The Sunday Oregonian., August 08, 1909, SECTION FIVE, Page 7, Image 49

THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX. TORTLAXD. AUGUST 8, 1909.
LINEN SUITS AND FROCKS ARE COMING
INTO STRONG VOGUE WITH SUMMER DAYS
Fabrics, Color and Style Are Setting a Faster Face in Portland This Year Than They Have Ever Done Before.
Variety Is Almost Unlimited and Demand Unprecedented.
WITH the actual arrival of Summer
weather, so long delayed In Port
land this season, the linen frocks
and coat suits which have been doing al
most universal dmy for a month or so
past in the leM blessed cities of the swel
tering Rast. are appearing In astonishing
numbers on the street of the Rose City,
while local merchants, who had begun to
despair, of . closing out their linen and
cool lingerie costumes, have been busy
supplying the sudden demand for these
smart wa mi -weather frocks.
Never before have the linen suits and
dresses been shown In such variety of
fabric, color and style as this season.
Formerly one saw only the linens In
white, natural and solid-color tones, such
as heavy blue, but this season one may
choose a linen costume in any one of the
many smart delicate tones, the dainty
pinks and famt blues and cool, fresh
greens, as well as the rich catawba and
deep yellow-brown tones being among the
most popular.
Wide variety is offered, too. in the fab
rics, the textures running from tine hand
kerchief linen to the loose, practical and
attractive basket and hopsacking weaves
of coarse, loose threads and dull finish.
Tho glazed linens are rarely seen In the
smarter garments. The looser new fab
rics lend themselves admirably to the pe
culiar lines of the mode, and combine ef
fectively with- the ornamental buttons of
jet or black satin.
The one-piece suits, particularly the
coat-suit, in the linens, have been leading
in popularity, although the separate coat
and skirt costumes have been holding
their regular share of favor.
The accompanying sketches of a ran
dom selection from the racks of one of
the large department stores suggest the
large variety !n which the linen costumes
are being offered.
In the separate coat and skirt suits, the
chief features are the long, rather close
fitting linens, and the smart touch of
black in the Jet buttons and black satin
reveres. Some of the coats, instead of
black, have striking combinations in the
new color tones, an example being the
smart little affair in sketch No. 3. which
is of white linen, with cuffs, pockets and
upper reveres of creton. printed in the
daintily gay Dresden blends. The three
small buttons on the linen reverts and the
three larger ones down the front are of
an oxidized metal, with enameling in the
Dresden pinks and blues.
No. 2 shows a long line coat of the
smart Havana brown, with cuffs and re
veres of black satin, and cut jet buttons.
The skirts worn with the line coats are
usually of the four-gored cut, sometimes
lined down the side with jet or other or
namental buttons.
Another effective combination ' in the
Havana brown' with black Is sketched in
No. 8. his being a long sheath frock of
the rich yellowish-brown linen, opening
from neck to hem on the left side at
the front, with a long sash of black satin.
The two ends of this sash are attached
to the frock at the breast on either side
of the front, at the lines of the two long.
closely placed rows of Jet buttons, run
ning from neck to hem. which outline tne
emi-princess effect of the front panel.
One of the smart one-piece models, in a
dainty blue tone, is shown in No. 7. The
slashed opening of this little frock ex
tends from the left side, at the bust
line, diagonally across the waist-line, and
runs down the exact front, of the skirt-
piece to the hem. The buttons are of
pearl, and the neck is finished witn a
"Dutch" collar of handkerchief linen
riclilv embroidered. A small panel of
shirred mesh gives a soft, daintily femi
nine touch in the V of the neck opening,
and an embroidered frill finishing either
sleeve adds f urtlier charm to the little
frock.
No. 9 is a striking combination of basket
linen in the rich catawba shade, with pip
ings of black satin, over an attached gimp
of fine white allover embroidery, finished
with frills of fine white linen.
Another effective combination of allover
embroidery and linen is shown in No. 4,
this frock being in blue, with embroidery
of white. No. 5 is a plain but attractive
one-piece Jumper suit of white linen, with
Tich embroidered edgings about the yoke
and sleevelets, ana oeit to maicn.
A smart costume of banana-toned linen.
with black satin buttons and black silk
braid, is shown in No. 1. The attached
gimp is of soft fine muslin, with many
fine tucks. A sash-belt of crushed black
satin and black silken tassels finishing
the ornaments of braid at the neck, com
plete this exceedingly chic little frock.
A suggestion of the much-heralded
"Moyden" period style is strown in No. 6.
Tbe chief features of the extreme "Moy
den" costume is the skin-tight, close-fit
ting cuirass or corslet of overlapped metal
discs, and the extravagant fullness in the
softer and fluffier materials, which bursts
out from under the edges of thecorslet
at the hip and bust "lines. The modifica
tions of the "Moyden" costume merely
suggest this effect, as illustrated In No. 6.
The costume is In one piece, the corslet
being of heavy linen, and the plaited
blouse and skirt attached to tee corslet,
being of finer texture, the whole in a deli
cate green shade, with buttons of some
translucent green substance.
ONE VIEW AND ANOTHER
"What Think Ye of Christ?' Dia
metrically Opposing Views.
PORTLAND, Or., July 31. 1900. 'To the
Kdltor.) In Friday morning's Ortronlan
TT. C. Reuter, of Med ford. Or., has Bet
forth his reasons why he believes in the li--rinlty
of Christ. The Oregontan has dis
missed the matter with a shrug, but It
recnim tr- me the matter merits more serious
consideration, as a large number, probably
tho majority, of the people of this country
are of the same opinion as Mr. Reuter.
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Mr. Reuter for his belief in that Christ oc
rupied a unique place In history and cannot
be classified. In the next breath he states
that Christ transcends Confucius and Mo-
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hammed as the sun transcends the moon.
Let us mention Buddha, whoae life in many
respects resemble that of Christ, and we
will have four men, or four deities, accord
ing: to our religious bias, members of a class
of religious leaders. They are separated by
a ver7 uncertain line from such men as
.Moses, the Mad Mullah, and the founder of
the isormor. church. How far the moral
nature o.r one transcends that of the others
is a question for prejudice to wrangle over.
-Moses was a man of admirable nature. Bud
dha led a. blameless life. If any of these
great religious leaders sinned, their follow
ers have done all they could to efface all
record of it. We see their figures dimly,
through the haze of incense and must judge
them largely by their teachings; and here
we must consider to what extent they were
the products of their time, and judge them
impartially. Because the teachings of
Chrust are nearer to those accepted by lis
than are those set forth by Buddha, we
must not leap to the conclusion that the
latter person was Inferior. The man who
struck Brahma! urn the only severe blow It
has ever known was a personage of re
markable moral force.
The opinion of Napoleon on the great
Jew Ir merely Interesting. The "Little Cor
poral" was a shrewd and intelligent man.
but very j,rcn3 t error. His exaggerated
opinion of the prowess of the Cossacks
shows this. He was not of extraordinary
Intelligence; not a scholar, not even a stu
dent. The second reason that Mr. Reuter ad
vances for his belief is that in the ordinary
course of things like begets like, whereas
Christ was not a Jew and sinful. It ia an
amusing fact that the most painters of
Christ have depicted him as having blonde
hair, blue eyes and straight nose, though
why a divinity should not have a crooked
noe passes comprehension. But the teach
ings of Christ show plainly that he was not
warlike, that he was long-suffering, affec
tionate and with strong respect for family
relations. Fatalism, pessimism, the duties
of patriotism and courage, these had no
place in his mind. Even today some of hla
teachings savor too strongly of the passive
nature of the Jews for us to accept. We
may give them lip praise, but we mentally
discredit them. For Instance, the man who
went around slapping Americans upon the
cheek would beat very poor insurance risk;
and what's more, we are proud of the fact.
As to the sinlessness of Christ, we have
already referred to the fact that he does not
differ in this respect, in degree or kind,
from other religious teachers. If Christ
sinned, no trace of the fact has been per
mitted to stay on record; the zealots of the
middle ages and later would have attended
to that. The only thing we can criticise is
his remark on the cross, "Tbe early Chris
tian martyrs had more faith."
The third reason advanced by Mr. Reuter
for his belief in the divinity of Christ la
that Christ rose from the dead. So did the
whale swallow Jonah and the "flame of
contemplation" kindle the funeral fire of
Buddha. What seems more probable than
that Pilate,- not wishing 1U to the unfor
tunate victim of popular wrath, yet not
daring to withstand the clamor for his
punishment, should have ordered him
"strung up during the remainder of the
day, and then cut down; a severe punish
ment, but by no means deadly. A study of
modern mythology will show how easily an
event of this kind is transformed Into a
miracle by the tongues of the credulous.
Having demonstrated to the gentleman
from Medford the tenuity of his hold upon
the Christian Religion, it might be well to
go further and show him why he should
abandon it altogether. In this day of com
parative enligitenment it seems a pity that
anyone should believe in a religion that is'
founded upon the principle of blood-sacrifice.
And yet that is what 'the gentleman
clings to. Among savage tribes the moat
common conception of a deity Is that of an
easily-angered power, whose rage must be
appeased by sacrifices of animals or of
human beings, and who could be won to
kindness by the same method. In the Chris
tian religion the idea is fundamentally the
same. A deity Is enraged at the sinfulness
of his toy world and condemns the people
of hell. In order to save them from the
fare, he, curiously enough, sends his son to
earth to be offered up on the cross as a sac
rifice to himself. Christ suffered the fate,
according to thia view, that Absolom so
narrowly escaped. A deity could have avert
ed the sufferings of Christ on the cross. But
r.o, they must be In order that people might
be "redeemed." Even today we have the
barbarous practice of sprinkling people with
water, to symbolize the blood of Christ.
Could any view of existence be more in
imical to the highest moral sense?
-Of course, to a. Christian, this view of
the m.iUcr seems swangc. As a member of
the Trinity. 'Cnrist sent himself to earth to
be offered up as a sacrifice. As a member
of the Trinity, and beirg a god, be did not
suffer anything on the cross, and his ex
clamation about being "forsaken" must
have been an error, for how could he have
forsaken himself. Being a god, he could
not have been seriously tempted by the
devil and the account in the bible must
have been an error on the part of the his
torian, or a very childish mistake on the
jam of bis satanic majesty. Imagine try
ing to seduce omnipotence by the offer of
rulership over a small strip of land! '
The reason Christ came to earth was that
people might be saved from hell. Most of
the Jews rejected his teachings and even
tday. after 19 centuries, only a small part
of the norld'a population believes in his
divinity. His record Is good for a religious
leader, but It Is not what we would expect
of omnipotence.
If Christ were the deity, and wished to
cave men, why did he not give all the world
a chance to see him and learn his divinity?
Why let thousands and millions of poor ne
groes. Hindus. Chinese, etc.. go to ever
lasting damnation without even a "fighting
chance?" . If good to humanity were his
aim. why did he not follow Buddha's ex
ample n? try to break up the terrible curse
of India, the caste system ?
Omnipotence could have crooked his fin
ger and the world would have believed in
him. This man could not make even the
Jews believe; they discredited him. cruci
fied him and. pave for a few followers, for
got him. He was worshipped by an alien
race and., like Buddha, on a foreign shore.
Are these the 'signs of divinity, of omnipo
tence? A- F. MILLER.
Here Itf Orthodox Believer's View.
PORTLAND, Or-, July 3L 1903. (To the
Editor.) a myth requires time for Its de
velopment. .The apostle Paul, who present
the fullest proof of the fact that Jesus
Christ war. raised from the dead, was a con
temporary of Christ. He was converted to
Christianity only a few years after the
death of Jesus. In his first epistle to the
Corinthians, which was probably written In
the year 67, he gives a summary of the evi
dence of the fact that Jesus rose from the
dead. He says: "For I delivered unto you
first of all that which also I received; that
Christ died for our sins according to the
scriptures, and that he was buried ; and
that he hath been raised from the dead on
.the third day, according to the scriptures;
and that he appeared to Cephas; then to
the twelve; then he appeared to above five
hundred bret'iren at once, of whom the
greater part i-emain until now, bnt some are
fallen asleep; then he appeared to James;
then to all the apostles; and last of all. as
to the child untimely born, lie appeared to
me also."
Where was there time for the develop
ment of a myth? Paul tells us that three
years after his conversion he visited Peter
at Jerusalem and spent 15 days with htm.
Undoubtedly during that time he learned the
facts concerning the different appearances
of Christ after Tils Tesurrection. At the
time when Paul wrote his letter to the Cor
inthians there were more than 250 people)
living who had seen 'Christ after b.i resur
rection. In view of the evidence presented by Paul
of the fact of Christ's resurrection, r
Wette. a German rationalist known as the
"unU'ersal doubter." said, in the last book
he ever wrote: "The fact of the resurrec
tion, while a darkness that cannot be dis
sipated rests on the way and manner of it.
cm no more be called in question than the
historical certainty of the assassination of
JuM-jft Ccesar." It was over this sentence
that the great church historian, Xeander.
shed tears, so deeply was he affected to
learn that even the universal doubter could
not doubt the fact of Christ's resurrection.
It is Impossible to account for the ex
istence of the Christiaa church without the
fact of the resurrection. Peter and the
other apostles very soon after the death of
Christ began in Jerusalem to proclaim him
to the Jews as the Christ, offering as a
proof the . fact ol his resurrection. They
could not have sKne so unless they had been
assured beyond Jl doubt that he was alive
from the dead. If he had remained under
the power of death they had nothing to
gain and everything to lose by proclaiming
his resurrection and yet in the fare of the
fiercest persecution they steadfastly main
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dead. By that preaching they established
Christianity in the city which had crucified
him. and by that preaching Christianity
was established In the world.
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