The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 7, 1920, Page 19

LONELY YOUNG MAN WHO (ATTEMPTED CHANCE ACQUAINTANCE ROUTE GETS PRICK WITH HATPIN AS REWARD) I wonder if you will allow me to take up I really enjoy reading most of your Dear Miss Grey: ome of your spac ticles, as you get both sides of all disputes put up to you,} one seems to bring on another, \ The question I have reference to is the sex problem, Some Mnights ago there was an article in your columns dealing with| It is true, and a most} @ last respect of man for woman. Pegrettable state of affairs. It seems, tho, that the remedy must come thru the women, but how? some of you will ask. First of all,.I think the familiarity which exists between man and woman of today should not be. There is a remedy for all evils; the good women} who wish the respect of the HAT do- YOU Opposite sex have different think? Write Cyn- means of commanding it. thia Grey, care of The Seattle Star. I was tho interested tator at} & Uttle dour staged on Seo Only yesterday, between a man & yery attractive young girl, Pe Man about town myself, my b keeping me out a great deal, te We very good reasons to KNOW it the girl was the last person on d ave. the man should have at pted to accost. My reasons, to wit, I myself was very taken with the young lady, and being un attached, I wished very much to make her acquaintance. One day, I Was waiting to catch a train, and, te kill time, stepped mto one of the Betal picture houses, and, to my good fortune (so I thought at the time), seated next the young lady. My tentions were the best in the world hen I picked up « handkerchief hich I had stepped upon as I sat R, and handing it to the young n the same class with the ones whe are looking for such chances, © man sald something very low er, and re ( the passers curred, the uppereut I am glad Little per ‘ any ¢ knew what had lady gave him when I think of it hat 5 young that I got the son, she if more an girls of her type would re sent the familiarity of the men, things would 1 y change. Her clothes were not of a nature to cause any man to insult her; in fact, I ve watched chang the girls with them,. but this little girl sticks to the plain, neat attire, which any man, nine times out of ten, would rather see. Her |face did not look like a rouge pot. @y, asked if it belonged to her.| Well, to make a long story ah © FAVE Me one of those ind your|there is so many that will resp business” stares, and sald, “|to & man's advances that he has be should have let that settle | come pretty bold, and does not know ler on I made a remark about the| bow to pick them. eture and something very sharp) Qnd very cok! pierced my trouser leg. Tt was her hat pin. I still carry the F Baark, where I got what was coming tome. She attracted me because she Was a good, wholesome girl, and it g@ts mighty lonesome for a fellow @way out here, with no one they @are about, but she did not know ‘That, and I do not diame her for Operating upon me, which It almost ‘mounted to. I have only put this Gown, as both “iInen and women are Wont to say, “Well, she would not Speak to him because he was not the » Tight one.” That is not so, as there Feally are a lot of good girls, but be @Ause they do not seem to resent the Sffronts of the “curb fleas,” are put As @ little advice, girls, get busy with your good right arms. I be leve it would prove a very effective method. ‘This Uttle old town ts small and that sort of news travels, I know a certain crowd of young men who call the little girl in question Hands Off," and there could be a lot more like her. 1, for one, have been taught a lesson, and I believe there ts another chap who will not bother the “Hands Off" girt again It occurred to me, while she was ing him, how proud,her mother father would have been to sce her; they would have surely felt that all their teachings had not been in vain. I have a sister in the East whom I think the world of, and that |little girl reminded me of her, and I sincerely hope that it will be In my | power to some day be able to ask her | pardon, as I have the most profound respect for her. | Thig goes to prove two counts: |You slmply cannot become acquaint. jed unless by formal tnstroduction to [the good girls, and who wants the her kind? And, last, but not least, jthe wirle have it in their power to make the opponite sex respect them. Here i» wishing you good tuck, Mins Grey, as the San Francisco writer says, “for allowing mo | have a blow-off in your little corner.” The Influence of Exam- A BIG BROTHER ple. } wai — ane ae |Normal Living Will my. | Dispel Blemishes The Virtue of Patience. | Dear Miss Grey: 1 am troubled The Joy of Originating. jwith pimples. Is there anything I The Profit of Experience. jean do,to remove them at home? ie toietenis ak tile © |} have hot the means to consult a Enables | physician. EMMA. Quarter of Centary The most euccessful way to oct to Give You | GUARANTEED SERVICE |rid of pimples is to build | general health. Eat regularly and Established Since 1890 leat the right things—not too much TLE OPTICAL Co fat, sugar and starch. Sleep reg- c - ; | ularly and with plenty of fresh air, Second Ave iat mal are | SCAT | akin be kept open by frequent dath- up the! | very important that the pores of the| THE SEATTLE STAR—FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1920. Seattle Style |) No. 72—The Star’s snapshots of attractively- dressed women on Seattle streets | | | } Tid WOT Cait (Calesions ofa Copyright 1920, The Neuspaper Enterprise, Association) THE BOOK OF ANN ( IT SEEMS THAT ANN 8 “All our men approve of Ann, If they like her so much as she is, why change her?’ I asked Chrys, as we struggled with some plan to assiml late our sister-in-law and not hurt her feelings with our unasked advice “Why do they so unanimously ad: | mire her? I'll tell you,” Chry# re: | plied, “Ann is the latest thing in modesty! That's why. She's of the! brand show-girl type, I should | lnay, and equipped with the latest stage tricks devined to beguile a warted race of men. Aj dreaned from throat to toes, with her shy smiles and her dangling curls and deep curtaeyn, men mistake her for gen: | uine, Even our dear old dad in per fectly deceived, Ho has fallen for every baby trick, you know.” Certainly I did know. Daddy's mile means pearis and furs and lim itlens luxuries whieh the girl craved But she couldn't really appreciate » lot of them. That was the flaw in Ann, False pearis would satisfy her as much as the genuine, provided other women mistook them for | “real.” And dadéy’s smile means a car all | for herself! I could see that coming first of all. | He drew her out the first day on the} subject of autos, He had tried to} draw me out in the same way when | Bob first brought me home, and I could seo how I had disappointed |him. I didn't know @ thing about) | auton! But Ann was posted. However did) ‘Movie Magnates i\Reach Out to | Control Stage BY H. P. BURTON i NEW YORK, May 6--The Amer fean theatre is in a death grapple with the American motion picture lindustry, and certain authoritative lobservers declare that the United {Staten may soon awake to find itseit | | without a single new play of real merit on the boards | ‘This, they further predict, will be lonly the beginning of the strangy |ation of our native spoken drama | | : |by the enveloping movies, which | —Photo by Cress-Dale. Altho this is a season of many interesting silhouettes, the loose, straight ‘line, one-piece dresses are still meeting with the greatest approval. The model pictured here dem- onstrates their charm and becomingness. It is fashioned of blue jersey cloth. The front of the skirt is lavishly embroid- ered with black braid in a pretty design. The saltanaterial belt gives a high-waisted effect. DAISY HENRY. | If the lady pictured here will call at The Star’s editorial rooms, she will receive two tickets to the Orpheum vaudeville show, at the Moore. | Tuesday's Fashion picture was of Miss Nan Lindberg, 4327 Seventh jave. 8. 2 auymmael Fashion picture was of Mixs Dorothy Keefe, 203 24th | ave. § . 1 |HAVE EQUAL RIGHTS|PONGEE MAKES NICE The first popular electign in Pa WINDOW DRAPERIES }eatine took place April 19. In giving the Jewish people popular govern-| Many housekeepers are replacing ment, the women were given the their two sets of window curtains same full voting powers as men and by using casement cloth or natural the right to run as delegates to the pongee draperies. Jewish constitutions] aasembly The white glass curtains and THIS SUNDAY MAY 9th “All That I Am I Owe to My Angel Mother.” — =m | Heavier overdraperies were very at tractive but they certainly meant an extra amount of work The casement curtains are just as attractive and mean a minimum amount of work. ‘They eliminate worry about colors fading in over hangings and all the somewhat fussy laundering of the glass cur talna. Some decorators will not recom mend pongee for windows exposed to an unusual amount of sun, con tending that the heat of sun thru glass rots the fabric. However « judicious manipulation of shades and blinds makes this fault negli gible. For laundering purposes there is no fabric that stands up as does pongee. SIAM FASHION Many of the women in Siam weer | their finger nails very long and have them tipped with silver, In kindly recognition of what everyone owes to mother, the second Sunday in May has been set apart to do her honor. It is your opportunity to make this day her happiest. You will want to speak some kind word of appreciation. | oo Lud Their beauty and fragrance—emblematic of her tender care, will carry your message like no other gift speak from the heart. Send your mother her favorite flowers on that day. White Bright flowers for mothers flowers for mother’s memory. living. We are featuring charming Mothers’ Day Baskets at $2.50 Delivered anywhere in the city. (a very dainty specialty). Send a Mothers’ Day Flowergram. WOODLAWN FLOWER SHOP Seat£le’s Flowerphone Main 663 1410 Second Avenue ” store at 314 Pine St., we a special for one week: $ can —for flowers 5 de Machines rented and re, Hemstitching, picoting, experts. All work guaran Conveniently Located Beside Clemmer Theatre 415 Union Sewing Machines will save many can make your clothes for one third of what they will cost you ready made, We also have good second-hand Sewing Machines at reasonable prices and liberal terms. White Sewing Two Stores will soon dictate the character of every stage entertainment produced in this country Newlymade movie magnates, richer by countless millions than the old-time producers of our theatrical fare, have suddenly become the masters of Brosdway. ‘Within the week the Famous Play: ers-Lanky Co, already tn control of the major portion of the picture | product of the country, has become |the holder of the purse-strings of the famous Frohman Co, the John D. Willlams Co,, and George Broad hurst and Oliver Morosea It has also proposed to buy out, too, Arthur | Hopkins, the manager of John Bar. rymore, as well as the Selwyn, Bam | Harris, Wm. Hartis, Jr, and prob- fa every other Broadway manager jof any standing. Furthermore, the movies have now turned from the | producers to the booking houses, land, with what app ches a half interest in the old syndicate” of | Klaw and Erlanger, are raid to be making arrangements to control the | choicest bookings of the Shubert or- | ganization. | ‘They propone to have stage plays | bought with the view of turning the successes into film stories after Broadway has advertined them. Ina statement made, after a con. ference of the independents, Edgar | Selwyn said: | “Of the 60 theatres in New York, |not more than 10 are owned by the independents and only five of these are in the hands of men who don't | need movie money and can afford to fight the movie producer for the tie good of the American stage. r, if we take orders from the | movie magnates, and accept plays on | their motion picture merits, then it is all over with the American drama. “Just one thing—publictty—can stop this. The drama cannot bid Against the great movie wealth, It can't pay as big rentals because its | cost of production is so high. The | only way out is for the rich people }in all the cities of America ta build | theatres in their respective towns to house the spoken drama of America because they beleve this drama, in ite best estate, is eamential to the ar. tistle life of our country.” If men could make money as cas- fly as they can make love we should all be millionaires in a short time. To introduce our new re offering the following 112.00 White Rotary wing Machine $92.00 $5.00 Down—$5.00 a Month A purchase of one of these oars in dressing expense. You paired. button making, done by ‘teed, Machine Co. 314 Pine THOUGHT ON SEX hat rot | old-fashioned notions abc | well, Summer Frock \Combines Lace With Batiste TANDS FOR THE NEW so much? the she manag last 1 gucnsed, shocked me. Ann had been around enough with young men of some smart set to know what cars “had class!" 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Marriage is wonder.| right, Isn't it, my to. marringe. ‘They're enough for me. ful-—when ft is lover" ‘Wonderfulr* hometimes, Hob, I echoed. “But I feel sorry for girls tod 1 guess your mother wint the idea on in her time | girls were not supposed to know a| word about sex, and It saved a lot of bother. And maybe some heart-break too. Mut now we are torn between | old traditions and new feminixm. | And it seems to me, Bob, that Ann| stands for the new thought about} nex, and I stand for the old. Perhaps| At informal afternoon affairs this that ln why she ls wrong with Chrys summer, and even at some formal and me. We are not smug-—we are) gatherings, géorgette and tinsel not prudes—you know that very/|frocks are likely to be supplanted Bob. It's her standards that|by such materials as batiste and worry us, and not her Indolence| French voile. Here sketched is a sione. Her kitteniah tricks are all| frock of simple lines, with round too sophisticated! 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