7 THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, POKTLAXD. PKCK3EBKK 15, 1912. this course, but since there are a great many places in the engineering field, especially in highways work, open to women, I see no reason why I cannot prepare myself for activity in this branch after graduation. It is In this highways part of the 'game' that I intend really to accomplish something when I have obtained my degree from the University of Washington. "Graduate? Certainly I am going to finish and I want to get my diploma only after completing the same work mapped out for the men. I want to amount to Just as much as any of them CONVICT IN MONTANA PRISON HAS GREAT TALENT FOR EMBROIDERY SOCIAL, ATHLETIC AND PUBLIC FEATS PUT AMERICAN WOMEN IN SPOTLIGHT Former Bachel Gurney to Seek Divorce-rMrs. Harcourt Entertains England's v Crown Prince Mikado deco rates Bed Cross Worker Mrs. Vanderbilt Donates Fortune to Wayward Girls. Laura Baldwin Doolittle in Possession of Quilt of Artistic Design, Made by Prisoner, Which It Is Desired to Sell. - Man Convicted of Robbery and Sentenced to 20 Years. added, modestly, for Miss Anderson Is one or the most reticent women in me university. Rhetoric la Not Liked.. "I have always had a fondness for mathematics and an equal aversion for Tno-lfeTi ftnri fuir.h lnBtrurtion. so when I found that I could escape rhetoric and at the same time make a scientific study of my hobby, highways, it did Tr --iv' HiSSHatl 5A I V : 1 f Mf i v ST - . i IjSiiy Nx Jta I 1 J.W, i 'I' fec? 8ar7&rcf NEW YORK, Dec 14. (Special.) It is reported that the wife of the second Earl of Dudley has left her husband and may seek a divorce. He Is the elder brother of John Ward, who married Jean Held. Hewas horn In 1867, educated at Eton, and traveled around the world. He was in the Im perial Yeomanry in South Africa. Then he entered the political field and soon became Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Later he was Governor-General of Aus tralia. It is said that the cause of dif ference with his wife developed when . they were in Australia, and that It was due to Jealousy. Lady Dudley was Rachel, daughter of Charles Gurney. They were married in 1891, and have four sons and three daughters. . ' Miss Dorothy Capwell, of Oakland, is reckoned one of the prettiest girls in California, She returned recently from a year spent in "finishing" abroad, bringing with her many Paris gowns for her debut. She was presented to Oakland society recently by her mother, Mrs. Herbert C. Capwell. The Prince of Wales is beginning to see something of the world, but while he is a student at Oxford his parents do not want him to go about much. Hence they conferred a signal honor on Mrs. Lewis Vernon Harcourt when they granted the young Prince permis sion to make her a visit at her country house on the Thames. Mrs. Harcourt is an American woman. She has been for many years one of the leaders of London society. Her husband is a mem ber of the Cabinet. A fierce competition for the cham pionship of the world between Canada and the United States was settled re cently, when Florence LaDue, of Cal gary, defeated Lucille Mulha.ll, of Okla homa. Miss Mulhall, who is the daugh ter of Zach Mulhall, of Oklahoma, has held the championship for fancy roping for many years. The meeting between the two aspirants occurred at Calgary at the annual 'Stampede." Kate Barnard, of Oklahoma, has been visiting New York for some days, in vestigating the conduct of public in-' stitutions and making addresses to New York women. Miss Barnard is at the head of the charities department of Oklahoma, and she came East to get ideas. When she went over Blackwell'i Island and its institutions she. said she didn't see how they were kept so clean. But little Miss Barnard, if she has something to learn in the East, thinks she has also much to tell the Eastern people about charities work. In her own state she says they have raised human life to th Jevel of the dollar. Miss Barnard began her work for the women and children when the people of Oklahoma were drafting the consti tution for that state. Finding that the constitution - makers were ignoring these two elements, she went to St. Louis and studied factory -inspection. Then she went to Chicago to examine the work of women - and children in factories and mines. She started a cor respondence with men and women all over the country to find what the world was doing toward protecting women and children. Then she went on the tump and made speeches, and. by a combination with the labor delegates to the constitutional convention, suc ceeded, finally, in getting the clauses for which she was fighting Into the constitution of the new state. The charities of Oklahoma are not admin istered by an appointed commission, but by a commissioner who is elected. And for that office Miss Barnard re ceived more votes than Governor Has kell six years ago, and four years later 8000 more than the present Governor. She still has two years to serve. . Miss Mabel Boardman. secretary of the American Red Cross, has received from the White House the insignia of the Fifth Order of the Crown, conferred upon her by the Japanese Emperor for distinguished service. So far as offi-. dais here know now. It Is the first time an American woman has been so hon ored by Japan. The order conferred upon Miss Boardman was specially es tablished to recognise meritorious serv ice done by women. The Insignia were sent to President Tafc, president of the American Red Cross, by Marquis Mat sukati, head of the Japanese Red Cross. President Taft has written to the Mar quis and, to the Japanese Emperor thanking them for the honor paid to Miss Boardman, who Is probably the closest personal friend of President and Mrs. Taft. .' Mrs. W, K. Vanderbilt, Sr., Is to give a total of 8650,000 to her favorite phi lanthropy, the "Big Sisters," an organi zation which she founded and the pur pose of which is to care for wayward, homeless and unfortunate children, par ticularly girls. Of this 8500,000 will be set aside as an endowment fund. The other 8150,000 will pay for a building. Announcement of the gift Is to be made at the annual meeting of the "Big Sis ters" at the headquarters, in the Fifth Avenue building. New York, this week. ALASKA CO-ED STUDIES TO BE CIVIL ENGINEER Juacita Anderson, of Juneau, Shuns Languages and "Cultural" Subjects in Liberal Arts at University of Washington Likes Surveying Trips. ,11! niniiii - - - liiiiiisiiiHP x iiiisSiilSj a. iflSBIillil . f r . . ! ? L :j...1:..--.V..4liijil,iii-it,ft,T i iiiitiV.i.iii T I MISS JEASETTE ANDEBSOX, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON GIRL, WHO IS STUDYING CIVIL ENGINEERING. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, Seattle, Dec. 14. (Special.) Be cause she detests English, other languages and liberal arts, cultured subjects which she calls "slsslfied." Mies Juanlta Anderson. '14, of Juneau, Alaska, is enrolled as a regular stu dent of the school of civil engineer ing at the University of Washington, where, without flinching, this rugged Alaskan co-ed takes the same field sur veying trips, carries her own transit, and performs the classroom exercises required of the male attendants. What's more. Miss Anderson, deter mined to be graduated from this de partment, stands in line to receive her sheepskin from the university and then to hang out her shingle as a full fledged civil engineer. At first the Washington faculty thought that Miss Anderson was only fooling" when she explained that ather than take rhetoric and the other Dorotfiy 'CsOwe.- 4 " y subjects of the college of liberal arts, which most other girls like she would register in the engineering division. But this modest, fair-haired." whole some Northern girl's success In carry ing out the prescribed curriculum has forced the dubious professors to rec ognize the sincerity of her desire to become a civil engineer, with highways as her speciality. Notoriety Is Feared. "I think there is a great opening for women in Uie engineering field," said Miss Anderson, when asked if she really intended to make this her life work. "Engineering is one more of the prb fessions formerly practiced exclusively by men, which Is at last open to the fair sex. Personally it Isn't so hard for me, since I love mathematics, but it is my belief that people may think I am hunting notoriety, which haunts me. . A number of my friends say I am making myself conspicuous by taking IIUl tO"t ma . " Dean Fuller in the engineering di vision. Miss Anderson, whose father is a Mtfnv rtmannftn, nnH hdr mother An agent for the United States Govern ment starting public scnoois in me in terior of Alaska, is a true daughter of her familiarity with the hardy Alaska life are ' attrioutea ner oesire w ianu up the engineering profession. Every CmmAw Hirlon InHprsnn hlr mother make several long trips either on, foot or in their launcn. uuring me last va cation Miss Anderson, her mother, and luiuiuer " J on Cook's Inlet, to Seward, a distance of 60 miles, over extremely -mountainous roads. The trip was made in four -j anj whn thA rtartv reached Rew ard the women danced for several hours after the day's tramp of 18 miles. She also helped to survey several home- j .. - Un. Lapntno- tn Afl hoa.tR OLOttUl, " r- and to separate gold from quartz by the primitive memoo. 01 ine oio. m i stamp mill. WeRterm Boys More Courteous. That Western men excel the Eastern students in courtesy and fairness is thA nninlon of Miss Anderson who, after a year at the University of Washing ton, spent the last two semesters at the University of Illinois in the manual training department. "My! I was glad to get back to Wash ington, for the boys here are much nicer than those in the East," said the enthusiastic co-ed engineer. "At Illi nois they thought it below their dignity to help In any way a girl taking a 'man's course,' but at Washington they are far more considerate. . "At either Institution, however, I intend to pack my own transit and to do my own Tjork," added Miss Ander son, as she shouldered her engineering equipment and proceeded to do the re quired week's practical surveying. Miss Anderson Is intensely interested in her work, and according to the en--i-..iii, foiiiiltv linr nliinlc In rnlnc to make her a success in her oddly chosen profession. Fair Horse Show Patrons Revel in Red Brilllant-Hued Tailored Snlln, With Dull Fur Trimmings, Display So. ciety In Gotham; Netcllgeea Arriv ing. AMONG the strikingly smart fash Ions at the Horse Show in New York recently were noted these: A predominance of red, shown in tailored suits of red cloth with dark fur trimmings, beaded red net and chiffon tunics for evening wear and red roses tucked against fur collars or muffs. Dull calf walking boots with but toned tops of gray or taupe colored suede and heels in Louis XV style, but of moderate height. All boots worn in the afternoon were in buttoned style, and the long, slender line of vamp and toe is evidently now In favor. Blouses of white silk or crepe with low-opening collars worn with tail ored coat and skirt suits. Tailored coats buttoning to the throat and finished with a ruff of fur, revers being absolutely eliminated. Stockings of shaded silk with even ing toilettes. Swansdown-trimmed wraps of bro cade in closely draped style on debu tantes. . Earrings of seett pearl dangling to the shoulder with evening bodices. Hoop earrings with street hats. A frill of lace or pleated net pro truding from the long sleeves of all gowns or coats over the glove. Negligees are being given more and more at Christmas time, and it is the exceptional woman who would not be pleased with a pretty room sacque of chiffon and lace or a cosy dressing gown for Idle hours. New boudoir gowns are of sprigged challls in old fashioned patterns, the thin woolen fabric -being - mounted over colored silk and the gown haviirg trimmings of pleated lace and knots of velvet ribbon. A gown of this sort, with vio let clusters on a white ground, is mounted over pale blue India silk, and rosettes of blue and violet ribbon catch the garment together at the front. Very elaborate negligees are of fine all-over embroidery veiled with chiffon, a foundation of satin or silk under the embroidery throwing . the pattern into relief. Are You an Angel? Christian Herald. One day a ragged little fellow, about 10 years old, was standing before a shoe store on Broadway, bare-footed, peering through the window and shiv ering with cold. ; A woman riding up the street in a beautiful carriage ob served the forlorn little lad anI im mediately ordered her driver to stop In front of the store. The woman, richly robed, , went -to the boy and said: "Little boy, why are you looking so earnestly in that window?" "I was Just asking God to, give me a pair of shoes. Mama told me p'raps he would if I asked him," was the re ply. ' The woman took him by the hand and went into the store and asked the proprietor if he would allow one of his clerks to go and buy her half a dozen pairs of stockings. The proprietor' cheerfully assented. She then aaked him if he could give her a basin of water and a towel, and he replied, "Certainly," and quickly brought them to her. ' She took the little fellow to the back part of the store, and, removing her gloves, washed and rubbed those cold little feet and dried them with the towel. By this time the young man had re turned with the Stockings. Placing a pair on the boy's feet, she purchased and gave him a pair of shoes. Then she tied up the remaining pairs of stockings, handed them to him, and, patting him on the hand, she smiled and said: "Now, my little fellow, you feel more comfortable, I'm sure." As she turned to go,-the astonished lad caught her hand, and, looking up Into her face, eagerly exclaimed, "are you an angel?" A Cnllnarjr Demand. Harper's. "Sure, mlm," said the new cook, sud denly appearing in the doorway, "could I be after borryln' th' boss's safety rasor for a little whoile?" "Safety razor?" echoed Mrs. Noo. "What for, Norah?" "Sure, mlm, I want to shave that rab bit before I sthew him." - , ifV -7 ' r l'v W fir-" , w - ?Mfi fWfi; &$ffa e ' 'i'"'mr JZm, 1 s ww,-. MONTANA CONVICT, UNDER TWENTY YEARS' SENTENCE. BECOMES EXPERT, UNDER OM N TUTE LAGE, AT FINE EMBROIDRY WORK. BY LAURA BALDWIN DOOLITTLE. IH. sll a HAVE ip my studio an embroidered silk quilt made by a man in prison piece of work that is wonderful when one stops to consider its history. The quilt was brought to me by Mrs. Irvine, who is always doing something to help someone. She did not tell me how she found this unfortunate nor how she became Interested in his case, but she did give me a short history of the man and asked if I knew of some way of disposing of his work to help him. The man, Toney Clarke, aged 30, Is in the State Penitentiary In Montana. To know a little of the man and his career makes this work of his seem more interesting, as well as his efforts for self-improvement and reform. He was arrested for complicity in a saloon hold up one of three men, all masked, who held up tha proprietor and a friend, getting some 1350. Mr. Wood, who has investigated his case, thinks there is grounds for doubt about his being the HOOD RIVER EXPERT IS ' GREAT AID TO GROWERS Professor W. Hereford Lawrence, Formerly With Agricultural Experiment Station at Puyallup, Obtained to Help Apple Men Improve Conditions. BY ADPISON BENNETT. PRACTICALLY everybody who has ever heard of Hood River knows that It Is an apple-growing section. Indeed, the terms Hood River and Good Apples are, according to the Hood River vernacular, interchangeable and synonymous terms. And practically everybody who has ever eaten one of the famous Hood River apples concurs In these conclusions. It is .generally known, also, that the Hood River apples are looked after systematically from the time they set on the trees until they are packed and marketed, and that a portion of this work is not even entrusted to the most Interested parties, the growers them selves. This is the grading and pack ing. That is done by an organization which sees to it that there is a strict uniformity in size, color and condition of every box of apples shipped from Hood River. But there is another association in the Hood River Valley whose work, whose very existence, is unknown to a large majority of those who think they understand Just how it is the Hood River product always commands the top prices. This society or association is called the Hood River Apple Growers' Fellowship Association, and it is com posed of 500 of the prominent growers of the valley. ' These citizens banded themselves to gether to see if they could not better conditions in the vajley in various ways. So they levied a tax upon mem selves and invited Professor W. Here ford Lawrence, then superintendent of the Puyallup, Wash.,, Agricultural Ex periment station, to come to Hood River and outline a plan of operations for them, the result being that Professor Lawrence was hired for a year to take up such work, which was performed so satisfactorily that a year ago he was "taken over," so to speak, by the coun ty, being employed as plant Pathologist and Fruit Inspector. In the language of Professor Law rence he was at first hired to "make a study of apple tree diseases and to do any additional work to better the condi tions in the orchards as time might permit." As said. Professor Lawrence was superintendent of the Puyallup station. He was Plant Pathologist of the Washington station. He had been connected with the Washington State Agricultural College for nearly 15 years, during which .time he had ren dered valuable services, among which was the writing and publication of nearly 20 bulletins. Mr Lawrence is a graduate from tne State' College of South Dakota the State College of Washington and later took graduate work at Cornell Univer sity (New York). His scholastic work has fitted him for the work which he is now doing, having taken courses in both horticulture and agriculture, and having made diseases of plants injured by fungi, bacteria and other causes a special study during the past 10 years. Entering college from the farm, pur suing the agricultural and horticultural work until graduation, after which teaching experiment station work along the same lines, solving the more prac tical problems and later turning his en tire attention to the practical phases of orchard work, have given him an op portunity to become familiar with .every phase of the work as well as become acquainted with all classes of people engaged in horticultural work. One of the conditions that had much right man, but at any rate it was his first criminal offense, but the Judge gave him 20 years in prison. In Mon tana the prisoners are allowed to choose their work and this man has a great love for embroidery. This silk quilt means the work of many months and is beautifully done. When the man went to prison he could scarcely read or write and for untrained hands to do this fine work, to keep it 80 beautifully neat, to take such infinite pains means art. Who was it said "Genius Is the Infinite capacity for taking pains." This man then has genius and at any- rate he has the artist soul, and it Is finding ex pression in color. His work reminds me of that of the old Spanish artists. I have a copy of an old altar front done In Seville, Spain, and one is struck at once by the similarity of the flow ers In both. The old Spanish artists all worked alike on these altar fronts. You will see the same thing in those of the old missions in California. It sets one thinking and wondering how to do with the first employment of Professor Lawrence was the presence of fire-blight In the Hood River orch ards, about 150,000 apple trees at that time being affected with this disease. He has entirely eradicated this trouble, not a tree in the valley. It is believed, being now so affected. In his labors Professor Lawrence co-operates with more than a dozen individuals and institutions, some of them beinir as follows: United States Bureau of Soils, of Plant Industry, of Storage and Transportation, of Forage Crops Investigation, and Weather Bureau. Oregon Agricultural College Department of Chemistry, Department of Agronomy, Department oi Morn culture and Department of Plant Path ology. Also the Geological Survey and various departments of other agricul tural colleges and experiment sta tions. It is this division of work that en ables Professor Lawrence to accom plish so much. He spends five days of each week in the orchards of Hood River .Valley. He practically knows every apple tree In the valley, and he has surely met every owner of apple orchards who reside or frequently visits there. He listens to every com plaint, investigates every condition, is ever studying the how, the why and the wherefore anything and everything that affects, -for good or bad, the apple trees which he assumes to have under his direct charge and supervision. If Professor Lawrence had to make all experiments and analyses required he could accomplish very little. But by co-operation he has been enabled to learn the soil- conditions of every part of the valley. Air currents and air drainage he has studied so carefully that he perhaps could at a. moment's notice draw a chart of the currents as truthfully as an engineer could draw a diagram of the subdivisions of the lands in the valley. Soli Is Examined. Take the question of soil survey, a work. which, is Just about completed by the Oregon Agricultural College Bu reaus from samples sent to Washington by Professor Lawrence. These samples embraced every known variety of soil In the valley, there being 15 different types. The work embraces the compo1 sitlon of each of the types; chemical composition, physical structure, acidity test, to determine lime requirements, water capacity, mineral composition, topographical survey, use of fertilizers, green manure, barnyard manure, ani mal fertilizers, cold storage tests of apples. The latter subject Is subdivid ed as- follows: Immediate vs. delayed storage, effect of soil type on keeping quality, mature vs. immature picking, well colored vs. green fruit, small vs. large fruit, young tree vs. old tree fruit and Irrigated vs. non-irrigated fruit. Now these are merely a few of the things undertaken by the professor. There are all sorts of insects and pests, fungi and blight, scalds and other in juries which do or may affect trees or fruit. Then the study of spraying alone Is enough to take up the time of an ordinary man who may be-said to have 750,000 trees under his direct charge. Another branch of experimentation that has taken up much of Professor Lawrence's attention is that of cover crops for the orchards. There is per haps no branch of the orchard business of more importance or less understood than this. The professor has during the last two years had under lnvestlga-j this untrained man, without having cul ture or artistic surroundings, has been able to produce so much that Is artlatio in design. Mrs. Irvine-wishes to sell this quilt for Toney, that he may have the money to buy books, since he is ambitious to learn and has accomplished much. He writes a very good letter now, and It would seem If the opportunity were given him he might make a very reput able citizen. He is at that stage now after five years of imprisonment whera it would seem if we are really trying to reform Instead of kill out all that is good In a man that It Is the psycho logical moment to do something for him. He has proved a model prisoner and his doing creative work has been a great thing. Had he been compelled to work for the state in piece-work, such as many states exact of their pris oners, it certainly would never have brought out the good In him that do ing the work has. Any one wishing to see this man's work can do so any time by coming to my studio. tion the growing and plowing under ot more than 800 varieties of soil covers, and has finally concluded that these ten are the leaders, their value being in the order given: Alfalfa, burr clover, red clover, hairy or Winter vetch, com mon or Oregon vetch, horse beans, soy beans, field peas, rye, oats and wheaB and lupine. Fronts Are' Forecast. In his co-operation with the weathef bureau the professor has 10 sets oC weather recording instruments in tha valley, so stationed as to cover pracx tically every altitude fr6m the riveB back to the highest altitude at whlchl trees are planted. Since he has been there the orchards have not been touched with frosts, but one of the pro fessor's principal studies Is the fore casting of frosts and a method to mln lmize their dangers. - In fact, it may be said that Profesgo Lawrence Is the guardian of each and every tree In the valley, and anything that affects or is likely to affect tha growth, health or vigor of the tree or the perfection or imperfection of its fruit, is a part of his business, and ho labors late and early to the end that the Hood River people may know more about their business than any other ap pie growers in the world. Perhaps no better Insight could bei given to the duties of Professor Law. rence than the following excerpts from a paper read by him at a meeting of the Fellowship Association: "What are the problems of the field expert? Clearing and planting, tha land cultivation, pruning, spraying, Jnter-cropping, Irrigation, possibly drainage, the application of fertilizers, heating the orchard, thinning, picking, sorting, grading, packing and deliver ing the fruit. There Is not a single grower here who does not meet many problems or who does not need soma help during some time during the year, These same men will say, 'If so and so had not happened, I would have had a better crop.' In other words, the most successful grower admits that the maximum returns have not been realized. At the rapid rate in the in crease, the population will soon require maximum returns If we are to enjoy the many luxuries in life we now en Joy. Cheaper Methods Needed. "What are the unsolved problemst The activities of the grower have been mentioned. We need better and cheap er methods of land ilearing, more ser viceable tools for cultivating the land, more knowledge of how and when to cultivate the land, how, when and, how much the trees should be pruneH, and what they should be sprayed for, with and when and how many times: what inter-crops may be grown; what cover and shade crops should be grown; when, and how many times to irrigate; when and what fertilizer or fertilizers to use; how the land should be drained; be familiar how to heat the orchard against frost, followed by innumerable things pertaining to picking, packing and delivering the fruit. How are we going to solve these problems?" In appearance Professor Lawrence Is a manly man. He has the look of a student, while his calloused hands and sunburned face indicates that he spends much time outdoors and at real labor. He Is an enthusiast when It comes to talking about orchards and the fruits thereof. He evidently knows his bus iness from the ground up, and If the Hood River people had searched the world over they perhaps could not have found a man who would or could have given better service than has Profes sor Lawrence. And It Is altogether likely that he will remain in that val ley In the employ of the public for many years to come, or as long as he chooses to remain. Professor Lawrence Is still a young man. his advent into the world dating from 1876, his birth place being Lake City Iowa. He has a wife and one child, a boy about 24 years old.