THE SUNDAY OKEGOXIAX, PORTLAND, DECE3IBEU 13, 1908.
MECHANICAL INVENTIONS GALORE
TO GLADDEN THE HEARTS OF Btf
AMD GIRLS AT CHRISTMAS
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.