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Open Saturday Evening THE SEATTLE STAR ‘ The Bon Marché Will Be Open till 9 p. m. Saturday THERE So of course you will want to come where large assortments of Christmas | Two Bring the Family Down Town and Have a Jolly Time Doing Your Christmas Shopping in the Good Old Fashioned Way Christmas Handkerchiefs In Holiday Folders or Gift Boxes MUST BE LOTS OF THERE IS ON EVERYBODY'S Handkerchiefs are displayed Handkerchief Sections here—t! ilar department on the Upper 1) Floor — me HANDKERCHIEFS ON YOUR GIFT LIST— Main Floor and a Gift Handkerchief Shop on tl with new designs and styles pouring in every minute Why, even as we write this, two new styles have just arrived A conn little box of “Kiddies” Hankies,” with 3 hemstitched embroidered Handkerchiefs at 1%, and a pretty, box containing three nicely initialed Women's Handkerchiefs for 25¢ | One Embroidered Handkerchief tn Christmas Folder, price Two Embroidered Handkerchiefs in Christmas Folder, price . Three Embroidered Handkerchiefs in Christmas Folder, price Three Embroidered Handkerchiefs Four Embroidered Handkerchiefs in Christmas Box, price Three Embroidered Handkerchiefs In Christmas Box, price Four Embroidered Handkerchiets in Christmas Box, pri Six Embroidered Handkerchiefs 25c 25c 35c 25c in Holiday Box, price..... in Holiday FE price Three Embroidered Handkerchiefs | Three Embroidered Handkerchiefs in Holliday Box, price..... | SOC| in Cartman Box price Three Embroidered Handkerchiefs Four or Six Embroidered Handker- in Holiday Box, price 50c | | chiefs in Christmas Box, price Boys’ Bath sizes; boxed, pric: each, Be a Boys’ Scowt Gloves, with fringed Gauntiets, a pair Boys’ Initial Handkerchiefs, vn- «rious width hem Ie each or 2 Boys’ Four-in-Hand Ties, neatly Also a ‘sede of eyls for selection by the piece at Sc, 10c, 15¢, 25¢, 35c, 50c and 75c. 50c 75c 75c 75c $1.00 $1.00 —Upper Mate Floer—Nerth. White All Wool B Blankets at Tea Per Cent Less Special, for Saturday, We Offer a 10 Per Cent Reduction on All Our Fine White Wool Blankets Ranging From $4.50 to $15. Lower Main Floor-Center. tical—more useful Gifts than these sturdy, Mackinaws, made of good cloths, in striking stripes, or the plain blue, grays and browns sizes 36 to 46 in men’s, and 26 to 36 in boys’ and THE | GIFT PLAY SUITS FOR | BOYS AND GIRLS ee 25c | indian suits, trimmed with | fringe and complete with elab- | orate Head Gear—Cowboy, Po- | Heeman and Sheriff Play Suits, * | also Chaps of ail kinds Hoye’ 50c Robes, a!) : we eed C | Ait Sizes, 3 to 16 Years, at Boye’ Baanee wii, Beedy to match, $1.50, $2.00 and $2.50 Shirts in a wool and p: price each, Girls’ Silk and Braid Trimmed, Priced If you are planning useful gifts this year, here's a chance for | $1 $2.00 —Upper Main Floor— Se to each, SOe, The This Will Bea ‘Mackinaw’ Christmas For Many Men, Many Girls and Many Boys And what, pray, could make more sensible—more prac- welJ-tailored and Norfolk or plain belted styles, shaw! or military collars; girls’ Coats Men’s Mackinaws at $5.00 to $10.00 Boys’ and Girls’ Sizes $3.50 to $6.50 PRACTICAL CHRISTMAS SUGGESTIONS FROM BOYS’ FURNISHING SECT ION Sampaoe and Kasoe Com sizes, } ont $1, 00 | Take Advantage of Its Economies if You Are Planning on Giving Wearables to Any Little Girl This Christmas $5.00 Wool Serge Dresses $3. 95 ing Girls’ warm wool Dresses, mostly of wool serges, some plaids eal com- bination effects. They are made yoke style, with “ihoaklt z, belted styles and Bolero dresses, in blues, browns, blacks and white. $6.50 to $8.00 Coats at $4.95 Girls’ New Bath Robes $1.50 We have taken from our regular stocks A new lot of Giris’ Bath Robes, of about 35 Coats and reduced them to Beacon cloth. Pink and blue designs and $4.95. They're novelty mixtures, cordu- lots of Indian patterns. Have large col ars and p " roys and plain weaves—all sizes. jars and t Pyralin Ivory Hat Pin Holders, eact Pyralin ty roe 7 pieces 5.95 Ghe Pyralin Ivory ecen —Second Floor—Center. Last “Children’s Day”, Before Christmas| Ay 75c ory Manicure Sets, cor Hatr Mee yralin tvory ’ ern, each eum y Tollet Sets, 2 pleces, pr Specials in Toilet Articles’ ANOTHER Triplicate Mirrors, Worth $1.98 to $4.25 $1. 00 Sale orders and none 9c French Ivory Card Cas On Deck; pric single Dec French Ivory Watch Holders, | French Ivory Stamp Boxes, price each 55c French Ivory Buffers with removable Chamois ( each 69c French Ivory Picture Frames (Post “In the Candy 50c Opera Sticks This in @ special BON MARCHE HOLIDAY ADVER- Phon Saturday only—No delivered Lower Main 15c Songs at 10c » for Pinochle 50c @ 75¢, or for ks, price TKeMENT wi Mlabn-Oe%—tm the hy the 9 Special Dinner 50c 6 inet FOR SATURDAY EVENIN 5 30 P. M From 5 Floor Cafe OF THIS PAPER to 7 Gard ize); price each oho! Cre ear French \vory Talcum Powder Holders DON’T re i t (for oval shape cans) ieee y Grn j price 65c_ MISS I7 et, Lower Main Floor—South. Tea, Coftes Many Pretty Gift Things in Pyralin Ivory Pyretio tvory Patt Boxes and 65c Powder eee Masivare ‘Sets, Shops 20c Lb. rth Mle a Copy G SHOPPERS | in the Sixth Chrtetnn acknges going to polnin in th Sate V8. Haat of Chtengo a Vike Street—Second Avenue—Unlon Street dhe matted THE BON MARCHE Eliott 4100, HERBERT QUICK SAYS: S202: 22 | a Here is another article in the series on PREPARED NESS by HERBERT QUICK Are YO FOR pre | paredness | Then read WHAT it QUICK SAYS about it His arguments. will i} strengthen your own | Do you think that you i are opposed to “prepared ness i Then read WHAT Jif QUICK SAYS, His rea sons will make you think a second time Are you. indifferent to “preparedness” Then read WHAT QUICK SAYS. He will convince you that indiffer ence is a crime Herbert Quick You can begin to read this series with any article Today sinister influence of the munition Quick deals with the makers.—Editor BY HERBERT QUICK | One would think, to read the ut Opponents of military prepared-| terances of speakers at anti-pre paredness meetings, and the writ | H | fens are in the main among our Very best citizens, Active among | (%8* which appear in pass Oh oe them are many of my personal | *t¥re, that the American people had been hoodwt by @ venal press hired by in ted parties to lay al needless burden on the nation’s | shoulders. | | So far ts this from yelng true that many papers which two years ago | were opposed to any military ex pansion have been brought to a re versal of their policies by a con sideration of their readers’ views The munitions makers and the} armorers have always supported a |i publicity service, | suppose, tho 1 |i do not know that they have, | have |} no doubt that they have paid out) much money fn the past for the |} purpose of bringing about #0: such chanke of opinion as that! which has taken place in the minds | of the American people, They may and probably still do maintain such 4 literary boreau | These activities, however, have jhad lene than nothing to do with | the present demand for military | @j preparedness If the government were en- gaged In making all ite military supplies, cannon, warships and everything one for the army @ my opinion the demand for Preparedness would be stronger than it now Is, and the task of those who want it would be friends. It is no smal) part of the price one pays for intellectual integrity that it sometimes forces him inte t with people with whom he would prefer always to agree Especially to an Ametican radi cal, to one who has dony bis best in the trenches for a quarter of aj jcentury in the fight against priv-| lege and for humanity as agninat those things which make for econ omle slavery, this breaku) of agree: menta ts a painful—-almoft a tragic) thing. | 18.48, however, inevitable. Men| who have been Methodists together, for instance, may not agree an to} | ea for fighting a forest fire. | The most that they can ask of } each other ts fair treatment of each | other's views The opponents of prepared. ness are unfair, | think, with. out meaning to be so in their | | talk of the Influence of the | j Great manufacturers of muni. tions, material of war, armor, ships and the like on the pres ent attitude of the people and especially the press. | A great wave of demand for mtit-| }tary preparedness has awept over! the country. } Hundreds of thousands of people} | —yea, MILLIONS—-who 18 montha| *™Plified. | }ago would have opposed any tn | crease in the army or navy ARE| TEP DESTROYED NOW POR BOTH } ; It fs unfair of those still opposed | i | to deny the sincerity of this change! AMSTERDAM, I Dec. 17.-—-De- | It does not hplp in the| struction of x Zeppelin and death |i of front | solution of our problemetor (hem | of ite erew of traxejara from Brus: |i | to deny it seis was reported today il | VILLA A PRISONER! i EL 30, Dee. 1T.--Gen, Villa, once proud leader of a dominant | | Mexican tion, Is virtually the prisoner of his 11 generals, facing de-| position and possibly deportation. Tho considering Villa and his |i campaign a faflure, his| followers are still determined to make war/i] against Carranza, To thin end it is understood they are meeting at| Chihuahua to decide whether to continue Villa's leadership or select) @ successor, Since he arrived at Chihuahua, Wednesday, Villa has |i been secluded in his hothe with hie “church” wife, Senora Laz Corral |} de Villa, but has been under the closest watch Leaders forbade him }to attend the council of generals. In addition to considering his fu ture, the council th ded to inaugurate a campaign to the south, | besides conducting guerfilla warfare to the north it ||| WON’ T TAKE FORGER’S AFFIDAVIT | BAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 17——If affidavits of “Count” Van Koo bergen, alias Montford, held in Calgary, Alberta, as @ land forger, are} used against Haron Von Brincken, alleged German bomb plotter, the iH defense will att st to discredit Koolbergen's statements. Von en's attorney showed today that this will be the method In at} ii this one line of attack That Koolbergen “played both ends’ ff st the middle,” he has confessed. That he is a forger is the) if under which the Canadian authorities held him, Hence, the de-| fense will ask a jury to disbelieve him aw | Brine lea © alleged employment in | making bombs for Von Hrincken. i |KANSAS WON'T SAY “CHICKEN” | TOPEKA, Kan., Det. 17—Becahse the word “chicken” in applied frivolously to other than feathered animals, the Kansas State Poultry fter will not use it in referring to its birds, “Fowl the only words used nasociation he bird” will b and LOOK FOR THE LAGRIPPE! Seattle—Deware of la grippe!|la grippe. Supt. G. E. Brown eat und of Seattle mated there were 250 pupils absent dadave peg eaiek A becauae of |Friday because of In grippe. A confined to their homes because o lame taeatinn (nd. tenes alae fit and with reports of an alarming ned, but nature coming in from {owns thru-| may ¢ precautions people the la ause AN ex to 80 pupils have day from the ( halis achools, because of la grippe. Closing of the schools was consid ered for a day or two. From 75 absent every out the state, extreme are being taken At Wenatchee, school children may win a two-week Christmas va an dpidemic of cation because of TEDDY WON’T RUN, SAYS BULL MOOSER Roore-) ference with G. W. moose leader However, CHICAGO, Dec. 17.—Col Perkins, bull velt will not permit his name to be presented to any primary, not an unidentified } the bull moose, nor will he ential candidate has r rved the during the republican ponvention,| Florentine room at the Congress according to Harold lo! progres-| hotel, in which Roosevelt held his sive committeeman, following con-|mass meetings in 1912 AFTER SWITCHING CHARGES The long-hoped-for and sev mission. eraltimes-promised |nvestiga The port commissioners are tion of Seattie’s water front rejoicing Friday over the an nouncement by E&. J. Foreman, agent of the East waterway terminals, that an increase of 1,300,000 cases are in prospect next year for the port business. railroad muddle has been be gun by the public service com mission, following numerous complaints of exorbitant and | discriminatory switching charges made by the port com- | BRIDE’S NIGHT GOWN STOLEN; SUES LACROB, Wis. Dec. 17.—When|ing down judgment of $6 rea on the @&4inat an expressman, who toted one loses her robe du nuit on the Mr." Mack ‘Tinmerman’s bageage wedding nuit, 1Us basis for dam-|and permitted the aforesaid rob ge Judge Hunt so fuled, hand » stolen from his wagon { CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Dec.) ginta, racelved a divorce a montt hyllis Brooks, one 289. from Reginald Rrookg of New 17.—Tho Mra, Phyllis Brooks, one | voix the fact leaked out’ only. to. of the beauties af Vir- | day GERMAN-AMERICANS AGAINST WILSON NEW YORK, Dec. 17.—German-|this week's Fatherland, Munster Americans will not voto for Prest-|berg declared it would have been dent Wilson next year; they fortunate for America if Roosevelt trong for Col. Roosevelt, So de-|had been in the White House when clares. Prof. Hugo Munsterberg in| the war br it jae 2 MAGA, Deo. 17.—| that lawi has delayed tina) organ i that Incorporation would |"#tlon of the Northwest Shippers league it has developed here, with ‘mean violation of the federal anti (the closing of the league meeting. | "gi REDERICK éNELSON, =a FTER 10 rapidly. thoughtful choosing. pe. AAS ma cel throughout conventent point the Basement Salesroom tore wrapped and exceptionally gift garment is the Gown attractive pictured It is soft with the entire and fashioned of two-thread Val and embroidery made of waist nain kimono sleeves lace insertion with 2%%4-inch pink or blue band undr the lace box, and is unusually Comes in a pretty Christma good value at $1.00. Other Useful Gifts: Dainty Slipover Gowns, Soc , Boudoir Caps, to $1.26. 50 Corset Covers, 25¢ to 6c Canaotette $1.00 waa Chemises, Sic Flannelette Kimonos, $1.25. Crepe Kimonos, The to $2.50. Fancy Tea Aprons, 26¢ Silk Kimonos, $2.95 to $4.95. bbe Bath Robes, $1.05 to $3.95. —Hasement Saiesroom House Sacques, _ Attractively Low Priced. BRIEF values summary of the the Basement offering in Handker- Salesroom is Women's = Gift hiefs Women’s Plain Linen Hand- kerchiefs, 10c, 12)4c, 1 20¢ anc Women’s Linen Handker- chiefs with corner embroidery, 12%4c, 15¢ and 25c. Women's Fine Lawn Handkerchiefs, embroidered 10¢ 4c each. Women's Handkerchiefs in pretty gift boxes; box of 3, 25c, 45¢ and 50c Women’s Initialed Linen Handkerchiefs, with well- embroidered letter and wreath design, 10c and 124%c each 25¢ with one-corner designs, and 12} Rasement Saleernnmn Sensible Gifts for Girls Girls’ Bath Robes of warm, cozy robing, with braid trim- ming, cord and _ tassel Sizes 6, 8 10, 12 and 14 years, $1.65. Children’s Hooded Storm Capes of red or blue sateen over rubber, sizes 6 to 12. years, $1.45. Children’s Coats of zibeline, corduroy and fancy coatings, serviceable and carefully taiJored, sizes 6 to 12 years, $5.00. Girls’ Wool Sweaters in roll- ing-collar style, in Oxford, cardinal, navy, maroon and green, sizes 24 to 34, moderately priced at $1.25 and ‘$1. 75. Children’s (Waterproof Storm Coats, made of tan soiesette over rubber, with full circular cape and de- tachable hood. Sizes 8 to 14 years. Price $3.50. Children’s Fur Sets of Natural Coney, Brown Coney, Natural Cat, Squirrel and other furs, with ribbon, braid or ornament trimming, $1. 50 to Gifts of Boys’ Clothing Sensible and Useful NSIBLE gift for the one of the sturdy Norfolk well Suits which are tailored from — service and have an knickerbock ers. Sizes 6 to 17 years, $3.95. Boys’ Overcoats carefully tailored from warm coatings to 10 3.00, $3.50, $4.00 able mixtures, extra pair of Novelty sure in serges, velvets and corduroys, for little n 1 to § years of from 3 age, 0, $3.00 and Boys’ Sweaters in cardinal, maroon, Oxford and n 24 to 36, Sf and $2.50, Boys’ Flanne! Blouses in navy-blue, sizes 6 to 15 years, 50¢ Boys’ Golf Caps in brown and gray mixtures and blue serge, oe. Rae vy, sizes The New Hats at $5.00 Are of Black Maline time for the le ST in various holiday oceasions come these dressy Hats of black maline in com- bination with black satin and velvet. Some have the smart high ruching around the crown, others are in sailor effect with shirred brim Very attractive styles at/$5.00. Gift Hand-Bags $1.00 W OME N 'S Leather Hand Bags in various popu lar pattern with metal or leather-covered fancy linings. at $1.00, Women’s Gloves $1 Pair W rious OMEN’S Washable or Glace G s in va frames and . colors, Good values sizes 51% to TM, price $1.00 pair ‘ea Dristinas Gills for Coerybody ey :30 in the morning the throngs of Christmas shoppers increase Between 8:30 and 10:30 you will find best opportunity for The Mail and Express the mur Christ Silk Hosiery Bonds, Glove Bonds and Gift | gtation is on Certificates (always ac ; F ceptable) are on sale at Floor, Bring y« here to be forwarded Towels for Gifts blue, der make a useful inches LINEN LUNCHEON NAPKINS, $1.35— SCARFS AND CEN- TERPIECES DUCED TO 65¢ EACH— silkoline filling “of these Waste them a very attractive ac- cessory for bedroom. or sewing room. Two sizes, J] 14 and 20 inches high, 75¢. ; Folding Sewing Stands | in white enamel or ma= hogany finish, with cre+ tonne bag in medium a light A Christmas gift at small cost. Two designs to choose from—~ a pink and green floral decor- ation and a blue line pattern with gold edge. H and éarly Christmas morning. Large-size Enamel! Roaster in dark-blue color, seamless and easily style. pounds. ish No stand required, Com- plete with cord and ready for use, Special Third Fancy Bath 25c Each HESE Novelty Bath Towels with bars of gold, or laven- on white grounds ry pleasing and gift. Size 19x40 » 25¢ cach. rose 6 FOR Hemstitched Luncheon Napkins of smoothly woven linen, neatly finished and featured in four attractive pat- terns. Sizes 16x16 and 17x17 inches. Set of 6, $1.35. RE- In this underpriced as- sortment are Scarfs with Filet-pattern in- sertion and Torchon edging, Scalloped Scarfs with lace inser- tion, Cluny- pattern Lace Scarfs and Filet- pattern Centerpieces in 22-, 24- and 27-inch sizes, reduced to 65¢ each. —Rasement Salesrnom and Waste Baskets Make Useful Gifts HE white-enameled frames and dainty Baskets makes colorings, $1.35. * *, ement Saresroom. Dinner Set Special $3.50 opportunity to purchase practical and useful Special at 83.50. Rane Large Enamel oaster Special $1.25 E is a Gift that can be put into service bright Self-basting $1.25. cleaned, Special, Electric Iron Special $2.95 VERY useful Gift. A high 1 grade Iron, weighs 6 r Highly nickeled fin 82.05