The Tacoma times. [volume], February 02, 1916, Page 5, Image 5

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Wednesday, V*o. % 1916.
At the Apollo
QUESTIONS THEY WRITE TO
CYNTHIA GREY--HER ANSWERS
Q —While employed for the Standard Oil company In
Shanghai, China, 1 was married to a Chinese girl. This girl
• was educated in a mission and could speak Knglish fluently.
When I gave up my position and came home, she refused to come
with me.
I have been home about two years, and during that time I
have kept company with a very nice girl whom 1 love. This
girl also loves me, because she-has told me so. She also knows
of my relations with this Chinese girl. I was married to the
* latter by a priest, which is the Chinese custom of marriage.
There is no license required or a marriage certificate given in a
Chinese marriage.
Now, what I want to know is, would this marriage be con
sidered legal in the I'nited States? If so, could 1 get a divorce
through the courts of the United States? If not, could they
hold me for bigamy If I married this American girl without a
divorce? Please answer at once. ONE IN TROUBLE.
A.—lf your marriage was valid In China at the time the cere
mony was performed, in all probability It would he considered legal
In «he I'nited States. You could very easily" obtain a divorce upon
the grounds of desertion.
Q. —I am a girl 18 years old. Last summer I met a young
man who seemed to think quite a bit of me. He had asked me
out a number of times, and I, like most of girls do, just "took
possession of him." After a time he began to t«reat me Indiffer
• ently and tlien went away, not even saying good-bye. I did not
know he w-as going until after he had gone. He has been away
quite awhile now, and is soon coming back, so his sister says.
My question is: How shall I treat biin when lie comes back
so as to gain Ills resjicct? It will be necessary for me to meet
him often as his sisters and 1 are great friends. 1 want to win
back his respect—well, really nmre than I have ever wanted to
.do anything before. I don't hardly dare own to myself how
much this means to me. Will you please answer thhi letter as
soon as possible? YOl'R ADMIRER,
A.—Before I attempt to advise you, 1 cannot refrain from point
ing out toother girN the good IMSM In your ex**erienre which pnives
a that "familiarity breeds contempt."
You can beet correct this young; man's Impression of you by
wrappl'iK all of the reserve and modesty of g_*-k_Mi about you and
CONFESSIONS
OF A WIFE
I AM AFRAID MY Ml CHOIXMJY IS MLYKR
There it is, little book, you can- I believe that because our souls
not help seeing what tragedies are still growing, we still suffer
men make for themselves and the agony of "growing pains"
those who love them, when they I wonder if I can ever still this
blithely think they are only exact- heartache by analyzing it?
■ing a joyous little comedy that The only thing I know is that
will help to fill for an hour, a I have never done so yet.
day, a week or a month their The only anaesthetic for un
lives with joy. happiness is to put thought to
It Is the fashion today, to say »1«P *** hard work
"life is a joke." If this be so, * believe 1 will go back to teach
then it is one of those bitter jokes ln& school I wonder if I could
that burns the tongue of the one write—really write so that any
who utters it and the ears of the one but you little book, would ha
one who hears and the heart of Impressed with it?
the one who heeds. Oh, little book, I w sh I could
.... .it.,. . 1,1 __._t.i-. „-_._._ write something which would
• What Eliene told me this morn- ( . ause ****** me _B and womeu t0
lng made me so discouraged with think and gQ quletly about the
my own case. adjusting of their differences of
Her grief and hurt s just as inion and outlook on ufe .
great today as it was eight years v a , wayg geemed t0 m
a *"°- . , . that those who dipped into the
I wonder why people are al- T& of nfe brought out
ways saying "you take fe too U)e gordid , wlsh T coul( , wrUe
Seriously. 1 believe, little book , fle h d ,
that almost all the trouble in de „ tand that Uipre can bo j
the world Is caused because we bottom-of the cup. if
don t take ourselves and life seri- m but m|x the . )otlon carefully
ously enough. .and let love first touch the brim
Had Harry taken himself ser - woudel . , Dk , k _. 1U fo „ ow hU
ously—or looked upon lite M ser - , d , and t , t dto
ous, he never would put himself rae?
In a position where he might (Continued Tomorrow.)
.make his children pay for his
frivolity—never have left them
_.iegi. hMau a gB h. °f tears that he REFERENDUM ON
Little book, my friends say I _ --_.--.„ m _ ,_
--think too much about myself and SEAMEN S LAW
life, but if Dick had thought about
himself and his life, today we WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 2.
/night be happy instead of miser- —The advisability of remodel
abie. ,n X the seamen's act will be left
When I taught my pupils "Life to the states of the Union. Ques
ts real, life is earnest" I did not tlonaries will be sent to commer
then realize how true the words cial bodies throughout the coun
of the poet were, or I would have try and to prominent European
tried to explain a little further and South American cities.
and make them understand, that **** :
reality and earnestness did not THA Biff *T>(\ pf ATT
necessarily mean surrender of **"LH«W IU XMjj*. X
•Joy or happiness—indeed, if un- PIANO OR ORGAN
derstood that reality and earnest- -o-ar » vpm VATTViI
ness make for Joy and happiness, *-***, ***** ******** BvUM
It is only when we deny the real- A. Detroit musician has invent-
Ity and cease being earnest that ed a wonderful new system which
we always "corns a cropper." enables any person or little ohlld
The human soul must be only to learn to play the piano or or
a rudimentary thing after all, for fan In an hour or two.
•as yet It can aspire to things lm- Bend us your name and address
possible of attainment and hope on a postal oard or In a letter,
for perfect joy which Is as yet and we shall send you our guide
only a figment of the lmaglna- and three sheets of muilo, abso
tion. lately free of charge.
I believe, little book, that the Address: Numeral Method Mil
•oul of woman is bigger than that slo Co., IB2K Trussed C _c__te
it man. Building, Detroit, Mioh.
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Scene From "Children of Eve"
i meeting him Just half way. Too many girls Ignore this half-way
boundary line and find themselves In the embarrassing |Histtlon you
now fin-e. Let your greeting be cordial and cheery, but do not up
liear too eager for his attention- L«>t him make the advances. A
girl is never out of place if she remains on the safe side of the fence.
Let the mail do the climbing-over stunt.
Q. —If parents are separated and each married again and
their son has left home and is making his own way in the world,
must he obtain the consent of these parents in order to marry If
he is not quite of age? ENQUIRER.
... —He would have to obtain the consent of either i ji.iiit In
order to marry, provided the court did not appoint n guardian. In
case of the latter, he would gain ''• •• ''invent of the guardian.
Q. —One question 1 askeo ,\. i, i liave not yet seen ah answer
to, and it is very important to me. 1 was engaged to a nice girl,
but my mother insisted that I break the engagement. I love
the girl and she says she will always love me. Do you think it
would he advisable for us to elope and keep our marriage a
secret? R. S.
A.—l.ecuiise practically the same question was answered In an
other letter a few weeks ago, your letter wiis not printed in order to
avoid reiietltion. .An average of (10 letters each day are received in
this departnieiit and it Is Impossible to print all of them. For this
reason a number of correspondents are bound to feci slighted unless
nelf-a<l<li e>sed siiimin. 1 envelope Is inclosed lor private reply.
Now. as to your question: Secret marriage* are never satisfac
tory, and very often roMilt in serious complications for parties con
cerned. If rtm and the girl are of age, you are ol<| enough to know
your own minds and can marry regardless of your parents or others.
If you are MM of a.;e, it will prove to be far better in the lon^t run to
wait until you can legally marry.
Miss Grey will mett callers at The Times office
only on Wednesday from 11 a. m. to Bp. in. At all
other times she will answer queries through this col
umn or by mail, provided a stamped envelope is en
closed.
Dance the Pan-American
; 1916'S PATRIOTIC BALLROOM NOVELTY
How to Dance It Shown by Photographs Especially Posed for The
Time* by Miss Almee Ehrlich and Robert Henri.
LESSON NO. '_.
(Danced to Victor Herbert. Famous "Pan-Americana,")
Starting In position shown in the photograph above, take eight
syncopated walking steps, ending with two two-steps turning and two
more in line of direction. Repeat all.
LESSON NO. 8 WILL BE PRINTED IN THK TIMES TOMORROW
THB TAOOMA TLMEh
Mary Pickford
At the Colon a!
Her Mall Runs the Gamut of Hu
man Emotions; Love, Pathos,
Happiness, Tragedy and Tears.
NOW THE LITTLE BEAR GOES INTO THE MOVIES
LIBERTY PRESENTS VIOLA
DAM IN STARTLING DRAMA
Viola Dana, the charming Edi
son star, opened at tha Liberty to
day in one of her greatest dramas,
"Children of Eve," a five part
Kleim. Kdtson feature.
In the role of "Fifty-Fifty
Mamie," a notorious underworld
character, Miss Dana portrays the
girl of loose morals, then the
chastened woman, and finally the
earnest locla] worker and investi
gator.
Fute decrees that she shall per
ish in a great factory fire, but
ordains tlmt her father, wealthy,
and owner of the factory, standing
DOUBLE COMEDY BILL COMES
TO THE APOLLO THURSDAY
"Fatty and Mabel Adrift," guar- ed by such well known and able
a'nteed to be the screamiest of all performers as George Vivian, Miss
motion picture screams, three Vivian Blackburn and Geraldine
reels of such rollicking fun that O'Brien.
audiences everywhere ifre report- The strong drama "The Final
ed convulsed with laughter, has Judgment," in which Ethel Bar
leen booked as the added rymore has been thrilling Apollo
tion at the Apollo opening Thiirs- patrons during the week, will
day to run for three days, with close tonight. Intense situations,
"Excuse Me," the breezy comedy- an unusual plot and admiralilo
drama by Ruper Hi'ghes. acting make "The Final Judg
"Kxcnse Me" is a rip-roaring ment" a drama long to be remem
comed. -drama in five parts play- bered.
MOVIE GOSSIP
RY .BUDDIE FILM
No one seems to know anything
about Charlie Chaplin. He Isn't
appearing in any new plays, and
even most of his old ones have
been taken off the market. He
is shrouded in Impenetrable mys
tery.
Charlie recently completed a
contract with Essanay. That
company has at least three of his
comedies completed, but will not
release them. It is believed that
Chaplin is starting a company of
his own, and that Essanay is
waiting to flood the country with
Its last Chaplin films the min
ute that he sends out his first
release.
• • •
CHICAGO, Feb. 2.—"What do
you do with all your old films?"
a reporter asked a motion picture
magnate.
"Sell 'em to the allies. They
make em Into nitroglycerine,"
the movie man replied.
» ♦ *
Henry Walthall, premier Es
sanayite, studied law in Birming
ham, Ala., but gave It up to en
list in the Spanish-American
war. After the war he decided
to become an actor.
The Balboa company spent
$5,000 in dispensing Christmas
cheer among its workers. Fifty
of the finest Swiss watches were
distributed among employes who
had been with the firm over two
years. No discrimination was
shown. Stars and janitors were
treated alike.
TACOMA'S FIRST
PHYSICIAN DIES
Dr. H. C. Bostwick, 84, Taco
ma's first physician, died yester
day at Vancouver, Wash. Dr.
Bostwick settled in this city in
1871!. He built the Bostwick
building at 9th and Broadway.
He left Tacoma shortly after the
panic of 1893.
SEE THE EDISON DRAMA
"Children of Eve"
Featuring
1 VIOLA DANA
A wonderful story of New York's under
world. Miss Dana as a notorious East Side
character holds the audience in a tense grip
throughout the entire picture of 5 parts.
10c—LIBERT Y-»sc
beside her maimed and burned
form, shall learn from her litis her
identity. Daughter of a woni:m
whom he had known when a
young man and who had sacrificed
herself for him, he never knew of
the child's existence until a mo
ment before she died, a victim of
bis carelessness and policy of
cheap child labor and money
greed. Until that minute he had
known her only as a once dlsso
lute sin-bowed girl, cherishing an
overpowering pure love for his
nephew, which lie had thwarted
by deceit anil trickery.
LITTLE MARY
IS GREAT IN
"FOUNDLING"
With a sweet simplicity and a
natural method of depicting the
wistful and lovable charaoter of
"The Foundling," Mary Pickford
tugs constantly at the heart
st rings at the Colonial theater this
week. As the foundling. Miss
Pickford is presented us a child
spurned by her father, an impov
erished artist, because her birth
has caused the death of her moth
er. Unable to tolerate the sight
of the babe that had caused his
wife's death ho gives it to a
stranger, who in turn transposes
it to an orphanage.
Years pass and the babe grows
to be a beautiful girl but her life
is one of misery and loneliness.
Her father has achieved a name
for himself In Europe but realizes
that fame is nothing without love
and is seeking his lost daughter.
After many curious twists of fate,
the two are united again, forming
a happy climax to a wonderful
picture.
MORE ABOUT
THAT MOVIE
STAR PU2ZLE
Are you taking advantage of
the special announcement made
yesterday regarding the movie
puzzle, folks?
Realizing that the puzzle was
probably a little more difficult
than we had at first believed, we
are amending it by permitting
you to send in four or five fin
ished pictures Instead of the en
tire six.
Of course, someone may get all
six pictures correct, but there are
10 prizes to be given away and
you may get In one one of them.
The puzzle consisted of six pho
tographs of Fox stars, appearing
exclusively at the Melbourne the
ater, which had been cut Into
pieces, and the parts assembled to
WAY TO MAKE UP
MOVIES AT HOME
These pictures, if you follow simple instructions printed lierewil
i ill make a life-like "pocket movie" of the little bear in action.
Carefully clip the row of numbered pictures.
11.
Secure strip of THIN, white cardboard or heavy white paper, 16
Inches long by iV4 inches deep.
IH.
Paste tlie strip of pictures carofully to the cardboard and allow
time to dry.
IV.
Then trim edges smooth and cut each numbered square out sep
arately, following the dotted lines.
V.
Assemble the mounted squares together in a bunch—according
to number.
VI.
Place rubber band tightly around the base of bundle- Then hold 4
base of bundle firmly in left hand and run right thumb rapidly over
top of pictures BEGINNING AT THE FRONT OR NUMBER ONE.
Important—Use either mucilage, library paste or mix your own
paste of flour and water to proper consistency.
Also, be sure and trim all your cards exactly the same _tfM in
order to get the best results.
form six nils-mated pictures. It
is up to the mlvie fans to reas
semble tlio pictures and label
them properly. If you can't get
them all correct, send In the pic
tures you have finished, anyway.
The time limit on the puzzle
has been extended to Friday aft
ernoon. Prize winners will be
announced Saturday.
BIG BILL AT
MELBOURNE
Mary_ I'lckford's classical com
edy drama, "Lena and the Geese,"
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gjaj as being at her best in "The Foundling." S__i
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jSS. Tjatest news pictures from everywhere by ;^
the Paramount News Pictures.
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opened a two-day engagement at
tlio Melbourne today. It was pro
duced uiiiler direction of D. W.
Griffith, the famous movie di
rector.
"The Pitfall," in four parts, is
the dramatic feature of the new
bill. Mary Sals and True Board
man are featured. It Is a gam
bling story, with several scenes
lakeii at Monte Curio.
"The Miser's Sacrifice," west
ern meln-dramn, and a cartoon
comedy complete the big program.
TIRN TO THE CLASSIFIED
WANT ADS ON PAOE 7 FOR
RESULTS. BKB PAOE HIM,