The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 17, 1914, Page 8

CHRISTMAS Splendid Array of Underpriced Specials. A Boon for Practical Givers Fall 54 Inches Wide—Ideal for Tailored Saits ings will be thrown on the counter at $1.19 yard—and they are $2.50 goods as every well knows. Nice winter patterns in light, medium or dar Bargain Friday. ameled and finished. Splendid Toys to amuse the | of hardwood, little ones are these loaded | and varnished. Hav covered horse on platform, at | *n4 steel tires. Just 89¢. inches. Friday Gift Specials ee ree, eee fer this one day. Yard Jt gives a dainty touch to fancy work. 50c to 65c Plaiting, 15c $1.25 Chiffon Scarfs, Each widths from 1 to 3 inches, white and cream, with plain and scalloped edges.” |} 98c to $1.50 Ribbons, Yd. A — reduction on Roman stripe to 10 inches wide, 75c a yard. Upper ~Main Fioor. $1.25 Black Silks, a Yard } Satin Messailnce and ‘Satin Duchess 69 ‘Heavy $1.50 Serges, a Yd. A skirt or suit length will) make a nice gift. Buy ‘{t from these bine French or $1. 00 shades in Storm Serges, at $1.00 & yard; 54 inches wide. Upper Main Floor. ob Extra Special Children’s 25c Bonnets at 10c Each For Friday Bargain Day—A matchless bar- gain for Christmas shoppers. Get several to put in those little stockings that usually go empty. Warm plush and bearskin bonnets in pink, white, black, gray and red. Colors to match any coat. Special at l%c each. Second Floor. 00 valne, day “Dent's” we offer at $1.49 a pair a range of sizes. On sale for Children’s 75¢ Kid | Gloves at 50c a Pair firls from 5 to 15 years of age, 500 a pair. Lower Main Floor. | pairs for $1.00. Vi Mt. Vernon Milk, not over 12 cans to & customer, no phone orders; can... White Alaska Codfish, finest quality, No, 2 bricks, at Kippered Salmon, the finest quality Columbia River fish, pound...... Tc|\ 5 os - 14e) THE BON And Fill Them for Ever So Mach Less From This $2.50 English Suitings $1.19 a Yd. For the last Bargain Friday before Christmas fifty bolts of those fine imported English Suit one gray, and every thread the finest worsted yarn Upper Main Floor, deelgn: Either pink inches, Spectal at 39 Children’s 65c Hats, Each Special all day Friday—Children's couches. a k $1.50 Loaded Toy | Paris Express Wagons, Trucks, 6x20 Inches, at | Worth $1.50, at 89c Each 89c Each Paris Etpress Wagons, made in natural finish @ steel axles, 16-inch wheels Body 1224x10 | and Chemises, 29. Children’s 50c Wool Hose 35c a Pair, or 3 200 pairs of Children’s Wool- Pairs for $1.00 Tined Kid Gloves, both gince | 1078 and Girls’ very fine Da oe 4 | Tuality pure wool Cashmere and suede finish, to ft boys and | stockings, fast black, in sises 8, 6%, 9, 9%, at 36e a pair, or 3 ‘alue 50c. Fresh Shrimp, hipment dally, Last Bargain Friday Before Shopping days till \ Gift Toys at Reduced Prices for Bargain Friday | —DOLL’S $1.25 FOLDING GO-CART 65c— A Doll's Folding Go-Cart will delight any little girl. We have reduced the $1.25 kind to 65e for Made with steel frame, stee! body steel wheels. Friday Gift Specials Each one decisively under-priced for this one day. 59c Baby Blankets, Special Beacon Baby Blankets, with anima! perfectly or red and brown, at 3%c. If you bave a friend who likes mo- toring, give her a Chiffon Scarf. These en wen. are 1% a gee with batt r Cc Seve. ane, Main Floor. Second Floor. $1.45 to $2 Undermuslins | At 75¢ Friday—C ombinations, Gowns and with lace and ribbou beading; museed from handling. Second Floor. $1.95 to $4.95 Hat Shapes For Friday Bargain Day—$1.95 to $4.95 styliah sailors, rolled brim effect turbans and ‘tricornes, Floor. $1.75 Couch Covers, Each} Extra heavy genuine reversibie Tapestry Couch Covers in Ort ental designs. Fine for sanitary $1.75 value, special at Third Floor. Extra Special $7.50 Trimmed Hats at $2.50 Surprise your wife by getting her a new Hat tor Christmas we sell them on Bargain Friday at ning biack velvet sailors and turbans, ingly trimmed with ribbon bows. and ostrich bands. Gift Gloves and Hosiery at Bargain Day Prices Women’s $2.00 “Dent’s” Kid Gloves $1.49 Surely no woman ever gets too many Kid Gloves—and why not give a good quality? ake, with 1 clasp P. | Don’t Wait Until the Last Minute to Buy Christmas Groceries finest quality, Canned Salmon, No quality pink fish, can Minced Clams, the best suaiiia, dozen $1.06; can .... No Santa Claus—or Christmas Moving Pictures—from 12 to 5 p. m. on Saturday. MAR CHE Union 8t—Second Ave—Pike Christmas Ve've all got hurry to now Size 16x23 inches. Nicely en 10x18x10'-Inch Doll | Trunks, Worth $2.35, | Special $1.59 The little girls can keep their things put away nicely if they have Doll Trunks. Nicely made and finished, covered with burlap, metalbound and with inside tray. Fourth Floor, | | } reversibte. Size 30x40 Second Floor. dine, 39c Plush bands Hata, to with match. 39c elaborately trimmed slightly 75c Shapes, such as close-fitting be. Second 75c $1.29 They're the $7.50 Hats, but 2.50, Stun becom. far, flowers On the Second Floor. These X. M., tan cape in a full Women’s $1.00 Silk Stockings, Black or White, 59c a Pair Silk Stockings—always ap. preciated gifts for women Pure silk with lisle thread, dou dle tops, soles, heels and toes. Some with slight imperfections. Bires 8%, 9, 9% and 10. Lower Main Floor. fresh .40c 9c 9c —Fourth Floor. pound 1 tall cans, fine | mittee announced that he STORY OF CHRIST TOLD IN MOORE FILM LOOK THEM UP—WE HAD TO | Some people's hearte are warm and kind, And some are hard and surly; | Just as some wood is even-grained, While other wood is gnurly.* | *(Look it up in the dictionary, We had to.) Mr. “Dutch” Schroeder, the basketball star at the university, owns 4 fine suit case, The brothers at the fraternity house where “Dutch liven are all the time borrowing it The ordinary fraternity method of borrowing a sult case te simple You just plek ft up and walk Resentiv' one of the vacation. Before it cam seeing It again. When he got {t back he took the precaution of chaining it with a padlock to the leg of the bed But the next time Dutch gone again And #0 waa the chain and the padlock and the leg of the bod ports the aggrieved Mr. Schroe » borrowed the sult case and went off back “Dutch” was about resigned to never returned to his room the sult case was ee Dr, Russell, Eitel building, reports the comment of a fat man on a North Queen Anne car. The car was crowded, motorman's vestibule | and the fat man Jammed up against er } | please | | Kel run over . , saw one of the new Dodge | ! i i | | The conductor kept shouting “Move up forward If I do,” protested the fat man, “I'l Joe F. Dubaid, 6002 Third ave. N. W autos on Second ave. as he was crossing the street I saw the name on the front, and I did, says the alert Mr, Dubaid John Hedburg, of 4016 Fifth ave. rat, which made more noise Hedburg bought a ferret N. E., wae bothered by a bie gray around the house nights than a borse It comt him $4. | He started the ferret down the rat hole, The rat came out the other end of the hole and scampered away | The rat came back, | But the ferret never did. coe ewe Mr. Fred Nel recent contribut m, farmer, near Foster, bas made one of the mont! to the world’s stock of knowledge. It is that if} | you whistle to a rabbit in Might, ft will stop and sit up. Mr. Nelxon and his «mall son were out walking on the farm when/ they scared up a rabbit. Mr. Nelson whistled and the rabbit stopped. | Then he left his son to hold the rabbit by whistling while he ran bac Ky to the house for the gun. But before | could get back, the boy ran out of breath, and the ie got away,” reports Mr |FRISCO LANS TO AID ITS UNEMPLOYED | SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 17; This committee acting in con The first real move on a definite | cert with the authorities of Herke- | ey, Oakland, Alameda. plan to care for the unemployed of | 07", “Stockton and San Francisco and contigious| of this part of California will go to cities will be made here this after-|work with the general understand noon when a committee named by jing that “floating” of the indigent Mayor Rolph will meet to devine | will be discouraged in all the cities & positive scheme to meet the sit-|and that each municipality will uation leare for its own ! Oh, you shivering folke in the States! your winters in Alaska? City, 2 deg. above zero; St. Louie, 4 deg. above zero; Winnipeg, 8 deg. below zero. Alaska records, ali above zero, for yesterday: Eagle, 10 Nome, 20 deg.; Sitka, 30 deg.; Tanana, 4 deg., and Valdez, of boosting Se-) Special articies goods, | Mra The first number is at hand. It contains 24 pages of interesting reading. | fully explained. 8 CALL PHILANTHROPISTS ON THE CARPET DENVER, Dec. 17.—Some of America’s leading philanthro pints will be summoned before the federal commissjon on industrial relations, which will conduct an in Colo veatigation into charitable and be nevolent institutions, beginning Jan. 11 In New York. The com mission will determine whether such institutions constitute a men ace or a benefit to the nation NAVAL COMMITTEE HEARS ADMIRAL FISKE | } WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—America’s preparedness for war was dis- cussed today before the house naval affairs committee by Admiral |ff Fiske, one of Secretary Daniels’ aides, Chairman Padgett of the com- | Intended to clone the hearing as quickly as | | | possible. i] LAUNCH AT MERCY OF THE SEA HERMOSA BEACH, Cal. All were ina jous condi. } Dec. 17.—After drifting all tion from expos: | night at sea in an open launch, Engine trouble, Blake sald, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Blake, their left them a mercy of the fi son and daughter and two Iit- sea late rday. They at |i | tle girls, were rescued early today when the Incoming tide washed their craft upon the beach here. tempted to anchor off Redondo beach, but a gale parted thelr anchor chains and they were carried 15 miles to sea. NAVY IS 50,000 SHORT, SAYS ROOSEVELT | WASHINGTON, Déc. 17.—The| Franklin D. Roosevelt {nformed American navy is between 30,000'the house naval committee Wed .000 men short, according to|nesday, Roosevelt strongly the confidential war plans of the | cated a more comprehensive naval war college, Assistant Secretary! militia system | | “The Life of Christ,” one of the greatest films of ita kind ever! produced, will be shown at the Moore theatre, starting today, with two! performances daily, at 2:30 and 8:20 p, m | The story follows Christ from the manger at Bethlehem to the As cension. Pathe Freres produced the film in the Holy Land COL. GOETHALS ON WAY TO WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, D 17.—Col-|ficials regarding his request for a governor | neutrality pat Col. Goeth onel George W. Goeth will testify be- appropriation |} Thursday for a conference with of-' committees next week. i CHARITY VAUDEVILLE AT TIVOLI SUCCESS | | of destroyers, | » crowds attended the t jhas charge of the distribution of rinances given at the Tiv-/the money; Mrs, Hiram C, Gill, | theatre yesterday afternoon|Mrs. Wilson R. Gay, Miss Alice and evening, for the unemployed |Lord, Mrs. James Crehan, Mrs. | of the city George W. Alken and Mrs. W. A.| The entertainment Is under the| Burleigh direct supervision of Mrs, W, A.) The program for today is as fol Burleigh and Mrs. George W.|lows: Act from Pantages theatre: | Aiken, assisted by representatives | two Amateur acts; three-reel pho-| of organized labor. The following on the finance | toplay, were appointed | five-part Shubert committee, which | Chimes,” “Her Duplicate Husband”; drama, “The featuring Sam Ferriss. } RUSSIA TAKES a beating and at once orders upa fresh million of men. Gee whiz! What wouldn't Em- peror William do if he ae a population of 150,000,000?!! SKIRTS ARE to be six inches above the ground. i] Nevertheless there will be two feet below the hem. | AND EVERETT, without a municipal plant, pays the Stone & Web-|} ster corporation 48 per cent more for lighting than Seattle folks have| ff to pay. Glove Bonds ti EDERICK & NELSON’ Gift Certificates FTER 10:30 in the morning the throngs of Christmas shoppers increase rapidly. portunity Between 8:30 and 10:30in the morning for thoughtful choosing. you will find best op- Glove Bonds and Gift Certificates The Mail and Express Station is on (always acceptable) are on sale at va the Third Floor. Bring your Christmas rious convenient points throughout the parcels here to be wrayped and for- tore warded It Is Easy to Choose Gift Handkerchiefs Here —easy because the best chiefs are represented, sources of good Handker- and because displays are so very widely varied that you can choose suitably for everyone on your (¢ christmas list and pay as much or as little as you please. Women's All-linen Hand- kerchief in one-corner embroidered designs, box of 3, 50c, GOc, 75c, $1.00 and $1.25; box of 6, $1.15, $1.65 and $1.75 Women’s Initialed Hand- kerchiefs, al! of pure linen, in different at four styles of each these and Men's Plain Handkerchiefs %- and ¥-inch hems, 35e and 50c each. initials of prices 25e each Linen “ee 2 5« with Men’s Initialed Linen Handkerchiefs, full 25c, 35¢ and 50c each Children’s Pure Linen Handkerchiefs with em- broidered corners, 15c, 19¢ and up to 35c. Children’s Initialed Handkerchiefs in pure linen, box of 3, 25c and 50c of of size, Hundreds dozens Women’s inexpensive Lin- en Handkerchiefs in pret- tily embroidered designs, at 12%c, 1$c and 25c each. —Firet Floor. Gift Neckwear $1.00 HE many novel styles lately introduced in Women’s Neckwear will make the gift of a dainty neckpiece more valued than ever. A. few of the pieces featured in a collec- tion at $1.00; Plaited Organdy Ves- tees with hand-embroid- ered flare collar. Lace Vestees with high collar, trimmed with fancy buttons and black satin ribbon. Lace Standing Collars with velvet ribbon band. Organdy Piaited - back Collars with hemstitching and hand-embroidery. High-back Collars ecru embroidery. Cape Collars and Sets of crepe, with dainty lace trimming. Low-neck Guimpes of fine net, topped with close- fitting military collar of lace and net and finished with black velvet fibbon. Selections for gifts will be prettily boxed for pre sentation. Palate of Pyralin Ivory an Admirable Gift NE Pyralin fittings for her dressing table. wealth of useful things featured in this line: Speaal particularly gold. Golden Oak Kitchen Cabinet, and priced at $35.00. tings compartments 99-Piece Dinner Set pleasing floral handles of the separate pieces enriched with coin Special, for the 99-piece set, $15.00. Brushes Powder Buffers “AS excep- tional value is fea- tured in this light - weight Austrian Din- ner Service. Three de- to from, including the one pictured, which is a spray pattern, with signs choose —Third Floor. $35.00 HE woman who receives a Kitchen Cabinet for a Christmas gift will be presented hours with freedom kitchen, for countless are of from the steps saved when everything needed in preparing a meal is within easy reach, This Kitchen Cab- inet pictured has an especially practical arrangement of fit- is very attractively —Third Floor, and Millinery Mirrors Perfume Holders Manicure Accessories Tooth Brush Holders Talcum Can Holders could hardly choose a more appropriate gift for a woman or girl than dainty The following list merely suggests the Ring-handle Mirrors Jewelry Cases Boxes Hair Receivers Trays Military Brushes Clothes Brushes Bonnet Brushes Combs Talcum Boxes Cream Jars Salve Jars Picture Frames First Floor. The Duntley Pneumatic Sweeper Special $5.75 HE Duntley Sweeper is scientifically designed to give the best results, with- out sharp edges to injure nap of rugs or carpets. Jt makes sweeping casy, without rais- ing dust Special $5.75 —Friday and Saturday. It cleans thoroughly by means of three large bellows, creating a powerful suction which lifts all the dust and dirt from the nap of the rug, while at the same time the revolving brush picks up all lint and threads. See the Duntley demon- strated, We will hold any Sweeper purchased, for Christmas delivery, if cus- tomer so desires. —Housewares Section,