The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 25, 1907, Page 5

ee aagemenne Qtar's Exclusive Bervice,) ELIZABETH H. GREGORY. INGTON, D.C, Deo, 26.~ the head of the nation down Be youngest” Roosevelt, now id a — ts the big day of the yen! tee preston quits his offi the afternoon of Christmas ‘and bis desk knows him no until Dec The entire day given to the ¢ on, Pig the president and Mrs @ the Ro®sevelt children fa Santa Claua, so the cere. @ hanging up the stocking Gapensed with last year for RE ecinn early with the ‘executive, and he refuses to the younger boys forbidden old habit of waking him just as they ar ady for in The Christmas breakfast bs a about § and the entire are seated at once, which in Coser Christmas feature, The and Mrs. Roosevelt ugual the first meal of the day and the children, who are MM their schools, are served Sih their aurse a xood half hour the renovation of the in the first year of a administration, the been given over to the ‘end thither repair the family wee, the first exhibit of the CHILDREN ARE GIVEN A GOOD CHRISTMAS TIME PHOTOGRAPH SHOWS MRS. ROOSEVELT AND ARCHIE AND QUENTIN IN THE NURSERY CHRISTMAS MORNING EN 4OVYING A GIFT PICTURE BOOK, } and electric toys. All cum gifts are banished to the ge and only the smaller presents - fm the Hbrary, Mie preshdcat retains all his boy ry Jove for mechanical toys and the White House the day has end ed with an old-fashioned dance, where the Virginia reel, clogs and figs prevail, and the president has more interest than the/even led Mra. Lodge out to trip When one falls to work prop-| the measure of Sir Roger de Cov she gets down on his knees with | erty and works persist-| The president makes few person either repaired or ed. Always in the) fully. On each aniversary of the 7 the children take a long| wedding and om Christmas he gives fe the bic open carry-all Mrs, Roosevelt a handsome piece of at tuncheon the family ts | jewelry. Last year, it was a dia by chums of the boys) mond star to holt a hatr ornament. friends of Miss Ethel. The din |e wi each of bis children a sub pet perty fe a rather forma! ban-/ stantial gift. Last year the two qt With sometimes 15 or 1€/elder boys received complete hunt dat al? the children sit/ ing outfite and the younger ones _ celal feast. Every Christ-/the finest kind of photographic MANNING'S MISTAKE SY MRS. |. R. BIRT. } Her culture, her gipay beanty and Was undeniably the most her cosmopolitan ease won me at fe Sct Lever knew a woman in| once. bul she never went a hair's poeta to commit; and it breadth beyond the conventional fwerved me from laying at her feet mark until that night heart. It was aclose| “Tom Merrill and the Indy now ad | bis wife, May and myself had been ES fia Ralph Manning to his to a theater. On our way home we Semclates one night, remiuis-|stopped for refreshments. Two | mere youths were sitting at a table met May Bradford in Chicago.'a short distance from ours. The ie eatil it is paally conden r a For ie & Huribut—The House of Bargains After- Xmas Sale Begins Tomorrow in “The House : of Bargains” Don’t Miss It! There Will Be Bargains Were That You Can't Afford to Miss Although we did a wonderful ‘Christ- mas business, our stock was so extra large this year that there was much left over, and with present conditions we can better afford to sell it at these shamefully low prices than carry it over until mext season and get a fair price. Tomorrew We Will Give OFF : On all Mechanical Toys, Sewing Machines, Games, all animals Vases, Doll Houses and On all Coaster Wagons, + fv MM Buggies, Hand Car Aad China, PBric-a-Brac, etc., will be + to + “ee “J Early and Get the Pick of These Exceptional Bargains. PELGER-‘HURIBU ZND AVENUE & UNION STREET anaemia a mas since the Roosevelts came to} al gifts outside his own immediate! jerdered more equipment | Mra. Roosevelt sends out several | hundred gifts, some dainty little ar Holes she and Miss Ethe! have made themselves. She can embroider an initial In a handkerebief with the moat expert of French workers, and she m fashion a lace collar like an adept from Rrussels« Rach young Reosevelt who gets a present seat in evident good will and of little value is compelled to write his acknowledgments on the White House paper. The president and Mra. Roosevelt sead back many presents coming from strangors, but the children are permitted to keep theirs, and for weeks after Christ mas they perform good Samaritan work at the children's hospitals. boys were Cushed and jovial, but wine Matic, Tom's girl, remarked thal some one ought to remonstrate with the youths. Quick as the flash of a fuse May said: ‘For a copper cent Td do it myself” Tom humorously flipped a cop per cent on the table before her. I never was known to take a dare, she said, turning ghastly white She walked over and stood for a stugle second resting her slender, jeweled hand on the back of the chatr of the handsonter, more intel ligent appearing youth, and whis pered a few words she looked down into his fam She then Srasped bis glass of wine and turn ed it tnto a half-filled crystal water bottle, At this he raised his eyes for the first time, and a startled look of what seemed recognition | came Into them. He rose and de | p od with tottering footateps, fol- jowed by his compant With lips white and quivering abe returned to our table. Come!’ she commanded, ‘I want to go home | Not « word did she say on our way, and a coo! ‘goodnight’ at her door was the last word | ever beard her speak, for she went out of my Ufe entirely—or rather | went out of bers, for | socom came here to Ban Francisco, However, the woxt day after her inexplicable conduct, I passed her on the street ia earnest conversation with the young man lof the night before, but feeling that her acquaintance with him was the issue of her daring, 1 pure my course without recognising he } Manning's voice died down to a whisper resembling a wail, and then the specter of silence obtrud led iteelf for the space of a few moments | At last there arose a tat! form. “You flung away of the tnost | | priceless jewels tn py ranks of so- | cial and hone life,” be said austere ly, addressing Manning Lam the reckless youth you thought on the verge of moral collages. My sister May Bradford gave up home, friends, everything, to reforia me For the crime of forgery against my father's name, while under the in fluence of drink, I had been ban ished from home, and she was for bidden to apeak to me. Thot night of which Mr. Manning speal.s she recognized that I was already much under the influence of liquo to Indulge in more. Her manly brave act shamed me into com eforma tion, The next morn we met atisfying pt future honor to San Francisco, and we worked together, and paid every dollar of the forged nate back to my father At last—at last,” he sobbed, bis manly form swaying in grief, “on the morning of Ap 1906, she perished in the Pals hok One bp one the eb mombers stole silently away ing Man ning to muse ‘on the impracticabil ity of hast fecisiona A report of aecid rail cads and street railways t reat York made to the public comminsion shows that] the month of October forty persons were The r and states while ighting and ding Car olin a en caused injuries’ to v1 8, while 609 formance of their duties GUNE RENT —Piper = 1024-26 Second av |must have a vol | not ‘toe pointed downward THE SRATTLY. STAR. TETRAZZINI, GREATEST SORPRANO, TELLS WHAT| PAU CET ELECT A SINGER MUST HAVE LONDON, Dee, 26.—A few we trazaini nas suddenly jumped into fame as the singer in the history of grand opera. Garden season's opera at Covent voice as beautiful as Patti's, ba's. and a Conreid and Hammerstein dineovered her ap, but through a misunderstanding she both the Amertoan improssartos, an ered the knot by breaking both ie @ aisterindaw of Signor Camp Caruso, she has been her own tn BY MME, LUISA TETRAZZINI. You ask me how to learn singin Well, well; to write you a big book, I whould have }like this--and then, perhaps y« | would be none the wiser, For no jone can learn to sing as people learn to play games, In the very first place, It ts a gift for, if you wish to be a singer, you Bverybody ts born with a voice, and some jpoople who are have not the second vital qualificati fa singer, I al |iude to what I can only describe as heart A voloe and the heart to go with it-—-ah! there you have the | complete singer. Hut how often does this oocar? 1 jhave heard so many vocalists with | wonderful, pure, perfectly trained | [¥otcos who sing the notes flawlens: | ly--and that Is all warmth, no passion in thotr ing, it leaves one quite unmoved afterwards, And this ts solely be. cause they have not been born with a “heart.” The volee can be traln ed; the heart never, It ls there or it fs not there. People have been kind enough to say that | was born with both- voice d “hea it ie not for me to toll, but from my earliest days | have been steeped in music, 1 sim bly could not help mysolt—L folt as There is no ~HIPLESS WOMEN? THE IDEA! THESE PICTURES WERE POSED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF iS MAODIGON FOR THIS PAPER. BY MARGARET MADISON. (Seattle Star Exclusive Service.) NEW YORK, Dee Several times of late | have been asked If it ta possible to develop the hips and my snewer has always been ‘Certainly it is, and easy, too. The development of the hips ts simple, but It requires attention and time. The young woman who de sires to enlarge ber hips should stand ip front of an open window where the fresh reaches nm sume an erect position, with shout ders throwa back, head up, hands om the hips, weight reading evenly japon both feet ‘Then raise the right knee, hold ing the lower leg perpendicular When the knee fs lifted as high as possible. atrikegiownward with the foot, the soo 7 A CHRISTMAS CAROL BY MARK TWAIN. I sometimes write Jokes without sense But every word Brings 30° cents Buy your bat of &. nN Brooks a Co, 1381 Beeond ev. od BROWN DENTAL PARLORS, 718 FIRST AVENUE Offices 1 a7 Bicek. one @ ‘ not a short article | sing: | CTY. your Mme, Lulea Te greatest soprano She is the prima donna of this and she ts hailed as having a ke age unknown, dramatic power superior to Mol her before London took signed contracts with | 4 when each claimed her she sev ontracta and coming to London, She anini, the great conductor, Like atructor in the singing art {though I had to sing or die But as to how to become a singer, | 1 am afraid | cannot tell you, 1 do! credit-giving THE FAUCET BATTERY. 1 ‘ |} plan is so popular--- ttle Star's Excl ASHINGTON need any more to go to the sp make it the because we ist for electric treatment, You can/f- Seat feature of our busi supply your own electricity | ness, We make @ study of An ingentus inventor has per-| the ‘requirements of the | fected a generator with which auf-| home furnisher and extend I ficlent of auch term can be taken tricity for | treatment may b ny ordinary generated by aim ply attaching the apparatus to the bathroom water faucet The illustration shows how it is used, The little machine is placed in the washbow! and connected with j the faucet by a rubber nozzle. Then | jall one has to do is turn on the water, The force of the flow regu | jlates the supply of electricity Simplicity is the predominant fea. | ture of the machine. The watbr | drives @ little water wheel which | connected with the armature shaft! of the magneto it drives, generating a rapidly alternating current This current may be applied to several ways, The machine without Inconven eastont care of powsl way credit with in a here willingly no annoying features pleasant almiple and as well a di an easy d way | and know that him to have confidence in the home furnishe as good as & government bond,” and welcome credit in the way he wishes it because we absolutely make no price advances in any way what- the person buying for eredit pays no more than the eash purchaser—and no interest is charged on deferred payments. we know our eredit-giving plan will appeal to YOU, as it bas done and is doing to hundreds of others. always welcome. because we his word is exer in sup: | MME, TETRAZZINI. plied with pair of ordinary hand | 2 rodes for the simpler treat | re praca 4 brush with wire bristles j not think any artist who ts a tr alp treatment, and sponge artista singer, not a mere vooal ist—could deseribe the way to do it. | But this I can tell you, that nothing By means of a te done without real hard work,| 19, 2.qin omponite much practice and genuine enthu- | pe siaitis ‘re one rodes for use in the treatment f the skin Standar itureCo, ALA r Ser, 1006 to 1016 First Avenue. | / | | | pair of plates nds of the bath may take an electric bath. ATHER ANB SON BURNED TO BEATA (By United Pr: Ohio, rie and his 13-year-old son met death early this morning in a fire that attacked the general store of J. C. Currier in North Dover, A woman was ser aly in jured by jumping from a window. ASKS BK; DAMAGES Balt in the sum of $15,000 has been brought by Mise Augusta Lee Dickson against thy Se j raflway as the result of injuries re celved at Alki Point on Nov.. 11, when two cars collided A CHRISTMAS CAROL BY AD. MIRAL B EVANS. Seattle. Tacoma. the women of her race, and has a demure vivacity that is most charm- Ing. Her wealth of black hair was fa mous in Washington, and the soft color tone of her complexion, a sub- dued old gold effect, is remarkable for its smooth beauty. Her eyes, large and expressive, have little or po slant. Always her gowns were the creations of Paris or Fifth ave. SON FOR CHRISTMAS. Patrolman Hoff, of the city po Noe department, was yesterday pre sented with a son, weight nine pounds, for a Christmas gift A CHRISTMAS CAROL BY WM, &. COREY. BARONESS TAKAHIRA. ttle St 's Exclusive Service.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.—The | Baroness Takabira, wife of the jnewly appointed Japanese ambas sador, won a warm place in the l hearts of Washington soetety lead ers during her former residence here, when her husband was first consul general and later minister She is petite. after the manner of Put They can jolt me this Christmas, “Shiver my why should 1 feel I've a dandy fleet— Bay nkety- blank, It can’t be beat POST-PRANDIAL XMAS CLEAN- UP SALE SPECIAL SALE OF FRAMED PICTURES BEGINNING TOMORROW. We still have quite a lot of very pretty (of very handsome) Framed Pic- tures that we wish to get rid of THIS YEAR, so we have carefully rear- ranged them and made the prices such as will loosen the purse-strings and ribs, Their jibes when I know mabel's faithful as steel?” toe first touching the floor Repeat with the left leg aad alfernate ten or twelve times | Hating foods caloula to pro duce Tesh and wearing hipless cor sets will materially asvist in the development Another ecxercise consists of standing tn the first on and inging the foot outward, de scrthing a semicircle with It, « Y ing it around to the rear ‘ nate from left to right toot This should. be practiced until the leg can be thrown in the halfcircle as) high ac the hip, without strain / To develop the calves, nothing is better than the old school exercise. which consists of placing the hands spon the hips and raising upon the town until the muscles begin to tire In all of the exercises, breathe deeply and regularly A Certain kinds of noises attract makes, The whirr of the mowing | Compel you to purchase. They include Dutch “Kinder” Sketches, in col- mmnchine te ong. gud in six months | ors true to Holland, lovely Harrison Fisher Girls, Landscapes in Black and white, Indian Scenes in colors and oil paintings. price from 25 cents to $9.25. ODD DINNERWARE PIECES been killed on a grass farm in In @ia by the advanctag machine. Madras Times These Pictures range in First mortgages conservatively made Extensive Christmas selling has broken up many “sets,” and left us with a wre. an excellent in lot of odd pieces o nour hands in open stock patterns of English Semi } vestment, - We invest Porcelain, Austrian, Bavarian and French China. Hove you any of these patterns Now is your chance to fill out your sets, or, in any event, to se- in these ourselves and cure a lot of “China” at absurdly low prices investors | in supply read and Butter 60¢ to $1.00 with them. They draw Breakfast and Soup Plates, doz Dinnet es, doz Me to St . » Tea Cups and Saucers, doz Fruit Saucers, @ 10¢ to 65e 6 per cent and 7 per Cottoe ¢ and Saucers, do Oatmeal Bowls, doa Gor to BOF cent Bouillon Cups and Sancers Butter “Chips,” dow we to 50¢ Demt-Tasses and Sance Gravy Boata, each 2e to 406 Vegetable Dishes, each Sa ireens, each . G06 to $1.00 Covered Dishes, each Se ireens, each $1.50 to $2.00" NORTHWEST Covered Butter, Dishes, each Pic Dishes, each 10¢ to 20¢ Cake Plates, each t Gener bowin, doth Ms TRUST & |) S58 456 & $98 | Scot! port coo Cream Pitchers, each Le to 40¢ SAFE DEPOSIT COMPANY @ sitORROCK t . 2. & HARTMAN, Small... . $1.98 Each Large... . $3.75 Each REGULAR SELLING VALUES, CORNET TALKING MACHINES ALSO AT HALF sident Vice President Jardinieres, Decorated Oil Lamps, German Steins, Electric Lamps, Carving ALEXANDER MYERS, Sets, Cut Gla Chafing Dishes, Nickel Baking Dishes, Salad Sets, Mantel Secretary. : : - 2. Vv. &. SMITH Clocks, Vases and Bric-a-Brac, etc., etc., ete. Cashier. first Ave. and Columbia St SEATTLE, WASH, CENTURY FURNITURE CO. i