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Be fertm, white er | UNGALOW NETS, special, , Special, per yard.... 15c| B per 15¢ ..$1.00 Seri with lees yard .... to Dl. dae, | 20c DOMESTIC and Imported Cre- od « per yard.... oe 416 424 + all day,” reports Miss Hughes. of a fish story. The fish didn't get away. deciare adm.ing friends. fallen in a shallow pool. An fn both hands. ‘The trout measured 17 Inches 1) ry length. TOUGH ON THE SAN FRANCISCO, Ap Babies are all the ri Chinatown since the tong war began. law among Chinese highbinders that a father with a child In his police say this accounts for the number of babies getting the air onethe streets these days. @ecend Ave, Near Madison! ® military training of at least $1.00 Down—Balance $1.00 Per Week. ©-te : ike Stréet: But this isn't the ordinary kind “She dove right tn after him,” | “He had) when she came out she had him) There is an unwriten | arms shail not be shot. The | ‘SCHOOLS TO DEBATE | On PREPAREDNESS Whether or not the United States | - $49.50 consisting of full-size bed, dresser, ehiffonier and triple mirror dressing table. Ai! matched in finish and design. $49 50 L inch, both Dearing. specially pric $3.65 .. $12.50 stock of Garden Hose, th 201 and solid rubber, and 60-foot lengthe pri "$2.90 .. $9.00 Time. Let Us Trade Your Old Furniture for New 4/ a poe nee ey 1200 Carrete wack % Wliflower, Oregon, © rate 2.00 loa Peppers. Floria Ratishen Rhubarb, Cal | Rhobard, hothouse Florida, @-bae- months will be debated fn all Se attle high schools Tuesday at Beattie Elks have threatened t Ave. show at the Moore theatre. NATIONAL MARKET Always has big money saving specials. Butter, Eggs, Olive Oil, Macaroni, Delicates- sen and Fancy Groceries. Whipped Cream Chocolates, 50c Ib. NATIONAL MARKET 405 PIKE ST., NEAR FOURTH chase gloom out of the city Monday | night when they give thelr minstrel | Oregon 9) Dentetoue 9 | Oniona, ereen .... Onions green, Wella, ¢om onions .. green, local Po ” | Yakima | White river ‘ 2709 Takima Turbanke . Yakima Gems 4 Ibe and over Turkeys. dressed ee HANGHAI RESTAURANT Seattle’s beautifully appointed Chinese and Ameri- can eating place. Enjoy your favorite dishes here. You will find the service prompt and courteous Shanghai Restaurant 100 SECOND AVE. AND YESLER WAY HALF BLOCK FROM SMITH BLDG. Kelling Prices to Retatler for Batter, Eggs and Chemo atic wheel oe | | STAR~—MONDAY, APRIL 3. REPORTER IN WALLA WALLA TELLS OF TRANSFORMATION FROM ‘FISH’ INTO A CONVICT 1916 | | Seattle exelust BY E. A. PETERS Ry a trick of fate, I had escaped the hatrclipping process. I followed the Bertillon officer wladly, clattering along the cement} floor in a fearful! | | ° | shoul wurry, momentar. ly expecting to © called back to} she barber for the awful operation. We entored th photograph A solemn patr of gold-rim ned glasves, stood the cam:) | ehirt A metal plate, containing a set ” four numbers, was planed on my breast, The Bertilloa looked on| & stool before the camera. “Blamed if I don’t wish I'd let them cut your hair,” he commented. “Don't you ever comb ttt’ “Why, yer, sir; very frequently,” I replied, “But I haven't had a chance since I bad my bath, this torning.” ‘Well, eet up from there and see if you can't « it down a little,” 1 looked {n a mirror, My hair, leh I ny hot shower earlier fu the day, mood streignt on or, and curled tn a most pleturesqu manner, Combs His Hair ta Sit for “Mugging” ‘Try as I might, I could not brush it flat At last 1 was ordered to wet my head and soap it. That did the trick Then I was “mugged.” The number which was pinned on my breast would have been my loffictal prison number during my! lentire term as a convict, had I real) y been one, It was “X047.” Recause of the fact that my rec ord has been scratched from the books, and the next man entering prison would get my number, I have promised Ward to substitute "0" for the firat number, in the publica, tion of these articles, so that con fusion may not re The num ber on my photo was changed to 0047" before 1 could get permis- sion to bring ft away from prison with me. They led mo back to the bench outside of Wing 1. Once more I wan the center of curiosity and re- ceived many whispered question ings from the trusty prisoners, “What's going to happen to me ked one of them. ‘uess you'll go to the doctor,” wered, “Say, you're a lucky sually {t takes four or five Letters Te Custhin. Grov Q.—About two years ago | went wit! girt about 16 y old, and deeply In love with her. | prom: ised to marry her if she would one or two years, until | wee better) fixed financially. She failed to give! me an anewer at that time, | went away, and when | returned found her married to a man she never has) loved. A few days to meet her and she was telling me that she is unhapp: Her husband expec to support him, Do you separate from her husband and ry me? | love her just th 1 did when ehe was single. H.R. Y. A—Indeed, no! The girl rushed post-haste into matrimony, evident ly with no more forethought of the) ne she would walk Into a picture show. She ts now suffering the conse quences of ber carelessness, She should be brave enough to face the mosio and find ao solution to ber problem. It ts decidedly up to ber. Don’t you attempt to her. Q—! wee married yeare ego, 2 and left my huebend econ went East. | did not hear from hi for eight years. But | wrete him several times. Two yeare ago last Auguet | received a letter from him, stating he had obtained # divorce) and intended to remarry. So | got) married myself. Now | have learn- ed that he never got a divorce. | come to you for advice as to what | do. Will | have to get a di- orce from the present man, or can 1 get It annulled? Please let me know as soon poesib! WORRIED. have sufficient evidence that your husband was divorced to warrant re marriage. In all probability you wil! have to go before the court and) wear that you remarried tn good) ith, actually belleving that you; were divorced; then the court will) annul your present marriage and| you may petition for divorce from the first man, and in due time mar- ry the second. Your case is very) complicated, and you would do weil| to consult @ reliable attorney. Q.—In leaving « street car, who goes first, the man or woman? A READER. A—A woman's rt should alight from a conveyance first, in order to assist her in alighting. Dear Miss Grey: Being a close How to Save Your Eyes ‘re Prescription Do your eyen give you trouble? Do you already wear eyeglasses or spectacles? Thousands of people wear these “windows” who might easily dispense with them. You may be one of these, and it ts your duty to save your eyes before it is too late. The eyes are neglected more than any other organ of the entire body. After you finish your day's work you sit down and rest your muscles, but how about your eyes? Do you rest them? You know you do not, You read or do something else that keeps your eyes busy; you work your eyes un- til you go to bed, That ts why so many have strained eyes and fi nally other eye troubles that threaten partial or total blindness. Eyeglasses are merely crutches; they never cure, This free pre scription, which has benefited the eyes of so many, May work equal wonders for you. Use it © short time. Would you like your eye troubles to disappear an if by magic? Try this presertption, Go to the nearest wideawake drug store and get a bottle of Optona tablets; fill a two-ounce bottle with warm water, drop in one tab. Jet and allow ft to thoroughly dis- efter he| have solve, With this lHquid, bathe the eyes two to four times daily, Just nota how quickly your eyes clear up and how soon the inflammation will disappear, Don't be afratd to use ft; tt is absolutely harmless. Many who are now biind might have saved their eyes had they etarted to care for them in time This is a simple treatment, but marvelously effective in muitl- tudes of canes. Now that you have heen warned, don't delay a day, but do what you can to save your eyes and you are likely to thank us as long as you live for publish- ing this preseription,—Advertise- follower of your letters, | have tak- en keen Interest In the question of published some read a letter sign- z to be “ideal women,” and to reach the highest ideal In life, devote our selvec to our highest service as women, that of bearing, nursing ind educating children, the great- est possible number thereof. Let me ask what the average think | would be doing right to make| American father of today’s earning le It enough for a capacity te? more, or to three? let this grand nation of ours rear |serious stop she was taking than|ne, two or three in a family who are healthy mentally and physically, than to become parents) strong, of an aenemic brood, half of whom Ge in infancy. Our government, thru the depert- ment of agricutture, epende thou- ands of dollare every year, telling America than children? Better let the government teach “American Mother” some simple, sanitary |method with which to contro! our Present birth rate. 1am a young mother In my 20s, my marriage having been @ happy) |one some five years ago. |mother of a fine, 1 am thi thy boy no! yet 3 yeare of age. My husband earns no more than the average We both love chil- ve to raise five certain turn of favors us, we will only be raise three at the most, and rear and educate them to be the most useful, honest and upright cit- izens. And, lastly, but not least, leave me time to devote to my hus band’s pleasure and Interest, as well as that of my children, “All work and no play” Ie a motto that le not hung up In our household es- pecially for mother. A YOUNG MOTHER, z Worn with or without Corset, or over or underneath any cor- net .. Price Cinatreetions for, measurements below) BEAUTIFUL CORSELETTS Extends two inch adjusted by 4 with non- permittin Made o} men and reduce hips Incing in| back able flexible s m to be taun: Jouttl or Summer Give tight measure over tight hip measure washed with prison) days before you get thro medical examination here, and all that time you have to live tn a fish cell,” |. “Why am I treated any different from the others?” I asked | “You're not, except that the doc-| |tor’s been away for a week, and ho| came back at noon today, There's six or woven other fish here who've een in four days without im, They're being exam ay, and they'll probably take you long, too. Maybe tomorrow you'll | Ket @ reguiar cell.” The trusty was correct. Taken Before the Prison Physician | In less than an hour I was led by |a big guard outdoors and down a jlong brick wall to the hospital, It |is & separate building, complete in iteelf, “This in the last fieh, Doe,” the |wuard called, as ushered me into the private office of Dr. Jones, pris- on physielan. Another prisoner had |Just finished examination and wae | putting on his clothes. The examination that Dr. Jones gave me was more rigid than any |that T have ever experienced at the hands of Ife insurance physicians | He first asked all about my life, jand sought to determine {f there wore traces of hereditary criminal- isk insanity or disease in my fam- ly . | Then he gave me a complete phys- | teal teat, in which I stood nude be- fore him, | Two young trustt with white Jackets over their prison coats, as- |sinted the penitentiary doctor | I afterward learned they were |both phystctans, also, | It im the doctor's duty to deter- | mine whether incoming prisoners at Walla Walla have communicable |diseanes, or if their bodies harbor ;any of the microscopic ife which often finds its way Into penal tnsti- tutfons, If a prisoner has either, he is iso lated until cured. I registered a high score in the general examination, but fell down in the ayo test. The doctor was irritated when I told him my glasses had been taken from me when I en- tered the institution. “They shouldn't have done that,” jhe commented Convicts Visit Him in His Cell I was led back to my “fish cell.” I had undergone the entire prelimt- nary evolution of a “fish,” with the ption of the finger-print record, z “We Ss Give enduring satisfaction limited time at the special aluminum ware. Repl with Cut ont the coupon tod: to your dealer and get —by complying with th named in the coupon. If Grote-Rankin Co. eit, eter aanhaa Spelger & Hurlbut. Dresslar Hardware Co. Station. Aberdeen— J. W. Baker Haw. Co. H. L, Cook. Kaufman-Leonard Co. Anacortes— Davey Bros. Ariington— Arlington Haw. Co, Bellingham— B. B, Furniture Co. Blaine— Wolton, Montfort a wh Doelle Haw. Co. Cle Elum— J, 8. Werlich & 8on. Sete ca Improvement 0. Elleneburg— Ramsay Héw. Oo. Other stores located wherever this paper cir- culates may honce “Wear- Ever” coupons. We want you to get the pan so you will under- stand why 80 many women prefer “Wear- Ever” to all other cook- ing wares, The Aluminom Cooking Utensil Company = New Kensington, Pa. STUIUUONNUUUONANANONLLAUUO GUONMOOUANOOUUAUOUON Are IVONUONUANLNUOAUAAEEEEOOAAULSEEOUAEUERNEUONONAOEOEGUACUGAUOAUAUEA ELSE TE LAST CHANCE TO GET THIS 60c ONE-QUART ° tewpan For Only 25c on ee betore April 4, 1916, “\WW/ear-Eve sheet metal. The quart pan—which regularly would sell at 60c—is offered for a self—if you do not already know—the difference between “Wear-Ever” Stew Pan for only 25c EMLADLISHED 1676 Me<Dougall - fouthwick “The Best for the Price, No Matter What the Price als Unique Display of ess Materi HE industry in the weaving, printing and dyeing of dress materials is operating under many dif- ficulties. Such difficulties we foresaw many months back would result in a scarcity of desirable styles, and that our judgment was correct is demonstrated by the fact that the market is practically denuded of such materials. Summer Dress Yard-wide Punjab Percales in light or dark colors, stripes, dots, rings, small figures or plain, 15¢ yard. Lorraine Tissue is a medium sheer fabric with woven colors in checks or stripes, 36 inches wide, 25¢ yard. Palm Beach Suitings for Sport Suits and Skirts, black woven stripes on white or pongee, 36 inches wide, 50c yard. New Dress Ginghams in novel checks, stripes, plaids or plain colors, for children’s wear and house dresses, 27 inches wide, 10¢ yard. White Marquisettes and Voiles, 36 to 40 inches wide. Pleasing combinations in stripes, checks and figures; also fancy striped Flaxons, imported Repps: and embroidered Swiss, at 35¢ yard. 54-inch Bedford Cord in the proper weight for separate skirts and suits, 75¢ yard. Imported Mercerized Batiste, 45 inches wide, a splendid quality for underwear, 35e yard. : Fleer.” and was soon to become a “regu- jar.” My supper came up a few minutes later. It consisted of a half-dozen fried amelts (they always serve fish on Friday), potatoes boiled in the vkin, stewed cabbage, tea and corn- bread. In the smaller compartment of my tin plate was a half-cup of syrup. 3 Hardly had I finished supper when I began receiving visitors. More than a dozen convicts called upon me that evening. I had my first opportunity to really learn, the thoughts of the men in prison. ar-Ever” Alaminum is NOT “all the same.” Be sure you get “WEAR-EVER.” Look for the “WEAR-EVER” trade mark on the bottom of every utensil. If it is not there it is not “WEAR- EVER.” Refuse substi- tutes. Aluminum Utensils because they are so carefully made—from hard, thick . a can see for iT price of 25c and the coupon, so ear-Ever” and flimsy ace utensils that wear out utensils that “Wear-Ever” jay. Take it wiff' not honor the coupon, mail it to us with 25¢ in stamps or coin, and we will send you the pan, postage paid. Bs The stores named below will honor conditions the “Wear-Ever” coupon if presented your dealer on or before April 4, 1916: SEATTLE Bon Marche. Emst Hardware & Plumbing Co. Standard Furniture Co. a one-quart University Interbay Hardware Co. 1511. Grand Boulevard. Everett— Olympla— 5 BoesharHooten Furn. Co. Olympia Haw. Co, boi Leader Dry Goods Ortine— Everett Dept. Store han tg & Callendar. Ferndale— — F. W. Gorsuch. Davies Oesterle Hdw. Co. Hoquiam— etien Bros, F. G. Foster Co, Kent— a J. W. Cavanaugh. , mgr, Improvement Lynden— Btanwood— Farmers’ Mercantile Co, prvi eter Hardware Co, Monroe— ai Thedt 5 Came Pi hr sie a At Sumas Haw. & Implement H. B, Maroy. Co. Mount Vernon— Sunnyside— Amundsen Héw. Co, Haney & Skiles. Wenatchee— Wenatchee Dept. Store. J. B, Laughlin. North Yakima— Lentz Hdw. Co, Valley Haw. Co. oe “Wear-Ever” Coupon Any store that sells “Wear-Ever” Aluminum Ware may oupon and 26c in pay- ment for on ver” one-quart Stewpan, which sells ularly for 60c, provided the cou pon ia pret ed in person at store on or before a 1916. ‘ city . The Aluminum Cooking Utensil Co. New Kensington. Pennsyivenia, ee ex.)