SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY
OF SEWARD, ALASKA
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MARITAL UNHAPPINESS.
Rev. J. W. Graves, of Clarksburg,
W. Va., breaks into print in a disser
tation on the divorce evil, and winds
up with much well-meaning advice to
the unluckily married man or woman.
While we believe that divorces are too
common, we would like to see a law
passed allowing the unhappily mated
secure a divorce as easily as they
were married. A simple appearance
before a maagistrate, with the written
agreement of both to live apart, should
be all that is necessary to sever the
tie that blisters as well as binds.
Divorce many times is the only re
lief of mismated couples. There is no
more reason why people should live
together if they are unsuited temper
mentally than there is that any other
partnership should be perpetual.
We will assume that the Reverend
adviser is one of the happily mar
ried; that he knows how to make a
living, and that his wife is a good
cook. If this a requisite of a happy
married life he is governed by his
head and his stomach, and not by any
affection for his life partner, who may
be weary of the marriage ties, and
yet too polite to hurt the feelings of
so exemplary a citizen.
Marriage may be a sacrament, but
these are the happy marriages, where
a couple goes down life’s pathway to
gether, the bond of life being con
stantly strengthened by personal sac
riflice. But wrhat of the unhappy,
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
W. D. Coppernoll
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT
LAW
Will Practice in All Courts of the
Territory
SEWARD, ALASKA
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DENTIST
Dental and General
X-RAY WORK
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Phone Mad. 108 - - - Seward, Alaska
Dr. J. A. Baughman
Physician and Surgeon
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Phone Madison 90. Seward, Alaska
Hugh Dougherty
FURNISHED HOUSES FOR RENT
Real Estate and Insurance
Business Phone Adams 152
Residence Phone, Madison 58
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ATTORNEY AT LAW
Office in Benson Building
PHONE MADISON 114
degrading marriages? They surely
cannot be laid to the Lord, who doeth
all things well. He cannot be made
to shoulder His mistake, so why not
rectify it through human agencies?
“TREAT ’EM ROUGH.”
One of our English cousins com
plaining that the young men of today
are being dominated by the suppos
edly weaker sex, is broadcasting an
appeal for the regaining of trousered
supremacy, and suggests that the best
way to accomplish this is for our
youthful striplings to grow whiskers—
if they are already not too effeminite
foi<( this strictly male accomplishment.
While it is undoubtedly true that
domination by the female sex is on
the increase, we do not believe that it
is because the young men of today
are becoming feminized. Rather is it
that the young women are becoming
more masculine, in looks, actions and
accomplishments. But—glory be to
Dame Nature!—there is one thing the
girls cannot do. They can’t grow
whiskers! And in this strictly mas
culine attribute we men may vet find
our. way out of the bondage into which
we have unwittingly permitted our
selves to be led.
Young man, grow whiskers! Not the
soft, silky kind effected by some of
our movie shieks, Tmt the wiry, brist
ling, corkscrew kind that make a typ
ical Russian Bolshevik look as if he
ate a keg of ten-penny nails for his
breakfast. Never mind about keep
ing them neatly trimmed! Let ’em run
wild! Cultivate an air of ferocity
with all the hirsute trimmings, and
don’t forget to growl ever and anon
at the smooth-cheeked upstarts who
have taken to bossing us.
Treat ’em rough, we say, and begin
by growing underbrush and rasps on
your chin. Hooray for whiskers!-—
Exchange.
ADVOCATES ARBOR DAY.
John Helm, councilman-elect, is an
enthusiastic believer in the beautiful.
Mr. Helm believes that each spring a
holiday should be declared and every
citizen plant a tree on our streets, in
order to beautify the town. To one
used to streets in the States, with
their beautiful rows of elms and ma
ples, the western towns look bare and
dTear. A double row of sturdy birch
trees would in ten years making a
different looking town of Seward.
Mr. Helm believes that a prize could
be given to the youngster showing the
most rapid growth in trees alloted to
his care, and that this would relieve
the council of the necessity of nam
ing a park commissioner or other of
ficial.
The idea is a good one, and it cer
tainly would add to the attractiveness
of our town without cost to the city.
LOOK OUT FOR THE YOUNGSTER.
Have you ever stopped to consider
that the carefree, irresponsible young
ster of today will be grown up during
the next decade and stepping into our
shoes in municipal and territorial af
fairs? Have you ever given the mat
ter of their sports and studies any
consideration, or do you think the
youngsters should rock along seeking
their own amusements, and raised by
the hit or miss plan?
Unless some place is provided for
the youngsters to spend the long win
ter months they are apt to become
more or less disgusted with local con
ditions and go where they can find I
recreation with their w'ork. The best
authorities on children today point out
that a certain amount of recreation
must be mixed with their studies if
they are to be sturdy in body and in
mind.
One of the best investments the
town could make wrould be a large I
community hall, where both young and
old could mingle together in winter,
thus offsetting any tendency to grow
morose and flabby from too much ,
confinement. !
Tomorrow is Easter Sunday and
our citizens are expected to don fit
ting habiliments and go to church.
The local organization of Masons and
Eastern Star will atteend services at
the Methodist church in a body. It is
a good thing to keep acquainted with
your early scriptural training, at least
once a year.
Every citizen of Sewrard should con
stitute himself a committee of one this
summer to see that the cow moose and
their calves in the timber from the
head of the bay to Kenai Lake are
I
k
not molested. A game reserve in this
section would be one of the greatest
assets the town can have. Last year
a number of cows and calves roamed
the wods in this section, but gunners
were after them despite the closed
season until they fled the country.
Mrs Fannie Smith of Wrangell, a
resident of the city for thepast 25
years, was committed to Morningside
asylum recently.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Simmons of Ko
diak announce the arrival of a daugh
ter.
Sheaffer’s Life Time Pens, at the
the Alaska Shop. tf
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Next Door to Liberty Theatre
NORTHWESTERN DUE TONIGHT
The steamship Northwestern is due
tonight at 8 o’clock. She is expected
to return from Kenai some time Tues
day.
ODUNA SAILS FOR KENAI
The freighter Oduna which has been
in port the past 48 hours will sail to
night for Kenai, where it will unload
a large number of piling.
JARDINE STUDIES MERGER
WASHINGTON, D. C., Apr. 11.—
Secretary of Agriculture Jardine, af
ter lengthy hearings took under ad
visement the case growing out of
the merger in the Armour-Morris
Packing concerns.
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Do not forget the dance tonight a
Odd Fellow’s Hall. Music by the Joll •
Three. Everybody invited.
CAN USE A FEW MORE CUS
TOMERS AT THE 0. K .BARBEE
SHOP.
Does Your Back Ache?
Bad Backs Bring Suffering to Many
Seward Folks.
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Is that dull, constant backache
making you old and miserable? Doe?
your back throb and ache until it
seems you just can’t keep going? Do
you suffer headaches, dizzy spell
arid urinary disorders; feel weak
tired and worn-out? Then look to
your kidneys. Delay may mean seri
ous kidney sickness! Use Doan’s
Pills—a stimulant diuretic to the
kidneys. Doan’s are recommended by
thousands.
Claude Nutter, S. 3rd St., Monte
sano, Wash., says: “The hardship?,
which I endured in the woods i>
what affected my kidneys and caused
kidney complaint. I had severe
catches in my back when I got dowE
My kidneys acted too often annoy
ing me at night. I always used
Doan’s Pills at these times and tlrjfr
knocked the pain out of my back anc
put my kidneys in a healthy conch i
tion.”
60c, at all dealers. Foster-Milburr
Co., Mfrs., Buffalo, N. Y. adv.