THE 'MORNING OREGONIAN, SATURDAY. NOVE3IBER 16, 1912.
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FORTTAXD, SATURDAY, NOT. 1. 1MI
WHAT ROOSEMTLT AOCOMTTJSHED.
According to the New York Press
which Munsev uses to promote the
so-called Progressive party, "Wilson
won 358 electoral rotes In thirty-two
states. In every one of which he se
cured less votes than the combined
Taft and Roosevelt vote. Had that
-fimWBd vote been cast for one man
he would have been elected President
fey a majority of 185 electoral votes.
XVIUnn aernrsd a rjlurality over both
Taft and Roosevelt In only 16 states
nrits 17S alactoral votes. What Koose
velt has done is not to annihilate the
Republican party, as he boasts, but
.n elect a Democr&tlo President sup
'ported by a minority of the popular
i vote.
tt Trtnria that thin was necessary
In order to advance the Progressive
cause. The figures prove that it was
not. His popular vote appears 10 ex
Tuft's, hv 800.000 or 700.000
Probably if we could deduct from his
total the Democratic votes he secured
nil If nr onuM add to Taft s total the
Republican votes which were cast for
"Wilson for no other purpose than to
Insure Roosevelt's defeat, we should
find that about half the rormer ite
TM.hllrnns voted the Progressive tick
et But these are by no means all
thA nrosresslve Republicans. Hosts
of men who had proved their fidelity
th cause of Drosress in warm cam
paigns and In energetic debates in
Congress, when Roosevelt was suu
working- hand-In-glove with Aldrich
nnrf Cannon, remained with the tie
publican party. They believed that,
if all progressives would pursue the
game course, they could gain control
nf th nnrtv. dictate its candidates, its
platform and its policies and make it
in fact the progressive party. ine
figures prove that they were right
ia mnrh morn than half of the
party was progressive and could and
would have lmposea its wm on me
reactionaries, who were in a hopeless
minority. A ticket thus nominatea
pnnlH hnvA Been elected and we should
now have, been looking forward to a
progressive Republican Instead of a
Democratic administration.
Who prevented this progressive
trlumnh? Roosevelt and no other
man Hurl ha but stood aside at. Chi
cago and listened to overtures for the
maintonanro of nartv unity. Hadley
Borah, Cummins or some other man
whose progressiveness he could not
have denied would have Deen nomi
nntprl on a rilatform indisputably pro
gressive. Such a man could have
swept the country. The sole obstacle
was Roosevelt, his ambition, his in
sistence that he was the one and only
nrnprpssivB leader.
A lasting American party was never
yet organized around a single person
oiitv and it TiMver will be. until this
TCation is ready to sink to the level of
Central and South American republics.
rASS PROSPERITY AROOU IN ORE
GON. The Made-ln-Oregon movement is
to be promoted by the convention of
rtrrrnn manufacturers on November
21 and by the Made-in-Oregon dinner
to follow the convention, as wen as
by the general observance of that day
as Home Industries day In the fac
tories, stores and schools, on the lines
suggested in Governor West's proc
lamation. It is a movement deserving
the patriotic support of every Ore
gonian. In case any of our citizens
are deaf to the appeal of state pa
triotism, this movement should re
ceive their support from selfish
motives.
Every citizen of the state, from the
producer of the raw material and the
manufacturer to the consumer, has
an Interest in promoting- the purchase
of Oregon products and in purchasing
them himself. The producer of raw
material is helping- to broaden his
market every time he buys an article
made in Oregon, for he is contribut
ing to an enlarged demand, which will
employ more men who will buy the
articles made from his material.
The manufacturer who buys Oregon
raw material and Oregon machinery
Is making customers for himself an 3
other manufacturers by Increasing the
number of men who will need his
products.
The merchant who urges the pur
chase of Oregon-made groods contrib
utes to the regular employment of
more men in factories and thereby
adds to the number of his prospective
customers.
The consumer who gives preference
to made-in-Oregon goods is contributing-
directly to his own prosperity.
If he be a workman he is clinching
his hold on his job. If he be a farmer
he helps to increase the number of
consumers for his farm produce. If
he be a lawyer or a doctor, he is adding-
to the number of possible clients
or patients. Whatever be his calling,
in helping to swell the total of
made-ln-Oregon goods, he is helping
himself.
Fully 90 per cent of the commodi
ties consumed by the average family,
by the manufacturer, farmer, mer
chant, can be made In Oregon. " A
much smaller proportion of each ar
ticle Included in that 80 per cent is
now being- made in this state. Each
of us can enhance his own prosperity,
swell his own fortune, by doing his
part towards swelling that proportion
to the full 90 per cent possible.
An Australian farmer has discov
ered a method of destroying- stumps.
He bores a two-inch augur hole and
pours in nitric acid, followed by sul
phuric acid. This treatment rots the
stump so completely in five weeks
that it can be knocked to pieces with
a hoe. About half a pint of each
acid suffices for a three-foot stump
and Dr. S. W. McClure says the cost
should not exceed 20 cents. This
method is an improvement on present
methods, but is open to the same gen
eral objection that it destroys the
stumps instead of utilizing them. As
we have already pointed out, stumps
contain a number of valuable ingre
dients, which should be extracted and
sold, and the residue should be re
duced to charcoal a'nd also sold. It is
high time we began finding a use for
all so-called waste products from
stumps to cornstalks. That is true
conservation.
.SIR THOMAS UPTON.
The thing about Sir Thomas Lipton
that endears him to the American
heart is not his rare combination of
title, wealth and democracy. Nor is
it his bountiful good nature, kindly
disposition and the fact that we have
beaten him in several hard-fought
yacht races. Rather, it is his magnif
icent spirit of sportsmanship.
The world loves a good loser, and
when it comes to being a good loser
Sir Thomas has displayed the fact
that he is a master of that difficult
art. Not, to be sure, that he makes
a practice of being a loser. For with
his speedy yachts he has trounced the
proud old Emperor William's finest
racing craft, and, in all, has lifted
more cups than the output of a dozen
cup factories running full blast for
an indefinite period might supply.
Why, in the past year, he has cap
tured twenty.
But there's one cup he hasn't been
able to win, and naturally that's the
one he most desires. It is a battered
old sliver trophy that rests secure this
side of the pond. Three times Sir
Thomas has contested for it, spending
millions in the endeavor, and each
time he has smilingly failed.
It was the smile that always went
with the failure that made Sir Thom
as immortal as a sportsman. It wasn't
a forced smile, either, , but a spon
taneous smile; one that denoted a
nature big enough to laugh at Fate.
It set a new standard in sportsman
ship and hasn't been matched before
or since, although mirth has often
been simulated by those introduced
to defeat.
Now Sir Thomas scents an oppor
tunity to '"conquer that portion of the
yachting world which has resisted his
designs to date. He Is hastening to
San Francisco in the interest of an
international yachting meet - on the
Pacific to be held at the 1915 Fair.
No doubt Sir Thomas has visions of
fulfilling the ambition of many years
with a new Shamrock and in that de
lectable ambition we cannot but wish
him well. At least he can show us
all over again what a magnificent
loser he is.
RETtrDIAXTNO ITS OWN RECORD.
Being dissatisfied with the policy of
Collier's Weekly under the editorship
of Mr. Hapgood, the sole proprietor
retired him, and put his own name
over the sanctum door as editor. Of
course there Is no reason why a Col
lier should not edit Collier's Weekly
not at all. Being convinced of . that
indisputable fact, Editor Collier has
started out to prove in his own col
umns that it was always Collier's
Weekly, anyway, and never Hapgood's
Weekly. He makes clear his conten
tion by declaring that Mr. Hapgood
was "only one editorial writer on
Collier's staff; less than half the edi
torials published this year were from
his pen.". Many such articles, it ap
pears, were from the pen of Louis D.
Brandels, though printed as editorials,
When Mr. Hapgood retired it was
given out from the Collier's side that
political differences had caused the
split for Hapgood Insisted on support
ing Wilson. When Editor Collier got
the editorial pen safely in his hand
he made a flying leap to the Roosevelt
ship. Just in time to be a victim of the
wreck.
Now Hapgood says the real reason
of his dismissal was commercial, for
the advertising department wanted to
run things.
We have a suspicion that both sides
are telling the truth, and will let it go
at that. Collier s has always taken a
large and aggressive interest in West
ern affairs and was something of a
factor in bringing about a crisis with
the present National Administration.
What interests us just now is the
authoritative declaration, from the
editor and sole proprietor of Collier's,
that its editor during all the years of
its militant and pernicious activity
was so untrustworthy and undesirable
a person.
SMOKING ON STREETCARS.
The sympathies of a San Franciscan
who recently visited Portland go out
to the poor smokers who have been
stopped from puffing cigars, pipes and
cigarettes on the streetcars in this city.
In a letter to The Oregonian he in
vltes us to "take a crack at some of
your milk-and-water would-be men
who stand out so strong for the anti-
smoke car act." He also enlightens
us with a clipping from a Los Angeles
newspaper giving a symposium of in
tervlews with prominent men who op
pose a similar ordinance lns the Cali
fornia city.
We Imagine that a "crack" at the
friends of the anti-smoking ordinance
would hit a majority of the Portland
voters, even excluding the newly-honored
sex from the count. There
is an argument for granting the
privilege in restricted portions of
cars in Los Angeles which can
not be applied in Portland. Los
Angeles' climate permits the operation
of a peculiar type of car the year
around. The two ends have open
seats, while the middle is Inclosed.
Smoking is confined to the open-air
seats in front-
In Portland the prevailing type of
streetcar is vestibuled at both ends.
One vestibule is used for entrance and
both for egress. There are few things
more repulsive than stale toDaoco
smoke, and in a small compartment
like the front or rear platform of a
Portland streetcar its continued pres
ence would become unbearable.
Our sympathetic correspondent
wants to know what chance the poor
chap has who lives on the East Side
to get an after-breakfast puff. The
query Is an argument in Itself for pro
hibition of smoking on closed or open
cars. We do not know what is the
average length of time spent by the
streetcar patron in the journey from
his home to his place of employment
We imagine thirty minutes is an ex
cessive estimate. The man who un
dergoes misery when deprived of to
bacco for thirty minutes, even if it is
after breakfast is making a beast of
himself. He needs a short depriva
tion for his own good. This fact and
the freedom from annoyance given
non-smokers by the ordinance make it'
an act in the interest of health and
public comfort. If the streetcar com
pany ever gives us a car so built that
the smokers can go off by themselves
to puff and stink without annoying
and befouling others, the Portland or
dinance may be modified, but not be
fore.
HUMBUGGING THE FCBUC.
The danger of pre-election proph
ecy Is great unless one knows what he
Is talking about The fatal gift, of
fluency,, when bestowed on a person
or a newspaper that does not know,
and. apparently does not care to know
what it is talking about, leads often
to embarrassing consequences, as the
New York Mail, the Bull Moose organ
has reason to feel. The day before
the recent election the Mail had
first-page flare-head prediction of
Roosevelt's overwhelming success. A
paragraph will illustrate the tone of
the article: .
In nine states Roosevelt Is absolutely sure
of carrying the election by safe pluralities.
These states are California with Its thirteen
electoral votes, Illinois with Its twenty-nine,
Pennsylvania with its thirty-eight, Mtcht
gan with fifteen. Kansas ten. Connecticut
seven. Oregon five, Washington seven and
Minnesota twelvo. This meana that Koose
velt starts with 129 votes.
Here are enumerated all the states
Roosevelt carried, and some Illinois,
Kansas, Connecticut and Oregon
which he did not carry; and it is still
an open question about the "absolute.
ly sure" State of California. So
Roosevelt did not start with 129, but
he started with sixty-five from Penn
sylvania, Michigan, Washington and
Minnesota, and he stops there, unless
he also gets California.
If the Mail believed what it said, it
can offer the plea only, that It was
so obsessed by the Roosevelt bug that
it could believe anything. If it did
not believe what it said, it has
strange view of its duty to its read
ers.
BACILLI AND HAIR.
It Is welcome pews that a college
professor has perfected an extermi
nating agent for that particular brand
of bacillus which infests the human
scalp, propagating its kind in millions
and subsisting with its multifarious
progeny upon the roots of the lavish
hirsulte growth peculiar to the scalp
A crying need of the human race Is
supplied after having gone unfulfilled
for centuries. True, various tonsorlal
artists have asserted possession - of
eradicators of this pestiferous pest
but experience has developed the fact
that the tonsorial eliminators operate
only on the pocketbook. ,
The college professor in question
went about solving the bald-headed
problem in a most practicable way.
He recognized at the offset that loss
of hair is due wholly to the omnivor
ous activities of bacilli which have
total lack of regard for the principles
of conservation. They find in the
tangled hirsulte forests and Jungles
an ideal field for activity and com
fort. Warmth is supplied gratis, ra
diating from the scalp day and night.
Moisture- proceeds from, the same
source. Usually a tight hat band con
serves this heat and moisture so that
the entire scalp area becomes a sort
of bacilli incubator, preserving that
foetid atmosphere which so delights
the luxury-loving bacillus. In course
of time the colony develops into a
veritable nation, which in turn over
runs itself, and having no outlet for
emigration, the busy little creatures
strip their habitat as clean as a bil
liard ball and are left to perish of
innutrition.
It is to save them from this cruel
fate, and incidentally to conserve the
world's remaining hair supply, that
the professor proceeded with his ex
pertinents. He concluded that the
sole function of any effective curative
must be to destroy the germs in the
early stages of their activities. Hence
the deadly compound which he an
nounces as certain to spread death
and pestilence in the realms of hirsute
bacilli. If his compound proves ef
fective the professor should be set
down as one of the benefactors of
mankind.
DR. FOSTER ON SEX HYGIENE.
The other day The Oregonian took
occasion to comment upon Dr. Charles
W. Eliot's plain-spoken address to
the Harvard freshmen on early mar
riage. Today we wish to say some
thing about President W. T. Foster's
talk before the Federation of Wom
en's Clubs last Thursday. Both his
address and Dr. Eliot's relate inti
mately to the subject of the improve
ment of human life by eradicating
sexual vice. The ex-president of
Harvard perceives that it is measur
ably useless to exhort young men to
forsake their sins unless we point out
to them clearly and distinctly the
pathway of virtue and convince them
at the same time that it leads to hap
plness. The human race is so created
that it craves happiness and will try
to get it. If the goal seems to be
unattainable through virtue it will be
sought through vice and nothing can
prevent. The old-fashioned evangel
istlo preaching was largely Ineffective
because it merely urged people to for
sake their sins without showing them
anything better to choose. Dr. Eliot
did not make this fatal blunder, nor
did President Foster.
His text was the need of education
in the hygiene of sex and he illus
trated It with some terrible examples.
There Is no doubt whatever that a
great deal of what passes for "purity"
in the imaginations of parents is, as
he said, really nothing better than
gross Ignorance on their children's
part Ignorance of the most important
and interesting subject in the "world
The new movement to overcome prud-
ish reluctance to face the facts In this
matter and impart timely instruction
to the young merits all the help that
sensible people can give it, for there
are many obstacles in the way. Cer
tainly some progress has been made
Portland has advanced farther in this
direction than some other cities, as
Mr. Foster remarked, but even Port
land has still a long way to go before
Ihe evil of ignorance with its harvest
of disease and misery is left behind.
It cannot be too often repeated that
unless children receive sex instruc
tion from good sources theywill ob
tain it from vile ones. Nature imper
iously demands this knowledge and
every child who has reached a certain
age possesses it. Total ignorance is
impossible even If it were desirable.
The only question worth considering
is whether we shall permit know-ledge
to come to the young with the taint
of the slums or laden with suggestions
of health and happiness. ,
Dr. Foster Is decidedly of the opin
ion that children should be taught the
vital facts of sex either by their par
ents or by properly-qualified instruc
tors in the schools. Naturally he does
not ' deem it desirable that every
teacher should undertake the task.
Some are not qualified by nature for
a work so delicate and difficult Some
have the natural gifts needed, but
lack knowledge. It would be absurd
to entrust' education along these lines
to persons who are not fully equipped
in every way to make it beneficial.
If the teaching were badly done it I
might make matters worse than ever.
The minds of the young are more
open to suggestion upon the subject
of sex than upon any other and it is
unhappily true that they receive evil
suggestions as readily as good ones.
Hence the importance of teaching
which is not only good in purpose, but
also good in 'fact Tills is a domain
in which pedagogic mistakes are not
permissible. Naturally Dr. Foster
would prefer"that instruction In sex
hygiene should come to children from
their parents. The difficulty, is that
many parents are not prepared to
give It The burden of inherited
prudery is heavy upon them. Ignor
ance ties their tongues in .too many
instances. Frequently their Ideals are
wholly wrong. It is a subject in
which perhaps the majority or par
ents need instruction as sorely as their
children. The fact of the matter is
that we are in a miserable plight as
far as this species of education is
concerned. Urgently as we need in
struction there Is scarcely anybody to
teach us without doing more harm
than good in the process.
Mr. Foster believes that the time
will come when every teacher in the
public schools will be required to hold
a certificate In sex hygiene. This
would be an extremely moderate re
quirement Society might excuse Ig
norance of geography or arithmetic
with far less peril to itself than ig
norance of the foundations and
sources of life. Every public school
teacher ought to possess reasonable
information on the subject of sex
hygiene and should apply what he
knows on every proper occasion. But
that is not enough. The subject
should be faced squarely. It should
not be thrust aside. It is not of less
importance than drawing, or athletics.
Incidental instruction is indispensable',
but there should also be systematic
teaching pursued long enough to ac
complish its legitimate purpose. This
is two-fold. The first aim is to im
part clean and adequate knowledge.
The second, and perhaps the more
important, is to make the mind so
familiar with; the purely physiological
aspects of sex that the subject shall
lose its vicious fascination. When
familiarity has reached a certain point
the whole matter becomes common
place. It is accepted as we accept
the stomach without any particular
emotion except on the occasions fixed
by natural law. The veil of unholy
mystery which surrounds the physio
logical, or mechanical, aspects of. sex
should be torn away relentlessly. It
Is in this mystery that vice makes its
stronghold. Here as elsewhere the
only safety Is in light
Evidently school instructon in sex
hygiene ought to be entrusted to ex
perts only. Men and women exist who
are fitted by natural gifts for the task
and to them it should oe committed
with a full sense of its supreme im
portance. The community owes a
debt of gratitude to Mr. Foster for his
frank discussion of this vital subject
King George has found a new use
for his royal office. His suggestion
that the British House of Commons
adjourn for a few days to rest the
minds and bodies of its members and
to cool their tempers was eminently
sensible. It is not the first time he
has intervened in the interest of har
mony, for when the - houses were
wrangling about the Lords' veto, a hint
from him brought the obstinate Lords
to their senses. He has shown that a
constitutional monarch can be more
than a figurehead, for by a touch of
his finger when the wheels of govern
ment stick, he' can set them moving
again. "
There should be some means of
keeping a man in office as Treasurer
of the United States for a reasonable
time In order to avoid the necessity
of counting all that money too often.
The mere mechanical operation of
handling so many coins and notes as
make up $1,260,124,946, to say noth
ing of the odd 98 2-3 cents, must be
a herculean task.
Rapid consumption of beer causes
bad eyesight, according to an eminent
German oculist He might have added
that it tends to cause inaccurate enu
meration of objects, indirect locomo
tion and an ' inability to distinguish
whether a given object is stationary or
In transit. -
Oregon's Governor is in harmony
with the President on the date of
Thanksgiving day, which recalls the
year when his Democratic predecessor
disagreed with President Cleveland
and gave the state a second holiday.
People who have taken home pack
ages of fruit to find they were given
bad stuff Instead of what they selecte 1
will rejoice to learn one dealer, at
least has been fined In Municipal
Court for the offense.
Having acquired plenty of glory and
Junk," as reward for his efforts In
dry farming, Tillman Reuter naturally
prefers cash prizes, and he Is right as
far as he is concerned; but the other
fellow must be considered.
A New Mexico lawyer and his femi.
nine law partner have been wedded
We should be interested in learning
which will be senior member of the
firm.
One of the two great hirsute prob
lems seems ready of solution, that of
the bald head. The other, to take out
the kinks, is in the very distant future.
The wits and energy devoted by
many swindlers to their profession
would suffice to make good on a big
ger scale in legitimate business.
New industries, sound prosperity
and stimulated business activities
fully refute those ante-election calam
ity predictions.
Qualification in Mrs. Belmont's an
cletv for suDDression of the vlr nf
unnsimas giving is acquired easily.
Do not reciprocate.
Cholera may prove more effective
than the Turks in keeping the Bul
garians out of Constantinople.
Girl hobos are in custody at Baker.
The new woman is invading all fields
of activity and inactivity.
The stories told by the gunmen
about the murder of Rosenthal bear
evidence of too careful rehearsal.
Rut if science eliminates bald heart
what use will the theaters have for
their front rows?
An extra session is needed for noth
ing else than to get acquainted each
with the other.
Continuous discoveries of errors In
the count are boosts for the voting
machine.
ADVICE ON "GETTING MARRIED,
Harried Man Comments on Subject of
Conjugal BUsa.
PORTLAND, Or., Nov. 10. (To. th
Editor.) Views have been expressed
through the columns of The Oregonian
reeardine the bachelor woman question
by both bachelors, spinsters (young and
old), and married woman (happily and
otherwise), and I am wondering whetn
er or not you would care to have the
views of a married man on the subject
I notice our friend, "That s Me.
comes in for a vast amount of criti
cism. most of it I consider unjustly se
vere. It seems to me that a girl as well
as a fellow can be a good mixer, be
fond of fun and pleasure and Indulge in
the same without laying herseii open
to comments, such as have appeared in
articles written on this subject by you
numerous subscribers. Understand me,
though, I do not cre to go on record
approving such behavior, "harmless
though it may be," but if such shallow
amusements please, is that any reason
why slurs should be cast upon the per
son, or persons, indulging in tnem.'
might quote with perfect justification
in this case the inscription shown on
the "Order of the Garter," viz., "Honl
sol qui mal y pense." I am very sure
that the thinking man of today does
not want and is not looking for such a
one for his wife. The Butterfly Girl
may, to a certain extent be fascinating
and attractive, but it is the girl of
sound sense and level-headness we men
want for helpmeets nowadays; a worn
an who will not only be a wife and
mother of our children, but who will
also be our friend and chum; one we
can go to with our little difficulties
and troubles knowing that we will get
her sympathy, help and advice. Be
lieve me, the advice of such a woman
is no mean thing, to be treated ligntly,
but rather something to be highly con
sldered. N
God made man and woman to be a
help to each other; he made us mascu
line and feminine, not neuter, t uoe
not that very fact go to prove that He
made us for each other? Then, it so,
the highest estate in this life is the
married estate, an estate, I admit
which has been maligned and belit
tied by persons such as belittle "That
Me," or by those whose misfortune it
has been to be unhappily married. But
we all know -that "one swallow doe
not make a Summer." We all cannot
win the prize.
If young men would choose for their
future wives girls or gooa, common
sense.- rlrls whose minds were no
filled to overflowing with thoughts of
nothing but dress and frivolity, if they
would realize that (while it is very
nice to have a wife who Is an aecom
plished musician, and can speak two or
three languages, etc.) tnese accom-
Dlishments are not essential in a good
wife," or in a girl who would make a
Brood wife, and there would be lewe
unhappy marriages. And if you young
ladies would look for something mamy
in the man you marry, or intend to
marrv: would look for something deep
er than style and dress; if you would
both know each other better, sucn ar
e-uments as have arisen anent this
"bachelor woman question" would not
be forthcoming. Another thing, young
men, don't look for a dot with your
bride, furnish it yourself. And you.
young lady, marry the man, don't sell
yourself Just for. a home or wnat in
man can srlve vou.
There is plenty of true love In the
world: men today marry tor it; ana
when married, if you bear and forbear
with each other, you will have no
cause for complaint Love and honor
each other; be each other's best rriena
and helpmeet Don't air your mue
difficulties (for such are bound to oc
cur) to your friends or neighbor. Keep
them to yourself, and make it a rule
that anything which oocurs between
yourself and your mate shall be secret
and sacred. God made us for each oth
er, and while the bachelor woman can
undoubtedly get along quite as well as
the bachelor man, yet they will gel
alonir far better together. Don't you
think so? MARRIED MAN.-
STORV OF OLD-FASHIONED MOTHER
Daughter Telia How Children Were
Reared and Follow In Footsteps.
ALBANY, Or., Nov. 14. (To the Edi
tor.) Several letters written by dif
ferent persons to The Oregonian have
attracted my attention, and the most
important ones to my mind, and I be
lieve to the minds of most mothers,
were in regard to the training of our
children.
The cartoon desiring more old
fashioned mothers caused my mind to
revert to my early training. From the
cradle up each child was taught to
love, yet obey father ana motner.
Attending school from room 1, pass
ing each frrade until the graduation
exercises were reached, then teaching
one term of school (successfully or
not I dare not say), in all those years
we were due to report to mother morn
ing and evening.
From the dismissal of school we
as children" were allowed 30 minutes
to reach our home, one mile distant,
If not on time mother learned the rea
son why. We never were allowed to
roam the streets at night at will.
party at night being an unheard-of
affair.
All attended Sunday nchool and
church regularly. All holidays were
celebrated, each child's birthday re
membered (there were eight children)
Mother planned little pleasures for us,
yet she believed not In sparing the rod
and spoiling the child.
From earliest childhood each was
taught the necessity of work, first by
tidying the rooms after our play
things had been strewn all over the
house. Then we girls were taught the
art of correctly wiping the knives and
forks, then the dishes; sweeping,
dusting, washing windows, scrubbing
the kitchen floor and porcnes. isacn
Saturday the house must be cleaned
throughout the stove polished, cup
board to have clean papers, all glass
dishes to brighten. Then we had the
privilege of helping cook until we
could prepare the food from the simple
home meal to the Christmas or birth
day dinner. How proud when our table
with snowy cloth and tempting repast
was ready. Each daughter vied wlt.n
the other In cleanliness and neatness,
mother's eyes always following our
movements to see that nothing was
wasted, no work left undone, for she
was an ideal housekeeper and a good
cook.
The boys were taught to do the
chores,- help father with the farming
as they grew old enough. No child,
boy or girl, was allowed to cross the
threshold with dirty feet. Each was
carefully groomed each day, a clean
dress or apron, overalls or shirt replac
ing the soiled one.
Mother was always busy, yet found
time to keep herself posted on the
topics of the day, visit the sick and
spend an occasional afternoon with a
neighbor.
In training my children (seven in
all), I follow as nearly as possible in
an old-fashioned mothers footsteps.
might enumerate the different virtues
of each of my cniiaren, as tnev seem
as intelligent as the average, but by
so doing modesty would prevent me
using my true name.
MRS. GEORGE HARDER,
Curious Water Supply.
Indianapolis News.
A curious form of water hole is
found in the deserts of Western Aus
tralia. The hole is dry by day, but
yields an abundant supply of water
by night. The now oi water is pre
ceded by weird hissing and sounds of
rushing air.
Buying a Husband's Necktie.
Puck.
ShorjDer I want to buy a necktie
suitable for my husband.
Tactful Salesman Sorry, madam,
buf we are not permitted to sell neck
ties to women who are unaccompanied
by men.
j SHE MISSES A MAN VERY MUCH
Salem Spinster Tells Way She Failed
to Acquire a Mate.
SALEM, Or., Nov. 12. (To the Ed
itor.) The eagerness with which the
unmarried have seised the opportunity
of discussing the subject of matrimony
through the columns of The Oregonian
shows that a long-felt want Is being
supplied, a sort of public confessional,
as it were, where we can unburden our
souls and our own Identity remain a
secret locked in the bosom of the ed
itor. '
I am 35. How terribly old that
sounds. Until I was 25 ( I was
never for a day away from my
mother, who taught me that all men
were vile creatures, and that girls
who made an effort to attract atten
tion from them were lacking in mod
esty, while the ordeal of motherhood
was more to be feared than death it
self. Thus, with these false views of
life, I entered an office, where, already
an "old maid," I became acquainted
with the first men I had ever really
known, and while I found them splen
did, companionable fellows, who soon
dispelled my former impressions. I had
had it ground into me that girls
"should wait to be sought," and I wait
ed. I smothered every natural Impulse
of my life, and regarded myself on the
downward path when once, in looking
over the shoulder of a gentleman ex
amining a proof, I felt an Inclination
to lift a stray lock of hair from his
brow. But I did not yield to It Oh,
Lord, no! But now, one of the keenest
regrets of my spinsterhood is that I
did not I think I should like to re
member having done something really
human like that Just once.
I Invested but a fraction of my sal
ary In dress, and was always shabby
while I spent my leisure time in my
room, "Improving my mind." I fancied
that I knew it all, and that when some
man of studious habits should discover
me. he would be rejoiced at his find.
None rejoiced, and at 30 I was lonely,
?nd It wai a perfect nightmare to me
to go about without an escort so that
once, when two tickets to grand opera
had been given me, I plucked up cour
age to offer one to a man who worked
in the same building, and whom I fan
cied lonely enough to go with even me.
But never was my sense of loneliness
so acute as my suffering that evening,
for. when he removed his overcoat in
the full glare of electric lights, and in
view of hundreds of people I knew. It
was seen that he wore a colored shirt
Later in the evening he snored audibly,
and did not use his handkerchief so
often as he should.
Following this humiliation, I lacked
courage to do another such bold thing
as present a man with a $4.00 ticket
and I still lacked the sense to improve
my wardrobe and cut out scientific
conversation, so that the men who have
since done me the honor of asking my
hand in marriage have been hard, prac
tical persons, who omitted the prelim
inary wooing, and merely stated their
ability to make a living. Never a word
about me being necessary to their hap
Dlness. any more than any other worn
an might be, and yet alas! the fires of
romance are not dead In a woman's
heart even at the great age of 35.
now live at home, where my mother
rejoices that during my absence no
man succeeded in getting me into his
"clutches," and I appear to agree witn
her. while, secretly, I miss the good
comradeship of a cultured man; I miss
the fragrance an Havana leaves behind
when a man has called; I miss an over
coat In the hall; I miss, Oh, so much! a
couple of sticky-faced children and, de
oraved creature that I am, I miss a
man's arms! AUTUMN LEAF.
HOW TO BOIL COFFEE QUICKLY,
Old Bachelor Annonneea Discovery of
Cooking Device.
PORTLAND, Nov. 10. (To the Edi
tor.) I have an idea which, although
small, I think of value to people of
moderate means who do their cooking
on oil or gas stoves. It would not be
out of place on other stoves. I wil
tell how I learned it. I am an old
man, living alone and cooking on an oil
stove. While watching my coffee com
ing to boil one morning, the idea came
that if the coffee-pot were setting in
side of a larger one with an open bot
torn and top, would it not boil quicker?
I went and hunted up an old galvan
ized iron pail, cut out the bottom, cut
a little slot part way down from the top
for the handle of my coffee pot, put it
on the stove over the blaze, set the pot
it it. and It boiled In half the time
it took without this. I have since used
it steadily and I find a great saving
of oil In my own little cooking.
then thought of giving it to the public.
It Is up to you. Do as you will with it
OLD HAS BEEN.
Ross Island Not for Sale.
PORTLAND. Nov. 15. (To the Edi
tor.) Since there has been so much
said about Ross Island as to its value
and what It has been offered at by
the owner, I wish to state that -the
Island has been withdrawn from the
market, and if the city wants It it will
get it through condemnation proceed
ings, and not otherwise.
JOHN KIERNAN, Owner.
Debs' Popular Vote.
MEDFORD, Or., Nov. 14. (To the
Editor.) Please give the total vote in
all states received by Debs in the
recent election. SUBSCRIBER.
Complete figures are not yet avail
able. The estimated vote is about
800,000.
A REAL SUFFRAGETTE.
Sue says she is a suffragette.
She told me so lasvnlght;
This fad is quite the worst one yet.
Her eyes were all a-light
Her cheeks were flushed, her bosom
heaved
With rapture at the thought;
She's hurt because I've not believed
As fervent as I ought
Why, Tom," says she, "the time has
come '
When women are not slaves!
With holy zeal our rights we own!"
I don't mind how she raves,.
Because, before I came down town,
The last thing I could see,
She had her trusty cookbook down
For some new recipe.
Sue tells me my Indifference
Is painful to behold;
And that I've very little sense
Of aught but greed for gold.
She grieves because I do not use
My talents for the cause.
And do not higher powers abuse
For framing unjust laws.
(She registered for voting, but
When came election day.
She had to have her luncheon club
And could not net away.)
But while she feeds me home-cooked
stuff.
And bakes such abole pie.
And makes such melting cherry-duff
Why, prithee, what care If
She goes to meetings at her club.
And frequently she reads
Some paper that's designed to rub
Out all her grandma s creeaa.
Jo longer will we grovel here
Subservient to man!
Rise, sisters!" shouts my gentle dear,
'For light we must, and canl
But when I mosey home at night
Upon the table there
Is spread a meal. Ah, such a sight!
It banishes dull care.
She bakes hot biscuits, fries croquettes.
Makes salad, cake and tea;
So you can, bet these suffragettes
Don t greatly worry me:
JESSIE EBERLY THOMPSON.
1
The Election Bet
By Dean Collins.
I hied along the busy street
And noted with profound surprise
Full many men were rambling by
Arrayed in strange and motley guise;
Some wore extreme Impassioned ties.
And one went barefoot on his way.
One bore a brick upon his head.
And one was clad in kilties gay.
Another in a barrow wheeled
. A friend, and ever and anon
Shouted for Wilson a "hooray!"
And one went by me on the run.
Kicking, adown the street, a bun;
Until I gasped, with quivering lip:
"Is this a picnic of the lunes,
Or has the world gone off Its dlpT"
I stopped a civil-looking chap.
Who ambled slowly in a ring.
Leading, with gentle coaxing hand,
A lobster fastened to a string.
"What Is the meaning of this thing?"
He answered, "clearly, you forget
What things were happening of late
I'm paying an election bet
"And those, whose gay grotesquerle
Makes you to marvel as you look.
Are doing all their stunts to clear
Their standing on the betting book."
His solemn march again he took.
"How can you act so foolishly?"
I cried. "For like ah idiot
Your antics make you look to me."
He did not pause to look around.
But with his little piece of string
He led the poor crustacean
Another trip about the ring.
"No doubt I seem a foolish thing.
Engaged In this performance; yet
Am I the more an idiot
Now, than the day I made that bet?"
Portland, November 16.
Half a Century Ago
From The Oresonlan of November 18, 1S62.
The Indians in Southern Oregon
Sub-Indian Agent A. E. Rodgers has
at length succeeded in effecting an un
derstanding or treaty with them. The
agreement allows the Indians the privi
lege of establishing their encampments
for the Winter at Rancherie Prairie.
No more than five, and they unarmed,
are allowed to come to the settlements
at one time for trading purposes. The
treaty was signed by La Labe, George
and Long John on the part of a por
tion of the Klamath Indians, about 40
in number.
Warrenton, Va.'T-Nov. 7. Reliable
citizens rnnfirm the hellef of Intelli
gent Army officers that General Lee
has succeeded In eluding McClellan,
and that a large part of Lee's army Is
now at Gordonsville.
Chicago, Nov. 8. Charges have been
made in the newspapers that General
Curtis, while In command at Helena,
Ark., used his position to speculate In
cotton and made $2,000,000 or $3,000,000.
, London, Saturday A letter to the
Times from Manchester says 78,000
paupers were added to the poor law
statistics during the week. Every day
mills are closed and hundreds are re
duced to destitution.
Hon. J. E. Vinton, recently from Wis
consin, who has been Interesting our
people on the subject of temperance,
will again address the citizens this
evening at the M. E. Church.
An Immigrant just from the plains
In a somewhat destitute condition,
without friends or acquaintances, died
on Friday night at Austin's livery
stable on Washington street
The grading and laying of sidewalks
on Washington street Is progressing
toward completion, and should the
wet weather hold off a few days longer
this work will be completed. We also
notice the completion of two fire cis
terns on this street
Peace In Ireland! War In Parliament.
PORTLAND, Nov. 15. (To the Edi
tor.) In an article In the last num
ber of the Contemporary Review, a
favorite magazine of cultured English
men, Ashton Hilllers, writing under
the caption "Ireland on the Eve of
Home Rule," makes the followng
statement:
"The fact Is obvious that with com
paratively unimportant exceptions, Ire
land, outside Belfast and the Protestant
districts adjacent is practically free
from crimes of violence."
This is more than Mr. Hilllers or any
one else can say of the Unionist sec
tion of the Mother of Parliaments.
J. HENNESSY MURPHY.
From Clatsop Equal Suffragists.
ASTORIA, Or., Nov. 14. (To the Edi
tor.) At the last meeting of the Clat
sop County Equal Suffrage League a
unanimous vote of thanks was given
The Oregonian for its support of our
cause. It is the feeling of our league
that The Oregonian was the most po
tent of all forces working to mold
public opinion In our favor. Person
ally, I wish to compliment you on the
editorials dealing with our cause. In
style. In method of treatment In clear
ness and breadth of conception, they
were masterpieces.
MRS. W. S. KINNEY,
President Clatsop County Equal Suf
frage League.
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Ten Thousand Miles by Motor
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cuitous route, was made by a
Portland enthusiast who describes
his adventures along the way in
an illustrated half-page article.
The Saddest Man He is a pow
erful Emperor with everything to
be happy about and yet he is
rated the saddest man in all
Christendom.
U. S. Rat Catcher This is a
new official post just created. The
ratman will direct a war of exter
mination on the dangerous rodent.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland Former
first lady of the land is again the
victim of cupid. Story of her
record, career and romances.
Hunting Indians' Ancestors
An intensely interesting page ac
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Smaller Money The new cur
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