SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY
OF SEWARD, ALASKA
Established. August 19, 1904
Published daily except Sunday by
Gateway Publishing Co.
Entered in the postoffice at Seward,
Alaska, as second-class mail matter.
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SCOLDING THE SCOLDERS
People don’t differ much in the
matter of scolding. Fewr deserve pun
ishment under the penal code for
common scolds but petulant scold
ing is one of the most universal of
human traits. Whether we know it
or admit it we are all chronic crit
ics of our fellows. Perhaps there is
some truth in the expression, “we
love each other for our faults.”
Cartoons and comic strips are giv
en to gross exaggeration especially
as regards the marital state, but
where is a happily wredded pair which
is not scolded into married bliss? Of
course they are intended as helpful,
suggestions and household hints, but
those remarks about bills, cigar ash
es, late dinners and delayed diners,
and other conjugal annoyances are
but examples of everyday and unno
ticed family scoldings. Our neigh
bors alone are aw^are of thier pres
ence.
The statistician affords us rare
opportunities for giving vent to our
natural propensity for complaining.
How the men scold the women for
their extravagances when the reve
nue bureau announces what was
spent for cosmetics and silken hose
in the preceding year and what a ba
bel is set up by the wives and moth
ers wrhen the tobacco statistics are
broadcasted. A new source of scold
ing is the automobile. Non-owmers
charge the motorists with forcing
the world into bankruptcy and auto
mobile owners scold the pedestrian
Tor something just as reasonable.
fall—THE ROMANTIC SEASON
A spirit of romance pervades au
tumn of the year which few, for fear
ol ridicule, will admit sensing—even
in Alaska. Perhaps romance is some
thing for lovers, the adolescent and
women folk and to be spurned by so
ber manhood, yet most men, if honest
with their fellows, would be compel
led to confess to a quickening of the
pulse when the first leaves fall and
<larkness comes before supper.
For an explanation of this fall ro
manticism one might harken back to
the days of boyhood when autumn was
the cue for hunting nuts, squirrel
shooting, corn roasts and football. Ask
any boy which is the best season in
the hills and the question will find au
tumn on the tip of his tongue.
The spirit of romance encountered
this time of the year in the workaday
world may also be traced to the fall*
holidays and festivals. There are
Hallowe’en and Thanksgiving Day.
W hat festivals could be more symboli
cal of the harvest season than these,
and both abound in tradition, adven
ture and romance. Imagination is
nine-tenths romance and Hallowe’en
and Thanksgiving Days exercise a
strange appeal to the imagination.
And if the adage is true that “the
way to a man’s heart is through his
stomach,” then the harvest accounts
for a part of the romantic atmosphere
of the season. WTiere is to be found
romance in greater abundance than in
a golden brown pumpkin pie, in a
glass of sweet cider, and in a basket of
new applies?
FAMOUS EDs.
Arthur Brisbane—
Edison
Seward’s Prosperity Ed-ition.
CHOOSING OCCUPATIONS
Years ago fond parents devoted
winter evenings to deciding the fu
tures of their numerous offspring.
Johnny was to be a teacher. Mary
would be a trained nurse. Willie
would be tutored itt the ministry, and
perhaps a fourth progeny would be
placed in business or kept on the farm.
And in the day time the school in
structors of Johnny, Mary, Willie and
so on believed they had fulfilled their
duty if they prepared them for gradu
ation. Few teachers realized that
their’s was an exceptional opportunity
to help young men and women to
pick their life’s work on the basis of
their individual qualifications and pe
culiar abilities.
All is different in the educational
system of today. Vocational guidance
is an established science. The public
schools and the institutions of higher
learning now strive to fit the curricu
lum to the student, not the student to
the course of study. The student at
the same time is directed into a life’s
work for which he is especially suit
ed.
Many men and women now failures
in life might have been preeminent in
their professions or trades had an
ounce of direction been exerted in
their youth to the selection of a ca
reer. A boy with an aptitude for me
chanics and the engineering branches
should not be forced into a legal or
literary career because a parent or an
instructor is partial to those latter
occupations, yet countless have been
and many will be in the future.
There is a “destiny which shapes our
ends” if it is the power which attracts
the individual to that thing in life
for which it is most fitted by nature.
SLEEP AND HEALTH
One contribution all parents can
make toward the education of their
children without sacrifice or expense
is to see to it that they get regular
and adequuate hours of sleep.
Physicians and neurologists agree
that dullness among school children is
very often sleepiness or under-devel
opment because of insufficient hours
of sleep. The parent is as much ac
quainted as the medical world with
the nervous disorders and physical ills
which follow too little rest in the adol
escent period. Every mother knows
that a sleepless baby is a sick baby.
A trend toward nervousness among
school children is attributed to irreg
ular and insufficient hours of sleep.
Accurate information would probably
disclose that the men and women as
well as the children of this community
average eight or more hours of sleep
nightly and it can not be charged that
our school children are dull or under
developed.
Every adult knows the value of
sleep and the amount he or she, indi
vidually, requires for health and maxi
mum mental and physical efficiency.
Children can not be expected to as
certain this for themselves, so it is
incumbent upon their parents to learn
what is required and provides for it.
Great groans from little ache corns
grow.
Hold down your job or it will hold
you down.
Love isn’t stone-blind, if the stone
is a diamond!
When a girl says she can’t play,
don’t make her prove it.
The two great enemies of illiteracy
are compuulsory education and sub
titles.
There are two big things coming off
the press at the Gateway office on
December 5—and the Prosperity Edi
tion is both of them.
ATTENTION!
COURT WITNESSES.
Airship pictures will be a diversion
from fish cases. Come up and see the
pictures and ask any question about
the freight and passenger craft, the
ore carriers, and heavy duty aircraft
for local and,long distance service.
Right over the bank, plenty close
enough to court house. Bring your
pipe and come early and ooften. Noth
ing on sale, no obligation; just sim
ply w'elcome—come every day. Give
us your confidence,
tf ALASKA AIRSHIP COMPANY.
LONDON NEWS LETTER
LONDON, Oct. 7. (/P)—The billiard
cue with which he won a victory over
King George on the green baize at Bal
moral will be carried home soon by
George H. Merrill of Washington, who
was a recent week-end guest of the
king challenged Mr. Merrill to a match
After a day of deer stalking the
king challneged Mr. Merrill to a match
of 250 points. The American finish
ed 20 points ahead of His Royal Host.
The King, it is known, can wield a
wicked cue at times, but he is not as
good a billiard player as his father
was. King Edward VII often belied
his own dictum that “No gentleman
should be capable of making a break
of more than 25 points.”
What would King George do with a
whale if he were presented with one?
Was the question prompted recently
by the chase of one of these mammals
of the deep off the English coast by
fishermen who sought to capture it
for their ruler. The idea of present
ing a whale to the king is in accord
ance with an act dating back to the
days of King Edward II, under which
all whales and sturgeons with one ex
ception caught around the coasts of
Great Britain belong to the reigning
monarch.
King George has rarely lTad the re
fusal of a whale, but he has had sev
eral sturgeons presented to him dur
ing his reign, the first such gift be
ing made at the time of his corona
tion.
A curious English counterpart of the
old time American habit of recogniz
ing greatness by giving a man’s name
to a brand of cigars revealed itself
at the Horticultural Show when a newr
unchristened dahlia was shown and
named.
It was named the “Jack Hobbs Dah
lia,” after the modern king of profes
sional cricketers. Hobbs all this sea
son has been more than ever in the
public eye and admiration. Not only
has he succeeded the record of 126
“centuries” made by the greatest of
by-gone cricketers, w. G. Grace; but
he has beaten his best previous aggre
gate runs in a season, which was 2,
827 in 1920. A “century” is more
runs scored by a batsman in a single
inning.
LIKE NEW/
AGAIN /
REFINISH it yoursell!
With handy varnish-stains
or enamels—easy to apply
—you can renew your fur
niture or create delightful
new effects. Look around
— “reclothe'^the shabby
members of your furniture
“family.” Decoret Enam
els and Varnish Stains give
you best results.
Also, ask for booklet,“The
Art of Decorating with
Decoret.” It’s free, and is
full of ideas on finishing
and refinishing furniture
and ornaments.
r r» ..«rry a full line of Fuller
W L/ Paints and Varnishes and
can supply your needs.
Brown &
Hawkins Corp.
W. P. FULLER & CO.
301 Mission Street San Francisco
25 Branches in Pacific Coast Cities
Fuller
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LIBERTY
ONE SHOW TONIGHT AT 8:00 O’CLOCK
HA! HA! HA!
yes, that’s what you’ll do
if you see the
All Comedy Programme
A SIDE SPLITTING 6-REEL COMEDY
The Girl in the
Limousine
and a TWO-REEL COMEDY
‘DANDY LIONS’
Besides a very interesting: Pathe Review
IT WILL MAKE YOUR HAIR GROW—
AND YOUR FEET TINGLE
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SEE THE INTERIOR
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THE GOLDEN BELT
To the end that the countless places of scenic and other inter
ests in the Territory may be thoroughly enjoyed and understood, and
to enable them to acquire first hand and accurate information con
cerning all Alaskan activities and development; travelers to the
Northland are urged to visit
a* ALASKA’S “GOLDEN HEART”
Interior Alaska and places en route—including Kenai Lake, the
“Loop District," Spencer and Bartlett Glaciers, Turnagain Arm, An
chorage, the Matanuska Valley, Curry, Nenana River Canyon, Mt. Me
kinley National Park, Nenana, the Tanana Valley and Fairbanks, hold
much of interest to everyone, whether on business or pleasure bent;
and a tour through these regions creates a true conception of the
good things that Alaska has to offer. »
For train and automobile schedules, passenger rates and other in
formation, confer with any steamship agent, or
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
The Alaska Railroad
(McKinley Park Route)
Seward Anchorage Curry Nenana Fairbanks
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CRESCENT HOTEL j
IN
Anchorage ]
THE HEART OF TOWN !*
Reasonable Rates }
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J. M. COLLINS, Prop.
About the only thing cars lack now
is an accessory to cuss pedestrians for
getting in the way.
If the professor who is counting our
cuss words, will step on someone’s
corn, his job will be done.
The Alaska Railroai
TRAINS LEAVE SEWARD
7:30 A. M.
MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS
TRAINS ARRIVE SEWARD
7:30 P. M.
WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS
Barber Shop
FRED MfLLER
BATHS-:-OPEN SUNDAY A.M.
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