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TIIE SUNDAY OREGOMAX, PORTLAND, JUNE 6. 1913. H V ENGLISH WOMEN- E SANDBAGS der. with an airship in the attic and a submarine in the basement! A Edith E. Lanyon, of Portland, Finds Life in England Full of Thrills. BRITISH IRE NOW AROUSED fcins Adorn Homes Where Men of l'amilj- Are at rVont, but Food Is Plentiful and Price Little Higiier Than Formerly. By EDITH B. T. ANTON. CORNWALL, England. May 19. I am till taking my "official rest," reading Red Cross books on nursing and first aid. practicing Danaaging and sewing and bags. The Ked Cross "V. A. D.'s (Volunteer Aid Detachment) here are busily sewing sand bags instead of the mk shirts we hear sung of for the sol diers. They use t!w-m for barricades now instead of bidding up befenses, they are more mobile. They shovel and into these bags and each soldier takes two. one in each hand, rushes forward and throws his bag in front of him and crouches down behind them. The next soldier piles his on top and bo on until they quickly have a wal of defense in front of them. They need 10,000.000 of these bags at once so we are all busy. It is not exactly dainty work as we sew coarse sacking with packing needles and string, but 1 rejoice in it. Each bag may mean life British life saved, and that helps some, even if one's fingers do get blistered. At last England is getting thoroughly annoyed with the Germans. The British are a long suffering peo ple and it takes them a long time to get really angry. But they are angry, and righteously angry, now. The bar barous treatment by the Germans of the women and children of Belgium and iNorthern ranee, their outrageous use of poisonous gases in warfare, and the sinking of the undefended Lusitania and her helpless passengers have utter ly disgusted everybody. l'rlend Lost on I-iU wl t a n I. One of my very good friends was drowned on the Lusitania. I was ex pected there, at his house, on a visit in a week or two. Now he is gone and his wife broken-hearted. They are both Americans. She sails for New York, May 29. Probably she, too, may be drowned, for she is a woman, helpless and alone, and therefore a fitting tar get for a Gerrrian submarine to choose. Recruiting has been brisk down here since the Lusitania was so wantonly destroyed. A Methodist minister was making a speech at one meeting. A man jumped up and said, "I will join the Army if you will." "Right," said the clergyman, and immediately enlisted, and makes a. very smart soldier. 1 saw a squad at bayonet practice yester day afternoon. War is real, you know. From what the sergeant said I gather ed that, when charging, if the bayonet was parried you knocked your man's brains out with the butt end of your rifle! The men seemed very enthusias tic about it, and I began imagining German brains spread over rifle butts until 1 felt quite squeamish and left abruptly. Not so squeamish, however, as if it had been English brains I was imagin ing spread around like butter. German brains would be better placed hap hazard on English rifle butts than im agining more ways of breaking The Hague Convention's rules for civilized Warfare. "Tlpperary" Loses Popularity. The soldiers don't sing "Tipperary" any more. The Germans sing it now, 1 believe. I heard a regiment sravlv Ringing "Great Big Beautiful Loll" the 1 Club. MAYOR'S SON FLEES, WEDS "Why, He Promised to Wait Till He Was 21," Says Mother. ST. LOUIS, June 2 Elmer A. Kiel. 20 years old, son of Mayor Kiel, who promised, his parents he would not marry until he attaired his majority, was married in Chicago to Miss Marie A. Budde, of St. Louis, following an automobile elopment. Kiel, who is vice-president of the Kiel & Drugs Bricklaying & Contract ing company, and Miss Budde, who is daughter of Mrs. J. J. Magoe, of 4173 Russell avenue, left St. Louis in young is-iei s automobile Saturday night, chap eroned by Mr. and Mrs. W. Arthur Browning, of 1641 Missouri avenue. .News of the wedding came in a news dispatch. Thj dispatch said Kiel placed uia use si aDU jau&b nuaae cumesgcci 21 when they applied for the license. They were accompanied by the Brown ings, and went, immediately after pro curing the license, to the office of Judge S. N. Hoover, where they were married. A merry wedding party at Hotel Sherman followed. . In telling about the wedding the Judge said the couple were much de voted to each other and as soon as he PIOXEER OF 1S47 DIES PORTLAND AT SO. 4 IN $ . . . ' i 3. t it it t t :t v W ft . 1 i i .MutmtiKmiA. 1 4 Ldward Gibbons. Edward Gibbons, who died at his hone, 6022 East Fortieth ave nue North, Monday, May 30, was born in Niagara County. New York, October 19, 1835. He ac companied his parents to Lake County, Illinois, and then in 1847 made with them the overland journey to the Northwest, set tling in Clarke County, Washing ton Territory, about a mile and a half east of Washougal. The family resided there until 1899. when they moved to Portland. Mr. Gibbons married Miss Char lotte Fletcher. Mr. and Mrs. Gibbons with their 10 children celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in March of this year. The body was sent to Washou gal Tuesday for burial. had "said the words" they kissed and embraced, to the embarrassment of the Judge. They admitted they had eloped. When apprised of the wedding. Mrs. Kiel said she could hardly believe it. Why, Elmer promised us he would wait until he was 21," she said. The engagement of Kiel and Miss Budde first became known last Bummer when they went to Okawville, 111., and sent back a postal card announcing they were on their honeymoon." At first it was believed they had eloped, but later Kiel explained it was not for mally announced until last December 7, at a dinner at the Century Boat other day. It sounded a lot like Port land. England Is as beautiful as ever, war or no war. but how about Belgium and Northern France this Spring. The yel low primroses and the blue bells car J'et the woods here, but surely if the flowers spring up over there they will be red as blood. When a man joins Kitchener's Army his family proudly put up in the front window of his house a red cardboard disc. On it in big letters it sayB: "Not at Home." Around this in smaller let ters it says. "A man from this house has joined His Majesty's forces." It is interesting to see these discs. Each looks not unlike a drop of blood. Very appropriate; each man being will ing to shed his blood for his country. My cousin has joined the R. A. M. C. tHoyal Army Medical Corps) and at his house on the hill one of these discs is proudly displayed at the window. At the little cottage at the gates another is proudly displayed. They are both pone. At another house I know of hang two discs, one for the on and heir and one for the footman. Both were killed together in the same battle, in the same regiment. Voung Officer l pplnh." Some young new-fledged officers are very full of authority. That night when 3 landed at Liverpool a young Canadian soldier, home on sick leave, stood with my friends. They had brought him with them for a motor ride. Along came a new young officer. He sharply exclaimed to the young Cana dian, "Why don't you salute me?" "Be cause, sir," replied our friend. "I lost the use of my right arm at Hons." He was one of the King's Own Horse (the Liverpools) and. I understand, one ot the 75 survivors of 2000 of them. The young officer had not yet seen ser vice, he turned very red and walked on without a word. Time will probably mellow him. We still manage to get plenty to eat over here. 1 believe bread is dearer and meat is not yet quite as dear as it is in Portland. Sugar is nine cents a pound. Postage stamps are the same price they always were, and there is a scarcity of Maria Farina Eau de Co logne. The latter is quite likely to be a good deal siarcer. In fact I believe loyal Englishwomen would hardly ac cept it as a gift. At the cleaners yes terday they told me dye was dearer. They also said they were short-handed as most of their men had joined the -rmy and their girls become war brides. The "War Brides," 1 under stood, "laid off" "and lived on their sep aration allowances! War Accepted nx Matter of Fact. It is the s-reatest wor.der to me still how soon one become accustomed to "being at war." We get letters right from the trenches breathing "battle, murder and sudden death." We read our letters and feet duly thrilled; then we eagerly read our morning papers, and just as eagerly eat our breakfast We sew our sand bags just as serene ly as if we were making embroidered note books or powder puff bags. When we've sewed all wc can we drink our cups of tea and eat our little cakes and talk our little talk just as usual. Then perhaps we say how lucky it was that the bullet in so and so's brother went right through him and came out the other ride instead of staying in and having to be probed for. We pull- our shades down at night, by request, so that airship bombs will not selct us for a target. Then we go to bed and sleep serenely until the morning. It is true. I am sure, that one could soon start keeping house quite comfortably over a. barrel of guupow- Kiel met Miss Budde when both were students at McKiuley High School. The bride is one of the most athletic young women of the Century Boat Club. She is an expert swimmer. Mayor Kiel said last night that he was not surprised at the news of Elmer's elopement, although he had hoped they would wait at least a year. Leading Jewelers Move. Jaeger Bros., jewelers, now at 266 Morrison st., between 3d and 4th, about July l. will be located at 131-133 6th st., Oregonian bldg., ground floor. This firm started in business in Portland about 15 years ago, in a modest way, and their growth has been steady and sure. The coming move is another step in their continued growth and progress. The new store will be one of the finest establishments of the kind in the West. Adv. FACTORY MA.tAGEIt HAS LO.G ' HE CO HI AS BAJSD LUADE1L y& .: J. n. Jttinger. J. B. Ettinger looks for all the world like a quiet, modest, un assuming American business man. He's all that, and more. He doesn't wear his hair" long or sport a flowing necktie but he is an educated musician and the conductor of the Rosarians' band of this city. At the sa e time he is manager of the American Woodworking Machiner- Com pany.; North Fo,rtland. and en gages in music only for pleasure. He was formerly,, conductor of Pinion x.initary jtsantf. fenn- th sylvania; Sixth Regimen-: Nation al Guard Band, Chester, Pa.; First Brigade National Guard Band. Philadelphia; Carlisle In dian Band, Carlisle. Pa., and Et tinger's Concert Band, of Phil adelphia and New York. c ice, when Mr. Ettinger's band was playing at the Pan American Exposition. Buffalo. N. V., liis concert soloist wp.s Miss Grace Greenwood Anderson, col orature soprano. The Miss Ander son of those days is Mrs. J. Ettinger. Let J enning's Supply You With New Furniture V. . You May Choose Here From the Largest Stocks at Prices as Low as Any Liberal Credit, Easy Terms Three Great Rug Specials $32.50 Body Brussels Rugs $22.85 Ten different patterns in the best grade of body Brussels in 9x12 room-size Rugs offered this week at a 'generous reduction, $22.83 $30.00 Axminster Rug $19.85 Just six patterns in handsome 9x12 Axminster floor Rugs on sale tomorrow and all week at this attractive price, $19.83. $5.00 Bigelow Utopia Rugs $3.35 A factory close-out of splendid 30x60 Rugs at one-third less than normal price. Buy them here this week at $3.35. ' We Sell Garland Steel Ranges You make an absolutely sound investment when you buy a Gar land; for nearly fifty years they have been recognized as "The World's Best." All Garland Ranges we sell are fully guar anteed both by the manufacturer and by us. Signal-Garland $40.50 Upward The Signal-Garland burns either coal, coke or wood. We are showing some handsome models with nickeled sanitary base and trimmings and pol ished top; 16, 18 or 20-inch oven. Call and let us show you the many points of superiority of these fine Ranges. Refrigerator Sale We are closing out six dif ferent makes of Refriger ators at unusually low prices. Now is the time to buy a Refrigerator far be low the normal cost. Linoleum Special $1.50 Inlaid Linoleums $1.10 We have a few choice patterns in these heavy inlaid linoleums which we offer this week, fitted and laid on your floor, for only, yd. $1.10 Drapery Specials $2.23 COUCH COVERS $1.G5 Handsome Oriental patterns, in full size tapestry couch covers, will be featured this week at the attractive price of $1.65 40c CRETONNES, 210 Artistic designs in Cretonnes, selling regularly at 40c and 30c, will be on sale this week at 21 See our handsome display of genuine Navajo and Chemawa Indian Blank ets. Take a blanket with you on your boating and outin trips. Bright, new patterns, moderate prices. Lawn and Porch Furniture Our importations of Seagrass Furniture are arriving Easy Chairs, Rockers, Lounges, Tables, Workbaskets, Settees, Fruit Stands and Children's Furniture. Prices are lower than we have before. Both Stores. . Great Spring Clearance Sale continues with unabated interest at Second and Morrison Store. Read this list of bargains, which is repre sentative of the great reductions now in effect on our entire stock. Watch our window displays ; new economies are presented daily. $14.00 Royal Oak Princess Dressers, genuine 18x30 French plate beveled mirror, extraordinary value $7.85 $4.00 Quartered Oak Dining Chairs, with leather uphol stered box seat. $2.75 Regular $6.00 Cotton Combi nation Mattress, covered with art tick, roll edge, 4-4 or 3-4 size, Spring Clearance, $2.95 $11.50 Layer Felt Mattress, full 40-pound, with fine art tick and roll edges. Sale, 5.95 $4.50 English Breakfast Ta bles, with 33x38 tops, superi or finish, solid and substan tial. Spring Sale price $2.70 Regular $2.00 Pair Feather Pillows, size 18x28, covered with a good grade of art tick. Special, each 50c $11.50 Wool and Fiber Rugs, size 8-3x10-6, reduced during this Clearance Sale to. .$8.25 Flags! Flags! Flags! For Rose Festival decora tions. All our Flags are fast colors and have sewed stripes. All are specially priced this week. 6x9 Flags, Special. ..$1.35 5x8 Flags, Special.. .$1.12 3x5 Flags, Special.. .$1.59 2yzx4 Flags, Special.. .45c $2.50 Flags, size 3x5, with jointed pole and metal holder, complete outfit, boxed. Special $1.35 Sale of Rugs 225 Seamless Brus'ls Rugs, 9x12 room size, floral, con ventional and Oriental de signs. Regular $20 Rugs. Spring Clearance. ...$14.75 Henrv Fifth and Washington Sts. Jennin 'The Home of Good Furniture" oo Second and Morrison Sts. CHINESE TRADE ADVISED AMERICA HAS OPPORTUNITY, SAYS CONSUL-GENERAL. Great Britain Will Be Chief Competi tor, Having Taken Advantage of Loss to Germany. ' OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, June 3. With restoration of normal conditions'' in China, Consul General Anderson. atHonskong, be lieves the United States should be able to develop an unusually large com merce with that country, especially as China today is cut off from her Euro pean markets, except Great Britain, be cause of the war. Great Britain, how ever, has been takinfc advantage of the war to secure a portion of the China trade that formerly went to Germany, and Americans seeking to develop trade with China will have British competi tion to meet. Discussing the outlook for American trade, Mr. Anderson says: "American opportunities depend largely upon the resumption of normal conditions in China. With the advent of normal demand for foreign goods for use in China there will be a de mand for American goods In many lines, for the reason that the United States at the present time is almost the only country in a position to sup ply such goods. Iron and steel prod ucts; many lines of building materials, such as glass, hardware of certain grades, construction steel, nails, wires, and all similar goods; electrical and most propelling machinery and all similar products; many lines of chem ical products; clocks and watches; many lines of hardware; notions of all sorts, such as brass and fancy buttons, needles, etc.; glass and glassware; hosiery and haberdashery; paper and stationery. In all these lines of staple products there are opportunities, but they will not be great, and in general every part of the trade will be con tested. Japanese manufacturers are already in the field with Japanese man ufactured substitutes for nearly all lines of German goods. "While British manufacturers are suffering many disadvantages because of the war, they are still getting not only nearly all the business they have had heretofore which is now to be had, but they are also getting a large pro portion of that business heretofore, be longing to countries at war with Great Britain which is now available." BOND BUYERS . WARNED Russian Embassy Advises Care Purchase of Issue. in NEW YORK, June 1. The Russian Embassy at Washington caused an an nouncement to be made here recently stating that "all offers of Russian treasury bonds that do not come di rectly from the leading banks of the United States are absolutely unau thorized and valueless, being without the knowledge of the Government, and such negotiations will be entrusted solely to the special representative of the Russian Minister ' of Finance, Gregory Wilenkin." In explanation the embassy said it considers it necessary to make this declaration in the name of the imperial government "in order to prevent pos sible misunderstandings based upon misinformation." - WIFE POURS ON ALCOHOL Husband, Soaked, Awakes to l'iiid Spouse Looking for Match. ST. LOUIS, June 2 Count J. Lcor.ti- vich Leschinsky, of 320 Skinner road, filed suit in the Circuit Court yester day for a divorce from his second wife. Sirs. Irene Sanford Leschinsky, a few hours after she brought a replevin suit against him to gain possession of an automobile he has been driving. Count Leschinsky married his second wife December 19 last, shortly after he was divorced by Mrs. Sonia M. Leschin sky. The second Mrs. Leschinsky was the divorced wife of Baron Carl von Schrader. She was known as Miss Irene Sanford after her divorce. The wedding followed the disclosure that Miss Sanford had paid Mrs. Sonia M. Leschinsky a sum of money prior to her divorce suit against the Count. The payment was made to settle any claims Mrs. Leschinsky might have against Miss Sanford. Count Leschinsky. In his divorce peti tion, alleges that Sunday, while he was asleep, his wife poured a large quantity of wood alcohol over him. The smell, he alleges, awakened him. When he protested against her conduct and asked her what she was doing, he charges, she told him she was looking for a match. When they were' living at Hotel Jef ferson, February T last, he charges, she broke a water pitcher over his head in their apartments and struck him with & telephone receiver. He says she is sub ject to fits of temper and is jealous. Last Sunday, he says, Mrs. Leschinsky left his apartments and went to the home of her mother, Mrs. Louise Bertha Sanford, of 4218 West Pine boulevard, for the second time since their mar riage. The first separation, he alleges, occurred May 16. Mrs. Leschinsky re turned after a few days. JOB ON SHELLS REFUSED Patriotism Costs Spouse, Shy on Ali mony, Three Years In Prison. MILWAUKEE, June 2. Brought into court for violating his probation, Will lam Henning, when he heard the 'tes timony of Probation Officer Puis that a position at $4 a day with the Federal Pressed Steel company had been se cured for him and that he had refused to work there, sprang to his feet and dramatically declared that he would not work in any place where shells were being made for the allies. "I am willing to work and will work gladly if given a chance," he said, "but I refuse to help make the shells with which my countrymen are being shot down." When the court was informed that Henning, since being placed on proba tion had earned good wages, but that since October he had paid his wife only $4, Judge Backus revoked his proba tion and sentenced him to three years in state's prison. WELLESLEY IS SCORED COLLEGE CITED AS TYPE HELD TO CAUSE RACE SUICIDE. Boy Preaches Baccalaureate Sermon. T1SRRE HAUTE, Ind., June 2 Blanchard Davis, aged 17 years, a member of the graduating class of Hie Sullivan High School, delivered, the baccalaureate sermon for the class at the Presbyterian Church here. He has occupied the pulpit several times in the Baptist Church. His subject was "Man's Dominion." Pittsburg Educators Aver Separate ln- titntlons for Women Should Be Abolished, and Give Figures. WASHINGTON, June 1. Separate colleges for women in the United States should be abolished and co-education substituted, according to Professor Ros well Johnson and Bertha J. Stutzraann, of the University of Pittsburg. This declaration is based on the charge that women's colleges contribute largely to race suicide among the best elements of the American population. In support of this contention, the rec ords of Wellesley College have been an alyzed, and. the results published in the June number of Journal of Heredity, organ of the American Genetic Associa tion of this city. The writers iind that 20 years after graduating, less than one-half of the girls have married. These have borne only one and one half children each. Taking all the stu dents into account, and allowing enough time to elapse so that it is probable they will bear no more children, it is found that the Wellesley girls contrib utee less than one child apiece to the race that is where they don't even produce their own number. And the lienor scholars, who from a eugenic point of view are assumed to be the pick of the lot, do only about a third as well as this. In order to maintain a stationary pop ulation, the writers say that every mar ried woman should bear four children. From this point of view, they believe the women's colleges are hastening the extinction of the old American slock. The college was blamed for failure to give girls an opportunity to meet young men and for failure to make them de sirous or competent to be wives and mothers. It is shown statistically that the marriage rate of "co-eds" is consid erably better, and it is remarked that at Wellesley the students are forbid den to receive men callers even on Sun day, their only free day. Viewed as to marriageability, the writers consider a woman most attractive during her col lege years, and they declare it of vital importance that young men should be allowed to meet them in that period. "Women's colleges are a historic blunder," is is stated. "The separation of sexes in different colleges and the failure to teach girls domestic science are contrary to the interests of society and the race, and parents are urged to send their daughters to co-educational universities, or at least to seml-co-edu cational ones, such as Harvard and Co lumbia, where they will have some op portunity to meet superior young men, pending the time when women's col leges will be reorganized on lines more likely to safeguard the future of the race." Status of Jitney Issue. SPRINGFIELD., 111., June 2 The State Public Utilities Commission will decide whether the "jitney" bus is a public utility. The decision will be made In the case of the petition of the Jacksonville Street Railway Company vs. L. V. O'Donnell and other "jitney" bus owners of Jacksonville. The petition declares the "jitney" bus is a public utility under the mean ing of the 1913 law. This Is the first attempt to obtain state regulation of the "jitney" bus, although this form of transportation is in operation in nearly every city in the state. Florhia is expending $6u0,0OtJ on bricic roads in St. John County. I"1 '".-erxpas Visitors to the Rom Kratlval Prepared to Io Their llrnt.il rering With Their Pleasure Will Kind I'a I'ully Work Without Inter- 28 Years' Actual Practice As a Dentist in Portland enables me to speak with authority on every thin,T pertaining to high-grade modern den tistry. 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