The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 25, 1915, Page 8

THE SEATTLE STAR Starting a New Season in the Bon Marché’ Men’s Store With a Typical Bon Marché —Sale of Men’s Shirts at 95c With Over 2,000 Brand New $1.50 Autumn Shirts Out on the Lower Main Floor Bargain Square at 95c Ea. GooD FITTING NECK BANDS AND BODIES CUT GEN. EROUSLY FULL A Two-Day Month-End Sale With Greatly Reduced Prices on All Short Lines and | Odd Lots Remaining From Our August Sale Activities ALL SIZES FROM 147017 INCH NECK Well made—$1.50 Shirts— in all the new Fall patterns— of fine woven madras, percales and highly mercerized cloths— with plain or pleated fronts— —and soft or starched cuffs. 35¢ & 50c Embroideries —25c Yd.— Flouncings and Corset Cover Embroideries of Swiss, mbric and Nainsook, in pretty openwork and conventional patterns; strong, firm edges; width 18 inches. —Upper Main Floor. These Silks & Dress Goods | |} Are Rare Bargains at “Month-End” Pricing gains in Cotton| : 50c Dress Goods for 19c Yard _ Stuffs and Bedding 20 pleces of yard-wide Dress Goods—odds and ends and 1] La: 1 oy broken lines of our regular 50c materials, in checks, serges, | wns crepes, coverts and other weaves, in a good line of colors. od Pongee and Silk Poplin 39c Yd. Imported Pongee, heavy quality, natural color; 33 Inches Wide; also lustrous Silk Poplin and Messaline in a fine ort. neat blue ment of stripe and other patterns, desirable for wa! and | in lengt sar | 12¢ Daisy Flannel 9c Yd. 85¢c Satin Messaline at 50c Yd. xing Plammel, 27 | 25 pieces of Pure Silk Satin Messaline, 26 inches wide, of | extra heavy quality; soft, lustrous finish; will not crush or | wrinkle; all popular shades included tn the lot. Bright New Plaid Silks 59c Yd. Taffeta Silk in the stunning new plaid effects; beautiful color combinations of green, brown, red and blue. The newest craze for Fall waists and dresses. Heavy Black Silk Poplin 59c Yd. 10 pieces of Black Silk Poplin, 36 Inches wide: heavy, lus- trous silk material; ideal for waists and dresses; soft and non- crushing, with splendid wearing qualities. sine 68x80 36-Inch Taffeta Silk 69¢ Yd. | §i'33"ss at weight Blankets. ft and fieecy extra atrong and durable Black and Navy Blue Taffeta Silk, a full yard wide, for 69¢ @ yard; nice, soft quality, but only a limited quantity in the lot $1.25 Bed Comforters 98c —Upper Main Floor. Women’s $1.25 2-Clasp ‘ Kid Gloves All Sizes 79c ne and filled wit oft, —Lower Mat Kid Gloves with oversewn seams and one run of stitching on backs, two-clasp style, in black, white, tan and brown. Exceptional value at 79. —Upper Main Floor, Lace Values Up to 85c at —35c Yd.— Beautiful Cotton and Silk Lace Flouncings In Shadow, Venise, Cluny and Oriental pat terns, in white, cr and ecru; widths rang ing from 12 to 27 inches, Upper Main Floor. | Month-End_ Bar-| matertal in stripe and *#; also plain colors; 31 inches wide, In lengths to § lene amiess, and heetung Bieached Ht 81x90 Inches of good strong hemme¢ | $1.00 Feather Pillows 79c Feather Pillows, sire 19x26 Inches (the famous Emmerich make), cov ered with heavy ticking and filled with clean feathers size made nd neatly white jm Floor. 79c to 95c Mussed Waists of Voile and Lingerie 25c About 200 Waists in this lot—they are all pretty styles and neatly trimmed, but being soiled and mussed from hand- ling we will close them out at 25c —Second Floor. City Employes’ Salary Warrants Cashed at Par Just bring them up to the Es Cashier's office on the third floor of the Bon Marche, and get the money, for we are always glad to accommodate our friends es in the city's employ. FOR APRON DAY 50c Aprons and Caps for 29c Good, sensible Gingham Aprons (and Caps, too), for 29c on Apron Day. Month-End Bargains in Odd Lines of Infants’ and Children’s Wearables Infants’ 25c Soft Sole Shoes at ) 19c Pr. Infants’ Soft Sole Shoes in tan, black and , white; either high or low style, and button or lace. j 25c Ea. Infants’ 39c White Dresses for Made of white allover embroidery and trim 29c¢ Ea med with lace at neck and sleeves; sizes 6 ° months, 1 and 2 years. J 75c Ea. 98c to $1.98 Soiled Guimpes for } Month-End Specials in the Children's White Guimpes in sizes 4 to 14 Grocery Store years, made of white sheer lawn, trimmed [ with pretty lace. Second Floor. J 4 Cans of Carna- tion Milk for 25c Providing You Purchase Other Gro- ceries at the Same Time—Not Over 4 Cans to Each. Children’s 39c Rompers Reduced to } Rompers and Play Suits for little tots in sizes 2 to 6 years, made of chambray and ging- Made of check ginghams, with kimono sleeves and pockets and half belts at the back. —Third Floor. Month-End Sale of Library Tables ——_ "A At Half Pri Odd lines of Library Tables at just half ; our usual “lowest-of- seine at tin Goat vottoons gpg all” cash ve only le Ten, « mixture of all er a few in the lot. Come and Diack; sp . early for the best Csttee, choice food drink with @ f $10.00 SOLID OAK TABLE PRICED AT $5.00 | ' deh ing tion of the best and $9.50 FUMED OAK LIBRARY TABLE AT $4.75 | '!"* 19c 2 fact aa allthis nm Distilled White Vine; $31.95 QUARTERED OAK TABLE AT $16.00 ""*" $25.00 FUMED OAK LIBRARY TABLE $12.50 Satter sett $27.50 SOLID OAK LIBRARY TABLE $13.75) {iis "ccciccasa wun aye 42S $17.95 SOLID OAK LIBRARY TABLE AT $9.00 | (2"002i)) "per ran "Te ptt hese roken ‘silos, put $19.75 TABLE, GOLDEN OAK FINISH, $9.85 | "”,.” ath er i ound neipp's Malt healt Spicess a hioned Sealing Wax, safe and ” sugar per can sone of the beat brands ne nalt $17.50 FUMED OAK LIBRARY TABLE $8.75 Fourth Fioor. free run per can —Fourth Fivor, reo Marinello Manicure and Hair Dressing Parlors — Third Floor, poNMARCHE Union &t.—Second Ave—Pike St.—Seattle, Tel, Elliott 4100 al ed Upp Visit our Dreas Goodn Department nnd wee the pretty wear, We have a complete ansurt- ment at moderate prices. Upper if Seven days a week in t HERE’S REASON | “WHY NEARING ‘GOT THE BOOT’ (EDITOR'S NOTE—The University of Pennsylvania is ruled by a | board of trustees, the members of which are stockholders in hotorious ie corporations or the tools of notorious corporations. . Prof. Scott Nearing of that university rebelled at! social conditions in America today, wrote books t them and talke inst them, 80 the fired him, recently explained In the of this newspaper. Since that event, Milton pondent of this newspaper, Nearing’s books In order that he might tell our r re something about this discharged teacher's id The following article is one result of Mr. Bronner’s readings:) BY MILTON BRONNER ' PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Aug. 25.—-Following the! old nursery rhyme about the house that Jack bullt, this story might begin this way This tn the state that privilege rules. This ts the most conservative city In the state that privilege rules Thin is the “safe and sane” university in the most conservative city in the state that privilege rules ‘ } Bronner, 4 hae been reading Prof. eter 8 rors Scott Nearing | This is the group of corporation men who control the board of trustees of the “safe and sane” university tn the most conservative j city in the state that privilege rules the young adjunct professor and lost his job as a ce in Philadelphia I have been reading all his books for the benefit of t * of The Star, and I find, for one thing, that} f eves that the gion of Jesus ts a real religion, not mere lp service, not mere endowing of churches and petting of fashionable preachers. In hin Social Religion,” | published tn 1913 by the Macmillan | company of New York city, he tn-| |Yelghed against labor conditions | |that make the rd man, the motherlesn girl, the factory child he denounced the overlong day of labor and the sacrifice of human lives to cor © greed He considered the feelings of ne of the university trustees so that he wrote } While misery remains in the | land; while men are condemn. | And finally here is Scott who shocked thts group of corpo | Quene at the University of Pennasylva | How did he do it? book stockholder of United States | Steel? Did you drop an offer. | Ing into the collection box? | You thought that you were dropping In silver or gold, but it was the bloody eweat of a fellow-being, laboring hopele ly beside the roar of the bla: furnace—eacrificed on the al tar of industrial progress.” It in the policy of men like those who control the university board of trustees to preach that this in the bent of all possible worlds; to dis hax | ¢d to overwork and underpay; countenance anything that will| while women are forced into make the “masses” discontented Prostitution, and children are And yet here comen this mere ad. compelled to labor, th will unct professor who studies human be need for « Social Closing his eyes to the fact that | many of the trustees—his boaser | Were big corporation men and that others were ion.” | iv as affected by wages rather | than the stock market reports, and | finally, quoting Christ's parable of | | the man who fell among thieves pays yers, this rash young man, speaking “Men and women ail over jof churches supported by mone: America today have fallen made in Pennsylvania's pet indus among thieves, You must bind | trie: lalmed up their wounds; you must | | autiful buildings, exquls- ite windows, divine singing— but how was that church built? catch the thieves, and you must m which pro- motes thiev But before | Who gave the windows? Who you begin hing, ask | Pays the salaries? There are yourself the question: i" men working 12 hours some one should cry, “Stop thief,” would my conscience be- mills of Pittsburg. Are you SAYSWEWORRY TOO MUCH We of America are always worrying about what other folks think | of us. The people in the big cities of Europe don't care a cent about | the opinions of outsiders, Our attitude ts a sign of provincialism, trom | which wo should recover. This was the charge of Dr. George E. Vincent, president of the| | Yerstty alumna! at Broadway hig was “The Sense of the State.” “The individual who trusts So with the nation | under a plan, steady thinking to carry out in one a well-constructed national purpone. this country has the personal confidence of the Almighty. Do you {magine any nation has a monopoly on providential guidance? Our | conception should be large enongh to include all mankind. No nation however, can be strong unless it belleves in {ts own great purpose.| | We should be willing modestly and humbly to play our part in the| freat scheme of things.” | Dr. Vincent was guest at a noon luncheon Tuesday at the College) University of Minnesota alumni entertained him at 6 o'clock | He left for Portland late Tuesday night. | WILLDEEPENSEATTLECANAL = Members of the national congressional rivers and harbors com-| mittee who are on the Sound looking over port facilities, ete. Tuesday | RAVe Asstirance to Seattle advocates that they would support tn con-} | &ress the plan to deepen the Lake Washington canal from the locks to| Salmon bay #o the greatest ocean-going craft might enter at low tide Inasmuch as it ts this committee which says what is and what! | {an’t in rivers and harbors improvements, it looke es If the ann, would | | be deepened. i} | The additional work would call for more dredging, #0 the canal) | below the locks would be from 25 to 30 feet deep at low tide. Under the present conditions all vessels of whatever depth may enter the canal at high tide, but not when the tide is out | The last rivers and harbors bill provided for a preliminary exam- | ination of the canal for this purpose. The cost is estimated at between | $200,000 and $300,000. | The committee members Tuesday visited the Bremerton navy yard, | | and at a luncheon given in their honor at the Bremerton Commercial jclub declared that the Pacific coast must be provided with adequate | deienses, equal to thone of the Atlantic. They Promised to ask for more | work for the navy yard, and to secure for the North Pacific a larger unit of the American fleet. club. | dinner. FATALEXAMDATES ARESET Principal T. R. Cole of the Broadway high summer school an-| |nounces dates for examinations as follows | hth grade students who have been granted permission to take entrance examinations will report to the Broadway school Sept. 2 for a jquiz in arithmetic at 9 o'clock, grammar and language at 10:30, geography at 1 o'clock and history at 2:30, | Students tn the Broadway district who have been granted permis: | |sion to take deficiency or advanced standing exams will report at| Broadway and examinations will be given as follows | j Thursday, Aug. 26-—Bnglish and C, Eng. at 9:15 a. m.: Sciences | and ©. Geography « 5; History, Civics and Economy, 1 p. m., and | Latin and Spanish, | Friday, Aug. 27—German at 9:15; Commercial and Greek, 10:45; | Mathematics, 1 p. m., and French at 2:30. | 'S.E, 60. HAS OWN ORGAN | The Puget Sound Traction, Light & Power Co, has named it | Weekly bulletin “The Electrogram.” | This week's issue announces that Hazel Butterfield, 3020 W. 66th} st. and Margaret Greeley, 2567 9th ave, W., have won the contest | selecting the name of the new publication | | Vera Ferguson, 908 American Bank building, and Dr, Walter K. | | Seelye, 806 American Bank building, were second and third prize | winners, respectively | | | | The bulletin contains an argument against the jitneys and figures showing the immense wealth of electric companies, EVANGELIST SHOULDERS GUN SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 25—Gypsy Smith, the famous evangelist | |1s at the battle front with the British troops. ‘The ministerial com: | mittee conducting services at the Van Ness tabérnacle was advised of | this today, but it is hoped to bring Smith here in October, for a perlon | of sermons, | BULL THROWING WAS FIZZLE SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 25,—Bull throwing was a complete fizzle | |at the exposition today when the “bull fight” concession on the Zone | jclosed its doors, Patronage did not warrant the payment of hospital Ee for matadors and to: rs, One bull, howe: which was i sponsible for several ambulance calls, was standing peacefully in a stall ready for another fight, The bull's name is “Grace,” | | Gin to run?” il i | University of Minnesota, addressing an audience of teachers and unt 7) chool, Tuesday evening. His subject ii to luck sooner or later comes to grief. || We need leadership, planning, coordinate work ||] “I mean no irreverence, but I am able to see how Americans think | ff Ohio Steel Ranges 3,000 Yards Outing Flannel Spe- Thurs- cial | 5c Yd. da, O* sale Thursday at this unusu low price, 3,000 ya ored Outing variety bar pink A good-weight, J quality, suitable for chil- patterns, and blue fleecy dren's night gowns and pajamas and ma other 5 purposes Spe he Wa sJesrourn. yard House Dresses 59c NUSUAL featured in the House value is Dress pictured. It is made of blue and white checked gingham, with round col- lar of plain blue, and the cuff is piped with the plain material also. Price 50¢. —Basement Salesroom. “Boy Scout” Stockings 25c Pr. OYS' Strong-ribbed Black Cotton Hostery in sizes 6 to 10%, very desirable for school wear, moderately priced at Ze pair. —Ba ment Balesroom. Windsor Ties 25c HILDREN’S Windsor Ties in plain colors, plaids and checks; 8 inches long, 25¢ each Basement Sasesroom. Leather Hand-Bags $1.00 ERY attractive values in this collection of Leather Hand-bage, which includes a variety of new shapes, and Bags with novelty fastening. Price $1.00. Basement Salesroom. Misses’ Hosiery 15c Pair ISSES' Fine-ribbed Black Cotton Stockings, {n sizes 5 to 9%; give good service for school wear, Attractively priced at 1he pair. Basement Salesroom. Children’s Uaisn Suits, 50c ors’ Gray Fleece-lined Union Suits in sizes 4 to 16 years; also Misses’ White Fleece-lined Union Suits in sizes 4 to 14 years; attractive values at 5Oe, Basement Salesroom. i Combination Kettle and Cereal Boiler $2.25 ORTY of these practical utensils in a special sell- ing Thursday The combination consists of Tea Kettle of heavy spun aluminum, 6-quart capacity, into which fits a 2-quart aluminum cereal pan. Its use enables one to cook the breakfast cereal and obtain a supply of boiling Special, each, —Ho FREDERICK E~ NELSON Basement Salesroom Children’s School Apparel ow-Priced Attractivel Basement Salesr HI the t outlay. GIRLS’ SCHOOL DRESSES, 85¢ TO $2.50— Practical Wash Dre girls from 6 to 14 years of wool and Wool-mix tively priced at 85 GIRLS’ 6 to 14 years, $5.00 and $5 CHILDREN’S SCHOOL HATS, $1.45 TO $5.00— Especially attractive for misses 1 Broad-brimmed Hats with yarn emb cord and tassel, $5.00. School Hats of Velvet, Corduroy and Plush for the smaller girls, trimmed with ribbons and novelty orna- ments, $1.45 to $3.75. BOYS’ SCHOOL SUITS, $3.95— Boys’ Norfolk Suits of durable gray and brown mix- tures, with stitched-down Each Suit has an extra pai years. Price $3.95. Boys’ Sweaters in gray, cardinal, maroon and blue, 75e, $1.50 and $2.50. Boys’ Tapeless Blouses in light and dark wash fabrics, sizes 6 to 15 years, 25¢. CHILDREN'S SCHOOL SHOES MODERATELY PRICED— Misses’ and Children’s Button Shoes in patent kid or dull calf with cravenette cloth top; sizes 6 to 8, $1.50 pair; 84 to 11, $1.75 pair; 111% to 2, $2.00 pair; 2% to 6, $2.50 pair. Boys’ Gun-metal Calf Lace Shoes, with Goodyear welt sole; sizes 10 to 12, $2.50; 12% to 2, $2.75; 2% to —Basement Salesroom 534, $3.00 pair. Special New Envelope Chemises Special 79c new shown in made of fine nainsook, with trimming of em- broidery insertion top- ped with fine Val. lace insertion and edge, and value at HE dainty Chemise sketch is quality the is a 79e. Other styles in Envel- ope Chemises at this price are trimmed with dainty Filet, Val. imi- special tation Cluny or shadow lace or have embroidery edging, insertion and beading drawn with ribbon Special 79¢. price, organdie collar and cuffs Hair-Bow Ribbons, 20c Yard LAIN and Moire Taffeta Ribbons, plaids, faney: checks, stripes and many other pretty novelties im Ribbons especially Unusually good value at 20¢ yz y Li sses ¢ 1 Serges ar 25, $1.7 SCHOOL COATS, $5.00 AND $5.75— Coats of Corduroy and fancy « oatings in na brown, Copenhagen, black and nc r of knickerbockers, prac- tically doubling its length of service Women’s Sample Shoes Sizes 31%, 4 and 41% Only $2.15 Pr.) Tursday « HE purchase of two complete sample lines of Women’s High Shoes (375 pairs in all) enables the Basement Salesroom to quote this low price. The offering includes Lace and Button Shoes in patent and dull leathers, Vici kid, tan leather and combination effects, with low or high heels. On sale Thursday at $2.15 pair. —Basement Salesroom, Women’s Voile Dresses Reduced to $1.95 COLLECTION of 60 Voile Dresses remaining from Summer purchases to sell They are well-made, principally in light pate terns on white grounds, and some are finished with Exceptionally low-priced at $1. desirable d Mail Orders Filled red to meet wer-priced tted here at @ I for of All- Attrac- , green, ; Sizes ve iors are the dery and silk d patch pockets. Sizes 6 to 18 Basement Salesroom. at this low ent Salesroom. hair-bows. making —RBasement Salesroom we éwht