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THE STTXDAY OREGOXIAX, IORTLAT, OCTOBER 31, 190g. 13 lie i' j ninin.r TiIiIps-'HX) totally different patterns -purchased from the famous Lentz Table Company of Nashville, Michigan, on exceptionally. favor Two carloads of Dining J1 of three modeis, and there are many more equally as good. If you need a new dining tobly. St at less tln Eastern prices. Come f look" even if not ready to buy. On sale Monday mormng. nri r lab IR Vt-nr 3) or A i Mr v eg D This Massive inmcf Table Just Like the Cut in Golden Oak and Early English Mnisn Even- Piece of this magnificent dining-room piece is made it solid quarWr-sawcd golden oak: A most beautiful specmien of the wood work er s art. A gem fit for the finest mansion. A e have sold many of this model for $65.00, and only by driving an especially -good bargain with the manufacturers are we able now to offer this value at this low price ?49.50 Table ML . v ' -in. Gevurtz Special Quarter - Sawed Oak Wax-Filled Polish Finish NO. 660. Has 54-inch top, extra leaves permit its extension to 8 feet; made of best kiln-dried Eastern oak; one of the newst models of the year; shaped exactly like the illustration, which was made from photo; note the beautiful effect from the quarter-sawing of the wood, which is of the fin est selected oak stock. Credit if desired. Easy terms. , Solid Oak Special Price Ilere is a solid oak Dining Table at the price of common maple. It is a Lentz table, which is a" guarantee of its perfect construc tion and the quality of material. There are no inferior, Lentz tables made all are up to standard. An attractive table in genuine oak. No imitation either in wood or finish. $45 Value, Special at NO. 6684- Another pleasing model and as great a value in its class ; has 44-inch top, fitted with the patent Doustyle lock that permits its, extension to 8 feet ; made of se lected . Eastern oak, beautifully quarter sawed; in the golden wax, golden oak polish, or the early English finish; you have a choice of these three finishes. Quarter-Sawed Oak Wax or Polish Finish Easy Terms of Payment s Quartered Oak, Just Like the Cut No 668. This Table at $12.00 has never been equaled in Portland. Top is 42 inches diameter and extends to 6 feet; top and pedestal are shaped exactly like the cut; the claw feet shown here are just like the original, m . 'fair idem may be obtained of the appearance of this Table; it's guar anteed all oak no imitation whatever. See this great value. CEVU ITZ FIRST and YAMHILL & SONS SECOND and YAMHILL 80c Printed Linoleum Special Per Yard Best printed Linoleum, 6 feet -wide, made of pure cork; guaranteed to be of the regular 80c quality; two patterns only in a special purchase that enables us to offer it, not laid, at this low price cheaper QQ, than common floor oilcloth- Now on sale at, per yard J' 4 " 1 ' . I - 1 I I DAINTY DILLIE BURKE TELLS HOW AN ACTRESS MUST DRESS FOR HER PART OlothiM She Says, Is Next in ImporUnc to Securing ai Engagement Essential That a Woman Know How to unvuius. Wear Costum;s Becomingly. TKE eternal feminine question. ' I What shall I wftrt which probably dates back to Eve's indecision shout the choice of leaves In the Garien of Eden, broods over all thins theatrical today." says Blllie Burke. "It Tosts time, anxiety and money. Some Idea of the Importance of clothes In the career of an actress is afforded by the- statement that the , two most serious problems that con front the actress looking for an en gagement are: First, to Ret the cn- ' gagement to act; .second, to have the clothes in which to play the part. The second problem causes as many heart- aches as the first, for It is oftener 1 easier to get an engagement than to la-et gowns. One of the questions that some managers ask is: Can yon fur- ntsh the clothes? Many women have ' been unable to accept engagements be cause they had scant wardrobes. "I know of more than one instance where actresses have accepted engage ments at a sacrifice. By this I mean ,'that they have utilized nearly .all their salary, save that required for their bare (Irving expense, to keep their ward robes up to date. At the end of the ; season they have often owed money. ' But the advantage of having appeared ' in a big production or with a well known star in a successful Broadway play is an Investment that will prob ably yield laige returns the next season. - "Clothes Impress the manager, too, and for this reason most actresses wear their best bibs and tuckers when they go to the managers to talk about an engagement- Some even appear In bor rowed nlumage. ost people do not stop to realize how the elaborateness of stage clothes has developed "in recent years snd es pecially in the United States. I have heard more than one manager say that tne clothes problem was one of the curses of the business, and this applies to the 'legitimate as well as to musical pieces. The plays that our mothers acted In or went to see were not gor geously mounted. In those days the triumph of the actress depended upon ability, and that is as It should be. Today ability, or the lack of it. Is aided by splendid or stunning-clothes. And while fine clothes cannot make an actresa great or completely win success for her. there is no doubt that they can help a great deal. I would be disloyal to the best tradition of my ti If I did not render proper homage to clothe with a big C. "It is true. too. that most actresses can do better work when they have on good clothes than when they are not so well dressed. For example, when one plays the part of a modish young wife or a smart debutante on is un consciously affected by the quality of ths fetching totume. Sometimes It Is Ilka a tonic "Tot my own personal ambition lies In another direction. Although by rea son of tha nature of the various parts I nave been called on to play for sev eral seasons. I have had to wear smart gowns, I really long for a part In which I can wear simple costumes. In fact, my whole philosophy of Clothes. If such a shifting thing as crHs has a philosophy, might be - r? . T it s f .. I a . ' -.:..' - 1 t e ' i t J - . . . ) ' A H u BILMB BIRKE, JfOTED AS OM3 OP THE BEST DRESSED WOMK.1 OX THE STAGE. - I summed up in the one word 'simplicity.' I am sure that not all women will agree with me snd most men won't. But, frankly and I don't think all women are frank about their clothes 1 hate to see dresses, especially the shoulders, all fussed up with trim mings. The line from the seam on the shoulder to the bosom Is the love liest line In a woman and should not be broken. American women like to build out their shoulders, while French women try to make them look email. Nature Intended women to have small shoulders and to be dainty rather than heroic. "The first thing I have In mind when I order a gown is its appropriateness for the occasion for which it Is required. Suitability should be woman's watch word in buying clothes, both on and off the stage. After that the color Is the most important detail. 1 think a girl or a very young woman ought to wear pale shades. They throw the youthful color ing into relief. The colors she wears ought to be governed by the color of her eyes, rather than by the color of her hair. My London dressmaker taught me' that. My favorite color is mauve. Most women don't stop to think that a red-haired girl can wear almost any color except a dull shade of brown. The trouble Is that red-haired women are afraid to try effects In colors. A woman with gray eyes ought never to wear gray, because it makes her look stony and cold. Black adds years to a woman's age and no woman wants any first or last aids to fW- . IJ "But that is all a iltue oesme uio a c I started out to discuss. The fact that many people go to tne tneaier rather to see the clothes than , the act ing. The people on the stage catch this feeling and the result Is that the two particular objects that most aetresses have In mind are to act their very best oil tha tlmo anil tn make the best im presslon with their clothes. There have been Instances where actresses of medi ocre ability held their positions just be cause they were known as 'fine dressers., "Hence there Is a close connection -between the stage and fashion. The fasfiion writers may say all they please about Paris setting the fashion for all things to wear feminine! but I dont' think I am wrong when I say that fashion radi ates from the stage. At all the big "first nights' of modern plays In New York one may see fashionable dressmakers scattered all through the audience. They are there mainly to get hints for cos tumes. Tbey well know, if the play Is a big success or the star is very popular, that it won't be many days before pa trons will be coming in and saying: T. want a morning dress like the one Mi Blank wears in the first act of 'So and So.' And at smart luncheons and teas and dinners for weeks afterward one will hear the guests talking about the cos tumes the women wore in the play and saying 'I mean to have one Just like it.' "And the managers know all this and so the actresses he engages must dress their parts right and, in modern plays at least, they must pay as a rule for their own dre.sscs, too. That means, if an actress has anything like a good part, that she must have at least three dresses and sometimes more. There must be a morning or walking drees, an anernoon frock and an evening gown. To this must be added furs, coats and hats. It is safe to say that the average wardrobe In a . modern play, represents a cost ot from J1500 to J3000. . "The real hardship comes when an actress buvs an elaborate outfit for a play that fails and ia taken off in a week or two. I know of one case where a woman Invested $1800 in a wardrobe for a piav that ran exactly threw weeks. -The amount of money expended on stage costumes in the United States eacn year is tremendous. A very conserva tive estimate would make the most of costumes of each modern play, not a musical piece, JS00. Since there are ap proximately 800 such plays P""1? this represents an Investment of $500,000 already The costumes for the musical plays cost at least another $500,000. so that the total cost of costumes Is a full $1,000,000. . - "Yet when all is said and done, just as the real measure of a play is its vi tality and moving power, irrespective or elaborate accessories, so does the real test of the actress lie in her ability, re gardless of handsome gowns. Art and charm win out.in the end where expen sive clothes fail. Fine feathers may make a bird beautiful, but they can't make It sing So with clothes and tha actress. lrvRTOT.A T.S PERMANENT FIXTURE: S- o n xt TTiT-, Tt MTOrrv AT 71 ITT? Q TWlTM IT V Oil. IN r XViTXl UUV-W iTJ.xxxi.JU-y mvimx Thousands of Merrymakers Spend Milliona in Bay City-Hilarious Crowds Fill Town to Overflowing Refuses to Sleep Cafes For ed to Turn Away Hundreds. -Throng LAYS JUDGE0N HIS BACK Female Wrestler Shows Skill With Teirlfytngr Effect. PARIS, Oot. 30. (Special.) A young woman was caught some days ago steal ing lace In a large Bhop in the Boulevard Voltaire. When arrested she fought furiously, but was eventually taken to the police station. When questioned there she said that her name was Mign onette and that she was a wrestler by profession. "A wrestler." exclaimed the police of ficial M. Truv, Incredulously. "Tee," replied the young woman. "Do vou want me to show you how?'' and. seizing M. Truy round the waist, ahe lifted him oft his feet and deposited him on his back on the floor. In response to the shouts of the terrified official, police men rushed into the office. Alter a des perate struggle the athletic Mignonette wa overpowered and led off to the cells. BY HARRY B. SMITH. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Oct. 20. (Spe cial.) San Francisco builded better than it knew when It planned the Portola Festival. "A month before the festival was planned to take place there was a dubious shaking of heads on the part of the merchants and the residents of the city, who feared that the celebra tion would prove a failure. Frankly, it was as much a scheme to advertise the new San Francisco to the world as any thing else, but the way strangers flocked Into the city, there was no questioning their desire to be here. From start to finish it .was one hilar ious crowd. The advertising feature had been well-handled. Every paper in the etate and all along the Pacific Coast had given liberally of- Its space and when the time cafhe for the actual celebration, it was simply a case of whether the people could be handled. Hurrah Xot Delayed. The opening of the festival, marked by the arrival of Don Gaspar do Portola, the crowning of the queen and the parade that included the marines from Uncle Sam's- Navy, as well as from five for eign nations, 'Showed what the attend ance was to be, and until things were wound up on Saturday night there was no delay in the hurrah. The opening-day parade was' not long, perhaps, as you count that sort of thing, but it was unique. The marines of the Japanese cruiser vied with those from the Calabria, of Italy, the smartly attired Britishers and the Hollanders from the Nordbrant. and they were cheered from start to finish. Then came the Thursday clvlo parade, declared by excellent judges to have been one of the biggest parade ever attempted in the United States. All the regular features were on hand, the Native Sons and Daughters, the various fraternal or ders and the floats typical of California. Orientals Make Hit. The traveling men. several hundred strong, with the float that showed all manner of transportation.- from the ox team through to the aeroplane, attracted a world of attention, but tbe Chinese and Japanese did themselves proud with their floats and the nuAber In line. On Fridav was held the big field day at the stadium In Golden Gate Park and on Saturday the 350-mile automobile race cm the boulevards of Alameda County, that attracted a crowd conservatively es timated at 250.000 people. But Saturday night was the crowning feature. There was an electric parade, to be sure, but the sight was that vast throng of people that was jammed the whole length of Market street, from the ferries far out past Van Ness avenue, and overflowed into the side streets.' More than a million people, so it is re ported, were on hand that closing night, many of them in maskers' gear; college youths out for a good time and women with their babies In carriages and out of them. TTrchlns Climb Poles. Not ft window facing on Market street but had its quota of spectators, and every telegraph pole was adorned with urchins bent on seeing all there was to see. And when the parade had finally passed Third and Market streets, the throng would not be denied and swept tnto the vast vacant area of street until it was a veritable sea, always moving and never quiet for an instant. Those on upper Market street, not contented with their positions, were forcing their way down town and but for the side streets to take care of the people, there, might have been many a nasty Jam. It was after the parade, however, that the don't-care carnival spirit was mani fested best of all. Nobody wanted to go home and the crowd Just walked up and down the streets looking for something to do. Every cafe was obliged to lock its doors early in the night because of the people who would not be denied. The tenderloin district was spotted with peo ple who wanted to hear the music and have a small bottle and it was a case of fight to keep out the crowd that want ed to spend its money. Thousands Forget Sleep. One might naturally get the idea that the crowd would go home early after a week of jostling around. At S o'clock in the morning the restaurant keepers had to bar their doors simply because . u . , . . i v, , hgnilln t h ,mwfa and at o'clock in the morning, there were still 50,000 people on jaarKet streci wmi hadn't gone to bed and who looked as if they didn't care much about sleep. "Drive dull care away" was the motto and the crowd certainly lived up to It. Getting down to the financial side, the affair, designed to attract visitors was all that could be desired. On the first day, it is said there were 400.000 visitors here. On the second day it dwindled to a paltry 300,000; on Thursday and Friday to about 250,000 each day and on Saturday more than half a million strangers were here. A statistician has estimated that If the crowd soend on the Average $5 a day that something like five millions ot dollars came in to the people in business. It was so successful, In fact, that the committee of business men that started the scheme has decided to make the Por tola festival a permanent proposition and to go ahead with the scheme every year. Certainly with the boosting the pres ent exhibition received. San Francisco can well afford to continue the, proposi tion. Politicians Again Busy. This last week before the election has been a busy one for the various candi dates. Chief among them of course, have been three candidates for the mayoralty and for the district attorneyship. McCarthy is still held a 10 to 8 favorite over Crocker and Leland. with even money offered that Crocker will run ahead of Leland. There seems to be no way of figuring 11 1 ! out whether Heney or Ftekert will be fhs next district attorney and the betting commissioners announce that the prica , is even money and take your choice. Talks on Teethi BY THE REX DENTAL CO. ! THE ENDLESS CHAIN) If we depended alone on these talks . on teeth to advertise the wonders of the Alveolar method of dentistry, we would not be able to pay our running expenses. Bach patient is the beginning of an endless chain; he is our live wire (walking) advertisement. The Alveo lar, work Is so far ahead of anything ever dreamed of before in dentistry that each patient when finished becomes an enthusiast; his enthusiasm becomes con tagious; he is so pleased and bo mysti fied by the marvels wrought In his mouth that he unconsciously or other wise passes the good tidings along to his or her friend; that friend hath a friend, etc, until the bushel Is lifted from-our candle. In brief, the Alveolar story is this: If you have two or more teeth left on either sido In either jaw, without re sorting to plates, partial plates or brldgework, we can restore all your missing teeth with Alveolar teeth that will be more durable, more comfortable and decidedly more beautiful then the best set of natural teeth, and we will defy any one. dentist or layman, to tell them from nature's teeth they look, act and feel like they grew there. Alveolar Teeth Where Bridgeware: Is Impossible. If only your front teeth are left, say 3 or 4 or more, we can replace all those that have been lost on both skies clear back with perfect Alveolar terili, whilst brldgework would he Impos.-lbHi even if you had S or 10 front teeth tn tie to. It' you have only two back teeth on each side, say, molars, we can sup ply all the front teeth that are miss ing with beautiful, serviceable, lifelike Alveolar teeth. This could not possibly be done by the bridge route. Suppose vou h.ave lost your last (back) teetii, two or more upper or lower on eltlier side. We can replace them with Alveo lar teeth. The bridge specialist would have to advisn a partial plate, which would encumber the Tnouth as well as t. help destrov your other teeth. Where vou have lost a few teeth there are dentists who would extract all the rest to make room for a plate. (Where peo ple have no teeth, we make plates, too. And when we do they look like they grew t)ere. They are scientifically an.l artistically built for service and co.n fort as well as beauty.) Kven wher brldgework Is possible, there is no com parison between the two. A very large percentage of our work is taking out brldgework put in by supposedly high class dentists, and replacing it with t lie beautiful and artistic Alveolar teeth. And, unlike brldgework in another re spect, it Is practically painless. No bor ing or cutting into tho gums, nothing to be dreaded. Now. then, prices being equal, which would you choose? Curing- Pyorrhea (loose teeth) a dls easo given up by other dentists as In curable, is another of our specialty. We cure it absolutely. It's a hoastful statement to make, but we can do any thing that is possible in dentistry, and what we do is always ot tho very high est class. Our booklets. Alveolar Den tistry, are free. Write for one if you cannot call. We have samples of our work to show at all times. THE BEX DENTAL CO., DKNTISTS, 311 to 314 Abington Bldg., 106 3d St.