The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 9, 1923, Page 2

THE Retail Food Prices Are Increasing FIGURES SHOW GHER PRICES Boosts Range at| From 40to58 Per| Cent in 21 Cities Br WILLIAM LOSH Whited Press respondent) WASHINGTON, o—The re tail price of food is increasing, a cording to statistics of the depart Ment of Jabor, just made pt The investigation conducted thru the bureau of sta-| tistics, showed changes in the retail) Gost of food in 20 of the 51 cities In-| cluded tn the bureau's report Figures made public by partmment revealed that the retail gost ef food in different localition thruout the United Statese increased from 40 to 58 per cent during the period from 1913 until the present, | from August 1923, 18 nereases as} Staff © Oct the de| During the month 15, 1923, to Sept of the 20 cities showed | SONGBIRD follows: Los Angeles and St cent; Baltimore, Fall Haven and New Orlea Chicago, Kansas Cit idence, hmond, Ri ter Paul, 2 per cent; Houston, Indlanap- | otis, Jacksonville, Savannah Washington, Dp. C.. 1 per cent, w Portland, Me, showed a decrease of Yess than onehalf of 1 per cent Butte showed no change during tho| month. | For the September 18, 1923, to 15, 1923, all 20 of the cities showed increases as | follows: Indianapolis, 10 per cent; Chicago and Baltimore, 9; Fall River New Haven, 8; Norfolk, Providen Rochester and Washington, 7; Rich’ Louls, 4 per er, New| 3 per cent; | Norfolk, Prov: | and St Lucrezia Bori, noted opéra singer, has arrived in thMs country from abroad and will Cynthia Grey: Girl Who Has Discovered Happy Pathway Down Thru Life Writes Valuable hi to Others Who Seek It. | Dear Miss Gre To “Margaret's” testimonial appearing in your October issue, on behalf of the old-fashioned girl, by which I deem she means “womanly” girl, will you permit me to add my own experience, | Any girl that will lead the straight and narrow life and is willing, and does, a little more than the world expects of her (which doesn't exact a great deal as we have the repu tation of having brains weighing as heavily as feathers) will be appreciated, sooner or later, and will brighten a corner anywhere. I mean the girl that acts womanly, i womanly, and dresses womanly. Not only that—she is dangerous! | | The thing to do is to have a smile for everyone you meet, and mould your character so that you will be a real woman Keep your health by all means, and always be young, Try to add poise and dignity, and above all, be sensible, earnest and | serious in your work. Of course, do not suppress wit—-if you {have any—as it is always a boon to business as well as to janything else, Don’t get stage-fright, by which is meant |keep cool and calm, Earn a reputation for knowing 8 | thing, and when you make a statement or give out inform tion, be sure you are right and that the recipient can gamble on its reliability. How many of us girls can talk coherently, plainly and well enough to make ourselves understood over the telephone, or face to face? Are you accommodating and polite, and do you really have any business ability in talking over the wire? There is a great field for you, if you can. Have you ever gone into a big office when the boss’ back is turned and noticed how many of the girls were talking and primping their complexions right out in the open? Is this |}honesty? Fill up your minutes with labor and get the name of being a worker. Again, where can you find the clerk, or the man in the same station of life as yourself that makes a salary adequate to appease your insatiable desire for silken {dresses and marcel waves? Surely you have better sense |than to think a millionaire would ever look in your dire: | tion more than once in his lifetime. Do you expect to work all your life? No matter how humble the male clerk may be in any business, he knows enough about the business to talk intelligently about it. Can you? He will be right there with mond, St. Louls, St. Paul and sa-|be heard from during the| facts and figures, too; which goes to show “a man is a man vannah, 6 per cent; Jacksonville, | Kansas City, Los Angeles and Port. | land, Me., Butte, Houston and New Orleans, 4 per cent. ‘As compared with the averarce| cost in the eyar 1913, the retafl cost ‘of food on September 15, 1922, wa 69 per cent higher in Richmc 5 per cent higher in Washington, pér cent in Chicago, Raltimore and Providence; 46 per cent in St. Louis, 47 per cent in Indiapapolis, 45 cent in Now Orelans, 43 per Tos Angeles, and 40 Jacksonville and Kansas City. [ mt in per cent in So far no paragrapher has had the nerve to suggest that a Ford ing from the box after it has been|the extension of many courtestes, eampaign for president would “rat- We" the opposition.—Tampa Tribune. | 3103 GOOD ; pee |forever from their minds. coming opera season, WILL EXPLAIN “SAW” TRICK! Persons who have wondered at the myatifying trick of apparently saw: ing @ person in two with a huge rom-cut saw, in full view of spec tators, will be given a treat at th Elks Charity Festival this month. They will have all doubts as to the performance of the font removed Likowise they will thereafter understand why {t is that the same girl comes smil. sawed thru, The trick is to be demonstrated and explained in full each night of the festival by Ray Southard and his amistant. The trick has been shown at Drury Lane theater, London, and ran for six months in New York The festival committee has en waged a band of 20 Yakima Indians, some of them aged warriors, who will give thelr tribal and war dances on the big stage. The Indians were persuaded to leave the reservation for the show after many negotiations and discussions. They will be quar- tered on the vacant lot adjoining the| | Hlks club at Fourth and Madison. | A two-hour program of other en GENUINE “BULL” DURHAM TOBACCO In the extraction of teeth we say to our patrons: If we hurt you, don't pay—could we say more? Set of Teeth From $5.00 UP Gold Crown and Bridge Work From $4.00 UP Boston Dental Offices 1422 Second Avenues We Stand the Test of Time 22 Years in One Location | tertaining features will be presented, | ‘seers classic and ballet dances, arranged by Miss Marta Courtney of | the Cornish school, Issue Warrants for Dry Law Violators Benen warrants were {ssued Mon: | Neterer, of tho |day by Judge J federal district co leged violators of the national hibition act, Ruth L. Smith, Devlin and E. J. Lemieux: bail was ordered forfeited pro. Louis ‘Their | TODAY'S BEAUTY HINT | It is not necessary to shampoo your hair so frequently If it Is en- tirely and properly cleansed each time by the use of a really good shampoo. The easiest to use and | quickest drying shampoo that we can | recommend to our readers is one that brings out all the natural beauty of the hair and may be yed at very [little expense Iving a tea spoonful of canthrox which can be jobtained from any druggist, in a }oup of hot water. This makes a full leup of shampoo liquid, enough so it is easy to apply # to all the hair In stead of just to the top of the head. This, when rubbed into the sealp and onto ev strand of hair, chemically Gissolves all impurities. It is very for three al-|can for a that,” and we girls have much to learn yet before we) understand business as it is. | Another thing, do not hesitate to, take @ position where the salary fs very small at first. I am here |to tell you that you have many} | golden opportunities in a small sec- |retarial position that do not exist) in position where you are draw:| jing a large salary, but where you are considered aa only a cog In the} end of the day, | machinery. I know of a girl who| This isn't intended for a isserta is holding down such a position and|tion on business, and please don't is known by name by big business| £0 Into a position thinking you are) men from all over the state, all be-|/ folng to win a man while there| cause she has made a reputation| No @raver error, or sin, could ever for herself for dependability and be committed than that, for busi ness and pleasure do not mix, @ when you work, your time fs not your own, it is your employer's. if you ufe @ square-shooter, however everywhere, some day the right one is golng to walk straight into your life and you won't even have to think twice before you can spot| him. Don't lst your courage fade, the advice I want to bring however, I know Just how panicky girls get around 36, when they be-| gin to realize they will soon be Cynthia Grey will receive cull ers on Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 1 to 2 p.m. and on Tuesday and Thursday from 11 to 12 @ m. at her office in the Star Hidg., 1309 Seventh ave. After all, are not admiration and respect the really big things tn life? |How many of you ever tried to Janswor the office \ correspondence |while the boss was away on bis | vacation? I tried it once, and had & headache for a week. It will give you your employer's point of view, |and will also make you understand |what a lot of mental energy it re- |quires; and later, when you have la home of your own, you will |know enough to be quiet and to hold your peace when hubby comes] come an old maid and not a se home dog-tired and weary at the] will ever love them after the | There is one small word thot Why Stay Fat? SE OAPATN ‘aneutiag, eC eouras thet You Can Reduce You have not let any good oppor ‘The anewer of most fat people ie that tunities slip by in the meantime The greatest chances come into your life after you are 20. By that time you will also know what you want and there can be no question sto the ultimate outcome of your marriage, Moreover, you will be a companion to any man, for by that time you will have learned much about them and whereas the tn experienced wife would go tnto a violent fit of temper, their little weaknesses will only endear them to you, the more; too, you will know how to appreciate a man by! thin time. | Again 1 repent, the really wom-| anly girt will attract attention no matter what position In life she} fills and !f she will but keep her} wits about her, there will come} that time when men, well-droased handsome and prosperous whom you never dreamed would “fall” for , will tell you their hea goer a-pat” whenever they you others will tell you they think they are too old, and yet othe will tell your parents they are “afraid of her.” Sincerely, TILLIE, dangerous to toree th Marmota Preseription these difficuities. rabees, entall no diet doltar by all druggiate the over, of send the price direct to the Marmofa Co. 6412 Woodward ave, Detrott, Mich. Now that you know this, for being fat, but easily without Sure Way to Get | Rid of Blackheads There is one simple, safe and sure r fails to get rid t in to dissolve t t two ounces of ¢ any drug store— a hot, wet cloth heads briskly vawh the parts and you will.be sur. xed how the blackheads have dis- wi ay that neve blackhend: PY little they cr ppeared. Big blackheads, Keo blackheads, no matter where Jare, simply dissolve and disappea Kheads are a mixture of dust land dirt and secretions that form in |the pores of the skin. The calonite |powder and the water dissolve the blackheads so they wash right out, leaving the pores free and clean and in their natural condition.—Ad- vertinement IF KIDNEYS ACT Many See ‘Home Week”’ Displays | | All Seattle was celebrating “Home | Beautiful Week" Tuesday. ‘Those who hadn't visited the special dis play which are being shown in con SEATT \ LI M —Open from EMH AMIORICAN HOMES BUMMAT: LUKSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1 YOR BHTTER AMENICAN OMU® T° OWN good furniture, to live in a tastefully furnished home, is to enjoy one of the most satisfying pleasures life has to offer— a special feature of HOME BEAUTIFUL WEEK this model exhibit “LOVE NEST” HOME located on Victory Highway opposite the Electric Home —the opening, Monday, of this attractively designed “Love Nest” home, a Spanish cottage, by Gardner J. Gwinn, completely furnished and decorated with the sea- son’s latest drapery creations, by the Standard Furniture Company, is proving of special interest to the thousands of delighted visitors. It is a home of artistic charm that every Home Maker will take pleasure in visiting. 11A.M.to9 P.M. —a cordial welcome waits you at the “Love Nest” home! STANDARD FURNITURE CO. L. SCHOENFELD & SONS FOUNDED 1864 Removing Stains From Clothing Did you ever spill the beans down your white ver uD of coffee on you ever upset a Ever get grass your crepe de oh lee cream, that shou of her new droas table cover? Does be Bally sent him for ¢ to get out a w you want to dr job of p on your eh your duck pants air on your ehtie? hy Do cut your If anything of the Clothing and Textiles,” what you need handy on i has a copy of this book for yc mail an directed. copy Street and No... ve gone into and ruin y and have the paint front? 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I want ® copy of the booklet, “Removal of Stains," and Inclose herewith five cents in postage stamps for same, 98 OUT OF EVERY 100 WOMEN BENEFITED Hunters Return turned-here, en route home from The 11 men, j dig » brought out 20 grizzlies and a cord size caribou head, the ant ring 55% inches, spread, | beam of 6534 inches. hunt was in the With Much Ga tern x«portsmen Mf Cassiar rd for oth-| The trouble with speed maniacs ies. |is that their cars are too heavy and ck, | their sentences are too light.—New ork Tribune. 1 hunte Lookers Welcome We are glad to have people look around. That only more and thoroughly convinces them that our styles, prices And CREDIT Terms are the best in the city. Mr. Men Do you know that our Fall Suits and Overcoats are of fine tailoring and in new- "BAD TAKE SALTS | soothing and cooling in its action, as! Well as beneficial to both sealp and! nection with the movement at all the furniture stores had heard from en An Absolutely Reliable Statement est designs. When you wake up with backache ig DR, J. KH. BINYON Free Examination BEST $2,50 cLasses ON KAKTH We are one of the few optical stores in the Northwest that reaily ind lenses from start to finish, and we are the only one in SBATTLE—ON FIRST AVE, Bxamination free by graduate o1 fometrist. Glasses not preserib unless absolutely necessary, BINYON OPTICAL CO. A116 WIKST AVIA |hair. After rinsing out the lather so created, you will find the scalp is fresh, clean and free from dandruff, while the hair dries quickly and evenly, developing a bright luster and a soft fluffiness that makes it seem very heavy.—Adv, HOME MADE TEA FOR CONSTIPATION Is Used by Entire Families Because It Is Purely Vegetable, Does the Work and Costs Very Little. Why pay high prices for Liver and Bowel remedies when none are bet ter than Dr. Carter’s K. and B, Tea, which {# purely etable, can be brewed at home, and a 30-cent pack age will last a long time? Thousands of old people will tell you they have been drinking it for ye and after the lis d Is en put in fine condition in a by a before bedtime cup, that on an oceasional cup is after. Wards necessary to keep one feclirg fit and fine, People who drink a cup of Dr. Car. ter’s KX. and B,Tea once in a while, eldom, if ever, have any billlou tacks, sick headael or pillow It's good for boys and girls, cially thoue who are peevish and fretful. Druggista have been selling it for many yeurs,—Advertisement ve few day at skin, espe land dull misery in the kidney region it may mean you have been eating foods which create acids, says a well nown authority. An excess of such acids overworks the kidneys in their effort to filter it from the blood and they become sort of paralyzed and logey. When your kidneys get slug- gish and clog you must relieve them, like you relieve your bowels, remov- ing all the body's urinous waste, else you have backache, sick headache, dizzy spells, your stomach sours, tongue is coated, and when the weather is bad you have rheumatic twinges. ‘The urine is cloudy, full of sediment, channels often get sore, water scalds and you are obliged to seok relief two or three times during the night. Either consult ® ood, relinble physician at once or get from your pharmacist about four ounces of Jad Salts; take a tablespoonful in a glass of water before breakfast for a few |days and your kidneys may then act \fine, This famous salts is made from |the acid of grapes and lemon julce, combined with Uthia, and has been |used for years to help clean and stimulate sluggish kidneys, also to neutralize acids in the system, #0 they no longer irritate, thus often re Hieving: bladder wenknons Jad Salts is Inexpensive, cannot in jure and makes a delightful, effervon cent lithiawater drink. Drink lots of soft wat By all means have your physician examine your kidneys at leawt twice a year: Advertisement thusiastic friends, who urged them not to mixs the opportunity of view ing the exhibits. 1 They'll get plenty of chances, ax! the displays will be continued thru the | woek. On Saturday night house” will be observed In most of the stores for the benefit of thone who find no time to visit the estab. lishments during the week. Wednesday Rev. Cleveland H Klethauer will speak at the Rotary club and Rev. Ralph Mageo at the Kiwanis club on “Home Beautiful | Week. Chieftain’s Grave | Will Be Cared For) Former residents of Michigan, | forming the Michigan club of Se attle, will restore and give perpet ual care to the weed-grown grave of Chief Seattle, Suquamish, on the su quamish Indian reservation, if plans | Adopted by the club at a recent din ner are carried thru, Outlined | plans for the care of the last rest ing place of the chief for whom se attle was named were laid before | the Michigan State olub by its pi ident, F. A, Audley whose baptismal Sealth, was # whites Chief Seattle, name was Noah firm friend of the| IT you do housework ut $6 a week. | that's domvstic service, If you do \t for nothing, that's matrimony New Britain Herwia amy ad MELAS, AAW EAM TE Important to Every Woman Remarkable Results Wide Canvass of Shown by a Nation Women Purchasers of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com- pound, 50,000 For some time acircular has been enclosed with each bottle of our medicine bearing this question: “Have you received benefit from taking Lydia EB. Pinkham’s Veg- etable Compound?’’ Replies, to date, have been re- ceived from over 50,000 women answering that question. 98 per cent of which say YES. That means that 98 out of every 100 women who take the medicine for the ailments for which It is ree- ommended are benetited by it, ‘This is a most remarkable record of efficiency. We doubt if any other | medicine in the world equals it. Think of it-—only two women out of 100 received no benefit—08 suc- | Couses out of a possible 100. Did you ever hear anything like it?) We must admit that we, oure belves, are astonished, Such evidence should induce from any ailr ham’s Veretable peculiar ‘ her sex to try I Jompound and ¥ the 98. The Lydia ©. Pinkham Women Answer Of course we know that our medi- cino does benefit the large majority of women who take it, But that on! two out of 100 received no benefit is most astonishing. 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