Morning Oregonian., March 21, 1921, Page 5, Image 5

THE MORNING OREGONIA.X, MONDAY, MARCH 21, 1921
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KNITTER GETS
HEARST'S MAGAZINE A LIBERAL EDUCATION
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Work for Soldiers in War Is
Recognized.
160 SWEATERS FURNISHED
Station Agent Prepares Garments
for Troops During Lulls In
Railroad Duties.
NEW YORK. March 15. (Special.)
"There is a pray waste of snow and
ashes and railroad tracks around the
izeless station of Marble Hill, N. Y,,
overshadowed drearily by the 223th
trcet subway station; but in behind
the grated window where you buy
your ticket for New York there is a
flashing of parish color, green or
pink or reddish-gold, as Joseph K.
Doremus, station agent, sits and knits
all day. Kor the making of 160
sweaters, 3D pairs of wristlets and 15
scarfs in 27 months during the war
Mr. Doremus was given a Red Cross
eervice button by the Westchester
county chapter. But he doesn't wear
it every day.
"No, it's home on my Sunday coat,"
he said. And standing in his cubby
hole and peering out between the
gratings at his amazed but trusting
questioner, he told the story of his
bandiness with needles and of how he
thought it came about.
Mr. Doremus stutters; as someone
has suggested, he drops the stitches
In his speech which he never drops
In rweaters and in scarfs. But stut
tered as it was and strained through
the grating of his isolation cell, it
was a talo impressive, unique and
not forgotten easily.
Sprakrr a Middle-Aged.
Mr. Doremus is a middle-aged man,
partly gray and partly bald, with
mild blue eyes behind spectacles; a
friendly, eager manner; two sons, a
daughter and a granddaughter, and
the pictures of all of them and sun
dry close at hand to show all comers.
In the lower part of a cupboard he
keeps his knitting; for, the war over,
he has changed gray and navy blue
and khaki wool for vivid shades and
cianut'actures for the fair instead of
lor the brave.
"My hankering was always after
fancy work," he said, as a beginning,
confidentially. "Fancy work and em
broidery. I always wanted to do
something, fancy. Thirty years ago I
began 1 made presents and I sold
them. Yes, indeed, I can do shirt
waists, corset covers everything like
that. Then came the- war and linen
and si' :s went up and I had to raise
my prices and 1 couldn't keep going.
.And my passengers who come in here
said why didn't I learn to knit. So
I did.
Child Is Teacher.
"And, finally, I learned how off a
child. I didn't know where to lr.,rn.
1 was working long hours then, and
the Ked Cross rooms weren't open at
night. One day I was in Harlem
and I Flopped in the Ked Cross rooms
there and asked if they could teach a
beginner how to knit.
"We don't want beginners; we
want knitters." said the woman. Well,
if that had been a man I'd have told
him something. Hut since it was a
woman 1 had to swallow it. 1 was
so mad 1 walked to Forty-second
street before I knew where 1 was,
and then I walked in a department
store and bought me some wool and
needles. 1 was going to learn to knit!
"Well, I tried for two whole days
and I couldn't lock it. Then I hap
pened to see two little girls on a
bench outside and I walked out on the
platform and I watched one of them.
She was ensting on.
"And I noticed that she was holding
It with her left hand and casting on
with her right. 'Are you left-handed?'
I asked her, and she said ehe
wasn't. So I knew 1 had been doing
it backwards. And I haven't had any
trouble since. Now I can cast on
three different ways."
Hands Hough but Deft.
llere Mr. Doremus walked over to
hrts cupboard, took out the green and
white sweater he has just begun and
started in to knit, holding his wool
in what his mother cults "the real old
Yankee way." with the thread held in
the simplest way somewhere between
his third and fourth or fourth and
fifth fingers, taut but pliable. His
hands arc square and mannish and
rather work-rough they certainly
are not at all like a woman's but
they seem to fraternize with worsted
ls if that was their natural stuff and
as if he had never worked in a black
smith shop in all his life, which is.
in fact, the place where be began.
Now, blacksmithlng and embroidery
have never been associated casually
before, but it is to his appresticeship
in a blacksmith shop, in a wheel
wright's shop, in a paint shop and in
any number of other artisan piaces
that he attributes' his "hankering for
fancy work," and his abilities therein.
"Working in all those places I got
handy," he says. "Why, 'way back
when I was a boy if I got a hole in my
pants my mother would hand out a
patch and a needle, not even threaded,
and say, 'Fix it.' And I'd fix it and
think nothing of it. I'm 49 years old
sow and I began doing fancy work
and embroidery 30 years ago.
$25 Sweater Price.
"Now I ain't afraid to tackle any
thing that comes along in the way of
embroidery or knitting," he went on,
complacently. "1 can follow any kind
of directions for stitches which I read
in books, and 1 can make up. new ones,
try them out, and work "em up. I just
finished a sweater yesterday for a
lady black basket weave up to the
waist, a purled waist, a plain body,
and a long V-shaped collar.
"I've Just finished this one," he said,
pulling out a long gray and white belt,
"and I'm starting on the green. It
keeps me busy, and I'm getting $25 a
sweater, just for private customers.
Children's sweaters are $5 and up.
You see. I'm busy here in the station
for a while in the morning and then I
have hours at a stretch to knit. I
like knitting better than embroidery
now I can get more done."
Mr. Doremus lives in Yonkers now,
but it was Irvington-on-the-Hudson,
his home town, which gave him the
service button. Also at home, framed,
he has testimonials of gratitude from
the Ked Cross and the Navy league.
Share Done In War.
"In the war I guess I did my share,"
be said. "Besides my knitting I had
two sons and a son-in-law in the war,
and I raised a war garden here in the
ashes" (waving his hand to the un
prepossessing winter patch outside
the little station window) "as well as
one at home. Yes. I got some nice
beans and lettuce and tomatoes out of
these ashes. And I had $500 worth of
liberty bonds. And since the war I've
showed well. 1 was going to say
about a hundred women how to knit"
A "passenger" came in just then and
a local train began to slow its rumble
for a stop, and with a sigh and a
quick and careful laying-down of the
embryonic green and white sweater
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The Bathtub King
By Owen Johnttm
Dink Stover's famous Sleep' Prolongers, th
Tennessee Shad's conquest' of the Clapper,
Macnooder's Folding Toothbrush all latest in
ventions should pale beside this The Great
Idea! The world opened before Skippy Bedelle.
. . . Dink Stover, Macnooder, the Tennessee
Shad all the old Lawrenceville favorites here
again in this first of a new series by the un
rivalled writer of school-boy stories.
In HEARSTS or APRIL
The Four Sexes
By Straflno Fazzinl
Why is that boy timid that girl independent?
Why do we have "bachelor girls" and boys
taunted with "being girls"? Some boys play
with dolls; some girls play soldier; some men
design clothes; some women go to Congress.
Boys to be real boys must be born in even orde.r
feminine girls in odd numbers declares this
Italian scientist. Have we then four sexes?
In HEARSTS for APRIL
The Broad-Minded Marquis
By Phillipt Oppenheim
Does the man who knows the most make the
most? Have we any business ethics? Jacob
Pratt, once fleeced by his friends, is now
climbing his Ladder of Revenge every cent of
his new-made fortune to be spent in the game
of getting even. But how will pretty Sybil
Bultiwell fit into the scheme? Can Jacob still
play the game and .keep the girl he loves?
In HEARSTS or APRIL
Three Tales of Siete-Suentes
By Mazimt Formont
Why Don't I Go to Church
By Walt Ucuon
At the. Gates of Delhi
By Cotmo Hamilton
and 18 other Big Features
In HEARSTS or APRIL
Mm
The Golden Witch
of Hollister
By John Fleminf Wilton
"T'LLtame the witch," growled Mawes,
J.. but, under Peggie's hand, a huge cloud
of smoke boiled up and enveloped them.
. . Do we have magic in the twentieth cen
tury? For six years a girl on a desert isle
has been shipping gold from the South
Seas. Yet experts, combing the island,
have-never come on a grain of precious
'metal. Where does it come from? How is
it made? Can Peggie Fosdick still guard
her magic secret of Hollister Island?
In HEARSTS or APRIL
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At All Dealers
GEORGE A. JOHNSTON, Agent
Broadway 1626
the champion knitter who had learned
his art in a blacksmith shop became a
station man again and handed out.
with an absent-minded look in his
eyes, the little square of pasteboard
which would entitle a passenger, in
the outside and prosaic world, to take
a train.
KELSO PORT APPROVED
Cowlitz County Voters 2 to 1 in
Favor of Organization.
KELSO, Wash., March 20. (Spe
cial.) The port of Kelso, including
approximately half of Cowlitz county,
was voted Into being at the election
Saturday, when a vote of about two
to one was cast for the port district
organization. Closing of the Kelso
State bank this week distracted atten
tion from the port election, resulting
in a very small jvote.
The vote by precincts in Kelso was:
North. 55 for, 16 against; south, 84 for.
20 against; east, 37 for, 35 against;
west. 60 , for, 25 against. H. M.
Atkins. E. D. Ilolbrook and T. I.
Dungan were elected as port commissioners.
Baker to Exhibit Minerals.
BAKER, Or., March 20. (Special.)
Baker will place exhibits of its var
ious minerals at the third Interna
tional Mining convention to be held
in Portland. April 6-9. It is planned
to distribute at the convention a
pamphlet, listing all mines and min
erals of the county, as well as giving
a complete history of the geographical
development.
ADDED JUDGE IS NAMED
LEGISLATURE CREATES MORE
IDAHO DISTRICTS,
Eleventh Jurisdiction. .Forms Out
of Counties Taken From
Fourth District.
BOISE. Idaho, March 20. (Special.)
Judicial districts in a number of
instances were ordered rearranged
by the recent legislature. There- was
but one new district created, al
though an effort was made to set up
a second one in the upper Snake river
country. It failed. The district cre
ated is known as the 11th. It is
formed out of the counties of Mini
doka, Twin Falls, Cassia and Jorome.
They were taken from the fourth
district and combined to make a new
one with an additional judge. T.
Bailey Lee was named -by Governor
Davis as the judge.
The legislature also ordered .' the
county of Valley removed from the
jurisdiction of the t,hird district and
placed in the seventh with Canyon,
Payette and other counties. Both
measures have been signed by the
governor. The district bill that failed
was generally known as the Whit
comb measure. Its object was ;to
create a new district, with anotfier
judge in the upper Snake river vaU
ley. " V-,'
Senator Whiteomb of Lemhi county
was to he appointed as judge of" -the
district, according to legislative re
ports. The measure carried a special
provision exempting members of the
legislature from the barrier in the
law prohibiting a member of a legis
lature from accepting an appointment
under a law he helped to pass. The
exemption was lifted as to appoint
ments to Judgeships. The Whiteomb
bill passed the senate, but met a
sudden death in" the house, where it
was indefinitely postponed as soon as
it appeared.
AGED MAN SUES HIS SON
Fraud Charged in Connection With
Transfer of Property.
YAKIMA, Wash., March 20. (Spe
cial.) F. D. Estes, 69 years old, has
brought suit in superior court here
against his son, Arthur H. Estes, and
his wife, Nancy Estes, asking judg
ment for $4500 and return to him of
the family home, consisting of a
house and two lots In this city, which
he says he deeded to his son five
years ago.
The elder Estes charges that he
was induced to deed the property to
his son through representation that it
was necessary to have the title in his
son's name in order to obtain a loan
ad pay off a mortgage on the place.
Later he discovered that the mortgage
already had been lifted and that the
son, after getting the deed to the
property had sold the place.
Teeth Sh
We Give
A 10-Day Tube to AH
Send the coupon for a tube of
Pepsodent. Watch the effects
for ten days. Then let your mir
ror tell you what this film re
moval means.
To minions of people Has ten
day test has been a revelation.
Make it for your own sake
now.
How
ow!
thorities oppose them. So Pepsodent
omits these ingredients.
White or dingy how conspicuous they are
Remove the cloudy film
Yon can see and feel what Pepsodent
is doing. A book we send explains
every effect. Watch these results, learn
the reason for them. Then judge for
yourself between the new way and the
old.
There is a way to keep teeth whiter,
cleaner, safer. Millions now employ it.
The glistening teeth yon see every
where now largely result from this
method.
This is to explain that method. To
tell you why authorities advise it. Then
to offer you a ten-day test and urge that
you accept it.
The film discolors
Your teeth are coated with a viscous
film. You can feel it with your tongue.
It is ever-present, ever-forming. It
clings to teeth, enters crevices and
stays.
The ordinary tooth paste does not
end that film. The tooth brush, used in
old ways, leaves much of it intact. So
very few have escaped the damage
which that film creates.
That film-coat absorbs stains, mak
ing the teeth look dingy. Countless
facial attractions are marred in that
way. Combat that film for a little while
and see how your teeth improve.
How teeth are ruined
That film is now known as the cause
of most tooth troubles. It is the basis
of tartar. It holds food substance which
ferments and forms acid. It holds the
acid in contact with the teeth to cause
decay.
Millions of germs breed in it. They,
with tartar, are the chief cause of pyor
rhea. Also of many other troubles,
local and internal.
Despite the tooth" brush, these troub
les have been constantly increasing.
Some have become alarming in extent.
So dental science has for years been
seeking ways to combat that film,
i
Two effective methods
Two effective methods have been
found. Many careful tests have proved
them. They have been combined in a
dentifrice called Pepsodent.
Millions of people who have tried it
now employ it daily. Leading dentists
everywhere advise its use. In almost
every circle, glistening teeth show its
visible results.
Every home is welcome to a ten-day
test. Make it and watch the effects.
Other desired results
Pepsodent brings other effects which"
authorities desire.
it multiplies the salivary flow. That is
Nature's great tooth-protecting agent.
It multiplies the starch digestant in
the saliva. That is Nature's agent for
digesting starch deposits which may
otherwise form acidf.
It multiplies the alkalinity of the sa
liva. That is Nature's factor for neu
tralizing acids which cause tooth decay.
These results come from every ap
plication. They last for some time. And
they give Nature much-heeded aid in
combating the possible effect of modern
starchy diet on teeth
Tooth pastes based on soap and chalk
have the opposite effect. Modern au-
Smoke discolors film
With men who smoke the film is
often conspicuously discolored. They
are apt to see the greatest effects from
the film removal.
Children need Pepsodent most. Young
teeth seem most affected by these film
attacks. Dentists advise that Pepso
dent be ur.ed at least twice daily from
the time the first tooth appears.
Watch the change
Send the coupon for a 10-Day Tube.
Note how clean the teeth feel after
using. Mark the absence of the viscous
film. Watch how teeth whiten as the
film-coats disappear
Note the other effects, and read in onr
book what each one means to you.
Compare your teeth now with your
teeth in ten days. Then decide what is
best for you and yours. Few things are
more important. Cut out the coupon
now.
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The scientific film combatant, approved by modern authorities, and now
advised by leading dentists everywhere. It brings twice daily five much
desired effects. All druggists supply the large tubes.
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OH1.T ONS TOaX TO A FAMILY
Baker Students In Play.
. BAKER, Or., March 20. (Special.)
The junior class of the local high
school presented the play. "A Scrap
of Paper," in the high school auditor
ium last night to a capacity house.
The actors received special com
mendation, on their stage technique.
The stage settings, of a colonial na
ture, were donated by local merchants.
G R ANG El N DORSES RECALL
Phone Rate Rise Termed "Outra
geous" by MHwaukie Body.
MILWAUK IE, Or., March 20. (Spe
cial.) That tSie rise In telephone rates
in Oregon Is "outrageous, needless
1 - ; , Li '.TH &m Man of Every VcBKsnV fcresm i ' i
Si$S - Abmuidin In Just the sort of ' ?ws, & 'NmAwAwW I x
nikhinr action yon bare a a," V - f " S Vr!- x. - U ,'
Brut" l hiderd an attrwtrv js1 X f f " ' t .
combination of strong story " s . ,
" and botifol scenery. , V , I, s JV
' Here yoa ww Frank Mayo, jT ' 5 " . '
tl v. hero of romance, in the role i - ' 5ri Sfl I" i . J
, of m blr brother of the pinra X- X f s ' & ,
bBte1$ drama as strong a IU un- s n " , FJi . f I v ' Jf - '
jT j.- x usual lo tory, joa nrr tlr- , L tLV" "i B- V t.
JL xeJ? V rlB situation. In at ore'. tSff i & I jfi v
Jtk&t 4 y moot beautiful settings. f? T V - A - " f?i
v X Picture distinctly worth while. -fSk ' if :
and indefensible" and that "for this
and other acts" the recall of the pub
lic service commission is bought, was
the text of a resolution adopted by
the Milwaukee Grange Saturday.
The resolution is as follows:
"Whereas, it has ever been the policy of
Milwaukie Kranfje to favor that which is
for the bpst sood of all the people, be it
Resolved, by Milwaukie grange in regu
lar meeting assembled, that It believes the
rie In rates of the telephone systems
throughout the state of Oregon to be out
rapr"". nppdlss and indfenffihlf. and
that for this and other arts, this fnanpft
Kaes on record as favorinjj the recall of
the public service commission, and that
we ajratn pledire our moral support to the
best ififrestj of all th people. .
We also indorse the movement of the
committee of the city of Portland for a
rehearing by the public service commission.
The pike, the fresh-water shark. Is
provided with hinged teeth, which it
can turn inward to enable it to hold
itn prey firmlv.
TODAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
ONLY
DOUGLAS
MacLEAN
IN
"CHICKENS"
Incubated in city society.
Fattened on the farm on the milk of human
kindness.
Lustily crowing with love and fun.
Comedy Liberty News Weekly
Keates and Our Giant Organ
. Marie Ch a p m a n MacDonald,
Violinist
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Our brown bussea meet ail traloa.
WE INVITB TOU TO EAT AT THB
SEWARD HOTEL
THE "HOUSK OF CHEER"
and we believe our
Cl.m HKKAKKA6TS and our
LUNt'HKONH. 40c. 60c, and our
DINNtKS, flr. 7oc, 1.0O, and our
bl.NDAY TAIILK D'HOTE DIN
MSB, fl.OO. are anequavled.
We have finished our Dew dining room,
which almost doubles our former ca
pacity, and we are now able to tmke
excellent care ot small banquets and
parties.
W. C. CULBERTSON, Proprietor.
SHOES WEAR LONGER
When you walk in comfort; do stock
inps. A packane of Allen'a Foot-Ease. UU
antiseptic powder to shake into the shoe
ind sprinkle in the foot-bath, gives you
that "old shoe" comfort and saves wear.
Allen's Foot-Ease makes tight or new
ihoes feel easy. Ladles can wear shoes on
size smaller by shaking some Allen's Foot
Ease In each sho la the morninff. bold
very w here. AO. v
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