SECTION FIVE
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Woman's Section
Special Features
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PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 21, 191G.
NO. 21.
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Good News From POWERS for Monday
2QO Hygeno Steel
Carpet Sweepers
Worth $3
Each, for
Monday Morning
May 22
at 8:30 o1 Clock
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.