The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 9, 1920, Page 11

BL sain two | "The U.S. GIRL FINDS LOST CHI |(_ Visits HIDDEN CHINAMEN | NAME PLEDGES ORIENTALS IN EXILE FOR SINS Coming of White People Into Their Valley Awes Secluded Settlement Miss Ursula Wilder ts one of the) @nly two white women. who have ever visited the Valley of the Lost/ ‘Tribe in China, where extled China-) Men do penance for the sins of their Ancestors. She has just returned to America with her mother. With her father, G. D, Wider, a) Congregational missionary, and Miss| Isabel Ingram, a student at Welles! ley college, Miss Wilder made the! trip by train, donkey and on foot, | over the San Po mountains of China, | Into a settlement that is #0 secluded | that few Chinamen know of its lo- cation. ANCESTORS EXILED 300 YEARS AGO . The coming of white people into! this territory awed, if not fright-/ ened the “lost from the world” Villages and it was with consider. able difficulty that Miss Wilder suc-| ceeded in learning the history of the Lost Tribe. “Three hundred years ago, in the time of the Ming dynasty,” as Miss Wilder told tt to a Star reporter, “a/ tribe of Chinese rebelled against the Manchus. Many of them, instead of Deing killed, were allowed to live tn the mountains on three conditions “That they would always stay tn the mountains. “That they would never marry out- aide of one tribe. “That they would pay tribute to the Manchus. “It was believed that the tribe would die out. But, instead, they cultivated the land and have grown n three to 30 villages. WORLD HAS STOOD STILL “To this Lost Tribe, the world has stood still, The people wear the) Bright colors of their ancestors and and modes of hair queer and different. and tradition prac Smets who discovered the Lost Tribe Chinese girls of the Hidden Valley. New Congresswoman Was “Born to Serve” | MUSKOGEF, Okla, Deo, §.—Mlan] object to the looting of thetr reser. Miss Ursula Wilder, who was in the party of Americans SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1920. SeattleStar («1»2] of China. Inset are two of the lyear after having been divoreed or! mved. Engine oll and formaldehyde NESE TRIBE! SEAMEN ESCAPE (THE POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL } TELLS OF K. G_ FIRE ON SHIP | NIGHT SCHOOLS Dodge Flaming Peril in Race Supreme Knight Pays Short to San Pedro Get New Members Visit to City Pietges to four undergraduate! SAN DINGO, Cal, Deo 9—~The One hundred night schools for > honor poctetion of the college of bust! 7 560.t0n stramer Sudbury, bound ne {ministration of the University service men and women are being aa on of the Untv | of Washington were atmounced at an | TO New York to Gan Francison, is maintained tn various parts of the assembly of the bustnem: college held | berthed at the municipal pler here to- | country, at a cost of $3,000,008 @ Wednesday afternoon. day, her hold charred and water | Fear, it wag stated Wednesday night ‘The pledges are: Pht Sigma Cht,| WAked and her captain and crew ex | by Supreme Knight James A. Flaheme " ‘ hausted from @ long battle at sea girt’ honorary, Nora Otwell, Thelma, Sis oe oad naehaes ty, who addressed an audience at the TO SOCIETIES Honorary Business Clubs MoGirr, Margaret Hamill, Mary Ives, K. of C.t Fire was discovered in her hold of C. hall, Alice Wilson; Beta Gamma BiEM™ | nO ieht. It ne 4, it in| | Flaherty, who ts the highest offiemr men's honorary, Edwin 1. Blaine, | wee of his organization, told also of the | believed, when the paint and oils tn | | her cargo shifted, the friction caus ing the flames, The Sudbury was hen 150 miles south of San Diego and was 70 miles off shorn Capt. Walter O'Brien ana the entire crew | battled the flames continuously antil yesterday noon, when they were con | trotted, Robert W. Griffin, Carrol M. Shank Lieyd C. Strong, Duncan Bric and Professor Wiliam A. Cox; Alph Kappa Pat, men’s honorary, Horace Frem, Jack Hogg, Merville Mctn@ix, Clarence Magnusson, Donald Dour las, Jack Bates, Edwin Porp; Pan Xenia; foretan trade honorary, Chan Barclay, Robert Carsten, Eimer Da videon, Horace Frem, Albert Tem The decks becarme se het fhe fret ness, & W. Tung and Marl Upton, jot the satlors blistered and the men - were G@riven back time and again by srasen, Life boata were ready when In France a woman ovast walt ene seemed the ihlp could not be 7, ie, vee Mave? A ¥, At arve vou One 9 gion executive council, tI is | to use the money in the construe. gion executive counciL It is planne@ ton, D. C 2 Knight Flaherty left Thursday for | Tacoma, where he was to spealg ~ Strokes of the Cat LONDON, Eng., Den &-——Donald 20, private in the Gordon Highlanders, found guilty of robbing & clerk, was sentenced to 12 strokes His Uncle’s Widow} IONDON, Eng. Dec §&—Arthur) Wray applied to the court to net aside @ maintenance order for his wife and two children because the wife before he married her was the LONDON, Eng, Dee, §—An emma | Competition conducted by the Londom “Safety First” council has taken part in by 50,000 school chile widow of his uncla The court re of the cat and ‘three months’ tm-! qren, Princess Mary presented tha: fused the application. | prisonment. awards to the winners, Garner, after the death of a hustand before|on board made the aituation of the ahe can remarry. WHOLESALE STOCK << COATS, SUITS, DRESSES bought at less than 50 cents on the dollar from a Portland wholesale house, go on sale tomor row in the most CRASHING PRICE SMASH announced in this city for many years. Women Are Looking for Low Prices We know this from daily contact with our regular trade. When this splendid line of season- able garments was offered to us at prices below half the same wholesaler asked but a few ticed by the Chinese of 360 years ago | Alice Robertson, only woman elected | vations by the white man, | fa observed by the inhabitants of the| to congress at the Inst election, and | Hidden Valley. | “Both the men and the women) @ther Chinese women. “The homes of the Lost Tribe arem ade of bambeo poles and a thick felt and are called mongret| pao. They look like tents and can be taken down or put up in short notice. Often a whole village will pack up and move to another sec: tion of the valley when ground has grown bad.~ | Miss Wilder says the young giris| fn the Lost Valley were very much | interested in the wearing apparel of the white girlie. Two of these girls “in particular, though they were dress- route to Oberlin, O. where the! from Peking, were envious of the American-made clothing. TRIP FROM PEKING TAKES NINE DAYS ‘The trip from Peking to the Hidden Valley ard back took aie Gays. Miss Wilder ts 19 years old and was born in Tung Chou, China, 13 miles from Peking. She and Miss Delnos Grant, a student at Wellesley | college, whose father is head of the! miral von Tirpitz, who inaugurated Dureau of printing and engraving for) the Chinese government at Peking, | were the first girls to graduate from the first American high school m Northern China. This bigh schoot, Jocated in Tung Chou, was built in 1915 and has about 45 scholars this year, mostly Americans. | (Miss Wilder and her mother are en route to Oberlin, O. while the former will attend Oberlin college. Rev. Wilder Is in Cfina. Sixteen of | the daughter's 19 years have been spent in China. She speaks the Cnt- | nese language fluently and says she is ‘anxious to to the Oriest. dy Astor Flays | Foibles of Her Sex) LONDON, Dec. 9—Lady Astor mays one lesson which women could get back Jearn from men was loyalty. She @eclared there was little loyalty among women now. She said a man would vote for a man, but women find fault with candidates because they are women. Women. could also learn about dress from men, she | stated. What would women think of men if they altered the length of their trousers every year, she asked. | Operation Performed on Man of 100 Years} NEW YORK, Dec. 9—Age was no deterrent when doctors decided that | Chaim Weiss, 100 years old, must undergo a surgical operation at the Home of the Sons und Daughters of Israel. The old man ts recovering | and is now able to sit up and eat regular meals. t’s Dangerous to Eat the Silverware POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., Dee. 9.- Knives, spoons and forks are not to be eaten. Violation carries a greater penalty than indigestion. At least so a physician deciared tn announcing that a patient in the state eat had died from consuming several wleces of silverware, the second one ever chosen. won the | respect of her fellow citizens, which | their reservations, made possible her election, thru a lifetime of unselfish service in behalf | of the Indians of this state, Miss Robertwon, some easy, was “born to serva” Her father before her was a missionary to the Chero- kee nation, and her grandfather, a four-year sentence in the Georgia grazing | State penitentiary because he refueed | to abandon his work of educating the Indian, His appeal to the Uinted States #u preme court resulted in a historical opinion by Chief Justicn John Mar-| | shall, of far-reaching importance. Worcester, in the days of Presi dent Andrew Jackson, was accused of inciting the Indians and tried and condemned by a Georgia court. The truth was that Georgia was afraid to have the Indians educated, lest they Son of Admiral Von irpitz a Reporter BERLIN, Germany, Dec, 8.—~Wolf. gang von Tirpitz, son of Grand Ad the U-boat warfare, has given up his naval career and is now a re porter, He was on the Mainz which was sunk by the British off Heligo land, but was rescued. According to his friends young Tirpitz was never in aceord with his father on the U: boat wart Child Is Taken to Sea to Be Buried LONDON, Dec. 19-—The body of the 6-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bergeon was buried at sea, at the wish of her mother. The body was taken to sea on & motorboat The father and mother witnessed the interment. A Good Way to Make Extra Money Wouldn't you Ike to make $2500 extra? That would mean $2,500 In 10 years. A “room for rent’ ad in The Star will speedily find you a destrable tenant for that vacant room. Probably you can get, say, $5 a week as rental—-$250 a year. Try this way to make extra money. Telephone your ad to The Star, Main 600. Embossine Engraved CHRISTMAS CARDS $3.10 to $7.50 for 25 | Price Includes rantiment, name and| envelope, ready to mail. Pettijohn Printing Co. 205 First Avenue Marshall held that the Indians Were protected by treaty rights, and that Georgia Inw had no power in! Hence, Georgia could not try Worcester for acts done| on the Indians’ territory. } The opinion waa revolutionary, | | President Jackson himself maid | "Marshall made the opinion; let him | J enforce it.” Meanwhile, Worcester | was in jail. His plight became the} | talk of Northern magazines, He be came a martyr. Daniel Webster used | Samuel A, Worcester, served part of | Worcester in his famous wiscuasions | | of state rights, and Jackson switched | his position. When Worcester finally was re- leased, he went back to his preach ing. And the nation’s second con: | | gresewoman, born of such parents, | hervelf has spent a half century in the same service, | | | Salmon er weighing 7 tw 9 pounds— Hf $2 Delivery Guaranteed Pler No. Pacific t ALL WEEK The hilartoas boudoir farco— “PARLOR, BEDROOM i ANDBATH” With an All-Star Cast —And— HAROLD LLOYD | Original and Fannier Than Ever in His Newest Com- edy— “NUMBER, PLEASE” Clemmer Music Liborius Hauptman Director Weeks ago we eagerly accepted the opportunity to give the women of this city a real sale of fine apparel—a sale that would command attention by the extremeness of the price reductions on apparel of very high quality. Come in Tomorrow and Look Over These Coats, Suits and Dresses You will agree with our statement that nothing like these bargains have been offered here for years. All the latest styles in the most favored materials. The prices seem too good to believe—but remember the old saying, “Seeing is believing.” Adding to Our Clearance Sale This big stock has been added to our CLEARANCE SALE, which is being keld now instead of waiting for January—a double reason why you should visit us. COATS FOR TEN DOLLARS Wonderful values, indeed. Sizes to 38 only. Some fur trimmed and half lined and every one worth more than treble this price. Better Coats, $14.75, $19.75 | Splendid Coats $24.75, $29.75 ‘These are good-looking, practical coats Smart models in wool velour, silvertones worth up to $50. Sizes up to 44. Nice | and other fashionable materials, all eilk range of the popular materials’ in favored | lined, some trimmed with furs. Wonder- colors. ful values, $39.75 $49.75 If you want a coat at these low prices we know that we can please you in either cloth or plush. Splendid assortment of better grade materials. The cloth models are all silk lined and either embroidered or fur’ trimmed. The plush coats are in Baffin or Salts, all silk lined and trimmed with fine quality Australian or black dyed opossum. The greatest coat values in Seattle today. Don’t fail to see them. Highest Grade Coats $59.75 These models represent the very best in style and make. Ultra fash- = ionable modes*in cloth, plush and seal, trimmed with superior furs and, excellently tailored. They are well worth their original prices of upwards| of $120. Dresses, Cloth and Silk, for $12.75 Attractive models in tricotines, serge and Jersey, mostly all navy, in sizes to 40 only. Wonderful opportunity to secure a new dress for very, little. Dresses $19.25 and $24.75 These are regular $50.0 dresses. Navy, tan and brow in wool velour, tricotine an all silks, Sizes to 42. Good, Serviceable SUITS $16.75 BETTER GRADE SUITS $26.75 About 50 suits in these two lots. See these be- fore you say that fine suits can’t be bought for little. BALANCE OF ALL SUITS IN STOCK 1/2 PRICE $100 COATS Now on Sale for NEXT TO PHILLIPS BOYS’ SHOE STORE 1315 THIRD AVENUE