The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 1, 1920, Page 13

The Seattle Star (-»-*] TTLE, WASH, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1920. ; RETTIEST SALESGIRL OFF TO N. Y. '|_EDITH MAY’S HOME FOLKS |= —_— ‘Great City ‘Has Simple Proud Mother Is a Bit Wistful and Anxious | ~ BY ZOK BECKLEY | 5 Wis— ty Mail>—~| : and the Elevated! Those | two vision Edith May | orchid st in per mem of New York, The wild & girl from Wisconsin, whose Jeti survived the innumerable | fesortings, weeding-out and | ¢@ ‘eerutinies of hundreds of} Patorrapds by the ablest beauty | in New York, leaves her i Eteee town in an April shower of piles and tears. I realize,” she says, “that weaving mother and father and and the old pouse, and and—and—everything to go ip New York, that I've only seen in ‘and on picture posteards, just—plain—scared—to death! al the same, I'm dying to go. "are they really—elevated trains Hew York? You know, it doesn't pousible. And how do they the electric signs on Broadway | 1 coukin'’t sleep last night fWoked into the clear brown eyes May and I “wondered,” too. | d what the Magical City @o to her—this simple child tho she's 17 she looks a child) whole experience has been by the cottage kitehen she helped ma with the sup er things, the Waffle Shop, where gold chocolate drops and marsh. and ice cream cones to the folks of the country town, Bf the high school, where she went she could be spared from the allows, | THIS GIRL TAKE TO THE | GHTS' SOPHISTICATION? this pretty Jass, with the won eyes and the dark curls and | Untouched creamy skin, #0 ly set off by the gingham frock home-made bonnet, take quickly sophistication of footlights up boxes? the master of beauty whose great shows have helped to Broadway and Forty-Second famous, see in her a new bright for his glittering firmament? | the man who puts ‘em thru! fo, what will it all mean to ‘Wath May, with her artless curls, Gnd blue net bonnet? And to her tad, who loves his girl of his honest soul? | ho wipes her hand @e on her apron and says by mying nothing? And to who hopes sis"ll make good he wants to go to a tech/ And to the whole town of who fl to is prouder of its pretty of ts neat streets, its and its “one auto five habitants”? too says Edith Perhaps reading my thoughts, figure it out. I don't realize any- that I am actually the train to New York. rt F pepe ttt ¢ i "t even imagine going up to| lory in an elevator. As| wardens and cabarets and a that Actually begins at mid-| up trying to find words, | & gesture which said, I just don’t believe it, | Ane ABOUT NEW YORK RATHER NOT BELIEVE y York e| B People h n, Pgs and child in Monroe knows | 7 and is good to her.” Suess folks in New York are h too," submitted Edith’s Emma, who has traveled a bit fod — up to the girl herself | ewe? Feated. Edith'll ber all F ae her father’s deep voice ; the very heart of him. | 404 he said no more. 2 | im the way the whole ? town fenia, Ey k00d-looking postmaster | ost lith on the street. q » Uttle girl,” he smiles, “I ten going to try your | New York. If you don’t PW, conte back to Monrae on the | yo and we'll get out the| j Welcome you.” Pe” Emma is teaving with Mit as her chaperon, as Mra.| ermberaer did not feel equal to! W, : AYS FELT Goon LUCK ny IN TO aint 1 got this a nei housewife soe bustling over to say wet at es me kind of good luck | fing, I i to you. You'll ake out) mow it. But if you get} menick Or Komethi y | : MPe straight buck th an aed Bracious, Kae it the the rte luck A chance on ° 4nd a@ chance in the| om Just green with envy.” nc al who is almost ed ae Edith iil ithe E4ith miles her smile and el ys nd flashes a gt: }'ve just GOT to make at anazt me. “I can't die hene people. Bexides— 2 Something 1 want terribly Well, it's « couple of |that didn’t need words. \to Edith May? _ Edith May Luenberger, 17, adjudged the prettiest salesgirl in America in the great national contest conducted by The Se- attle Starand associated newspapers, is shown with her brother Harold at the pump, on one side of the modest Leuen- berger home at Monroe, Wis. Below, the Leuenberger home and Mr. and Mrs. Leuenberger. acres of land I want to buy for— “—for them.” Edith May ferked for—" her head in her parents’ direction. Her mother and father were sit | “Sometimes if you want a thing very ting together in the cottage parlor.| much, and get a chance to work for Not talking or anything, just sitting | it, you get it, don't yout’ in a mort of quiet companionship} Will Broadway bring this chance Population of U. S. Now Estimated at About 107,000,000 BY GEORGE B. WATERS — | will: mean WASHINGTON, Oct, 1. — The | opinion United States has more than 106/the Uni ‘en, about 109,000,000 | millions of peopie. | people 4x claim that no mat: | ‘This already has been determined| ter how thoro a census enumera | by the census bureau. |tion may be, at least 2 per cent| ‘This information has become! of the people will not be enu | known without an actual count of|merated. This would leave 2,000, | the people. It happened this way |000 uncounted. | ‘The classification of the people into! Who are these two millions of| male and female, white and black,| people? Many of them are crooks | race, occupation and so on, is done|who dodge the census-takers. There | by means of mach{nes that punch|are thousands of persons who! cards, Hundreds of employes have|travel and have no home address. been punching these cards fot | It is estimated there are more than | months. ; | 2,000,000 pergpns on trains all the| Originally there were 110,000,000 | time. of these blank cards. There is one| - card for each person. The fact} ri Cat ait, but 4,000,000 of the cards| Democrat Committee chéd shows that there * } oars porgces to Organize Today | are 106,000,000 persons already ac Organization of the new King paca ty iT mittee, named | srahias county democratic committee, named OFFICIAL FIGURES Thursday by Chairman M. W. Tay SOON TO COME lor, will be effected at a meeting at Some time ago the bureau an-| county headquarters, Lyon bullding, | nounced 92,000,000 persons. Within | at's» m, Friday. a week it will give out official figures on the number of persons ape Fen a census shest tor each| Third Suicide Is raon. ‘The people whose sheets . ee tot gone tru the punching Called Hereditary machines live in Massachusetts,| ATHERSTONE, Eng. Oct. 1—A West Virginia, Alabama and Texas, |case of hereditary suicide, covering | and only fragments of these st generations, ix reported from a| remain to be counted, or ral e near here, where a girl found to have their sheets punched her father’s body hanging from a ‘The punching is going on now|ceiifig. His father and grandfather at the rate of from 40,000 to 80,000 also committed suicide. a day. It in said there are less sae as than 1,000,000 of these sheets yet : Ie eee This would mean |RRESEFVOIr Work Is that, altho it has been show there Stopped Till Oct. 8 are 106,000,000 persons, there willl Construction by the city of a new fie. tone /tasp 201080 ee reservoir for Volunteer park has| Some of the facts the census licen halted by Judge B. J. Tallman wit ow 659 {until after a hearing on an applica Fifty-two per cent of the people | tion for a permant injunction, Oc Jive in cities, whereas 1910 showed | toner §, ‘The city may, however, ad more than half lived in rural dis-| Vertise for bide tricts. ; ; fi ‘Women are In excess of men; nl- ware tefore the census has shown | He Should Start excess of males. wig ore per cant of the people a Jewelry Store have specialized occupations. CRICH, England, Sept. 30.—Ia ‘Twelve persons in every 100 can-|ward Emans has Just celebrated his not read and write |necond silver wedding. His first Birthrate has materially decreased | marriage was in 1867 and his second since 1910, due to crowded condi-|in 1895. tions in cities and the high cost of - living. Gain of 15,000,000 since 1910. Ten million due to excess of|the state of Luxemburg, is about to/ births over deaths and five million | join the Order of St. Theresa at the! to immigration Convent of Modena, in Italy. When If the official figures determine |the allies won the war the grand there’ are. 101,000,000 persons, it duchess was forced to abdicate, | cording to unofticiat | 14, that there are, in| LUXEMBURG, Oct. 1.—~Grand} Duchess Marle Adelaide, ex-ruler of Saturday We're Cutting Loose —Several Thousand— Overcoats-New Fall Suits This Store Is Overcoat which we recently purchased at prices far under the Fall Market Value. Headquarters And You'll Agree With Us When You See the Endless Variety Our Policy of Large Volume on a Small Margin of Profit En- ables Us to Offer These High Grade All- Wool Suits and Over- coats At Three Very Low Prices Up the Incline Don’t Fail To See Our Windows The values shown will make you think of bygone days, and we know they’ll bring hundreds of new faces into this store— for Comparison Will Prove That the Men and Young Men of Seattle haven’t seen anything like these Suits and Overcoats for years at'so low a price. At $45— You'll find wonderful Worsted Suits and beauti- ful Overcoats in medium and heavy weight. Regu- lar values up to $65. At $35— You'll be surprised at the wonderful’ qualities in both Suits and Overcoats. Regular values up to $50. To Out-of-Town Customers Order your Suit and Overcoat by mail and save money. If what you order is not satisfactory we will upon return of same gladly refund your money. . Raincoats—Separate Trousers—Mackinaws Up the Incline at a Great Saving Boys’ Hats, Caps and Furnishings Boys’ Suits Overcoats, Mackinaws ' Tailored Ready Co. Seattle’s Greatest Store for Men and Boys 401 to 407 Pike St ‘