The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 19, 1916, Page 9

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15 FIVE TO LI HCOULD YOU KEEP A I Could you support a family of five—two adults and thre ied @ildren—on $7.50 a week? ae: 7 Do you agree with the experimenters of the New York ‘ Spealth department that it Ix easy to supply food for a family of ‘ five on $7.50 a week, and can you tell how it could be done in Beattie” Write The Star your opinion. Toll if you think {t can or q gant de done It you can tell how {it can be done, you may help some Se attle fan that Bpecis JEW YORK, May 18—It js to support a family of adults and three children fen $7.50 a week! So th ith department of New York declares! New York is called the high- est living cost city in the world, but the health depart. ment says $7.50 is all. it is nec- eesery to spend to support a family, and has issued bulletins showing how it can be done. Experimenters of the depai ment arrived at the decision aft making laboratory tests, and th of these tests argues it can needs help. / OTHES: Made to Order te | Tailor \ ‘Dressed And Let Us Be Your Tailor Don’t Let the Price Deceive You 1 = We Will Satisfy You Regardless of the Price You Have Been Accustomed to Paying A wo. EN AVL 304 Pike St. Open Til 10 P.M. Saturday ASY FOR FAMILY OF A WEEK, EXPERTS SAY “AMILY ON $7.50 WE VE ON $7.50 sR? done in real tite. |} Here is a bulletin issued by the jhealth department, showing the |Suppiies that can be bought for | $7.31, and sald to be sufficient to serve a family a week: }1 Ib. butter 1) bag sugar 1 Ib, rice 1 Tb. dried peas 1 tb. beans tb. farina 1 1b, oatmeal 1 box cocoa (% 1b.) 1 Ib. prones 1 Ib. ontons ...... 6 Ibs. potatoes | 1 head abbage sine) a | | tas $0.42 (3% tha): (medium 1b. cheese Fs uae 1 2 dot, eggs ... 2 Ibs. meat dally, at 20° loaves of bread datiy qts. of milk daily, at 7 8c Total Menus were compiled by the ex-| |perimenters. They may be chang ed every week, according to the! board. ‘These samples are submit: | ted: Breakfact—Farina, with milk end suger; cocee, toast Dtaner—secalloped ose, baked po- | bread ana butter. Nreakfast—Oatmeal with 4 sume! ae: Dinmer—Pot reast, potatoes, baked apple. uM ppen—( ream milk, bread and bw Break fast—Corameal corona, toast. pie, Dinner—Meat spinach and r—Lamb and gravy, bolled een, peas, bread. stewed peaches. upper—Cocon, cake, bread and bananas with suger WE ONLY LIVE ONE DAY ATA TI “When are you going to com- mence your writing, Margie?” ask ed Mollie when Annie had left us to go and get Terry's dinner. “When are you going to begin raising a family?’ I parried. ‘Jnst as soon as I can,” said Mol- Me sturdily, “I want a large fam- ily—,” and then her face fell. “Do you know, Margie, I don't believe Chad cares very much for children. He was playing that divine ‘Jewe! From the Madonna’ for me the oth- er night, and a child in the next room to ours cried. He stopped and said, “You see, Mollie, dear, what a nuisance a lot of children would be in a house.’” “The trouble with Chadwick,” I said, “is that he has always had too much money. He haa always had the little wrinkles of life smoothed out for him.” “But, Margie, he certainly was a poor, unfortunate, unloved, nice boy and man until I came into his life,” Mollie answered, springing to her husband's defense, as all wives If you are too fat and want ight 15 or 20 @| to reduce you pounds, don’t starveand weak or think you en your system. 3 account of your fat, Bartell Drug Co. or anv druggist and get a box o' of Korein capsules, take one after each meal and one be- fore retiring at night. 4 but go to 4 ood SHS SHI HHS HSBFS OH SHHS Welgh yourself once a week 1% and note what @ pleasant and | |} Fettadle method this ts for re | ving fluous fat from body | abaolutel 1% week's trial ¢ any one that to be bur densd with even a single pound of unsightly fat 444 VO 9494 V4 04% O% ;| =| GEE! but this Corree 1s 200d ( at You'll Smile, Too If you come here for your meals. Prices are right, and the best cup of coffee in Seattie-—positively. Rainier Bakery and Restaurant JAS. R. BOLDT, Prop. Second Near Madison least bit selfish, STAR—FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1916. PAGE 9 Ine, @ core The Day of Reckoning Has Arrived Read the stern mandate—an order from the court to vacate by Saturday night—or have our stock thrown into the street— according to the law—by the sheriff. STORE CLOSED LISTEN Saturday till 10:30 a®m. Stock being reorganized for quick selling. Our low prices and big values—the chief The bargain flood-gates open Sat- urday at 10:30 a. m. attraction of this store —have been a thorn in the side of certain merchanta who have undoubtedly brought & Cohen, STATE OF WASHING Te ae, knows Second Avenue, Se 16) In Block sults, . mow worth $1.49 HATS Lot of Mate, worth to worth to pressure to bear, by 0620, Roya’ Suits, make, “ using their Influence price . $1.49 One tot Ont 1 mt to force this concern out of business in order to sell at their own high prices. werth to rer $1.29 One let Children's Kaeo Pants, worth to 23c Soe, Sale price marked 2¢ Men's Pants, worth $2.00, Sale price . $1.49 “69e Justice and reason stout, tall and re; size men, Whole racks of Men’s and Youths’ — Suits, worth from $8.50 to $10. vage Whole racks of Men's Suits, posi- tively worth to $12.50; $4.89 At’$9.99 and $11.88 Our Kalolane’ bln resent the product of is a rank insult to justice. Deals of this kind are usually the cause of the unrest among working peo- ple, where justice and reason are lost in the shuffie with the law. Underwear, $1.49 regular to seit to '8a80, to-Order Suits or we refund your money. $9.99 and during this sale at... .. Men’s re in Cheviots and Tweeds, worth to $15.00. Men's splendid Suits in Velour-fin- ished Cassimeres; all sizes. This lot is positively worth to $7 89 $18. Salvage price..... Sale price Why should the in- nocent suffer for the guilty? Our rent is paid until May 27th; Boye’ Goodyear Welt & Ladies’ Sheers, worth to we have nothing to Shoes, worth to 82.00, Mj $3.00, 98 do with the dispute aoe now. ic between the owners Owe a $1.59 Ladies’ Shoes, sell and the so-called — jo $1.26, 69c 04.80, $1 49 cto Aenea Hira Minecs’ Shoes,» Sela Royal Te pe ae if 04.50; orde 92.08, sew werth « aby * a a week's rent. at. $1 ‘49 Ss00, now to S0e, now 19c . $3.65 THE INTERNATIONAL SALVAGE In Panton’s Department Store Old Stand, Next to Cheasty Building. You, dear—and | compared to the again?’ I want to have as good Or shadows gray. time as I can; do my duty to m. before, and will I feel this way Staff Special ments in her own motor car, driven CHICAGO, May 19. — Mra by a chauffeur she pays $35 a week, HOW STELLA NOVAK SPENDS DAY) 902°e:93® yitiiy Siouls| whith shox fe. time ins | HOW MRS. BISHOP SPENDS DAY social worker, has been experi |#mount recetved by the working alc » livt 28 e rls Mrs, Bishop is seeking to menting by living on 33 cents worth | 8! F a e ae 5:20 to 6 a. m.—Dreases, of food a day to prove it possible help. . 30 to 6 a, m.——Makes toilet. 0 6:20 a, m—Breakfast for a working girl to subsist on) After telling in detail a day's 6 to 7 a. m.—Reads paper 6:30 to 7:15 a. m.—En route to work that amount activities, Mrs, Bishop leaned bac . i 7 to 8 a, m.—Breakfast 7:20 a. m. to 12 m.—At sewing machine. After three days’ trial she Was | in her chair, sighed and said: - 8 to 8:30 a, m.—Reads letters, 12 to 12:20 p. m.—Lunch. hungry, but determined to make a@ I'd like to see any working girl §:30 to 11 a. m—Poses for artist paint- 12:80 to & p. m.—At machine week's test of it. She said after| beat that for a hard day's work.” ing her picture. days she did not care | it up for more than seven 4 “IT am alive,” she said, “but IT feel a continual hunger and have 5 to 6 p. m.—En route homg WELL to 7 p. m.—Dinner. ) to 8 p. m.—Does housework works in a Chicago skirt and r After an evening | averages 50 cents, ‘i her experiment Stella Novak Total , meal in a cafeteria she was driven|into clothes and Ud to her Chicago Beach hotel apart-| can’t save & cent.” the AYU T HEH MEN’S CLOTHING VALUES WITHOUT A PARALLEL Suits, Overcoats and Raincoats to choose from. Every style, for short, ebrated looms and most skilled tail- ors. Guaranteed to equal $30 Made- Men’s High-Grade Overcoats, splen- didly tailored; regular price to $25. pe FORCED TO VACATE SATURDAY -@ 1109-1111 SECOND AVE., BETWEEN SPRING AND SENECA STS. “Why don't you send these little } Let's listen to Stella Novak, who ceives about $8 a week The rest goes movies. 1 Our doom is sealed. The International Salvage Co. forced to vacate at once. Sale starts Saturday, 10:30 a. m., for one day only—just 12 hours of fast and furious selling, and the curtain will be rung down on one of the greatest sales in the history of the Northwest. One of the greatest sales ever held on the Pacific coast is the result of our helpless plight. Just think what it means to try and seli out a whole store full of goods (involving thousands and thou- sands of dollars’ worth of merchandise from the world’s foremost manufacturers) In one day, without storing part of it in a ware house. That's the situation that stares us In the face. Come, Never before has such a golden opportunity been offered to the people of Seattie and vicinity to buy dependable merchandise at Practically the cost of the raw material. Get here tomorrow (Saturday)—the last-day sale starts at 10:30 a.m. Thousands of people should be here, so we warn you to shop early and avoid the terrific afternoon and night crowds. Read the prices—they tell the story of what is going to happen here to meet the emergency of this impending disaster Sale Starts at the Stroke of 10:30 AGAIN WE SAY—COME! che = | 19c Suits, 98c 69c ..19¢ 4c '29c to be blind, for all; white a basket of which have we got one, ed a raw di the with the whom we make judg mostly small worth to 83.50, now .. Underwear .. y Sacrificed the poor. Yin pa aalenane ~ r De as Goods, sell to with leek Wise powenny See this Mammoth Clothing Department—hundreds and hundreds of [my °°" 29 Ti Give bonds amounting Silke, worth to 4. to thousands .29c¢ these Suits rep- the world’s cel- ready Id vance? will cheerfully Salvage prices $11.88 In this age, Ladies’ Skirts, worth to cow 1.49 "* A9c 7c expect justice? Lot Ladies’ Shoes, worth te 84.00; pick them business graveyard, bow $2.985 =. 49c Bw." * cross. ONE OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST BARGAIN-GIVERS C Open Saturday Night. CLOTHING CABINETS, SHOW CASES, CASH REGISTERS AND FIXTURES OF ALL KINDS FOR SALE CHEAP do at the first bit of eriticiem| other men I have known, No one against them been asks him for help that he does | self, for that means my duty to he hours that lengthen ‘neath| poems to the magazines, Margie? AD 1 R “Yes, dear, I know that, but! not open his pocketbook, or write|those with whom I come in con-| sorrow's pain, | You certainly can write!” exclaim Vi so Y BOARD WAR RELIEF FUND here as well as elsewhere, I think.|, check; I tell him he is rather|tact. I want to forget all the an-| Joy can defy ed Mollie, after I had brought the | cca his money made things worse. If \toolish about it noyances ax soon as they pass, and | The friends that bask in our merry little verses out and read them to rt, on manufacturers’ by-prod:| “The House Next Door,” a play e had b to get out and hustle ter, 1 think|not worry too much about the fu laugh ner ‘ anufact 8° by , The d _ pla a cet rn be woud not have had | your Mano ie ag charming chap, |tare? : Flee when we sigh | “Do you think #0, dear? It never | ucts which would be especially | dealing -w (is the Problem of inter- so much time to think about him-|iu. you must remember that for a You are right, Mollie, and jt is | oconrred to me that any one but | needed in time of war will be gath sere eer bet yene aave See Cue self, and how terribly the World| person that has money, money is | better to Jump at a conclusion than | The cup that is fullest of pleasure’s| you or some one like you/would | ereq by naval advisory board com: lof € A oie Pai Pt . ae his had been using him. I hope, dear,|1). easiest thing in the world to|to reach it by the logical deduction | foam care for them. I used to write SUC | esemen of this atate, Capt. A Seattle at the Palm theatre, First you will have a big family, for| piv, It is when we give ourselves | made from everyday experiences, Is quickly drained, things often to Dick when we were . " ate, pt. 4 jave. and Madison st., the evening while your Chad is a dear chap, he th t we can be called truly char- “IL knew this, and let me tell you!|And time dries the eyes that bils-|first married, but he never seemed O. Powell explained In a talk to|of May Proceeds will be turned fs rather selfish in a way.” Hable Don't think I am carping, | this, dear, it Is only by keeping be- tered hot, to care much about them, and I| American Institute of Mining En-| over to the Jewish war reliet com- “IT won't let even you call him for I love Chad almost as much as|fore my eyes the fact that we only When teardrops rained thought they were worthless, if not|}gineers at the Arctic club Thurs: | mittee. that, Margie!” was Mollle’s quick| yoy do,” live one day at a time, that I am in sentiment, at least as liter-/day night interruption. “Why, he isn't the Oh, dear!” exclaimed Mollie. | able to live at all.” ature, The state has been divided into = |"Please, Margie, don't ask me to Yes! Inughter f# measured by one (To be continued) |aistricts. Committee aides nave! USE STAR WANT CRETE HEUTE LO OUD OFA? | ni about ft all too much. I don’t | We only live one day at a time, short span ———— | heen made responsible for the gath | | want to be always asking, ‘Why do|~ One fleeting d | So fades the sigh QUAIL LIKE green pens, That's | ering of all kinds of statistics con nS r , el this | No matter if gold be the sun-kissed | we only live one day at alwhy Mayor Gill's garden is so|cerning the resources which could G FOR RESULTS | HOW TO BE SLIM this way, when did I feel this | No m tat gold be ae pend |gerning the resources LADS R | | mano | Centsa Day for Food? Not Enough, They Prove 11:00 to 2 p. m.--Has luncheon, and chats with friends. 2 to 5.30 p. m.—Attend® School of Economics, factory 8 to 9:30 p, m—Goes to movies (some) a yearning for good things to eat.”| Miss Novak was told of Mrs. 6 to 7:30 p, m.—Dines evenings). Mrs. Bishop is a suffragist, and | Bishop's dectsion in regard to the 1:80 to 11 p. m.—Attends meetings, 8 p. m.—Retires is a director of the Chicago school | %3-cent ration uisto-akcchcnmanied 55-CENT-PER-DAY MENU of economics, She believes her “I knew it,” she said, “I knew This working girl spends 55 cents a| experiment has proved that one she would not stand it long. You 33-CENT-PER-DAY MENU day for her meats inay live on 38 cents worth of food can’t get enough to eat for 11 cents Sicha ak asahaie A Gaulle ealidaa asin vel th toe | a day—if one has to—but as sho a meal, | know, because if it could ant x , Srechiash-Horee Bud: 70 does not have to, she is willing,to| be done, I'd do it Luncheon—Fruit Luncheon—Co! rolls and pie 180} ston, cate ieh cania a iwail Gan fan ’ Dinner—Meat (100), vegetable Dinner—Meat, vegetable, dessert and Mrs. Bishop sa her courage) My meals cost $3 I pay $2 a y bread (2c), butter (10) tea . 30 | fatied her on the first evening of | week for my room and my laundry : Mrs. Louis Bishop Total Justice is supposed with scales In her hands, weighing equal rights In this case, blindfolded, some one substituted lemons been handed out instead— We have been hand- verdict people, The law seems to be a plaything for the rich and a luxury for How can and thousands of dollars to try and stay the re- mainder of the month, even if our rent is = when milk-fed pigs are held at a premium and slop-fed people (poor peo eating adulter- ated foods) held at discount, how can ene Instead of getting One lot Boys’ Shoes, a cross of honor for worth to $2.50, 98 renting and keeping now ... 3 Cc ocoupied a store that, when empty, stands like a monument in a EXPLAINS WORK OF (PLAY TO AID JEWISH exercises wing class at bi é peSEeaebacintasinei ny SC SERSRERLERRALE RI EES Pest ibeet PSTD LA:

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