The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 15, 1917, Page 11

Faas BRE IS JIM’S FABLE pire Builder Wrote It For Charity | yim Hill should have been jhoth Starved to Death. Before he i iiehor Inatead of a railroad died, the Wise Guy sald to the se Weeping Crowd: “TKis is Your| an Funeral, Too, my Fool Friends. | ‘4 Let me Hand you this Moral to! Frame and Hang over your Empty nner Tables: “The Mare Makes‘ Money Come Just As Fast As] Money Makes The Mare Go.”*" | Here is Hill's Hmerick ' “There was a young farm in the| West | much overworked and hard: | pressed That it weartly said: ‘TN just take to my bed wa Lean and Ragged Man/ And drop thru to China to reat’ the Ground. ‘Let Me in| | ae sald; “I will work the|“But alas! when the roots of the} for you while you feed Me, | trees | 1) both grow fat and/Canght the eye of the frugal | Chinese, negou're OD. said the Man; and| They proceeded to pounce, pasate Horse were prosperous | And to plant every ounce Happy until they both Waxed | Of that farm in potatoes and peas.” and Saucy. Then they Got| | a aiuy cat fe, "st GETS CLEVELAND J Sw coer, at "om GETS CLEVELAND JOB gan kick Harder than a! pyederick E. Clerk, principal of He put a Muzzle on the Lincoln high school, has accepted Beast and Gave him Oats at)» position as istant superintend Bate of One Grain a Day, and ont of the ools at Cleveland, | pors Sat up Nights to/Qhio. He ts one of three men| him off the Grass. jchosen by Dr. F. BE. Spaulding the Horse was too Weak | head of the Cleveland public school | Work any More. So the Field| system, to have charge of the e ography, just publish. Joseph Gilpin Pyle, is Pyle tells this A charitable woman once Hilt to write her a tim or a fable, which was to ag the proceeds to be Teed for pure milk for nursing Tedies, Hill wrote both. Here | so pay are: tea Horse once Looked the Fence into the Next Field, we wi Neglected and he and the Man! organized junior high schools. Tomorrow Night Ends the Great Sale STAR—FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1917. PAGE 11 Echo Zahl Spurns Nifty Bathing Suits Made for Beach Only So She Digs Out Her Trusty Swimming Garment and Tomorrow She’ll Show You How to Really Enjoy Good Ole Swimming Hole The pictures show some of the fashions in bathing sults dis Besides the bloome: The most revolutic The bloomer is made even more conspicuous thr short skirt and more or less of a bod! y feature of 1917 bathing suits Is the div each beauty now bos | garment. Plain and fancy taffeta and Charmeuse are used for the gayest bathing sults, and mohair occasionally is combined with silk. By Echo June Zahl The call of the «wimmin’ hole! I've heard it, and I'm respond- ing. as last June and the June before—and ad infinitum. Way down tn my little trunk reposes the swimmin’ sult of Jast June and the June before. She looked surprised, as {f go- ing Into the water wasn't an ésvential of swimming. “Y'know,” I said to her, “T thought I could look elite-like bat wasn't quite concentrated, as {t were.” shook her head at my ap. parently maniacal taste, and out some more with 4 zebra stripes, short skirts and lots of bloomers I turned away from them all It struck me then that one can- not combine utility and frills tn a swimming suit T went to many shops, and my hopes were killed at each. A swimming suit of beauty is & joy forever only as long as you stay out of the water. 1 thought of my little faded garment, in the bottom of my in Seattle stores, and exhibited to Bcho Zah! of The 6tar in her shop ping tour yesterday afternoon ts a beach blanket, bag, parasol and hat, as well as a © of four or five inches of bloomers, which means that the skirt is exceptionally he fact that the skirt is often slashed at the side or is pointed at the lower edge, Sometimes the bloomer is fashioned of a material contrasting with the upper » and cape trunk. It had carried me thru many Junes. How silly to ever forsake it. I sped home and brought it forth om its winter nest I laid it out, ready to wear. Today I'm off for the old swimmin’ hole. short, rather than that the bloomer is extra long. And tomorrow, in The Star, you'll see my idea of a regular sult—a little faded, ‘tis true but not loaded down with slip pers and bows and those other sinker things. I'm going swimming, And when I swim, I SWIM. But yesterday a wild, fem!- nine idea seized me! Why not step forth this June & la vogue—like the mermaids on the cover of Vanity Fair— and similar ones on the beach at Atlantic City? The idea grew bigger and bigger.” eee Downtown went I. Into a shop. And asked to be shown THE LATEST THING tn bath- ing apparel. The clerk played around fn an enormous pile of green sults, and yellow suits, and green and yellow suits, spurned ‘em all, and yanked out THE THING “Adorable with your skin,” she murmured, laying the thing out on the counter before my startled orbs, 03 FIRST AVENUE The big rush is on in full force and great Closing Out Sale of four nch stores will come to an end. It | will be many years before you will see rsuch values passed out of a Piano store ain “T said a swimming suit,” sald % 1. “I'm not going to a fancy -., dress ball.” It was plum-colored char- menuse, slashed at the side, to show ruffled bloomers of black and white-striped satin. “Walt—I will show you what goes with It.” And she dug again into anoth er pile of things. She Issued again with a polka dot parasol, bag, and a pair of gay laced slippers “But, lady,” I protested, “who takes care of these little details when I go into the water?” Suits AND OveRCOATS #15. IT WAS TOO FAR | y ' UP FOR THE BOSS | : It a t Require a i1eiescope NEW YORK, June 15.—Recause the president of a large company, —to see the real $25 value in the clothes Fahey-Brockman sell you for $15. whose headquarters are ma —and it don’t require a microscope, either, to see that the in a skyscraper downtown Ject to dizziness, the company has value is here in every line, stitch and buttonhole. just paid a bill of approximately $1000, representing the expense of | moving from the fourth to the thirty-second floor of the building and back again. The company has grown like a/}j healthy young weed in the last year and Inte last month it was de cided to move into new, larger and more commodious quarters. These were found by the vice-president and the moving was accomplished while the president was out of the city. He returned the other afternoon, | strolled into the handsomely fur- nished office which had been pre pared for him and walked quickly out again. “Not for me,” he told everybody | within earshot, suddenly and loud- ly, “The first thing I know the police department would be picking me up on a shovel underneath that window. I've been light headed since the year one, and while it may be a form of insanity or a con- stitutional weakness, the fact re- mains that the horrible distance) from that window to the street fascinates me, and sooner or later I would step right over the sill and out.” So now the company’s profit and loss ledger contains the notation: “To moving, $1000.” —Any level-headedjman can easily understand how we save him $10 by our upstairs methods. —But most of them are a little bit surprised at the ex- traordinary values we are giving. The garments are yroduced by the best manufacturers in the country. Many of hem are silk lined. The fabric quality is truly wonderful. TAKE THE ELEVATOR AND SAVE $10. }903 FIRST AVENUE Many little prices on everything are and easy terms of payment cheer- wed given to close all out by Saturday night. Bey Now! Look at This Matter Squarely— Ask yourself how many extravagant street-level rent bills you’ve helped pay for. How many fussy showcases and glit- tering chandeliers have you helped Abisoldt to pay for? OA Muat dnie Hrce coowe How many spectal sales losses have you helped pay for? HIMSEL or @ $26.00 q TI prices tn. without How many of the other fellows’ “bad debts” have you “tnade good?” REMEMBER—you pay for none of these unnecessary extravagances when you trade upstairs with Fahey- Brockman. You pay for clothes only! NORTHWEST BLDG PORTLAND ARCADE. BLDG. SEATTLE /Ramaker Bros.Co. | Established 40 Years. Open Evenings. 903 FIRST AVENUE Just Printers {e138 THIRD MAIN 1043