The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 9, 1917, Page 10

THE BON MARCHE TWENTY-SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY SALES IN PROGRESS Girls’ Dresses 79c!!! 400 Pretty Tab Frocks at a Lowered Price Because It Is ‘‘Anniversary Piya il in the Children’s Shop PLAIDS TRIMMED CHECKS WITH STRIPES WHITE AND REPS PLAINS AND IN PIQUES, GINGHAMS | VELVET AND BOWS OR CHAMBRAYS ; Annivers 400 pretty Tub Frocks at a very special price to celebrate th ) and Middy in the Children’s Shop. Dresses in straight-line effects, Bolero and full, loose models with large novelty pockets Children’s New Coats in Smart Styles $4.50 40 Little Coats, event styles, as Pictured $1.75 sizes A Very Special Price for a 2 to 6, Specially Priced the Anniversary Sale Silk Coats, shirred at the Dai little Dresses, made of | Waist with pretty organdy col fine flowered voile in pink and Jats; Wool Serge Coats, semi Dresses with full pleated igh-waisted style with over and overskirt, trimme rs of pique; Silk Poplin a gathered silk girdle and | Coats, Empire effect; others of nd pretty lace edge; sizes | plaid and check materials 14 years SECOND FLOOR—THE BON MARCHE 473 Aprons at 59c Each on Apron Thursday fly shoulder fastening style, as pictured, made of good qual- ity percale with white piping; also Gingham American Beauty Aprons and Coverall style, of light colored percale. Silk Envelope Chemises $1.59 Envelope Chemises, made of splendid quality Jap Silk in white and flesh; neat tailored style, finished with hemstitch- ing and ribbon bows; cut extra wide. THIRD FLOOR—THE BON MARCHE Anniversary Sale of Men’s Goods MEN’S SPORT a MEN'S NEGLIGEE |> SHIRTS, SPECIAL SHIRTS, SPECIAL —55c— —85e— Sport Shirts of good qual- al percale and Oxford cloth, in white, white with cy collars; also of fancy “Stripes on white grounds, with convertible collars. value, $, per pen aii _ “Men's Porosknit Union Suits in white! Men's 75c Cotton Union Suits, mediun and ecru color; slightly imperfect; special | weight; ecru color; kk sleeves; 59¢. at 79¢. Men’s Athletic Union Suits of crepe, “Men’s Balbriggan Shirts and Drawers, | madras, nainsook and soiesette; Suit 85e. /summer weight; ecru; seconds of 50x lines ; ee pemest 39¢. Broken lines of Men's Mercerized Lisle | Union Suits in white and blue; Cotton Ribbed Union Suits, ecru | a Suit $1.15. mg also some white mesh Suits, at 49¢@. | LOWER MAIN FLOOR—THE BON MARCHE THE "BON "MARCH E Ba RGAIN BASEMENT] Another Reason Why We Can Give You Better Bargains in This Kind of a New Store Is— That you have to sell to yourself, for we only provide enough sa handle the selling transactions. This eliminates another us to sell you good merchandise at a lower price NO FREE D L 1V) E RIE S NO ALTERATIONS TO GARMENTS seconds ; item of expense NO C. O. D.’s EXCHANGES WITHIN 4 DAYS ONLY An Interesting Offer in Hosiery in Seattle's New idint sai Women’s Spring Underwear | | Costs Very Little in This Bargain Basement Women’s Vests 19c Each Ribbed Vests with round necks and no sleeves; some seconds in the lot. Made with fancy tops; sizes 26 and 38. Vests and Pants 25c Each | Fiber Silk Boot Hose 25c Women’s Fine Fiber Silk Boot Hose, white, with lisle tops and seamless feet; ing Stockings for 25c a pair. Lots of other Stocking specials. Women’s Stockings in black and splendid look- | | Women’s White Hose Women's Vests with low neck 2 | | and n sleeve nize 4 and 5. 10c Pair 19¢ Pai Drawers, sizes 36 and 38, in cloned Women's Black Cotton Stock- Inge, with ribbed tope in eize | Women's fine quality Lisle | or open style, Iace knee, and a few 9 and 9%, at 10c a pair, in the | Stockings, in white only; made | Ueht knee Bargain Basement. | with seamless feet and hem- Women’s Union Suits 29c med tops; sizes 8% to 10. Lisle Stockings 25c Pair Women’s and Misses’ fine good quality, for 15c a, Lisle Stockings in black, white | seamless feet and hem- and brown, with hemmed tops and full fashioned, Women's Ribbed Union Suits with taped tops and lace knees, in sizes 36 and 3 low neck, no sleeve style. Women’s Union Suits 39c Summer-weight Union Suita with | Women’s Stockings 15¢ Pair Women’s White Cotton Stock- ings, erie | } med low necks and no sleeves; fine . 4 Ps © | ribbed, in sizes 7, 8 and 9, at 39c a Titan Savings on Women’s Undermuslins garment Women’s Muslin Drawers, open | Women's Envelope Chemises, ML Tan } style, with embroidery ruffles | lace trimmed, ribbon drawn, in Silk Jersey Top and drawstring mpire style Petticoats at $2.25 WOPB, At we eeeeseeee 49c | at.. 59c Silk Jersey-top Petticoata in black, gre white and blue, Women’s Night Gowns of mus- | Envelope Chemises, piain style lin, with short sleeves and low | with front pire yoke hem- necks; narrow em- 59 stitched, narrow lace | broidery trimming ... c A MOOM 54,)-0c5e,, with contrasting colored taffeta with silk flounces, 69c 1 tucks, priced at $ Pie at Girls’ Voile Dresses | This line of specially priced Aprons includes the Butter- | Herr Lehman, y cow, died. Ahergott Lehman, 63, and his wife, 70, are happy. They are ceasing to mourn the loss of Queenie, their Jersey cow | no and | death cut off their | only source of revenue until | their little farm in Rainier val- | money ley could produce a new crop of potatoes. | Their neighbors did all they | could for them, but it looked black for Herr and Frau Leh If} man untit The Star printed | the story of the death of Q it week son, who works in camps, saw the story. Hel didn't know his parents were in need He hastened home. | Then a man a few blocks away | Ahergott Lehman and Frau Lehman, .. left destitute when their only source of revenue, a Jer- | going to be a fund to buy a cow neighbors of the | “are sure } ‘on't be long milk jagain will p f in The second dona thru the m Mra. lida Pers h ave w Follows Plow | aged German couple, 4431 | | | gave Le Despite bis Lehr a good worker He's follo a plow on this nelghbor's f And his wife is keep weeds out of the home patch, so there will be wint tatoes It tage looks as tho hard times were so hard has $6 donated toward and not The Star sther come to this « sent in a money order for STAR WRITER TELLS WHAT WAR DID TO _____OUR NEIGHBOR CITY OF VANCOUVER — ‘CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Hh x * fone who did, as he told us of his wound, “and so I wa El returned.” | Fritz! Huns! 1 new jargon, And I now realized “ithat tho Ur Canadian + | ! jing "9 common foe, | } few days ago about an old ¢ couple who had lost their mean of Hvelihood when their cow died An appeal was made to raise $35 |for then | | In Canada, such an appeal | would well nigh be @ case of treason. They do not speak of Germans h They recognize them only as “Huns,” creatures | without conscience, brutal, tor- | turing fiends “We are not at war with the German people,” said President Wilson in his war message. Americans are fighting autoc. racy—the Hohenzolierns, the kaiser. But in British Columbia, 5 per cent of th entire popula- tlon hy n sacrifice | || ed in the ainst the | Huns! ' | One person out of every six or seven in Vancouver {s in mourn. ng. | City Busy Recruiting Thirty-eight thousand men have |gone to the front from British Co lumbia, a considerable portion of . p busy recruiting, recruiting, re cruiting A munitions factory turns out a Ip |naif million’ dollars’ worth of shells per year—a ne dustry in| this Far Western pre There | is a big boom in shipbuilding Business Is Active The first shock of the war, which | almost paralyzed industry here, is , and bank clearings show enormous gains in the past six! months Business apparently is} active But above ft all comes the con tinuous cry for more men, for fresh recruits, Banners, billboards anawer telephone inquiries regard- ling the casualty Mats made public every few days by the Dominion government There is not a day but that ev ery paper in Vancouver prints the pictures of some British Colum blans who were killed in battle In the banks, you see women at| work where formerly men were employed, In the business office of one newspaper, a dozen women and just one man are on the job Formerly only one woman was em- ployed here In the stores, girl clerks have re- placed many hundreds of men, There are a score of girls at work in the munitions factory, too. | Age Limite Are Removed And still comes the insistent de mand for more men—for more vol- junteers On the streets, gray-haired men wear the olive-drab untforms of the jhome guards, The recruiting of: iB\ficers, at first careful to select \B{only the most able-bodied, now are not so scrupulously particular, Age limits are unofficially removed, tho every now and then, the British officers across the sea reject men store windows, all carry that mes-| “And here I am fit as a fiddle, sage—and recruiting officers hail|he mourned, “and they won't ta the passerby “to do his bit | me.’ Print Pictures of Dead Dave wants to go but can't, The It takes one man’s entire time|recruiting officers and all the on one of the Vancouver dailies to]newspapers of British Col een accepted t the anadians | David Galloway, a sturdy old | Scotchman from Ladysmith, a | miner by trade, 62 years of | age, was one of these victimes. | He enlisted with a younger comrade at the coal camp, Matt Rae. Galloway served trenches for four and months before he was “discov. ered.” Rheumatiam w. his undoing. Over his protests, he was returned home in half | the | | The other day, there re union of the two comrad the | Canadian Pacific railway depot. A |crowd of several thousand ha@ come to pay homage to 42 return ed lere—a con ble number to mu bome at one time. The mayor officially led the welcome. Professional men, working men, s0- clety girls and matrons, all vied | with each other in showing their av-| preciation of the services of the soldiers who came home, limping, | crippled, wounded. | Comrades Find Each Other =| A cordo police were at t |them from Vancouver. Only a to maintain order, ke jstraggling few hundred have re-|the crowd off th ain platform turned—ma wounded Hy they we h Past the for further servi cverseas ! past the tenders But the city, taken collectively, |g mass of humanity surged, has no time to m n. It must) and surrounded the returned he- | roes Rut thru the thousands, the com- | rad who worked t her and en lint gether, found each other, | “Matt! | “Dave!” | Matt carried a badly shattered j arm. “It was in the advance on the} Somme,” he said modestly. “Shrap- | nel got me. but only 62 out of it Consider Conscription Old Dave's face, whieh had lighted with the delight of meet ing bis old pal, grew serious It was a grand fight, of our battalion came | insist there e others who ¢ but won’ Is WH DAY, THE > VOLU DOMINION § CONSIDERING CONSCRIPTION So much of the time and atten. | tion of the province and the entire Dominion has been taken up with the great demand for men to fight in the trenches, that so far, after three years of war, nothing has seen done about food control, the back yard garden movement, and similar undertakings to curb the bigh cost of living. Food Speculator Busy The speculator has been as busy in British Columbia as tn the state of Washington, {te nearest Ameri- can neighborhood, Potatoes have soared to the $100) mark in each place at about the same time, and other food commodities have gone | vp in like manner Official British Columbia is just beginning to awake to the possi bilities of curbing the speculator and easing the food tension by the “garden at home” movement. It has been too busy heretofore get- ting men to fight in the trenches, ‘ THE SEATTLE STAR OLD MAN GIVEN JOB Who Lost Cow, $8.75 Smart Styles in Tub Skirts 95c to $2.75 SPECIALLY are the Skirt K } i ter 1 white grou there and pearl but ed with from 24 to Price inches $1.75, $2 50 Just Received: | | | attractive with Pais nted or Waist meas 95e¢, $1.50, 2.75. In an Unusual Offering at Taffeta leeves Gold Green Gray FREDERICK&NELSON Basement Salesroom 65 New Silk Dresses Silk Poplin Pongee NTYLES range from sports effects to dress modes with Georgette epe and embroidery trimming —two as sketched. Sizes 16 and 18 years, 40 bust measurement. An unusual opportuni $8.75 Crepe de Chine in Rose. 6 Beige ie Copenhagen Black Tan Pongee also 36, 38 and $8.75. nent Salesroom This New Sports Coat Is $7.50 and it offers unusually good style, material and tailoring! Featured in for this price. Banded Hats at $1.75 v one as pictured, Smart as can be for about wear, and very sports moderately priced : MART two-tone ef- fects are introduced these new Hats flexible straw: rose and white green and white gold and white in m soft, ribbon = band ain bow in the amc shade. Two good style the other somewhat smaller and general Basement Pongee Silk 39c Yard a ler Value WEAVE gee that is dress of natural-color Imported Pon- suitable negligees and drapery purposes—with for sports suits, the easy washing and good wearing qualities for which pongee silk is noted. inches wide. Priced low at 39e yard. Twenty-four —Rasement Salesroom Little Girls’ Tub Dresses 50c ANY little girls could use several of these Tub Frocks. The sketched suggests their attra style. It is made of xd quality plaid gingham, »mbi nation with plain color, and trimmed with piping, pearl buttons and narrow embroidery edge Choice of pink, blue or green with white. Sizes 2 to 6 years. Price 50¢, Basement Salesroom. pretty one ive in c¢ Boys’ Extes-trouser Suits $4.15 we boy who is hard on his clothes (and that means almost every boy) will get extra wear out of these two-trouser suits. They are tailored from durable gray and brown mixtures, in Norfolk or pinch-back style, with stitched-down belt and patch pockets. Sizes 7 to 16 years. Price * Union Suits $1.00 Ww? MEN'S Lisle - thread Union Suits, low neck and sleeveless style, with silk tape at top and arm-eye and knee, Price $1.00, —Basement Salesroom S:inch lace trimming at | —Basement Sulesroom, Veiling Lengths 25c Each ARIOUS becoming meshes to choose from in these Veiling Ends, which average 1% yards in length; black and a few colors, 25¢ each, Basement Salesroom. plain and cut velour of Gold Olive Scarlet Copenhagen Kelly-green Honey Ae pictured, - modeled Boot of white 9% | Ostend ¢! with Good- year welt sc hite welting 4 strip sole and % leather is heel Sizes 2% to widths A to D. Har and \ White Boots | F $5.00 ; gracefully Price $5.00 pair. Two-Tone Boots | $5.50 Pair Black glazed kid vamp and white Ostend cloth top combine in this Boot. Light- weight and leather Louis heel. Sizes 2% to 7; widths A to D. Price $5.50 Basement sole pair sroom, Women’s Stockings, 25c HESE Black Stockings are Woven of soft cotton, with white foot, sizes 81%, 9 and 9%, the pair, basement Salesroom, Children’s Hose 10c Pair ROKEN lines of Children’s Stockings and Half-hose, black and a few colors, low priceg at 10¢ pair. Basement Salesroom Buttons 10c Dozen C OAT and Suit Buttons in an attractive selection of styles, colors and § the dozen, 10¢. Initialed Handkerchiefs Package of Six 30c Women's HE Handker- chiefs have colored roll edge with initial to mateh and each package is made up of colors sky-blue, pink, » Breen, tan and lavender. Handkerchiefs in pack se, 30¢ Basement Salesroom. ‘ay