THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND. FEBRUARY 9, 1913.
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4 Chapter Ifom tAeMbmeZife
SIX feet three of English contralto
with a voice In proportion, is the
Junoesque record of Madame Clara
Butt, now on a triumphant concert tour
In the United States, on her way to
Australia, and the only thing that
keeps her out of Covent Garden, Lon
don, and the Metropolitan, New York,
is the fact that tenors all over the
world stopped growing before she did.
Once she had a hope of realizing her
opera dream and the tenor was young,
growing every minute. She watched
anxiously, so did all Europe five feet
ten was the tenor in his socks eleven
six feet.
Clara Butt was joyous, six feet one;
she signed to sing with the tenor In
Berlin; he grew to six feet two; re
hearsals were an inspiration; she would
fulfill her life promise, and then alas,
the tenor became ill.
Th tenor hoDe had been so busy
growing and looking after his future
that his chest went beyond his control
and was attacked by pneumonia.
Result: Dead tenor, despairing con
tralto and bewildered manager.
Since then Mme. Butt has married I
baritone, tall as herself, who is now
touring with her, and she is mother of
hr adorable children fathered by tn
big baritone husband, but always she
has a little secret gleam that some day
somewhere she will meet her tenor
fata and they will rise to artistic
heights together in opera.
"I won't talk about her height" :
said to myself on the way to her apart
ment in the Waldorf naturally the ob
vious must be avoided but that was
before I saw Mme. Butt. I knocked on
the wrong door she opened the right
lng taller than I." I began
"Neither do I," she returned.
"But you are so unaggressive. You
are like a tower." I persisted.
"Towers are cold, formal things. Am
I too big to be human?"
"You seem so self-reliant, capabl
"Always that that is all I hear
but a tall woman may have the same.
appreciation of sympathy and tender
ness that one instinctively gives to a
little woman, but I am quite aware 1
shall have to stand up like a tower.
How can a big person like me be cod
died by the world?
"I'd like to shrink in proportion long
enough to receive the solicitude that
forever goes .out to women of small
stature, who are made to be loved,"
she went on. "I am not a mountain
nor a cathedral. I am a human being
yet if I told friends I needed sympathy
I would have to write it. otherwise
they would think I was mad or acting-.
"Oh, the penalty of being a giant and
a womanly woman, or a sweet, help
less thing at the same time is appall
ing, impossible, ludicrous or astound
ing however you designate the con
dition it amounts to the same.
"I married a man as tall as myself,
with a divine presence and voice. Very
good, but I am not any nearer the
opera. He isn't a tenor; he is all there
is of sympathy and that sort of thing,
but somehow even he looks up to me.
I am so tired of being looked up
my spirit is different.
"I submit with rare delight to being
looked up to by my children, but I sup
pose when they are blder they will look
upon me as Gibraltar, always Gibraltar;
never as Capri, for Instance, a little is
land by itself that wants to nestle and
needs protection."
YET Clara Butt radiates glowing
splendor, magnificence.
I couldn't think of her kicking her
heels on a divan and chewing a red
rose in despair if friend husband forgot
to kiss her whenever he came into the
house.
Neither could I call up a picture of
OXY-ACETYLENE
EVERY night the closing of the
doors of New York's Innumerable
safes and vaults marks the locking
up until morning of billions of dollars
in cash and securities. Now and then
burglars break into safes and make
away with their contents. Once in a
long while the loot will run into a for-
tune, but usually the "haul" does not
rise above a few thousands.
This is principally because the larg
est of these treasure chests are veri
table citadels of steel and stone cov
ered with a network of electric wires,
the acme of the safe-builder's skill,
says the New York Press. But no mat
ter how thick the steel walls, no mat
ter what ingenious scientific devices
are employed to ward off the cunning
of thieves, in the heart of every banker
and every safemaKer there is the lin
gering fear of the unexpected. It is
nearly SO years since the first safe
making company was started in the
United States, and from that day to this
the warfare between the burglar and
the safemaker has been incessant. One
Industry has advanced steadily under
the ever active stimulus of the other.
As fast as the ingenuity of the burglar
has enabled him to overcome the last
move of the safemaker. the safemaker
has had to study his opponent s hand
and figure out how to check him. Then
it became the burglar's move, and so on.
Today the burglar, if he avails himself
of the latest devices, has the advantage.
At the convention of the police chiefs
of the United States and Canada, which
was held at Toronto a few days ago,
the use of the oxy-acetylene blow-pipe
for cutting through the hardest steel
was the subject of a long discussion.
Much concern was expressed by the
most prominent police and detective
heads present because they feared that
it might supplant dynamite in the
hands of the yeggmen. and thus place
within their reach treasures vaster than
any safebreaker ever dreamed of
attaining before. The most modern
safes are practically dynamite proof,
but only a few of them could withstand
for even five minutes the gently hiss
ing tongue of fiame. whose power of
disintegrating metals is greater than
anything ever known. This combina
tion of pure oxygen and acetylene gases
was discovered and the appliances for
Its use invented by a Frenchman named
Bournonvllle some ten years ago. It
was introduced Into the United States
in 1907. and the oxy-acetylene appli
ances have been manufactured here ever
since. They are in use in a great num
her being terrified by the cook in her
own place in Hampstead, England, or
weeping if she saw another gown like
hers, or telling of her losses at bridge,
or blaming anything unpleasant on
anybody else.
But that is her fault. She had no
right to have lived all her life in such
a capable, self-sufficient way that she
permeates the atmosphere with poise,
judgment, wholesomeness and courage.
The little Rumfords for Clara Butt's
visiting cards bear "Mrs. Kennerly
Rumford" think their mother the
'finest sort of companion, and she never
is far from them. They are in this
countrys with her, stopping with nurse
and governess at Douglas Manor, Long
Island, and each day while In New York
Father and Mother Rumford go out to
talk and play with them. The chil
dren will remain In the country until
the Butt-Rumford tour calls for a quick
change from San Francisco to Australia,
then the youngsters will hurry across
country and make the trip on the Pa
cific Ocean.
"Why do you like your children, aside
from the fact that they are yours?" I
asked her.
"I am glad you are putting that ques
tion to me now and not when I first
got off the sulp," she responded,
"They were spoiled on board dread
ful place for children" spoke up Mr.
Rumford, the polished, good-looking
Englishman, who just entered.
"I like them because they obey, be
cause they know when to work and
when to play," she cut In. "I ask obe
dience first from them."
"But it was difficult to get it on the
boat," added husband, who evidently
had his memories in active trim.
"I
HAVE one girl and two boys,"
went on Madame Butt "Joy,
Roy and Victor."
"Will they have careers or will they
be married off before ambitions get
into the bones?"
"As to that, they must decide. If
they have talent I needn't worry. What
Is that you say here 'Should I have
wrinkles if I worry?' I like your Amer
lean expressions. They mean more
than ours. There was a Chicago woman
on our last crossing who had played
bridge all night and who said to me
the next morning: 'I feel pretty
smooth today.' Now, an Englishwoman
would say: 1 am frightfully seedy.'
You know at once she doesn't want to
be jostled or knocked about much, eh?
Not bad, is it? Very neat, very.
To go back to careers. Did your
mother and father have any. or did you
just happen?"
"They had tolerably good voices, but
they never measured up to me iri
height. That is another expression I
hear in this country "I get your
measure," or 'I know your number.' A
reporter on the ship said: If the Met
ropolitan had your measure they would
never let you escape from us.' The
Metropolitan has my measure, but the
young man undoubtedly is so busy at
the dock he didn't know.
"But why should they want my num
ber? Why do you want the number of
any but your dear friends? If it is
listed I mean the number you ring
them easily. If it is not, what matter?
they give you the information. But
they are quaint expressions. I like
them . very much. I like Americans.
Quite like English folk, after all, aren't
they? with the exception of their dress
and conversation and manner."
UT your beginning, Madame
Butt," I implored. "You were
merely born when you left off with
the story."
X appeared first in public in Albert
Hall, London, when 19 years old. Two
years previously I had received the
Royal Scholarship prize of 400 guineas.
which won my parents over to a career
ber of factories, on board steamships,
in railroad workshops and on wrecking
trains everywhere, in fact where steel
has to be cut or welded.
The highest temperature that can be
attained with solid fuel in a furnace is
8000 degrees. The combination of the
gas flames of oxygen and hydrogen,
once considered the hottest of all prod
ducts of combustion, is less than 4000
degrees. The oxygen-acetylene flame's
temperature is more than 6300 degrees
Fahrenheit. Acetylene produces about
five times more heat to the cubic foot
than hydrogen and nearly doubles it In
intensity. When acetylene and oxygen
are combined and the flame condensed
into a very small volume the result is
a finely pointed tool of Incredible pow
er. At the end of the blowpipe there
are three needle-like holes, side by
side, a small fraction of an inch apart.
From the two outer ones spurts the hy
drogen flame. This heats the metal
that it touches so the metal becomes
REMINISCENCES OF
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oughly so, and yet in some sert sly,
or at least endowed witn a sort of tact
and wisdom that are akin to craft and
would Impel him. I think, to take an
antagonist in flank rather than to
make a bull run at him right In front
But on the whole. I liked the sallow,
queer, sagacious visage, with the home
ly human sympathies that warmed it
and for my small share in the matter
would as lief have Uncle Abe as a
ruler as any man whom it would have
been practicable to put in his place."
Abraham Lincoln was postmaster at
Salem, 111., during the Jackson Admin
istration. When he relinquished the of
fice, he sent in his accounts to Wash
ington, which showed a balance of $150
due from him to the Government
No official attention was paid to the
matter, however, and it was not until
about three years later that the Post
office Department made a demand upon
him for the amount. In the meantime,
he had moved to Springfield. I
Friends, knowing that he was rather
poorly off, offered to help him. But in
response, he went to a battered old
trunk, took therefrom a sewn-up pock- j
et (originally belonging to a discarded
pair of pantaloons), and poured out
the contents, which consisted of small
silver coins amounting to exactly the
sum due. The coins were the same ne j
By JZEQDOm BEAK 1 fS$?3k 4
for me. I was born in Soutbwlck, Sus
sex, end the fact I had a voice was no
secret from the neighbors. But it was
left to a casual visitor at my mother's
to diagnose my trouble.
"He heard me singing upstairs and
said to mother, "What a wonderful
voice your son has.'
" That is my daughter," explained
mother.
" 'Then send her to masters at once,'
was the advice. So a local teacher
undertook to train me as a soprano,
and several years later I was 'placed'
as a contralto.
"I studied four years at the Royal
Conservatory and then went to Paris,
where I made my debut and watched
and waited for tenors to approach my
height. It was more irritating than
waiting for a legacy, or your good ship
to come in. or for Fall crops, or bar
gain sales, or getting over typhoid, or
waiting for a verdict.
"Every young shooting tenor gave
me hope, only to fill me with despair,
but I have had compensations."
"Would you exchange your perfectly
good baritone here for six feet three
of tenor?"
"Not for a thousand tenors, nor the
Crown jewels, nor the Fifth avenue
rights to all its property, nor for the
Bank of England, nor "
"It is reported on good e.uthorlty,
Madame Butt, that you were a special
favorite of Queen Victoria, King Ed
ward and Queen Alexandra that your
triumph was without parallel."
"After my debut I sang before Queen
Victoria at Windsor, a command per
formance of 'Orfeo' before the Prince
and Princess of Wales, and in state
concerts at Buckingham Palace "
fryND the German Emperor and
Empress didn't they line up.
also?"
"Oh, yes; I gave innumerable recitals
and concerts in London. Paris and
through Germany, and eince I have
traveled thoroughly England, the Con
tinent. South Africa, Australia, and
now I am "doing" America, as you say."
It is said of Madame Butt that once
in London when the phlegmatic Brit
ishers bad heard her rendition of El
gar's "Land of Love and Glory" In
Albert Hall there was such a surging
outbreak of latent loyalty that the
entire audience arose and sang "God
Save the King."
"How do you account for your love
pf sacred music?" I then asked.
"I was born in a cathedral town and
caught the spirit, I fancy."
Her favorite oratorios are "Elijah"
and "The Mesiah." and her favorite
solo, "Oh, Rest in the Lord;" another
solo associated, almost instinctively
with her name Is Liddle's setting of
"Abide With Me."
"What are the requisite qualities for
singing of oratorios?"
"First of all, the singer must have
a knowledge of the entire composi
tion, not alone the part falling to her
share, for in this way only can she
reproduce the spirit of the work. Be
ginners should try to cultivate origin
ality and create a solo part, precisely
as an actor creates a dramatic role.
It is the singer's task to study a piece
until she can give it her own inter
pretation, and it is the ability to do
this that marks the worth-while mu
sician. "It Is a mistake for beginners to
copy famous artists; rather they
should make their own performances
individual. It is well to observe the
methods of successful performers, but
anything suggestive of imitation
should be avoided."
HVf HAT should the singer do with
W her emotions?"
"Keep them under complete control.
AIDS SAFE-WRECKERS IN
soft and red. Then the oxygen flame Is
turned on. This unites with the carbon
In the metal and disintegrates it It
does not melt the metal; It simply burns
a narrow path through it. The cut is
smooth and the metal on either side is
not affected by oxidization. The speed
with which this sharp flame cuts its
way through the toughest steel is re
markable. A 15-inch "I" beam can be
severed by it in less than three min
utes. Half-inch steel plates can be cut
at the rate of 14 inches every minute,
one Inch at the rate of a foot. every
60 seconds, and plates six inches thick
at the rate of three Inches a minute.
From this It will be seen that the
average safe would be as easy to cut
through with this appliance as a can of
peaches would be for the housewife to
open with an ordinary can opener. The
only difficulty is that the standard ap
paratus, the. heaviest part of which Is
the two gas tanks, weighs about 300
pounds. This is but a trifling obstacle
had taken In while . acting as Post
master, and he had kept them ever
since to meet the obligation.
Mr. Lincoln never could have been
justly called an ambitious man. But
his hopefulness of high career and suc
cess in life is illustrated by a remark
of his, made to an old friend whom he
met in New York City.
"How have you been doing Blnce you
left Illinois?" he asked.
"Oh, so-so," replied the friend. "I
made 100,000. and then I lost it all.
How is it with your"
"Pretty fair," replied Mr. Lincoln.
"Tve got the cottage at Springfield
and about $8000 in money. If they
make me Vice-President with Seward,
as some think likely, I ought to be able
to increase my capital to 920,000, which
is enough to satisfy any man."
Abraham Lincoln was never in the
least ashamed of his lowly origin. In
deed, many remarks of his go to show
that he was proud of the fact that he
came from the plain people. Frazar
Kirkland. in his "Anecdotes of the Re
bellion," quotes the following:
'Seward," said the President to his
Secretary of State. "I never told you,
did I, how I earned my first dollar!"
"No," replied Mr. Seward.
"Well," said Mr. Lincoln, "I was about
IS years of age. I belonged, you know,
to what they call down South the
of a (ZreatSiny
Feeling and sensibility Bhould be cul
tivated, but be kept carefully in hand.
A well-known singer once said to me
she never eould sing a certain song
without weeping. I am Inclined to
think she did not move her audience
to tears. To do that one must Convey
Intense passion without losing con
trol. "A singer shouldn't strain after ef-.
fects and should avoid flreworjcs. The
singing of sacred music should be nat
ural, distinct, full of feeling and, above
everything, full of reverence."
I thought this would be nice and
helpful advice to those 'who care for
oratorios at home or in a hall.
Mr, Rumford agreed with Madame
Butt.- In fact, he seems to approve
of everything She does. ,
"Aren't you ever Jealous?" I asked.
"Emphatically not," he asserted.
"Her success is what she deserves. She
can't get too much praise."
"'Are the children Jealous? Don't
they wish they had a private mother?"
"She would give up a concert If the
date conflicted with any plan she had
promised to share with them."
Mr. Rumford says Madame Butt is
not a suffragist.
Madame Butt says she Is not a
suffragette.
But Madame Butt a3s that every
woman who takes the trouble to think
is a suffragist '
"What will you do when you give
up singing in public, when the cords
don't work or some such thing?"
"I shall be a publisher."
"Of what?"
"Of myself as a souvenir for my
children. I have combined a scrapbook
and photograph album."
"What sort of press notices do you
like best?"
"I prefer to read the funny things
written about me rather than the seri
ous, because I know I am serious, but I
never know when I am funny."
"It isn't exactly funny to be like a
tower and sit in the air, is it?"
"Well, it Is apparently amusing to
some, but my critics and interviewers
are always good-natured, and now I
fancy you will have a jest about ora
torios, as they seem to be the only
thing we have talked about oratorios
and the children."
"And tenors don't overlook tenors."
"That is my trouble. I have to over
look them, literally. - Why are there
more tall bassos and baritones than
tenors?"
Did Madame Butt sigh?
Making Metal Porous.
It is a well-known fact that the al
loys of certain metals in a molten con
dition solidify very slowly and pass
through a wide range oi temperature
in the act of .assuming the solid state.
Thus with a fused mixture in equal
proportions of lead and antimony the
alloy begina to become solid when the
temperature sinks to 450 degrees C,
but it does not become solid through
out until the mass is cooled down to
half that temperature. At the higher
temperature minute crystals of anti
mony are formed, which gradually in
crease in size, and when at last the
metal has cooled down to 225 degrees
C, the alloy, which will then consist
of about 87 per cent lead and 13 per
cent of antimony, crystallizes, forming
a network of fine crystals of both met
als. Between the formation of the first
Crystals and the -point of complete
solidification the alloy remains in a
more or less plastic condition. Bes
semer made use of this property of
semi-solid alloys in order to obtain
very 'sharp impressions of metals and
coins under heavy pressure. Hannover,
a Danish savant, has devised a new
process, based on this property of al
loys, which may prove of value in the
Industrial arts. He expels by centrifu
gal force or other means the molten
part of the residual metal, filling up
the spacs between the crystals after
they are first formed, and he thus ob
tains an extremely porous crystalline
mass of any required metal, useful for
making plates for storage batteries,
for filling pipe joints and other pur
poses. London Times.
to the clever burglar, however. He
has been known to rig up two automo
bile gas tanks, each less than IS inches
long, for his purpose.
That the fears or the police chiefs
all over the United States are well
grounded is shown by the occurrence
of several of these safe burglaries at
widely different points in the West
lately. A few months ago a safe in a
Twenty-third-street store in this city
was cut into by the use- of an oxy
acetylene torch. Nothing was known
about the matter until the next morn
ing. There was no disorder, no debris
about the empty safe, such as usually
follows the use ' of dynamite. The
burglars simply had made a neat cir
cular hole a little larger than the rim
of the combination. . They had taken
out all the Impediments, thrown back
the belts and opened the outer door. The
inner part where the money was, they
had treated in much the same way, by
cutting off a few harcenea steel bars
THE GREAT EMANCIPATOR
"scrubs' people who do not own land
and slaves aTe nobody there. But I had
some produce to sell, and, obtaining the
consent of my mother to go down the
river to New Orleans, I built a little
flat-boat for the purpose.
"A steamer was coming down the
river. While I was proudly contem
plating my new flatboat, two men came
to the shore in carriages, with trunks,
and pointing to my boat asked, "Who
owns this?" I answered, modestly, "I do."
""Will you take us and our trunks
out to the steamer?' said one of the
men.
" 'Certainly,' I replied, glad enough
to have a chance to earn something.
His First Little Farm.
"The trunks were put on my flatboat
the two men seated themselves on the
trunks, and I sculled them out to the
steamer. They got aboard, and I put
the trunks on deck. The steamer was
on the point of starting when I called
out that they had forgotten to pay me.
Whereupon each of them took from his
pocket a silver half-dollar and threw
it Into-the boat. I could scarcely be
lieve my eyes as I picked up the money.
"Seward, you may think it a very
little thing, but it was a most important
incident in my life. I could scarcely be
lieve that L a poor, boy, had earned a
whole dollar by a few minutes' work.;
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and cutting out a lock. It could not
have taken more than ten minutes in
all. There was ho noise, just a thin
pencil of Intensely white light and a
softly hissing flame.
There is only one thing this oxy
acetylene flame will not cut through,
and that is cast iron. There is not
enough carbon in cast Iron for the
blaze to feed on and to enable it to cut
a clear path. But cast iron has been
regarded with a certain contempt by
safemakers in the past It is easily
cut with chisels and penetrated with
drills. Only in the oldest cheapest
safes Is cast iron used. In all the rest
the safemaker has pinned his faith on
steels that have been mixed with such
alloys as chrome and manganese and
tungsten, which will turn the edge of
any cutting tooL Such steels as these,
however, are like pie to a hungry boy
when the oxy-acetylene flame touches
them. In even the great bank and
safety deposit vaults little or no cast
The world seemed wider and fairer be
fore me. I was a more hopeful and con
fident being from that time."
There is extant a fly-leaf of Pike's
Arithmetic on which Lincoln wrote, at
the age of 8 years:
Abraham Lincoln,
His hand and pen.
He will be good.
But God knows when.
In 1S5S the compiler of the Congres
sional Directory (at that time called the
Dictionary of Congress) applied to
every living ex-member of the National
Legislature for some account of his
career. To this request, Abraham Lin
coln responded in the following terms:
Born, February 12, 1S09, in Hardin
County, Ky.
Education, defective.
Profession, a lawyer.
Have been a Captain of Volunteers
In the Black Hawk War.
Postmaster at a very small office.
Four times a member of the Illinois
Legislature.
And was a member of the Lower
House of Congress. Yours, Ac.
A. LINCOLI.
Such was the simple story of the
life of the great emancipator np to
1858, as told by himself.
Abraham Lincoln enjoys the distinc
tion of having been buried more times
Kir "1-
CUTTING STEEL
iron is used. There are layers of
hardened armor plate, of cement and
of stone. It is said the tremendouB
heat of this torch will disintegrate
stone and will turn it into a Vapor
about twice as fast as it will cut its
way through steel.
The safemakers have not been asleep
ail this time, however. They have quite
as good knowledge of what this de
vice will and will not do as any one
else. About four years ago the prin
cipal safemakers began experimenting
so as to checkmate the burglarB who
might avail themselves of this appli
ance. The result is that the more ex
pensive of the burglar-proof safes that
are now being turned out have a jacket
of cast iron in addition to the layers
of armor plate. Also, there is a layer!
of cement in between the plates. The I
composition of this cement Is a secret,
but the minute It is touched by Intense
heat it dissolves and throws off a
than any other man that ever lived. He
was a busy man through his life; other
people have been busy. with his re
mains since his death.
FMtuM Well Preserved.
On the 26th day of September, 1901,
the coffin containing his body was
moved from Its resting place the 13th
time each preious removal having
been supposed to be the last. The cas
ket was chiseled open at Springfield,
111., and IS persons gazed upon the
features of the long-dead President.
Then it was resealed and placed inside
an iron case embedded in a huge block
of solid cement beneath the tomb of
the Lincoln Monument in Oakridge
Cemetery.
There was some argument as to
whether the casket Bhould be opened or
not Some of those present who were
members of the Lincoln guard of honor
and the Monument Commission, said
that they did not care to look upon the
remains. Others insisted that it was
not a matter of wishes, but one of
identification, to be made a matter of
record for all time, to come. It was
finally agreed to open the coffin, and
the body was exposed to view for the
first time since May 13, 1887. It was
in a remarkably good state of preser
vation, and the features were recog
nizable, BENE BACUEL
great volume of noxious, stupefying
gas.
But while the output of the safe- '
makers Is very large each year, it la
small compared with the total number
of safes in use In the United States.,
Fire or dynamite are the only things .
that ever put a safe out of business.
Otherwise a safe will outlast several -generations
of owners. Therefore, -there
Is a wide and fertile field fop .
the scientific burglar before he need
come to the safes where the latest de
velopments of his ingenuity are
guarded against -
WILL YOU BE MY VALENTINE
(Continued From Paga 6.)
the attractive valentines done in sepia
drawings which are made to be colored
In water-colors by the children. On -ef
these shows a round-faced oupld la .
full armor of a knight plumed hat
sword and all complete and the legend
runs: "None but the brave deserve the
fair." :
Of course, there are other mod (urns
for grown-ups to express the age-old
tale, nearly all of the book stores are A
displaying fascinating volumes of El"
ley's Love Lyrics, collections of love
poems. Mrs. Barclay's love story, "The
Rosary," "Sonnets on Love," "The Him
Book" and artistic collections' of pretty
girls got up by well-known artists, such
as Henry lluu, Christy and Underwood,
Harold McGrath's new novel, "The Place
of Honeymoons," Is proving a taking '
title for Valentine givers, and so Is
"The Melting of Alollle" and "Blue Bird
Weather." With these hooks go a band
of gold paper bearing the words: "To -My
Valentine."
Flowers are another popular gift for'
February 14 and all of the local florists "
are preparing for a run on deep
red roses. "Vermilion Brilliant" tu-
Hps and fragrant violets. The young
blades whose "fathers have made and -bequeathed
to them their pile may g '
In for orchids at from 12 to 118 a doz- "
en, but the average youth will be cod"
tented with a bunch of violets at from
$1 to $2.50. A romantlo youth living up
Portland Heights' way Is planning to a.
send a single American Beauty rose te
his sweetheart. It wi'.l be thrust
through a card which reads:
If I could send thee all the flowers
That ever srrew in Eden'a bowers.
They could not tell thee more than this.
That thy sweet lova is all my fcllaa.