OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1916. THE FASHIONS I colors and ere unusually effective as a finishing touch on an afternoon frock of silk, or one of the sheer cottons. Fashions in Handbags Now that so much attention is be ing given to details, and in conse quence we are all presenting a better POULTRY NOTES. The "dress-up" notion seems to groomed appearance than ever before; have taken a strong hold on us, one and all. Our shop windows present wonderful changes each day, and our Avenue has become a veritable ka leidoscope of attractively gowned and hatted women. Perhaps it is the opening of the new season with its suggestion of coming spring, although the frost and snap of old winter still lingers, which causes us to look with more appreciative eyes than usual on the new offerings in frocks, suits and hats. But, leaving aside these flat tering elements, there is really more of beauty and smartness in this sea son's styles than we have had for many a year. Ostrich Trimming on Frocks Fur is still the smart trimming for all garments, and it promises to re main in favor well into the spring. There is already a hint here and there, however, that designers and manufacturers are tentatively reach ing out for an attractive successor. In one of the smart shops the other morning, a most attractive afternoon dress was displayed; it was made in Russian effect, was very simple,' and sparingly ornamented, the only trim ming, in fact, being bands of ostrich in the same shade of blue as the dress, edging the high, standing collar, the cuffs and the lower edge of the blouse peplum. The effect was pleasing and perfectly appropriate for the warmer weather. Trimmings for Spring Hats Whether ostrich as trimming for hats will be favored to any great de gree, is still a question; that it will be used considerably, as in the past sea son or two, for fancies, odd little stick ups, balls, rosettes, and similar effects, on the chic small hats which are be ing introduced as first models for spring, has already been confirmed. Many hand-made hats are being shown this season. The new braids are most ly shiny; glace effects will predom inate, although one sees some effective dull-finished hemps and tagals. A new glace braid from Paris resembles nothing so much as the scales of a fish, and it is appropriately named "fish-scale" straw. Some flowers will be used on the new hats, and quanti ties of ribbon. The new colors in millinery are, generally speaking, black, which is as strong as ever, gera nium-pink, absinthe, polished-gold, the handbag is being shown consider able attention. Once upon a time was considered for its useful quali ties alone. Now it lends an added touch of color or richness to tailored suit and afternoon frock, and its ap propriateness for both must be con sidered. The voluminous bag of soft morocco and like soft leathers in dark colorings, the black patent leather bag, lined with bright red or cream- colored moire silk, and the envelope purses, also lined with bright silks, are good form with tailored suits, There are some attractive novelty striped leathers also being used with dark tailored suits very effectively. Antique brocades, Japanese embroid eries, and dyed laces are fashioned in to effective and artistic bags for the afternoon gown. Several of the newest fashion fea tures are illustrated in the afternoon frocks illustrating this letter; - the cape-collar is one, the drop-shoulder and attractive sleeve is another. The band-trimmed skirt is new and ef fective, and the full-pointed tunic is smart and becoming. SOME EDUCATION Reed College Students Absorb Queer Ideas of History, It Seems Down at Reed College, which is in Portland, and which is where a year or so ago they "staged" a murder in the psychology class to see how ac curate were the students as observers they have recently been having some examinations. Now the answers to questions given in the examinations in the county schools are sometimes fun ny, but they haven't got anything on Reed College which is supposed to be a very classy institution. Here are some of the things that the students "learned" in history, Maybe it is the fault of the students and maybe, also, it is the fault of the modern methods of teaching employ ed at the institution. One freshman discovered that "Cal vin's institutes were monasteries," but as scholars often disagree, another said they were "different departments established by the Roman Catholic Church for carrying on many enter prises; for instance, there would be institutes for collecting taxes and distributing alms." Other historical revelations were that " 'scholasticism' was a name ap plied to people who went to school and studied." "A flying buttress is a huge ma chine used in attacking or beseiging a place, especially m feudal times. A troubadour was honored with the new distinctions of being a "ruler," geographer, "astronomer," "histor ian, "painter," and, strangest or an, a "sculpture. "Copernicus was a Polander, who believed that the earth was the center of the universe." Descartes was "a Spanish naviga tor," also "a free-thinker; he didn t believe in anything." "Calvin was a Dutchman." "Abelard was an English bishop;" "Roger Bacon was an English Prot estant, who came over to the colonies in America. WE WANT TO BE SHOWN VP MoCau, mint-green, and baby chick; the last a charmingly suggestive title. Among the attractive millinery no tions being displayed in the shops, and worn at the southern resorts, are sets consisting of hat, handbag and col larette, and fashioned of faille or the new soft luster satins. One of the most attractive of these is developed in the new Callot color, a soft shade of pinkish lavender. The hat is very simple, a medium sailor turned up sharply on the lefts ide, having no contrasting trimming; the bag is of the same soft luster satin as the hat, and the collarette, also of silk, is cord ed about an inch apart, and finished with long ribbon ends for tying. These sets are being made up in many Good Farm Land for Sale in Valley for $100 an Acre, Says "Voter" C. C. Chapman's "Oregon Voter" remarks in its issue of February 5, among other things: "In the Willamette valley, good farming land, already cleared and un der cultivation, sells from $50 to $100 an acre. And this is an argument against state aid in clearing logged-off lands, If all the rest of the argument is as truthful as that sentence, we don't think much of C. C. C.'s reasoning. Maybe you can get cleared farming land, under cultivation, for $50 or $100 an acre in the valley but we'd like to be shown. Round these parts they have the nerve to ask $400 an acre for timbered land that might be good for berry-growing if it was cleared. MY HEALTH To Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg. etable Compound Washington Park, 111. "I am tht mother of four children and have suf fered with female trouble, backache, nervous spells and the blues. My chil dren's loud talking and romping would make me so nervous I could just tear every tiling to pieces and I would ache all over and feel so Bick that I would not want anyone to talk to me at times. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills re stored me to health and I want to thank you for the good they have done me. I have had quite a bit of trouble and worry but it does not affect my youth ful looks. My friends say ' Why do you look so young and well ? ' I owe it all to the Lydia E. Pinkham remedies." Mrs. Robt. Stopiel, Moore Avenue, Washington Park, Illinois. We wish every woman who suffers from female troubles, nervousness, backache or the blues could see the let ters written by women made well by Ly dia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. If you have any symptom about which yon would like to know write to the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass., for helpful advice given free of charge. Provide plenty of litter. Hens ore likely to loaf on the perches uurlng the first cold days unless mndo to scratch for their grain. Grain should be thrown into the litter at. night so the bens can begin work as soon as they come off the roosts. Eggs should be gathered sev eral times a day during freezing weather. The floor litter In the scratch ing shed should be .renewed at least once a month. Be sure the bens are supplied with plenty of dry dust In which to perform their toilets. THE CAUSE OF SMALL EGGS AND CHICKENS In my judgment the widespread prac tice of breeding from pullets lias made small eggs and small fowls. Especially Is this true in Kansas, says Professor W. A. LIpplncolt, Kansas Agricultural college. The pullet begins to lay when she is six to nine months old. This, of course, varies with the individuals and breed. Because she lays, however, it does not follow that she has reached maturity. Pullets' eggs are consider ably smaller than hens' eggs. In fact, If you were to take a hundred eggs laid by pullets and weigh them and the fol lowing year you were to weigh another hundred eggs from the same birds you would find that the hundred eggs laid after they had rnached maturity were something over one and three-quarters pounds heavier than the eggs laid the previous year. The size of the chick at birth is In direct proportion to the size of the egg, and furthermore It bus been shown by careful experiment that a chick that is behind the rest at the start is slower In maturing, grows slower and, as a general rule, never does attain the size of its brother which had the head start. This is just as much a rule of poultry i Lady Eglantine, the White Leg horn hen here pictured, la the most famous hen in - the world. She Is owned by A. A. Christian of Mary land and laid 314 eggs In 8G5 days. Lady Eglantine, In her official egg laying, supervised by the United States government at the Delaware agricultural station, laid thirty nine pounds of eggs, or eleven times her own weight. The aver age American hen lays seventy eggs a year. Lady Eglantine Is twenty months old. raising as of any other line of animal husbandry. A pullet lays a small egg that hatches a small chick that fails to reach the size attained by another pullet hatched from a hen egg. In the course of time she comes Into laying and produces an egg that is slightly smaller than the one from which she was hatched, which in turn produces a chick that Is slightly smaller than she was at birth. This gradually subtracts from the size of the race. In addition, on an average the percentage of hen eggs that hatch as compared with pullet eggs Is 10 per cent greater. Chicks hatched from hen eggs show a mortality of 5 per cent, while those from pullet eggs show 'i mortality of 14 per cent lu experi ments conducted at the Kansas station. Poultry House Scream. In descriptions of poultry bouses reference is frequently made to mus- ln screens. Actually muslin is not )ften used, because it ia too thin to ex clude rain and In extremely cold times 's almost too open. In eastern Peun- lylvanla six ounce duck gives the best rentilation. Farther north, as In Maine, ten ounce duck is generally used. In more southern sections, or where the temperature Is moderated by some cause peculiar to that part of the country, muslin would probably be heavy enough. For the front of the roosting closet muslin is plenty heavy enough, except in the northern part of the country, where six ounce duck would most likely be needed. Country Gentleman. Egg Laying Propensities. In 1880 the average annual egg yield f each hen In the United States was thirty-seven, while now It Is seventv 8ome experts think It ought to be 100. Orange Judd Farmer. After La Grippe What? Coughs thath "ang on" aftr la ang on grippe exhaust the strength and lower the vital resistance. F. G. Prevo, Bedford, Ind., wris: "An attack of la grippe left me with a severe cough. tried everything. I lost in weight and got so thin it looked as if I would never get well. I tried Foley's Honey and Tar and two bottles cured me. I am now well and back to my normal weight." Foley's Honey and Tar gets right at the trouble. It is a safe, re liable remedy. Jones' Drug Co. STATE GIVEN DIVIDEND Industrial Accident Commission Will Make No February collections The State Industrial Accident Com mission today declared an exemption of payments for the month of Febru ary of all employers and the work men of these employers who have paid their contributions for the past six successive months. This action was taken in accordance with Section 19 of the Amended Law, the Commission having found that the Fund amounts to a sum sufficient to meet all payments and liabilities ac crued, together with a surplus of 30 per cent thereon. The Commission has set aside as segregated fund the sum of $277,859, 36 in the hands of the State Treasurer, who has invested same in Oregon School and Municipal Bonds drawing five and six per cent interest; and the above fund, and interest to accrue thereon, is an irrevocable fund which will be used exclusively to pay pen sions already awarded on settled claims in fatal cases and for perma nent disability. It has also invested $73,569.73 of the General Funds in School Bonds drawing interest, which will accrue to the credit of the Gen eral Fund. In addition to the above, the Com mission had on hand January, 31st, 1916, $209,617.93, and due from the state for the seven months preceding $42,829.36, and due the Commission on January payrolls and accounta receiv able an amount estimated at more than $50,000.00, making total assets $302,447.29. The liability of the Com mission consists entirely of unsettled claims, workmen who are still disabled and drawing pay for time lost, and fatal cases in process of adjustment, in an amount totalling $159,077.20 the Commission thus has net resourc es over all liabilities amounting to $143,370.09. The exemption declared by the Com mission means that the state will car ry the insurance risks of all opera tions in the state which are working under the act, and have qualified for the exemption, without cost to either employers or workmen, for the entire month, will pay all bills for care and time lost of injured workmen. Fully 85 per cent of all the hazardous oc cupations in the state are now pro tected by the act. In addition, a large number of non-hazardous occupations, including several hundred farmers, are, by application, enjoying the pro tection and benefit of the act, and will participate in this exemption. It is, in effect, a dividenl paid by the Commis sion, as an insurance company, back to employers and their workmen, of approximately $50,000.00, and is the second dividend of this kind declared by the Commission under the amended law since the beginning of the pres ent fiscal year July 1st, 1915. What Children Need Now In spite of the best care mothers can give them this weather brings sickness to many children. Safe, re liable family medicines are in demand. Mrs. T. Neureuer, Eau Claire, Wis., writes: "Foley's Honey and Tar cured my boy of a severe attack of croup after other remedies had failed. recommend it to everyone as we know from our experience that it is a won derful remedy for coughs, colds, croup and whooping cough." It stops the coughs that hang on and weaken after la grippe. Jones' Drug Co. HERE'S THE TRUTH Dr. Calvin S. White Takes a Rap at Fanciful "Boosts" of Portland In the Oregon Voter last week Dr. Calvin S. White, former secretary of the state board of health, took a good hearty paste at the Chamber of Com merce of Portland, and at its methods of "boosting" the Oregon metropolis and the state at large. Speaking of the fanciful fiction that the Cham ber of Commerce sends out, Dr. White wrote as follows: , "In the publication of the Chamber of Commerce "News I have noted with much interest many articles, both wise and otherwise. Very frequently it seemed to me the latter predominated. Their last editorial, however, attract ed my serious attention. "It stated in bold, heavy, black faced type that Portland was the healthiest city in the world. Just how they were able to arrive at this con- conclusion is, to one having some ex perience in vital statistics, a difficult matter to determine. "In 1910, as is their habit, the Federal Government detailed men to count noses and much was our dis gust to find that our population was only 207,000. Being thoroughly dis satisfied, the recently defunct Cham ber of Commerce appointed commit tees to check up the noses that had been overlooked. "The late Admiral Shepherd was given a detail on account of his vast experience along the water front, but with the very best we could do, even after almost landing some of our census enumerators in jail, we could not get 210,000. We also found to our disgust that many other cities in the United States had practically the same death rate Minneapolis, and even some cities in that flood-cursed country of Ohio. "Let us seriously figure a little: Multnomah County, 90 per cent of whose inhabitants live inside the limits of the City of Portland, had in: 1910, 2,463 deaths; 1911, 2,527 deaths; 1912, 2,365 deaths; 1913, 2,760 deaths; 1914, 2,686 deaths. "Now, with these figures before us, how we are able to get a gradually de creasing death rate with a yet in creased number of deaths is beyond my comprehension. "The same bulletin also carries in bold faced type the astounding infor mation that the population in Port land is 282,000. Now, inasmuch as these are all "estimated," why not make one good guess and say our population is 500,000 and put com petition off the map? As it is, in all probability Seattle will claim a death rate a little less than ours. "The population of Portland in all likelihood is not 282,000 or anywhere , 'You Can Do Better for Less on Third Street" Store Opens 8:30 A. M. Saturdays at 9 A. M. Pacific Phone Marshall 5080 The Most in Value The Best in Quality THE MOST IN VALUJ THE BEST IN QUALITY Store Closes 5:30 P. M. Saturdays a. 6 P. M. Home Phone A 2112 Mew SALE OF onnfi luaces AT ATTRACTIVELY LOW PRICES ' Just received by express a great special purchase of New Spring Laces that will go on sale tomorrow for the first time. Prudent women will find this to be an occasion for profitable buying for present and future needs. SHADOW ALLOVER LACES, IN J ft VALUES UP TO $1.25, AT, PER! II f YARD, , ffUu 36-inch Shadow Allover Laces in an elegant line of pretty new patterns in white, cream and ecru. They are imported silk mixed and cotton laces, made to sell regularly at $1.00 and $1.25 AQgs a yard priced here at TUV NOVELTY NET FLOUNCINGS, VAL- f ft UES UP TO $2.25 PRICED AT, (Jiff PER, YARD UUU Another great variety of Net Top Flouncings in 44-inch width; included are all the new patterns and colorings for Spring. Qualities worth QO up to $2.25. This Sale at ifOC NOVELTY NET EDGES, IN VAL- ft r UES UP TO 65c, PRICED AT, hf YARD UUU 5-inch Novelty Net Edges in patterns to match the flouncings. A variety so extensive that every taste may be suited. Qualities made to C sell regularly up to 65c. This Sale at.... J JC ORIENTAL EDGES, IN VALUES f ft UP TO $1.00, PRICED AT, PER HMO YARD, UUU High-grade Net Top Lace Edges in widths from 4 to 8 inches wide. They come in white, cream and ecru. Values to $1.00. This Sale CQq &t - FLOUNCINGS IN SILK AND ft 4 ft ft METAL PRICED AT THE UU Extremely high-grade Novelty Flouncings in both gold and silver they come in new patterns in 27 and 36-inch widths and in values .T 1 QO to $5.90. This Sale at.... N '0 ORIENTAL NET TOP EDGES 4 ft VALUES UP TO 35c, PRICED 1 1 1 0 AT, YARD I UU 2 to 5-inch Net Top Edges in white, cream and ecru shown in small and large floral and con ventional designs, in dainty lace effects. 1 f Values to 35c. This Sale at vC FINE ORIENTAL LACE EDGES, VALUES TO 50c, PRICED AT, PER VhA YARD LJj An elegant line of new patterns to select from. The latest effects in Venise Edges in widths from 4 to 7 inches. They come in white, cream and ecru. Values to 50c. This Sale at.... SILK NETS, IN VALUES UP ft ft TO $1.00 A YARD, SELLING NOW HP Both plain and fancy silk and cotton mixed Es pree Nets in 36-inch width black, white, blue, pink, brown, etc. Values to $1.00. Q This Sale at.... FLOUNCINGS IN SILK AND Ai af METAL SELLING FOR, THE JH YARD, 41 I iLU 18-inch Flouncings in silk nets with pretty pat terns worked in gold or silver; a splendid assort ment in $2.00 to $3.00 quality. (1 This Sale at M 1 NOVELTY NET FLOUNCINGS, IN 1f $1.50 GRADE, PRICED AT, PER UP YARD I UU 27-inch Novelty Net Flouncings, beautifully silk embroidered patterns in floral effects on both white and cream-colored nets. The patterns are in all the popular colors. A most desirable lace for party dresses. $1.50 grade ffQf selling at . 1 ' near, and in 1920, when the census is again taken, we are going to find out that the mortality rate of the city is somewhere in the neighborhood of thirteen or fourteen per thousand. "It would seem to me that there is enough real information to be given out concerning the City of Portland and the Pacific Northwest without delving into the realms of fiction or guess work, and any publication which emanated from the Chamber of Com merce ought to be true first and startling afterward." Dr. White's remarks might be taken to heart by "boosters" in other centers of progress, as well as in Portland. BIRD LOSS SMALL Reports of Storm Killing Thousands Found to Have Been Exaggerated Although the month ' of stormy weather that ushered in 1916 worked great hardship upon the birds in the state, W. L. Finley, state biologist and former game warden is of the opinion that the suffering of the feathered songsters was not as great as at first reported. So general was the spread of the "feed-the-birds" campaign that much was accomplish ed for the birds. "The publicity given the movement of feeding the birds has been instru mental in saving many lives that otherwise would have been lost," says Mr. Finley. "Organizations and in dividuals have combined in the effort save the birds, and their efforts have proved decidedly fruitful. "In the more populated parts of the city I have found that the birds have been both fed and housed and as they congregate at their feeding places they have been taken care of and have survived the extreme weath er. Most of the birds that have died uring the cold weather of the past few days succumbed Wednesday night, being unable to stand the intensity of the cold wind and fall of snow." ALL ABOUT "PIN MONEY" Once Upon a Time Pins Were Luxury and Folk Were Proud of 'Em When pins were first introduced in to England, less than 400 years ago, they were so expensive that only wealthy people could afford them, and those who could were as proud of the fact as people are today over the' pos session of automobiles. Then, as now, the statute books contained some very peculiar laws. Among them was a regulation per mitting manufacturers to sell their pins solely -cm January 1st and 2nd. So, when the good wife went forth on these dates to get her pins, she bought them with what she called her "pin money." To have "pin money" in those days was an indication of social position, and we can imagine the people liked to exploit the fact. The expression has been preserved with somewhat the same significance. To have "pin money" is to have money that does not have to be spent for necessities. It may be interesting to know that about 1,500 tons of iron and brass are used in the manufacture of pins in the United States yearly. From The People's Home Journal for February. GLADSTONE GOES DRY Trouble in Station Puts Neighboring Town to Inconvenience When the Gladstone council "pro moted" Victor Gault from superin tendent of the water department to chief of police, and appointed Will Johnson head of the water works, they unwittingly piled up trouble for them selves. Gault was formerly famous as a football player, and has the repu tation of being the strongest man in the community; whereas Mr. Johnson is not of such sturdy stature. On taking charge Mr. Johnson said that the battery system of" the pump ing plant was out of whack, and that he couldn't locate the trouble. He tried for a couple of days, and in the meantime Gladstone's water works ran dry in spite of the fact that the Clackamas was at flood stage and that melting snow had made lakes all over the city. Mr. Gault, on the other hand, opin ed that the batteries at the pumping plant were all right and that the only trouble was that Mr. Johnson lacked the requisite "beef" to turn the pumps over. Whatever the trouble, it was fixed up this week, and Gladstone once again drank water. manner in which to get hurt while coasting. Rosenthal went flying by a team of horses on his sled, and one of the steeds didn't like it and kick ed. The steel-shod hoof struck Ro senthal on the head, opening a deep gash in his scalp, and making it nec cessary to rush him to the office of physicians for treatment. Other accidents from coasting re sulted from spills, collisions with tele phone poles or trees, or crashes into the curbing. The Rosenthal way of getting hurt was novel, but failed to become popular. TEARFUL YOUTH GOES HORSE KICKS COASTER New Way to Get Hurt Found by Ten Year Old County Seat Youth While bob-sledding piled up its vic tims in the county seat last week, it remained for William Rosenthal, ten years old, to discover a brand new Man of Ready "Weeps" Not Wanted in Ranks of Marine Corps When the sweet strains of the song "Mother?' played by a street piano, wafted through windows kept wide open because of the balmy, spring-like weather of the last few days, a Cum berland, Md., recruit for the United States Marine Corps burst into tears and left the recruiting station of the "sea soldiers" in the Custom House Building at Baltimore. The recruit had not yet been en listed and the recruiting officers made no effort to prevent his leaving. "The sound of a bursting shell in battle might have conveyed the same sort of idea to that young fellow, and it is perhaps just as well," remarked one of the recruiting sergeants when the recruit, motherward bound, left the office. How are you fixed for letter heads and envelopes? Courier. You can get the Courier for one year for $1.00 if you pay in advance. I Los Angeles and return $55 from Portland Six Months Return Limit Stopovers at Pleasure On Sale Daily All rail route. Valley or Coast line between San Francisco and Los Angeles. 4 Daily trains Portland to San Francisco. Through standard and tourist sleeping cars, diners. Observation cars on limited trains. "The Road of a Thousand Wonders" Mt. Shasta Lassen Peak Mt. Tamalpais Cow Creek, Rogue River and Sacramento Canyons Santa Cruz, Santa Barbara and Los Angeles Co. Beaches Yosemite Valley, Bakersfield Oil Fields and Orange Empire Ask the Local Agent or Write John M. Scott, Gen. Pass. Agent., Portland Southern Pacific Q