The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 28, 1920, Page 5

TCRSPAY, DECEMTER °8, fe, TTT CUTTS saca Ces a TTT CUTUTCUTTTT CUTTY +) NEW PHONE—ELLIOTT 4910 E-ADJUSTMENT SALE 0% SAVINGS 33% 3-piece Upholstered Living-room Set McDougall Kitchen Cabinets Hall Rack Hall and Stair Carpet Brass Every year, in January, we hold a giant saving sale. This has been r, however, it was our de- our policy for the past few years. This yea sire to quote prices that were actually startling force furniture prices lower than they’ve ever been—to give you the biggest money saving values you've ever seen—and we've done it! Now is the time to buy furniture—it will probably never go as low again as the prices we quote. To take advantage of this sale you must act at once. Come into our store today! HAIBERAL CREDIT? EXTENDED FURNITURE OO. WHERE PIKE MEETS FIFTH Dining Sets Bedroom Sets Beds Cedar Chests Morris Chairs Linoleums It was our desire to MONTREAL.—Atlowance of 25 per|Galli-Curci to Wed } cent for increased living costs, which | applied on all pensions during the war, has been extended to the end of | Heat Pacific | 1921, it is announced by E. W ty, president of Canadian radiway. ‘EEX Sunday, Jan. Matines Saturday Only 7OHN CORT FRESENTS A FRAST OF FUN AND FRIV- OLITY IN THE NEW YORK KNICKERBOCKER THEATRE MUSICAL COMEDY SUCCESS ISTE EST BY HARRY L. CORT (A Seattle Boy) with FRED HEIDER AND THE ARMY OF sING- ERS, DANCERS AND FUN- MAKERS THAT MADE “LEs- fER” THE BIGGEST MIT IN 20 YKARS. THE WORLD'S DAINTIEST DANCING CHORUS | PROSTATE GLAND his PRO-GLAY tn our treatment. NDIN. ‘mate for a Sat, Mat, 500 to $2.00 ‘Fine American Man’ | CHICAGO, Dec. 2%.— "IT wish to start the New Year right, and so I am going to marry a very fine American young man.” This was the cheerful announcement of Mme. Amelia Galli-Curel, the celebrated coloratura soprano, here today Mme. GalliCurei will marry her accompanist, Homer Samuels, “very soon” after the first of the year. She | will wait, ahe said, until she obtains her citizenship papers. She will be able to gain this 4! tinction on January 16, she said, and, while the date ts not settled, she do- clared it was possible that she would be married the same day. A humpback whale with twe hind |lege was recently captured off the coast of British Columbia, U. S. ARMY BA 12-Ib. Tin . . $2.60 Anything the army uses—now or reclaimed. Camp Lewis Wireless Surplus Army Goods 904 THIRD AVE. Next to Madison St, Usep By Tune Gevensriens Garre soe SESKLET ce GOTEESTSES ame GA87 rece Basontis Reswsrce Ca sre ba erase os Stupendous Sale of Guaranteed Canned Meats In order to place low-priced provisions home and thus reduce the high cost of ment is distributing millions of dollars meats throughout the country. Government in every American living, the govern- ’ worth of canned A VITAL BLOW TO THE Hi. C. LL. The government guarantees these meats to_be in perfect condition and of highest quality. After this lot is sold we cannot say when opportunity to save present its again will such an elf. We can there- fore only advise you to be on hand early and buy enough to last many months in Postage Extra on Mail Ord to the future. SURPLUS ARMY SUPPLY STORE Ex-Lieutenant Lewis C. Garver, in Charge 1013-1015 First Ave. * Near Madison St. Pc TT co TTT co cs TTT Extradited FromBohemia (Copyright, 1920, by Doubleday, Page 4 Co,; published by special ar- rangement with the Wheeler Syn dicate, Inc) Krom Har village of of th ora the foot near mony, at the Green mountaing, came Miss Me Mar: | tin to New York, with her color box and easel, Mise Medora the the the rose bad ister | she! to resembled autumnal frosts longest of In Harmony the wicked city which her when spared blorsoma started alone to study prt, they sald she was a mad, reckless, headstrong trl. In New York, when she first took her seat at a West Side boarding-houxe table boarders asked “Who is the nice looking old maid?” Medora took bh . a cheap hall ‘bedroom and two art lessong a week from Profemor Angelini, a retired barber who had studied his profes in a Harlem dancing academy to wet her right do it of | the we There was no one for here in the big city Junto all of us, How are badly shaved daily and taught] the imperfectly by ¢x Rastien Le Page and The moat pathetic eight New York—except the manners the rushhour crowds—is the |dreary march of the hopeless army of Mediocrity, Here A nignant but a turns ber wooers into mewing Toma and Tabbies Inger about the |doorsteps of u tful jot the flying the critics. Some t they many us two-step of in no be goddess. Ciree who who her 4 ot us back our native village to the skim-milk of “I told you #0”; but most of us prefer to remain in the cold cow yard of our mistress’ temple, snatching the scraps that fall from her divine table d'hote. But me of us grow weary at last of the| fruitiess service. And then are two fates open to us, We can get a job driving a grocer’s wagon, or we can get ewallowed up in the Vortex of Bohemia. The latter |sounds good; but the former ut bet For pays us we rer sult and—the capitalized tem of humor describes it beet Bohemia On the Run. Mins Medora chose the Vortex and | thereby furnishes us with our little story, Profesor Angelini praired her sketchen expeentvely, Once when she had made @ neat study of « horsechestnut tree in the park. he declared she would become a second Rosa Bonheur. Again—a great ar Gat has his moods—he would say cruel and cutting things For ex ample, Medora had «peat an after- noon patiently sketching the statue and the architecture at Columbus Circle, Tosing it aside with a sneer, the professor informed her that Giotto had once drawn a perfect cir- cle with one sweep of his hand. One day it rained, the weekly mittance from Harmony due, Medora had a headac the professor had tried to borrow two dollars from her, her art dealer had sent back ail her watercolors un. sold, and—Mr. Binkley asked ber out to dinner Mr. Binkley was the gay boy of the boarding,houre, He was 49, and owned a fish stall in a downtown market. But after 6 o'clock he wore an evening suit and whooped thinga up connected with the beaux arts. The young man said he was an “Indian.” He was supposed to be an accomplished habitue of the inner circles of Bohemia, It was no secret that he had once loaned $10 to @ young man who had had a drawing printed in Puck. Often has one thu obtained hin entree into the charmed circle, while the other obtained both his entree and roast The other boarders enviously garded Medora as she left at Mr Binkley’s side at 9 o'clock. Sho was a8 sweet as a cluster of dried autumn erasses “in her pale that very thin stuff—in her pale blue Comstockined silk waist and box pleated voile skirt, with a soft pink glow on her thin cheeks and the tiniest bit of rouge powder on her face, with her handkerchief and room key in her brown walrus, pebble. grain hand bag. And Mr. Binkley looked imposing and dashing with his red face and «ray mustach hin tight dress coat, that made the back of his neck roll up just lke a successful novel iat's. hey drove in a cab to the Cate Terrence, just off the mont glittering part of Broadway, which, as every one knows, ix one of the most popu lar and widely patronized, jealously exclusive Bohemian resorts in the olty. Down between the rows of little tables tripped Medora, of the Green | mountatns, after her escort. Thrice in a lifetime may woman walk upon | clouds—once when she tripped to the alte once when she first enters | Bohemian halls, the last when she | marches back across her garden with |the dead lien of her neighbor in her hand, There wan a table set, with three or four about it. A waiter buzzed |around {t Hike a bee, and silver and glass shone upon it, And, prelimin ary to the meal, as the prehistoric granite strata heralded the protozoa, the bread of Gaul, compounded after the formula of the recipe for the eternals hills, was there get forth to jthe hand and tooth of a long-suffer-: ing, while the gods Iny beside their nectar and home-made biscuits and smiled, and the dentists leaped for |Joy in their gold-leafy dens The eye of Binkley fixed a young man at his table with th Bohemian gleam, which is a compound of the look of the Basilisk, the shine of a bubble of Wurzburger, the inspira. tion of genius and the pleading of a panhandler The young man «prang to his feet, “Hello, Bink, * he shouted “Don't tell me you were going to pass our table, Join us—unless there when the ta ns er dr er oft rn Get re was over re. blue—oh—er J upon her she sat | her with the Jand get Mins Martin, tn art-—or——" The introduction There were one of the elect also | went around 60 Mins Kline and Mins Tolnette. Perhaps they were models for they chattered of the St Regt decorations and Henry James—and they did it not badly. Medora mat tn transport, wild, intoxicating music Musto troubadours direct from a r ment room thoughts world never befor in PL to danetr um Here was penetrated by her any of the 4 by Harriman, With the Green mountains’ external calm her soul flaming in fire of Andala The 4 were filled with Bohemia, The was full of the fragrance of doth mille and eaull. Ques tions and corks popped; laughter and silver rang; champagne flashed in the pail; wit flashed in the pan. Vandyke ruffled hin black locks, dixarranged his te leaned over to Mudder “ warmest imagination or Mnes control tubl mn lang. carelesn and “Say, Maddy,” he whispered, fee! ingly, “sometimes I'm tempted pay this Philis his ten dollars rid of him.” ruffied his dinarranged sandy careless Madder locks tie long, and his think of “We are ft, Vandy,” short, and he art “Doh't replied. and they Just nt ora ate strange viands elderberry wine that in her glam, It was the color of that in the Vert home. The waiter poured som thing in another glass that to be boiling, but when she it it was not hot. She had felt light hearted before. thought lovingly of the Mountain farm and ite fauna. leaned to Mins I wt home,” beamingly. cutest little calf? ° “Nothing for you in the White Lane,” said Miss Elise, “Why don’t you pad?” The orchestra pte waltz that Medora had Ie the hand organs air with nodding head soprang hum Madder acrowm the table at her dered in what strange waters Bink had caught her in his seine She amiled at him, and they raised glasses and drank of the wine that dolled when it was cold Binkley had abandoned art and was prat tng of the unusual spring catch of shad. Mim Eline arranged the palette-and-manie«tick te pin of Mr. Vandyke. A Philistine at some dis | tant table was maundering volubly either about Jerome or Geroma A famous actreem was dincoursing ex-| citabty dbout monogrammed hosiery. | A hose clerk from a department store was londly proclaiming his opinions of the drama A writer was abusing Dickens. A magazine| editor and a photographer were drinking a dry brand at a reserved/ table. A 36-2642 young Indy was saying to an eminent sculptor “Fudge for your Prax Italys! Bring, one of your Venus Anno Dominis| down to Cohen's and see how quick-| ly she'd be turned down for a) cloak model. Back to the quarries with your Greeks and Dagos?’ Thus went Bohemia. At 11 Mr. Binkley took Medora to the boarding-house and left her, | with a society bow, at the foot of! the hall stairs, She went up to her room and Ut the gas And then, as suddenly as the dreadful genie arose in vapor from the copper vase of the fisherman, arose in that room the formidable shape of the New England Con science, The terrible thing that Medora had done was revealed to! her in its full enormity. She} had mt in the presence of the; ungodly and looked upon the wine! when it was red and effervescent At midnight she wrote this let-| ter: “Mr. drank poured med sted never no She Green whe smiling. were “I could at abe maid, show you the walling ned from She followed the in a sweet looked and Beriah Hoskins, “Harmony, Vermont. “Dear Sir: Henceforth, consider me as dead to you forever. | have loved you too well to blight your career by bringing into it) my guilty and sin-stained life. 1) have succumbed to the insidious | wiles of this wicked world and! have been drawn into the vortex of Bohemia. ‘There is scarcely any depth of glittering iniquity that I have not sounded, It tx hopeless | to combat my decision. There ts | no rising from the depths to which | I have sunk. Endeavor to forget me. I am lost. forever in the fair| but brutal maze of awful Bohemia. | Farewell “ONCE YOUR MEDORA.” On the next day Medora formed her resolutions, Beelzebub, Oung f heaven, was no more cast down, | Between her and the apple blossoms of harmony there was a fixed ulf.| Flaming cherubim warded her from the gates of her lost paradise. In one evening, by the aid of Binkley and Mumm, Bohemia had gathered | her into ite awful midst. | There remained to her but one| thing—a@ life of brilliant, but ir-| remediable, error. Vermont was a} shrine thal she never would dare to approach again, But she would not | sink—there were great and compel-| ling ones in history upon whom she would model her meteoric career—| Camille, Lola Montez, Royal Mary Zaza—such @ name as one of these would that of Medora Martin be to future generations, | For two days Medora kept her room. On the third she opened a magazine at the portrait of the king | of Belgium, and laughed sardonically, If that farfamed bre&ker of women's hearts should cross her path, he would have to bow before her cold and imperious beauty, She would not spare the old or the young. All America—all Europe should do homage to her sinister but com | pelling charm. i As yet she could not bear to think of the life she had o desired—a peaceful one in the shadow of the Green Mountains with Beriah at her side, nd orders for expensive oil you've another crowd on hand,” “Don't mind, old chap,” said Rink ley, of the fishstall, “You know how I like to butt up againest the fine arta. Mr, Vandyke—Mr. Madder—er paintings coming in by eactt mail from New York. Her one fatal mis- step had shattered that dream | On the fourth day Medora powder- ed her face and rouged her lips. The Rhodes Co. STORE HOURS 9 TO 5:30 Exceptional Values Are the Conspicuous Features of Our. Holiday Sales on Women’s Garments HE hundreds of women who attended our Holiday Sale: day departed fully satisfied and happy ovef the savings made. just as good values today as earlier in the week. in progress and offe Plush and Cloth Coats reduced to the Holiday Bale price, each ..+++.-0+. eee Coats reduced to the Holiday Sale price, each Coats reduced to the Holiday Bale price, each « Coats reduced to the Holiday Sale price, each Coats reduced to the Holiday Sale price, each Couts reduced to the Holiday Sale price, each Coats reduced to the Holiday Sale price, each ta reduced to the Holiday Bale price, each ..cser-seeeee Coats of the higher grades reduced to the Holiday Sale price, each New Sheets and Pillow Cases Upper Main Floor Seamed Sheets, torn size 72x90.. torn size 72 Seamed Sheets, torn size 76x90 Seamless Sheets, torn size $1x90 Seamed Sheets x90 Pillow Cuses, torn size 45x36... @ Pillow Cases, torn size 42x36... Sheets Sheets: Pequot torn size £1x99.. Pequot torn size 81x90 Pillow Cases, torn size 4 Pequot Pequot yw Cases, Cloth and Velvet Suits In Six Groups at Holiday Sale Prices ices on torn size 45x36.... Second Floor on Monday and Tues- The sale is still ilk, Cloth and Velvet Dresse Holiday Sale price, tach. $9.95 Foie son $19.75 Holds Sele whe eck $25.00 $29.75 $39.75 $49.75 Coats ... $9.95 $15.95 $19.95 .$25.00 .$29.75 $35.00 .$39.75 $49.75 $59.75 Dresses reduced to the Holiday Sale price, each Dresses reduced to the Holiday Sale price, each Dresses reduced to the Holiday Sale price, each The Corset Sale is an important sale to every woman who is desirous of making ber dollar go further. On these broien lines substantial price reductions are the strong features, and include Corsets at the Sale price of, a pair ante Corsets at the Sale price oom ++. $1.00 ive t the S a pair .. Corsets at the Sale price of, a par coccecce Corsets at the Sale price of, Corsets Corsets at the Sale price of, a palr 4 $8.00 and $8.50 Corsets at the Sale price of, $10.00 Corsets at the Sale price & pair of, a pair $11.00, $12.00, $12.50, $14.00, $15.00 and $17.00 Corsets at the Sale price of, $19.75, 829.75, $39.75, $49.75, 959.75 and $69.75 She stood before the mirror in « reckless attitude and cried: “Zut! gut!’ She rhymed it with “nut,” but with the lawless word harmony seem- ed to pass away forever. The vor- tex had her. She belonged to Bo hemia for evermore. And never would Beriah— ‘The door opened and Beriah walk- od in. “"Dory,” maid he, “what's all that chalk and pink stuff on your face, honey?" Medora extended an arm. ‘Too late,” sho said, solemnly. “The die is caxt, 1 belong in anothe world. Curme me tf you will—it Is) your right. Go, and leave me in the} path I have chosen. Bid them all at home never to mention my name again. Ard sometimes, Beriah, pray for me when I am revelling in the) Lightning Painter to End Exhibition} R. Wood, of West Seattle, who has been attracting pedestrians by his lightning performance with the brush In the window of the Bass-Hue- ter paint store, at First ave. and Spring st., will conclude his exhibi tion of skill today or gomorrow. Ho deftly paints laddscape pictures while the street crowds watch, at the rate of two a minute, Later he plans | to paint pictures in the window of| the company's Union st. store, Parsee HI CONTINUO » Photoplay J K Woman” Now—Mats Wed, and § “MRS, W or THE BAGH PATC! ven, 25e to $1. Mats. 27¢ to SOc. Fen ORPHEUM THEATRE can. 1 ndays), * PANTAGES Mats., 2:30, Nights, 7 Yow Playing pe AS DANCERS Maud Marl & Co. hree Bartons; Is; Waco, Bligh & MeCar- alvation |both of us back on |Gnee whe had seen Carter in “Zaza.” ) gaudy, but hollow, pleasures of Bo Dory—you just ought to see hemia.” “Get a towel, Dory,” said Beriah, “and wipe that paint off your face. T came as soon as I got your letter. | ‘Them pictures of yours ain't amount- ing to anything. I've got tickets for the evening train. Hurry and get your things in your trunk.” “Fate was too strong for me, Beriah. Go while I am strong to| _ “Oh, shucks! said Beriah, “Did you” bear it.” think you could fool me? How “How do you fold this easel, "Dory?| you be run away to that Bolémia —now begin to pack, so we have) country like you said when your let time to eat before train time. The| ter was postmarked New York as naples is all out in full-grown leaves, | plain as day?” : “Not this early, Beriah?” “You ought to see ‘em a they're like an ocean of green in the morning sunlight.” “Oh, Beriah” On the train she said to him ead dently: “I wonder why you came when you © got my letter.” Wednesday Specials YOU WILL FIND BARGAINS ALL OVER THE STORE—ON SPECIAL PRICE COUNTERS Aluminum Coffee Percolators Special at $1.69, $2.98 and $4.98 $1.69—This is a 5 cup pure Aluminum Coffee Percolator. $2.98—Here is a big value. These Per- colators are made of pure aluminum, 6-cup size, in a very attractive shape. $4.98—At this price we offer Royal Rochester Alumi- num Coffee Perco- lators with the pat- ent valve — 7-cup size. Special, $4.98. A Wonderful Sale of Pocket - Knives—Special at 98c Regular Price $1.75 and $2.00 Special for Wednes- day—a large assortment of Robeson Sure-Edge Pocket Knives—you will find many sizes and styles to choose from. We are overstocked on these knives, so we are going to offer them at the this remarkably low price, 88¢. $5.00 Gillette Razors, Special at... . $2.98 $1.25 and $1.50 Cocoa Door Mats Special at 98c These are well-made Cocoa Door Mats with bound edges—two sizes, 14x24 and 16x27. Special ht 98¢.