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fjusT LIKE EAL BABIES most wonderful doll that was made—a doll that looks, and feels like a real “meat fabs” evoluted way over in Bertin from a dollie made from a towel — sand, with a potato for a Kaethe Kruse, the origin- of the Kruse doll that is THE! burnt matches. The whole poor ex: It ts soft Y of this Christmas thne, is the of a German sculptor, Her ig one of the new school of realists and he objected to ha’ Bis children playing with the commonly sold. He said they | HERE'S A SERIES OF ACCIDENTS ND, Or., Dee. 24.—James lumberman, is dead and d, G. W. Bell and Chas. are severely injured today result of a series of railway ‘wax bit by a Northern Pa- train near St. others received ke nothing on earth or in| lovingly placed beside them in their, ran into an open switch with a train gotng tm S opposite direction. About 60) or sewing would help me, as I know tt Johns, while} | heaven. But the litle Kruses longed for dolls upon which to expend their maternal love. They begeed for them and would not be comforted with anything else. | To plaase them Frau Kruse wrap |ped a potato in a towel out | the four corners to make na and feet and then filled the body with sand. The face was drawn with couse was [mmediately taken into the hearts of the Kruse kinder. So much did they love this doliie that it was never very far from them. They played with it the most of the day and at night It was | EAR MISS GREY: smal! tow make him smile thusband, and then he Matters me, Now, I have one bad fault, so I'm told. ‘ their hurts large, attractive eyes, and my fault is trying @ trolley train of the United! tact, every man I meet, although | never apeak to him, but in time I It seome as though I can't hetp it ARE THESE CHRISTMAS DOLLS MADE BY A GERMAN SCULPTOR’S WIFE t petty From this towel doll ft has taken five years to evolve the pr h has a now seamless ch ag doll painted w sand it has many of }the characterists of the real baby Its head | wely sewed on and is |always demanding to be protected. | No two dolls are alike. | A Kruse doll ean stand on its pretty feet as a baby stands. It looks in nocent, sweet and foolish and, above all, it is unbreakable and washable This doll costs $15, but It ie said that it will wear throagh more than one generation of children. jer trundle beda. like baby, wh made out of IK doll in a washable pal My subject is of great importance. My [———————— husband is a very fine man and thinks I'm & grand women, and al! that, but, to be plain with you, [| don't care any more for him than for any other man. and it is so hard for him to get into city ideas. He fs a man from a very I am fine looking, with to attract many men-—in 1 even flirt at my Do you think some kind of reading would burt my husband fearfully were on the trolley if he knew my plans. Thanking you for some of your good advice, ‘and all were severely jolted. PRANCISCO, Dec. 24.—De- r money due him and being ic that he would get it in Wm. Barry, a bar jn the employ of Peter Greeu- A COQUETTE GIRL BEATS ~ DRUNKEN FATHER SAVES MOTHER ROSEBURG, Or, Dee, M4e-At tacking bia wife in a drunken fren tward Lough was beaten Into onsclongness with a shevel in hands of bis thyearold daugh- Evelyn, and is today In the county jail, che with attempt to murd Ac ling to the story told by the woman aud the girl Lough was attempting to pull his wife's hair out by the handful when the «trl, seizing the shovel, laid hie sealp open. Neighbors bound his wounds and turned him over to the sheriff, and are still caring for his wife and daughter ROBBERS’ QUARREL IS BAD FOR THEM HUNTINGTON, Or, Deo, 24 Search in being made throughout the bille today for a yergman who 1 here, after having been for rifling the poatoffiee ¢ state that afte men arreled division of tt them surreptitio authorities, The upon arrested, but a few hours lat- er, presumably with ald from the outside, br ¢ down the door fas tonings of hia cell and escaped, HEAVY SNOW STORM IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, Dec, 24.--One of the heaviest snowstorms of the lyear started bere early today, more than six inches falling up to noon ® storm extends south to Nor Va. and west to Pittsburg ‘housands of homeless r ap plied for street cleaning jobe and bundreda were put to work shovel ing snow. —~— | CHIIUAHUA, Mex. Dee, 24.—J L. Morris, an American = raliroad man, captured by Mexican rebels wan released here today and started at once for J en. American Con. ul Bdwards of Juares demanded Morris’ release and the rebels tm. | mediately complied. & dance and bad « fine time until & young man came in and got ac qainted with ber, and she took bis ‘ompany home instead of mine. The noxt day she called me up|! on the phone, saying the young man bad insulted her and she jwanted to apologize for what she had done [| told her I wann't a soft guy, for ber to call again. What shall I do? Her folke say she can't go with anyone but me Do you think she will think me A—My dear girl, thank God you have a husband who finds it 4!ff- gon if | make up again? j cult to get into city ways. It matters not whether a man or woman Is | from city or country; but rather the principle by which he, or she. is Loran Personally, | prefer the broad-minded country man, who has acquired this broadness by contact with nature, ~Recame abysive and when/city man; on the other hand, I admire a city man who can to the conventional live above with ejection, drew a re-| his environments to a country man who has seen only the physical side and shot Greenwald dead. is in the city prison charged ‘murder. ‘Booth’s HYOME! With Wonderful Results. This picture shows the little hard rub ber HYOMET inhaler the exact size. own one a a 43 if E ; i 3 pee i k it th te ; | ? if FT : f ; 8 g : ef E : re-block your fer, velour, satin Jatest style. of animal life and God's great creation. Never mind your husband's w ys. You will be kept very busy if you will clear your character of the weed of which you spoke, and which, if not rooted out, will scatter ite seeds like a thistle and grow multitudes of stinging plan’ Ful your mind with the spirit of hetpfalness toward others, and you) can hurt no one. Read Shakespea to thine own self be true, and as the night doth follow day, thou canst) not then be false to any ma: re where he says: “This above all, peer If this is your only fault, and even if you have more, it Hes within @ Catarrh Victims Have! You to make a truly grand woman of yourself. SOWING THE WIND WE REAP WHIRLWIND Dear Miss Grey: I am a@ reapect- able girl of 19 and I am dearly in love with a logger of 21. Ho works out in camp and only comes to town once a week. We go to ‘dances, and the girls are making \remarks to me that loggers dress ee tke men. Are logxers consid- men, or what are they? [ | would like to know, for he is a nice oung man. What can T do to stop the girls saying such ervel things? A—A man ag his position, not the the man. barr) HOOKTEN DER, Some loggers are the best type of men, in fact, the majority I have met are. Every unkind remark one makes about another reacts on himself, and sooner or later these girls will reap what they are so thoughtlessly sowing. I should think you and the young man might have a better time in more refined company. CYNTHIA GREY LIVES IN ANTICIPATION OF NAMESAKE Dear Miss Grey: I saw wh a man who signed his name “Wife Seeker” in a recent issue asked you to marry him, if you were not a me Now, really he was very rude, and 1 think you made him a fine answer. I would like to shake hands with you 1 am not a wife seeker, a9 I have the sweetest and best little wife in all creation, but somebow I am really interested in you. I am ex- pecting a baby to be borm.to my wife very soon; and, if it fi airl, her name is to be “Crate. i would like to get acquaint with you, as I know my wife would not care in the least, as she is not of a Jealous disposition. It would be very interesting for the readers if you would publish a pleture of yourself and give a full description. Are you bashfal about 7 1am 24 years old and is 22, J imagine you are a dear, sweet old lady, with a tragic love story hidden ‘deep in your brea: Some time, perhaps in your youth, you were disappointed in love, or your lover was killed. ot course, if you are reticent, I hope you will not be offended. I would Ike to punch “Wife Seek- er’s” head for thinking you a man, He » id his wife was dead, I bet he was ¢o mean to her that she was real glad die, and he was #0 mean to ber that she simply had to die to get relief. Your most loving friend. SEEKER OF WIVES. A.—I do hope the baby is a girl. I consider it one of the finest com- pliments to have a dear little girl for a namesake, and you must be sure to let me know, It may be after the baby comes I will have an opportunity to see the whole fam- ily. Here ts a picture of myself: Height, 5 feet 3 inches; weight, 115 poun medium complexion; HAPPINESS, NOT brown eyes and hair (and only a |few gray hairs); an ordinary nose, and medium mouth, long jaw, and firm chin—teeth and hair all my jown. So, you see, I am not a dear, |eweet, old lady.” Not yet, but soon. LISTENING TO WHAT “EVERYONE SAYS” Dear Miss Grey: You have giv en good advice to others, and please advise me, There ts a certain girl 19 years old who wants to board with me. She is a very coarse and rough-looking girl and has « bad habit of using siang. She has promised me if I let her come, ali will do as I tell her and be a lady. veryone tells me not to take ber, W, Miss Grey, what shall | do? IN DOUBT. would give c and a good one and regard it as a rare opportunity to help her. If you listen to what others say, you will be in hot water always. SHALL SHE GIVE PICTURE TO BOY SHE'S NEVER SEEN? Dear Misa Grey: Do you think it would be wrong for a young girl to send a boy her picture, a boy she haa never seen, but has his pic ture, if he is only one of her cor- respondent REAL “ROBY CHEEKS.” A-—-It is better not to. AFTER MY BABY DIED MY HUSBAND DION’T CARE Dear Miss Grey: I am a girl 21 I have been married and have a baby four years old and one dead. After my baby died my husband never cared for me. He said it was my fault, but it wasn't, Now, Miss Grey, I left him, and he wouldn't let me have my little girl. He said he would kill me if I took her. He i# a very hard drinker. The reason | left him was he went places and spent his money where no married man should, It has been about seven months since { left him and I have not seen him, nor has he supported me since I left, Miss Grey, I want to get my divoree, and will | have to walt a year, or can I get it any time, and do you think the court will give me the child? Please tell me, did I do wrong in leaving him? Thanking you. AN UNFORTUNATE WIFE. A.—I cannot say whether or not you did right in leaving your bua- band without hearing his side, If yon have not been radically at fault, you can file your divorce pro- ceedings at any time on a plea of drunkenness and immorality, If you can prove this, and also that you are capable of caring for your child you will, no doubt, get it, A FOOLISH GIRL LEARNS HARD LESSON Dear Miss Grey: 1 can no longer restrain myself from writing to you about my case, I'm @ young man of 21, and have been going with a girl of 18 for over two years. I have al ways treated her Itke @ lady and wag thought well of by her folks. Last Saturday night we went a GHORGE A.—The girl's act ts an Indice thon of ber disposition. She was very selfish, rude, and inconsider jate of another's feelings, Weeds jean be rooted ont of a disposition Just as they can be palied out of a garden, and flowers planted. If |you are convinced she has learned |ber lesson, and fs willing to im prove herself, by all means help her to do so, At the same time she may help you to destroy seme of your mental weed. If you cannot be of mutual jbenefit, forgive her, and let her know it, but have nothing more to do with her. NOTICE “A Broken Hearted Girl,” any |man who would test (7) hia future wife by insulting her ts unworthy her respect; and love without re spect is not true love. Hold to your colors CYNTHIA GREY. “| WANT TO WIN HER PLEASE TELL ME HOW” Dear Mies Grey; I am a young man, 18, and have several boy friends, but | wish yqu would tell me how I can win a girl« heart, Bvery time | soe her 1 whistle, and she waves back at me, J am sure she loves me, and I want to win her. Please tell me how to do it LOVESICK. A.—You can do absolutely noth- ing to win a girl's affection but to be such a manly man that she can not but love you. That does not mean to be nice when with her, and otherwise when with men and boys. You must be truly what you are at all times, and it will give you such a sincere “tone” that it will win you many friends worth having. Cynthia’s Answers to Many Questions Old stamps, books and coins may often be disposed of at the eurio shops. At the fifth Olympiad at Stock holm, Sweden received 133, Eng land 68 and America 129 points. It is said that clipping or singing the ends of the hair every two weeks is very good to prevent its splitting at the ends. In the state of New York, in ca a wife dies and there are no chil dren or descendants of children, the husband takes the entire estate A widow, made so by death on, by divoree, is addressed as Mrs, Mary Brown, not Mrs, John Brown If the ts give her the right to her maiden name, she is addressed as Migs, otherwise it is always Mrs. A person living in the country may study English or rhetoric at home, aa it is not absolutely neces- sary to have a teacher if deeply interested and determined to learn. Write to the county superintendent or to the superintendent of the nearest school as to what books to study, It is a rule of every reliable plano company to keep the instrument in tune, free of charge, for one year, Often a plano is tuned before it leaves the piano house, but the moving Jars the mechanism, which accounts for its being out of tune when it reaches the home, The company should be notified, and they will see it is put in tune, THE STAR—TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1912. | A" Se Stowe S Oe Chiistuas Guiit In connection with JAMES MceCREERY & CO., New York Store open from 9 a, m. to 6 p. m. daily SECOND AVENUE AND PIKE STREET f, e P.O. “ft Substation 2 Beginning Thursday We Will Sell p to $75 Suits $25 150 On 400 in the Clearance—and Most of Them Came From the Foremost Importer in the Country! $100 SUIT, 42.60 A Paris Suit of deep green corded novelty fabric; velvet directotre collar; one of the | finest Suite we have ever | shown. $75 SUIT, $35 A unique black novelty ma terial so heavy that the white | stripes, which go clear down | to the fabric, are alniost con cealed, Square collar. A seml-Norfolk model, the | belt stitched down, made with | inverted instead of box pleats “a brown-gray Scotch tweed, Norfolks will be very good | style next spring. $75 SUIT, $35 e A very smart little black velvet cutaw quite long at The thing that makes the event the back. Velvet loops and : peterpan nig yg “gt which begins Thursday so very a much more remarkable than any of our previous day-after-Christmas clearances---and every woman who has lived in Seattle surely remembers the former ones---is the extremely high quality of the Suits involved. Paris models will seil at $25! Very finest tailored Suits are included, besides the semi-tailored and “dressy” Sui's. Of the entire 400 in the clearance, scarcely two are alike. The range of fabrics and colors is almost unlimited. Many of the garments are in the very (abrics being shown for next spring. It is the most unusual assortment we have ever put ino a sale. _ So absolutely nothing is lacking to make this the greatest opportunity to secure Suits of any character you could possibly have! You may see some of them in a Second ave. window. The sale will begin on Thursday morning, the day after Christmas, The only sale restriction is that we cannot send the Suits out C. O. D. or on approval. Judge the $25 Assortment by the Sketch Norfolk Suits are to be y good style for spring, and the semi-Norfolk models described formerly $50, is to sell at $25. The lot is full of just such instances! There are tailored Suits, semi-tailored ones—exceptionally fine cutaways and Suits in true Robespierre models— more than a score of the very best mate:ials—unlimited range of colors—former prices up to $75. In the sale on Thursday at At $35 Are Suits Formerly Up to $85 Semi-tailored and fancy Suits in about equal proportion—even many of the extremely fash- ionable black velvets among them. There's a Suit of the striped eponge we have just bought for spring—$57.50 until now. These are Norfolk models—there are many materials and colors. 35 There are several Suits formerly $85. All at your choice for . trees eee At $42.50 Are Suits Formerly Up to $100 with rare judgment, no one of them all is too extreme to be worn in Seattle. We are sure it is the first time such Suits have sold at $ i 2 50 Up to $60 Coats, $18 and $25 Carefully’ chosen materials and styles—three-quarters and seven-eighths lengthsy-many of them the Raglans which are so much in demand this winter that surely their vogue will continue into next—a good proportion of the fashionable, practical, button-up-close models of heavy-looking light-weight materials—boucles, chinchillas, friezes, mixtures, corduroys, finest novelty cloths. $35 for Coats Formerly Up to $90 The MacDougall & Southwick Cos Several velvet Suits are included formerly marked up to $75. The finest chiffon broadcloth we've ever seen is in others. By far the greater proportiom of the Suits are Paris models, but since they were chosen by this American SIXTY COATS FORMERLY UP TO $60 FOR FIFTY COATS FORMERLY UP TO $50 FOR .... —was $100. A tan broad- e in the lot. Other The assortment —Second Floor. Some even more than $90. A mole velvet Coat—beautiful quality cloth Coat with a gray fox collar was $120, Street Coats of superb qualities Coats, like the one sketched above, will do equally well for afternoon or ev is very broad indeed, Your choice of thirty Coats Shee Re Rhee Coes i The MacDougal! & Southwick Co. Second Avenue and Pike St.