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12 THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, FEBRUARY 23, 1017. ED GOODS JOIN IN PRICE AVIATION Tomatoes, Corn, Soups Up Ap proximately 50 Per Cent. Mushrooms 250 Per Cent. RAYS OF SUNSHINE SCARCE TTew Crop Being Sold on Advanced Scale, eo Little Hope of Reduc tion Is In Sight Rice One of Few Staples at Old Figure. For the improvident housewife who , relies upon canned goods, bought at a procery store, for a, )a.rg part of her tlaily fare, unhappy moments await, even if they have not already arrived. Canned goods of every sort are already stepping nimbly up the price ladder, end those who know say before the end f the coming Summer it will." in all probability, be impossible to get sup plies of canned goods In this market. The common old can of tomatoes. No. 2 in size, which is the can known to commerce, retailed, a year ago at 86 cents a dozen; now the same goods are $1.25. corn, the staple Iowa brands, which a year ago sold for Jl a dozen at retail, now bring- $1.60. for the first time in 20 years tinned soups, which always sold at 10 cents a can and often three for a quarter, are now two for 25 cents. Orocers grown gray in the business never heard of a price increase in these soups be fore. k Mushroom Hard to Get. The same rule seems to hold pood throughout the whole list of foods in tliw. Some have advanced more than others, but all are higher. There are low-grade mushrooms, for example, that Tised to sell not Ions ago. either for 20 cents the can, which arc now hard to get at 60 cents. The mush room industry, which, centers in Paris, lias been shot to pieces by the war, and grocers do not expect to get fresh supplies of this succulent dainty again soon. i Then there is the old friend, sauer kraut. In tins, which has become a luxury. A year ago the cans were to be had for 1 a dozen, now they are hard to get at $1.60 and trie article Is so scarce that it Is practically out of the market. Scarcity of cabhage Is, of course, the reason for the lack of sauer kraut. A grocer yesterday paid cents a pound for poor cabbage. He said if a ton rf cabbage could be found, $100 would be cheap for it: in fact anyone fortun ate enough to have that much cab bage could get almost any price he chose to ask. Cans Coat Much More. The advance in canned goods of all kinds may be traced directly to the war. Bessemer steel is the basis of tin plate and steel is now more in de mand for killing people than for aid ing in feeding them. The advance in the cost of tin alone In a small can over last year is about one cent. This does not take into ac count the higher prices of spelter, the basis of solder, increased cost of colors and inks used for the labels on the cans, higher prices for nails used in the boxes, higher cost for machinery and labor, all big items to a can manu facturer and the packer who preserves the foodstuffs. And the worst of it all is that the future crops of canned goods are sell ing on this basis. They will not be cheaper during the coming year than they are right now, and the chances are they msy be a good deal higher. Oysters in cans are up 60 per cent over last year; gallon peas. In tin, a handy size for restaurants and hotels, will not be made this year, manufac turers announce, as they prefer to make the smaller packages in response to the demand. Cheese TJn 20 Per Cent. Canned goods, at that, are only act ing in harmony with almost every other thing on the dinner table. Cheese is 20 Per cent higher than it was last ear, with many kinds out of the mar ket. The Swiss government has stopped the export of cheese, and none from that country may be had. Cream of tartar has doubled in price. The principal source of this article is the wine-growing countries of Europe, although a small quantity comes from California. Spices are all much higher, with sage probably In the lead. Most of the sage used in this country came from Austria before the war stopped its import, and Austrian sage now on hand is worth easily eight times what it was before hostilities started. Sago and tapioca, that sold recently at 4 cents a pound, are now 12 cents. The reason for this is the rise in the price of silver. These products come from the East Indies, Singapore and the Straights Settlements being the producing centers. Similar rises in price may be noted on all goods brought from the silver countries. Cottonseed Oil Soars. Cottonseed oil is up nearly 300 per cent over former prices. This affects the products into which it enters. Salt is 20 per cent higher.. Crackers are P0 per cent dearer on account of flour prices. Olive oil, however, is about where it was when the war started, and this is an imported article, too. It is ex plained that the making of olive oil is a household industry in Italy and the women and children do most of the work connected with its manufacture, so that the product is not lessened, even though the men are away at war. Added to all the other causes of high foodstuffs is the greater expense of doing business. Paper and twine are fo expensive that this has become an item with the merchant. Chicago stores of the larger sort have installed pack age inspectors, to see that clerks do not waste paper and twine in tying up packages. With the commoner vegetables soar ing, the old bit of advice to eat po tatoes and save money can no longer te heeded. There is just one slight ray cf hope for the consumer today. This is that useful grain which forms the staple article of food for millions of the Oriental races, rice. Rice is the cheapest food in the Portland market, as useful and more tasty, perhaps, than potatoes and an excellent substitute. As yet people are not using it here to any great ex tent, and prices have not advanced, yet. Teachers' Institutes Set. EUGENE, Or.. Feb. 24. (Special.) A series of teachers' institutes to be held in the different cities and towns of Lane County has been announced by Superintendent of Schools E. J. Moore. Dates and speakers have been announced aa follows: Cottage Grove, March 3. Professor V. L.' Stetson. University of Oregon: Springfield. March 10. State Superintendent of Public Instruction J. A. Churchill; Junction City, March 17. Professor B. XV. DeBusk, University of Oregon; Elmira, March 24. Dr. H. D. Shelton. University of Oregon. Similar institutes will be held at Acme. March SI, and at Eugene about the middle of April. INABILITY TO THANK MR. CLARK MISS PEARSON'S KEEN REGRET Stenographer Who Inherited $10,000 From Chance Acquaintance Also Sorry That Opportunity Was Not Afforded Her to Make Gray Years of Elderly Man's Life Happier. f - vi w - - --Sr-.-TBI Z- r .- .... i MISS ELLA PEARSON. BT LEONE CASS BAER. SOME people are born great, others achieve greatness and some have money thrust upon them. That is Just the way Ella Pearson, principal beneficiary in the will . of Charles Clark, aged ferry gate tender, looks upon the situation. She doesn't like publicity, and it is-not a pose with her. So often it is, you know. I've seen so much of this I-don't-want-my-picture-ln-the-paper business, and all the time they have the picture, taken especially for the occasion at the best pho tographers, ready to . hand it to you on a golden platter the minute you ask for it. "I detest publicity." yells an actress the while she is telephoning you at 2 o'clock in the morning to let you know that her bulldog has been stolen early enough to get it in the first edition. Naturally, when I hear that tocsin sounded about hating pub licity I sit tight and await develop ments. In the instance of Ella Pearson I was handed the Joyous surprise of my more or less eventful interviewing career. Miss Pearson actually and truly does not like publicity. She said so the first ttme'I called her on the telephone to ask for a story about the flock of money she'd fallen into. She was deadly polite, charming and quite in earnest about knowing her own mind. She liked newspapers and news paper folk, was keenly interested in stories about other people, but didn't for the life of her see that a story about Ella Pearson, heiress, could in terest anyone but Ella Pearson, heiress, and Ella Pearson's family and friends. Next day I called her up again and she laughed a bit and found a polite equivalent for "nothing doing." Next day we did the same sketch. Every time I didn't have anything else to do I'd call Ella Pearson on the telephone and ask her to be a nice little girl and tell me the story of her life. Visit to Office la First. We grew to be quite friendly over the telephone, and yesterday she con sented to pose for a picture. But" the picture was all she'd stand for, mind you. So I sharpened all my pencils and my wits, trotted out my sister-to-sister smile and waited. Well, we took the picture up in the art department of The Oregonian and then we ambled through the mystery rooms and she confided to me it was her Initial visit to a big newspaper plant. The interesting and interested Miss Pearson and I staged a one-act sketch right then entitled "Won't you walk into my parlor? said the spider to the fly; it's the tramplest little par lor that ever you did spy." I was the spider and Miss Pearson was the un suspecting fly. She walked right into my little den, and we fell a-talklng about everything under the heavens from clothes to paganism. That's a far cry, too, for clothes and pagans have no affinity.- Speaking of clothes. Miss Pearson doesn't care for 'em only as a means toward an end. She's tre mendously serious and gives some ac counting for all her time. "Clothes are possibly the last thing I'm concerned with," she said. "Wtien the seasons change naturally I adapt my apparel to the call of the season. I make my shopping excursions brief and profitable. I couldn't for the life of me sample around, trying here and there to match something, looking over patterns and waste perfectly won derful days buying one dress or hat. Not that I rush in and grab the first thing I see. Oh. no! But I know what I need. I know my own tastes and color preferences, and I've lived with my own face several seasons, so that no one can Judge better than I can Judge whether a poke bonnet or a flat sailor Is most beooming to my especial scheme of architecture. Simple, isn't It?" She smiled. SmileFonnd Charming. You'd love Ella Pearson's smile. Glorious, firm, snowy-white teeth back up the smile, and if she turned the radiance of all that eunshinlng smile on the late Mr. Clark I can t wonder that he grew to watch for her good morning and good-night as she passed him on her way to work. "It's five years since I'd even Been Mr. Clark," she told me, "so when Mr. Newhall called me by telephone one day last week and told me that he wanted to make an appointment with me to read Mr. Clark's will to me, I had to stop and search my memory to place the name. Finally it all came back to me, and the oft-repeated little sally he used to fling at me: 'Never you mind, I'll remember you in my will.' It meant absolutely nothing to SMALL SONS OF MR. AND MRS. THURLOW TYLER SMITH, WHO WILL LEAVE FOR SEATTLE WITH THEIR PARENTS. teihr s"i ff' r ? " Sill After touring California and stopping at the most picturesque and larg est cities of .the state, little Thurlow Tyler Smith. Jr.. and Stewart Hawley Toung have returned to Portland with their mother. Mrs. Thurlow Tyler Smith. The children were feted at several children's parties in San Francisco Just before leaving, and are now at the Alraira Apartments. ' Stewart is 7 years old and Thurlow Tyler 2 Both are native Oregon children and have relatives and friends in Portland, Salem and .Sheridan. They Kill leave iiLortiy. Xor. Seittie io Join, 2Jr, g"T Today Second Big Day Show Starts 11A.M. 'VJ aMMMiii i 1 i' TH. .11.1.1 l. II HI. m .Oil I ,ri T.T, -0HimMM Today All This Week Eight Wonderful Acts The Immortal 1. L ( TT ( V A In Her Most Vivid Portrayal of War's Crudest Blows Inflicted Upon Those Left Behind V V BY 3MARION CRAIG WENTWORTH The theme of thisthe world's greatest emotional drama is NOT of the battlefield, but bold ly tells the story of woman's burden, the greatest of all. ADMISSION: Matinees ("Balcony 15 Jiatinees...Lower poor 25 Evenings and Sundays .25d Loge Seats 50 Manager's Note : The increased price of admission is made necessary because of the heavy cost of securing; this exceptional production for my patrons, and these popular prices are made possible only by the large capacity of the Broadway. EDWIN F. J ArES. CONCERTS Broadway Symphony Orchestra Afternoons and Evenings Selections from Puccini's Opera "INDIE. BUTTERFLY" 'Cello Solo "Love's Old Sweet Song" MR. C. D. RAFF ZOO COMEDY PATHE NEWS 'i -? ' lr- ij j I J TME AT ER EI J -JU IIMllMllllllilll me, because I supposed he- was Just like all the other old men I met in that line of work too old to be ac tively interested in anything else. I supposed he was Just an old, forgotten man, and I was not any kinder to him than I am to anyone else. I like old people, particularly the ones that some one has forgotten. I like children, too. I haven't given much thought to what I'm going to do with the $10,000 Mr. Clark left me, but I know one thing I'd like to do. I'd like to adopt some little child and give him a home and love. So far as I know I have never hurt or been cruel to any living being. I felt drawn to Mr. Clark merely be cause he was old and working. I've always felt that when a man or woman grows old there should be grown chil dren to look after the declining years and half way repay some of the love and care that was showered on the children when- thtey were little. "I go into parks and around the streets and peer - into saddened old eyes, tired old faces. I see bent old backs stooping at menial tasks and gnarled, weary old hands at work, never resting. It hurts me. Something is awfully wrong somewhere with the world. 1 .can't adjust it; neither can you. "We are drops of water in a re sistless ocean. So all I can do is smile and speak kindly. That's aU I did for Mr. Clark. It was five years ago. Since then I've never seen him or heard of him. That he remembered me has been really a big surprise. Naturally I am very happy over the money. It will be put to a good purpose. I have had stacks of letters about it. My friends congratulate me. One man wanted to Invest it for me. Another wrote about my getting a monument for Mr. Clark. A few foolish letters from extremely foolish people have reached me. I de stroy them. They are unutterably yiy." IXlsa Pearaoa. la of Swedish, descent and has traveled extensively both in America and in Europe. She Is an omnivorous reader, choosing literature on philosophy and psychology. She is intensely domestic and can do anything in a home from making pies and beds to playing the piano after the dishes are done. Personally, she is quite charming and attractive. Her eyes are blue, deep dark blue; her hair and she has a mass of it is bronze gold; her skin is fair, and I've already told you about her delightful smile. She is an Oregonian: went to the public schools, was graduated from Lincoln High and later attended the Portland Business College. She is a stenographer, and is going to stay right by her Job with the Union Meat Company, where she has been for three years. When -we were saying good-bye I asked her what she'd most like to do. "Well, Td like to travel some more, and. really. I think that's what 1 11 do later. I want to see Japan and the Hawaiian Islands. and India and Egypt. But that Is all to be decided on later. Just now the thing I'd like to do and can't in to thank . that old man for leaving me that money. I wish, too, though wishing can't help any, that I had known him better. Maybe I could have made some of his days in those five years less gray." Mr. Clark, who was 84 years old, was found dead in his bed Friday, February : . : :..--- i Suffered with Catarrh for Twelve Months Four Bottles PERUNA Made Me a Different Person. Mr. W. II. Chaney. R. F. T. 2. Suth erlin. Vl, writes; "For the past 12 months I have been a sufferer from catarrh of the head. Since taking four bottles of your Peruna I feel a different person altogether. The ae vere pains In my head have disap peared, and my entire system has been rreatly strengthened. This is my first testimonial to the curative qualities of any patent medicine, but I feel it a duty to mankind to let them know of the greatest medicine on earth. Peruna, in my estimation, for the above trouble." 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