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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1916)
SECTION FIVE Pages 1 to 12 Woman's Section Special Features mm vol. xxxv." PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 21, 191G. NO. 21. 3 Good News From POWERS for Monday 2QO Hygeno Steel Carpet Sweepers Worth $3 Each, for Monday Morning May 22 at 8:30 o1 Clock 1 XO 1 A WONDERFUL CARPET SWEEPER IN A WONDERFUL SALE AT NEARLY ONE-THIRD ITS VALUE PUBLICITY IS THE OBJECT The prestige obtained in offering this unusually efficient sweeper at $1.19 will be too broad to measure in dollars and cents. Every house wife's eyes will dance with joy when she sees it. It is built of steel, light weight, very easy running, strong and durable. The "Hygeno" Sweepers are handsome in appearance, having beautiful mahogany finish and nickel trimmings. The regular retail value is $3. Bear in mind that there are only 200 sweepers offered, and these are sure to go quickly. No more can be obtained for at least sixty days, so be on hand. Only one sweeper to a customer. None sold before the sale day. No phone orders accepted. None sent C. O. D. See window display. The Famous J. McNeal Whistler Bedroom Suite Four Pieces for $98,50 Indeed, em Unusual Suite Just observe the Illustration study the beauti ful design, which is an example of the genius of James Whistler. Note the elegrance and sim plicity of1 the suite and remember to compare it piece by piece with those you have seen in olher stores at almost double the price. The Best Offered in Years No store ever offered a suite so d ist inctive at such & low price. Four splendid pieces of highest quality reduced to $98-50. Choose three pieces of the suite and pay only $79.50. or make your choice of any two pieces at $52.75. Tour choice of Ivory enamel or satin walnut. $10 Delivers It to Your Home and $2.00 weekly for a short time gives you a complete bill of sale. This unusual offering of credit provides a way to own a suite of char acter and quality at a very special price and gives you all the time you need in which to pay for it. See this suite complete in our special third-floor show rooms. Any Three Pieces $79.50 Any Two Pieces $52.75 Usual Price $120 oH' j J .Ui:. N : Terms Ivory Enamel Satin Walnut $10 Cash $2 Week Usual Price $120 Extra. Special Four-Foot Oak Porch Swings Complete With Chains AL $35 $16.50 Six -Foot Porch Swings Mission Style Porch Swings of heavy construc tion, choice of five or six-foot lengths, complete with chain. One of the beat porch-swing val ues we have presented this season. $12.95 $29.85 Buys This $380 Ivory Reed Carriage Built of hand-woven reed, "with gear same finish as body; luxuriously upholstered in corduroy; with full wind shield. Reversible gear. Hl.3 Callapalble Dell qq Salky for OS7C 6.50 Lirne-llit Hoed O C Salky reduced to "JfiJO S-Bow Hood Stargis 1- C C OC io-Cart.. 0J.7J Motion Folding; G Collapsible Adjustable Dress Forms $1 250 $1 Cash-SOc Week T A " A-B Sanitary Gas Ranges Trunks, Bags, Suitcases Underpriced Trunks and Bags in the newest wanted models, built of best materials and of finest work manship. A number of items specially priced for this week's business. The Sealy Tuftless attress 60 Days' Trial Guaranteed 20 Years A Big Pillow for the Body A single giant bat of pure, buoyant cotton, without lay ers or sections, that makes the mosfwonderfut mattress ia the world. The Sealy is absolutely body conforming, because there isn't a tuft in it nothing to keep it from instantly accommodating itself to every position of the body. Made entirely and solely of pure virgin, long-fiber cotton the best that grows. Specials in Drapery Materials JUST IN New Plain and Fancy Scrims. Voiles and Mar-qg n 5fl quisettes at. the yard IU DUC $1.75 to $2.00 Odd Lots Nottingham Curtains, the pair $ 15 JCST IX Filet. Bungalow and Levers Fancy .Nets, the 25 C t0 $1 85 $3.50 "to " $3.75 Bungalow" Net", Cable Net, Nottingham Lace CC Curtains, odd lots, the pair wAiUJ JVST XX New Scotch Madras, brown, gold, blue and green, figures on black ground, also combinations or colorings, the tCt C Tr C 1 DC iu axaj The Woman Who Does Her Own Work will find an ever constant joy in using the A-B Gas Range, because it lightens her work. When dinner is over she can take a damp cloth and make it glistening and new again. When she bakes she can in spect through the glass oven door. She presses a button to light any top burner she needs no matches. $1J00 a Week r b I Tixr i . r x cel. vv auun Extra Special $9.95 Worth many dollars more. Finished in mahogany, with removable tray and mould ed rim. Size of top 16 by 24 inches. Large 12-inch wheels. Finished dull mahogany. This New Victrola Outfit $39.65 VICTROLA VI. DOUBLE- DOOII CABINF.T K RECORD AI.BIM. SIXTEU.V ShXECIIO.VS (Eight Double-Faced Itecords.) SEVEN Hl'iVURED MCEULES, RECORD CLEANER. We Charge No Interest yard. DESTROY CATS AND SAVE BIRDS IS PLEA MADE BY STATE BIOLOGIST Special Day for School Children to Devote to Study of Mode of Life of Feathered Creatures and to Prepare Houses Is Set Aside by Governor Withycombe. Lr- iir i t li ii ' 1 1 i ii Tn ij irli'jam'iiiiwTi . S II 2 !' j rr.' iZm I . i. '-r ' ,2 i . - .'-';.si It-. y -s "v. s. s.- I I . - . - 41 rTjt'.2v.vvr.. .. l 4' - - ' -! ; - . ., .L... I Xv1. fe BT WILLIAM I a. F1XLKT. Photographs by II. T. Bohlman.) I CAN remember, not a great manv years ago, when in various parts of the city there were vacant lots and places where one could find old fir trees, maple stumps and others, with woodpecker Holes and crevices where some of our native song birkls lived. These places were the homes of bluebirds, wrens, swallows and chickadees. As the city grew and spread out these old stumps were cut down and soon the bird homes gave way to mod ern human homes. Many of our peo ple did not realize that they were driving out some of our most useful songsters. The birds return from the South each year and each season they found building places fewer and fewtir In number. They were compelled gradually to leave the city and go out further away in the woods where old stumps still remained. To meet these conditions and to at tract birds about our city, children of the public schools were interested In building blrdhouses and putting them up in the gardens, about the orchards and in the back yards. Hundreds and thousands were built each Spring and as the children put up birdhouses to rent for songsters the birds were at tracted to come bark and nest even in tho heart of the city. Wild BirdH Not Driven Out. It is often thought that our civiliza tion drives out the wild birds, but this is not the case. We often hear people who come from the Kant make the complaint that there are so few birds here in Oregon, especially song birds. The reason why song birds seem to tie more abundant in the Kastern cities or through the Kastern states is that the wooded sections are not so large and the birds are more centered about certain localities, and, again, the birds have learned to live nearer about hu man hbitatlons. . Here in Oregon so much of the coun try is wooded that birds spread, out moro and. they have not really learned to come about our towns and cilUs and live where people live. For in stance, our chimney swift of the West has not learned to nest in the chim neys yet. as the Kastern bird does, but the Pacific Coast bird drops down Into the tall, hollowed-out lir trees and makes its nest. The purple martin of the Pacific Coast has not learned to colon iee a-nd nest in a modern house, as the lias tern Martin does. A few years ago the wren and the bluebird nested in old stumps in the woods. Now they prefer :i modern birdhouse that is put up In the garden or oVchard. So as civiliza tion advances we shall have more birds, especially song birds, living in our midst. Amlnbon Sclrlc Formed. There is no trouble whatever to bring songsters about our homes in the city If we get the interest and help of our children. During the past year more than 200 school teachers in dif ferent parts of the state have organ ised junior audobon societies for the study of wild birds. Almost 4000 boys and girls scattered through nearly every county of the tate have been supplied with audubon buttons and bird leaflets and have been actively engaged in bird study nnd bird pro tection. There are three - ways that children can attract birds 'and make them more abundant about our homes. First. It is necessary to have at tractive trees and bushes, fo that birls may find places to build their homm in the branches and crotches where they are hidden by the leaves. To en courage those birds that live in bird houses a good number of attractive homes should be supplied so as to have bird tenants. In the second place, during the cold, snowy spells of Winter, when bird food Is scarce, we should put out bird seed, crumbs, nuts or some pieces of beef suet tied to limbs of trees. This latter takes the place of Insect food, that is scarce In Winter but abundant in Summer. Birds are often compelled to leave the North and go South dur ing tho Winter- time In search of food. By supplying this need of the birds we encourage them to stay about during the Winter and make this their per manent home. They are then more likely to remain nearby and nest and rear their families. In the third place. It is of vital Im portance that we keep in check or con trol those enemies of birds tbat are .V 4 Xe 7s?& 'J?Z?sr? ;Ve SZadrs- JtsA yZrny bergs' j : I; ; w-v-' .. .r 4 X1: continually hunting and destroying the songsters. The greatest enemy of the song bird and game bird in the city and in the country is the common stray house cat. The cat is the most per sistent enemy of wild birds. It hunts day and night. At every opportunity it kills young birds in the next or catches and cats the mother bird and leave- the young to starve. The stale inakoa laws to protect these wild bird:: it arrests and fines a man for killing birds. The minimum fine is ff25 for killing a ong bird or a game bird out of season, yet at the same time a stray cat is allowed to kill 60 or 100 birds that are most useful to tho farmer or the fruitgrower. One of the simplest methods, then, of protecting wild birds Is to get rid of the stray cat. wihch is a. menace to all bird life and a public nuisance. ' imrrd Destroyed by Bird. Our songbirds work more in con junction to hfcli man than any other form of outdoor life. Nature has given the bird its special task of holding In sect life in check, in order to protect plant life. If we were to kill oft the birds of a certain locality it would immediately overthrow the balance of nature and there would be correspond ing increase of insects. In a day's time a bush-tit and chickadee have been known" to eat hundreds of in sects' eggs and worms that are harm ful to our trees and vegetables. A brood of three young chipping sparrows were watched during one day and they were fed 187 times by the parents. A family of four song spar rows seven days old were fed 17 grass hoppers and two spiders in 67 minutes. The fly-catchers and swallows destroy vast numbers of Hies and gnats that annoy horses and cattle. The food oC the flicker or woodpecker consists largely of ants, which protect the aphides or plant lice, which are so de structive to gardens and orchards. There is no ciy in tiie I nited Stages that has a larger population of game birds and song birds than Portland. It Is rather unusual for game birds to live about a city. As & rule they are found more in the country, yet the population of Chinese or ring-necked pheasants in the City of Portland must be from 3000 to &000 birds. One may find pheasants in almost every part of the city, except in the downtown sec tion of skyscrapers. It is not unusual to see songbirds along our city streets. Across from my house, on a telephone pole. a. mea dow lark sings every morning. Tho robins carol from the housetop. They probe my lawn daily for worms. Kven the flicker or woodpecker lives here in the midst of the city. The old stumps arc gone, but telephone poles have been erected along the city streets. Home Is lntle In Pole. A woedpeckrr can bore a hole in a, telephone polo as easily as in any lir fctump. Around the corner from my house, on the corner of East Eighteenth and Main, a pair of flickers plugged a hole in a pole and hollowed out tho tn.-iide. For three different season i they have used this post as a home. They are as safe here as out in thi forest and perhaps a good deal eafv. Every year the bluebirds and whre breasted swallows make their nome.i !n my house. They live in the bird houses in the attic and the sparrows rent those on the lower floor. The Knulish s-parrow. of course, is our commonest city bird. He is a street urchin, a chattering gossiper. Like the roor, he is always with us. Any one can recognize the English spar row, because he is a short, siocky bird with rather a thick bill. The throat and chest of the male la black. The top of his head is gray and extending from each eye down to the back f his neck is a patch of chestnut red. Each wing also has a chestnut patcli and two white bands. The female English sparrow is plainly colored; the top of her head is grayish brown and her back is a little darker brown, but she does not have the reddish brown color of tho male. Tho under parts are plain gray. Beside the birds mentioned above one may find at least 50 species nesting in and around the city. The song spar row, the white-crowned sparrow and the chipping eparrow are all common residents. In the early Spring the Kufous humming bird arrives from the -South. He is first teen about the flow ering quinces or the wild currants. He ncsta in various parts of the city, in the rose bushes in the garden or i L"orH'IulM on 1'BKu f. Column 7. GOVERNOR PROCLAIMS BIRD DAY. Whereas. I have been petitioned by a large number of school children of Oregon to set aside a day which shall be known as "Bird day." wherein the study of bird life and the appreciation of our bird neighbors shall be given special attention, and Whereas. The designation of such a day in other states has given a real impetus to healthy educational work In this field. Now. therefore, I do hereby set aside and proclaim Friday, May 26. as "Oregon Bird day," and t urge that each boy and girl in Ore gon on that day tries to become better acquainted with the bird life of the state, and if possible to do something towards pro moting interest in the activities of our feathered friends; and I sug gest that parents and. teachers endeavor to include in the daily pro gramme, whether it be at home or in the school, some fitting instruc tion regarding the value of birds to any community, and of the pleasures and profits which study of bird life will bring. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the great seal of the state of Oregon to bo hereunto affixed, this 20th day of May. 1916. JAMES WITH YCOMBK. Governor of Oregon.
