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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 1, 1909)
THE SUXDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, AUGUST 1, 1909. SKYSCRAPERS AND BUSHEL BASKETS STILL TO PREVAIL IN THE FALL HATS No Noticeable Diminution in Size of Models Prom Paris Now Being Shown Many Novel Effects in Colorings and Trimmings Will Be in Evidence. ' ' ' - THAT sll-ahsorbing question of Uie moment to the feminine -world what will be the trend of the Fall styles In tnllllnery after much uncertain ty and many conflicting advance reports. Is about to be authentically answered. Local wholesale millinery concerns have come forward with, actual proof. In the convincing form of the real Fall models, and are making displays exclusively to the retail dealers, of the leading types of hat that will top the feminlnetresses with the opening of the Fall season. "And. contrary to the general Impres sion." said the manager of one of the big wholesale houses the other day, 'the new hats will not be diminutive affairs, but win be very, large, some of them huge. We have heard all manner of rumors as to what Paris and other continental cen ters of fashion have been preparing for us tn the way of Hall millinery, and the report that the new styles would be ex ceedingly small and simple In design has been persistent But these models are straight from Paris, coming to us with the Parisian guarantee of the advance fashion, and there is nothing noticeably diminutive about any of them, as you msv see for yourself." The nimble pencil of The Oregontan's fashion artist was put to work, sketch ing a number of the typical models, and the exaitt reproduction Is given In the accompanying pictures. One of the striking changes in shspe will be the upward flare of brim at the left side, and the downward turn at the right, ss shown In the buckram models sketched in No. S and No. 7. This rather rakish, but exceedingly smart and be coming, model is scheduled as one of the "leaders" In Fall millinery styles. The 'Inverted punchbowl" and "peach basket" shapes will be banished alto gether, according to the advance tips, and the very nearest approach to any thing In the down-turned brim that will be seen Is suggested in the smart Paris ian model sketched in No. . This hat is a striking combination of black velvet with white leather, and drapery of mous seline de sole. The under side of the flar ing brim and the silken binding is In black, the upper side of the brim and the crown being of the white leather. The drape shows one of the new features of trim ming, the "rainbow' effect, the folds of the soft drapery being in different deli cate colors, among which are Included the popular taupe shade, reseda, tur quoise, pink, blue, la-ender, cream, corn color and gold. Sweeping backward from th central loop of the "rainbow" drape are the new "mottled whip" feathers, mere tip ends of feathers on long, bend ing stems, in smoke gray. Among the tailored models a leading type Is shown in No. S, which is of black moire,' the shape being covered with this Bllken texture, with trimmings of silk cord, and two long, smart black feathers. The black silk cord is used as & binding about the brim of the hat, and a wired silk cord encircles the brim on Its lower side, near the hair. The two medallions are of silk braid, and the drape, graceful ly curving over the crown towards the back, is of the moire. The prevailing broad front effect of the new hats la demonstrated In this hat, and also in the chic affair In brown and heliotrope sketched In No. 6. The latter model is of brown velvet, with a roll upward at the left side and downward on the right. The soft crush drape Is of heliotrope sntln. The wing, which sweeps across the whole front of the hat, is In the same delicate tone, blending in striking effect with the brown of the brim and crown. Among the most beautiful of the new showings is the picture model of black velvet, with great white willow plumes, shown in No. 8. A striking bit of color Is afforded by the chin strap and' streamers of cherry-colored velvet. An exceedingly dainty and girlish effect Is that of the graceful llttld model in tur quoise and gray, the two side views of which are shown in No. 1 and No. 2. The brim and crown -are In turquoise velvet, and the crushed sash and plumes are in deep gray, the Jeweled buckle at the left side of the sash reflecting the turquoise lights against the silver. This little model has a decided roll upward from the face at the left side and front, and dips down smartly at the back. The bands of the new hats will resem ble the piece of tin that encircles a stove pipe hole, this being necessary to give the large hats a proper foundation upon the elaborate coiffure, which Is scheduled to prevail through the Winter. One of the new millinery shades will be the bois joli, or "pretty wood" color, in golden brown tones. Taupe and cataw. ba will continue In popularity, and emer ald green will be much used In combina tion with other tones. There will be no trimming on the brims of the new hats, and the crowns will be the same size at the top as at the bottom. In the leading models. The Turkish turoan styles will be popular, as well as the Turkish blends of color in drapes and trimming, this be ing fashion's tribute to the interesting agitation in the realm of the Sultan, which has recently drawn the attention of the world in that direction. Artistic Little Two-Story Bungalow at Small Cost BY THE BUXGATLOW CRAFT CO, 408 CHAMBER OP COMMERCE. LOS AXGELES, CAL. " THJ9 attractive home has been re cently built near Los Angeles with out cellar or heating plant for J2160 and In Oregon with cellar under entire house and a hot air furnace for The itemized cost of construction In Ore gon Is reported as follows: Excavation and stone work. JTS: mlU work. HOO; car. penter work. 2S: brick work, BOO; plas- ' tering. etc.. i.o; inwiuub r i..mKin,. ii!G- limber. H3: cement work. 3S: hardware. ; root. iw. iui, . The exterior Is of rough weatherboard ' Ing stained, the brick work of the porch nrf ex nosed chimney is of hard dark red brick pointed with black mortar, the roof is shingled and stained- ins uvni pore" Is well protected from sun or rain and is commodious. It opens into a handsome reception hall, from which open the living-room with its broad cheery fireplace, the dining-room with paneled wainscoting and high plate shelf, the kitchen with its cupboards, closets, cooler, bins, etc (not all shown on the small floor plan) and the stairs both up and down. When ordering the plans and specifications (which cost tun it should be stated whether or not a cellar and furnace Is wanted. On the second floor we have four good bedrooms with ample closets and a dainty bathroom and the entire arrangement shows not a foot of waste room. If not required for a bedroom the front room with Its alcove will make a charming den or study or sewing room. Although the house is only about SS feet front by about SC feet deep, the rooms are all of good slas and there Is a fin atmosphere of roominess about It. There is an abundance of windows and the entire house is bright and well ven tilated. The ceilings are 9 feet high on the first floor and 8 feet S inches on the eond. The living-room and reception hail may have oak floors and the stairs and landing are of oak. As built, the Interior trim downstairs Is of Oregon JL I U sm'wuM I BSM I handsome buttressed opening with drop beam, giving a charming; effect, from the front door especially. Any information regarding bungalow or cottage building in its latest development will be furnished upon request by the Bungalowcraft Company, 403 Chamber of Commerce, Los Angeles, Cat., without charge. DR. ELIOT'S FAULTY LIST Why Did He Omit French Masters, Especially Moliere? PORTLAND, July 27. (To the Edi tor.) When Dr. Eliot undertook to se lect his five-foot shelf for books It was well predicted that it would create much dissatisfaction; and since its an nouncement so many criticisms have been offered that, were these lines in tended as criticism, they would never have been written. The object of this letter Is to call at tention to the failure of the selection to fulfill Its proposed end, in at least one respect. The purpose of the selec tion was to provide a list of books the reading of which would give to any English-speaking person a "good gen eral education." The words "general education" are not, for the purpose of the selection, to be understood in their broadest sense. The list does not contain many books on philosophy, ethics, Spinoza, Kant, Hegel are omitted); nor does it contain a short history of philosophy, nor any work on political and social science, ex cept Smith's "Wealth of Nations." These omissions can be explained only when we interpret "general education" as meaning; especially "literary educa tion." This being the chief purpose of the selection, and It being Intended for English-speaking people only, it neces sarily follows that preference will be given to works portraying Anglo Saxon characters and Ideals, and only a secondary place to ancient classics and to masterpieces of modern lan guages other than our own. But. while the selection contains at least one German classic, and one Ital ian, there Is not one French writer that Dr. Eliot has deemed worthy of a place upon his shelf. We may excuse the omission of Ibsen and Maeterlinck, but is there not one volume In modern French literature or in the French lit erature of the Renaissance that de serves a place upon the shelf, beside the biography of St. Augustine and "The Arabian Nights"? . Is there not one book Ih French lit erature that Is Just as indispensable to a general literary education as the autobiography of Franklin? We may excuse the omission of Ra cine and his "Britannicus and Phedre"; or of Corneille and his "Old"; or of Cha teaubriand and his "Atala"; or of Buf fon and his Inimitable descriptions of animals; or of Satntebeuve and his "Causerles du Lundl"; or of La Bruy ere's "Caracteres." We may likewise excuse the omission of Hugo, or of Anatole Franceand his sublime "Cranquebille," or of Bourget. or of Pierre Lotl (although some chap ters in his "Pecheurs d'Islande" are pronounced by critics to be without equal In modern prose). But there Ms one author that should have been given a place of honor on the shelf, Und the omission of whose name is Inexcusable. I refer to Moliere. If no general lit erary education can be said to be com plete without Shakespeare, such an ed- "A Safe Place to Trade" Best Values, Lowest Prices Midsummer, and still onr store is crowded by purchasers drawn by the magnet of low prices. Don't fail to see that Silkoline Mattress. 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If any, of Mollere's characters that would lose their charm and power if we were to name them John Smith and Yankee Doodle in stead of SR-anarel and Don Juan. etc. Without making any disparaging com parisons, I claim that, besides their be ing ' equal in literary skill to Shakes peare, Mollere's characters, on account of their universality, have a better and more wholesome influence than their kindred characters in Shakespeare. Shakespeare's Shylock, for instance, is not as powerful In depicting human de pravity as Mollere's Avare. Shylock's desire for revenge- and his appetite for gold are simply the desire for revenge and the appetite for gold that Bhakes- peare attributes to the Jew, while in Mollere's Avare we have the trasl-com-edy of human avarice, stripped of its racial garb. It is for this reason, if not for any other, that It Inspires us with higher and nobler Ideals. The great monologue in T Avare," where the miser is almost crazed by the disappearance of his sack; where be ac cuses all persons and objects surround ing him of the theft; where in his great grief he tears his clothes, strikes his arms, accusing his limbs of the theft, imploring that the money be returned to him, is inimitable for literary skill, power and effect, being, as I believe, far superior to the scene in "The Merchant of Venice" where Shylock is ready to take his pound of flesh. There we have the tragedy and comedy of human pas sion in its climax, and If the purpose of art be to give mental recreation, to de velop the imagination and to' arouse and inspire high ideals, this purpose is attained in Moliere. I do not purpose to criticise Dr. Eliot, lest somebody should remind me that "La critique est aisee, mais l'art est difficile": nor do I purpose to vindicate French Uterature In general or Moli ere In particular, no such vindication being necessary. I only wish to show that any selection of books destined for general education is as incomplete without Moliere as it would be without Shakespeare. Dr. Eliot omitted Shakes peare because he was certain that in every house there Is a copy of his works; but this not being true of Mo liere and since we must concede that Dr. Eliot has read Moliere and puts him among the Immortals, how shall be ex plain his omission? Chi lo sa? LEON TANCKWICH. THREE OREGON SISTERS WIN PRIZES Elmina, Elizabeth and May Kelly, of Oregon City, in a New York Herald Short-Story Contest, Achieve Literary , Honors and Obtain Special Mention. I ' nin? stained and finished in shellac and throughout are of plaster with rough car- either varnish or wax except "the kltohen, pet float finish and tinted. whirh is painted. Upstairs the entire The connection between the reception finish Is wfiite enamel. The walls hall and the dining-room is through a WELL. Oregon has come to the front again, and we, the good, law-abiding citizens thereof, are not one whit surprised. No, we are getting used to having our great state head the list in lumber and flour shipments: we smile blandly when tourists tell us that our beautiful metrop olis is absolutely unique In its setting, and that from no other city in the world can such a wonderful view be had of its mighty snow peaks, rushing rivers, and grand mountain ranges. Oregon prunes are equal to anything feudal France ever thought of turning out In the markets of the world, and our crimson-cheeked apples bob up serenely In Vladivostok and the uttermost parts of the earth. Southern Oregon raises onions the size of a modest man's head. And now, it develops that a family tree In Oregon City has produced a cluster of prize winners which has made little old New York sit up and take notice. How chances It that Or-e-eron ac cent on the last syllable; they all call It Or-e-Kfm back there rushes from no one knows where into the literary arena of the cultivated East and pre sumes to compete in a short story con test conducted by the New York Herald? Or-e-gon, Which certainly, yes, I'm sure It belongs to the United States, must be somewhere near Honolulu, wherever that is; you know we passed it that time we went to Japan Or-e-gon, where salmon, siwashes, land-sharks, and Statement No. 1 politicians grow in the tall timber and hear no sounds save their own dashlngs Or-e-gon to aspire for literary laurels! Prolixity, however, sometimes ceases to be a virtue: ergo, I will now quote from the New York Herald of July 25, which devotes a whole page to the outcome of their short story competition which has been carried on since January 1: "One of the surprises of the contest might be called the Kelly sisters' epi sode. On May 9 there was published in our contest a story called The Mystery Lady, by a writer from Oregon City using a pen-name. Investigation proved that airs. Elmina Kelly, a young woman living there, had used the (pseudo nym, and the fact was duly announced to Herald readers. On May 23 there came out In the schoolteachers' contest a Btory called "The Boiling Point," which was frankly signed Miss Elizabeth Kelly. Similar Investigation proved that she was a sister oi miss lurmina iveuy ana a schoolteacher in Oregon City. Hard upon this discovery the committee learned that a story which was pub lished in the schoolteachers' contest on May 30. "Her Brave Buckayro," was written by still another sister. Miss May -Kelly, of Portland, Or., a teacher lnr the first grade In a school situated In the foreign quarter In that city. Thus this remarkably talented family had produced three successful candidates, whose work bad been selected for the final competi tion by the committee on short stories. No one could have been more surprised than the committee members themselves at this outcome of their decision." , The fact that this trio of sisters should write suooessful stories for the same contest has been much commented upon by the Herald from time to time. This great metropolitan daily has been much Interested in the lucky "three," and ex ploited their success frequently since the publication of their stories. In looking over last Sunday's Herald, ft Is seen that Oregon, as usual, bears the brunt for the Pacific Coast when there's anything doing. Idaho, Nevada and our sister state on the north are not repre sented in the contest. California had two prize winners, one from Palo Alto end one from Los Angeles, while old Oregon struck the gong four times one for H. M. Sheridan, of Baker City, and three times for the Three Sisters of Ore gon City, all four stories as It happened, being published during the month of May. Two of the three embryo Charlotte Brontes are away on their Summer vaca tions, and the third didn't enjoy a bit being Interviewed. Yes, she was glad her story had been accepted, and It was certainly very ex citing when first one and then another would get a long distance call from ths Herald correspondent In Portland, an nouncing that her story bad been chosen. No. she had never thought before of writing stories, but seeing that the Her ald's offer was to amateurs, concluded she'd try. Yes, It was the first story each sister had had printed, and when the Herald came it was great fun to see how they had Illustrated the story, and what they said about us. Well, each one Just wrote a story about what she liked best, maybe that's why they were accepted. One story had canoeing for the motif, another was about horseback riding, and the plot of the third hinged on a certain dress worn by the heroine. "Oh, no, .we never could get any of the grand prizes." said Miss Kelly. (The first prize, by the way, is 12000.) "You see some of the writers have had good many other stories printed before and are quite well known, besides the voting is done -by the Herald readers,. who cut out a coupon from the paper every day and send it in for the story they like best. And, of course, there's lots of trading done. Why, we got stacks of letters from contestants In the East as soon as our stories ap peared who wanted to trade or even sell coupons to us. And I suppose they thought Oregon was about a mile away. for they'd send a package of coupons from New York on Monday, saying if we'd hurry and .fill them In they would reach the Herald office by Wednesday, when our contest closed.' "Yes, some of the letters were from delightful people who were utter strangers of course, but worked hard to get votes for us, when they realized how far away we. were from the scene of action. ' "Yes, a Mr. Gardner, of Baldwinsville, N. Y-, was especially kind and sent us all extra copies of our stories besides sending In votes for us directly to the Herald, and that means a great deal of work, for each coupon had to. be filled In with name of story and author both. And we found out that New York City was districted off by some of the con testants, so that no copy of the Herald could escape them, and some would meet different trains and go through and pick up Heralds that had been thrown away and cut out the coupons, and aU the. big office buildings were watched in the same way." Five thousand manuscripts were sent in to the Herald office during this contest, and a picture In the Sunday Herald shows a window on the Broad way side of their building which dis plays more than 2,000,000 couponi sent In for the stories, which gives a alight. shivering Idea of the fun somebody in that office is going to have counting up the votes for the grand prizes which are to be announced August. 22. But even though no grand prize crosses the Bocky Mountains, we of Oregon have shown them what we can do when we want to, whether sending a battleship around the world in record time, or merely dashing off a prize story or two some morning when we haven't anything else to do. Vive . toujours the three sisters of Oregon City H. L. Manchuria has a great advantage ovr most other agricultural regions in that the poy bean can be grown moat successfully throughout the entire region, from Danly in the south to Harbin In the north. Don't cross tracks without looking both ways for approaching cars. Don't get caught in the narrow space between two tracks when cars are passing. Don't fail, when leaving a car, to .look up and down the street for an approaching automobile or other vehicle which may run you down. Don't jump on or off a car while it is in motion. , Don't ride on car steps. Don't get off facing rear of the car. Don't cross track after leaving the car, without looking for a car or vehicle which may be approaching from another direction. Don't run after a car and jump on while it is moving. Don't attempt to cross track ahead of a moving car. Don't let your children play near streetcar tracks. PORTLAND RAILWAY, " LIGHT & POWER CO.
