The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 9, 1922, Page 20

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GAGE, FISKE, REGINA, etc. answers every question DRESS wear. Values to $10.00 $3.85 $5.85 The Name— Neer’s Millinery of style and quality. NEER’S 221 PINE STREET Have Bought the Receiver’s Stock of the Betty Hat Shop With our stock augmented by the beautiful models from the Betty Hat Shop, we are now in position to offer the season’s most favored styles for STREET, SPORT For easy selection—six groups are offered: Values to $15.00 $8.85 Values to $18.50 $10.85 $13.85 A thousand beautiful Hats—many of them from famous millinery houses— Some made in our own workroom. prices you will have te come early Saturday morning for first choice. At these low On Pine, Bet. Second and Third Aves. Are you hard to fit? We can’t all be perfect 36’s, or have the slender outline of Rodolph Valentino — that’s why the Tailored Ready Company is prepared to fit you in any size—32 to 52— in stout, slim, short or regu- lar. Every attractive pattern and late style is here. For graduation wear and all occasions, here are most unusual values. two pairs of pants. Values up to $25, shown in fine serges, tweeds, worsteds, etc...... Tailored Home of 2-Pants Suits FOURTH AVE. AT PIKE STREET Seattle’s Home of Hirsh Wickwire Clothes—Finest in America, Ready to Wear Extra Special—Boys’ Suits for Graduation $] 4.65 j These three popular prices give you most exceptional value in “double- life” suits—each with an extra pair of trousers. Each suit has for Men and Boys yCo. Mabel Kroman. She is one of the bridesmaids in “Abie’s | Irish Rose,” Oliver Morosco’s latest three-act play, which will) pers jasoar.” begin a week's engagement at the Metropolitan Sunday, June | young women and middie aged, who| | 11. Advance notices state the offering is one full of color| hve considerable time to spend on} and stwocetness, | : $300,000 Wasted in Milk Bottles Yearly By Robert B. Bermann Three hundred thousand dol- lars a year—that, sccording to Dr. F. K. Smith, ehief mitk tm | “A milk bottle seems like a pretty ‘anail thing—but, as 2 matter of fact, it is one of the greatest contributing factors to the high price of milk. COST NEARLY 10 CENTS BACH “Even tn carload lots, milk botties cost nearly 10 cents apleoa |] | dairies of Seattle fill, on 125,000 bottles every day—and, as an other 125,000 are being washed and storitized at the ‘same time, this means there must be 250,000 in con- stant use “Some authorities on the subject ject figure the average life of a milk bottle at 28 days, If we accept this estimate, it in necesmry to replace the 250,000 bottles 12 times a year making an annual total of 000 bottles, you can see the milk bottle isn't such a little thing after all At 10 cents 260,000 milk bottles cost course, the compantes would have to buy apout 260,000 bottles a | year anyway, as that figure repre sents just about the normal tons tn breakage at the plant and in trans portation. But the remaining 3,000,. waste. “But the housewives of Seattle are just because they've got tn the habit in the world except to use milk. “The funny thing about it is that a milk bottle isn't at all handy for anything except its proper purpose A regular can is much better for gasoline or turpentine, and the jars which are manufactured for the purpose are infinitely «uperior for jams and preserves and the like THINK THEY DON'T OOST ANYTHING “Women go on using the milk bottles, tho, probably on the theory that, even if the milk bottles aren't as good, they're worth using because they don't cort anything. “That idea, of course ts falla cious, Nothing's free. The housewife pays for her misused milk bottles in the form of high- er prices for the milk—only the barden is carried by the inno cent as well as by the guilty, “And there's nothing that we ean WHAT DO MEN WANT? OnE wr ANNA NICHOLE IRISH - HEBREW MIRTHQUAKE © A Comedy of 1 i 7 i = jocks, Kosher nd Clothin, Matablishments rm Now im lis 16th Week tn Ankeles x o' My Heart” SEAT SALI TODAY Prices—Nights, 50c, $1, $1.50, §2. Mat Heat Sents $1 || AMUSEMENTS — ——- PANTAGES —, Nights 7 and ® w Pinying ROYAL REVUTD and Bila; “Oh, Hoy") imi and Willey ' Oe | Bridesmaid in Morosco Play | | “This brings you to a potnt where 000 representa nothing but sheer willing to waste that $300,000 a year of using milk bottles for everything METROPOLITAN | MAGAZINES 750 Varieties Here. 10,000 Sold Monthly. Who Reads ’Em All? Wanda Finds Answer. | By Wanda von Kettler Are people enthusiastic maga site readers? What do they read? What magazines are be coming more popular, and what | are losing out? + A few questions regarding the present tule of magazines were asked the young lady in charge of the magazine department at the| Archway Boc re Wednesday The Archway is just one of the! | | | “3 1AM DESPERATE! many stands in Beattie where maga-/ aines flourish. | Here are the findings: Approximately 750 different magazines are handied at this particular stand. The sales amount to approximately 16,000 | monthly, Magazines are pop | | | ular, | Of those read by women the Ladies’ Home Journal generally has the largest sale, with an average of) 250 being sold a month at this one stand. The We ‘» Home Com panion, the Pictorial Review, Me I's and Good Housekeeping follow closely in popularity | . Women, however, do not read just | the one type of magazine, They are interested also in the stories in the Red Book and the American Maga zine. An average of 100 Red Books and 160 Americans are sold each month, eee “Vanity Fair,” and “Har- | * are sold mostly to! "Vorue, fashion, and modern fancies. About| 30 “Vogues” are sold each month, jwhile “Vanity Fair" and “Harper's | | Basuar” number approximately 10 | each, eee | Movie magazines are not #0 pop ular as they once were. The 25 and 25 cent ones have had their sales greatly decteased, while the cheaper 10 cent ones seem to some extent to bave taken thelr place, ee Men read many types of mage zines, Some read the short story type; others are interested just in mechanical works, The working man is interested, says the young lady, in the stories In the “Argosy.” ‘Western Story Magazine,” and “Detective Stories.” He ts interested also in “Popular Mechanics.” All men today read Radio magazines. | Radio books are very popular at the | present time, about 300 selling at} this stand @ month, Practically all types of people read the “Literary Digest,” the males Of which average | 250 — month. Business and profes. | sional men seem to favor “World's Work,” “Scribner's” and the “Na tional Geographic.” eee “Life” seems now to be the most popular of the comics, averaging 60 sales a month. Judge's sales ap- proximate 25. “Whizs Bang* and “Jim Jam Jems” are reported to have sunk from an average together of #0 to 25, eee Of the magazines read by young boys the “American Boy” is said to be the most popular. Its sales are 20 a month, being sold mostly to par- ents who purchase reading material | for their children, When reaching | the age of about 14 the boys become interested in maguzines dealing with | mechanics. Shortly afterward they | are said to read “Western Stories,” “Lop Notch” and “Outdoor Life.” eee | ‘The average young gtri who reads, says the young lady, is interested in | romance fiction. The stories in the/ Cosmopolitan and the Red Book ar popular, while the romance in the “True Story” magazine also proves attractive. The magazine entitled | “Love Stories,” however, is sald to} be read more by the older women than the younger. do to put a stop to the practice. We've got a law against it. Section of ordinance No. 34,942, stipa- that ‘it ehall be unlawful for any person to use bottles, cans or other receptacles in which milk has been received for any other purpose whatsoever.’ “But you can't send a policeman into every home in Seattle to see if miik bottles are being improperly used, you know. ones to blame, however. The law covers milk cans as well as milk | bottles—and there are a lot of firms, | restaurants particularly, that have the habit of ‘swiping’ big three and five-galion milk cans. “These cans are made of heavy metal and are splendid for cooking soup, or keeping it warm on the back of the stove. Also they're quite expensive—which means some more money out of the consumers’ pockets, “The datries, you see, can’t do anything. They aren't going to risk losing a lot of steady cus tomers by charging them a dime (EVIDENCE? ] The five of spades, consid- ered by many an ill omen, was found near the home of \Walter S. Ward at New | Rochelle, N. Y. A deck of 51 cards was found, investiga- |tors claim, in the clothes of Clarence Peters, who was killed by Ward, “The housewives aren't the only |” jout effect, In the first place a paper|ple. Are they willl MY CREDITORS SAY: “We Must Have Our Money Now”’ Hard business rules compel me to meet past- due obligations for spring woolens, regardless ef the fact that bad weather has spoiled my season, and these woolens are on my shelves SUIT LOUIS SIDELSKY IMPERIAL TAILORING CO. 801 Third Avenue Corner Columbia (Look for the Number) “Sidelsky Suits Satisfy” f every time they fail to return a “And then, too, paper containers] bottle. Instead, they just pocket [are unpopular because a woman | the loss themselves—for the mo- | wants to see the ‘cream-line’ on her ment—and then pass it on to the | milk—and she can’t if it's in paper. general public. Neither can she see if there's any “A lot of experiments have been | sediment. made with paper containers in anef-| ‘The only possible solution that I fort to sotve the problem, but with-|can see is the education of the peo to pay a cent container, which can be used only /a quart more for their milk in order once, isn’t any more economical|that they may escape the incon- than a glass bottle, which lasts 28 | venience of returning all their bot days. [tles?” SPIRIN SAY “BAYER” when. you buy Aspirin. Unless you see name “Bayer” on tablets, you are not | getting the genuine Bayer. product prescribed by physi- | cians over 22 years and proved safe by millions for | Colds Headache Rheumatism Toothache Neuralgia Neuritis Earache Lumbago Pain, Pain Accept only “Bayer” package which contains proper directions. Handy “Bayer” boxes of 12 tablets—Also bottles of 24 and 100—Druggista, Qepiria is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monosceticacidester of Salicyleacid

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