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10 THE MORNING OREGONIAN. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1915. i J; !: 3. OOQOOOOOO opooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooopooooooo ooooooooooooo m m 1 iff FfWi II I PI BYGERTRUDE F. (RBETT SfflH INHIM OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ONE OF THE prettiest bridge-teas of the season was that for which Mrs. William O. Van Schuyver was hostess yesterday afternoon. About half a hundred smartly frowned matrons and maids enjoyed Mrs. Van Schuyver's hos pitality, and card honors fell to Mrs. E. A. Baldwin, Mrs. E. Edward Grelle, Miss Hirsch, Mrs. C. E. "Warrens. Mrs. E. C. Shevlin and Mrs. Walter F. Bur rell. The pretty tea table was presided over by Mrs. William D. Wheelwright, 'Mrs. Robert W. Lewis, Mrs C. E. War rens and Mrs. J. D. Farrell. Mrs. Wal ter F. Burrell served punch. An ad ditional number of guests cae.lea at the conclusion of the card games. Mrs. A. E. Mackay and Mrs. Arnold Roth well assisted the hostess. Charming in every detail was the Informal tea for which Mrs. Maurice E. Crumpacker was hostess yesterday .afternoon, about 60 of the younger matrons and maids calling during the hours of to 6 o'clock. An attractive arrangement of small single yellow chrysanthemums and lacey ferns decked the tea table, at which Mrs. Henry Wessinger and Mrs. Charles C. Hindman presided. In the drawing-room an artistic ef fect was secured with a profusion of fragrant heliotrope and ferns. The hostess was assisted by Mrs. Dennison Clark. Misses Ruth Teal, Rhoda Rume- lin and Katherine Hart. About 50 of the University of Michi gan Alumni will attend the annual din ner this evening in the auditorium of the University Club. After dinner a number of interesting motion pictures of the campus life and surrounding country will be shown. The Myrcia circle of the Women of Woodcraft will entertain Tuesday night with a BOO party. The children of the Rose City Park Club will entertain the children of the community this afternoon from 2 to 6 o'clock at the clubhouse. Dancing, games and refreshments will be the di versions of the afternoon and music will be furnished by the Rose City Park School orchestra. The women in charge of the affair are Mrs. A. R. Ritter, Mrs. Arthur Laidlaw, Mrs. Floyd Campbell and Mrs. II. E. Carlton. Mr. and Mrs. Marion F. Dolph's baby daughter, who arrived Monday night, has been named Claire Houghton Dolph, in honor of her aunt, Mrs. William H. Lines. M. H. Williamson and Otto Hoffman ave returned from a week's bear hunt near Breakers, Wash. Invitations have just been received In this city for the marriage of Miss Helena Ursula Gorman to Joseph Pat rick Cronin. which will take place Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock in the Church of the Immaculate Concep tion, Seattle. The bride-elect is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Gorman and recently visited here at the Cronin residence in Garden Home. Many Portland folk will motor to the Bound City for the function. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Swenson have rented their home at Mount Tabor and taken an apartment at the Whceldon Annex for the Winter. . Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Sohimpff are registered at the Portland from Astoria. POPULAR MATRON WHO HAS JOINED THE COLONY OF VISITORS AT THE EXPOSITION IN SAN FRANCISCO. WomensClubs By EDimKNiGnrJloLi-ES. GENERAL satisfaction Is expressed among the Portland Parent-Teacher Associations over the election of Mrs. George W. McMath to the presidency of the Oregon Congress of Mothers and Parent-Teacher Associations. In the other organizations that come in . contact with the parent-teacher work, the members are gratified that the 1 congress should have so able a leader. Resolutions of sympathy for the fam ily and relatives of the late Mrs. Abi gail Scott Puniway were adopted yes terday at the Portland Woman's Club. A memorial service was held. Among the speakers who eulogized the late clubwoman and suffragist were Mrs. farah A. Evans. Mrs. Frederick Es gert. Mrs. A. H. Breyman and Dr. Mary Thompson. Miss Margaret E. S. Fee spoke on Wednesday to the mothers on "The Girl Problem." She said: "The world's workers are often small in number. The wife and mother should be daint ily and prettily dressed. The wife should let her husband leave in the morning with a pretty picture in his eyes. The child will grow to despise the mother who sacrifices her own at tire to dress her child. The wife should go with her husband to games. Don't let him take more pleasure in discussing the ball game with a man than with her. Be tender and cuddle folks. There are just two places for people who will not cuddle. Wall street and the stock exchange or the cemetery. "Children are born through ignor ance, carelessness or from love. Parents will lie to children and punish them for not telling the truth. if children are trained to be strictly truthful the par ents must be strictly truthful with them." Oliver Huston and Mrs. L. Eastman will be the speakers at the next meet ing of the Women's Political Science Club. By Mrs F. A.'Walker. i ' The Butterfly Bride. ONCE upon a time there was a King who had a son and he wanted the 5Prinee to marry while he was yet'alive, because he wished to die happy in the knowledge that his son had a good (Wife for his Queen. But the Prince was in no hurry to marry, and he would not choose a wife, o the King went to the fairies for (help and the Queen told him if he would trust all to her and the fairy helpers she would promise him that his on would choose a wife very soon. But the King became impatient after while and went to the fairy Queen gain. "You must wait." the Queen told the King. "Even now your son is in love, and if you will but trust us ; you will soon have a daughter-in-law tint will make your old age happy." So the King went home and set one f his servants to watch the Prince, for the King waa anxious to know with whom the Prince was in love. "There la one strange thing that hap tens every day." said the servant, "a beautiful butterfly of gorgeous colors f lies into the window of the Prince's room, and he is very angry if anyone happens to close it. ie. has given or ders that the window ie to be left open, no matter what the weather Is.' One night the King went to an old : witch In the woods and asked her to change him into a firefly that he might L. i ':fj follow his son and see where he went late at night. So for a bag of gold and a gold col lar for her black cat the old witch promised to give the King a pill that would change him into a firefly and then .he was to come to her to be changed into his own shape again. The next night when the Prince started out the King swallowed the pill and became a firefly and followed his son. He went deep into the forest, and by and by the King or the firefly saw a bright light, and when he came near to it he saw that hundreds of fireflies were gathered around a. mossy place in a dell, where hundreds of beautiful butterflies were having a dance. The Prince rode up to this dancing group and the largest and most beautiful of the butterflies flew toward him and lighted on his cheek. Then the King firefly saw a very queer thing happen. The fiddlers, which were grasshoppers, began their music and the Prince began to dance. The large butterfly was his partner and she spread her wings wide and hovered against the breast of the Prince as they whirled around in the strange dance. Just at midnight the dancers stopped and Instead of the butterfly which the Prince had danced with the King-fire-fly saw a beautiful young girl and he heard her say: "It can never be; your father will never consent to your mar riage with a butterfly, and I can only take on my natural shape at this hour and in this dell. Leave me, beloved. and marry someone who is not be witched as I am." As the clock in the town struck one the beautiful girl became a butterfly again and the Prince rode away. The King was so taken up with what he had seen that he forgot he was to get back to the cave of the old witch before daylight, and so he had to re main a firefly all day, and that night he beheld the strange dance of the but terflies again. When the beautiful girl appeared at midnight the King forgot he was a firefly and flew to where the Prince and the girl stood. "Marry her, my son," he said to the Prince, "and we will find out soon the spell that holds her and break it." Of course, the Prince and the girl saw nothing but the firefly, and they wondered who could have spoken. "It sounded like my fathers voice. said the Prince, "but that, of course. Is impossible: he could never find his way in here, besides that he would not un derstand." But the King firefly had remembered the witch and the hour this time, and was flying fast to her. "Give nie more gold." demanded the witch, "or a firefly you will remain the rest or your lire." How he was to get gold unless he could again be a King he did not know, and the hour of one struck, and he was still a firefly. The next night at midnight the King firefly was still by the witch's cave, and he did not have the gold, but a zalry touched him as she flew about and told him to follow her. "I cannot change you back to your own shape because you went to. the witch after we had promised to help you, but at the hour of one be by the cave and you will have the gold." ttacK new the King firefly to the cave of the old witch, and as the clock struck one, the witch appeared, and at the same time the stones In front of her cave turned to gold. When the witch saw this she laughed and danced with Joy. "Behold the King!" she said, striking at King fire fly with her cane. The King was very glad to be him self again, and without saying a word to the witch he hurried away to his palace. But when he came near he heard sounds" of mu6io and merry-making, and the servant at the gate told him the Prince had found a bride and was giving a dance. When the King went in he saw that the room was filled with butterflies, but in the arms of the Prince was the beautiful girl he had seen at midnight in the dell. Then the Prince told his father that a firefly had spoken to them and broken the spell that held the Princess captive, for she was a princess that a bad Troll had thrown a spell oyer be cause she would not marry him. "The voice was like yours, father," said the Prince, "but, of course, I knew you werevnot there." The King did not tell the Prince the part he played, for he knew he had almost spoiled the match because he had not waited for the fairies to do it CALENDAR FOR TODAT. Society. Children's party. Rose City Park Club, this afternoon from 2 to 6 o'clock. Orpheum party and tea at Hotel Portland, for Miss Bayly, Mrs. Ralph Robinson hostess. Dinner dance, Waverley Coun try Club. Dinner at University Club this evening by Michigan Alumni. all In their own way, and that he had caused the fairy Queen much trouble by interfering.. WOMENOlilHEVto Br Marie Dille. Miss Donaldina Cameron, "The White Devil," MISS DONALDINA CAMERON, of San Francisco, is known by the not altogether complimentary name of "The White Devil." Her work has been that of rescue among the lower classes of California Chinese and with her as sociates she is by no means popular. In the 25 years that she has been engaged In net present hazardous oc cupation she has rescued nearly 2000 Chinese girls from opium dens and slavery. The name of "White Devil" has been applied to her by- the China men from whom she has taken valuable prey, and as the number of her ene mies is naturally great the name has come to be generally recognized as the appellation of Miss Cameron. The true history of the work of Miss Cameron is more thrilling than the most wildly sensational "yellow back" that was ever written. She has gone at midnight into the darkest, most un explored and mysterious rookeries of Chinatown. She has snatched girls from the hands of captors on the public streets and run' with them through menacing mobs of shrieking. Cursing Chinese. She has discovered secret passages and made her way down, down to under ground dens. She has battered down doors to rescue victims and she has snatched young girls from the middle of tables surrounded by gamblers and drug users where they sat rolling cig arettes or "cooking" opium for the cap tors. Sometimes the rescue of the girls In volved wild midnight rides over an un known country to a destination often little better known. Most of the girls that Miss Cameron rescues she takes at once to the Mission House, where they are kept until they can be put into the hands of friends or are given suitable occupation. The trouble is by no means at an end when this stage of the rescue work is reached. The victims are ; not relinquished without a struggle, and a' long legal fight often ensues. Although a case is seldom won by the captors, the trials often drag into months before a de cision is reached. An able lawyer has been assisting Miss Cameron with legal counsel for more than 20 years, and for his serv ices in that time he has never re ceived a cent of remuneration. Miss Cameron did not begin her work of rescue because of any Inborn love of adventure. She does not glory In her achievements in outwitting the sharpest wits of Chinatown. Her only source of pleasure is the knowledge that she has rescued the women from captivity or even death, for she has at times hurled them from in front of an aimed revolver. Miss Cameron was educated as a teacher and became interested in the Chinese wojften through the Toung Women's Christian Association. Since she began .her career she has known scarcely a moment when her life was not in danger. She Is hated and feared by all who have had occasion to come under her disfavor. Since the passing of more stringent drug laws a few months ago the work of Miss Cameron has been materially lightened. 90 DAYS TERM FOR SHIRT James Morris Pilfered Article When Storekeeper Busy Elsewhere. Because he pilfered a shirt from M. Buchwach, 292 Burnside street, James Morris was sentenced to serve 90 days in jail by Municipal Judge Stevenson yesterday. Morris and L. Randal, age 20, are said to have gone into the store to gether and while young Randal was trying on a pair of shoes his companion made away with the shirt. Judge Stevenson sentenced Randal to 90 days also, but later, on representations from Public Defender Robinson, he was released. DR. T. M. BALL1ET TO SPEAK New Vork Educator Will Address Reed College Students. Dr. Thomas M. Balliet. dean of the school of pedagogy and professor of education at New York University, will speak before the Reed College student body at 11 o'clock on November 9. Dr. Balliet will also be the principal speaker at the annual dinner of the Oregon Social Hygiene Society. He is a member of the board of directors of the American Social Hygiene Society and an officer of the Society of Sanitary and Moral Prophylaxis of New York City. At the present ttraa the Ifaw York Cen tral itulon, In -timw Tors la tb world's greatest terminal. . . POLL FOR STUDENT MILITIA TO START Canvass to Be Made Monday of High School Boys Who Want Military Tactics. EQUIPMENT IS ON HAND Drill Sergeants From Regular Army to Be Assigned to Companies and Storage Room Provided for Property at Armory. Denifite plane for the enrollment of the high school students of the city In the Oregon National Guard, as pro Tided for by the resolution that was adopted by the School Board Thurs day, will be taken up at a meeting of the committee that will probably be held today. Tentative arrange ments have been made by the National Guard officials for equipping and or ganising recruits, providing the stu dents respond in large enough numbers to the canvass that will be carried on next Monday. Officers of the regular Army, as well as those of the National Guard, consider the action of the School Board as epoch-making, and already communications have been received from other states inquiring Into the methods that will be adopted for the military instruction. Army Drill Sergeaata Be Named. According to General White, one of the members of the committee in whose hands the matter of military in struction has been placed, the supplies for the equipment of the boys are al ready at hand. If the response to the call for en listment Is sufficiently large and a rough poll of the sentiment of the high school students seems to indicate that there will be a large number answer companies will at once be organized and put under the direction of a non commissioned officer of the regular Army, and all drills will have the supervision of Army officers. Each boy enlisting will receive' all the equipment without expense. The equipment consists of one service uni form, one cap, one pair leggins, one shirt, one campaign hat, one overcoat, one olive-drab blanket, one United States magazine rifle, one shelter tent, poles and pins, one bayonet and belt, first-aid pouch, mess kit and one rub ber poncho. The supplies are to be furnished through the United States Government. Outing to Be . With Pay. In addition to the supplies the stu dent will receive a' steel locker and locker space at the Armory for the purpose of storing his equipment. Dur ing the target practice season the stu dent will receive transportation to and from the state rifle range and his meals while there. At the Summer camp, of not less than 10 days' dura tion, he will receive transportation, meals and not less than 11.25 per day. The student must be IS years of age, and in the event that he is under 21 he must gain the consent of his parents before he will be allowed to enlist. The term of enlistment will be for three years, and the term must be served unless the student removes from the military district. General White Recites Benefits. In stating the advantages of enter ing the guard General White yester day said that the student would be assured of wholesome surroundings, and would receive instruction in per sonal hygiene, camp sanitation, first aid, map reading and other kindred subjects. The students first instruction, as soon as the companies have been or ganized, will be on the foundations of military ethics. Talks will be given from time to time on the functions of the soldier1. In a recent war bulletin the follow ing comment Is made as to the at tendance of young men in the regular Army camps: "The benefit of per mitting the attendance of these young men i3 that thereby will be fostered a patriotic spirit, without which a na tion loses its virility and falls into decay; and spreads among the citizens of the country some knowledge of mil itary history, military policy and mili tary needs, all necessary to the com plete education of a well-equipped cit izen in order that he may himself form just and true opiinons on mili tary topics."' Others May Follow Lead. The idea of enlisting the high school students in the National Guard la to make provision, to some degree, to meet vital needs that may arise if the country's peace is endangered. The approval of military instruction in the high schools by the Portland School Board is likely to affect other portions of the state in following out the same plan, if indications may be relied upon. In case other School Boards approve military instructions the officers of the National Guard stand ready to organize companies and give Instruction wherever guard com panies are stationed. CHURCH MEET 'ON TODAY Northwest Endeavorers to Convene at Sunnyslde Congregational. Sunnyside Congregational Church will be the scene today of the open ing of the convention of the Northwest District Christian Endeavor Societies. The Portland Endeavorers will be hosts to the visitors. The programme will open at 3 o'clock. There will be a cafeteria supper at 6 o'clock and a reception later in the evening. . Miss Bessie Earsley, Fred Nelson, Miss Grace Sprague, Miss Maye John son and C. H. Sprague will be in charge of the reception. At 3 o'clock on Sunday there will be a meeting addressed by Daniel A. Poling. On Monday at 3 o'clock a con ference session will be held. At 6:30 Xiondav a banquet will be served to 150. The Monday night service will be In the nature of a mass meet ing. at which there will be a compe tition for cups, which are awarded for high percentage of attendance. TWO ROBBERIES REPORTED Room Is Burglarised and Auto Robes Stolen -In Street. City Detectives Coleman and Snow are investigating a burglary which is said to have been committed at 342 H First street Thursday night. Someone is said to have broken into the room of-Nim Iremonger at that place and taken a $50 diamond and a gold nugget valued at $2.50. Ed Holt, who rooms at the Clyde Hotel, reported to the police yesterday that someone took two auto robes from his machine while it was standing at Sixth and Washington streets Thurs day evening. . WHY ,RIDE IN JITNEYS When -You Can Ride With the Old Reliable lueTaxicaub Co Safer and Under the Zone Rates? The Blue Taxicab Co. is now under new management, having all new and up-to-date Touring Cars and Taxicabs. Only careful and efficient drivers are in our employ, assuring safety and comfort. Ask the dispatcher for an exact rate on any ride you wish to take. Charges made by zone rates or by the hour $2.00. A trial will convince you our rates are the lowest in the city. Phone Broadway 5300, A 2223 OFFICE 74 BROADWAY SGHOOLEXIT SCORED Mr. Baker and Fire Marshal Join in Seeking New Law. COMMUNITY MEETING ISSUE Use of Assembly Halls by Children in Which Other Gatherings Are Not Permitted Because of Fire Sanger Is Opposed. To bring to a determination the propo sition of the School Beard refusing to permit community meetings in school assembly rooms because of the fire dan ger and still permitting school children to occupy the same rooms. Commis sioner Baker, working in conjunction with Fire Marshal Stevens, is prepar ing a city ordinance to require the con struction of stairs for emergency ex its In all school buildings having as sembly rooms above the first floor. The measure will be ready for sub mission to the Council within a short time. The peculiar attitude of the School Board was brought to Mr. Baker's at tention recently at a meeting of the Porent - Teacher Association at the Creston School. ' It was complained that school children use the assembly rooms in the daytime, although Fire Marshal Stevens says the buildings In some instances are not safe by reason of lack of proper exits. Fire Marshal Stevens says the school officials always refer applications for use of school assemblies for community meetings to him and he refuses to ap prove the applications. He says the question of school children using the rooms Is not referred to him by the School Board and therefore he has no way of passing upon the use of the rooms. He says, however, that it is as dangerous for children as it is- for others, yet he has no law to back him in1 requiring safeguards. It Is such a law that Commissioner Baker and Mr. Stevens have under way at present. Although - published statements re cently indicated that there was fric tion between Mr. Baker and Fire Mar shal Stevens, both deny that there is anything but the closest of friendly relations between them. "I have the utmost confidence In Mr, Stevens and am in strict harmony with his work," said Mr. Baker yesterday. "We are both striving for the same thing to protect the lives of children as well as grown-ups. If the school buildings are dangerous for grown ups they are dangerous for children." The ordinance which Is being pre pared will require the construction of stairways on the outside of each school building where there is an assembly room above the first floor. This will furnish an easy means of escape in case of fire. Fire MarshaLStevens says about 20 schools In the city will be affected by the ordinance. Mrs. Baldwin to Speak. Mrs. Lola O. Baldwin of the Women's Municipal Protective Bureau will speak on Sunday at 4:30 o'clock in the Y. W. C. A. at the regular vesper service. Miss Lsdy Baltimore Gate The Most Popular Cake This Season By Mrs. Janet MctCeneie Hill, Editor of the Boston Cooking School Magazine This is considered by many coo lei ne; authorities the finest cake that can be made, though in reality it is not at all difficult. B C Lady Baltimore Cake One cup butter; 2 cups granulated sugar; 1 cup milk; 1 teaspoon ful rose rvater; 3 cups flour; 3 level teaspoon fuls K C Sating iowder; whites of 6 eggs, beaten dry. Cream the butter and beat In the sugar gradually. Bift together, thfee times, the floor and baking powder, and add to the butter and sugar, alternately with the milk and rose water. Lastly, add the egg whites. Bake in three-layer cake pans. Put the layers together with the following frosting. Note The Caae is a forge One and sells at Women's j-,T changes for $1-50.- 32 O FroaUns far Lady Baitlinoae Ca Tht4 enfis ennlaleil etttnr: I Cnp bod in t waur: whites f J eerlt I cup ckepptd rats tits: I cmp chopped umt-wMUtt SJtfi cut in Mm tiicctt Stir the sugar and water until the sugar is dissolved, then let boil without stirring until the syrbp from s spoon will spin a long thread; pour npon the whites of the eggs, beaten dry, beating constantly meanwhile. Continue the beating until the frosting is cold; add the fruit and spread npon the cake. The K C Cook's Book contains ninety just sucli delicious recipes. bread, muffins, eskes and pastry. You can secure a oopr f r rt by send-. h'X the certificate packed ia every 25-cent can of KC BakiriE Powder to the jAOCta Mro. Co., Chicaeo. emftll caas do uut fjntiUB Couk's Book tcrtifig wa, Ones Enjoyment of breakfast, lunch or dinner is not imaginary) if partaken of at this popular grille. Pleasant surroundings, attentive serv ice, excellent cuisine; all combine to please hou to the extent of bringing jou here again and again. Sunday and Weekday Dinner 5:30 to 9, 50c and 75c Mid-day Lunch 11:30 Jo 2, 40c, 50c Music During Dinner Hours Frances Gill will play violin solos and a social hour will conclude the meet ing. All girls and women are welcome. SECRET PRICE LAW TOPIC Really Board Proposes to Require Deeds to State Value. The Portland Realty Board at a busi ness meeting yesterday appointed a committee to investigate the feasibility of a law that would compel the sellers and purchaser of real entat to state the actual selling price when deeds are' filed for record. A committee was also appointed to confer with the city offi cials and endeavor to secure the repeal of an ordinance which requires that a building permit must he obtained to erect real estate signs larger than four feet in height. The Board went on record in favor of the public market in the face of a com plaint on the part of J. Fred Staver that the market rents booths for 10 cents a day in competition with estab lished grocers. Mr. Staver declared that the market seriously affected the rental of downtown business locations. Grand Prize, Panama-Pacific Exposition San Francisco, 1915 Grand Prize, Panama-California Exposition San Diego, 1915 For Flavor and Quality Baker s Cocoa ma. u. . pat. off Is Just Right It has the delicious taste and natural color of high-grade cocoa beans; it is skilfully- prepared by a perfect me chanical process; without the use of chemicals, flavoring or artificial coloring matter. 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