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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (July 10, 1914)
mrj-n-o.T-r-Krr rT-c-rvrr -W T'TfTTI A "V .TTTT.V 1 0. 1914. X1IH JlUlVlVtiVir UXVllTUHXAllt j. j.....-.. , " 1 T " " i I 1 -r out minds about the large onea, zZ .lH J ' ' ' ' f 1 I 1 1,1,), I. nmfnrtTi9- truth. - ill! I I II I rwex -. ; JUL iss fTLAIRB WILCOX will enter ntain on Saturday night at the Waverly Country Club In compli- ment to Miss Beatrice Nichols, or San Francisco. A small dinner party will , precede the evening's dance. Tester day Miss Wilcox entertained at lunch eon at the Wilcox residence. Covers were laid for Miss Nichols, Mrs. Kon rsd Delbrueck. Mrs. Charles C. Hind man. Miss Polly Young, of Vancouver RxrrnrVn- Miss Leslie Smith. Miss Eve lyn Carey, Miss Ruth Teal, Miss Helen TjiHd Miss Marearet Voorhies. Miss Violet Erskine, Miss Charlotte Laidlaw and the hostess. Mrs. Belle Case Harrington, of Bowling Green. Ohio, a member of 'the Tnl.rtr. Writers' Club. Is visiting Ade Hum M. Alvord. The Ohio woman Is the wife of JudgeRoss Harrington. cromlnent Eastern jurist. Mrs. Har A.. ! Diithnrpqii flf several ' books and short stories, and is a leader In child-welfare work. She is fre quently a speaker before clubs in her borne state, several jociu uuuio planned for Mrs. Harrington during her Portland visit. Mrs. A. F. Clauss entertained the Ger man Literary Club at her country rest ,aa P-n rrlon Hnmfl reeentlv. J delightful luncheon was served on the lawn, after which the guests were en- . i mnlfal fl fkrtlnns. and later the Junior members motored to Metzger s Park. Those present were Mrs. J. Basler XTo A Tl TTsrn Mrs. M. BiEelOW. Mrs F. E. Diedrich, Mrs. A. Hacker, Mrs. Tl.nnlcnn nnA Vl r ri 11 ?h tPT frOITl MlclU gan; Mrs. A Bittner, Mrs. C. Schwabe, Mrs. Farwell and the Misses Fay Hacker, Zettege Fritsch, Viola Diedrich, Agnes Basier ana jueioa rarwen, Messrs. Melville Kellock, Albert Clauss, Albro Kellock and Fred Kern. Mrs. G. Stone and daughter, Zelda, of Eacramento. jai., are guests oi Jii . n. Bruck, 744 Kearney street. They will t "at home" today. Mrs. W. F. Koehler and son, Frank, are at their cottage in Elk Creek Park en Cannon Beach. They probably will remain for the greater part of the Sum mer season. , .Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Johnson have been vassina: the past two weeks at the Gradon Cottage In Elk Creek Park on Cannon Beach. Mrs. R. C Coffey entertained on Wednesday evening at a dinner fol lowed by a box party at the Orphenm. The festivity was planned for the pleas ore of her son, Wilson Coffey. At the gaily decorated board covers were laid for Miss Antoinette Mears, Miss Marga ret Marvin, Miss Elizabeth Peacock, Miss Helen Honeyman, Miss Gretchen Smith, Miss Elizabeth Richardson, Miss La Velle Toung. Clymer Noble, Edwin Caswell, Robert Morrison, Miner Keeler, Girard Graham, George Biles. At the theater, Mrs. Coffey and Mrs. A. F. Biles accompanied the young people as chaperons. Mr. and Mrs. Dorsey B. Smith have as their guest Mrs. Smith's father, B. F. von Behren, of Evansvllle, Ind. Mrs. William Gemmell and family are spending the Summer at Ocean Park, ' Wash. fiUNNTSIDE, Wash. July . (Spe clal.) On Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Bruce, took place the marriage of their daughter, HatEie. to Charles Johnson, of Spokane. Miss Mercla Wells played the wedding march. Mr. Johnson Is stenographer with a large, commission firm In Spo kane, and they will make their home In that city. 1b-NlGHf 'Copyright, 1914, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate. New York City.) Tommle Mouse and the Brownie Part I. TOMMIE MOUSE was lonesome cne day, and so he took himself off to the woods. Tommle Mouse ran along under the leaves and dry twigs, when, he sud denly heard a voice close to him say. What are you doing?" ' ' Tommle Mouse Jumped and he crawled close under the rock as far as he could, lut he peeked out and saw the tiniest man he had ever seen. "He can't hurt me," thought Tommle Bouse. "He is not much longer than I am." So Tommle ran out from his hiding place, and the little man stood up and looked at him. "So you are the one who disturbed me," said the little man. "What are you doing out here, Tommle Mouse? 3Tou better go home." "How did you know my name?" asked ITommie. "Oh! We know all the Mouse family," answered the little man. "Who are you?" asked Tommle Mouse. "I am a Brownie," answered the little man. "Didn't you ever see one be fore?" Tommie told him he had not, hut that he had always wanted to see one, because he wanted to ask a favor. "What is it you want?" asked the Brownie. , "Well, yon see, I am tired of being a mouse, and I should like very much to be a cat. So, if you please, Mr. Brownie, will you change me into a cat? I think I should like to be white, too, if you please." "I will have to see the fairies about that." said the Brownie. "I advise you, though, not to be changed into a cat; you better keep your own shape." But Tommie Mouse pleaded so hard and was so determined upon being a cat that the Brownie promised f o see a fairy friend of his and ask her to change Tommie Mouse yito a cat, and a white one, too. Of course, Tommie Mouse thought he would have to go to the weods again to meet his friend, the Brownie, before the fairy could change him into a cat co he ran home and crawled into his bole, which led Into the cellar of a house, and it is a good thing his home was in a cellar, because the next morn ing when Tommle Mouse awoke he wasn't a mouse at all, but a big white cat. Tommie was a little frightened when he thought of what might have happened if Siis home had been in a hole instead of in the corner of the cellar. Tommie looked all about the cellar, but not a mouse could he find; then-he went to the hole he usually crawled through to get out, forgetting he was far larger than he had been, and found he must look another way to leave his home now. ' Tommie ran up the stairs and mewed, which frightened him so he ran down the stairs, falling In his haste, and the cook opened the door at the top of the talrs to see what had happened. (' "How did that strange cat Sft in WHITE ORGANDIE AND MOUSSELINE USED IN FROCK. l .k.nniniv ii BiimiTiai- fmrk ! nf sheer white orerandie. The foun dation is of white mousseline. The or gandie is arranged in tiers and edged with black satin. The wide girdle Is of black and white voile. The bit of embroidery on the bottom of the skirt adds a dashing touch to the model. here?" she said, getting the broom and chasing poor Tommie all around the cellar and up the stairs, where ne ran out Into the yard. The dog, seeing a strange cat, began to' bark and chase Tommle, who ran up a tree to escape, and there he staved, with the dog barking at him under the tree until Tommle thought he would have to let go the limb. By and by the dog went away ana Tommle began to wonder where he could find some breakfast, but cheese did not seem to be the thing he wanted. Tommie wanted milk, ana he wondered where he should get It. I have always eaten cheese ana things I have found In the pantry and that is where I will go now. I am sure I will be hungry for them when I see them. I never cared for milk and I do not see why I should want it so much now," thought Tommle, forgetting ne was no longer a mouse and that he would have to eat things a cat liked, having taken on the shape of one. Next story Tommie mouse ana tne Brownie" (Part II). ; Wiwreedlife JfelenffcssanpfUesslS. (Copyright The Adtma Newspaper Service.) Copyright The Adams Newspaper Service. Ob the Bowery. THE electric signboards on tne Bowery had begun to glow when Marian and Barker emerged from the Chinese restaurant. The Bowery is a lesser Broadway; both were distilled in the same pot. The foreign-born on the Bowery ape the Americans on Broadway. Marian gazed for the first time upon the curious night scene be fore her, the cheap stylishness of its young fellows, the tawdry finery of its young women, its loiterers in front of taverns and small theaters. Its musty shop windows, its gamins, whom even the night did not drive oft the streets, its older women lugging baskets of stuff home from market like truck horses. . "Grand Opera Ten Cents," was on one signboard they passed. "Let's go in and see what it's like," exclaimed Marian eagerly. Barker paid the ad mission fee and they entered a stuffy little theater. The performance had begun and most of the seats were taken. To Marian's astonishment a scene from a well-known Italian opera was really being enacted and sung on the tiny stage. The tenor sang like a nightingale; the soprano, bubbling Large, White Hat, Simply Trimmed Wit Black Velvet, with temperament, was singing with power and sweetness. "What on earth are these people doing singing in a hole like this?" de manded Marian of Barker. "Why, they're artists!" "There are a good many artists who haven't arrived," he replied. "And a good many who never will arrive. Next week or next year some of these peo ple may be in the chorus or maybe even In the casts of the Metropolitan. On the other hand, they may be war bling away here until they wear them selves out. These people Blng because they4 have to sing. The singing's the thing. Where they sing is a matter of secondary importance." "It must be wonderful to be built that way," returned Marian. Soon an episode in the row in front of them laid hold of Marian's atten tion. A young fellow had his arm tightly around the girl at his side andj frequently their lips met in Drazen kisses In the dimly lighted place. A couple of girls back of them tittered as they watched. Unconcerned with watching eyes or derision, they spooned eagerly on. Marian watched them " with digust, with the disgust which a refined wom an Invariably feels when she beholds inferiors indulging in affectionate demonstrations. The refined woman resents, somehow, that human affec tions are not confined to the better classes. It seems to cheapen her to realize that the attraction of sex gov erns the whole human tribe, in common with herself. It sometimes makes her resolve never again to participate in a scene even Temotely similar to the one she beholds with contempt. Marian became suddenly aware of a movement at her side. Barker's hand was searching for hers. It was an ill-fated moment for a demonstration of the kind. "Don't!" she whispered sharply, pulling her hand out of reach. Barker muttered a crestfallen apol ogy and lapsed into silence. Now and then he stole secret glances 'at the handsome profile of his companion. In the dim light it took on misty lines of perfection. He sighed under his breath. He rebelled against the stern fact that business would very shortly require his presence in Boston. The curtain fell, the lights came on and the motley crowd of opera lovers started for the door. "A wonderful 10 cents' worth," re marked Barker. "But what disgusting people!" sniffed Marian, looking about her with a shud der. Let's get away from the East Side. I've got enough." ud out minds about the large ones, which is a comforting truth. But the way in which the high-priced milliners are marking down all expen sive turbans, even when they are trimmed with the latest vagaries in feather work, is a note to put down in the mind. It is very probably a finan cial straw that shows the wind. The large shapes are not of the va riety once known as the Merry Widow. They are not so unyielding or difficult to wear. One might take England of Jane Austen's day as the land and the time when this present type of hat was worn. It is demure and gracious, something on the order of those worn by the Empress of the French in 1870. The milliners here are showing al most the exact empire shape, but every woman with which we are made famil iar by Winter Calter's painting of the Empress is not able to give allegiance to it. v Eugenie knew how much it re quired in the way of skin, eyes, hair, and the absence of lines. The women of this day should know It, too, and avoid it as she sought it. Rut the mere fact that one cannot wear this demure and youthful kind of hat does not prevent-ene from choosing another large shape and carrying it off with distinction. In fact, that is Just where the critics of women's clothes often err; they do not take into account the fact that If a woman cannot iook vnunir. she can. at least look smart. There are new hats with wide brims that are very becoming to the woman with lines in her face and shadows in her eyes. They are simply trimmed with ribbon, for it is a fact we have to be thankful for that the over-garnishing of hats made little headway when it was revived last Summer. Even the ordinary hats have better forms this year than they had in the past, so a woman who wants a good effect can trust to it not to spoil the shape of her head, which was the case In other days when the milliners ex pected to disguise the defects of a cheap shape with neaps oi uowers ana plumage. The ribbon that was lacquered and sold by the thousands of yards has met the fate of all over-popular things or people; a reverse, or rather a falling off in popularity, one suosuiuiea vel vet now. There is a velvet ribbon that comes for hats that has a satin sel vage which garnishes up a simple hat with, striking effect. One of the new materials for large hats is a frosted chiffon which comes in white, black, and colors. It is ceedingly lovely, especially with full blown pink roses placed against ic THE! VACATION BEAUTY BOX. Materials for beautifying and pre serving the complexion hold no small place in arrangements for the Summer holiday, and the lime Doxes mat con tain these creams, powders and skin tonics may be arranged to take up every little space in the trunk. The vacation trip certainly involves the need of freckle lotion for many Dersons. and one of the best formulas for this purpose is made of four ounces of lactic acid, two ounces of glycerin and one of rosewater. Apply this sev eral times dally, when the lace con tains no cosmetic of any sort and pour ing out each time only the quantity that will be needed In a little saucer; Dut on with a soft bit of white rag. All of these tntngs can De maae at home or by the druggists In lesser quantities, and what is left over after the beauty box Is packed will Tteep u properly covered from oust ana to pre. vent evaporation. Where cost must be considered, a 25 cent box of carbolic talcum may take the nlace of the hygienic powder, and the very good liquid wnite De maae oi precipitated chalk, a little glycerine and dlBtilled water. To a nair pint or me water put 10 cents' worth of the chalk and half a teaspoonful of glycerine; shake the bottle always before using. In the way of a convenient and inex pensive unguent for the skin there could be nothing better than a weak solution of glycerine and rosewater two ounces of the latter to a taDie- spoonful of the former. This is very whitening and healing after sunburn where glycerine agrees with the skin, but If not a good cold cream had better be used. Take along a little vial of some gentle toilet water, too, such as rose, lavender, orange or elder riower. This is useful for mopping the face free of dust during the day, and if the perfumed water is warmed before using its effect will be still more beautifying to the skin. Copyright, 1914, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate. Getting A Start Nathaniel C Fowler, Jr T -WHAT Anne 1 HOUSE JAYiS )M NEW YORK, July 5. We confidently said that the reign of the motor car as the best means of transportation brought in the close-fitting hat, and that it was probably here to stay. We reckoned, however, without the designers and the desire for change on the part of women. These two factors have brought in the large hat. But there is one very comfortable truth anent fashions these days, which is that no one is bound to remain true to one style or follow one fashion, for the best of reasons: there is no one domi nant fashion, so ' the large hat is not absolute. So many designs are brought to mar ket in these helter-skelter days in order to lure the dollar away from buy ers of all sorts, that a woman can ex press her individuality in a multitude of ways, and yet remain in the fashion. It is to this truth that we owe so much that Is bad. Few women have a trained eye for clothes, so they follow the first temptation that presents itself. And Is it not true that one can Judge a character by the things that tempt it? If a woman likes a Email hat, there is none to say her nay. It is still in the height of fashion and will probably re main there long enough or sa a make (CupyriBbt, 1914, by the McClure Newjspa- nanA BunHi.al ADDRESSED a letter to several hun- I dred men and women of mark, ask ing the following question: "Do you consider persistent appli cation necessary to success?" Three hundred and thirteen replied. The "vote" stod as follows: Yes." with qualification JJ Equivalent of "yes" "J "No," without qualification Noncommittal er conditional J The result, as is seen, was almost unanimously affirmative, only one be ing opposed and only six being non committal. May we not, then, consider persist ent application as a necessary "law" of success? The laboratory of business, and of science also, has not separated success Into its component parts, or analyzed it, and, perhaps, never will be able to do so. Success seems to be a physchologlcal condition, as invisible as electricity, and yet as positive as gravity, an ele ment In itself, unanalysable. If I were forced to give a definition of it, I should say that success is the product of doing one's best, irrespec tive of the measure of the result. It is obvious, however, that success is not and cannot be based upon any one action or thing to the exclusion of others. It is composition composite, not single. It is event that success cannot be attained without persistent application. - Although ability counts mightily in result, it is practically worthless un less it is persistently applied. Talent, whatever it may be, is un negotiable In any market, while there Is a ready sale for what talent accom plishes. There can be no result without ef fort, and no great accomplishment without persistent effort. I was once asked, while lecturing h.fnp, a itana nf sfl.lesmen. what I con sidered the fundamental element of salesmanship. I replied that no one element in itself was sufficient to make a good salesman, but that expe rience had proved conclusively to me that effective saiesmansnip was im possible without persistent effort. Ability and talent, and even oppor ova ,nni fnr nothine and re fuse to accomplish anything, unless persistent effort is appiiea to mem. Alone, they are wortniess. usea iney are priceless. I know of nothing, not even educa tion itself, which has intrinsic or usable value, which amounts to any thinir unless there is asolled to it per sistent, yes, everlasting effort.- The towering monument of fame, and even the small stones whlcn marit me piace nrHinorv T-Asult would never have been built, and could not have been erected, if it had not Deen ror me per sistent efforts of their builders. - if vnn nnuMi liirzft ability, don't allow yourself to be deceived by the glitter of your brilliant talents. Bright as they are, they are worthless unless you use them, take them with you into the great world of activity, harden and polish them by rubbing them against experience. " A uua Defiua anq noj, fjomiaMul No Exchange, No Goods Sent C. 0. D. All Sales Final WORRELL'S SIXTH AND ALDER STS. O Slim: n 'Mil The Largest Cloak and Suit House on the Pacific Coast ale All Springand Summer Suits, Coats, Dresses Your Unrestricted Choice SILK EXCEPTED of Any Spring Suit at i CLOSING OUT SALE OF SKIRTS AT RADICAL REDUCTIONS ALL, $3.f5 SKIRTS $2.25 ALL 4.5 SKIRTS S2.95 ALL S9.50 SKIRTS $4.95 Choice of any Skirt in stock, many of them regularly lis and 117.50 values, This means' just what it says your absolute choice of any Spring or Summer Suit in stock, no matter what their former price, $40, $50 or $60, is yours for S13.75. Your Choice of $25.00 (tg AC and $30.00 Suits Now pJJJ Every one this year's model in a splendid assortment of the most popular fabrics and colors. I Your Choice of $15.00 and $20.00 Suits Now We earnestly advise an early selection of these Suits, r XT X a vrvAM 1 Tiff 1rtrt Q 4" Vll 3 TM1 A SMALL DEPOSIT WILL HOLD ANY GARMENT A REASONABLE TIME $7.95 Worrells Sample Cloak and Suit House CORNER SIXTH AND ALDER STREETS, 0PP. 0REG0NIAN BLDG. becomes rusty, or, motheaten, rickety and unstable, and has to be repaired or rebuilt before it can stand by itself. Transient effort accomplishes little and Is usually wasted. Persistent ef fort produces results. TA.ifitAnfv then. In a fundamental element, without which nothing can be erected or created to stay. What's the good of unused good? Dr. MahdenS UPLIFT7?iLKS BY ORISON SWETT MARDEK. (Copyright, 1914, by the McClure Newpapr Syndicate.) Most people greatly underestimate the education which comes from busi ness training. A good business man's mind is in perpetual training, and qual ities are developed which do not come out in a college course. Take, for ex ample, the development of ingenuity. Inventiveness in a young man who goes into business for himself with a small, or with practically no capital. What a splendid training comes from his faculties being put continually on the stretch to bring about the means which should produce a definite end. No slovenly planning or haphazard work is possible here. Think of the discipline which comes from being forced to make every dol lar perform the "honors of five. Many a young man becomes an adept In get ting much out of little. The constant piecing out, eking out, stretching his little capital to make it bring the greatest possible returns, is a perpetual education. How It develops originality in the man, who is forced to think along new lines, to make a continual effort to find new and better ways of doing things, to try to find short cuts and simple methods for roundabout. In volved system! That "necessity is the mother of invention" has passed into regime of the proverbial and it might have been added that necessity is the school-master of the mind. We are Just beginning to find that business is not only an educative, but a tremendous moral force, without the discipline training of which, the aver age mind would literally go to ruin. It is a fortunate thing that the ma jority of the population of civilised countries is kept continually in this training school. Business is the great est kind of mind developer. It builds the power of initiative, the courage, the endurance, the ambition. What pig mies we should be but for the school ing, the long constant training, the op portunity for self-expression which our vocations give us. Without this reg ular, persistent occupation, this re quired, daily study the human mind would quickly deteriorate. We would gradually sink back again to the brute. Take, for example, any one quality, like good Judgment. How could this ever be developed but for this constant neces sity of exercising of choice, thla per petual process of discrimination and learning by our mistakes. There is scarcely a quality which en ters into a superb character which is not brought Into play to a greater or lesser extent in daily life in the busi ness world. In fact, among the forces that count in character building, business is king. The professions or specialties too often tend to narrow and dwarf the individ ual, crushing out originality and indi viduality. Nature is opposed to one sided development: and the man who only trains one part of his mind to da one thing pays a very heavy penalty. A symmetrical, full-rounded develop ment Is what nature Is after. A business career thus has a great advantage over th. professions or spe cialties. It gives an all-round develop ment. Solid, level-headed men, as a rule, are business men because th.lr education Is general. Any system of training which does not exercise all of the faculties of the mind tends to injure those not In con stant use. One-half of the college graduates, at the present time, enter business. Not very long ago, nearly half of our col lege graduates studied law. It was considered the proper thing then to go Into one of the "learned profelona" It took great courage at that tlm. fnr a boy to announce In college that he would enter a business career. Half a century ago, going Into business was not a very attractive proposition: but th. new clvllixatlon, the enormous commercial development of our coun try, has made business king; and glit tering prizes are held up everywhere In the business world. Get an education at college If you want to, but prize equally th. broader, more practical education of dally life. Albany Retail Mm Elect. ALBANT, Or.. July 1. (Special.) P. A Goodwin has been chosen presi dent of the Albany Iletall Merchants' iiini-lttlnn for the vear. and other offi cers were named as follows In the an nual election: J. A. McKJiiop, vice president; William V. Merrill, secre tary: G. A Flood, treasurer; Charles K. Scott, L K. Hamilton and C. B. Essex, directors. Complexion perfeciion-fcantlseptlc Lotion, Adv. f 1 A We have made a complete analysis of the contents of a can of Rumford Baking Powder purchased of a Portland grocer, and found it to be worthy of the highest commendation as ft healthful, efficient and economical leavening agent. GILBERT-HALL CO., Chemists, Portland, Oregon These prominent chemists substantiate the opinion of the millions of housewives who prefer and use mnfprd Baking Powder for its known purity, economy, uniform strength and exceptional efficiency. Experience proves that Rumford not only raises the cake, biscuits or muffins just right, but adds something of nutritive value to the food. This is whv Rumford is famous as SThe Wholesome Baking Powder r A