The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 18, 1920, Page 5

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36x72 size. .$5.80 27x34 size. .$3.75 ON SALE FRIDAY ONLY — They are Model Axminster rugs. sortment in color is suffl ctent de mand. There are only 60 of each size rug, Consider ing the remarkable price of 85.80 for 36xT?, 83.75 they should not The as to mtisfy every GLASBAK CASSEROLE—An efght-inch guaranteed casserole with nickel frame; will be handy for the Thanksgiving baking - ot Friday and Saturday SEASONABLE BEAUTY AID We find you can bring out the Beauty of your hair to its very best S@évantage by washing it with can- Prox. It makes a very simple, in. | ‘@xpensive shampoo, which cleanses | ‘the hair and stalp thoroughly of all ‘The dandruff, dirt and excess oil, Beaving a wonderfully clean, wholo- @ome feeling. After its use you will find that the hair dries quickly and @renly, is never streaked in appear @hce and tk always bright, soft and * Muffy; so fluffy, in fact, that it looks | Bhore abundant than it is, and so) @oft that arranging it becomes a ‘Pleasure. Just use a teaspoonful of | @anthrox, which you can get from ‘@ny good "a, dissolve it ina hot water; this makes a full) easy to apply it to all the hair 95 ASTORIA, Or.--Body of John » 70, of Fe road tracks five miles from here. mm Hill, found on CATARRHAL JELLY Fok Colds Lar rail tia PREE—Write of shampoo liquid, enowrh so | KONDON MFG. CO. ee | of just the top of the head. ' Our New Standard of Low Prices is one that will appeal to all men and young men who desire economy and values along with clothes tailored and styled to possess the excellence of custom garments. Our prices have been uniformly reduced on SUITS, OVERCOATS, RAINCOATS and separate trousers to meet the public demand for lower living and dressing costs, but it has been accom- plished without sales or without abandon- ing the service feature for which this store is noted. We have sacrificed our profits and put our prices down to@ point very near cost—just allowing enough margin to enable us to carry on our business. WHILE THE PRICES ARE LOW THE VALUES ARE UNUSUALLY HIGH. TO BE CONVINCED OF THIS YOU MUST MAKE COMPARISONS. You be the judge. Come in and see. Custom service without the annoyance of a try-on. SHANER & WOLFF “Clothes that‘are different ~ 916 Second .Ave. Seattle Two Big Stores —— Tacoma Consci in Art Copyright, 1920, by Doubleday, Page 4 Co.; published by apectal arrange ment with the Wheeler Byndicate, Inc. “I never could hold my partner, Andy ethiew of pure swindling, Petera one day. “Andy had too much imagination to be honest. He used to devine schemes of money-getting so fraud ulent and high-financial that they wouldn't have been allowed In the by-laws of a railroad rebate mystem, “Myself, I never belleved in talting any man’s dollars unless I gave him something for it—something in the way of rolled gold jewelry, garden | seeds, lumbage lotion, stock certifi: | eaten, » head to show for the money, I guess I must have had New England an cestors away back and inherited some of thelr siaunch and rugged fear of the police. Hut Andy's famfly tree waa tn different kind, I don't think he could have traced hin descent any further back than a corporation. “One summer, while we was in the Middie West, working down in Ohio Valley with a line of family albums, headache powders and roach destroy ef, Andy takes one of his notions of high and actionable financiering. “"L waa thinking,’ says Andy 4 little hunt without horn, mera nmong the great he las Americanua, commonly known as the Pittsburg miliienaires’ In Now York?’ I asks. ‘No sir,’ myn Andy, ‘in Pittebure. That's their habitat, They don't like New York, They go there now and then Just because its expected of em.’ “Well, to make a dense story more condensed, me and Andy cached our Parin green and antipyrine powders said Jeff and albums tn a friend's celigr, and | took the train to Pittsburg. © Andy ucker, down to the legttimate | ve polish, or a crack on the! THE SEATTLE STAR HUMOR R OMANCE and work with the olive fork and pie knife,’ says 1, but ttan't the entre nous into the salons of the stogie| amokers going to be harder than you imagined? | “‘If there's any handicap at all.’ ye Andy | 8nd Inherent culture, Pittsburg mil Honaires are a fine body of plain, Wholehearted, unassuming, demo eratio men. “They are rough but metvil tn thelr manners and though their waya are boisterous and unpolished, under it all they have a great deal of im politeness and discourtesy. Nearly every one of ‘em rose from ot ity,’ mays Andy, till dhe town gets to using smoke consumers, If we act from the saloons and keep making @ noise like an import duty on steel ratle we won't have any trouble in meet} | ing nome of ‘em socially,’ “One evening Andy fafled to come to the hotel for dinner, About 11 | o'clock he came into my room, | “‘tanded one, Jeff’ says he. “Twelve millions. Oil, rofling mills real estate and natural gas, He's a | fine man; no aire about him. Made all his money In the last five years. Ho's got professors posting him up now In education—art and Hterature and haberdashery and such things | “"When I saw him he'd Just won & bet of ton thousand dollare with @ Steel Corporation man that there'd) be four suletdes tn the Allegheny rolling milla today. So everybody in fight had to walk up and have drinks on him, He took a fancy to me and asked me to dinner with him. We went to a restaurant in Diamond alley and at on stools and had sparkling Moselle and clam chowder and apple fritters, “Then he wanted to ¢how me his | bac apartment on Liberty wt. got 19 rooms over a fish market i= privilege of the bath on the next Moor above. He told me It cost him, $14,000 to furnish his aparunent and 1 believe it. “He's tures in one room, and $20,000 worth | helor ‘it's our own refinement ‘and they'll live tn tt) t £40,000 worth of pic | PATHOS 9 to 10 TUB SKIRTS — The ready-to-wear pection on the second floor will place on wale for a quick cleanup 23 White Cotton Gaberdine, Pique and Weaves, made in two-piece styles with lotus flower with a woman's face in it carved out of a solid piece of ivory, “‘Sendder looks tt up tn a catalog | and describes it, An Keyptian cary ler named Khafra made two of ‘em for King Ramesen 11 about the year |B. C. The other one can't be found |The junkshops and antique bug» have rubbered all Wurope for it, but it seems to be out of stock, Seudder paid two thourand dollars for the one he has,’ | *°Oh, well! anys T, “this sounds like the purling of @ rill to me. 1 thought we came here to teach the millionaires business, instead of learning art from ‘em? | “Re patient," says Andy, kindly “Maybe we will see a rift in the emoke ere long.” | “All the next morning Andy was out I didn't eee him until about noon, Hi came to the hotel and called me into his room acroms the hall, He pulled a roundish bundle about as big as a goowe exe out of hin pocket and unwrapped it, It was an tvory carving just aa he had descrived the millionaire’s to me “‘l went in an old second-hand store and pawnahop a while ago,’ saya Andy, ‘and I see this half hid den under a lot of old daggers and truck. The pawnbroker mild he'd had it peveral years and thinks it ‘was soaked by some Are or Turks or some foreign dubs that used to live down by the river, }it, and I must have looked lke I wanted it, for he said it would be taking the pumpernickel out of bis | versation that did not lead up to a price of thirty-five dollars, 1 finally got it for twenty-five dollars, | “Jett” goes on Andy, ‘thin ta te exnet counterpart of Scudder's cary jing. it. He'll pay two thousand dollars for it an quick as he'd tuck a napkin Junder hia chin. it be the genuine other one. how, that the old gypsy whittled didn't have any eapecial prospectus Of curios and antiques tn another. lout? of chicanery and violence drawn up. but he always had plenty of conti Hin name's Scudder, and he's 45, an taking lessons on the plano and 15, | “Why not, Indeed? mys “And how shall we go about compelling | dence that his tmmoral nature would | 000 barrels of oll @ day out of BIS him to make @ voluntary purchase tie to any occasion that presented iteelt, | # & concemion to my ffene of jfelf'preservation and rectitude he |promined that if I should take an active and incriminating part in any Uttle business venture that we might work up, actual and cognizant to the sense of touch, sight, transfer to the victim for the money, *o my conscience might reat easy After that I felt better and entered more cheerfully inte the foul play. “‘Andy, says 1, as wi thru the smoke along path they called Smithfield st, “had you figured out how we are going to| get acquainted with these coke kings and pig from equeerers? Not that I would decry my own worth or «ys tem of drawing room deportment, there sbould be something | taste or emeil to) wo! "AN right! says I. ‘Pretiminary | canter satisfactory, But, kay vooly, voof What good in the art junk to us? And the oll™ “Not, that man,’ mye Andy, wit ting thoughtfully on the bed, ‘ain't) what you would call an ordinary seutt, When he was showing me hin! cabinet of art curtos his face lighted up Iike the door of a coke oven. He says that if some of his bie deale go thru hell make J. P. Morgan's col- lection of sweatshop tapestry and Angusta, Me. beadwork look like the contents of an ovtrich’s craw thrown on @ sereen by a magic lantern. “‘And then he showed me a Iittle learving,’ went on Andy, ‘that any: bedy could see was a wonderful thing. It was something like two thousand years old, he eid. It wae | ot lad “Andy had his pian all ready, and In tel you how we carried it out. “1 got a palr of blue spectaclen, j put on my black frock coat, rumpled [my hair up and became Professor Pickleman, 1 went to another hotel, |regintered, and sent a telegram to Scudder to come and see me at once on important art business, The sie vator dumped Jim on me in Ira | han an hear. \¢ wan a foggy man | with & clarion voice, smelling of | Connecticut wrappern and naphtha “‘ifello, Profess’ he shouts. How's your conduct? “I rumpled my hatr some more and gave him a blue glass stare. “ ‘Bir’ mays I. ‘Are you Cornelfus T. Boudder? Of Pittsburg, Pennsy) vania? "1 am! mays he. Come ont and BAXTER & BAXTER’ Clearance Sale Going Strong! Everything on Sale Except Cantilevers Wonderful Shoe-Buying Opportunity ECIALS! 250 Pairs Ladies’, brown calf 9-inch 200 Pairs Henne’s black Pumps children's mouths to hold any con-| It's absolutely a dead ringer for | And why shouldn't | any. | Boots, military heels, best with Henne heels, regular grade; all sizes 2 to 9; widths AAA to D; were $15— Our Price Now $11.85 price $16. Don’t miss this. | Wonderful Values at His $9.85 | 300 Pairs Ladies’ Patent Pumps in two-eyelet ties and tongue effects; sold at from $12 to $15. Going fast at | 125 Pairs Princess and Tobias, bench made, tan calf Ox- ford; was $16 and nove better made— Price Now $10.85 Boots Big lot Ladies’ Louis Heel Boots, in colors. Some wonderful values at $7.85 to Sale Price $7.85 Silk Hose Everwear Silk Hose in “browns and blacks still gbing at $1.25 and $1.75 ON THE RACK You will find some great buys In Boots: Pumps, Oxfords. Broken «izes but high-grade, They're yours at JUST TWO PRICES $4.85 $5.85 Wonderful Values for Men Broken sizes in good Shoes $6. 85 pets $8. 85 On the rack at . Banister Shoes wold regularly at | fegular lines Excelsior and How- ard and Foster Shoes going at $12.85 to $15.85 | "$9.35 to $12.85 1326 BAXTER & BAXTER secona Ave learving, It'll take bim some time to ART SPECI line of patch pockets, 26 to 96 Inch waist measures. Formerly $3.50. Vor CAMBRIC—200 yards of 46-inch White Cambric with a Nainsook finish. Formerly 600, For this hour, a INFANTS’ CREEPERS oo Cr of white rial, soiled from dis sizes 6 smnonths to Formerty $1.25. ‘To clone out " A9c this hour, each. agen ly $4.7 “pers ma play, 2 years inex merly hour, containing geen, pajamas and a few blouses tamper for embroidery 6, 44 33, For this hour, each HOUSE DRESSES—25 Percale in striped ‘reduced for OUCH nroeees Friday four Sales No mail, telephone or C. O. D. orders taken on Friday hour sale merchandise and the right to limit quantities is reserved, 10 to 11 11 to 12 CORDUROY OUTING GARMENTS — The as sortinent taken from our regular stock for this wale consista of 15 Cor duroy Coats in short and riding lengths, and 14 Skirts for riding or walk ing Formerly $10.00, hour, choice D4 «OO hour, INFANTS SHIR TS— 150 button down front Wool Mixed Shirts, in sizes 6 months to 2 years. On sale in the 46. For.’ Women's Knit Under- For this wear Section. Formerly $1.95 wove or 8. 75¢ 1to2 MEN’S TIES—A broken line of Men's Ties cludes fourin-hand bow in a varied amortinent of colors and patterns. Formerly in $100 and $1.50. this hour, 45c OWLCLOTH—180 yards of 474inch tan colored Olictoth. Formerly 60e, For this hour, 30c @ yard wae HUCK TOWELS—Cot size 14x25; ton Towels, 400 that are slightly Formerly 20¢. NEEDLEWORK ALS—A broken 21 Pacific pack negib styles, of nalnsook J and made ready Former 76 and $2.50 CACH coe cocoons chotce House Dresses patterns, are dinporal, 6 to $6.50. For this hour, CAD eereres oe VELVET HATS SPECIAL $1.95 Second Floor 200 «=SMALL READY-TO-WEAR of plain colors and toned shades, sold formerly At£3.95, $4.96 and a few at $5.95. These are for Misses and Women and are priced special for Friday at $1.95, VELVET HATS two- suitable *‘l offered him two @ollars tor| 2to3 50 leaves and finish fixe 7x10 inches; hotographs” in gold on cover. erly $1.15. 50 SILK NET SCARFS—On male ‘They are ade of white embroidered wi’ Formerly $3.50. For\his hour, BRASSIERE LACES—200 yards, in axsorted patterns, Form this hour, a yard .... Scrim; formerly 60¢ and 650; hour, @ yard « MUMS—25 Loone Leaf Albums, each has the word Yorm For this hour, ¢ach......06 » gold and silver threads and are intended for wear with dance or party dress. CBO meneececescnconoeceeoes ly 36. For 20c SCRIM—300 yards of 261nch Colored Pigured reduced to 45a. Priced tor a quick cleanup for this Silk and Wool Dresses Reduced to $12.95 Second Floor N Friday we will place on sale one hundred and ten dresses consisting of model#from our own stock and others from a recent special pur- chase. The features of this assortment are at- tractive styles, good fabrics, a fair color variety and splendid savings, Sizes 16 to 42. 3 to 4 TURKISH TOWELS—150 Full Bleached Towels, size 14x30 inches. Formerly 22 For this hour, 15c each .. MIXED FABRICS — 125 yards of Slik and Cotton Mixtures, 36 inches wide and in plaid patterns. For- merly $5c. For this 50c hour, 9 yard ...... SILK CREPE TIES—20 String Ties on sale in the Women's Neckwear Section, assorted colors, Formerly 35e, 600 and 65e. For this hout, each 2OC 4to5 MEN’S SHIRTS AND DRAWERS — Drawers: 46 in size 34; 10 in size 36; 3 in size 3! in size 40. Shirts: 4 in size 36; 18 In size 46, Formerly $2.50 and $3.00, To close out, fof this ment 91.65 ment ...... CHILDRENS HATS— 100 Plush and Velvet Tam oO’ 4 with 85c and bla $1.95 4 inches wide, penhagen Formerly $1.95. For hour, CHOICE carescoes .25¢ have a drink.’ “‘T have neither the ttme nor the desire,’ I, ‘for guch harmful and deleterious amusements. 1 have, come from New York,’ says I, ‘on a mattor of buxi—on a matter of art. “"I learned there that you are the owner of an Egyptian fvory carving | of the time of Queen Isia in @ lotus flower, There were only two of such carvings made. One has been | jont for many years, I recently dis-| covered and purchased the other in a pawn—in an obscure museum in Vienna I wish to purchase yours. Name your price.” “*Well, the great foe jams, Pro-| fom? says Scudder. ‘Have you found the other one? Me sel? No. I don't guess Cornelius Scudder needs | to sell anything that he wants to/ keep, Have you gut the carving} with you, Profess? “I shows it to Scudder. He exam: | ines it careful all over. “It's the article, says he ‘Tt's a duplicate of mine, every Une and| curve of it. Tell you what I'll do,") he saya ‘I won't sell, but I'll buy Give you two thousand five hundred lars for yours.” "Since you won't sell, T will,’ says | I, ‘Large bills, please. I'm a man of few words. I must return to New York tonight. I lecture tomorrow/ at the aquarium.’ “Scudder sends a check down and the hotel cashes it. He goes off with hin piece of antiquity and I hurry back to Andy's hotel, according to} arrangement. “Andy ts walking up and down the | room looking at his watch. “Well? he says, “Twenty-five hundred,’ ‘Cash.’ ‘We've got just eleven minutes,’ says Andy ‘to eatch the &o0 westbound, Grab your bagga; “What's the hurry?’ says I. ‘Tt was a square deal, And even if it} was only an imitation of the original mys 1) find it out, He seemed to be sure it was the genuine article.’ “It was,’ says Andy, ‘It was his own, When I was looking at his curios yesterday he stepped out of | the room for a moment and I pocket: | ed it, Now, will pick up your sult case and hurr; “<Thea,’ says I, ‘why was. that story about finding another one in the pawn—* “Oh, says Andy, ‘out of respect for that conscience of yours, Come on.” J. Tate Mason Heads Varsity Fund Drive CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. Nov, 18. Dr. James Tate Mason, proml- nent surgeon and head of the Mason- Blackford-Dowling clinic in Seattle, has accepted the chairmanship for he University of Virginia Centen nial Endowment fund for the states of Washington and Oregon. The purpose of the movement Is to raise $8,000,000 to be presented as a birthday gift to the University of Virginia on its centennial tn June, W. S. Peachy’s Will Filed on Wednesday W. 8. Peachy, late Seattle banker, who died in Boston October 6, left an estate consisting of 7,500 shares of | stock in the Petroleum Products Co $1,500 in Liberty bonds, $10,000 ir |Former Track Star |] Russian rub! and 29 shares of stock in the attle National bank according to his will, filed in probate court Wednesday. Two sisters and a brother are to share in the distri , bution, Put Roller Skates ‘ on Jamaica Ginger As they my in Bagdad, Ay in Recruiting Drive Capt. W. Gordon Rogers, overseas veteran, member of the old Sécond awah! Washington infantry, who recently] purge placed eki@s wall received his promotion to captain of ta ene? Company L, Third Washington in. | £04 old Jamaicy rum. Now they are fantry, N. G., is commencing a cam. | attempting to wipe out Jamaica gin paign to recruit Company L up to! ger. be full strength. Legislation looking to the prohibt Capt. Rogers formerly was a track | tion of the sale of the third rail med uthlete of the Lincoln high and the| Washington State university, and he | ‘ine bas been informally approved by in looking for recruits from which to| the public safety committee of ne : bulld up an athletic team. eity council. een Corporation Counsel Walter Fy PORTLAND, Or.—Ice cream mak-| Meier has drawn the ordinance ers, in convention, are advised to cut | is expected to deal the death blow prices, lene hilarious hyssop. $4.50 Rochester Percolator $2.98 Complete your Thanks- | giving equipment with one | of these “Rochester” heavy aluminum Coffee Percolat- ors, and you will be cer- tain to have better coffee. Six-cup size, and is com- plete with gas plate. Griswold Food Cutter Special $1.98 An unusually low price on this “Griswold” Meat and Food Cut- ter. It cuts perfectly all kinds of food without crushing. Special features of the “Griswold” are: Reversible Steel Knives, , | Straight Knife Edged Ribs Regular $2.95. Special for Fri. day at $1.98. We Are Making Room for Toys by making hour. reductions In many lines of hardware. Here are two items which indicate real bargains we are offer- ing. 35c Knit Gloves—Special 19¢ Pair Strong, well knit, brown Gloves. Ex- cellent for wearing when doing “odd jobs.” One-Man Cross-Cut Saws Reduced These are splendid quality saws, re- duced only because we need the room. 814-foot, regular $4.25, special. ..$3.19 4-foot, regular $4.75, special. ....$3.49 THE STORE FOR USEFUL ARTICLES

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