SECTION FIVE Pages 1 to 12 WOMAN'S AND SPECIAL. FEATURES VOL. XXXIII. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 4, 1914. NO. 1. WOMEN WHO FIGURE IN NEWS OF WORLD CAUGHT BY PRESS CAMERA Miss Lillian Vera Bennett, Milwaukee Schoolgirl, Surprises Musicians by Singing High G Queen of Roumania Celebrates 70th Birthday Young French Actress Works Without Pay. 3 X :. . . 7.rVs . - -- -TV' - A Great Clearance at Powers--a Disposal of POWERS Surplus Stocks at Unusual Price Reductions This Announcement Only an Index to the Great Values That A wait You Here POWERS Specimen Parlor Suite Values From This Great January Sale Two and Three-Piece Suites Radically Reduced in Price 119.00 Three-piece Mahogany-f inish Parlor Suite, with up holstered spring seats covered In green block velour, has 1 Q QC shaped legs and panel backs. Sale price OlO.tO $35.00 Mahogany Three-piece Parlor Suite consisting of settee, arm chair and arm rocker, upholstered in striped silk velour, 0? DC frames have panel backs of attractive design. Sale price w&OtOJ $56.00 Quartered Oak Three-piece Parlor Suite, upholstered In genuine Spanish leather, massive oak frames fitted with heavy (yio 7tS back panels. Sale price 0'ti)a I O $60.00 Mahogany Parlor Suite, three pieces of genuine mahog any fitted with striped denim loose cushions, attractive de sign. Sale price OO40U $65.00 Two-piece Mahogany Suite, settee and arm chair, have carved claw feet and carved arms, well upholstered. Sale 50 $165.00 Two-piece Mahogany Suite, settee and armchair; seats, backs and inside arms upholstered in genuine leather; high- $QQ rffrt grade construction. Sale price OOtS.OU lMiMk. CP A HA" TIC A High Quality Layer Felt Mattress Worth $11 .75, at Jl An exceptionally well-made Mattvess, with 50 pounds of layer felt put in its construction. First quality white layer felt that will not mat or become lumpy. Covered in a dainty art tick,-with roll edge and hand tufted body. "Worth every dollar of the regular price. 0'O AO o.vo f M i I rain ' s O 11 ffets 4 Have Been Greatly Reduced Stamps for This Sale $26.75 Full Quartered Oak Buffet, finished wax golden, 42 Inches in width, with large plate mirror, having shelf above, panel ft 1 Q ends, large drawer and cupboard space. This sale wlOi $27.60 Buffet In fumed oak, an attractive pattern with plate rack over mirror, double-door compartments between silver and t 1 Q linen drawers. lOxtra special this tale DA7c $46.00 Buffet In selected quartered oak built on colonial lines. It measures 46 inches in width, -has divided silver drawer and COC extra large double-door cupboard. This sale iOCttJi $49.50 Buffet in quartered oak of high quality and design, built on square lines, with spacious drawer room and large plate $0 1 mirror. This sale wOli $68.00 Buffet, In special selected quartered oak built on curved lines, with French legs and curved ends. The two brackets djOQ on either side of mirror have carved supports. This sale JOI7 $50.00 Fumed'Oak Buffet of extra width, measuring 64 inches. Has massive posts and shelf supports. Full quartered oak fcO stock, excellent mission pattern. This sale iPOTi 40 75 95 50 75 75 Most Tempting Brass . ip Red .Pllrt Offerings at. the Big Store $23.75 Satin-finish Bed, with extra heavy filler, J f O CO stub-post pattern SAvlJV $33.00 Brass Bed, with J!Vs-lnch c o n t i n u o us posts, heavy filler rods, o 7C full height OO. I J $42..r.O Satin Brass Bed. with 14-ineh filler roils. high head and foot end, J?3 1 Rrt attractive mounts SJXJVi $40.00 Jirass Bed. three quarter size, with round posts and square top 2j 75 $23.50 Brass Bed, continuous-post p a 1 1 e i n, hljrh head and toot (fl Q QC! ends, special OXOJO $S8.50 Satin Brass Bed, massive 3-inch posts and 14 1-lnch filler ft CO If rods tDOi.DU $33.00 Brass Bed, three quarter size, bungalow pattern, built of square ftO2 tubes HtfJ t 9 $35.00- Satin Brass Bed, extreme design, having- 2S filler rods and heavy I03 7t post mounts.... . . . OOOi I 3 $28.00 Brass Bed. three quarter size, bungalow pattern, have six lH-ftlQ OC inch filler rods O kZJ,JJ $26.75 Brass Bed. con tinuous - post bungalow pattern, low head and ft 1 Q Cfl foot ends 0 1 7.JJ $27.75 Brass Bed, with 10-inch filler rods, with cone mounts, excellent ftQ "1 Aft pattern 2i X.VIU $110 Satin-finish Brass Bed, unusually heavy, having three - inch con- t i n u o us posts and 14 ftIQ "TC 2-inch filler rods OOI7 I O Choice of Twelve Mahogany Denim Upholstered Rock'rs Worth Up to $31.00 S18.9S We have arranged a group of all mahogany denim covered Library Rockers, some twelve patterns in all, that have been marked to sell from $26.50 to $31.00 and listed them at one price. Each and every pattern is of highest quality, construction and finish. Many similar to illustration. Your choice of any pattern in the lot while they last at. . 318.95 $12.00 Spanish Chase Leather Couches, Special Excellent long-wearing, well-built Couches, covered in genuine Span ish Chase leather, .with plain tops, hand-made roll edges, oak .frame, fitted with carved claw feet. On sale at this special price. $13.75 Solid Oak Chiffonier With Large Mirror, for Solid oak Chiffonier, 'of good de sign, containing five drawers, fitted with wood knobs- arreHuTge-French plate mirror. Has extra heavy top, with rounded corners. Finished dull golden. Our Dignified Credit Plan "Why hesitate to buy the home furnishings you want' on acceptable terras of deferred" payments t The idea is not new not undignified. You have a "charge account" with the butcher and baker, so why not with us, since Ave are glad to open one for you on our books? Even the most prosperous people seldom pay cash because it's not dignified. They like to feel that their "credit is good," because oftentimes it is incon venient to pay cash down. Hesitate no longer. Our Dignified Credit Plan will appeal at once to the think ing man. Mr Stamps ' v'14s'Hfi'. r'iS litis - j v i Great Clearance of Regular and Odd Size Rugs Odd Rugs; some made up from carpet lengths, with border on two sides; others of regular stock patterns, with woven borders, are entered in this sale at most attractive prices. $13.50 Carpet Rug. Size 9x10 feet. Colors red, green and &Q Q C tan. Special. . . . $22.50 Axminster Rug. Size 9x11.8. $16.95 Border on two sides. Special $19.00 Velvet Rug. Size 8.3x11.4. Border on two sides, Special $18.00 TAPESTRY BRUSSELS RUGS An excellent, good-wearing fabric, woven with pleasing design, in a 9x 12 room size. While they last at the special price of $14.85 $20.00 Tapestry Brussels Rug. Size 8.3x12. Desirable C Q( patterns. Special. . .P J.OU $21.50 Axminster Ruz. Size 9x10.6. Border on two sides. Special $25.00 Wilton Velvet Rug. Size 8.3x12. Border on tf 1 Q ? $15.85 two sides. Special $13.75 E Mi l 8 NEW YORK, Jan. 3. (Specials Miss Sonya Uevln Is the product cf what Zangwlll calls the "melting- pot" of New York. Coming to this country from Russia at the age of 5. she has managed by the hardest kind of work to climb the ladder until she has reached an enviable position. She is a lawyer connected with a well known legal firm which on several oc casions entrusted her with Important missions to Europe because, as the members said, she "always comes back with the goods.'- Miss Levin, as a dele gate to the Woman's Suffrage conven tion in Washington, ' hotly denounced the anti-suffrage statement that the "working women do not want to vote." Being a hard . worker herself, having labored since she was 10 years old, both in factory and In office, she feels that she knows what she is talking about when she denounces any movement against permitting women, and espe cially women who toil, from voting. . . . Miss Lillian Vera Bennett Is the Mil waukee schoolgirl who created a furore when on appearing before Musical Direc tor Dippel and several other prominent musicians to have her voice tested for a capella choir, she astonished her lis teners by disclosing a range topped with high G, sounding the tone clearly and distinctly. The news of.her.ac-. complishment spread rapidly and Miss Bennett and her father have been deluged with . congratulatory letters. She also recefved an offer from New York to sing in vaudeville at $300 a week and later, according to her father, an offer from a New York operatic agent of $2000 a week. The offers were refused. Miss Bennett is to be given the best possible musical, education in this country and abroad, and It is pre dicted that she will become a great star some day. Marguerite Carre is the principal prima-donna of the Theatre National de l'Opera Comlque, in Paris. The fact that she is the wife of Albert Carre, who has been the director of that In stitution for some years, has caused criticism of M. Carre, but he has had the good sense not to be Influenced by this. If he had, the Opera Comique would have been deprived of the ser vices of a great artist. Mme. Carre has X ''4. " n " 5- v ' . i -Z&iyp'czeTz'te. a large repertoire. Recently she creat ed the role of "Louise" In Charpen tier's new opera, "Julien," which has been the great success of the past sea son in Paris, and which will be heard in New York the coming Spring, under the direction of the composer himself. The role of "Louise" Is most difficult. Charpentier is quoted as saying that he asked Mary Garden to interpret it, be cause of her success in his other opera, "Louise," but she declined, because of its many difficulties. Mme. Carre is popular with the Paris public, and holds a high place in the world of musical art. Adonl Fovleri, a young French ac tress, has just made her debut in New York with Louis Mann in his new play, "Children of Today." She re ceived", her. training at the Somedie Francalse, fin Paris, which is the French national school of acting. One of the rules of the Comedie Francaise is that , its members shall be advanced by seniority, and not merit, and Mile. Fovleri figured that by the time she became a leading woman there she would be midde-aged. This did not suit her.- so she resigned and Joined a French company in Montreal. There she learned what opportunities the United States of fered, . so she came to New York and began to study English. After only a year's study she is able to take leading. parts in- English, and she speaks with only a slight accent. When she first went on the American stage she was ignorant of the custom of paying understudies, for In France an understudy for a leading actress re ceives no pay. All last season she un derstudied a prominent actress and re ceived no pay. This year she Is under salary, and already she has made a favorable Impression on New York audiences. Queen Elizabeth, of Roumania. better known as Carmen Sylva, celebrated her seventieth birthday December 29. The Queen is known all over the world for her literary work. She has written several novels and volumes of poetry and has taken a deep Interest In move ments for International peace. She has always been greatly interested In the blind and founded a home for the blind at Bucharest. It has been reported several times recently that she was threatened with the loss of her sight. OBSERVER PASSES DAY WATCHING Y.W.C. A.WORK Laura Hope Finds Many Real Throbs of Life, Unusual Evidences of Humanity and Much to Interest in Organization's Process. BY LAURA HOPE. O YOU KNOW," said Mrs. I I Charlston to her neighbor, Mrs. Grant, "that the most inter esting day I spent while away was spent at the Y. W. C. A. In Portland. I arrived at the association at 7:30 in the morning and found a secretary al ready at , the desk. Sister Anna in tended to come in on that 10:30 electric and meet me there. I did not get the telegram, saying that she was delayed a day, so expected her on every electric which came in until time for the train on which we intended to leave Port land. "I sat out near the desk where I could watch the people passing In and out. I never dreamed how many girls and women made use of that building In a day. Just after I arrived, two girls who had traveled all the way from Australia came in. They did not seem to have much money and did not want to take a room, so the secretary let them leave their baggage back of the desk, told them where they could get breakfast, and that they could use the rest-room upstairs If they were tired. "Then a girl came in who wanted a room in a private family. 'I don't want to pay much.' she said, 'and I want It near enough so that I can walk to work and save carfare." The secretary gave her the list of rooms and helped her find a suitable one. "Two 'jolly girls who, had stayed at the association all night came down soon. "We want to know where to get a good breakfast,' they said, 'and then we want to go out and find our friend. She used to be Leila Mclntyre and she married a John R. Smith. They arc living somewhere In Portland." The obliging secretary hunted through phone books and city directory until she located the only John R. Smith in the city, and started the girls on their merry search. "Before these girls left, the postman came with a big stack of mail. I won dered whether secretaries were as pop ular as the size of the pack indicated; but the girl at the desk said that most of it was not for them. 'About 40 girls call here regularly for their mail,' she said, 'and many transients have theirs sent here.' Woman Saves Plume From Rain. "Before she had her mail sorted, peo ple began to come in asking for the membership secretary and; the general secretary. By this time It was rain-1 ing, and a woman came in to leave the plume from her hat. 'I don't care about the hat.' she said, 'but I don't want to spoil the plume. Be sure that it doesn't get broken,' she admonished, I as she left. The girl behind the desk would have been busy enough Just answering the telephone for people who wanted to talk to the employ ment department. I heard her keep saying. 'Employment is busy. Will you call a little later or hold the phone?" "A very young girl who had not been able to wash away all traces of tears came in and asked to stay at the as sociation until she could get another position. When the secretary asked her if she had any friends, she said. 'No body but you folks and I don't know what I would do without you." It seemed to me that that was what the association was like, just a friend to all sorts and kinds of girls. ""Oh, girls.' called the secretary to a group of merry girls who had Just come down from the tearoom, "have any of you time to go down to the station for two foreign-speaking girls whose friends have not met them? The Travelers' Aid secretary cannot leave the station." A dark-eyed, pretty girl said that she would go. "About noon, there was a continual line of people waiting at the desk. A foreign girl asked if 'the Y. W. C. A. gets work for people." An old lady wanted to be directed to an old ladies' heme; a bashful couple asked where they could get a child to adopt; some people were using the public phone, and business girls were asking about the evening gymnasium and swimming classes. When I came down from lunch. It was Just the same. Some were asking for swimming tickets or membership blanks, some for books from the Library; some asked what good plays were going on, and some, what there was to see in Portland; while people still came who wanted to leave packages, violins, hats, coats, umbrellas, rubbers, groceries, etc. They did check some such funny things. One woman left a bird and bird cage, and a little girl wanted to leave her puppy. Night Sessions Basy) Too. "When I learned that Anna was not coming in until morning I took a room at the Association, did some shopping, ate my dinner there and then went to a concert- I was surprised to see how many business girls, who live in the suburbs, come direct from their work to the Association, meet their gentle men friends there and go from there to evening parties and entertalnmnts. "I returned from the concert about 10:30. The night secretary is at . the desk every night until 12 o'clock, and since I had been so interested in what went on during the day. I begged per mission to stay with her. I really won dered whether there was anything for her to do at that time of night. Scv-; -eral girls who came In on late trains were sent up to the matron, who gave them a room. ' One girl said, 'Oh, I'm so glad that there is a bed for me. I am afraia to go to a hotel, even though I know that it is all right, and the last time I was here the beds were all gone." 'Yes, we often have to send people away," said the secretary, 'but we al ways send them to a safe place. A number of shoppers had stayed to the theater and came in ror tnelr pack ages. A girl who came in at 11:30 asked If there was a telegram for her. When told that there was none, she began to cry. 'I telegraphed my people three days ago t3 send me money here," she said. 'I have only 30 cents left." 'I wouldn't cry," said the secretary, smil ing. 'The matron will give you a bed for a quarter and . the telegram will probably be here by morning." "At 12 the secretary saw that the building was all locked and went to her room, whie I went to mine. I sup posed that the Association was closed for the night. I am always a light sleeper, and about 12:30 I heard the faint tinkle of a bell. Listening. I heard some one go downstairs and again heard more footsteps coming up. They told me afterward that It was two girls whose train had been late. The Trav elers' Aid secretary had brought them to the Association, and with them a girl of about 20, who had been staying at a hotel looking for work. Her money had given out and she had found no po sition, so had gone down to the sta tion intending to sit there all night. They gave her a bed for nothing. "The matron told me the next morn ing that another ' girl was brought In. a little girl of 16, whom the police had found walking the streets because she had no place to go. "I wish," concluded Mrs. Charlston, "that our town could have an associa tion which was open to girls day and night and which could mean to them what that association does to the girls of Portland." And the neighbor sec onded the motion. BARN IS BUILT IN HILL Whitman County Man Also Con structs Underground Silo. ALBION. Wash., Jan. 3. (Special.) J. F. Kenoyer, a prominent farmer of Whitman County and a property owner of Albion, is building an odd barn and silo on his farm that Joins town. Mr. Kenoyer has excavated a place out of a sidehill 40 feet wide and 50 feet long for the barn. The walls will be of cement and on the first floor will be a -cow and horse stable, with room above for grain and hay. The front of the barn will be of cement blocks. The silo will be an underground af fair in connection with the barn. This also will have cement walls and wil.' be arranged so that the silage will b. cut and fed into the top of the silo with a gasoline engine. The feed will be taken out through doors in the first floor of the barn.