The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 10, 1922, Page 9

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ESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1 SHUART’S Anniversary Sale An Event of Importance to Women This is, indeed, an-unusual event. Very seldom do the women of any communi have an opportunity to buy their Fall and Winter Footwear at reduced prices during the month of October. Shuart’s footwear styles are known throughout this Northwest as style leaders. The high quality of Shoes, such as J. & T. Cousins, Griffin-White and other New York makes, sold at Shuart’s, is in- disputable. Thousands of pairs of beautiful Fall and Winter models are on sale this week, priced at $7.85, $8.85, $9.85 and $10.85. Saturday will be the last day of this Anniversary event. You will be delighted with the variety of styles you will see at Shuart’s. COME EARLY SE TTC AF THE SHOP’ AHEAD 1318 Second Avenue as a Necessity TO THE FULLEST COMFORTS OF HOME LIFE From the point of cleanliness and economy, Owners of houses, as well as tenants, find gas service to be an asset of actual cash value, not to / speak of the great satisfaction and convenience of having the best fuel in the world always at hand, ready for instant use. ¢ } ; Nowadays Most Homes Have That Most Essential Feature, “GAS” Every woman takes pride in keeping down expenses and yet wishes to enjoy the comforts and conveniences of the modern home. This is easily accom- ‘ plished where gas is used. Gas never has been an item of extravagance; on the contrary, it has contributed in every instance to the economical man- agement of household affairs. cml ¢ Radiant Heat Gas Fire Seattle Lighting Company 1308 Fourth Avenue Main 6767 THE GAS CO. Gas Is Now Recognized AUNION OF THE PRICE OF SALMON Article 5 ‘ aM hs | fishing fleet. Here are types. Reporter Bound for Alaska in “Hell READ THIS FIRST MAX STERN, reporter, ts nesigned to ct ree work, the kind of and the amount of food we should eat, and the sort |of places were would sleep in. | All the terms of our “servitude” We did not know And w e the labor sub contractors and outfitters, | were in his hands. [MEYER & YOUNG, te San Franctees’* i. name of addres Chinatown, the te able to land the Job. | . t “ He goes abonrd his ship, tied te = San hot seen the contract that bow owkdiees pian . “Shan't 1 give my address? asked anxiously. BOSS DOESN'T had OW GO ON Wrrn THR sTORY By Max Stern EVEN HAVE ADDRESS The Mexican ansistant to Meyer) “Never mind.” answered Meyer held out a paper for me to sign. It]over my shoulder. had no reading matter on it as far! py, we wets, as I could see. It) family and friends to sail to an aprearéa to ks Peatineta land, to go on one of only a Ust bes most pertlous pete which the ships of the earth traverse, our oe tke to|!ivee would be beset with dangers ign it withour | infection and disease, And yet knowing what it] “pose” had not take the trow was, but I noticed |bie to write down our addresses, al} the others sign | If 1 became one of those hun. ed hurriedly and|4rede whose bodies bave been jeft question, |in the frosen earth of Alaska by and the rest were mimon packers, my family crowding me from | would be none the wiser until the behind. I did what|end of the trip in mid-September the rest had dona} 1 waa handed a small paper I took the pen|bound book. On the outside was that was ‘dened | wont be written in Chinese, It about to leave it | our without me and = signed| was, I believe, my number. Inside my Sse umed! wag the $10 greenback, an advance Mas Stern name. on my $170 wage. The thing I bad signed I learned) Meyer pushed me toward the later was the contract. Not one of|companion way leading to the the “crew” as far as I could see bad) China Hold“ and told me to go been given an opportunity of read-lpelow. I got my suitcase and des ing it. And yet It was an agreement | conded to work for from five to six months! 1 was dark, save from a stream at any unspecified number of hours} of yent that came thru the hatch @ day, way. Scurrying about In the dim If one quit he would be breaking | recesses of the ship's insides were |the contract he had signed “sight |the figures of my shipmates. They unseen.” We had simply bound our | Were holding candies selves over for the season to work |bought from a cagedin “store” Io for a Chinese labor cpntractor for|the corner, $170 and board. His power it was to| Each was selecting hie bupk from ect the length of tie season, the|a series of four rows that took up number of hours a day we should nearly all the space. Between the INTEREST TO WOMEN Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable | ail clone. I can recommend these | Cormpound has helped thousands of | medicines to any one, for they cer- jos in their health I tainly hel suffered for fi cats and Lydie . Pinkbam's ried. ake F| felt bef oo the Vegetab! ing le Compound, and again afterwards. it helped them—let it help you. Horstio, Ark. — “I had nervous is and awful bad feelin; M ~ New Orleans, La.—‘‘Thave found relief from my troubles by taking ight side and my back hurt me all | Lydia E.Pinkham's Vegetable Com- the time and I had been going down and I it wherever I go. in health for six or seven years. could not do my work as it should For three years I had not been able | be done for I would sometimes have to do my work without help, 1 | to lie down because of the pains I wel ‘only 95 pounds when my | had. A friend induced me to take 's mother dme to | your Vegetable Compound and I take Lydia E. 's Vegetable ave Epo] results from it. 1 Now I heartily recom- | keep andam abie to doall my m: {t to all suffering women, as | Own ‘work, z seceeamnens one Veg- I have gained weight and health. I etable Com) to my friends ni can do all my work anything I | Tet porcuen, 15 N. Der: ae bigny St, Now Orleans, La, Make Travel a Pleasure by Using THE “PRINCESS” LINE STEAMSHIPS SEATTLE to VANCOUVER and VICTORIA, B. C. Day and Might Boats Leave Dally trom Colman Dopk. foot of Marien Street, 9:00 A.M. Dally for Victoris and Vancouver 11:90 P. M. Daily for Vancouver Direct SEATTLE TO. VICTORIA $3.00 ONE WAY OUND TRIP, SEATTLE TO VANCOUVER, $4.25 ONE WAY ROUND TRIP, GOOD FOR STOP OVER AT VICTORIA, $9.90 Direct Train Connections at VANCOUVER for all points East, through the Wonderful Canadian Pacific Rockies. CITY TICKET OFFICE, 608 SECOND AVENUE Telephone, MAin 5587 E.F.L. Sturdee, General Agent. Signs Unseen Contract; Held Like Prisoner Aboard Ship Off for Alaska. Men of a score of nationdlities make up the “Chinee gang” of the Alaska nn @rows of bunks a passageway extend they had] Recommends the Vegetable | Compound | | ¢d back into darknens, The passage: | why was about two and @ half feet) wide The bunks, the sides and roof had been whitewashed at one time, | but they were far from clean now The bunks were made for two mon and were in tlers extending to the deck-bottom, three high. | PICKS ONE CLOSE TO HATCH-HOLE tion, so 1 selected the one nearest lare mrer on the top bunks than on jthe bottom ones, so I climbed up | bagaase. I could see no moans of ventiia-| the Imatch-hole I could find. i I had also heard that “cooties” | to the top one and deposited my} | I then returned to get some fresh} alr, A» I walked up the companion. | jway, I noticed Meyer standing! above me near the opening of the} | hole, | He frowned and motioned me to stay below. | 3 did not understand why. It |was probable that he wanted to be protected against any complaint} about my color, Whether the bie Chinese boss ha@ come aboard or [whether tt wae the superintendent, |I_ did not know. 1 only knew that ‘Meyer did not want me to be seen fon deck right then | The alr was very bad and some |moments inter 1 tried again tol jascend. Meyer had gone from hia | Post and J went up into the sun Meyer was some feet awoy, epeak jing with a slight, tittle man with| }@ dark skin, well dressed in a blue jferme sult and giving forth a gen-| jerally friendly appearance. Meyer | | beckoned to me * “Here in your bons," he sald. “You do everything he tells you and you'll keep out of troubie.” FINDS HIMSELF PRISONER FOR 3 DAYS My bons was a native of Guam, Uncle Sam's little island in ¢he| South seas. He could talk a fiuent| Spanieh and had been promoted! this year from cook to head ot the Chines gang. He answered fo the name of Ben. Ben was one of a halt dozen Guamene on board. Those included the second bors, and the first and |*econd cook of the Chinee Gang ey. They were a gentile, kindly of iittie, men, and were much superior in mind and physique to the Filipinos aboant, 1 asked Ben when were we going to eal, Ho told me Tuesday. That meant three days tied up to the lock. I was desperately anxious to go ashore for thesé days, so I broached it to Ben, my bons. He shook his head emphatically “You've been given $10," he saffl You can't go ashore.” . I offered to ieave the $10, my lug: gage and even a $100 watch I had brown foolishly brought along, as an earnest of my return. He refused positively. | looked longingly over the aide going ashore to see what would happen. As I started down the sang plank, © guard halted me. "Can't go ashore,” he anid, “Why not?’ I asked. “Rules of the company,” he re plied. The $10 bul prisoner, had made mo a (More tomorrow.) They’re Not Wild in Borneo, He Says | lacking in both wild men and wild women, according to Dr, C. $. Camp. bell, of Pittsburg, Pa, for six yeare British government physician | on the island. Flappers, scanty at- | tire, short skirts and other feminine accessories are unknown there, the} phystelan said. Parents arrange the marriages and violation of the mar- riage vows is punishable by death in some cases. Dr. Campbell arrived in | Seattle aboard the President McKin. ley { PYORRHEA CAN BE CURED Thousands Are Now Using New Treatment Which Is Sent Free suffer from Pyorrliea, Mg or ulcerated gums, ab ‘Kum bolls, loosening of the ote., nen ur nate to the in Chemica » Dept. 181, In-| ndence, Mo., they will ‘send | you'a full size dollar bottle of F ur on free trial, If it cur meeting with wonderful su in relieving thousands of Many who think they have lo I thought I'd chance} We Tell It With VALUES THE WOMEN OF SEATTLE mindful of the satisfaction of perfect appearance in matter of dfess FOLLOW US Fashion’s ardor never cools in the enthusiasm that impels her to hold “Sweet Sixteen” uppermost in the disposition of her favors. NEWNESS! NEWNESS! NEWNESS! That's the theme that gives to our every pre- sentation the attraction that interests all women, —and with a field of a thouand gar- ments to satisfy as many fancies, what a glorious thing it is to be able to select one’s entire wardrobe, per garment, at —a price that for value returned has no com- petition. “Sweet Sixteen” Dispenses Favors Without’ consideration of age, women of all years and figures up to 44 are favored by “Sweet Six- teen,” just as youth and small woman are taken care of, Taliored of beautiful « $16 “Sweet Sixteen” is the largest and fastest growing’ spe- cialty house in wom- en’s ready - to - wear garments on the Coast, and thence across the Continent to the foundation of Fashion—New York. 1023 Second Ave., Cor. Spring St., Seattle Borneo, famous for its wildness, ts |" aching #eeth find that the tro in the gums and after a few da tse of Pyrokur the pain is 16 teeth become nore solid and the foul breath ia gone.-Advertisement, CIEL SN \NRASSSS ae, Wise WAAR 2 PILZ Roslyn - FURNACE OAL Get Yours. While the Getting Is Good If you have the storage space, Burn now’s the time to order your Roslyn "| winter’s supply of coal. Fill up in the Range | your coal bin with clean washed Roslyn—the economy fuel that has been knocking the spots out of Zero Weather in Seattle for 25 years. Now is the time to get yours. Order From Any of the Following Dealers: COLD STORAGE CO. 4758 E. B. HOLMES LUMBER CO. 85th ané - 160. Greenwood. Sunset 0507, Con 2 Newssam, MeNAMEE COAL CO, 1534 Colorado, INC, Eighth and Ellett 103. MILLER, 5240 Rainier Blvd, VEL CO., Stono Way and e 168) jeriake and Kil + 4212 W. Alaska. NA LUMBER CO,, 3026 Union Bay Place, Kenwood 1614, WESTERN COAL CO, 3831 10th Ave, N, w. Melrose 1591. HOLMES LUMBER ©0., 3601 Latona, Mel- rose 0083. PECK WOOD @ COAL CO. 400 W. Har- rison, Garfield 1315, THE ROSLYN FUEL CO. Telephone Main 1817 818 White Building

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