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(CLASSES JOIN
IN SAVING PAPER
j&d Cross Campaign Has
Readied uny- vv iue
Proportions
CHILDREN FORM A CLUB
Otyners of Automobiles Can
! f Help in Important Work
of Collection
!
Will You Save Paper?
J Will You Lend Your Auto?
J1TAJOR economists," who want
ilYl to help the Kcd Cross in its
city-wide papcr-savljiB campaign,
have already bc(?un hoarding their
nanor in bags.
. These Imps arc made of un
bleached muslin, measuring 4 by 2 ',4
Tney must be collected system-
3 a" volunteer motor service will
Vill you help the Red Cross
By savlnic paper?
By Kivinu your car or truck
several hours one day a week?
Address the Red Crosi Depart
ment, KVENINH LEDOCU.
liy M'LISS
Fifty thousand uiilmnolillM. It tins heen
jstlmated. l'l AM ,l,c " "l '""
dfli.hlaamt lie ciivlniiiH
Tho Hd frees nceila ii few f tlifff. It
t.tt& then '"'" aevrral hmirp one d.iy a
eel. Ilt it needs them Krently
All oer the city the Idea of the paper
ailng cainpaiRH has taken hold The np
Mai that the lied Cross has made to every
nan. woman and child to he major econo
mists and nave eirv lrmalhlc scrap of
asto paper letters!, newspapers, etc.. Iin
received a rrad und bimuiouk response
Letters and postcards from all parts of
the city requestlm? detailed Instructions In
rtSard'tu 'he caiiipaiKr are cumins In with
eury mall
"I have air ady formed a club of younc,
beys and Bins for the purpose of cullectlinr
paper to be turned over to the Itetl Cross,"
Wert Philadelphia woman wiote
"I will do what I can to help the good
work In Tlogii." mi'itlirr vouchsafed.
"My iiaper Is ready whenever you call for
It," a Monro stieel uri.cer wrote..
"We have two Iihbo wultlne to be col
lecled," was the burden of u letter from ii
Beed Ftreet husbund and wife.
I MAV YIKI.D TMOt'rAXt)'s
By the vjstemntir collection of even a
mall percentage, of the tons of paper Hint
dally Roes Into Phllidolphia homes and are
given either to nrrt.e afrnclrs or lliinwii
aiay the lied Cross can mako liundreds
and perhaps several thousands of dollars a
uUk The Ited Cross, almost as Important a
branch of the national n-rvlac In the time of
war as the army and the navy, i.'nee- the
tpunded and the dylne are ItitrusVd to Its
tare, needs money.
The paper-cnUntf campalKn will boost the
(dances appreciably.
fTlie eslablishinent of a motor service.
awvr, for the iiurpliHO of rnllectlng the
e paper In the vnrlous nclijhbui hoods
U.neecssaiy
Have you an automobile?
Have you a truck'.'
The humblest of us can save paper.
Hut statistics bhovv that approximately
onjy one of every forty of the itlty'o Inhab
itants Is a car owner.
If you are one of these you are asked-to
live this matter consideration.
Here Is hti opportunity for you to do
lomcthlnsc for your country without leav
ing your city, without (UrTRliiK dawn Into
tour pockets for money anil without boIiir
to any meat amount of trouble.
' If you have a car orn truck to give
ftveral hours one day a neck so Hint the
paper that patriotic eltlzeua already have
,begun to save for the Ited (Irons all over the
City, can lie systematically collected, write
to the Ited Crocs Department, care of the
Evening. I.bixikh Hltite also whether you
III be able to donate your i servient as
Chauffeur of the car for that little time.
Meanwhile, every ono wants to know
about the haus.
Uniformity If possible, Is desired and
bags of stroiiK unbleached muslin, me.isut lug
four by two and one-half feet have been
ieolded upon. Mrny women havo already
Inide their bags and Iiuvo them stuffed Willi
paper awaltlne collection. in order to
facilitate (lie iiluin of the bans It will be
necessary to label them plainly in Indell la
Ink or black paint with the name and ad
dress of their owner.
Thoae who havo no material for bnga and
tnnot afford to buy it will bo furnished
the material by the Ited Cross, the dis
tributing station to be announced in a few
ay.
lie a Major Kconomlst und rave paper,
or donate two hours' motor service to the
Red Cross.
TODAY'S MARRIAGE LICENSES
'Jotih Krans l'.'L'N hi. .lamia si., mill Kdilh
smilh, 1311 riuclwlilf st
Mlrhael ,1 iirady. 4:100 Hide me.. Hint Mury
CUury SOW tfrmlilala uve.
UKUStUll l.pultf i:i:iS X M,,;,l wt iin.l lurv An
vL&f,",ni I'-- H. -Sth t.
itiiiuam i nankin Jr. 4HH H. ,.7lh st . ami
i Mary A W. r,s Walton mo
,worgi II Krnl. Ililileshurc. I. . find Uitsy
M. Sfhifllir HrlJuliurif. I'u.
llerberi Murrls tri'.'o X llauvuck st . am' I'lem
jmlno It l,lnl.iit. m'7 N. WaniuiUsi
r.ll M. Oruwltz. r.ia ni-l.'lnunn Ht . iin.l llnrinuh
.,;;.1,u"-'i n nisi st
noiu
Ham ?ari.rt
IIL'I
.'tilts St., and Vloletu
..!?.. '24 K, SI'artmael! si.
William S, MrAdama lull ('oilman at . and
t.l,iVla 'arKltrlnniiian. HJ.VI Jspr at.
William WerUhifler. 'JM'l Ivenslnsloii uvt., and
Horeme nosonlillt. 1SU Uuch at.
riareiitinn 1, l'erez. IIIOT Cariienter at . and
i-'arrlo l Port, r l!i:U Wilder st.
John U. llolz, '.'3!i lliuklua at., and Jeannetta
hllgour, Mt. Vernon o.
nilllam T Wusiell. 3lllV.' A
St.. und l.oulsa
Aumi i'iuo w ;tj Ht
?"?" I',"?H -'--''1 Kate
'i.EPi't,5"0 K,"r st
Albert gienir. ai'L' (.'rms si.
."ly. 1S2 Ilorfman at.
St..
and Mary S.
und Mury M. Kvn-
l'"0n f Slayfldil, mr, Jarome t.. and
... ,?"f. K;. Armstrunit, riet'ire Hui U, Pa,
'" rr!,.l'r, r".'& !i3-H Ai.'al" st.. and Dorothy
.Ai ws ISM Alluntle si
'rMrlc( M wiss. i.namje Island, und Ktliel
'l.Y- S'.ll?ril'- 13-1 Hpruco hi.
firiana I.. Darlln, l.awrencevllle. Pa . and Mary
. ' Howe, t.avvrenrvvllle, I'u
lohn
w inn... t. ,..,
r. r; ...itc., .ininnuuiiE,
I'u.. und I.JUlii
Albert II, llaum. S.1I4 N. Sad at
and Anna It,
'- "iuurb, 111(11 ,-V. wa al.
' i" ,H.- ,.Kf. I'pttsvllle. Pa., und Katheryn
, ' Mullln. Kat Ml. Carbon. Pa.
wuii Itoonrr. nss Wharton st , and Mamie
'a "arriah, 5i4 Moynmenalnw ae.
'"uel b. c'ohen. 40H s. Hth St., und Anna It.
W.W?r hv n veralde. N'. J.
.. Pue A' 8war. mas N. IHth st., und
kj;El,c Martlnca, 'JOIM N, tbth st.
Fran.
woan yr, ion ,
ifc La Baii in
7 "' P'.t'- '"n f- 3d st uno
i,ba Ballc, III,
TOnan I.evln. 4li(H Franliford u.
Preaman. 710 Morrla st,
LUfE- MI!Ir' '" Mllllck at.
33d st und Mury Wldas,
BJl'an I.evln. 4li(H Franliford n,vo., and Anna
nl Amy U
.'. -, ou,4 mil t'vtJ nit
wcau Qt flparki, Merlon. Pa., and Klennor
LP-, More. 4431 Hprucp at.
fowm wf liray. SuiivtColona it,. and Kath
Uo otnijuipr, L'liu rit sum hi.
tWrHOA t. UlU ITII ml . u,1 t.uiira
aPv a, 1734 Ht man Rt.
pr Mchvuratburir. AAU Chester ave., and Hoe
. VU nui a iarnRii
r. yiton B. Marshall St.
'P T. Ilsrrron. U((i Morris St., and Catherine
fe'.'.'(U H. Caraac at. '
maw . uriati. Kill si. inn
I. D0nAVan IIU SlmMnrA ut
snd Kdltli
rlta It. Borber. I'll K. Pomona ter.
and
S'VT. - n-in, irai ureene st.
nk Krobak. 1ST Carson at., and Anaatatla
iraar, 6U Caraon at.
Ick OalUsher. XHH Tbomnaon tt and, Mary,
Itrldan. Wayiu, I'a,' '
im i Lnoiuai, inn I'nrrian at., ana e.ainr-
r aeesuic. iiiih (invt at.
rick Wetaela, 1TIS Diamond St.. and
r;xw
w. n
McKe
lUfh at.
Wlllard Simi. Actor. Dead
JdAaO. May . Wlllard E. Sims.
(Ian. dlsd hara today At the home of
DEAFNESS IN ADULTS
TRACED TO CHILDHOOD
Dr. J. fceslio Davis Attributes
Defect to Carelessness Dur
ing Early Illness
Children, Have You
fiabies in Your Homes?
V0 THE school children of Philn--1-
dolphia:
Hnvo you n baby brother or
sister? If you have you will bo jrlad
to know that thousands of people in
Philadelphia today are thinkiiiK of
babies nnd planning to protect them
from harm,
Forty-one thousand two hundred
and nine babies were born in Phila
delphia last year and 41:i of them
have dlrd already.
They died because their mothers
did not know how to take euro of
them, or bccntise the streets were
dirty, or because files carried disease
to their food, nnd because they did
nothave the right kind of food.
You can help the babies in your
home and neighborhood livo by learn
inn how to tiiko care of babies by
kcfpini; your houyc and yard clean,
by hnvinjr n tiithtly covered Barbara
pail and by keeping sick people
away from the baby.
The babies in Philadelphia need
your help. ,
Since'ely yours,
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
icufnen in adults was traced dltectly
to conditions that mlKht have been con
tolled In childhood by Dr. J. Leslie Davis,
the eye. our, nose and Hit oat specialist,
who spoke o the imdhirs usxeinlihd In the
Durham School, tit Sixteenth nnd Lom
bard streets, today Today was "school
day" In Huby. Week, nnd mothers from nil
parts of the. cit wcio Kiithetvd In the
assembly halls of nineteen different public
schools to hear leciutes by prominent physi
cians "Most of the deafness that develops In
later life," Du.'tor Davis said, "Is directly
ttucrnble to Hie convalescent period in
childhood from measles, scarlet fever and
iilinllar diseases The same can be said
of tile throat and nose conditions that
become chronic with adults. These could
havo almost invariably been avoided had
pi opei- c.i re ntiil attention been itlvcii la
childhood "
Four thousand mothers. It was estimated,
attended the eaetclses III the schools. The
chlldicn were In most cases not petuiltted
to hear the lectuies
There wetc special "sehoolday" Huby
Week (ivuiclses for (he cnlldren earlier In
Hie day A Inoclaiiiatlon Issuid by lloveitiot
llrumbatiKh and a letter from Superintend
ent (Inrher were lead In all the nssembllrs.
Curds telllnK "little mothers" of the Ini
poitance of little brother and sister weie
Issued to all the ulrls from the fouith to tlu
ulKlitli tirades. They viere also i"trlbnled
in tlic IiIkIi schools
In hlii meshnge the tloviruor calif it at
tention to the loss ot '.Ife that mart result
tbrniiKh viat. and s.i.vs that physical liio
must be lost in older that the honor aim
the patriotism of the country, which he com.
naie.4 to its sphltual life, may live, lie
emphasizes the fact that ill war time it Is
especially llecessary to do our utmost to
ave life.
"I d like all th:- boys and plrls 'n our
schools.' the message c intluued. "to bccnne
n volunteer army organized nnd trained to
loin the cl(;' and State In a itrcHt catnpalsrn
against the ejiemlea of Imby life. Like the
Crusailers Of old you can in this way enlist
In an enterprise whose purpose and whose
outcome will lie good and only Rood."
There will be no let-up today In thr exer
c ses in the health centers and the ih-IkIi.
oothocd houses. A particularly Interestlntt
baby clinic will be Icatuied III the health
cenicr at Thlrty-llist street and dray's
Kerry avenue.
Tho Haliy Week exhibit at 3d Smith
KlKhlh stieet Is a very unusual one. It Is
being held under the ausplcis of tho Worn
en's KulfmK party, the lCipial r'raiiohise
"ociety and the futility HurfniKc Society,
and shows by a series of charts and statis
tics how women's votes will huve a bearing
on a heller crop of luibles. Kxhlblttt In this
building ate also beimc nl.own by the Chil
dren's. Aid Society, the Society for Or
Biinlstlrii; Cliarlty. the Society for the Pre
ventlon ( f Tuberculosis and Hie Octavla Mill
sbociatlon.
SHORT DAY, HIGHER PAY
FOR MARYLAND MINERS
Eight Hours of Work and 10 Per Cent
Wage Increase Likely to
Forestall Trouble
CUMniOm.A.VU, Sid.. May 4 The
miners of the (leorKO's Creek region were
today granted an eluht-hour day and a 10
per cent Increase In wages. Tills will fore
stall anticipated trouble In tho region 1'nder
the IncteiiMe miners will averago !KI'i cents
a ton In the big vein. Win Iters) la small veins
will receive as high as $1.10 a ton Many
miners with good "places" and cars deliv
ered promptly to be loaded can dig ten tons
a day. Tho highest paid mine laborer will
Iteelve about S4.
I'nder the new arrangement the, eight
hour day will begin at 7 a. in. and end at
3::iu p. m. It Is the opinion generally that
return to normal conditions will not affect
the eight-hour day.
HOY OF 18 WEDS GIRL OF 15
Youngest Couple on Elkton's Gretna
Green List
KLKTON. Md.. May 4. Millar P. Daw
son, eighteen, and Margaret I Long, fifteen,
Kust Nottingham, Pa., accompanied by
their patents, were inairled In Klkton this
morning, being the youngest couple to be
recorded as man and wlfo aince tho town
became famous as a Oretna lireen.
The following Philadelphia couples weie
gtanted permits to marry: Charles Ken
vinrthv and Klorence Oruves, Walter Childs
and Margaret Ktarrett, Harry W Hlchard
son and Agnes Snyder, Samuel Coition, and
Mary Craven, Albeit .lames Jones and Thc
iesa Hatrett and Martin Dcrogutls and
Klorence Kyuer.
Cktzkagifail
FRONT ST.'
This Smart,
Silk
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of
Naur lilue,
Ruaalan
flri.
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t'opnhatas.
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ALFRED WATTS, EXPONENT OF FREE VERSE :
HOW HE CAME, CONQUERED AND DIED
"a
viMBR"i'' '"" -ItfBSlry THESE AUt TOO GOOD TO WASTE." S.
MISS MARGARET WIDDEMER
Brain Child of Mar
gai'et Widdemer and
Joyce Kilmer; Made a
Sensation, Delighted
Creators and Deluded
Literary Critics
IJy M'LISS
Y(,
(H appoint somebody as timekeeper.
Then you get pencils and paper for nil
assembled. Then you putge your mind re
ligiously and consi'leiitinusly of every ves
tige of an intelligible Idea for two long or
three short poems twenty minutes are al
lowed. Not a second more. Then you
write fervidly, never forgetting for a mo
ment the impnitatice of expurgating co
herent thiitigbt.
'Time' calls the timekeeper and. presto!
yotl have a collect Ion of frco verse thought
guaranteed to make the fie., verso eilltor.(
stumble, all out themselves In their en
deavor to cotral our verse exclusively tor
their publications
Miss Margaret Widdemer, n Philadelphia
gill, who IP'es In New Yolk !!(. she de
clares, so n in be nble to make money
enough to live In Philadelphia lutir. W
authotity for this free wise uvlpe. She
ll was who, together with Jnyio Kilmer, a
In other poet, "pulled irf" the llti-raiy sen
sation of the season when lliry announced
that Alfred Watts, flee verse writer of
cverinci easing lenown. wasn't an body at
all cvept their own brain-child They
rented him "flee and versy." because
being interested in good und real poetry,
they had a feeling th.it If they thought soft
enoiiKh they could do their part in spiking
the heavy latins or the Imagists.
"CIIHATKD" AT KIl.MICU IIOMK
"Allied was crentid ono fall evening,''
Miss Widdemer told me. "in New York
about two years ago. at the cuttntiy house
if Aliuti and Joyce Kilmer, whom I was
visiting.
"The babies were In bed. Mrs Ki.mer
was sewing. Mr. Kilmer mm smoking his
l.iigcst pipe, and ve were all three at peace
with tho wot Id and talking about every
thing litetary In It as hard as wo could
"In the coiitse of the conversation (as
all thiee of us weie poetH we weie naturally
speaking our mind about vers bbre) Mrs
Kilmer said :
The tumble with vers lilue Is, any
hode can make It. You and Joyce could.
us well as anybody, ir you wnnled to
bother '
"I said, 'of coitise. I can make It by
the yard Hut after It's done I lyn't tell
which Is good and which Is nonsense, mine
or nnybodv's.'
" 'Nobody can. my child.' said Mr. Kil
mer, waving his pipe at me. Then some
bodv Jumped up and got the last Itngiste
anthology and began picking out the most
coherent specimens for tianslatlon Into Kng
llsh Prom that we went on to a general
discussion of the ftec-vcrse publications
And Mrs Kilmer, who now I think of It.
must have been mole responsible for Allied
than anv one else, rematked that she
thought 'heir the.iy that you wiote five
verse because you had exhausted all tech
i.loue and all experience with other verse
forms, was poppycock. Hy now we bad
been ta'.klnsr poetry so Ions that we
smutchu.1 paper and pencil and began to
Illustrate to each other
" 'Whv you and I could put down the
first nonsense that conies Into our heads,
and get It over with these people wlro are
talking about ultimate perfection and
work that Is above the common herd, said
Mr. Kilmer.
" 'Let's !' said I. and we did.
"Mis Kilmer declined to participate. She
said she thought her pink crepe frock was
a worth'er object. Hut she acted as time
keeper, for twenty minutes wo scribbled
iih fast as our pencils could go. At the
end of the tlmo wu bad live poems, thtee
mine and" two Mr. Kilmer's Ills weie
longer. We rtad them uloiid to eaca
other, and sluieked with laughter. They
sounded exactly like the real thing!
" 'Thehe are too good to watte,' said Mr
Kilmer. 'I tell you what. Margaret,' we'll
Invent a frea verse jioet, and I'll mall these
out under his name '
"So wo Invented him on tho spot Mr.
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another .example
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the
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IttAO IT AUOUO IN A DARNliO 3TUUIO. m
Kilmer's llrst name. Iiefole he supplessed
It (I hope he will fotglve me for this awful
levelatlou) was Alfted. I have no middle
name, but It was to have been Walls, our
llrst ancestor of that name was the John
Watts who built the earliest lljptlst chinch
In Philadelphia, and also In Ameiic.i 1
cimti Ibutid my ancestor.
"They weie really wondei fill ' poems
After they wete typed we look( d at them
doubtfully They lookul so much, in cur
t.i'n lights, as If they leally had some
esoteric meaning " you wete eiect enough!
"We took a gieal pleasure In Alfred llo
got vety real after a while. He was tall
anil slender, with lung golden halt and a
wan, spiritual smile. lie was l.'iigllsh. and
was discovered by a patron of the arts
starving In a g.itret. rather than debase bin
muse by doing any teal work
"The Huston Ttaliscrlpt sent him a
charming, encouraging note. A Chicago
litetary paper beggul for an Interview, lie
had a seat reserved for him at a free verfe.
ltinihcon (this Is ihnvicui from a free
lunch), but did not appeal, much to every
one's disappointment, lie wiote Hint ho had
no cloilies, but the fait was that tho vers
lllilists knew all thlee of his patents by
sight none of whom Is especially Men
tier or golden-haired Notts about him ap
piand In unions places while they would
do the most good, and he received not
only compliments but acceptance.
"And then an awful thing Happened. Mr.
Kilmer and I found that we were getting
to like writing flee verse We were be
ginning to feel, on rereading our nonsese
'
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THIR-TEENTH!SANS0M (ST
AerrjED vvAi
TAn. AND THIN
WITH LONG
GOLDEN HAIR
AND A WAN
SPIRITUAL
jMILC
poetry, that we most realtv have meant
something when we wiote- It. You see,
It's no work ut nil. With real poetry you
have t have an Idea and an emotion, and
then sliane the thing to the foim vou wisli
With 'chtcilded proe' you met civ put down I
anything you want to. cut It to cordwood
lengths. I.vpe It carelessly, take it to a
d.irkiucd studio and sit on the Moor and
ri ad it aloud, while nil the Indies with
biilibed half sigh happily. You have all
the pleasures and noie ot the penalties.
"And instead of writing perfectly good
poelty. Jo) (o Kilmer and I were In danger
of doing miles of unmade verse-material, as
IMvvIn Atlliigtoit Uob'.nsou (alls it.
" 'There Is onlv one tiling to do." we de
cided ".nil) 'Allied has to die.'"
"And so he died," Miss Widdemer grinned,
"after having appealed in the Transcript, I
believe, a Chicago paper or two. others and
Jliu Huston Poetry Journal. Tim Chicago
Poetry .Magazine wiote bun eneoutagingly,
but turned one of hi.- inaslet pieces. To a
Thi'tnai Cat at Midnight,' down The sub
ject and Hie breadth of vision wete all right,
it appeared, but it was not externalized
enough. Wo had fotgotteu and put in sumo
emotion (or I did It w'.is my Thomas Cat)
which linuglsm especially fntblds.
"'Question Nocturnal' was one of Kteyni
I.org's favoiltes. Kreymborg edited Others
then. It-was ho who wroto the gtcat poem:
Little Mouse,
Ate you a rat's child?
If you are
I will not lovo you !
"He also wrote- Alfred Watts that he was
irsr.-'M
'ire CATimnAV irony W
f
(leeply in sympathy with what Tie was try
Ins; In do, The particular poems h under
stood most deeply went this way:
Kyes like tittle green apples
In a wrinkled apple-btossom face.
Why do you look at m7
The wind lifts gold up and down the street
And through the window
Kvili the windows, no not the windows
Of me.
"Tho Alfred half of the poet did this
Mr. Kilmer. My half wroto one called The
Current,- which was also published In
others:
The white nul ,,f tli H-llt'r
IMpa anttuliw the tree roots
, , ,n ,i ,,h,!1, i 1
Airoas Hie Initdncnble brtinxe-sreen scummed
. . t'"rl
And the Klhtftdna vvnter rats
Arr tird i
"Vou'd think tho water rata would have
been tired? Hut wo weren't. As Captain
Corcoran said:
"Thousti I'm nil! thine but "lever,
I ran talk like that forever."
THIItTV l'OIIMri HIS OL'TPUT
"Alfred vvrtde about thirty poems during
his short life,'' Ills ctrator continued, "and
after my experience with him 1 never look
at 'lazy verse' any mote and think resptct- ,
fully, 'I suppose that tcally mean some
thing. If I were only up to imdctt-tunding It."
1 know now that It (hasn't. "
llxipilsltc poems of the utillberaled va
riety by Miss Widdemer have appealed In
most of the leading mngnzlmis, nnd she Is
also the author of several novels. Although
she has been writing poetry ever since alio '
was a little girl, the only kind that gave her
no menial nnrt was that of the Ill-fated
Alfred.
Would Make Rack ward Pupils Work
POTTSVILT.U. Pa. May L The Potts-
vllto notary Club, whose membership com -
prises several bundled of the leading bttsl-
ness men of this city, has pased a reolu
Hon which has been fnrvvanled to (invernor
ltrumbaugh and uieinliers of tho legisla
ture, asking that backward pupils between
font teen and sixteen vcars who havo not
passed the sixth grad, school -xniiilnntloii
be s'ltspcndcd for tl. -,-ctrl so they may
bo employed In useful work.
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perfect fitting
In white, gun
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A Quick Service Stocking Department Just Inside the Door
1230
Market
Shoes and
Stockings
for tho
family
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ITKo Stores ofFamoua Shoool
V
Every I'ool Professionally Fitted
Three Geuting Brothers Supervising.
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FOR SATURDAY
Women's Summer
Blouse Fashions
French Hand-made Blouses, expressly made for this
shop, ai-d Bonwit Teller & Cooriginations in
white and colored handkerchief linen, ecru,
batiste, dimity, voile, Georgette crepe silk
shirtings and crepe de chine. Featured is every
unusual blouse made, including the new high
neck styles.
3.90 5.50 8.75
Always something new in Neckwear.
Colored Organdie Collar and Cuff Sets, in round and
square effects, edged with ruffles of lace, net
or organdie.
3.00 to 5.50
Stock and Jabots, of lace, net, filet and Georgette
crepe. '
2.75 to 16.50
Very new, Guimpes, of white organdie.
2.00 to 5.50
New Sweater Fashions
Sweaters of pure, light weight silk, five distinctive
models. Sash, belted and combination sash and
belted effects. Full range of colors and sizes.
25.00
Shetland Wool Sweaters
FOR SATURDAY ONLY
3.95
Sixty all-wool Shetland sweaters, in white,
rose and Copen; good range 'of sizes. Many
were priced up to 10.75.
BONWIT TELLER GbCQ
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. CHESTNUT AT 13 STREET
MOTHER RI
CHECKS BLAZE IN HOME
Hearing Noise, Woman Climbs
to Third Floor and Finds
Room Burning
Mrs. Ulchard Hammond heard noises
shortly before daybreak this morning on
tho third floor of her home at 418 North
KIMy-second itreet. Sho thought It w
two or her children. John, twelve yearB old,
nnd Joseph, ten, running around, and went
1 up to give them a paddling and put thpi
back la bed.
When she opened the door of their room
llnmes shot out In her face. She thought
something had happened to the children and
called down to number boy, Ulchard, four
teen, to bring up a llttlo hose to stop the
Haines. Just as she was about to start the
slieani of water, she stumbled over the
bfilles of the two children wrapped (n
1 blankets outside the door. They had de
cided to bo scouts nnd llvo tho outdoor life
In the hall
Mrs Hammond carried the children
downstairs to safety with Marie, nine, and
then went back to light tha flames. She
was slightly burned, but her efforts checked
the blaze no that firemen extinguished It
' with little difficulty l-'or a time the fire
seemed thteateiilng and Sergeant McMillan
and Policeman Illalr, of the Sixty-first
street and Woodlnnd avenue station,
! awakened occupants of adjoining houses.
Tho loss lit placed at K'OO. The origin la
unknown.
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k Lancaster Jewelers Join Retail Ass'n
, LA.NCAsri.P.. P.i . May 4' With a view
to boosting the atiiiual convention of tho
Pennsylvania State itctall Association, to be
1 hehl next month in Heading, P. L. Davis
and liootge S Katz, of Philadelphia, rep
resenting the association, were here this
, week signing up Lancaster Jewelers as
members, and all but one are now enrolled,
t'ntil tills weeU hut two Lancaster jewelers
I wen- members of the association.
Buckled
"VOGUE"
The Vogue
of Buckles
IN New York five
out of six of the
most fashionable,
women are wearing
these buckle punius.
No modo for years
has so securely
a iirht fashion's
.ncy.
Hundreds
i f C.ctttlng
styles now
ready, cspe
deslgned for
dally
the vogue of buckles
Kvery woman should
havo at least one
pair.
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So. 11th
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