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: — SEATTLE STAR @ dally by The Star Pobi oF Vnlted Press. Pubtieh at Beattie. Wash By mati, ov Ove year, ee ; 2 Back to the Soil With “Lizzie’’ in his new be Keeping Up With gance of a certain class in back from a fashionable own family, but about all the of efty, 90 conte per month up t mon Irving Bacheller, the novelist Lissie,” has traced (he appalling extray American life to the young girl who co: boarding schoo! and ruins, not only neighbors, in t ffort to live up to h Houses, table, servants, dress, entertaining to enable “Lizzie” to be strictly “In it,” and, to “keep up with Lizale,” everybody who is {nto the hopeless maelstrom, And automobiles! Mr, Bacheller smnites fem hub and tonneau as wicked absorbers of capital thereby withdrawn pm usefulness, and squanderers of precious Fime “The joyful death march That's. what he calls it phrase, jitst the same, The Of the extravs is indulged tn by people who can afford it, and that the toiling, silone millions are gulltiess of this folly becay ther the money nor the credit to “keep up with | yal if they could Mr. Bacheller scans the professions nud f ally, “to death No room in business, ef and the kind of people he {s talking about must live well, too then, and how? The land and acientific farming! Ah, they all come Chose who think! Really, there te 1 to Ko unless you can wait the slow reconstruction of so m can't. But will they to the soil, these brainy, ambitious “It is bound to be, by the great law of Must Good! Then the future historian will ble or the era of extravagance and converting a at misdi producers of wealth eep up with Liz when she Loneliness and Old Age Mrs. Jane-Cummings ved 84 y She hanged he oom because all the friends of her cb 20d had gone to stand the loneliness Perhaps she was foolish Certainly the four-score driven to desperation But it ts her life, rather than her To live alone all the sy ideas travel—all these ar as the other gir creators of mortgages of a race!” and if it exaggerates, it ts a bu altuation that saving factor in the a part s them crowded Yet people muat live Where to that—all heller starting ected says Mr. Bt akes to farming self at Munete, and she was un spectacle of a woman of arouses more than usual pity death, that is pathette mpathy of companionship; to he to lose ing from physical activities. A man may be lonely in the While hundreds pass. This aged woman lived too many years. Were the forces which |so her But friends may be lost by other means. An unkind word, selfish the strife for success at the expense of others, the ambition that Fes on personal aggrandizement as its motive—these kill more quickly the years the friends of youth. These will which cannot be driven away by secret inspection of bank books, by | power that comes through wealth and material success. This woman knew the value of friends. Those who are much younger years might ponder whether they not cutting down their own ashipa by their own acts; whether they are not really ring the th of Loneliness by the gate of The Heart “For Rent’ When Ansel Comes and Susanna Conner were married in Kar ity in October, 1910, they were not quite sure It would be a bap fangement—that is to say, permanent Susanna didn’t want to t joes on wasting ber youth and b ty So they sign greatest throng. Natare life is not endurable and irable, then sone t “If the parties hereto find that married that separation, either legal or otherwise, is d ope shal! have $750 for each year she lives h the defendant and ¢ rightful share of all the estate that may come to this couple. } but for some | They seem to have lived happily, not © after,” four or five months. Then Susanna began to fear that Ansel was spend his money so fast that she might not be able to collect her $750 per case their bliss should sometime become “not endurable.” There fupon it became immediately so with Ansel, who applied for divorce The woman who would require such an agreement from her husband fs entitled to no sympathy if she loses her wages, and the man who ‘Would sign it is entitled to none if he has to pay the whole bill. They confound the altar with the pawn shop. Hamming Bird Shoes 3 Shoes made of the breast feathers of humming birds are the latest Wxtravagance of footwear. And an awfully inhuman extravagance It {s! ‘They are the creation of a Parts shoemaker. It takes about six the and many humming birds to make one pair, as the tiny breasts Biot be stitched together to make a kind of cloth of feathers. The effect is very beautiful and golds mingled. (The reds may represent the blood of the slaii humming birds and the golds the wealth of the fool who w: m.) A pair of these shoes cost only $2,500—in money Bat they cost the lives of « jews numbers of the most beautiful birds—so tiny and helpless—that nature ever created And the saddest thing about it all is this THE SHOES ARE MADE FOR WOMEN TO WEAR. Obser vations NEW YORK theatre admissions total $575,000 weekly. o 0 © PERHAPS there's intelligence in plants. Some of those on the G@esert have cisterns in which they store water for dry periods. er Te CHINESE student at University of Maine shot a girl because she Wouldn't marry him. The heathen are certainly taking to our ways. C.0 ie CHINA is to have currency based on decimal system, ut tt ‘won't be any easier to get and not much simpler to carry around ei Be shoe gleaming with tones of reds CLEVELAND, where the great garment workers’ strike Is on, turns |) @ut more women’s ready-made garments than any other city on earth | save Berlin and New York Wee Gabe ADVERTISING man proved that he could sell lumber by mail. He é@udied his volume of sales, all by mail, in a year, and expects to quad Tuple them this year. at eee THE fig tree is a relative of the mulberry ke. The fig bears its flowers INSIDE the fruit de.from the sap of a certain kind of fig tree : Tr SR THERE is a kind of bark lighter than cork Hermininiera Elaphioxylon, but for everyday use where the trees grow, they ¢ - them ambach trees. °o oO East India rubber is Its company name ts in Northern Egypt SOME day, periups, the climate of all Quebec may be changed from | cold to warm by damming the straits of Belle Isle and shutting off the Arctic current. Maybe, too, they'll keep the whole some day by washing it with the Gulf stream oe eee. WHAT do you think of that Danbury, II, farmer who paid $50 to for bis fiancee’s kisses, and took six years to fi out that she didn't love him? The dear old lemon peel only woke up when she told him to read the Bible and marry a California widow would wake up a wooden Indian. —_- EE SSS HUNDREDS ARE HAVING THEIR TEETH FIXED $HE ALBANY PAINLESS DENTISTS IN THE PROFLE'S BANK BUILDING ARE THE BUS Y DENTISTS EVERYBODY CAN HAVE GOOD TEETH NOW On May 1 we cot our prices for some people do not believe It pogstbi "We are aYOANY PAINLES° Cs Open Evenings Until #190, We Make the Best Set in the World for $4, $8 and $10 Blectricity and modern time-saving @ make it possible for = skillful to do se muh dental work Ino could nave done in s week jetting « $1 Iniays and gold filings at repute Sildran tent find that w ‘bo exactly as tao oniee rapt Mere Bo ALBANY PAINLESS DENTISTS On Senens Floor of People’s Bank Butidiny corner of Bevo " Bon Marche and MasDougall & Boulliwick’s, Take levator we walk wpe” P on, and painie re. anybody is swept along ounding ed APPROPRIAT! ¥ o 1898, BC. kindred souls to whom the ‘ows, the hopes, the aspirations. | € an 18) i wabitions of life may be confided exhibits more terrors than does the} He may. be solitary | | and {ts limit of life bring about the lonell-| but the fruit isn’t much | Atlantic coast warm Of course that LOOK ON THE OTHER S1De i ¢€ wole) If excitement has shattered your nerv |If arguments cause d dope of aorves What's the best thing to do when | BEPO! é you gits de worst of a hose trade? How's the outlook for To make you more frantic than| ii. womcon Keep still, an’ remember dat you Fine! I expect to get at least a }is simply in’ de way yuthah worry, but lessen Your! denon ween a week fre thou 1 would feel if you'd got de beat pace awa‘ And move to a town where the ball | ‘ team Is stuck in eighth place poultry CORNS HE GOT TIRED. You know, William, | lot to be thankful for.| blest with health and strength, good things to eat, warm clothes and a nice house to live in William—Yes, sir true, But I can't ow » Curate The women named Mary in Eng land have given a $62,000 fund to Queen Mary No; he stopped almost before he And "a wlarted A British clergyman in New York What was the matter? named George tried to get all the/ A case of tire trouble Georges in America to do the sarne| Post 7 for the king A USELESS CALL But | HOW THE PRICE HAS SOARED. Servant to Master—The He raised only $15, and everybody's) Danion Py at the door with a wooden wondering who the other 12 boobs) form) sb i him I don’t want any who gave a dollar aplece. « Horn er had ex that's very ‘lp thinkin’ as ‘as it all took out agin in Houston ohman strayed into the! man the other day. He| had not been a guest in thirty yea when it was the Sherman house, and was made! Mike O'Brien was one Mike is atfl! there and M ed him { itke to get my old rate,” of the clerk Frohman ory butter Just same, we wish our grocer! 1 wor top vending that kind. sn | What was that? Nitin? Sais laos room and four meals a day one of the Siamese appeared at a | rememb crs Dispatches | Q Rosa Blachek twins, who Ietely | Paris muste hall, was arrested by | the pollee today on a charge of| breaking ber contract Her sister, Josefa, was, of course, | ixed to wccompuny her to satt, OUR TABLOID 1 complains that, though inno CARTOON TODAY) | cent, she has to share the imprie| | opment | get a tip top dinner for rohman,” Mike said, “but| | the rest.”—Chicago la Barney Oldfield aspirant | Skids madly round the block |The dust flies up, the dust round yur system gets a shock, Footish Questions. "- ie me for wi htt is bard} to manage d ta Hable to ble up at any t | “H'm! Be call gette | find a aultable - | r ; »w you | | ] } her the Suffra-| Oysters weighing %'% pounds {ha nm found {n Vineyard cap jyon, near Mor Tex Sweet oranges were tntroduced | you frantic ‘our optic linto Europe by the Portuguese onganatidnge lyre 547 To gain your sight you try, When someone by your side marks, Is something in your eye? hh a | Why f# this a popular sport in |hot weather with} When you can play this? You may send me a gross high chairs,” the merchant said. I don't want to overstock yo the salesman said. “I thought yours was strictly a ewagrer| trade.” “Well, some people stil! want ‘em | for dogs.”—-Washington Herald While jumping wildly ‘bout pain, You sw nd make reply | Baba Bharati, a high caste Hin Why no, you fool, ['a4 seratch my doo, says American women w head |too many clothes, “enveloping th if | bad burt my eye.” [bodies and forgetting their minds, ‘ion iM.AGOTTSTE! IE) F.VRNITURE co COND ave UeTwEern ~e SATISFACTION INSURANCE When it’s a question of furnishing yottr home, you'll find this store equal to any demand. We welcome a comparison of values and prices, offer you the most liberal terms and guarantee SATISFACTION TO YOU. ca light simple Cart of attractive strongly constructed, but of It collapses with one taking up but little room when folded The seat, back and hood are covered with good quailty leatherette and handle bar IM is made in one piece, continuous design | \ very special Saturday offering at $4.95. : Our showing of serviceable Go-Carts is complete, all: the very newest 1911 pat terns beir and at a range of is broad enough to meet any requirement. All grades are spe cially priced for the week-end motion, hown, prices tha SATURDAY EVENING SHOPPERS will find this store open until a late hour. | nw In fact, the | family ‘JEANIE FLETCHER DOESN’T EVEN ___ PRETEND SHE’D LIKE DARNING SOCKS Darn socks? Not on Margaret Iittngton’s tintype. Not for this| Scottivh Inssie, She's not a wee bit! of # one, either | No. That's not the kind of reere-| § j ™ ation Jeanie Pletcher, prima donna at'thd Laue thesia, Io koe \Things You Should Know And, speaking of recreation, let us add that stage life is aot always what it's eracked up to be. Mine F. W. Stevenson & ¢ Railey building, are ad should be bought 1 the second reason, And it shows how world-wise she { - “Can you tell me if t can make @ more money In anything ¢ now you've Loin ker, | Fletcher, for instance, has Monday } a wheap | mornings of That's all, On Tues day morning she begins rehearsing the next week's play, Tuesday af |ternoon and evening she plays the! week's offering, and then it ts all over the same route again on Wed-| nesday and every other day of af Dance at Dretmni week But when she does get that rest, you won't find her, apron-garbed, lecooking corn beef and cabbage, or | whatever the real Seotti#h dish le It's owt In thy wmewbere for |her, horseback riding sparkling brook whe the apt to bite If | had to begin al) over again I'd go in for the same thing Mine teber, speaking of sta | life. ‘That she's not getting thin worry tug about the edntinuous work, any one will admit Now there is more than on ree son why this Fletcher person likes t Spinning’s Sixteenth An- niversary Sale woods 4 the. best ways work,” that’s her Miss Fletcher was arly childhood In a whole Yours for Barnains Spinning’ s Bargain Store ebildren, are » 417 Wourth Av If you walt long enough, you'll get There is no red tape in our store when you & Gately’s credit giving 00 ZA | WEEK We trust you-trust you mnplicitly -you don't have interest what you want to sign notes or pay real help. Our enormous organization-—we operate 90 stores—makes it possible to sell you on the most liberal terms would have te pay elsewhere for cash! will find that you can dress well at at lower prices than you Come in and investigate. You Stylish Suits $22.50 to $30.00 You don't need to go tallor Ladies’ New Wash Suits, Coats and Dresses Just Arrived! Our fine Ine of Women's Suits and Dresses 1s made more interesting by the ar- rival of the latest styles in Wash Suits, Coats and Dresses. $ They are nicely trim- med, cut in faultless style, and come in natural linen, white, biue and pink. The prices—as usval—are lowest on liberal terms than elsewhere for cash. to an expensive to be well dressed—if you are a Gately cus | tomer. We can give you perfect fitting setae made of depend: wool fabrics, at wt that are positively the lowest, considering their high grade. Our immense buying facili tles—we operate ninety stores—enables us to buy the entire output of factories, consequently we can give you more value for your money on liberal credit—than smaller concerns offer ¢ you for cash, We in vite your investigation. Get your next sult at Gately's—you will save money Alterations Free of Charge Our $5.00 Shoes and Oxfords for Men ARE WORLD SFAICRS You don't know what good shoe value is until you have worn a pair of Gately’s Famous $5.00 Shoes. It outwears three other ordinary shoes, o's Furnishings THE REASON is easily told. We buy for 90 § Department offers you the stores and we sell in 90 stores—and thus are en-} best in style and value. We abled to give better values than the merchant ot Golf. operating one store. Our $3.00 shoes are also splendid valnes for the money Ladies’ ‘Hats at Half Price A good selection of Summer Hats, all styles, are now offered at one half of regular prices. And remember credit—at cash prices - way writs SEATTLE 1119 Third Avenue, Near Seneca TACOMA 1125 C Str if It Comes From South of Eleventh Gately's It's Good EAST THRO’ BOUNDARYLAND Travel the Northern rim of the United States—through a scenic country onthe Great Northern OhioCut-Rate Dentists 305 Pike Street Over Ow! Drug Store, Entrance Room 4 PAINLESS DENTISTS Any Customer « s y t yar Who has an account at this store may select from the show" ng of Lawn Mowers, Gar- den Hose, Reels, Refrigerators, etc., without making a payment now ; the amount will simply be added to your account : The Pullman Revolving Seat-Bed J Davenport for which we are ex elusive Seattle agents, Is an ideal piece of furniture, serving as a davenport during the day and as a bed at night For Saturday we make special offering of a $60 Pull- man at a deep reduction, It Is handsomely designed, made of oak and finished fumed or Karly Eng ish. 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