The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 7, 1921, Page 5

FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1921. ONT You have many odd jobs about your house that need doing. Help relieve the unemployment situ- by having them done now. Phone Main 105. Se Second Week of Our Big Re-Adjustment Sale 50% —SAVINGS—33% It may be months before wholesale costs on ry ka ill Soe Syndicate,* Inc) One dollar and eighty seven cents. That was all And sixty cents of ft was In pennies, Pennies myved one and two at a time by bulldoning the, furniture drop to our present low levels. But 1 "iyiier uti ones checks you are getting the full benefit of future re- burned with =the silent imp tation of pariemony that such ductions right now! We have anticipated every reduction for the next 12 months and re- duced our prices accordingly. In some cases it is 20 per cent, others 25 per cent, and on many articles as much as 50 per cent. We are taking our losses now, and giving the public values that cannot be duplicated elsewhere. close dealing implied. Three times Della counted it One dollar and elhtyseven centn And the next day would be Christmas, There waa clearly nothing to do but Mop down on the shabby little couch and howl So Della did it Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, mniffies, and «mile, with sniffles predominat ing. While the mistrem of the home ts gradually subsiding from the first stage to the second, take a look at the home A furnished flat at $8 per week. It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word on the lookout for the men dicancy equad In the vestibule Below was a letter box into which no letter would go, and an electric button from which no mortal finger could coax a ring. Also appertaining thereunto was a card bearing the name “Mr, James Dillingham Young.” The “Dillingbam™ had Been Mung to the breese during a former period of prosperity, when its ponsesmor was being paid $20 per week. Now | when the Income was shrunk to $20 |the letters of “Dillingham” looked | blurred, as tho they were thinking | serfousty of contracting to a moder }and unassuming D, But whenever ‘Mr. James Dillingham Young came home and reached his flat sbove he LIBERAL CREDIT EXTENDED Greene Co. I WHERE PIKE MEETS FIFTH most for your ney. the peat, for ¢ ~ HOOR “WE'RE ” BACK CLS AGAIN! Better than a Clearance Sale —all staple stock combined with new lines at the new low prices. Here’s where the ready-cash buying for our huge chain of stores tells the story. The sav- ings we offer are greater to- day than ever. MY AND mA SHOES $5.95 THE SEATTLE STAR was called “Jim” and greatly hugged by Mra, James Dillingham Young Already introduced to you aa Della Which ts all very good, Della finished her cry and attended to her cheeks with the powder rag She stood by the window and looked | out dully ae a gray cat walking @ gray fence in a gray backyard. morrow would be Christmas DP and she had only $1.87 with which to bay Jim a present. She had been mving every penny she could for | months, with this result. Twenty dollars a week doesn't go far, x penses had been greater than #he had calculated. They always are Only $1.87 to bay a present for Jima. Her Jim. Many a happy hour she bad spent planning for something nice for him. Something fine and rare and sterling—something just 4 little bit near to being worthy of the honor of being owned by Jim ‘Thero was a pier-glaas between the windows of the room. Perhaps you have seen a plerglians In an $8 flat A very thin and very agtle person may, by observing his reflection tn a rapid sequence of longitudinal strip obtain @ fairly accurate conception of his Jlooka Della, being slender, bad mastered the art. Suddenly she whirled from the window and stood before the glans, Her eyea were shining brilllantly, but her face had lost ite color within jtwenty meconda, Rapidly she pulled down her hair and let it fall to its | full length. Now, there were two poaeasions of the James Dillingham Youngs tn which they both took a mighty pride One was Jim's gold watch that had been bis father’s and his grandfa- thers, The other was Della‘s hatr. | Had the queen of Sheba lived tn the Mat across the airshaft, Della would have let her halr hang out the win | dow some day to @ry just to depreci ate her majenty’s jewels and gifts | vtaa King Solomon been the janitor, with all hin treasures piled up tn the basement, Jim would have pulled out AY | | = | | | | was, | a dollar and eighty seve | nice | bead were | chops on, | wifts, HUMOR PATHOS ROMANCE hig watch every time he passed, just to seo him pluck at his beard from envy. So now Della’s beautiful halr fell about her, rippling and shining like | @ cascade of brown water, It reached | below her knee and made itself al most a garment for ber, And then she did it up again nervously and| quickly, Ones she faltered for a minute and stood still, while a tear or two splashed on the worn red car- | pet, On went her old brown jacket; on went? her old brown hat, With a! whirl of skirts and with the brilliant sparkle still in her eyes, she fut tered out the door and down the etalre to the street. Where she stopped the «ign read: “Mme, Sofroniea, Hair Goods of All Kinds” One flight up Della ran, and collected herself, panting. Madame, large, too white, chilly, hardly looked the “Sofronie.” “Will you buy my hatr™ asked Della, “I buy hatr,” «aid Madame, “Take yer hat off and let's have a sight at the looks of it.” Down rippled the brown cascade “Twenty dollars,” ealid Madame, Mfting the mass with @ practiced hand Give tt to me quick,” ead Della. Oh, and the next two hours tripped by on rosy wings. Forget the hashed metaphor. She was ransacking the stores for Jim's present. She found tt at last, It surely had been made for Jim, and no one else. ‘There was no othe? like it in any of the stores, and she had turned all of them inside out, It was a platinum fob chain, simple and chante in de sign, properly proclaiming its value by substance alone and not by more triclous ornamentation—as all good things should do, It wag even wor thy of The Watch. As soon an abe saw it, she knew that it must be Jim's, It wae like him Quietness and value—the deacripuon applied to both. Twenty-one dollars they took from her for it, and she hurried home with the §7 cents, With that chain on his watch, Jim might be properly anxious about the time in any company, Grand as the watch he sometimes looked at it on the aly on account of the old leather strap that be used in place of @ chain, When Delta reached home, her tn- toxication gave way to a little pru- dence and reason. fhe got out her curting trons and lighted the gas and went to work repairing the ravages mado by generosity added to love. Which is always a tremendous task, dear friends—« mammoth task. / Within 49 minutes her bead wan covered with tiny,\closelying curiae that made her look wonderfully like & truant schoolboy, She looked at her reflection in the mirror long, carefully gnd critienlly. “If Jim doen't kill me," ahe mid to herself, “before he takes a aecond look at me, he'll say 1 look like a Coney Island chorus gir, But what ould 1 do—oh! what could I do with cents?” At 7 o'clock the coffee was made and the frying pan war on the back of the stove bot and rhady to cook the chops. Jim was never tate, Dela doubled the fob chain in her hind and sat on the corner of the table near the door that he always entered. Then she beard his etep on the stair away down on the first Might, and she turned white for just no ment. Bhe had a habit of saying little silent prayers about the sim- pleet everyday things, and now she whispered: TPlease God, make him think I am «till pdetty.* ‘The door opened and Jim stepped in and closed it He looked tun and very serious. Poor follow, he was only 23—and to be buntenod with a family! He needed a new overcout and he was without gloves. Jim stopped tnxide the door, as immovable as a setter at the scent of quall. His eyes were fixed upen Delia, and there was an expreason in them that she could not read, and it terrified her, It was not anger, nor surprise, nor disap- proval, nor horror, nor any of the sentiments that she had been pre- pared for, He simply stared at |her fixedly with that peculiar ex preasion on his face. Della wricgled off the table and went for him. “Jim, Anriing,” jook at me that way she cried, “don't 1 had ory |hatr cut off and sold ft because I hove Qved thru Christmas Ir miidn’t without giving you a present. grow out aguin—you won't mind, will you? I just had to do it My hair grows awfully faust. Say ‘Merry Christmas? Jim, and let's be happy. You don’t know what a what a beautiful nice gift I've got for you.” “You've cut off your asked Jim, laboriously, as if he had not arrived at that patent fact yet even after the hardest mental labor. “Cut it off and sold tt" said| Della “Don't you Uke me just as well, anyhow? I'm me without my hair, ain’t I? Jim looked about the room eur ously. “You say your hatr ts gone™ he hair?" sald, with an air almost of idiocy “You needn't look for it,” sald Della. “It's sold, 1 tel) you--sold and gone, too, It's Christmas Eve, | boy. Be good to me, for it went! for you. Maybe the hairs of my] numbered,” she went en with a sudden serious sweet ness, “but nobody could ever count my love for you. Shall I put the Jim?" Out of his’ trance Jim seemed quickly to wake. He enfolded bis Della. For 10 seconds let us re gard with discreet scrutiny some inconsequential object in the other direction, Eight dollars a week or 1 million a year—what ts the dif- ference? A mathematician or @ wit would give you the wrong an- wer. The magi brought valuable but that was not This dark assertion iiluminated later on. Jim drew a package from his overcoat pocket and threw it upon the table, “Don't make any mistake, Dell,” he among them. will be | said, “about me, I don't think there's anything in the way of a haircut or a shave or a shampoo that could make me like my girl any less, But if you'll unwrap that package you may see why you had me going # while at first.” | White fingers and nimble tore at the string and paper. And then an ecstatic scream of joy; and then, alas!, The Rhodes Co. STORE HOURS 9 TO 5:30 WOMEN’S WOOL-MIXED STOCKINGS | | | to, a pair . GIRLS’ CLOTH COATS GIRLS’ PLUSH COATS Pinin black, plain beaver and imitation mole Plush Coats In broken sizes, Formerly marked to sell as high an $42.60. Re duced for @ quick clean up. Chotce at .. Upper Main Floor WARM, SERVICEABLE BEANKETS At the New $6.00 Price Of ...see+e Upper Main Floor ‘These Blankets are of a heavy. weight, felted-finish cotton; are ribbon bound and are shown in attractive block plaid patterns of tan, gray, yellow, pink and jold rose or white Sizes 66x50, “and a splendid value Se in heather mixtures of navy, brown and green; also in plain brown. Form- erly $1.75, $2.00 and $2.75 Reduced for a quick sale -$1.49 34 Cloth Coats tn a broken tine | Sale S ° f al * Yor . | sie pte i rear, bore | Price BOUL $8.00 | Reduced to close out. Choice | Wb seseeeeeesereesesers $12.65 Upper Main Floor Group No. 2 is composed of over | eae one hundred Boys’ Suits which Boys’ Knicker Suits Reduced On Sale in the Men’s Sec- tion, Main Floor, and ar- ranged in two groups: Group No, 1 comprises 84 Suits of corduroy and mixtures, in sizes from 7 to 18 years. Form- erly priced at $12.50 sold formerly at $17.50 and $18.75, and includes sizes from 4 to 18 years; made of durable mixtures. pale aSuit $12.85 Price Strong Reductions on Women’s Winter Coats For Saturday’s selling the Garment Section has am ranged a group of 62 long cloth Coats with large cape collars of self material, and others with fur collars, These sold formerly at $45.00, $49.50, $55.00, and a few at $75.00. Priced specially for Saturday at the Pree Hach, $29.75 Price & quick feminine change to bysterical tears and wails, necessitating the immediate employment of all the comforting powers of the lord of the fat For there ny The Combe—the set of combs, side and back, that Della had worshiped for long in a Broad- way window, Reautiful combs pure tortoise abell, with jeweled rime— just the shade to wear In the beauti- ful vanished hair. sive combs, she knew, and her heart had simply craved and yearned ever them without the least hope of pos nemion. And now, they were hers, but the treases that should have adorned the coveted adornments were gong Bft she humged them to her bosom, and at length she was able to look up with dim eyes and a emile and say: “My halr grows eo fast, Jim!” And then Della leaped up like a little singed cat and cried, “Ob, ob!” Jim had not yet seen his beau- tiful present. She held {ft out to him eagerly upon her open palm. ‘The dull precious motal weemed to flash with a reflection of her bright and ardent spirit “Ien't tt a dandy, Jim? I hunted all over town to find it You'll have to look at the time a hundred times a day now. Give me your watch, 1 want to see how it looks on it.” Instead of obeying, Jim tumbled down on the couch and put his hands under the back of his head and emllet. “Dell” said he “let's put our Christmas presents away and keep em a while They're too nice to use just at present. I sold the watch to “They WORK while you sleep” Take one or two Cascarets occa sionally to keep your liver and bow. els active. When bilious, constipat ed, headachy, unstrung or for a cold, upset ston ing acts 0 nicely as Cascarets, Chil dren love them too, 10, 25, 60 cents ‘They were expen | or bad breath, noth: | { the money to buy your combs.) And here I have lamely related nd now suppose you put the chops | you the uneventful chronicle on.” |foolish children in a flat wi The magi, as you know, were wise unwisely sacrificed for each men—wondertully wise men—who the greatest treasures of thei brought gifte to the Babe in the But in a last word to the manger. They invented the art of these days, let it be said that giving Chrirtmas presenta. Being | who give gifts these two wise, their gifts were no doubt wise | wisest. Of all who give ‘ones, possibly bearing the privilege |sifts, such as they of exchange in case of duplication.| They are the magi Remarkable Sale of Automobile and Working GLOVES Our entire stock of high Auto Gloves has been formed into four price groups, enabling you to secure them at these positively PRE-WAR PRICES— , $1.98, $2.98, $4.98, $6.98 To give you some idea of the deep price reductions made, the gloves now priced at $6.98 formerly sold for $10, $12 and $15. Other groups bear corre- spondingly proportionate reductions, ALL PATTERNS of Gloves can be found—leather and bearskin, lined and unlined, and some in the gauntlet type. i] | They will not last long at these prices. Make your selection early in the day. Genuine Horsehide Working Gloves Excellent quality, very strongly made, will give unlimited service under very hard usage. Nothing better made for a working glove Values up to $2.00, 98c Values up to $2.50, $1.49 speckal at . special at . Odds and Ends Sale of RUBBER DINNERWARE WEATHER STRIP Still in Progress 3¢ Per Foot Large Bar of White Castile Soap Regular 50c, 2 9 c special at You have not been able to secure this quality of DOMESTIC WHITE CASTILE SOAP at this price since pre-war days. Saturday only. when you can secure bright, efficient light by installing PACKARD MAZDA LAMPS and«they will not increase your light bills. 4 “YATT GLOBE ..........40¢ THE STORE FOR USEFUL