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9 THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN. PORTLAND, OCTOBER 27. 1912. The Advinr of Woman, by Mrs. Jans John stone Christie, fl.50. J. B. Llpplncoti Co.. Philadelphia. It is significant that Mrs. Christie, author of this one-sided and fierce blast against nearly all created man kind has dedicated her book in this fashion: "This book is dedicated to the memory of my father, whose attl tude towards woman was far in ad vance of his age." "The Advance of Woman" is not simple plea for woman's suffrage. It is a withering blast directed at miser able, cowering man. He is shown to be a mere biological factor, unfortu nately necessary in nature's scheme of generation. He is not even lauded as the convenient person in the house hold who every Saturday night deposits his pay envelope with the wife of his bosom, and says: Spend that money. Haughty man needs this reproof. Too long has he been boss, from the days of the eave life in the semi-glacial age, when he captured his wife from the nearest tribe and dragged her by the hair on her head to the aforesaid eave. Mrs. Christie Insists that biologists and naturalists now tell us that life in the beginning was female, that the female carried it on for -a long distance aione, and that even when the male did ap pear, he came, not as a necessity in the scheme or creation, but to -secure vari ation, and through variation the pro duction of better and higher typesof organic structure." She proceeds: "In all the lower forms of life, in the great Invertebrate family, and in no incon siderable extent among the vertebrates, the male is much smaller than the fe male, ana is devoted to one function only, namely, fertilization." "The conclusion reached by almost all students in this field." proceeds Mrs. Christie, "is that man is the product of a cruder and less developed germ. In view of the facts, it is difficult to see how man can properly be called stronger than woman. The truth seems to be that he is merely more muscular, but with- less actual strength and en durance. Thus the plant. ' the animal, and the human family alike afford evi dence that the female, having the bur den of the race on her hands, has been properly equipped by nature to enable her to perform her work. Woman is Nature's handmaid, and stands close to the heart of the first great cause. The first necessity for the support of this theory is that the female should choose her mate and not be selected by him as in the human world. The female throughout all orders of life, is more passive than the male; in consequence, unlike the male, who, owing to his more ardent nature, is always ready 'to pair with any female," she is not so likely to be driven by passion, but chooses more calmly and deliberately." The chapter heads are: Mankind's Dumb Progenitors: Early History and the Matriarchate; The Patriarchate and the Historical Period: Man as a Ruler; Man a Social Coward; Woman as Man Has Made Her; Evil Consequences of Woman's Degradation; What Woman Has Done; and A Last Word. What a pity such a clever, amusing book should be in its statement of facts so one-sided, bitter, and erron eous! One wonders about the kind of men Mrs. Christie has on her list of ac quaintances. She is unfortunate surely In that direction. Or, was her book written to sell? It ought to be widely discussed. The world Is more eager to read of someone abused than of someone praised and it would seem from Mrs. Christie's arguments that this Is a woman's world, ruled by wo man. Her book requires some revision by some other woman who has had more experience in life as it really Is. This is said in all kindness. Helping- School Children, by Elsa Denlson. Illustrated. $1.40. . Harper Brothers. New York City. Valuable suggestions, amounting to eloquent appeals, for efficient co-operation with the public schools for the public good. The whole 351 pages are worth reading. Facts and figures arc abundantly eiven, with clarity and good Judgment. School life In this city is briefly noticed on pages 11. 266. 284. 309 and 317. The subjects for discussion are divided Into these heads: "Is Everybody Interested in Schools?" "The Trusteeship of Talent and Train ins": Private Giving Via Public Schools": "Short Cuts to Publicity About School Needs"; "Community Problems Seen Through Schools"; "Organisations Solely for Helping Schools"; "Special Opportunities for Women": "How Women Organise to Help Schools"; "Physicians and the Health of School Children"; "The Den tist's Message"; "Where Church and School Meet"; "The Business Man'a contribution"; "How Superintendents use Co-operation Assets," and "Non Ciranped Opportunities." "Probably 110.000,000 is being spent every year by agencies, public, private and semi-private, to supplement the work of public schools in the United States," remarks our author. "Enoa mous as this sum is. more than the income of the Rockefeller and Car negie foundations combined, and equal to the cost of two battleships annually, the estimate is conservative, including, as it does, the co-operation of hospit als, museums, civic and relief agencies, and the great National associations whose work touches intimately the problems of public schools. Thousands of men and women scattered over the country are specializing In some form of school co-operation. To outside in terest the schools owe largely their present kindergartens, domestic science and manual training, playgrounds, so cial centers, vocational training, open air classes, medical examination and dental treatment. There Is no special ist, no professional or business man or woman, whose expression of intel ligent Interest in one of the various adjuncts to school life and work aside from voting and paying taxes would not be valued community social ser vice. From men and women in 400 cities, large and small, have come to the Bureau of Municipal Research stories of work done for schools, stories that show keen interest and un bounded desire to co-operate. A medi cal society has Inspected all the chil dren in public schools, and offers to give free treatments for physical de fects. A chamber of-commerce is ready to help secure business training. A woman's club is supporting vacation schools until the school board is able to carry them on. From superintend ents and school people come expres sions of thankfulness for what the schools have received through outside interest." Our author is one of the officials of the New York Bureau of Municipal Research, and her book will be accept ed as a standard authority on a subject about which the general public as yet knows little. Farm Poultry, by George C Watson. M. S. fl.AO. Illustrated. The Macmillsn Co., New Tork City. Movement looking toward farm life for city people and citizens in general, gains in volume as the months roll on Not all the return-to-the-land converts are wisely guided often in their Ignor. ance as to what farm life really is and how they, especially, should take care and manage farm poultry. Bet ter have a safe guide, if one is unable to learn about the subject by actual work on a real farm, and here is the teacher, written by Mr. Watson who describes his book of 36$ pages as "a popular sketch of domestic fowls for the farmer and amateur." That is putting it modestly, in de- A book Alotto: "Cut the. pdgor dud .Smell the, paper knife.' if 1 -" i -; . t ' '" if r. , V i I - ":.; -.-.. x' -i I .... - .a 3 ' ' V ! I ' v . I W f ''I "11460 (ZZp&r- Wiz.r2e.y deTiZy&sr- erf scribing a book that has been accepted as one of the big authorities on the subject, a book that can be pointed to, with pride as having, acnieveo. tne honor of a revised and enlarged edi tion, and with this imprint: bet up and electrotyped, June 1901; reprinted. February, 1903; February, isim; juiy. 190S: November. 1906: October, 1907; January. 1909; July. 1909, and October, 1910." These figures tell oi tne esteem in which the book Is held. The illus trations are first class. Table of contents: Poultry raising as a business, extent of business, capital and land required, business suitable for many persons, a variety of prod ucts and products easy to market. Egg breeds of the domestic hen, classi fication as to unity, general character istics of egg breeds, Leghorn, Minorca, Andaluslan. Spanish. Hamburg ana rtea Cap. Meat breeds, general character istics, Branma, uocnin, "bui Faverolle.' General-purpose fowls. general characteristics. Plymouth Rocks, Wyandotte, Orpington, Java, Dominique, Dorking. Houdan, Cornish Game and Rhode Island Red. Fancy hroeds. locations, plans aim construc tion, selection of suitable location as to markets, location of buildings, con venience, construction of houses and size of buildings. Buildings, internal arrangements and yards, construction of perches, nests, drinking fountains, dust-boxes, yards and parks and or chards as ranges. Improvement and breeding of fowls, selection, selecting eggs, breeding, heredity, variation, in-and-in-breeding, cross-breeding, pure bred stock, improvement of common fowls and breed for utility. Other chapter heads are: Feeding for eggs and for meat; incubators and brooders; r.inr and care of little chickens; capons and broilers; ducks and geese: turkeys, guineas, pen.-iuio pigeons; .preparing and marketing poultry products, and diseases and enemies. The Flowinc Road, by Caspar Whitney. S. Illustrated. J. B. Ldppincon w.. i-ui -delphla. Mr. Whitnev is so fond of out of doors and sport and travel generally. that he has come to be known as Out- of-Doorg Whitney. We recall his pre vious books on "A Sporting Pilgrim age," "On Snowsnoes to m rmnen Grounds," "Hawaiian America" and ungle Trails and Jungle feopie. rxss lewest book. "The Flowing Road," is nt llvolv adventures in ex- ninrfnc- mnutiv hv canoe, the great riv ers of South America, with particular reference to tne urinoco iuvci. xnc book is bright, often humorous and al ways interesting. u h th i.'ioalriir Road"? Because the book describes five separate over land and river expeditions into South America, beginning in 1902, and as these were largely by canoe, chiefly on streams more or less connecting, hence the significance of the title, flowing Road " Mr. Whitney's trips embraced continuous Journey from Santa Isa bel, on the Rio Negro, in Brazil, to Cludad Bolivar, on the Orinoco, in Ven ezuela; from San Fernande, on the Apure, to the headwaters and return, of the Orinoco, via the Atabapo and the Caslquiare; down the Portuguese, in Venezuela, the Apure and the Orinoco to its mouth; and on the Parana, the Salada and Feliclano Rivers in Argen tina. The, saddle trips included cross ing the Llanos, which stretch between the Venezuelan north coast mountain pancrA anH tho ftrlnnPA tin ttlP BOUttl. and ---v ... Ka rlanAo nri th format tn the east of Lake Maracalbo; skirting the Cordil leras at the east oi tne uommma; across the Andes into Chile, and an ac quaintance with the pampas of Argen tina and the forests of Brazil. with franirnpss. Mr. Whitnev con fesses that he did not undertake the trim .ithAi hv a desire to hunt the beasts of the jungle or to report upon the economic , social or industrial con ditions of the land, but solely to sat isfy the horizon-hunger which impels him every now and then to go and "see things" that curiosity which Profes sor Shaler has called' the "primal in stinct." Sporting atmosphere has not been IUI UllLX.. v.. - - . 1 1 - -' very graphic accounts of the shooting by Mr. wnitney oi io jsisusr. Opera Stories, by Henry L. Mason. Illus trated. SO cents. Henry I Mason, Ihb Bay State Road. Boston. Mass. Ttnxr often do persons attending per formances of grand opera, wish that they could understand, in concrete form, what Is the story told on the stage. Here is their opportunity. "Op era Stories" contains in few words the stories divided lata acts of 169 operas. with unusually fine por traits of leading singers, among these portraits being those of Mary Garden, Gustave Heberdeau, Carmen Mells, Caruso (with mustache). Lillian Grenville, Frances Alda, Geraldihe Far rar, Bella Alten, Maurice Renaud, Llna Cavalleri, Hector Dufranne, Marguerite Sylva, and Antonio Scotti. Stories of the very newest operas are given, and the book will be found most convenient by musical people of all shades of opin ion and learning. "Pero" Clinton, Plebe. by William t. Ste vens. fl.23. Illustrated. J. B.' Llppln cott Co., Philadelphia, . There are numbers of lads who in a vague sort of way, wish to become of ficers in the United States Navy and to command dreadnoughts that will sweep the seas, but they don't quite know how to set about the Job. On the other band the United States Gov ernment wishes to become acquainted with these very lads, to lick them into shape to help rule the seas for Uncle Sam. " 'Pewee' Clinton, Plebe," being the faithfully told and stirring story of a cadet's life at AnnapolU training academy, fills the bill. The hero is Richard C. Clinton, Skowhegan, Me, and is decidedly worth knowing, as he does not perform impossible tricks. Football, boxing and boat rowing are three of the sports described. Serena and Samantha, by Rosa Kellum Hallett, 11.20. Sherman, French & Co., Boston. Mass. Mrs. Serena Dodd and Mrs. Samantha Wells, of the Torbolton House, have appeared frequently to the great pleas ure of readers of that sterling period ical. The Youth's Companion, of Boston. Here they are in a book of 174 pages, and It is a Joy to meet them. There is real Rhode Island, homely philos ophy, and good natured humor about the story, which will be found very en joyable. Here is a duet between Serena and her chum, Samantha: "Don't men have the elegantest times!" Serena. "Funny there's any Idle hands for Satan to find mischief for, so long's there's bury- NOTED LOS ANGELES ARCHAEOLOGIST RECOVERS SIGHT IN NEW MEXICO Rarefied Atmosphere Credited With Cure of Chalres T. Lummis Oregon Girl Turns Back at Altar Rather Than Add Word ' 'Nag' ' to Marriage Service Los Angeles Reformers in Trouble. LOS ANGELES. Oct. 26. (Special.) The news from the wilds of New Mexico thatCharles F. Lummis, for merly city librarian and noted author and archaeologist, had regained his sight after 15 months of blindness, was almost in the nature of a public matter of moment in Los Angeles. Lummis has many friends throughout the West and his blindness had caused more sym pathey than the publiCat large usually extends to anyone. Lummis went to New Mexico to see if the rarified at mosphere of the "high-and-dry" would help him. The news of his recovery of sight came in the form of a letter in his own hand to a friend, who Immediately sent the news to the papers and correspond ents. He wrote from the ruins of Amoxiumqua, N. M., where he has been pursuing archaeological research work for the Southwest Museum of Los An geles, with the aid of his son, Quimu, his daughter, and a number of Indiana. Lummis' letter Is in part as follows: "Hooray for the man who first in vented things to look with and for the land that is giving them back to me! Blind-man's-buff is a good old game, but one doesn't always want to be 'it. The dark la blessed and tender, and mother of rest and dreams. But, oh, the glory of the dawn! For 15 months I have been In the uarc which beats the land of the Midnight Sun. Not a human face nor a flower, nor any other of God's pictures! Just the other day I got a moment's glimpse of my daugh ter and son, whose faces I had missed more than all the rest." Blindness Due to Jungle Fever. . Lummis' blindness was the result of jungle fever contracted in Guatemala in 1911, whither he had gone as a member of the executive committee to direct the School of American Archaeology's expedition among the wonderful Maya ruins. With the exception of Quimu, the 12-year-old son, every member of the party was affeoted by the fever, and the boy has led him everywhere during the period of his blindness. The bare footed, bareheaded, golden-haired strip drawers 'bove (round to straighten out." Samantha. . Lta be plssy fr oneet in our lives ana snj'y the experience." Serena. "And in them days no man would marry you 'less you promised to obey, and having promised, there wa'n't but one thing to do. and I done It." Samantha. "My Boldwood, he always advised,. "Don t you never cry over spilled milk till you're positive sure 'tis spilled!' And this ain t Only the milk can's tipped a mite sldewise and the leaatest speck leaked out. Serena. "My ma always tausht me that sharing your goodies made them twice as relish ing!" Samantha. "Confession is good for the soul, and re pentance ain't never too late, 'specially 'fore We've done the deed!" Serena. "When one door shuts In this world, an other one opens. Leastwise It is unbolted and unbarred, though -tain t everyone know, enough to turn the knob and give the door a little shove." Samantha. . This story comes from Sunshine Al ley. A Cry in the Wilderness. y MaryE. Wal ler 11.30. illustrated. Little, Brown A Co., Boston. . - Any story by the distinguished au thor, of the "Wood-Carver of "Lympus," is sure of an audience. "A Cry in the Wilderness" is an artistic bit of literary fashioning, and with Its scenes laid partly in New York and In a seigneury on the St. Lawrence River, it will meet with many friends. It has bright dialogue. JOSEPH M. QUENTIN. . NEW BOOKS RECEIVED.' The Long Patrol, "by" H. A. Cody. 1.20. A novel Illustrating the work of the Royal Northwest . Mounted Police of Canada, very well told and filled with plenty of dash and danger: Meadowsweet, by Baroness Orcsy, $1 "5 A pleasant, domestic English novel, opening In June. 1835. About the best con structe story this author has yet done. $1 25- and As He Was Born, by Tom Gallon, $1.20," a laughable English novel about a ruined young man. Felix Delany. drunkard, who is ultimately left ,2.300,000 by his uncle on condition that he. Fella, enters the town of Umberminstcr at midnight, as naked as when he was born on a specified date and remains there one month no more original plot or cleverer story has appeared for ever so long. (Geo. H. Doran Co., N. Y.) Camp-FIre Reminiscences, by David Moore Llndsey, 11.80. stirring tales of personal hunting and fishing In Canada and the American Northwest, finely Illustrated, tl.50. (Dana-Estes & Co.) Extemporaneous Speaking, by Paul M. Pearson and Philip M. Hicks, professor and assistant professor In public speaking. Swarthmore College. SOS pages by competent authorities, practical, thorough, Inspiration al lessons, a book grown from class-room ex perience, a safe, conservative text for school and college classes. 11.23. tHinds, Noble Eldredge. N. Y.) The Minor Chord, by Joe Mitchell Chappie. $1.25. Here we have an Interesting novel of galloping Interest, and fairly Jammed with interest. The heroine's name Is Miss Mlnza Maxwell, whose father Is a Civil War veteran and a member of the Forty-second Regiment of Iowa Volunteers. The story moves from Iowa to Dakota, and Mlnsa develops- as a soprano concert singer. She marries Robert Burnetts, who afterwards In herits 11,000,000, renounces her as his wife, becomes an aeronaut," and ultimately loses Wis reason. Mlnza becomes Madame Hel vlna. operatic prima donna, and scenes In the novel Include Incidents in Boston, Lon don. Milan. Berlin. Dresden. Bayreuth and the Pacific Coast. The heroine Is a puzzle who isn't sure whether she is wife or widow. A new love romance helps her along as prima donna. (Chappie Pub. Co.. Boston.; The Book of Comfort, by J. R. Miller, D. D., a helpful, devotional book of fin. thought. $1. (Crowell Co.. N. Y.) Mellnda. by Stella George Stern Perry, $1, a sparkling, clever story about a little colored girl who is an unconscious humorist; and Noted Speeches of Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun and Henry Clay, by Lillian. Ma rie Brlggs, assistant In the New York Pub lic Library, 76 cents, with good biographical sketches, a valuable study for young stu dents. (Moffat, Yard & Co., N. Y.) Canute the Great, by Laurence Marceilus Larson. Ph. D. tl.50. Illustrating the rise of Danish imperialism during the Viking age, counting from about the years 91(5 to 1085. a fine historical study admirably planned and presented; and Roger of Sicily, by Ed mund Curtis. M. A.. Oxford University, and lecturer of history In the University of Shef field, tl.50, a valuable contribution to th hitherto largely neglected subject of the heroic deeds of the Normans in Southern Italy and the foundation of the Kingdom of Sicily, with books suitably Illustrated. (Put nam, N. Y.) Prudent Priscilla, by Mary C. E. Wemyss. $1.25 what a pity there are not more tales of this healthful nature issued, making life better- Here we have a typical English novel, finely constructed and with a wel come atmosphere of culture, signally fortu nate in its delineation of marriage, and re calling the charm Of "People of Popham" and "Old Chester Tales." "The American Mind." by Bliss Perry. $1.25. admirable lec tures on these topics: "Race, Nation and Book"; "Tho American Mind"; "American Idealism'"; "Romance and Reaction"; "Humor and Satire", and "Individualism and Fellowship," the material belonging to lectures delivered in 112 at the Pacific Theological Seminary, Berkeley, Cal.. a thoughtful book with a good literary style; "The Young Minute-Man of 1812," by Ever ett T. Tomlinson, $1.50, illustrated, a healthy, patriotic story for young folks; and "The Pike County Ballads." by John Hay. Illustrated. $1.60, a souvenir reprint of these favorite poems: "Jim Bludso," "Little Breeches," "Banty Jim," "The Mystery of Gilgal,'- "Golyer," and "The Pledge at Spunky Point." (Houghton-Mifflin Co Boston). "The Golden Rose," by Mrs. Hugh Fraser and J. L. Siahlman, $1.35. Really a splendid novel of a mythical kingdom somewhere In Germany, told with the charm that charac terized "The Prisoner of Zenda." a story tha is a treasure; and "The Hollow of Her Hand," by George Barr McCutcheon, $1.30. written In Mr. McCutcheon's most enter taining style, not a "GrauBtark" novel, but the hero and heroine, and a New York widow will be pleasantly remembered, after the book covers are closed (Dodd-Mead A Co.. N. Y.). "The Ranch Girl's Pot of Gold," by Mar garet Vandercook. a tale of the Rainbow Ranch and Yellowstone Park, reading for young folks; "The Launch Boys' Cruise in the Deerfoot," by Edward S. EIIIb. a stir ring sea yarn for boys; and "The Launch Boys' Adventures In Northern Waters," by Edward S. Ellis, also a healthy sea tale for lads (John C. Winston Co., Phils.). "A Dixie Rose In Bloom," by Augusta ling was a familiar sight, leading his father about the streets of Los Angeles, and he has continued to perform the same service along the trails In New Mexico during the period of restora tion. Twenty-five years ago Lummis began his explorations in New Mexico, when his health failed and he went there for recuperation. He was at that time ten dered the position of chief of scouts un der General Lawton in the Apache up rising which ended In the capture of Geronlmo. Lummis was unable to ac cept the position on account of other duties, and the office went to the then Assistant Surgeon-General Wood, now Chief of Staff of the United States Army. Lnnimis' Work of Value. , He recovered his health and -for a number of years pursued his explora tions and Btudies in New Mexico, Ari zona, Central America and South Amer ica, during which time he became fam ous as a writer and a foremost author ity on the archaeology, history, folk lore and customs of these lands. He returned to Los Angeles from Peru and Bolivia in 1894, and soon became par ticularly noted in connection with his work for the Indians and his writings on the old missions. He is now en gaged at the ruins of Amoxiumqua In making explorations for the Southwest Museum, which he founded, and has made some notable finds. The ruins are among the largest In the United States. "I wish the 'movies' could have a series of pictures of this work," he writes. "Of the tousled, Immemorial ruins, amidst the very noblest scenery of North America; the 'development' of skeletons and other valuable relics very much as one develops a photographic negative; the strange life of these first Americans, as our shovels reveal It; and our campfire scenes, where we talk and sing well into the icy night after the day's work is done.' The location is In Northern ,Kew Mexico, 7500 feet above the sea. 100 miles from a railroad. "Luckily," adds Lummis, "God has strewn a few thou sand cords of dead pine and juniper WOMEN OF WORLD HOLD CENTER OF STAGE THROUGH VARIOUS CAUSES Wife of New York's Progressive Candidate for Governor Travels With Him on Campaign Tours Dnchess of Marlborough Establishes Home for Female Clerks and Typewriters in London. if r w - Sr 1 NEW TORK, Oct. 26. (Special.) Mrs. Jame J. Brown, wife ot the Denver millionaire, has been mak ing her home in Newport this season. She Is accompanied by her niece' and adopted daughter, Miss Florence Tobin. Mrs. Tobln was one of the Titanic pas sengers, and helped save a boatload oi women by pulling an oar. Mrs. Brown has been presented at. the English court.. Miss Olave St. Clair Soames is the fiancee of General Sir Robert Baden Powell. She is jonly 22 years of age. The General Is 56. They have known each other some time. Miss Soames was traveling in the West Indies when the General was there, and they met in America on Washington's birthday, which, singularly enough, is the birth day of both of them as well. Helen Roebling daughter of the mil lionaire manufacturer of Trenton, N. J., is now to be married to Carroll S. Ty- Kortrecht, $1.25. Miss Jean Rose Spencer, a Southern girl, sent to Germany for her schooling, is the heroine of this interesting story for girls (Llpplncott's). Sam Lloyd's Pussies, by Sam Lloyd, a picture book in colors for small children, 124 pages of fun, $1 (David McKay. Phlla.). "Lois Morton's Investment," by Mrs. Eva Morley Murphy, a story teaching a good moral lesson, that intemperance in liquor Is a National calamity, well told. In good, clear print, $1.26 (Crane Co., Topeka, Kansas). "Old Four Toes, or Hunters of the PeaksJ' by Edwin L. Sabin, $1.50; thrilling stories for boys, of hunting, trapping and ndian fighting bv members of Bar B Company, and reflecting true Western spirit. Illus trated (Crowell Co.. N. Y;). "Camptne in the Winter Woods." by El. mer Russell Gregor, a rousing story for Juveniles, depicting adventures of two boys In the Maine woods; Illustrated; $1.50 (Har per's). around our ruins; we can smash the two-Inch ice in the morning, and it's only a mile to water and 17 to the mail." .Near-Bride Balks at "X$." Cupid got a severe Jolt this week at Ocean Park when a match that was all ready for the fateful words "Till death do us part," was spoiled by the persistence at the groom-to-be, and his fiancee's determination not to promise any more than is usual. It happens that both are natives of Oregon and so specified when they secured the license that was to have made them one. Miss Florence Lutz, an attractive, petite girl, and Gordon Bird, an archi tect, were the near-contracting parties. With the preacher at hand ready to do his office, and the few friends present who had been invited to the ceremony, Bird asked that the words "and never nag" be added to "love, honor and obey." Bird is a widower. He says that his first wife made life miserable for him by constant nagging and he didn't propose to put his neck in another noose of that kind. His sole desire, he explained, was to avoid a repetition of nagging in his second marriage. The young woman, despite his argu ments, flatly declined to amend the usual marriage ceremony. Before the assembled guests she returned her en gagement ring to Bird, bade him good by and swept out of the room, head high in air, leaving the guests bewild ered. Miss Lutz said his request was altogether preposterous and that If he did not have more confidence In her than to exact such a pledge it were bet ter that they should. part. Her trous seau being ready and packed in her trunks, she set off the next day for a solitary and maiden honeymoon around the world. Bird returned to his office and took up the workday toil that he was to have, escaped for a few days. Reformers) In Trouble. ."Reform" politics In Southern Cali fornia has a hard row to hoe these days. The Good Government organi zation is very much upset and there ax several dissensions In the inner j ( sJs? $Ls' 'fk' "I !- Jm- &;i I V' . f.r, rfinM tskaWstJ , 'j ' - mm : 17 ' ;V:kK. rv:li-rH V i i i ' son, a Philadelphia artist. She met him when he was painting her portrait. Ow ing to the death of Miss Roebllng's brother, Washington, in the Titanic dis aster, the wedding was a quiet affair, only the immediate members of the family being present. When Mrs. Isidor Straus filled the measure of her devotion to her husband by going down with him on the Titanic, refusing to live without him, the world learned to what lengths the women of her family would go In their affection. Now another Straus woman, Sirs. Oscar S. Straus, wife of the Progressive can didate for Governor in New York, is showing her attachment to her husband by accompanying him on his campaign tours of the state. Mrs. Straus is not, however, a politician, and she has not been active heretofore in political work. She is not opposed to woman suffrage .and, does not disapprove of the women who speak from cart tails in behalf of what they believe to be a righteous cause. She is a home-keeping woman, who does not seek society; but, in the words of a recent inter viewer, "when it seeks her she meets it with cordiality and dignity." She is circle because of scandals that have arisen recently to disturb the equanim ity of the Goo-Goos who hold the power of the city and state. Guy Eddie, City Prosecutor, Los Angeles, moral censor, and rlsrht bower of Meyer Lissner, the undisputed boss of the California "Pro gressives," has been held for trial on an infamous charge and his office is being handled by his subordinates. Mayor Alexander appointed him and has the removal power, but as yet has de clined to exercise it. While that scan dal was still occupying public atten tion Chief Probation Officer Leo Mar- den and his assistant, Mrs. Gilbert, for mer jail matron, were interviewed by a San Diego newspaperman and related that under the "reform" administration of Mavor Alexander vice was greatly Increasing in Los Angeles. That set the police department Dy tne ears aim Marden and Mrs. Gilbert were called upon to explain what they meant by going outside the city and criticising their sunerlors and the administration of the city. This brought out the fact that Mayor Alexander had ordered a thorough investigation ot the vice sit uation and learned through his own officials that the number of evil wo men in the city had trebled as a re sult of the abolition of the restricted district, but had kept that report quiet and allowed the protestations of the Good Government supporters, that vice had been wiped out, to be given to the public. The accused officers have an nounced that they will call the Mayor himself to present this suppressed re port to the police board if they are dragged before that board to defend themselves for having given out the Interview. Chaos Rules at State School. Now on top of all this comes the wholesale resignations of attaches of the State School at Whlttier, because Fred C. Nelles, superintendent, ap pointee of Governor Johnson, is de veloping a state of chaos by his ill advised reform methods. While alle gations that Nelles is wrecking the discipline of the institution by ab surdly following a lot of silly and im practicable theories are freely and specifically made, not the slightest in sinuation has been made reflecting on his character of integrity. His critics merely charge that he is a woefully incompetent and misguided official, who has been foisted upon the people by Governor Johnson at the Instigation of the Llssner-Stimson machine, and against the protest of some of the trustees. Nelles was at one time treas urer of the Good Government organ ization in this city and a protege of Lissner, Stimson, Earl and others of the "Reform-Progressive" organiza tion. According to his own statement he had had no experience or special knowledge to fit him for the position of superintendent of the school. He was first appointed last February by the Governor with the approval of the board of trustees. He assumed the du ties of superintendent early in March. The permission was flatly refused by the board of trustees. Frantic appeals to his political sponsors resulted in strong pressure upon the trustees to grant the desired permission on the ground of political expediency. When that was of no avail and the trustees persisted in their refusal. Nelles took the bit In his teeth and went anyway. f.swv!px-rj''-v-, SIS young looking for a woman who has five grandchildren. Mrs. Philip Lydig, who is one of the most prominent of the society women of New York, and who has been abroad In Europe for some time, will return In the near future. She is an ardent "Bull Mooser,' and will devote some time to work for Colonel Roosevelt's election, it is anticipated. The Duchess of Marlborough ha bought a house and grounds at Esher, and Is equipping the place as a real home for female clerks and typewriters. ' The Duchess has won a warm place In , the hearts of English working people by her interest in their welfare. She , devotes time and n orey to alleviate distress. She was formerly Miss Con suelo Vanderbllt, of New York. s The yueen of Italy is the link which binds Montenegro to Italy. She is a. daughter of the King of Montenegro, and her sympathies are all with her father and her people in the present ; crisis. She Is said to be considering the possibility of going to the front to nurse the Montenegrin soldiers. He served on the Board of Control only a short time, when for some reason he decided that he desired to come back as superintendent of the Whittlor t school. His announcement of this de sire resulted In several stormy sessions of the board of trustees, who objected strenuously to his reappointment. It was finally decided that he should be permitted to go back, with the condi tion that Dr. W. V. Coffin,' acting sup erintendent, and a capable official, who had been working In the school for 10 years, be given further and adequate , opportunity to work in co-operation with him as assistant superintendent. Nelles agreed to this condition. Dr., Coffin found it necessary to sever his connection with the Institution within . 24 hours after Nelles had resumed the management. One by one the officials , and other employes of the school began to drop out. Some of them say they were forced out. Others say they quit because the conditions became intol-. erable. The underlying basis of the . conditions, they declare. Is that Nelles revised the rules and abolished the custom of punishment of refractory in mates by any of the employes. He told ' the boys and girls that the old order of things had ceased and that under his administration the boys were to have some say In the running of the school. The veteran employes were thunder struck when they were told that the ; "honor system" was to replace the firm discipline and wholesome fear of pun lBhment hitherto in vogue. They had no faith in Nelles' theories as applied to the class of inmates which have ' been in the school in recent years, and many of whom have records of un- ; speakable and atrocious depravity. . Any Book Advertised or reviewed on this page may be obtained i at Gills' tfntc Store. 3rd And Alder THE J. K. GILL CO. For full information regarding Any Book Old or New Write, Call or PhDii Meier & Frank's Basement BooK Store PrL Ex. Marshall 4600 A 6101 Is? . sssasasMsaa t