THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, MAT 28, 1911. ' L .
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ATTENTION TO CHILDREN'S COMFORT
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BT LAl'RA BALDWIN POOLITTLE.
AM (lad to eae In tna new house
fust being built. proper attention
being paid to the needs of chil
dren by adeoate provision for their
comfort In rooms assigned to their espe
cial uaa. In a recant house (or which I
was asked to plan the decoration and
furnlehtnc. there la a fine bin gymna
alam and vwlmmlna: poo) In the base
mant. and rhe room aaatgried the chil
dren on the aecond floor are sunny and
well ventilated. 1 wlah to call attention
to the modern iraraery and children's
apartment. In homee where money la
plenty there la no excuse for any lack
In the planning and turnlahlng of these
apartments, and when one stopa to think
of all that color and harmony meana to
the young and receptive mtnds. one won
ders that ail parenta are not more Im-p-eeefl
by thla fart. 80 me of the mwt
d-!lhtful nurseries bare been planned
and carried Into eff-ct by arflattc and
rcsponelve mothrra with but little
rroney at their command, but the reeulta
were all right.
Color 1 Important.
Ftret of all la the Imjwrtance of color
t.irB"lir. Get thla fact tlecply Irnpreeaed
In your mlnda and carry that out. no
matter how. In tinting, in paper or In
fabrva. I n plain papers or plain color
foi the background and then a frleie
t r'.rirf tne chlldren'a taste. If theT
like talnr talra. you can buy a Peter
fan frlese or make one by cutting out
.p.cturee from atory book,. Oliing and
waila are beat In the same tone for the
nursery It gives a better balance. Tha
frlese can be put on In either of tha
following three waya: Generally Break
ing. I like the frWse low down aa a tin
la. 1 for a waliurot, but It all dependa
upon the at Tie of the room and Ita fur
niture. In ur.e nursery that I designed I
onatle a paned wninecot of frosted glaaa.
oatng dark f-lt aa a background. These
rinela of glass were set In frames of
the wood finish, and made excellent
drawing boanle for the youngsters. Taey
could be washed off and kept clean and
eanlrarv. and were the delight of tha
children, who never tire of drawing pic
tures. K err nursery should have plenty
of light and rentliatliin; consequently a
dull gray green Is a good color for the
walls. On this a frlese with red and
white tntrodu-ed looks well, t'se cur
filna tret can he drawn back and over
draperies of good. Imported chlntg or
cretonne. There sre some charming
Kate Oreenaway dealgna now that please
the email children.
I'ktnrcs Are) Drbatablo.
It Is a murh-dlacueaed qtiestlon con
cern lr what pictures to use copies of
the old mssters snd great masterpieces
or the more modern, attractive ones. 1
that one can safely depend on ths
children's taste and try to please them.
I find ehlMna generally hare pretty good
taste la both plctrues and literature. If
tney have the opportunity of having tha
beet. Of course. It must be ths beat In
ether case: but la these days, when tha
tnaxastnea are so cheap and have so
many nna reproductions, there Is no ex
tw, for any oos. no matter how poor, for
not having good prints In the children's
rooms, airs. Barber and other artists
whose delight Is In children hsvs gtvsn
us some charming things In the maga
atnea tn color, aa well as black and
whits. Carry out tha color scheme In all
Its detail. If the waUs ara green with
some red In the frleae. have an tha
rest of ths scheme In red and green.
Trie re, are splsndld ruga made by ths
school for the blind at tfalera. and per
haps other place near, that are excel
lent for the floors- They are mads of
blankets cut Into strips snd woven, and
era excellent thick, soft and of good
coloring. In any color you choose. Scrim
or dimity make good curtains that can
be washed often and not pull out of
shape. These can be stitched with heavy
mercerised cotton In any color to match
ths rest of ths hangings. If there ara
to be heavy draperlea at doors or win
dows, the new Kgvptlan cloth la excel
lent: also cotton shlklls. These come In
nice soft coiore neutralized and not
raw or crude. Cushions on chairs should
bs mads of heavy washable stuff Im
ported cretonnes, printed linens or art
denims.
Fur-altar Should B Plain.
The furniture should he eTTong. plain
and have as few sharp edges or corners
ss possible. Tou can bay good furniture
for children bow In oak. reed, walnut or
mahosany. Oak etained aad rubbed to
a satin finish Is about tha most durable
and satisfactory. Tables snoud have
round earners, if ths top Is not round or
oval, thua having many bumps.
Window sests ara a Joy to a child's
heart, but often are too high to be
comfortable. Avoid this by making a
step or two leading up to them. Hare
a hinged Bd or drawer tn It ta put
way tha playthings. Have low book
cases snd cupboards, an all the things
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all meana a fireplace. If possible, for tha
Joy of -seeing pictures la the coals." aa
well as for ventilation. Have all the
Utile tea tMrgs all the little accessories
that will teach the children the elegan
clee of life, aa well as Its neceealUea,
and then let them feci a sense of own
ership and responsibility, in too many
homee the rghta and eenee of ownership
of children are too much Ignored.
The nursery csn be made ths founda
tion of cltlsenshlp whsre the personal
righta of each individual must be re
spected. It Is well If there can be a day
and a night nursery, but If one can not
afford both, the present day disappearing
bad la a boon, for In them le arood ven-
I Illation that makea them aanltary, wnlla
leaving tha floor space for the day to
other purposes. If there la a night nur
ssry. Its color schema and furnishings
can bs more dainty and suitable for a
bedroom schsme. Pretty soft colors and
flowered ohlruxee appeal to all children.
The personal taatea of both boys and
girls should be considered, and a better
and deeper sense of ths aeathetle will
le cu tl-ated by this personal note.
Children Should Cbooess.
Lst a child have lta preferred oolor.
Itatur can be generally trusted In this.
We ara all of ua hotter for being sur
rounded by our own chosen color. Wa
all have a color that la beat for ua that
vibrates tn tune with us and makes har-
: mony In our lives, strengthens our
nerves and acts as an elixir in me.
Cecil Aldin and John Hassall both de
sign especial papers and frlexes for the
children's room that are fine, Tha
Queen of Spain chose those of Mr. Al
din for the roynJ nurseries, which ara
decidedly EngUsh In all their details.
The "Morning. Noon and Night" panels
are very good and oan be had for a very
little sum. They measure about 4
Inches by 13, and cost about a dollar
a panel.
Then there are a Normandy market
frlese by Mr. Aldin, the farmyard frlese
and the children's frlese by the same
artist, all In colors. Mr. Hassall gives
us the toy frlese, Noah's Ark frlese and
-Our Village." ail fine for nurseries.
"THE MAYOR PORTLAND NEEDS
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Sermon Preached Trom th Whit To mple by Walter Benwell Hinson.
A maa shall be ss a hiding plaoe from I
the wind sad a covert from the tempest: as
rrvere at water la a dry place, aa the ahad
ew of a great rock la a weary lead Isaiaa
axxfj X
I CAUL, your attention to Isaiah' con
ception of life. Ha says life Is aa ex
posure to rushing winds, and driving
tempests, and deaerts where dwell tha
drought, and heart-breaking 'wearl
ness. Now, If ha were talking; about
art. or aclenca, or philosophy, w
might not be abla to Judge him; but
If b Is talking about human Ufa.
are qualified judgee: for we know life,
and we can tell whether tha life such
as this text depicts Is local, or la uni
versal: whether It belongs to a par
ticular age. or to all time, and all gen
e rations.
Did yon ever atop to think how a
proverb Is originated T Somebody
noticed a thing; occurring two or three
times in succession, aad mentioned tha
fact to someone else. Then that sec
ond person said: I havs been notic
ing; the same thing f jrubllo utterance
waa made regarding that o bear-ration,
and gradually everybody said, wa too
bar been noticing that; and tha sen
tence became prorerblal; a part of the
currant coin In the great realm of In
tellectual things. Now what do tha
proverbs say about HfeT "Every land
cape has lta shadow." -There Is a
skeleton In every cupboard." "Every
rose baa ita thorn." It looks aa though
other people found Ufa to be just
about what Iaaiah says It waa In his
day. And then yon see wa can test
this statement by our own experience.
Wa ara alive, and we have knowledge
of human life: and we can tell whether
life is an exposure) to tha rushing
wind, tha beating hurricane, tha bar
ren wilderness, and the weariness of
brain and heart and soul. Are there
winds In UfaT Tea. great rushing
winds of temptation, of testing, of
doubt, of sorrow, so that often one
wonder that one's feet are able to
keep control of the earth- Ara there
temptation In life? Tea, In which
one losea fortune, health, friends, hope,
faith, lore, and God. Ara there great
stretches of daaort sand where no
flowers bloom and no verdure is
found? Tea; deaerts of loneliness; dea
erts where the good deed Is misunder
stood, and the fairest character be
smirched with slander: where one
aeema to be. alone, alone, all alone,
and no man cares for the souL Is
there weariness In lifer She said.
"I am weary, weary, and I- wish I
were dead." And that cry has left tha
lips of millions of people since Isaiah
wrote the text- I am not dealing in
rhetorlo; I am not incriminating God;
I am not propounding any theory of
life: I am only saying Isaiah's con
ception of human life la true. I can
prove it true; and ao can you; that life
Is an exposure to raging blasts, and
wild hurricanes, and dusty desert pil
grimages, and a weariness that often
makes one long for the rest of the
grave.
Secondly. I call your attention to
Isaiah's conception of society. IS ft
true today that aocloty finds Itself In
ths sweep of great winds, in the grip
of fierce hurricanes. In the midst of
desert sand, and with a great weari
ness at Its heart? Is this true? Isn't it
a beautiful world, where the flowers
bloom, and the shrubs blossom, and tha
trees are clad In beauty, and the birds
sing In the branches, and the green
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Last -week we annonnoed "that we had received an "invoice of 2000 Axminster Rags,
9x12 of the Standard, Smith and Khorasan manufacture, which include all of the
latest and best patterns. .We stated that these rugs were always sold at $27.50 but
that during this sale we would dispose of them at $16.00, no limit as to quantity.
The response to this ad was so large and the results so satisfactory to seller and
purchaser that we have- decided to keep-sthem on -sale all of this- week-AT 0KL.Y
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Fast Colors.
2V2x 4 feet 50
3x5 feet 75
5x8 feet $2.0O
6x9 feet $2.50
6 xlO feet $3.75
8 xl2 feet $4.50
ANOTHER BIG VALUE
9x12 seamless Brussels Bug, regular value $17, this week $11.25
Brussels Carpets, good quality, yard - 68 ?
Velvet Carpets, a yard 55
Ax minster Carpets, a yard - .. , , tC
Wilton Velvet Carpets, a yard . $1.38
Sewed, laid and lined at above prices.
Price Cut in Furniture
We have made sweeDinsr reductions on every line of furniture
in the house and most earnestly request a visit and inspection of
our excellent stock before making purchases elsewhere. A comparison of -quality and price will con
vince you that this is the plaoe to trade.
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leaves dance In the sunlight, and tha
very brooks are melodious, and the sea
sings its psalm? Tea, it Is all true.
And yet we know, all men know, and
God also knows, how underneath all
the fairness, and aplendor, and beauty
there a sadness, and sorrow, and wild
strife. And the man who looks abroad
on human society as it Is tonight, aad
says society is what God wills, and
what God wants it to be perpetually,
is false to common aense and reason,
and a blasphemer of his eternal. Look
at the little children under this solemn
night sky of God's! Has the fact of
child labor laid hold of your conscious
ness as It should? Little lads and las
sies who ought to be at school, com
pelled to work as only slaves should
work; putting their physical existence,
their minds, their morals, their very
souls Into the great mill that grinds
out gold tor tho employer. Do you
think when Jesus blessed the little
children he bl eased them to that sort of
thing? Aren't there women In America
tonight who know society Is what my
text depicts It? Somebody has got to
tell you thla There are 300,000 lost
women In resorts In the United States
tonight. The average life of these wo
men is five .years. Therefore, every
year there has to be drafted into that
legion of the lost 90.000 girls 6000
every month, 170 every day, one every
eight minutes! There are i.000,000 fall
en men and boys In America tonight.
One must go down into the black slime
of Immorality every two minutes to
keep up this standing army of the
damned! Don't you think n aociety
there is still to be found the rushing
wind, tha beating hurricane, the parch
ing desert, and the intolerable weari
ness? Stand you on Burnaide atreet any
night you choose; look with eyes that
see at the army of men, roost of them
young, tramping up and down that
thoroughfare not a quarter of them
born under the Stars and Stripes
northern Europe written on the faces
of the majority of. them blue-eyed,
flaxen-haired, strong of body, aad of
good faces. And there la open to them
what? "With very few exceptions with
exceptions that are scarcely large
enough to be thought about there are
open to those men who ara tired, lonely,
aad, and friendless, only the brothel
and the saloon. And It Is a shame that
a sentence like this has got to go un
challenged In the City of Portland.
Why don't you knowT If you don't I
do. and every member of the outgoing
Council knew, and knows, and every
policeman of Portland knows, that Im
morality has waxen so bold tonight,
there Is a noted house of ill-fame so
near to a church In this city that lta
Inmates can hear tho songs of Zlon as
they are sung In the sanctuary; and It
has been there month after month; and
year after year; and then some people
who are sworn to suppression of that
particular evil say they dont know.
And they Be when they say It, and all
men know they lie when they say It I
saw a book the other day telling of
some phases of evil In thla country,
and across the cover of It there Is
printed. "For God's sake do something."
Yes, do something. Let us repeat. Three
hundred thousand lost women to die In
five years, meaning an annual recruit
ing of 60.000 a year. 6000 every month.
170 before tomorrow night at 9 o'clock,
and one every eight minutes. Two mil
lion men oat on the black tide, a re
cruit into that awful army every two
minutes. For God's sake do something.
Well, what can we do? Portland I have
known as a cltisen for nearly 1J
months; but I know It wall enough to
night to assert that the good people of
Portland can role the city whenever
they like to do so. The bad are here as
they are everywhere; and the vicious
are here as they are eveiywhere; but
we all know that the hope of the evil
forces of the City of Portland Is In the
apathy of the good people. For when
ever these good people unitedly walk
out into the arena, these forces of dark
will be put to rout, and they know It.
Do something. What? Elect a Mayor
who won't stand hand In glove with
immorality. Intemperance, graft, and
the corruption of the city; elect him. be
he Republican, Democrat. Prohibition
ist. Socialist, or anything else. Along
with hhn elect aa a Council men not
only sworn to the enforcement of all
law that isn't much with some men
but men with character enough to
make you certain they will see that
without exception or favor of any kind,
the laws of Portland are enforced. And
you cant very well . expect men who
spent last year In tho interests of vice
to become virtuous simply because
they are seeking your vote, and get
ting it. The Ethiopian does not change
bis skin so quickly as that! nor does
the leopard so soon get rid of bis
spots. Qet the police out of politics,
or else get the politics out of the
police; so that instead of winking at
this evil, they will smite it, and let
ua make the City of Portland a real
city of God, In which men can live the
highest life possible to mortal.
Some fool wrote ma a letter and told
me my business was to preach the gos
pel. The gospel! That conundrum
knows no more what the gospel ' is
than Balaam's ass knew about the
American Constitution; knows no more
about the gospel than a cackling hen
knows of astronomy. Preach the gos
pel! Well, am I not doing It? Isnt
thla tha gospel, that we want here as
Mayor and Councilman who will be as
a biding place from the wind, as a
covert from the tempest, as rivers of
water in a dry place, and as the shadow
of a great rock In a weary land?
And lastly, I call your attention to
the fact that the text gives, you the
prophet's conception of true manhood.
A man shall be aa a hiding place from
the wind. There have been such men.
Isaiah was one of them; Elijah was
another; Moses, down In Egypt, an
other; John the Baptist another; Mar
tin Luther another; Booth, of the Sal
vation Army, another; old Cromwell,
whose head they have just discovered,
another, and Abraham Lincoln another,
when of slavery he said, "By God if I
get a chance to hit that thing. Til hit
It hard." Such men are still .to be
found upon the earth, thank God. It
Is a fine thing for this Nation when
men like Theodore Roosevelt and Wood
row Wilson go up and down from
state to state, declaring a gospel in
political things, that argues well for
the upbuilding of the Kingdom of God
and the reign of Jeaua Christ among
the nations. The age is calling for
these men. We have got money
enough; we have got territory enough;
we have got glory enough. What wo
want Is more men in this Republic
Glory awaits all those men who will
be as the shadow of a great rock.
Even the great glory of smiting evil
between the eyes; of co-operating with
all the forces of the light; of helping
to lift up this poor down-fallen world
to Its proper orbit among the stars of
God's making: of saving those who are
out of the way, and who have wan
dered far in the darkness and cold; of
helping God Almighty regain his hold
upon the hearts of men. But they need
to be strong men men whom the lust
of office cannot kllL Men whom the
gold of office cannot buy. Men who
will not lie. Men who can stand up in
the pulpits of the land and thunder
out God's denunciation against evil
doers, while those evil doers are sifting
in the pews- Men who will sit down
in the newspaper editorial rooms and
write the leaders for the papers that
will alienate the men who rise up and
bowl and hiss like the tigers and the
snakes they are akin to. Men who
dare to be true to party while party
is true to righteousness; but who dare
to depart from tho party traditions
when the- party has departed from the
righteousness of God. We need this
higher type of men here. But whoso
will manifest it has got to be strong,
has got to be true, has got to be abso
lutely defiant, fearing God with such a
consuming fear he has none left for
anybody else.
And these men are going to get their
equipment from the great school in
which Jesus Christ Is teacher and mas
ter and king. Tou people know I am
not In the habit of lightly nslna- the
aame of my Master, but I say advisedly,
with reverence and with deliberation
and also with confidence, what this Na
tion needs, what this state needs, what
this city needs. Is Jesus Christ. Jesus
Christ in the character of his people,
making them swift to tell the truth,
swift to rebuke evil, swift to denounce
the wrongdoer, no matter where he may
be found. What we need is Jesus Christ
in Portland. May the man's effort be
abortive who seeks to put class against
class, when Jesus Christ came to tell,
us we are brothers all. having one
Father, one Elder Brother, one Com
forter, one everlasting home- Wo need "
a revival of the spirit of Christ, and
your duty and my duty can never be
rightly performed until we get rightly
adjusted to Him, for then shall those
Uvea be rightly adjusted to our fellow
men. And so I call upon yon tonight
for the sake of other people to take
Christ as your ideal. Christ as your
leader, Christ aa your Lord. I tell you,
sirs. It la not the 'millionaires of this
Nation that are keeping this Republic
steady In these last days; it Is the men
and the women In whom Christ dwells.
Righteousness is the establishment of
the Nation. And because you cannot la
the highest degree perform your duty
to your fellows untn into you there has
been breathed tho spirit of Christ,
therefore I call upon you for the sake
of the Nation, for the sake of the state,
for the sake of the city, for the sake
of your neighborhood, for the sake of
your family, to turn to and follow after
Christ. And I call you for your own
sake, my brothers. In a little while
we shall pass where the great wind
sweeps, where the great tempest
breaks, where the wilderness loneliness
will penetrate tha heart, and where
weariness wlTl overtake ns. And there
Is no friend like the lowly Jesus. Do
you say you are outside the pale of
hrs pity, of his graoe, of his rescuing
love? I tell you. nay. "There is no
body In this world has a kind thought
for ' me," said a man to me one day.
and I said, "Brother, you are wrong.
Why, I kno-w the name of One who
loves you." He said, "If you do. tell
it to me." I said. "First of all. let
me tell you he loved you enough to
give his life for you." "Oh, no," he
said. But I replied, "The name of one
who loved you enough to die for you
is Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ cans
you to himself. And he says. If there
is no way of erasing that awful sin In
your past except by his blood being
shed, no way of changing your evil
nature exoept aa he shall come and
dwell In your heart and keep the evil
out. then for you he will die, and In
you, he, being risen, will live again by
his Spirit."
Rath he raarfcs to lead me to him.
If he be my guide?
In his teet nnd hands are wound-prints.
And hla side.
Tf I ask him to receive me.
Will ha say ma nay?
Not till earth, and not tin heaven
Faaa away.
Finding, following, keeping, struggling. '
la ha anre to bless
Salnta, apostles, propheta. martyrs.
Answer "yea."
Let us come to him. for ws need him.
and we are going to need him again
tomorrow, and when the great darkness
comes down upon us we shall need this
great physician who has never lost a
patient and who will walk with ns
through the valley of death and lead
ns out upon the uplands of glory in
his father's house. This is the kind of
character that is Illumined by Jesus
Christ, the character that Is fashioned
after that of Jesus Christ, the character
that la developed by the Indwelling of
the spirit of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ
has put himself on record that "Ho
that cometh unto me I will In no wise
cast out." Then oome to Jesus and be
will wash you free of all sin and make
yon strong to resist evil, and finally
present you at the court of heaven a
conqueror through bis dying love and
preserving grace.
God bless you people end Incline you
to put your hands In the band of the
Man of Sorrows, who went down to.
death that you might -Inherit -everLatf
lng life.
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