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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 13, 1908)
THE SUNDAY OKEGOXIAX, PORTLAND, DECE3IBEU 13, 1908. MECHANICAL INVENTIONS GALORE TO GLADDEN THE HEARTS OF Btf AMD GIRLS AT CHRISTMAS r-7 a ; .7. - : i . t f ' ' T- '; if V," ; - 'tit - V Y. 8 WHERE THE WtiEELiS BT WASHINGTON DWIK. IN ty land for IMS Christmas b.-lls have an electric ring, whistles sound of shipping ami the sea. and musl". is from growling licars and mechanical birds with sweet, natural notes. There are several novelties for children this year things brought from the' land of the Aurora Bore.ilis away beyond Alaska, under the north io!e. where Santa Claus Is paid to work hard all through the bright Summer time mak ing toys for his little friends In the lower latitudes. Santa's method of transportation has been changed this year. He1 left h!s reindeers at home not & sing'e one U seen anywhere and came down by ship and steam car and electric road. -la one of the large department stores he lias fixed up a 10o-foot loop-thc-Ioop electric road that run? from a picturesque valley in Germany up many a grade and curve to Falisure. or Cliffs Rest, on the Rhine. With this road and Its equipment the good old man can give both Mr. Harrl min and Mr. Hill several lessons In rail roading. Block signals, semaphores, au tomatic switches. switch engines, through freights. special' refrigerator fru'.t trains. Overland flyers, pay cars and wrecking outfits all work In rail lo&d harmony and precision from a cen tral power-house. When Mr. Harrlman saw. this toy railway he said he was g'.ad to know- that a wreck can be cleared up by electric machinery. Then there are stationary engines costing; aa much as $75. which will run a toy paw mill, pump water or turn a lathe, all practical, up to I'i horsepower. The whole Santa Claus system of traffic will keep any boy's heart delighted until the had of the system makes his round trip again a year from now. Kris Krlngle on tlie Klvcr. Charming indeed is the toy ship ping display. More than 123 boats ply In and out of Portland harbor. Battle ships, -crui.ers. gunboats, torpedo-boats, submarines, tugboats, fire patrol boats, launches, schoonrrs. sailing vessels from catboat to fourmaster. all have their ex art duplicates in miniature, all sea- I time i i &y-mmm Wpmm ', jt i . rt-v . A- Hi a 1 -v n:- 1 - I Sis..- worthy, able to snil. anil each named for its prototype from the fire patrol boat Williams on our river to the cruiser Ra leigh, commanded by the late Admiral Coghlan under Dewey at the battle of Manila Kay. These vessels cost as much as $12 to T-'S each, and are guaranteed to navigate any Kris Krlngle ocean as big as a hath tub. Moreover, there are boxes of about finely planed. ansled and turned wooden blocks, from which about 15 dif ferent klndd of ships can be built, any one of which can be knockd to pieces Instantly by a big marb'.e fired from the fist of a 6-year-old sailor man. Hordes, Birds and Hears. Rocking horses. covered with real horse skin In various colors and as big as those of a merry-go-round, form quIU a cavalcade which is new this year. A 7-year-old gentleman or lady rider can exorcise Indoors or out to their hearfs content on one of these noblo animals, which will be fat and slick a year from now. but are hard to break, as they are strongly bulit. Singing birds have been developed to the perfection of Nature, also walking and strutting birds. A cuckoo or peaco in one exhibit, when wound up. steps' along and spreads its tail In so proud a manner that the original would cer tainly be Jealous at the sight, while a mechanical canary In a ctge sings and Jumps around like the real yellow darf lng. Hens and broods of chickens till out the Christmfts poultry yard. Growling bears have appeared this year In the toy departments, perhaps because Teddy has been after them with a gun. Black bears, white bears, brown bears, all mingle with dancing hears and doll bears for girls. The growling lear Is the latest device of Marghuerlta Stciff, the inventor of the Teddy bear. It does growl like a crusty old miser at Chriet jnae, while other bears walk and dance. Mrs.' Sieiff also presents practical don keys, elephants and lions this year. Like the other animals, these toys are solidly built of steel and wood for use and amusement, as well as ornament. Their backs will bear a burden of from 230 to 6i pounds of the younger part of the human family. Dolls anil Games. Doll seminaries, doll hospitals, doll houses and dolls themselves have .been 4; .NEVER. TAJLlMQ SOU&CE OF1 DELIGHT XX brought to such perfection through pre vious generations that there are only two or three specialties .for this Christmas outside of the improvement In the walk ing, talking and jointed families. sTo please little giiiM, Santa Claus made a wedding between a Teddy bear and an E.skimo. while looking for something for the Alaska-Paciflc-Y'ukon Exposition The doll children of this family have Es kimo hoods and mitts, with bright, fat. round faces, but wear no clothe except like other brown bears. Their furs are therefore all natural. From 24 to 36 dif ferent families and tribes of walking and talking Individuals are included in the various doll tribes and races, descendants of Madame Bebe Jumeau. all Dressel jointed, and ready to be taken lo cheer ful Christmas homes, as they are all orphans with one exception, the merry widow doll, and the ea beach girl, in full bathing suit who really swims for 20 min utes at a time. Much akin to dolls is a piece of pottery that is a cross between a Chinese joss and a Mexican- Aztec bas relief, which calls himself Billiken. and says: "I ban ish care with a grin, turn leaden ekies to sunshine, drive away misfortune, grief and the blues, settle family quarrels, cure the housemaid's knee, regulate ali mony, bring good luck for a hundred years at a time and make you smile ev ery 15 minutes regularly, for I am the-liod-of-things-as-they-ought-to-be." To the long list of puzzles and games that have increased the gaiety of Yule tide from time Immemorial are added two new ones this year that of indoor base ball for boys, played on a dial, and the donkey game, which is amusing to chil dren as well as adult admirers of the long-eared race. - ' Domestic Utility Toys. Pretty novelties in decorated Bohemian glassware for children's make-believe receptions, banquets anil social parties are seen this year for the llrst time in dinner table sets, toilet sets and after noon tea sets, all miniature, but beauti ful and large enough for any little Miss Proud to entertain her aristocratic 5-to-7-year-old friends with. In this connec tion notice must be taken of t lie un usually beautiful tree ornaments that are all made in farofl psiris of Rurope by children aged from 6 to 12 years working six to ten hours a day or toys to delight the eyes of children in other parts of the world. When you buy an imported tree ornament you put a trifling amount of money into the childish hand that made It. The balance of the argument need not be stated, for this pretty, flimsy tinseling Is all foreign made. Made in Portland. Yet distinctly Portlandish are many new toys and ornaments manufactured for Christmas right here at home for both children and adults. Especially is this true of the art of pyrography, -which is carried on extensively at nearly all the large Portland stores. Articles in burnt, carved and jeweled and painted wood, burnt and painted leather, with staining and tinseling, are this year su perb in their artistic beauty. These are not for ornament alone, but substantial boxes for children's toys, men's collars and cuffs, ladies' trinkets, umbrella racks, hat racks, and numerous other useful household things are so beautiful and so cheap that, once you have see'u them, you will know that your home or your boudoir is incomplete, and your child's playthings lack something, unless you have a few pieces of Portland pyro graphic work and burnt leather pillows for Christmas. While only manufactured and imported novelties have been here noticed, let it not be supposed that old-fashioned toys for boys and girls have gone out of ex istence. Trumpet and drum, four wheeled wagons and 'conventional dolls even those stuffed with sawdust are for sale in any quantity. You can buy un dressed dolls for 5 cents up to i. True, there is demand for new things, but the time will never come when styles will undergo such change that. women, whether they be IS or 70. will cease to take delight in dressing dolls. Is there any needlework be the artisan princess or housemaid that carries with it such distinct pleasure as t lie robing of Inani mate, miniature femininity? They who shop in the toy departments with slender purses may be assured that no human agency will invent for the little girls a more welcome gift than a doll, nor one tiiat holds such lasting joy. The doll for one-half the youngsters of the world Is the one plaything that never falls of in spiration. In tills commercialized age, let us all be thnnkful for the inexpen sive, universal doll. WHEN MAY WOMAN HAVE A CAREER? Amelia K. Harr Says Not Until She lias Married and Become the Mother of Children. Hv Amelia Barr in the New York orld. I T IMJKSX'T matter whether she Is gif'ed woman or not. What if she does possess a talent for music or art or literary work? A woman has no right to a "career- until she has married and had children and gone through suffering and sorrow. 1 don't care how great a genius she is. it is only through this or deal that she can make herself tit to sing or pulnt or write as God Intended Blie should when he endowed her with her talent. She must have experienced the heights and depths of life in order to make her art whatever it is a speak ing, vital, original force; and marriage is the only gate to tiiat experience. And without it. if she writes, she is doing no more admirable a tiling than pourlnK the contents of one inksiand Into another. "I never wrote a line until after I wis tifty-flve years of age and had married and reared fifteen children. I am proud er of thm than I am of my books. Rvery period of a woman's life has its own peculiar mental and psychological secret, and I am not so sure that it is because J am an old woman that I some times feel that youth and its powers have attained a ridiculous degree of ex altation in modern opinion. Is the poise of age and bitter-sweet experience not as potent? Should it not be more potent than the impetuosity of early life? Poise is the magic- that enters into women's lives at about the age of fifty-five. With out poise we can do very little in any field, and It is thus quality which most women conspicuously lack. Tlie want of it through her younger years brings her a large share of unhappiness and failure, whether In the home or in the literary and artiitlc life. "At fifty-five or sixtv a woman should find herslf at her brightest and best. She. U no- far enough rast the child-barii-g period to have fully outlived tlie physical strain of motherhood, with its leiades of burdens and care. At ixty life assumes a trutr perspective for a woman. She beguui Uieii. and hardly be fore then, to see tlie great vital truths ot life and character In their proper propor tions. "Kspecially is this true of her exnwl encs with mn. At sixty she looks back upon tlie tragedy of twenty or thirty or forty and takes an almost humorous com fort In the knowledse that 'he- was not entirely to blame. Ah, dear man, that Is the lesson which it takes us women so long to learn to gl the perspective, to see tlie aggregate good which the years pile up agulnst the bitterness of the long vista of our lives. "Therefore, I say to the girl who dreams of a career: 'Marry; learn your lesson before you try to teach It." And let no girl set herself up as too precious a jewel of genius to marry what it may please her to consider a commonplace man. It is not that he is brilliant and ambitious, that his whole thought Is of achievement and success and fame that fits a man to bring happiness into a girl's life. I might almost say that it is the absence of these qualities which makes happy homes and raises up a race of worthy children. A man whosa every w-aking moment is "given to his ambition, who has no time for the dear Interests of home and for genial hobbles and diver sions, is not the one who will kring con-, tentment to his wife or give normal chil dren to his country. , 'Genius Is a luxury. Give we rather the plain mas who locks up his ambition when he closes his desk at night and takes only his own good, beloved self home to Ijis wife and children and makes them the salient part of his life. I tell you." said this wise old lady, "that na ture loves. the sane, the normal the com monplace, if you will. "It Is the commonplace people, the peo ple who aren't so brilliant that they don't believe In God and old-fashioned morality, who don't think It's their place to ques tion the accumulated experience of -the ages: it's the plain citizens who keep the world going not the geniuses."" AGED BUSINESS WOMEN This Question Is Bound to Be a Perplexing Social rroblem. New- York Times. HAT is (going to become of all the unmarried business women when they are too old to work?" was the rather startling question propound ed at a meeting- of a woman's club. "A business man, member of a lead ing publishing house, said te me: Have you ever noticed what a lot of nice old maids there are in our employ? What will finally become of them?' "These women are 'nice.' They are usually in receipt of a good salary, but tney haven't saved anything. Im provident? No. not necessarily. "Th'v live In accordance with the American standard of living, and they j can afford to 11 v in thai way witli I the moni'y tn-y earn, besides It is . re- quired of a wuinau in a tuod position I would in that way see each other in the light of candidates for matrimony, something might come of it, and this growing celibacy be put a stop to, which threatens to depopulate the world, and these fine women would not then be left to a lonely, dependent old age." ' "This question is not one to be treated with levity," remarked tiie first speaker with a frown. "It has not ob truded itself upon the students of social economy as it will do. Spinsterhood was never so general before as it is becoming. Just run your mind over the women of this class whom you know. "Mark my words, this question Is boiind to become the foremost social and economic question of the next ten years." NELLIE GRANT'S HAPPY WIDOWHOOD Home Built After Husband's Pcath Has-Passed Into Hands of General JuhnMoiic. to dress well. If thej- were saving, provident' you would call It. how-could they save, at the best, enough to secure them from want for the rest of their natural lives? Their business useful ness ends at SO years of age, say. Some firms a;enerously pension women worn out In their employ, but these are few. Something will have to be done to met this enierjcencv. Proud. Independ ent, superior as they are and so many of them! "There should be a day ror thinking about marriage." suggested a member of the club. "Just as there are Tabor day and Memorial day and others. Men In the cities are too busy, their lives are too strenuous, to think about mar riage. If there w-re a day set. apart for thinking about it and a parade of all the niie uitn and women, who Why "Homemade" Sells Higher. You go to a grocery and inquire for biscuits, cakes, doughnuts or the like, and possibly object that the price is a little high, when you will be niet with the proud "and triumphant declaration: "Oh,, these are- homemade." That settles the matter. You give In and own up that this makes a great difference. Is It because of a sentimental respect for home, or really, is there a- difference that one can readily discern? .Surely, there is. i-v much so that many tlrms of large capacity are now making "home made" pies, cakes and doughnuts. It is a concession to the superiority of home a testimony to mother's work, when she goes Into the kitchen and informs the cook that she will make a cake or pie for dinner. What's the difference? Fire, flour, but ter, eggs, sugar, water all the same, but when the handiwork appears on the table, the home compound evokes a smile of the eye and a smack of the lips. One can feel in its very presence the. Joy of home, and mother's or wife's gentle grace and happy thoughts. Here Is transub stantiatlon that you know all about. It Is the sunshine that goes into the flower. And when the clerk says "These are in cents, and these are homemade, 13 cents." we pay tlie 50 per cent extra because of the home in it, and it is usually worth It, for there is no place like homr not even, a hotel or restaurant, as good as they may be. Ohio State Journal. Washington Letter to Boston Transcript. TIB Grants have all deserted the cap ital as a place of residence and it is several years since any of the family have vfeited the town where they for merly played such conspicuous parts. The house in Massachusetts avenue, next door to the Townsend nalace a lesser word would ill describe this noble pile which Mrs. Grant built after the death of her husband, and which she occupied with Mrs. Sartoris and the latter's children, has passed into the hands of General Johnstone. Mrs. Sartoris and her daugh ter Rosemary have no fixed domicile, but make their headquarters in New York and visit the different members of their family, who are scattered all over the world. Vivian Sartoris i happily mar ried to Frederick Roosevelt Scovil, a dis tant connection of the President, and Mrs. Sartoris' eldest child and only son, Al gernon, who married, after a gay career as a bachelor, when his name was senti mentally connected with at least half a dozen Washington belles, Cecil Nouf flarde, is secretary of the American Le gation at Panama and very satisfied and pleased with the diplomatic service, which Is comparatively a new connection. - The gossips were all wrong regarding the matrimonial Intentions of "Nellie Grant," as she Is still affectionately called by her old friends, who has remained a widow despite the persistence of various suitors. It looked at one time as though she would forfeit the annuity of J25.O00 left her by her English father-in-law and bestow her hand upon General Kyd Douglass, of Confederate Army fame, a charming and delightful man of the old school of Southern gentlemen, but that romance came to naught. In her father's first administration Mrs. Sartoris was a pretty girl in short frocks and she wore her fair hair crimped and hanging down her hack. Iater. In his second administration. hc was a budding young woman who hail hardly reached maturity when she married that yonns scapegrace of an JDnglisnman, Algernon Sartoris. with whom she was to know such unhappiness and to be subjected to such severe discipline. This discipline, however, developed antl rounded out her character, and life in Kngland and on the Continent converted her into a cosmopol itan, but when she returned to live in America she was more American than ever, and no homesick wanderer was happier to get back to his old fireside than she was to revisit the scenes of her childhood. Since then she has lived con tentedly in this country, and is rarely tempted, even for a visit, to the other side. - . General Fred Grant was recently trans ferred from the Department of tlie Kast to command of tlie Department of the Lakes, with headquarters in Chicago; his next younser brother, Jesse, who lives in New York. Is a lawyer by profession, though lie has never practiced, preferring an active business career' to that of the low. and is much interested In mines. General Grant's namesake. Ulysses, or Buck, as he was called in Washington, is ulso a lawyer, holding a degree from both Harvard and Columbia, and is a potent factor in California politics, his home being in San Diego. His wife, who is a daughter of ex-Senator Chaffee, of Colorado, furthers her hushand's ambi tion in this regard, and it is not im probable that he will one day come to Congress. FASHIONABLE JEWELRY Butterflies, Garnets and Seed Pearls Among Season's Fancies. American Register, London. Jewelry made of, butterfly wings' set under Crystal comes In pendants, scarf pins and buttons. The pendants re semble those inclosing four-leafed clovers. They, like all the butterfly jewelry. are brilliant with color. At first glimpse the scarf pins could pass for opals. One pendant gleams with peacock blues and greens, another with flame colors. Seed pearls are very much to the front this season. The newest neck laces are a single string of the little pearls supporting amethyst, topaz or turquoise matrix pendants hung at wide intervals. "Variations on this simplest form are shown in models that have a little loop of the pearls from the main string- to hold the pendant, also in those that have three or more main strings with the pendants at tached to gold links that pass about the strings. Gold or silver ornaments elab orately set with variegated semi-precious stones are quite as much seen as the drops of plain stone. Rope necklaces in seed pearls revive an old fashion." Some come very long with tasseled ends anil tie in front at the throat or at the bust. Rope neck laces come in many degrees of thick- ness. Some have only three or four strings in me rope, otners a dozen or more. t Seed pearl earrings come in elaborate forms with long pendants. The rosette brooches " will send many women to their boxes of old. out-of-date jewelry. They are identical with the old-time brooches, which arc no longer out of date at all. Another revival is the vogue for gar nets. Garnet jewelry conies In all the forms now in demand in other kind of jewelry. Enameled birds with outstretched wings promise to be among the most liked veil and lace pins. Gulls and swallows four inches from wing tip to wing tip are favorite models. They are colored from life. In some the enamel is set with brilliants. The T'nire'I Simps KPoloKi'-n 1 Purvey has begun the 51 ui-i:d.us tusk nf ninklns n coui pl.; rpnwi" of the water imwrrs of Ihp i-nuniry. fin-1 tlm? avsColiln fi.r future utili zation a well as those already tieveojeti.
