The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 2, 1918, Page 5

Even Attorney for Not only have Seattle's small ges consumers been unmerciful ly “bumped” by the latest order of the state public service com. mission, but the new rates, which went inte effect Friday, will bring the company $40,000 a year more revenue than it asked in its original demand! These new rates, which heap a berden on the small consumer, will bring the Seattle Lighting _ tompany increased revenue of $295,000 a year, a member of the commission estimates. The request of the company which taused such a fuss only provided for Board Rates Worse | ThanCorporation’s Gas Company Finds Board Ruling Unfair to Thousands - of Small Consumers ! }100 cubic 200 cuble | 200 cubic | 400 cubic | 500 eudic | ay 25 Cents More A few more than 14,000 gan con sumers of between @ month will pay in an additional $3,516 | month. The increase thru this class of users ts a straight 25 cant raise over the old rates ‘De users of between 1,000 and 1.500 feet a month will pay In about | S80 a month, or an iner The old rate for this o and the new rate is 500 and 1,000 feet | 20 cents. was $1 | She’s Got Right _ | Sort of Husband \ May Lefevre SNE Eicrenas.ef $980,000, Dr. Betnia. Their In 30 Conte | A fortunate woman ts May Le a. the city’s expert witness, estimated! Fight hundred and ninety-five dol-|@T® @ppegring at the Palace Hip B that the company should be satis-| lars extr® evill be paid by those who| With her husband, George Lefevre, | fied, with a 6 per cent war-time re-| use betweem 1,500 and 2,000 fect per |'® novelty dances turn, which would mean an annual/ month. This is on an increase of 20, Notice the spiffy headgear May is fevenue Increase of $125,000 in rev-| cents on the old dollar rate wearing in the picture above? Weil a, enue | An increase of 15 cents has been | friend husband designed and built It. raat, H. R. Clise, attorney for the gas| placed on users of between 2,000 and | OF constructed It, or whatever It ix ‘company, denies that the new rate| 2.500 feet of gas a month. This in-| they to make such things pons | phor will Increase the revenue $293,000 a/ creases the company's revenues by | ble ake yeor $470, as there are about 3.136 con-| Besides designing and b ng all fan's “We can’t see how it will increase | sumers in this class. his wife's headgear, George also ¢: ee Hrenue more than $200,000," he| The users of between 2,500 and) signs and sews her dreanes | — f ; } 3,000 feet will pay $316 more than| if that ian't the kind of a hus r figures show that @bout 10,441/ formerly on an increase of 15 cents. | band you'd like, girls, please step up consumers using less than 500 feet of | There are about 2,100 people affected | and dencribe bit. 9 a month will contribute an addi-/ in this class clipaeiann ET " sal $3,027.89 a month to the com-| About $195 monthly will be taken | The average rate of increase | in on the increase on users of be for & number of this class is 29 cents| tween 3,000 and 3,500 feet. The in-| & month but the consumers of the | crease to the users in this class ts 15 | urn amounts under 200 feet will have to| cents. | pay a 35-cent increased cost. whereas | The users of the 3.500 to 4.000 fret | those above that figure will have to] class will pay in about $90 additional | with pay 26 cents. jon a 10-cent raise over the old rate ‘0 The comparative rates, with| of $1 you geomet payment discounts deducted, lore users between 4,000 and 5,000 a or ii 1848 on the increase of §.per cent. WHOLESALE BABY CARE cent : x * store 4 We have been around to some of sa EVENGAS ATTORNEYS PROTEST © 2:exxeasertsrne a book, and oh, how I wanted to take with i ail those ‘beseed ipéthertens babies | and fo my arine an carry them home isery i wich tox there te sive thems taatvie o*, | ual care and comfort. Perhaps ba an # Even attorneys for the Seattle —_ See Bolton | bien age Welhee ahved toe Whetinale te r= Lighting company have joined aga |a scientific and sanitary manner, chorus of disapproval ere te what Asterney Hf. B- CU 1 nu: 7 don't knew | more “> counsel for the gas company, says | on latest ruling of the | ‘Wwe are not satisfied with the de. 1 Delieve Charlotte Perkins Gil- commission, | cision. We do not think the rate | ™&? has decided that is the best way | rs gas rates, jon consumers of less than 5,000 feot | mother children, and that after! experimentation observation. | the small | equitable, as they will be forced to | “"0t havina aes, tae: titi tants} | bear more than their proportionate | share, Nor will the company receive | the necessary Increase, Wagen have | been increased $240,000, and we can |not see how the rates will Increase | the company’s revenue more Ithan $200,000.” “SOLDIERS FLOCK TO CAMP LEWIS THEATRE ON OPENING NIGHT CAMP LEWIS, Feb. 2 theatre, the first of the government- butlt and operated amusement places ‘at this cantonment, was opened last Right. Officers and men from every organization in the camp packed the house to the doors. ‘The attraction offered on the open- &ttle Philharmonic orchestra and the ) only =. | Four Bottles of Blanchester, Ohio, Mrs. Effie Hill, Fites as follows: “I cannot tell how much I saf- | fered in the past twelve years. I) | have been treated by physicians and{ fo relief only for a short time. I was| in such a condition from nervous) ri my brain was pressing down, and so mn rvous I could not get my rest at webt. Would have sinking spells an? then so weak that I could not «may work. I began to take Peruna. | Heve taken four bottles of Peruna and have gained in strength and —Liberty | Nervous Headaches headaches, such heavy feeling as if) lorpheus Male Chorus of Tacoma. Both theatre and program met with the hearty approval of the big audience Brig. Gen. Foltz, commanding, ad dressed the men on the advantages of the new theatre, and urged them to take advantage of it. Manager Edward A. Brandon, appointed by the war department to operate the | venture, explained the benefits of “mileage” and the low rates at ing night was a concert by the Se) which high class amusements will) be offered. Peruna ||auall | | You Enough flesh, and can say I am a well woman. I cannot thank you enough for my recovery.” Those who object to” liquid medi cines can secure Peruna tablets. RETU RN OF | AMERIC THE PULSATING H. aves. METROPOLITAI OLIVER MOROSCO PRESENTS “The Bird of Paradise” BY RICHARD WALTON TU ENTIRE NEW PRODUCTION—BETTER THAN EVER and Sat- Mat. 50c to $1.50; Wed. Ma Week Beginning Monday, Feb, 11 nA ‘Ss FAVORITE DRAMA | IAWAIIAN Ri ANCE ¥ We to $1.00, i Nights 22 to Sie. WILKES Fifth and Pine—Tel. Elliott 2525-2526 MATINEE TOMORROW—SUNDAY UNTIL THE END OF THE WEEK OTHER MATINEES WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY Too Many Cooks” A COMEDY FARCE THEATRE —PLAYERS— NOW IS THE TIME TO LAUGH IF YOU NEVER DID BEFORE Matinees 17c to 28 dant, you have never seen the look on a mother’s face as she clasy | baby in her arms, It in the most beautiful, all-pervading ation of unselfish love that I hay r ob-| ed j having ears, you |have never heard that indescribable inarticulate expression of pure en-| joyment and content that a baby} gives when Its little moist mouth | touches its mother’s breast. To me| that is the holiest picture in all this} world | | Donna had determined that she! would adopt a girl if she could find] one that pleased her. To hear her| talk you would think that she in-/ tended to take a new-born angel| who had strayed to this mundane sphere by mistake | “It must have brown eyes like! yours, Margie,” she said. | “And red hair like mine, too,” I suggested smilingly, for I knew that Donna detested red hair. | | “Oh, no, my dear, no,” she inter: | rupted quickly. “I don't want her to have red hair, Proud as you are| of yours, Margie, I have always con. sidered it your greatest defect.” | “And pray what are my others, dear, kind and sincere friend?" I asked in mock annoyance. | “I won't stop to go into the sub- Ject today,”” was Donna's laughing answer, “because I don’t t you to be too unhappy about your ap- pearance.” Just then we arrived at the or-/ phanage. We told our errand to the good sister in charge and were ush- ered into a big room where there| babies and little b | bies and cross b | pretty ba “and ugly babies, robust babies and frail bables, but alas, all jot them were motherless babies, lit | tle book, and oh, how I did yearn to do something for them! | Poor little things—all of them,| | either from the necessity or the dis }@race of their parents, would to face the world alone unless some | ave| good woman took them and rait| them to heart and soul The good sister brought to Don-| na’s attention a baby that almost an-| |swered the description that she had given me of the child she would adopt. Great brown eyes and soft curls of gold, dimples ike Donna's own and a darling mouth that was curled into a baby smile. | Donna held the child in her arms |for a long time and her lips rested lon the downy head. Suddenly from across the room came a Uttle croon ing voice, and both Donna and [| turned to look in the direction of the | sound, There, on the other side of | the room, sat a baby in a go-cart. | He was an ugly baby, a boy, with| carroty hair and a wide mouth, He| had small but twinkling gray eyes| which were fringed with long, curl-| Jing eyelashes that were the only | beauty about his whole face, Again Donna kissed the | golden curls that covered the head of ‘the baby in her arms, but her eyes | traveled across the room to the} crooning baby in the cart. (To Be © tinued) SEAMAN ASPHYXIATE? VICTORIA, B. C,, Feb, 2.—First Mate HE. Ruys, of the Chilean bark Quaytecas, wan asphyxiated ‘Thurs- day night by fumes of a charcoal fire he built in his cabin, according to dear Capt. J. A. Mullea, who arrived here last night, Ruys failed to provide adequate ventilation after he built] the fire, STAR—SATURDAY, Says. Use of Trousers Forbidden to Womem by tlie Bibl SEATTLE GAS CO. IS ALLOWED $40, 000 MORE THAN IT “ASK, FEB. 2, 1918. PAGE 5 (BECK TELLS HOW Theatres Offer Varied » MUCH FLOUR ONE _ MAY PURCHASE: dust how much flour can con sumers buy at a tle? Bruce ©. Beck, U, 8. food ad ministrator for Seattle, answers this and other questions, affect ing the recent wheat flour rules, in the following statement: tail wal f fh © limited | to one-eighth barrel to consumers in cities and towns; to one-quarter bar rel to farmers and others living at reasonable distance from nearest point of supply; to one-half barrel to thy living remote from nearest point of supply; and for those living at very remote, distances and re ing larger supply than half-barrel permission must be obtained either from county tration r federal food adminis flour must be ac “ ale of substitutes I proportion of one of substitute to two of wheat. Raw potatoes should be recommended to reduce wheat flour used, but cannot be credited as substitute in purchase Standard bread formula, now ealled Victory bread. mains the mame with the exception that in stead of all wheat flour, 5 per cent wheat substitutes In to be used at enent, to be gradually increased to per cent by February 24 Distributors must get substitutes for wheat flour moving immediately to avold increasing Inevitable diffi culties to be met in making this ' change. B.C. BE c. “Aasnistant Federal Food Adminis. trator for Western Washington.” Lowering Prices of Wheat Substitutes MINNEAPOLIS, Feb, 2.-Fear that farmers, attracted by in creaned prices of substitutes, will not plant wheat this ring, today brought cooperation from milling authorities in an effort to lower the prices of substitutes, Standard at flour today sold for $10.60 a barrel, while rice flour nold for $11.10 and barley flour brought $10.50 a barrel, : BEST FOR LIVER, BOWELS, STOMACH, HEADACHE, COLDS) They liven the liver and bow- els and straighten you right up. Don't be bilious, constipated, sick, with breath bad and stomach sour. eure! Take Cascarets the nicest, gentlest liver cleansing you ever ex- Wake up with your head clear, stomach sweet, breath right and feeling fine. Get rid of sick headache, biliousness, constipation, furred tongue, sour stomach, bad colds, Clear your skin, brighten r eyes, quicken your step and Ike doing a full day's work Tonight and enjoy and bowel pertenced, feel Cascarets are better than salts, pil lor calomel because they don't shock bowels or the next liver or gripe the inconventence all the cause day. Mothers should give cross, sick, billous, feverish children a whole Cascaret any time, as they can not injure the thirty feet of tender bowels, JAZZ? If NOT you might as well be} a dead one. Jazz and the World Jazzes with You Otherwise you will walk alone. Prof. and Mrs. Oswald | and their 30 assistants make a specialty of the JAZZ Obey that impulse and learn. Class starts MONDAY at 715 p. m. By SATURDAY you will be Jazzing at The HIPPODROME Fifth and University Finest Floor in U. 8. Unexcelled Music. List of Entertainment! rox >. ae | AT THE THEATRES = | | Metropolitan—Mitai Hajos, in | | | Pom Pom,” closing tonight. Orpheum-—-Vaudevil) Galety—Burlesque. | Gay afternoon for a week's stay Creasy and Dayne will be there with “The Wyoming Whoop,” a Yan kee newspaper sketch. Morton and Ginss in the musical | eatire, "1918-1950," will furnish com: |edy and harmony. The Ziegler Sisxtern will |their Broadway “wild-fire” dances to |the music of their own orchestra. | which they call The Kentucky Five.” | It i a Jaze band Al Shaynes will Present “sing.” Jand singer of Irish ballads, will make |her first Seattle appearance in vau- | deville carmoft and Varvara, boy tenor boy ist, promise a good Jand a Elida Morris has songs and char acterizations. v / ‘Travel Weekly has scenes from foreign ports. The concert orchestra promises an entertaining program. eee PANTAGES The new bill at the Pantages, opening with the matinee perform ance Monday, will featu: dilly King, the and bis “Zulu Girls,” in * Africa.” ra attraction Countess a Gypey beauty, will appear performance on the caymba lom, a weird Gypsy instrument Other ryimb. Lawrence John. Hilton and Laz ls;" Eileen Fleury, 1 with a big voice, and the rio, in a comedy bar nov. inode of “Who In Num tery serial, will be screen. o. METROPOLITAN jeattle other “L Bird of Par jadise,” wh its engagement at the Metropolitan on Monday February 11 Miss Marion ented girl ue tractive Miss vuana” The new ber 1?" my shown on the theatre-goers will see in “The h opens an Hutchins is the tal who will portray the lit Hawaiian pring the very at feature of the show Hutchins is the since the play was pro- duced. Those who preceded her in the role are: Laurette Taylor, sie Barriscale, Blanche Hall, Lenore Ulrich, Carlotta De Monterey, May Buckley ninth . ALACE HIP James H. Manning and Joseph FE Sullivan will lead the new bill at the Palace Hip Sunday in a_ political comedy, ¢ Bribe.” Miss Gertrude Valentine will add much to the en Joyment of this sketch. Marston and Manley will appear in a comedy dancing skit. Kartelli will perform interesting tricks on the slack wire. a dancing number, “Along the | Nile.” in which the dancing of Miss Mantill is featured. The Three Millards will entertain with the plano, violin and saxw phone, Art and Anna Owens have a skit called “Quarrelsome,” in which much fun is promised. . WILKES Just why “Too Many Cooks Spotl |the Broth” will be explained by the Wilkes Players, beginning Sunday at the Wilkes theatre, when they pre- sent the play by that name. Seattle's capable stock company promises much of amusement in this successful farce, which has been labeled a “tangle of laughter.” It 1s a warranted cure for the blues and a grouch-chaser as well. oe ORPHEUM Wm, 8. Hart will head the motion picture end of the new bill at the Moore — Vaudeville, Orpheum ctreutt, | | | Wilkes—toek. | | Pantages--Vaudeville. | | Palace Hip—Vaudeville, Ce | eee MOORE | A_ twofeature bill of Orpheum vaudeville comes to the Moore Sun Ruth Osborne, Seattle girl harpist | r, | Olin Field and Muriel Starr. | Mantill and Warden will appear in | 1—Ivan Miller at the Wilkes; 2— | Lew Hilton at the Pantages; 3— Marion Hutchins in “The Bird of Paradise” coming to the Met; 4— Van Slyke and Genung at the Orph cum; 5—Ziegler Sisters at the Moore; 6—Anna Owens at the Palace Hip; | 7—Will Armstrong at the Gaiety, | Orpheum, Third and Madison, in one lof his Western dramas labeled, “A : The Great Westin Company will head the vaudeville program | impersonations of Napoleon, | ley men | Dixte Boyd wilt songs and comedy. Arville and Knight Bumps,” have a batie turn Van Slyke and Genung will offer comedy sketch, “Fifty-Fifty.” “Musical Irving” will play the vio }tin and cello. | The Willis Hall Trio have a com- edy winging, dancing and talking turn, featuring two children. eee offer character in “Bumping comedy acro- | the a GATETY Ed Armstrong, of the Armstrong Folly company, is so inspired with the local political situation that he with a Sunday matinee. With Armstrong, Irish comedian, | will be cast in the part of the mayor and will occupy “Hi's” chair for the| week, Henry Sherr, Jewish comedian, who has joined the company from the East, promises a take-off on the district attorney's office. | Billie Bingham and Perqueta will jaing popular songs with the aid of | the bevy of 20 girls in the chorus, DE ROTHSCHILD DEAD WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—Alfred Charles De Rothschild, 76, second son of Baron Lionel De Rothschild, died here last night. He a partner in the banking firm of N. M. 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Not Open Sundays, Main 8256, ht to the Finish.” | with | McKin-| Roosevelt and of other famous | j the. has written a burlesque offering called “The her-Ups,” for the |new show at the Galety, starting | in Letter Here they are, folks, ‘the long pent-up confessions of the women who want to wear trousers, But dust when everything was in this trouser dis. anti-trouserist: dug down in the Bible and found that “woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unt walt! | Here’s Quotation From the Bible Dear Miss Grey This “trouser ming a rather rious topic. Maybe some of your readers would like to know how is | viewed from a Bible standpoint “The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither eee a man put on a woman's gar ment; for all that do #0 a |tion unto the | Deuteronomy verse, abornina Goa thy chapter 5th « Mi Ww Take to Overalls Like Duck to Water Dear Mins Grey: I think women| | will take to the overall idea like a duck does to water. As to the effect this will have ete, I think Those who survived e skirt will be immune from the trousers skirt first made + the fat lady held up her hands and said, “Not tor M but when she did take It up, she dia! it with a veng and I think she will do Ukewise with trousers. Sh is no slacker. Leave it to the desig! |er to camouflage in the cut or make of the garment to deceive those who on In the to modesty we at hobt dang r When the hobbl are looking for such blemishes as| bow-legs, kngck-knees, ete. MRS. R.C R. Likes Costumes of Chinese Women | Dear Miss Grey: What street cos- tume for women could be more artis modest and appropriate than the one worn by Chinese women? ‘The long, graceful coat, could be orna- mented with embroidery, braiding stitching—Americanized to some ex- tent to meet the requirements of the individual. With the plain trousers, & lovely blouse, and the ideal walking suit is evolved. EMILIE ATWOOD. | She Wouldn't Sneeze at Trouser Idea Dear Miss Grey the woman who I wish to answer said “clothes DO Quotes Scriptures Miss Grey’s Readers Write Many In- teresting Views on Question of Dress Reform for the Sex +| styles of dress to Cynthia that trousers to lose their make the would cau) modesty woman; women et lways considered a woman | re until she | herself otherwi, In madam in sealskins and her silks any mor Mi lady than Mrs. Blank with her ealleo wh dress and a cotton apron? Sodkety may say one is more refined, yet eliminate society and reverse the” clothes, and who is better? Different re only to attract — Who would wear the latest creation from Paris if she thought no @me | would notice | If 1 were guilty of togging myself | out in some of the so-called women’s | apparel I have glimpsed in the five years, 1 would never sneese trousers being immodest. How |the extreme low necks, the skirts, the glovefitting garment, hobble and the slit skirts? I i | they were worn for women only look at. ‘Pell that toa fish, ME Doesn't Believe | Dignity Vanishes | Dear Miss Grey: I think becoming very much in usm i hope I am helping to win the war | by filling the position of a man whe has taken up arms for our country, | |I have been wearing overalls for | over six months, and so far do not |fecl my dignity or self-respect or modesty slipping away. é A modest dress of any sort does not |impose upon the fineness of woman or man. The mind of a modest an is not in her clothes, but om her | | work. Women who take over | work on machines, ete, cannot sibly wear skirts. In my opinion @ woman who seeks to do a work and refuses to wear a sense garb to perform such labor weak-minded. AN OVERALL GIR, | Prisoner Must | Be Proven Guilty Dear Cynthia Grey: In a trial! civil authorities the prisoner is sidered innocent until proved I have heard that in a co | trial by military authorities, the | oner is considered guilty until ed Innocent. Can you advise me this is true? STUDENT. The military law does not dif. fer from the civil law in this Fe spect. In a court-martial trial prisoner is deemed innocent um til proved guilty. ¥ Count acu BA 0 “THE GAIETY: FIRST AND MADISON “PERQUETA” BRAND NEW SHOW SUNDAY ill Armstrong THAT FUNNY IRISH COMEDIAN, AND THE DOLLS HIGHER-UPS” 3 SHOWS DAILY Our Prices—15c, 25c, 35¢ WE CATER TO THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN AS WELL AS THE MEN. BY 20 'REAMING TAKE- THE LOCAL POLITICAL SITUATION