The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 19, 1909, Page 7

aaa pREAUTY MES HERE Will Be Here to ¢ ele- a the Day Set Aside + for Their Big Family at the A-Y.-P. E- _— of th ep Smith ts offered ¢ eat prevent on 8 ' ay aw. YS Roattte \ schoo! \ te in & : lameatigs OF ANY ra at by. any way they it Mil help make Smith day E TROUBLES IN “STORE FOR ALFONSO) tas GRACE KEATOR jing to be stenographers, . Miracles, in this line, are being accomplished by the New York As Word was covarees ) Mociation for the Blind Canary teianders rhercete Miss Grace E. Keator, president ee — 3 7 mister of the Blind Girls Club of New wa been sent to sup-| MISS GRACE KEATOR es are 8-758 Or er TF York, Ia an accomplished stenogra ie Movement. The goverd-| pher, and can write as rapidly as today starte Teinforce alllan ordinary typiat throughout Spain “We have a machine for taking ae shorthand notes,” says Miss Kea SPENT YEARS ABROAD. tor, “It has six keys. These keys Uatied Pree.) }punch combinations of dota that Hk. BG. Aue 19.—After|take the place of shorthand notes. M7 years in Japan, Wii These dots appear on & narrow pa foreign ad-| Der tape. of commun-| “A blind stenographer lays this @ govern. ‘Spe across her lap, as sho sits at morning on 8% ordinary typewriting machine With her fingers she feels out her shorthand notes. Then she writes ing mre the fen Tertation Geoweing | It is only a few years ago that It Menace, would ha tees, unless etherw ive | are for strietly Firat | Anh that a blind man or woman |could take a place among the wage een considered cruel to 4 «jearners of the community. But #) jthis is an age of progress, Many +21 ifields are now open to the blind who have a good education, plenty of +18 | stick-to-lt-iveness and are not afraid 4% lof hard work | The thing we who are blind want ‘op | most of all now ts a chance to show ithe public what we can do. “Seeing jis believing.” If our seeing friends, linstead of merely thinking that | what we do is wonderful, would In HE WANTS BUT HAS o ” « i - |ADVERTISER DEFENDS HIS Ye i? | susinesstixe metHoos Prices. IN HIS COURTING. “T haven't time to go to church socials looking for a wife, playing the hypoerite and possibly then get- E a misfit. Matrimony ts « bus r rBSsss Ss S3sses inews proposition and advertising should be a legitimate and satie factory way of getting a wife.” These are the views of B69, The Star, who ran the following ad sev eral days ago: A middle aged business man, having goed income, of pleasing appear gf $7.99 |sar-athoms, beet of habtis. ki «+ 45,00G 46.09 | indulgent ‘ash + 8.008 46, 27.8 @ 29.0 marriage. Highest r +B) 0009 32.09 | Actar and standing 100g 48. 06 1 .98.00@ 37.00 35.00@ 34.00 Has Pronounced Views. B69, The Star, who happens to be a Mason and an Odd Fellow, an bar- ++ 39.00@ 40.00 2.% |nounced views on many subjects, 6@ 75 has written his views on the matri 1.26 1.50 | monial question for The Star. An 3g | swers were plentiful, but few sult Looled. While B69 Believes advertis 7 ling te the right way to get the jright kind of @ Iife mate, he ts of | the opinion that most of the desir- \able women hesitate to answer a | matrimonial ad. Here Are His Views. "Editor The Star | “Agreeable to your request that | the writer give bis views as to the COLUMBIA | | FRIENDS OF DEFEATED CAND! DATE FILE A PROTEST AGAINST AWARD. In & most spirited contest, Miss Columbia, belle of the Pay Streak and the shining star of the Eskimo j village, was declared queen of the val, wt th me of the polls last night. Incidentally with the high office a parcel of land in Sum, mit Place addition is donated by Ole Hanson & Co, so that the queen wins both bonor and prop erty. Towards the last of the con test friends of the candidates ap loaded to the brim with coupons Friends of Miss Thomas claim that 20,000 votes were cast by Mins Columbia's supporters without the name of the contestant being writ ALBERT HANSEN, Jeweler, | First and Cherry. } Optical Department WTEA ON INVISIBLE KEYS BLIND GIRL | IHG EEN Waites FOR THOSE WH EAVSEE FOR THE SOCIALS and rs [educated man and one of very pro-| peared with suit cases and grips | ——“lihrough Active pass and the San eye | | | AT HER TYPEWRITER, | by the touch system on her type | writer | “I cannot tell you how atrange| fand wonderful It seems to us tc able to writ hers may and read our we it is all the} erful to a blind person | who has never even seen @ printed | letter | Thousands of eyes will view what I have written on my type writer for the readers of The Star, yet, in my mind's eye, I have not the slightest idea of what type writer letters look like it ja work alone ean make the blind happy. A . raphy is pa mor of the in our ster phy school for the blind, in New York.” for The Star by Miss Grace E. Keator, ARKETS |Here Is the Message Written on Her Own Typewriter | Blind Stenographer. ventigat ¢ it with | that de give ua a char rove our ability | Those who are fortunate enough to be self-supporting do not want} to be looked upon as prodigies, for | they are simply ordinary human be ings who are striving, despite their | handicap, to improve the faculties | which God given ther tt may be interest to the read ere to know that | am myself blind and self-supporting, being employed | as a stenographer by the New York Association for the Blind. GRACE B. KEATOR AWIFE NO TIME propriety and seeming necessity for inserting the above advertisement im your valuable paper, be begs to aay he has no time nor Inciination | to use the slow and ofttimes disap- | pointing methods now In vogue, | such as going into noctety, attend ing sociables, visiting the different jehurches, where one is liable to play the hypocrite, and finally, at.| jer losing all self respect, fall to }aecure a wife, or worse still, get fone who turns out fo be anything but a true companion. Those who have gone through this experience will readily understand what ts meant If the papers that refuse matrt montal advertisements would take the slight trouble to inquire into lreferences and accept only those which appeared legitimate, and this method of choosing & wife was reo ognized as entirely proper, the writ er believes the resulta would be jmuach more satisfactory than the uaval anbuainess like, old-fashioned | methods Answers Are Sincere. | “What ff an occasional advertise ment geta in that ought not to. | That fact ought not to disber those that are legitimate. Undesirable persons join the lodges and church es. No church, lodge, society or} newspaper is proof against impos | tors. It's the greatest good to the| greatest number to be considered | Out of the large number of replies | recetved to the ad, not one would) |eem to show the writer to be oth-| er than a good, respectable | woman.” WILL BE QUEEN OF CARNIVAL ten on each coupon, and therefore | | they are alleged to be illegal, This jelaim was denied by the judges | The final standing was as follows Name ‘Total | Mise Columbia ...... 68,410) Mise Maud Thomas ....... 60,968 | Misa Fay Manqeuria ........19,287 Nita Rimbold ... vee D804 La Pelle Haya .. 1,860 'Irma Davis |Mazie Lupton Madame Zenobia .. | Jessie de White 57 Pearl Bull | 'To Vancouver fl:30 p.m. Return by Daylight | Through Victoria. Princess Char- | lotte both ways, giving time for a| visit at the cities of Vancouver and | | Vietoria. Takes you en route Juan Islands CANADIAN PACIFIC, 609 Firat Av. ove We especially invite all ladies for whom we have before made suits to visit us during the next three days. The exhaustive display of new materials will surprise and please you. SHOP OF SWELLDOM Formerly at Fourteenth and Madison THE STAR—THURSDAY) AUGUST 19, 1909. FORMAL OPENING SALE NEW LOCATION NEW FALL GOODS But the same experienced and competent men-tailors made the Shop of Swelldom known to all Seattle women as the makers of ladies order, of the distinctively better class—superior in fit, style and workmanship, | Sale Positively Ends Monday Night | and fitters who have garments, tailored to and the same cutters New fall goods are now here on display, in our new store, 503 Union st.—all the latest and popular materials decreed by Dame Fashion. Our regular prices for strictly man-tailored suits, made to order, are from $40 to $70. or Three Days On FRIDAY, SATURDAY AND MONDAY 30 Will be the price of our suits, for which we regularly ask from $40 to $70. Positively only fifty suits will be sold at this price, and only one suit to a customer, We make this special offer at this time to induce early placing of orders before the fall rush begins, and to keep our large force of workmen busy during the lull which usually comes at this time of year. We have only the latest and most fashionable goods on display-—of the same quality for which other fashion- ionable ladies’ tailors usually ask from $50 to $100. Among the newer importations are Bedford Cords, Zibilines, all Fancy Mixtures, Wide Wale Diagonals in all the rich, brilliant hues, including the popular blue lead and deep shades of amethyst—all on display here during this three days’ sale. a We guarantee every suit made in this establishment to be entirely satisfactory—perfect in every detail. Our linings are guaranteed for two seasons and our haircloth fronts retain their shape until the garment is cast aside. We make more Ladies’ Tailored Suits to order than all other ladies’ tailors in Seattle combined. Thorough organization, the pur- chasing of materials direct from manufactur- ers, and our large saving in rent have made it possible for us to make prices with which other ladies’ tailors never can compete. 503-UNION ST.=503 Formerly at Fourteenth and Madison