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—these are the credit terms that have helped to establish thousands and thousands of homes. en purchase ferniture pment: $50— $5— $75— $7.50 $100— $10— $2— tirat $1— $150— $15— $2.50 $1.50/$200— $20— $3— $300— $30— $4.50 $125— $12.50 $2.25/$500— $50— $7.50 the store of drapery fabrics— BE: a NA at iy As: —always looking forward to giving better service for the convenience of our patrons, we point with pride to our large display of drapery fabrics — and especially the new Sprin draperies 0 5 parti de- signs now here for you to make your selections ifrom—draperies of character that will harmon- ize with their surroundings. ' 29c ya. regular price 4c —curtain swim in dotted and figtited patterns; 36 Inches wide; extensively used for ruffied curtains, regular price 40c; special for the week, 290, 69c $1. yakp regular price $1.25 —celored madras in floral, geometrical or bird designs; 3 inche® wide; feguiar . price $1.25; special for the week, @8¢ yd. —48 round table clothn; 62 4 or $1.75; inches ameler; of bleached mercerized laeoe scalloped edges embroidered in blue ory white; regular price $3.25; special for Vvour N “REATILE: wide; white or tvory colors; regular price special the week, S115 ya 37c yd. regular price Ste and 60c or voile with bordered and taped edge, in white or ecru color; 36 inch @ wide; regular price b0¢ and nly special for the week, 37¢ 15 $1.95 PAIR gui wa $1.75 —Quaker craft nets in 10 new designs in white or ecru color; 2% yards long; with lace sregular price $3—; special for the week, $1.95 pr $2.15 | "TACOMA: ¢-SOROERFELS & 303 50 Inches for Credit NEW ORLEANS, April 27.—There ‘are some folks who say a turtle nev | er dies till it thunders, There are bs Modern Coiffure Calls for beautiful, soft, fluffy hair. | Your hair will dress | easily and becomingly if you shampoo regu- larly ER svt oat DRUG STORE BON MARCHE RHODES COMPANY FRASER- PATERSON and other good toilet are sold. stores where preparations others who scoff at this native belief. Anyway— Fred Schwindt appeared at Char. ity hospital, ruefully gazing at the second finger of his left hand—fin ger from which the first joint had been removed with almost surgical neatneas. Mr. Schwindt had put in the day at Lakeview, and in the course of it had caught a huge turtle. This tur. tle he took home carefully, and then set about the task of converting the turtle into soup. So, according to ancient rite, he severed the turtle’s throat an hung it up, allowing it to bleed for 15 counted minutes, The turtle’« head, hanging downward, was attached to the neck by @ mere shred of flesh At the expiration of the quarter-hour period, what was supposed to be the late turtle was taken down, and Mr. Schwindt set about the customary task of breaking and entering. one hand to stray for a moment close |to the turtle’s all but severed head. There was a snap, and with one bite | the head had completely severed the first joint of one of Mr. Schwindt's | fingers. | Thought Bail Was | a Fine; He Skipped | More than a year ago Michael La- conto was arrested for operating a still in Seattle. Je posted $1,000 ball —and disappeared. Steps were being taken in federal court to forfeit Laconto’s bail me a few days ago that he n located near Spokane Tuesday in federal court Laconto explained that he had thought the bail was his fine, and that the gov ernment was thru with him, Judge Cushman accepted the excuse and fined Laconto $250 Laconto was saved $750, leas clerks’ fees. Has Some Runners but No Man o’ War BALTIMORE, April Feustel, who is handling runners for Samuel D. spring, says he hasn't Wars among his colts. a string of Riddle this any Mano’ FUNERAL SERVICES for Othma Pelz, 12-year-old student at St. Mar tin's college, who died following an operation for appendicitis, will be held at the Sacred Heart church, Sixth and Bell st. 9 o'clock ‘Thursday morning. The Savannah, first steamship to cross the Atlantic, wax built in New York and launched, August 1818 Cuts cost of drinking good coftee. | Xlent Blend, 1% Ibe 1 Ib. | A. Hansen, 40 Economy Market -AdverUsement 5 0¢ 5c During this operation he allowed | when | Louts | ‘HERE'S DOPE ON YAP ISLE Yappers Haul Their Money | Around in Carts What of is Island of Yap that the whole world manner place this ta yapping about? It slumbered almost unknown for centuries until & postowar argument over ocean cables threw it Into the glare of the work!’s spodight, The United States protests the Japanese ate over Yap, awarded by the eague of Nations, because Yap ty an | important cable station and the man. date would give the Japs cable con trol in case of war ‘The world may be stirred up over but the people who have summer. | r lives don't give a are landed history of H. Furness it, ed in Yap all Uy yap how many there, judging them, written m1 |W. FL called his book “The Island lof Stone Money.” That's because the Yape pay for their cigurets with round stones with holes in the mid idle, If they buy a pack at a time they pay with stones as big as a diningroom table Furness stayed in Yap for two months in 1903, He stayed that long because boats only landed there five times a year Yap in the westernmost of the | Caroline isiands in the Pacific. It resulted from a voleano explosion years ago, It was discovered by the Portugvene in 1627, Spain annexed tt 160 years later. Germany bought | the group of islands at the close of the Spanish-American war for $5 300,000 | | Yap is three to five miles wide. |eurrounded by coral reefs and the jocean, About 6,500 Yaps live there | And a handful of white men. | Yaps have coffee-colored skins, | curly black hair, high cheek bones land hooked noses. They are very | | docile since prohibition went into ef |fect years ago and the supply of bootleg has run out When they | had booze they were wild, wild men. | | There ts no woman suffrage in Yap. Each trihe has « bachelor |house, where men meet and dance and sing. The women stay home. Only one woman is allowed Im each nelor’s house, She's stolen from | | another tribe. | It is bad manners for any one in Yap to enter a neighbor's house with. | Jout special invitation. But you don’t | have to go in to see what's going on Yaps are firm believers in ventila tion. Children are common property ant are taken care of like @ community ‘drove of cattle Girls of Yap are very modest—they |wear long skirte made of | grass ‘That's all they do wear, exeept ear | einem, cables by Ge by W | (CLEVER DOPE CROOK CAUGHT? “Eight-Fingers” Held; Dope Taken’in Raids on Room Known to the officers onty a» “Kight-Fingers,” one of the cleverest and most persistent Chinese opium dedlers in Seattle ix in federal cus tody Wednesday, following three raids on his room at T19% King st within the last 24 hours. On the first two trips dope was found. The last time, Wednesday morning, “Eight Fingers” himeel! was apprehended. He ia being in terrognted thru an interpreter in ar effort to learn the source of bis ply of opium. The operdtions of “Fight-Finge have been known to them for som time, federal agents anid Wednesday He gets the name from the fact that two fingers of his left hand are miss ing. Tuesday 4 search of his rooms net ted three tarls of smoking opium, A few hours later agents again entered the place. “Hight Fingers” was not there, but his supply of opium had been replenished. This wag seized Wednesday morning federal nar cotic agents returned for the third time. They found “Eight-Fingers’ at home, and detained him for inves tigation Wife Sues Husband for Silver Fox Fur In Judge Everett "n court Freda Kelly, wife of Joe Kelly, is suing her husband for the returr jot a silver fox fur she says she loaned him. Mrs, Kelly claims she was mar ried to Joe October 7, 1920, and » |month Iater he borrowed the fur which she values at $1,000, to put in his store window at 1627 West lake ave, to advertise his business as a farrier, She says he has never returned it and she wants either the article or $1,000. Kelly denies every charge except his marriage and claima that the fur In question was worth not more than $300 Mre. Kelly's mult for separate maintenance ia being adjudicated at the same time. \Neolithic Woman Is Studied by Science COPENHAGEN, April 27.—At the }national museum here the anthro pological staff are unwrapping the |mummified body of the neolithic | woman who died 3,000 years ago and was found recently int a field in Jut’ land. It is a difficult task and will take a long time. The woman ap. pears to have been a person of rank There is not much left of the body. Only the skull, still ered with coarse dark brown hair, some nails, and a few crumbling fragments of bones. The jewelry is intact ax well as some parts of the garments worn by the woman. |Man Charged With | Robbery of Woman | In an information filed by the prosecuting attorney, Abe B. Simp. accused of holding up Rie § April 22, 1921, and taking $ from her, was charged with robbe |Oh, La, La, La, Tum |Te-La-La (tum, tum) co! | Plink-plink-plank-plink ! Spanish guitar found on Fort Lawton car nd turned into Lost and Found bu u of muny railway Wednesday. LZ) THE SEAIrT Li“ STAK In Limpid Verse the Poet Sings | An Epic on Those Cootie Things! F" W Porvons, Children to put the Cootie Into Verne. Ar Way of Inspiration, too, For, speakir Handsome Royalty for downright, ¢ pick hin Site, and at becomes a He also strives to deme | the Immediate Result that a Solo Part; it's Group Control Hentiments are admirable in their Words not subject to Recall) bia }to cultivate! he Homentend, sweet to Realize that, come what may, the Human Ties are what he seeks ministrative expenses.” though he may be ultra«mart Way have the Nerve, the Independence, or the Verve, might do worse by he earns a & Coote then, how yet, I feel one ng of the Good and True, weed Loyalty, Once let RIGHT! And matrate Collectivism as a Cult, with he never plays represents, Stili—tho the Cootie's 1 yet am very free to say (my @ Skin Game, after ail! RANCES BOARDMAN ENTRY COUPON The Seattle Star-Universal Film $1,000 Motion Picture Actress Contest Name Oveupation Place of Employment Age... I agree to abide by the rules of The Seattle Star-Univernal Film Co. $1,000 contest, to appear for ter Gf it ls possible for me to do so), 10-weeks’ contract at $100 a we winner, my traveling expenses t my return expenses also to be nent contract. Signature (Giria under 18 must have the Mins A wvedseees signature to the “abov: ¢ agreemen years of age but hax my permit Universal Film Co. $1,000 contest agreement as printed. Signature Relationship filme if and when I am called to go to Universal City for a ok if I am selected as the final © Universal City to be paid, and paid If 1 do not obtain @ perma following agreement filled out) t 1 have witnessed, t» under 18 ssion to enter The Seattle Star and to fulfil! ‘the terms of the Wife Tries Secret Divorce;“Get Out!” Roars Judge at Her This ts a tale with » moral If you contemplate divorcee, don't live in the judge's neighborhood. Mrs, Minole Elizabeth Bergeson learned the lonson Tuesday after | noon, She’ came to Judge King Dykeman's court asking for divorce | from Julius Conrad Bergeson. Her wtory was not unlike score of cthers. Her busband hal de verted ber and phe should “herefore be releaned from iegal bonds It might have won, But— She had nelghborh ood. lived In the judge's Spokane Man Gets Place on the I. C. _C.): WASHINGTON, April 27 lent Harding today sent to the ren} the following nominations | To be member of the federal re.) verve board, John Mitchell, 8t. Paul j To be ansietant tary f the! seury, Edward Clifford, Chicago. | To be member of tho interstate ommerce commission: EB. 1. Lewis, | indianapolis, and J. B. Campbell Spokane, Wash. They All Look Alike to the Police Judge J. T. Heffernan, capitalist, paid $20 fine in police court Tuesday after noon. Patrolman O. L. Reddin stop. ped the Heffernan auto on Westlake ave. Saturday morning when it was speeding 30 miles an hour. In the! ,uto.was Archbishop E. J. Hanna, of San Francisco, mentioned to succeed ‘ardinal Gibbons as primate of the} oman Catholic effurch in America. Foot Scalded; Asks $10,000 in Damages Chris Raustan's foot whe scalded when he stepped into a tank of boiling water while working for the Southern Alaska Canning Co. sccording to his $10,000 suit being heard in Judge Boyd J. Taliman's court. tan «ays the accident scourred at Rose Inlet, Alaska, May 15, 1919 He was employed a carpenter. Buy Washington- Made Clothes Keep your money at home by having our experts make your suit, We make good ' $60 Suits for. ....6 pa * CORNER SECOND AND MARION Consequently Bergeson, the hus band, knew the judge and fad come to him some time ago boasting that his wife had started divorce but had dropped the proceedings. He told of her loving attitude daily and how they were living in bappl nese just acrowm the way. ‘That thing might nlp you when! you least suspect,” judge. “Do you know she's dropped the divorcee case?” “She says #0,” gored. Wherefore the judge knew the) inside facta when Mra. Bergeson Bergeson an ~jappeared Tuesgay and rectied her grievances, “You started er” asked “Yvon,” she replied “You have written him ter haven‘t you?” yea.” LIVING WITH HUSBAND WHILE SEEKING DIVORCE “Your husband is working fo gas company and you are living with him right now as his wife, aren't yout “Why, er—yes.” “He doesn't even know you are down here trying to get a divoroe, does het” “Perhaps not.” she, admitted “Get, out of here! thundered the judge. She went, Eugene Meacham was ordered this action in love let xinoe, ir and Deputy Prosecutor to | investigate | The Bergesons were married November 18, 1905. They have two children, Virginia Frances, 11, and/ Churehill Conrad, 9, Divorce pro ceedings were begun while Berge- son was in the North. Service was by publication. Bergeson claims, according to judge, he sent $1,100 to his while he was away. ITCHING ECZEMA FOR 4 YEARS OnLimbsinPimples, Burned and Could Not Rest. Cuticura Healed, + “ Teuffered for about four years with eczema on my limbs, from my knees down. At first they were very small pimples, and after » while the skin would begin to swell and get thick and crack open. My clothing rubbed the eruption, causing awful itching and burning, and I could not rest atall. “I began to use Cuticura and got relief, and when I had used two cakes of Cuticura Soap and one box of Cuticura Ointment I was healed." (Signed) Nelson Smith, Cache, Ill. Cuticura Soap, Ointment and T: cur promote and maintain skin pur- ity, skin comfort and often when all else fails. the wife Write for buoktet on ski ntroudles Swift Spebific ca bet warned the) the} LEGIONWARNS |. _ PEOPLE OF U.S, a Public to Be Careful in Giving Contributions INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 27 The American Legion hus appealed to the public not tribute to Janyone woliciting funds for dixabled soldiors uniews the solicitors are prop erly indorsed Money for injured soldiers should 60 dollar for dollar for the benefit of the dimabled. Legion bulleton says. “It should not go where mont of it in uned to pay salaries and meet pd to 66 The legion wants the govelnment to care directly and completely for wounded soldiers, | If contributions are made for local lemergency relief they should be made to welfare societies which were active for the army and navy during the war and not to societies formed since the armistice, the legion ad vines. FEWER CLOTHES, SMALLER RISK American Insurance Com- panies Like Women’s Styles CHICAGO, April Swisy insurance ning the 27 etion | nies in | rates for women who wear short skirts and | low necks In not to be followed by | American insurance companies, ac | ding to numerous Chicago agents. | In the opinion of the examining | physicians for insurance companies | In Chicago, the ygrue of short skirts | and low necks makes women a bet ter rather than & poorer risk If the vogu® for fewer clothes and wraps and more exercise for women continues, according to the insurance physcians, will soon be 2 good « risk for insurance companies ie men, and their rates will be as low HUSBAND HELD IN DEATH CASE Wife Dies in Home of Cya- nide Poison of women LOS ANGELES, April 27,—Cul-| minating a six weeks investiga tion, Raymond W, Smith, 24,, was under arrest here today on sus |picion of having murdered bis wife, |Mrs, Mary Edna Smith, by admin- istering cyanide poison. Meanwhile, the county grand fury |was in semion seeking evidence on which to base an Indictment against the husband. Smith's arrest, @¥idence laid be fore the grand fury disclosed, fpolied his plans for a wedding and py honeymoon with Miss Hazel wartefager, the alleged “other | woman.” The young husband's detention |followed startling testimony before {the jurors of his love affair with Mins Swartzfager and his own ad- be was engaged to Loma he: He stoutly denied, however, knowledge of circumstances rounding his wife's death, Mr. Smith was found dead In a chair in his bome on March 14 |An autopsy revealed that cyanide had killed ber. that any eur ralnen " watermnelone that weigh more than 100 pounds. Catarrhal Deafness and Head Noises ArE,_ war To oy ASD RELIEVE AT HOME If you have catarrh, catarrhal jeatness or head noises caused by th, or if phiegm drops in dh h or bowe to know that these distr may be entirely many instances, by treatment. which you pare in your own home Secure from your drug ‘armint (Double eth). unis home and add to lt pint of er and a« little granulated |wugar; stir until dissolved. Take one tablespoonful saday. An |improvement noted after the fi treatment treathing sho w the .distre head noises. aches, dullness, cloudy think! should gradually disappea jon of the treatn amell, taste, defective hearing and dropping in the back of the are other symptoms which the presence of catarrh, jand which may often be Overcome by efficacious treatment. It & t{ nearly 90 per cent the following n easily Pre- Nettle co: t ld become jer the Loas ¥ peo- may be restored home treat- antiseptic be > the shoes and. sprinkled Plattsburge men in training to their shoes each morning pre= vents blisters and sore spots and re- Ileyes painful, swollen, smarting feet and takes the sting out of corns and j bun Always use Allen's Foot- ane to bre ak i i w shoes. Rheumatism A Remarkable Home se a Given by One Whe Had It ft edy after remedy, 1 obtained wae only found a ¢ © completely, ha pitiful condition hi T have given it to a number m7 80 yea he results wore the same Own case, ry sufferer from any wlar and tand 1 do net want eas You are perfect! t. Iwn't that fair? longer, when rel free? ‘Don't del Mark H. Jackson, 659-0, Hidg., Byracuse, N Mr, Jackson is responsib statement true. PLAYI STEWART | EDWARD WHIT WORLD KNOWN STORY WITH HOUSE PETERS AND ALLSTAR CAST Percy Paid and Then the Barber Did, Too NEW YORK, April —Percy Groves, steamship cook, received haircut, -ghave, shampoo and five steamings. The barber's bill was $6.15. The barber's sentence was fiv edays in the works. Stranded Whales Show God’s Anger BOMBAY, April 27-—Whales are belng washed ashore bere, Native fishermen believe the sea gods are |e angry. They worship the whales and refuse to go to sea, One of the whales wag found covered with gar- lands. “|Golfers Look for Purses of $10,000 DETROIT, April 27. — Johnny Bassler, recruit catcher for the Tir gers, has shown uncanny judgment in outguessing opponents on the — bases in the few games he has worked. Cobb regards him as a new “Ray Sch “Bayer” on Genuine Aspirin—say “Baye =—_ Warning! Unless you see the name “Bayer” on package or on tab lets, you are not getting genuine As pirin prescribed by physicians for twenty-one years, and proved safe by millions, Take Aspirin only as for Pain, All druggists sell Bayer Tablets of Aspirin in handy tin boxes of 12 and in bottles of 24 and 100. Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoaceticao- told in the Bayer package for Coids, | idester of Salicylicacid. IN ADDITION TO REGULAR PROG! Come and See Your Friends awe METROPOLITA WEEK STARTING SUNDAY, MAY N With Matinees Wednesday and Saturday SEATS NOW SELLING Americas Mest Popelar Star 4. H. WOODS Presents ‘THE SIGN ON THE DOOR’ A Play of Thrills, Heart-Throbs and Mystery . NIGHTS: TO $2.50. 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