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TITE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, NOVEMBER 10, 1912. s . , . 'MTtim& Living c11f CYyVI v- . 1 undertakers, like Brim gloom In VVy I u2- jJ : il ' ' s"- . , "V- mourners' and grave-diggers brown. . STTw ZZS II II v C A TyTTrjTM rTTf-n jTr.rT J. .V H rSSTT'f S I - n,.tinr th colors on over NL- 1AM writing my memoirs; they are going to be dreadfully Interesting, but not In a dreadful way. Tou may be ure. that I 'will aet myself right In some matters, and above all I am going to deny that silly atory that I lost the friendship of the Prince of Wales by dropping a bit of Ice down his back at a royal dinner party. That fable follows me everywhere, and one of the marine reporters who meet you at Quarantine asked me if I still patronised the same Ice mm ' Fancy his Impudence! The fact of the matter Is that Lady Cornwallls 'West slipped a piece of Ice down the Prince's back and angered him greatly. I was present and wit nessed the episode. Many a time the Prince later the King asked me. why I did not deny the charge, but I felt that It waa hard ly worth while dignifying .with a de nial. However, now that I hear it everywhere In this country I want to say emphatically that as far as I am concerned there Is no truth In It. I am not so awfully old, after all. and I have managed to retain the en thusiasms of youth. At any rate I feel like a girl of 20 In spirit, and that Is half the battle In staying young. Sometimes In the morning I feel my age, but on the whole I haven't a bad moment In the day. I have no regrets, and I view the future with tremendous Interest, hoping to be up and doing until the last moment of my Ufa, ICAJTT Imagine anything more hor rible than to be feeble and helpless. I never want to be reliant upon others. I prefer death to being In bad health. I have always cared for my physical well-being. I have always eaten simple, well-cooked food and drank sparingly. it hnmi I never drink liquor of any kind. In pnbllo and at dinners and THE world Is saved, temporarily at least, and by me by me. an un known physician, ordinarily living In a fourth-rate American town. The world does not know that It has been saved; does not even know that It has been In peril, and probably will refuse to believe It even after I have told my tory. Nevertheless my assertion stands. For a few seconds I held In my hands the potential destroyer of the happiness and freedom of the whole world and I drowned that destroyer In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. A year ago last Summer I took my daughter to Europe for a vacation. We made the usual round and started home on the Meteoric late In September. Up to that point our tour had been with out any incident of serious Importance. The steamer, one of the finest of a famous line, had on board a most dis tinguished company, including many men and women whose names are household words wherever newspapers are read. A famous editor, three dip lomats of high rack, four great scien tists, half a dozen well - known actresses, a score of millionaires, sev eral professional beauties, five or six Generals ' and Admirals, and many lesser though still important luminar ies, shone amid the throng of every-day people like myself. Among the soldiers was General Kurlto, of Japan, who had first come Into promirence during the Russo-Japanese War. It was an open secret among military men that his waa the brain that had conceived the tre mendous campaigning resulting in the total defeat of the Russian armies in a great battle 100 miles long. Involving nearly a million men. He, too, had planned the naval bat tle that resulted In the destruction of the Russian fleet. Since the war he bad been a sort of ambassador at large to Europe, where he had concluded a series of treaties by which Japan had received extraordinary concessions from nearly all the great powers, and had made alliances beyond her wildest dreams of a few years before. Coupled with his amazing military capacity and astounding diplomatic ability. General Kurlto possessed a sin gular modesty, being contented to re main in the background and let older men carry off the laurels. Indeed, he would have scarcely been known had It not been for the foreign Generals and statesmen whom he had outwitted. These declared privately that his In tellect was easily the most gtgantlo In the whole world. Immediately on sailing this General, so famous, so brilliant, so adroit, sin gled out my daughter for marked at tention, and before we were three days out he came to me and asked my per mission to pay his addresses to her, declaring that he believed she waa not Indifferent to him. He added that he had sees her at various places In Eu pw m.-f ' Maxims of Lady de Bathe (Mrs. Langtry) I prefer death to being in bad health. I feel like a girl of twenty in spirit, and that is half the battle in staying young. I have no regrets and view the future with tremendous interest. I advise every woman who wishes to be lovely to select a healthy, handsome father and mother who will bring them up in fresh air and cheerful surroundings. Sweet reasonableness will work more reform than bricks and and shrieks. The gentleman of today dresses like a waiter and is no ornament to the scene in his black and white evening dress. Parenthood is the most wonderful thing in the world that sort of thing there seems to be a f.Min- that one ougnt to sip a of wine and not be a spoilsport. I have always been a souna sieepor and a long sleeper. I never go with out at least eight hours of slumber a day. If I am up late at night I sleep Just that much longer on the day fol lowing, and If I am up very late I re main in bed at least 10 hours the net la . ... I never worry. If worrying couia am me in any degree I would be a vigor ous worrier. However, it 'avails nothing: so I seek to erase the past from my mind and try to Improve the present and lay plans for the future. t ti.vji hundreds of letters asking for beauty tips. I advise every woman who wishes to do w - healthy, handsome father and mother who will bring them up In fresh air and cheerful surrounaings. Parenthood is the most wonderful thing in the world, and I confidently expect that one day the earth will be peopled by men and women who will answer to our present idea of demi gods. . I BELIEVE In votes for women, but I am against militant suffragism. t .f hvsterlcal women and the rope and had taken passage for the ex press purpose of obtaining the privi lege he now sought. To say that this amazed and annoyed m8 Is to put the matter mildly. While appreciating Ihe many good points of the Japanese, I have an ingrained re pngnnce to any one not of the Caucas ian race, a repugnance which I thought Katherine shared with me; and it was by no means modified by th fact that General Kurito waa so famous. I there fore declined the honor as courteously as I could, putting my objection en tirely on the score of raoe and declar ing that I wished my daughter to mar ry an American. General Kurlto listened politely, but persisted In his request. "Mr. Fairfax," he said in perfect English. "I have an ticipated all your objectiona, and have dared to hope that I might be able to overcome them. Will you not at least consult with your daughter before giv ing me a positive refusal T Surely I am entitled to that much." He was; and in spite of myself I agreed to talk with her on the sub ject, though, of course, without the slightest idea of yielding. Even as I consented I wondered at myself for do ing so, and could not help but admire the singular knack of the man In per suading others to do as he wished. But Katherlne'a reply when I ques tioned her was even more amazing than General Kurito's request. "Father," she answered frankly, "I don't know what has come over ma A week ago the idea of marrying an Oriental would have been horrible to me, but now father, I don't under stand myself. I don't love General Kurlto, and yet he fascinates me, daz zles me. ' "When I am talking with hlra the life he offers seems to me the happiest In the world. When I am alone I don't know what I want. If he were only not a Japanese oh. father, can't you break the spell somehow? I don't want to marry a yellow man, and yet I know that I shall do it unless you save ma The General is a wonderful man and will persuade me against myself." Back I went to General Kurlto, meaning to settle the matter peremp torily. But when I reached him I found myself couching my refusal in terms much more gentle than I had In tended. Nevertheless my words were positive and final. ' Their effect on General Kurlto was surprising. He turned pals under his olive skin, put his hand to his head, and finally fell back in a chair, gasping. "Doctor Kltemotu." he stammered. "Get Doctor Kltemotu, No one else. Doctor Kltemotu." Hurriedly summoning two stewards, I sent one ckurrylng In search of Dr. Kltemotu, who. as I happened to know, was a military surgeon attached to General Kurito's staff, and directed the other to help me to get the General to his stateroom, which, waa close at - - m t M K jm I f m m W aw m m r- fighting suffragette answers to that description. The cause is growing in strength dally and there is no need of violence. Besides, If we challenge men to be violent, there will be no chance for us at all, for the other sex has been practicing violence for thousands of years. Sweet reasonableness will work more reforms than bricks and shrieks. The leaders of the movement in Eng land are splendid women, whom I ad mire and respect, but some of their dis olples are horrible examples of what women should not be. I am really very keen for a revival of fancy clothing for men. The gentle m. n nf tndiT dresses precisely like a waiter and Is no ornament In the scene in his black and white evening dress. hand. Once thero, I sent him also for Dr. Kltemotu. . . By this time the condition of the General had became so alarming that I felt that I could no longer defer taking steps to relieve him. despite his ex pressed wish for his own physician. I therefore bent over him, directing my attention to his head, at which he was still wildly clutching. At the first touch a wig, whose ex istence 1 had not suspected, came away In my hands, revealing a dome of pol ished sliver several inches in diameter set in the top of his skull. For a mo ment I stared at it stupidly, wondering how such an enormous piece of trepan ning could have been successfully per formed. Then I noticed that one edge of it was slightly raised above the level of the skin. . I touched It and it turned slightly. As It did so the General gave a sigh of relief. Noticing this, I ven tured to turn the plate a little farther, . - 3mz . ft and before I realized what was hap pening it dropped off In my hand.' As I strove to adjust it I glanced Into the cavity where the warm brain should have been pulsing; then dropped the plate with a cry. ' There was no brain there; Instead, tho whole cavity was filled with an in tricate mass of mechanism, all ticking away like mad. How long I etood there speechless I do not know. I only know that when Dr. Kltemotu came hurrying in I was still staring at the open skull and the marvelous apparatus It contained. The little doctor stopped and glared at me. white with fear and rage. I saw his Hps move, but no sound came. Then, with an effect that positively shook him. he regained his eelf-control. "Explanations seem in order. Dr. Fairfax," he said quietly. I bowed In silence. I did not know what to say. "Circumstances have put my secret in . - - .r - ii i. ii' j t . vjt i m Ajonuon now, ilca -1 T'' How romantio the men of the earlier centuries looked In their lace and ruf fles and colored silks. They were brave, chivalrous creatures whom a woman Just had to love. However, I imagine that there ia more real chivalry in the modern man than the proudest knight of the Middle Ages ever revealed. But I would like to see the modern man prettily clothed. There Is a movement on root in mn- your hands," went on the doctor even ly. "But I think when you know all that you will find it worth your while to keep silent about the matter. Gen eral Kurlto represents the triumphant combination of mechanics and life, riea years ago ha waa'aa absolute V M mmmwwr4 V f& y n 1C mm don to revive the costumes of the Stuart court, and I am heartily for it. COLORS; colors within and without Tou must dress in them and you must think in them. Have no gray thoughts or dark brown regrets and ydu will never look old or drawn or haggard. ' And don't wear the dismal tints. If you will think in gray colors you can wear them and live them and feel them. It Is the simplest secret in the world. ' ' . Men do not learn it and will not learn It, and that is why men grow old much faster than women. But a change ia coming in that. The change Is even here. Men are going to wear colors and cease looking like so many iv i- f .JV 4& it f s1- i undertakers, like grim glooms In mourners' and grave-diggers brown. They ar putting the colors on over in " London now, purples and bright blues, greens end yellows, yes, and even' scarlets In the walstooats and scarfs. They axe putting on the colors with the little whiskers they are growing down from th ears. I don't care so much for these little whiskers, but it is a good thing if It brings us back the TLfo -R.mitlful.of an earlier aay, wnen a Beatf Bnimmel was a shimmering peacock that was good to look upon. HOW silly It is for man not to 'wear niora when he knows in his soul that they would become him and pre serve his confidence In his youin. xno .v,.nr. must be forced upon them, for they lack the courage to bring it about themselves. They fear scorn ana nm cule more- than they do the calamity of becoming old before their time. Tou should see how swiftly the change' Is being wrought in London and Paris. The purpl and the green are blooming on every side, and, my! but they are fine. An interviewer suggested that the men were putting on the feathers in advance of the time when woman would take them off, man the voting booths and force her way Into the sterner ac tivities. Those poor creatures who call them selves militant suffragettes are an Im mense, hindrance to the causa They will hold it back five or 10 years in England, for instead of provoking sym pathy they -awaken only feelings of disgust. I am heart and soul for the cause of suffrage, but I believe in the saner, more dignified methods employed by American women. - WE must win the men by gentler methods than hurling brloks through shop windows. In America the battle is being waged with more intel ligence. Thero seems to be a keener sense of man's true character on this side of the water. English women don't stop to think and read the signs. They conduot themselves like a lot of whirl ing dervishes and win contemptuous pity where they should gain respect. I have made suffrage and the petti coat vote my theme on the stage as well as in private life. It is wonderful the progress wa have made since I left America. Why, six years ago a woman who spoke for suf frage was regarded as a frek. a curi osity to be ridiculed. But the cause has grown as these wonderful towers of New Tork have grown. It has reared Its head with dignity and spread its banners to the sky till all men real ize that the day must come when they will yield to their sisters the proper place In civilization. Now doesn't that sound flneT I am getting better at It every day. At first I was almost tongue-tied when I tried to speak about suffrage. I stuttered and stammered and everybody laughed and giggled. We have all been through . . t. Kt w Btur.k to it Kamely iu" "e --: - .v,. and are now preparea to B" Idiot with no more Intelligence than an oyster. Then ho was placed In my h.r I rook him to my workshop and experimented on him. "I had long Known m mo and the vital principle were separable; that a man might live with his brain shattered and broken. I now proved that one might live without any brains ''aittle by little I abstracted the young man's brain, substituting there for bits of cunningly constructed mechanism. For five years I worked at this, until at last the entire brain had been removed. In its place was the olockwork you see before you. "Certain results followed. In making this substitution I had endowed my idiot with ' infallibility. All human weakness had been " ,m'ed,-r" mercy, pity. fear, everything that might check the career I had planned for him. Nothing had been left except oold. piti less logic. "Tha brain I created never erred never oould err. forjt worked by exaot rule and time. When It was pitted against mere human understanding Its triumph was certain "This is no mere theory; " has had .. .......i.n Tn five vears tnorouga ur.iii"".. " . Kurlto has become the most powerful ' , n nr-m Vi . will hfl man in japan; m r ' St a oome the most powerful In the world. "China will fall to him first, then Eu rope, then the rest of the world. He a. M. ia t th a&rth. All Will Will DfJCUiiifJ - . be his, and will be glad to be bis. fo'he knows now i - CODr"eKitemotu's cheeks wore flushed and his eyes shons with excitement. Preposterous as was his tale I oould not doubt It with the brain of the Gen eral ticking away before me. Mechanically I moistened my nps. "But" I began. v . "But the General loved your daugh ter and love is not logicT Not But six week, ago I discovered that while - s,i rwrli'l beyond my fondest dreams there was danger that the General migm omuo self from me, his creator. "This would not do. I took advant age of one of the perlodio headaches, which are his only human frailty to alter the clockwork so as to Implant Tovs In bis brain. I meant it to be love for me. but my calculations were not quite exact. I could create, but I could not limit. Kurlto loved me, yes; but h, alfo fell madly in love with my dI said'nothlng. I could say nothing. All this was like some horrible night mare. After a x moment the doctor went on. , v "Machinery is remorseless. General iz-iirito loves your daughter. He must oontlnue to love her. He cannot do otherwise. His love can uc Consequently he will do everything for her and hers. Let her marry him and in 10 years yes. in five you shall be Emperor of America, greater than the monarchs of the Old World; supreme, except- that like them, you will owe allegiance to your son-in-law, who will create and sustain your throne. In his name I promise it. What do you say? Is it agreed?" A resolution waa. slowly forming In my brain. My dry lips moved. "But" I began, "suppose this wonderful brain should b8 destroyed, what then?" The UUla doctor shrugged his shoal-, platform like so many Burks an ; Websters. i ' And think what a glorious thing it! is going to be for the old maids! .) Management of House. ' v Adapting food to the pecuniary .' sources and living conditions of a fam- j ily Implies more than buying what one can pay for and the same kin4" j things one's neighbors usa. ? Students of economics find tbat, i while the proportion of the total ln-r come spent for rent, clothing, eto, r-' mains about the same, regardlaa) of the total size of the income, the pro portion spent for food growa lea as the Income increases. According to available statistics, a family with aa annual income of $3000 spends 1710 (or one-quarter of the total Income) for -food, while a family with an Income of $1000 spends $330 (or about one-, third for food. This does not neces sarily imply that the family with larger resources is more adequately nourished than the other, though with out doubt it Is more daintily fed, the extra money being used not to supply actual bodily needs, but to grtur the tastes of the family, and to adapt the diet to financial and social opportuni ties. Of course, the gratification of tastes in such ways is not a matter of mere sensual Indulgence; but, on the other hand, rightly employed, may have a decided value in raising the standard of comfort In family life. Tet, whatever the income. It is better from every point of view to live simply rather than otherwise. For the man of large Income simple living may mean, the purchase of out-of-season foods, and speolally selected supplies whloh'' are high In price, and great care la preparing foods; but It should not mean, the superabundance and waste fulness of too generous living. For tha family of moderate lnoome right living should mean simple foods oonomloally purchased, well cooked, and wall served: these things, after all, aro of more importance than out-of-season food and fanxiy Quality. IIou Prog ress Magazine. ders. "It must not be destroyed," hs said. "It would take me years to re-.,, place It; perhaps I could never do so.-!; But have no fear; we are going to kees w it safe and conquer the world." I shook my head. "Never," I de clared. The doctor smiled. "Why notf bo asked. "Who will prevent It?" "I will!" . ' With the words I plunged my nana-, into the gaping brain-pan beneath me and tore the cunning mechanism from its place. '' With clutching fingers the little doe tor sprang at me, but I flung him baok and hurled the still revolving clock work through the open porthole Into the sea, . As It struck the water with a splash the doctor gave a yell of despair an4 burled his face in his hands, while X brushed past him and left the room. Neither Dr. Kltemotu nor General Kurlto made any eomplalnt of my conduot The latter finished the voy age in his stateroom, the doctor giving out that be was ill. and when New Tork was reached they started hur riedly across the continent In a private oar, and so on to Japan. Of his later movements I know noth ing. But I fear, I greatly fear, that la some secret laboratory the little doctor may be constructing a second brain. . mora potent than the first , , For the present, however, the world s is saved, and I have saved It Tha Northwest Passage. Assisted by King Haakon and ths Queen of Norway, Christian Leden. the Norwegian explorer, will attempt to make the Northwest Passage In May next through the straits between Vic- ; torla Island and King William Land. He will be accompanied by several Ger man scientists. Leden will make a' special study of' the Eskimo of these regions. He will attempt the passage from the western entrance, traveling from the mouth of the Mackenzie River to the Arctic Ocean by Norwegian whaleboat as far as Stapylton Bay, continuing the Journey -as far as possible in Eskimo kayaks,: then by dog 'teams. The party will be -prepared for an absence of three years. Mr. Leden Is a graduate of Berlin University and has made previous ex plorations In Greenland on behalf of the Danish and Norwegian govern ments. His reason for taking tho passage from west to east is that Cap tain Amundsen, his famous country- , . man, who was the first roan to reaoh-: . the South Pole, Is also the only man who has made the Northwest Passage, n but traveling from east to west About , 130 other expeditions nave unsuccess- -fully made the same attempt Among -these was the famous Franklin expedi tion, consisting of 129 men. every one . of whom perished in these regions. Christian- Leden's expedition will be -very lightly equipped, as the members-' Intend to , subsist almost entirely on . what they shoot. The expedition will be financed by the Norwegian govern- ment and as the principal object la , scientific discovery it will seek to pro-, , cure specimens of Eskimo manufacture " for the museums at Berlin and Chris tlanla. as well as facts relating to tho country.-rNew: Xork Herald, ' M S w A V