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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 19, 1915)
TIIE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, SEPTEMBER 19, 1915. WORLD'S ODD EVENTS ARE PICTURED BY NEWS CAMERA Gentlemen Farmers Start Innovation in Judging Horses Girls Lunching in draveyard Cause Protest Mobs of Mexicans Beg Food. . I fx .fef S - u --'.iff ffM.W&- :i I- -rllft.,.. " '1" if -if v ....... ..A.? v s.s-?,j THU gentlemen farmers of Long Is land have started an Innovation In the judging of horses at out door horse ehows which promises to become popular throughout the country. At the recent horse show held at Southampton, L. I., one of the classes which passed before the judges was the "horse to a lawn mower" class. In one of these new-fangled driving tigs. Colonel Robert M. Thompson, who not long ago criticised the Naval pro Biamme of the United States and plead ed for a larger Navy, drove his horse John. w m m Some anti-vice leaders in New Tork are agitating the question of .public porters who, it is reported, act as the agents for disreputable hotels in New Tork City. They meet young girls at the station and "steer" them to these hotels, which pay them a commission. As porters are licensed by the city, it is believed they can be controlled and efforts to prevent men of bad moral character getting licenses as porters are being made. Miss Hannah Randolph and Miss Helena Fish viewed the polo game at Newport just after the wedding of Margaret Andrews and Morgan Bel mont, where they acted as bridesmaids. They wore the same dresses as at the wedding and carried the bouquets of flowers tied with their white streamers of ribbon. One of the most conspicu ous events of the season among New port's select set was this wedding, when the beautiful Margaret Andrews became Mrs. Morgan Belmont. . Protest has been made by some of those who own burial plots in St. Paul's Churchyard, New York, against the custom of making it a luncheon resort. It has been the habit of the girl clerks employed in the skyscrappers which surround the cnurcn to tane their luncheons to the churchyard and there sitting . against a tombstone, to eat it while reading a book. Agnes and Stofano Macchi di Colore, the children of the Italian Ambassador to the United States, aided in the Italian war relief fund by performing native dancing in native costume. The Italian festa at which they appeared was under "the patronage of Ambassa dor and Countess Dolores Macchi di Collore. the parents of the youngsters, at Lookout Hill, the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Hays Hammond. A delight ful programme of Italian music, songs and folk dances entertained the most prominent of New England's society members. The proceeds of the enter tainment will be used for the relief of the wives and children of the Italian reservists who have gone to the front from New England. v A palatial mansion on Mianto nomi avenue, Newport. R. I., was owned by Dr. C. Franklin Mohr, the provi dence, R. I., physician who was mur dered. In" this beautiful $75,000 home, many Women who are socially promi nent and leading figures in the life of the famous society watering place were treated by the man who was shot to death while en route from his Provi dence office with his secretary to his office in his home in Newport. . . ' .V. ' y"'. i7o JrZaicTz. Unelrrfo2 Mobs of hungry Mexicans assemble before the municipal, slaughter-houses in Mexico City to receive chunks of raw meal distributed by the American Red Cross. German officers saluted the proces sion of clergymen and laymen of Hae len on its way to the cemetery, where the soldiers killed in the battle of Haelen last year were buried. On the anniversary of the famous battle, the graves of the heroes were decorated with flowers. EDITH LANYON IN ZONE RAIDED BY ZEPPELINS Cow, However, -Feared More Than War Balloons German Spies Still Thick in Britain and Are Shot Offhand When Caught. BT EDITH E.'I,ANTOJf. SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND, Aug. 23. (Special Correspondence.) Here I am auite in the Zeppelin uangcr zone, but seem able to sleep at night as comfortably and as soundly as ever. One of the more recent bombs thoughtfully landed in a water butt, and after its bath was harmless. We have seen a good many aeroplanes lately; on guard duty. I suppose. We have four soldiers working here helping to get in the harvest, ten men from here having enlisted. These men of ours belong to Kitchener's army. I am several hundred miles from where I was when I last wrote and have seen any amount of soldiers everywhere en route. In one town where 1 stayed there was wild excite ment the night before I left, as a de tachment of the soldiers were ordered off at two hours' notice to take the Maces of the men who were lost on the Royal Edward. , The whirring of engines and wings in he air. the Morse signaling of il earn whistles and the blowing of bugles all night long was quite in spiring, although It certainly did not induce sleep. Those that were taken were overjoyed and those that were left quite dejected. A lot of Royal Army Medical Corps men went. My mind Is now at ease about the Red Cross examination on nursing, as I am glad to say I did pass, and not only passed, but did extra well in typhoid and disinfections! Now I am hard fit work learning "Bones" in Red Cross Manual No. 1, ready for the next examination. "Why, oh. why are there si many of them and why do they have such Jaw-breaking names? My "superior maxilla" and my ."inferior maxilla" will both be cracked, I know. My bones were never very noticeable, so I never knew that I had so many. We took a wounded New Zealander from the Dardanelles out for a drive tne other day. He seemed cheerful in spite of a smashed leg bone, caused by a Turkish bullet. He had also had iodine rash badly. He had never been in England before and loved the drive along the pretty lanes between the leafy hedges, and went into raptures over the quaintness of the cottages. We had tea in a , cottage garden . so brimful of flowers that they were running out of the gate to meet us, and climbing out over the walls. We took back an armful of them to the hospital. Man Eager to Return. He . was keen to get back again to the war and told me it beat big game hunting all hollow for excitement, al though he would rather be fighting Germans than Turks. He said that when they took any prisoners they I 14.... 2. W 7 " jf. .jo, --X ' M....y- , rr w-, .r. . . . c TV Hpif if -V- M if ":r$1 w t k.ww- - -4" rw.' wJ . . , f s . ' ii.fflirr"trr v:.-.., 'C(" I 1 ..1- !i '1 f If Turnout '. were so dirty that it was necessary to give them a compulsory bath. One Turk was poked with a bayonet until he swam a river. The poking was only a threat. It did not really hurt. Mr. K. said he believed Turks would really almost rather die than take a good scrub-off. He was in a temporary Red Cross Hospital, which was a school building in times of peace. His ward was rather amusingly labeled "Girls" and some more big Colonials were labeled "Infants." Territorial nurses were in ' charge as sisters and looked beauteous in their silver gray uniforms or some sheeny material with scarlet facings. The Red Cross nurses (underlings) were in white, with a big red cross on the bibs of their aprons. The wards were gorgeous with flowers and, as the Australians and New Zealanders are popular, they had lots of visitors to cheer them up. A great many people have written to invite them as guests when they are strong enough to leave the hospital. But they seem more keen on fighting than seeing sights. As a matter of fact, strange though it may appear, perfectly nice men love war. Of course they all want to get it over (so they say), but they do thoroughly enjoy it whilst it is in be ing. They like it until they get wounded anyway. They ail say it Is so interesting. It is hard for a wom an to understand, but I do believe there will be a regular "slump" when it's all over and the men will be bored to death! A lot of South Africans arrived here. a few days ago, as anxious to fight the Germans in Europe as they were to "go" for them in Africa. These are the ones who were too keen to wait and come with the big contingent. They wear sun helmets and look quite able to fight much and often. All of them are tanned and sunburnt. My- young fighting friend from France is now at home for a few -days well-earned leave. His father is in the R. A. M. C. now and has been un der canvas two months. The young Captain I spoke of in one of my earlier letters is dead. Poor fellow, one of his men was wounded and he went out to comfort him and was shot by the Germans. I saw him often, full of life and activity, drilling his men and bringing them back from route marches early in the morning. He left Oxford to join the army. Several girls I know have gone to work in munition works. The rules and regulations for their safety are quite severe and they are not allowed to wear either corsets or hairpins. They wear a loose overall uniform and have their hair braided and tied up with rib bons, usually under a cap. I really believe the Englishwoman is as interested in war work as the Eng lishman is in war itself. Our sudden determination to learn milking set quite a fashion in the village. Several of the village girls are learning to milk now. We were usually surrounded by an ad miring crowd. Milking would .be all right if it was not for the cow. I daresay she Is quite as sorry to be there as I am sorry that she Is present. I am, up to How, much more afraid of a cow -in the hand than of a Zeppelin in the bush! I spoke before of a friend who was doing harvesting for-war work during her vacation. The feelings of her cousin (and mine)' were so worked on by thinking- of the hardships she and her companions had to endure that she has offered to go and cook and keep house for them in her vacation. They have nad an empty cottage lent them to live in and-it seems to be mostly furnished with empty boxes. The cook ing has to be done on a wee open fireplace. The last I heard of them they were trimming hedges because the weather was too wet for '"shocking" corn. I do believe the whole lot of them .ire glorying In the hard work and the inconveniences. Betrayal Bieta Spy $1. A Belgian refugee told me the other day that the regular pay a spy got for betraying a British officer was four shillings one dollar! Somehow it made me furious, quite unreasonably, to think he did not get more. It seemed altogether too cheap , for a British officer. Spies certainly are the scum of the earth and there is still scum to skim in England. Even all the addresses of the Belgian refugees "are known in Germany and those with money have recently been warned to return to Bel gium or their property there will be confiscated. These warnings came in the usual way through the poatoffice, in envelopes quite correctly addresssed. So there are still many harmful harm less-looking German spies amongst us. At one of the soldiers" camps, not far orf, a meek-iooKing individual was discovered emptying a bottle full of typhoid germs in the soldiers' drink ing water. He was shot oft hand, I am glad to say. A woman I knew was traveling in a railway carriage with two men and, unobserved by" either of them, saw a pigeon's head peepins out of the pocket of the one who at opposite. She quietly got out at the next station and told the guard. The men were arrest ed at once and were found to be two notorious and elusive Gvraian secret service men. The carrier pigeon was all ready to fly home across the North Sea with lots of valuable information and plans. The men were sent to Join the typhoid germ man. Some time later the woman got 100 by post from the Engli.sh authorities for her presence of mind. The soldier' marching tune at the moment ot writing is "Gilbert the Filbert." Rather a silly little music- hall song written with a catchy air. They say that one of the weirdest af fairs of the war was the war dance of the Maorles in the Dardanelles. The Turks were very much upset and scan dalized. The Maori chief who led the dance was an M. A. and LL. D. of Ox ford. They are bright and shining lights with the New Zealand .contin gent. Having taken you into confidence about my tears of rage on the loss of Warsaw it might not be out of place to mention that I am weeping no tears today on the loss of the 11 German ships in the Baltic. "Au contraire." as our allies, the. French, would put it! I believe the Germans hold a record for never having rescued a single drowning man from one of our tor pedoed battleships. In addition to which they cheerfully watch drowning women and children. We are really beginning to quite dis like the Germans. I saw a jubilant Red Cross nurse this evening. She is enjoying herself be cause she is doing war work at last. She is on duty all night Just now and gets up ct 6 P. M. and goes on duty about 10 P. M. When she is not on duty or asleep she is mostly on the way (by train) to and from the hos pital. It's wonderful how happy .she Is, I was quite envious. Perhaps some day soon I. too, shall be "swanking" about in a blue uniform and a cap and apron with a big red cross on the bib. This is the dress of the volunteer aid detachments. In the military hospitals the Red Cross nurses wear white uniforms. i BLOOD VOLUNTEER FAILS Dying Philadelphia Woman .Does Xot Get Promised Aid. rtitijADtiLiPHiA, sept. 13. a prom ise to give three pints of his blood in an effort to save the life of a woman patk'iit at University Hospital was not kept by a young man who called at thu institution sevvral dnys ngo and ex pressed a williiiu"nes to undergo a transfusion ope ration. Th young man was selected from several candidates for the operation be cause his blood passed a. lest imposed by Dr. Wallace Frank, of the hospital staff. His Idood wns found to be in a, healthy condition and he was notified to come hack to the hospital and sub mit to the operation. When iie did not show up physicians concluded that ha had "cold feet." Dr. Frank advertised l'or men to give some of their blood li aid a dying woman. More than no applicants ap peared. It is probable that another advertisement will be inserted for moie candidates. (iirl 15, Hoy 17. Married. SIIAMOKIN. Pa.. Sept. 13. Seven weeks ago Florence Curry and George Pouden, the former 13 and the latter IT years old. disappeared from here. Their pnrents have received word from them at Allentown that they had been married there. . Banker Dies From "Bennor." CLINTON, la.. Sept. 3. Peter C. Duen. a wealthy Charlotte property owner, bank cashier, former postmaster and merchant, died at a hospital here, the result of being struck 'n the eye with a baseball while playing catch recently. How to Keep Face Young and Attractive The way to ward off old ase Is not to fear it, not to allow one'js self to be op pressed by the dread of advancing years. Use .only legitimate preventives and avoia trying experiments with preparations not indorsed by physicians. An entirely safe and very effective way to keep the com plexion younj;-lookir.g and beautiful 16 to apply ordinary mercolized wax at bedtime, uslns it like cold cream, washing it off in the morning. This gradually absorbs the withered, faded cuticle,- which is replaced by the more youthful, plnk-tlnted under skln. One ounce of this wax, to be had at any drugstore, is enough to completely re juvenate a worn-out complexion. Crow's feet and other wrinkles, the first signs of advancing age. may be removed by a simple, harmless preparation made' by dissolving an ounce of powdered saxolite in a half pint witch hazel. It is used at a face bath. National Hygienic-Review. Adv.
