The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 13, 1917, Page 3

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KO | |SHOES $1.98 Mr. H. M. Rogers, Who Secured the Great Emporium Stock of South Bend, Wash., Offers Exceptional Prices to Seattle Public. Great Free Offer Continues Men's Walk-Over Shoes broken lines, worth to $4.00, Walk-Over name stamped on every pair, go Wednesday at $1.98. Misses’ Shoes and Sandals, worth to $3.00, 98c Ladies’ Walk-Over broken lines, $1.89 $5.00 Ladies’ Shoes, brated Red Cross make, and 16-inch top, go at $2.48 Men's = Florshiem worth to $7.00, go at $3.48. Shoes, cele- 12- worth to $5.00, go at $2.48. In advertising Walk-Over Shoes at $1.98, the result has been that the bulk of the busi- ness has come to our Shoe Department—and Men's Cloth- ing has not sold as it should But on Wednesday it shall be the other way ‘round. As an added inducement to force the sale of high-grade Men's Suits, we will give ABSOLUTELY FREE WEDNESDAY This Wonderful Free Offer: Men's Suits from the great Emporium stock, that sold to $15.00, for $5.75. Over 200 Stylish Suits—many in pure wool fabrics, and going at this ridiculous low price—$5.75. And as an added inducement to force all of these Suits to be sold before the close of busi- ness Saturday night, we make this FREE OFFER: Any . $2.50 Hat in the house—and there are over 500 to select from, & in all shapes and FREE with every Suit sold tomorrow. And here is a better item: Men's beautifully tailored Suits, including the celebrated Griffon and Collegian makes, late styles, in Blues, Blacks, Grays and Browns, that sold up to $25.00, go tomorrow for $9.85. This Great Emporium stock contained a number of Men’s Full Dress and Tuxedo Suit they are worth conservatively to $40.00—we want to dispose of them quickly at the low price of $12.85. And with each of the above Suits you get, ABSOLUTELY FREE, your selection of any Hat in the house. Men's Overcoats for this cold weather at these same ices—$5.75 and $9.85—if you wish. Please Note—These Free Offers good Wednesday, ontinue this week only Beginning Wednesday we will sell Men's 50c President Suspend ers at 17c; at 69c; Men's Wool Underwear, worth to $2.00, goes at 68; Men Flannel Shirts, worth to $3.50, at $1.38; Men's $1.50 Union Suits at 68c; $2.50 Silk-and-Wool Underwear at 98c. H. M. ROGERS Proprietor of the Red Front Cloth. ing Co., Whe Brings This Great Emporium Stock to Seattle and Emporium stock. te turn it into ready cash. Mr. Rogers, when Interviewed as to the success of the sale, said: “| am selling 15¢ Silver Collars, late styles, at two for 15. farge lot of Overalls go at 49c. Men’s Pants that sold to $3.00 at 95¢ Boys’ Suits, worth to $6.00, at $2.85. everything for man’s dress going at the lowest prices ever placed on world’ The sale continues tomorrow at 9 a. m. right place. The Emporium stock cons First Avenue, opposite the Public Bale starts Wednesday morning at “So a word to the wise is sufficient—come be yours.”—Advertisement. 9 a. m. sharp and continues all week 2. Guy Talbott, executive secre Federation, is here ready to shape the progress of the movement } FIGHT ON VICE HERE Bo | ODD, ISN'T IT? A church federation, similar to. I order that uncensored the organization which has been for help from her busy trying to stamp out vice in Zalilin, Kurland. might American relatives San Francisco, will be organized in smuesied letters out c Seattle. the center of loaves of br Delegates and pastors from the different churches will meet at the Plymouth Congregational - church Friday night to organize. pleas seia in ad *READ STAR WANT ADS. \ A NOW PLAYING Until Saturday Night Only Pickford In Her First Artcraft Picture Supreme Made by Her Own Company “Less Than the Dust” Mary, taking her first bath in a modern bath tub, after arriving in England, from India, is a scream. ¥ Many other cute situations through- = out entire play. —_ ‘ All the quaintness, the winsomeness and the roguishness of smile and action is given ample play for Mary in this new picture. 15c 15c Children Children 5e 5e Loge Seats 25¢ Loge Seats 25¢ 7] SECOND AND UNIVERSITY Shoes, Men's Heavy Work Shoes, | styles—will be given coset | 10¢ Canvas Gloves, knit wrists, at 5c; $1.50 Cluett Shirts t) These are just a few items, picked at random from this Great! This stock was bought at a mere fraction of its eriginal cost and these prices give you an idea of how quick we expect “Yes, this Is a great stock that | have bought, and it Is certainly great ite see it go so fast. To give you an idea of how | am forcing the sale lof this high grade standard merchandise; | will quote just a few more a Dress Shirts, Men's Hosiery, Work Gloves, Mackinaws, Logger Shoes, Slicker Coats, etc., in fact or work wear included in this sale, and/q standard merchandise.” fe sure you come to the only of good merchandise, and it is on sale here tomorrow at a mere fraction of its cost. The Savings you will make are far greater than the values here represented. emer 10 + address—The Red Front Clothing Company, 1506 * megs Market, just north of Pike Street. ariy—the savings will all) A LETTERS COIN TOPIC AGAIN Dear Miss Grey: | have read the letters, both pro and con, on the coin discussion being carried on In your columns, and | thoroly agree with “E. 8." We are not Romans, therefore why use their designs, es pecially on our money? Our coins were not originated for works of art. As for the fasces design, | see nothing strikingly artistic about it. and think it quite out of place on our coins. | Art is the work of human beings —some of it is elevating, and some | of it is not. The only reason | know of for designing our coins is to prevent counterfeiting. Evident ly “F. B.C." favors the Romaniz ing of our nation. He evidently does not know that the Roman and WORKERS WILL QUIT COUNTRY LONDON loa’ Feb, 13.—Amer active work in directing Belgian relief is about to be ended. Announcement was made by the commission here that all American workers in Belgium and northern France, in territory held by the Ger mans, except a very few lead ers, were about to be with drawn. Brand Whitlock, American min ter to Belgium, | however, to re main, altho ith the German gov ernment diptinet proviso that he has no diplomatic standing Thus Whitlock will be the on! our’ democratic governments are Temaining American diplomat on directly opp&sed to each other, At, Verman territory the present time, every true Amer) \Viihdrawal of American worker lean should resent any further use |!" " m and France does not of Roman words, symbols or de.|@eA. however, that the America signs in every branch of our gov. |Ommission for relief will diseor ernment. Rome has decreed against |!!ue Hts work In the United State Jour form of government. if those |The, actual administration of the two are Amecican citizens, and one |*OrK. however, will be turned over Upholds our republic and the other | Some other neutral nation, the the Roman empire, one ie a truer] Piggott ang o~_ effort American than the other. Dear Miss Grey—t have read the answers to “Rebel” with much Inter est and some amusement, but the sweeping statements of “A High Schoo! Giri” arouses my wrath. 1 know from experience that the “nice” girl is net out of date. My own clothes are neither loud nor too prim, my manners on the same or. der, and | am what we term in| High, a “shark” in my studies.| Dances, joyrides, and unchaperon.| ed parties are unknown quantities | to me, and yet | have more bo: friends of sterling worth who ready to give me pleasure than any | girl who is flighty. ! If girls, young and old, would think more about themselv hu |man beings associating with other! human beings In a jolly good world | together they would find less to cri-| icine and more to enjoy. je your own sweet self, “Rebel,” and to all the regiment of “rebels” 1 quote these lines of Burroughs \“1 rave no more ‘gainst Time or Fate, | For lo! my own shal! come to me.”| ANOTHER GIRL. A.—Thank you, “Another Girl,” for} jthe truth have sweetly, yet] | plainly Mixa Grey feels jthat this in the real answer jit of | print impossible of them Miss Grey takes this opportunity |to than readers for the inter est displayed and hopes to hear from them again on other sub fects. VALENTINE PARTY Q—Will you kindly oblige me by printing some good games to play at a St. Valentine day party? MA A.—Archery is a proper game for valentine party The target should be heart-shaped. The bow| land arrows may be used as a prize for the winner. The archer should be blind-folded a la Cupid. There }fore the darts should be harmle they are Hable to be almed at a as at the target girl quite as ofte eart wherein large | and small he are hidden all over the house, affords exercise as well as gayety for a congenial com-| pany. Also it gives a bashful man} ne girl his own heart is hunting A “fidelity part an all-blue part |color of loyalty in love s new, 1 being the neighbors in| heir}; A berg | erally masque of great lovers a success in thi of much masquerading. Guests a | dressed famous lovers of histor and r Dante ar Romeo and Juliet Priscilla, Hiawatha ove ne John and Mi and nehaha, apoleon and e, Paul an Virginia, Darby and Joan, Pierrot! and Plerrette | At such © carnival a “queen ot | hearts” is usually elected and crowned. Guessing popular pastime at who is engaged is a ties. The accu m heart” when sh affirms ¢ the impeachn RAILROAD INFORMATION Q.—Will you kindly inform me if Helena, Mont., is on the main line| of the Northern Pacific railway, or| is it on a branch line? =. V. B.C A.—Helena, Mont., 1s on the main line of the Northern Pacific ratl-| way, and the Great Northern as} well | | | AMBERGRIS | | Q—Will you please tell me where| ambergris is found, what It is used for and how much it is worth a pound? Thank you. D. A.—Ambergris is a gum-like sub: stance of great value in the ma: of perfumes. It is obtained fre the intestinal canal of the sperm | whale, found floating in pleces of various sizes on the surface of It is a product of cetacean tion, nd often contains the) of cuttlefish, a fact which| conclusively proves the place of its| origin, untfl recently much in doubt. When first extra from the all-| mentary canal, it has the feeling] and consistency of thick grease, and| chemically seems to be of the na ture of cholesterin, but after expos ure to the alr, it hardens and quirea ite characteristic aweet, earthy odor. Some odd stories told by the old writers to account for ita origin, of which the lenst absurd was that it was the excre- ment of the whale. It was held by the ancients to be of great value in or certain diseases, but Is now used f entirely in connection with por fumery, and is worth about £20 a por The name is also given to fa barren island on the coast of Yu Hf catan, on account of the quantities! jof ambergris gathered along its [shores ec. |" DOESN'T WANT GIRLS | (WORK DANCE HALLS © An erdinance prohibiting womer and girls from « in dance halls, shooting ries and pool rooms was recommended by Sapt Blanche Mason of the women’s pro partment insher annual repor i with Chie ir tment dealt w 104 case olving minor giris. Nine men we convicted of against x One of the effects of the dry In according the ort the de ase in t r of unhapy home situations which call for co ad. nt Bart Rertlescn, of the Clemt shi ntre puts out the plays in .own, Gordon Pullert of the Liberty, Claims the Lit tow. Somebody must be fibbing Wednesday Night BILL HART IN THE Gunfighter vivid transcript of the “Old West,” replete with the thrill ing adventures of Cliff Huds. peth, gentieman and gunman. Wallace on our- Wurlitzer and a comedy complete the bill, i FIRST AT PIKE Continuous 11 to 11 Matinees 10c Evenings 15¢ Children 5c YES! Drink it— Gargie with it. ¢ A toss will prove tts par ke blo ue Always follow directions - Bezietol ured internally as directed In books let packed in mil original red cartons relle etom= strith ra For sale at all druggists Instat on Genuine in Red Cartons, crimes | Menate L | Norma Talmadge and Earle Fox, in “Panthea,” at the Clem rhocnKkaMs STR AND—Chart Keenan ta STAR—TUESDAY, FEB. 13, 1917. Cynthia Grey’s BELGIAN RELIEF | Wonderful shown in Liberty Hudspeth vengeance in the rises from a littl houetted with a clouds IN ording The Gun Fi One cml upon rhe rropuc « “PANTHEA” IN SEVEN ACTS Adapted to the No Raise in Prices Admission 15 Cents CLEMMER MINSTRELS METROPOLITAN SHOT BY FATHER! Don’t Get Excited, Tho; It’s in the Movies we Coward.” PAGE 3 TODAY New y and & ely Arbuckle im NATURALLY 80 FINE NIGHT SCENE night especially, as Hart) evening background the tiful DARWIN RIGHT? Darwinian theory the Ditmar TALMADGE == ST PIOTURE 6 Best Thursday and Friday Jane Grey See the Dancing Girls from the Hippodrome 152—People—152 nt Nights MAN AND the SO HIS ae York's are at the curt seeking p of the state, knoll and ts «il aky of |A PORTABLE BED fat the Liberty, ft { SOME SHOT Ik Fairbank sa cra 10t n “The Good Bad-Man,” at t ip nce of a into #pac «es it thru the center on the PARK IN MIDOLE In Philadelphia the itos in a Mine running iddle nyete n in the Ford Week A ROUGH RIDER airbar hold Bad-Man,” at the Mis e does some rough riding of vaulting fences, he leaps horse's saddle ¢ *, OUTDOOR SCENES the Co hat will the € reat out How Much of it is in the open countr SNOUTY FOLKS Some of the homeliest animals ex. tant are shown in the Rray Bros “Magazine on the Screen,” at the Coliseum, ¢ but some of the male snouty—like the hippopotamus cee VAMPIRE’S DAUGHTER What ff your adopted daughter ed out t the real daughter vodness are n mpire” who trie} to ruin —_—— 1? | LONDON, Feb 12.—Whether |Siven over to formal good-byes to That's what happens jn “Heart! out visit. today to |* Citele of friends he has gathered Strings,” at the Colonial art) Kaiser William's visi * ©lin eight years’ service as a te ee |Vienna for a conference with Em-|\aiser’s envoy. The English ho stuffy for Mary, so she picks up her bed and goes out on the lawn Less Than Dust,” at the Rex Ines) were “yee | meager advices from Vienna mere. GOOD SETTINGS liy said the kaiser was paying aj = = Some of the atten in “Heart| visit to the new sovereign Without Li Strin at the Colonial ‘« attract-| It pointed out here today | 1 to the beautiful ttings Alan|that the United ates has not . + c terior scenes |there have on hints that the i American government was negotiat- | bh *. WAS NO GENTLEMAN ling with Austria, hoping that Aus-| . : f \fter the great singer saved him|tria would not tndorse the German | |The pest, Lenses made a sa f the depths, the man turned on| policy of unlimited submarining. y * . ned oF |Lenses—for close and distant vise arly ver life, in British officials think Austria, hon faves two pairs ot pana ad His Angels,” at the| which has felt the pinch of hanger |" "y+ anished in 1908, , Class A and of her war losses far more than| St bei ae Germeny, hgs long been wavering. | s SHOT BY FATHER Curry ptical Co. T ape from a troop of Unio uae counts fo ything e camp in ag 0000.00 ceece gat bonetade OT waviad te EYESIGHT SPECIALISTS Prime nr OWN | flag, must be headliners Charles Ray, who plays the ti in “The Coward,” at the 8 FALL OF FAT Roscoe Arbuckle, alias ty rives very good exam of how a without r The 1 personage can fall both house and Wife's Mistake,” at Strand NORMA'S OWN TROUPE Panth at the Clemmer, in tre Norma Talmadge, former Vitagraph and Triangle star, at the head of her ov producing com. pany. Earle Fox is her leadin man jeorge Fawcett and Roger Lytton are in the cast JOKE? Jim Clemmer says his Russian orchestra xo well with “Pan thea,” the Russian story now being shown et the Clemmer. EARLE HAS POMP Earle Fox pompadoux Clemmer new, H wears his hair cut in Panther at the Not that that’s anything Iways did NAUGHTY SENATOR LA FOLLETTE PULLS JIM HAM’S WHISKERS WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—To prove that even when they op- pose each other in political mat- ters, the best of feeling exists between Senator La Follette, | Wis., and Senator Lewis, til, | Lewis laughed the other day | when La Follette pulled his (Lewis') silken whiskers during a session of the senate. The friendly spat occurred during a roll call. Lewis good naturedly interrupted La Fol- lette in what appeared to be an intensely interesting story. Desperately twining his in. dex finger in the soft silken | beard of the senator from | Illinois, La Follette gave it a none too gentle jerk, Lewis resumed his seat, but for some time held his hand to ery few) |peror Carl was not drought about | too} by in|a tHe GROTE-RANKINCO. OTTO F. KEGEL, General Manager HOTPOINT Electric Vacuum ‘ Cleaner $27.50 $1.00 a week buys this wonderful cleaner Made of stee ickel plate erful motor and will perform it etiiciently economical Make y a daily Vacuum Cleaner $1 A Week Quickly Pays for It Exceptional Bargains From the Basement Housewares Section Porcelain Cereal Jars, l-quart Porcelain Vinegar Bottles, 25¢ fo High-grade Steel Knives with Porcelain Oi! Bottles p2ic ckel-plated handles and welle for nighed blades; regular price Porcelain Spice Jars, lic va $276. doz.; Wednesday, each for 4 been: 13¢ Kitchen Spoons, tin plated on Forks to match knives, ea. 1R¢ | Giets Sauce Dishes of several nedt pressed cut patterns; Wetlnasday, each 4¢ China Salad Bowls with @ green decorations; cial, any size, ea. 47¢ mn Wedne: doz day Holland Dutch Milk Jugs, bar- | haped, wit oration lue band dec everal sizes. 15e¢ to 50¢ Come in Semi-Porcelain Tea Cups and Saucers, Special, 75¢ the Set emi-Por and elain Tea Cups Saucers, decorated with fine blue line and 1 edge Set of six pecial T5e. Dinner Plates to match; set of six, special at 65c. Plain White Semi - Porcelain Brown Earthen Tea Pots Cream Pitchers, in fancy shape | with colored band decora- Regular 15c value, 9 tion; three sizes are specially each C priced: Sugar Bowls to match. Regular Regular 40c size ....... . .20¢€ Oc value 19 Regular 45¢ size .. 2Re al ee C Regular 50c size . Be WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—Co and Countess Von Bernstorff \farewell to Washington today. | They will leave for New York night on a special train, and tomorrow for Germany aboard t] |Frederick VIU ia Bernstorff's last hours here were ‘KAISER VISITS. EMPEROR CARL "ON U-BOAT WAR ! | | | a desire to stiffen up Germany's was the subject of consider — spatches, repeating) = = i= FAR VISION. - ally sterdam Lens 3064-66 Arcade Bidg. | See It While It’s New— S a | Today Beban’s Master Picture Lots of gladness— Just enough sadness GEORGE BEBAN as “Joe,” the tene- ment district ice man—loved by all—and one who worships from afar the spot where the aforesaid whiskers were anchored,

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