SECTION FIVE
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Woman s Section
Special Features
VOL. XXXV
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OREGON'S THANKSGIVING FEAST PROVIDED
BY DOUGLAS COUNTY FARMERS AS USUAL
Turkeys, the Finest Known, and Thousands of Them, Are Prepared in Rich District of Which Oakland Is Center
of Distribution.
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HOME, ON VERGE OF BREAKING
UP, IS REUNITED BY OUTING
Husband Becomes Devoted to Profession and Loses Interest in Wife, but
Is Awakened After Flirtation With Another.
BY MART INEZ MARTIN.
NOW THIS is an impossible story.
In the hands of the novelist or
even on the moving picture
screen it would be too palpably the
flight of fancy of the fictionist. And
yet the setting is the commonest one
in the world the home of a selfish
man and his over-worked wife but
liere the loom of Fate whimsically
flrooped its dull grays nnd drabs and
v.ove a bit of sunshine into the little
woman's life.
Both in my-capactty as trained nurse
and confidential friend I had known
and loved Grace Martin, so when 1
heard she and her husband were on
the point of separation I went straight
to her. Poor girl, her story is so com
mon and so hopeless. .
As a youns, pretty girl just out of
a finishing school she married Frank
Martin, who was beginning his prac
tice of law. In less than a year Mrs.
Martin began keeping me busy taking
care of her and her babies, for all
three of them came along in such quick
succession. The result was the usual
one a tired, dragged-out little mother,
over-taxed with the burdens of life
before she was old enough to assume
such, responsibilities.
profession Separates II
Frank, meanwhile, bright and am
bitious, was making a place for him
self among the young politicians and
lawyers. So far, so good. You do not
see the material for domestic ship
wreck in this, you say. But right here
is -where the ways have parted, in more
homes than you, seeing the outside,
suspect.
' Frank, through his profession. was
drawn into the larger world of
achievement, his mind kept active and
his wits keen by contact with clever
people and stirring affairs. Grace, in
the natural course of events, fell be
hind, the four walls of her little home
constituting her world and the saving
of every possible penny the chief ac
tivity of her wits.
When the Martins were invited to
the homes of people whose friendship
meant too much to forego simply be
cause his wife had a young babj', Frank
went alone. Finally, he besran to pre
fer oing alone, tor on the rare oc
casions when hia wife did accompany
him, he was forced to admit she did
not make as good appearance as the
other women, whose time was their
own for self-development.
And Grace, realizing the truth in all
its bitterness, began to make excuses
to stay at home. Meanwhile she rocked
her babies, sewed rag carpets, cooked
the Sunday roast over into the Monday
stew, too tired in the evening to be
entertaining to her husband.
Their conversation at the table usu
ally amounting to: "Are there any hot
biscuits?" "Will you leave me" the
i money for the butcher?" or "t'ot Heav
en's sake, can't you keep that child
quiet?"
- Wife Declared Hindrance.
Mrs. Martin wax not in touch with
her husband's life, she did 'not know
hia. friends,' she had -no time to read,
and when he practiced his speeches
on his waste land amenament he used
her only as a figurehead. Once I heard
Grace remonstrate with her husband
tor leaving her alone all the long Win
ter evenings and his retort was: "It
is business for me to get around and
know people. Be glad I am doing it;
you ought to try to be a help to me
instead of a hindrance."
A hindrance It was for the very rea
son of her helping to the extent of
sacrificing herself so utterly that she
was now called a hindrance. Whose
fault was it? Surely not hers, and not
wholly his mainly the complexity of
the needs of modern .life.
There was one thing Grace's shut-in
life did for her, however. It spared
her the gossip that began to connect
the names of her husband and Kitty
Mason. Frank's excuse of seeing so
much of the Masons was that it was
his best chance of gettinz a hearing
with the Irascible old Senator for hia
waste land bill. The Senator had a
way of eluding whoever he did not
want to meet, and as long as Frank
Concluded on Face 2.)
'CcJ s-trc gOOO Turkey-
Fltll-.M&. your fea.-t is ready.
Five hundred Loui:lax County
farmer have worked ior almost a
year in order he might lie there, a
great, savory mountain, upon your
j'latler, th cynosure of all eyes, the
foi:us of all nnsfH, the provocation of a
general premonitory moistening of
nether lip.
Half a thousand farmers at Myrtle
Creek. L'illard. Rosehui ;s. Wilbur. Suth
erlin. Yoncalla. Orain. ano. most of all.
at Oakland, have put the subtle know
ledge gained from UO years' experience
into tne production or your Thanksgiv.
dinner. Such a bird i. nut. and
could never be. the result of accident.
Science and sunny skies. succuient
grasshoppers and golden corn. 'one
month of Oregon Spring, three months
of Oregon Summer, and two months of
Orison Fall, are blended in the rich
perfection of his flavor.
Bird In Native-Ham.
No Kameses that bird. A short
week ago those drumsticks that Pa will
cut off for Paul and Pete were wan-
deling in a corn-strewn lot: those
wings were lifting him into a tree,
where he sat during frosty nights in
knotty silhouette against the moon.
The crisp, brown crackling that en
velops hini is fragrant with breezes
from clean, cool mountains and sweet
ened with dew.
He is not a foreisner. an alien, an
exotic, lie was not shipped in from
alar, like a Chinese egg. He got his I
color under the same skies as the Wed
derburn and Port Orford agates: his
taste, like game, from the same atmo
sphere that puts the cider in the Ore-!
gon apple: his juiciness from cold.'
sparkling springs. He is indigenous to
Oregon. He is distinctive. We may be
accused of. provincial patriotism, but
we assert, and reassert, that there is
no other turkey like him.
When the Lord first made the great
Oregon country he omitted one thing.
The land was not good for turkeys.
Then, to repair the omission, he traced
two rivers across k plateau. These
tMO livers, the L'mpqua and the Cala
pooia. eroded and washed down this
plateau into a peneplain of 10.000 low,
flat hills. On the hills acorns grew
into oaks, and underneath in the weeds
grasshoppers Jumped. There was much
heavy-seeded herbage: there were rivu
lets, springs and sweetbrier bushes,
and over all was a mild, sunny sky.
Lucky it was that this turkey land
was created it was the one thing
needed to complete the versatility of a
great commonwealth. Sans Douglat
County and. Bans Oakland, sorrowful
ys&s Siss? its'- priori.
would l.o the stale's Thanksgiving a
proclamation without spirit, an empty
tradition. You would have to be gay
and thankful as best ou could ovir a
diminutive hen stuffed with dressing
or a frozen Pharaoh brought from the
fclast.
As it is. there is no need of the mira
cle of the loaves and fishes. You are
one of IO.Oon who on this Thanksgiv
ing will for a third of a centuiy have
eaten Oakland turkey. In Douglas
County in tne latter part of November
Herodotus, the old Greek lover of big
round numbers, would have found his
love ol ciphers satisfied, without need
of exaggeration. In Douglas County
during the last 20 years something like
iOO.dOO turkes have been raised. Oak
land alone has averared lO.Oou a year
for three decades, making a sum total
of SOU. 000.
In 1910 a census was taken of all the
turkeys in Oregon. Reports were re
ceived from 4443 farmers. These re
ports showed that on the farms oner
ated by these men there was a total of
26,S4 turkeys. Iougla.s County there
fore raises much more than half the
turkeys of the state, and Oakland
raises about two-thirds of the turkeys
of Douglas County.
Aeorna Seldom Produced.
Unique indeed is the spectacle of one
community having such an extensive
monopoly oh an industry that is gen
erally of a scattered nature. The
myriad hills, the grasshoppers, the
mild, dry climate formerly mentioned,
explain it.
The impression, nowever. that the
oak trees that abound in Douglas
County furnish a large amount of
acorns is erroneous. Old settlers say
that there was a time when it was pos
sible to rake up hundreds of bushels
under the trees. But that time is past.
A few years ago. after a long barren
period, there was a productive season.
Another barren period, since unbroken,
followed, and in recent years as a
source of food acorns have not been
important.
There Is, considerable mast of one
sort and another, however. The seeds
-f various weeds, and especially the
berries of the sweetbrier. are eaten.
Hugs of every sort, grasshoppers beinar
the thickest and most popular, are a
rime bill of fare. The' grasshopper
crop also varies. Miss Arda Edwards,
of Drain, Or., says that Summer before
last she is sure her turkeys got no
mole than a dozen grasshoppers apiece.
Climate Mot Important.
The two greatest, most permanent
and most unvarying assets of tho
Oakland country as a turkey center
are the range and the climate that is
not too wet or cold, nor yet too dry.
Too much drouth kills the mast and
lengthens the f eedl ng period.
An acre of cleared land to the turkey
that is the way range is computed.
Almost every fanner in the Oakland
country raises a herd, running from a,
dozen up to ."CO. depending on the open
country available for them to run on.
l-'encinj or herding is necessary. A
band of 200 or 300 will play havoc with
a bin held of grain, and so cut down,
turkey protlts r provoke a neighbor's
ire. or both. Miss Kdwards says they
are worse than children to stir up &
low.
Three young women are among the
lwrgest growers in Douglas County
.Miss Rachel Chenoweth. of Oakland;
Miss Anna Huntington, of Yoncalla.
and Miss Arda Kdwards. of Drain. Mi.
Chenoweth and Miss Kdwards are for
mer school teachers and Miss Hunting
Kin is now teaching and raising tur
keys simultaneously. In every in
stance the change from pedagogy to
turkey-raising has been profitable.
Ine la Portland tilrl.
Miss Chenoweth formerly attended
Jefferson High School, in Portland. She.
didn't like the city particularly : no
more does she like to live in Oakland;
and she almost died of teaching school
she was so cramped up. But turkey
raising that's more like it. A fellow
has elbow room, and room for, thought
and enjoyment. It's finite an inspira
tion, too. to watch turkeys put on 30
cent flesh. She and the turkeys are
'sympathetic in their tendencies to get
out in the open and wander about.
Such are her sentiments. While the
girls in town are taking their beauty
naps. she is out chafing turkeys
through' the dewy grass with her rub
ber boots on or comfortably mounted
on a hoi se. In the last five years Miss
Chenoweth has raised about 2000 tuv
keys. Miss Huntington was graduated last
year from Oakland High School. During
her high school days she raised 300 a.
year. She took up the turkey-raisins
project, in which she won distinction,
in the State Industrial Club work. All
through her high school days the spent
the Summer out on the hills with her
turkeys, her brother. McKinley Hunt
ington, a graduate of the Oregon Agri
cultural College, helping her during
the school months.
She came pretty nearly taking up
turkey-raising as a vocation on leav-
tConcludi-d ua rase 2.)
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