The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 17, 1919, Page 7

evelt had triumph ee ~ Quentin's Quaint Sayings Oyster Ray, N.Y, Aug, 26, 19 Dear Kermit Mr, Phil Stewart and Dr, Lambert ntin greeting tial friend Spent a night here, Qt the former with most ship, and in explanation stating that he always liked to get ac with everybody. I take Hall to chop. and he plays tennis with Phil and s with Phil and Quen. | Oliver, and tin. Plunger (a submarine) has come to the bay in it this afternoc beet on it. N. BI hav for 60 minutes; it was very interest. | ‘ng. | Last night I listened to mother} reading “The Lances of Linwood” to the two little thet prayers Then I * room, where they their china animals; | voth showed I read them ura EL F ards poems, including “How di the | President take his teat" They christened themselves Punkey Doodle | and Jollapin, from the chorus of this, | : and immediately afterward I played | : with them on Archie's bed. First I Would toss Punkey Doodle (Quentin) on Jollapin (Archie) and tickle Jolla gin while Punkey and wiggled on top of him, and then feverse them and keep Joodle down by heaving Jollapin on | dim, while they both kicked and Struggled until my shirt front looked Yery much the worse for wear. You foubtiess remember yoursetf how bad it was for me, when I was dressed | for dinner, to play with all you} Scamps when you were little The ather day a reporter asked Quentin something about me; to Which that affable and canny young Kentleman responded, “Yes, I see him Sometimes, but I know nothing of | hig family life.” | Advice Regarding Newspaper | Annoyances When Theodore Roosevelt, jr. en tered Harvard as a freshman, he had fo pay the penalty of being a prest Gent's son. Newspaper reporters followed all his movements, especial ty In athletics, and he was the vic tim of many exaggerated and often Purely fictitious accounts of his do- | Doodle squalied | aA Ings. His father wrote him indig-| 7 nant and sympathetic letters, two of | which are repro ced here. | White House, Oct. 2, Blessed Old Ted The thing to do ts to go on just | as you have evidently been doing Attract as little attention as possible do not make a fuss about the news Paper men, camera creatures, and idiots generally, letting it be seen that you ot like them and avoid them. but not letting them betray ¥ou into any excessive irritation. I believe they will yO0n drop you, and ff ts just an unpleasant thing that you will have to live down. Ted, I have an enormous number of un things that I have had to in my life at different times, and you have begun to have them now. I saw that you were not oGt on the football field on Satur-| day, and was rather glad of it, as evidently those infernal idiots were | eagerly waiting for you, but when ever you do go, you will have to make up your mind that they will Make it exceedingly unpleasant for you for once or twice, and you will just have to bear it; for you can} never in the world afford to let them | 1905 1 to do, whether it is football Omanything else, and by going about your own business quietly and pleas alitiy. doing just what you would do it.they were not there, generally they wilh get tired of it, and the boys) themselves wil! see that it is not your fault, and will’ feel, if anything, | father a sympathy for you. Mean While I want you to know that we ) @re all thinking of you and sympa ) thixing with you the whole time: and it isa great comfort to me to have stich confidence ir that tho you a ou and to know ese creatures can cause » trouble and make you! feel a little downcast, they. cannot drive you one way or the other, or Make you alter the course you have fet out for yourself. | We were all of us, I am almost! fj ashamed to rather blue at getting back White House. imaply 41 so muct }ful and we feel becaus: now. een Archie drag ing some 5 of hose pipe across | / he tennis court to play in the sand box. I have been playing tennis with Mr. Pinchot, who beat me three sets t@ one, the only ne 1 won This is just an occasion to show the stuff there is in you. Do not let these newspaper creatures and Kindred idiots drive you one hair's breadth from the line you had mark out in football, or anything else. Void any fuss, if possible. deuce-set being the | © House, Oct. 11, 1995 chted to last letters that having a pretty 9D of the » ture Yprett fithen the find trom are evidently good time, in spite newspaper and kodak crea I guess that nui 1 abated. will do your omething horrid pi but I think you can safely, from now Bon, ignore them entirely . I shall be interested to hear how you get on, first of all with you studies, in which you seem to have 1, and next with football mu would find it h other candi ff in weight f the excitemer ‘our last tells against y od deal to ove reome Rad undoubtedly it wae from thic ndpoint not a good thing that you ere unable to 1 quieter lard the end of your stay at Oys ter | So it is about the polo club. In my day we looked with suspicion up ill freshmen societies, and the who tried to get them up or prominent in them rarely on men were Jamounted to much in the boys and then hearing |] Punkey | ff} 1H broidery. ive you away from anything you |} to such a thing may have changed oosevelt's Ay F JOSEPH BUCKLIN BiShor ae idea of what on the subject. Do not make mistake of thinking that the who are merely unc ve ly the beat fe pleanant and how popular we class after wards; and it has happened that Ul ihing, put it is not something for have heard rather unfavorably of the | which to sacrifice studies or athletics lub, Rut it may be mere acet. | or in any way DOWNSTAIRS STORE — «Gift Handkerchiefs at 25c Box permit wide latitude in choice—offering styles that appeal to grown-ups, side by side with novelties that children admire. Boxes of 3 at 25¢ Include: | Novelties with col- ored roll edge and colored corner em- | broidery. Lawn Handkerchiefs with white roll edge and corner embroidery. Hemstitched Handkerchiefs with white or colored em- broidery. Boxes of 2 Handkerchiefs at 25¢ Include: | Handkerchiefs with gray edge and gray embroidery. Hemstitched Handkerchiefs with colored corner em- —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE Rain Capes fer School Girls’ Gifts $4.50 T is quite an adventure for the little girl when she dons a cape instead of a coat, and especially so when it is one of these Rain Capes with an attached hood. In the style pictured, of navy- blue, rubber-lined sateen, with full-size silk-lined hood, sizes 4 to 14 years. Price $4.50. —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE Platinoid Frames To Hold Christrhas Photos Or the non-tarnishable “platinoid’ metal, these easel-back frames with their ball feet delightful receptacles for gift photographs. will make They are in oblong and oval shapes, the square Frames ranging in size from 214x314 inches to 8x10 inches and priced at 35¢, 50¢, 85¢, $1.50 and $2.00. The Oval Frames range in size from 2 to 9!4 inches | long, and are priced at 25¢, 35¢, 50¢, $1.00 and | $1.50. —THE DOWNSTAMS STORE. _ “Shoes Like Soldiers Wear” May Be the Boy’s Christmas Wish ODELED on the same last as our soldiers’ shoes (the Munson Army Last) and embodying just as much comfort and service- ability, these Shoes have in- numerable admirers among boys. In heavy tan leather they are priced as follows: 10 1314, $3.50 Sizes to pair. | Sizes 1 to 6, $4.50 pair. | | BOYS’ TAN HIGH SHOES with buckle at top—strong and serviceable, sizes 11 to 1314, $4.00 pair; 1 to 2, $5.00 pair; 214 to 6, $5.50 pair. BOYS’ DRESS SHOES in gun-metal calf, year welt soles. On English-style and lasts, sizes 2 to 514, $6.50 pair. THE with Good- round-toe DOWNSTAIRS STORE the really best fellows tn the claw think the | men men ment and I have thus heard unfavor Kk it overmuch ts to 0 years the | lo not mean thin as ap. we in college plying to you, but as applying to cer » who #till have a FREDERICK & NELSON FIFTH AVENUE—PINE STREET—SIXTH AVENUE are Toys, of course. with them drums beating until their new owners claim them - land of gifts longing. THE SEATTLE STAR—WEDNESDAY, DEC. 17, 1919. CLUB VICTIM FOR $3.50 SUGAR HOARD And here are tables after tables piled high Electric Trains speeding away, horns a-blowing and Velocipedes, Bicycles and Tricycles parked here in short, a veritable fairy- each one representing some youngster’s ardent Not far from the Toy Section Santa holds court daily for his young friends, and many are the letters and messages entrusted to him. —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE. Silk Umbrellas for Women’s Gifts $5.00 then valued more and more for its useful- $6.50 $8.50 ELCOMED for its fine appearance and s, the Silk Umbrella Gift receives full meas- ure gle appreciation. AT $5.00, there are Silk Umbrellas with large ivoroid rings in black wood handles AT $6.50, there are Silk Umbrellas green and taupe shades. in emerald, and red, with large composition bracelet handles. AT $8.50, with oval handles, composition Silk Umbrellas in taupe, navy, THE dark-green green and purple, rings in various colorings in wood DOWNSTAIRS STORE Handsome Cosiume Blouses, $15.00 FE uERES no question about the acceptability of such embroidered on ture a multiplicity from smocking to yarn-embroidery. ings are featured: White Black Exceptional Blouses as these. sheer touches of high color at neck and cuffs, Flesh-color possibilities beaded and employing they fea- trimming effects, These color- Heavily Georgette or of dainty Bisque Navy Cerise Peacock for gift-choosers in this collection at $15.00. Hand-bags for Gifts 50c to $3. 50 TH AT hand-bags may be good looking and convenient without being costly is demonstrated in the Christmas Displays in the Downstairs Store. Black Bags in heavy grain leather, with strap handle, inside coin purse and mirror, $1.25, Envelope Bags with two side pockets, nail file and nail polish and ivoroid cuticle knife, fitted with made with novelty stripe lining, $3.50. Patent Leather Envelope Purses with strap handle at designed wit 50, side or top, fitted with mirror, h outside pockets and Envelope Purses in novelty grain leathers, $1.00. Children’s Bags with strap handles, fitted with mir- ror, 50c. THE DOWNSTAIRS 8 TORE, Silver-plated Tea Sets Suggested for Gifts HE finely-appointed tea table may well have for its central attraction such tasteful Sets as these. Man¢ are in Sheffield plate, and simple Colonial shapes vie with those that are tastefully engraved, sometimes providing space for the engraving of initial or monogram. Three- and Four-piece Sets, $9.00 to $25.00. TH DOWNSTAIRS STORE. ~THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE @ For the Man’s Gift Gloves May Be the Happiest Choice I’ the question of the man’s gift is still unset- tled, perhaps it is because Gloves have not been con- sidere The Downstairs Store is well-provided with low-priced Gloves for men, among them: WOOL GLOVES) with knitted wrists, 65¢, $1.00 and $1 WOOL GLOVES with clasp at wrist, in gray, tan, khaki-color and black, $1.00 to $2.50. —THE DOWNSTAIRS | JEWEL BURGLAR BUSY | first in the class whom you will aturally te A thug In a yellow raincoat and mied wind think pretty well unother with red paint on how a In all these things I can only ad:|nix cap were being hunted by po WILL BE SOLD: homie of vr “Kariber re vine you in a very general way, You ' the grour know the| ce Wedr y for the slugging of damon et, ott and the genera logo went [J ©. Bridges, 1511 1. Alder xt POKAD r Under $24 cash You have gone in with the| Tuesday night agresenant alened by fedete! authors | entrar te the Guanity: wan 4s sa igeeda us purpord of doing decently After they had beaten him hate! tie faho Sugar n- | nent the and he Ly standing well in| unconsctou ith @ club at Mt of wug 1 your studies; of whowing that In ath and Hi, Fir at, the pair rif t, will be| Under Ragish common .taw, the| died t ting the reapect and king oF your | jects, I must trust to you finponed of by the classmate yo far ax they bv (To He Continued) month. ‘The Januar tribut . fu trit [legitimately obtained, As to the ex |Copyright, 1919, Chartes Scribner's | must total 1.8 ; : fn " Act methods of carrying out these ot dum} The ibe , imi upon|t Yuh ’ AINTY confections of laces “and nets and smartly tail- ored Neckpieces are alike in their acceptability as gifts, and both extremes of the mode may be chosen economically in the Downstairs Store. Here in wide array are Col- lars of Georgette Crepe, Organ- die, Net, Satin and Venice lace, some prettily embroidered and others lace-trimmed — which may be boxed for giving, if desired. 25c 50c 75c $1.00 DOWNSTAIRS STORE. —THE Plush Scarfs, $3:25 Gifts to Delight Maid and Matron OME ball fringe trimming- They wide. measure 114 An interesting selection, —THE Cozy Bathrobes Gifts of Comfort SPECIALLY Christmas girdles. design. blue pattern. Other Robes for blue, Lavender, —THE Gifts in Boys’ Wear In Wide Variety BOYS’ SWEATER COATS knit in heavy stitch from cotton yarns, in Oxford-gray shade, with roll collar and two pock- ets, sizes 28 to 34. Priced at $2.00. WOOL-MIXED FLANNEL SHIRTS with attached collar and single pocket, in Olive-drab, Gray and Blue, sizes 1244 to 1444, $2. PERCALE SHIRTS in black and white striped effects, also novelty stripes, and Blue Chambray Shirts, sizes 1214 to 1414, $1.25. BOYS’ BROWN CORDUROY TROUSERS in medium weight, sizes 6 to 17 years, $2.50. _Decorated Berry Sets, $4.50 fruit and flower "BURIED ALIVE ‘| IN GRAVEL PIT Neckwear Gifts Take Many Charming Forms in the Downstairs Store of these Scarfs are in deep-pile silky black ‘ plush, others are of gray in mole-shade, many with and all are prettily lined. yards long and 9 inches DOWNSTAIRS STORE. appropriate giving are tobes in beautiful colorings, with — their satin ribbon binding and cord Featured in: 4 Light-blue with white pattern, Pink with white bowknot. Dark-gray with plaid and floral Dark-blue with red, green and Attractively priced at $7.50. Women in Dark-— Light-blue, Gray and Pink, $3.95 to $6.95. DOWNSTAIRS STORE. DOWNSTAIRS STORE, HERE is choice of several attractive patterns in these useful Sets, many of them hand-painted. Useful for preserves and fresh fruits. Bow! with six sauce dishes—$4.50, —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE, bee 7 of ley hill, udden caved cravel pit, south ‘ ifternoon, and sfier being reseued, king with tatt time, but He immediately “= et The body #4 He ndertake —— Priced at at $3.25. for these _