The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 28, 1917, Page 7

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We do positively know that our operating expense is greatly below that of the average clothes shop, and every effort has been made to keep the cost of selling down to bedrock. By careful study and persistent effort and by carrying out a plan of scientific business principles we have cut the cost of selling to the bone. There is no loss or waste in the conducting of this business. the minimum of rental, the cheapest of fixtures, no loss from charge ac- counts, and, with small profits and a great volume of business, we have established new clothing values in the Northwest. Suits and Overcoats We have swell Universal City tribution to America’s figh forces to more than two score m Alterations We Save You Money on Your Hat New Fall Styles Now Showing Saturday at 7 P.M. “Bg ww This Store Closes Clothes Shop 4th and Pike Upstairs ’ Joshua Green Building Jshould be given a hearing.” One of the moat |eles in either encouraging or dis couraging peace, In the opinion of| the archbishop, is the press, | doubled in the last few months. |Every effort is being made to re- powerful agen (ENCOURAGE ALL PEACE AGENCIES, SAYS BONZANO By United Prees Leased Wire KANSAS CITY, Mo., regardless of polit! | 8¢ jhere recently of local outbreaks of |dysentery in Germany formation today Bonzano today was on his way to He @as been attend 16th annual conven! ft appeared these local outbreaks as compared with the present prac Lack Proper Diet It is in order| “Any agency, jcal or national affiliation, that has for ita alm the promotion of peace permanent or temporary—should lack of proper diet |the German government {s making such extraordinary | press all details of the epidemic, | efforta to sup. » encouraged.” The great response to Red Cross 1d Comes purely from the heart. both rich and poor, Will Instruct Reserve Engineers Reserve officers of the engineers’ | refusing corps will report for additional in |when he made Leavenworth, | Has willingly done his part. the attitude of various nations In above state “No matter from whom or what , and at Vancouver barracks,| quarter pes next month, according to orders re-|nost welcome to the Those who are to go| the apostolic to Kansas will leave September 2 and those assigned to Vancouverlcine strife that is drenching the} world with the blood of nations rman government ts mak ing frantic efforts to conceal the dysentery epidemic All German cities have stopped publicat mortality reports. more holy father,”| press n of UPSTAIRS agency seeking to end the STAR—TUESDAY, AUG. 28, 1917. PAGE 7 MANY MOVIE FIGHT KAISER s] Today’s Programs — —e rhe in “The Mys . Coliseum Billie erloun Mine Terry Oherty—Sessue Hayskawn in “Hasht- wre Toge.”” Clemmer—Bryant Washburn in “Skin- ere aby sin “Wild and William Desmond in “Master “Bawbs jer Neloved Doris Grey in “ “Souls tn | ‘Bryant Washburn In “Skinner's Baby,” now at Clemmer More than 40 men of Uni- versal City will anewer “Here!” when the government makes ite first call on the manhood country. There is @ marked amount of enthusiasm on the part of the boys of the film capital who are “out in front” on the draft list—not one voiced a complaint when he learned | that his number had been drawn from Uncle Sam's star red and striped hat. Among the leading actors who come within the scope of the first call are Willlam Franey amd Mi! n Sims, Joker comedians; Francis MacDonald, who plays » prominent part in “The Gray Ghost” ; and Lloyd Whitlock and J. Web ster Dill of Ruth Stonehounse’s fea ture company | | | Directors Are Chosen Two of the directing staff prob ably_will be called soon-—George Marshall, who has been staging the Neal Hart features, and Man. celia De Grasse, assistant to Jo- seph De Grasse, who !s producing | “The Maverick,” with Franklyn | Farnum as the star actor. | Cameraman Jack Mackenate of Director De Grasae’s company; J Kull, who has been shooting the Max Asher comedies, and E. R Meeker, who has assisted tn the | photographing of Jacques Jaccard’s new ferial, were among those whose numbers were selected ea ly In the drawing. | Robert A. Dillon, of the soenarto staff, and Harold Hoadley, of the publicity department, are listed among the first names in their re spective districts, as are Fred Datig and Lesile Irwin of the em. ployment office, 8. F. Keister and John Shea of the accounting de partment, and H. L. Mohr and Employes from the laboratory arpenter shop and mills, property | room, and general stage hands first con n Hashimura Togo, in the person of |Sessue Hayakawa, the hero of Wal schoolbo lace Irwin's Japane tales, fs appearing at the Liberty anti! Wednesday night. Driven from his fiative land by the wiles |of a treacherous brother, the young |Togo finds himself comp. jtake a position as “ship's boy” on a MUSIC AND DANCING, DI | HOTEL BUTLER »nt with your pocketbook.—Ad- | rtisement | sis lv | See Dr. Edwin J. Brown | D. D. 8. 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ERED) in these combinations: Gunmetal Calf Vamp, Kid Top, $6.00 Pair -with Goodyear welt leather soles, or black Tex- tan sole and black rubber heel All Tan Mahogany Calf $6.75 Pair with Textan sole and heel to match *_* * CLOSING OUT one hundred pairs of Women’s Pumps and Strap Slippers in broken sises and odd styles (sizes from 2% to 5 In the lot), at $1.96 pair. ment Salesroom. Drapery Cretonnes 18c Yard In Lengths of From Two to 12 Yards IFTEEN hundred yards in this attractive offer- ing of Cretonnes, compris- ing many dainty floral pat- terns and novelty stripe effects, printed in light and medium-dark colorings on plain, drill and rep grounds. Suitable for window draperies, furniture cover- BOYS’ SHOES Wide assortment of popular lasts and leathers. Basem ent Salesroom ings, cushions, knitting bags and many fancywork uses. Thirty-six inches wide; the yard, 18¢. Basement Salesroom. Grant Whytock of the cutting )) at pound for America. He does} room. | thie partly in order to be near a erful young American “moon maiden,” as he calls her, and partly | to see his 1, “the honorable George Washington,” who, he fond believes, will welcome him with a small ax in his hand. His ad- ventu n America are unique, and much has be n added to their| | Confessions of. aWife| - ?° HAPPINESS IS IN THE AIR * Relafen sca: eae ae ina Los Angeles, little book, is one charm by the clever acting of Hay-jof my pet cities and California is akawa and the excellent cast. Biilie Burke, the darling of the and more recently of the stage, 4 Wednesday, in a comedy of | mystery and love, “The Mysterious Miss Terry.” Three hard-working jand ambitious young men all live| feeling of iove for e Refined atmosphere—menu con-|)i 446° To this house also comes a young and charming girl in the person of Miss Terry, who ts work-| ing as a clerk in a hardware store No one in the house knows much about her, and many of her actions seem imbued with deepest mys- tery the same big city boarding | “Bawbs o’ Blue Ridge,” starring the effervescent Bessie Barriscale, | is at the Mission tonight and Wed-| nesday, It is a tale of a mountain waif whose ignorance of grammar] (ijuq that shuts down over the |nearly resulted in mismating. Its} | f » of Barbara Colby, phan and companion of bugs, s, frogs and birds Douglas Fairbanks has intro- duced to patrons of the screen a |pretty new-comer to the motion picture field In_ the person of Eileen Percy, Miss Percy opposite the popula “Wild and Wool he recently deserted the Broad way footlights in favor of the 80-| yoy 411," loalled silent art. “If this fs a si-| lent vocation. said the talented appears Douglas in| at the Rex after a strenuous day be ly on rbanks picture, “the crowe Canary birds, parrots, fancy and expensive lap dogs and imported long-haired cats are fair enough pets, but there is no pet like one’s own baby. T homely morals set forth in “Skin- | ner’s Baby,” at the Clemmer, star- ring Bryant Washburn at is one of the Gail Kane, one of the prettiest of the speaking stage stars who has madé new fame for herself in mo- tion pictures, is delighted with her 1s In Pawn,” at the my pet state. Nowhere are the skies so blue as alifornia; now © does the seem as golden; nowhere does in sv screen, i at the Coliseum tonight|the air have that “feel” of being laundered and hung out to dry. Someway, when I get to this land of sunshiny afternoons, I have a y one. feel as Jim Edie used to say he felt after eating a salad of which he was particularly fond. When he had eaten as much as he could pos- sibly hold, Jim would fetch a sigh of prodigious content nd remark as if to himself, “I feel as tho I'd like to kiss everybody,” When I awoke this morning I had this feeling of buoyancy and happiness which seemed to take in the whole world, But immediately the thought of Dick put fear into my heart. It was like the sudden mountains, rearing themselves up into the blue and gold, and black ens, for a moment, the landscape. 1 rushed into Dick's room and found him awake, He looked up with a smile, “Haven't got the sleep out of your eyes, have you Margie?” he sald. “You look, with your burnished hair tumbling about your face, and your rose-colored night dress tumbling off your shoul der, like a little girl in a fairy tale.” “Dick, if it were not terrible to wish on you, I would almost be tempted to ask the fairles to keep Dick laughed and stretched out his arms to me, “That is not wish. ing me anything so very terrible now, Margie, It is no hardship for me to be sick when you are with me, It just seems a perfectly glorious dream, from which I will have to wake soon, but gosh, how I shall hate to do it.” “Do you feel better this morning, dea ‘I feel perfectly ‘well, Margie, and I think I'll get up.” “Had you not better wait until the doctor comes?” “Doctor? Doctor? What doctor? 1 am not going to have a doctor out here.” “Yes, dear boy, you had a doctor last night when you were uncon: scious,” “Was I unconscious last night?” “You were, from the time we reached the top of the mountains }came to at intervals and talked to |me, but in such a weak voice I h to bend my face down to your Hips to hear what you were saying.” “Do it now,” ss $i slipped from his memory. |. In Dick’s mind we were back jjust where we had started that | Wonderful night when we took that 1|"ild ride, while he comforted me and told me our lives were going to be one grand swet song. be one grand sweet song. your heart is stronger.” ay I was not gc | Margie?’ |try not to worry Dick looked won't you?” counts.” Oh, little book, I wish, most sin- cerely I wish, that I could put away ettery the fact that in past many other things }counted much more with Dick than for |I did (To be continued) ‘3 FIRES DO BIC DAMAGE IN N, W, PORTLAND, Aug. 28.—Three se- rious fires in| Oregon and Idaho towns were reported here in the jlast 12 hours, ct Incendiarism {s suspected. | thira of the business section of Cul de Sac, Idaho, was destroyed by a fire which was started by a de ~ fective flue, | The Medical Springs health re- | sort, near Baker, Ore, was burned, 00. Visitors joined with resort employes in with a loss of $25, until you were placed in bed. Ycx battling the flames. 1 Dick with a grin, I bent down and kissed him. From the look in his face I knew all unhappy, strenuous fears had “But, Dick, the doctor sald you must lie flat on your back until He sank back on the pillow with a sigh and asked, “Did the doctor to get well, “How foolish, Dick, He said your heart was weak from overwork, }and probably from some severe |strain you put upon it, but he | hoped, with the rest and the per |fect freedom from worry you will | have out here, that you will come jout all right. Now, Dick, you will up with a smile, |“Why should I worry? You are here with me and nothing else gaieee The $150,000 plant of the Brown Lumber company at Cottage Grove, Ore., was completely destroyed by fire late yesterday, For a time the blaze threatened to sweep thru the tailing a loss of $35,000, one-