The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 29, 1919, Page 9

A Great Commotion BY THORNTON W. BURGESS (Copyright, 1919, by T. W. Burgess) GREAT commotion had broken eter fixed his eyes. It A out in the Ol Orchard, —In- erful ruby red, which glis Stantly Skimmer the Swallow flew | tened and shone in the sun like a ‘over to see what it was all about, and | jewel Peter Rabbit followed lipperty tipper Hummer lifted ty-tip, fast as his le id take him, | his long He was just in tim Chatterer the Red Squire! dodge and the trunk of a tree, first on one side, then on the other, to avold the sharp bilis of the angry feathered folk Who had discovered him trying to Fob a nest of its young Peter chuckled, “Chatterer is get ting just what is due him,” he mut fered. “It reminds me of a time I got into a Yellow Jacket's nest. My but those birds are mad! Chatterer continued to dodge from ide to side of the tree, while the rds darted down at him, all scream fing at the top of their voices. Final ly Chatterer saw his chance to run for the Old Stone Wall, Only one bird was quick enough to catch up with him, and that one was such a tiny fellow that he seemed hardly Digger than a big insect. It was Hummer the Hummingbird Hummer followed Chatterer clear to the Old Stone Wall. A moment later Peter heard a humming noise just over his head and looked up to see Hummer alight on a twig where he squeaked excitedly for a few minutes, for his voice is nothing but a little squeak, Often Peter had seen Hummer darting from flower to flower and holding himself still in midair as he thrust his long bill in to the heart of a flower to get the e wing. puldin't see In't see them them they 1 hear them. You see, » fast that they mate « Tt was their nest, sound very like the humming of Bumble the Bee. this that he is called the Humming bird. In a few minutes he was back again and almost at once was joined tiny insects there and the sweet|/by Mrs, Hummer. She was dresned Juices he is so fond of, But this was very much like him, t t have the first time Peter had ever seen|the beautiful ruby She him sitting still, He was such a mite of a thing that it was hard to realize that he was a bird. His back was a bright, shining green. His Wings and tail were brownish, with | & purplish tinge, Underneath he was| The next story: Jenny Wren Gos. whitish, But it was bis throat on sips About Hanmer. stopped only a minute or two, and then darted over to what looked for all the world ‘like a tiny cup of moms. Tt waa their nest e » Lift Off Corns! Deesn’t hurt! Lift touchy corns and calluses right off with fingers bothersome corn. Instantly that corn stops hurting. Then shortly you lift it right off, toot and all, without pain or soreness, Hard corns, soft corns, corns again in the heart. We carry three standard makes Terms If Desired 1519 3rd Ave. was It is because of | Apply a few drops of ‘Freezone’ upon that old, | Your Song Garden— THE TALKING MACHINE Under the spell of familiar, beloved airs heard on the Talking: Ma- chine, fragrant memories and forgotten dreams awaken and bloom Now is the time to select your Talking Machine. VICTROLAS - - GRAFONOLAS - - SONORAS Push sane Piano &. Victor and Columbia Records Hoa» Siinimer Gh; ? ZocPeckly Silversand Lake have the nerve to do it, And would jhe really come! Devotedly yours, August something Joan dear DOLL. P. 8.—-The photographs have just arrived, dear. Tom and I had the with our heads | It is amusing and a little excit ing watching Anita Corley getting delightfulest time fumed and sUll more fussed over me! Tam a mosquito which keeps} busing around her and Tom Bene: | dict, whe ) she has rew A to cap. ture. And anyone knows that while @ skeet is a tiny thing, it can just! about ruin your evening for you.| Many intention on my part, it has happened I was | having a nice comfortable talkfest with Tom when Miss Corley wanted him, And once he actually forgot! | 4n appointment for golf with her be cause we had got to reminiscing | about Bentsville and his mother, and the old days when Tom was taking correspondence lessons in electricity, and messed up everybody's telephone with bis “improvements,” and the | house where Nina caine aa a bride, Jand where they all lived in such | beautiful discord! ' | To Miss Corley it looked like a tender affair, Which only goes to show that you @in't always tell from | appearances, Well, she has forgiven | Tom for the forgotten golf date, but she hasn't forgiven me, She ts now | | thinking up some way of slapping me, and ending my dxzinging round j her ears A lot of us were having tea the other day in the lounge of the hotel & lovely brown and matse nner | room with fat chairs and a gorgeous | | fireplace and lots of interesting | | things to read. Someone picked up| &@ magazine. | “Oh, look here! A stery by Wallis you know that dashing captain. | | fellow just back from the war,” | It startied me painfully as the! times, without “A story by Wallis—you know | that dashing young captain-fel- | low just back from the war.” | speaker turned, holding out the book for me to see the photograph that) together looking them over, How adorned the artic! pretty Bentsville does look! It has grown up. The dear place gives me | the impression of a woman of 30] 1 or two I had got back | Who haw just ened to her own} re, but my cheeks re-| charm and is ing and acting a off immediately, and | Cordingly boT. » no one else noticed my self: | consciousness, Anita Corley did. | A friend of yours, I see,” she smiled, sweetly-sour, “Tell us about him, Mise Varick. Is he such a | heart-breaker as they say?” How's that for a heartbreaker! PETER || Shocks W. C. T. U. | Every eye turned upon me. I want-| jed to sink’thru the floor—but mur der her first. | “1 think you'd lke him, but with vitrio in BY THE STORY LADY “T think,” said mamma one night when the chidiren had gone to bed, “that it is a good thing that the first I said | quietly my | glance That's one on you, Nita! ed the man at my elbow of July Is past “Why don’t you ask him up?’| Papa looked at mamma over the said the Corley, turning on her in-| Paper: genue expression. “I'd adore meeting} “You talk a# tho IT came home him.” drunk every Saturday night. What ‘The magazine will give you his|'* the matter?” address, or forward a letter. Authors! “Well, Sister Cumming was here are awfully used to that sort of|this afternoon. She ts president of thing.” | the W. C. T. U., and you knew how I knew it was catty, and regretted |*he talks, She was getting ready to | t the moment I'd said It. But the/ #0 home, and I came to the door! rowd tittered again, and apparently | With her. The twins were playing awarded me the honors in the little | Very sweetly in their little play. eaileaat” houne, and Sister Cummins was just | What bothers me is that I saw/|remarking how nice my children lin ber face a sudden resolve to do| played, when Peter came reeling in- | just what I -foolishly suggested—|to the playhouse. He knocked Patty [write to him, I wonder if she would | Over and wanted to know why the otoatbeedns little brat wasn't in bed, and ordered Prissy to bring him a swag of beer. | | She didn’t hurry fast enough to suit | | him, so he knocked the table down [and stamped out | “I expected the twins to howl, but jinstead they shrieked with laugher, | and Prissy said, ‘Go get drunk again, | Peter.’ “Sister Cummins left in great dis | | Kust and by night every one in this jend of town will know that you come |home d¢runk every night. Now what I want to know is, where do/| | they get that stuff?" Papa stopped laughing and looked | | guilty | "IT took them to see ‘Children of | | Other Lands,’ the other night, and | after that was over there was a| | comic piece with the drunken man in | it, I tried to get the children away | when I saw what it was, but they | | wouldn't come. They were perfectly | jeragzy about it. And when we were | coming out of the show Peter said | “Don't look so glum, papa. We | won't tell her you let~us stay.’” | | Mamina grinned. “It's your own fault then, and I'm not going to worry about your loss laugh 2 MOORE. | PIGS WIN TRIAL; CAN LIVE IN-CITY BRONXVILLE, N, ¥., Aug. 29 “Pigs ts pigs” and can be raised in} @ sanitary manner, according to an | opinion of Superior Court Justice Tompkins, who has ixeued a tem porary injunction to Lafayette Wise man, a resident of East Chester, re: | straining the town board from inter: | fering with his pig raising | Wiseman is raising 1,200 pigs and the women of the town, offended by the alleged odor, so inffuenced the town board that they passed an ordi- nance declaring the keeping of pigs in the town to be unlawful Justice Tompkins, in his decision, holds that the ordinance is unconsti tuuional. NEED NO JIM CROW LAW FOR AIR, HE SAYS) TOPEKA, Kan. Aug. 29.—There | lis no need of ‘Jim Crow’! laws for airplanes, if one is to believe a cer- |tain Topeka negro. A tall, power lrully built negro was standing near | the landing place of the airplanes | Washburn field, near here, ing the flights, When the big achine had swooped to the ground fter doing the usual hair-raising stunts, he exclaimed: “No-0-0-0 sa-h-h, mistah, dey ain’ gonna have to make no Jim Crow law tuh keep me from ridin’ that t’ing. Ah say no t'ank yo", here am one dat takes his on de groun’.” SMUT PLAYS HaVOC | WITH ONION CROP; LONDON, Aug. 28.—-A disease of onions, known as “onion smut,” is/ playing havoc with the North of Eng- land, The disease has only been re. corded in this country om rare oc: casions, ESTABLISHED 1875 Our Annual Demonstration and Sale of Quality Silk Merchandise Every department which features Silk in any way has contributed definite attractions this week, endeavoring to prove the appeal of its particular merchandise. Visitors and shoppers will find many special values tomorrow—merchandise priced so very moderately that it is a particular investment at this time. MacDougall-Southwick will continue to feature Silk merchandise through- out the year—‘“Style” Silks always with prices as nominal as is possible, in hopes that the woman of average income, as well as the one with unlimited means, can enjoy possessing “all things Silk.” “Back to School” More New Wool Suits for Boys Just Received This new shipment of Suits for boys includes all wool and wool mixture garments. They are all new styles and will satisfy boys who want good wearing clothes in conservative models. The model ture bockers are belts. Boys’ Blouses New Waists and Shirts for boys come in plain colors and novelty stripe patterns. There are models with de- tached or attached collars. In ging- ham, percale, poplin and silk-striped madras. Sizes 8 to 16. Prices $1.00 to $3.50, men. Smart Toggery for School Girls New Wool Dresses The smart simplicity of these new school frocks will appeal to girls’ mothers. The wey collars, braid trimmings and belts will please the girls themselves. They are made of serge and novelty plaid materials. Some are to simulate an Eton Jacket, ress sketched is of navy serge high-waisted, with braid trimmin, like the Dress illustrated. The with white pique collar. Price $18.50. Other models are made of plaid serge, with quaint little With blue broad- Etons buckled at front, like the illustration. cloth collar. Price $13.50. Sizes 8 to 14. Prices $10.50 to $18.50. —MacDougall-Southwick, Third Fleer. Girls’ Middies and Skirts Girls’ Middy Blouses in “Regulation” style are made of all-white, dark blue or white galatea—some with blue col- lars. Embroidered chevrons and tape trimmings. Sizes 6 to 16. Prices $1.95 to $4.95. Navy Blue Serge Skirts in plaited style—some with pockets. Made on band or attached to yoke. Sizes 6 to 12; price $7.50. Sizes 8 to 10; price $4.95. —MacDougall-Southwick, Third Fleer, Children’s School Shoes A new shipment of Shoes for fall and winter wear offers complete sizes in the models children need for school. Children’s and Misses’ Boys’ Tan Calf Shoes, Shoes in both laced and blucher on U. S, army last. Heavy soles of solid leath- er. Like sketch c. Sizes 12 to 2, price $6.00. Sizes 214 to 6, price $6.50. Boys’ Russia Calf Shoes in black, are laced style, with welted soles. With broad toes, sizes 1014 to price $5.50. On Eng- button styles are made of pear! or brown elkhide, like sketch b. -Prices $4.00 to $6.00. Misses’ Shoes, like sketch a, in brown calf with cloth tops to match, and welted soles. Sizes 11144 to 2, price $7.00, Growing Girls Shoes in lish last, sizes 1 to 6, price same style, es 214 to $6.50. 7Y2, price $10.50, Boys’ Shoes in black calf, Boys’ Dark Tan Russia blucher models, have solid Calf Shoes in lace style, on leather soles. Sizes 1114 English last. Sizes 1 to 6, to 2, price $5.00, Sizes 2) price $7.00, to 6, price $6.00. MacDougall-Seuthwick, Fifth Micer. SECOND AVENUE AND PIKE STREET sketched at the right represents these Suits. It is a mixture of wool and cotton, in an attractive heather mix- in basket weave. patch pockets, belt and over- seam down the back. Knicker- reinforced, lined with alpaca. Ages 8 to 16. Price $15.00, Boys’ Corduroy Suits $10.00 These are the famous Crompton Cravenetted Suits. mole shade corduroy. Knickerbockers are reinforced. Sizes 8 to 17. Our large showing of Hats includes tweeds, mixtures and blue cheviots, in models like those for older Prices $2.00, $2.50, $3.00 and $3.50. New Caps in browns, greens, blues and heather mixtures, also black and white checks and mixtures. Prices $1.75, $2.00 and $3.00. i! i STABLISHED 1875 The Suit sketched at the left is particularly suitable for win- ter wear. It is a black and white all-wool fabric, coat made with at ed belt, slash side-pock- ets, also breast-pockets. Knick- erbockers are well reinforced and lined throughout. Ages 12 to 17. Price $20.00. With and They are The coats are made with slash pockets and —MacDougall-Seuthwick, Third Flees. Hats and Caps those made of Scotch —MaecDeagall-Seathwick, Third Fleer, Novelty Wool Sweaters in coat style with belt are in copen, rose, coral, peacock. Smart fall styles. Price $5. Fiber Silk Sweaters in both slip-over and coat models are very attractive for wear this fall. Pm the fashionable colors. Prices $7.50 to .00. Sizes 24 to 34. —MacDougall-Southwick, Third Fleer. Children’s New Hats The new Hats for young girls are as modishly distinctive as those suitable for their mothers. Chenille embroidery, floss applique, even combinations of materials, are duplicated in these models for little. girls. ‘ The illustration shows three attractive hats from a new group being shown. Rose and purple chenille trims the brim of the brown velvet hat at the left. It is a “Baby Jane” model. Price $16.50. The Hat at the right has a side crown of Al- sace blue ribbon. The remainder of the hat is blue velvet with two apples of satin on the brim. Price $4.50. The Hat at center is also a “Baby Jane” model of ‘black velvet. The center and edge of the top crown are trimmed with silk braid. Tur- quoise blue circles of ribbon are appliqued on the brim, Ages 8 to 14. Price $10.00. —MacDougall-Southwick Second Fleen