The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 22, 1916, Page 9

me GROTE-RANKINco factory Terms Always } : STORE OPEN EVENINGS Extraordinary Opportunities for | . . Last Minute Shoppers The eeping { Children’s Wheel Goods and Children’s Furniture in Christmas Clearance. _" entire stock o a sw All the Wagons, Coasters, Velocipedes, Tricycles, Automobiles, Shoo-Flys, [| American Builders, Children’s Chairs, Toy Tables and Desks, will be sold to- morrow regardless of cost or former selling prices. Last minute shoppers can make their selections at splendid savings. . We will guarantee deliveries on all goods purchased tomorrow up to 9 p.m, in Your Home | This Christmas? | | GIFT FURNITURE IN THE CHRISTMAS CLEARANCE Includes all Smokers’ Stands, Sewing Stands, Sewing Baskets, Pedestals, Foot- Martha Washington Sewing Tables, Serving Wagons, Cabinets, Cellarets, Humidors, Book Blocks, Nut Bowls and hundreds of Will There ° Bea > VICTROLA Stools, Gate-leg Tables Tabourettes, Music Mahogany Floor Lamps, PRICES GREATLY REDUCED Candlesticks, other -gift pieces, have Last minute shoppers, or those who have just discovered the necessity of giving just one more gift, are assured remarkable saving opportunities by se- lecting from these assortments. ra ome | Give THs | A COLUMBIA GRAFONOLA onitiius The China Section Offers Remarkable Reductions on just such things as you will be interested in for gift-giving. Cut Glass, Fancy Plates, Bon Bon Dishes, Silverware, Water Sets, Reading Lamps, Clocks, Fancy Baskets, will be sold tomorrow at remarkable reductions. | @) about him as a lover or husband. I saw it in the paper the other >» INDIFFERENCE TO DICK Mollie,” I said with a laugh. I do. |day,” I answered evasively WORRIES MARGIE »wever, have a distinctly friendly | Some one told me Malcolm Stu — ® | feeling for him that is different |art is financing the institution “Malcolm Stuart is a fascinating | from that I feel for any other man man,” said Mollie as we returned | for you know, Mollie, he saved m from the public dining room to my|from being a hopeless, help little suite at the hotel. “I wonder/|If he had not written you a why he never married Virot I would still be in bed, unal I could not tell her, little book, of|to move or help myself, I can easily half a million dollars a ye that tragic page in his life which he| help betng grateful to him for that, | He can't begin to nd told me in confidence when | first |altho I think perhaps his interest | amount on himself, and ! am sur knew him, and so I simply remark-| was actuated quite as much by | nothing could be volunteered Mollie Well, he can apmily afford to do I murmured Dick told mé when I first met Malcolm art at Eliene’s that his income w | more sympathetic ed, “I wonder.” pride in the surgical genius of his|and ch: ble than bringing hoy “He rather strikes me, however,” | friend as pity for my condition.” | into the lives of poor little crippled continued Mollie, “as a universal] “Did you know the doctor is go- | childrer Jover more than a serious, settled-| ing to stay in this country and be I wish Margie. said Mollte down married man. Is that the|come the head of a free hospital for|changing the subject, “that you way he strikes you, Margie? ‘children affected with diseases of | would persuade Dick to come over 1 have never thought much the spine?” Mollie asked |for a week or two i | am afraid my powers of pe suasion with Dick are nil, Moll |! sald. “Looking back over our * e |married life, 1 can't seem to re member that Dich Waverl ever cause she wanted it done | “Margie, | hope you are an VIA THE “MILWAUKEE” growing bitter,” No, Mollie, dear, | am only stat-| jing a fact. But I would feel better about myself if I were bitter. It| | hurts me that now I have no more! feeling about Dick and his affairs. | jl think he never again can hurt me, but I shall also miss his power to give me joy “The thing that worries me lie, is my complete indiff Mol me “6 Dick. There, | have said it I did Between all stations in rete pli er Washington, Idaho aieeaterais Perth feel hurt at anything Dick or can do. u poor unhappy woman! and Oregon ‘DIDN'T ELECT jin this direc STAR—FRIDAY, WILSON, ALLAN BENSON SAYS BY GILGON GARDNER WASHINGTON, Dec Among those who don't clalm credit for the election of Mr Wilson is Allan L. Benson, the socialist candidate for presi dent. Mr. Benson has just been in Washington. “1 was perfectly convinced,” sald he, “that | alone wae re- sponsible for the election of Wilson, but | found so many other members of the ‘I Did It’ club that I decided to renounce all credit and be the one per son in the United States who Is not responsible for his elec tion. | had nothing to do with the re-election of Mr. Wilson.” Senator Borah has taken the militia federal Hay-Chamber al the of the lead to r lain act Our experience with the feder alized militia on the Mextean bor der,” sald the senator, “shows what I predicted: that it !# not possible to federaliae the militia, We can not have a force half state and half federal, The soldier mus der the authority of t government, or he m t uthority of the over, Ne must be Bol and pot a workingman temporarily absent from his work for temporary sol diering. The militla lobby, which swarmed in Washington jast win ter, mac a botch of our army leg istation The ¢ ers were after ps for themnelves, w the t. The result Is an army which nnot be recruited up to anything like {ts full strength; a jumble of authorities and jurisdictions; a du plication of salaries; and a general }fatlure to secure soldiers when we need them. Congress must now face th problem anew and solve it #easion In jen this, Little } tion, ow! that the army has bi in Mexico, but the pe with the secretary of war to make lfe in the regular army more ploas ant and desirable by offering these » ational advantages. fe bill that { shal on Very rovides itary train the active » be given the tunit and recetve r tional Hnes of such cha na to increase their clency urn to elvil ed for industrial general buiness and enable them life better equipy commercial, and occupations Civilian teachers may ployed to ald the army officers in giving such Instruction, and part of this instruction may consist of vo cational education either in agri culture or the mechante arts. The secretary of war is given power “to preseribe rules and regulations for conducting the instruction provided . for and he also has power at any oer, * Grote-Rankin Merchandise Certificate ion" one ia o firey aa | The failure of the Hay-Chamber. . . ° e }lein army plan h opened up con Grote-Rankin—Pike St. at Fifth Ave.—Grote-Rankin ] ««::*: m of ‘everal alternative lal army with higher pay and educa tional advantages to make the army life more attractive modificat of the Swiss s 1 nvolving abolishing the regular standing and substituting short term training for youthful lunteers to be turned back as po |teutial reserves after the training | (3) federal volunteers on the lines of the continental rmy plan sug ed by former retary of War son; (4) universal military training without compulsory serv lice int mill tar ice Gar wal compulsory “BOY LOSES EYE IN wre FIGHT WITH HERON NEW YORK, Dec. 22 —Fred Hott man, 15, of Lake Ronkonkoma, L L, had an eye put out a hero he caught on the meadows near ii home. The boy spied the 1 standing after the custom of herons, on one and apparently «# nd asleep. He sneaked up and grabbed th bird by its main t. The heron, awakened, fou deap ately, and in the hand-to-han troge on tae its bea into the bo ‘ourpuT OF BEEF IS SHOWING INCREASE WASHIN D. C., Dec One of the principal aims of the ag ricultural department, according to ‘ON Sec ry Houston's annual report has been to increa me tion. The report shows a steady growth since 1913 in the output of beef and an advance in the number of swine every year since 139 |MICHIGAN AGAIN IS LEADER IN DEATHS No, dear, I am not unhappy, 1| have just ceased to feel—that is | all. Tam coming back to my life in| CHICAGO, Dec. 22.—Michigan, as Tickets on Sale—December 21-25 Bente mber ¢ and try and interest my-| usual, leads the 15 states in which oe self in something am not going | statistics are kept this year for é Return Limit—January 3, 1917 to be a grouch—1 am not going to} hunting fatalithe Twenty-two indulge in self-pity. Somehow I] persons were killed there, while 86 am sure [ am as much to blame for! fatalities were reported from. the Wa this state of affairs as Dick, only |15 state my sin must have been the sin of ignorance and misunderstanding If Sonny had lived “But you are young,’ Mollie, “you will dren.’ “I hope 80," I no child will For information concerning reduced fares, reservations, etc. call City Ticket Office interrupted | have other chil iid gravely. “Rut drew near to me Margie she ‘A Star Want Ad will bring it.|\ POSTCARD 44 YEARS LATE IN ARRIVING YORK, Pa, Dec. 22.—A posteard |matied by the Baltimore Coal Co. from its Harrisburg office, on Aug net 18 to the Wrightsville Iron Co,, was received by the local firm a few days ago, It took the card 44 years, 3 months and 8 days travel from Harrisburg — t Wrightsville. DEC. 22, For the Last Great Christmas Shopping | be em >? 1916. PAGE 9 Day This Store Will Serve You Best The Regular Store Hours of 9 to 6 Will Also Prevail Saturday One hour in the morning is worth two in the afternoon hop early Cut Glass Balt Price em, and PRICE 1 HAL Hand-Painted China Half Price QUITE s olect! f beautl rice Give a > 6—s Modal ™ s ft f a Kodak ts sure » recipient or wo boy. The numbers tn Ey Brown astman Kodake So te 806.00 Folding Brownies 06.00 to Hox Brownies 8125 to Specializing or Pocket Kodak Waterman i Fountain Pen ‘ omplete line ft Waterman. {deals 62.50 to $12.00 iso Gift Umbrellas “Hull's | uzons” THE nmarcen itt Umbrellas are Hull's 1 i Lue * new pure silk are t best qualit b n le range . «the 4 fas han of a t “ ne Priced RIS.nO <P, ¢ t Flao 4Extra Special—“Hull” Umbrellas, Special $3.95 Give Women Silkk Petticoats Special $5 Values EXTRA speciat Taffeta Hk Petticoats ina varlety of the newest styles. Values that ire unusual Flesh, maison coral, rose gray, taupe, Burgundy, pur ple, Havana, Patsy, hunter's navy, wistarta Lawn n. Hoxed for giving -P. Co. | Fras a splendid er-Paterson Co SECOND AT UNIVERSITY Children’s Fur Sets IFTS that gladden the hearts There's of the littl 6 tots. assortment o n the Third Floor, at almost any price you might mention | are beautiful gifts; the new styles at.... $4.00 Ostrich ather Boas, the wanted styles; de- | | lightful gifts $5.00 1,000 boxes Children’s Handkerchief i box White Angora Sets Brown Coney Gray Coney White Astrac Sets White Thibet Bets.. Seta han and $3.50 Angora $3.75 White Rabbit and Ermin Condensed Intormation About Gilts t Women 3 for 4 i Women's embroidered chiefs, 3 ina 100 boxe i nen, h « Handke Fancy Evenings Scarfs, beautiful gifts, for lovely arfs, White styles, Marabou ecial kk en's Walr est s Han styles Men's Col Handkerchie eather and Fox new genuine covers Lawn in a pure “it Hand box nen, Handker- Toe box ace Furs, welcome | -o+ $4.75 | ivening creations, -$10.00 arrivals, $5.00 | Neckpieces | Seal d Bags, lar, Cuf f Case new ] t of 75 Wom- | and new- $5.00 and $2. 00 Men's Traveling Set in leather ¢ contain ling the needed articles, for $5.00 Men’s Military Brush | Sets in leather cases, for | | lippe lavender On MEN Opera a s, inh very « hand-turn Also the mame styles at ®t in brown kid. Faun with hand-turn lipper red. in pink orehtd Slippers, with in navy Dive. wine and #125 Hette Felt Slip brown oft qua 1 soles 1 Kverett-style Slip pwn and black kid, with a2.00 s B1.00 Romeo Slippers In brown kid, with) hand-tur $2.50 Just Received New Undersilks Beautiful Gifts Women STROKE of Christmas luck came to us with this ship ment. A large lot of women’s Venetian Silk Vests and Bodices Just what is wanted for Christ- mas Ve jan with tall ribbon 42 at for Silk Vests in pink red band top and silk tape. All sizes, 34 to $2.00 Bloomers to $2.75 with Venetian match Venetian Silk elastic band, evening wear, Silk Bodices shirred toy flesh only $7. Bodice with Another tailored strap, style band top, in whi with ribbon Will Like Men's Silk Hose black with black « ing, biack with white clocking aa50 Wayne knit pure Silk Hose, in black and gray site knit Silk Root Hose, h double sole. ton and heel, of gray and o thread. Black, navy blue —A Uttte ft Handkerchiefs Very f sheer Irish Li Handkerc These are 1 up with elther the hand-embrol- dered initial or plain hand-hem- stitched Soc a line of plain \-Inch hem erchlefs, All of fine pure nd hand-embrotdered and hand stitched. Three in a gift box for 8 A larme assortment of m pure linen embroidered Hand lefa at, each Be Men's Gradsing pACRES: terial tn r jark red, navy blue and Oxford ‘ay Reautiful, rich garments f $15.00. Jackets of double far Kray blue and dark r 810.00 Splendid « quality double-faced material well made. Special values t c*) thar ver values in good looking Splendid assortments of the yest made Shirts are here—Rates- Street, F & Wilson and Arrow makes Silicw SATO to ATT Silk and Linen at RKO to R450 Imported and Domestic Ma 00 to & ndid assort Gloves Dent's and better Fownes' Ireland's doves. . made, w k, In shades of tan. Cadet and regular sizes, at 81.50, 81.75, $2.00 and 82.50 Men's Auto Gloves f fine soft coltskin black only, ‘They are d with wool... 84.50 Unlined at 8.73 Wool Gloves 1,00 Neckwear for Women Special $1 EN If piece in a beautiful gift box, The very new- styles —~ dainty affairs Shion would please’ any we man. Plain Georgettes, Georg satin with reette bands tive and very ite Very at special 1.00 Moo Oo, Pirst \ Glove Certificate or A Merchandise Certificate Will solve They're iifts your problem, the Sure-to- Please Our No. 2100 Pure Silk Stockings $1.00 FINE can safely Stocking you give with the satisfaction of know- ing that your gift will reflect credit upon your choice. Full fashioned double sole, heel and toe, gar- ter top; all sizes. ~-Black, white, yellow, Champagne, — turquoise, navy, emerald, hunter's green, pearl and bronze. —Per pair ......$1.00 McCallum’s Silk Hose for Women “McCallum’s.” the name that has for many years sig- nified quality unexcelled. A splendid assortment, containing all regular sizes, in black, white and colors, pair $1.50 Novelty Silk Stockings —Richelieu ribbed in fine quality. Two-toned colors in scores of different tones, combinations and patterns, at -$1.75 —Clocked Silk Hose, black with white and white with black, full-fashioned, pure silk = +++ $2.00 Vallier Washable Kid Gloves for Women $2.50 Pair The best of all Washable Kid Gloves. Fine French skins, perfection of making and fit. White only, a. pair And splendid assort- ments of Gloves (not washable), $1 nd $2.00, in black and all colors. Other Washable Gloves pearl, putty, ivory and Patr, $1.50, $1.75, $2.00 F.-P. Co., First Floor. in gray. Beautiful Gift China at 25¢c, 50c and $1.00 Featured on large special tables—a wide variety of pieces. Splendid choosing. AT 25¢, Small Vases, Bon- von Dishes, Mustards, Cups and Saucers, Dresser Articles, ete, ete. AT 506, Vases, Rose Jars, Cups and Saucers, Dresser Articles, Bonbon Dishes, Salts and Peppers, ete. AT $1.00, A wide varie. ty of Vases, Celery Trays, Dresser Articles, Smoking Articles, Sugar and Creamer Sets, Flower Bowls, etc, ete. Many rare opportunities for gift buyers Women’s Leather Hand Bags Special $1.00 G in the approved styles, and they are very unusual values at a dollar, Dresden liniigs-—-with the usual fittings, Special Fri r-P. Co, +: 81,00 First Floor, :tadaes RRRERRS AS EEG ORS RESALES - - o ” a « a SS EASES freer Ei co eer t it. Sees tee