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TKTB SUXDAY OREGOXIAN. PORTLAND. FEBRUARY 23, 1913.
MRS. BRADLEY MARTIN, HOSTESS AT
COUNTRY MOST NOTED BALL, WIDOW
Congressman -elect's Wife Only 21 Lucille Marcel, Opea Star, Weds Mrs. Ladd Sculptor, Author, Dramatist
and Suffragist Miss Tin"1'" and Miss Noagon Active in Arranging Suffragist Demonstration.
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A. I EW YORK. Feb. 2. (Special.)
1 Mrs. Bradley Martin, who has
' ' Just been left a widow by the
death of her husband, was Miss Cor
nelia Sherman, of Buffalo. Her father
made an Immense fortune In the coop
eragre business; but he was a man of
such quiet tastes that few knew how
rich be was till his death. Mrs. Mar
tin Inherited a fortune from him, and
when her mother died she received
$3,000,000 from that estate. The
Bradley Martins did not begin
hl ni.(all- itntil lha d.lh nf Vr
Sherman. After the usual period of
mourning they started out to become!
leaders of New Tork society. They '
Save magnificent ball and dinners,
and the lavishness of their entertain
ing:, unusual in that day, caused the
whole world to grasp.
Their first great ball was given In
1884. The greatest of their balls was
Kiven March 10, 1897. when they were
on a visit to this country for by that
time they had become practically per
manent residents of England. At the
ball of 1897 the entire Waldorf-Astoria
then, the largest and most fashiona
ble hotel In New York was turned
over to their guests, and the magnifi
cence of the decorations and the splen
dor of the costumes worn caused com
ment all over the world. It Is still re
garded as the most splendid ball ever
given In the United States.
In 1881 Mr. Martin had leased a
great estate In Scotland, and on this
he built a fine house, where Mrs. Mar
tin entertained the most fashionable
persons In Great Britain and many vis
iting Americans.
Th TAnnzMt wlf a of anv member of
the new Sixtv-third Congress is Mrs.
Clyde H. Tavenner, wife of C. H. Tav-
enner. of Cordova, 111- Washington
newspaper correspondent and Demo
cratic Congressman-elect from the
Fourteenth Illinois District.
Mrs. Tavenner is partly responsible
for her husband's election. She had
charge of his campaign headquarters
while her husband canvassed the six
counties of his district and made
speeches and met the people.
Mrs. Tavenner only passed ner aisv
birthdav on November 30, and ner t:on
gressman husband Is but 30 years old
oerhaDS the youngest or tne io mem
bers who were elected to seats in the
balls of Congress at the last election
Lucille Marcel, a New. York girl who
has been singing In opera abroad for
a number of years with great success
and who has come to America to Join
the Boston opera company, was mar
ried at New York recently to reiix
Weingartner, conductor of the Boston
ODera. - Mme. Marcel gave ner resi
denoe as Hamburg. She has been
Kintrlntr chiefly in Germany, and it
was while there that she met Wein
gartner.' He had been conductor of
the Vienna opera and ne naa lett Vien
na to go to Berlin to conduct the
roval ODera there.
It was under him that Mme. Marcel
made her first striking success, appear
ing as Elektra In Strauss' opera of
that name. Alme. weingartner is oniy
2S. weingartner was born in lssj.
One of the most versatile women In
the country Is Mrs. Anna Coleman
Ladd.
She has done things. In addition to
bninsr a sculptor of note she has found
time to be an author, a dramatist, a
wife and a mother. Needless to add.
after all these accomplishments, that
she is a suffragist.
How does she do It? She works.
Mrs. Ladd Is the wife of Dr. May
nard Ladd, of Boston. She is the
mother nf two little Ladds, one oi
whom, however, is a little lass. She
Is now exhibiting her art work In New
York, and the sculptures are to be
taken later to the Corcoran Art Gal
lery at Washington. She has had one
book published, and the second Is now
being printed. She dramatized her
first work, "Hieronymous Rides," and
sold It to Belasco.
One of the chief features of the suf
frage demonstration at Washington,
March 3, will be a pageant wnicn nas
been Dlanned by Miss Glenna s. iin
nin. Prominent women will pose in
tableaux on the steps of the Treasury
buildintr. One of them will be Mme.
Nordica, who has rearranged her oon
cert dates so as to participate in the
demonstration. '
The quest of the ballot by demon
stration has found a receptive chord
In the hearts of Georgia suffragists.
and on March 1 that staid old state for
the first time In her history will be
treated to visible evidence of Its wo
man's rights advocates outside of the
convention hall and the debating so
ciety. Among the women who win
take part In the Washington paraae
will be Miss Evelyn Noragon, or jieve
land. O.. who is spending the Winter in
Savannah and who Is personally con
ducting the fight in that state. Miss
Norasron. who Is known in tsavanuan
as the "Girl With tne ureen flumes
because of a characteristic feather that
droops from her hat, will ride on horse
back In the vanguard oi tne sunra-
gists and will carry a banner concern
ing votes for women in Georgia.
The Thrift of Glasgow.
London Tit-Bits.
'Glasgow sets a splendid example of
thrift and enterprise to the other cities
and towns of Great Britain. It does
not even scorn to collect and sell its
waste paper and to traffic In scrap
iron, thus adding many hundreds a
year to its exchequer. Its cleansing
department does business with half the
counties of Scotland. . It owns nearly
1000 railroad cars, and does a wide
range of business from bog reclaim
ing to market gardening and butcher's
work.
JACK NORTON" IS NAME OF NOVEL
BY COLONEL E. HOFER, JUST OUT
Ex-Editor of Salem Writes Western Story With "Thrilli" and Brands Author as Student of "Realistic" School
Love Letters in Story Hardest to Write, He Says.
ALEM. Feb. 22. (Special.) "Jack
Norton," the long-awaited novel by
Colonel E. Hofer. of this city, is
out and examination of the work pro
duces the impression that the Colonel
Is a student of the realistic school. It
is a Western story full of color-work.
with several thrills in each chapter. It
was written In 1911 and he has been
nearly a year finding a publisher. It
was rejected by a number of firms for
various reasons, but he finally launched
the work through Richard G. Badger,
who is in the publishing business at
Boston, Melbourne and Ontario.' So he
gets distribution In the United States,
Canada and Australia and 40 per cent
royalty 6n all sales.
Colonel Hofer takes the reader into
some confidences In his Introduction:
"My hero Is not a hero, in this my
first attempt at realistic fiction. He
Is the type of all-around successful man
and a woman critic condemns him be
cause he Is not successful with women.
My heroine is unfortunately a woman
whose life has been almoBt a completf
failure. But in the conclusion her wo
manhood Is aroused and she develops
more character than my successful
man.
"I have taken many pages to tell the
reader what the community and even
bis own family do not know of his
life the secret history of the individual
that so almost universally remains un
known to the world.
Heroine Is Passive Type..
"Of my heroine, Luanne. I can say
but little in advance. She does not as
sert herself but lets things go over her
head. She Just lives from day to day
and takes what comes. Sentiment and
emotion have been crushed out of her
life and left her an amazingly beautiful
shell of a woman."
The author treats neurotic details
freely ' and the narrative deals with
lapses and aberrations, that portion of
the lives of men usually not written
about and that lies beyond the knowl
edge of the community or the man's
own family. "Erosions of sentiment,"
as the author calls them, forms the
substratum of his principal character.
Having achieved all the successes that
ordinarily are possible. Norton's mind
is not at rest. He is discontented in
the midst of his achievements. His
long service 1n the harness of con
formity finds him wearied of the strug
gle and he enters upon the dangerous
age In the early fifties, when he has
sapped all the sweetness of success. At
this psychological moment the principal
woman character enters the story. Then
follows the chapter of his infatuation
and the climax.
The study of Jack Norton is ' a
metaphysical analysis of the great man
of the community, who has suppressed
feelings, emotion, sentiment and soul
to achieve success financial, material
success who has pursued money-get
ting by slavish conformity to commu
nity standards, not from principle, but
to succeed.
Political Touch Given.
The only political chapter of the work
Is a motion-picture description of the
famous hold-up session of the Legis
lature when George W. McBride was
elected to the United States Senate. In
this chapter Is revealed what many
suspected at the time, that Colonel Ho
fer probably Intended to have his own
name sprung at the critical moment.
but was too late In drawing his lines.
His hero collapses under the terrific
strain of the fight and goes to a hos
pital where the physicians decide on an
operation, after which he Is snatched
from death by the tireless devotion of
the nurse, who has never lost a case.
He returns - to . consciousness after
weeks in her care, only to recogniae
the woman with whom he has fallen in
love. Gratitude and affection double
his infatuation and form the prelude to
the climax of the story that in sheer
Intensity and boldness of conception
mark the high tide of realism, which is
the most notable feature of the novel.
Here is Colonel Hofer's heroine, with
whom the banker Is so madly In love
that he writes her hundreds of letters,
naking the printed pages almost
smoke: "Beautiful to look at, charm
ing to human sense from every point,
unaffected, meeting his advances with
a guileless naivete; yet showing be
neath the surface that all this was
nothing new to her. At times she dis
played powers of penetration as keen
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as the polished stiletto. Of her life
history Norton got nothing from her
but evidences of complete dlssllluslon
ment of sentiment. She did not deny
that she had love affairs, that they
were disappointing, that she had come
only to distrust men; that she had few
'rlends among women. She confessed
that men pursued her. She Insisted
that she had no suitor at present. For
many years Luanne had been one of
the Innumerable cogs In the wheels of
a great state Institution. Care of un
fortunates, mostly women who, for rea
sons discreditable to our civilization,
were dumped into an enormous so
called state hospital for the insane.
had blunted her faith in a higher di
vine order. The strifes. Jealousies,
bickerings and frictions among an
army of women attendants, many
equally unfortunate In one way or an
other, had created In her an animosity
at her own sex, and disappointment
at fairness and justice In the opposite.
To hold herself erect in her pride as
an individual woman, to extract the
last drop of honey from the pleasures
of life this was her only surviving
passion.
Another Side Revealed.
There was another side to Luanne,
of which Norton knew little as yet.
In her performance of duties as nurse
she was fearless of all dangers. No
case was so violent or infectious but
she could be relied upon to care for It
day and night. She carried past dunth's
door 'forms wasting with typhotd, or
a mass of eruptions from scarlet fever
or smallpox, and was immune. She
never shrank from the presence ol
the worst forms of contamination in ill
ness and when doctors covered their .
faces with gauze, sponges ami disin
fectants upon merely entering the room
where there was .virulent diphtheria,
Luanne sat silent, patient and smiling '
at the bedside, and held the hands o(
the victim for whom death was making
:ts Insistent demands. She won victor
ies that commanded the respect of the
medical profession to the utmost. They
knew there was no case, which Luanne
would not take care of. throw her life,
heart and soul Into the balance, and
her utter oblivion to danger was beau
tiful. "Norton felt for her, a being that ex
isted on the frayed edges of the social
structure, a veneration which was akin
to passion. His letters to her can alone
disclose the man's feelings, his ani
mation, his exhilaration over the dis
covery of Luanne. He let go of all
the threads of reserve, and revelled In
an intimacy that would have branded
him a social outcast, had the com
munity known of it. His long re
pressed nature, held In the stereotyped
channels of business, politics, society,
church and club life, poured Itself out
In an Intensity of sentiment which sur
prised him. He did not imagine himself
capable of so sustained a stress of
emotion. He felt a new life surging
through his veins as he allowed himself
utterance." '
Love Letters Hardest.
The introduction of love letters, snob,
as a real man would write to a real
woman with whom he was blindly in
fatuated are a startling feature of the
novel. Colonel Hofer says the work
of composition was easy until he at
tempted the letters. He says he wrote
hundreds of them and destroyed all
that seemed the least bit artificial, or
failed to stir one's blood.
Several chapters are given up to the
experiences gained by Luanne In be
coming a trained nurse and the private
life of an attendant at a state Institu
tion. Colonel Hofer was for 23 years editor
of the Daily Capital Journal and has
been In newspaper work for 35 years
He Is at present editor of the Oregon
Manufacturer and president of the
State Press Association. He Is gath
ering material for another novel on
old times on Yaqulna Bay, depicting
some of the strange characters In which
that region has abounded, and with
which he Is very familiar, Tho work
will bo done at his Summer home at
the seaside, called Madinore at Agate
Beach, where the finishing touches
were put on the proof sheets of "Jack
Norton."
CHURCHILL MAY SWITCH
English Statesman May Consent to
Run With Labor Nominee.
LONDON. Feb. 22. (Special.) It is
rumored that at the next general elec
tion Winston Churchill may transfer
his affections from Dundee to Ports
mouth, and, further, that he may con
sent to run with the Labor nominee
for the two seats In the first naval
port.
Such a contest would doubtless be to
the Ilklns of the First Lord of the
Admlrallty, for he would have as an
opponent Lord Charles Beresford, one
of the sitting Unionist members, with
whom he dearly loves to cross swords
over matters that concern the Navy.
EMBROIDERY DESIGN FOR THE SOFA PILLOW AND BLOUSE
These attractive designs are readily worked
and effective. The butterfly may be worked
with the wings solid or merely in outline.
Work the dots solid and outline each dot with
black. If worked solid the wings should be
worked in two shades of medium yellow with
the dots In a darker shade. Outline the wings
In black. The blouse design may be worked
either in eyelet or solid. Detail drawings
show method of working.
There are two ways to apply the design to
the material upon which you wish to work it.
If your material Is sheet- such as handker
chief linen, lawn, batiste and the like the
simplest method Is to lay the material over
the design and with a well pointed pencil
draw over each line.
If your material Is heavy, secure a piece of
transfer or Impression paper. Lay It face
down upon this, then draw over each line of
the paper design with a hard pencil or the
point of a steel knitting needle. Upon lifting
the pattern and the transfer paper you will
find a neat and accurate impression of the
design upon your material.
There are two points to observe In this
simple process If you would execute It satis
factorily. One is to see that your material
Is level cut and folded by a thread and
see that your design Is placed upon it evenly
at every point.
The second Is. when placed accurately, se
cure the design to the material with the
thumb tacks or pins, so It cannot slip during
the operation.
Do not rest your hand or fingers upon any
part of the design you are transferring, else
the imprint of your fingers will be as distinct
upon the material as the drswn lines of the
design.
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