The Sunday Oregonian., June 15, 1913, SECTION SIX, Page 7, Image 75

THE SUNDAY OKEGONIAN, PORTLAND, JUNE 15, 1913.
Mhy is Portteaid The Great Bass
The Answer Is Found Mainly in One
Word Climate. We Have the Great
est Rose-Growing Climate in the World.
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to hot. Tie same ran be said of the
Springtime, the Summer and the Fall.
Quick changes -of weather from one
extreme to the other is what makes
rose growing' impractible in most parts
of the country. Mildew sets in where
such changes occur and the rose plants
are stunted, injured or killed. In Port
land the roses get sufficient sunshine
and sufficient moisture without getting
any of the extremes of weather.
The bushes are easily grown and the
flowers come out In the Spring-time
without a great deal -of cultivation. The
size and beauty of the flower depends
much, upon the case, but roses come out
in abundance year after year in some
parts of the city with practically no
cultivation.
Portland grows about 900 different
varieties of roses. Practically every
kind of rose can be found in one part
of the city or another, including even
some varieties of what are called
"blue" roses. In the scientific world
It is declared that the rose cannot be
produced In real blue. This is the
cause of much speculation on the part
of growers. Every once In a while
an ambitious nurseryman blossoms out
with a new variety of rose bush, that
he says grows blue roses. Scientists,
however, say "it can't be done.'
Greater Things for Farmer
(Continued From Pace 3.)
WHY ie Portland the greatest rose
city In the world? This Is a
question you often hear during
the Summer months when the multi
colored and varl-slzed roses In all their
splendor and fragrance pop out In mil
lions In almost every part of the city.
The question arose frequently during
the past Festival week.
The answer Is climatic conditions
and the popularity of the rose. While
climate has all to do with the abund
ance of roses at present, popularity of
the flower is the underlying and origi
nal cause.
Did you know there are fashions in
flowers which change every few years?
Flowers run in fashions almost the
same as clothes.
Forty years ago the rose was not
among the elite in flowerdom. The
leaders then were the camellia, the
dahlia and the peony. Gradually the
fashion has changed until now the rose,
the carnation and the violet are the
leaders in popularity. The dahlia has
retained an indistinct place in the line
of popularity, but Is backed off the map
when compared with the rose, the car
nation or the violet.
The rose leads all the flowers be
cause it Is fragrant, massive, solid,
beautiful and can be secured in all col
ors but blue. It matches well all kinds
and colors of clothes and dresses and
therefore is entirely suitable for deco
rative purposes. The size of the rose
also is a factor in Its behalf. The old
fashioned choice In flowers was the
single and often the brittle petal
flower. The new style is the double
flower with soft leaves not easily
broken.
Overlooking popularity as a con
tributing cause for a world-wide de
mand for roses, Portland's climate is
the real cause of this city having won
the name "Rose City." The climate
makes It possible for the residents of
Portland to grow better roses than are
grown even in England, which 1
known as the world's greatest rose
growing nation.
Climate is the cause of England's
rose fame, but England, hasn't the rose
climate that can bo boasted of by
Portland. This Is due to the Japan
trade winds on the Pacific Coast
which seem to strike Portland exactly
right. The rose requires a mild climate
with no quick changes and without ex
tremes of hot or cold.
The Winters hore are mild, the oold
being moderate and the atmosphere
being much the same at night as during
the day. There Is seldom any sudden
change from hot to cold or from cold.
some day turn to agriculture as profit
able way of Investing large sums of
money?" I asked.
"Here and there men of capital are
doing so now. I have a friend who
bought 25,000 acres of land In North
Carolina and. who means to carry on
farming as an organised business un
dertaking. Americans have put their
money Into railroads, banks, manufac
tories and. mercantile establishments.
Such investments and activities have
become a National habit. The primary
needs of man. however, are food and
clothing. Business men and farmers.
too. will realise one of these days tnat
.agriculture can be made just as profit
able as any other human endeavor.
The minds of the people are now being
turned that way. Once convinced that
good dividends can be earned with
grain, livestock and cotton, the Amer
ican will venture Into agriculture with
the confidence. capital and ability
which has distinguished his efforts in
other directions."
Happiness for the Farmer's Wife.
"Where has farming reached Its best
development?
"In the T. nlted States, l reply, if we
make allowance for the newness of our
country. renhiark. of course, has ac
complished a ?reat deal, but there, be
cause of a limitation of opportunl ty
and the narrow boundaries of their
land, the people have centered their
efforts on agriculture and have Inten
sively cultivated their farms. Ameri
cans, on the other hand, have had plen
ty of land and their farming-, like their
schooling, has been superficial. Still we
are competent farmers In many re
spects and have learned how to pro
duce crops. If land were scarce, we
could easily become Intensive farmers.
We understand the principles of this
sort of agriculture. The problem now
Is to keep our people on their farms.
That, In short. Is the object of our ru
ral organization service."
"Meanwhile, what Is to be done for
the overworked farmer's wife?" I
asked.
"Much, I think, that will make her
life brighter and her burden lighter. As
a farmer prospers he will have more
and more money to spend In his house
and on his land. His wife then can
employ help. She will have an oppor
tunity unaer tne new order or rural
life to meet her neighbors at the social
center, be it a hall, a church or a li
brary. Her isolation will be over.
She, too, Is to be made reasonably hap
py and well off. Any plan for her hus
band's Improvement must necessarily
Include herself."
House Moved in Sections
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N'E of the most sing-uler Ideas ever
evolved in the moving of houses
was recently put Into practice at
West Somervllle, Mass., where a large
three-story dwelling was cut In two
and moved from an eminence ten feet
above the street level and set up a
mile distant from its original resting
place.
It was found Impossible to move the
house in Its entirety. The cut was
made squarely through the center, and,
as the house was built In a very sym
metrical manner, each half was an ex
act counterpart of the other.
After bracing the house, first one
section and then another was moved to
the new location with Jackscrews and
rollers. On bringing the two reunited
divorced sections together they dove
tailed In such a perfect fit that it was
impossible to discern the separating
cut.
As each of the sections was 35 by 20
feet at the base and almost 40 feet
high, they were liable to topple ovr
during the process of moving. This was
prevented by tearing down the chim
neys and foundations and loading the
first floor of each section to a consid
erable depth with brick. The brick
acted as ballast and the sections wern
moved without any damage to the
structure.
New Diet Takes Off Fat
D
R. O-ALISCH, an English physician.
in recommending a new treatment
for obesity, states a new fact. His
treatment is a dietary as follows: In
the morning the patient takes a cup of
tea, with buttered bread and if he Is
too hungry to wait for luncheon he
takes an egg, with a small piece of
bread and butter at 10 o'clock.
At 1 o'clock the meal consists of
meat, vegetables, salad and a compote.
In the afternoon he takes coffee, with
a little biscuit or white bread with but
ter, in the evening he gets simply a
small piece of bread and butter.
At the first breakfast and the mid
day meal the amount taken must be
sufficient for the patient to leave the
table completely satisfied. For the first
two or three days the patient feels
very hungry In the evening, but this
quickly passes off, and he soon gets
into the habit of eating more at the
first two meals, this excess of elimina
tion being counteracted by the exer
cise and work done during the after
noon. The whole idea of the treatment is
that it is the food taken in the evening
and followed by the repose of night
which particularly contributes to the
formation of adipose tissues. Dr. Gal
lsch's patients invariably lose one or
two pounds a week.
Bit of Household Goislp.
Judge.
"Did you ever help put a puzzle to
gether?" "No; my wife always assembles her
self alone."
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tl uodted ferk Bat
oon
BT GLENN N. PLEASANTS.
TO see a baboon pray when toW to
do so Is nothing; exceptional. Any
ordinary dog- can be trained to do as
much. But for an animal to go through
ven a primitive rite of it's own accord
la a thins entirely different. That's
what Joe the park baboon does.
True he was. in the first place, taught
to do this in the saloon that formerly
was his home, but since then he has
been doing the service of his own
free will. This performance, together
with some of Joe's other characteristics
and events of his life, gives rise to a
theory among his keepers that perhaps
the riddle of the missing link Is not so
- (far wrong.
Scientists assert the baboon's brain is
like that of man, only in a different
degree of development, and Joe may be
undergoing the first stage of becoming
Sifted with a crude power of ideaitlon
It is argued.
Is it merely an impression or habit
forced upon him and which he has not
forgotten? Or can there be some inate
ferni of reasoning ability breeding lt
elf In bis brain that causes him to go
through the performance." The answer
can be nothing but conjecture, though
In later years something more definite
may be established. However it can
be expected that the nrst result of
dawning reason In the brute's mind
will be some form of worship, for no
doubt they will follow man's example
of nrst having a feeling of submission
and fear for a power greater than
himself.
A review of the history of prehistoric
man discloses the fact that the nrst
forms of worship probably occurred In
Australia; development was very slow
and the mode of prayer crude In the
'extreme. Some of the tribes worshiped
the moon as the supreme power while
others fell upon the sands and chat
tered before the thundering ocean.
Would any of u of today recognise
our ancestors as human beings were
the gist of years to roll back, revealing
to our eyes those prehistoric creatures
crouched before their gods muttering
their strange phrases.
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Joe has had a rather eventful career.
He was, before his advent into park
society, kept in a saloon where he did
tricks for the boys and learned the use
of alcohol and tobacco. He became a
veritable sot and had to be carried to
bed every night. Then one day he
left the gin mill, of hie own accord,
entered a neighboring dwelling, drag
tied the cover from a center table and
hurled a large vase to a far corner of
the room with savage velocity.
He was quieted by the stout blow of
r a policeman's club, taken unconscious
i from the city park. Since then he has
been very docile, tor Joe has a kindly
Unprompted, Bright Simean j
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of intelligence that told him of the
detrimental effects the alcohol Was
having on his system and that the best
thing he could do was to get away
from such a supply? It cannot be
called animal instinct for instinct Is
merely a signal of warning to a beast
that causes It to repulse that whioh
is not necessary for its existence,
when first offered It. The habit of
alcohol was created in Joe's system
the same a5 in a drunkard's yet he
lias fought it back and drinks now
with careful logic.
Then to review his having thrown
the vase. What dawning flash of rea
son caused this act? Was It some re
mote impulse of a greater Intelligence
springing up in a remote recess of his
brain that gave him some hazy idea
he was paying tribute to a master
power, that caused him to commit the
deed? Again the theory cannot be dis
qualified, for man has done vastly
queerer things than this; he has sac
rificed the children of his own fond
flesh to the flames, set up blocks of
stone smeared with blood around giant
trees and howled his lamentations of
repentance, and done other acts of
chaotic worship too numerous to men
tion. ...
A discourse on primitive worshin
tells us that the date of its origin
cannot be ascertained either archao-
logically or historically; it must be
sought conjecturally through pysohol
ogy. From this It may be inferred
that we have not yet found a starting
point, and no telling what bones and
relics are still burled In the earth, that
when once uncovered will raise havoc
with all our fondest beliefs and de
ductions. It may yet be determined
that the original ancestor of Joe the
baboon and ourselves was one and
the same creature.
We only know that man was once
a heretic, who, having perceived his
heresy and want of social environment,
turned around to embrace a new faith
as a passport of survival. Wa are left
to imagine the ages of mental torture
he endured when reason first crept
into his witless brain, and he began to
feel the presence of a superior being.
His first wretched attempt at prayer
must have been pitiful indeed and prob
able Joe is going through the same
throes of change. If we knew what
his wrinkled lips were sayiner we mirht
be able to get important light on
some of this mystery.
School Seats Deform Youth
D
ft. J. W. SEVER, an English sur
geon, urges that school desks
should leave room enough for the
knees, and should, be low enough so
that the elbow and forearm may rest
comfortably on them without bending
the back.
The slope of the desk theoretically
should be about 30 degrees, but as that
is too steep an angle to allow books
and papers to rest on it without slid
ing off. a compromise angle of from 12
degrees to 15 degrees has been selected.
The seat should be no wider than the
width of the hip. for wider seats pre
dispose to slouchy attitudes. It should
be "about two-thirds the length of the
thigh. It may or may not slope very
slightly backward, but this is of no
great Importance. Any great slope Is
distinctly bad.
The height from the floor should be
such as to allow the feet to rest equally
and comfortably on the floor. A seat
of too great breadth, as well as one of
too great depth, compels bad poaturet.
The seat should have a back which
supports the lumbar spine when sitting,
at work, as well as at rest.
Windshields Aid to Crops
A'
RATHER surprising degree of in
fluence of the wind upon plant
growth and crops has been shown
by the experiments of Dr. Oscar Bern
beck, a German professor of agricul
ture. Several gales tend to produce defor
mity, giving a twisted and knotty
shape to twigs, and ordinary winds di
minish the energy of growth of sprouts
through the increase of transportation
and alteration of circulatory conditions
and have a drying effect that in some
cases causes serious injury to both soil
and plants.
Under a wind of 33 feet per second
the ground loses three or four times
as much water as on protected land.
On ground sufficiently moist strong
sprouts are but little affected, but on
some soils the growth with no wind Is
three times as great as with a wind of
33 feet per second.
Protection is to be sought by various
kinds of windshields, such as walls and
hedges, and especlaly by planting for
ests on neighboring hills.
Auto Route Across Alps
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disposition. He scowls only when the j Thus we have Joe's vagrant career
clouds are darkest and laughs quite t as far as It could be ascertained. It is
distinctly when his heart is light. 1 quite commonplace to the casual eye.
yet possessing to the student of evolu
tion, a phase that is worth noting.
Joe willfully left the saloon, a good
home for him where he was well fed
and given enough drinks to keep him
in a high state of exhilaration. Tet he
left, and since he will drink but very
little whisky one glass a day is all
one can get him to touch. Now again
comes the question. Why did he leave?
Was it merely one of those vagaries of
the animal's brain that made him want
to roam about, or was it some flash
Went Down With His Ship.
Christian Herald.
Three little "wharf rats" in Brooklyn,
aged 8, 10 and 12 years, made a raft
out of some planks, boxes and driftwood
of one kind or another the other day
and started out to navigate the East
River. The oldest one was the proud
captain, the other two completed the
crew that loyally obeyed orders. They
were having the time of their lives
when a ferryboat coming along kicked
up such high waves that the raft was
broken to pieces and the boys thrown
into the river. A deckhand on the ferry
boat seeing the accident jumped into
the water and swam to the rescue. He
went to the little captain first, who
said: "Leave me to the last. Save them
other fellers; they are littler than me;
besides, I got em into it." The deck
hand obeyed the orders of the captain
and swam to safety with the smallest,
then he took the one next older, but
before he could get back, the Tittle
captain, unable to hold out any long
er, had sunk for the third time.
N ELECTRIC automobile service
has been established across the
Alps at a cost of approximately
$1500,000. The line, which is about 25
miles in length, extends from Airolo,
Switzerland, through the Bedretto Val
ley and the Nufencn Pass, and ends at
Ulriehen, in the Valais region, on the
Italian side of the Alps.
The automobiles have a capacity for
22 passengers and make the trip in one
and three-quarter hours on express
service, running at the rate of 12 to
22 miles an hour.
The company has ten stations along
the route, and three trips are made
daily in each direction when there is
no snow on the road to interfere with
the passage of the vehicles.
Oil Is Stored With Water
A
NEW hydraulic method of storing
petrol or gasoline is credited
with important advantages. The
unused space In the storage tank Is
kept always filled with water, and a
simple pumping mechanism causes the
water to force the oil out as required.
In refilling the tank the water Is
drained away. The two liquids do not
mix, the light oil always floating on
top; there is no loss from evaporation,
as there is no gas to escape on re
filling, and the oil is preserved, un
changed for any length of time.
Animals Obey Commandments
ERNEST THOMPSON SETOX has dis
covered a "Natural History of the
Ten Commandments," and he so
styled a lecture which he gave the
other day.
He SAld that the ten great ordinances
were not arbitrary laws given to man,
but fundamental laws of all creation,
and he gave many illustrations to
show that both wild and domesticated
animals recognized those laws.
He mentioned amusing instances in
which he had noticed parents of many
species of animals enjoining obedience
on their offsprings. There was, he
said, a deep laid lnstint In all animals
that disobedience meant the end of a
race.
Morality was a law observed in most
of the higher animals. Monogamy in
some of the best species of animals was
not confined to the mating period, but
meant union for life. All wolves, for
instance, unite for life, help each other
to hunt, bring up the young, and,
though the young might forget the par
ents, the latter never forget each other.
The verdict of most hunters today
was that all the higher animals mate
for life. All successful species are
monogamous, and a monogamus animal
in battle will always beat the poly
gamous. The Canadian wild goose car
ries its monogamous habits to the ex
tent that when it has -lost its mate it
will never seek another.
Skirts Must Not Drag, Says Kaiser
THE German government is deter
mined that its city streets shall be
clean, orderly and quiet. The pa
ternal and absolute hierarcy has re
cenly issued a ukase in the form of
new regulations for the city of Berlin.
The following are some of the mcst
striking provisions: Women's dresses
must be short enough not to drag, and
so raise the dust or accumulate mud;
umbrellas and sticks must not be
swung or carried crosswise; paper, re
mains of fruit, cigars and cigarettes
must not be thrown into the street;
persons must not walk more than three
abreast or stop on the pavement for
any extended period; there must be no
whistling, singing, shrieking, shouting
or loud talking of any kind; windows
must be closed when music is going
on inside a building, and carmen must
not drive noisy loads of metal or other
material through the streets