The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 3, 1921, Page 2

eee STAR janother week of the MILLIO ~ DOLLAR JANUARY SALE —we are pleased to state that our belief that the public would respond to a movement toward lower prices has been. justified. We said this sale would be the greatest event of its kind in recent years. It has so proved. —further selections from our reserve stocks have increased the assirtments so that PURCHA’ THIS WEEK CAN BE MADE AS SATISFACTORILY AND ADVANTAGEOUSLY AS_ IN THE BEGINNING OF THE SALE. All Furniture, Rugs, Housefurnishings, Draperies, Lug- gage, Silverware at reductions up to 35%. buy at sale prices — pay thi this way: —on purchase of furniture | amounting to $50— $5_ $75— $7.50 $10— $12.50 weekly $2.50 $3— weekly payne $1— $1.50 —— eapounting to $150— $200— $2— $300— $30— $4.50 $2.25 $500— $50— $7.50 not within our memory has this store held such a sale of furniture! —the high quality of materials and fine workmanship put into each piece of our furniture enable us to fully guarantee our mer- chandise; this fact and our JANUARY SAL E prices make this an opportune time to buy your homefurnishinga. for your bedroom— rice —bed spring, Rnb fabrie. .. 26 tron bed, White enamel. concerns ne——menen-ane nee 1 brass bed, Linch post 39.25 —dreasing table, MANOR AD. aemee---a-2nenenen- ae. 45.50 bed, American walnut. 71.50 —chiffonter, American 92 —dremer, American wainut. 105 —tpiece ivory bedroom suite. 259.50 —+plece bedroom suite, Louis XIV, American walsut 11 for your dining room— JANUAR vegelar Breakfast table, Set Bi ditetictinceoenninnne ¥ ons dining chair, fumed oak, genuine Spanish bather omt .. bat] —dintng chatr, “fumed oak, genutne Spent dea ther mahogany library table. —dining table, fumed oak, 42-inch top.. ladies’ desk, fumed oak.. ~—dining table, quarter sawed, 45-inch top settee, upholstered dining table, Loula XIV alnut —chair, tapestry overstuffed . dining table, Jacobean oak, S4-ineh —B-piece cane suite, velour upholstered. . china clonet, Loule XIV. walnut —tpiece cane ‘suite, velour upholstered. —butfet, walnut, Louis XIV fires payment $15— $20— ot me memere nae eee ene en enon + WAIDUL, -2. 2+ ameneecenee ence 545. top $100.0 000 ath | of rug reductions that command attention! —day after day customers tell us that nowhere have they been able to find such picked patterns, such desirable colorings and such greatly reduced $1.15 square yard regular prive $1.50 —5 patterns heavy printed Mnoleum, tile or block de signa, all colorn $1.98 square yard regular price $2.50 —2 patterns good welht in laid linoleum, in blue and white tile, blue and brown biock or carpet design. 68c square yard regular price $1— old seal congoleum; 2 yard. wide; your choice of several patterns and colors. these and hundreds of other @> Irable items in the tino dew department al) JANU ARY SALE priced. SECOND FLOOR prices. Our MILLION DOLLAR JANUARY SALE PRICES are a revelation—there’s space here to quote only a few of the thousands of similar other remarkable rug values: high-grade worsted Wilton rugs seamless worsted Wilton rugs regular price $165—; size 9x12 ft regular price $175—; size 9x12 ft. offer wondertal 1 3Q— JANUARY SALE $145— priced at......... ; —very finest grade in new, attractive —there are only 20 rugs in this special 4 scat lot—all extremely beautiful patterns, patterns, closely woven, seamless and in pastel shades bl in with closely woven; ends finished with ag endl cance yap 2c aaa linen fringe, the kigd that will give the draperies of a_ well-appointed satisfactory service for many years. room. These are just a little out of the ordinary, in material and design. heavy Axminster rugs, 11-3x12 ft. —6 very heavy Axminster rugs, extra are all] seamless and extremely well special for this $93 .50 JANUARY SALE..... \} Seamless velvet rags, 9x12 ft. heavy thick pile, in very beautifu: made; regular price $50-—; special JANUARY SALE... SHOOND FLOOR —in medallion or all-over designs, these soft shades; regular price $115—; for this $ 3 5 just a few sample values of chairs and rockers— REDUCED — $40--- regular price $50— —10 only high«rade vacuum wwoepers, the Regina, fully guaranterd; regular price $50; JANUARY SALE regular price $9— regular price $10— price, $40—. $5.90 regular price $9— dressing regular price $5.50 —this dining chair is an extra special value; made of solid oak, fumed fin. bedroom rocker and chair exactly as ish; saddle seat, exactly pictured; solid shaped seats; ivory fin as pletured; regular price ish; during this JANUARY SALE we $550; wpecial for this are offering these at exceptionally at JANUARY SALE, tractive prices. $3.90, regular price 87— —5 demonstrating vac- uum sweepers special priced: $74— Tloover Special. 855.50 60— Baby Hoover .. 45— 60— Sweeper Vac... 45— 50— American . 37.50 STANDARD FURNITURE CO. L. SCHOENFELD & SONS —a genuine leather slip seat, solid oak fumed finish, exactly as ple tured; regular price $7 special for this JANU- ARY SALE, $4.95. in —very attractive table chair, FOUNDED 1864 SEATTLE Second Ave. at Pine St. TACOMA L. S. Schoenfeld & Sons N (An 0.HE A Bird of Bagdad Copyright, 1920, by Doubleday, Page 4 Co.; published by special arrange. | ment with the Wheelar | Bymdicate, Ino. Without doubt much of the apirtt and genius of the Caliph Harun Ab Rashid descended to the Margrave August Michael von Paulsen Quigg Quige’s restaurant t» in/Mourth ave—that street that the city seema to have forgotten in its growth Fourth ave—born and bred in the Bowery—-staggers northward full of 004 resolutions pawen 4th et. it struts ment proudly in the glare of the museums and cheap |theatrea, It may yet become a@ fit mate for ita bixh-born sister boule vard to the weet, tte roario polyglot, broad-wainted cousin to the east. It passes Union square; and here the hoofs of the dray horses weom to thun recalling the tread of marchir Hooray! But Bow come the silent and ter rible mouptains—bulldings square as forta high as the clouds, shutting out the sky, where thousands of waves bend over desks all day. On the ground floors are only litte fruit shopa and laundries and book hops, where you see copies of “Littell’s Living Age” and G. W, M. Reynold's novels in the windows. And next—| poor Fourth ave—the atreet glides | into @ mediaeval solitude, On each | wide are the shops devoted to “Antiques.” Let us my ft to night. Men tn | rusty armor stand tn the windows and menace the hurrying care with raised, rusty iron gauntiets, Haw berks, and he blunderbunwes Cromweliian breasts match locks, and the swords and daggers of an army of dead.and-gone |gallants gleam dully in the ghontly light. Here and there from a corner mioon (it with Jack o'Janterns or phosphorus), stagger forth shudder. ing, home-bound citizens, nerved by the tankards within to their fearsome journey adown that eldrich avenue lined with the blood-stained weapons jot the fighting dead. What street | | could live inclowed by these mortuary | | relics, and trod by theme mpectral cit izens in whore sunken hearts scarce one good hoop or tradala re mained? | Not Fo eel but or creenen Not after the tin on of the Lit tle Ft ter the echoing drum-beats of Union #q There need be no tears, indies and gentle men; "Us but the suicide of a street With @ shriek and a crash Fourth lave. dives headlong into the tunnel at 34th and ts never seen again. Near the mad scene of the there |fare’n dinsolution #tood the modest | restaurant of Quigg. It stands there | yet if you care to view tts crumbling |red-brick front, Its show window heaped with oranges, tomatoes, layer cakes, pies, canned asxparngus—ite | papier mache lobster and two Mab |tese kittens asteep on a bunch of | lottuce—if you care to sit at one of the little tables upon whore cloth has been traced in the yellowent of oof-| fon stains the trail of the Japanese | advance-—to ait there with one eye} on your umbrella and the other upon the bogus bottle from which you drop the counterfeit sauce fointed upon us by the cursed charlatan who axwumnes to be our dear old lord and friend, the “Nobleman in India.* Quigs’s ttle came thru his mother. One of her « a Margra vine of Saxony. His father waa a Tammany t On account of the dilution of hin heredity he found that | could’ neither become a reigning potentate eet a job in the city hall. So he opened a restaurant. was a man full of thought and read: | ing. The business gave him a liv ing, tho he gave it little attention. One side of his house bequeathed to him a poetic and romantic nature The other gave him the pirit that made him eeck ad i ay he was Quige, rateur. By night he was the Mar-| grave— Calipt Prince of going about the city in| ne odd, the mysterious inexplicable, the recondite One night at 9, at whieh hour the restaurant closed, Quigg set forth | upon hin quest, re was a ming |: Ung of the foreign, the military an the artistic in his appear buttoned his coat high up under his| short-trimmed brown and gray beard jand turned westward toward more central life e¢ In his pocket t sortment writter without which he never stir of doors, Each of those ca good at his own restaurant |face value, Some called simy & bowl of soup or ss coffee; others entitled their bearers | to one, two, three or more days of full meals; a few were for single regular meals; a very few were, in| effect, meal tickets good for a week. | riches and power Margrave | ad none; but he had a r rit’ may be forsiven| him if his head fell short of the easure of Harun Al Rashid’s.«Per of the gold pieces in Bag dad had put less warmth and hope into the complainants the bazaars than had Quigg’s beef stew store was nor restless ventu the resta Bohemia nearch of on out is was r its! for | ndwiches and| some among | say, | off among the fishermen and one-cyed elenders of Manhattan, Continuing bin progress tn search of ron tress that he might ald, Quigg be ware of & fast-gathering crowd that whooped and fought and eddied at a corner of Broadway and the crommtown ptreet that he was traversing, Hurrying to the mpet he beheld aA young man of an exceed and preoe demeanor engaged In the pastime of sting silver money from bis pock eta in the middie of the strggt. With each of the hand t wd huddled upon the falling laree with yells of Joy. Traffic was wusper A policeman n the center of the mob stooped often to the ground aw he urged the blockadern to move on. The Margrave saw at @ glance that here was food for his bunger after knowledge concerning abnor mal workings of the human heart. fe made hin way swiftly to the young man's side and took his arm. “Come with me at ones,” he maid, in & low but commanding © that his waiters had learned to fear, “Pinched,” remarked the young man, looking up at him with expres sionlens eyes. “Pinched by @ painiens dentist. ‘Take me away, fatty, and give mo gas. Some lay exe» and some lay none, When is a hen? Still deeply selxed by some inward grief, but tractable, he allowed Quigg to lead him away and down the ntreet to a little park There, seated on a bench, he apon whom @ corner of the great Caliph's mantie had descended, mpake with kindness and discretion, seeking to came ingly melanche other, disturbfhg his soul and driv. ing him to such fth« ruinous waste of his substance and stores. “IL was doing the Monte Cristo as adapted by Pompton, N. J. 1?” asked the young man “You were throwing small coins 1 the street for the to scramble after,” said the Margrave. “That's it. You t you can hold, and chitken feed to— Oh, curse word chicken, and hens, feathers, roosters, ome, and everything con nected with “Young sir.” aif the Margrave kindly, but with dignity, “tho I do not ask your confidence, I invite it. I know the world and I know human: ity, Man is my study, tho I do not eye him ax the acientist eyes a bectie or as the philant ts of his bounty of theory and ignorance. pleasure and distraction jo interest myself in the peculiar &nd compli cated misfortunes that life in « great city visite upon my fellowmen. You may be familiar with the history of that glorious and immortal ruler, the Caliph Hafun Al Rashid, whose wise and beneficent excursions among his people In the city of Bagdad secured him the privilege of relieving #0 much of their distress, In my humble way I walk in his footstepa I neck for romance and adventure tn city streete—not In ruined castles or in crumbling palaces. To me the great- en you throw bjec thru @ It i. my veil jext marvels of magic are those that take place tn men's hearts when acted upon by the furtous and diverse forces of m crowded population. In your strange behavior this evening 1 fancy « story lurks. I read in your act something deeper than the wan- | ton wnastefulness of a mpendthrift. 1 oheory. tain traces despair, 1 confidence power to alleviate you not trust me?” in your countenance the cer. of consuming grief or repeat--I invite your Iam pot without some nd advise. Will 0, how you talk” exclatmed the | young man, a gleam of admiration supplanting for a moment the dull sadness of his eyes, “You've got the brary skinned to a synopsis ding chapters. I mind that old Turk you speak of, I read ‘The Arabian Nights, when IT was a kid. 4io wag a kind of Bill Devery and Charlie Schwab rolled Into one, But, you might wave enchanted dish rage and make copper bottles emoke up coon giants all night without ever touching me, My case won't yield to uy nd of treatment.” “If I could hear your story,” said the Margrave, with his lofty, serious amiie I'll spiel it in about nine worts,” said the young man, with a deep sigh, t I don't think you can help me any, Unless you're a peach at guess: Jing, it’s back to the Bosphorus for you and your magic Linoleum.” | The Story of the Young Man and the Harness Maker's Riddle “I work in Hildebrant’s enddie and harness shop down in Grant st. I've worked there five years. I get $18 a week. That's enough to marry on, ain't It? Well, I'm not goigg to get married. Old Hildebrant is one of these funny Dutehm you know the kind—always ting off bum jokes. He's got about a million rid dies and thingy that he faked from Rogers Brothers’ grent-grandfather Bill Watson works there, too. Me and Bill have to stand for them chestnuts day after day. Why do we do it? Well, jobs ain't to be picked every Anheuser bush And there's Laura “What? The old man's daughter. Comes in the shop every day. About 19%, and the picture of the blonde that sits on the palisades of the Rhine HENRY Story a Day 2%. aDay anes to divest him, or of dim) upied | generous one's) maidered and | wasn't | all the beer| that} pint gazes at the | HUMOR PATHOS ROMANCE and charmn the clam-diggers into Ta TT cae cauimeiicn aa Ciided ane dimuetas damcapind' tae ts surf. Hale the color of straw mat ting, and eyes as black and shiny as the bent harness blacking—think of that! “Me? Well, tt's either mo or Hill Watson, @he treats us both equal Bill tw all to the paychopathic her; and me?—well, you naw me plat ing the road-bed of the Great Maroon Way with sliver tonight. That was on account of Laura, 1 wan apifl ented, Your Highness, and I wot not of what I wouldet. “How? Why, old Hildebrant says to me and Bill this afternoon: ‘Boys, riddle have I for you gehabt haben. A young man who cannot riddles antworten, he ts not #o good by business for ein family to provi is not that—hein” And he hands un a riddie—a eonundrum, rome calls {t—and he chuckles interiorly and gives both of us tl tomorrow morn ing to work out the answer to it And he says whichever of us guennes the repartee end of it goen by his houne 0° Wednesday daughter's birth party. And it |means Laura for whichever of us goon, for she's naturally aching for a husband, and {t's elther me or Bill Watson, for old Hildebrant kes both, and wants her to marry some body that'll carry on the business aft- er he'n stitched hin last pair of traces. “The riddle? Why, it was thin "What kind of @ hen lays the long ext? Ain't it like a Dutchman to rink & man's happiness on a fool propos! tion like that? Now, what's the use? What I don’t know about hens would fill several incubators, You nay you're giving Imitations of the o Arad guy that gave away—librartes in Bagdad, Well, now, can you one | know what evil had come upon the| whistie up fatty that'll solve this | hen query, or not?” When the young man ceased, the Margrave arose and paced to and fro by the park bench for several min utes. Finally he eat again, and said in grave and impressive tonew: “L must confess, sir, the eight years that I have epent in search of adventure and in relieving Gixtrens I have never encountered a more interesting or a more perplex Jing care. 1 fear that T have over Jooked hens in my researches and ob | servations, As to their habits, their times and manner of laying, their many varieties and crosebreedings, their span of life, their—* “Oh, don’t make an Ibsen Grama of ft" interrupted the young man, flip. pantly. “Riddies—especially old Hil debrant’s riddles—don't have to be worked out seriously. They are light them ach as Sim Ford and Harry Thur Peck like to handle, But somehow, I can't strike just the an ewer, Bill Watson may, and he may not. Tomorrow will tell. Well, Your Majesty, I'm glad anyhow that you | butted in and whiled the time away. I | cuens Mr. Al Rashid himself would have bounced back if one of his con stituents had conducted him up against this riddle, I'll eay good night Peace fo’ yours, and what- you-may-calbits of Allah.” ‘The Margrave, with @ gloomy air, held out his hand. “I cannot express my regret,” he aid, sadly. “Never before have I found myself unable to arsist In some way. ‘What kind of a hen lays the longest? It is a baffling problem. ‘There is @ hen, I believe, called the Plymouth Rock that—" “Cut it out,” said the young man. “The Caliph trade is a mighty serious one. I don’t suppose you'd even see fense of John D. Rockefeller, | good night, Your Nibe.”* | From habit, the Margrave began to | fumble In his pockets. He drew forth a card and handed it to the young man Do me the favor to accept this, | anyhow.” he said. “The time may come fwhen it might be of use to) | you.” “Thanks™ said the young man, “My name Weil, | | pocketing {t carelessly. is Simmons.” . . . e @ e . | Shame to him who should hint that the reader's interest shall altogether pursue the Margrave Auguet Michael von Paulsen Quigg. I am, indeed, stray if my hand fail in keeping the way where my peruser’s heart would follow, Then let us, on the morrow, peep quickly in at the door of Hilde. brant, harness maker, Hildebrant’s 200 pounds reposed on a bench, silver-buckling a raw leather martingale. Bill Watson came in first, “Vell,” gaid Hildebrant, shaking all over with the vile concelt of the joke maker; “haf you guessed him? ‘Vat kind of @ hen lays der longest?” “Br—why, I think 80,” said Bill, rubbing a servile chin, “I think so, Mr. Hildebrant—the one that lives the longest, Ig that right?” “Nein!” said Hildebrant, shaking his head violently. “You haf not guesyed der answer.” Bill passed on and donned a bed Uck apron and bachelorho&d. In came the young man Arablan Nights fiasco—pale, choly, hopeless. “Vell,” said Hildebrant, “hat you guessed hin? ‘Vat kind of a hen lays der longest?" Simmons regarded him with dull sayngery in his eye. Should he curse this mountain of pernicious humor curse him and die? Why should But there was Laura, Dogged, speechtess, he thrust his hands into his coat pockets and stood His hand encountered the of the melan- strange about | night to bis! that during | anything funny in a preacher's de-| MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1921. "THE LINE IS. OUT OF ORDER Postman Fails for Year to , “Get” His Own Home out of order.” ng Central drone that age of “The line 4 After dirge jn hear his ear on an ave for the ph once & wee) he tried to te home, l. B | rer, came t& D tar today in dew peration and asked if there was any | way to get relief from the ineffictent | phone service. Keene 1 | the Green Lak | There has t news in his far aid, and the needed in emergencies, that const mpl to improve the service. { 2,000 subscribers would order thelr phones out, perhaps the com pany would take wome notice,” he ndid, “Bay, supposing you try to get my house, The number ls Kenwood 479." | ‘The Star called that number. There wan « loud buzzing. ‘Then Central aid eweetly: “The line is out of order” Bureau of || Missing Relatives past year, when his je mall car ne to own ‘en at 202% Burke ave, tn istrict Jerable wick the past year, badly, Keene « ints had failed are invited to repert rectly to The Star. know the whereabouts, mixsing are requ such tems ae will interest ities. eee Mrs. Charles J. Irving, of Belfatr, Wash., writes that she would be pleased to get information as to the whereabouts of Mra. Lily Youngs, formerly of Fleet, Alberta, Canada, Mrs. Irving says she has somethin; of interest for Mra. Youngs. eee A. J. Licyd, of Woodland, Waa, would likely be able to find trace of Mra. laird by writing some news paper or the chief of police at San Francisco for information. ee eee |touch of the Margrave’s card. He drew {t out and looked at ft, as men bout to be hanged look at a crawl hing fly. ‘There was written on it, in Quigg’s bold, round hand: “Good for one roast chicken to bearer.” Simmons looked up with a Mashing eye. “A dead one™ mid ha “Goot! roared Hildebrant, rocking: the table with giant glee. “Dot is right, You gome at mine house at § o'clock to der party.” | YOUR TEETH X-RAYED FREE [to reprodu thetr comm! Dr. LR Cark each morning between the hours of 9 and 10:80, 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. Ro Clark, Manager 405 THIRD AVENUER Northwest Corner Third Avenue and Union Street Diagonally Across the Streeg from the Posioffice Lady Attendants en Duty ag All Times ALASKA DRY GOODS Co. WHITE SALE Here are few of the many bargains we are offering: PEQUOT CA Size 45x36 Cases, each 81x99 Sheets, each. . 42x36 Cases, each. ...... Salem Sheets, size 81x90, each EXTRA HEAVY HUCK TOWEL $1.75. dozen, HEAVY RUNK COTTON, 44 inches wide, yard. 36 Inches wide, yard. . ~ S AND SHEET: Ail the above Pequot S, size 18x36. a. B5¢ 30¢ 35¢ + TURKISH BATH TOWELS Size 25x50; $1.25 value—cach Bleached Rath ‘$4.50 dozen, Towels, extra heavy, Linen Glass Towels, each ae OUTING FLANNEL—36 inches wide, heavy grade—yard DENTIST TOWEKLS—Fine Huck; | HOPE MUSLIN—36 inches wide—yard 10 yards limit, oo weaeeeee es TEE sive 19x38—each .........40¢ + -40¢ 25¢ 90¢ terete ee te eee ee en BOP = size 12x20—dozen, . ALASKA DRY GOODS Co. 1512 Fifth Ave., Between Pike and Pine 9 a 7 ' te | Tus lor “Other weweengere are aval |