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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAXD, DECEMBER 5. 1909. 3 TOTS BY SCORE, SOME PRETTY, OTHERS PLAIN, ALL MISCHIEVOUS, SEEK NEW FIRESIDES Fifty-two'Children, Wards of the Boys' and Girls' Aid Society, Are Ready for Adoption. JUST 63 children who have not had a square deal In their young lives, some because of their own short comings, some because of their parents' long goings, congregated in a big barn of a house at East Twenty-ninth, and Kast Irving streets, waiting for would be fatliers and mothers to carry them away and (rive them a real home. A home that's what they want. These younssters are of all kinds of breeding and bringing up, and at present are un der the care of the Boys' and Oirls" Aid. Society, which is doing Its best to turn, tliem into good citliens. But the society does not feel that It should do all the work. The hard task of breaking the ground it In willing and anxious to do, but when that first hard and thankless task is at laat accom plished it feels that the people of Oregon ought to step In and take a share of the burden. After the breaking of the ground comes the long preparation for the harvest of citizenship. That Is the work the society wants some of the fathers and mothers of Oregon to taka In hand. Inherited Traits Show. Here, for Instance, Is a golden-haired Dorothy, her eyes blue as the deep sea and a face that might wen be that of any cherub. She's only 8. She wants someone to love she says o herself but those who should care for her are far away. Her father Is a criminal, her mother a vagrant, both once of good family, and yet already there have begun to show In Dorothy some of those fatal traits that make all the workers of the Aid Society such firm believers lu the dnetrlifc of heredity. Who wants Dorothy? She needs the -, tenderest care, and If that care Is given . with love, motherly "Auntie" Graham. I the matron of the home, says little Dorothy will make a fine girl. She's pretty enough and lovely enough for ; anyone, but anyone who takes her will ; have to love her to give her the parental watching and upbringing she needs. But for "Auntie." though, there might. ; not be that whole-souled belief In the child and Its possibilities. W. T. Gard ner "papa," as he Is often called by the younger ones the superintendent. Is a believer In children, too; but anyway no mere man can be a mother to over KO children and young people, who com prise the inmates of the home. It takes a woman of "Auntie's" type, spare of form so spare that it seems .almost Im possible that it hides the great heart beating- underneath to say of the worst child in the home, "Tea, I know he's a bad boy. very bad sometimes. But it Isn't his fault. Why? "Well. I don't ex actly know, but that boy is not normal or he would not do" things like that I em sure he wants to do well." There's but little logic in "Auntie" Graham, but her faith in children is meaning a great deal to those 60-odd youngsters. Some Arc Court "Wards. Not all the children can be adopted, for some are there under the order of the County Court or the Juvenile Court. These may only be moved by the per mission of the committing authority, but the preat majority are under the watch fulness and authorjty of Mr. Gardner. In many cases Mr. Gardner investigates personally the homes of people who are desirous of being footer parents to one of the children, and those who desire to employ one of the older boys and rirls are not given the ward until fullest inquiry is undergone and references fur nished. Perhaps the most Interesting youngster under the society's care is little 15-year-otd L,izzle. She is shown in a picture herewith and is actually 13. although she looks 13. b"nr heer deviltry there is probably no child who can compare with Lizzie, and yet. with it all. the child Is good-hearted and willing. At times she nearly drives her would-be friends crazy. She's not actually wicked It's just uncontrollable high spirits in a girl who has taken the Sid degree In the order of mischievous children. Many Families Tried. Fourteen families have had a hand In looking after this one girl and they have all more or less promptly returned her without any undue expression of thanks for the experience. She's known as Topsy, principally be nuse Mrs. Stowe's title applies best to her. Listen to what she herself says: "I can be good if I want to. T know I'm bad and 1 don't think I want to be Eood." Prohahly like a number of other people Topsy finds the life of the sinner the more exciting. Hero is her history: She was found with a younger brother and sister In a disreputable scow near Jjnnton, where the father abused them to such a de cree that it was difficult to find one npot of the tiny bodies not marked with the welt raised by a rope end oi the v?al mark of the heavily-shod boot. This was in lizzie's mother was good, but neither . had the strength of body nor will to oppose the tyrannical father. She Always Returns. On the charge of assaulting his wife and children the fther was lodged in trie County .I:til. while L.izzie-Topsy came to the .Mil Society. Loiter she was sent to tho Children's horn:, but Lizzie was returned to the soctetj. Now. who wanls to make a trial of Lizzie? Then there's .luanita. Juanita. is not pretty, but there's somehow a look shout her you like. She's 15. dull and slow-witted. Iter mother, a vagabond, her father having run away, she was ommitted by the County Court of 1'olk County. Every bit of her family history Is bad and Juanita started bad. She has been sent to several homes and returned and each time she did a little better. They are giving her work to do now and she works like a little Trojan. On the other side of the scale is Kuth, who was returned a few days nsro to the home for slapping the woman for whom she worked. "A mis take." Ruth calls it. This is a synopsis of Fiutri: Clever, brisrht. Incorrigible, hard to keep in plae on account of her temper, absolutely beyond control, yet not immoral. Good Masses, Too. Against them mutt be placed girls like Mary and Julia. Both were brought up In families of thieves, with every possibility of imbibing evil habits. Mary rpent two weeks in the home and -Is wonderfully happy with her adopted parents. Julia is the happiest little girl possible in the Oregon town in which she lives. Esther is another pictured girl. Bo cause she ran away from homo last year when 14 years of age. she was committed by the Juvenile Court. "My father married again and my step-mother treated me badly." said Ksther. "Aly father told me not to stand it any longer, so I ran away." When Ksther did as he told her, her father disowned her. Now she is sup ported by the inrtitution. She is not bright, but does as she Is told. Per haps that is why she followed her fath er's instructions so literally. Grace is frankly bad, or has been so. Usui aha does not express any regrets. . But they don't blame her at the home. v O it t r- ' z? a J xf - , .u. ..." - W " ' - i . ,r f x cm Irtvf L, vj- " - -wv I . . . r.-Sk-.v.. ..... . -, ! I y . : ,r. " " -c - - fi&ll " v list 'ch?Pi ; : x. y U rTXi- Ik w r 41 r iVi" W-J t:" - I iJT !aecy woTrrvsrof twos u.ett to 7V?stK j f:Vh ' 7d fel 'vl-:"i''i''ii;tepl :y'? '' jj "Her father, mother and sister are all dead." said Mr. Gardner. "She is 14 years old and hard to manage. Her sister had to be sent to the Home of the Good Shepherd. The girl never had a single good environment until she eume here. AVe want to do some thing for her and I think we are suc ceeding. Some fine woman could matte a great woman out of Grace for I don't think sho Is bad at heart." I'air-haired Francis has a bonny Raphael-child face. But she" isn't an angel. Klght years of age and of good parentage, her father and mother wore unable to keep her. A prominent Port land woman adopted her. but later ob tained a divorce. During these proceed ings the child learned somewhat of evil. A friend of her adopted mother then adopted her and kept her some time but became dissatisfied with her habits and returned her to the home, where she now is. Boy "aturally Bad. There's Roy, with some strange hereditary influence, putting a blot on his life. Since a baby Roy has had good surroundings. He was adopted from the Baby Home and turned over to the society as incorrigible. He looks a jolly little shaver and just wants looking after. "Principal trouble, heredity." commented Mr. 'Gardner. "Grandpa" is the favorite boy. He's 14. and his real name is Arthur,, but the little chap suffers from rheumatism. He and his sister were dumped on the institution by their parents. They all like Grandpa and his cheery, pain lined face. He is one of the most pop ular among the boys. His rheumatism Is Improving right along. As Superintendent Gardner was showing his records, Mrs. Gardner ushered in Mamie for a moment. "Why, Mamie, I would never recog nize you," he said to the girl. "No?" she queried. "I am married now, and I have the two loveliest .chil dren. " Mamie used to be one of-ijie trials of the home, but that it had changed her was to be seen by her happy, smil ing face and general air of respectabil ity. It's one of tho good things about the ' home. "When the boys and girls g-et on In the home, they never forget Mr.' Gardner and Mrs. Graham. - But the children are not all bad. TUe woman or the man, whether in town or country, who wants one of these youngsters can take a full choice. There are bad ones and good ones: there are handsome and plain ones; children with all kinds of dispositions. Every tins thing they have done, their character, disposition, habits, particulars about ev ery member of their family all this can be found by referring to Mr. Gardner's wonderful library of rec ords. Thousands of records are there, liven now the home has 500 children placed in Oregon. Children under 5 may be adopted legally. This costs about 20. From 6 to 15, ' children ina,y be placed Tor board, school and $5 a month for clothes, in exchange for their services. The older children go into employment. The home watches the boys until they are 21, the girls until they are 18. Just now at the home they are busy storing away the gifts tho school chil dren of Oregon from the .country schools have sent to their poorer broth ers and sisters. The gifts include hun dreds of bottles of fruit, potatoes and all kinds of vegetables carried in free by the railroads. A bottle of fruit is the biggest thing a child brings to school for the other youngsters; some I all who write. uiins appic, viners a lew potatoes i and others just a handful of rice. It all amounts up at the home. The home is everything to the young sters. Most of them go to the public schools, but backward girls and some under the order of the court are taugrht there. Made-to-Measure Suit and Extra Pair of Trousers $20 BBHSSSSa BBta. Time Extended Two Days Owing to weather conditions, Ave have decided to extend the sale adver tised for last Friday and Saturday over to Monda.v and Tuesday tomorrow and next day. We "decided to carry this 'sale over to Tuesday night after re ceiving hundreds of telephone and telegraph messages from people -who desired to be here, but could not on account of the storm. Here is the propo sition, just as we made it last week, the only difference is as mentioned above. "We have extended the sale two dajs Monday and Tuesdaj- to allow- you to select from any bolt of woolen in our entire stock. AVe are going to take j our measure and build von a Suit for And furthermore, we are going to give you an Extra Pair of Trousers Free These Trousers will be made to match the Suit, measured, cut and tailored in our usual faultless, painstaking way. Make no mistake about this offer we mean exactly what we say. You can select any pattern from our entire stock and get two pairs of trousers with the Suit all for $20. Tins will be our last sale of the season. This is the first time we ever made a free-pants offer, and naturally there will be hundreds to avail themselves of this opportune t v. Now, the matter we are trying to make clear is that you had better be here Monday if possible, but Tuesday hy all nueans, as we will never again repeat this offer. The American Gentlemen chain of stores are so well known, it seems hardly necessary for us to take np valuable newspaper space in telling you about our large stock of woolens, our varied assort ment of patterns and our store practice; suffice tosay, these Suits would ordinarily cost you $35, $40 and $45, an,d that in building them, just because we have attached a frreat big bargaiu price, we will not and cannot afford to do anything to injure our long-established reputation. This is our last sale of the season, and this offer is for Monday and Tuesday only. American Gentlemen Tailors Cor. Sixth and Stark Sts. Portland's Leading Tailors Ray Barkhurst Manager land for four years, died at his home, 845 Halght avenue, TJecember 3. ; He was 67 years old. For 22 years he lived in Harrifburg, Or. He is survived by his widow and the following chil dren: S. B.. Charles'. A. S., Minnie, Martha Sperling; Mrs. Venna Griffith and Mrs. Ij. Walker. The funeral will be held today at 1:30 o'clock, and the interment will be in Rose City Cemetery. Agricultural College, on the subject, "Apple Scab and Its Control." This lec ture will be held under the auspices of the X. M. C. A. Apple Club. "I want to make a name for myself in politics," said the ambitious youth. Old Resident Dies. Carl Sperling, who had lived in Ore gon for the past 22 years and in T'ort- FRUIT EXHIBITS ARRIVING Display of Oregon's Ijuscious Prod ucts Will Open Wednesday. The fruit for the exhibit of the Ore gon State Horticultural Society, which convenes from tomorrow till Wednes day in the Meier &. Frank Auditorium, nas begun to arrive, ana mere is every : prospect that the exhibit will be the I largest that has ever been put on by the society. Shipments are in from Hood River, Linn County, Yamhill County, Marlon County and Polk County, and another large lot is expected tomorrow morning. Preparations for placing- the fruit have ; beon going on the last three days, and ' the work of arranging the displays will ; not be finished till tomorrow evening, j The largest premium list eiCr of- ' fered by the society has served to bring out the large display. A total of $1200 ; is offered in prizes and premiums for i the best displays. The exhibit will consist principally of apples, but pears, dried fruit, wal nuts and vegetables will also be in cluded. The Yamhill Walnut Associa tion notified Secretary Power yesterday that it will put up a walnut arch nine feet wide by six feet high, similar to the one which was on exhibition by the same association at the A-Y-P Exposi tion. The displays will be arranged on par allel tables, sloping toward both sides, alternating with ilat tables, on which the plates will be placed. The fruit exhibit committee consists of K. C. Armstrong, E. C Roberts and J. O. Holt. William J. Green, the horti culturist of the Ohio Experiment Sta tion, will be the Judge oi the fruit dis play if he arrives from the Kast in time. . The judge of vegetables will be Arthur ti. B. Boquet, instructor in market gar dening at the Oregon Agricultural Col lege. The general public will be admitted to the fruit display at 9 o'clock Tues day morning, at which time the conven tion proper will begin with a business session. The meetings . are all free, expenses being met through fees paid by members and donations. The exhibit and all the meetings will be on the fifth-floor auditorium of the Meier & Frank building-. Tuesday evening wl be devoted to a lecture at the Y. M. C. A. auditorium by Dean A. K. 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