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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-06-17

minors delinquency was very I'M
common. Today it is the COM
monest of crimes"
The county employs a special
lawyer and large corps of men
and women probation officers,
with special court, to deal with
the problem, and yet seems to be
fighting losing battle.
According to those who have
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-06-17
$4,000 OFFERED
TO EVERYONE
Miss Lillian Russell Writes


The best homes in England have for
years used an article from a recipe
called Waw-W aw. This was prepared
by a young English singer who had
suffered with Indigestion for years,
by the suggestion OF a noted French
doctor, and $50, 600 was offered TO any
one who could analyxe the Waw- Waw
correctly. Waw-Waw tan obsolete
South American Indian word for .vege-
tablet contains no raw spices, and is
absolutely pure. II Is a sauce unlike
All others, and when added to the
cooking or with soups. salads, hot
and cold meats and fish II gives q
flavor unequalied. and at the same
time notice how easily your food Is
digested. Miss Lillian Russell, the
beautiful actress writes: 'sWAW- Waw
Is delicious. Added to SOUPS. salads
meats and fish 1t Il uneQunlled.
Distributor
WEST COAST GROCERY co.
Tacoma, Wash.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-06-17
HUNDREDS HAVE
NARROW ESCAPES

was flooded. Hundreds had mar
row escapes. A workman acci-
dentally tapped the water main
and the shaft was instantly filled,
trapping the men.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-06-17

ROTTERDAM, Eng, June II.
-(By United Press Eight
miners lost their lives by drown
ing here today when a colliery
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-06-17
NEW TREATY
WITH NORWAY

WASHINGTON, d. c., June IT.
Secretary Bryan and Norwegian
Minister Bryn yesterday signed a
five year special arbitration treaty
between Norway and the u. s.
The old treaty would have expir-
ed by limitation June "a.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-06-17

MAGNET FLOUR
Made from the choicest west
ern grains, and miIled In the
finest mills on the Pacific
Coast. 1t is specially ground
for us and carries our GUAR
ANTEE on every sack. II
for any reason you are dis
satisfied when down to the
last cupful, bring back the
sack and your money will be
refunded
u Dbl. sacks, this sale $1.15
. By the Dbl. of 4 sacks $3.50
ZEPA BRAND MOLAssEs-
zoe value-This sale. per
M-gallon can .... .25c
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-06-17
CHERRIES
FRESH FROM YAKIMA

The Yakima Apple Depot Co. is
now planning to handle ether fruit
than apples. CHERRIES will be
the leader for next 30 days
then will come MELONS, POTA-
TOES, PEACHES, and, finally,
another season of APPLES.
This fruit will come from our
own Yakima orchards, together
with various supplies from our
orchard neighbors. They will be
picked one day and received
fresh by express the next morn
ing.
Call us up, MAIN 1900, and let
us figure with you for Canning
Cherries, Pie Cherries, Eating
Cherries.
YAKIMA APPLE DEPOT
0OS G Street.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-06-17

GEBHARD'S RICE AND chilli
For the chatting dish-10c
value-This sale ....,.77sc
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-06-17

GOLD MEDAL FLOUR
Made from the finest select
ed grain and ground into
flour by the intricate and
mighty system of the WASH
burn-Crosby Mills, where
each grain of wheat is
cleansed and passed in a
GOLDEN stream of its own
over many sets of steel rolls,
each grinding gently and a
little finer
u Dbl. Sacks, This Sale SLIGO
BY the Dbl. of A sacks $500
BROKEN RICE - Special
price, reduced. 8 lbs. for 25c
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-06-17

ALLURENiENTS OF GIRLS (
Here are some of the
things that experts say help
to lure girls away from
, home:
) MOTORCYCLES. {
TELEPHONES.
CABARETS.
DANCE HALLS.
LIQUOR.
} FLIMSY ATTIRE.
ROUGE.
) COUNTRY CLUBS.
, ROLLER COASTERS.
RAGTIME
} Isle STOCKINGS
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JELLY POWDER, THE EASY
J11IT. ~ With dishes tnat
make tempting desaerta n
glars dish With every pack
age such iinYers Us ne have:
regular 10c packages Willie
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June Reduction Sale in Our Pure Food Sectio

BARTLETT PEARS - Fine
grade Table Pears--regular
zoe value-This sale. ~ IL C
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all ready to be lighted. They are so ready that
when Pantaloon looks out of his window before
making up his face for the day he sees that
the candles have burst into hame-howers In the
night.
Then Columbne takes out pipe. and she puts
some magic soap into nectar and stirs II round
with the bowl of the pipe until frothy suds APP
pear And then she blows bubbles that float up
and out OF the window until they reach the
Christmas tree when they turn into great gilt
terng glass balls. all sorts Of colors. and show
pictures of the world all colored and shining.
The children in the World look up and think
they see Harlequin and Columbine floating down
as gently las feathers, but they don't say be-
cause their elders would only tell them 1t was
the clouds. But 1t is Harlequin and Columbne,
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-02-24
PRETTY RIBBONS FOR MECH
At No Time Have These Adjournment
Been So Handsome and Worthy
Of Praise az Now.

The latest development OF the ssu
toir Is the grosgrain or moire ribbof
with plain or pilot edge and large
single ornament on the left side. One
of the prettiest of these is circulal
motif OF exquisite delicacy. Anothel
Ia square OF finest filet lace mesh
wrought In platinum and diamonds
placed diagonally on the ribbon and
held at the two opposite corners By
two diamonds. These are again al
tached to jeweled section that COW
ers the ends OF the ribbon. II sim
pier chain for the lorgnon is desired
there is the solitary pearl without
any metal and strung as slide on 4
silk cord. Both men and women ard
adopting this inconspicuous but hand
some device.
Perhaps one OF the most pleasing
novelties OF the moment Is velvel
neck band with slides OF seed pearls
These come with two or three slidef
or with a simple festoon. They arr
both radical departures from the old
fashioned themes. such as the rosetts
and the observation-disclosures
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but hole In 1t In the morning.
And when 1t is dark these four quaint figures
fit through the country. city, town and village
like conspirators, Harlequin tapping doors and
windows with his magic wand. open, open!"
he cries to the Spirit of Christmas Let the
rich uncle reward his needy nephew, and the
unforgiving father his repentant son. Mothers,
forget to be jealous OF your elder daughters
growing beauty. Children, forget your spite and
naughtiness. Let's be old-fashioned. Let's be-
lieve in ghosts I'll tell you ghoststories stories
Of yourselves when you were children and played
Pirates on the stairs
And Clown says as he taps the doors with
his redhot poker:
open. open, you old grousersl And let the
Spirit of Fun come into this house. Romp a bit,
and lose your twopenny dignity. for pompous
stiffness makes the gods laugh"
Pantaloon. taking his turn, taps with his walk
ing-stick. and says
open. open. and let in the flood Of memories
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Taupe Velvet.

wrap. Vivid In color are the new
wraps of velvet and brocade and very
voluminous in drapery. Oriental de-
signs have been followed by the cou-
turiers in the matter OF drapery, and
while the shoulders and sleeves OF the
draped velvet. brocade or fur wraps
are loose and baggy in effect the
swathed silhouette is emphasized by
the cut of the lower portion of the gar.
ment
One wrap particularly noticeable
was OF all-white ermine. with draped
effect at the hips. Around the bottom
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-02-24

OF the coat appeared a thick fringe d
ermine tails. There was dee1
square collar Of the ermlne, trimme|
with a fringe OF the black tails. Th
loose, baggy sleeves were trimmed d
the lower edge with fringe OF tn
tails.
Another wrap was OF moleski|
draped around the shoulders In cad
effect There was shaped piece, 81
tending from the shoulder line almo1
to the waist, of gold lace and Dried
tai embroidery finished by large gol|
tassel. A huge mum OF the moleski|
accompanied the cloak.
Another handsome afternoon col
tune was OF black velvet trimme|
with skunk. The coat was one OF IN
new three-quarter length models witt
loose. baggy sleeves set In. much Of
the line OF the evening wraps. Their
was a large collar of skunk and nal
row bands OF the same fur edged TIL
coat. Between the bands OF the I'D
we're applied braid motifs. A Wild
band Of braid was appliqued on th|
bottom Of the skirt. In front al
peared two rows OF buttons and brazil
loops.
Another admirable costume was d
taupe silk brocade and broadcloth
combined. The jacket was OF siil
brocade finished with large colla|
OF opossum. The jacket was fastened
with small braid buttons and loop4
There were deep cuffs OF the fu|
trimmed with the buttons and braid
The skirt was In tunic effect at thl
front. and was trimmed with threl
large buttons.
Still another costume was OF taupl
velvet aud cloth. accompanied by a SCI
of silver fox. The jacket Of velve
was fashioned In cutaway style and
trimmed with braid and buttons. Tn!
skirt was OF broadcloth looped up 81
the side and front. A lash on the lief
side at the bottom showed an under
skirt OF velvet. MARY DEAN.
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cut out round OF white paper. rath
er smaller than the cardboard. and
place It 80 that II covers the edges
Of the crepe paper. Before allowing
the paste to stiffen, slip one end o.
the ribbon (which has previouslj
ben cut in four equal lengths) be
tween the white paper and the card
board and press firmly. Place an
other end of ribbon exactly opposite
Repeat instructions on second
piece of cardboard, then press botl
under weights.
The ribbons In bows at each side
II you use cretonne the lining Of
each circle should be cream sateeI
and the cretonne 10 sewed to tho
sateen. not pasted as the paper is.
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stirring up old memories in dull people. so that
uncles must remember all their nephews in re-
membering when they were nephews themselves,
and had peculiar hunger at Christmas.
Cofumbine is awfully practical. Her sentiment
extends from the Joy of watching the making of
babyclothes to the pleasure of remembering to
put nice soap in the spare rooms. Is she who
sees that children get the right presents. and
when they don't It is not her fault but the fault
of some stupid person in shop.
1t is she who suggests the secret delight OF
keeping presents hidden at the bottom Of the
wardrobe; and 1t is she who suggests the secret
delight Of peering at children when they are
asleep
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-02-24
SEEN AT HORSE SHOW
GORGEOUS WRAPS WORN BY NEW
YORK SOCIETY WOMEN.
Oriental Designs Generally Rule In
the Matter Of Such Drapery-cos-
tume OF Taupe silk Brocade
and 6roadcioth.

Evening wraps are always a spe-
cial feature OF interest at the New
York horse show. The garden is
drafty and some women wear their
rich wraps throughout the evening,
thrown back to show the gown and
the Jewels beneath. but covering the
shoulders. II the wrap is not worn
1t is thrown over the chair behind its
possessor. An evening gown is never
worn on the promenade without a
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Observation-Disclosures Net.

Accordion net is ubiquitous for girls
dresses. the more luxurious material
being, OF course, more or less reser,
cd for their elders. There are lowell
little gowns, too, simply msie OF &C
Gordon or gauffered pearl-white th,'
fon. into which is spliced panel 4
shadow lace, likewise plated to match
No other trimming but the lace is re
quired. unless 1t be the heavy silve
or gold bullion fringe which so man,
dressmakers employ as finish to tn
soft swathed satin belts.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-02-24

and the chimes will be
very melodiously for you
and for those whom you try
to make happy. And re-
member. you can't feign
Christmas without being
caught as an impostors
both by your own con-
science and by the feel
ings OF those about you.
The very value of Christ
mas is that It puts the gen.
uineness Of everybody to an
unerring test
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It that splend did thing
Mother Goose" or that en-.
trancing production THE
Yellow Dwarf?
Such things are conjured
up by just that one pipe of
tobacco smoked in the cot
tage on Olympus. and on
that night a gentle breeze
blows up through the well,
laden with the poignant,
eternal memories of child
hood. and the candles on
the Christmas tree are
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New Chameleon vslxet.

The chameleon velvets are another
novelty Of the season which are find
ing a warm reception. Nor is thiI
favor to be wondered at when they
come in such delightful color combina
lions as royal blue and violet. old goIt
and prune. Nile green and copper. oil
blue and violet, and others just as ar
tistic. Lace and chiffon enter largel,
into the fashioning Of the frocks O
this material
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-02-24

So'uWpHe' tot may cult one now anu
again to twidde between his teeth.
II you know the way, and the Cheshire cat VIII
let you you walk down the garden path, past the
butterfly lime, and arrive at the neatest little
cottage In Olympus.
Now this is the dwelling place Of the Harle-
quin set--Harlequn Columbine, Clown and Pan
taloon It is one cottage In little colony on
the lower slopes of Mount Olympus (where the
high gods dwell: Jupiter and the lke) and Is
most important because 1t contains the Oldest
inhabitants.
The Clerk OF the Weather lives a little higher
up The Four Queens and Kings live in square
OF pagodake houses and are waited upon by the
Knaves Pierrot and Pierrette live in romantic
secusion by pool In a tumble-down place Gov
cred with blue roses And away behind the
fields of stars where the locks of clouds graze
there is another village where the Seven Prn-
cesses live and the Third Son and an Ogre, and
a Talking Rabbit, and all those peculiar and
beautiful people who are entangled in our minds
with the memories of night nurseries, and the
scent of our mothers who bent over US In won
derful toettes, and told US to go to sleep or
they'd be late for dinner.
When 1t gets to be about Christmas there Is
a sort of aroma of excitement on the lower slopes
of Olympus. and, especially In the house wnere
Harlequin lves-a delicious sense OF something
exciting happening.
Columbine opens the lid OF the well that looks
down onto the world and there comes up muir
muir Of children's voices, and you can near the
auantest things being said about the hanging
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c h ri s I mas
them.
work begins.
own job and
hers. Clown
the laughter
spring up In
and ripple as
barley field
Harlequin to
for common
appear beau
and a penny
wealth OF the
Pantaloon TO
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son. and there Is a flower called Coumbine and
1t Is so called because 1t Is like four doves with
outspread wings, and the French dove is colombo
and the dove is the symbol of the soul So the
world is never allowed to forget beautiful things
even IL the burden Of history is borne on the
back Of a flower. And the god-like glow and gilt
ter Of Mercury's limbs still shows in the glisten
ing sequins on Harlequins clothes, parti-colored
as they have always been, to show how he COW
cred his nakedness with rags.
All this beautihed by the essence Of Time like
things put away in a cedar chest, comes back
when Harlequin blows on his pipe that air the
shepherds learnt in Greece from Pan
The next night Clown will take out another
kind of pipe long churchwarden of white clay
and fill 1t with tobacco, and then as the fragrant
clouds roll up into the rafters, memories come
of all the great people of the Harlequinades they
play down in the world, all inspired by them, and
they see the figure of Tarlaton, who was the first
clown. and invented the very clothes they now
wear. hand In hand with Grimaldi that great
clown. And they seem to all the great Italian
Harlequns. and the dainty French Columbines,
and the old handles of ffteenthcentury Venice
whose clothes Pantaloon wears.
DO you know that elderly gentlemen in the
World smell that magic tobacco, or something
like It, and they forget their paunches, or their
bald heads. and they sit and dream Of the time
they went to their first pantomime7 Was It
Cinderella" or Beauty and the Beast"7 Or was
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There Pagan Saints who find Arcadia every
where. Pan pipes much In the crowded city
as on Mount Ida when the sun Is high And
Coumbine finds roses where the world sees
thorns; and Harlequin finds magic in motor
buses; and Pantaloon digs away for pleasant
memories in the most unlikely places, and finds
them bright and clean, and as good as new.
These halfgods Of mine land yours) come
down at Christmas to correct the bilious attitude
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head there with her hand In your
hair. and forgot to be afraid OF the
dark"
Columbine has her own very par
tucular work. and she calls 1t In
her mind Secret Delights. She calls
1t that because she delights In max
ing up odd names for emotions, as.
for instance. when she pointed out
two lovers to me one day IN the
spring, who were seated under
hedge, yellow-flushed with prim-
roses; they were holding hands and
looking at the hills beyond just as
IL some wonderful thing was about
to come over the hills to tell them
what their feelings meant. And the
peace was so great and the moment
so held that the World seemed to
have stopped breathing. and some
thing superhuman to have poured
out a cup OF stiffness. And she
called 1t Liquid Velvet. A Liquid
Velvet moment And | understood
II is Columbine who watches that
beautiful comedy OF the newly mar
ried, who steal about their house
hand-in-hand, fearful of waking the
very new servants, fearful OF creak-
ing the boards as they gaze enrap-
tured on the very new furniture.
looking with Joy on the very new
pots and pans In the kitchen. turn
ing the electric lights up and down
all over the place to see the effect
in their new bedroom. And he has
a dreadful brooch for her hidden
where he keeps his razors and she
has knitted him tie he will have
to wear. But 1t is all perfectly
beautiful
Someone wrote the other day that
people who read are more interest
ed. nowadays, in business than In
love. and I'm so sorry for that man.
He is more blind than | thought
ANYBODY could be- Business may be
the means to an end. but Love is
the beginning and the end. And 1t
is Just at this season that Love
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bringing the
tree W I h
N o W their
each to his
Columbine to
to preparing
that m u s I
this season,
easily as a
In a breeze.
his m a g | C,
things must
tiful n O W,
must buy the
Indies. And
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of the year.
to SOW those
grow to flow
still innocent
are the infu-
makes you
fifty ce n t 8
quarter. And
W h o s a y 8
mess Of life
than the SEN
better hang
inc nm Christ.
see what 1t
find nothing
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MAKES AN ACCEPTABLE GIFT
Case for DollIes Need Not Be Expen-
sIve, but VIII Show the Work Of
Loving Hands.

One could not make more accept
able gift to an engaged or married
girl friend than a doiley like the one
illustrated.
Purchase some crepe paper or ere
tonne OF a pretty pattern. and about
two and one-half yards OF one and one
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-02-24
MannIsh Shirts.

Soft materials are used for thu
mannish shirts which are Fashioned
with high, soft turnover collars am
cuffs and welted seams. The turn
over collars are quite high and but
ton through at the front
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of the rest
They CO m Q
8 e e d 8 that
ers in the
hearts. They
ence t h a t
give a man
instead of a
the b e 1 n g
that the bus
weighs more
timent h a d
up his stock
mas Eve, and
feels like to
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OF the good old times!
Holly and mistletoe and
robins, and church bells
sounding over the snow.
And hampers all packed to
be sent away. and plenty
to eat at home.
And then Columbi n g
steals up to the windows.
and taps them with the
rose from her hair. and
she whispers:
open. open to ne all
you who have no children
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makes business: hence the shops full Of gifts.
Imagine poet writing:
Gent per cent. the moon Is rising
Watch the stocks upon the bank;
Rubber shares too surprising,
Spectators are surmising
Who the deuce they have to thank!"
No one can get a heartbeat out of that, and
whatever your business man says, he knows he
gets all the good in his life out of heartbeats.
So this Christmas Spirit creeps about the world.
Knocked at scorned, but alive yet And you who
feel these things may one night see this quaint
quartet at work, perhaps for second at the cor
ner of your street perhaps just vanishing down
the drive or moving swiftly down country
lane And you may say wonderingly 1T Is a
cobweb moth, and the branch OF tree and
the starlight makes them look like-like some
thing remember"
But tell you who they are-Harequin, Column
bine Clown and Pantaloon And II you hear a
childs laugh ring out suddenly. and 1t brings a
new. quick emotion one of them has conquered
you!
The spirit of Christmas doesn't cling to presents
in proportion to their cost-unless you are very
rich; and II you are very rich the voice OF the
jeweler and of the furrier and Of the motor car
maker will seem to you as wise as the word of
happy poor man. though he were philosopher.
Simple and genuine and glad-strike these notes
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and no friends and no hope, and will be the
warm, nesting thing you covet for your frozen
hearts. and you shall feel my soft cheek against
yours till the tears come and your heart takes
life again. You shall give Joy to other people 8
children. And II you have no friends who have
children. are there not thousand thousand chill
dren who have no friends? Go to them and give
them all you can, and you will be rewarded al
most more than you bear. for there is link
between those who suffer. Are there not some
you have forgotten neglected? This lonely
man. that lonely woman whom you have left un-
cared for. perhaps for years. Put on your hat
and your coat, and put your heart your sleeve,
so that all may know your Grand"
To see her pleading before black sombre houses
where thin light shines under a blind; to see
her face pressed against the window of some big
mansion where man or woman sits alone with
hearts like stone; to see her tears-as she essays
to melt an aching heart is to something so
touching and beautiful that one almost wonders
the doors and windows are not instantly opened
to admit the spirit of love she begs for so pitt
fully.
"Look at yourselves, Messieurs ct Mesdames
Importance, and remember the funny little things
you used to be when you bit at coral and bells
and wore bibs. and thought everybody In the
world had enough to eat; when you hated to go
TO bed early. and crept downstairs in your night
gowns TO listen over the bannisters to the voices
IN the dining room; when no Jam for tea was
tragedy And when your mothers knee was the
throne or Justice and mercy for Won hurled your