The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 28, 1917, Page 10

THE BON MARCHE Wednesday, Decoration Day, This Store Will Be Closed All Day FOR TUESDAY Special Displays of Middy Blouses Middy Suits W hite Skirts Middy Suits $1.50 to $5.95 In Plain White In Fancy Stripes In Sport Colors White Skirts 95c to $4.95 In Linene and Pique In Gabardine In Corduroy and Poplin Suits for Smart lo Middy outing we w coats newest style are repre- | with large collars a fancy \ sented in these w Skirts: | pockets; fancy stripes sport ’ plain flare effect some with colors combined with plain col J yoke or fancy belts, shirred and ors; of Linenc Palm-Bea \ \| plain backs with tailored or Gabardine and imported Crepe i\ tincy pockets and button trim- | ming. White Middy Blouses | All White Blouses for $1.25 | White Galatea Middy Blouses in coat style with large sailor collar and belt or the Patriotic Middy Blouses in | white with sailor collar in red or blue | MIDDIES AT 95c MIDDIES AT $1.59 a pec 1} Regulation Middy Blouses! Middy Blouses coat | You Will Find | ‘of White Galatea; collars style, made of pink and * | trimmed with white braid;| white or blue and white a Lines of fronts and sides laced with | stripe crepe; white collar j white and belt; patch pockets. | athing Caps | SPCOND FLOOR—THE BON MARCHE IN THE TOILET - ER | ARTICLE SECTION Decoration Day Deliveries =| | — Prices 19 to 75¢ All goods to be sent, purchased before 5. p.m. Tuesday, will | Summer Needs ! n | be delivered the same evening, except in suburban districts. Toilet Asticlicg a ski ss Rear a aa Special rig | 500 Size Porzoni's Face | White Canvas Shoes powder ot feria bri | | 38e, Be 50c Size Widsom's Rober. tine, liquid Fac der; our exular price special ze 1] To Wear on Decoration Day White Canvas Sport Canvas Sport Oxfords Shoes $4.00 Whit B cele + Ox. |, 286 Size Jergen's Benzoin hi vas Sport Shoes| . mite Canvas Spor * and Almond Lotion: our reg pemite — sn it per fords with leather soles and | ular $rtce is 25c, spectal | Pith ball straps of white prettily trimmed with white | 17¢ | Nubuck, with white soles e fi 8c Size Dr. Charies’ Flesh leather; neat fitting Ox- 2 ( and low heels. ¢ Food; our regular price fords. special 296 50c Size Malvina Cold Cream; our regular price 3%¢, cial 4 White Ostend Cloth White Canvas Pumps Shoes $5.00 $2.00 a Pair 25¢ ize Frostilia; ‘ . : our reg Smart looking Shoes of White Canvas Pumps, | giar price 19¢, special the fine white Ostend Cloth, round toe shape with one One pound Boric Acid, our n i" I with white welted soles and strap; white rubber soles | regular price 36c, special 30¢, white heels. and kid insoles UPPER MAIN FLOOR—THE BON MARCHE Mare Values in Coats at $. 14.95 Newer, Smarter Coats at a Lower Price A lucky pick-up sent on by fast express from our buyer in Coats are simply wonderful value at $14.95 LOWER MAIN FLOOR K 2 BON MARCHE ~ New York These | “Up-to-the-minute”: styles, with the larger novelty collars, with deep points over the shoulders—cleverly trimmed with embroidering and_ stitching Half a dozen different styles, all decidedly fetching. IN WOOL VELOURS, FEATHER FLUFF, ARTIL Y CLOTH AND IN HEAVY JERSEY. SECOND FLOOR, THE BON MARCHE ‘Ba RGAIN BASEMENT | Buy Your Decoration Day Wearables at “Bargain Basement’’ Prices For Tuesday, all lines of holiday wearables for Women, for Men, for Chil } will be well to the fore, where you can make quick selections—pay the low price | variably asked in this new kind of a store and carry your package home with you. | PLAN TO TAKE A WALK BASEMENT THROUGH THE ON TUESDAY. Sport and Middy Blouses 49c Coat and Slipover Styles BARGAIN A worthwhile offer in Women’s and Misses’ Sport and Middy Blouses. They’re made fine drill, many of them with double | breast pockets, belted and with contrasting colored trimmings. | Women’s White Waists for $1.49 | Women's white voile and organdy | Sample and Odd Suits at $16.95 Many different styles in Women's Waists—tucked, lace insertion trim Suits, plain and semt-tailored, Plait med and embroidered, with large col ed and belted effects, also Sport lars and deep front revers; some | Suits. In wool velour, wool jersey, allover embroidered styles wool poplin, mixtures and others j Serge Dresses $ $8. 25 || Silk Dresses $ 10.45 || men’ 1 French Women’s Silk Dresse many beauti es, in the Billie Burke style ful models in silk taffeta and Georgette | waisted and plaited, also coat styles | combined—made in jacket effect with with shirring at the sides. Many have double skirts and long waists or straight contrasting silk collars. line effect Men’: s Sport Shirts 59c_ Men, how about one of these Sport Shirts to wear on Decora | tion Da They have soft attached collars in different style . with | breast pockets. “All white and white with striped collar and pockets, | izes 1414 to 17, Men’s Soft Collars 15c Men's handeraft soft Collars, in sizes | Men’s Hose 19c a Pair 14 to 16, at {he each, Included are | Men's fine lisle thread Hose, at 19 Lotus, Amherst, Cricket and other | 4 pair for Tuesday They come tn brands, black only, and to be had in all sizes. HOW TO ENLIST The Bloman's Army Against laste 1 HERESY ENLIST IN THE WOMAN'S ARMY AGAINST WASTE. AND POR THR DURATION OF THE WAR! PLEDGE MYOELF TO MAKE THE ZONSERVATION OF FOOD MY SPECIAL DUTY AND SERVIC! | Sign the above coupon with yo the Waste Editor of The Star. © TO mY COUNTRY, ur name and address and mail it to | \- is BY MABEL ABBOTT | England couldn't make Mrs, | Hannah Sheehy Skeffington stop militant suffrage tactics when she believed militancy was the proper thing, nor stay at home when had decided | to come to America, nor prom. | Ise not to discuss the Irish situa- tion, when that was what ene in- tended to do. But America has converted her to prohibition, tho she had been holding out stubbornly against the measure, Mrs. Skeffington is the widow of Francis Sheehy Skeffington, the Dublin editor, who was summarily sbot by a British captain during the lIrish rebellion in 1916, the officer being afterward made a m but later tried for the shooting, declar ed insane and committed to a saitt tarium, “I'm carrying on the paper,” Mrs Skeffington told me Sunday, as we sat in the quiet parlor of Dr. W. J Griffin, 769 32nd ave., where she is 4 guest during her #tay in Seattle. It's my husband's work.” Insist on Republic She in in the United States on a lecture tour, explaining the pres ent situation tn Ireland from the viewpoint of the Irish republicans | wat be made an independent re | public. England refused me a pasaport | to come to America,” abe sald, “un- lless | would promise not to talk jabout the Irish troubles away last December. | can't tell | you how, because it would get other people into trouble. I am a militant jsuffragist, and have been in jail | twie and know police methods) pretty well, I made arrangements which would keep them from get | ting track of me for ten days; but |we were 12 days on the way, and | before I landed they had communt- cated with the American authort- the party which insists that Ireland | So 1 disguised myself and got! America Has Converted Widow of Irish Martyr to Need of Prohibition with and get back to work, I shan’t mind,” Mre eyed Irishwoman, and she talks so simply of disguises and plots and secret letters that they seem quite natural and ordinary things, But it is evident that not all the king's horses por all the king's men have been able to make her change her mind about what right | | she She Is Converted So ft was with a thrill of pride that I heard her say “America hax converted me to prohibition, | was the last suffra gist, I believe, to stand out against it, It wasn't that I don't realize the evil of the drink problem, but I | didn't believe tn making people «top drinking by legislation “But | have seen your ‘dry states.’ and have seen the men looking #0 wonderfully fit, and the advantage it has been in every way; and when I go back I shall go in eackeloth and ashes and tell my friends T believe jin Ireland.” 'STAR WRITER GOES low hum of electric motors. Finally, my curtosity got | best of me. I whispered to one of the three: “When are we going to dive? What are they waiting | for? | All three snickered out loud. | “Why, you gob (slang for sailor), we've been under the surface 15 minutes already,” he whispered back. All the time we had been under water there hadn't beeu the least ties; but nothing was done here to) vipration that I could detect = The boat was being driven by At Buffalo T wae met. a8 1 al-| etectricity, and the whole struc | ways am in the cities where I go, by a& committee wearing green badges, They seem in a great hurry, and they got my bags and led me across the platform at the sta- tion toward another train | “Just then what I took to be an. jother section of the same commit tee, also wearing green badges, up peared, and asked if I was not Mru Skeffington. 1 said I was, and turn- | ed to speak to the first delegation— | but they had disappeared, | “The second delegation proved to » the men I was supposed to meet They told me the train to which I | was being taken did not go to my | destination at all, but to Canada. “It was a near thing; and now, when I am anywhere near the bor der, I make a point of knowing who is to meet me wherever I go. “The penalty for leaving England nT did fs ix months in Jail. T shall probably go back before long. T want to get the six months thru GOVERNOR'S WIFE IS , IN WAR ON WASTE , Continued From Page 1° JI Waste The Waste Editor certainly will respond to the call of so practical) an organization. The president of t club, Mra. Hattie J. F ery woman present at meeting on Friday Mrs. James Harris, st., signed enlistment n't believe Social Score id, and ev. the club's at the home of 3421 W, 64th rds. any of us are wasteful,’ said Mra, N. W. Wicker. sham, 2011 KE. Alder st.. who acted as recruiting officer, “but we cer tainly could save more food if we tried, and we are anxious to do ev erything we can to help.” Neighborhood meetings w h Monday by Mrs. H. B. Fisher, 4 46th ave. 8S. W., and Mrs. J Handsaker, 1713 13th ave More volunteers are wanted to hold these neighborhood meetings, which are the real first-line trenc in the war against waste, Let the Waste hour you can hold a meeting, and we will help you get your neighbors out, and tell you what to do. And, above all, save next Thurs day afternoon free from all other engagements, so that you can at tend The Star's big educational food conservation meeting, at the Bon Marche New enlistments up to Monday were noon Campbell a Mra Ernest Laster J, Chureh, Oak Harbor; Port Orehard; Mra Conner Edith Moore Sussalio, University of Washington, kre M. L. Wood, 1600 22nd ave, Editor know on what day and} ture was so delicately balanced there was not the least feeling of motten. About that time T ,ot another order from Capt. Foster. Bennett called the aft torpedo room over the speaking tnbe: “Lyon and Lunnin go forward and sit down.” “What's the idea is going from ore end of the boat to the other?” 1 ed in a whis- per. “You're bal one of them replied. “When the cap- tain needs only a few hun- dred pounds to keep the boat absolutely te he sends some of us end to the other, The explanation made me feel more comfortable. think T wasn't doing anything to earn my pay, but being ballast on «a submarine 8 better than loafing’ We cruised around under the | surface for nearly three hours that day. The notion that submarine crews jconsist of daredevils who don't know the meaning of fear, or care whether they live or die, is wrong ~@|Not Daredevils, but |Men With Families The crew of the G-4 is a typical one, and the members are the most careful, conscientious best-be. haved and best-disciplined bunch I've met Ready to away? Why, half of them are married and many have children at home. Deep sea diving is generally con ‘sidered dangerous, yet submarine |men are trained for that work and consider the donning of a diver's outfit and a dive the ocean after jin a day's work throw their lives a lost torpedo all Submarine men, as a rule, are [the Veat paid of all enlisted men | Besides their regular pay, the} government adds $5 a month to the pay of every man aboard a subma- rine, then pays him $1 for every dive the boat makes, up to 15 dives a month | This GA crew to earn from $80 to $100 }a month, 'n addition to their board jend lodging | There'll never be a grand | rush by sailors for duty on | submarines until somebody | finds a sure cure for sea- | sickness. | On a submarine, a strong stom- Jach is even more essential than a stout heart A scared submariner can be made to work, but a sick one can't, Fully nine men out of ten on sub mersibles are subject to seasick ness if the weather {s rough enough. I've discovered only one sailor who NEVER gets sea-sick in a submarine—Shorty Lunnin, ship's cook on the G-4 On my second dive in the | G4 1 got acquainted with sea- | sickness It's awful. | Once out to sea, however, the G4 went down for a dive and for two hours we sped along with prac «|tically no sense of motion At a depth of about 30 feet, a submarine entirely escapes surface commotion, - the | I'd begun to | to the bottom of | enables a number of the} Skeffington t# a quiet, bright: \$ feels to be in prohibition and shall work for it, ON TRIP ON SUB. Continued From Page 1 || | Store Will Be Closed All Day W ednesday, Memorial Day FREDERICK&NELSON Basement Salesroom Women’s Outing Hats 50c and 95c ORDUROY HATS in crusher style, y) = yp with stitched brim, rose and gold, Be White Felt Crushers, 95e¢ Khaki Crushers with titched 50¢. Women's and Chil- | dren’s White Wash X . | / Ug Hats, 50¢ { / Basement Salesroom. ie rR, DI/DLAY/ ee hy AVL MEQ WANDU/L Bie a pleasing selection of pork: e JUNE FIR/Te —~- FEATURING BROAD NEN/* AIORTMENTS AND EXCEPTIONAL VALUES IN brim at G5¢ —Basement Salesroom. Extra-Size Vests 25c yokes Swiss-r i bbed Vests in low neck, sleeve- ‘MOMENT AND MIUZES* LINGERIE © WLITE tees stxie. pronerty”prosor tioned for the large figure; in COTTON FABRICS © LINEN/ AND OTHER SEASONABLE LINES OF ue COCR Bordered Scrims and Voiles 9c Yard VENLY - WOVEN Voiles and Scrims in sizes 40, 42 25e. and 44 —Basement Salesroom Price Smart Styles in Silk Dresses at $11.85 HE SUMMER WARD- ROBE is hardly com- lete without the one-piece cream and beige color, | Silk Frock which is always with borders in hand ready to wear and appro- drawn effect; 36 inches priate for so many occa- wide, B@ yard. sions. ‘These Dresses are espe- cially designed for Summer wear, made in the approved @ Russian-blouse and plaited fects of cool-looking pon- Cretonnes 10c Yard \ Cretonnes in the dainty floral and chintz effects so gee silk in white and na- desirable for Summer | tural color, Taffeta and draperies and cushion cov- Crepe de Chine. erings, 27 and 30 inches Colors—White, oyster- wide, 10¢ yard. Silkoline 15c Yard Pleasing floral designs on white and blue grounds are especially featured in white, tan, gray, purple, green, navy and black, with Paisley or stencil trimming. Priced at $11.85. Sports Skirts $4.75 Striking color-combinations in Skirts of Plaid and these Silkolines for com- ve a _" aah forter coeetiis Price Striped Velour, Serge, Silk Poplin, Taffeta and Tub 15¢ yard. Silk, shirred and plaited into smart sports styles. Basement Salesroom. | Price $4.75. —Basement Salesroom. Girls’ Tub Dresses Reduced to 50c | | 32-in. Corduroy $1.00 Yard WIDE-WALE soft- N exceptionally low price for Dresses that little finished Corduroy, girls can wear on the holiday outing. They are | particularly adapted to made of durable ginghams in stripes, plaids, checks we: ancnk tte 4 and plain colors. Sizes 5 to 14 years. Reduced to 50¢. eth *P fg ae eee skirts anc middies, n MIDDIES REDUCED TO 50c— Gold, Copenhagen, Rose, Misses’ and Children’s Middies in slip-over Peach, Pink and White and coat styles, made of strong linenette, with Priced at $1.00 yard. —Basement Salestoom. Gingham Petticoats Reduced to 50c ELL-MADE_ Petti- coats of seersucker short sleeves, large collars and patch pockets. White with Persian-pattern or stripe trimming, or braid Exceptional alues at 50¢. | Basement Salesroom., finish. Crepe Kimonos 95c gingham, in stripes of black or blue with white, IGHT-BLUE, coral, delft-blue, | cut amply full, made with pink and lavender are the colors wide flounce and fitted mee 1 his a ott + with drawstring. Lengths, featured in this attrective Cotton 38, 40 and 42 inches. Un- Crepe Kimono, Bands of crepe or usually low-priced at 50¢ sateen trim the front and sleeves. | each. —Basement Salesroom Comfortable and good looking, and moderate- ly priced at 95¢ Basement Salesroom, Women’s Khaki a Bas > 0 Nill Outing Suits, $4.75 Willow ual ame fa Picnic Baskets 50c to $2.50 outing and sports wear. The Coats and Skirts may also be had separately, as HREE patterns in these handy, light-weight Baskets, as pictured, follows Coats, in Norfolk style, with below the belted waistline, peplum two-in-one collar and long sleeves with open euff. | and many sizes, ranging from the Sizes 34 to 46, Price $2.75. proper size for the children’s school Skirts are in circular style, side-fasten- | Junch to the large family picnic size. ing, with panel back and front and : , Nifalat tiednlicacunnte of Priced from 50¢ to $2.50. Price $2.00. Basement Salesroom. large pocket. to 34 inches, —Rasement Salesroom,