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NOT MUCH TIME LEFT TO TAKE ADVAN- TAGE OF THE PRICES OFFERED IN THIS REMARKABLE SALE. NEW STOCKS HAVE BEEN ADDED TO MEET THE DEMANDS OF OUR CUSTOMERS, AND WE ADVISE YOU TO MAKE THIS YOUR HEADQUARTERS TOMORROW IF YOU ARE CONTEMPLAT- ING THE PURCHASE OF A COAT, SUIT OR DRESS. REMARKABLE VALUES AWAIT YOU Handsome Fur Trimmed |COATS $25 with big sleeves, wide cuffs of fur, huge shawl and square collars, fancy em- broidery and braiding, bloused back, wrap-around style coats, loose flaring coats, and belted models; high grade coats each one of them and regardless { of their former price and cost—we have placed them on rac'ss for tomorrow’s selling at TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS. Here is your chance. Be on hand early. Warm Winter COATS $15 Only a limited assortment left, but a nice selection. Fur Trimmed Coats of Bolivia, Normandy, Suedine, Astrachan and Plush that originally sold for $29 and $35. Tomorrow at FIFTEEN DOLLARS. Your size may be here—if so, it means a big saving in dollars to you. All styles in this assortment. Colors are mostly the shades of brown. Luxuriously Fur Trimmed |COATS $35 that are usually identified with prices nearing the $65 mark. Collars and cuffs of Wolf, Fox, Squirrel, Caracul and Beaver. All sizes and colors. —— Come Early For First Choice —— it gy Tailod Suits $15 Suits that formerly sold at $35.00 and $37.50, tomor- row at the ridiculously low price of $15. Thisis a splendid opportunity to get a nice Poiret Twill, Tricotine, Velour or Fur Trimmed Suit for present and spring wear. — All Sizes — Refreshing new styles and new colors, everything that is fashionable. Pokes, droops, off-the-face hats, turbans and large # hats, all materials. Tomorrow—$3.98. Yew Britains Shopping Cente e e STORE for lverybody Y80 To 386 Ay ] A Yfore A, i New Early Spring Dresses %9 More just received—Ten dozen of them. The ladies who got one of these last week realize what wonderful Dresses they are. Actual Canton Crepe, Poiret Twill and Tricotine Dresses in beautiful styles, for only NINE EIGHTY- FIVE. Our advice is—get in on these early—they won’t last long. All colors and sizes. These dresses would ordinarily sell for $14.95. Canton Crepe and Paisley Dresses #1285 in charming models, suitable for street and afternoon wear. Lace, embroid- ery, beading and other trimmings on Canton Crepe, Wool Crepe, Poiret Twill, Georgette and many other novel features in regular $19.95 dresses. All sizes. High Grade Afternoon and Street Dresses 165 that you will simply be amazed at—beautiful gowns trimmed and draped with | all the novel features of garments that you would pay three times as much for. Look at them tomorrow and convince yourself. Values to $35 in this lot. that date had stood out long as aJhilherto been the most popular sin- red-letter day om his calendar. He| gle point of attraction in the outsiie has been working for months and‘[wurlrL In that city alone, before the supporting his family, with no other|war, the German and Austrian cooks remuneration from -the restaurant|numbered 300 and the waiters no than the 10 par cent tip legally pre-|less than 1,000, scribed for waiters in Germany, to-| European countries also drew many gether with such added gratuities as|of these employes away from their benevolent guests were inclined to native tables, and it is a source of give. \ surprise to many tourists here that It is estimated that there are|frequently the man who serves them abroad now only one-sixth of the|can speak as many as six languages. German and Austrian cooks and|london abounded in German waiters, waiters woh were in foreign employ and naturally the recent relaxation before the war. When hostilities | in the English restrictions finds wide broke out many dropped their knives favor among many here who are land forks in other lands to ENGLAND S OPEN 70 GERMAN WAITERS Government Lilts Post War Ban on Arrivals From Former Enemy Berlin, Feb. 2.-—“After the begin- ning of the new year I shall not be serving you any longer, I am going home and pick up a rifle; others|vicious circle of low wages and high back to try and get my old posluon;’werc deported or interned; some were | costs of living, with a mark that is in England.” caught while visiting in Germany | constantly depreciating in value. A servile German waiter in one of |and, willingly or otherwise, became | Next to England. Berlin's better-class restaurants was| a part of the military forces. | Next to England and overheard making the above remark | In 1914, | Switzerland and Holland were in English to an American diner. In 1914 there were some z.floo;prn.war “promised lands” of German and Austrian cooks in for-| frock-coated, disciplined Asked why he had delayed so long after the war in seeking re-employ-|eign countries, and 15,000 waiters. { However, when Germany obliged nu- Today there are from 500 to ment abroad ,the waiter explained that only on December 23 had the cooks and about three times that the country at the outbreak of the English government lifted its post-| many waiters. The latter figures do/war, the Swiss authorities took sim- war ban on German arrivals. inot include a large number of Ger-|ilar action against German waiters in Red Letter Day. {mans who remained in the United | Switzerland. Further, the Swiss em- For this man, and doubtless| States throughout the war. 1undreds of others in his calling here,l Chicago is cited here as hn\'in:‘ the Germans had underbid Swiss America, the these 1,000 merous Swiss waiters here to leave ywa.lters so greatly that their compe- tition was injurious to the country's native populace. Two years ago arrangements wcre‘ made fer an international exchange, | but the German interests concerned I“”k"" to impede a waiters’ exodus {from the Fatherland. One of those | | obstructions was a demand that for| | every German waiter going to Hol-| |land, six Dutch waiters were to be| sent here. | In Other Countries. | Some of these workers abroad have | | been drifting to Italy and Spain, but the former country has shown strong| r‘omv‘vhafiru: at confinement within the resistance to their re-entry. ODPO-:HW iron and steel industry long has|that the official enterprise is alw | sition to them also has been found | |in the Scandinavian countries and in/ | the British overseas possessions. In| jone of the former German colonies | |the admission requirements have| | been tightened even recently. | Holland has been proving more pilgrims. | and more of a magnet for German | Vocating a thorough unification of the | housemaids as well. According to an unofficial estiamte recently an-| | nounced here, there are at least 100,-| |V’00 of these “frauleins” now on | Duteh soil, with 10,000 in Amsterdam | | alone. The number is so great, it is ployers came to the conclusion that|said, that many are finding difficulty|on to say that the demand for iron in obtaining employment. ATTEMPT TO UNIFY ®reasing, bringing about a proportion- | in the country, so that the govern. ate increase in the import of these | ment enterpri and private con- goods and that if their import is not | cerns may be merged into a compre- confined to proper limits the future | hensive whole, Vienna are high industry and Jack a thorough co- v prized in Vienna, and Tokio, | ways | that the tax collect figured they ’oporu(lon in the manufacture of pig no where near enough to ay 2 ¢ ate | could increase the rate 25 fold, which | of the domestic industry will be seri- | : { ously compromised. | Present Condition = b s o | As things stand at present, the reso- | Governmient Takes Head Ievy on All l 0[ Ja al Have Beefl‘ lution states, pMvate concerns are en- | Nervants in Private Homes, any People of Jap caed 1a 605 ‘bramcho¢ chber 61 the| Feb. 2.—Domestic servants workmg [0[' me scheme iron and of steel and steel materials, | there ar T | The government steel works, it is|fll the demand. And of course the TR b | pointed out are conducted on a gigan- Kovernment colle ad tax. Re- Feb. 2.—The unification Of | y;s gcaje with the inevitable tendency | cently the scarcity een so great they promptly did At the same time they increased | the dog tax 100 fold, and the tax on autorobiles 12 fold been a subject of discussion and many | bringing preésure to bear upon priv people interested in the umorprm:"ffo"& have been steadily working for the| realization of the scheme. The coun-| So long as this state cillors of the Iron and Steel Associa-|tains no real development of the in- tion recently passed a resolution ad-|dustry can be expected. The amalga- | mation of private iron and steel mak- ing concerns will be meaningless if | the government steel works at Yawata | is left out of account. For this rea- | son the resolution urges the govern- | ment to take this phase of the ques- tion into careful consideration and to | | map out a fundamental plan of uni- fication of the iron and steel industry No Development of affairs ob- THE HERALD The A-B-C Paper with the A-B-C Want Ads industry and presented the resolution to the government. Tmportant Industry After dwelling on the important na- | ture of the industry for the purpnsr“ of national defence the resolution goes and steel in the country is yearly in-