The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 17, 1915, Page 8

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THE SEATTLE STAR Sample Undermuslins A Third to a Half Less For Wednesday—at. the Bon Marché’s Mill Remnant Factory Sample Sale And they are samples of such new and pretty styles—and the prices are so very low—that one forgets that they are a little soiled and mussed (as samples of undermuslins are bound to be )-——or if one does remem- ber it, it is with a realization that it is such a simple matter to have them laundered. $1.50 and $2.75 Undermuslins —at 93c— Dainty Undermustine of sheer lingerie cloth in inations, gowns and skirts, Combinations inceas or waist style—Gowns are silpover at $3.50 and $4.00 Undermuslins —at $1.73— Just as pretty as can be are these Combinations, Sample 95c Undermuslins —at 53c— Samples of Gowns, Combinations, Envelope | Chemises and Corset Covers of muslin and naln sook. Trimmed with embrofdery or Val. laces beading ribbon drawn. Sample $1.25 Undermuslins —at 73c— For 73c, samples of Gowns, Skirts and Combina con tions—made of French nainsook—Gowns and Com- | Gowns, Skirts and Princess slips of fine lingerte binations are Empire style, yokes of lace and | cloth; also silk crepe de chine Camisoles beautt: | embroidered organdy. fully trimmed. —Third Floor, Once More We Say Just for Wednesday Mill Ends of 15¢ yf: | Samples of Lace 19 and 18 Madras 2C Curtains, Each Cc What a bdargain—only 7c a yard for pretty | Just the things for short windows and doors | ng Rane gig y ceeT nce wite, | Fe these mill lengths of bungalow nets, 1 yard with neat mercerized figures and stripes. —Lower Main Floor. | long, at 19¢ each. —Third Floor. Floor Samples of Sewing Machines Reduced The $24.50 “Bon Colonial’ Reduced to $19.95 We have six of the famous “Bon Colonial” $24.50 Sewing Ma- chines—that have been used as floor samples to sell from—and for demonstrating the merits of this well-known line. At $24.50 the Bon Colonials are the best Sewing Machines we know of today—for Wednesday our low spot cash price is reduced to $19.95 These Machines have a handsome quartered oak cabinet—in a strik- ing “Colonial” design—they are full ball bearing—and are equipped with the latest automatic drop-head device. Like all Bon and Yukon Sewing Machines, THEY ARE FULLY GUARANTEED FOR 10 YEARS 19 other samples of Yakon and Bon Sewing Machines will be sold this way Five $10.50 Yukon Hand Machines $9.29 Four $14.50 Yukon Hand Lifts at $12.95 Every One of These Five $19.50 Bon Special Machines $18.25 ‘Three $29.50 Bon Grand Machines $26.55 Two $35.00 Bon Rotary Machines $28.95 10 Long Years —Foearth Floer. Children’s Tub Dresses, Were 95c to $1.45 4 Have Been ) 75c Reduced to | But Only for One Day They are nice little Dresses—the “unsolds” of many different lines—all sizes from 2 to 14 years—some are made sailor style— of plain chambray—in blue or tan—some nice checks and stripes in ginghams. Some pretty Percales in the larger sizes (6 to 14 years) are embroidery trimmed—and scores of other styles all reduced to 75c for Wednesday. —Second Floor, Center. Now for a Big (One Day) Disposal of Pumps All Broken Lines of Women’s $1.69 Street and Evening Pumps, Worth to $5.00, Reduced to A Good Variety of Sizes in the Lot My, what a chance to get Pumps at a saving. We've included broken lots of Street or Evening Pumps, worth up to $5.00, and ofter them at $1.69 a pair. Patent, gun- metal calf or suedes, just as neat looking as can be, with black or fancy colored quarters. —Upper Main Floor. Wednesday You'll Have a Chance to Buy The $2.95 Middy Suits for $1.95 If You Come to the Bon Marche’s Mill Remnant and Factory Sample Sale and Come EARLY Just try to buy the materials—and have the smocking done by hand—as it is on these Suits—and see how far you can get for $1.95. And then there is a style and dash to these Suits that you would find it difficult to duplicate—and, of course, you wana smocked Middy Suit—nowadays—everybody does. ‘ With 95c Middy Suits Reduced to 69c\ Everybody will wear Middies around the house—as well as \ for outdoor fun. \ These 95c ones that we are going to sell for 69c on Wednes- day—come in both white and colors—and they are nicely made —with the short sleeves and the separate skirt. Sample Sale of Lingerie Waists at 79c Lots of pretty styles—but only a few of each sort—made of soft voiles and lingeries—trimmed with neat laces, trim-looking cluster tucks—while others are nicely embroidered. Sample Silk Petticoats Special at $3.45 Made of soft chiffon taffeta—in hosts of pretty Fall shades —changeables, too—made with the elastic fitted waist bands—and neatly tailored deep flounces—any one of them yours on Wednes- day for $3.45. $15.00 | Samples of New $25.00 | ! Samples of $16.50 and \ Autumn Suits for... / $20.00 Autumn Coats at / $12.00 —Second Floor, North, If you are down tow: et ih Floor 1 anch 69c Sample $1.50 Sample Embroidered Scarfs with Scarfs and Drawnwork Centers, 89c. Third Floor, Centers, 49c. Third Floor, THEMARCHE Union 8t.—Second Ave-—Pike St.—Seattie, Tel, Elliott 4100 and | long, and lace curtain sample corners 60 inches | Guaranteed to Last for| |BEGIN BATTLE IN BEHALF OF ‘ POOR MOTHERS | | A head futted out from behind afcost us $126,000,000 last year. The halfopened door of room 436 at the] nay cont — $147,000,000. dier Seattle Athletic club pensions cost $1 tay Free | wan sound ed and| public schools ¢ 10,000,000, | had it been crowned with a night-| 4 more than $760,000,000 || cap, you'd have sworn it was your $750,000,000 for Institutions grandmother's In other words, we paid out last | VineI'm t quite fully dress-|year more than $750,000,000 to od,” tt 1, “but if you don't] maintain tnstitutions to take care {f | mind come tn of children made dependent be | § Oh, that's all right, Judge,” said| cause we don't take care of our |I|'The #tar man poor children | Judge Henry Neil of Chicago, The deserted mother, more than not an Apollo, His most pron: y other mother, should be given lfled physical feature is bis enalon king at it from a eco jf point, tho the visitor muat admit|nomle ate int. And yet, Wash lf | he has nice, shapely calves ington has cut off one-third of its | Like a Grownup Kewple mothers’ pensions by eliminating He was clad in his spectacies| the deserted mother and a sult of abbreviated B. V./ They did the same thing In Call D.'s. He wore also a smile fornia, and we took the matter to It was @ moat remarkable toter | th ipreme court Deserted moth view ers now get a pension under the The venerable Jurist stood tn the! California law. San Francisco ts center of the room, barelegged|now paying $300,000 a year tn land shivering, expounding the the-| mothers’ pensions lory of mothers’ pensions, Wher Attorney to Handle Cate } jhe gestured with the index finger| Judge Nell has secured nerv of his right hand, tapping ge of Attorney ¢ right Ar lithe third button from the t« nold, a gradu arvard, whe | jhis BV. Ds, he looked the coun-| has come here to practice and wh |terpart of a Kewple, grown up. has taken Offices in the Smith | Judge Neil is the father of moth-| building, to push the fight to | ensions a provision for erted mothers tled out to Washington | back on the statute books 1 vinit At it is hoped to elim. | three year residence All such mothers eb torney Arnold Incidentally the that t off the | learn |f | mothers had been |p {ston Mat by the last legistature | Here to Help Mothers inate | | | denerted | pen He's here to carry a fight Into | amends the mothers’ pen jthe supreme court of the state to| sion law, at the same time have the new mothers’ pension law | Judge Neil blames charity or. declared unconstitutional {n that it} ganizations for the act of the in clans legislation and discrimina-| last legisiature. tory | “UNLESS THEY HAVE | It would be as right,” he declar.| SOME LITTLE CHILD TO EX ed, and his index finger punched| PLOIT," he declared, “THEY he third button so hard that it} CANNOT LIVE. They were made him blink, “to may that the; back of the amendment elimi- jf | children of a deserted mother can't| nating the deserted mother “They will send out lette: begging ald from business men, expressing grief that it is im: possible for the deserted moth er to obtain a pension. “The business man will send Ko to the public schools, as to nay they are not entitled to enjoy that other Institution, the mothers’ per | sion. The jaw says the children of a| deserted mother are a class unde | | serving of atate ald, so let's either a check for $100, perhaps. | | | deny them the right to go to achool| Twenty-five will go to the | or give them the privileges enjoyed| mother, and $75 to pay t costs of maintaining the char ~ ity organization.” Attorney Arnold said Tuesday he inte preparation of | the suit at once To Begin Sult at Once The firetestep will be to 4 payment of pensions as provided under the repealed law, It is pos sible, tho improbable, that the mat ter will be decided at once tn the And it Is far better to let the | superior court. | bad father go than it Is to compel| Attorney Arnold will bring the him to stay at home and bring| suit in behalf of ‘all deserted moth more dependent children into the|ers entitied to a pension, accord | world ing to the old law, and in behalf “It's a question of those cut off on account of the cents to the three-year residence amendment. ||ALWAYS PICKING ON THE KIDS | It's getting now #0 an a feller don't have no chanst a-tall! | all the wimrhin tn town—'nd part of the men—are always trying | | [by other children | Cheaper to Let Mother Have 'Em Ninety-nine times In a hondred they are better off erted than with the ‘old man’ hanging around jIt Is cheaper to let the mother! |take care of her children by paying her a pension, than ft ts to take them away from her and put them in an ipetitution supported by the atate. to begin mand | ot dollars and taxpayer. The to find new ways of bringing him up, "Nd now they're going to try| some new ways on him. A whole hundred cold, calculating expert the case of the child In a City-Wide Child Welfare inatitute, October | 4 to 7, in Seattle, under the direction of Dr. William A. McKeever, | professor of child welfare at the University of Kansas | They're going to decide once and for all just how the child should | be brought up. They're Mable to decide the behind-part of their ears * are going to consider }and all parts of thelr necks should be washed EVERY DAY! Some thing oughta be done about it, fellers The Mothers’ Congress, Parent-Teachers’ association and Legis Iative federation will discuss the horrible problem Ain't it Just orful, tho! SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 17.—Mrs. Ivy May Henry, formerly of | Seattle, was advised yesterday by the bond clerk here to get out an| | insanity warrant against 8. Foster Kelley, former Seattle banker, and | | her alleged affinity, with whom she eloped about four years ago. Mra Henry, who was the wife of a clerk in the Seattle bank, of which Kelley was secretary, complained that Kelley, from whom she had been estranged for some time, persiatently called her on the telephone and | threatened her life. He was jealous, she intimated, because she re | ceived attentions from other men. | After the hearing before the bond clerk, at which both parties were | Present, and following the advice to Mra. Henry to secure an insanity | warrant, Kelley stormed out of the office angrily, exclaiming | “Go ahead! Go ahead! Do it!" Both Mrs. Henry and Kelley were divorced by | ®pouses in Seattle. WILL REVOKE BOY'S LICENSE Arthur Bain, the youthful driver, whose father was unable to re- member his own age, the date of his son's birth, or the date of his own marriage, when questioned in police court when his son was up for holding a driver's license while under 21, probably will have hig license revoked, the council taking first steps in shat direction Monday } Steps also were taken to abolish the Argo railway crossing, near Georgetown, where several fatal accidents have occurred BILLBOARD ORDINANCE BACK Councilman Hanna's ordinance taxing and regulating billboards, which was recommended for indefinite postponement by the public safety committee last week, after a vigorous attack had been made on it by the billboard men, was referred back to that committee Monday by the council, on request of Hanna With it went an amendment to the present ordinance, by Council man Hesketh, providing for Hcensing billboard business on a sliding scale, ranging from $300 to $1,000 per annum, in proportion to the volume of business done. their respective | AGREES TO FRYE ARBITRATION WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.—The United States has agreed to Ger many’s acceptance of the proposal that each country designate an ex pert to fix the amount of indemnity to be paid for the sinking of the Wm. P. Frye, but with the understanding that this {s without prejudice to the contention that the destruction of the ship was not Jusified. The administration's reply to Germany's Jatest note regarding the Frye wak made public by the state department today Germany's proposal that the controversy as to the Prussian-Amer joan treaty of 1828 Jnvolved in the Frye case be submitted to The Hage board of arbitrations, was also agreed to | Acceptance of payment for the destruction of the Frye will not in any way affect the contention of either the United States or Germany | as to the interpretation of tWis treaty DOES DANCE IN COURT; 6 MONTHS. NEW YORK, Aug. 17.—Miss Primrose Trainer, 22, was haled before Magistrate Mc@uire, charged with giving an im- moral dance on t eet corner. id it was the perpendicular two-step. i} legally Primro: a “Stop,” cried the court. “Six months,” he added, bega | | | } | | HH] | | | i i i | Ohio Steel Ranges FREDERICK é- NELSON Broken Lines of NEMO CORSETS At Reduced Prices J the Nemo Corset pictured the I perfectly ‘straight front effect 1 obtained by the ible self-reducing straps which are nceealed the r firm bhatiste tyle 344 { hort full figure, and 34 r the tall, full figure, reduced to $2.00. Models 341 and 342 are similar in style t the a c, but have a shorter front stay, adapting them for the shorter figure Reduced to $2.00. Model 217, for slender and average figures, has the new medium bust, and there is an inset of elasti the lower edge in back, holding the corset snugly to the figure. Made of util or fine batiste, and reduced to $1.00. en — Clearing Broken Lines of Trunks and Hand-Luggage At Reduced Prices unk at $18.00, and 10 Black Leather Bags in reduced to $4.50 each lining an 1 pocket, one 8 Fiber Trunks in the clearance, priced as follows: four 34-inch Trunks, priced re- spectively at $11.00, $13.00, $1450 and $15.00; two Minch Trunks at $17.00 and $18.00; one 38-inch 40-inch Trunk at $16.00. 16-inch size, with leather 6 Black Bags and 3 Brown Leather Bags in 18-inch size, full leather lined, with pockets, suitable for men’s use, reduced to $7.85 cach 7 Genuine Cowhide Suit Cases in 24-inch size, with sewed or riveted corners and straps all duced to $7.00 each around, re- —Third Floor New Evening-Wear Silks XPOSITION Satin will enjoy a wide vogue for gowns and for foundations under diaphanous ma- terials, because of its beautiful draping qualities and high, lustrous finish It is 36 inches wide, offered in a large selection of evening colors, and is priced at $2.00 a yard The New Glace Taffetas Are ideal for the dancing frock, possessing enough body to give the desired fullness to the plaited and tucked skirt. The warp is different in color from the chain and the result is a luminous blending that {s unusually ef- fective under the lights of evening. Thirty-six inches wide, $1.50 yard. Le Fleur de Jeunesse Soft as crepe, with the sur- face of taffeta and a beautiful slowing finish, is an appro- priate medium for the full, flaring skirt. Forty inches wide, $2.00 yard. Soiree, the Silk of Beauty Its shimmering surface re- flecting a hundred shades under the shifting light, rep- resents the highest art of the skilled weaver; a truly ex- quisite creation for evening wear, Thirty-six inches wide, 2.50 yard. Pompadour Satins and Gros de Londres Are flowered tn rich combi- nation colorings on light-col- ored grounds and fill the de mand for a gowning fabric of unusual distinction. Thirty- six inches wide, $2.50 yard. —First Floor, Mail Orders Filled New Collars and Fichus 50c Each AP clection of the Neck. t ioderate r em: Collars in Puritan, Duteh Eton and Shapes, very heer lainty, in Geoge gette Cre Organdie ‘ vet with trim. n f hemstitching and narrow Venise or Valeg ciennes lace. Price 50. each The new Fichus of Net and Net-top Lace add a softening touch to the costume that is very pleage ing ; 50. Net Collars with plaited Je frills of net-top lace are new ideas, and are ap propriately worn on dress or coat. Price 50c. ~Firat Floor, The Corset Shoe for Infants and Children as illustrated, is made over a special orthopedic last, with adjustable whale bone supports, and is de signed especially for chil- dren with weak ankles, or who show a tendency to “toe in.” In Infants’ sizes, 2 to §, $1.75 pair. Children’s sizes, with spring heels, 4 to 8 $2.25 pair. First Floor, Glace Diagonal Suiting —very new and very smart, is woven of soft yarn in two colors and has the appearance of rich velours. It will be found especially appropriate for semi-dress suits and skirts and may be had in king’s blue and black, sage and black or eggplant and black combi- nations. Fifty-four inches wide, $2.50 yard. —First Floor, Basement Salesroom NEW AUTUMN SUITS $15.00 $18.50 $22.50 only shipment p wrtray Especial choosing the Moderately $18.50 HE Basement Salesroom has «ready for inspection, a new of Autumn Suits—in- teresting for the new styles they and for the attractive- ness of the values. , taken in to include satisfactory and care was these Suits most serviceable of materials, such as Serge Tweed Poplin Vigoreaux Gaberdine Broadcloth Whipcord Fancy Suiting priced at $22.50 $15.00, and Basement Salesroom, Crepe de Chine Waists $1.50 XCEPTIONALLY well-made for waists selling at so moderate a price are these in ( repe de Chine, in Flesh-color, White, Copenhagen and Black They have medium or low neck, three-quarter or long sleeves and pearl button trimming. Sizes 36 to 44, Attractively priced at $1.50, —®asement Salesroom. Dunkirk Cotton Plaids, 25c Yard HIS well-woven cot ton Plaid is in attrac tive blue and red combi nations, retaining _ the brightness of its colorings after laundering. Espe cially adapted for chil dren’s school dresses, and attractively priced for the 36-inch width at yard NEW ROBING CLOTH 25¢ YARD— Robing Cloth in good weight and soft fleecy texture, patterned — with Indian designs on grounds of gray, blue, red oF brown Twenty - seven inches wide, 25¢ yard. Basement Salesroom Silk Petticoats $3.50 MART wide combina- tion stripe effects and featured i colors plain t these Petticoats of quality ‘Taffeta. They have elastic top and plain tailofe ed or plaited flounce, an are moderately priced $3.50. —nasement salesroom™ | “lal

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