. r 4 F5 -y- m a nvv m .1 m m. i? a m m inur m m. m im iw a u w -nm- A hk h 111 ieh mtirnfij 111 v v m m 11 i . v 1 m 1 m m r 1 m ma ss-ra m r. nn i m n iv iiia. va x u i i mi - sr mm. an mm in jin British Organization That American ! ! M It is Patronized by King Eddand Women Are Preparmgto p jOueen Alexandra AMERICAN women are ilniiiisr this Spring to increase thvir Ioiik list of clubs by the addition of another. 'J'Iih Mothers Club, the "Browning Society and th club that wrcKlles with the rorvanl ulrl prob lem, will, if present plnns mature, noon have as rivals the Woman's Automobile Club of the I'nitod States. There arc already men's club for votaries of the. machine. Scarcely any city of sire Is without one. ami even down to the small villa ge thone who find their keeneM Joy in handling- the lvcr of the motor car hav? banded themselves for protection and pleas ure. Rut while mere, man has been prop erly provided for. one serious omisMon has been made. The woman chauffeur, or. to be exact in the French term, the chauffeuse. has been overlooked. There Is no American automobile club exclusively for women. True, they are permitted on occa sion to enter the portals of those hand some clubbouseo their husbands main tain, and In som cases even admit ted to membership or to form ladles' associate branches. This, however, does not satisfy the wealthy sports woman of today. She owns her own automobile, she Is u.ed to her own woman'? club, which is in no way con nected with any masculine organiza tions. Independent or Men. In fact, she has been developed to a point of independence where she does not ree why she should go without any proper enjoyment that her wealth can buy. Hence she wants an auto club of her absolute own. and Judging- by past per formanccs she Is very likely to get It. One of Greatest Things in World Vision stars, sees thnt some one calls them all by name, and that a divine hand stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and hav ing Journeyed through land and sea and k. the prophet returns with ten thou sand arguments for God s power and wis dom in nature. But the element of emo tion and affection enters Into this splrit usl sence, as when the seer exclaims, in Aiew of the multitude of God's tender mercies. "Thou art the one altogether lovely!" and the element of conscience, tfo, has Its contribution, as when David cried. "Against thee, and thee only. hav I sinned V As when Peter remembered his Master s warning and his own de nial, and went out and wept bitterly. Ru dimentary in some men, seriously im paired in others, working with marvelous precision and accuracy in a few. the re ligious faculty is found in all men. There are, indeed, some who have tried to show that this religious faculty was not universal, but all have Tailed to make out their case. The spiritual sense may fee very weak In some men, but so is rea a in seme. "Wit ana humor are very rudimentary In a lew natures; aa occa iXenU M4tvJ4tMl found wan Is eetor 3rind. and is noweriera to distinguish be t ween, xen aiw-ynow ewe of u Icnsw Jurtet, who is a -gmU. U such a club Is ferined there Is already an excellent model fer It. TIt Indies Automobile CI Mb of Great Brit ain is a f!nnrishinp example of the pos sibilities of such an organization. It comes as a sort of ltoek to Ameri can progrossiveness t think that tne women of the older country, who are supposed to be wrapped In conven tion, have already perfected a strong organization. The club is now almost three years old, and has a membership of 3S. and a waiting list as long as the time heems In passing when an auto breaks down ten miles from the warest point and nothing can he done tilt someone comes out to mend It. The noblest, the most distinguished women of Knglnnd are enrolled in tho club, and In reading over the list one might almost fancy It to be a roster of some funotion at Buckingham Pal ace. It waa in the home of a lady of no bility that the club was formed. In April. 1902. l.ndy Beatrice Kawson. an enthusiast, drew together those of her women friends who saw the advantages of such a club. Interest Instantly Aroused. It hud not been hard to arouse In terest. Automoblling. although It be gan as a man's sport, has gained im mense favor among women, and there are fair drivers on both sides of the Atlantic, whose skill fairly matches that of the men. In many tournaments women have pitted their skill against male chauffeurs, and have won a fair percentage of victories. But generally speaking, while a woman might run a machine as well as a man. she lacked that knowledge that equipped him for any contingency. She did not the land, who goes through the picture gulleiies abroad with his family, and yet to whom the canvases of Titian and Ra phael mean no more than a piece of white or black cloth; a man who beholds the gold frames, but sees nothing in them. But as to the religious faculty, it is In all men alike, high and low. bond and free, black and white, civilized and sav age. Indeed, this religious sense exhibits man as made in God's Image. This is why It 1 so . easy ,to xeach a child thu great truths of God, of sin. of conscience, of duty and Immortality; Just as a tele phone In one house answering to a tele phone In another house makes possible communication, so these spiritual instru ments in man answer in the small and rudimentary form to tho same faculty of reason and conscience and purity and love in God, the All-Perfect One. This spir itual faculty explains why Africanus, the cannibal chief in. Sotith Africa, In 20 years had become the -eloquent bishop, the wise scholar, the administrator and builder of a state. lt also explains why that Chris tian teacher and missionary, who went to that great tribe of Indians la Alaska only 36 years ago. has been able to trans form, that cruel and Wsed-thlrsty trinn into a selt-suSOetag folk, with their own e4wny. common scats!, kwnes, stions. lumber mitt, mm-M nine HfwYi THE SmfDAT - OREGOJOAN, PORTLAND, HBBmlB W i F " 'v V ' - YiBV7pHBH Emerson BainbrWfre. Mrs. T. B. Browne. VVt 'i'"" -" mmmmmmm "mmmmmmnTiiTinmmmmmm Mr- Broughton Dugdale. Mrs. Walter. MBmmmmmW ' ' i OFSii. '''''2mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmVH Mm. Elliott.-of Holme Park; Mrs. Arthur nmmmmmm 'W:-WT 1 -1 v : WV'nraB Pearson, wife of the well-known publlsh- -P"H JlL- vv' lr? mVl " ;J7in rmmmmmmmmmi r -Mrs Manville. Mre.-Mark Mayhew, mtlmmmml "' , iZ? ? ' ' ' ZS&T-'zt iZmmmmmmmmmm Mrs. Sthenlcy. Mrs. Charles B. Shaw. Mrs. SB f7'( : 'ft- v i-.a ' " JjLmmmWl&l I 3mmmM!l9mmmmmmmmm Herbert Uoyd. Mra. IJndsay Lloyd. Mrs. iiiSli'vtll ttJ ij, r JTXjESSKM- " I SStUS' XScPlmWmmmmmm Charles Hunter. Mrs. Bruc Porter. Mrs. SSBMBrf jTj p'l, r ' ',,'PrEi(C. ' i "f-'Cj WmmmkmmmmmmM Bernard Weguelln. Miss Honeyman ana jrittiilt lib jtahteJJ tjflBSlk-1 Jlmm King and Queen Approve. know her leal rights a well, and in case of trouble with, authorities on any ques tion of speed or trespass was likely to give in, when often a contest would have shown her to be in the right. So with the construction of the auto mobile. Man is by nature a belter me chanic than a woman, and more quickly mastered the workings of an auto's In tricate parts. But the fair sex can learn, and quickly. All that was needed was an organization devoted entirely to the modern vehicle, where nothing but auto should be talked, where experts would come and lecture on the machine, where questions could be asked and answered, where routes and newly found Jaunts could be announced to the other members. This was only the practical side. The cont1?vLnAGE who hath equipped the stork and the swallow with nerves toward the realm material, hath equipped man with his spiritual faculty, opening up the kingdom spiritual and etcrnaL Importance and Moral Uses of the Spiritual Sense. Consider the supreme importance of tho spiritual sense. By so much as man's intellect -is higher than his palate, by that much is the spiritual faculty higher than all others whatsoever. Little wonder that for the old prophet the cae and culti vation of this religious faculty was life's great object. Xo wonder that David im plores God to open his spiritual eyes, that Solomon exclaims. "There is a spirit in man that is the candle of the Lord. and that Christ affirms. "The pure In heart see God." Once the other faculties are alert, active and fully open, what knowl edges stream In. When Jfewton's eyes were opened to the falling anple 'and the falling xneoa. he discovered the law of gravity. When Columbus eyes were opened to the current flowing to the Went, and tJte s4rane drfftweod thtretn. he lwwl a w continent. Okan fcM Ja ,tajaroy aadJjraUwr, at tannc Perfect pcKyCjJ fjkfk social end of the proposition presented equal allurements. There was a general rush to Join the club, and the cream of the sporting no bility applied for membership. when his eyes were opened, he beheld the entire framework of an animal long ex tinct of which that bone was a part. "Open ray eyes to the kingdom of beauty in mountain and sea." cries some Turner. "Open my eyes to the kingdom of melody." exclaims some Mozart. "Open my eyes to the ravishing loveli ness of the red rose and the mountain daisy." cries Scotland's ploughboy poet. "Opn my eyes that I may behold won drous things out of thy law." cries Dsvld. All genius Li only a form of sensitive ness in some faculty of the soul. The greatest man Is he who has eyes look ing out upon th glory of the heavens above, and the beauty of the earth be neath, and. seeing alL understands nIL And the brutish man Is he who stands inert, unfeeling, dead, while God streams In the Innumerable messages. At last science has discovered that It takes two to produce light. Waves of light stream forth from yonder central sun. but pass ing through space It Is only a vibration, and so there Is absolute blackness and darkness. But when light strikes the eye. It Is stopped, and in the reflection, light Is produced. This explains Christ's word. "If the light in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!" This ex plains why Samson "wist not that God had departed from him. And this also helps us to understand why Christ, keep ing his sfvIrH se-nsKlve to the last degree, obeying every dMeate sngxstton that to be home aon mm from Ms APRIL 1, 1906. jj 11 ' To enter the dull any afternoon and say "Duchcsy." "Countess" or "Lady" would be to cause half a dozen heads to turn, for these titles of distinction are by no means unfamiliar. The president Is the Duchess of Sutherland; the Lady Montagu of BeauIIeu. Lady Beatrice Haw son. Lady Edward Spencer Churchill and Mrs. Gerard Leigh are the vice-presidents. Among the members are the Duchess of Beaufort. Muriel. Countess de la Warr, the Countess of Losdesborougb. the Vis countess Castlcreagb'. the Lady Viola Tal bot, the Lady Gertrude Molyneux. the Lady Margaret Jenkins, the Lady Wolver ton. the Hon. Mrs. Corbet, the Hon. Mrs. Charles Forester, the Hon. Mary Port man. Lndy Sassodn. Lady Colvllle, Lady Salomons. Mrs. Murray Guthrie. Mrs. heart, saw God face to face, and was one with his Father. Consider the Importance of cultivating the spiritual sense. In the college and university there is a new principle of education. Teachers have come to believe that man has a capacity for almost in finite development It Is found, for ex ample, that with the voice, that is an In strument weak, flabby, without music or range, by patient drill the youth can build a speaking voice that can arouse like a trumpet, or soothe like a mother's voice, or move men with the variety of some great organ. What expertness. also. Ls possible for the hand! Recently It was my fortune to watch the blacksmith, with his great trip hammer, fashioning the steel lever for the locomotive. That smith could drop the hammer, weighing thousands of pounds, with so deft a touch as to mark the watch crystal, but not break, the glass. Who has not mar veled at the skill developed In man's fin gers, as he sets tht type by means of the modern machines? And what shall we say of the possibilities of develop ment along the line of scholarship, where the reason, after mastering a score ot languages and dialects, becomes capable of acquiring a new language within a single twelvemonth, and until these fac ulties are developed, man knows nothing about the great themes that he Is stady ing. Not until Carlyle had fully devel oped his power of seeing what Hes hack of an event, was ae able to describe tho French Revolution, with Ks "MHows mt turn and Us rivers t hld.aad. its wake The King of England, recognizing the presence- of many of his friends and prin cipal subjects in the membership list, fol lowed the formation of the club with in terest, and when its first annual meeting had been held in Waterloo Palace. His Majesty and Queen Alexandria reviewed the procession which followed from Buck ingham Palace. This annual parade is probably the most stately function in which the automobile plays part In any country- Each member drives her own machine, and many of them are profusely decorated with flowers. The aristocracy of England, as well as Its wealth, is tjned up in the procession of costly motor cars, and an Invitation to be guest of one of the .mem bers of the club Is on such an occasion eagerly sought. On the social side, the club, also gives various teas, receptions and enter tainments. But In the midst of all these festivities the practical Is not overlooked for an instant. The club was organized primarily to benefit Its members, to Instruct them, and this feature is rigidly adhered to. The leading automobile experts re late their experiences in lectures to the members. Captain H. H. P. Deasy rccently to'ld the story of "Motor Mounta'lneering In .the Alps," and some of the ladles were so much enthralled by his plciures of the beauties of the of agony and oppression. But what is the tongue for speaking, or the hand that carves or paints, in comparison with the spiritual faculty that beholds God, and "builds character. ' and amasses the virtues that make 'up manhood? What rebuke comes to us when we think of that phrase. The extirpation of the religious faculty by disuse!" What a condemnation of Christ. "Take .away the one talent that hath been hldaen in a napkin!" What a world of meaning In the story of Christ's life, and his care in cultivating his spiritual, sense at 12 years of age. talking with the wise men In the temple, both hearing and answer ing questions. And what suggestion Iri the words. "As his habit was. he went Into the synagogue on the Sabbath day." What delicate suggestion in the state ment oft repeated, that when ot,her men went to their homes in the evening time. Jesus went Into the Mount of Olives to pray! Homelike Homes. American Homes and Gardens. No rword' appears so frequently in, the horns literature as "homelike" What does, it mean? With many persons a. homelike interior Is assumed to refer to a quiet, unpretentious house of moder ate cost, eqnipped la a moderate way with, modest fnrnltnre neatly disposed in rooms nnasmtmtng preportlong. That mMh rmm- mayo-he' homelike is. imquae tfonaMy trite, iMtt that ail homsttks moms snowy summits, when seen from an auto, that a number expressed an in tention to emulate his adventures. As to will Is to do with these wealthy and time-free ladies, the Alps may yet be traversed by some member of the club. Another lecture that gave a great deal of pleasure and profit to the mem bers was Lieutenant Windham's "Ex perience of the Good and Bad Points of a -Motor Car." The club has handsome headquar ters In the Clarldge Hotel. London, and here Is kept quite a library of automo bile literature. Advantages to Members. The members dd not content them selves with talking automobile, giving teas or having meetings in the luxuri ous clubrooms. This Is an organisa tion of active autoists, and they give annual runs to distant points. Last year they went from. London to The Hague, by way of Utrecht, Nijimegen, Bonn and Frankfort. The,, allied sport of motor boat rac ing gets its recognition, and for the races In the Solent the club chartered a special boat and saw the contests in comfort. Briefly, the club presents these ad vantages to the members, and the list Is reprinted here because' of Its possi ble value to American women who contemplate similar clubs: - Membership of and legal defense by the Motor LTtilon. A free copy of the club and Motor Union Handbook annually to each member. The benefits of the hotels and re pairers appointed by the club, a list of which will appear In the handbook. Information and assistance In passing- cars through, the custom-houses of foreign countries when touring abroad. a"nd the advantages of the system whereby cars may be passed through the customs without many of the usual formalities. The right to enter in club events. are ot this description Is completely erro-, neous. Homes are of almost as many dif ferent kinds as there are kinds of persons. The kind of a homo that one possesses Is largely determined by one s means. That Is to say, the rich man will provlda himself with a richly furnished and rlchly conducted house. The man ot moderate means will have a house less elaborately built, furnished and conducted. The poor man must do the best he can. and that very often will be poorly enough. Now. It Is obvious that the home which will b satisfactory to one of these groups will not be satisfactory to 'any other. Tnej rich man who Is accustomed to the daily luxury of his own house would not know! how to live In a'poor way in a poor placeJ The poor man, for his part, would be eoually lost amid .the luxury of the rlcr man: and the man in moderate clrcumJ stances will be as' much dissatisfies with the home of the very poor as with th" home of the vey rich. But the abiding- olace of each ls-a Home. Each falls wher measured by the standard of the others I This very essential fact Is apt to be over looked by those who nnd it tneir duty tq enlarge on the homelike qualities of cerl tain homes and their absence from otners It Is a serious mistake to deny hot like qualities to expensive dwellings. Artificial pumlcs itone U bow being' madj to-last ureU, - 4