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onth-End Sale A Day of Deeply-Cut Prices at the Bon Marché Deeply-cut prices on all nearly-sold-out lines of new Autumn merchandise. Deeply-cut prices on all jines that are not selling as quickly as they should. For that is the way we keep Bon Marche stocks ever new and fresh. Month-End Sale of Womien’s Smart Autumn Coats at $11.95 Coats—special at $11.95 for the Month-End Sale in the Garment Section, They are such good Coats for the money that you are sure to like them if you want an inexpensive Coat for Fall and Winter They are fashioned with the large collars, some velvet trimmed, and they large turn-back cuffs and stylish-looking patch pockets Loose, flaring or belted styles, in gray chinchilla in plaids, in gray, brown or fancy mixtures. $5 and $5.95 Silk Taffeta Skirts $3.95 Silk Dress Skirts for only $3.95. Taffeta in black, navy, plaids and stripes, plain and flaring, or with belted, shirred or yoke tops. Silk Taffeta Dresses Reduced to $9.95 Silk Taffeta Dresses that formerly sold at prices up to $19.50, Black and blues and checked mixtures, made coat style or belted; some with white collars. Lingerie Waists Reduced to 69c White lingerie, voile and organdy Waists, worth up to $1.59; lace trimmed or tucked and plaited, with rolling collars; special 69c. —tecond Fleer, Domestic Remnants 10c Yard Hundreds and hundreds of good, useful lengths of 12!4¢ to 20c cotton stuffs, galateas, ginghams, percales, crepes, outing flannel and flannelettes—lengths up to 5 yards. Rare bargain picking for those who come early in the day. —Lewer Mais Floor. Silk Remnants 25c a Yard SILK AND COTTON MIXTURES, PONGEES 24 AND 36 INCHE Lots of good, useful waist lengths, dress lengths and shorter pieces for trimming purposes, in a good range of colors, all 24 and 36 inches wide, in plain and figured silk mixtures, natural pongees and plain and figured poplins S4-Inch Coating 50c Yard Coating Checks, three pieces only, in black and | white, the popular large size checks, much In de mand for Fall wear; 54 inches wide 36-Inch Silk Poplin 59c Yard ite Tustrous Silk Poplins that will wash and wear splendidly; 20 street and evening shades, {including black and white; 59c a yard. 75c to $1.25 Gilberta Flounces 45c Skirt Flounces, plain and fancy effects, of sateen, percale and A. B. C. silks—casily adjusted to any skirt by means of drawstrings. D POPLINS, $1.75 Silk Taffeta $1.29 Yard Black Chiffon Taffeta, yellow edge, 36 inches wide, at $1.29 a yard in- | stead of $1.75. $7.50 Plush $5.00 a Yard Beautiful Black Seal Pinsh Coating, 52 inches ide, with long heavy nap and deep, rich black Lovely for new Fall coats, at $5.00 a yard. —Upper Main Floor. MONTH-END SALE IN THE NEW DINNERWARE AND HOUSEFURNISHINGS SECTION ON THE FOURTH FLOOR Damaged China— Damaged Glassware— Damaged Pots and Pans— At Ridiculously Low Prices Thousands of pieces of household them from the Basement to the Fourth Floor tables, every piece marked low enough so it is bound to find its way out of the Bon here you will find them spread out on We divided the whole into two lots. Damaged Pots and Pans and Dinnerware Worth to 50c— The Month-End clean-up Friday brings you this lot of damaged articles, worth to 50c, at 10c each. Tin and enameled Pots and Pans, galvanized Pails, damaged Wooden- ware, Hardware, Ironware, Dinnerware, fancy China, Glassware and Crockery Damaged Articles, Worth } From 75c to $3.00, for . . Here you will find large Cooking Pots and Pans of gray, white and blue enam- eled ware, also aluminum ware, large pieces of Dinnerware and Glassware, Children's Bath Tubs, galvanized Tubs and hundreds of other items We cannot possibly deliver any of these artich 50c at such low prices. —Fourth Fleer In the Self-Service Shoe Shop, Where You Wait on Yourself, Fit Yourself and Carry Your Package Home, and You Save the Difference Month-End Sale of Women’s Shoes $2.68 Women’s Patent Leather Shoes for $2.68 a.pair, lace or button or capped toes, kid or cloth tops good wide lasts and all Children’s Shoes 78c Pair turned soles, footform lasts and no heels. Felt Slippers 98c Pair Fancy colored Felt Jullets, with lamb's wool in- | soles and flexible cove: Misses’ and Children’s Shoes Of gunmetal calf with heavy extension soles and cloth tops, neat round-toe shapes, at these tyle, with plain Children’s Shoes 98c Pair Kid, gunmetal calf or patent leather Shoes, with ‘k kid tops, spring heels and turned Women’s Shoes $1.98 Pair with medium width toes gunmetal calf; Misses’ and Children’s Shoes good-wearing dark with heavy, solid leather soles and pretty, n All sizes, at 98e | Made of that CHILDREN’S, 8'7, TO 11, at $1.48 A PAIR MIS8ES,’ 11/7 TO 2, AT $1.68 A PAIR THE B CHILDREN’S, 8!% TO 11, AT $1,68 A PAIR MISSES’, 11/2 TO 2, AT $1.78 A PAIR —~Lower Main Floor ARCHE Effiott 4100 ON M Pike Street Second Avenue —Union Street — = af |NUDE ART IN MOVIES Friends of the nude in art in motion pictures rallied Thursday to) ff the support of “Purity,” the picture in which Miss Audrey Munson, famous artint's model, is to be shown in nude poses at the Clemmer, be | ginning Saturday if | Only & few of the many letters received by the movie editor of The| | Star in the contest for best answer for or against showing the nude in art in motion pictures can be printed today ! | The cash prizes are $10 for the best letters of 200 words on each’ | wide of the question, and $5 for the second best. In addition James | Clemmer will give 10 pairs of tickets for the 10 next best answers in | the negative as well as the affirmative GERMAN AUTHOR APPROVES Inspiration in the form that will Movie Editor The Star: In an-|be shown on the sereen is a treat sewer to the question Should the }and an education to the world of nude in art be shown in motion |art, and s#hould not be withheld | pletures?” will give the following |from the public, but be given a |reasons in the affirmative, as my |chance for everybody to see when lopinion it 1s clean, upright and educational, | The world of thought {s moving,|By all means, show this wonderful ; and the pa few yoars have | picture, BILL. | rought vast changes in the minds - | f men—changes which demand a| APPROVES SHOWING NUDE ART juick response in methods that pre Movie Editor The Star: In an-| | tand to lead the dawning outburst |gwer to the question, “Should the of the world’s intelligence. Al-|nude in art be shown in motion | ready it inclines to treat no few | pictures?’ I would say “yes.” Nude | time-honored doctri ike faroff| posing, Nke anything else that ts] oes of a dim, forgotten past,/ new to the general public, is con soon it may demand their bringing forth for burial [stood in ite true ight. A new power—the power of] ‘The “Vampire” type of a partial mind—has arisen amongst us, with |hy robed body is far more sug new ideals, new landmarks and| gestive than the role of Truth, new and healthier ambitions, We | portrayed by Margaret Edwards, in may not like it; we may affect to| “Hypocrites.” Mi despise it; we may call it vision-| 1¢ the motion pictures are going ary and its alms futile; but Welto give us art, let them give us the jcannot shut our eyes to the effect | mighest type of art, the human | lof ite existence, d that other ob- | body Art, like everything else, Vious fact that it has come to stay lanes progress, and we must come | A spirit of public remponsibility to realtze that pictures of this type | | is abroad. Jappeal to the artistic temperament And now the ax is also laid at and should create higher and clean- ig | the roots of trees; therefore, every jer thoughts, An intelligent mind jtree that bringeth not forth good | has no room for obscene thoughts, | frult—as the tree of false modesty, therefore if we American people jor of cherished stupidity, or of |consider ourselves intelligent, we | trained hypoeri * hewn down | will encourage art in motion ple and cast Into the fire. tures. V. L. BEAU There 1s a common tendency to| 1636 Beventh Ave. cling to old ways and habits pesianm Every innovation has to fight! Movie Editor Star: People liv-| jfor its life, and every good thing jing in the 20th century should real-| has been condemned In ite day and |ize tt {8 time to rub their eyes and | Seneration. try to nee better than they have be fore. I* anything more beautiful | ;than a perfect human body in mo ltion? «It will make anybody start to think that a human is the crown Morality can not be| demned because it is not under LOUIS DECHMANN BILL SAYS “YES” Movie Editor The Star: CER TAINLY, show the pictures of Miss |of creation. Audrey Munson! The public wants |created on a certain amount of) to see them, you bet, and It sure | clothes we bave on. Is it only for! would be # REAL treat to have|doctors and the coroner? No; tell | REAL art once in a while come to | us all to be brave, strong and clean Seattle as well as the minded and see the best of our) NUDE form is not race GUS WEST, when it is shown in one of Seat 2111 Lombard Ave. |tle's firatclass theatres, | Everett, Wash. ‘LEARN AND GO HIGHER’ IDEA TAKING HOLD i CHICAGO, Sept. 28.—A big step in solving juvenile problems is | being taken by Chicago firma employing boys and young men. | “Learn and go higher” is the slogan adopted by Chicago employers, | who, following the lead of Swift & Co, packers, are offering induce coer and incentives to youthful ambition, In the shape of helpful or | Sanizations, night schools and branch libraries. ‘OH, WHERE. HAS THE GRAND VISIER GONE? | PARIS, Sept, §—-(By Matl)—Lost, one grand vizier, answering to the name of Said Haltm Pasha; finder kindly return to Constantinople. | The grand vizier dropped from sight about a year ago, when the “home folks” were looking everywhere for men to populate first line trenches. It has been reported that ho was assassinated. Other reports say he is) hiding in France. HEBREWS SEEK $2,000,000 CHARITY FUND NEW YORK, Sept. 28.——A systematic campaign to raise $2,000,000 for charity by December | was started in New York today by the Fed-} eration for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Institutions. | Dispensation of the fund will take place during 1917. The federa-| | tion will act as a co-operative clearing house both for collection and dispensation, and thus hopes to abolish duplication of effort among the) 100-0dd New York Jewish charities gathered under {ts banner. BERLIN, Sept. 28.—Matrimony slumped in Berlin during the fi! half of 1916, whep only 6,836 marriages took place, compared with 8,63: in the corresponding period last year and 9,860 in @ like time in 1914, WOW! HIGH COST OF PEARL BUTTONS NOW | NEW YORK, Sept. 28.—The Button Manufacturers’ association of America, in convention at the Waldorf-Astoria, sald prices of pearl but tons had advanced from 200 to 300 per cent. This time the increase is) not attributed to the war, but to the high water In the Mississippi and Ohio streams, from which mussels are taken. The catch has been ex-) ceptionally small this year. BEAU BRUMMELS BUY SOLDIERS? UNIFORMS BOMBAY, Sept. 28.—Tho there's no rush of Beau Brummels to en- list, they have taken to kbaki with a rush in recent weeks. The bow. levard boys buy second-hand soldiers’ clothes from the pawnshops and vae them for street wear Jup & steady bid for laughs j ES 3) oic2m, ft tomes are: Some | THEATR Girls Do, and Some Girls’ Don't"; | “Hello.” | eee GRAND \Wonnn | The Alarcons, who head the now The theatrical season at the show at the Grand for the balance! soore will begin Sunday, with the|— of this week, are direct from Sun Winter Garden success, “A World ff ny Spain, They play the guitar of Pleasure,” which had a phenom and ukulele, They also sing and /enal run in Chicago, as well as in dance New York King Cole is a ventriloquist Hesides the big scenic effects, the Bogert and Beihle play on French | comedy and the song, an extraordi horns and introduce some new com-|nary fashion show will be a treat edy and parodies. Riley and De/to the women patrons Tellum do « turn in flackfac ped Bek Ah Mears, with the grace of the! CREHAN HAS HARD TIME FINDING WAY —h ® a Ortent, does some wonderful classic dancing with his partner | PALACE HIP “It 1 ever get in the state legis The first of the big new road|/ature,” says Jimmie Crehan, may eda Bara, in “The Eternat Sapho,” is the photoplay feature, shows booked at the Palace Hip|F'S secretary, “I'm going to intro will, under the name of “Hippo drome Road Show No. 1,” make its|{00 of Iilutainated guideposts on the untversity campus,” appearance Thursday, to be follow ed on Sunday by Road Show No, z,|__ Jimmie started to night law duce a bill enforcing the installa- | school at the i These road shows travel intact, untversity Monday and play all the Ackerman and| ght Harris houses, from Butte to San|_ “I had a hard time finding out Diego. | where to go,” he said It takes | ff a finished lawyer to get around out The Thursday show includes the Shute wetae ark. } Reaux and Belles, a pretty musical singing and dancing feature; John| White's circus, with its performme U WwW GETS $37 160 mules, ponies and dogs; Maude e . , fl Kimball and company, in comeay : H sketch; Alice Allison, premiere ban joist; Ford and Urma, dancers, and | the University of Washington, has Milly Broad, the comedy minstrel.| collected from the students, sine The feature photoplay will pre-,the school opened, more than $37, |sent Lillian Gish, in “A Man's En-|160 in tuition and matriculation | emy.” | fees, | a hod | Students are still registering, and | OAK |from present indications, it will be | “Stop, Look and Listen” ts the|another month before the registra: |} |musieal comedy attraction at the/tion will be complete. The totat||} Oak theatre this week, A company|number of students at the univer jof 30, mostly girls, pretty of course,|sity this semester is 2,807, Ac- |] |and beautifully costumed, presenta| cording to college officials, the num- the sketch. ber of students will, in all babil- Monte Carter, comedian, keops)ity, reach 3,000, se AER ARH aRtIRGN RIP THN a AINA Comptroller Herbert Condon, of H } Hl E§ ITLE STAR MANY FAVOR SHOWING | FREDERICK&NELSON New Silk Umbrellas FPTHE handles of these Umbrellas declare their newness. They are in malacca and natural- finish woods, sometimes tipped with ivoroid, and all are in the convenient short style, with wristlet of cord, braided leather or silver. Stub tips of the wood are noted on many. The silk tops are in shades of blue, green, red and purple, also black, many showing satin border Prices, $5.00 to $7.50. Firet Floor. New Printed Draperies IMELY arrivals, which introduce out-of-the- ordinary color effects and patterns especially adapted to Autumn uses, for over-drapes, portieres and furniture coverings. Among the interesting items are: Crafter’s Cloth, Dundee Crash, printed with with an unusual arrangement large floral of ovalshaped floral panels ranged on a on a black latticed ground, background in two tones of 66 yard. mulberry, $1.00 yard The “Patricia” design, printed on Flemish Cloth, Bho yard; on Ratine at $1 yard; on Hght Khedive Silk at $1.25 yard. patterned bouquets ar. conventional Beverly Crash in a hand some peacock and flower de- sign on blue ground, 76c yard; on black ground, $1.00 yard First Fie. NEW COATS Are Continually Arriving NE of the latest to be the exten- Street added to showing of Coats is this model of Diagonal Cloth in medium heavy weight, which can sive be furnished in Navy-blue, Taupe or Burgundy. The back of this Coat flares from a narrow yoke The collar, which is trim- med with a wide band of black plush, may be worn open or is smart when buttoned closely to the throat. The lining is of serviceable silk in monizing color. The price is $40.00. very har- —Second Floor. Cups and Saucers, $1.50 for 6 HIN, light-weight Cups and Saucers in four pleasing decorations, three as pictured, priced at $1.50 the set of six Aisle Table, First Floor. N_ attractive for the dainty Envel- Chemise trimming ope sketched is provided in the clusters of tucks, the Valenciennes rows of pretty insertion ex- tending the entire length of garment in front and back, and the insertion, beading and edge which finish the top. The material is sheer, fine lingerie cloth. Price $1.50. —Second Floor Dovelttes a —— RRECEN r'LY received, a shipment of? Martha Washington Work ‘Tables in solid mahogany, at $16.50. Furniture Seetion, Third Floor, A new showing of Dan- ish Pottery features beau- tiful fruit id conven- tional designs in rich, dark colorings on a mat-finish ground in light-brown. Jardinieres, Vases, Tea- pot, Sugar and Creamer and Rose Jars, $2.00 to $17.50, China Section, Third Floor, ra esr aE Apparently nothing is exempt from fur trimming nowadays, for we have just received a Drape Veil with narrow edging of Hudson seal. It is in a becoming fine mesh, with thread-run design, and is priced at $6.00. —First Floor. nn , sen Te Twin coin purses on an inside frame are only part of the conveniences of a new Envelope Purse with strap back. It also has memorandum pad with pencil, and the lining is a | In pat- fancy stripe silk. ent leather, $5.00; in Pin Seal, $6.00. —First Floor. scanned A suggestion for the Autumn wedding gift—a set of six Individual Ster- ling Silver Almond Bas- kets with handles, en- closed in gray case, and priced at $12.00. Sliverware Betton, Floor, Peed aN i Hemstitched Irish -em- * broidered Pillow Cases are new arrivals in the Bed- ding Section. broidery is in bowknot, spot, and other designs, with space for Priced at 85c, 90c, $1 and $1.25 each. —First Floor, Bina by ‘The extremely large coat buttons which Autumn has brought are now on dis-— play, some showing inset © effect. in mother-of-pearl Metallic Buttons are shown also, in filigree and solid” effects, and have many | admirers. —First Floor. csocieseendeplbcilligall The gown which re- quires a high-neck finish may be smartly comple- mented from the showing of High-neck Guimpes and Vestees. They are of fine net, prettily tucked, em- broidered and lace-trim- med, some with side frills, and range in price from $1.75 to $5.00. —rirst Poor. Williams’ Toilet Requisites Williams’ Quick and Easy Shaving Powder, 2%c. Williams’ Holdertop Shaw ing Stick, 5 Williams’ Luxury Shaving Cream, 23c¢ tube. Williams’ English Lilac, Violet, La Tosca Rose, Carna- tion and Baby Talcum, 1ldc. Williams’ Brillantine, 25¢ bottle, Williams’ Cold Cream Soap, 10c cake; 3 cakes for 25e, —First Floor, ent Salesroom A New and Very Becoming Untrimmed Velvet Hat To Sell at [renee $3.95 | 2 A will be seen in the sketch, this Shape has a shirred brim-edge of the vel vet, giving a becom ing, irregular outline, and crush band en circling the Very little is required to convert this shape into a good-looking street or dress hat In Navy, Black, Brown and Cherry. Price $3.95. crown trimming ~—Basement Salesroom, Wool Middy Blouses, $2.95 IDDIES of navy-blue flannel with large sailor collar, lacings at throat and sides and white braid trimming. Sizes from 12 years to 42 bust meas- urement. Priced at $2.95. —Basement Saiesroom, Neckpieces Reduced to 10c ROKEN lines of Wom- en’s Neckwear, includ- ing Embroidered and Net Collars, Chemisettes, Tail- ored Stocks and other nove reduced to 10 —Basement Salesroom, | elties, each,