The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 6, 1920, Page 11

F NLU IS KING LUCRE DIRECTOR GENERAL OF THE MAJORITY oe OF DIVORCES? ; Dear Miss Grey; In answer to your query: “Are our) rriage or divorce laws too easy?” I cannot pass up the pportunity to write you on the subject, for the terrible i ion of divorce, like the “sword of Damocles,” hangs over Bre nena of so many today. When every dishonest man in public life is yanked up) fore a court which money cannot buy, and given a sen-} ence in prison and made to serve the full time—not be let ut after a few months, like a recent bank scoundrel was—/with a dance on Friday evening, | gestions to Jim's wife. nd we get public servants who,realize that a worker is an| asset, and an idler a liability, and recognize that the worker Clubs CLUBS FOR FRIDAY Mbscellancous Shower A silver tea and mircellaneous shower for the benefit of the White; Shield Home will be given at tt home of Mrs. Emma Mooney, 7001) Jones ave, N. “W,, on Friday at p.m. Program of music and re ings to be given, Mvtends of W. C. T. U. invited. eee Homesteader’s Dance maf 9 Ltd Mf SEATTLE STAR—-THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1920. Confessions of a Bride Copyrighted, 1920, by the Newspaper Assootation THE BOOK OF ANN BEGIN TH TASK OF AS SIMIL oUuK NEW SISTEE-IN-LAW As a motherindaw, perhaps Mrs James D, Lorimer was unique, She WH The Momesteaders will entertain | refused May 7, in the I. O. T. C, hall, cor ner of Minor and Boren aves. Over is worthy of his hire, and ails and aprons are to be worn. e to it that he is compensated} o- accordingly : when the ancient European dowry custom is in-| Stevens Corps Social troduced into America to help a young man to get started in married life; when Uncle Sam makes it unlawful to spec- ulate in the necessities of life, and enforces that law; and ‘when apartment house owners realize that children are} preferable to a cat, dog or pet baboon around the premises, | ¢ can stop worrying our heads over the divorce evil, for the! cause, MONBY, will be eliminated. } til that time comes, marriage will continue to be more impossible,” more and more irksome, less and less ered—in short, a mockery; and it matters little how lax} M divorce laws may be, they are not lax enough to cope} the situation, nor “loud-mouthed” enough to make their “Eliminate the curse,” heard above the wer ee i. je) HAT do YOU think? Write Cyn- || thia Grey, care of The |} Truest Love Not Always First Love Dear Miss Grey: Is the first love ‘the best, and truest of allt 5 A BLUE GIRL Seattle Star. Not always. Love is an emotion wartes in the, individual. Just Be some persons are fond of certain) It all depends upon whether the a tables, whi thers| man im question knew if was a Them nn ta tone sadaptente | moonlight dance when he asked the times love i« mistaken for other woman, or whether he had bid | for the dance earlier in the evening, ns ref eS Aap bacs, not knowing at the time it waa to be Dein @ special dance, Otherwise, he neg doth Foggy should have acen to it that his wife twe part and go their svparate|®4 @ partner, or “sat the dance and, in the course of time, real respective mates, find the happiness that will always bring, which & often the case. Does this not prove that the first love t& not al- ways the dest? Man Slights Wife In Moonlight Waltz Deat Miss Grey: We would like to have you settle this dispute for out” with her, | Suitable Gifts for t Graduation Dear Miss Grey: Will you please | suggest some suitable gift for a high school graduate? MRS. B. | A suitable gift would depend largely upon what one wishes to | spend, what the pirl already has, and her personal tastes. Jewelry, nov- lelty or otherwise, is always accept. | us: able, among which may be selected, | A married man took his wife to a/ wrist watch, fountain pen, silver @ance, and when a moonlight waltz pencil enoraved, set of lingerie pina! Was played, he got up with another | initialed, fancy comd, peari or bead | Woman, and let his wife sit it out| necklace, bar pin, or book ef good) in the dark. Do you think he | poema. | a his wife right, as she would! — think of dancing with another! A guest may be as giad to go as ? J. P. the host is to have «0. | The jwocial in the armory on Friday, May | keep [week in May, 1921 Stevens Corpse will hold with a sale and card party to fol low. ADDITIONAL . CLUBS Meridian Improvement Chub The Meridian District Improve ment club will meet this evening at § o'clock at the McDonald school eee University Alumnae Meeting The annual business meeting of the University Alumnae will be held Saturday, May & at the © mons on the University cam Luncheon will be served at o'clock. Telephone reservations te Mra Harvey Lantz, North 315, eee Trustees of Lighthouse of the Blind to Meet The board of truntees of the Lighthouse for the Milind will meet next Monday, May 10, at 12:30, at the Sunset club. eee State Convention of Maccabees At the annua! the Maccabee lodges, held in Everett this week, the delegates voted to have the next meeting the third A.W. Prye, of Detroit, mander, dress. supreme Meutenant fave an” Interesting ad The delegates were as fol lows: J. H. Busing, state past com-| to all of us, th mander; Ralph White, Se commander; L. BL Bigoold, sano, Weutenant commander; C. M Wilbur, Walla Walla, record keep- er; J. H. Weppler, McMurray, chap lain; EB. J. Johnson, Bellingham, ser meant; Albin Johnson, [ig Lake, first master of guards; W. F. Hen derson, Hoquiam, secor guards; Jens Lerick, K tinel. FUNERAL SERVICES Mre Leeter C. Servis, 26, daughter of Gov, Hart, who died Wednesday following an operation, will be held at Olympia Saturday. ONE-THIRD ‘ Reduction Sale Continues for the Remainder of This Week We open Monday, May 10th, at Second and Pine 100 Wool Jersey Dresses Of fine quality Jersey, smartly styled and trimmed with embroidery Formerly Priced at $25.00 al we state convention of | com. | ie, wtate| them to merely ‘cute.’ Monte. | world did that for her. master of | appton, nen | in Tacoma | |important. The men of th | | She get along all right™ REDUCED to $16,67 20 CLOTH DRESSES Formerly Priced at $19.50 REDUCED TO $13.00- 17 CLOTH DRESSES Formerly Priced at $3500 REDUCED TO. $23.34 32 CLOTH DRESSES Formerly Priced at $49.50 REDUCED TO $33.00 16 CLOTH DRESSES Formerly Priced at $79.50 REDUCED TO $53.00 15 SILK DRESSES Formerly Priced at $35.00 REDUCED TO $23.34 32 SILK DRESSES Formerly Priced at $49.50 REDUCED TO $33.00 16 SILK DRESSES Formerly Priced at $79.50 REDUCED TO $53.00 58 COATS Formerly Priced at $39.50 REDUCED TO $26.34 * 18 COATS Formerly Priced at $85.00 REDUCED.TO $56.67 11 SUITS Formerly Priced at $35.00 REDUCED TO $23.34 16 SUITS Formerly Priced at $49.50 REDUCED TO $33.00 20 SUITS Formerly Priced at $85.00 REDUCED TO $56.67 80 GEORGETTE BLOUS Formerly Priced at $5.75 REDUCED TO $3.84 88 GEORGETTE BLOUS Formerly Priced at $8.50 REDUCED TO $5.67 30 GEORGETTE BLOUS, Formerly Priced at $15.00 REDUCED TO $10.00 ES ES ES 29 LINGERIE BLOUSES Formerly Priced at $3.95 REDUCED TO $2.64 One-Third Reduction on Trimmed Hats Formerly $10.00, REDUCED TO $ 6.67 Formerly $12.50, REDUCED TO $ 8.34 Formerly $15.00, REDUCED TO $10.00 Formerly $18.50, REDUCED TO $12.34 Formerly $20.00, REDUCED TO $13.34" Formerly $22.50, REDUCED TO $15.00 Formerly $25.00, REDUCED TO $16.67 Formerly $30.00, REDUGED TO $20.00 q that young woman believed that ahe |"had put it over” the older Woman jin her best style! Chrys }longed to shake some int | Ann's pretty head, But the m wuld hope wae that we couk her from splitting up our wenne Luncheon will be served at noor | family, “Jane, I guess it in up to you and me to tell that child a few import ant So Chrys decided © to initiate hort’ easy. She will take to the }house and the autos and the frocks allright. But can we assimilate Ann just as the nation is supposed to asnimilate an immigrant?” I wailed. “Will she assume her share of re sponsibility for the standards of the | Lorimers? Will she become a credit and an Before people married, they ought to consider such points, Or will she embarrass Jim cutrageously after a while? Ansimilating Ann wasn't a big ad venture considered as drama, but it was & worrisome undertaking for us | girls, Just the mame, “Firet thing of all, Ann must learn how to treat her elders,” said Chrys “She can jolly Daddy—without in struction,” 1 remarked “You know what I mean. Her manners to Mother are simply aad!” said Chrys, “The text of a well-bred girl ts her attitude toward an old woman. I #appose you've noticed }that Ann never rises when Mother enters the room? She never sees aanet? and 1 get | PAGE 11 10 Wolttan cant afford to iniss | Seattle Style No. 71—The Star’s snapshots of attractively- dressed women on Seattle streets Cay OR We AF WRN ODEs SINGLONDN SO : ORV Ee NR Tee NEE AY) HOF OUI, Fr OU LZ OS VV ONWH EF S ar * * eZaT LecAe Grattle a ‘ory Irbole:” Page 43 UNT ELLEN was knitting. Now maybe you don’t think | that she is occupying Mother's fav. | orite chair! ing her novel when Mother in speak ing. And she says really rude things uppose abe means ‘The business Tut whet went with ‘the boys’ will not go here. ‘Cutie’ will never fit into our house,” “We will have to modify ber | clothes as well aa her pertnens,” 1 suggested. “Neither you nor I care » be seen with the giddy toms she ona for the street. They look like mpler designed for show windows. 1 she—like a nequin adver fi new fas ‘or & wholeaale houne Bob heard thin. He broke tn with: “You must admit that Ann is easy to look au” , | So there I bad it, straight trom —————| the shoulder! | I turned to Chrys. | “We might as well nat start to [help Ann, What we girls think ten't family are pleased with her. That's ehough “No, my dear. For Jim's enke, you and I have got to nee that she gets iy with the right people, Our men— all the men we know may approve of her as she is, but they can't make her a social success, The ma trons send out the cards. yoo know, and you and I are not going to let them take Ann up on our account. She must fit in on her own.” “Oh la! lg! Such a beginning as she has madom’ said I. “She came into the reception room yesterday chewing gum! Yes, my dear! Chew- ing gum! Mother had sent for her to meet Mre. Garnett. Yes—THE Mrs. Garnett. Madame herself! the gum in her handkerchief. Afterward Ann wanted to know where she could chew gum if not in the house! She must have learned she couldn't chew on the street." “What did you say, Jane “1 teld her to go and stand tn front of a mirror? That night I told Rob af about our conspiracy to assimilate our new sinterin-law “Jane, don't be snobbish,” warned my husband cause I care to be Mother will not erfticive "her. And her the kind of a gir! Jim thinks she is—which ehe isn't.” “Clear as mud!” “See how she treats Mother. Junt note how different she ix with you men, All attention—all sex, my dear. She sparkles, she glistens, she fairly flaunts her amiles to y ne OLR. | harmoni: She keeps right on read | —Photo by Cress-Dale. Exceedingly chic is this pretty tuxedo sport coat. It ad- heres to one of the latest whims of fashion by being made of |silky angora. Especially smart is the two-tone effect. The jbody is a fawn shade, and the revers, cuffs and belt a ng brown. Blue silk taffeta is featured in the one-| that Js @ very interesting thing to way, knitting #he always seemed in the best possible humor for telling but when Aunt Ellen was| | water for hernelf. she lay, in the midet of such aw- ful danger, not only unable to protect her Utue ones but too weak to get so much as @ glass of “One day I remember the storien, |mother said to my little friend, Bo David and Peggy came trip ‘Your dear little hands have brought me almost everything I have had’ Things stick so in the pag in as quietly as they could) (unt Ellen hates to have them| piece “harem” dress. DAISY HENRY If the lady pletured here will call at The Star's editorial rooms, she will receive two tickets to see Mar garet Anglin, in “The Woman of | 1) motioned frantically to Ann to bide || their sides. 1 | waved the day—but not for myself. | | of leaves. “Understand, Bob, that It isn't be- | her keeper! | || down. Chrys and I simply want to make) | | Bronze,” which is now playing at t he Metropolitan. come running in noisily) and be gan to hint for a story like thin: David maid: “A-hem! me quite a long while «ince you told us any earlyday things, Aunt Ellen.” Pegny raid: “Seems an if I most never do hear any stories ‘bout that Indian war time.” David said: “I ‘spose you haven't skipped any of that block-house part, have you?” Poggy maid: “We'd love to hear just anything about it.” Aunt Ellen smiled at them over her glasses. “You are @ pair of begsars,” she told them. “But I'm pretty stingy. I haven't given away all my stories, yet—not by & good deal. Why, the things I remember about that time would fill a whole big book. “I remember a little friend of mine who was not quite 10 years Seems to {memory at a time Ike that. “Emily Denny tells of a picture that is fairly burned on her brain. She greatly admired a beautiful lady who was with us at the fort; the pale freshness of her skin, the large dark eyes, but mort of all the magnificent suit of soft, dark hair fascinated phe child. And often we two would sit quietly, gazing at her, when no one guewsed our admiration. “She wore her hair parted in the middie and drawn in soft loops over her ears And one day while we were looking an awful thing happened. “Of course, guns had to be al- ways ready, and they were clumsy things—these guns of long ago— and many an accident, little and big, occurred while some one was working with a gun. “Well, while I was looking at her, a gun was suddenly fired in- side the fort! And the bullet old, who took the entire care of | passed thru that loop of dark bair her ttle sisters, cared for and |! amused them right there in the fort, and cooked for them and for her mother who was very sick. “She was a beautiful child, and how that mother loved her! There eee BREMERTON.—John Smith, 17, and John J. Matteo, sailor on U. 8. 8. New York, sentenced to one year at Monroe for stealing $1,200 worth of boat ticketa to her white throat. she wasn’t hurt, but it was so terrible—that white, white face and the nearness of the tragedy, that 1 can see her now, and it's all of 64 years ago.” eat RITZVILLE.—Clyde O. Robinson, 16, went into a garage to get some frasoline after dark. His light set the place on fire and he was burned to death. s “Hear Young Seattle Sing” May Festival of Music The Seattle Public Schools ARENA Friday, May 7, 8:15 Saturday, May 8, Matinee, 2:15, and Evening, 8:15 | Admission—Evenings, 50c; Matinee, 25¢ THE OLD GARDENER SAYS + Amateurs commonly make the mistake of planting their dahlia bulbs or tubers on end. The right way is to lay them flat on All too often the whole clumps are planted, It in much better to pull them apart and plant only one tuber at a time. The hole should be at jeast six inches deep, but only three inches of earth should be filled in first, the rest being added when ‘the plants are tart ed.: The ground doesn’t tiave to be rich if you can keep it well cultivated. the searon thru. When the planta are well up, cut off the tops just above the third set Then you will “get much stronger specimens and they will mot easily be blown Florribly bad manners.” p «miled as he said | tdy calls her a great antidote for melancholy” Rob is often stupid. He might) have known that that little remark would make me jealous. (To Be Continued) y | FIRST ANNIVERSARY SALE NOW ON We have enjoyed a year of steady growth, each week adding to our following among devotees of correct fashions. observance of this event In we have provided some exceptional buys for our patrons. ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL ON Coats 2 5" Both Long and Short BIGGEST REDUCTIONS YET ON HIGH-GRADE Suits and Dresses The Rest of This Week at Stenswick’s 1632 Fourth Avenue. Near The Times Bldg. The Newest of the New SEVEN HUNDRED Russian Blouses Basques and Tie-ons $20 VALUES (Were Bought to Sell at $20.00. Each) One Blouse to a Customer This sale is being conducted to draw more pone into the store—to keep our salespeople usy. We will not’ make a cent on_ these ments—we do not expect to—but we like to the rush there will be for busy, well knowin Keep these wonderful blouses at such a ridiculously — ALL NEW BLOUSES — Will purchase one of these lovely garments which low price. are in: Georgette Crepe, Crepe de Chine in All Colors of the Rainbow Price is like an acquaintance. Quality like a friend. We must make the acquaintance first. uaintances will sure become friends. The PRICE should bring The QUALITY bring you back. _ ow We: por Pike St. our T Then ‘ou in, Ta