SECTION FIVE
Pages 1 to 12
WOMAN'S AND
SPECIAL FEATURES
VOL. XXXII.
PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 1, 191&
NO. 22.
CHILDREN TAKE GREAT INTEREST
IN THEIR SCHOOL GARDEN PLOTS
Portsmouth, Holladay, Brooklyn, Buckman and Woodlawn Schools and Several Others Have Their Plots of
Ground in Which Busy "Workers May Be Seen Early and Late, Plying Spade and Rake.
of it! Regular $27.50 HieK .PiU'J&l&9- M ' 1 w.i.rlSH
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Axminster Rugs, 9x12 Size, Are Now Being Sold for $19
If jou know rug value the price named here -Bill - surprise you because they are better rugs than you ever saw at the' price not the cheap jute
filled kind, but good,, durable (tepen'iable rugs that will give long service. Splendid high-pile rugs in a number of pretty patterns, all 9x12 sizes,
and there is a large range of colors. We say to you "This is the best rug value we know pt," and we mean it. -
16 -INCH LAWN MOWER 3.49
Here is a good, easy-running lawn
mower of guaranteed quality, with 16
inch cut. Specially priced for this week.
NO. 2 CLOTHES HAMPERS $2.49
Come in tomorrow and get on& of
these splendid clothes hampers while
this special price is on.
60 - FOOT RUBBER HOSE $4.49
Fifty feet of excellent rubber hose,
complete with nozzle. The price in
force for one week onlv.
ELECTRIC IRONS $2.99
These are the guaranteed electric
irons of the six-pound quality. The
price is unusual.
SPECIAL ' REFRIGERATOR $8.49
A hardwood refrigerator with round
ed corners, paneled, box and insulated
with mineral wool.
$27 BUFFET. SPECIAL $19.85
A mission design in the fumed oak.
.44 inches wide, fitted with large plate
mirror, with shelf above. Good drawer
arrangement.
$1.75 MEAT SAFES $1.19
These safes measure 27 inches high,
18 inches wide and 16 inches deep. Are
fitted with shelf and have screen sides
and door.
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STAMPS
STAMPS
$5.00 SULKY $2.99
A strong sidewalk sulky with padded
spring seat, reversible back and ad
justable hood. . ,
$18.00 GO-CART $14.25
A fine one-motion steel go-cart with
reed body an,d four-bow hood. Has lux
ury spring back. Tan or black.
FUMED LIBRARY TABLE $7.65
A solid oak library table having 24x
38-inch top and fitted with six slats in
ends and large drawer. -Good quality
construction. . .
HALL SEATS, worth to $38, $9.95
Twelve sample hall seats in both gol
den and fumed quartered oak to sell at
this exceptional price .
$11.75 CEDAR BOXES FOR $850
Built of genuine cedar, measuring 11
inches deep,' 36 inches long, and 171--Ini-he's
wide. Fitted with brass hard
ware. ' ' ' ' -$5
WHITE ENAMEL R'CK'R $3.45
" Have panel backs and saddle-shaped
wood-seat. Very adaptable for charu
ber use. -
THREE-FOLD SCREENS $3.19
Made of oak, finished fumed, brown
or green burlap panels. ' Each panel
measuring. 13 inches. Strap hinges.
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Barnegat Cedar Summer Furniture
Made From Bark-Covered
Sweet-Smelling Cedar
Rustic Furniture Built
for Comfort
CEDAR
IIOChl'.K
RUCKKR
CEDAR ROCKER ;- CEDAR SETTEE, EXCEED-
OR CHAIR
$8.95 $8.95 $11.50 $4.25
IiVCl.Y COM PORTABLE,
S10.75
ROCKER
ROCKER
$6.50 $6.50
Prepare for Your
Davenports Is
$19.85
$34.75
925. OO BED
DAVENPORT..
Has oak frame and tufted
velour seat and back. A good,
inexpensive, bed davenport.
43.00 RED
DAV E PORT..
lias separate steel s r r i n K
covered with Spanish chase
leather. Frame of quartered
oak finished wax golden.
45.00 BED
UAVEXPORT..
Inlfotd pattern, with quar
tered oak frame, having- slat
ends. Covered with Spanish
chaae leather.
955.00 BED
DAVENPORT..
A fine Colonial design with
tufted seat and plain back,
covered in Spanish chase
leather. Massive 6-inch posts.
Carnival Guests This Sale of Bed
Most Timely You'll Welcome It
$66.50
$35.50
$37.50
$55.50
979.00 BED
DAVENPORT..
Genuine SDanish leather.
Massive 5 - Inch arms and
scroll posts: of selected quar
tered oak finished wax- golden.
968.00 BED
DAVENPORT.-
- Covered with senulne Span
ish leather. Unifold pattern,
with separate spring:. Plain
upholstered seat and back.
953.50 BED Clu 7(
DAVENPORT.. P7.ft 3
Fumed oak frame, with high
panel ends, lias three-section
back covered, in Spanish chase
leather. Pretty design.
65.00 BED
DAVENPORT..
An overstuffed pattern fit
ted with Unifold spring:. Has
plain seat and back covered in
Spanish chase Jeatner. '
$52.75
A Genuine Karpen
Upholstered Rocker
$13.95
This is a regular $24 Karpen
puaranteed rocker. It is upholstered
in fine quality of striped denim,
has wing back and deep upholstered
seat. - Runners and- posts finished .
mahogany. Exactly as illustrated.
Chair to match at same price.
Offering a $26 Quar
tered Dining Table for
$15.95
" Exactly - as the' picture ' shows.
Made from selected quartered oak
' stock, finished wax golden. It has
a massive base and" 45-inch' round
top, which extends to six feet.' The
design - is -exceptionally pleasing
and the quality guaranteed.
$4.50 Foldiag Card Tables
30 inches square,
screen felt. Very
but risrid. Folds to ! In.
Top covered with
$2 Folding Lawn Benches
$1.15
Gold Bronze Steel Folding
Cots on Sale at $2.50 -
Hav steel frames, enameled gotd'J
bronze and " non-sa sable link -fabric
spring. .- Made very strong and -dur-able.
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I INTEREST. of the children in the pub
lic schools seemg to associate every
thing that they encounter in their
daily work with the school gardening
work, which has come to be one of the
most important things , in their day's
work, in the estimation ot the majority
of the school children. Numberless
amusing incidents . occurring in the
schools every day, show how large the
school garden looms In the mind of
the average pupil.
During a class in manual training at
a certain school last week a young stu
dent of Oriental extraction stained his
hands generously as well as the wood
with which he was working. He asked
the instructor how to get it off, and
was told he would probably have, to
wear it off. He said he did not under
stand how that was to be done, where
upon a very small boy - spoke up and
volunteered the following: "Come up
to the school garden this afternoon and
we will show you how."
As one journeys to Portsmouth or
beyond on . a St. Johns car they may
observe -oh the west side of Lombard
street diagonally across from the Ports
mouth school a ery attractive garden.
It occupies a lot 66x110 feet; 52 young
gardeners have individual plots plant
ed to various vegetables. On the slope
to the sidewalk English daisies spell
the name "Portsmouth School" in let
ters three and a half feet high. A live
committee has greatly aided Principal
B. E. Hughson in making a garden pos
sible and supervising the children. Mrs,
G. E. Christmas, Mrs. W. L, Stewart.
Miss Nugent and Messrs. Shafer, Peddi
cord, Douglas. Legali and the Acme
Lumber Company have helped. A large
number of Portsmouth children have
gardens at home, po about 25 per cenX
of the entire enrollment of the Ports
mouth School are engaged in garden
work. One young gardener especially
early in the season was" very much en
grossed with his work. It is' thought
by the neighbors that he worked! in
his garden all night, as he was seen
there after dark when they retired and
again the next morning before 6 o'clock.
In a vacant tract at East Eighth and
Clackamas streets, 50 children of the
Holladay School have a. very pretty
garden 100x100 feet. It occupies a cor
ner ig laid out on a diagonal plan,
with attractive flower beds at the cor
ners and In the center. Principal A. M.
See Powers' New Three
Room Outfit Shown in
Yamhill-St. Window for
It is just the kind of an outfit you have been planning on and
the number of pieces offered at the price is surprising. The chamber
is furnished in Circassian walnut, the dining-room in quartered golden
oak and there is a fine "New Idea sanitary gas range in the kitchen.
It is just thp cosiest thre-room outfit you wver looked at, and can be
purchased on easy terms of credit-
Cannon personally supervised the work
and took an interest in it.
At the - Brooklyn School a handy
vacant lot, 100 by 100 feet, adjoining
the school property on the West, has
been transformed into' a -combination"
flower and vegetable garden. A row
of flower beds across the front, and
also through the center form the letter
"T." Sixty children have plots in this
garden, including an organization
known as the "Middy Blouse Girls,"
who have the letters 'vl. B. G." - In
flowers. Miss Dimick, the principal,- is
a strong believer in garden work for
school children.
The Buckman School Garden at Ease
Sixteenth and East Glisan streets occu
pies an area 132 by 154 feet, and 120
children are enrolled. It is off thei
beaten track of travel, being located
on unimproved streets, but is well .
worth a visit. It is laid out in blocks
of four plots each, plots being 6 by 2ft
feet. A large diagonal flower bed occu
pies the center. I. T. Vantine was one
of the first principals to help the chil
dj:enthis year, and has been aided by
several teachers and residents of th
district.
Interested persons declare that th
Woodlawn School Garden this year will
be even better" than the prize garden
of 1912. Everyone concerned, from
Principal Newbill and his entire staff
of teachers to the smallest member of
the baby class, is doing everything po?-
sible to sustain the reputation of last
year. The experience previously gained
and the same ground to work with will.,
of course, greatly help, but there ha
been plenty of hard work nevertheless
The entire garden, covering an area of
186 by 366 feet, has been fenced in in
a substantial manner, and a consid
erable area cleared of stumps and
brush. Ik is the largest of the 28 school
gardens, both for jize and number of
children participating. Five hundred
and eighty out of a possible 600 chil
dren in the Woodlawn school hava
plots in the garden. -
Many interesting features are being
worked out. which serve as object les
sons, and the very best kind of instruct
tion for the children. Believing thai
they can absorb a great deal more and
remember it with greater ease by actual
observation, Newbill has supervised
personally the planting of several gar,
dens where nearly everything which
can be grown in Oregon istbelng grown;.
First, there is the industrial garden',
which includes all kinds of plants from
which manufactured products are made,
such as hemp, flax, cotton, sugar beets,
brewer's barley, etc., also all kinds of
plants which are used for stock feed,
etc.. 16 kinds of hay and grasses, 11
kinds of corn, including Kaffir, sweet,
pop. sorghum, milo, maize a nd millet.
Another garden contains all sorts of
vegetables which can be grown in
Western Oregon. " Another large plot
in called an Exchange Garden. Any
child who has a surplus number ot
plants after thinning takes them to tbr
Exchange Garden, where he can trad
them to some other young gardener for
something he may want. This is work-:
ing out very nicely, as occasionally
losses occur, either from insects or
plant diseases.