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LETTERS ON LOVE AND M the “Right Man.” am a reader of ead with great s written by the Girl, T do not at am a working know how and a kind hus hat loves whisky working girl (s hard © that to the kard’s wife, A happy t I have been looking Baitor § nd the right kind of will always find a and a clean house turns bome from work. a working girl is all e Shop Girl described, and I am simply tired of it, Hf there are any more of those men that don't care what F a girl looks like so long as they © are honest and neat, Just let thom ~ geome forward > Tam a young lady 19 years of + five feet and six inches in | peight, dark brown hair and light } gray eves MAY. Here Is No, 22. A Baitor Star: I see in your col | que letters about the Shop Girl, Well, I am in the same 1 work in a laundry and room all alone and eat Q Bittle bite of something cold. I @at make enough fn the laundry De board out, so fF just eat a cold " and “hike” Eh, 1 work hard all day and PF eome hack at night to my little ) oom cold and lonesome—no one to F feve and cheer me. | Wi could find a nice, loving man would make things loving and I would be very much pleased. a fairly good looking girl, worker and a neat house } 1 would do everything I a. please a man who would | do the same to me. | Hf anyone would care to anawer | my letter through The Star I will to them. | am tired of work- out and live alone. 4 will close hoping to hear from | gome one soon. Yours truly, NO. 22. ‘Will Take # Chance. Editor of The Star: I have read | the many letters which bave been | printed in The Star on love and matrinrony with Interest and have |, up my mind to try my lmck 4 The Star, | Fam one of the many girla who to work for a living, and say that I do not find life a of roses. 1 am a lover of home, and there should be no place side of heaven as happy as a . T would like one of my visiting the divorce court. 1 will give a description of my- self: gummers, height five feet and five | finches, weight 145 pounds, light CYNTHIA GREY nnn Miss Grey: This is my e recipe for cookies, without or butter: cup granulated sugar. Biespoon cottoions Snsif teaspoon baking ode. teaspoon grated nutmeg. we your dough very soft and out thin. MRS. A, H. BUHTZ, Auburn, Wash. Migs Grey: Can you tell imeem folks something to render waterproof? I wear what} supposed to be waterproof bet my feet are wet every Do you know if Eckman’s ive is a good cough remedy? | “-. & A DER.” —A homely and old fashioned to fender shoes waterproof ts toliows Melt mutton + beeswax and apply to the shoes. | course this could not be used ; shoes, but 1s effectual for th everyday shoes. yw anything about Medicine you mention the Mise Grey: Could you @ tell me what ts a good rem- for bunions, and what is ood wemeve hair on the face and “LAUGE + WATER.” PA—Bunions are caused by pres Of shoes and injury of joint PBlg toe. A pad worn between hig and second toes to throw foe into proper position, to- with easy fitting shoes, times relieves, and may cure cal removal cures, ical needie or the daily al- of peroxide of hydro and aqua ammonia will erad! the hairs. The combination of Oxide and ammonia causes the to become 4 nd veey dry Will in tiie KM} the growth. Only pertianent and sure way Femoving the. crowsh of, euper hair, however, ta by using @ électric needle, but only a re ¢ and experienced specialist 4 be entrusted with the work ok What will take of white {hath MARIE H. pote in the full ammonia, then stropg ammonia 6 Grey is out W.ORTH--| KNOWING aiid a nourishing ¢ in this way: In t up an ogg with Pa popper, right back to} 1 am a young lady of 23) low} 3 sweet | ATRIMONY sioned, dark brown and hazel eyes; not very good look ing, but with a loving heart for tne right one. 1 Com ple hair | . | | This From a Young Wife. } Dear Editor: You, as everyone! se in this big world of oura, have hoard the old saying, “Better be an old man’s darling than a young man’s slave.” Still, too, they will jsay he must think the world of her, jas he could have married anyone, jand a man of his age knows how to treat a woman, 1 don't say they are alike. | I know a man near 40 knows how to win a woman and knows} how to break her heart. A man of 40 has been in love so many times jhe doesn't know who he cares for lHe is infatuated with every good looking girl he secs. How is a young girl going to know all these things when she }thinks he loves her, as every little attention ia hers? He wins her, marries her, then the soon tires of this fair flower and casts it aside. He stays out ti all hours of tho night, It ts pay bills, business, or something. He never caresses his young wife. She waits for him, and if she wants }to kiss him or put her arma around this neck, he says, “Don't be silly; |this fa the only time I have to my leelf.” If he does come home he }never talke to his wife, but reads {his paper. I know the pangs of this, and }more, too, as T am the young wife and atill a bride. If my husband would take me in his arma and j kiss me and say, “I do. Do yout” jit would be the biggest Xmas pres jent to me. GRAY EYES, The Contented Woman. Dear Star: I have read the plaint of the housewife, the watl of the shop girl and the comments of the bachelors, and | wish to add that I, too, seramble out of bed tn morning, get a bite to eat in my room and fly off to work. 1, also, snatch a lunch at the cafeteria ai return to my humble lodging for each night's repose. But none of these things disturb my enjoyment of the many pleas ures that this old world affords. The secret is Interest in something. | Have a fad. No doubt these people | who wail have not all the education they would like. Seattle furnishes excellent courses of study in beam free night sehoola, Why not take up (if even for a temporary fad) cooking, millinery, brass work, ets, study Spanish, French or German just to keep the brain active, and soon you find yourself reaching out for more and more. It fs no hardship if you have the right apirit (Seattle spirit ought to do). L know whereof I speak, for I have tried It and been successful, even though handicapped by a frail dod: {also know of a little indy who has a small baby and keeps several roomers who docs all her work and does it well, yet she finds time and takes pleasure in going to night school. Where there ts ambition a way » WOMAN land @ Ittle nutmeg, add some eracker crumbs, then slowly pour in boiling water, beating con- stantly to avoid curdling. and a will there fs A CONTEN Soft soap made from half a pound of shaved down hard soap and two quarts of water will save the soap | bill at cleaning time. Out of the Wisdom of | THE OISGRUNTLED EMPLOYE. | He is rywhere, both male and! female. Nearly every group of | worker# know him. And he Is a menace, unless the one he singles out for his confidence understands the danger and lets It ripple over her head, or refuses point blank | | to listen. } | Hubbard has wittingly epitomized the situation when he says, “Get in line or get out | But the disgruntied employe does neither. He confides to you how) miserably the oftice is managed or with what poor judgment the stock is bought | No manager is perfect, and there | are weak spots in every routine, or else there are reasons of which the subordinates know nothing for certain transactions. But the grumbler, without the outlook of the head of affairs, Jumps on these seeming weak piaces and holds forth at length on how much better such things could be man aged. He makes mountains out of molehills of office routine that per. | haps might be bettered if the man ager hadn't larger affairs to attend to. Safely shettered in a small post tion, ft Is very easy to criticise / | The trouble is, the business birl | who doesn't realize the danger of listening to these complaints may let them sink in, She may begin to think she has @ poor manager, who doepeit half know his business, that he wn't attend properly to de tails vor is indifferent to them. She toommets disgrantied with her posi tiom, or stows careless. The other may hint significantly there's go ing to be a change, and the one who Ustens, belleviag it, may think that | if a new manager is coming, she} | might-as wel relax a little in the | | persormance of her duties | | it is dangerous and disloyal to} Isten to these disgruntjed employes, | dangerous to ones own work, dis loyal to the manager or employer Kindly but corteously express your | digbellef that the office Is galing to the dogs.«Better yet, help Mig, gruutiedepe to wee the ota ee, o take a brighter view of big own! duties, and consgquently fo get! more i asure oulof them. i S, Cms ing, and fot same, 07 troubled with gap a temedy will give \walief. | Excessive gaping ‘8 someOsim tl caused..by tarpid and inactive, iver | Better ult your pl fe clan. * Ks | Indicates that you will have TID BITS. | WHAT DREAMS MEAN Purse ie the it silver de. | and gold happiness. To dream of a apurse sald to bring great luck to dreamer, If it contains copper is algnificant of health notes wealth Tomatoes—To dream of tomatoes &@ prow: | perous life. inrise—If you dream that you the sun rise, ft betokens that you are about to rise in the world Kace--To dream that you rur win & race is an © in love. and of fortune Kyebrows—To dream of eyebrows is a sign of friends ithwill and vexation; black, luck Laurel—To dream that you see a laurel tree signifies success and pleasure. } thick thin, | good | Legacy—To dream that you are! left a legacy fs a good dream, It} always foretells some unexpected benefit Nightingale A most fortunate dream, denoting a wealthy mar riage. Your husband will be ox ceedingly kind, warm-hearted and affectionate, but more likely to show his love in actions than in words. THE STAR—THURSDAY,: XMAS DINN WORKINGMAN AND FAMILY tauee Twent Rquash Nan fas Lettuce, One-half 2 the. Two * Turkey, ‘I te, doe; Teta —s cau. o cues = “meus “TELL ME 4 Crioren's SOSSSOSeSsSeseseseoeoeoes THE TOY FRIENDS | A Billtken doll and a North Pole| baby had stood close together tn/ the window of a large toy store, and had become great friends. It wa fun to stay there in the window,| where they could see all that went on in the street and wateh the chil-| dren peeping tn at them } But one night they were all pack- ed in large baskets and taken out) of the window and put back on the counters. When Billiken and Mise) the |North Pole came out of the dark basket and found themselves side) by side again, they were very bappy.; They missed being in the window, but there was much to amuse them here. They liked to sec the sales | ladies wind up tl atomobties, the | tiny climbing monkeys, the litte tin | dancers and fiddlers for the chil- dren's amusement, but they were giad there was nothing inside of jemaelves that could be wound up with a key. One day a lady came tn and plek- ed up Billikens. He was sent off in a little wire basket to be wrapped! up, and was then taken away, The poor little North Pole baby was broken-hearted when days went by and Billiken didn’t come back to} her. At last Christmas eve came and: ore | toaned about. Suddenly the Pole baby felt herself setzred, then she ERE is an unusually good selection of Amberol and Standard Records for every owner of an Edison If you haven't an Edison Phonograph, the first thing to do is to get one, so that you can play these Phonograph. new Records. Some of the best talent in the country has been engaged in making these and other Records for you. Hear them at your dealer’s and you will want to take A STORY” Pravtime SHCSOCOSSOCSOSCSSSSSOSIOS and cartied away, As soon as was unwrapped «he was stuff down into a stocking. ‘The next morning, when she w Nhueoe oat by baby hands and by and kissed, she was glad to see Maht once more. And what da think she saw just being pulled of another stocking? Her Bultic The children laughed and their hands, and somebody “What an awful grin,” but to her was the sweetest smile on earth. And, indeed, he was trying siunile hin aweetest, beenuse be giad to see her. gether In the same nursery, the Ht) wae tled up with some other toysitie friends are happy once more. | excellent artificial flowers. DECEMBER 23, 1909 Mashed Turuips. | | When mashing turnipa, add @ smal Jauantity of potato and you will b | prised how Mher and | dette ve | | much ate the favor aby Break squash inte o4 about @ inches square and plare @ stige of bacon on | | top whem you plac on, it im “aa the flavor Hanane Salad. ‘heouqh lenathwrine and aye the enath on a penait im the very ™ Milce bananas @ about re | Fettwoe teat + siowly Boll anit foamy. stirring Tf kept in a 1k be aod for Thin with erate Chetetmas Pudding Made With Crackers wart of milk overnight. In hg mash add 14 tabi a A rg we o one pound seelel raisios piece of butter etee & email cae Bake Slowly four or five hours Bat cola with pudding sauce or cream, Christmas Prait Cake. ‘Three eges, one cup syyr milk, one of butter, four of four, EM Of seeded raisins chapped fine, two of brown sugar. one teaspoon of soda, of cloves, one of cinnamon. Bake slowly. Minre Pie. Gat & package of New Kngiand mince meat ang add 4 few apples ang rataine eh. fine, and you have « very good mubetitute for (he more expensive home made mincemests The cost of thie dinner could be | areatiy reduced by cooking chicken tn Mend of turkey. Get # nice, large, plump hen and reset it, and ft le as palatabie so turkey | One vegetsbie onty to be served be- side the mashed potators, using either ppt betieet mince ple and would be come cheaper Mise Heranana Kaesemann te managing a half-miilion-doliar off jooncern in Kansas, The duchess of Guise is an ox- pert milffner, and can aleo turn out most of them home. Amberol Washington Post and the High Bchoot Cadets Gobn Philip Souna) Redhead (Franklin and m) Aante Laurie and Home Sweet (Donn-Payne) Belle, , . Ring o'Roses (Leo Pall) 38 88 & Bec: Ballet M + « -So0sa's Band Ada Jones Home Joha F. Burckhardt Riizabeth Wheeler and Harry Anthony ‘The Bird with the Broken Wing (it. 1. Beveridge) red oo.» Rdivon Mixed rtatte from “Mile, Modtete” (Victor Herbert) Victor Herbert and his Orchestra When Yo Seatinental Ballad Gobble I Wore Sweet Sixtoa (James Thornton) +s: Manuel Romain from © The Mascot * (Aodran) Elizabeth Wheeler snd Harry Anthony Monte Cris Kotlar) a Homabew Don't Be An Old Maid, Mofly ¢ Walter Song A Race for » Wife Origtual (A Race Track Sk jnstrumental Quintetto Mills) Kerr; Byron G. Harlan ‘Territorial M: ‘Ada dones and Len Sp Piqua Dame Overture (Suppé) Down in Sunshine Alley, Sally Flow Gently, Swoet Afton (8, Mixed Voices Metropolitan Quartetto y Rereous de Jocelyn (Godard) From Time to Tine (Stanford) Lend Kindly Light (Dykes) Knickerbocker Quartette Hetection from the “ Dollar Princess " (Leo Pall) American Kmmaline (Wm. Jerome and Jean Schwartz) Ada Jones and Billy Marray Maria Theresia March (J. ¥. Wagner) Coon Love Cataon Concert Band (Geo. W. Moyer) Murray and Chorus Spilman) Ma Lil’ Sweet! Moot Me To» Wild Cherries Coon Bo «Jean Beh wile ‘Tho Portly ‘Thomas Chalmers I Said Hooray Combe Sony Wodding Boll Flanagan and Vaudeville Kaiser Priodr! Symphany Orchostra United States Marine Band ; Félizon Phonographe Standard Revords . Anherol Kecorde (twico se long) Grand Opera Kecorda 3 $12.50 to Stzou She 0 now ‘The: and $1.00 Standard ‘The Summer Girl J. P. Bowes) . . Sow Ive Hard to Pind « Keat Nice Man, Comic Song Beastie Swestheart's aPretty Namo when Jt ls Y-0-0 (AL Piantodoat) Oriental Marchifrom “The Tattooed Man” Sousa's Rand Wynn Manuel Romain + (Vietor Herbert & his Orchestra Rhymes (Manuel Klein) Billy Morray and Chorus ley Mountains (Lowell Mason) Edison Mixed Quartetto nother Girl at Homo Like Mary 1 Godfrey) Waltz Song . Harry Fay eis Accordion . John Kimmble elt) Waits Song ‘Ada Jones (Tom Lemonier) Comie D Collins an Kinsing Her Now (Howard) ng . Manuel Rornain b (Blanken burg) | (London) Military Band Kinley) Mabel McKinley nt in Dreamland (Leo Friedman) th Wheoler and Harry Anthony yoony, Spoony Rag ( Ted Bynder) . _ Edward Meeker March (Waiter Rolfe) American Symphony Orchestra ‘eston and Beran} nck Ploasante Frod Holf)’. Promier Quartetto 4 Motor Car (Original) inlty Steve Porter March (Car! Friedemann) United States Marine Band We desire good live dealers to sell Edison P mphe i every Treprosentod stores should waite us at town where we are not Jers having established ° Got complate catalogs of Kdison Phonographa of your dealer or write us National Phonograph Company, 75 Lakeside Ave., Orange, N. J. Talking Mé chine Headquarters kilers Musto Building Successors to D. S. | Johnston Co, Third and University FREDERICK & NELSON, Htore Clones Dally at 5:90.Will Not Be Open Evenings for Cliristmas Business FURNITURE DRY GOODS Inc. DRY GOODS I 2 FURNITURE Suggestions for Perplexed Gift-Seekers Appended is an alphabetical list of some of the leading lines of merchandise especially appropriate for Christmas gifts. Of course, there are thousands of articles ih other lines adapted to Christmas giving, but the following are- among the most important, and shown here in representative variety: Andiron Dre Aprons \rt and Fire Sets ssing Sacques | Faney China Brassware Fanty Needlework Nov a aiaee eltic Baby Carriages . Frames, Silver Photo graph | Furniture of various | kinds | Furs and Fur Garments Bags, Leather Bags, Traveling and Shopping Barrettes Bath Robes, and Men's Belt Buckles Belts Bird Cages sracelets Bric-a-Brac Women’s Gloves, Women’s, Men’s and Children’s Glove Bonds Hair Ornaments Hand Bags calendars ‘andlesticks andle Shades apes, Women’s Misses’ The Display || Windows Will Also Prove a Source of Inspiration to Gift-Seekers ou and ard Cases ‘arpets and Rugs ‘arpet Sweepers ‘arving Sets ‘enterpieces, Fancy Lin- en Chafing Dishes Children’s Apparel Chinaware Coats, Women’s, Misses’ and Children’s Coffee Percolators Collar and Cuff Boxes Combs Comforters and Blank- ets Couch and Table Covers Cravats, Men’s Curtains, Lace Cut Glass Cutlery Handkerchiefs, Wom- | en's, Men’s and Chil- dren's Hat Pins Hosiery for Women, Men and Children House Coats, Men’s Jardinieres Jewelry Kimonos, Silk and Flan- nel Damask, Table Doilies Leather Goods in wide | variety Leggings, Girls’ and Boys’ Dress Lengths Women’s, Dressing Cases’ | Military | Mufflers, Women’s, Linens, Fancy Manicure Men’ Merchan Furnishing dise Certificates Brushes Men's and Children’s Neckwear, Women’s and Men's Negligees, Women’s Silk Oriental Rugs Perfumes Petticoats, Silk Playigg Cards Pocket Books Portieres, Leather Ribbon Novelties Ribbons Rings, Gold Satchels Shaving Stands Shaving Sets Shirt-waist Boxes Silk Searfs | Silverware Slippers, Felt, Leather and Crocheted Small Rugs Skirt Lengths Suits, Women’s and Misses’ Sweaters, Women’s, Misses’ and Children’s | Toilet Goods Toilet Cases | Trunks Umbrellas, Women’s, Men's and Children’s Waistcoats, Men's Waists, Women’s Waist Patterns Walking Sticks Work Baskets Work Bags Store Will Not Be Open Evenings for Christmas Business Telephone Orders Filled With Care LADIES HOME JOURNAL PATTERNS DOWN SA eat $1.00 Down Sale You'll be surprised to know how far your Christmas money will reach if you shop with us. Suits or Coats, Ladies’ Skirts, Waists, Come Friday, in the forenoon, if possible—and’ attend Remember, we will sell you any Men's or Women Petticoats, Cravenettes, Furs, ete.—in fact, amy garment in down and WE TRUST THE PEOPLE f can surely spare $1.00 for a first payment dollar is paid After January Ist we will be Seneca street, where we'll be pleased to meet our cated in our new quarters friends Frederick & Nelson| our 00 A WEEK “If you need anything in Clothing, you can’t afford t6 pass up this opportunity and Despatch -— ING HOU ARE BEST | POR PURCHASING BEFORE XMAS LE our stock for only $1.00 No Interest No Security You All goods are delivered promptly when the first at 1419 Third avenue, near and customers, OPEN FRIDAY UNTIL 10 P, M. One Dollar Down Is All You Pay 414 UNION STREET And Get the Article Right Away One Block Above the Postoffice