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CIRCULATION WEEK ENDING MAY 22nd, 1920 10,651 : THE ARMENIAN MANDATE. TWhen President Wilson asks congress to accent the mandate for from (he Jeague of nations he his appeal will cpposition. It is inter- that this request follown the president of the r for that country, 4 that it 1| sthe boundary line of the c is established that it the task of the United s respected, a job e confined to desk work, sunter oppesition from will require mot 1 army but a substan- to meet the expenses going into a hot- ce duty and phil- undertaking a ser- houldered by those enefit by the eut- r. It is because rich returns that ntries want the job of bo undertaken by the ough it is known that again. long established policy. estigation which ring Armenia reasons should and why it t. the mandate were pre- s belleved that the rea- we should not more than bal- why we should. Even e three-quarters of a be needed to pacify Ar- nce by e - 2 o e /st memia and ts government establish- av my of 50,000 w required and even w posed toward Armenia clent r 15 not been advanced whay w 1d undertake to administer airs of a government in another f the world. It would mean a € up in forelgn entanglements feh this country has had the good ased on advice long ago given, and which it should continue to ¢re 10. We have enough to attend ght in our own sphere of influence, apathetic though we may be toward THE BERGDOLL CASE. There are those who believe that o " » anything. There are in- which go to support such a be- f. and just now the Grover C. Berg- " s being msed as such an ex- le. It w ly hinted during the o was at lberty when re secking him as a s of course bound to circumstances that extended to him from the federal pris- from there. se i3 one which has unusual gres he average individual to avg done what he did would have next to ble and it is be- . the influence which the family aflh may have pla Bergdoll and brother were determined they would the draft. They did not. fou wever, was caught after a o » and a half years after he ea nd brother is still at arge. Convicted and sentenced to five years of hard labor Bergdoll is permit- > leave some personal placed over him made a complete trace of him secured prison for guard at he nd s a most lemiliating position in lepartment officials are €ald to have been by of the secretary of war to leave Fort Jay was olely because he is from wealth, but because of the has ghown for the laws of and the apparent lenient witich he has been treated effort made n and return him to the where he belongs. while a therough search is being ‘or the young man there should ation to determine responsibility aetually the war ossible be ary rests his eseapo and whether there was uny prearranged scheme for doing just what was done. Thus far it looks as it oll was involved in horseplay with| he war department. BEER LAW, BUT NO BEER. By the signing of the per cent. beer bill New York has been placed in the same position that the governor of Massachusetts said that Massachusetts would be if he refrained from vetoing a similar bill in that state. According to this New York bill the manufacture of 275 per cent. beer is pérmitted and the ale of It is made legal under certain restrjctions which are supposed to do pway, with the saloon. Yef in spite of the fact that this bl has law in New York state there is B0’ 2.75 per cent. beer to be had. There is the war time prohibition act yet in force and there is the federal prohibi- tion amendment and the Volstead en- forcement act, all of which interfere with the New York state law. Thus the New York law has done only what Gov- srnor’ Coolidge said a similar law would #o in Maksachusetts and that is fool the people into believing that they can get what is not possible. Interest is of course centered wupon e Aecision of the supreme court of the United States regarding the constitu- Jonality of the prohibition amendment nd the enforcement act. It is in fact his decision that should determine ¥hether any such state law should be for it is not'to_be supposed thaf v oriny — And yet it the federal autho; no more activity in enforcing the prohi- bition law in the future than they have. in the past or are doing at present it will not make much differerice Whether ' there is any limit placed on the alcoholic con- tent. This is emphasized when all kinds of strong drink is being obtained, and police courts are doing an increasing business therefrom, but it is not possidle to obtain. anything in the beer line ex- copt the non intoxieating near beers. New York's new law. of course opens the way for the continuation of legal ac- tion on that little understood point of concurrent legislation. A CASE OF NEGLIGENCE. What seems almost fmiraculous is the fact that not one of the 70 guests in a Paterson, N..J., hotel was lost when the structure was burned at an early hour in the morning and it was necessary to get the sleeping people out while the interor of the structure was a roaring furnace. This speaks well for the efficient work that was done by Yhe rescuers. But it is & sad commentary upon the condi- tions that are permitted in that city when it is stated, according to the re- ports of the fire, that the hotel had no fire ‘escapes. It is surprising to find a city of any size that is so lax in the protection of lives that it would permit a hotel to remain open that was not properly equipped Wwith means of es- cape in case of fire. Paterson has apparently had a lesson which it cannot afford to overlook. It has reason in the first place to congrat- ulate itself on the fact that there §as not a large loss of life as the result of the negligence that, was permitted to go on without correction. There is no telling when a fire is going to break out, and certainly a building which gets no more attention in the way of means of getting out in case of fire is likely to be endangered by a similar laxity in re- gard to fire prevention efforts. How many other hotels there are in Paterson which lack fire esdapes should be quickly determined and_the necessary protection furnished. It is disclosed that there has been great negligence in not having an ordinance requiring fire escapes or an equally serious lack of enforcement. The good fortune of the Ruests in getting out can be attributed to the work of the firemen but it is far too risky to put full rellance upoy such rescue. The wiser and safer plan is to provide means whereby those in buildings can aid themselves in\getting out in case of fire and not be cornered like anmals in a cage after the interior stairway is cut off. The Paterson fire is enough to move dny other city with like conditions to immediate correctional action. THE. STATE SCHOOLS. Following a survey which has been made of the school systems' of the dif- ferent states it is mot a discreditable place which Conneeticut holds when its percentage shows it to be eleventh in the list, just under Massachusetts and just ahead of New York. The leaders in the list are western states while New Jersey, fourth In the list, leads the eastern states. : There will be ome surptise in the statement since it shows western states 10 be in the lead, with Montana, follow- ed by California and Arizona, heading the list, but to some extent the advan- tage gained from land grants and the character of the - population,” where the number to be provided for is much smaller and where there is an insistence upon having the best. This latter de- mand is of course no different than should prevaf] in every state and it is conceded that the cities in contrast to the country districts look wWel} to this point even in the eastern states. In no state is the school system found to be 100 per cent. efficient. Montana as the leader is rated at less than 76 per cent. while Connecticut, eleventh in the list is just under 60 per cent. or exactly 16 per cent. below the highest and but a few points lower than the leading east- ern state, Connecticut has had good reason to be proud of its schools. It has not, how- ever, carried the idea that they could not be improved. The survey has shown that there are others in this part of the country that are showing a higher percentage. This will be ari incentive to at least equdl them and thus to better our gchools in whatever way we can look, however, to the education obtain- ed by the children rather than what might go to make up credits in getting the percentage. In view of the survey figures and the fact that New Jetsey leads in the east Connecticut will anticipate with greater interest the influence of the new secre- tary of the state board of education who comes to Connectieut from New Jersey. — EDITORIAL NOTES. Who is going to be the next ohe to bob up in Mexico to keep the revolutionary pot boilin For the first time in a long while it is possible to record a vietory against the high cost of living. What Is the league of nations going-to #ay to the plea of Persia fdr protection against the bolsheviki? All mentioned 8or the vice presidency thus far have declined; and they haven't all been democrats either. R The man on the corner says; It ought to be realized that George cannot cul- tivate all the backyard gardens. When the Poles assert that Brusiloft 15 leading the bolsheviki they indicate that they recognize a strong opponent. It is useléss to accept any report to. the effect that Villa has given up oute lawry until there is some convincing evi- dence. -1t is strange in view of what usually goes with the presideney of Mexico,| sooner or later, that anyone should want the job. ——— If a slump in securities was as sure to recover as the Liberty bonds are there wouldn't be so mueh worry on the part of investors, Mrs. Susle Jones s reported from Chicago to have lost 23 1-2 pounds in & month. But it 't everydody that can keep up with the Joneses. There are just as many opportuni- ties of producing sufficient food as ever, it those who have increased hours of lesiure Wil make the most of them. Henry P. Davison suggests the' curtail- ment of luxuries would help to get prices down. That is of course an old story, fréquently repeated, and it is equally ap- parent that that is the very hardest thing to get peeple to do. Jean, whose coat and hat were brown, dropped wearily into the train seat be- side the, young woman in a blue ef- fect. “I’'saw you on the platform and you looked as though your last beau had been lured away by a rival” observed the latter. “Is the new suit a failure, or have you been quarraling with Julian?” “The mew suit is all right,” answered the girl in brown, settling herself for a comfortable conversation, “and Julian has nothing to do with it—at least, not in’ the, way yoy're thinking of. We're better friends than ever, if you care to know it. But—well, Delia, some people tan be so catty, that's all “They can;” cordially agreed the girl. Ig blue. “That's a fact. well recognized In the history of the universe. But Who's been_catty. now?” “Well,” was the hesitating response of the girl in brown, “the trouble does hark back to Julian, fn a mannér of speaking. You know how well read and intellectual he is, don't you? Ever since we're been agquainted I've looked up to him for this reason, and since he's been calling on me so steadily I've learned almost to_ revere him for his wonderful vision'and knowledge. In fact, I'm al- most afraid to talk to him at ail.” “Talk about Julian when that feeling overcome you,” the girl in blue. twin- Kled. “A ‘man always loves to talk of himselt.” “T have—I do, T've done it so often r afraid of his suspecting why I do the girl in_ brown. wailed, sadly. 'm just dving to be able to converse intelligently on the subjects that interest him, real subjects like bolshevism and psychoanalysis_and world politics, you know, Delia. That's why I always envy his sister-in-law, Mrs. John Delane, when I see them together. Mrs. John can talk easily on any subject. So, today, I thought—T thought I'd go to see her—" “And try to'find out how she done it?" suggested the other girl. “And_she pos litely snubbed you.” “Oh, she was polite enough—in a cold sort of way.” the in brown grudg- ingly admitted, “but I can't say I think much of her manner. I did my best to please her, too. Thére was a new book on the table and I began by saying that I envied her for knowing so much about books and art and things, and how nice it must be for her husband. She began to squench me at once.” “Naturally, again,” smiled the other girl wisely. “She saw your game and wished to block it. What did she say?" “Oh,” sighed Jean, ‘“she sald she ad- mitted that her hosband did seem to en- joy conversing with her, and that she tried hard to be worthy of his distin< guished attention, or words to that effect. She sald she thought that the least the wife of .a clever and well educated man could do was to make herself as nearly his intellectual equal as possibler and that she had given busy years to the effort. And she added that she sometimes trembled to think what shipwreck might have come to their magied happiness if her early training hadiit enabled her to grow up to her dear.John.” “And presently she managed to convey the suggestion that Jullan was_just like John, intellectually, and that it would be absurd for you to attempt to satisfy his splendid mentality,” marked. “How a6 I know it?’ she continued. the girl in blue re- “Oh, once upon a timz Mrs. John thought Julian was beginning to get interested in ! me. That was before I was engaged to Bruce, and I've always considered myself your debtor for the helps you once gave oot Bruce when he was trying to set up courage to propose.” The_girl in brown turned eager e®s upon Jean. “My dear.” she said; “Julian is just like John, intellectually, especially in his love for teaching other peepl~ to Don't you worry «%ut think as hb does. not being able to converse with him! Let him talk to you! either of those dear men dislikes more than a woman who doesn't care to be molded. “That's how Mrs. John caught her nice She was an awful little ignoramus when they husband—by letting him teach her. were first married—she’s years older than we are, of course, but my mother has known the whole family for ages and she told ‘me! And the ‘early training’ she's so, proud of was received at John's hands.” “Delia!" exclaimed the girl in brown, her face radiant. “You don't mean it! I'll pay back the good turn some day with interest. Oh, but this is a relief !"—Chi- cago News. WASHINGTON AFFARRS | (Special to The Bulletin.) ‘Washington, May 25. — Congress has now entered on the second year of an almost continuous session. It was a lit- tle over one vear ago that the president called it into extra session and except for, a ten day' receds last November and a ten day recess at Christmas, there has been no let-up in the daily work of that body. The ninety-six senators, the 235 members of congress and the secretaries clerks and thousands of attaches have been on the job continuously for more than 12 months._And even now there is a question of whether or mot adjourn- meft or a prolonged recess will mark the summer. The leaders of both par- tie want to clear the slate and get away before the two political conventions and not take up any work of considerable mo- ment afterwards, even of congress is nominally in session by recessing instead of adjourning. But it is a case of “one’s afraid of tother dar'sent—" The re- publicans are afrajd the president will call them back in extra session if they adjourn, or that he will take advantage of the time between sessions to put of- fensive measures into effect when con- gressional action to prevent cannot be taken. On the other hand, if it mere- 1y is a series of recesses they fear the democrats will bring up all sorts of per- plexing measures befora congress in or- der to complicate an already vexed con- dition of party affairs. The democrats want anything ithat the republicans are against. The republicans of both the senate ad house are split on the issue but it is probable it will all be patched up hefore the 5th of June arrives when some sort of a let up is certain to take place. The propossd recess ranges all the way from two weeks at a time to ninety @ys—while an adjournment would leave congress free till December 1st unless called together in extra sessiog by the president before that time. Tt is not merely a matter of personal convenience but the effect it will have on the fall election that will be the deciding factor. Here is the situation at this mo- ment. There are many bills of import- ance that must be out of the way before the end of the fiscal year. June 30th. They will be taken care of and passed There are a number of bills which in- dividual nfembers want passed but. which can wait—these are being used by indi- viduals as a wedge to gain @\t they want—such as the Kenyon packers' bill, ete. But these will probably be laid aside till after the election is out of the way. The honus bill will either be pass- ed by the house or left alone, and it will not come up in the senate this sum- mer.any how. June 5th will see- either a recess or an azdjournment till Decem- ber 1st. ~ That is certain. It is hinted by leading house democrats that the president has something to spring on congress at the last moment, but re- publicans say “let him spring it—we shall decide the matter for ourselves.” They are still resentful of being turned back from a summer recess last vear. by a letter from the president asking \pem to forego the recess as he had some- thing of great importance to present to them. But when the time came noth- ing new was put before them by the president, g0 the summer plan was spojl- ed and no good resulted. They don't hesitate to say that white house re- quests this year would fail to meet the favorable action. But twhatever is done there won't be a baker's dozen at the capitol until after the two comven- tions and the primaries are out of the way. They are telling a zood joke on Con- gressman Tess, of Ohio, chairman of the republican congressional committee and one of the best informed men in congress. He is an eloquent speaker and active worker both on_ the floor and in committee. His son, Lehr Fess, is par- limentarian to Speaker Gillett—an office of great responsibility. One day last week, Fess, senior, was making the walls echo with an argument on a pending bill, when some question of parliamentary pro- cedure came up and - threatened to end the discussion, which Fess desired to continue. “I am in order” said Fess with quiet persistence, “and T appeal to the speaker for.a decision.” Speaker Gillet? at once xeferred the matter to his parlimentarian, Fess, Junior, then sald with a smile, “I regret to report that the gentleman from Ohio is out of order.” The house broke into laughter, as it Zaw the point of the joke, and now young Fess is telling with pride how he “kept father in orde: R — AP SHOTS OF G. 0. P. CONVENTIONS Copyrighted by G. M. Adams Service EIGATH CONVENTION, The eighth republican national conven- tion, meeting June 3, 1834, at Chicago, finally gave Blaine the decoration which two previous conventions had denied— gave it to him, by strange prank of fate, the first time in 24 years that the repub- lican nominee was to fail of election. Blaine's strongest opposition came from Arthur, Who had succeeded to the bresi- dency upon the death of Garfield, and Who, CONtrary to presadsmt, 1-~1 been very acceptable in meéting his graduated re- sponsibilities. Arthur was from New York. Yet it was New York which ulti- mately gave Blaine the nomination, only to defeat him later at the polls by giviig Cleveland a scant majority of 1,149 in the great Empire State—small enough to have been easily overcome in a single sounty, yet big enough in this instance to N overturn the country. George F. Edmunds of Vermont, John A. Logan of Illinoi: Ohio, Joseph R. Hawley of Connecticut, Robert T. Lincoln of Illinois and William T. Sherman of Missouri also were candi- dates before the convention. But Blaine led from the first ballot For once his opposition could not unite. On the fonrth call he was nominated, and immediately, on a single roli cail. General Logan was overwhelmingly designated for second place. One of the bitterest contests of consequential post of temporary chairman —a contest fought the designation of Powell Clayton of Arkansas and beat him 424 to 834 with John R. Lynch from Mississippl. John B. Missouri was permanent chairman. This was the first convention in which seripus effort was made to base appor- tionment of convention tion—an effort to subordinate influence—an effort still unconsummated. The platform of the convention, drafted by a committee of which McKinley was chairman, made tariff protection the par- a new note for railway regulation, declared for the eight- ‘entan- amount issue, sounded hour day, and spoke against any gling alliances” with Europe. (Continued tomorrow, with the story of the Ninth Convention.) Five Minutes a Day With Our Presidents e ® Copyright 1920—By James Morgan LIII—THE ASSASSINATION OF GARFIELD 1881—March 4, James Garfield, inaugurated aged 40. March 23, Sent to the Senate the nominations of Federal of- ficers in New York City. May 16, The Senate confirm- ed the nominations. 20th _ President, May 17, Senatoers Conkling and Platt resigned. July 2, Garfield shot by Charles J. Guiteau in the Baltimore & Potomac Station at Washington. Ry. Sept. 6, Removed to Elberom, N. 3 Sept. 19, Died, agel 50. 1882—June 30, Guiteau hanged. James A. Garfield fell a sacrifice to the spirit of faction and of the spoils sys- tem. Although this gentle, kindly man was not of the' heroic stuff that martyrs are made of, his blood bécagme the seed of better things in our politics. . : Rarely if ever has a president taken up the burden of the office with a larger measure of good will from the people, Tegardiess of parly and of faction, than flowed out to Garfield as he stood on the steps of the Capitol in the sunshine of his inaugural day, the picture of ro- bust American manhood in its prime. His first kiss, after kissing the Bible in the presence of a multiutde of Witnesses was for his aged mother, who, in a for- est hut, had started him on his way to the White House and who heid a place of honor beside the schoolmate sweet- heart who had been his faithful com- panion all along the road. “One thing thou lackest yet, and that is a slight ossification of the heart,” John Hay had written to the president- elect. This lack was fatal, cart been harder, Garfield would have made his Administration wholly his own, lifting it above factions, and he might have lived through a prosperous term. Instead, he remained his few months in the White House what he had been in Congress, a lieutenant of Blaine, whom he appointed to the Secretaryship of State—"with the love of a comradeship of eighteen yvears—'and who became the power behind the throne. It was a saying of Emersen that “the president pays dear for his White House.” Garfleld quickly found it a purchase of repentance and doubtless longed for the seat in the senate to which he had been his clected only a few months nomination for the presidency. The only president to step directly from before Ihe Capitol to the White House without His | sxecutive experience or tastes. whole training had been to debate and fompromise, not to act or decide on his whole responsibility. A lover of poetry and of all things beautiful and a constant student of lit- erature, he groaned under the rude jost- ling of a sordid mob (an assassin among them). soul who hated to say®no, he found him- self saying yes when -he should not. “My God!" he exclaimed in bitterness of vhat is there in this place that spirit, a man should ever want to get into it?" Garfield himself was rather indifferent to factions, liking to get aleng with all men. He aporeciated Conkling’s reluct- ant but timely support in the campaign in the winter 10 talk-over the New York pat- He thought of inviting him into and invited him out to Mentor ronage. the Cabinet itself, until Blaine whisper- ed no. \ Less than three weeks after he took his seat, Garfield told fhe senator that he Wwas not yet ready to consider the ques- tion of filling the New York offices. Only forty-eight hours afterward, he filled them, nominating for the highest of those offices Blaines best friend and Conkling's There’s nothing John Sherman of this convention was for the comparatively in- in which the Blaine forces a colored delegate Henderson of delegates on re- publican votes, instead of gross popula- southern Had his of office-seekers A genial Kills insects but is harmless to hu- and animals. Ask for Black Flag in the sealed glass bottle at drug, department, grocery and hardware storss. Three sizes— ot i T | worst enemy in New York. With Garfleld's hand, Blaine had thrown down the gauntlet to the haughty chieftain of the “Stalwart” clan and a duel of factions was on in blind fury. The Administration succeedgd in beat- ing’ Conkling in the senate, where he op- Posed the confirmation of the offensive nominee. But the semator and his col- league Thomas C. Platt, resigned their seats and appealed to the New York leg- islature to reelect them as a vindication of their course. This sensational act shifted the battle to Albany, where Vice President Arthur joined the two resigned “Stalwarts” and the “Half Breeds.” ‘When the conflict was Dbitterest and when the “Stalwarts” were losing at Albany, a disappointed place hunter at Washington, Charles J. Giteau, conceiv- ed the mad idea of saving the situation with a pistol shot and he posted himsel{ at the railway station, whereghis victim was to take a train for Massachusetts. The President was golng back to Wil- liams College, tue soai of his struggling youth, and lay his honors at the feet of his alma mater. At a dare from one of his sons that morning he had leaped over his bed in the White House and was still smiling like a boy off for a vacation as he entered the waiting room at the railway station, with Blaine at side. In two. flashes of a revolver he fell forward on the floor. With a, shout of triumph, the proclaimed the wild motive of hi: /“I am a Stalwart! Arthur is now pres- ident!” It is unnecessary to say that the Stalwarts had no more knowledge of Guiteaw's purposes than the Confeder- ates had of Booth's. But just as the conflict of sections had crazed the one, the other had been crazed by the fren- zied quarrels of the factions over a di- vision of spoils. The country was not only shockes humiliated to seé this genial. hearted president of the rep down as Henry Watterson said, like a dog or a czar. Through more than eleven weeks, for seventy-nine days, a whole people, made kin by a touch of tature, anxiously watched by his bed side. When, at last, the long. uncqual fight was lost, sympathetic hearts follow- ed the wasted'body to its native soil by the shore of Lake Erie. After twenty years in our meagerly paid public service, Garfield had left his wife and children hardly better off than assin deed: his mother and her little family had been left at the untimel death of his father. A grateful people cagerly w comed the opportunity to pay tribute to his memory by providing a fug! foy the good woman who was to continue to bear his name through nearly forty vears of widowhood and for the education of sons who were to wear it worthily in high places. Tomorrow—The Man Who Found Himself. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Daylight Time. Mr. Editor: T am glad some one has opened on daylight saving. The letter in Saturday was all right. 1t is a bad mixup. Al though the city people are kicking with a vengeance. The farmers can’t get a man to stay with them. They won't get up at two o'clock in the cold and dark to milk. As the farmers say, “We have to get up in the dark and go to bed in the daylight or we get no rest” S2me farmers have to get up as early as one o'clock to get the milk to the train to go to other cities. The boarding house keepers and the rooming houses are giving a mighty big kick. They have to get up on Standard time, light a fire and get breakfast for the ones that ! work on Standard time, then wait one more hour to get a second breakfast for | the ones on daylight time, thus wasting| one hour and coal every morning. T. D. DANIELS. 1920, Norwich, May 25, Stories That Recall Others l An 0ld Stunt Redressed. An auto driver was telling how he came near having a bit of luck. “As T was comingup over the Military high- way the other evening, just at dusk,” h said, "I saw a good tire at the side of | {the road. There was not a hous; with- in a half mile, 80 I stopped the Car and | beat it back to get the tire. It wi a new one I could tell that as 1 passed. But when I got up within ten feet of it, it started to move, and over into the brush it went. Just then I heard two| boys laugh.” Three of those listening to the dr"wnrl sang out, “Yes, we've tried to get that| same tire since the first of ApriL” Keading the Sign: When Aunt Helen kep: company with a young lieutenant she prevailed on her ten year old nephew to wear a soldier overcont. When a Boy Scout executive succeeded the Meutenant, Bobby received a Boy Scout uniform. Finally there came g. disagreement be- tween Aunt Helen and tne Boy Scout executive and Bobby has been anxious | to learn who would be the next to win his aunt's attentions. The other day he made a discovery and ran into the house to_tell his mother. 5 “Oh, mother,” Ne began, “you might as well get me a Prince Albert, a white vest and a tie. 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Envelopes to match the fore- going, in packages of 25, value 20c, at .. 31 Homespun Writing Paper, in boxes, containing 24 sheets and 24 envelopes, value 30c a box Rt Georgette Crepe All Colors At $2.39 a Yard Regular Price $3.00 Thermos Bottles $2.50 Thermos Bottles, case, pint size, at.... green b $3.00 Thermos Botties, brown cage, pint size, at ... $2.39 $3.90 Thermos Bottles, green case with nickle shoulder and CUp, At seseveceanes . 260 Leather Goods 50c Narrow Belts, real leather, black or brown, all sizes, at.... 35¢ 31.50 Women's Leather Purses, in 12 different styles, at. . $1L15 Hand . $1.98 Hand . $298 $3.50 Boston Bags, made of Du- point Fabrikoid, sizes 13, 14 or 15-inch, black or brown, at... $2.89 $2.50 Women's Bag: $4.00 Women's Leather Bags, “Kodak” style, at.. Leather “Kodak” style, at.. $4.50 Boston Bags, real leather, - sizes 13, 14 or 15-inch, black or brown, at . $340 $8.50 Traveling Pags, size 18- inch, real leather, at.......... $698 $9.00 Silk Moire Shopping ‘Bags, silk Jined, ruffied bottom,.at.. $6.98 Al Beaded Bags, completely covered with beads, $19.00 grade, at $12.95 — $11,00 grade, at $7.98 Women's Jewelry Our entire line of 35c and 75¢ Jew- elery, including Bar Pins, Cuft Pins, Brooches, Lingerie Clasps, ete:— 35c quality, at Tsc quality, at Umbrellas $2.50 Umbrelias, Men's and Women's sizes, paragon frame, ‘covered with American Taffeta covering, at ... .. R’ $6.00 Umbrellas, black and col- ors, with tips and white ring handles, covered with Aeroplane cloth, guarantéed water-proof, at . - Ue Art Departmeni 0dds and Ends in Stamped Goods — Clearance price. e inch Stamped Centers, seal- loped edges, value 50c, at . 8% Size 13x50 Stamped Scarfs, scalloped edges, value 8¢, at $8c Size 18x50 Stamped Scarts, crochet edges, value $1.06, at.. 79 Stamped Combination Underwear— || $1.69 value, at.cccuveiiecncas. $925 $2.00 value, at "nae Women's Neckwear Sport Searts, in ail shades and a variety of materials, regylar vaiue $5.75 to $6.50 — Special price .. .. 5350 Embrojdered Convent Edging, 3 inches wide, value at Te 12-yard piece of Val Lace In- sertings, odd lots, regular values up to $1.00 a piece, at......... e 40-inch Bmbroidered Volles, reg- ular values §%c and $100 a | yard, at....