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v SECTION FIVE Pages 1 to 12 t -J. . Women's Section Special Features VOL. XXXVI. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 18, 1917. NO. 7. This Credit-Giving on Rummage Sale Goods Swings Opportunity's Door Wide Open ROSE CULTURISTS PREPARE NOW TO PRUNE THEIR BUSHES Shoots Lose Proper Nourishment if Too Many Branches Are Left, but Some Varieties Should Be Cut Less Severely Than Others. ' Use Your Credit Giving Every Man a Chancy to Share in This Feast of Bargains 0S Ywr; , Rummage Pieces for the Bedroom """ ChVC ' T7- 1 . Interest Final ns. ' Week of a N Wonderful Sale n If till 21 vt 1 tNfc. Vl- ft A M iiM turn ii it ii a ii ftJLs, . Pyi Sale Goods on . II '"'sj''"'i?!S' Hi l -T-7 I 1' ' V 1 I V i j ' .$ I fil Jf Just jix Days More Come $32.50 Quartered Oak Dress- (ID hn er, colonial style ' Ui'rU $27.75 Heavy Contlnuo us- J I G QC Post Brass Bed for V I Did J Eight-Filler Continuous-Post C C Chilless Iron Bed for ". . W Oil J $55.00 Post Colonial Mahog- f J7 OC any Chiffonier for Vl iOJ $21.00 Oval Glass Ash Dress- J g gCj $31.50 Oval Glass Birdseye I Q nn Chiffonier for. v I 3i3U $34.00 Mahogany Princess Dresser for $26.00 White Enamel "Wood Bed, three-quar ter size, now for $24.50 Colonial Brass Bed, panel effect, at. $37.50 M a h o pa n y - Finish Princess Dresser at $39.75 Colonial Eight-Drawer Birdseye Chiffonier $27.50 White Enamel Square Glass Chiffonier at $15.85 $13.25 $15.85 $19.85 $22.60 $14.45 $22.50 Massive Library Tables Thick Plank Top S jE - -' I? If -v x Note particularly the manner In which the legs extend above the top and the unique design of the magazine ends, which are slightly different than illustrated. This table has a wide lower shelf, not shown in picture, which adds greatly to the appearance. The table is built of quartered oak, with a thick, plank top. Rummage Linoleums Six - yard r e m n a nt Pro Linoleum, the yard 39s 47c 43c 79c 73c 79c 13-yard remnant $2.25 In-C I QQ laid Linoleum at, the yard 1 .00 Great Values in Rugs All HnK In Thin JAmt Are Bor dered on Yw Sides Only. $11.35 6 2-3, 7, 84 -yard remnants 80c Printed Linoleum, the yard 4 1-3 - yard remnant 75o Printed Linoleum, the yard. 4, 4 2-3, 6 Vi -yard remnants of $1.50 Granite Linoleum, the yard 6 2-3-yard remnant $1.75 Inlaid Linoleum, the yard.. 3 1-3, 4-yard remnants $1.60 Inlaid Linoleum at... 5-3x6-0 Blgelow A x uinster Rug for 5- 2x5-3 Velvet RueJ 8,90 6- 0x6-6 Blgelow Ax-CIOTC minster Rug for V I Ail J 4-6x7-3 Carpet Rug now J 7i50 4-6x6-0 Velvet Rug C Off now for V O.0U 8-3x12 Velvet Rug now for $16.85 8-3x10-6 B r 11 s 8 els Rug J g Remarkable. Drapery Bargains 25c cream voile with" 60c figured marquisette or voile drawn-work border, 36 I Up with hemstitched edge, white or Kp inches wide, yard XvXj ivory, special, yard tCll Nottingham Lace Curtains These Nottingham lace curtains are shown in the ecru only. Good variety of choice patterns: $1.25 Nottingham Lace Curtains, special, pair , 70 $2.50 Nottingham Lace Curtains, special, pair Sl.iJO $3.50 Nottingham Lace Curtains, special, pair -. ..Sl.TO $19.75 Hicksite Lacquered Beds at $11.45 Guar anteed Tarnish Proof $1 145 The lacquer on these beds'wlll not quickly flake or become tarnished, be cause they are finished like all Hicksite lacquered beds and are tarnish proof. The beds are built with heavy two-Inch posts, trimmed with mounts of pleasing design. There are twelve fillers, six in each end. making a hand some, massive-LPpearing bed at about the price of an ordinary iron. . Splendid Oak Buffets 131.50 Colonial Quartered Oak I Q Ofl Buffets for I 3.0U $55.00 Quartered Buffet, 0 CO length 48 Inches, for QUI.JU $54.50 Double - Door Fumed OC TC China Closet for PJ.I J $88.00 64-inch Oak Colonial I PC Buffet at. - P'H.Oa $47.50 Board -Back 48-lnch CQO Cfl Buffet for $58.60 Oak Buffet, arts and crafts design, for $29.75 $37.75 Double-Door China I Q Oft Closet to match 010. 3U $77.50 64-Inch Arts andfOQ OC Crafts Buffet at QiJO.OJ 3.90 Chamber Chairs and Rockers $4.90 Birdseye Maple Rocker J 2 $9.00 Walnut Chair now J g Qg $4.50 Walnut Chair now J QJJ $5.25 Quartered Oak Chairs I now for. : $5.50 White Enamel Rockers O QIC dow for V Ui I J $4.50 White Enamel Chairs O QC now for t i3J $15.00 Mahogany Rush-C C DC Beat Rocker for V 0.3J $22.75 Mahogany E u b h- f I f pfl Seat Rocker for IU.0U $15.?5 Mahogany Rush-ff l QC Seat Chair for W I i3 J $5.25 White Enamel Chair O QC now for V A.O J Extreme Value MP Tapestry-Covered Loose-Cushion Seat High, Springy Back i Luxurious Upholstered Pieces $26.75 Mahogany Tapestry- I Q QfT Upholstered Chair for OlOiOU $4S.50 Karpen Wing Rocker, CO I QC in tapestry OiliJJ $95.00 Loose-Cushion Velour C C CI) Davenport for W Jr.UU $59.75 Karpen Loose - Cush-CO OC ion Tapestry Rocker for wu'riOB $28.50 Ivory Reed Cretonne fC IC Upholstered Chair at .... I 0. 1 3 Here is. Indeed, extreme' value giving In a soft, luxurious, tapestry-upholstered, loose-cushion davenport. Daven ports of a similar style have usually been sold at a much greater price, and this is, without question, the most wonderful value extended by this store. Covered in a. heavy, very durable grade of tapestry, with roll arms, loose cushion seats and shaped sf t back. At this remarkably low price you should take advantage of this offer at once. $31.50 Large Tapestry holstered Kocker for... XJp- $19.80 $44.85 Karpen Loose-Cushion COO DC Velour Arm Chair $51.50 Karpen Velour Arm Kocker $S5.00 Mahogany Leather Upholstered Settee at $31.40 $39.75 Dining Tables, Samples Only $27.50 Quartered Oak Plank- C I C QC Top Table for ' w.U J $44.50 Colonial - Base Dining CO OC Table for.. Or.Qa $22.50 Fumed Pedestal Table C I A OC now for Mr.03 $55.00 Mahogany Pedestal C 07 Cfl Dining Table for iPl.dU $75.00 Jacobean Table, 54- COO 7C inch top, at: wu).l J $37.75 Mahogany - Finish CO I IC Sheraton Dining Table for.. VAlilJ $27.50 Octagon-Base, Plank-C If On Top Table at. ' 0.0U $34.50 48-inch-Top Table now J g (jg $47.50 Heavy Pedestal Din- C 07 OC ing Table at. OfliuU ".$31.80 $55.00 Group Pedestal Oak Table at Wit r j $5.50 Jacobean Slip Leather Seat Diner $3.79 Like Cut This splendid chair has a roomy seat covered in genuine Spanish leather, a high, comfortable shaped back, in the Jacobean fin ish only, and greatly underpriced. Matched Suites for the Dining-Room and "Chamber at Big Reductions $31.50 Adjustable-Back C7 Ofl Library Chair at 0 I I iOU $35.00 Le a t h e r - Seat-and-Back Arm Chair for $19.85 $45.00 Mahogany Set tee. CIO Ofl tapestry covered, at- wl O.uU $22.50 Spring- Seat Chair, C I O IC chase leather cushions. ...... V I wit 3 $64.50 Karpen Rocker, in C VI DC mulberry velour, at OHI .0 J $22.50 Three-Piece tfQ QC Parlor Suites f or . . 4 The spring seats of these suites are upholstered In either velour or chase leather. The frames are finished In mahog any and very comfortable In shape. These three pieces, at so low a price as this, are cerilnly worth investigating. These Last Days of the Rum mage Sale Will Show Greater Values Than Ever Colonial Dressers Here is a Colonial dresser pattern in quartered oak, splendidly proportioned and nicely finished. It has a large French plate mirror supported by heavy scroll standard and scroll front posts which give it a massive appearance. All drawers have straight fronts and run smoothly and silently. .1? If M 14.1 Regular Retail Value $235. LARGE BEVEL FRENCH PLATE MIRROR BT JESSE A. CURRET. NOW is about the time to prune rose bushes and those who desire bet ter roses next Summer should see their plants are properly pruned. The object of pruning is two-fold, to pro duce the best blooms and to give the bush better shape. Pruning is neces sary because of the manner of the natural grawth of the rose and when one once realizes this he will more readily understand the absolute neces sity of each year cutting back the growth. If you have an unpruned bush In your yard or, better still, if you have an opportunity to observe a sweet briar growing in the open field, study the workings of nature. It will be ob served that after flowering the strong shoots of this year will gradually get weaker and the best blooms in a year or two come from shoots starting fur ther down or from new shoots which spring from the base. These new shoots absorb all the sap and the origi nal shoot is eventually starved; there fore the old growth should be pruned so the new growth can get all the sap. This condition is most clearly set forth in "The Practical Book of Out door Rose Growing." by George C. Thomas, Jr., which says: "Perhaps the simplest and clearest illustration which could be given would be to suppose a rose cane has 15 buds or eyes on It; from these buds or eyes spring the shoots which afterwards become the flower Btalks of the plant. Prnaliir Dlmtrlbntea Smb. "Now, If you did not prune St all. but left the entire cane, the sustenance received from the roots would be di vided into 15 parts. As a matter of fact the greatest amount would go to the end or top of the carte and those buds nearest the top, for in all plant life it is more difficult to get the sap to break the buds nearest the base, especially if there is too great a dis tance from that base to the top of the lateral, limb or cane. ... "We cut off, say. 10 of these buds from the cane and the five remaining will receive Jus- so much more sap and there will be that much more chance of the lowest buds breaking and tending out their shoots. If the cane were not cut the greater part of the 1 lp would go to the few top buds and the lower buds would be late in growing, some possibly not breaking at all." All roses should not be pruned alike, but there are two general rules the novice can follow r.nd later will come that experience so that he will know exactly how to handle each bush to get the best blooms. The two general rules are, first, always prune to an out side eye, and, second, strong growers should be pruned long and weak grow ers short. Taking up the first, rule, the object of pruning to a bu- or eye pointing to the outside is to direct the new growth away from the center of the plant, for the center of ne bush should be kept open as much as possible to let in the sun. xou want to bear In mind that your bush should resemble the blooms it is to carry. Study a rose and you will find that the petals are evenly ar ranged and do not cross each other In an inward, direction, therefore your bush should follow the shape of the flower. Some Should Be Left U(. Strong growers, like Caroline Tes tout, Frau Karl Druschkl. Ulrlch Brun ner and a number of others, following the second general rule, should be pruned long, that is. that moid eves j should 4.0 left on the canes and more (canes on lh. &ush, than would, pe left with weak growers. The reason for his is that the strong growers make sap more readily, therefore can pro vide more nourishment for more shoots and consequently more flowers, while the weak growers only provide enough sap for a few shoots and blooms. Following this n , the first ques tion asked by a novice is: "How many buds or eyes should I leave on a cane?" A good rule to follow is that with strong growers six buds can usually be left, for as a rule our strong grow ing varieties under our favorable cli matic conaitions have sufficient sa; to supply good, blooms on all shoots. With weak growers fewer buds should be left and many of our best rosarians never leave more than two eyes or -us and if they are after ex hibitlon roses they sometimes only leave one. As to what wood should be cut away, a good general rule is to remove as much old wood as possible, keeping al ways In mind the general shape you desire the bush to tae. on soma bushes you will tind a cane which came up last year, which is almost as firm and almost the color of old wood. Upon examination you will find this cane is full of large buds and eyes, therefore it is valuable and care should be taken to give it room to develop and grow. for when pruned this cane will prob ably throw out a flower-bearing shoot from each one of its eyes. You will also find shoots which hava grown late in the last Summer. They are thick and green, not brownish like the ripened canes. These green canes contain a large proportion of pith and are practically useless and should be completely removed. From this it will be seen that a cans which by its unusual size will use a lot of sap should either be preserved and other weaker shoots removed, or should be removed entirely, the condition of the ripeness being the determining fac tor. If ripe and sound preserve it. if green and pithy remove it. Climbers Are Different. The pruning of climbing or rambling roses Is different from pruning the hy brid perpetuals. hybrid teas. etc. for with climbers and ramblers the prun ing practically amounts only to a thin ning out. In these days when the Wichuraiana ramblers, such as lorothy Perkins. Excelsa, Alberic Barbier. Avt- ateur Bleriot. Kvangelina, Hiawatha, are popular it should be remembered they make growth one year and bloom the next. The blooms come on laterals from the main shoots, therefore to Insure blooms these laterals, or at least a number of them, should be preserved. George C. Thomas, Jr., the author of the "Practical Book of Outdoor Rose Growing," has made a special study of climbing roses and at his home con ducts a large test garden, one section of which is devoted to climbers. He Is the recognized American authority on climbers and in speaking of pruning tnese ne says in his valuable book: "With Wichuraiana climbers or ram blers about the last of July or the first of August, when the blooming season is over, it is well to 'cut out some of the oldest canes; this gives new wood a better opportunity to develop and it becomes the flowering wood of the fol lowing season. The older wood on Wichuraiana blooms to some extent, but not as well as the growth of the previous year. Careful Training Advised. "After this August pruning It will hardly be necessary In the following Spring to do more than cut out the dead wood and keep the plant within the pre .tConcluded, oa Pace 2-.