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7v PAGE FOUR In the Social Realm Mr. and Mrs. Benton Bowers en tertained a few friends at dinner Fri day evening. Mesdames A. L. Engle, F. E. Moore, C. A. Briscoe and C. F. Shep- i herd will eutertain at the home of Mrs. Engle, 034 Boulevard, Friday afternoon. The Eleven OCjock Club gave its j semi-monthly dance at Memorial hall ilu t.'.ay tvetiiug. Most of the club I niembers were present and a delight- Tul evening was spent. Pedersen s orchestra furnished niuiiic. The Parent-Teacher Association of the West Side will meet next Mon- ueicmuci ai ..:. oiuc i school in the assembly room. The i .1 TA .. .-. I . , . o fr . , 1 ' CiAi 1 program will be: Music by Mrs. Mc- Quilkin; paper on teaching obedi ence, Mrs. Wagner, followed by a discussion by Mrs. Slingerlaud. JiH'ture by ir. Mattie Shaw on Nar cotics. Dr. Mattie B. Shaw will address an audience in the M. E. church, Tuesday afternoon, December 3, at 2:30. This lecture will be an in structive one, and should be listened to by both men and women. She will point out the habit-forming drugs and their effects, such as cocaine, eu caine, morphine and so on. Th!s will probably be the last time she will speak before an Ashland audit-nee. Without doubt the subject of our Oregon laws on these drugs will be handled by someone versed in law. The public are invited to attend. Federation is Organized. The meeting held at the Carnegie Library at the call of the Women's Civic Improvement Club for the pur pose of forming a City Federation of Women's Clubs was a decided suc cess. About 40 ladies responded, representing the Improvement Club, the Chautauqua ' Park Club, the Parent-Teacher Association, Sun; shine Society and the library board. It was 'decided to organize a City Federation, and this was accom plished by the election of Mrs. E. C. Card as president and Mrs. C. B. Lamkin as secretary and treasurer. It was decided to establish a Civic Forum and hold meetings at which all subjects of civic interest could be discussed. Notice of these meet ings will be made when the dates thereof have been decided upon. There was a musical program iu con nection with the meeting, which was much enjoyed, followed by a social hour. Merry Matrons Entertained. On Friday last the "Merry Ma trons" journeyed in full force to Royal Oak ranch, the country home!0" ampneys, an ungi.sn of Mrs. John A. May, where an en- lmre by Kenneth King, parents joyable afternoon was passed in play-l Who ente,tain vtsi of bright fil ing 500. The quaint old homestead,!1"'0 ,or wur uoy8' were weil ae t, .... . ... ! lineateri. .Inhn tftnlora o r'hm-li which, by the way, Is one of the land marke of Jackson county, was beau tifully decorated with chrysanthe mums, stocks and calendula, all grown in Mrs. May's garden. The first prize, a book, was won by Mrs. P. S. Provost, the booby prize, a bot tle of "catch-up," going to Mrs. H. Pracht. Dainty refreshments were served by the hostess, assisted by Mrs. H. O. Frohbach and Mrs. F. D. McQuilkeu. All members were in attendance Tot the first time this year, as fol lows: Mesdames H. O. Frohbach, F. D. McQuilken, F. O. Swedenburg, C. L. Cunningham, C. Veghte, P. S. "Provost, H. Pracht, J. H. Provost, A. W. Boslough, H. Barneburg, W. W. Blalock, W. 11. Bartges, John A. May. The uext meeting of the club will be at the home of Mrs. C. L. Cunningham. future by Miss (l.riiUn TinlinK. Miss Tinling lectured to a well- filled house Tuesday evening. Two! very piecing duets were a part of I fProfe8p nriBCoe luade ort .the program jtalk, asking the citizens to encourage Miss Timing Jb a native of Eng- athltics. which has grown to be a land, film tas crossed the ocean ' great i,n"etus to the ,,up"3' He also eleven tin,. She said one thing i ""ke of the good work which ia be" that imprnfcsed tier in America was ! ing done by the seWinR claS8 and in' the interest women took in children, j Vlted the 1areats to come and 8ee the not only in their own but in those of Karment made- He mentioned the tir This uaa nf th work o( tlle domestic science depart- why, a few days ago, West Virginia amended hr constitution by a ma jority of 84,040 against alcoholic' drinks. Alcohol, these people said,!'"0-'" luo " was impairing the brain power of their children. Moreover, it was no longer pure alcohol. There was to-!'8 t.acro juict), and cocaine and all man ner of poslouous drugs added to the wine, colored with analine or burnt f-ugar, and that did not make stroug, intelligent people. So hereafter the children of West Virginia will have no temptations to lower their mental powers while young. She stated the American nation was always biting i it at something they seemed never happy unless eating, or drinking, or chewing their $200,000,000 worth of gum, and she considered they should vui more stress on mentality ana less on tneir stomachs. She was often greeted with applause. Around tlie Turkey. Mr. and Mrs. Will Dodge will en- tertain the entire Dodge family at dinner today. Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Mulit are en- tertaining Mrs. M. S. Mulit and Miss I Frances Mul't today. F. F. Whittle and familv entprtain I Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Pickens at Thanksgiving dinner. Mrs. Hattie A. Alnutt i3 a guest . at tne nome 0f ner fi0Ili William Mitchell, for the day. Mr. and Mrs. F. G. McWilliams will entertain C. L. McWilliams and family at dinner today. The families of E. D. and M. C. Briggs form a family party at the Hotel Oregon for dinner today. Joseph Poley and family and Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Poley are guests at the home of I. W. Thomas, at Med ford, today. Mr. and Mrs. George W. Reeves and daughter Mildred spend the day with Mrs. Reeves' parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Norwood. G. G. Eubanks and family will cele brate the completion of the remodel ing of their residence on Wimer street on Thanksgiving. Following their annual custom, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Beebe will entertain the families of F. D. and J. M. Wag ner and Mrs. Ellen Wagner at dinner today. Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Pracht enter tain a neighborhood party at their home on Vista street. The guests are the families of P. S. and J. H. Pro vost and Mrs. Frank Grisez. Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Ball entertain at their Harrison street home today, the guests being the family of W. H. Wenner and Messrs. Clinton Wright and Homer Elhart. At the home of J. F. Patty there will gather a very congenial group, consisting of the families of Rev. W. A. Schwimley, W. O. Dickerson, W. A. Moore, Albert Morthland and John Cameron and daughter. High School Play. Miss Florence Wagner, teacher of English in the Ashland high school, is to be congratulated on her success in training the young men and the young ladies who took part in "Our Boys," given on the twenty-first an niversary of the Ashland High School Literary Society, Tuesday evening. Mr. Middlewick, a retired butter man, taken by Harold Huntley, and lineated. John Enders as Charles Middlewick and Neil Shinn as Talbot Chanipneys, who have returned from school and their travels abroad, were as real as life. Violet Melrose, a handsome heiress, Mildred Applegate, and Mary Melrose, her cousin, by Glyndon Scott, were charming in their parts, while Vivian Greer as j Clari88a Chanipneys, the maiden aunt, played her part admirably Kenister (Sir Geoffrey's servant), Edward Stannard; Poodles (Middle wick's servant), Walter Carpenter, and Belinda (a servant), Margaret Patterson, did credit to their parts. It is conceded that the Ashland high school pupils make a success of their undertakings, and this play was Do exception. The musical program was much en joyed by the audience. This orches tra is made up of pupils in the Ash land public schools, and credit is "r" a,m iMr' u A' . : 1 1 T 1 t 1 m -w . ' , B B ment, which is becoming a part of every girl's education. Saturday the Albany high school I ..In.... .141. 4 k. I W!t. -1 I l"" ",feu BK-"""1 Hue- ceBs of the high school football team being nol8ed al)out and the boy8 are receiving invitations for games with many towns of Oregon. Twenty per cent reduction on all millinery at Mrs.,H. Simons'. . Call early and take advantage of this sale 48-tf ' Phone Job orders to the Tidings. ashlavd ORIGIN OF THE PEARL "', Tht Prized Gm Only th Brilliant Sarcophagus of a Worm. Science has discovered the real ori gin of the pearl to be a worm. Dr. Hugh M. Smith gives some interesting Information on this subject in the Na tional Geographic Magazine. We know that almost any foreign body a grain of sand, a bit of mud or shell, a piece of seaweed or a small animal may by its irritation cause the tnollusk to cover tt with nacre and make it the nucleus of a pearl, but the largest part of the annual pear! crop of the world is due to parasites that normally pass a part of their life cycle within the shell of the pearl oyster. Minute spherical larvae of marine worms known as cestodes become im bedded in the soft tissues, as many as forty having been found in one Ceylon oyster. As the result of Irritation the oyster forms a protecting sac about the Intruder, and then, if the larva dies, its body U gradually converted into car bonate of lime, and the pearly mass proceeds to grow with the shell. If the larva lives it may pass into the body of the strong Jawed trigger fishes which prey on the pearl oysters, there undergoing further development. Ultimately it reaches the body of the great rays, which in turn eat the trig ger fishes. In the rays the worms at tain full development and produce lar vae that are cast into the sea and And lodgment In pearl oysters. Thus the cycle is begun once more. We may literally accept the saying of a celebrated French Investigator that "the most beautiful pearl Is in re ality only the brilliant sarcophagus of a worm." FAITH OF THE FOREST. Curious Traits of One of tho Savag Tribes of Sibaria. Concerning one of the obscure races of northwestern Siberia a traveler writes: "A few of the traits of these curious people may prove of Interest as they show that environment Is the strongest factor In determining charac ter. Their Intense superstition is ac counted for by innate fear of air things they cannot understand. Their shy ness, dislike of strangers and dread of their lamas and chiefs are again the result of superstition and seclusion. Sadness and melancholia are stamped on their faces, as is natural to a peo ple who are In constant fear of the genii of the mountains, rivers and forests, whose whole time is taken up with propitiating the gods lest evil be fall them. "The Uriankhal Is a product of the forest as the Arab is of the desert The one Is the antithesis of the other. Environment has molded the character of each to hi3 surroundings. The fear less believer In one God, the nomad of the sunlit desert, compares strikingly with the superstitious inhabitants of dark, damp forests, fearsome of evil spirits and cringing under their witch doctors. "All through life the forest dweller Is In fear of offending the deities, and at death his corpse is carried out and placed on some lone hilltop, where the wild beasts are expected to devour it if the man hus led a good life, but bad Uriankhal have not that doubtful honor bestowed upon them." Chicago News. Ventilation. Elave we ever stopped to think hovr our ancestors two or three generations back lived and flourished with little or no ventilation In their sleeping apart ments? The night air used to be con sidered a very dreadful menace to health aud a sure inducer of colds. Bedrooms were kept closely shut, aud yet our ancestors, many of them, were hardier than we and lived to good old ages. Animals burrow in their holes at night, breathing the same air over aud over again, while birds and fowls tuck their heads under their wings. Of course ventilation is absolutely nec essary for proper comfort cleanliness nnd health, but people have lived on little or none of it for hundreds and thousands of years. Exchange. A Giant Pepys Saw. King James I. had a gigantic porter eight feet six Inches in height but he was not perfect, being round shoul dered, knockkneed and lame in one foot Of a similar height was Charles Munster, a yeoman of the Hanoverian guard who died In l(57i. and seven years before there was being exhibited In London a Dutchman eight feet nine Inches high anent whom in Pepys' diary we find the following entry on Aug. 15. l(l(j!: "Went to Charing Cross to Ree the great Dutchman. I did walk under his arm with my, hat on and could not reach his chin With the tips of my Angers." Happiness. If you cannot be happy In one way, be in anoihor. and this facility of disposition want but little nid from philosophy, for health and good humor are almost the whole affair. Many run about, after felicity, like an absent minded man hunting for his hat while it is in his hand or on his head. A Safe Wager. Townley Some one has said that he is a benefactor of his race who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before Subbubs I'll bet anything that fellow never hud to ruu a lawn mower. Boston Transcript Two Puns. Miss Young-After all. what Is mar rlage but a mlster-y? Miss Older-Yes. aud what is spin sterhood but perpetual mlasery? Lou don Tit Bits , Trorxcs ' ' THANKSGIVING 111 THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR "fTrniN'K." said: the minister's Ut 0 tie wife, "of eailng eggs for H a Thanksgiving dinner!" ' The Rev. Robert Kean smiled down into her wistful eyes. "It is strange." her husband mused, "that somebody hasn't Invited us to dinner." "Weil, of course they don't dream how hard up we are," Mrs. Kean mur mured, "and each one thinks the other has asked us." In the days that followed no one would have imagined that the mind of the trim and smiling little minister's wife was constantly distracted by the problem of feeding four hungry people on a few dollars. "I can't have turkey," said little Mrs. Kean stoutly, "and that settles it" But it was harder to deny the "kid dies." "Xo. dears." the little mother said, "we can't have a feast this year. But we are going to be thankful just the same." The children looked at her seriously. "I don't see anything to be thankful for," said Dudley, the big boy of twelve. "What can the Lord expect If he doesn't give us a turkey" "Oh, my dear!" was his mother's shocked reproof. But little Marlon piped up, "I'm Just going to be thank ful and thankful and thankful and ask the Lord to send us the turkey any how." Mrs. Kean told her husband of the comments. "Poor dears," she sighed; "they don't understand the blessedness of giving. "There are some older people who don't understand." said her husband wearily. "Look at our neighbor next door. Never a penny does he give for the poor, and he has riches that he can't count" But the old gentleman across the way was not worrying about the opinion of his neighbors. "Mary." be sal& to his cook the night before Thanksgiving, "cook me an old fashioned dinner tomorrow, turkey and all the fixings." But fate had decreed that no tur key and fixings should be served in the house of the rich old gentleman, for Thanksgiving morning be suffered an attack of gout that kept him tied to his bed. with strict orders from the doctor as to diet No orders, however, having been given the cook, she pro ceeded to cook the dinner. The aroma of It came up the stairway and tickled the nostrils of the rich old gentleman. "Just my luck," he grumbled, "not to be able to eat It," and he sat up In bed to ring his little bell and to order all the doors shut to keep out the tan talizing smelL The movement brought his eyes on a level with the window, and be looked straight across Into the dining room of the minister's little flat Listlessly his eyes rested on the group: then suddenly he leaned for ward and scanned the table. In front 'IT'S FROM THB GENTLEMAN ACROSS TBS WAT," tun COOK UXFLAINKD. of the Rev. Bobbie was a deep dish from which he was serving spoonfuls of some yellow substance. "By the gods." murmured the old man. "it's eggx scrambled eggs and on Thanksgiving! Why In tile name of all that's appetizing don't they have turkey?" He rang his bell sharply. "Send the cook." was his peremptory order, and when the cook came be asked: "Is dinner ready?" "Tes. sir." "Then carry tt across the way, er ery bit of It" A few minutes later a procession filed Into the parson's flat "It's from the gentleman across the tray." the cook explained tartftilly as she stood in the ball. "He Is ill, and there Is no one to eat the dinner, and he thought you wouldn't mind." There was really uever such a din ner. The turkey was delicious, the pies perfect, and the little Keans brim med over with happiness. But there was n deeper happiness than the mere joy of good eating In the heart of the Rev. Bobble when, after a call next door, he came home to his wife. "I have fouud a good neighbor," he said, "an old gentleman with a crusty manner and a heart of gold, and that's the best of my Thanksgiving, sweet-heart"--Temple Bailey in Omaha World-IIerald. 1 Billings 41 E. Main St. REAL ESTATE GREATEST GAS PRODUCER. West Virginia Has Output of More than 200 Ilillion Cubic Feet of Natural Gas. West Virginia is the greatest pro ducer of natural gas in the United States. She produced in 1911 twice as much as any other state and two fifths of the total output for the whole country. According to the United States Geological Survey, the state pro duced in 1911 the enormous quantity of 207,112,576,000 cubic feet of gas, valued at $28,451,907, as compared with 190,705,869,000 cubic feet, val ued at $23,816,553, in 1910. Natural gas accompanies the oil in the wells of West Virginia even more regularly than in Pennsylvania, and the sands yielding gas without oil are more extensive, so that while the state consumed 80,868,645,000 cubic feet of gas in 1911, it also ex ported a large quantity to Pennsyl vania, to the lake shore In Ohio, to Maryland and to Kentucky. In order to supply the necessary quantity for Pittsburg the gas is pumped through the lines at an average rate of 42 miles an hour, and occasionally at as great a speed as a mile a minute. Drilling was . active throughout the state in 1911, resulting in the completion of 870 productive gas wells out of a total of 987 well drilled, the number of gas wells at the close of the year being 4,755 as compared with 4,052 wells at the be ginning of the year. Fiften years ago there were only 840 natural gas wells in the state and the value of the output was less than $1,000,000. The quantity and value of the gas consumed in West Virginia in 1911 amounted to 80.86S.645.000 cubic feet, valued at $6,240,152, an aver age price of 7.72 cents per thousand cubic feet. Of the total consumption in 1911 a larger proportion was con sumed for industrial than for domes tic purposes. The quantity of gas Perlps C No. S YOU'LL NOT BUY VVVearThem - You If Give Complete Their wonderful wear-resisting qualities and their remarkable elasticity make them the ideal under garment for Children. Youngsters outgrow them be fore they outwear them, yet the elastic web yields so readily to every motion that little folks can romp and play all day long in perfect comfort and without the least danger of ripping or tearing the garment. Parents find them practical and economical, and MOLLY MUNSING WEARS THEM WHAT MORE COULD YOU ASK? Who U Molly? Why, ask the chadren! They'll tell you she's the daintiest and most beautifully dressed little paper doll in America; has seven natty costumes in beautiful colors, no two alike, and each worn with entire satisfaction over her perfect fitting suit of Munsingwear. She will be given away to every underwear purchaser here Saturday. You should come. WOMEN'S FALL AND WINTER MUNSINGWEAR AT $1.00, $130, . $2.00, $2.50. $3.00, $3.50 CHILDREN'S FALL AND WINTER MUNSINGWEAR AT 50c, 75c, $1.00, $1.25, $1,50, $2.00 MEN'S FALL AND WINTER MUNSINGWEAR AT $10, $2.00, $20. $3.00, $3.50. $4.00, $5.00 ASHLAND Thursday, November 28, 1912. Would You Aceept a Stranger's Note? Would you sign a note with a stranger and leave the amount blank? That's what you do when you take a policy in a MUTUAL FIRE INSUR ANCE COMPANY. And you may wake up some morn ing to find you are very much in the insurance business. Sixteen big companies all of the OTHER KIND in this office. Let us carry your insurance and we will give you your money's worth. Agency AXD INSURANCE. Phone 211-J consumed in manufacturing was 50, 130,046,000 cubic feet. One of the industries which is al most entirely confined to the state is the manufacture of carbon black, for which large quantities of gas are re quired and to which the gas is well adapted. It is estimated thac during the year 1911 a total of 18,737,265, 000 cubic feet of gas was used by the carbon-black factories of West Vir ginia. The value of this gas was $544,856, an average of about 3 cents per thousand cubic feet. POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENT. II. A. Autry. We are authorized to announce H. A. Autry as independent candi date for the office of city recorder. Paid adv. Cause of Insomnia. The most common cause of insom nia is disorders of the stomach pnd constipation. Chamberlain's Tablets correct these disorders and enable you to sleep. For sale by Poley's Drug Store. More than 40 varieties of rice are cultivated in Siam. Pianoforte and Theoretic Branches TAUGHT BY MARY E. 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