater not to be granted to anyone under eigh- and play the standard song accompani- or less3r degree, what is taking place teen years of age; 6th, penalties; 7th. ments on the piano. here mav be found in other places in the Bird Bundy ree of $5.00 for examination, payment Would that not be better than state. Roswell, P.rma, Nampa, and Cald- or examiners. When funds exceed wrangling over "method," that fetish well are towns closer together, and in DRAMATIC ART *oU0.00, the surplus Is to be paid to the supposed to be the royal road and short each there are devoted musicians and Residence Studio. 817 Ravenna Blvd. state treasurer as a special music fund cut to Walhalla, or to boast in season musical people who manage to keep the 502 Eilers Bldg. (Saturdays). sr state schools; 8th, certificates re- and out of season, like the San Jose musical atmosphere stirred continuously, Kenwood 2064 corded with count.v clerks; Ith, penalties teacher who advertised "my method is choral efforts in church and concert 1 to 9 P. M. ror false sweating; loth, act shall not the only one to advance and interest a have in each town been most worthy, »PPly to cities or towns with less than pupil so that in a short time he is able frequently surprising in excellence, and 1000 population at last census. to execute sheet music to finish." in results are accomplishing much in the MME. MARGUERITE HALL As advocates of the second plan, that That some sort of registration and education of the singers Involved, and VOICE ls. Of raising the Standards of State standardization will eventually come the public in general. Caldwell is for- Style Enunciation music teachers' associations, comes now into effect is certain. The profession of tunate in possessing possibly tlie largest 203 FISCHER BLDG. Phone fast 7675 PAG E FOR T Y - E I G II T THE TOWN CRIER

Musical News of the Week The Music Conservatory of (By JVELE XC. BALLARD tlie Northwest N addition to John McCormack's de­ a large and enthusiastic audience at the lightful recital on Wednesday the Moore Theater under the auspices of Director, C. Lagourgue I week has been well filled with con­ the Ladies' Musical Club. Mr. McCor­ AUXILIARY cert-giving on the part of the city's mack has been heard here before, but musical clubs, choirs and University his programs never approached the Solfeggio and Harmony chorus. scope of the on3 he presented this sea­ AM exceptionally fine program by the son. In all that he did there was an Classes Ladles' Musical Club Monday afternoon artistry that comes only through doing at the Studio of brought out an audience that filled beautiful things in a beautiful way. AGNES BEH.R JUST every seat in the Y. W. C. A. recital Donald Beath, tho violinist, was warmly 1821 14th Avenue hall. The artists were all well received, received and Edwin Schneider proved to Weekly Class on Wednesday with especial enthusiasm for Theo Karl be an accomplished accompanist. (Classes limited to 10) Johnston, the tenor, who sang two * * • groups of songs and responded to en­ cores. The Misses Campbell opened the At last the gratifying announcement program with a Grieg Ballade, followed can be made that the Philharmonic Or­ by Helen Howarth Lemmel in a group chestra concerts will be resumed in Jan­ GRACE FARRINGTON HOMSTED of four songs. Mrs. Margaret McCul- uary. Mr. John M. Spargur. the leader of the orchestra, has resigned as director Bonney-Watson loch Lang and Miss Dubois gave a Go- SOPRANO SOLOIST dard duet foi- violin with Miss Agnes of the Standard Grand Opera Company, and TEACHER Ross at the piano. Mrs. Clare Farns­ that he may devote all liis time to the worth sang a solo from Augusta Philharmonic, and the series of concerts 401 Eilers Bldg. Main 6439 Holmes' "Cycle des Heurs," Mrs .Law­ planned promise to be highly satisfac­ rence Bogle, accompanist. Mr. Hubert tory in every way. Graf, a harpist, gave two solos; and a * * * trio by Mesdames Scholtz, Clayton and In this issue of The Town Crier is in­ l\cy, with Mrs. .ludah at the piano, was cluded the initial appearance of the the closing number of one of the most special department devoted to the FUNERAL DIRECTORS successful concerts given by the club Northwest Music Teachers' Association, this season. presented by their editor, Mrs. 11 Howarth Lemmel, who will have ln On Monday evening Mis. Lemmel pre­ charge that particular line of work, sented Miss L. Catherine Baker, so­ which will appear quarterly. prano, in recital at the Y. W. C. A. hall. Miss Baker sang an interesting number Mis. Lemmel spent three years in of songs, including one by Mrs. Lemmel Berlin in the study of modern German and one by Mrs Frank D. Black. BOngfl with their composers, singing and An organ recital was given at the teaching. Returning to this country German Evangelical Lutheran church on she remained in Xew York for some Fisher's Blend Sunday evening by Mr. A. H. Fischer, years, giving lecture recitals and work­ the organist, assisted by Mr. Charles ing with the Xew York Hospital Music More, baritone. On Tuesday night the Association. Eminent organists and di­ second monthly concert at the Bethany rectors have commended most highly Presbyterian church was held under the and Easter cartata written by Mrs. direction of Walter B. Whittlesey, as­ Lemmel, as well as other original com­ sisted by Mis. Ruth Osborn Mogan, positions. harpist and singer, also the Bethany quartet, composed of Mrs. .1. W. Lince, Mrs. A. M. Beeler, J. R. Harvey and CTHE PERFECT ALL- II. .1. Manger. The South Pa'-k Choral Club concert UNION PURPOSE BREAD, CAKE was given in the field house, under the PACIFIC AM) PASTRY FLOUR, direction of J. D. Trehame. The chorus SYSTEM is preparing a series of light operas to CSUPERIOR TO AN ALL- be given during the winter. HARD WHEAT FLOUR OT Wednesday evening the University of AN ALL-SOFT WHEAT Washington chorus and orchestra pre­ sented "A Tale of Old Japan," by Sam­ FLOUR. uel Coleridge Taylor, under tbe leader­ FOR SALE BY ALL ship of Professor Irving M. Olen. In GROCERS addition to the chorus of two hundred and an augmented orchestra of forty- five pieces, were four soloists, Miss Oene- vieve Thompson, Miss Mildred Anderson, California Mr. Raymond Metz. and Mr. Wilfred invites you to viBit her big 1915 Lewis. Tt was a fine performance Expositions at San Diego (opens throughout, and a good indication of tbe Jan. 1st) and at San Francisco (opens Feb. 20th). She urges you character of the work carried on in the to partake of her offering of music department of the I'niversity un­ der tbe leadership of Professor Glen. SUNSHINE * * • FLOWERS Next Wednesday evening "The Mes­ siah" will be sung by the chorus of RECREATION seventy-five voices at tbe Plymouth The delightful and luxurious way to Congregational church under the direc­ go is via the tion of Pr. Judson Mather, assisted by the Plymouth orchestra and quartet, the members of which are Mrs. Jay O-W.R.&M. Thatcher. Mrs. Israel Nelson, Mr. R. J. "Line of the Shasta Limited." Oarmichael, and Mr. George Hastings. AND In which repose the The admission is free, but on this even­ Cinerary Urns ing a silver collection will be taken SOUTHERN PACIFIC for the benefit of tbe Associated Chari­ The route is one of Scenic grandeur ties of the city. On the Sunday follow­ all the way. ing, December 27, at three o'clock, the The finest up-to date railroad equip­ ment is provided for your comfort. program will be repeated. Courteous efficient employes to at­ • * * tend your wants. Now is the time to take that vaca­ Tf. acordintc to many critics, the great tion trip. For California Literature BROADWAY AT OLIVE STREET thing in sinsring for an audience lies in and full information call at appealing directly to their emotional CITY TICKET OFFICE Telephone East 13 natures, then John McCormack. the pop­ 716 Second Ave. Main 932 ular Trish tenor, again proved himself H. E. HUDSON, D. F. ft F. A. an artist in the broadest sense on last Wednesday evening when he sang before I' A c E (HiTV- X I X I•: THE TOWN CRIER

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Society News of the Week " The Best of What the Japanese Make Best" By MRS. J. C. HAINES §J END something different this Christ­ HRISTMAS bells this year ring In evening. An abundance of pink carna­ mas—gifts that have some individ­ the glad old holiday season with tions and pink-shaded candles beautified uality or arc particularly pleasing to the C Joyousness undlmmed for happy the table, where were entertained, he- recipient—our stocks are now replete y°uth; bul for their elders there is • sides the honored guests, Mr. and Mrs. a note of sadness in the chimei due to Charles I >. Stimson and Mr. and Mrs. with attractive gift novelties. "4nforgetfulnesa of troublous conditions Richard I>. Merrill. !,|;" ,nak<' "peace on earth, good will * « « Nicely wrapped and packed for presentation without extra toward men" take the form or a suppli- Wednesday Evening Card Club. charge. ';"'"" Instead or the triumphant declara­ Judge and Mrs. Burke delightfully en­ tion formerly acclaimed throughout the tertained at their handsome home on world. Hut whatever may be lacking in Boylston avenue, Wednesday evening, AJI/L, 4^UXUUr their social Indebt­ edness. Mintons tine china, for which we are exclusive agents in Seat­ 1,1 "ii the years since the Rainier Club tle. The following separate pieces are priced: lli,s occupied its own beautiful club hOUSe, the New Year's eve hall, given Cups and Saucers, each, $1.25 to $3.00. liy i|s members, has been one of the Square Cake and Sandwich Plates, each, $2.50 to $3.50. biggest, gayest features of th.- holiday season. This year the (duh is to depart Comports Eor bonbons and desserts, $1.75 to $5.00. ,l 1 '" " annual CUStom, and instead of a Open Sugars and Creamers in unique shapes, $4.00, $5.00. ll:l11' I'"' Coming of the X, w Vear will '"' welcomed at a supper dance, an ln- After-dinner Coffee Cups and Saucers, Vl,a'i"11 that will I very hit as enjoy- Wk set of six cups and saucers. $7.00 to abl« as the old-time function, with the FREDERICK $t/f- $25.00. added charm of novelty. €r NELSON New Fear's Day the Misses Thomsen Tea Pots, Sugars and Creamers, at $9.50 will give a Th.- Dansanl from live until to $50.00. o'clock at their home on Terry I GJoOeJJond! avenue. Many other festivities are be- Boudoir Breakfast Sets, $18.00 to lng arranged by parents and friends for fl OY/t That flhntysTkeaes. $25.00. th e pleasure of the vacation contingent, Dinner Sets, $65.00 to $200.00. ;i,l,i rumors of several house parties to Issued for any amount be given at country homes are in the Service Plates, the dozen, from $65.00 air. to $350.00. I his week there has heen compara­ —exchangeable for Men's tively little of social Interest—a few THE LAMP ASSORTMENTS INCLUDE dinners and suppers, the Wednesday Women's or Children's Living-room Lamps in mahogany and 'ai'(| Club and the Charity dance at the gloves, at the pleasure of genuine Florentine and hand-carved wood Hippodrome, where society enjoyed to Table and Floor Lamps, ranging in price the utmost the lark of the occasion and the recipient- Piled ui' a big fund to assist in making $6.50, $8.75, $15.00, $20.00 and up to Christmas happier for the city's poor. $50.00.

«ouse Party at Crystal Springs. Candle and Lamp Shades in imported Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Gilman, Miss Alice and domestic assortments, of cretonne, Oilman and Miss Carey, all of Portland, Frederick & Nelson silk and other fabrics. Y1 arrlve in the City holiday week. Saturday, January second. Miss Oilman EXCLUSIVE FRENCH NOVELTIES w«ll entertain a large Week-end house Gift Certificates in exquisite assortments, made of cre­ Party at the Oilman summer home at are also issued for any amounl tonnes and damask, in white enamel and Crystal Springs, in honor of Miss Carey. desired, and are exchangeable mahogany, suitable for boudoirs and * * * for merchandise Selected in any Living rooms, including Shoe and Stock­ **r. and Mrs. Baillie Quests at Dinner. section of the store. Ideal for Mr. and Mrs. Trafford Huteson were gifts when one does not know ing Boxes, Hal Boxes, Bed Trays. Tables. ")Sls at a charming dinner given in just what to choose, or has but Writing Desks, etc. """'"' Of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Baillie little time for shopping. —Fourth Floor *=*hs> :" Hilltop, the home Of Mr. and Mrs. "'"'•son. at The Highlands. Thursday PAQ E !•' I F T Y - T WO THE TOWN CRIER

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Sale Continues up to Christmas Delicious The Brown Owl Grain-Fed Tea Shop MISS CATHERINE WINN, Mgr. SQUABS Luncheon, AfternoonAfternoon.. l . O. h)U ixrs hj I I, Successor to Tea, Special After-f^^Y lH Attractively Dressed Matinee Tea will be BURNETT BROTHERS Good Weight featured for the sea- Bon. Reasonable Price Fifth Floor Prompt Delivery—Phone Kenwood 1393 ARCADE BUILDING J£ Telephone Elliott 4336 Martha Washington Squab Co. SEATTLE

QctgngJS Sweaters START A SAVINGS ACCOUNT The Candy Box American Savings Bank & 106 Cherry St. A Practical Gift for Old and Young Trust Company wants your business. Miss Agnes Murphy Miss Clare Murphy At our Factory Store is every style and 4 per cent soon counts so The Sweetest Place in Town you can watch it grow. color to select from, or made to your measure Come and see us. at no extra charge. American Savings Bank We sell direct to the Consumer. & Trust Company Imogen Cunningham OCTONEK KNITTING CO. PHOTOGRAPHS Studio: Fifth Ave. and Union St. Rubenstein's Prescriptions Phone Main 9588 1117 Terry Ave. 218 Cherry Street

Designing" Engraving- Telephone THE SMARTEST ATELIER IN THE TOWN Four Hundred ELMER F. KUNTZ Manufacturing Jeweler Elliott And Thirty-One Diamond Setter Seven Main 3607 402 People's Bank Bldg. MADAME A. A. SCHULTZ People's Bank Second and Pike MODISTE Seven Building, TAILORED SUITS EVENING WRAPS Exquisite Assortment of Nine FROCKS GOWNS Seattle HAND-PAINTED CHINA Expert Keramic Instruction, 75c per Lesson Hours from 9 to 4. Stay all Day. MARY ELIZABETH POINIER ~*\f? T^T JPT Commercial PHONE: MAIN 5559 2004 Second Avenue Phone Main 5551 Photographer -:- Denny Building -:• Practice Spanish Lessons Business Men, Ladies: Wednesday, 7 p.m. HOUGEN SHOE REPAIR WORKS 17'iii H0ffe Bldg. Tel. Main .M!M» BANTANDBR, Chilean Consul. 216 UNION STREET 2 SHOPS 110 MADISON STREET PAGE !•' I !•• T r -TH R E E

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Society l^^BRINGER ACADEMY of LANGUAGES (Continued from Page 12.) ITALIAN MLLE. DENISE BRINGER. Principal •/Inter In California. Mrs. Edward Gar­ GERMAN ELLIOTT 877 -CLASSES FOR CHILDREN— 1720 L. C. SMITH BLDG. rett and Mis. Samuel I,, Cusscll will pour tea and coffee. • • * Mr. and Mrs. Huteson Dinner Hosts. Mi. ami Mrs. Trafford Huteson. last Saturday evening at Hilltop, The High­ lands, gave a delightful dinner of eight covers, entertaining Prince RMldor, who fortnight lias been tlie guest of Mr. Thomas M. Merrill, Mr. and Mrs. 97fadame jimsbary Harry Whitney Treat, Mr. and Mrs. .Io- siah Collins and Mr. Merrill. The table decorations wen- gorgeous copper-colored chrysanthemums with shaded candles of the same hue. m * * Creator of Sowns New Year's The Dansant. The Misses Thomsen will he bosl Priday afternoon, January the tirst. at a The Dansant, tu he given at their home mi Terry avenue, for Which invitations Will he out th,- first of next week. « » * New Grill Room Musicale in Honor of Mr. Nelson. Mrs. Jason I lunulas Mutter and her Por Men and Ladies son. Mr. John Butler, at their home on Twelfth avenue north, gave a delightful Wishes her clientele Now Open musicals Wednesday • vening in honor of Mr. Ernest Bruce, Nelson, the voting California artist, whose pictures are now a very jffappy Christmas and on view at the Seattle Fine Arts rooms, and the Beattie artist. Mr. Roy Part­ ridge, who recently returned fiom Paris a {Prosperous ifew 2/ear. A large number of specialties and New York. The program was giv­ at moderate prices. es hy Mr. Charles Alhert Case and the Piping hot from the Grill. Misses Mary Louise Rochester, Kathe­ rine Butler and Grace Shepard. Mrs. Quick, satisfactory service. William C. Cross, r poured at the re­ Buffet lunch served same as freshment table, assisted hy the Misses heretofore—25c. Imogene Cunningham, Margaret and Mil­ dred Prosser, Guendolyn Carkeek, Helen Brown and Mrs. Agnes Turner Castle. A Cmpire ffi/c/y. profusion of pink chrysanthemums •domed the drawing room and in the dining room yellow chrysanthemums Seattle Hotel Savoy Grill were everywhere in evidence. The fol­ lowing day Mr. John Cutler gave a studio A. E. HANSEN, Mgr. luncheon complimentary tu Messrs. Nel­ son ami Partridge. Coram were laid for ten. with Mrs. Robert n. Boyle as chaperon. • • * Meeting- of Monday Practice Club. The Practice Club met Tuesday after­ noon with Mrs. Claire 1-;. Farnsworth at her home on Harvard avium- north. Xo "ALemanSuit! NowJhatlsWhat meeting* will be held until January the eighteenth, when the (dub will meet with Mrs. Bruce F. Morsji I Call a Splendid Christmas Gift!''

Personal Mention You need not fear the inability to please your wife, Mr. and Mrs. C. II. Van Tuyl left Sun­ day evening for Cortland to be absent a Week, part of tlie time to he Spent with husband, sweetheart, or friend if your present is an Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Kerry at Clatskanie, 1 hregon. order on LEMAN for a tailored suit. Such a gift is « « « Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Bausman will always opportune. Pure quality of material; un­ depart this morning foi California to spend the holidays as tlie quests of Mr. limited choice of color and pattern; painstaking, Howard Baker in his home at Coronado Beach. masterly tailoring; are some of the factors that have * * * Mr. Frank II. Crownell will arrive home tomorrow from Xew York, where made the fame of LEMAN suits for men and women. he has been for several Weeks, Frank II. Brownell, Jr., reached home for his They typify the aristocracy of clothes. holidays last Sunday evening from Xord- hoff, California, where he is a student at Thatcher school. * » * Mrs. Josiah Collins and two small sons will leave shortly for Philadelphia where THEO.T she will spend Christmas and a portion of the winter with relatives. 1EMAN • » * Mr. and Mrs. ll. c. Earling of the Mo­ tel Perry left in their private car on Fri­ day fur Chicago, where they will be joined by their son, Mr. Everett Earling, 608 a student at Yale, and all together will visit in Chicago and Milwaukee until Mr. Everett Earling returns to colli American • • * Miss Mary BarlOW Trimble and Mr. Bank Building ford Trimble are expected to reach home this evening tu spend their holiday va­ cation, MlSS Mary from school at Ctovi- dence. Rhode Island ami Ford from Gro- loii, Massachusel ts. C A G E F I P T V - F OUR THE TOWN CRIER

Dinners For the Playgoer Luncheons Afternoon later who is almost continually on the Teas TAVERN stage, leaves the author the chance to THE Candle-light On For Next Week Spreads give all his attention to the dialogue—• HOLIDAY consequently there is little or. no distrac­ A New Idea in Tea Rooms designed to meet tion of scenery or stage effects. HOSTESS the Most Exacting Demands. Metropolitan—George Arliss in "Dis­ At 4311 15th Ave. N. E. Opposite University Campus raeli," Opening Christmas Day. • • * Moore—"The Life of Our Saviour." HE seven-part film production ol can serve fragrant and "The Life of Our Saviour," at the Carpets dry-cleaned and renovated. Orpheum—Frederick V. Bowers. T delicious coffee if she Remaking, fitting and laying all Pantages—.lin Jitsu Troupe. Moore Theatre, which began Thursday! kinds of carpets and linoleums. Ori­ with two performances daily at 8.30 and will use ental Rugs our specialty. Clemmer—Exclusive Picture Plays 8:30, is being received with keen interest Gibson Carpet Cleaning Co. and News Features. by both theatre-goers and church-goers, J. W. GIBSON, Mgr., formerly fore­ as it is recognized as one ol the most man of Grote-Rankin Co. Carpet PENIXG at the Metropolitan on Imposing visualisations ol a scriptural Crescent Cream Workroom. Christmas Day, "Disraeli," Louis subject ever offered in this country. 200 Westlake North Elliott 4456 O N. Parker's play of English di­ Pathe I'reres made the picture, the It pleases plomacy and foreign espionage, is of pe­ scenes of" whicli are true reproductions culiar interest on account of disclosures contemporaneous with "Tlie Life ol Our particular people caused by the present war. It is also a Saviour," made in the Holy Land. The MADAM HAMBURG production is hand colored and arranged AUTISTIC DRESSMAKING perfect vehicle for the great histrionic power of George Arliss. so as to bring to the vision a graphic GOWNS, TAILORED SUITS, COATS, realization of tlie Blaster on llis Journey Try ETC. Mr. Arliss is a skillful comedian, and here on earth. An elaborate s.iered It ALTERATIONS, REMODELING in liis distinguished impersonation of musical programme, descriptive ol the Six-Twenty Union Street Disraeli" proclaims to an aundence the various scenes, is rendered in conjunc­ Today Phone Main 6417 cheering fact that the gentleman actor tion with the unfolding of the drama, who makes his points through innate and by reason of this fact, together with worth and quiet methods has not yet •WHY STAY HOME WHEN YOU the further fact that each scene is cap­ HAVE A DRESSMAKER? passed away. tioned with direct biblical quotations, Let me take a cast of your own form, The plot of the drama being "in the which enables you to fit your clothes per­ makes the presentation quite the most AlsVjJ At your grocers fectly without ever trying them on until air." as it were, the development of a absorbing of its kind ever produced. tiiislieil. Satisfaction guaranteed. gigantic scheme for the greater glory of Phone Main 5557. 419 Walker Bldg. the British Empire, and the development • • * Second and University. taking place in the brain of a prime min- REDERICK V. BOWERS, author Of F such songs as "Because," "When I Think of You.' "Always'' and others. will headline the Christmas bill at the METROPOLITAN Orpheum theatre, beginning Sunday af­ DEC. 25 TO JAN. 2—Except Sunday. ternoon. He will be supported by .Miss Mats., Saturdays, Wednesday and Ada Ripel, a clever dancer, and tour oth­ New Year. ers. Another treat will be Alfred W'al- Tested HK« MR. GEORGE lenstein, the boy 'cellist from California. His accompanist will be Miss Adele ARLISS Freebey, who recently acted in the Inc. In the Liebler Company's Elaborate capacity for Ellen Beach Yaw. Charles Production of Louis N. Parker's F. Semon, "Tlie Narrow Poller," will be Which have the honor *^ Comedy back again with his quaint looking mus­ ical instruments. Rebla, who calls him­ of being J1 DISRAELI self the unconcerned juggler, is a pan­ ft as presinted for one year in New tomimic comedian. The Aerial I'ostas. York, six months in Chicago, six four pretty young women, do daring mid­ :>'ji months in Boston. air feats. ,&&&*> Sir msk Evenings—$2.00 to 50c. Matinees— Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Barry, ever pop­ 11.50 to 50c. Seat Sale -Monday. ular, will present "The Rube." The MAIL ORDERS HOW Australian McLeans have a Whirlwind jy-'V^HB dancing turn. Qeorge Lamon'a concert orchestra and the Orpheum News Ser­ vice will be the other offerii HIS MAJESTY KING GEORGE V. TWICE DAILY, 2:30 and 8:30 * • • MOORE EADLINING the n«W lull a Christ­ wish you a H mas program—at Pantages this MERRY CHRISTMAS "THE LIFE OF OUR SAVIOR" week, will be a wrestling exhibi­ In Seven Reels of the Most Beautiful Sand-Colored Film Ever tion by the Mikado's own Jiu Jitsu Shown. Troupe, recently a feature with the Adults, 25c; Children, 10c. Ringling circus. Pantages is noted for this kind of acts and this is said to lie For a the best one the house has ever played. Prosperous New Year HERE IT IS: A special attraction in the shape of a big motion picture, entitled. "Dough and Plant our I&ihwmm, FREDERICK V. BOWERS Dynamite," with the inimitable Charles The Noted Song Composer and His Chaplin, will also be a feature, other Company of Artists. numbers on the program include Danny English Reselected Tested Twice Daily The Perfe

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shook hands solemnly in the gathering The Land of Never-Never dusk. The memory of many battles fought side by side on the desert was The £y J- J- UNDERWOOD, Author of "Jjlaska, an Empire in the Making" in their minds. They wondered would ELL held no terrors for warrant. Take Jack Douglas and Alec they see each other again. the forty thousand reck- Grant with you. If you find Cosgrove, • • • less men and Ave women send Grant back with him." Hamilton awoke and tried vainly to Pure Milk Dairy who spent the Christmas "Yes, sir." Sergeant Bill Hamilton spit. His tongue clove to the roof of season at Coolgardie, a left. his mouth. All night long Grant had Maintains Its big and prosperous and •> •> •> raved deliriously of running brooks and lawless mining held sit- It was nearing the end of the fourth fishing streams. Towards morning the Reputation as uated in the center of the day on the scorching desert. From the night air seemed to cool his fevered dread West Australian gray of dawn, when they awoke with brain, and Hamilton had been able to deserts, I>ay In, day out, during the thirst-dried throats, three men had snatch a little sleep. The Leader twelve months of summer—it never walked and wheeled their machines As the day wore on, the sun poured rained at Coolgardie -the sun burned through the caloric sands of the Wool- its pitiless rays down on the burning down from a hard, blue sky with daz- laddie plain. The sand ran like hot sands. At times Hamilton felt that his brain was boiling, and he knew that be­ in competition with zling. eve-seaiin - brilliancy, shriveling ashes, filling the holes their footsteps ; fore night he, too, would be delirious. every vestige of vegetation from the ploughed. They left no tracks. For He tried to keep himself from staring all the leading dairies tented metropolis to the horizon. Only three days agonizing pains had torn their out on the blinding glare of the desert. once in the memory of white man had limbs, and the sharp granules had cut of the Northwest, by Now and again he looked at his compan­ water fallen from the skies. Then it viciously into their sore and blistered ion, to see if Death had released him had come in the form of a cloudburst, feet. The last precious drop of water again winning the from his vigil. He wondered would and for a few days there was cessation had heen consumed the night before. Douglas return. What had happened to of red dust storms. "This is a hell of a Christmas Eve," him, Suppose Dug had broken some FIRST PRIZE AT lllumbled Apart from mining, saloon-keeping Hamilton through sun-blister- part of his wheel! was Coolgardie's chief Industry. For" ed ljPs- as he Peered with bloodshot eyes Hamilton knew now that he was too THE YAKIMA STATE EAIR two months before Christmas, the therm- at the surrounuing gray places. Grant far gone ever to reach Pendinni without ometer had oscillated around the mark collapsed. "I'm all in, h water. The return of Douglas was his husked. "I can't go another step. You Indicating one hundred and twenty de­ only hope of rescue. He thought of all f fellows go and leave me." He spoke like or grees in the shade, and. quite naturally, the drinks he had taken—of brandy and a man with a plum in his mouth. under these distressingly torrid circum­ sodas and iced champagne that he had Both Hamilton and Douglas knew the stances, the saloons, doiiiK business in^_^^^^_^^^^_^^^^_^^^^_^^^ consumed in profligate and ribald waste. ,...,,. .. . slsrn onlv too well—Grant s tongue wa No, he didn't want any of them. Never galvanised iron buildings, were the most swellingh __ . ' again for him. All he wanted was water Maplewood "Drop that kind of talk! Don't be a frequented resoj-ts in the settlement. —water, cool and sparkling, such as The walls of these structures during the quitter!" Tiie sergeant raised Grant to ran gurglingly through the creek back CERTIFIED MILK- burning days Were heated to such a his feet, "There's rocks a few miles on the Eastern farm where he had spent degree that bared hands accidentally ahead and water maybe," he continued. his boyhood days. "I can see the trees now." He didn't MARKET MILK and CREAM rubbeWhisked y againswas thl e thepopulam rwer drinke . blisteredIt sold. ^^^ Was it a bell he heard? Of course tel1 for twenty-four cents the glass, with Grant, but he held a deep suspicion not. It was a phantasy of his distorted Highest Award at twelve cents added for a chaser of wa­ that the trees were the result of a brain. Was that a camel he saw com­ ter, manufactured at the salt lakes by hocus-pocus performance on the part of ing through the shimmering heat waves, the National Dairy condensers, or dragged many miles from Mother Nature, who sometimes cruelly Show at Chicago in the native "soaks." mocks thirsting and starving men by Law and order were unknown at Cool- making them think they see that which 1913 bardie. There was no police, no jail— they most desire. nothing hut a progress committee—a Grant collapsed again. "I drank the oil hn,]y out of my lamp—I was choking," he con- Get the Best — "'' risTltantea who dispensed jus- fessed Vthink it must have poisoned tice in a rough, yel withal, fairly satis­ me. 1 thought my throat was on fire," ti.l It Costs No More factory manner. North of Coolga he pleaded in extenuation. about one hundred miles, crossed a cer­ Again they lifted him, and placed him tain meridian known as the "murder astride his wheel. Between them they line. Below this line "hlackbirding"- managed t0 propel him to the edge of the Lippmann shooting aborigine blacks on sight, rocky country> where th,.v placed him in Pure Milk Dairy, Inc. which was one of Coolgardie's popular the ghade Qf a tree> wM]e they returned 1514 Seventh Avenue. forms of outdoor amusements, was pro- for their own mounta Grant had re_ hlbited hy law, hut not as the law was y.y&d somewhat from the rest. Main 2545 Elliott 4344 construed by thi' progress committee. &Co. "Let's tow him." suggested Douglas. "These blacks are all hostile," argued "ril take flrst pull. He's surely strong the members of the committee. "The enough to steer." He attached a rope to fellows who made the law knew nothing the front post of Grant's machine. For The Right Time about the murderous habits of wild a mjie or more they traveled. Then niggers." Grant allowed his machine to run over to Buy a So. every time a camel was speared, the tow line and he was thrown heavily. or a white man's head was crushed in The impact of his head against a rock Real Estate with a stone tomahawk or cluh, sum- rendered him unconscious. Cemetery Lot tnary vengeance was wrought. "This is going to be a happy Christ­ he mas, Bill, I don't think," muttered Dou­ only reasonable time to These were the chaotic conditions out glas. "What in Ned do you s'pose we're of which Warden Gibson was charged General u Koing to do now?" he asked. y a cemetery lot is in ad- by the government to bring order. The a They dragged Grant into the shade of *ce of any real need of such warden was Invested witli large discre- ^mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm a sandalwood tree, on the edge of the * Property. Washelli, the tionary power, in that he was instructed -,„„„„* n„A K„„„,, ^ ,,„ „„„,, ai #„ Insurance desert, and brushed the sand flies from e tu enforce existing laws and to create , . _. , , , , ...... [ rpetual Care Park Ceme- Ins wounded head with a salt-bush twig, such new ones as he should deem ex- "Things seem to be getting no better ^Y' appeals to your cold, pedient to fit the local conditions. alln business judgment, fast," volunteered Hamilton, grimly. And w '•Von know tlie location of Mount Dis- "It's certain we can't leave him here rite for a booklet that ex­ appointment, Sergeant?" Warden Gibson to die alone—to be eaten alive by the plains Washelli plan addressed one of his bicycle express ants and flies." Douglas stared at Loans riders, a hand of sinewy men inured to Grant's huddled and recumbent form. the hardships of the desert. "Tf we had a pint of water we might "Yes, sir." he able to save him," he ventured. Washelli "You'll start this afternoon, taking tlie "The next water is at Pendinni," Ham- trail to Roaring Gimlet, thence to Mount ilton said. "One of us must go and one The Perpetual Care Margaret, by way of Pendinni. These stay: Pendlnni's sixty miles from here. Park Cemetery will he your stops for water. From It's a bad bet either way—bad for the 503-4-5 New York there you will have to make your way one who goes and bad for the one who American Necropolis across the desert as hest you can to your stays. You're the strongest rider. You Building destination. Tell the miners they must may gel back by tomorrow night! get Company not come hack this way, but to go back before that if you can. If Grant SEATTLE through to Murchison. The chain of dies Til follow you, but meet me on the 6 °t L. C. Smith Bldg. waterholes are dry. if you run across trail, for rn he needing you, Dug, old Telephone: Main 2285 Elliott 2619. .lim Cosgrove, take him in. He's been pal, and needing you badly." blackbirdlng below the line. Here's the They stared into each other's eyes, and r.\ <; i: F i F T Y - IO I G H T THE TOWN CRIER with two men riding on it? Of course, ton on his back and held the funnel of "Humph!" Hamilton grunted, men­ faces attested their trying sojourn in it couldn't possibly be. It was simply the water bag to his cracked lips. acingly. "I would like to see the man, the "never-never" country. They dis­ a mirage—one of Nature's little mean­ • • • black or white, that would lay a hand mounted on the brow of a hill, from nesses. But why did Nature so cruelly "So you're Jim Cosgrove?" Sergeant on Dug, except in fun. It would be his which Coolgardie—uproarious. wild. tantalize him by showing him the things Hamilton stared at the sun-scarred vis­ last move. Dug and I have been pals dusty, dirty, drunken Coolgardie—was he wished most to see? He'd close his age of the big, blond man who had and partners for years; we've shared visible. To them it looked like the eyes. He wouldn't look. He'd have to rescued him. They sat in the shade of a everything together. I'd burn in hell for Garden of Kden—a glistening, cool oasis watch himself, or something might small currajong tree. "Lucky for Grant him." in a desert of desolation and despair. tempt him to go wandering off on the and I that Douglas met you on the trail. Cosgrove didn't answer. Both si "1 suppose I 11 get merry blazes for desert. He'd keep his mind on Grant. We'd have passed out, sure. Tell me silently out on the desert. Under an­ this Cosgrove affair,'' mourned Hamil­ Yes, Grant was still breathing. something—how did you come to kill other stunted tree Douglas and Crant ton. "Discharged in disgrace is the best "Get out the water bags, Jim—quick." those niggers at Skull Creek? Why did were getting ready to continue their I can exi t, and I may get a long term It was a real voice. Hamilton looked. you do it?" journey. in Cockatoo Island pen." Yes—sure. There was Dug—good, brave "Did you ever have a partner," count­ Hamilton faced Cosgrove again. "Jim," "Don't be a fool, Bill," said Douglas, old Dug—and he was unstrapping a Impatiently. "If you think you must water bag from a camel's pack, and a ered Cosgrove; "a pal that had saved he said irrelevantly; "the trail is open strange man was hastily assisting him. your life; that had shared with you his to Eucla, on the South Australian border. go back, say you lost the warrant. But last crust of damper or his last drop of There's lots of water if you go by way I think you'd better beat it. I've got "Merry Christmas!" greeted the water, and who wouldn't drink when his of Dundas Hills. Ill send Grant back a big roll in Coolgardie. ill KO in and stranger. tongue was swollen because he thought to Coolgardie from Pendinni. He doesn't tell the warden you played out and Yes, it was a Merry Christmas after you needed the water worse than he did? know anything about this Christmas stopped at ECalgoorlie. Then I'll meet all, for here was water to cool his burn­ If you saw that partner stone-axed to present I'm giving you." He handed you a few miles out and bring tlie bank ing brain and frizzling flesh. Hamilton death by a couple of these niggers, and Cosgrove the warrant for his arrest. roll. You can make the border all right, opened his mouth to speak, but no if you had your camels speared, what and I'll come over and meet you later. sound came. He gasped several times, would you do? Suppose you saw Dou­ That's your best bet. You don't want and reached his hands forward entreat- glas lying out there in the sand with his to live in a rotten prison for the next ingly. Three weeks later a couple of tatter­ head all crushed and his brain oozing demalions rode along the trail leading ten or fifteen years. I'm tired of these "Get busy with the other fellow, out and his sweltering blood turning the to Coolgardie. Their shirts were torn infernal deserts anyway. Let's go to Jim," ordered Douglas, "sosh some water Krit crimson, what would you do? Do and their arms bore many scars from South Africa, where the weather's cool­ on his head. Pour some in his mouth you think you'd stop to consider the contact with tne prickly mulga scrub. er." location of the murder line?" and wash it out." He gently laid Hamil­ Their bloodshot eyes and blackened "It listens good, Dug; hut they'd hunt me the rest of my life. I'm going back to take my medicine. I'll explain to Warden Gibson. He's human enough to understand why I let Cosgrove make The New Washington Hotel his get-away." SEATTLE- "You warned every man at Mount Disappointment, Sergeant?" asked War­ den QlbSOn. lie shook hands warmly with Sergeant Hamilton. "Yes, sir," answered Hamilton. "You must have had an awful trip. Accept my compliments and congratula­ tions foi- having bravely performed a difficult mission. I'm recommending you for promotion." Hamilton gulped. The warden turned to his desk. "Anything else, Hamilton?" he asked. "Why, yes, sir. About that Cosgrove matter. I—I—" "Oh yes, yes, Interrupted tlie warden. "Funny thing that, wasn't it? I forgot to tell you. Cosgrove found the warrant you must have lost. He brought it in himself. He must have crossed your trail somewhere. I let him go, though. I found on looking up the map that Skull Creek, where the blacks were killed, was beyond the minder line. And, anyhow, I think he was justified. Those blacks killed Jim Kellas, Cosj,rrove's partner." Hamilton gulped again and turned to go. "Oh, by the way, Hamilton," Gibson called; "who was the fellow who picked you up on the ed«;e 0f the Woolladie desert, and saved you and Grant? Grant told me all about it, but he didn't know the man's name." "That fellow," stammered Hamilton. "He's a—he's a—he's a friend of mine. His name's Cosgrove." The warden of Coolgardie turned hi* face away and smiled.

A Christmas Prayer ODY MOTHER! Holy Mother! In the dark I fear. LighH t me with thy shining eyes, it,, thou ever near. Holy Mother! Holy .Mother! Call thy little Son, Bid Hi"1 bring me praying dreams Ere the nigh, he done.

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Christmas and the Chronologists HE Christian festival of the physical Jesus—(See the longer recen­ Hotel Nativity was unknown until sion of liis "Epistle to the Philadelphi- A. D. 354. Touching the ans," CVIII.)—"unless in the Archives birth of Jesus the authors it can be found, for in the gospels we Perry of the Synoptic gospels give do not believe it." To this significant no dates, the historians of appeal the bishop could only reply: "But Seattle the first century say noth­ for me Archives are Jesus Christ, the ing. No one now knows, no untouched Archives His cross, His death Every Room With Bath writer of the first century and His resurrection." St. Ignatius was appears to have known the day, month, living but a century from the birth of European or even the year of His birth. Jesus, was residing within three hun­ Chrysostom, when a priest at Antioch, dred miles of Bethlehem. The public Modern in a sermon delivered in the year 386, records—"Archives"—of Palestine, were says: "The feast of December twenty- at nearby Caesarea, the capital city in Luxurious fifth originated in the "West, presum­ the days of Herod the King. Why did Exclusive ably at Rome, and worked Eastward. not Ignatius search for the records of Prom Cadiz to Thrace this feast is now the birth of Jesus? Had not this child been hailed "King of the Jews?" Was $2.00 Per Day observed, and rightly, since its miracu­ not this event soon followed by Herod's Upward lously rapid diffusion proves its genu­ ineness." He further tells us that, "the order to "slay all the children that are in Bethlehem and in all the coast there­ celebration on this day was first ob­ B. H. BROBST of from two years old and under?" If served at Court, (that of Emperor Con- one whom the people proclaimed a king Manager stantius) in the year 355." had been born; if such important action Clement of Alexandria, writing about had been taken by Herod, there must A.l>. 180, tells us that the birthday of have been a record of these events which Jesus is unknown. He expresses the it was only necessary for Ignatius to opinion, however, that it was on No­ produce in order forever to discredit vember 17th, B. C. 3, (Strom I. XXI.) troublesome Docetism. From Our British Cousins This probably is the nearest guess made • • • We ate in receipt every day of letters from by any of the Fathers. But, asks the apologist, did not Ter- persona In Vancouver and Victoria who di­ The early Syrian Christians celebrated tullian have solid information to sup­ verted their friends to Hotel Butler. the Nativity on January sixth, and port him when facing Roman disbelief They state the good things they had while BpiphaniUS, without giving a reason for in an historical and risen Jesus—a Jesus here, and the special service in our Cafe. his belief, persistently preached that possessing a birthday? Listen to him: This special service is a part of our or­ Jesus was born on this day. The Basi- (Apologeticus, A. D. 190). "Tiberius, in ganization, which only time and constant lidian (Gnostic) Christians celebrated whose day the Christian name made its vigilance can acquire. May twentieth, others on April twen­ entry into the world, having himself re­ This is very gratifying; but we want the tieth. A spurious reference in Theo­ ceived intelligence from Palestine of comments of our own city to join those of philus of Antioch, A.D. 190, and an in­ events which had clearly shown the BUT British cousins. terpolation in Hippolytus, A.D. 218, men­ truth of Christ's divinity, brought the SPLENDID ORCHESTRA AND VOCAL tion the festival of December twenty- matter before the Senate with his own ENTERTAINMENT fifth. Origen, the most patient Inves­ decision in favor of Christ. The Senate, Nicholas Oeconomacos, Director. tigator and most scholarly of the because it had not given the approval Both play and sing. Fathers—185-254—does not know the itself, rejected his proposal. Tiberius 6:15 to 8:15 P. M. 10:15 to 12:15 P. M. month or day of Jesus' birth, and says held to his opinion, threatening wrath that the desire to make a festival of it against all accusers of the Christians. HOTEL BUTLER CAFE is sinful. (Lev. Horn. VIII.) . . . . All these things Pilate did to •> •> •> Christ; and now a believer in his own Irenaeus, the pupil of Polycarp of convictions, he sent word of him to the Smyrna, born in A. D. 120, who became reigning Caesar, who was at that time Bishop of Lyons in 178, says: "Our Tiberius." TELL YOUR FRIENDS TO Lord was born about the forty-first year Where did this theologian and rhetori­ of the reign of Augustus." (Adversus cian find this story? Evidently in the Heresies, Bill. CXXI.) Augustus be­ pro-Christian work, of unknown origin came sole ruler of the Roman Empire and authorship, titled the "Acts of with the close of the triumvirate, when Pilate," a recension of which was later Antony was overthrown at Actium. in known as the "Gospel of Nicodemus." September. B. C. 31. Reckoned from A paragraph in chapter XXI of this this date, Jesus was born in the year gospel reads: "And Pilate wrote down A. D. 10. If calculated from the date all these transactions and placed all Augustus became a triumvir with An­ these accounts in the public records of tony aid LepldUB, in B. C. 48, it would his hall." This gospel was rejected, and appear that He was born in the year by rejection discredited, by the "Forty- IT. C. 2. four Bishops" who made up the New By the middle of the second century, Testament canon at the council of Carth­ Docetism had become a strong in- age, A. D. 397. ilueiice iii Christianity, the physical But Justin Martyr, A. D. 167, had .Tesns was giving way to a heavenly earlier referred to the "Acts of Pilate." Christ there was no birth, no cruci­ Recounting the prophecies which are fixion of a real body, no resurrection— held to foreshadow the birth, work and all was phantasm. There were Valen- crucifixion of Jesus, he says: "And tlnus, Bardesanes, Basilldes, Bfarcion, that these things did happen you can Tatian —great leaders every one, bolding ascertain from the 'Acts of Pontius this view. Docetism appeared in Pales­ Pilate.' " (Apology Chap. XXXV). There tine in Apostolic time. Says St. Jerome: was never discovered an authentic re­ "While tlie Apostles were still living on port, or record of these events coming earth, while the blood of Christ was from Pilate. The "Epistola Pilati," the still fresh in .ludea, the body of the "Paradosls Pilati," the "Mors Pilati," Lord was declared to be a phantasm." and the "Gospel of Nicodemus" were (Dialogue Adversus Lucifer.) productions of Christian origin and Marclon, about A. D. 130. begins his apocryphal. gospel "In ,,le fifteenth year of In his appeal to Emperor Antoninus Tiberius Caesar, Cod descended intrt I'ius and the Roman Senate in defense Capernaum, a city of Galilee. * * * • of Christianity, Justin tells them they This affirmation brushes aside the can verify the accounts relating to the nativity, boyhood and personality of birth of Jesus by looking up and ex­ jesus, but recognises the advenl of the amining the census, or enrollment pa­ SEATTLE'S FAVORITE HOTEL mystical Christ in A. D. 20. pers pertaining to the census, taken in Palestine by Quirinius. "Now there is New :: Can't Burn :: Scenic View *•* *•* *•* Headquarters for Business Men St. Ipnatius, second Bishop of Antioch, a village in the land of the Jews, thirty- about A. D. 110, was confronted by a five stadia from Jerusalem, in which A Home Away from Home for Tourists Jesus Christ was born, as you can ascer­ proup of Docetic Christians calling for tain also from the registers of the tax- historical facts touching the birth nf a PAGE SI X TY THE TOWN CRIER

ing made under Quirinius, your first bring us close to a birthday. But the lowers, believed in a heavenly Christ sus papers of the family of Jesus." Evi- procurator in Judea." (Apology Chap. historian Josephus says that Quirinius biit not a physical Jesus. Tertullian dently this eloquent priest, who later he­ XXXIV.) There is no evidence that came to Syria in the year A. D. 6-7, addresses the Marcionite Church in this came bishop of Constantinople, had in the emperor, or the senate, made such for the purpose of making this enrol­ characteristic manner: "Now, then, ye mind Justin's early appeal to the "cen- investigation. ment or census. (Antiquities B XVIII. dogs, whom the Apostle puts outside, sus papers" in his "Apology" already re- • • •> CII). History nowhere refers to an and who yelp at the God of truth, let t'ei red to. The Apology was widely read But what do we learn of the nativity earlier census. Again, St. Luke and us come to your various questions, by the Church Fathers. of Jesus by all we can find relating to St. Matthew say that Jesus was born "in These are the bones of contention which Now, let us at once come to the facts. this census? St. Luke says: "And it the days of Herod the Great." But the you are perpetually gnawing. . . . Is it The celebration of the birth of Jesus came to pass in those days that there secular history—Josephus—tells us that not well known that Sentius Saturninus was taken from M it hi a ism. Mithraism went out a decree from Caesar Au­ Herod died in the year B. C. 4. (An­ when governor of Syria caused a een- at Rome was Identified with the worship gustus, that all the world should be tiquities B XVII, CVII). Had Emperor sus to be taken in Judea? Consult these of the Sun. The chief festival of the taxed, and this tax was first made when Pius and the Roman Senate acted on documents and the family relationships sun-worshiping cults was held on l>e- Quirinius was governor of Syria, and Justin's suggestion and sought to square of Jesus can be established." (B II. cember twenty-fifth, celebrating the all went to be taxed, every one into his St. Luke's story of a nativity with con­ CV. and B IV. C XIX). No such docu­ new birth of the sun—after the winter own city. And Joseph also went up temporaneous history by referring to ments were ever discovered, much less solstice its journey northward begun. from Galilee, out of the city of Naza­ the pages of Josephus, or to the census consulted, though the early Church Thus the visible manifestation of Mithra reth, into Judea unto the city of David papers of Quirinius, they doubtless sought everywhere for such evidence. commemorated by the festival of the which is called Bethlehem, to be taxed would have been mystified by the dis­ Saturninus was governor of Syria In Xatalis Invicti Solis was transferred to with Mary, his espoused wife, being crepancies disclosed and have remained the years 8 and 7 B. C.—appointed in a celebration of the birth of Jesus. great with child. And so it was that confirmed in their disbelief. the twenty-third year of Augustus' vic­ (Cumont, Textes et Monuments figures while they were there the days were Tertullian in his treatise, "Adversus tory over Antony at Actium — but r,latit's aux mysteres de Mithra. And accomplished that she should be deliver­ Marcionen," refers to a census. Mar- there is no reference in history or secu­ "The Sovereign Sun.") ed." The Synoptist here appears to cion and his considerable body of foi- lar literature to such a census. While Palestine was in effect a Roman prov­ ince since Pompey had subdued Syria This was done at Kome about A. 11. and, in B. C. 61, entered Rome in ova­ 150, not by pontifical edict, nor by de­ THE CHRISTMAS GIFT tion with Aristolmliis 11, King of Judea. cree of church council, but gradually and captive in his train, still Octavion and furtively by the urgency of popular THAT'S WORTH WHILE the Roman Senate had in B. C. 37, made clamor acquiesced In by papal authority. Herod King of Judea, thus ceding to him A century earlier Tertullian had felt it the government of Palestine. Herod necessary publicly to denounce the iden­ was living at the time Saturninus was tification at Rome of Jesus with the sun governor of Syria and it is not at all god and affirmed: "Sol is not the Chris­ A Course in the probable that Rome would order a cen­ tian god." it was said in the pontificate sus taken in Judea during his reign. of Leo I (A. D. 440), that Christians at Kome. "standing on the door-steps of • • •> the Apostles' basilica, oriented their The author of the Gospel of the "In­ faces tO adore the rising sun." Ten fancy of Jesus Christ" in paragraphs years earlier, the tin-Christian PaustUS [V, V and VI, of Chapter 1, says: "In addressed St. Augustine thus: "You Seattle Business College the three hundred and ninth year of the have substituted your agapae for the era of Alexander, Augustus published sacrifices of the pagans, for their idols a decree that all persons should go into V1)ll|. martyrs whom you serve with like their own country to be taxed. honors. You appease the shades of the Where "Joseph therefore arose, and with dead with wine and feasts; you cele­ Mary, his spouse, went to Jerusalem brate the solemn festivals of the Gen- The "Green Hand" Becomes and then came to Bethlehem, that he and their calends and their solstices, A Practical, Competent, liis family might be taxed in the city and have retained their maimers with­ of his fathers. out alteration; nothing distinguishes you Business Man or Woman Able And when they came by the i f j , .ill the pagans except that you hold Mary confessed to Joseph that her time your assemblies apart from them." to Take a Commanding Place of bringing forth was come and she Confusion was natural enough. Both In the Modern World's Affairs could not go on to the city, and said, Mithra and .lesus were born in tbe grot­ Let us KO into this cave. . . .' " to; tlie shepherds broughl sifts and The "Para of Alexander" began with adored each at his birth; the "messen-

the year of the death of Alexander the Kers of Apollo" sang at the nativity of Great, B. C. 323, and long had vogue Mithra -angels at that of Jesus. Many over the Macedonian empire. The 309th of the rites of the primitive Church year of this era is equivalent to B. C. were found long to have been identified With Which Are 14. But who wrote the gospel of the with Mithraism. Affiliated "Infancy of Jesus Christ?" No one A birthday for Jesus had become a knows. It was in use in the second and necessity. Manlchaeism, to an extent. The Seattle School of Art third centuries. Kusebius, Athanasius, following the. traditions of Docetism. Paul T. Beygrau, Artist Epiphanlus and Chrysostom quote from was now calling for historical evidence and it. As we have already seen, St. Luke 0f a material or physical Jesus. Its 10th Floor Northern Bank The Seattle School of Archi­ refers to the census, or enrolment, tak- chief contention at this time—"Jesus Building en by Quirinius: "This tax was first 0jther was not born at all or w. tecture and Mechanical made when Quirinius was governor of phantom. The Godhead cannot have 4th Avenue and Pike Street Drafting Syria." In this, St. Luke and Josephus been born of a woman and made to suf- agree. It appears that, beginning with fer.'' this enrolment or census, ordered by ... .•. .•. Augustus, "that all the world shall be taxed," a regular census period of four­ The body of writing loosely known as teen years was adopted and followed by the "Talmud" makes reference to the succeeding emperors. birth of Jesus, but no date is given, and such references were not written until the second century. The Armenian Seattle Car and Foundry Co. Cyril, bishop of Jerusalem from A. I >. Christians would not consent to cele­ 350 to 386, seated upon his episcopal brate the birth of Jesus on December .»«. "Largest Car Shops west of the Rockies" •**• throne, within less than five miles of twenty-fifth. The Puritans of England Bethlehem, with Calvary lying in view persistently refused to recognize the M AM I \C1 I Kilts OF from his latticed window, sits down and Christian festival of this date, holding writes to Pope Julius at Rome, request- —and rightly—that it was pagan, Freight Cars Forgings and Castings ing His Holiness to assign the "true Pope Leo X (Giovanni de Medici), of date" of the Nativity—"from census an the popes perhaps the most scholar- Logging Trucks Upset Rods documents brought by Titus to Rome." ly, when among equals and confidants Julius, apparently ignoring the reference did not hesitate to speak of the inci­ Dump and Hand Cars Car Wheels to the census papers, urges Cyril to dents of tiie birth, resurrection and celebrate the Nativity on December 26th. ascension of Jesus as "the fairy tale of Write for Catalogue Cyril, however, did not introduce the Christ." Napoleon asked Herder if he- innovation at Jerusalem until in the had BUfficienl evidence to justify b».. General Offices 210-14 Alaska Building Seattle, U. S. A. year 385. Ileving that such an one as Jesus called Works at Renton. Wash. Chrysostom. in 386, endeavored to the Christ had ever lived. Bruno Bauer, unite the Christians of Antioch in Ol U while not denying the historicity of brating the Nativity on December twen­ .lesus, endeavors to show that Chris- ty-fifth, and in .justification to the "cen- tiantty was developed apart from Him. PACKS I X T V - ( ) X !•;

THE TOWN CRIER thai the conceptions of a "Heavenly contemporaneous history; the reference age .lesus had attained when crucified. data bearing upon the nativity and day Christ" and "Messiah" were Gnostic and by Hegesippus to the descendants of Irenaeus, expressing tlie extreme opin­ of the crucifixion, we find nothing. The later ascribed to Elim. He calls atten­ • hide, a brother of Jesus; the testimony ion, assures us that he died at an ad­ prophets do not tell us. The oracle of tion to the fact that the earliest of the of Irenaeus that he knew Polycarp and vanced age: "Now that the first stage Sibyl is silent. The Apostles appear not Fathers, notably Papias, Ignatius, I'oly- heard him speak of his association with of early life embraces thirty years, and to have known. The Church Fathers, in carp, Justin and Origen—derived their John, from whom he had learned of that this extends onwards to the fortieth touch with the Apostles, writing exten­ ideas of Jesus from the prophecies and Jesus and the Apostles, the tradition year, every one must admit; but from sively and dogmatically, are in disagree­ esteemed these above the "Memoirs of that Clement of Rome knew Paul per­ the fortieth and fiftieth year a man be­ ment, and the Gnostic Fathers are the Apostles." They developed to the sonally and from him learned of Peter gins to decline towards old age, which doubtful of both events. Out of all this utmost the doctrine of a Christ—the and the Nazarenes at Jerusalem—all our Lord possessed while he was still fog, ignorance and superstition Chris­ Logos, the Son of God; but neglected to these references to a Jesus of flesh and a teacher, even as the gospels and all tianity came forth, born of two widely tell us when Jesus was born. A very blood, which have supported the apolo­ the elders testify; those who were con­ divergent and anomalous conditions of respectable group of learned men, in gists of "liberal criticism" are attribut­ versant in Asia with John, the disciple mi.nd and heart—a superstitious ignor­ this country and Cermany, to an extent, ed to pro-Christian sources and held to of the Lord, affirmed that John conveyed ance and a burning love. But we shall taking the attitude of the early Doce- be iii no sense historical. to them that impression, and he (John) continue to celebrate Christmas day, tists and the later Manlchaeans, are • • • remained among them up to the time of careless of its origin. "We shall enter now asking for historical evidence of The members of this group, taking a Trajan (A. D. 9). Some of them, more­ into its enjoyments whether in doing the birth of Jesus. like attitude to that of the second cen­ over, saw not only John, but the other so we celebrate the nativity of Jesus Holding thi' paragraph in Josephus tury, are now shouting from the house­ apostles also, and heard the very same bearing testimony of Jesus to he an or the Natalis Invicti Solis. We may top of Xew Testament criticism: "The accounts from them and bear testimony with Pascal hesitate between our doubts interpolation made early in the fourth gospels are symbolic only." They say as to the validity of the statements. century; the page in the "Annals" of born of the reason, and our faith begot­ to us, as did the early Docetists to St. . . . . He did not then want much of ten by hope. Perhaps some will go with Tacitus, testifying of the crucifixion of Ignatius: "I'nless in the Archives it being fifty years old." (Adversus Here­ Jesus, was not written until three quar­ him farther and in moments of exalta­ can be found, for in the gospels we do sies nil. CXXII.) tion say—touching the mysticism in ters of a century had elapsed, and its not believe it.'- Christianity: "It is all mirage—still I matter derived from Christian sources There was. as well, great diverge nee and nol from public documents or from of opinion among the Fathers as to the When we seek reliable and specific will go to mass!"

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Our Drivers BRCHANT PRINCE lean­ majuscules across the enter of tiie ed to one side of the desk sheet; while the last, neatly, modestly Are experienced and trustworthy mar­ M at which he sat enthroned capitalized, drew the eye to the corner and pressed one of the of the lower righl hand. lie leaned ried men. numerous electric buttons back, .satisfied but swiftly leaning for­ that served as a summons ward again, he wrote over the center to his department managers, line the words, ••diminish by date." who dared not enter the Then he pressed with a thumb of char­ sacristy of this god of a acter the electric button that connected great commercial machine without com­ with the advertising department. Our Rates mand. • • • Enthroned: that and no other word That annunciator, as was Intended, Are reasonable and accurate—computed conveys the significance of his swivel set uii an insistent ringing in many : chair from which peremptory orders minds for davs. In the mind of Miss by a taximeter. were wont to issue to tlie four corners Mattie Prentice, sitting alone in ber of the earth; for this palace of tempta­ room in a lodging-house in the old. n, tion and merchandise, which had germ­ lected, once fashionable quarter, it rang ed in a corner huckstery of notions, rep­ through life. resented luit one—though the most Fa­ For to .Miss Mattie, lur daily paper Our Service mous—of his achievements in finance, was as daily bread; she read it each lie was a small man, notwithstanding morning as religiously as she read her his bulking so huge in the eyes of a i k of common prayer on Sunday, find­ Is prompt and dependable twenty-four constituency that he had built up with ing journalism as satisfying to her an extolled adroitness that clothed him down-to-date old soul as the tine liter­ hours per day. with every virtue needed by him, in his ary flavor of that much-esteemed polen­ day and generation—small, as a pocket- ta of Anglican politics and piety. pistol is small, trig, elegant and potent; Nothing escaped her, not even the ad- ' an impression intensified by the perfect vertisements. nor the society slush cut of his gun-metal gray business suit, through which she splashed gleefully, MAIN 65QO his virile iron gray hair and the quick, Names that meant nothing to the gen­ metallic gleam of his steady gray eye. eral reader were to her avenues and by- llis domestic life—if one absolutely Ways of speculative interest, and she wedded to trade can ever have known followed their later runnings with an such—had been a series of tragi avidity that was both pathetic and fu­ Whicb he had sustained with th.' same tile, for though about the last of it, Seattle Taxicab & Transfer cool calm that invested him when deal­ she came of the old Prentice stock t: ing with a matter of money; Indeed, that had been a power in the beginnings of men and women were but merchandise :, citj thai was getting so big as to be Company of another sort had been so long his chaotic She felt it Incumbent on },, creed that the falling away of those to keep abreast of the times so she 123 JACKSON STREET nearest to him, the disgrace of some, read her paper religiously; and every I were but the casualties of lives that had item that attacked her special Interest touched his, and for which he vv:is re­ she clipped and laid aside. sponsible but financially. His business Then, too. Miss Mattie's newspaper life had heen a triumph for which be represented an extravagance to be jus­ held himself solely responsible, and the tified only bv getting the whole good of perfection of his poise was such that it—one of her methods of making both the pedestal on which he stood—the ends meet, to her a disturbing but nev­ masterly manipulation of men—no long­ er distressing problem. for the ends er claimed his consideration. Xo one never did meet, had not for years, and Outdoor Advertising could say that he had ever •< i n af< I only her honesty and her hidden ,; chant Prince moved. The man stood privations kept her just comfortably alone—the leader of his class only en­ debt. 'I'he very small income which she vied for his capacity, respected in the enjoyed enjoyed is the word lack,.,] Forcible same degree. greater and greater elasticity with tii^ • • • passing years, and Miss Mattie could Far-reaching Within the past t went y- four hours, a only she never would—have told yovi trusted physician had warned him that all about the increased cost of living his exit from life would in all human very simple, unchanging life. But not probability be a hurried one. He hail a life of loneliness. The infallible method of spent the greater part of this morning *a* *•* *a* rough-drafting a will, setting his house She had seen richer days none hot­ in order with neither charity, malice ter, for she had accumulated all sorts of mental furniture that provided her with / so impres.sing your mes­ nor the hypocritical pose of philan­ a happy easement that no mere material thropy; perpetuating his name by a chattels could afford. Middle ago she great bequest to the municipality, and had left unite, quite behind her—youth. sage on the public that conserving the colossal residue of his never: and she had no memory ot' fortune to the last drop of his blood physical weakness to record. ITad she within the limits of tlie law he had a steady demand for your possessed such a conversational treas­ scoffed at, before final division. ure her breeding would have forbidden In quite the same spirit he had turn­ the mention of it. Her acquaintance ed from so tremendous a personal af­ commodity varied with her days; and the size of it fair to a mere detail of business which constantly increased, as she had keen a subordinate might well have man­ observation and a retentive memory is the aged. But when an idea took possession Her self-prepared egg and coffee she / of this master of commerce, who con­ shared with hei- ever entertaining news­ sidered the arts and sciences but serv­ paper; her morning hours and many 0f inevitable consequence ants of trade, he worked it out so clear­ her afternoons were passed al art mu« ly that no subordinate need blunder— tuns, tbe library and places that ber commit a crime. All morning, despite paper suggested as worthy of visitation his concentration in the more moment­ nt rates that squared with her enforced ous matter, this comparatively infinites­ economy: luncheon she had relinquish.- imal item had obsessed him. He lost ,.,l as quite unnecessary; but dinner. ( himself in the execution of it at once. event of her day, became generally a Foster & Kleiser On his desk lay a large, clean sheet pleasant little festival to any man of white paper, nearly square lie drew woman so fortunate as to share 1-. it towards him, smoothed it, and then, table :,t the small restaurant she t' taking up a heavy, flat, carpenter's pen­ 8th and Virginia quented. One such recalls her well ami cil, he printed three lines upon its fair the mischief in ber eyes as she said: surface: the first line appeared in fair ••When I come t.i make my will. I ai sized capi.tals at the upper left-hand going to leave Becky Sharp that t. corner; the second marched in ma !• ,\ i: io s i X T r-THR io io THE TOWN CRIER

thousand • year she needs to make her verb anent gift horses and their mouths honest and happy; poor vagrant soul!" which served her in good stead when it "That would be another story," was came to the duty of writing her grace­ the amused rejoinder. ful little acknowledgments, a burden "Now, wouldn't itv Becky with her that bore another phase, for the ex­ The Quality qf ten thousand would be delicious!" penditure for stamps between Christ­ "And honest'.'" mas and the IOpiphany always confront­ "I said delicious." And the old eyes ed her as an additional, considerable gave that mischievous glance recorded, item, then veiled themselves, as she looked down at her salad. "Oh, dear! Everything had to be con­ Gold Shield Coffee She met all sorts of people delight- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^sidered; and here it is almost Thanks^- fully and she delighted in all sorts of giving and not one of my own gifts ar Most of them she never met ranged for." MAMMA.PAM AND EVEWBOinrUKE BOTH Of tBtAUSEWEARE but once, but she had only to step out- This startling thought came to the "ALWAYS"600D. side the door with her welcoming man- pleasant soul as she sat down to her Has ner to find someone who cared to con- toast and coffee—eggs having aero- verse with her. It is doubtful if she planed out of her morning menu—and ' Vl ' ll""'1 anv °t these chance, name- opened her paper. There in the heart Won Favor hss to her, intimates; and without being of it staring her out of countenance, curious or particularly sympathetic she giared a great dead-white page made in all appeared so interested that she fre­ living with three lines of type. "Do quently became the recipient of confi­ Your Christmas Shopping Early," ad­ dences that might more properly have monished the first line; "Only Thirty Homes come to a father confessor. Miss Mattie shopping Days Between Today and was never bored; she had too many Christmas!" warned the ringing line of •>«. wonderful things to think about. tin- center; and from this the eye rapid­ •*«• ly traveled to the quiet suggestion: i«0lD» Now there were any number of peo­ "The Merchant Prince Company" on the ISjl •: "Al •JSfl ple in her city well aware of Miss Mat- lower right-hand corner. Miss Mattie, iSsMWAYsiSssi "Always" Good tie's existence, people upon whom she ]ike manv another that morning, began SSasV JsSsf' had a definite social claim; people who thi„i

she compared most of them with their stj], feoiing that she had plenty of fathers and mothers, her contemporaries. tjm(, >he went about the matter leisure- And though she saw little of them, or ]y thoUgh every morning Merchant they of her, her personality was such p^nce admonished and warned her, and as never to he forgotten. The kindest (,v(,ry morning she heeded the warning of these- friends would as soon have of- wit,,'out disturbance, as Rastignac no "Washington" fered her a snub as the assistance that doubt djl] thl. shagreen Skin in the days her gentle dignity disguised her need of. n)- hjs ,.aI.]v possession of it. But one and she managed her manners so per- tnoI.lljn„- ,he annunciator rang: "Only Hoisting fectly that no one ever thought of the Ton Days'" and Miss Mattie began to management that she had bestowed on con.i(U.r ways and means. her scant and nearly shabby wardrobe. Mt,m^ were considered in a moment Equipment Xo one ever thought of Miss Mattie's ,w] dismissed as being really nothing clothes; they thought of Miss Mattie. tQ think about Ways?—"If only Mrs. ()ffers many advantages to the The legend that she had been left well . . -. y the laundress, would pay M l( ( Hth contractor who sees the sure saving provided for, and that her mode of liv- ba(,k that little loan—if? But how could ing was an eccentricity, gained and held the poo'r woman do the impossible! No. in reducing costs by efficient ma­ a credence that no act or word of hers jt was not tl) 1)(. counted on for a mo- chinery. tended to shake; nor did one of these ment.'. clearly ways and means dwin- frlends realize that "Aunt Mat," as they dled into Gne. "And T shall not," said ELECTRIC HOIST—Built for general affectionately called her, was simply Mjss M.lttio to the radiator, "I shall not contractors' needs; easily portable; hanging on to the life she so loved and *pn(j picture cards! Why even cards, fitted with new friction, powerful enjoyed by the skin of her teeth. brakes and winch heads. this year!—" No, these people of her class did not Thus did Miss Mattie Prentice, the SWINGING ENGINE—An independent forget Miss Mattie, nor did they of pur- generous, and Miss Mattie Prentice, the engine designed for swinging derricks. pose neglect her; for when weddings n.strk,ted, reason together. And finally Many points of advantage over swing­ and births occurred she received tin wh(,n Mjs's Mattie Prentice, the prudent, ing attachment on hoisting engine. A customary conventional announcements; made her Christmas resolution for 1912, wonderful time saver. and she attended funerals with that she fortified her courageous common "Washington" service does not end with bearing of festive melancholy which is sPnse 1)V saving aloud: "The beauty of i tlie sale of a machini—every engine car­ peculiar to old women of a certain rh,.istmas lias gone out of it. It has ries the "Washing-ton" guarantee of philosophy. Her Christmas mail bulk- come to be an absurd intolerable bur- satisfactory service. - ed quite prodigious—bromidical cards den EXCept to Mrs. MacCartliy's chil- Put your hoisting problems up to us. in the main and mailable bizarrerie re- dren Mr Milk and the postman. I shall Pond for detailed description of dolent of church bazaars, articles that mak('. *uo presents at all!" Then she this and other hoisting apparatus. the makers of, no doubt, thought accept- said ]n.r prayers and went to bed. able offerings to the sustenance of the I'.ut the morning came—and with the WASHINGTON IRON WORKS cause of the Almighty, but which were morning, the newspaper: "Nine days!" SKAT'l I.I; humorously unnecessary to the needs of "No, I shall not even go into the Zimmerman-Wells-Brown Co., Miss Mattie Prentice. •hops!" exclaimed Miss Mattie to the Portland—Acts, for Oregon And old Mattie, having trained her- coffee pot. Another morning—"Seven Western Equipment Po.. self to the appreciation of the beautiful Days!!" Another—"Six!!!" "Really, it San Fra.ieiseo. Cal. and having a subtle sense of tin- fitness is absurd that I should neglect getting Agents for California. of things as a birthright, received the a pair of shoes because of a whim," she ! trumpery with a gratitude sandwiched Molded, "I'll go down to Merchant with laughter. She had a homely pro- Prince's anil buy them this morning." NwiiiKiiiK Engine «'ontinued on page 11. PAGE SIXTY-POUF THE TOWN CRIER

The Gifts of the Spirit (Continued fr oin Page 63.) Xow. if there is such a tiling as a sanctum receiving his manager's report SAN JUAN festival for elderly females, it is calen­ of the preceding day. Miss Mattie Pren­ dared to cover tlie last few days be­ tice, for the flrst, last and only time, fore Christmas. At no other time do old claimed his attention. ladies so permeate the shops, and at no "The woman was not an ordinary- FISHING & PACKING Shop are they so courteously treated as shoplifter, then?" he asked. at the splendid store of the Merchant "Xo, sir; I think not. She had noth­ Prince Company. Indeed, "Courtesy is ing upon her " the Best Policy" might well have been •Well, what was her scheme?" COMPANY the motto of the house. And among •I can't imagine. She had her pur­ the old ladies, her beautifully delicate chase ticket tilled out correctly and the INCORPORATED lingers caressing a rosepoint collar, thirty items she bought wore ordered stood Miss Mattie at the lace counter. delivered on the same day to some twen­ ty or so different places." "You have a charge account?" Inquir­ ed the saleswoman, to whom serving this ••Nave you the list?" Judge of fine laces had heen a relief from "Here it is, sir." the ignorance that she but too frequent­ Merchant Prince scanned the memo­ ly had to suffer politely. randum of the people whom Miss -M a t- Wholesale Dealers, Packers and Shippers of "Oh, dear no!" replied Miss Mattie. ,i,. had so beautifully, so bountifully re­ "I would never allow myself such a membered. He recognized almost every temptation. I'll take a purchase ticket. name on it, as did his manager. Fresh, Frozen, Salt, if you please, and pay for everything "(if course none of these goods have at once. Saves BO much time, you know. been packed," he said. Smoked and Canned And with this list—" "Xo; they were not to be delivered "You will be lucky to get through until Christmas eve." with it today." smiled the saleswoman. "(lifts. Perhaps, Morrison, the wom­ "What is the address?" an m ould have paid." "That is very Important Oh, I'll get •Hardly, sir; 1 have inquired. She FISH through: 1 know what I want. You lived quite poorly and her shoes, sir will hold it for delivery until the day before Christinas?" "Her shoes!" All Small Fish in Season "Of course: if ymi desire us to." "Her feet were about on the ground, "Desire it? Certainly I desire it. I sir. But she was a lady." want to surprise her. Send it to Mrs. ••| should judge s.i by her friends." Constance Wltherspoon, 1200 Granl •About the best people ill town, sir." place." "The best." "And your name?" THe manager turned to go; his report "Prentice NO, not Mrs.. Miss Miss in, and the Interview apparently closed. Mattie Prentice, line Main street," and H,. halted a moment. Miss Mattie accepted her purchase tick­ "] think the lady could not have been SEATTLE WASH. et, thanked the gratified saleswoman quite quite " and moved swiftly away. He hesitated. •> •> •> ••What makes you think that?" asked Prom department to department she Prince, sharply. adventured with a gay heart, shining "Why, sir, she had carefully folded eyes and Hushed cheeks, purchasing together iii her shopping bag twenty- COStly and charming gifts, taking the four <>!' Our full page Christmas ads people behind the counters into her con­ ,,,,,. |-,,r every day since " fidence as to the suitability of her pur­ •a >,i,i:" chases, and accenting their suggestions "YeS, the oddest evel"." And then tho with such a communicating enthusiasm manager said briskly: "I'll order tho that the pre-holiday fag left them and H. L. BENNETT fOOdS back in stock tit once." they almost felt like donors themselves. And as her happy day drew near to its •Wait a moment, Morrison." close, Miss Mattie, grasping her pur­ a% »•« «% V %* "•* BOX FACTORY chase ticket and her not yet completed 'Phe manager lingered as instructed. Christmas list to her breast, underwent Prince walked over to the window and INCORPORATED a total collapse. looked out. With his back still turned She, who had never known a day's to his employe, he issued an order: sickness, who had always stood so in­ "You will go to the stationery depart­ dependently upon her brave little feet, ment and have a plain, handsome ear.i became in a moment a burden to be engraved conveying the best wishes of home, without Hurry and with that de­ Miss Mattie Prentice for a Merry Christ­ cency and order for which the manage­ mas. Vim will have one of these s ment of the Merchant Prince Company- cards enclosed with each gift the lady is noted, into the silence room main­ purchased, and the deliveries made De- tained for the resting of overwrought cember 24th, as originally ordered." customers. The quickly summoned store "Yes, sir." physician merely said: "The heart;" :: Manufacturers of all kinds of :: "YOU will charge the whole expense made a memorandum of the episode to the advertising department." He and left the woman who had gone out of life in the midst of it, to silence and faced about. "And. Morrison." Wooden Boxes rest. "Ves. sir." Merchant Prince sat enthroned in his "Forget it." D-

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