The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 31, 1919, Page 7

LAN TO MAKE | SPOTLESS g Clean-Up Campaign to Open April 7 Week” has been sched: April 712, by the civic bureau the Chamber of Commerce and | Club, and 30,000 schoo! | and their parents are being | ted in a crusade to make Seattle cleanest city in the United! | “Glean up, paint up, spade up Be the slogan of the campa school garden army ts alr | izing, and the fire department be commissioned to burn rud-| . The national xpring “dress up” | Hill be held im Seattle at the same ORD CE CONTRACTS IASHINGTON, March 31.—Onrt-| contracts amounting to $185. have been canceled, the war | announced today, baa been DEAD COW March 29.—It THE SEATTLE STAR—MONDAY, MARCH 31, 1919. AStory Brimful of Facts and Information in Fiction Form | “My Garden” Read It if You Are Going to Make a 1919 Garden Cojpyright, 1919, Newspaper — | Enterprise Association CHAPTER I } “LN tell you what," my husband | said to me one evening, “I'm getting | good and tired of paying out every ent I make." “So am I," I replied Most of it goes for food,” he sald 1 agreed could raise a lot of he went on. “LT wish we stuff we eat So do I “Let's,” he Let's,” I “That means moving out of this apartment and into a suburb where we can have a rd and a garden “Oh, pop; won't that be fine!" yell ed Robby; “Td give my right ear for to play in mamma we could flowers, too, couldn't we? That was Little Sister talking I smiled chorused have said we could, ®|ter home And we started planning for a bet one which would include a Even before ented a car line, up on gar r geed catalogs. Both of us had lived in rural com munities at one time, so we knew something about gardening. We added to that by careful study and h our new neighbors, who outdoors Phat was the first garden 1-- study It ought to be the first very gardener does. One cannot alse vegetables without knowing ow. And the more one knows, the etter the garden. I figure that the time we «pent on » books added much to our And we had enough fresh jee out of our garden to run table all summer and fall, and I anned and stored much for winter use. We didn't buy a potato, onion, cab bage, cauliflower, radish, tomato or any of the things which Increase the ‘ost of living so much. We took them out of the gurden during the summer and early autumn, and out of cans and the basement storeroom: | luring the winter. They tasted better than any we ad ever bought in the stores Also, we had chickens and ees The garden and poultry yard saved * in food bills at least $200. That vas what we put away last year, on he same salary, and it was the first ear we have saved anything. 1 rave the garden the credit. And, too, we're healthier and happier. ‘There's much fun in garden plan ning. Husband and I spent many early spring evenings doing the plan- ning. TT tell you about it— (To Be Continued Tomorrow) $20 GOLD PIECE IN STOMACH KILLS MAN| WOODLAND, March 21.-—From the effects of swallowing a $20 gold piece 20 years ago, Reuben Cook, a distant rélative ‘of Gent T. & ‘Grant and a nephew of David ©. Cook, wealthy Chicago publisher, died here. He was 48 years old. Death was due to stomach trouble, which result- ed.from the swallowing of the coin.! “We Had Enough Fresh Ve getables to Run the Table.” Trench Brotherhood Is Asking for Co-operative Projects Thruout Canada’ BY JACK JUNGMEYER A. Staff Correspondent.) March 31 He means to carry trench brother hood over into the At Vimy and Passchendale he learned the lesson of team work urned " sands are insisting eplonies. On pooling their efforts and fortunes. living collect tively. with bears for company, now wants plenty of human companionship, Thus, on the heels of war, Can ada’s best manhood is ushering in a new era, determined to force gov ernment policies to broader social scope. And Canadians everywhere see this inevitable outcome. The wedge for,cooperation on « ree scale was driven by 200 men who recently returned on the Asia now widely referred to as “The by the thow m farming in Whore Three Hundred,” vanguard of the) new movement, A | An autopsy will be held. Cook was they aa p Bn mye ‘dotphina performing a sleight-of-hand trick deal the cards. ‘They spent their 20 years ago. He swallowed the gold time thinking out and working out | piece and it got into his stomach be- |» complehensive collective farm col- | fore the doctors could recover it. (ony plan to be submitted to the | provincial and Dominion authorities for approval and financial backing. Woman Charges |" Susisecdahell thie edtiadse includes: Purchase of sufficient cattle, sheep, hogs amd poultry to pro- vide the immediate needs of the community in butter, milk, eggs and meat Buying and selling organiza- tlons. Installation of telephones and electric lights Provision for amusement and schools and hospitals. « the “Three community recreation, Hundred,” The pioneer, once content * man would perform y work for which he the farming to be done under expert supervision. Official objection that the Soldier Settlement Act loan must be made to individuals only, net to a com- munity trust committee for admin- istration as these men propose, has not deterred them. “Amend the act,” say their committermen. “For four years we have been fighting In France on the com- munity or cooperative basis. We believe we can do better over here on that principle, Give us a chance.” The Ottawa land settlement board now has the proposition under con- sideration. It contains the measure of the model plan has been endorsed "FREDERICK & NELSON FIFTH AVENUE—PINE STREET—SIXTH AVENUE HE THE BASEMENT STORE Drapery Section Will Feature for Tomorrow (Tuesday) Exceptional Values in Homefurnishing Items as Follows: 2,400 ) Oil Opaque Window Shades Special 55¢ Each (Sold Subject to Imperfections in Coloring) ACHINE-MADE Oil Opaque Window Shades mounted on} self-acting rollers, 32, 36 and 38 inches wide. Each shade is provided with strong, nickeled ring pull. The colors offered | | are: Dark-green, Tan, Olive-green, L'ght-green and Duplex Colorings — : An unusual opportunity to save in buying serviceable Shades | for summer camps, cottages and apartment houses. ‘ Special 55¢ each. THE BASEMENT STORE Attractive Scrim Curtains at $1.35 Pair —Curtains with hemstitched hem two inches wide, with hemstitching clearly defined. —Curtains finished with narrow lace edging in sev- eral attractive patterns. —Curtains tastefully trimmed with wide lace inser- tion and edge. —all of serviceable scrim, 214 yards long. Unusually attractive value at $1.35 pair. —THE BASEMENT STORE. 36-inch Silkolines for Comforter Cove: 300 Pairs of 2,000 Yards of Drapery Cretonnes At 40c Yard N unusually attractive offering of these favorite drapery prints, featuring copies of quaint Colonial chintzes, stripes and other effects in dainty colorings, appropriate for Special 22c Yard A VARIED assortment of colorings is sented in this offering of att ‘ designed Silkolines, with which old comfe Husband Brutal 5.2 lm sured under the Soldier Settlement Mrs. Jobn B. Stroot says her hut | Act, to be developed under a band took all the joy out of life by| collective loan equaling the sum pulling her hair, knocking out her) total of individual farm loans front teeth and distributing black! provided by the act, land blue decorations on her arms Co-operative supply stores, jand face. She's asked for a divorce! puyilding of houses, operation of in superior court. He's a shipyard) trsetor and farm machinery, | worker. | seeding and harvesting. | Comedies May Be Grotesque || but Gosh! They Kill the Blues { Window Hangings Slip-covers Cushions Window-seat Covers Fancy-work Uses —a timely offering, especially, for many who are now planning decorations for their Summer homes on the Sound. Two thousand yards; 32 to 36 inches wide, 40¢ yard. Canadian soldies new desire for community life and work, preferably with the bunkte at whose should he faced the guns. ‘Thg, peaceful charge of the “Three HunlPed” hasn't yet reached its ob- jective, but it fx gaining momentum and recruits daily and is being pre- leeded by an effective barrage.” ers may be inexpensively re-covered, or 0 ones made, and which will make up, too, in tasteful draperies for summer camps. Thirty-six inches wide, special 22¢ yard. — —THE BASEMENT STORE. —THE BASEMENT STORE. Wildwood Grass Rugs $1.65 P RACTICAL for use with Summer fur nishings a. able, cool-looking Rugs, for porch, sun-room, camp or cottage. Size 36x72 inches. In shades of brown and green, plain on one side, with stencil border de- sign on the other. Un- usually low-priced at $1.65 each. —THE BASEMENT STORE. xceptional Offering! Summer Chairs and Rockers (Complete with Cretonne Slip-Covers) —of natural-finished wood with rawhide seat, with specially made slip-cover of brightly-pat- terned cretonne, as pictured. Priced for this offering: —the CHAIRS, $3.50 each. —the ROCKERS, $4.50 each. —THE BASEMENT STORE. Brass Curtain Rods Brass Curtain Rods}| ORNL TET Nes Spans: Sepecbion peas, en URTAIN RODS of heavy 44-inch brass tubing, solid, with solid one-piece fastening. Extend from 2 a 24 to 44 inches, are easily adjustable, and light-weight but ee peer -_ ye to = — -~ bop serviceable. Price 15¢ each. bask outside bracket or inside socket. Special 10¢ S pictured, in brown, green, blue, laven- der or rose, with white- striped fringed ends. | A useful size (24x36) and closely-woven from new materials. Will add | a cheerful note of color to sleeping chamber or living room in camp or} summer home. Price —THE BASEMENT STO! Zowle, those evenings when you[hum,n system, This fellow ts really feel so all-fired blue that life doesn't | funny, and he sure does do crazy the daily effort of get: | Despite your ruminations ng it again and our own troubles, the com- in Sam Hill we're nd the dog and the goldfish anyhow and where rything, catch your interest. only you don't ca 1 forget yourself, you smile, you those are | giggle, you snort! | Half an hour later you jauntily | saunter forth, snapping your fingers in the face of Care, and ready for Nd Boy Life and seem worth ting up and you wonder w {all here for | going i ne ie AN BRE UE BH |rough evenings on the old disposi F | tion | | And then, when depths of you are in ‘the discontent, you pmsintn POE © | deepest stray despondently A comedy is screams where @ | the movies! | py help | {the gold-fish in a gets the bow! lodge around, cu paw and # and| Scandioavinns to Buy Wooden Ships »pments Indicate that | tex shipping board | 1k of wooden steam- | ra built on the Pacific coast to zing hold of the | Scandinavian countries, local ship- pieces aL ——-—-| ping men say, It 1s belleved that of the fleet of between 50 and 75 wood steamers now transporting a McGraw Building, on east side of Second Ave., || ** MC. 0 ee Tan" ae" acne eu y i 5 “] D ‘or the railroad administration, bi : : . ¢ : en Pike and Pine, sold Saturday to J. He |). eee wor oreanizing the |few will return, the majority to be eg gp ar i yes sae 380 Yards of Oilcloth, 25c Yard || } of several tastefu ler and allover pa by ; 1 f iceable Not- ABLE OILCLOTH, 45 inches wide, of standard terns in white and ecru colors of serviceable No’ quality, patterned in blue or black marbled: alia ox and Will H. Jenkins, of the Commercial |/y. m. c. a that it will be of | diverted overseas for eventual sale, er Works, for a consideration of $200,000, | Penetit to the mural and coum | tingham net, and finished with substantial edges. m be Two interesting lots, at 85¢ and $1.35. pair. on white background. Special 25¢ yard. —THE BASEMENT STORE, i] s races | " 4% knocking over comical looking cusses | And some | f in- | p and all that sort of stuff queer individual with a cou growing eyes and a doleft "| looks as unhappy a# you bursting right |General Despair # Recent —THE BASEMENT STORE. —THE BASEMENT STORB, ers were represented by Frank E, Case, |) tor: “0 é the or-| ‘The United States shipping board's icGraw, Kittinger & Case, and the buyers ntion at | steamer Iris li leave for San Fran- A 5 April % d 9 cisco Monday, ith Mi ff 350 represented by Henry Broderick, Inc. ‘The |/"'the convention wit ciose with a |merenant mt Se rastulta, to | hereto- | RECRUITS OFF FOR TRIP | merchant marine recruits, to finish —THE BASEMENT STORE. perty was purchased as an investment. huge panauet at which army and | their course in seamanship, The Iris J navy service men will be the guests | will return to Seattle for a new class of honor, lof apprentices. |