MORNING ENTERPRISE. WEDNESDAY, JAMTJABY 31, 1912.
Woman's World
Mme. Maeterlinck's
Rules For Wives.
KMX. MATJKIOB MAETEKLINCK.
While it Is settled beyond a doubt
that Maurice Maeterlinck, the famous
Belgian author and philosopher, did
not recently come to this country, the
arrival of his talented wife. .Mme.
Georgette Leblanc Maeterlinck, is a
very well established fact. The wife
of the great playwright, poet, essayist
and sage, herself a famous singer, is
one of the most interesting personali
ties that have visited our shores. Slit
is a high priestess of the cult that
preaches the perfect wifehood, and she
has evolved a philosophy of her own
for reaching that happy destiny ''in
matrimony.
From this philosophy of hers Mme.
Maeterlinck has torn ten burning pre
cepts, which she calls "A Wife's Ten
Commandments." They are:
First. Kemember always that the
true wife is the inseparable half of the
only complete human unit, in which
two small and imperfect individuali
ties have become merged into a large
and perfect one. "
Second. Each half of the wedded
whole retains special functions. Yours
are to discern, to anticipate, to yield,
to cheer, to soothe, and thus to
strengthen.
Third. Never trust to hirelings t he
essentials of your husband's physical
well being. Understand and frequently
practice the art of selecting aud pre
paring his food.
Fourth. Be sure each day that his
garments are whole and clean and suit
ed to the season.
Fifth. Constitute yourself an infal
lible barometer whereby to forecast
and render harmless those electrical
disturbances peculiar to the married
state.
Sixth. Be to your husband's dark
moods the subtle, unsuspe.-ted antip
ode; to his joyous mood the compan
ion spirit of joy.
Seventh. Save your caresses until
you perceive that his dinner has been
without a flaw. Kisses to a hungry man
are like froth to a parched tongue.
Eighth. Your tongue for assent; for
argument use only your eyes.
Ninth.-When your husbirnd has an
attack of gout deprecate the art of
dancing.
Tenth. If you would convince your
husband that you are a better actress
than Bernhardt, a better dancer .thau
Pavlowa. prove to him that you are a
better cook than M. Escoffier.
About Bedroom Curtains.
Since fresh air at night has become
imperative the right way to .curtain a
bedroom must be studied. Every win
dow must be raised at top and bottom,
which is better for lungs aud complex
ion than for hangings.
The specialist advises no curtains; so
will most men. who rarely like the
dainty draperies dear to women. Few
housekeepers agree with this, even the
health fanatic. Nothing furnishes a
room like fresh white curtains. Be
sides, the publicity of the uncurtained
room is objectionable, not to mention
the bare look of the outside of a house.
The woman who believes in fresh
air never bangs at her bedroom win
dows curtains that cannot be laundered
easily or that are ruined by dampness.
Windows up the year around soon
works havoc on delicate lace or colored
curtains.
Double draperies are not advisable
for the bedroom. Tpo much air is shut
out, though they are lifted back each
night. Where one will have them
choose denim, wash prints or heavy
wash silks that will stand tubbing.
One woman fastens to the side lin
tels of her windows, high above the
middle sash, a small hook. In a con
venient place she keeps cords for each
Aalf of curtain, and her maids are
taught when preparing the room for
the night to loop the curtains up and
back, thus giving a free current of air.
The most practical method of cur
taining a bedroom is to divide the cur
tains in two sections horizontally. - A
rod is run at the top of thejower sash
and the lower half run on it by a nar
row casing. The upper curtain is 'cut
longer than the lower one and hung to
a rod at the top of the casement so
they conceal the lower rod.
By this arrangement the window can
be lifted with bo floating draperies to
. blow out the window and get stringy,
yet the room has the benefit of cur-
His Fool Question.
"I thought that in the fifteen years
of my practice of medicine," said a
physician, "I bad answered almost ev
ery possible 'fool' question, but a new
one was sprung on me recently. A
young man came In with an inflamed
eye, for which I prescribed medicine
to be dropped into the eye three times
a day. He left the office, but returned
In a few minutes, poked his head in
the doorway and asked. 'Shall I drop
this in the eye before meals or after? "
Everybody's.
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A Little Off.. -v
An old lady was talking with a
friend about a bishop.
"He's a fine man," said the friend,
"a fine, handsome man. His only
trouble Is that he's a little bit belli
cose." " .
' "Bellicose?" said the old lady, with
a surprised frown. "He must have
changed then. The last time I saw
him he was tall and rather slender."
Rebellion.
Willie (after the chastisement) Ma,
I don't think I can stand your husband
anv lonzer!
INAFOG
An American In London
Seeks Adventure
In One
By Edwin C Chandler
Were you ver in a London fog? I
have been, and I never knew what a
fog was before. A real fog in England
isn't the sort we have in America, In
which two people may see each other
dimly when a few feet apart. Oh, no;
it isn't that at all. One niay be right
alongside another and not be able to
tell whether there is any one there un
less he hears a sound. --
I always stop at a hotel in Charing
Cross when in London, and on this
morning when the fog came down, but
toning my coat up around my ' throat
and taking a cane in my hand for
blind man's purposes, I sallied forth,
intending to work my way through
Pall -Mall to Regent street, thence up
to Oxford street and down into one of
the parks.
"Beg pardon, sir," came a man's
voice, the owner of which had nearly
knocked me down, "can you tell me
where I am?"
"Piccadilly circus," came another
voice through the mist.
"Oh, dear! I thought I was in
Whitehall!"
Laughter came out of nowhere like
the mockery of spirits.
I was glad to know where I was my
self, for I hadn't the slightest idea.
However, I had plenty of company, for
I could hear the busses and their driv
ers snarling at one another in a dead
lock. "Who are you?" I asked of one I
seized by the arm to prevent my fall-
"fob heaven's sake," i exclaimed,
"BETTY AROHABD!''
ing backward into the street off the
curbstone.
"I'm a bobby."
"Oh, I see! No, I don't see. I mean,
I know. We call you fellows cops in
America. Point me toward Oxford
street."
"There you are, sir. Keep right on,
and you'll come to IV .. l
I slipped a shilling into his hand and
pursued my way. I had scarcely left
him when I felt a hand on my sleeve,
evidently put there for some such pur
pose as I had put mine on the bobby's,
and, since it was small and gloved, I
knew by the sense of touch alone that
It was a woman's.
"Oh, heavens," came a sweet voice;
"I'm frightened to death!". Then a
chuckle seemed to deny the assertion.
"Can I assist you, madam or miss?
I don't know which?"
"I wish to go to Oxford circus."
"Then, you are in luck. A bobby has
just pointed me that way." "
"Would you mind taking me under
your protection? You are a gentle
man, I see." ' '
"You see that I am a gentleman?
Then I must be blind. I see nothing."
"I mean I can tell that you are a
gentleman from your voice and in
tonation." . -
I crooked my arm and felt her hand
slipped through it. We walked on
very slowly, I feeling the way with
the end of my stick. I wondered if
she was pretty. How can we men
blame women for vanity when we ad
mire beauty and have so little use for
homeliness. I Judged from her voice
she must be young, though I could not
be certain.
"Why do you wish to reach Oxford
circus?" I asked.
"I can get the tube there."
"The tube! There's an idea in that
to please the mole. We humans like
to emerge from underground into the
light, where we can the better see.
You are wishing to get underground
where you can not only see, but move
rapidly." . ' ' -
She gave another chuckle.
. "And yet," she rejoined, "there are
cases where it may be better not to
see at any rate, be seen."
"Such as" "
"Why, we women are dependent for
our happiness on our looks. I have
never on that account been so happy
as now. I am on an equal footing with
the most . beantlfuf woman in tha
world." . - ' V
"Perhaps you mean that a homely
woman is in this fog on an equal foot
ing with you." '
. Another .chuckle. j
"If it were better that we should see
all things," I said, "Providence would
have opened up to us the spiritual
world."
"There is another per contra in this
existence it is better that we should
see. As to the spiritual world, it is
better that we should remain in igno
rance." ' .. '-
"True. You have evidently studied
ahout these things."
"You seem to be of a philosophic
turn of mind yourself."
"I have always been so. It seems to
me that sooner or later We are forced
into philosophy. There is a gradual
fading of all things"
"Don't knock me down!" said a voice
of one I jostled, a feminine voice.
"Beg pardon, madam."
"I'm not madam, thank you. I'm
miss." '
' "Why did she resent being called
madam?" I asked of my companion. "
"I can construct her from that re
mark as Professor Huxley used to con
struct an animal from a single bone.
She is an elderly woman who has been
disappointed in love. Consequently
the bare mention of the married state
irritates her. just as the mention of
education irritates ignorant persons."
"The fog does not conceal the fact
that you are a thinker."
'"Any more than it conceals that you
are a philosopher. Yet, after all, we
are simply using one sense instead of
another for communicating, just as
the brute woulfl do the same thing.
Did yog hear that dog bark? That
was to let his master, who can't see
him and whom he can't see. know
where he is. You and I can't see each
other. Therefore we use our voices
and our ears just as the dog has."
"From all of which I can construct
one feature about you, just as. you con
structed the woman who was provok
ed that I called her 'madam.'
"She was not provoked. Her retort
was simply a feminine inconsistency.
But go on with your reconstruction of
me." '
"You are not beautiful."
"How have you arrived at that
truth?" "
"You are too intelligent. Beauty
and brains rarely go together." -
We. heard a voice ask, "Where am
I?" and another say, "Oxford street,"
so we knew we were on that thor
oughfare. "Now I think I can guide you to the
tube entrance," I said to the lady I
was piloting. "Which way do you
wish to be transported ?"
"To the Lancaster gate station." .
I knew which way to turn, anJ by
shouting the question, "Where Is the
tube entrance?" I might have soon
been directed to it. But I was loath
to awake from the illusion I had
formed in spite of what I had said
that the gloved hand resting on my
arm belonged to" a pretty woman. "
"I presume," I said in order to do a
little pumping, "that you live near
Lancaster gate?'
"I board there. I do not live in Lon
don." "Indeed! Nor do I."
"You need not tell me that. I know
from your intonation that you are an
American."
"I am. And you?"
""I am an American too."
"I would never know that from your
speech."
-"That is because my home is in
Canada. But I was educated in the
United States." .
' '"Where?" " ' '.;
"At Smith college."
"'Good gracious !"
"Why do you exclaim?"
"Because I am an Amherst man."
"Tube to your right!" cried a voice.
I was now quite ready to see my
companion's face, so I turned with her
into the tube entrance and in a mo
ment was standing in a lighted space,
where I could see her plainly.
"For heaven's sake!" I exclaimed.
"Betty Archard!"
There was" no surprise on her face,
only a pair of dancing eyes and a mis
chievous smile. -
"You were very stupid not to recog
nize me by my voice," she' said. "I
knew you by yours at once."
"I thought I had heard that chuckle
before," I said. " .
"Had you?"
"Yes, and if I had heard it anywhere
but in a" London fog I would have rec
ognized you by it."
,"And yet I knew you by the first
sound you uttered."
"Oh, women are much quicker than
men in such matters?"
"In nothing else?" "
"Well, yes; your constructions 'from
the hoof,' so to speak, were brighter
than mine."
We went down in the elevator they
have in a London tube .station . and
took a .train. When we reached Lan
caster gate we emerged, and I piloted
Betty, blind man fashion, again to her
boarding house, where she was good
enough to keep me to lunch.
It does not require much foresight to
construct from this meeting in a fog
a continuance of an incipient love af
fair that had taken place several years
before between two college students.
And, having gone so far, one may
point out the natural result, a girl
keeping a man for a long while on the
anxious seat and finally yielding just
when she had succeeded in making him
believe his case was hopeless. There
have been a number of strange coinci
dences in my life, but this meeting the
woman who was to become my wife
and chatting with her without being
able to see her is the strangest of then
all.
Comparisons.
Miles That fellow Puffem reminds
me of a bass drum.
Giles Hand It to me slowly. I'm
troubled with ingrowing nerves.
Miles He makes a lot of noise, but
there's nothing in him.
Unsubstantial Fare.
"Come, now, I don't believe you've
really dined.'-
"I have on my honor."
"Oh, that meal won't last you any
time! Come in and have a sirloin."
Boston Transcript
FOR A LITTLE MAID.
. A Smart Brown
Velveteen Model.
MODISH VELVETEEN FROCK.
Velvet must be used very simply in
children's f.-ocks, and this model of
brown velveteen, with its . straight
skirt and " short bodice, with cream
lace collar and cuffs, is in very good
style. A brown cord finishes the
waistline. . ' -
Googoo Eyes. Make Turks Happy.
"The maidens of Turkey have learn
ed to make American googoo eyes.
They have learned to flirt like an
American belle or a Paris girl." .
So said Sidkey Bey. ' discussing the
new regime in Turkey today. He was
formerly second secretary to the Turk
ish embassy at Washington, afterward
acting consul general in New York.
Sidkey " Bey. K here with his wife,
handsome and talented. He went on;
. "In the old days a woman in Turkey
couldn't flirt because her glances were
wasted on the wrong side of her veil.
Now she can use hei eyes to advan
tage, and she knows it. The Turk
knows it, too, and is glad she does not
wear the veil.
"In these days the American court
ship is carried on In Turkey. The
young man calls at the girl's house
and even goes so far as to take her
out for a walk just like the American
or Englishman. Then he pops the
question, and if she accepts they are
eventually married if some other fel
low does not come along whom the girl
might Uke better." -
To the Bachelor Girl,
The bachelor girl, especially at the
outset of her career, is usually bright,
jolly, in ;love with life apd the good
times she is having. Every one likes
her because her outlook on life is sc
cheery. She is welcomed everywhere.
Her social calendar is usually filled.
But if she wants to continue popular,
if she wants her life to remain inter
esting, she should as the years slip by
keep strict watch and ward upon her
self. v
For this gay, careless life of . the
bachelor girl is apt to make her self
centered, self absorbed. She grows
selfish. She is apt to be concerned
only with herself and her own af
fairs. .
And gradually, little by little, lovable
ness slips out of her character, and be
fore she knows it life will not be full
of bloom and fragrance. There will be
barren spots. It will begin to take on
the hue of the desert. And unless she
heeds these signs of the times she
will come to a rather desolate old age.
Pots of Glass.
A process has recently been invented
In France to produce glass flowerpots
at very low cost. The pots are like or
dinary flowerpots both in size and
shape. They are said to be more sub
stantial and have proved to resist the
pressure of ice or frozen earth better.
Being handsome In appearance, they
are fine for potted plants, doing away
with the paper coverings that soon- get
soiled. When sunk into the earth they
remain clean, as neither dirt nor moss
adheres. The inside walls being smooth,
plants can easily be slipped out, and
they are therefore excellent for pot
ting plants with many roots. - The
thickness of the glass, with the conse
quent lack of porosity. Is also said to
be an advantage, for. the air remains
sweet longer in a glass pot than in an
ordinary pot, and there is less danger
of drying out While the initial cost of
glass pots is somewhat higher, they are
really cheaper in the end because more
durable.
"Yes," said the literary man with a
sigh, "style is a fine thing for a writer
to have, but when his wife's got it, too.
It takes all the profit away." Harper's
Weekly.
Th Book That Held Him.
. "Yes. I picked up this book last
night and I never budged out of my
chair until 4 o'clock this morning."
"Indeed? Was it that interesting?"
"No, but 1 didn't wake up until that
time."
mi wprs or it.
"I understand - young Spendit -has
gone such a pace that his father cuts
him now."
"Yes, but what Is worrying Spendit
is that his father cuts his allowance
J too." New York American. '
00L MEETING TO
BE HELD IN MULENO
County Superintendent of Schools
Gary and the three supervisors will
attend a parent-teachers meeting at
Mulino Saturday. F. B. Hamlin,
principal of the Molalla school, will
speak on "What Parents can do to
help the Schools." George F. Thomp
son, principal of the Jennings Lodge
School also will deliver an address.
The parents and teachers - will be
asked to give suggestions for improv
ing the schools. Addresses will be
made by Superintendent Gary, and
the supervisors, Messrs. Calavan, An
derson and Mrs. Shaw. This will be
the first parent-teacher meeting held
in the county in which all the super
visors will have been present.
CORRESPONDENCE
OAK GROVE.
Mts. Julia Holt is better and able
to leave the hospital. She will go to
the home of her mother, Mrs. Garner,
at Vancouver, Wash., and stay for a
month or until "she recovers. .
Dr. J. H. Mc Arthur returned home
from Chicago Friday where he spent
two months at a medical college tak
ing a special course in surgery.
Misses Kilgon and Cook were Port
land visitors Friday.
. Mrs.. Roy Kissby, of Portland, was
a visitor here Thursday.
Professor Butler has selected a
squad from his class and will take
the debating team - from the same,
namely, Robert Gosgriff, Earl John,
Lowell Paget, Lindsay McArthur, Bar
ton Sherk, Lilly Hartman, Edna
Schubert, Hilda Stromer and 7 Ruth
Horton. The Gladstone school with
drew on account of lack of interest of
the-pupils. The pupils who will par
ticipate in the Oratorical contest is
Lindsay McArthur, Robert Cosgriff,
Lowel Paget,. James Peppard and
Donald Bates. . Several pupil3 have
entered 4;he short story contest from
school.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Kendall left Sat
urday evening for Amity and spent
the week-end with Mr. Kendall's
mother.
Alike.
Willis Some of these rich fellows
seem to think that they can buy their
way into heaven by leaving a million
dollars to a church when they die.
Gillis I don'f know but that they
stand as much chance as some of these
other rich fellows who are trying to
get in onv the installment plan of 10
cents a Sunday while they're living.
Lippincott's.
DOING YOUR DUTY.
Those who da it always wou'd
as soon think o( being conceited of
eatinc their dinnei as ol doing the.r
dutv. What honest boy would pride
himsrli on not picking a Lockel ? A
ituel wh.) was trviiip to -letarm
would. Geoiae Macdonald.
Labor Question.
Lady of Holism -iu s-iv you wiTfe!
At tttinfr Holto At iulrvMis; New
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THE
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OREGON HOP MARKET
IS
Trade in the Or.egon hop market
has come very near to a standstill,
and ' the market, according to some
dealers, shows a little less strength
than at the first of the month. Best
grade 1911s are supposed to be worth
43 1-2 to 44 l-2c, but for the time there
is practically no business at those or
any other figures- under way.
The reported weakness of the mar
ket, however, is probably more appar
ent thar, real, for liiere is no denial
in any quarter of the fact that a good
many of the brewers of this country
will yet have to buy hops, and in con
siderable quantities, before the com
ing crop is available. The prices they
will pay in covering their wants are
yet to be determined, but there would
seem to be small prospect of their
buying at prices under the present
level.
Dealers say the larger -brewers of
the country are fairly well supplied
for the remainder of the season - but
that with the smaller operators the
situation is quite different. The lat
ter are holding off against the prices
now being asked for hops, and to their
action in the main is attributed the
present inactivity of the market.
Latest reports regarding the pro
gress . of the proposed combine of
growers' and brewers' interests, of
which E. Clement Horst is the chief
promoter, indicate that the scheme is
having some rather rough sledding,
the interest of some of the Eastern
brewers in the . project having waned
to some extent. In some quarters the
prediction is freely made that the en
terprise will come to nothing, or in
the event it is carried through to suc
cess that it will have to be on line
quite different from those proposed by
Horst in the beginning. Just what
will be the shape and scope of the
combine, in case it goes through, is
wholly a matter of uncertainty.
. The recent sale of Horst of 800 bales
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of 1911 hops to an Eastern brewer at
43 l-2c, delivered, is not believed to
have any significance in connection
with the proposed organization of
growers and brewers.
There is a fair demand for contracts
for 1912 hops at 26 to 26 l-2c, and in
California and Washington considera
ble business in that line is said tto
have been put through since the first
of the year. In this state the grow
ers are holding off, with the result
that contract business to date has
amounted to little.
Prevailing Oregon City prices are as
follows:
DRIED FRUITS (Buying) Prunes
on basis of 6 1-4 pounds for 45-50's.
Fruits, Vegetables.
HIDES (Buying) Green hides, 5c
to 6c; salters, 5 to 6c; dry hides, 12c
to 14c; sheep pelts, 25c to 75c each.
May, Grain, Feed.
J HAY (Buying) Timothy, $12 to
i$15; clover, $8 to $9; oat hay, best,
'9 to $10; mixed, $9 to $12; alfalfa,
: $15 to $16.50.
j OATS (Buying) Gray, $27 to $28;
'wheat, $28 to S29: oil meal
Shady Brook dairy feed, $1.25 per 100
pounds.
FEED (Selling) Shorts, $26; roll
ed barley, $39; process barley, $40;
whole corn, $39; cracked corn. $40;
bran $25.
! FLOUR $4.50 to $5.25.
Butter, Poultry, Eggs. ,
1 POULTRY (Buying) Heua, 10c to
11c; spring, 10 to 11c, and roosters,
8c.
Buttei' (Buying) Ordinary coun
try butter, 25c to 30c; fancy dairy,
40c.
EGGS Oregon ranch eggs, 30c to
35c.
SACK VEGETABLES Carrots,
$1.25 to $1.50 per sack; parsnips,
$1.25 to $1.50; turnips, $1.25 to $1.50;
beets, $1.50.
POTATOES Best buying 85c to
$1 per hundrea.
hundred; Australian, $2 per hundred.
ONIONS Oregon, $1.25 to $1.50 per
Lvestock, Meats.
BEEF (Live weight) Steers, 5c
and 5 1-2; cows, 4 l-2c; bulls, 3 l-2c
VEALi Calves bring from 8c to
13c, according to grade.
MUTTON Sheep, 3c and 3 l-2c;
lambs, 4c and 5c.
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