The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 9, 1920, Page 9

SECOND AT PIKE Women’s Winter Coats $65 and $85 Marked Reductions Fine Bolivia, Plumette, Tinseltone, | Peachbloom, Suedecloth, Velour and + Broadcloth fashion these Coats, which 2 were taken from our regular stock and | reduced to these prices. There is a satisfying variety of styles and color- ings from which to choose. —MacDougall-Southwick, Second Floor. . Women’s ) Winter Suits $25 - $35 - $45 Marked Reductions Serges, Tricotines, Velours and Broadcloths—many with novel collars of fur—are grouped at these price re- ductions. There are semi-tailored models, ripple effects and belted styles —conservative modes which may be worn well into the Spring season. —MacDeougall-Seuthwich, Second Fleer. | Women’s Winter Hats $2.95 - $5.00 and $10 | Marked Reductions All our Winter models—velvet, ve- lour and silk—are reduced for clear- ance at these three prices. Many are elaborately trimmed with embroidery, ribbon and fancies. All Fur Hats are also reduged. —MacDeugall-Southwick, Second Fleer, | Boys’ Apparel {| at Reduced Prices s Boys’ Sweaters | Reduced to $2.95 Oxford Gray Sweaters of wool worsted, are in coat style in two pat- terns—V-shaped necks and roll collars. H Sizes 24 to 34. i ~6§=6»s- Boys’ Night Shirts Reduced to 65c Made of outing flannel, in white with colored stripes. Sizes 6 to 12. —MacDougall-Southwick, Third Fleer, —— ———— | quiet land of sunshine Sidelsky Gets pb! Seven Days See page 4 of this issue ‘The CHARLES COON DEAD PORT T 8) Jan. 9.—Cha 2. Coon, ND former lieutenant governor nd member of the lis dead here today following a para liytie stroke. He was 75 of Star. 2 of our Improved methods we extract teeth abrolu 6 to all who are ne 0 other work is 111 eo peclally BY THE Us out pain their te DID YOU put in first-c This will cost yo families. of those whe pen from m. to 4 For the benefit the day we keep evenings, and 10 a BETTER DENTISTRY FOR LESS MON ~ Over The Owl F | cooly Al Phone Main J last legislature, | eckenrid@e, y hyticlan, — Hre bat the e | J man, Joe Piokert with Warren Gregory, Two wanderty ad, She suddenty realixes th aly | Matas Chay (Continued From Yesterday.) | “Well.” she thought, with a tain desperate philosophy, “in a tain number of months or years thin will all be over, and [ must simply endure it until that time comes, Life is full of trouble; anyway!" Life was Cull of trouble; she saw it on all sides. Hut what trivial mat ters they were, after all, that troubled Elinor and Vera and Judy Moran! Vera was eternally rushing into fresh, furious hospitalities, wel coming hordes of men and wom she scarcely knew thto her hou cer chattering, laughing, drinking; flat tering the debutar reaming at the telephone, standing pationt [hours under the dressmaker's hands; never rested, 1, never stopping» to Moran's trouble was that sho wan too fat nothing else really penetrated the shell of her indolent good nature Kenneth might be politely dropped jfrom the family firm, her husband might die and be laid away, her | brotherindaw commence an ugly sult for the reclamation of certain jewels and silver tableware, but all these things meant far leas to Mra Moran than th her bedroom scales told her every morning. She had reached the age of fifty without ever acquiring suf the surplus forty pounds, yet she never buttered a muffin at break fast time, or crushed a French pas try with her an inward protest sums of money kowns that would dimguise her ‘im mense weight rather than deny her self one cup of creamedandsugared tea or one box of chocolates, And ‘nhe suffered whenever a caaual photograph, or an unexpected glimpse of herself in a mirror, brought to her notice afresh the dreadful two hundred and twenty pounds, | And Elinor had her abaurd and jUAnecemary troubles, rich man's | wife as she was now, and firmly established in the social group upon | whose outskirta she had lingéred so jlong. The single state of her four slaters waa ® constant annoyance to |her, enpeciaily as Peter waa not fond of the girls, and liked to allude ‘to them as “spinsters” and “old |maids,” and to ask more entertain: ing and younger women to the |house, Elinor had never wanted a |ehild, but in the third of fourth year of her marrige she had be- |mun to perceive that it might be wine to give her worldly old hus band an heir, much better that, at | any cost, than to encourage Mis |fondness for Barbara Oliphant’s boy, his namesake nephew, who was an officious, self-eatinfied little lad of twelve. But Nature refused to co- operate in Elinor’s maternal plans and Peter Junior did not make his appearance at the big house on the avenue. Elinor grew yearly nosier, more reckless, more shallow; she rushed about excitedly from place to place, sometimes with Peter, sometimes with one of her sisters not happy in either case, but much [given to quarrelaome questioning of |ufe. It was not that she could not |met what she wanted so much as (that she did not know her own mind land heart. Whatever was momen- ‘tarily tiresome or distasteful must be pushed out of her path, and as |nimost every friend and every human experience came sooner or later into this category, Elinor fourdd herself stranded in the very leenter of lite. Alice had her troubles, too, but |when her thoughts came to Alice, Rachae! found a certain envy in her |heart. Ah, those were the troubles |ahe could have welcomed; she could have cried with sheer joy at the | thought that her life might some |day slip into the same groove as Alice's life. Rachael loved the at [mosphere of the big, shabby house now; it was the only place to which really cared to go. There was In Alice Valentine's character some |thing simple, direct, and high-prin cipled that She spent large for communicated Itself to everybody and everything in her housepold. A small girl in her nur sery might show symptoms of diphtheria, a broken tile on the roof might detuge the bedroom ceilings old k leave suddenly, or a heavy rain fall upon a Sunday pre destined for picnicking, but Alice Valentine, plain, slow of speech, and slow of thought, went her serene way, nursing, consoling, repairing | readjusting. | She had her cares but they were not ares for Warren. to be none often di an about George like Rachael's Alice knew him tired. Hin professional were many, but there were jtimes when the of a tiny [child in a free hospital could blot |from George's simple, big, tender heart the memory of a dozen achieve ments, The wife p in the claims jot her four growing children, | times longed to put her arms around |him, to run away with him to so and pa |xome lazy curve of white | where he could rest and slee irift back to his old splendid energ trength. She longed’ to cook for him the old dishes he had loved in the early days of their marriage to read to him, to let the world for too strong, easily couraged. collapse some et them while they forgot the | worla | Instead, a “hundred claims kept them here in the current of affairs. Mary waa a tall, sweet, of sixteen gracious girl now, like her father, a b i Bo Mary went to little dances at the Royfes’ and the Bowditches', and walked home from her riding lesson with little Billy Parmalee or Frank Whittaker, or with Mlore Haviland and Robby Oliphant. And Allee watched her gewns, and her hair, and her pretty young teeth COPY RIGNT. sy NOPSIS OF PRECEDIN flattering truths | ficient self-control to rid herself of | ‘ork at noon, without | corsets and) "| change in her husband, pretty edition of his red hair and longfeatured clever face. Mary | must gf on with her music, muat be put thru the lessoning and groom. ing of a tlewoman, and take her place in the dancing class that would | be the Junior Cotillion in a year or two. Alice Valentine waa not a worldly woman, but she knew it would be sheer cruelty to let her daughter grow up a” stranger in her own world, different in speech and in dress and man ner from all the other girls and THE SEATTLE STAR—FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1920. > SECOND AVENUE AND UNIVERSITY STREET “By Kathleen Yorris= BY KATHLEEN NORRIS and clever drinker her husband CH APTERS ence Breckenridge, and marries Warren ehlef reason for hy wite, The dauahter, wh naidered worthices by hin acqual Kachael ia at tire = babies are born to 1. But weemm (© atalk Rachael pat Warren ix growing tired of her, and is intensely interested in w younger woman, Jonly @ little ley carefully than she |lintened “to her confidences, ques tioned her about persons and things, and looked for inaccuracies in her speech are, too, in these days at the non-committal, unenthu siantio age of 14, when all the vices in the world, finger on lip, form a} bright, escort for waking or sleeping hours, and the tenderest and most tactful of maternal questions slips from the shell of boyish silence and | eraffness unanswered. Full of appre: hension and eagerness, Alice watched her only son; she could not give him every hour of her busy days; she would have given him every instant if she could. He was a good bot | but he was human ner and the theatre, his mother would look into the children’s sitting | room to find Mary reading, ¢ reading, Marth Dreased for din:| jeorBe | all the way home, their mother list . very conacioun of| Pring y pected something from the way he tried to whut me up when I saw | Warren the other night at the ° | theatre.” Misses. Now that I've talked about it, Rachael smiled, “1 believe 1 feet bet | ter And presntly she dried her jeyem, and even laughed at herself « little as she and Alice fell to talking of other things, When Rachael, a| } boy in each hand, said goodbye, and Went put into the pale, late aftern: sunshine that followed the rain, Alice accompanied her to the door, and stood far a moment with her at the t the street steps. “You're wo lovely, Rachael," said jher friend affectionately, “It doesn't seem right to have anything ever! trouble anyone #o pretty!" Rachael only smiled doubtfully janswer, But Derry and’ Jim talked novelty silks. in Winter being there on sufferance, also read silence Ghe found their tog virtuously and attentively | ee reation infinitely most amusing ood night, my lings! You're} *” nm wuninflluenced by h + Both going t bed promptly at 9, aren't| Mtr? naturally observant, Jim log (@ ts | you, Mary—and Gogo, too? You know [Hat and reasonable, Derry alway Oats |we were all late last night.” Alice | misled by his fancy and his dreams hemisa ea. comdbae te | When Jim wan a lion, he a lon "= ¢ Mary would give her| | mother her sunny amile, “Leslie Per iv in going to be here tomorrow | night, anyway, and we're going to Thomas Prince's skating party in the j Sfternoon, aren't we, Mother?" | “Thomas Prince, the big boob!’ Gogo might comment without bitter news | “Ho's not a big boob, either, Mother?” Mary was swift in | “He's not nearly such a be | Tubby Butler or Sam Moultan” ling girl!’ Alice, full of affection and distreas, would look from one to the otfler. Gogo, standing near hin Gosh! they're going to have fun! would put an arm about her non. “What ie it tonight, dear?” “Oh, nothing much’ Gogo would fling up his dark head tmpatiently. “Just Tubby and Sam’? “1 guess so," gruftty “But Daddy feels Alice would stop short in. perplexit Why shouldn't he Ko? She had known Mra, Moulton from the days when they ‘were brides. the Moultons hbuse was near, and it was dull for-Gogo here, under the sitting room lamp. If he had only been as con tented as Mary, who, with a good time to remember from yesterday, and another to jook forward to to morrow, was perfectly happy to night. But boys were different. Sam was a trustworthy little fellow, but Alice did not so much lke Tubby Butler. And George did not like to have Gogo away from the house at night. She would smile {nto the boy's gloomy eyes. “Couldn't you just read tonight, my son, or perhaps Mary would play rum with you? Wouldn't that be better, “and a long night's sleep, than going over to Bam's every night?” But ahe would leave a disappointed and sullen boy behind her; kusted face would haunt her thruout the entire evening Martha was not #0 much a prob lem, and lite Katharine was still baby enough to be « joy to the whole house, But between the children's meals, thelr shoes and hate and lew sons, Alice was a busy woman, and nhe realised that her responsibilities must increase rather than leswen in the next few years, When Mary was married, and Gogo finishing college, and Martha ready to be entertained and chaperoned by her big sister, then she and George might take Kit- tiwake and run away; but not now Rachael formed the habit of call ing the Valentine house thru the wet winds of March and April, com ng In upon Alice at all hours, some- | times with the boys, sometimes alone. Alice, in her quiet way ready to open her heart cpmpletely to her brilliant friend, Itachael spoke of all topics except one to Alice, They discussed hou J maids, the chil dren, books and plays ¢ plans for the summer, birth and death, the approaching reaponsibitity of the vote, philosophies and religions, | maints and wages. And the day came when Rachael spoke of Warren and of Margaret Chay It was a quiet, wet spring after: |noon, a day when the coming of | ereen leaves could be actually felt in the softened air The two women |were upstaira in Alice's white and | blue sitting room enjoying a wood i Jim and Derry were in the yroom with Kittiwake; the house was silent, so silent that they could jhear the drumming of rain on the leads, and the lazy purr of the fire. Alice was first incredulous, and then stunned at th Rachael told all tory she knew, the the opening Lady,” her ex, and of pow | night of "The Bad Little [lonely dinners and evenin Magsie’a complacent attitude “Welt said Alice, wi had been |an absorbed and astounded listener, when she finished, “I confess I don’t understand it! If Warren Gregory is making a fool of himself over Margaret Clay, no one is going to be ax much ned as he is when, he is over it. 1 think with Alice added, much in‘earnest, “that ax far as any actual infidelity goes, \neithér one would be capable of it! | Magaie’s a selfish little featherhead, |but she has her own advantage too close at heart, and Warren, no mat} ter what preposterous theory he has to explain hix interest in Magste, | isn't going to actually do anything that would put him in the wrong!” She paused, but Rachael dif not speak, and something in her aspect, as she sat steadily watching the fire, smote Alice to the heart, “I have never been so shocked and so disap pointed in my life!" Alice went on, “1 can't yet believe it! The only thing you can do ix keep quiet and dignified, and wait for the whole thing to wear itself out. This ex- plains the change between George and Warren, I knew George sus Mm “Father said ‘Not again this week. M might chant “Mary! lee’s reproachful look would allence her daughter; she! hin din-| l water of jungle pools, and the eriby ee were trees which « hideous and fero — Coats of vin beast, radically differing in . 0m=po every way from little Gerald Greg plush, pom-pom, ory, climbed at will, Jim wan a lion lour and polo cloths, who liked to be interrupted by “Gosh, that's right—knock Tub by! Gogo would mumble | “Oh, my darling boy, and my dar | } | | lionable little brothers |eelves awimming belts,” who lived in the Gregory nursery in the chairs that belonged to Gregory children, and preyed | upon their toys, ax toys, But Derry Wan a beast of another caliber, The | polished nursery floor was the still $15.00 grown-ups, who was laughing at hin some make-believe all the time, but Derry n no frightfully in earnest as to wy n terrify himself, and almost al Ways impress his brother, with his roaring and ravaging. | Today their conversation ran siong pleasantly, they were compan and only un manageable when separated All the men walking home will lined fully, sizes ket their feet horrid an’ wet, said Jim, “and then the ladies will scold at $15.00 each. ‘ar ‘Thin would be a great, big ocean for a fairy.” Derry commented, flick: | © t, Jim said hardily “All the fairies have to take little white rose leaves, and make them Derry said dreamily, r else their won't let them go swimming, will |». they, Mother?” They did not wait for her anew, and Rachael was free to return to her own thoughts. Put the inter- mouth and sudden Hut Rachael fanc ckless, eager Derry the litte pair with pleasure as they! every fiat she has —High-grade Coats of velours, broadcloth and plush. Exceptional values, Reduced to peco trimmed with fur and plush. Some and oth- ers to the waist, with lain’ and ap | enetian linings. All in the lot. Coats of exceptional value, appealing smile. 4 that her oldest son was most like his father in type, and found it hard to be as stern with mothers! Sim as xhe wan with the impulsive, dock, who claims the world’s wrest-|/mmediately feels much, firmer. whowe faults | ling | were more apt to be her own. (Continued Tomorrow.) A milliner is always suspicious of | pion. ruption roused her, and she watehed| «a woman who doesn't want to try on| bout in Madison Square Garden in Special Price BASEMENT —Clearance Sales now in progress of fer the best values obtain- able in Winter Coats, Suits, Dresses and Hats for Women and Specially Priced at $35.00 silvertone, polo cloth, kersey cloth, Some are fully lined and others semi-lined with well worth investigation. 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