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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 5, 1914)
10 iss alice carey has set Au- 11 gust 14 as the date for her mar rlage to Dr. Eugene Watson Hockey. The ceremony will be sol emnized at the home of Judge and Mrs. Charles H. Carey on Riverside drive. Only the members of the family will be present. Miss Carey is one of the most popular girls of the smart set. Dr. Rockey Is the second son of Dr. and Mrs. Alva E. Rockey. He has been doing post-graduate work In Boston for some time and will arrive from the East on Thursday. A delightful walking trip has been planned by a party of young Portland people chaperoned by Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Smith. They will walk from Tillamook to Newport. The party, which will start on August 9. includes Miss Hazel Weidler. Miss Mary Brown He, Miss Lesley Smith. Miss Shanna Cumming. Jennings Suter. Aubrey R. Watzek, Walter S. Jelliff. Horace Co- burn and Mr. and Mrs. bmitn. ... Word has been received here by ont.io rhii Kdlth Chafee Haines, of thi city, and Miss Gladys Brown, of Oak r.mvs hive arrived in London, from Paris. Mrs. Simon Selling has received a cable from her sister, Mrs. Charles Kohn. Of T86 Johnson street, stating that Mrs. Kohn is safe with mends in Lucerne. Switzerland. She adds: "Americans are being protected. Don't worry." Mrs. Kohn has been abroad since last November. t Mrs. Simon Selling and her two sis ters. Miss Eda and Miss Sarah Jacobs, nave returned from a delightful fort night's visit at Newport. For the pleasure of Mrs. J. B. Mont gomery, a luncheon will be given to morrow by Mrs. Walter F. Burrell. who will entertain a few of her ,,.v,r frionHq at the Burrell resi dence in Hawthorne avenue. Dr. and Mrs. J. F. Dickson will give a tneater party for Mrs. Montgomery tonight. Yesterday, Mrs. C. S. Jackson presided at a luncheon with Mrs. Montgomery as honored guest. Mr. and Mrs. Homer Nelson and Mrs. "William A. Barrett, who are on a motor trip from Albany to Hood River, stopped in Portland on Monday and were entertained by Mr. and Mrs. Dom Zan. The trip to Hood River had as its object a visit with Mrs. Philip Car roll (Frances Nelson.) Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ransom and Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur E. Coman motored to Tillamook recently for a short visit. The Bachelor Buttons Club gave, a dancing party last night In Christen een's Hall. Tomorrow evening the club will hold a moonlight excursion on the steamer Kellogg, which will leave the foot of Washington street at 8 o'clock. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lucas, of Min neapolis, are house guests of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Peters, of Irvington. The marriage of Roy Glen Bevis and Miss Roma Grace LaFollette took place on July 30 at the parsonage of the Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church, Rev. Delmer H. Trimble officiating. After September 1 Mr. and Mrs. Bevis will be at home to their friends at iS3 East Glisan street. GRESHAM. Or., Aug. 4. (Special.) Guy Fleldhouse, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Fleldhouse, a Gresham business man, and Hope Anderson, a former Gresham teacher, were married in Portland at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Miller, August 1. Rev. E. S. Bollinger officiated. The couple have gone to the seaside on a wedding trip, and on their return will occupy their new home on the Powell Valley road West of Gresham. There is a decided lull in social af fairs this week, but before long con siderable entertaining for girls who are rnin? flwav to school will be on the calendar. The first to leave will be Miss Louise Caswell and Miss Sallie 8abin, who are to go to Berkeley to attend the University of California. Miss Caswell is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Caswell. She ie pre paring to enter Bryn Mawr next year. Miss Sabin is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. L Sabtn. Both girls are pop ular socially. In September Miss Helen Ladd will return East to attend school. Miss Vir ginia Burns plans to enter Westover and Miss Nancy Zan will go to a fash ionable school in New York. Mrs. Thomas Carrick Burke has an Interesting house guest in the person I of Mrs. Jennie Perkins, of Boise. Idaho. Mrs. Perkins Is an attractive and charming woman and a pianist of dis tinction. A number of delightful social affairs of an informal character are making her visit in Portland a round of pleasure. Miss Rhoda Rummelin and Miss Ruth Teal are planning to go to Gearhart next week to be present at the golf tournaments scheduled to take place at the fashionable resort. Mrs. J. C. Olds and Miss Edith Olds are in England. J. C. Olds and W. P. Olds went to Crater Lake recently on a motor trip. Mrs. J. P. McHugh, a sister of Mrs. J. C. Costello. has gone to Fort Stevens v.- . v. n n-.ioft nf umttMiuit and Airs. L'C -11 - John Harmon Hood. In a fortnight Mrs. McHugh will come to Portland to visit Mrs. Costello. Miss Helen Baldwin, of Denver. Mrs. Costello's house guest, is neing entertained at numerous informal festivities, including motor trips, pic nics, dinners at the near-by country daces and small dinner parties. r Mr. and Mrs. Louis Burk are with JHr. and Mrs. E. L. Harmon and Miss Helen Harmon, who are enjoying a motor outing in Rainier National Park. They will visit various points of in terest about the Sound and go to Van couver, B. C, before returning to Port land. , . , Mr and Mrs. Charles J. Strode and baby Mrs. Thomas Keoghn and Miss guan Williams are occupying the Clary cottage at Seaside for the remainder Of the season. ' m 9 Dr and Mrs. J. A. Pettit, whose names appeared in a list of 1 0 Portland peo ple said to be abroad, are in Portland. Thev had engaged passage and started to go abroad, but their plans were sud denly changed on account of the illness of Dr. Pettlfs mother, and they re turned to Portland. The personnel of the recently-elected board of trustees of the Portland Art Association Is announced in the an nual report as follows: Wlnslow B. Aver, president; Rev. T. L. Eliot, vice president: William M. Ladd, treasurer, and C. H Carey. Miss Henrietta E. Falling. George Good and Holt C. W 11 ejon The committee on exhibitions and lectures includes Miss Failing, Mrs. H. C. Wortman, Miss H. H. Failing. I. N. -yieischner and Mrs. L Allen Lewis. The members of the committee on mem. "fcership are George Good, Miss Eliza beth Cadwell and Mrs. W. L. Brewster. PROMINENT YOUNG MATRON CAP Mrs. Dorsey Smith and her baby are Inn. Mrs. Smith is a charming young informal affairs at her home, 640 Ravensview Drive. At present sue is dis pensing hospitality to a number of friends who are enjoying a house party. On the committee on art school are: Dr. Holt C. Wilson Mrs. Lee Hoffman, C. H. Carey and Albert E. Doyle. Mrs Hoffman, who is prominently identified with the Arts and Crafts So ciety, takes a great interest in the Portland Art Association and recently donated two reproductions of ancient Spanish pottery to the museum. One is a water jar and the other a quaint on burner. W. B. Ayer, Miss Falling, Mrs. Brewster. Miss Flanders, Mrs. Robert Lewis and several other prominent Portland people gave choice bits of art work. Miss Anna a. urocner is curator of the museum. Mrs. Charles L. Boss was hostess yesterday at a bridge party at which she entertained several out-of-town guests and local society friends. Mrs. John B. Frem, of North Yakima, was the inspiration for the festivity. Mrs. William McBride won first honors at cards. The rooms were decorated with cut flowers and ferns. Several Informal dinners and motoring parties are making Mrs. Frem's visit enjoyable. Mrs. Robert Treat Piatt has returned to Portland after a year's absence in Italy. Mrs. Robert Osborn will entertain the Rose Social Club at her home. 905 Van couver avenue, on Thursday afternoon. All Royal Neighbors are invited. Mrs. Charles B. Goldman, who has been the house guest of her sister, Mrs. I. Holsman, for severa months, will re turn on Thursday to her home in San Francisco. a a Mr. and Mrs. John W. Alexander re turned yesterday from a two months' trip to Europe. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Alexander, when last heard from, were in Paris, where Mr. Alexander has a studio. Dr. and Mrs. Holt Wilson have re turned from North Beach, where they were guests of Mrs. Theodore B. Wil cox. Mrs. H. F. Campion returned from Long Beach on Monday after a delight ful visit. . Mrs. J. W. Shaver also came back to Portland on Monday after an outing of a month at Long Beach. Mrs. Theodore Hewitt and her two sons, Theodore Jr., and De Witt Hewitt, are passing several weeks at Eugene. Miss Nellie Murphy left early in the week for Sea View, Wash., where she will be entertained by friends. DfvoreedLife Jfelenff&ssanyfUesso. Copyright Tbe Adams Newspaper Service. One Man's Views on Women. A DREAMY-EYED girl sat at the piano at one end of the big living room of Placid Inn. Marian and old Wiley sat chatting by the hearth. "Great Scott," muttered Wiley, as the pianist swung Into the measures of the "Traumerei," "wny can't that girl play something? This soft stuff gives me the creeps." "Soft stuff!" echoed Marian. "Yes, sugar water. Pink tea piece that's all. It's the sort of thing to play at a woman's club. It would make a great hit." "I agree with you that it would do very well for a woman's club," re turned Marian, "because women appre ciate music. It would hardly be the thing for a man's club. I admit. There they'd probably Insist on a boxing match to the tune of 'Steamboat Bill.' or on a few brazen whirling dervishes accompanied by cheap cafe music." "There's one thing I won't admit, and that is that women know anything about music, or any art, for that mat ter," rejoined Wiley, caressing with his lips the one cigar a day he allowed himself. "But the fact remains that women are the real patronesses of art, and always have been," Insisted Marian, feeling herself grow more and more antagonistic. "The greatest patron of art in the history of the world was a woman Queen Elizabeth." "But I notice that women don't pro duce art," side-stepped Wiley. "No, because their vitality and en ergy are exhausted in producing chil dren," retorted Marian. "Certainly, and their business is at home taking care of the children," was the bachelor's answer. "All this run ning around, to women' clubs, and WHO IS SUMMERING AT CLOUD INN. passing the Summer at Cloud Cap matron, who frequently entertains at breaking into politics, and making speeches on soap boxes, makes me tired," yawned Wiley. "That's what makes me tired about America," added the blase traveler. "Everybody trying to run the government." Mrs. McCarrens, divining the trend of the conversation from the other side of the room, crossed to where Marian and Wiley were at loggerheads, getting there in time to hear the man's last sentence. "Let there be no bloodshed," she warned with a smile. "As for the government," she continued, "certainly someone should have a hand In run ning it who knows human values bet ter than the men who keep talking but say nothing, who manage to get them selves elected to most of the jobs. "Oh Lord!" groaned Wiley, as the girl at the piano began on the "Hu moresque." "More sugar-water. I'm going to slip up to my room and put plugs in my ears before I get sick. There ought to be a law against play ing kindergarten lullabies at a place like this." The two women looked at each other and laughed. "Can you beat it? de manded Mrs. McCarrens. "I had an idea what strain he was on, and thought I'd come over and shoo him away. That's the sort of thing," she said, her eyes following the depart ing figure, "that we women allow to do the voting! Isn't it enough to turn a woman into a raving lunatic? "What does he know about music anything?" asked Marian. "Not a blessed thing. Let a woman sit down at the piano, and he cuts loose. Let a man punish the keys with the most murderous assault on any composition, and he thinks It's great. How the old fellow does loathe and de spise a woman! I wonder if he ever had a mother, or If he just grew?" "Wouldn't it be great to see him in love?" said Marian. "It couldn't occur. He's utterly im possible. At least highly improbable." aan jxoNOMics XAnrxabcIl Turner. Instructor. Iniyersily Wisconsin Why the Clothes Were Rusty. THERE were tiny rust spots on the clothes just laundered. How they came there was a mystery. Everything was suspected and examined but the bluing. And in the bluing lay the fault Most of the bluings in the market today come from Prussian blue. It is very cheap, gives a good color and is readily soluble; but it is an iron com- SilTer Gray Dance Frock Made of Satin and Talie. pound, which is decomposed by alka lies, yielding iron rust. If the clothes are not carefully rinsed until free from all soap and other alkali used in wash ing, contact with the bluing will result in tiny rust spots on the clothes. Here Is a test for the presence of iron in bluing: Prepare about a tea spoon of a strong solution of the bluing you wish to test. Add an equal amount of ordinary household ammonia and al low to stand from 15 to 30 minutes. A reddish brown precipitate shows the presence of iron. The objectionable results of Prussian blue may be overcome by the use of an acid rinse to neutralize the alkali. Two tablespoons of acetic acid or about a third of a cup of vinegar to a pail of water will be sufficient under ordinary circumstances. The amount of alkali present in the rinsing water varies g"reatly, and, therefore, no absolute rule can be given. A smaller amount might often be sufficient. Ultramarine blue is an iron com pound, but it does not decompose with alkali. It is often bought as ball blu ing. It is insoluble in water, but breaks up into very minute particles which spread through the liquid and give it a blue color. The water must be stirred and one must be careful in using it or the clothes will be streaked. Aniline blues give good clear colors, but they actually dye the material and, therefore, should be used carefully. Some of these require an acid to develop them. Acetic acid, or vinegar, is prefer able to oxalic acid, as it is volatile and has less action on the fiber. -WHAT f ITS PI HOUSE JAYS Copyright, 1914. by the McClure Newspaper syndicate. PARIS, July 15. There is a sudden fashion over here for black and white checked silk gowns. It may have come about through the popularity of the checked cape of worsted that so many of the women wear half falling off the shoulders after the fashion of an Austrian army officer's cloak. I saw a perfectly appointed limousine stop in front of a famous perfumer's shop on the Place Vehdome yesterday, out of which stepped a perfectly ap pointed creature who was evidently go ing to while away a half hour or so choosing a new kind of scent. One's mind could not help imaging exactly the kind of perfume she would finally get, and one had to resist temp tation not to follow her to the end of the episode, just to prove one's self right. However, it was not the perfume she chose, but the gown she wore that is of interest, because it is somewhat new to the American mind. It was of silk in a small shepherd's check without a touch of any color except a white or gandie collar at the neck, if one can call white a color. The most noticeable thing about the costume was the exceeding shortness of the skirt. Two days in Paris is enough to convince one that women are wearing the shortest skirts ever, and that the Americans are too long by three inches, speaking in the name of fashion. It was fully six inches off the ground and showed a pair of ' typical French ankles and feet clad in stone gray stockings and high-heeled slippers of gray and silver brocade. They were not very good ankles from the point of view of an American, but they are the kind the French like rather thick and attached to a short, broad foot. There was a knife-pleated tunic over this skirt, and it was so full that it floated out like a crinoline with every movement of the wearer. The tight fitting bodice was also pleated, and the sash of the material was wound three times round the figure in order to bring the waist line well down over the hips. Topping the costume was the ubiqui tous cap of white pin feathers. Gray is not a becoming color to the majority of women, whether in checks or in solid tones, but evidently it is to be the fashion. One sees more and more gowns of it as the round of the various fashionable places is made. So far there are few check suits, but there are many of these checked gowns, and everywhere there are silver gray and stone gray house gowns and dance frocks made of satin and tulle. Whortleberries, huckleberries, blue berries whatever you call them, they are all the same. Huckleberries have never been cultivated and are today al most as wild as they were when the Indians used to eat them, before ever white men came to Amrica. Soie ef forts are making toward producing a larger huckleberry and those who like the berry as we get it today may well long for the time when the cultivated fruit will be perfected. For just imag ine its lusciousness, its flavor and its juciness. In the meantime, we must do the best we can and that is very well with the blueberry as we have it to day. In England it is called a bill berry and billberry pie, made accord ing to an English recipe, Is like this: Mix three cupfuls of berries, washed, looked over and dried, with two ounces of granulated sugar. Line a pie plate with paste and spread over it a very thin layer of apple sauce. Then put in nT Kfioc, -Put a i-im of naste. about an Inch wide, around the top edge of the pie plate, and bake the pie until the berries are soft. Sprinkle the top with powaerea sugar uuu riu A,ietor,i smme or with a layer of jelly over the top, either cold or hot . Blueberry Muffins are a delicious luncheon dish. To make them pick over a cupful of berries that have been washed and dried and mix them in a . , , ,.r m .n?ni r,f flnnr Make a LI11IU IM O. muffin batter of a quarter of a cuptui of butter creamed with a third of a .....fai rf ontrar and then add a well- beaten egg. Sift two and a third cup fuls of pastry Hour, iour leaapuuiuuu, i..i hQirins- nwder and half a tea- spoonful of salt and add to the creamed butter and sugar alternately with a cupful of milk. 'men aaa me mul berries. Bake in buttered tins. These muffins can be served for a luncheon pudding with a sauce of crushed and sweetened blueberries heated tor ten minutes in a clouDie Doner, or wim hard sauce. A 1,,,n1,a,arriaa nan Vip tlSed in VilllWCU t , 1. V 1.'" - - H.I I the Winter for making puddings and pies or else for a luncheon dessert as they are. To can tnem anow a cupim of granulated sugar to every pound of huckleberries. Wash the berries and put them in a porcelain lined kettle j v, c, nvr them. Let anu puui i." u ' - them stand three or four hours and then put them over a low neat anu bring them gradually to the boil. Then can. mi tt. 1 : .-v, '.,.,,! nf nnttlnc a HO r,il6tlon HIUIUU r o layer oi ayuic oauc . . -.. v. - huckleberry rieis in recognition of the fact that huckleberries are always so juicy that something is needed to keep the lower crust from becoming soggy. One way to make a huckleberry pie is to bake a lower crust uu m i..i aA a-ar0ttni1 h ii ck 1 p.berri es in it. Another way is to use two crusts and to bake them after the huckleber- ;,. tiw.m hnt tn mix a table- nea awe in , ' spoonful of flour with the berries for a pie. The berries snouia oe uiuruus'") dried before putting in the pie. Snapshots . Barbara Bam Various Kinds of Wedding Glfth. fjA.Y'S wedding presents were Sx II conglomeration," the Young Girl was saying. "Really, her house looks FACTORY C A I 17 1 OUTLET DrM iM4. $20,000 Stock Sacrificed Positive Lot No. I Skirts Navies, browns, tans and blacks, worth from $4.95 to $7.50, $2.95 White Chinchilla Coats, Special $9.95 Silk Petticoats, Special, $1.39 Middy Blouses, 95 375 Washington St. Corner of West Park like a junk shop. She Is quite in ae- spalr." , , iir..iinn wifto qta miner a Derpiex- ing problem," said the Clubwoman. To give or not 10 give is a uuc.w.. - . . . . i ti.vi r rwvivps the In- only wiiu if " r ,J . . vitation, but really with those about to e married. 1 nave a menu . i i .1,1. iron nnii ulifi savs she really dreads the advent of the wed ding gift. let wnai can sua wants a pretty wedding and that means gifts. She knows she will receive a lot of things that will not fit In anywhere in her home. Yet people will have sent them with love, maybe sacrificed to buy them; and she does not want to hurt their feelings or to seem unap preciative." "I know," said the Young Girl. I once made a tray for a friend. I labored over that tray. She got four others. An aunt wanted that tray awfully bad, so my friend gave it back to me and I gave it to my aunt. "A very sensible thing to do, com mented the Clubwoman. "But rather unconventional." - "It couldn't be done in all cases. The girl and I were good chums. May, for instance, can't dispose of her gifts in that way. She has a lot of pictures, not at all the kind she likes; some chairs that do not fit in with her other furniture at all; a lot of bric-a-brac that will Just be to dust; clocks and she lias a peculiar aversion to clocks. With these things around, her house, as I have said, looks like a collection of odds and ends. Mixing them in with her ownthings just spoils her whole furnishing scheme." "The friends of a bride I knew joined together and got her a com plete kitchen outfit the latest appli ances for housework and cooking utensils of the best enamel." "That was great!" enthused the Young Girl. "If some definite plan like that would be adopted, then wed ding gifts would be far more helpful. For instance, one set of friends could furnish a room a bedroom perhaps. Or if that would be too costly, they could get the rug or the set of furni ture Another group could furnish an other room or get the glassware outfit or some other one thing. Then things would be harmonious. There wouldn't be one of this and one of that and nothing alike." "That would De a gooa nuns, it could be managed." "It would have 10 oecome a. Liaiici niRtnm and somebody would have to start the fashion. And if I get mar ried before it is started, i nope mj (viands will eive me nothing but Ori ental rugs and books. Oriental rugs go with anything ana you aon l novo m rj i -- i. ,,,. Jnn't wnnt to. Thev reau uuuns il jv - - look well in a bookcase, whether they have been read or not." "They certainly would be safe pres ents," laughed the Clubwoman. "So would linens." "Yes," agreed the Young Girl. Even if you don't happen to like the pattern, you know the linen will soon wear out. So you can bear up. But to know you must face certain wedding gifts all your life takes as much cour age as to face the mouth of a cannon." Roar Leaf Boxes Made. PORTLiAND, Aug. 4. Last year I made some money In such a novel, easy way that I have decided to tell other people about it. AH during the rose season I collected rose leaves and dried them in our garret In the Fall I mixed them with spices and put them away in a large rose jar. Just before Christmas there was a bargain sale In the little white celluloid cream boxes and powder boxes. I bought a dozen of these, bored three holes in the top and filled the boxes with my fragrant, spiced rose leaves. Then 1 made some ribbon flowers, very, smalt f ' The Time Is Short Money Must Be Raised LADIES' CLOAKS, SUITS, PRESSES New Fall Cloaks New Fall Suits Summer Dresses Petticoats Saving Lot No. 1 Dresses A specially attractive as sortment of Silk, Serge and Challie Dresses, all in one lot, $3.75 out of some old scraps of silk In my silk bag and tied them to my little rose leaf boxes. They looked so dainty and smelled so sweet that I uad little trouble in selling the whole dozen for $1.50 each. This year I am gathering enough rose leaves to fill four dozen boxes to be used as Christmas presents. All my friends who bought them last year have ordered more and I think I could easily get 100 orders. I find the dark red roses are the most fragrant, but I use them all. I Intend to print in gilt on the top of tiie boxes "Roses from Rose City." R. G. THdANDmNc5ioRy 7b-NlGHT JBy yVjts Waiter, pi Prtrr and the Mountain of OlMi Part I. PETER was a little orphan boy, and he lived all alone in a little house. A little garden which grew in front was all that supported Peter, for his vegetables were the nicest for miles around. One day while he was working he saw something shining in the earth where he was digging, and when he stooped to pick it up he saw it was a bean, but very different from any Peter had ever seen. It was yellow like gold. As he turned it over in his hand he heard something rattle Inside it. He arushed It between his thumb and fin ger, and a tiny key dropped into his hand. That was gold color also. All day while he was at work Peter thought of the key and what it might unlock. When night came he was still thinking about it, and after he finished his supper he could not go to bed, the thought of the key made him so wide "I'll go into the woods," said Peter. "That is where the fairies are, and perhaps I will see them and find out about the key and what it unlocks." But he did not see the fairies. In stead he walked so far that he found himself in a strange part of the coun try, where there were hills ana moun tains and rivers, and where it was daytime instead of night, as it had been when he started from his home. As he looked about Peter saw In the distance a mountain that looked dif ferent from the others It was bright like the color of gold. "That is the color of the key. thought Peter, hurrying toward it, and before he had gone far, although the mountain seemed quite a distance when he first saw It, he found himself In front of it. A bright light flashed In front of his eyes, which made Peter blink, and when he opened his eyes again he saw adoor in the mountain, and, looking closer, saw a tiny keyhole. Peter took the key from his pocket and tried it. He heard a faint click as he turned the key and the door opened. He stepped inside and the door was closed behind him. Peter was a little timid when he realized he was a pris oner, but a bright light and a cherry voice saying "Come this way" soon ended his fear. When Peter came nearer the light, he saw it was a lantern carried by a little man in a funny little brown suit with a long beard. "You were pretty hard to get here, said the little man, smiling, "I w-as afraid we would have to try some other way." "I suppose I might have appeared to be more interested," said Peter, "but you see I have to attend to my garden before anything, as I have to keep it in good condition. But why do you want me to come here?" he asked. "You shall soon hear," said the little brown man, "but first come and meet my brothers." . He led Peter along a patch and pres ently they came to a little village. I say little because the houses were small, and tie Ureas, and Peter eaw of Half! Lot No. 1 -- Suits White, Navy, Tango and Tan Suits, formerly sold as high as $20.00, $5.00 many little men like his companion running toward them. Peter wondered what all this meant but he did not ask any more questions. When the little men had gathered around them I'eter's companion said: "Now, Peter, we have a proposition to make to you. On the other side of thin mountain lives a giant who tramples on all the gardens every year and makes the people suffer for food be cause Just as soon as they get their vegetables growing well this giant comes down from the mountain and in a single night, with his big feet, ho has crushed their gardens beyond help. "What we want is that you should go to his cave and steal his boots. Ho will not be able to walk without them, and as there is not enough leather In the land to make him another pair for a long time we think we r:in find lomo way to be rid of him before he can got another pair." "But what can I do to help you with a giant?" asked Peter. "I am only a little boy." (Copyright. 19H. by the Mci'lur. Nsw.pap.r Syndicate, New York City.) Next story "Peter and the Mountain of Gold." Part II. MAYOR ON PEACE BOARD Portland Ofrioiiil Vnm-il on World Committee to Abolish War. In response to a telegram from a Chicago newspaper offering to enroll his name as a member of a world wide commltteo to act as a peace tribunal. Mayor Albee yesterday tele graphed his acceptance and promised to do all In his power to bring about world peace. The Mayor's reply was as follows: "While details are lucking In your telegram relative to a world-wide com mittee on peace, the proposition has the right trend. I am In most hearty sympathy with a plan thut m'lll lead to the permanent disarmament of tlie nations of the world and the sooner the better. If the European war de- .,1 ttm mnal uAriniiv MM i hi 1 1 1 1 en It will stagger humanity. Its only ulti mate good, as I see It. might be uni versal peace, which eventually must come. If by any act of mine this might be assisted. I shall gladly join the movement." Face Peeling Easy Blonde or Brunette "The blonde', compleilon fade, early, be. cause her kln le extraordinarily thin "! fine." says Mme. Una Cavailerl. "The brunette's, a. a rule. I. the r.verae. Th' kin U thicker end his a tendency to an oily appearance." For either the faded blonde', .kin or the brunette', oily or .allow complexion, the beat remedy I. ordinary roerrollied wti. Ced every night, this will glvs one an en tirely new complexion within about a week', time. The wax gradually peela off the worn-nut surface akin, with all Ita defects, a little each day. without affecting the dell, cate underekln In the lean. Th. latter will have the exqul.ltely beautiful glow of youth Indeed, one may readily lo.e ten or fifteen years from her age, .o far a. appe.ranre goea, by a course of tbl. .Imple treatment. The wax. aecurable at any drugatore, la ap plled like cold cream. Adv. Quick, Safe Way to Remove Hairs (Toilet Talks) Keep a little delatone powder on your dressing table and when ugly, hairy growths appear, make a paste with a little of the powder and aomn water, apply and let remain on the hairy aurface for 2 or 3 minute. th-n rub off, wash the skin and the hairs have vanished. This treatment Ik qulto harmless and rarely more than one application Is required, but to avoid disappointment care should be used t buy the real delatone. Adv.