The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 21, 1915, Page 10

| WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24 DRESSED DOLLS ~ REDUCED Forty-Five Naughty Little Dollies Got Their Pretty Dresses Soiled—And so They: Must Be Sold for Less But it wasn't really the Dollies’ fault, for | they were put out for anybody to look at and, of course, if picked up fifty times a day will get somewhat soiled. But you won't mind that when you are getting them at such radically reduced prices $1.98 Dressed Dolls Reduced to $1 $2.00 Dressed Dolls, Special $1.00 $2.50 Dressed Dolls, Special $1.25 $4.25 Dressed Dolls, Special $2.25 | $7.50 Dressed Dolls, Special $3.75 | $9.95 Dressed Dolls, Special $5.00 | $10.50 Dressed Dolls at $4.50 Ea. | $22.50 Dressed Dolls at $11.25 Ea. $5.00 Doll Go-Baskets at $3.29 Dollis’ Oriole Go-Baskets, nicely upholstered, fitted with # axles and rubbertired wheels price $3.29 each $7.25 Doll Go-Baskets at $4.50 Dol! Go-Baskets with enameled gears and Auto Hoods—adjustable dash and reclining back and rubbemtired wheels. $10.85 Glascock Hand Cars at $7.65 G.ascock ball-bearing Hand Cars, with gears, enameled tn royal blue h Minch ber-tired wheels. $6.95 Elevated Railroad at $4.50 Elevated Toy Raliroad, fitted with string clock work that is very durable and elevated one-rail track $9.50 Miniature Railway at $6.95 Miniature Railway Sets, fitted with reversible Engines, Tender, two Passenger Care and 12 Sec tions of Track; $6.95 complete set $5.50 Electric Train Sets at $2.75 With guaranteed Engine, Tender, Passenger Cara and Electric Cutout; run on dry batteries or house currents $6.50 Pump Coasters at $4.50 Each Derby and Excelsior Pump Coasters, with steel gears and rubber-tired wheels; nicely enameled | and strongly butlt —Fourth Floor. | | } ¢ Bon Marche —the Toy Center of Seattle $2.50 Pet's Grocery Store $1.85 | A Toy that will prove interesting to any child— They're fitted with a full assortment of Groceries, complete with Scales $1.50 Pet's Grocery Store 95c Another style Grocery Store—The Groceries are packed in tin cans—complete with white Fixtures and Scales 98 Woolly Sheep at 69c Each Covered with real Sheep Skin and have red col | lar around necks—will bleat when head is moved. | $2.50 Pinochle Card Sets $1.75 Pinochle Sets in handsome Goat Seal Cases fitted with one pack gilt edge Pinochle Cards and | Chips. $3.50 Game Boards at $2.95 Each Star Archerina Game Boards— 58 different | games can be played on them—fitted with 63 | pleces of equipment. | $4.95 Game Boards at $3.45 Each Archerina Game Board that play 67 different games and are complete with §2 pieces of equip ment—29 tnches square. $2.50 Building Blocks $1.95 Set Mind Building Blocks, with a double set of letters and numbers (gives the child a chance to learn while playing) | atee! | rub Only a Few of Each—in Several Lines of Gift Furniture—So Prices Are Redaced This Mahogany-Finish Smoking Set at $2.45} A gift that any smoker will appreciate. It has mahogany finish base and | column with brass tray and fittings,and removable glass ash receiver. It is a decided bargain at $2.45 $5.25 Footstools at $3.95 $5.25 and $5.75 upholstered Footstools, solid oak; the $6.25 ones with leather cushion tops; the $5.75 ones with Spanish leather cushion top. $3.25 Tabourettes at $2.95 Quartered oak Tabourettes, worth $3.25 and $3.75; the $3.25 ones are 19 inches high, in golden finish: the $3.75 ones 21 inches high, mission finish. i 500 Silk Waist Patterns in | 75c to $1.25 Plain and Fancy| Christmas Boxes for Dress Silks for —]-2 Price— 59 a Yd— A Special Chris Bargain in the Silk Sec $6.50 Rockers at $5.00 Solid oak Rockers. finish, with genuine brown leather Span. ish seate—$6.60 value, special at $5.00 | $11.75 Rockers at $9.50 Each | Quarter-sawed oak finished | leather automobile seat, $11 duced for Wednesday to $ —On the Fifth Floor elegant golden oak, waxed Kenuine 75 value, re For Practical and Acceptable Gifts, give walst tion. Handsome Waist Patterns, neatly bo: for | or dress lengths of pretty Silk-——put up in a n gift giving, at half price. Plain and fancy Silks, | Christmas box, if you choose, Included are 27 including Plaids, Crepe de Chines, Poplins, Satins | inch Satin Messalines, 36-inch Poplins, Tinsel Bros, Foulards and other —Upper Ma and Messalines in all colors and designs. Half | Trimmi Silk, Cheney price for one day only. —Upper Main Floor. | odd and pretty pieces Gift Pictures and Picture Frames Reduced Give Pictures—get them at The Bon Marche— save a little—for here's a timely sale of Pictures just three days before Christmas, and remember, when you give pictures, your gift is kept in plain sight for years. 10c Pictures at 5c Each {$1.25 Picture Frames 69c 200 choice unframed Pictures, 16x20 | Large Picture Frames, size 20x24 Inches, o inches, on heavy mat boards; will | «%-Inch walnut moiding—fine for enlarged photo inexpensive remembrances at 5c. Come and take | graphs and landscape pictures—regular $1.25 a look at the lot. j value, special at §9c¢ each. | Floor. | mostly f make nice, 98c Framed Pictures at 75c | Handsoma framed Pictures—subjects the old cathedr in Europe that are mostly all de atroyed—will make gifts that will be appreciated special at 76¢ each $4.95 Pastel Pictures $3.95 | Fine hand-painted Pastels, the stock—size 14x28 Inc gilt frames with burnished corn special at $3.95 each 15c Picture Frames at 10c Neat little oval Picture Frames in brown and | Diack, size 8x10 inches, with fancy corners; 15c | value, priced at 10¢ each. Get some of these and | frame your own pictures. 39c Framed Pictures at 25c | Only 25c each for Framed Pictures—in solid oak | frames, size 8x13 inches, worth 3%¢ each. Or the | frames can be used for your own pictures—-will make nice gifts of | 98c value, t of | ome ra; $4.95 value. —Third Floor, 00 to 7:30 P. M. 4 Special 50c Dinner From 5 Wednesday, Thursday and Friday evenings—A special 50c Dinner will be served in the Cafe—so that you can stay down town and have a full evening of Christmas | ‘i shopping. ey ie ey nee ar di a4 , Order Your Christmas Groceries Now | Then There Will Be No Chance of Last-Minute Disappointments Sun Maid, e, Relinncs | Happy Home Brand Currants; | Cranberries— t or Maxim fed” Kalsine: | alze 15c¢ | vernon as 14c | large 10 C | bayer View i each c ‘ f P Sweet Potatoes, « pound 4e, or 9 New Crop Walnuts—a!! Jarge wine, w lb Soft-shelled Walnuts—new crop regular 20¢ grad 174c @ pound Mixed Nute—quarante 122kc Corrants, i i) be a try Reasoning, Gr ' Oc | or Almonds, 50c Shelled Walnuts Cluster Table Katnt tons at Mey 224c No. 2 cartons at 4 or ne Store Open Till 9 p.m, Wedn way, THE BON MARCHE Pike Street—Second Avenne—Union Street Thursday, Vridny of This Week Hitt 4100. | PER eI iE Sa OWS THE | elty SEATTLE te PICK FLAWS IN GERMANY NEAR | SCHOOL SYSTEM BREAD FAMINE | Cleveland Sets Out to Learn} War Loans Send House Rents | What's Wrong With Soaring in City of ! Methods | of Berlin | | | CITY GEPS REAL SHOCK) ON SIDELINES OF WAR) | THE HAGUE, ; Dec, 21.—Thore | CLEVELAND, ritting here on the #ldelines of war| | H } | | | O,, Dec, 21—'Thin awoke ently to a realize tion that her schools are several years behind the times, Previous ly Cleveland always had prided | herself on her schools, and she was considerably shocked when she A watched with fascination Ger-| to save herself! both physteal and| many's struggle from starvation fnanctal close study of German | | | | | news| learned the truth items that filter in here give proof | fi ( and’s foundation school |Mat only the vigorous enforcement | surve: #0 called, began several |Of the bread card edict, in the face | months ago an investigation of the |Of bread riots, enabled the Germann| school system, The survey ia ren-|tO make thelr flour sup hold out | if dering a series of weekly» reports, |tll the newly harvested wheat |If rently is Jolting the city clear to its) Was avaliable he Hut for the cards, there would! Tho survey Is betng financed by been a bread famine months the Cleveland foundation, establish: 86° There were just 600,000 bar |rele of flour, left for Greater Berlin's 4,000,000 people when the new sup ply of wheat came fn. An elghth of @ barrel for each person report of Dr. Adolph Wermuth, ed by FH. Goff, to find out Just what's wrong with the schools Dr, Leonard P. Ayres of k is survey director, He had orts working for him New of affairs, and not so much as a hothouse nursery isolated from the will increase interest on first rea estate mortgages to 6 and even 5%| per cent. This, tn conjunc with | the rive of prices of building mate-| | The} Franklin Bobbitt, assistant pro-|mayor of Berlin, is authority for| i fessor of educational administra. | this | tion at Chicago university, wrote | | the third weekly report, entitied,| Germany's great war loans are|f What the Schools Teach and indireetly bringing I Might Teach lincreas house rent H} Bobbitt suma up his whole idea | Voen! Zeitung i of what's wrong with the studies |Dernburg, on behalf of the Berlin | if in the schools in this sentence housipng committee, pointed out to|f Cleveland needs to see italthe reichstag that the rate of in-| [i schools more as a part of the world |terest carried by the war loans| [i | are points which stand out j report rial and labor, must result in an|if eland schools spend 34 |tncreane of rent by about 20 to 25/1 per cent more time on reading, | per cent iit at a cost of $150,000 4 year, ~_ \} than an average of 50 progres. | | Word has been recetved here that sive cities, yet Cleveland | Franc haw just appointed commit | if schools get no better results een to determine the minimum | i Spelling work needs to be [wage of all women working at|[f brought up to da home for industrial concerns, which | |] Teaching of grammar te 20 [supply them with raw material |i a yivF behind the times. Thus the wer period sees ‘he reall-|f Pent sors enae ore Seen taught [ration of the “sweating” report | ii pit gr a ° arene” | Nhich the labor party has been de bn gh n dra by 3A sanding for years. Altho the law |i ouiky concerns only women workers, 1 Geography has been taught in a dry way; there ought to be 10 times more geopraphy | employed under simfar conditions| are sino entitled to the same mini-| | num and can claim ft by an order reading f court i || Teaching about health | iW . Man 9 nds fol silies of} Given too little time. e al ate bs hrc Thad iI ree little physical training t¢ 112) drain on Germany, ‘The mayor. |i 9 ns nd what there is lacks reporting on this work, says — eporti . s wor i} sie Guliias a 5,000,000 has been spent in| i 9 for beye ts lin alone since the beginning of |i not broad enough to give them choice of occupations. Civice—the study about city business and progrets—is woe fully neglected. the war, Every woman whose hus-| band has been called to the colors ma pension of 24 marke/if } a month. Nearly a third of| Rerlin's population ts now being |ff Study about tricity, by ntary work- | *upported or partly supported, by |f 's not even given on the pro. |the municipality i) attr ql Drawing study, while Pork chops sre causing the Ger man home officiala untold worry. |ff According to the Frankfurter Zeit fair basis, is often ~ and “sentimental” and n. be expanded ung, the shortage of pork is being | ff Music is given importance In particularly In Berlin, where ite! f the grammar grades, then has been forbidden on Tues Gropped In high schools. days, Fridays and Saturdays. Th i] German and Spanish ian. |the dealers have gone on a strike as guages are taught in high /a result of the government's fixing | schools, while French, contain. ing a much bigger part of im portant literature, Is not a miximum price of 20 cents perl fl pound for choice cuts and 37 cents| |e pound for fat and lard i} | i | W) SEISEWHERE | Uses His Feet in Place of Steam Roller “Soda,” heavy pedaled pickanin ny of Amite City of constructing modern highways. It ts said that, owing to the be demands the same a& would be paid for a steam la., has left the alde show cireult, where his big feet ites foet, he , were marveled at by the crowds,| roler A shoe tactory and is now engaged in Interstate highway laying. He has many con tracts in view Soda” is considered one of the most v ble has made him a pair of No. 19 shoes, with thick soles, and “Soda” is employed in packing dirt and gravel. adjuncts to the art! by merely walking | | ‘Don't tell mele ry it's the tax tssue || STELLA SORGHUM Says: | [i or the munictpal | @ oi ownership isaue | that agitates the | candidates in the mayoralty elec tion,” said Ey-| 4 The Footman is doomed! "The < erett True this! ringe awnite’ is morning. The the henk of the real isaue is the| tr horn, | desire for the job and that's no bunk.” According to D. N. Fedotoff, vice president of Russian Fisheries and Agents of department of justice Steamship Co. Eastern interests| uncover plot in’ New York to are trying to get portion of Seattle-| smuggle crude rubber from this Viadivostok trade. country into Germany Auto Drivers’ local, No. 224, held election of officers Monday night BAD LUCK C, O. EB. Anderson chosen pres! The little boy had brought home dent erfect school report for everal Howard Sheats, 14, ordered sent| weeks and then his marks suddenly to state training school at Che-|took a tremendous slump. His halis for at least a year for stealing father viewed the last one in evi pennies from newspaper boy dent disapproval | Commercial Club Monday night! “How is this, son?” he asked nominated officers. Robert Hoyna Teacher's fault,” said the boy to have no rivals How ts it the teacher's fault? Canadian government planning} “She moved the little boy that to establish chain of lifesaving sta-|sat next to me tfons from Barkley sound to Quat ino sound and along shores of! George Saloff, Russian, burned n Charlotte island to death in big fire in Fairbanks tional City Bank of New York, Sunday night loans $6,000,000 to Argentine gov Regiment of Japanese, naturaliz ernment ed British subjects, offered for war Former President Taft, who ar. Major Robert Moton to succeed at La Crosse, Wis., fll, 18} Booker T, Washington as head of r | Tuskegee institute. Freedom is Christmas present to men onfined on prison ship Phila NOT ALWAYS so delphia at Bremerton My dear friends,” saia the min La Democrata, leading Mexico|{ster, seriously, “it is deeds—not City newspaper, not to print adver-|words—that count most tisements of bull fights hereafter,| “Oh, I don't. know," camo back! Gen, Von Bissing, German goy-|the fresh youngsbuarder, “did you ernor general of Belgium, to retie, ever send a telegfam?" STAR cn @EREDERICK &NELSONG, ror S28 Opyistmas Gifts for Cverybody ex Three Highly Acceptable Solutions of Final-Week Gift Problems Frederick & Nelson GLOVE AND SILK HOSIERY BONDS all style and color, and correct Gift Calendars Christmas Cards Gift Boxes Seals hest-liked They make an They eliminate uncertainty to Tags size equally acceptable medium for the presentation of a large*and comprehen- display of artistic Christmas mementoes and all the little “gifty” dress- ings which do much to enhance the appearance of the Christmas parcel. Firat Floor, men's or women’s gloves and hosiery ive Issued for amount. Redeemable Frederick & Nelson GIFT CERTIFICATES Vhey offer what is any any time. in effect the most practical solu tion of the gift question, especially where the de sire to give something definitely useful is Holders of upper most these certificates can choose from any stocks in the store to the amount indi- cated by the certificate Issued for any amount. Redeemable any time. For Sale at Various Convenient Stations Throughout the Store. “Kewpie-Patterned” Pajamas $1.00 Comport, $1 USEFUL and pretty Gift piece is this handsomely- cut Crystal Comport, as pic- BORDER of capering Kew- tured, which measures 5% pies trims these new Pa- inches in height and 5% . " ches acro . Price jamas for small children. Made * is cross "the top. Esk of pink or blue outing flannel —Fairé Fiver. with large white polka dots— exceedingly attractive and an appropriate gift. Sizes 2 to 8 years. $1.00. DOLLS Second Floor ChristmasTree Lights Housewares Section Priced at —Second Floor. Men’s Initialed Linen Handkerchiefs Hand-Embroidered 25c Each Six for $1.50 pure Irish linen, finely hemstitched well-formed block initial, the other in long, slender effect; both hand-embroidered. each, or six for $1.50. all of sheer Two styles of letters; one a Excellent values; 25 Men's Furnishings Section, Basement Salesroom Fancy Ribbons Reduced to 15c Yard A for those First Floor. For the Little Girl’s Gift: PRETTY FUR SETS Moderately Priced are Sets made especially for the little tot opportunity to save HERE from 2 t who have de- in 5 years of age Angora, Civet C layed making up ribbon nov- elties for gifts. Included in Natural Coney, Tiger Coney, Brown Coney and com- bination furs, attractively priced at $1.50, $1.95 the offering are Flowered, and $2.50. Striped, Checked and Bro- ; vanigg rar . caded Ribbons in wide va- Fur Sets for the school girl from 6 to 12 years of riety. Exceptional values at age, are in Natural Muskrat, Natural Coney, Moui- flon, Squirrel, plain and Electrified Thibet and Silver Coney, at $2.75, $3.75, $5.00, $6.50, $7.50 and $9.50. 15¢ yard —Basement Salesroom. Christmas Cards —Rasement Salesroom. The Gift of a Mirroscope Brings Fun for Months to Come [' is easy for chil vi a . dren to muse 3 selves with a Gift Dressings Enclosure Cards —Basement Saiesroom. Girls’ Rain Coats $3.50 A Practical Gift HE cape and detachable hood Coats makes them especially prac- tical soiesette over rubber, in sizes ther a Mirroscope. With it they can show snap shots, poster stamps of these and cartoons en They are made of tan ks jt. te several 4 and can contrive all sorts of games anc larged to feet across 8 to 16 years. Priced at $3.50. —Rasement Salesroom entertainments The new models, electrically lighted, embody many improvements, and are priced at $2.50, $5.00, $7.50, $10.00 and $15.00, —Basement Saiesroom. GIFTS FOR WOMEN Carving Sets Special $2.25 XCEPTIONAL value is f offered in the Carving Briefly Suggested: Set pictured, Ribbon Boudoir Caps. Women’s Hosiery, 3 Which has stag with lace trimming, 50¢@. pairs in box, 50¢. handles and Ger Fancy Evening Scarfs, — Women’s Washable or ‘ry a ries B5e to $1.50. Glace Gloves, $1.00. i eer sane A ji Rin’ Cuahior ually good qual- MVS Sih USNIONE. — Bhopnie: Silke? Stookey rages sane pees Be and 10¢. Inge eRe pals A aa a Gift Perfumes in faney aye : would make a bottles, 25¢ to $1.00. er Pigg Silk very acceptable Giltedge Playing Cards *", ‘aber ee Christmas gift repe de Chine Waists, Special $2.25 in leather folder, 50¢. tego oahea $1.95, $2.95 and Other Gift Cary Hair Brushes with nov- 22"92 Mibvecie Ity backs, $1.00 $3.75. oe pete | with 8 Net and Chiffon Waists, 'VOroid, stag or Jewelry Novelties for pearl handles, priced from 3.75 $3.75. —Hasoment Saiearoom, $3.00 to $12.00. —Hougéwares Section gifts, 106 to $1.50.