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About The Oregon mist. (St. Helens, Columbia County, Or.) 188?-1913 | View Entire Issue (May 20, 1910)
r topics or THE TIMES Man ts nature's noblest work, but he Is often easily worked. Some beef is corned and much more scot nod In these dsy of the boy cott The world will never have a very good opinion of a man who loafs In a barber shop. Once more It Is reported that Men llk Is dead. He must have a many lives as a cat Professor Munsterberg says that In this country the woman Is the head of the house. Let's admit It and save trouble. There Is a tendency to-day to dis cuss farming as a "serious proposi tion." Few farmers have found It humorous. A New York actress has been ar rested on a charge of stealing dia monds. But possibly her press agent can prove an alibi. An expedition of Frenchmen has re turned from the antractlo regions. They deny Indignantly that they dis covered any poles. Mr. Roosevelt rode a camel In Egypt He cculd have ridden two at once, of course, had he desired to startle the natives. J. Pierpont Morgan goes In for old masters, etc.. without counting the cost, but it Is too much to believe that he Intends buying a nobleman for a sou-in-law. Ex-Vice President Fairbanks says war with Japan la Impossible. Ex Secretary Shaw says It is Inevitable. It would be hard to find a better chance for an argument A New York preacher Is afraid It will soon be possible for people to se cure divorces merely by telephoning to Reno for them. A lot of other people are busy wondering why he Is afraid. A Missouri man Is advertising for a rife with "a ffood. wholesome smile." Ladies who answer the advertisement should be warned that It will be abso lutely necessary for them to show him the smile. It is probable that as soon as the Egyptians get time to think It over thoroughly they will discover that they knew it all along, but did not have the courage to acknowledge it to themselves. The subjects of King George of Greece recently greeted him with storm of "iltos." It should be ex- plained that a "zito" Is not at all like a machete or a boomerang. The con stitution Is to be revised, and their storm of "zitos" Indicated that they were glad. "Preventive astronomy" is the apt term that has been applied to the work of certain Chinese officials who are educating the people In regard to Halley's comet To counteract super stition In this way shows that a knowledge of astronomy may be put to a highly practical use. Now It develops it was an office boy who sold stock short and. wrecked the Hocking pool. This recalls the New Jersey's Senator's historic maid who mailed compromising stock letters wbieh the Senator had resolved to de stroy, but had Inadvertently left on the library table where letters were usually put for the maid to mall. These mistakes of underlings will hap pen In the most carefully regulated families and offices. Hopkinson Smith, who laments the disappearance of amenity and gentle ness from the life of New York, has Incidentally furnished a definition of a gentleman" which may Interest many who know one perfectly well when tbey see him, but would perhaps be put to It to describe his essential qualities in words. Mr. Smith says that a gentlo man Is clean, honest, courteous to wom en, kind to children, respectful to old see. considerate to the Door, and sym pathetic toward the "under dog." With the silent amendment that be should be courteous to other men as well as to women, this seems satisfactory. A correspondent of the New York Times finds new evidence of American extravagance and wastefulness in the articles which American families throw away. He calls attention to the fact that a Junk-dealer in New York pars the city mora than seventeen hundred dollars a week for the privilege of taking what he pleases from the refuse cows before they are towed to sea; and that although se thus pays nearly ninety thousand dollars a year, be re ceives three hundred and fifty thou sand for the Junk which he rescues from the dump. The correspondent's charge may be true, but his Illustra tion does not prove it The value of old tin cans, waste paper and the other things which come from the garbage heaps Is due to quantity and propin quity. There are millions of the cans, and in such a quantity they are sala ble. The few cans an average family collects are not worth the space they occupy. In accounting: for the high cost of living Professor Laughlln of the Unl terslty of Chicago mentioned several factors excessive duties on raw ma terial, desertion of the farms by youth, abuse of combination, lack of organisation union consumers, and flagrant extravagance, public aud pri vate. The censure of those who live up to their Income, or beyond It, Who ape the rich and give no thought to old age or emergency, was not too se vere in Professor Laughlln s able lec ture. And nothing is more whole some than his hope of "a new aristoc racythe aristocracy of the simple life" the aristocracy of men and women who "pay less homage to gold and more to the virtues of honesty and right living." The gospel of the sim ple life has lent Itself to satire ana parody. It has encouraged fails and posing, Insincere and costly experi ments. But it will survive ridicule and perversion. Extravagance is folly, and simplicity does not mean the giving up of such comforts aa are necessary to cleanliness, to beauty, to economy of effort The talk of "back to nature" Is not all as rational as It might be, but there Is a vital element of truth In It. It is. Indeed, evidence of a healthy reaction ngalust conges tion, -whirl" and waste. As a writer in the Atlantic points out. the same forces which have produced the cost of living problem will aid in Its solu tion. "It seems Inevitable," as he says, "that there should develop some general conversion of material Into mental wants, and a partial sulatltu tlon of culture for wealth as a meas ure of the value of the individual." In fact ven the automobiles, clubs and mechanical pleasures may con tribute to the revival of slmpllcty and love of nature. Suburban and rural life has profited by the advance of machinery, and the trolley has caused a counter-drift to the open and free spaces. Never was there more Inter est among men of affairs than now in country homes, outings, rural sur roundings. Professor Laughlln's aristocracy" is perhaps already In process of creation. AMBERGRIS TREASUSS. Story or a S30.000 Lamp and oase- ! Aboal the Sabataa. The story of how a Manchester (N. H.) painter found In the St. Law rence river a lump of graylsn suo- stance weighing thirty-eight pounds. and how he has discovered that the solid fatty stuff is ambergls and Is worth $30,000. recalls the nearest thing to romance that ever entered Into the lives of Gloucester snd New Bedford whalers. In the old days when American whalers dared every sea. It was like a lottery. Once in a lifetime yon might chance on the decaying body of a whale, giving off an awful smell, and Inside that whale would be a fortune enough so that you would never have to go to sea again. Charles Reade, as far as we remember. Is the only writer to introduce-ambergis Into fiction. In "Love Me Little, Love Me Long" David tells Miss Fountain how "the skipper stuffed their noses snd ears with cotton steeped in aromatic vinegar, and they lighted short pipes snd broached the brig upon the putres cent monster and grappled to it: and the skipper Jumped on It and drove his spade (sharp steel) in behind the whale's side fins." It is a matter of record that not far from the Windward Islands a Yankee skipper in one of the bast old whaling years did cut out of a whale 130 .pounds of ambergls, which was sold for 500. The price quoted for many years was $4 an ounce. Aniberg'u Is often found floating on the sea, partlc ularly off the coast of Brazil and of Madagascar. The Bahamas send more than any other source to market. The stuff Is a secretion of the sperm whale which dies of the disease producing the perfume matter. Chemists find It hard to account for the fact that the smell of the dead whale Is so horrible when the substance taken out Is valu able only as a source of sweet smells Brooklyn Eagle. Kai a Parallel Caae, Jokes on the doctor are tempting It the doctor suffers no injustice from them. He Is usually a good, as well as a good-natured target for assorted witticisms. A writer in the Argonaut has recently related a variation of an old Jest the victim of which Is the medical man. Anions the patients In a certain hospital there was one ills- Dosed to take a dark view of his chances for recovery. "Cheer up, old man!" admonish the youthful Intern attached to the ward wherein the patient lay. "You symptoms are Identical with thoxe of mv own case four years ago. I was lust as sick as you are. Look at rn nnr" The patient ran his eye over the phy sician's stalwart frame. "What doctor did you have?" be finally asked, feebly. A Boomerang;. One of the officials of the Midland railway, coming from . Oienwood Bprlngs yesterday, was telling a young woman on the train how wonderfully productive Colorado's Irrigated ground Is. "Really," be explained, "It's so rich that girls who walk on It have big feet. It Just simply makes their feet grow." "Huh," was the young woman's re Joinder, "some of the Colorado men must have been going around walking on their heads." Denver Post The Bounce Diplomatic. "I can't get along wltn that wok." "But have you tried diplomacy, my dearr "I have. To-day I handed the minx her passports." Louisville Courier Journal. And money Is also the root of many a family tree. She Ml..e4 "' She Ha UIBexra. The Dyson glr's." as Uulverton ex pressed It. "all amounted to thlug; they had fnculty-xcept. of course." It usually added, with an In dulgent smile, "Miss Vluulu. 8h didn't seem to lane auer me sy somehow. She did her best; sue nev er shirked; but Lavlnla Dysons best friend could scarcely maintain mav site was capable." She was gone now, and wo genue. Indecisive, fluttering hands nan uw mora tasks to do. The other Dyson girls elderly women all, but still girls In Dulverton (Wrlance sal tooony i the sunny parlor. In a couipaulouable rh with her task. They were busy women, semora iuiu even for a moment. m ni" was a leader In church work; Niss Pamella was a notable housewiro. ami took orders for special kinds of pre serves and cakes and pickles; Miss Anne had worked her way through col leire. and was a teacher In the high school; Amanda, the Widow Cole, bad done her duty by threo children of her own and a half doxen stepchildren before she Joined her sisters in the old homestead. Abruptly XIIss Lucretla laid dowu her scissors. "I don't believe any one of us would have been missed so much." she said. "It s I'm ashamed to soy It's coming to me aa a surprise, W knew what Vinnlo was; we knew what she meant at borne, and, thank heaven! we loved her for It, and she knew we did; but I never even guessed what she meant to other peo ple. The things that everybody is say Ing the people who stop me In the rvet--" She broke off to master her voice, and flnlshed with a sudden lit- tlo sobblnt laugh of pride: "Vlnnle was an Influence In the community And how amaxed she would have been If any one had told her so!" "I know! I know!" assented Miss Ann. "I'm finding It out, too; ami I've been trying to make out Just how It was. She didn't do much or say much. even, but she was always so friendly; and she always took It for granted everybody wanted to do the best thins the best way she never wasted time or strength on worries or resentments, or suspicions, or pet tlnesses. Peoplo were somehow ashamed not to behave the way she expected them to." "Yes." agreed Miss Lurretla. 'and then they liked her so much; nobody could helo that, and of course that made them want to do what she want ed. She was always so pleasant!" My girls adored her; they thought there was nobody with such ways snd manners as Aunty Vlnnle." murmured Amanda, "Young people never seemed to feel the bar of age with her; she seemed so happy," "Ah, that was It!" cried Miss Anne I think it was her wsy of gathering brightness, and passing It on. Seemed hanov she was happy! She dlilnt need to do things Ilk the rest of us She lust shone! No wonder she's missed; It's like losing sunshine." "'A single sunbenm,'" quoted Mls Lurretla. softly, from her favorite Saint Francis, "Van disperse many shadows.'" Youth's Companion. The Audubon Society hss an uncon scious branch In Tibet, or one may say, since such compassion exists In that distant country, that a similar In fluenee is unnecessary. In Sven Hedln's "Trans-Himalaya" the traveler speaks of the sorrow of Oang (lye, the son of the Governor of Saks-Dzong, when one of the caravan shot a wild goose, He wat quite overcome at this brutal murder, and could not conceive bow the servant could be so heartless and cruel. "You are right," I answered. "I am myself sorry for the wild geese. But you unit remember that we are trav elers, and dependent for our livelihood on what the country yields. Often th chase and fishing art our only re sources." "In this district you have plenty of theop." "Is It not Just as wrong to kill sheep and eat their flesh V "No!" he exclaimed, with passionate decision. "That Is quits another mat ter. You will surely not compare sheep to wild geese. There is as much dif ference between them as between sheep and human beings. For, like human beings, the wild geese marry and have families. And If you sever such union by a thoughtless shot, you cause sorrow and misery. "The goose which has Just been be reaved of her mate will seek him fruitlessly by day and night, and will never leave the place where he has been murdered. Her life will be empty and forlorn, and she will never enter upon a new union, but will remain a widow, and will soon die of grief, A woman cannot mourn more deeply than she will, and the man who has caused such sorrow draws down a pun lbhment on himself." I had heard In the Lob country slm Mar tales of the sorrow of the swans when their union was dissolved by death. It was moving to witness (Jung uyes tenderness and great sympathy for the wild geeBe, and I felt the deep est sympathy for hlrn. Many a noble and sensitive heart beats In the cold and desolate valleys of Tlbitt Going to school Anally becomes habit. Many a young man continues in school long after be should be at work. Some of our first Impressions were made by mother's slipper. ij TIBETAN SENSIBILITY. Taat MUdle Hra Itrew. High up In " d '""' ,u Inserted for ages or more. Tripped a y young " husband). To eplr the ancient lor, The old. old books, from tneir aklns . Peered at them. they passe While she viewed herself In mirror, v. t.i.-h munv bride danced. Way back In a corner, standing alone, Thickly covered oer win u . Stood an old mahogany bureau. Smelting f rose leaves and must. Toward this the bride now wended hr way. , , And said, "My, what a pity! We'll have this all done over, dear vv.'ll send II to th city-" .... . j .... ,irnwr. in turn. -..llfi,.l at me ansa, laces. nut vhen Into th middle on sh ItH'kcd A huittf.. cam oVr their faces. There were lUlnty shoes of every hue. And tiny stocking of lac. I.litla kit and uciiiirs and dresses. Causing tinrs to roll down hr face. For on each and every article th found tbo name of the lime Who Inst wore the treasurwi nainu. And from a mother's srms had flown. In the heart of each fond motnor There's a middle bureau orawsr. Where reposes dainty treason. Noma of them worn and tor. Little alws. ull sidled and worn at lh side; Uitla I. U s. all stained and wet rtut thore arm I any treasures iisa them. At least I've not found them yet Th r'vmlala Hall. The relation between th coat of llv in. .n.i the activity in the Issuance of marriage license Is rcognld as Inti mate, sven though the economists may not be able to express the subtle fact In a mathematical formula But there can be no doubt that Cupid keeps an eye on the market prices of provislua, even though he may havs little us for th tailor. There can he no doubt that this sprightly promoter of felicity has sbanduned the old fallacy, enticing but Illusory, that two person can live Just as cheaply a can one Perhaps that untruth In domestic mathematics took form at a time when girls wsrs different In me material respects from the maidens of lo-day. It was once th fad that they should be dell cats, without appetite, taking food after the manner of bird, with anae mic result. They were more fond of cakes and sweetmeats than of prosaic bread, pulsions and roast beef: In those days there might b mors ecoo omy In th feminine menu. But th girl of today Is brought up to b buxom and robust. There has been a reaction, both sensible and wide spread. She tekes proper pride fn hr appetite and In her muscles, which she ha learned are not at all tncon slstent with gentle sentiment. She emulates her bothers In fondness for the ojwii air and for suitable athletics Thore Is no longer any reason for her sentlmal semlstarvatlon. If she likes a ballad to her eyebrow, she ts ready also for a lobater after the opera. She may approve of kisses from the one right man, but he must also be able to provide a menu more extended than bread and cheese Hence the normal and active feminine Internet In the revolt against high prices In the market place. Washing on Post l.ahor Mils. If a gloss Is desired on linen, add a teaspootiful of suit to starch when making In ironing handkerchiefs, It Is wall to begin at the center; If ono Irons the hem first, the middle will have ft tendency to Inline or "full." Few know t tint a cold bolted potato rubbed on a piece of paper for t f minutes will form a moisture of th eonalstency of glue, and Is a satisfac tory substitute for iiuclluge In case of an emergetiry. I'liltiaals Coeteme. for lute spring and summer Is shown In this one of white and dark blue foulard which has a slightly trained plain skirt over which falls a belUid polo naise of the same rnatnrlul, widely fOBa , A useful llttlu costume handed with dark bin stl. overlap ping at the pointed tide and Pif ;nly fastened with tiny button, cov ered with blue satin. i - the waist line Is rtmnnwi oy a s- of the satin, and IU mi " ders elongate Into siew tshed with satin cuffs snd are trimmed with a frilling otimroiderwi m tin similar to that finishing th low- cut neck, wnite sua i.". -. .- - .i..M.t with dark blue ana a om . trimmed with while lace and plumes repeat rh color scheme of we inw. fad end fl5ics inSrcxr Collar and cuff seta are once more In favor. Three piece suits of foulard are an extreme novelty. Narrow skirts Increase In favor, el though plaited shirts are popular. I.cotrtped dimities mad over wl ored slip or petticoat ar quit nw The stripes are sufficiently wide to permit th underneath color to snow throng Such drease nd IHI O' no trimming and style are xirnrly plain Lr scarfs w fast taking th place of rhlffon and rrepa d chin a an evening headdress Th lace ar fre gll and show th arrangement of ths rolflur beneath. The scarfs are mad long, but ar not tied, a they drap prettily. A new edged batiste, showing niain border one and a naif iBn Id. Is mad In plaited styi wttn in of Of STRAWS OF LATEST FATTER. Hsr are two of Urn good new niudrla In rough stiaw. ItlbUii plays a largi part In the trimming of on of thm, and lh band almttt th crowa Is Lstooned with a wrth of tiny r, The oilier hat Is turned up sharply at on side, and Its trimming savors of the chantecler. border as a piping, not a hand. Th fft I charming, aa the edging Is a plain color snd delineates any good feature of thn drc. The leather colored linen Is made Into a suit of tallurd fratum, with the Jacket front widely separated to reveal a double ruffl of soft whit mull. Th hat Is burnt onhr straw rtth trimming of black taffeta silk and stiff black algret. A smart spring hat Is In biscuit- colored fine straw, with a big bow of many loop of black tultn set rather toward the back and felting a great cluster of purple and greon leave The violets and leaves are of satin, suf ficiently bright In hu not to be com pletely dulled by the tulle, Soft-thread tatting, set In soft mt cellars, Is used In attractive neck wear. A ready-made tatting, resem bling thn hand mado variety, serves very well. Among the dp tare col lars which encircle the neck ts a round one made of mull, finely plaited and Inset with leaves, tendrils and flowers of Irish crochet. There Is sufficient weight In the appl!iud trimming to hold the wehllke collar In place. Te Wear la th Hal. "A pretty luilr novelty Is a band of grdt: embroidered In delicate silk, says Mine, lltche In th Woman's Home Companion, "sometime pink, some times blue, but always In tb same color ss th gown with which It ts to be worn. This band Is long enough to run from ear to ear across the soft low pompadour which la now the vogue. Fancy buckles and sometimes embroidered butlons finish both ends Under these, hairpin are fastened to hold ths band In lis proper place." War l Waallaar. Borne women foolishly think It ft l fleolton on their generosity to be care ful about thn little things, while other women economize unwisely. Instead of making the pot full of weak tea for the sake of economy, or df strong tea for th sake of being con sldurd generous, and throwing away half of It In either case, measure both tea and water and make enough good tea so that It Is practically all used Never mnre a IiIt flro when light on Is sufficient, In cooking with go I or oil, turn off 4ha heat a soon a through with it; if water It to be beatud, do not heat mors or hotter than dslrd, I knew a worn.. . -. w, ,q Mtna o( allots-- and bookkeeping tu keep ilowt Uu)) Ing espensna, who hr tim . day heat a. tiug kettl of ,iTz i. i.u . . nnr v(m evfn ih iii pulling Mm for the dish washing and th. about halt of It after it Is ivi(k a usamo lemporeturv. III SIM enough In fuel to buy th fruit let other dainties of which she ) nr ramiiy. in orjcr 10 aep ettkn nr allowance. tMrv all th left over, hut mx Is them simply. Un woman tak th good bits of meat that in left. little stock, a stir of stab trait and an egg, aud provide a d.llrkm meat tours for (he family lunrk) from materials, with Hie irptlot st the tMt, that were In themselves I. Another woman will at throw out h lefumre AaW put them on the tabu in their ts. palatable condition, until th ftMUl at them In deaperwtlon. Of thsy W com totally useless. And yt aeotkar ur unlimited nw material te est, real th old. thus spending meek save a little. to-bee Was Stale. It srrns to be pretty wll fU It.hod that originally the mattan at relationship and dri. along ttk alt thst fallowed. ! dtmtB4 through th female lln. Kinship, svi thtfor. property, was governed kj th mother Hence tb puwr of U early woman. When a young worn gut married she k her hmbaxl horn wlh her, and If h prov4 . worthy II "as within hsr power t cast him out. Th woman was Ik -bee,- and hS) sh Said ) I had to gel out. It Is comparative! 1st In the history of Human society thai w first e the change from te mal to ml liedhtp In th matter of kinship and Inheritance ami In lbs eonntiiht transfer of the power and Importance fiom I he woman to the man, i'hlcagn Ktamlner. ftavellr la Trtmatlaa. AM Ribbon, which Utke such promi 1 -vSyril W -al -V. .-' WW nent place In millinery thl season, la the most practical of trimmings. When used In a Inrge, fiat loose bow, with compact tittle wreaths) of small flower, It I most charming In effect Aa laslaaallea. Ethel (confidentially) Do you know, Clara, that I had two offer ol marriage last weekT Clara (with enthusiasm) Oh, I n delighted, doarl Then the report If really true that your uncle loft you his money T Pick Me Vp. Bilk Shnal Match. Where silk liosu are rubbed Into holes In the bark by tow shoes or pump, It I usually usules to darn them In thn ordinary way, Place ft piece of silk of the same color un derneath and darn ths stockings to It lllasj It Os, . The young, Inexperienced wlf wat In tear. "Just think, mamma," she sobbed. "Henry threw ft biscuit at ma, One I mndo myself, too." "Th montturt' erlnd her mother, "He might have killed you," Loudon Newt.