The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 22, 1920, Page 2

NG YOUR KIDDIES TO VISIT OUR GREAT DOWNSTAIRS TOY STOR! select your holiday gifts now— tiret payment 00 purchase amounting to 85— $7.50 $10— $12.50 pay next year! —this store's extraordinary credit advantages are ready for you; make your selections now and start paying a little each month so you can comfortably pay the balance. —gift purchases will be held for future delivery if desired, * —use these remarkably low credit terms with which to make your holiday pur- chases. weekly payment, $1— $1.50 $2 2.25 weekly payment fret payment $15— $20— $30— $50— on purchase amounting to BRING THE KIDDIES TO OUR TOY STOKE! now comes the “SELLERS. THANKSGIVING KITCHEN CABINET CLUB”--JOIN THIS WEEK! —FEATURING THIS SELLERS CLUB WEEK the FREE BREAKFAST SET:—this announcement is most join the club and secure Leis, Sy centere ] $25—the saving you make regular price 894.50 —this range has six &-inch lids full polished top, heavy nickel protecting bar, white pore enamel oven door and splaaher back. The high closet is large and roomy and made of plan ished iron; the 18x18-inc 1 regular the week, $69. FREE RENTAL DEP ARTMENT— —you will find this FREE RENTAL DEPARTMENT of great assistance to help you locate in any district in the city, the home you desire to rent. > Saaotl and we have prepared for a rush of housewives to breakfast set given to members absolutely free. ONLY 50 WOMEN CAN JOIN THIS CLUB! ave can sell only 60 SELLERS cabinets on this club plan. The manufacturers of thie famous cabinet have aathorized use to hold thia sale—to make special terms—and to give away to the first Ofty purchasers a beauuful breakfast seq —this handsome Ji-piece breakfast set wil be given absolutely free with each SELLERS cabinet purchased by 50 members of the “SELLERS Thanksgiving Kitchen Cabinet Clab.” —puts one of these beautiful SELLERS cab- inets in your home—the finest cabinets money will buy, finixhed in white enamel or golden oak; several styles and sizes to select from, $I— a week for a few weeks pays for t—ase it in preparing your Thankagiv- ing dinner! —come tomorrow for your Sellers Cabinet! Clearance sale: heaters— —practically our entire stock of heaters, over 50 styles, will be placed on sale this week at greatly reduced endofthe seaaon, prices for immediate disposal! of —these sample values: that is easy to keep clean; cast tron t and ‘bottom, with heavy cast linings and large door, Thin new model in one of our best wood burners ana trim price making it airtight; burns any a AL FOR 15.70, fuel, regular price $18 SPY CIAL FOR THIS BALE, #9.s5, send for our new- free homefurnishing catalog Standard Furniture Co., Seattle, Wash., Dept. 25 nie Sirs; Please send mé your new FREE homefurnishing catalog, Name Address ... -—fill out this coupon and mall to homefurnishing catalog. + we will —tatalog will be sent to our out-oftown patrons only. STANDARD FURNITURE CO. SECOND AVE. AT PINE TTLE L. SCHOENFELD & SONS L, SCHOENFELD & SONS TACOMA * THE SEATTLE STAR Steila coom: Many of the Wards Are Pleasant Others Are Dismal and Gloomy, However Couldn’t Get Money to Make Them Over || Stories of the Women Who Are Inmates BY RA Are | Washington the women patients at the jooom brutally treated? lthe stories of cruelty, of evilamell }ing, dinnal wards? | Sgme of the wards where the wo }men patients are quartered are airy | neatly furnished, clean, well Ughted One ward @ grand piano, others have phonographs, The best ward was made over recently. lare of polished maple. The wal are Unted and decorated, There are hanging baskets and vase filled with flowers and pwing platta. |ward is che . There is china ware On the tables in the dintug hall | and table linen on the tables, j | Hut, that isn't the whole story. Not afl of the wards are bright and clean and cheerful, | {SOME WARDS ART DISMAL AND GLOOMY I passed thru sevéral wards that are fiemal and gloomy, where there » little light Some of the wards are merely long, dark halla lined | with benches and old Litue | gloomy rooma, wh ta} sleep, Open off the by: . are painted @ dull bo: red, walle and woodwork are dark, Th airing courte that open from some of thease wards aro like the animal The floors State Hospital at Stella t v lr * Remember The | [recently oceupled after the carpen: ‘The girl slouched back Into a © alone anything ward, It was like going fron & prison into the open alr, This ward was a “re made” section, There was plenty of light and fresh air, It was clean pleasing and neat | the why I want to make | id the doctor If 1 can , . a It, too, HST WARD IN BULLDING URES MANY WOMEN Then Dr, Keller wed me the |bewt ward in the buliding It was! tera and painters had changed it from # dark corridor to & modern hospital ward. this ward the most improved. most intelligent of the women patients are cared for, They react to the cheerful surround in Many recover entirely trom u mental ills and go back t their one af the patients tn the! gloomy wards complained, but in this cheerful reom, I found a pationt who uttered a protest “I bave been a stenographer to ° forme of the best people in Tacoma,” She told me, “I may have con | demned myself and told bad stories | jeagen at the parks “I want the lee Ure to wee there dirty, disn w Dr Ww N Kollér, superintendent of the institu tien, told 1 asked for n |to make these wards over, didn't get it. We have apent ry | cent we could get for this kind of} work, We have some modern wards Bute«there are still a] few mighty bad spots about this in stitation. ture will give us the money to re make these cheeriesa prison like cor ridors into clean, wholesome places? In this gloomy ward, seated on a wooden bench, I found the wife of a Tacoma professional man, She re fused to speak. Her attitude since she was committeed to the matitu tion has been one of reaimance, All lay long she site there in the dark hallway, refusing to talk to the pw tients or to her ettendanta Mer case ie just one of many, KINDLY OLD LADY BREADS HER BIBLE In & wheel chair, In one of the ttle colblike sleeping rooms, I found ja kindly old lady. Her hair was leray and her face deeply lined. The weight of years and of cares bad bent her shoulders down. She look- ed for all the world like the dear jolt lady whose pleture appears on the cover of a nationally advertised | jbrand of mincemeat She might | have stepped right out of the kitchen |fron her apple ples, wiped her hands on her apron, and greeted the miniater, “Are you ati reading your BibieT” Dr. Keller asked, pleasantly, She sniled, grandma fashion. “My Hible fe my staff.” she said “She tx Just « senile case,” the doo- tor explained, “Old age, mental de terioration, incurable, She needs, jcare, and we are doing our best to’) provide it” | In another dismal ward the doe | tor called my attention to a stolid, | slouchy girl of about 25, SLOUCHY GIRL |4U8T “NOT ALL THERE” “There is another hopeless cane,” | |he mid. “Some of her friends are | trying to get her out. If she could [be cared for, I would like to ste jher go. She lacks willpower, She }ig not an imbecile, just not all there. | She in dineased so badly that the mont rigorous courses of treauments have failed to cure her, If she ix |permitted to roam the streets she may infect scores of other people w, what are we going to do with ple like that? They are state harges. Society must be protected from them, They spread the disease | that causes much of the most terrible land momt pitiful insanity. We have | tried to cure ber, but can't.” YOUR TEETH X-RAYED FREE De. L. BR Clark each morning between the hours of 9 and 10:30. No cost or obligation whatever. We have a fine, brand new X-Ray Machine which we are placing at your dis- posal without charge be- tween the hours men- tioned above. Please come as early in || the morning as possible, REGAL DENTAL OFFICES Dr. L. i Clark, Manager 14066 THIRD AVENUR Northwest Corner Third Aveume and Union Street Diagenally Across the Stress from the Postoffice Lady Attendants on Duty ag All Times Do you think the legisla | * about myself when I war tll, but I am wel and they won't let me go. please help me to got “red to be tioned her. Do you still hear voloes in the clock he | “Yes, sometimes,” excited. The! asked. she sald. “Listen ito them now © listened to the ticking of the shuddered. ou hear them: aho anked How about the patiemts that you koop at work?” I asked Dr. Keller Are they overworked, or driven?” “Lets go and see them,” he sug seated. |Here to Instruct in : 5 | Public Song-Leading Mr. amd Mra. lL. 8 Pilcher Of the Rational comménity service, reach @d the city today to lunch « course of instruction in public song teading Persons who have some knowledge of music may enter for the courwe, | which is to begin Friday, at 424 Unis versity wt. The course is free, There wi) be sight leasons. | THOMAS FURLONG, PACIFIC! COAST STEEL CO, employe at} Youngstown, was in Providence hos pital Monday, his skull fractured when he waa struck by af tron bar at the plant Saturday. pasa caseardi eee ‘AUTOS UPSET; ~ G DODGE DEATH Men and “Women Have \* Close Calls Four men narrowly eseaped death Munday when the auto tn h they were riding sk turned twice t Harrison mt night wued te 1 i Nel Hammond, 6, of 8625 Phin 4 Mdith Manson, 17, of 546 N. 8 h wt. were in elty fh M overturning theis North ‘Trunk way near Firlands Sunday evening Hammond has a ponsible fractured Mies Hanson may hb rm skull ave & broken Juanita Aye Daker, #101 G and Buse Kdwarda, injured Elks Memorial to Be He]d Here on Dec. § Beatle Elke will hold their annua memorial exercises this year at the Metropolitan theatre, Sunday, Le ceomber 5, at 1 p. m. . This year the lodge han suffered & fou of 44 of its membern These « ounly lodge Arctle travelers have noticed that reen wood were alnc | snow, when at a very low tempers ture, abeorbe moisture and dries gur mente, Oystersxti. Oysters Wholesale and Ketail New York Counts New York Selects Cocktail Oysters and the famous Virginia |! Standards, noted for their superior flavor. ‘Per Quart 85c Per Pint 45c_ || Oysters are scarce. Buy early. | Asks Dismissal _ MONDAY, NOVIMPEN 22, 1929. We Offer Youa Chance if you will order NOW! Best Gold Crowns. ... Regular $15 Pla Special at. . . The same high to Save your dental work $5.00 $10.00 class workmanship te and materials, the same careful per- sonal attention, the same absolute guarantee of perfect satisfaction as if you were paying regular prices, But ACT NOW1L FREE EXAMINATION We will gladly examine your teeth thoroughly and give you expert advice as to your dental needs without cost or obligation to you, The National Dentists N. E. Corner Third and Pike St, Right Across Pike Street from thre New Fahey-Brockman Store. . Look for Our Big Electric Sign. of Berger Charge WASHINGTON, Nov. 22.-—-Victor 1. HKerger’s attorney, Seymour Sted. tan, filed « brief with the supreme | today axking disminsal of the yernment’s wuit against the Mil- waukee® socialist for violation of the cepionage act. ‘The brief contends that the United States is not now at war with Ger. many and therefore . prosecution should be “abated.” Will Reopen Wage Case for Packers CHICAGO, Nov. 22.—Dvue to the general business depression, Judge Samuel Alschuler, arbiter in the ers and their employes, today agreed to reopen the hearing into wage com ditions. Judge Alschuler mid that he would not permit any prolonged hearifik and his decision is expected | in about two weeks Is Going to Europe WASHINGTON, Nov. 22.—Sem |ator Medill McCormick, Illinois, will sail from New York tomorrow to ob» 7 serve conditions in Europe, partieus larly with respect to the possibility of forming @ new association of nas tons, such as President-Elect Hard> ing plana McCormick said he was anxious te spend the remainder of this year in Europe, combining a vacation with ‘wage controversy between the pack- Investigation of conditions, ’ FREDERICK & NELSON F —old Santa has arrived in Toy Town, at Fifth and Pine, after his long ride southward. —overnight, Toy Town has jumped out over a great big space in the Downstairs Store, to make room for the many naw Toys that Saata has brought in his pack. —there are whispers, too, of mys-te-ri-ous orders given by Santa to prepare special at- tractions for the will flock to see Store. kiddies who him at this —we don’t have to wait a day longer to see the Toys which Santa has brought so we may all do our sltare in “shopping early” for Christmas. —any one of the six stairways to the Downstairs Store brings you right to “Toy Town.” Ba & fen IbTH AVENUE AND PINE STREET 37° — ~ z $