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Week for a Good LIBRARY TABLE ‘This fs an unusual price for a Table of this quality and char acter. Made of solid oak, with heavy legs, panel ends, large under shelf and a roomy drawer, Size of top, 30 inches wide and 48 inches long, Finished either in golden $1 7 25 ‘* ry or fumed. While they last, special “at.... Our assortment of Library, Hall and Parlor Tables je at its best, in all finishes and periods. Priced moderately. RUNBAU WHERE PIKE MEETS FIFTH | JB ESB2000:000:0q ~ |Marshal’s Son Is _ Given U. S. Post) Confirmation of the appointment |™ of John M. Boyle, Jr, ax assistant United States district attorney has | been received by District Attorney | Robert C. Saunders. Attorney Boyle | }is the son of United States Marshal | | Boyle, of Tacofa, and a member of Edward B. Rhodes post, American | Legion, He will assume charge of | the Tacoma office of the district at | torney. “Oh, give me some more of that coffee, Jim Boldt!"—Adv SEATTLE NEW YORK IMITATI THE SEATT LE STAR Mary Marie Py EleanorHPorter 1920 (Continued from yesterday) SYNOPSI ‘ but she only chuckled and sald that's about what it‘amounted to in some cases.) The very idea! The whole town was excited over the affair, and Nuree Sarah heard a lot of thelr talk, Some thought she her father! was an astronomer like him, Some dertur | thought # ax very rich, and may* y|be famous, Everybody declared she must know @ lot, anyway wonderfully wise and intellectual and they sald shé was probably tall and wore glasses, and would be 20 Io of oppeniiee. ee iyears old, at te But nobody ~ |muesshd anywhere near what she >. | really was Nurse Sarah sald she should never forget the night she came, and how she looked, and how utterly flabber- |mantad everybody wan to see her—a [little stim 18-year-old girl with yel low curly hair and the merriest [laughing eyes they had ever seen (Don't I know? Don't T just love n't anybody to @o to the | mother’s eyes when they sparkle and Ande was| twinkle when off together suldn’t go, | sometimes in the we ) And nurse said mother was so excRed the day she came, fhe's Marte hor, Mary to her very ene manner she is & divorce tn family will live half @ year with 4 half a year with her moth has decided that t will be a opportunity to write « her . BEGIN MERE TODAY: eee ‘There was wedding. Grandma k, so Of course she and gradpa was dead, so of « mune | he epuidn’t go, and there weren't any brothers or sisters, only Jane in St, Paul, and she was so|!ne over everything. (1 can't im- mad she wouldn't So | aaine that so well, Mother moves so there was no chance of seeing the @uletly now, everywhere, and ts » bride till father brought her home, | tired, ‘most all the time.) Nurse gald they wondered wondered what kind of a woman it/ mite could be that had captured him. (1] “Rut how did father act?” I de- told her I wished she wouldn't speak | manded. ant he displeased and of my mother aa if she was some | scandalized and shocked, and every- kind of a hunter out after game; | thing?” we're SAN FRAN LOS ANGELES 1021 Second Ave. Rialto Bldg. ON! THE: SINCEREST FORM OF FLATTERY “Sweet Sixteen” Fashions are the most flattered styles in the country. “BEAUTIFUL!” Yes, that’s the picture) word used by every woman in her inspiration as she describes the thousands of “pretties” her eyes fall upon. E HAVE YET SCARCELY RECOV: ERED FROM THE GLORIES OF THE ‘ wonderful reception accorded the opening of this shop, and while we are still enjoying the compliment, true to form, we ask you to come tomorrow to see the new modes in our comprehensive showing of 1920 Fall Fashions—the finest to be seen in one collection in Washington for the adornment of the best-dressed women in America —we.mean the women of Seattle and the Great Northwest. 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Ta and be| and went laughing and) Aunt |daneing all over the houne, exclaim: | But she! and| Wasn't tired then, nurse says—not a|* it Nurse shrugged her shoulders and ruined her eyebrowa—the way she does when she feels particularly #u- perior, ‘Then #he sald: “Do? What does any old foot beggin’ your pardon an’ no ‘offenne | meant, Mins Mary Marie—but what | does any man do what's got bejug |eled with a pretty face, an’ hin senses completely took away from him by a chit of a girl? Well, that's | what he did, He acted as if he was bewitched. He followed her around the house like a dog—when he wasn't | leadin’ her to something new; an’ he |never took his eyes off her face ex- cept to look at us, as much as to way creature “My And, really, you know, I just couldn't believe my ears. And you wouldn't either, if you knew father, “Why, a never saw him act like. that!” | "No, 1 guess you didn't,” liughed 'Nurse Sarah with a shrug, “And | neith@r did anybody else—for long “But how long did it last?” anked “Oh, a month, or maybe six weeks,” jshrugged Nurse Sarah, “Then it came September and college began, 1 hing. Things began to change tight then, #0 you th®m i" [ wanted to know, urse Sarah shrugged her should- again ‘Oh, la! child, what a little ques- tion box you are, an’ no mistake,” she sighed. But she didn’t look mad could see not like the way she does wher I) ask why she can take ber teeth out and mont of her nair off and I can't; and things like that. (As if I didn’t Know! What does she take me for ja child?) She didn’t even look dis- | Pleased—Nurse Samh loves to talk | (An if I didn't kno® that, too!) She Just threw that quick look of hers over her shoulder and settled back contentedly in her chair. I knew |then I should get the whole story }And I did. And I'm going to tell it | here in ber own words, just as well as I can remember it—bad grammar and all. So please remember that } Jam not making all those mistaken. |It's Nurse Sarah, 1 guess, tho, that I'd better put it into @ new chapter. This one ts |yards long already. How do they tell when to begin and end chapters? going to be so! book—diary, I mean, it I shall love it, I know. And this & real story—not like those made- up things I've always written for the girls at school CHAPTER IL Nurse Sarah's Story And this is Nurse Sarah's story. Asal said, I'm going to tell It straight through as near as I can tn |her own words, And I can remem- ber most of it, I think, for I paid very close attention * “Well, yea, Mien Mary Marte, things | did begin to change right there an’ | then, an’ no you could notice it. We saw it, tho maybe your pa an’ ma | didn’t, at the first. | “You see, the first month after she came, it was vacation time, an’ he could give her all the time she | wanted. An’ she wanted ft all. An’ | she took it. An’ he was just as glad |to give it as ehe was to take it. An’ [fo from mornin’ till night they was ether traipsin’ all over the house an’ garden, an’ trampin’ off thru the woods an’ up on the mountain |every other day with their lunch. “You see she was’ city-bred, an’ |not used to woods an’ flowers grow- in’ wild; an’ she went crazy, over them, He showed her the stars, too, thru his telescope; but she hadn't a | mite of use for them, an’ let him ser jit good an’ plain. She told him—tI jheard her with my own ears—that his eyer, when they laughed, was all |the stars she wanted; an’ that she'd jhad stars all her life for breakfast an’ luncheon an’ dinner, anyway, an’ all the time between; an’ she'd rather have somethin’ else, now—somethin’ lalive, that she could love an’ live with an’ touch an’ play with, like |she could the flowers an’ rocks an’ | erase an’ trees, | “Angry? Your pa? Not much he | Was! He just laughed an’ caught her |'round the waist an’ kissed her, an’ |said she herself was the brightest |star of all. ‘Then they ran off hand in hand, like two kids.” An’ they was [two kids, too, All thru those first | few weeks your pa was just a great | big baby with a new plaything. ‘Then | when college began he turned all at Jonce into a full-grown man. An’ Just naturally your ma didn't know what to make of it. “He couldn't explore the attic an’ rig up In the old clothes there any more, nor romp through the garden, {Mor go lunchin’ in the woods, nor none of the things she wanted him |to'do, He didn't have time, *An’ | what made things worse, one of them comet-talls was comin’ up in the |sky, an’ your pa didn't take no rest for watchin’ for it, an’ then studyin’ of it when it got here. “An’ your ma—poor little thing! 1 |couldn't think of anything but a doll that was thrown in the corner be- cause somebody'd got tired of her: She was lonesome, an’ no mistake Anybody'’d be sorry for her, to see her mopin’ ‘round the house, nothin’ te do, Oh, she read, an’ sewed with them bright-colored silks an’ worsteds; but ‘course there wasn’t no real work for her to do, There was good help in the kitchen, an’ I took what care of your grandma was needed; an’ she always gave her orders thru me, so I practically run the house, an’ there wasn't any- thing there for her to do. “An’ so your ma just had to mope it out alone, Oh, I don’t mean your pA was unkind, He was always nice an’ polite, when he was in the house, an’ I'm sure he meant to treat her all right. He said yes, yes, to be sure, of course, she was lonesome, an’ he was sorry. "T'was too bad he was so busy. An’ he kissed her an’ patted her, But he always began right away to talk of the comet; an’ ten to one he didn’t disappear into the observatory within the next five minutes, Then your ma would look so grieved an’ sorry an’ go off an’ cry, an’ maybe not come down to dinner, at all, “Well, then, one day things got so and your father had to go back to| The Rhodes Co. 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Schoolday Suiting and Devonshire in a full tine of colors; launders and wears splendidly, at 70¢ a yard Percales in light and dark colors, figures and neat stripes, for boys’ waists, 24 and 36 inches wide, at 35¢, 45¢ and 50¢ a yard. Plaids separate more than Heavier Suitings for rompers, house dresses and color com- || Silk and Wool 7 Dress Skirts he require silk poplin Gathered in two-plece There are 40 Skirts in the Jot in large, me and small The colors blue, Copen, blue and only. $3.50 Silk Dress Special $28.50 SSEMBLED from our carefully chosen stock of Dresses are thirty mod els of taffeta, Ruffles broidery, ordained by Fashion as the necessary touch for fall and winter dresses, trim these various styles. in light and dark shades. beadings and silk em tricolette and Georgette, plaitings, novelty tunics, cordings, Sizes 16 years to 38 bust. bad your grandma took a hand. She was up an’ around the house, though she kept mostly to her own rooms. But of course, she saw how things was goin.’ Besides, 1 told her— some. “Twas no more than my duty, asl looked at it, She just wor- shipped your pa, an’ naturally she'd want things right for him. So one day she told me to tell her son's wife to come to her in her room. “An’ I did, an’ she came. Poor little thing! I couldn't help bein’ sorry for her. She didn’t know a thing of what was wanted of her, an’ she was so glad an’ happy to come. You see, she was lonesome, I sup- Mother An- she cried. ‘Oh, I'm so glad!’ Then she made it worse by runnin’ up the stairs an’ bduncin’ into the room like a rubber ball, an’ eryin’: | ‘Now, what shal I do, read to you. or sing to you, of shall we play gamen? I'd love to do any of them!’| Just like that, she said it, I heard} her. Then I went out, of course, an’! left them. But I heard ‘most every- thing that was said, just ‘the same, for I was right in the next room dustin’, and the door wasn't quite/ shut “First, your grandmother said real | polite—she .was always polite—but in a cold little voice that made even | me shiver in the other room, that she | did not desire to be read to or sung | to, and that she did not wish to play gamos. She had called her daughter- | in-law in to have a serious talk with her. Then she told, her, still very | polite, that she was noisy an’ child- ish, an’ undignified, an’ that it was not only silly, but very wrong for her to expect td have her husband's entire attention; that he had his own work, an’ it was @ very important | one. He was’ going to be president of the college some day, like his father before him; an’ it was her place to help him in every way she could—help him to be popular ar’ well-liked by all the college people an’ students; an’ he couldn't be that if she insisted all the time on keepin’ him to herself, or lookin’ sour an’ cross {f she couldn't have him. “Of course, that ain't all she sald; but I remember this part particular on account of what happened after- SAY “DIAMOND DYES” Don’t streak or ruin your material in a poor dye. Insist on “Diamond Dyes.” Easy directions in package. “CORNS” Lift Right Off Without Pain Doesn't hurt a bit! Drop a little Freezone on an aching corn, instant: ly that corn stops burting, then shortly you lift it right off with fingets, ‘Truly! Your druggist sells a tiny bottle of Freezone for a few cents, sufficient to remove every hard corn, soft corn, or corn between the toes, and the calluses, without soreness or irrita- tion, ward. You see—your ma—she felt;tory. An’ it was that way = awful bad. She cried a little, an'|along after that, I kni B sighed a lot, an’ said she'd try, she| watched. You see, I knew what: really would try, to help her husband | said she'd do. Well, she did Jt in every way she could; an’ she (Continued Tomerrew) wouldn't ask him another once, not once, to stay with her. An’ she wouldn't look sour an’ cross, either. She'd promisé she wouldn't. An’ she'd try, she'd try, oh, so hard, to be proper an’ dignified, “She got up then an’ went out of the room so quiet an’ still you wouldn't know she was movin’. But I heard her up in her room cryin’ half an hour later, when I stopped a minute at her door to see if she was there. An’ she was. “But she wasn't cryin’ by night | Not much she was! She'd washed | her face an* dressed herself up as) pretty as could be, an’ she never so; much as looked as if she wanted her husband to stay with her, When he said right after supper that he! guessed he'd go out to the observa- e “Let's eat breakfast at Adve Canning Supplies at Special Prices. 55c Dozen Squat Jelly Glasses at 43¢ Dozen These are 14-pint Squat Jelly Glasses, complete with covers—43¢ dozen. . 4 Parowax—Special at 17¢ Packdge 8- and 10-Quart Gray Granite Preserving Pans—Special at 49c — These 8 and _ 10-quart y Gray Granite Preserving Pans are an_ exceptionally big value at this price. Special at 49¢. Cut Glass Sugar and Creamer Special at 75c Pair Hand-Cut by Seattle Experts During a dull season of the year we had a large quantity of these attractive squat shape, clear crystal glass Sugars and Creamers cut in a beautiful floral design. That is the reason we can offer them at this extremely low price. 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