'THE DESCENDING DEPTHS OF DECOLLETE'Are the fascinating depths of decollete, so
fashionable in feminine apparel, driving Amer-ica into decadence?
Ministers, doctors, suffragists, congressmenand vice eradicators in Tacoma and elsewhereare contending around the alluring figure ofDame Current Fashion and there is a likelihoodher few remaining veilings may be strippedfrom her.
Even the dress of the school girl and workinggirl is being taken up by the women's organiza-
tions of the city. Two school teachers havecome to us, declaring that something should bedone to see that school children are guardedfrom the low cut pranks of fashion.
We have a report of a girl who lost her job ina restaurant because the skirt she wore wasconsidered by her employer too short. Anothergirl, employed in an ice cream parlor, lost herjob because she refused to wear waists higherin the neck.
Capt. W. W. Myers, Virginia congressman,has introduced an anti-modesty bill in the legis-
lature and declares milady's dress "less modestthan actual nudity."
The General federation of Women's clubs, tohold a convention in New York in May, whichwillbe attended by 20,000 women from all partsof the' country, will launch a campaign for theUplift of the low neck.
Mrs. Thomas A. Edison, wife of the Inventor,and associates in the Women's club of l.astOrange, N. J., has published a request that allwho attend the club's parties should aid in theestablishment of proper standard of evening
gown.The attack has plunged the country into a dis-
cussion of the relation between nude shouldersand male morals.
How about it, Tacoma club women, mothers,teachers, debutantes? Do you vote for or againstthis low neck uplift?
Men folks, do you admit low morals are firstcousin to low shoulders, or do you stand patagainst drawing the shades on the curvingbeauty of the decollete?
Let's have your vote.
The chrysanthemum is the old-est cultivated flower in the world,and, though Japan's national em-blem, was first developed in China.Confucius, who lived approximate-ly 500 years B. C, mentioned it inhis writings.
GERMANSThe Tacoma Times"^_TH I THE ONLY INDEPENDENT "NEWSPAPER IN TACOMA. j _. „ _—25c a NightMonth vol. xvi. no. 54. tacoma, wash., Monday, Fi.i.i.uart2i, 1916. Edition
PLAN MASTERSMASH AT OLD
WEATHERTacoma: Fair tonight and Tues-
day.Washington: Same.
ENGLANDREJECT
PRMCE»
Countess TellsGirls of U. S.to Beware ofHis Offers
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tnt'9mLONDON, Feb.//—I can see
how the prince of iValeg couldA iOrr> -in __i_M_l
ii »cii r.v mi Amen-
'r:,ii. for Ameriran women arecharming, beau-
\ tlful. witty; but,frankly, 1 oannot•v: »hy anAmerican g l/ jshould inai 'the prince NIWales!
Name the An\u25a0 1 o - A merlcanmarriages whichhave provedworth while —for the bride.
How many
Start ItToday!
INSTALLMENT NO.1 of the big feature weJ^ave been telling youabout, Margaret Widde-mer's novel, "The Rose Gar-den Husband," appears todayon page 2. Don't fail to read it.
It will be finished in justsix* installments, and nextMonday another high classnovel will appear.
Watch for The TimesNOVEL-A-WEEK! |1
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Russell. _\u0084th t^_ hus_
bands?How many silently thank their
stars —and their shrewd marriagesettlements —that they are NOT?
The plan to unite an all important scion ot degenerating phy-sique with sounder stock is notnew.
How Milan's Plan Failed.King Milan of Serbia—himself
a stupid, drunken figurehead ofroyalty—realized that his dwarf-ed, 111-developed son and heir, Al-exander, bore all the principalstigmata of degeneracy.
The king therefore decidedthat the crown prince should mar-ry an American!
Her clean vitality wouldstrengthen the rotted constitutionhereditary ln all royal families!
Milan demanded only that thebride bring a dowery of $20,000,---000, of which he should appro-priate one half, the bridegroomone quarter, and the remaining
, $5,000,000 be spent on agents'commissions, palace furnishingsand wedding expenses.
Three trans-atlantic candidatestor queenhood were discovered,but their hard-headed fathersinsisted the stipulated doweryshould be settled on the Ameri-can queen and her male heirs.
Milan's practical plan fell'through, Alexander died child-lees, and his dynasty ended.
If you look at the photographsof all the reigning houses youwill see how closely the membersresemble each other. All royal-ties are too nearly related.
Dog fanciers know that Japan-ese sleeve dogs, through being in-bred, have no brain-power at all.
A progressive low of men-tal power marks ulnioMevery ruling house ln Eu-rope.Contrast the crown princes of
Europe, all cousin- and the chil-dren of cousins; the czarevitchatrlcken with a mysterious dis-ease, the heir of Prussia a .loodmaniac, the prince of Spain deaf,hie brother deaf and dumb, theheir apparent ot Austria descend-ed from the mad Hapaburga.
In all Europe there fa only oneroyal family of healthy and beau-tiful children—the Italian king's.
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I FLASHES!WASHINGTON, D. C—Fred-
erick Pezet, Peruvian minister tothe U. S., has Just been notifiedby his government that. It cannotafford to pay him his salary _e-
cause of hard times due to .tiewar.
LONDON —Premier Asqulth isgoing to ask for a new war creditof $1,500,000,000, bringing thetotal up to 18,600,000,000. Thewar is costing England $750,---000,000 per month.
SEATTLE—Spontaneous com-bustion of coal dust caused a se-vere fire today ln the hold of thesteamer Victoria, which threate i-ed the ship for a while. One fire-'man was removed to a hospitalwith bad burns.
BERLIN—Every German aero-plane which took part in Sun-day's raid of the English _ast
coast returned safely today totheir base of supplies.
AMSTERDAM — The RiverMeuse has overflowed Its banksand flooded the country aroundLiege. _
AUSTIN, Tex. —Several casesof typhus fever has broken outhere. It Is thought the casescatde across the border.
LONDON—CIass one under themilitary service act has been cell-ed to the colors for March 31.
NEW YORK—With a drop of17 degrees, New York faces the
second .old spell of the winter.'i i ii
NEW ORLEANS—Two steam-era are busy hauling refugeesfrom the flooded district of BuckRidge where the Mississippilevees broke recently.
TRENTON — "Billy" Sundaycleaned up $91,000 In offerings
in this city.
GRAHAMNOW ISJOABING
Justice Graham said today hewill Insist on a change of venuein the case of Paul R. Haffer, the21-year-old socialist, who wagarrested late Saturday night ona warrant sworn out by Col. Al-bert E. Joab, charging criminallibel in an article written In aTacoma newspaper, callingGeorge Washington a drinkingman.
I Haffer is at liberty on a $-.00bond. He is to appear beforeJustice Graham at 1 o'clock Wed-nesday for arraignment.
"I think Haffer should be triedIn the superior court if thecharges against him are true,"said Justice Graham today.
"My court cannot instruct ajury as to the law and cannotmete out a sufficient amount ofpunishment for such a crime."
Not the Only One.Oraham says the letter should
never have been printed in thefirst place. He thinks the edi-tors who allowed It to be printedare themselves to blame in nosmall way.
"The breach ln printing suchan article is doubly worse in thattt. appeared on the eve of Wash-ington's birthday." he said.
Haffer, who was mentioned isa candidate on the socialist tick-et for city controller, but with-drew because of his age, claimshe had no malice In writing thecommunication, but wished toshow that the growth of thecountry depended upon the co-operation of whole communitiesrather than through the deeds of"a denii god auch aa Washing-ton."
He wanted to show that Wash-
TURKSSPLIT
Russians BreakEnemy's Line
I In Two Spots;Wind Retreat
ramoORAD, ¥99. 21.—The Tiii'liixh front Is cot Intwo piece-.
The Russian drive west-ward following; the K.zeruuivictory has separated thre„Turkish corps.One, forming the left Viog,
is retiring on Trebizond.Another, trying to rear's Er-
zinßan, much hurra—ed is floun-dering in the snow west of Erze-runi.
The third, forming the rightwing, is isolated in the north andperhaps completely cut off.
Lacking food and munitions,the Turks are retreating in disor-der.
The Russian left wing has cap-tured Pasur Akchesln, southwestof Mush.
The vanguard of Russian. 1_60 miles east of Trebizond andanother force Is approaching fromthe southeast.
KVACTATE HUMSROME, Feb. 21.—The Turks
are evacuating Bltlis, Armenia,southwest of Lake Van, Petrograd reported today.
The Rusisans have followed upthe conquest of Mush and Achletand occupied all the territoryaround the lake.
What's DoingToday
Annual pow-wow of NorthwestFederation of American Indians;Odd Fellows' hall; afternoon andevening.
Annual dog trials of Washing-ton State Trials club; all day;woods west of city.
Elks' Temple thrown open forpublic inspection; 3 p. m. to 11,p. in.
Agriculturist Shaw of NorthernPacific addresses Commercialclub; noon.
Knights of Pythias commemor-ate 52nd anniversary of lodge:K. of P. temple; evening.
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TomorrowWashington's birthday; all
city and county offices, banks andstores closed.
St. Leo's grammar school boyscelebrate holiday with operetta;school auditorium; evening.
Formal dedication Elks' tem-ple, 2 p. m ; and formal grandball, 9 p. in.
lngton was simply a human be-ing and remove the old-fashionedcustom of hero-worship, he said.
Haffer believes Col. Joab is oneof the hero-worshipers. He haabeen busy since his arrest hunt-ing up material to substantiatehis claims, as the burden of theproof will rest on him.
Unless Justice Graham Is suc-cessful in having the case triedin the superior court, Haffer laliable to $500 fine and a year inthe county Jail, If convicted.
NEW YORJC—The police re-ceived a letter today from JeanCrones, written in Washington.D. C. *
Former Tacoman On Wayto U. of W. Elopes With
Elma High School GirlELMA, Feb. 21.—The mysteri-
ous disappearance of pretty MissRuth Murray, junior In the Elmahigh school, and member of thochampion girls' basketball teamof Southwest Washington, andGerald Cloud, Montesano highschool student, who was supposedto be on his way to the Universityof Washington to enter the de-partment of inm -milism, wa« ex-plained today by the announce-ment that they had eloped andhad been married in Olympia.
The ceremony was performed
Great FilmDrama 'TheRack 9 Here
The tortures of a woman's soulcaused through Indiscretion whenshe, believed her husband was un-true, are likened to the rack ofolden torture times in one of thegreat photoplays of the year.
It is called "The Rack," andalthough the mechanical pro-cesses of torture brought to one'amind by the title, are not usedhi the play, the tortures of a dee-
by the Rev. Cameron 8. Morri-son, rector of St. John's Episco-pal church.
The bride is the daughter ofMr. and Mrs. J- Murray, well-to-do residents of Greenwood, andthe groom Is the son of DanCloud, well known newspaperman of Montesano, formerly ofTacoma.
Mrs. Murray's only news of thecouple and their intentions iscontained in a brief message say-ing, "We're married and win behome soon."
perate woman who is repentingjher sin but knows not how loatone for It, fit the name.
Alice Brady, as the wife andheroine of "The Rack," Is one iffthe cleverest emotional actressesseen at the Apollo this season.She undergoes a transformationfrom a happy, contented wife toa crazed, fearful creature whohas fallen into a fiendish trap .illtoo willingly, and portrays everyemotion in a remarkably appeal-ing manner.
To counteract the tenseness r.fthe great drama, Manager Ander-son has placed on the aame billone of Keystone's latest suc-cesses, Mabel Normand and FattyArbuckle In "He Did and HeDidn't."
Our Great Merchant Marine
Ore.tlngie, has some onebeen cussing out your grand-father or great -grandfather?Then page coljoab.
When we got home late Sat-urday night our wife shook handswith us and said she recognizedus ut once.
• • •We were so busy Matiirday
enjoying the air and observ-ing the Ilk- that we forgotto wonder why that hllzxardwhich one of the papers ad-vertised for that day did notmaterialize.
THE W. K. DEATH SENTENCE(As found in the Tacoma Direc-
tory.)A. V. Love,Jacob 11. llonoreand,S. Oba.
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MAKERAIDS
Coasts Again IsAttacked; BigAir and SeaForays Due
.mst.:hi>.\m, ¥99, si.—Private dispatches recehnlhere today from (formallyman I'm I n;tc I Prewe advisesIhat the kaiser in planning Mnionsier sen and air attackon l ii.lii .il to '.iynnli/i' a newera of flightfllhWM.
This Is e\|M-<t<-d to lirini;into use new tyiiea of aircraft, aerial Imiiiilim, mili-marines and (orpedoet..
LONDON, Feb. _!.--The new.-papers today demanded promptsteps to combat Olllinj'i new
! i ;i in MiiiKii of Irightfulness begin-ning in only nine days.
Simultaneously they issued awarning (bat another air raid mayfollow yesterday's against theeast aud southeast roasts whenthree were killed and on«wounded.
' Reports that a raider had at-' tempted to attack the French lin-|er Chicago In the Hay of Biscay
I has increased the belief that theic.ermaus are planning a spectacu-I lar demonstration in sea and air.
This Is expected to be an effortI to terrorise enemies and neutralsalike.
The official statement said:j Naval aeroplanes at noon Siinda)attacked the British coast. !Vveral bombs were successful!)hurled at factories near the rail-road docks. One fell on the gas-works at Lowcdoft. The manstation and several of the dock'swere hit.
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(Three eggs. This Is a re-I markably dear picture. The »g.<si were sketched as they repoecd inMcLean & McMillau's window.They are very rare, though form-erly they sold as cheap as 5 and10 cents apiece.)
(The same eggs after fallingoff the shelf. One can well Imag-ine \ii Lean is prostrated over hi*loss.)
Of course, we have no wayof knowing who this It. 8. T..Cynthia Grey's burglar, mayreally be, hut we'd like toknow where Fred Nhav. wason the night of Feb. IV
• • •The lady next door says ler
daughter doesn't care If ncrfiance does get only $10 a week,because, she reasons, the weekspass quickly as they are so fondof each other.
1 I.iiMSIK FI.IM FLAM 8ANSWERS ""
J. H. \\ IKK—No, HtellaSpongecake of the OutaforusFilm Corp hasn't found herpet Hungarian herring yet-Yea, the scenes In "Afloat OnThe —mason" were taken InAbu**.
