The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 24, 1914, Page 9

STUNNING AND BEAU From the standpoint NESS, pleasing EXCLUSIVENESS OF TERIAL and workmanship, value, guarantee and satisfaction TIFUL Are the New Spring SUITS COATS DRESSES » WAISTS and Millinery of FASHION CORRECT HIGH-GRADE MA besides giving you good Prices reasonable and Men andWomen Take advantage of our lib payment plan. eral and easy The generous treatment accorded our customers has never been equaled in this city. Buy whatever you want for you and yours and pay us as you get paid That’s All We Ask Fees Sean Fond Night SLATTLE S POPULAR CREDIT MOCOE, ‘ CORNER THIRD AND UNIVERSITY IT 1S SHOCKING LONDON, April 24.—Another de-) velopment in the slit skirt, namely, “the slit stocking,” is announced The opening assumes various shapes and positions from an elongated oval, beginning at the In-| step, to a slender V-shaped slit of the fact she admitted imbibing aj} greater length. The opening is laced with very fine bands of wes thread of the same color and te: ture of which the stocking is made, These are crossed backward and forward sufficiently wide apart to make the nature of the slash ap parent. In some styles the edges of the slash are laced with narrow | orci of brightly colored rib- the new styles in stockings: the stripes being very thin and set close together. A novel idea ts the introduction of fine threads of gold in the stocking about the instep and above the ankle.” NEW YORK, April 24.—Despite cocktail, a brandy and soda and a/| third of a quart of champagne, a jury gave Frances Frazer, dressmak er, $3,500 damages because she walk ed off a moving train. POOR THING Tol STAR—FRIDAY, APRIL 2 GEN. ZACHARY TAYLOR’S ATTACK ON MONTEREY A PICTURE OF FINAL BATTLE IN OUR FIRST WAR WITH MEXICO The Fight on the Steps of the Bishop's Palace The attack on Monterey, dur ing the war with Mexico, was made after the battle of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma by Gen eral Taylor, in September, 1846 With a force of about 6,700 men, he laid siege to the fortified city, which was defended by 10,000 _Mexicans under General Ampu dia, He arrived on September + 1%. Two days later aimultancous | attacks were made by Genorals toward the central of the elty Late that day General pudia made overtures of sur. render and terms were agreed upon, The Americans lost more than 500 in killed and wounded, but the Mexicans suffered far more part Am Worth and Garland on the enst | | | and west sides of the city | | The first attack was successful, but the second was not, The fight Ing continued until September 24, the Mexicans being driven slowly | Are You “Wet or Dry”? Write a Letter to Us and Tell Why! Tomorrow The Star will letter and the best “wet” a big other vital question then, and ther notice J of Write on le of Some of the letters QUOTES ABE LINCOLN Editor The Star: Prohibition ts the enemy of true temperance. It is Star readers, letter This fall the state of Washington is going to You are, discuss it. Cash the the received |based on the rule of force, and there-| fore must fall of its purpose. Abraham Lincoln, In a speech be-|law fs ridicuious, |fore the Illinols legislature, cigarty pointed out the folly of probibltory legislation when he said “Prohibition will work great in jury to the cause of temperance It {s a species of intemperance with in itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason, in that it attempts | ot |to contro! a man’s appetite by legis lation, and in making crimes out of nd violate the things that are not crimes, A prohl bition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our govern-| ess ment was founded.” J. H. BROWN, 306 Mutual Like Bldg. SAFETY VALV Editor Star: | bition, because I belleve in making progress through the survival of the fittest No force has ever served the | world more efficiently in‘ eliminat jing the weak and unfit than Kin | Booze. Booze is a good safety HE SAYS val fam against proni | ‘red. SAFE TIME TO RIDE Those who use it to excess might, in| its absence, find worse ways of man ST. PETERSBURG, April 24.—| \festing thelr intemperance and lack | x fashion article says, regarding Ivan Soporovscki never rode in a| Of self-control train or automobile tn his life, but} | It is better for weaklings to go) “Highly elaborate and fancifully in accerdance with bis will his body }the booze route than to live and re worked hosiery is in wide demand. Daintily striped stockings in bright colors are promised for the summer, was borne to its grave In an aero-| plane. The aeroplane hearse driver received $100,000. A Staple Medicine for Every Family’ No Self Respecting Group of People Should be Without a Good Family Laxative. It is inconceivable fn this day of general intelligence that any fam- fly would be without a simple rem- edy for the minor {lls of life, for often by giving such a remedy in time @ serious disease can be sie trated and a life saved. For example, {f, at the first sign | of a cold, a simple laxative-tonic) like Dr, Caldweil’s Syrup Popes | were given, the beginning of a ser- lous lung affection or of a typhotd | fever might be avoided. And also in headaches, nervousness, ete. small dose of this remedy would! relieve the congestion and replace | fistress with comfort. Mothers| give it to tiny infants and Ittle| children, and grown people take it with equally good effect. Thousands of good American homes are never without {t, among them the home of Mrs. C. A. trouble raising little Lawrence, three years old, but after regulat- Ing his bowels with small doses of Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin he be- Five: thrive and she has had no 2) er trouble with him. They| usé it generally in her home. Syrup Pepsin saves the health of the family, and {t saves doctors’ bills. It is a guaranteed oure for any form of stomach, liver and bowel trouble, constipation, indi gestion, ne ene gas on the ana LAWRENCE A. WRIGHT stomach, headaches, drowsiness after eating, etc. Have no hesi- tancy about giving it to any mem- ber of the family, however young or old, for it contains nothing tn- Jurious to the youngest person. | A bottle can be obtained at any | nearby drug store for fifty cente or one dollar, The latter size is more economical and is bought by thore who have already convinced them- selves of its merits. Syrup Pepsin |users learn to discard pills, saits, ‘ecathartica and purgatives generally as they are too great a shock to |any average system Families wishing to try a free sample bottle can obtain it Rept paid by addressing Dr. W. B. well, 419 Washington St, Monti cello, Til, A postal card with your name and address on it will do. RNG MILLIN THE WONDER ? MILLINERY CO. 1525 Second Ave.—216 Pike St. We are now prepared to present all the latest ideas in Spring Millinery TWO BIG STORES to Serve You. Quality the Best at Lowest Prices. produce their kind | The sob story about “our boys” ought to be given the hook | The boys seem to measure up |favorably when compared with the ‘old man,” and the boys’ mother can usually skin him at bridge or solo, and is often more intemperate in| oy is in drinks. ¥ L. MARTIN THINKS OF THE JOBS Editor The Star: What will be |come of the citizens who are work ling in breweries and saloons, and there are thousands of them, if we |adopt prohibition? What about the auto trucks and horses and wagons used in transporting liquor? Will | they be thrown away? Saloons ar paying high rents. | Who is there to move into the places left vacant in the event that the sa- |loons are put out of business? Then there {s the farmer to reckon with. Many earn a living from products used in manufacturing liquor. PARTY TONIGHT AT BON MARCHE } Tonight, In the tea room of the Bon Marche, a card party will be given by the Young Ladies’ inst! |tute, for the benefit of the Catholic Social Betterment league. Auction bridge and whist will be played, and the evening will be concluded by refreshments and a musical program. Beautiful prizes have been donated Tickets of admission are 59 cents, and all friends of the Betterment league and of the Young Ladies’ tn-} stitute | present are cordially invited to be It's your move — these “FOR RENTS” make it easy to decide where. Hotel Baden Grill Entertainment of Highest Merit Entrance 104 Pine | FRECKLES |Now Is the Time to Get Rid of |'® essential to morality erat tute the only useful and necessary select from the letters A check for $5 will received this week the best “dry” be mailed to the author of each. | vote on state-wide prohibition. It's Everybody is Get together with will be given every until fur of course, interested prize i pripted your letters short follow: week letters will b paper and make this week “Maybe I am not exactly my| brother's keeper, but I'd hate to first poison him and then try to| BAYS LAW'S RIDICULOUS pull down the wool over his eyes. Editor The Star: The proposed! “A minister who favors the Hquor | fn that while it | traffic had better study his Bible} prohibits the manufacture of liquor | closer. in this sta tt does not prohibit) “Whenever I hear a man say, ‘T ite importation sale nor use, except! can take a glass or let it alone,’ I under certain conditions. |ram my umbrella down his throat Instead of abolishing the drink “Sometimes I have the opportun evil, it would stimulate deceit and ity of having a heart-to-heart talk hypocrisy, since those who could with some puppy who imagines he afford liquor in their homes|is a real man when he has swal | would find it necessary to evade|lowed some of that cursed stuff law to procure|they call whisky.” same. Vv. KALENTUS, | It would not prevent drunken- High Point, Wash. | WHY PROHIBITION? | Editor The Star: Why prohfbi-) part of society) do not need pro-jtion? All who have lived under hibition—they consume only .26 of|the prohibition law, know that it 1 per cent of the Mquor manufac-| does not prohibit, but makes a con- | dition far worse than the present ‘naloon system, which all know ts bad ach. Why not locate the cause and correct that, rather than try to probibit the effect? Liquor, like many other things more or less a necessity, becomes It is not the use, but the abuse|a nuisance when commercialized f intoxicating liquor that is barm-/and given over to private monopoly. |ful to the individual and to soctety.| Why not the municipal saloon, with a HERM present day attractions “eut out"? man, LUCILE HOPKINS, 6518 First av., N. W Prohibition will depopulate the state FRANK SCHWARTZ. ‘The common people (who const! The “aristocratic” portion of so clety need, but do not want, prohi bition, and have, at present, eco nomic power enough to lgnore or violate any prohibitory law which might be enacted. ‘ash. RAPS LIQUOR TRAFFIC | pate Zones Editor The Star: I hunted up ADVISES EDUCATION Pverett True to get his opinion of | Editor The Star: Moderation tn the subject you are discussing,|the use of liquors ts much ‘to be “Wet or Dry.” When I found him /| desired, and can only* be accom he had just gotten through a pest. | plis by education, It fs just as He gave me the following impossible to regulate drinking by ‘A man that gets soused and/law as it would be to designate by beats up his wife isn’t entitled to|statute what man shall eat, and an_opinion how much. Overeating fs just as ene | harmful as any other form of in. temperance. Cardinal James Gibbons states the case as follows “LT have never been able to con-| |vince myself that total abstinence The mod use of alcoholic liquors is not mdemned. Then, again, | long since came to understand that | putting aside the point of principle, was virtually impossible to en ‘| force a total abstinence law. The attempt to enforce such a law must Simply get an ounce of othine—| consequently result in one of the double strength—from any drug-| worst things iegality or hypoe gist and apply a little of it night | rigy: and morning and you should soon | see that even the worst freckles} have begun to disappear, while t : lighter ones have vanished entirely “DON'T PRESS THEM” It is seldom that more than an! faitor The Star: “Oh, here is the | ounce t# needed to completely clear | popular question, “Shall I drink?" the skin and gain a beautiful clear) We have, during the past years, no-| complexion. |ticed a natural decline. I fear some Be sure to ask for the doubte | thing ought to be done. Like every: strength othine, as this is sold n-| thing eise, should we overdo drink der guarantee of money back ff {ting it would prove fatal to its pop falls to remove freckles.—-Adver-| ylarity. We ought to squeeze it al tisement while to keep the desire alive. The strength of passion grows best un der the pressure of virtue. Then, too, we must not tell our H Espen that we withhold it from| |] them because it fs dangerous. Their| |herote spirit would push us on our| seats and say, “You old fanatic! | They would surely be victorious | ‘and there the desire would lay slain on the field of battle Let us mock a virtuous modera jtion and have prohibition before it |should fade like the recall spirit, leaving drinking to die in unpop ularity. NEUT CUNNINGHAM, | 708 University st. ably} These Ugly Spots There's no longer the slightest need of feeling ashamed of yo freckles, as the prescription otht double strength—is guaran to remove these homely spots to be CARLTON, 7 18th av. N. | | Tailored Suits Made to Order $30 The WOULD CAUSE REBELLION | Editor Star: Since you Invite | your readers to express thelr opin fon on prohibition, I'll give my views of the question as I see ft, without }letting my prejudice overrule my | judgment 1 have not drank any liquor of jany kind since the night of the pres. | idential election, and then I had a glass of beer, but I am for the “wets.” It is.a well grounded theorem that you cannot change the people's morals by legislation. In oly two ways can you control the lquor traffic; first by education and per. suasion; second by supervision and regulation, Any law that is intend. Jed to take away from a self-respect Jing and independent man his in | here nt right to choose his food and drink, ¢ | will create a spirit of rebellion that | will urge him to go to extremes . WM, JENNINGS, most popular and fashionable of tmported | weaves are here for your selection. Every detail given the personal attention of Mr Craton, | Take advantage of our handy credit system—we will | trust you for a tailored suit. J.S. CRATON Tallor for Men and Women 402 Union St. CASH OR CREDIT ording to his own desires, & OPENING On Saturday morning we will open our doors to the Seattle public, showing one of the finest lines of “~ Woolens that has ever been shown to the Seattle well dressed man. Our storeroom and workshops are complete and equipped with skilled cutters and tailors. To celebrate the occa- sion we are going to offer to the men who care for snap, style and quality the choice of the world’s best looms for For a Suit Made to Your Measure Our stock is complete with the latest patterns of fine imported woolens in black and blue pin stripes, checks, plaids and fancy weaves. REMEMBER this price is for SAT- URDAY ONLY, as our regular prices are from $30.00 to $40.00. This is the chance for the man who cares for style and quality to get his suit made at a great saving. WOOLENS AND WORKMANSHIP GUARANTEED to be FIRST CLASS. We will duplicate any sample you bring us Saturday for $22.00. British Woolen Mills 1610/2 Second Ave. Opposite Standard Furniture Company KA meee sc ee eee seeeneseweee!