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DRAMATIC,
REAL ESTATE
AUTOS, ROADS
TOL. XXXI. PORTLAND, OREGON. SUNDAY MORXIXG, FEBRUARY 4, 1912. -' - y' 5'
HARMONY ESSENTIAL FEATURE IN
HOMES BUILT ON COLONIAL LINES
Color Scheme and Woodwork Play Important Part Modern Things Spoil Plan, but Home Effect Lost If Too
Bifid Attention Paid to Following- Antique Idea.
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BY LAURA BALDWIN DOOL1TTLE.
THE prettr Uttl hem shown in
this wick ! lsau a modified Co
lonial with porrola. many win
dows and plenty of Ufht and air. This
Is especially adapted to Oregon and I
adrlse llg-ht colors hers to (Clve
warmth and brlghtneis daring- ths Win.
ter season. The front door opens Into
a large llTlng-room 14 by SO. which has
an open stairway and big fireplace. All
the woodwork throughout ths bouse Is
Irory-whlts enamel. The tile Is cream
white, with shelf of wood In the same
enamel as the other woodwork. The
open stairway Is colonial with mahog
any rail.
I am asked to irive a color scheme and
advise furnishing". Tellow Is one of
the favorite old Colonial colors and is
very good In this climate. ' A striped
yellow paper Is especially good In this
room, and when the crlllnKS are not
high, the paper goes to the celling with
a picture molding as finish. A good
qusilty of white mull may be used for
curtains, ruffled and caught back with
white mercerised cordx. Kor over
draperies there Is a very pretty flow
ered cretonne yellow ground with
flowers In a pretty shsde of lavender
and blue, with also a little soft old rose
with the dull blur green of the foliage.
Theoe are draped and caught back with
a shaped band.
Mahegaay Mast Be leed.
Of course, one must use some ma
hogany in this room. A good Colonial
design with just enough covers to take
off the stiffness and yet heavy enough
to fit a room of this six. Here Is a
room where one could use an old square
piano with good effect but if not. then
a baby grand.
I would use a good French tapestry
for the furniture upholstering- and In
fhe colors of the hangings. With a
striped paper or plain wall one can use
figured upi-.olstery with good effect. I
would also !vls aonie reed or willow
furniture in this room. The chairs are
comfortable and light to move around.
Pesldes. they give a light note In the
room that Is pleasing. These should
have the cretonne curtains In slip form
and same as hangings to avoid intro
ducing too many fabrics in the same
room. A Colonial mirror should be
over the mantel with eome old candle
sticks and a clock on the shelf.
A few good reproductions from some
of the masters, such as Gainsborough's
Lady Robinson or his Blue Boy are One
pictures for this room, the coloring be
ing Just right: and then besides one
must have a head or two In oval frames
unless one possess some good old por
traits of one's own ancestors.
Hamoay Is Eaaenttal.
Avoid introducing Into this room any.
thing that is strikingly modern, for It
will be a Jarring note and spoil the har
mony. Strive to preserve the atmos
phere of Colonial times without over
doing It. One wsnts livable homes, and
so a strict adherence to old styles, pure
Colonist even, might mean a strained
effort that would defeat the very pur
pose of home making, bat at the same
time one never should lose sight of
the picture in mind of a truly beautiful
room carried our Intelligently.
The rug in this room. If Oriental,
could well be a Meshsd with large
medallion center or a Kermanshah. If
one muat use a domestic It should be
well chosen and with a floral border in
harmony with the hangings. To Intro
duce a modern carpet or an abstract
design such as" you find in modern
German rugs would spoil the whole
scheme. In the big archway between
the living room and dining room I
would use heavy rep silk In plain color
a shade or two darker than the walls
and the same color for both sides since
I advise a gray and yellow scheme for
the dining room.
Celer Bchesae Isaswrtaat.
Here I would use a gray and yellow
foliage paper that looks like old tapes
try. The curtains ran be of the same
soft white mull, but the over-draperies
could be of plain yellow sundour. the
chintz for the shades. I also like a
window seat and boxes reproduced In
cement from the good old English or
Italian designs. A cement floor in dull
red like the old English tile Is fine
when one does not care to go to the
expense of putting In the real tile. In
a sun parlor one likes to have a lot of
plants and flowers and I always ad
vise a tile or cement floor on account
of the watering of the plants. A hard
wood floor In a sun parlor Is too much
worry and care. ...
All the other floors are oak finished
dull and satiny. Highly polished floors
have pone with the varnished furniture
Into oblivion. In the hall upstairs the
same tone of yellow should be used as
in the living room either In a paper or
tint. The bedroom I'll take up in the
following article.
Y. W. C. A. COOKING SCHOOL MAKES
PATHWAY TO MATRIMONY EASY
Of S80 Women Being Taught Scientific Methods in Kitche n, Nearly All Are Said to Be Either Married or Engaged.
Cost-of-Living Problem Is Made, Simpler by Course of Instruction.
San Francisco FreakDinners
Rival Now of New York 4
Mrs. Aadrevr Welch's angle Affair
at Falraoat Proves I'nlqne ln
tertalameat Yowna Theodore
Roosevelt's Salary 1m creased Other
Bay City Nevrs.
and washes and Irons well. Here we
use a plain overdraplng since the walls
have a figured paper. A Sheraton din
ing room set would be harming In
here. If one cannot afford mahogany
a reproduction In some other wood
preserving the good design and lines of
the more expensive ones may be had.
In this room one , can Introduce a
more modern feeling and use a domes
tic rug in two-toned effect. They are
making some fine ones in gray now
that are lovely. In the paper I have
In mind for this room there are soft
wood browns as well as gray with
Just a touch of yellow the same as In
the living room. So that a rua- in light
golden browns with a tint of yellow
or ivory would be very good and meet
the demands for a rug that would stand
hard usage and not show spots or foot
marks easily. Of course a good Serapl
would be better If one wishes to spend
the money for a good Persian rug and
It certainly pays to Invest In Oriental
rugs since they do not depreciate in
value and fit Into any color soheme
much more readily than other rugs,
las Parlor Effective.
The sun parlor opening out of the
dining room would be best In a dull
gray green a dull blue green, that Is
restful to the eyes and that contrasts
beautifully with ivory woodwork. Here i
I would use a glazed English chlnts foi
shades and this does away with any
curtains or hangings and gives a touch
of color. These handprinted chintzes
come in lovely floral patterns birds
and flowers and one can hare any cre
tonne glased. It has to be sent away
but when one Is carrying out some par.
tlcular color scheme it pays to do It. al.
though the English Una of samples is
very large and artlstlo.
This room could be utilized as a
breakfast room. At any rate a large
willow or splint table and easy chairs
with a swinging seat should be the
furniture. There Is a very artistic
splint set for porches and In this espe
cial room those toned green would
be very good. A Crex rag In green and
Scotch Imported that locks livs alltAr of these colors axe aaad l. us
them.'
Nob Hill Is passing- away. The Hunt
Ington lot on the hill owned by Ara
bella Huntington, the widow of Coll Is
P. Huntington, is not. alter an. to do
given by her to some scientific or char
itable institution. Those who know say
she has decided to sell it and is con
sidering the offer of a Pan Franciscan
who wants to pay J-'OO.uOO for the
property. The latter plans to build a
bin jnadscn anaxtmazitnpuaa on tha
SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. t. (Special.)
San Francisco Is rapidly acquir
ing; the class of New Tork in the
way of freakish dinners and the like.
Long has the Pacific Coast ruled and
rolgned In ragtime parties, but It re
mained for Mrs. Andrew Welch with
H-r Jungle dinner, given at the Fair
mount, to bring out something of an '
artistic as well as unique entertain- I
mint. j
It Is said that in the past 10 or 12
years' history t the city only three '
dinner events could compare with this
latest creation. One of these was the
dinner given by Edward H. Harrlman
at the Pacific Union Club, then at the
corner of Stockton and Post streets,
where the Union Square Hotel Is now
located, to ex-Governor Odell. of New
Tork.
There were 100 guests present and
it was probably the most expensive
dinner for that number ever given here,
costing-. It Is said. $12,000. The table
was circular In form, the large central
part being a lake in which live ducks
were swimming. Water lilies, trees
and miniature boats added to the de
lightful realistic effect
Haaloa'a Dinner I'aleue.
. Charles F. Hanlon's dinner at the
Cosmos Club was another of those
events. A small electric railroad ran
the whole length of the table, its little
cars containing gifts the host had se
lected for his guests, a hundred or
more.
The third affair was a dinner In the
Bohemian Club to the titled English
men who attended the last Knights
Templars triennial conclave In San
Francisco. .Its piece de resistance In
the way of decorative effect was a riot
of color from many kinds of costly
flowers and foliage. Tbe late Reuben
II. Lloyd and Chauncey St, John were
the parties responsible for this notable
event
Colonel Sam Parker, the prince-of
hosts of Hawaii for lo! these many
years, still has his epicurean tastes In
all their pristine glory. Fearing the
larder of tbe Pacific Mall liner Mon
golia when It sailed last Tuesday
would not have tidbits and game he de
sired for his meals during the six-day
trip from this port, he had a friend,
who knows the ropes, buy him J100
worth and send them to the steamer's
cold storage room.
Parker landed here from the Na
tional Capital last Monday and sailed
the following morning. He did not
wait his arrival here from Washington
to see about his choice bits of food. He
telegraphed from Chicago en route to
a friend. The latter did things np in
splendid shape, for he got for the
Parker gastronomlo Inclination canvass-back
duck, snipe, curlew and sev
eral other kinds of birds, both In and
out of season Just now.
Yonns; Roosevelt Slakes Good.
Teddy Roosevelt, Jr.. who has gone
East with his wife and baby to visit
his parents, has "made good" In San
Francisco as a carpet man with a Mission-street
house. His employers the
first of the year Jumped his salary
from 1400 to $600 a month, much to his
own delight as well ss that of Roose
velt pere.
The young- man has never tried to
bask in the sunshine of his father's
prominence, and by a manly and dem
ocratic bearing has won the confidence
and esteem of his fellow clerks and
workmen. With the rest of them he
has always reported promptly for work
each day and has done his share of the
day's duties.
Having thoroughly mastered all the
details In the main house here, young
Roosevelt Is to travel some for the es
tablishment this year, visiting all the
branch houses on the Pacific Coast
from time to time.
Gypsy's Work Proves Success.
Gypsy Smith's religious meetings
were a great success both in attend
ance and the collections made by pass
In? the plate. There was a great de
mand for his autograph. Some got It
and many did not.
Henry. J. McCoy, of the T. M. C. A.,
hit upon a scheme for the people to
get the revivalist's signature, but It
did not work well. McCoy announced
at a noon meeting In the First Congre
gational Church when a big crowd was
present that all could get Gypsy
Smith's autograph Just as easy "as
falling off a log."
"Just write out a check payable to
Smith," said McCoy, as he unfolded his
scheme. "Smith will turn the money
into the general revival fund. When
he Indorses the check and It Is paid
through your bank, you will have the
desired autograph."
The scheme didn't seem to meet with
much enthusiasm and it is said that
only half a dozen of the thousand pres
ent sought tbe signature of the famous
revivalist by the McCuy plan.
Text Lout, so I Dinner.
Apropos of the revival meetings. It
la said that a certain broker on Mont
gomery street lost a dinner for four
because he attended one of them and
thought he remembered the text of the
sermon to which he had listened.
A friend wanted to know where he
haf passed the previous evening, and
the broker told him.
"Bet you a dinner for four you can't
remember the text of the sermon," his
friend laughingly commented.
The bet was on.
The broker scratched his bead for a
few minutes, and then said:
"Well, the text was from the gospel
of St Pauh- and read or sounded something-
like this: "Where three or four
are gathered together there will al
ways be a collection in the midst of
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BY LOUISE BRYANT.
SURE way to reach a man's
.heart (or anyone else s for
that matter) is through his
stomach." One might safely add- to
this old saying- that the surest way
to reach the heart and health of a com
munity is through proper and sanitary
food.
Intelligent interest in cookery seems
to be getting a hold on the women, and
It Is as near a progressive step as any
thing th-y have done. It Is not only
the woman who had to do her own
cooklnsr, but also the one who has a
"Bridget In the kitchen," that Is anxi
ous to know whether she and her fam
ily are eating the sort of food that will
best build up tissue and increase the
red corpuscles.
Work Arouses Interest.
It was an interesting sight to watch
the various classes at the Young Wo
man's Christian Association, where, in
all, 3S0 students are enrolled. They
were all very busy and amazingly In
terested in their various tasks. Miss
LaMont, the instructor, is a. graduate
of Drexel Institute, and a trained
nurse. It Is her business, she told ma
to- teach her pupils that "cookery Is
the art of preparing food for the nour
ishment of the body and not merely to
sstirfy hunger and fill an empty stom
ach." "I try to make every girl In my
classes realize this," she said. "For In
stance, take hard-boiled eggs. We get
scarcely any nourishment from an egg
cooked in this manner, while an egg
cooked In some other way carries a
great deal of nourishment Rice Is a
cheap food that few people know the
real value of, and those few rarely
know how to cook it and yet it con
tains a high degree of food value."
Already this year about 19. vaaxaaJ
hnve learned- to make excellent bread.
Did you ever know anyone who pre
ferred any other kind. If good, home
madebread was obtainable? Miss La
Mont "told me lots of stories about her
married women students, who joyfully
related to her how their husbands were
bragging on their bread. One woman,
who has Just graduated from the do
mestic science course," confessed that
she was absolutely "flabbergasted"
when she looked back now and thought
"what dreadful indigestible things"
she must have been feeding her bus
band all these years..
- Cooklnsr Made Pleasure.
A thorough knowledge of food val
ues not only alds a woman to- serve-fit
fare, but goes further in giving her a
fresh and lasting ' Interest In the too
often Irksome task of cooking. Besides
it helps greatly to do away with that
bugaboo known as the "high cost -of
living." This Is best Illustrated In the
meat courses, where they get excellent
lessons in buying.
It Is unusual for a housekeeper to
go Into a meat shop and be able to tell
what the different cuts of beef are.
If the butcher told her there are 22,
she would probably exclaim, "Oh, dear,
I can never learn all of those; Just send
me a good tenderloin steak or a rib
roast" Tou may ber sure that the
woman who makes such a statement
has never attended a cooking school,
and you may be quite as sure that her
bills are almost twice as much as Mrs.
Smith's across the street -Who has, and
her table does not present such a
variety of palatable dishes either.
In choosing beef one finds there are
lots of other things besides- steaks and
roasts, that make appetizing meals and
build up strength. The poorer cuts can
Just as well be utilized. It all depends
on tbe cook.
Meat Cuts Shown.
-Interesting excursions have been
made by Miss LaMont's class recently
to various meat shops, where butchers
have volunteered to show the different
cuts of meat, and the woman who gath
er eagerly around soon become experts.
Woe to the butcher after that who
.tiiaa. to U one of tnass women a first J
chuck for a second or third chuck, o
middle cut ribs for first cut standing
ribs, for she will tell him plainly that
she understands a few things about
meat. The result is that the butchei
will be more careful what he sends her
In the future and also what he charges.
All of which goes to prove that It is a
good policy to begin our reforms at
home.
I have dwelt particularly upon the
meat and bread, but there are many
other things In the Domestic Science
courses that are very practical - to
know. A number of young women were
turning out some cakes that fairly
melted in- one's mouth, while I was
there, and others were making all
kinds of salads '.and still others learn
ing to make chafing dish suppers. They
all seemed to be getting a lot of fun
out of It, too.
Every woman feels a certain degree
of satisfaction in sitting down to a
perfectly appointed table. Just how to
do this Is taught In the serving course.
A very practical course is the Homo
Nursing course. It is designed to be
of use in cases of emergency or in
cases where the services of a profes
sional' nurse are not required. This
course is particularly Interesting to
mothers who wish to know what foods
are good for growing children and how
to prepare them, especially during pe
riods of convalescing or for naturally
delicate children..
After all, an army of good cooks is
a valuable asset to the city, and it is
small wonder that I found almost all
this regiment of 3S0 either engaged or
already married. It appears that oth
ers have also discovered their value.
Opie Read to Visit Press Club.
VANCOUVER. Wash., Feb. 3. (Spe
cial.) Opie Read, the novelist, of Chi
cago, who is on a lecture tour, passed
several hours in Vancouver today. He
left tonight for Camas. Next Monday
he will be in Portland and will visit
the Portland Press Club rooms, and In
the evening will deliver a lecture at St
Johns. Mr. Read is pleased with the
warm weather in this section of the
Northwest, comlo as be has from a
cold, ollsaaU, . . ' .
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