St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 19, 1910

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, e Pe DUIS I z ~; PEELE ONES OY cree INS LODE SI GEG TOLLS EEO — EE LT. AED a BE oh OTR NN. MONDAY EVENIN G, DECEMBER 19, 1910. eee | Monday why she believes St. Louis should take radical action against the smoke evil. : “The smoke will abate us if we do not abate it,” declared Miss Bernays. ) “SSOW gan Dur really Seantiful residence districts look anything but ugly and forbidding when seen through a carbon- iferous fog? “European cities are clean and free from soot, because the laws are en- forced. There one wakes up clear-head- ed and fresh. Here one finds the voice husky and the brain listless, because all night the lungs have .been inhaling pet ee There, women shoppers have peaith and vitaity—the most preciouy| ed look that one sees of our possessions. : “ang aNnti-tussccusosis chould take op this fight exainet amoke, which has so much to do with breaking down. the resisting power of weak throats and lungs, and the Skin and Cancer Hospital should take up the same matter. | : Hardens the Lungs. “Tt is a matter of common knowledge among physicians that the lungs of 8t. wouisans are black, as compared with the healthy pink of the lungs of country or town dwellers. Hardening of the

smoke. rmation ot not the among . SMOKE PICTURE : NO. 7 cate bk, ear serge stores, nor the streaks of dirt that se often mar our women’s faces. Smoke Causes Fatigue. . ‘Tt causes fatigue and lack of endur- ance. We as citizens have the right to our health and energy, and they are be- ing taken away from tis. The overlords of centuries ago came down from their strongholds and took the people's pos- sessions; but our overlords, puffing clouds of smoke into our lungs from their chimneys, are taking away our

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Every accessory for the. devotee of malt Vv great god Nick-o-Teen’’ will be found just at the right ie there is a full line of re Dominoes, ete. ete. Some — as you enter the Tenth Besides smokers’ Chips, Poker Beta, Ch ues: aves va Cigar Jars Smokers’ Trays of Hammered and Brush Smokers’ Sets of Hammered and : imokers’ Stands of Hammered and Cigar Humidors of Mah Red Wood, sizes oan 100 100 Poker Sets with Mahogany, Oak o W wt bo Be 0.80 |] ¥ Poker Chips—plain “ in wer fa ) y a = ; Silk Foubeaiae? at $2.98, $3.95 and day Clubrooms, and will receive the first reports made by members on violations of the smoke law. The subject of smoke abatement is: to be studied from the scientific and practical standpoint by the officers and by many of the 400 mem- bers of the new organiaztion. Extraordinary December Sale of Millinery The time has come when it is important to make a complete. clearance of all trimmed hats, and our price reductions mean for you the season’s greatest opportunity. Every hat, whether a Paris model or the product of our owL workrooms, is reduced to half its former price. Many are even less, H: ts and Mourning Millinery ar tf the reductions. : apcoriyes seas: contrasting colors; fine $3.50 and $4.00 values, the pair $1.95 Heavy-weight thread silk Stock- ings, with double turn garter top and improved re- sicfesceh tan and sole; a notable value at, the pair 2.50 Pure thread silk Stockings, in me- dium weight and in all the best colors; regular $1.75 and $2 val- ues, the pate $1 35 black. 3 pairs, $3.00 Women’s: full-fashioned pure silk- thread Stockings; black; made with elastic lisle top and wear-re- sisting lisle heel, sole and toe; $1.50 values, the pair $1.00 Pure silk-thread Stockings, with extra long, wide flare top and lisle heel, sole and toe; $2.00 values, the pair $1.50 Our December Sale of Furniture Furnishes_ | Gift Seekers With the Biggest Opportunity in Years — $12.00 Mah y Pedestal, $48.00 Mahogany Music Cabinet, .00 $14.00 Fumed Oak Table, $52.00 Mahogany Inlaid Table, 00 hep $34.00 Mahogany Shaving Stand, $38.00 oars, ge y Settee $36.00 Golden Oak Dresser Table, $50.00 Oak Dining Table, If You Have $12.50 Golden Oak Shaving Stand, $14.00 Early —— Shaving Stand, $9.50 $50.00 to $75.00 to spend—read this list . seco Maken Shaving Bt a, e108 | $22,00 Ma v tan a ce $12.50 ee ee eee 60.00 $72.00 Mahoga Extenst Table, 3 se : $25.00 Fumed Oak Cellaret 10.00 $110 Barly Bag En plsh E $88.00 $20.00 oo ogy A hee $12.50 Somnoe f : $8.00 $15.00 $90.00 Sekecant Cabinet ae $135.00 $30.00 Early ‘english Hall Seat, JIf You Have $110.00 Mahegant China Case, ? 50} 140-00 Mahogany ‘Divan bh 2 ; Pe me % - : Py 5 2 7 - : oe BR A kee Me: 2h ¢ #. ‘ * 2 ' vn w he ee individual. “But the new charter contemplates in this respect giving nothing like the pew- er that would be lodged in the com- missioners under government by com- mission, “Government by commission would not do for a city the size of St. Louis. The idea of’ the Freeholders has been to simplify governmental procedure... This certainly has been accomplished in the organization of the Board of Public Improvements. Its. work will be much more easy and expeditious of perform- ance, and there will be a placing of re- sponsibility. That, I think, is the chief gain. :

Injured Man Declares He Was | Fired Upon When He Shut Be Out Visitors. ‘\& With bullet wounds in his hip and his aright arm Frederick Welker, who says he is sergeant-at-arms at the Sports- ‘man's Club, is at the City Hospital in a serious condition. _. Welker says that he was guarding the @oor of the’ club rooms at Broadway and Spruce street Sunday when three men demanded admittance. He tola them that he could not let them in un- _ess they could show membership cards. % “The spokésman, he says, was a giant fwpo threatened to shoot him. Welker | Closed the door and was attempting to “Phold it it against the unweleome guests = when two shots were fired from outside. 4 He ran to the dispensary and fell ex- han in the reception room. HY LEAVES $1.1,000,000; WIFE GETS AN Al i. WOMAN TELLS OF SMOKE DANGER Points to the Effect Soot Has Upon the Lungs of Residents. ‘Miss Thekla Bernays, who has’ spent much of her time abroad in the. past few years and who expressed forcible sentiments in last Tuesday’s meeting of women, told a oa reporter

No More Excuses, “There cannot be any excuse or escape for any official, as there was formerly, when one said ‘I cannot do what the people want me to do, because that fellow won't do what he ought -to do.’ If the head of any department cannot or will not do his work, the Mayor can kick him out. The city will be organized like a big corporation. That is the way it should be.” Comptroller Benjamin J. Taussig told |. a Post-Dispatch reporter Monday that while he had not had time to study the proposed new charter closely he regard- , ed it in a general way as a simple piece | nar. | Of legislative machinery. He praisea se | the Budget Co on idea, and said that the provisions in the new charter would . If You. Have : $1.50 to $5.00 to spend—read this list $7.50 Birch Table for $16.00 Oak Cabinet for $7.00 Fumed Oak Chair for $7.00 Fumed Oak Rocker for $9.00 Mahogany Pedestal for $5.75 Early English Pedestal $3.75 Golden Oak Pedestal for $10.00 Mahogan x Pedestal for * 00 Vernis rtin Costume

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