The Sunday Oregonian., February 25, 1917, SECTION FIVE, Image 59

SECTION FIVE
' Pages 1 to 12
Women's Section
Special Features
VOL. XXXVI.
PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 25, 1917.
NO. 8.
Tills ' Splendid -4-
Adlam Cliamlbeip Suite
n American Walnut and Mahogany Finish
Terms $10 Cash $2.00 Week
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2Vo 4 rtist Could Possibly Por- Patterned After the Adam- Four Splendid Pieces Deliv-
tray the Beauty, of This Suite Period Design
While the above illustration is drawn true to de
tail in every respect, it gives you only 'a faint
suggestion of the wonderful beauty of this suite.
Only actual inspection of it can convey to you its
true value, and it is only by pulling: the drawers
out and noting: the construction that you get a
true understanding: of the lasting: way in which
this suite Is built.
The different woods of which this suite is built
lend themselves beautifully to the Adam period
design. It is the simplicity of the Adam period
that makes it so attractive. The drawers are all
equipped with metal drawer pulls to match the
carvings on the case. The dresser, chiffonier
and dressing table have unusually large mirrors,
the dressing table having an adjustable tripll
, cate mirror. The bed which completes the suite
is one of beauty and exactly matches.
ered to You for $10.00
Not only are we bringing down to the level of
the average person's means furniture heretofore
above it, but we are also offering this splendid
suite under conditions that make its ownership
very easy. All that is necessary to do is to pay
J10 at time of purchase and 12.00 a week until
the suite is paid for, and this suite furnishes
complete proof that you need not pay any more
for your furniture when bought on credit.
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Big Cozy -Shaped Back
"Adjusto"
Chair
in Spanish Chase Leather
$18.85
This "Adjusto" Chair is one of
the most comfortable ever pro
duced. It conforms to any posi
tion gives you the position you
want In a moment's time sim
ply lean back until you find the
angle of greatest comfort. Any
position Is possible. Upholstered
in excellent grade of Spanish,
chase leather. '
$2 Cash, $1 Week
Join Powers $15 Victrola Clllb, Just Forming
This Victrola for You
C First
Payment
These extraordinary terms are
offered to acquaint you with the
splendid Victrola service of thlo
store, and also to demonstrate the
superiority of this wonderful mu
sical instrument. Our
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Dignified Credit" Service
Makes Sack VaJiurtt of Time Payment Possible.
Come In and make your selection of any $15.00 Victrola and pay only Eo
cash, each following payment you add 6c a week second payment 10c,
third payment 15c, etc. until the $15.00 is paid, covering a period of
several months. The. largest and last payment will be $1-20.
Spring Showing Rugs and Carpets Now Ready
Truly amazing exhibition of finest rugs and carpets produced by American manufactur
ers all grades, from the least inexpensive to the best, are shown in varied assortments.
9x12 Heavy Worcester Axminster Rugs
Specially Priced at
This offering of Worcester Axminster Rugs at this special price
Is ii. real oniiortuni tv for home furnlHherH. The rues come in manv
attractive designs and a large range of colorings. Get first choice of this new showing.
$45.00 Seqmless Axminster Rugs, 9x12 - -
Some 16 splendid new patterns of Seamless Axminster Hugs, regu
lar $45 values, to go at this special price and on unusually low
credit terms. These rugs are of superior weave and of the newest
patterns, and we consider them extreme value.
$26
$36
SOc Printed Lin
oleum, laid
$5.00 Cash, $1.00 Week
60c
St.R0 Inlaid I.ln- -t "r
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Sealy
No-Tuft Mattresses
A single giant batt of pure, buoyant cotton, without lay
ers or sections, that makes the most wonderful mattress
In 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. The Sealy Is sold only at the
Powers Store, and Is guaranteed by us as well as the
maker. Ask a salesman to demonstrate the superiority of
the Sealy.
Guaranteed for 20 Years
This Is What $59.75, Paid a Little at a Time, Will Do for
Your Bedroom
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$6.00 Cash, $125 Week
Have you ever seen a more clever
suite than this at the prlceT Four
well - made, well - finished pieces in
white enamel, all matching perfectly,
that most anyone would want to own.
The enamel coatings have been care
fully applied assuring a smooth,
lasting surface. The dressing table has
the new adjustable triplicate mirror.
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Eight-Piece Jacobean Dining Suite
$89.75
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Terms
$9.00 Cash, $2J00 Week
The pleasure of the ownership of
good furniture is yours with such a
dining-room suite as this. Extreme
ly well made, yet at a price of ordi
nary furniture. The buffet and table
are of desirable size and the six chairs
t are fitted with slip-leather seats. The
backs vary slightly In design from the
illustration.
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GROUP PORTRAITS OF WOMEN WHO HAVE WON
PLAGES OF PROMINENCE IN NEWS DISPATCHES
Miss Nancy Perkins, Pride of Grandson of Marshall Field French Aviatrice Tins Honors Fighting for Her
Country Mrs. Warren Fairbanks Social Favorite Daughter of Von Bernstorff, War Widow, to Marry Again.
NOTABLE INFLUX OF RESIDENTS OF OREGON
TO NEW YORK AROUSES INTEREST IN STATE
Managements of Gotham Hotels Prepare to Satisfy Requests for Information Concerning the State, by Obtaining
Statistics and Other Fa$ts 'About Oregon Social Season Tet Continues Gay.
BT GETTA R. WASSE RM AN. .
NEW YORK, Feb. 24. (Special.)
The unceasing activities of
society this season, which were
In truth an illustration of per
petual motion. were bound to ex
haust themselves through their own
over-exaggeration, and the quiet of
the Lenten period made Itself felt
a week or more in advance.
This, however, hardly applied to
the out-of-town visitor, who in a
short space of time, usually from three
to four weeks, attempted all of the
theatrical and operatic visits, as well
as the social courtesies extended to
them, to which the New York resident
devotes the entire Winter. Added to
this, the shopping, dressmaking, etc.,
that are the general accompaniment
of a trip to this section of the country.
and the wonder is that tired nerves
and bodies can stand the strain..
Perhaps that Is the reason that eo
many of the Oregonlans now In the
metropolis are returning home by way
of the Southern resorts. These same
Oregonlans. who have been here in
greater rumbers this year than ever
before, have been the motifs for many
of the interesting social activities that
have helped to make this the gayest
Winter in the memory of the oldest
inhabitant, and have also by their
presence in force served to arouse ad
ditional interest In the state.
Just a few days ago one-of the man
aging aks of a leading hotel here
asked me for a map of Oregon, as he
and his fellow clerks wished to fa
miliarize thnBjSelves with the names of
the different pities, as well as with the
geography of the state, on account of
the many demands from the patrons
of the hotel for information about Ore
gon and the rapidly increasing inter
est in that section.'
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The nearly 900 hotels and double that
number of known boarding-houses in
this city are still unable to care for
the enormous army of travelers, whose
daily arrival still further complicates
the housing problem. For the past four
months the S. R. O. sign has been out
at all of the principal hostelrles.
The new Hotel des Artistes at 1 West
Sixty-seventh street will open In about
two weeks. The hotel contains more
than 100 apartments, each with a serving-room
and electric dumb waiter so
that meals may be served direct and
piping hot from the culinary depart
ment, which is to be a feature of the
establishment. The servant problem
has been practically eliminated, Xor- the
management will supply parlor maids,
personal maids and butlers in livery
at a very nominal fee per houn. The
hotel, which is 17 stories in height,
will be occupied principally by writers,
illustrators and professional" men and
women. There is to be a children's
playground and roof garden at the top
of the building and a swimming pool
and squash court at the other extreme.
Another feature is a most artistic hall
for exhibitions and concerts, with
seats that disappear into the walls
when the space is needed for dancing.
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Property on upper Fifth avenue, the
really exclusive and fashionable resi
dence section of the city, is increasing
rapidly in value, as the few remaining
available parcels of land are be
ing bought and in almost every
case improved .by the buyer for
his own use. An exception to
this latter was the recent pur
chase by Andrew Carnegie of a lot on
the corner of Fifth avenue and Ninetieth
street, directly opposite his home, for
which he paid nearly (2,000,000, to pre
vent the possible erection thereon of
one of the apartment houses which in
the past year or so have Invaded that
aristocratic district. Mr. Carnegie, It
is supposed, will adopt the same policy
he did with a similar plot, on Ninety
first street and Fifth avenue, opposite
the . northern end of - hi residence.
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MISS NANCY PERKINS waa mar
ried recently at the home of
Charles Dana Gibson to Henry
Field, of Chicago. 'grandson of the late
Marshall Field, and. heir to many of
his millions. ' i . ' .
Helene Enitrieux, the French avi-
atrice. has arrived in New York. She
did Fcouting for Zeppelins in Paris at
the beginning of the war and says she
will volunteer for scout work with the
American Army if we are involved with
Germany.
One of the war widows of Germany,
well-known in this country, is to marry
again. She Is the daughter of Count
Bernstorff and she was married a few
years ago to Count Raimond de l'our
tales. ' ' Her husband was killed early
in the war. Now she is to marry Prince
Lowenstein, according to report. She is
living in Cermany with her two chlla
dren.
Mrs. Warren Fairbanks is the wife of
the son of ex-Vice-President Fairbanks.
She is a great favorite in Indianapolis
society.
Kstherlne Harding is the charming
daughter of Colonel Chester Harding,
who Is the new Governor of the Pan
ama Canal Zone. She is popular in
Washington society.
The pop- lar Russian design is seen
in dancing sown made for Florence
Walton by Callot. of Paris. It is white
lace with a Russian cap covered with
white beads.
which he likewise acquired for pro
tective purposes and which he subse
quently sold to persons congenial to
him as neighbors, among them John
Hays Hammond. James A. Burden. Ot
to H. Kahn and Charles M. McNeill,
president of the Utah Copper Company,
all of whom he knew would build only
magnificent residences there.
President Wilson has added his In
dorsement to a plan to erect a monu
ment, to cost $3,000,000, to the memory
of the "Father of Our Country," which
the George Washington Memorial-Association
is fostering. The memorial,
if the project Is carried through to a
successful conclusion, is to be built on
the site of the "old Pennsylvania Rail
road station. In Washington. D. C. Just
what form it will take has not as yet
been -divulged.
The headquarters In this city of the
American Academy in Rome has an
nounced its annual competition for fel
lowships in architecture, sculpture,
painting and landscape architecture.
Each has a value of 1000 a year for
three yars, and the competitions are
open to all unmarried men. citizens of
the United States, who otherwise com
ply with the academy requirements.
Entries will be received by C. Grant
LaFarge. secretary of American Acad
emy in Rome, at 101 Parle avenue. New
York City, up to March 1.
' Great effort is being made by a com
mittee made up largely of women prom
inent in the social and artistic life of
this community to preserve the beauty
of Riverside drive, one of the show
spots of the city, from the encroach
ment of one of the big railroad com
panies, which already has a foothold
there and is desirous of securing an
additional franchise and more liberties.
The city officials are largely of the
opinion that the improvements contem
plated by the company will not mar
the outward beauty of the drive, but the
women, who assert they have been
roused to action by the threatened in
vasion, feel differently about it and are
using every means in their power to
prevent its consummation.
Few people who do not live In New
York realize the natural beauty of
Riverside Park, which ' parallels the
drive from Seventy-second street for
several miles and which overlooks the
Hudson ana the Palisades of New Jer
sey, nor do they understand what that
park means to the inhabitants of the
west side of the city, as a playground
for the children and a promenade for
the grown-ups. V-p to the present,
neither side baa won - the advantage,
and the outcome is still in doubt.
During the Intensely cold spell of
these last few weeks, loaded automo
biles have crossed the Ice on the Hud
son River, in upper parts of the state,
for regular trips the first time this
baa happened for a great number of
years. This has been the longest and
coldest spell of the Winter, but its
backbone appears to be about broken.
It was particularly unwelcome, coming
as it did on the heels of almost Spring
like temperature.
The New York Center of the Drama
League of America is campaigning to
increase its membership from 3000. to
10.000. One of the methods of arousing
the Interest of the public, and securing
their co-operation, was a monster pub
lic meeting held on Friday, in the au
ditorium of Hunter College. Mrs. Ben
All Haggin Is president of the league
and Dr. Allen W. McCurdy vice-presi
dent.
. It transpires that the Mlnoes Alice
and Irene Lewlsohn. who direct the
destinies of the Grand-Street Neighbor
hood Playhouse, were the backers of
the Gertrude Kingston players. In their
recent six weeks Invasion of Broad
way. In a series of Shaw plays, as well
as interesting novelties from the pens
of other clever writers.
The Junior League (Boston branch)
included a series of worth-while lec
tures among their other activities. The
last of these, for the present season,
was one on "Americanism," with
George Wharton Pepper as speaker.
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The Political League lecture's, which
are given on several mornings of each
week, at one of the downtown thea
ters, have an enormously large follow
ing, mostly of women of the wealthier
class, who fortunately have the inclin
ation and necessarily have the time for
this method of self-Improvement. Lec
tures are given by experts and authori
ties on the different subjects of dis
cussion, which are not confined to po
litical themes, as the name might im
ply. They are entirely by subscription,
and it appears to be a matter of prin
ciple among the devotees not to miss
any of the course.
The initial effort of Mrs. Henry
Payne Whttney as a stage designer met
with such well-earned success that she
Is planning to follow it up. Mrs. Ben
jamin S. Guinness, one of the beet
known women of New York's most ex
clusive circle, is, through her Charity
Shop, supplying the costumes for a
Broadway theatrical production. Mrs.
Norman Hapgood and Mrs. Leonard M.
Thomas have designed the scenery of
"Magic." as well as personally super
vising the making of it. and Mrs. John
W. Alexander did the same for all the
costumes worn by Maude Adams, in
"A Kiss for Cinderella." These are
only a few of the names of society
women "who are entering the field of
professional endeavor.
Frederick B. Pratt was one of the
guests at the third of a series of . din
ners Mrs. Vincent Astor is giving in
the furtherance of the right kind of
Americanization; the ideas brought
forth at these dinners to be in as
much as possible practically applied in
the Torkville district, of New York, 1n
which the Astor house is situated. The
principal subject of discussion, at this
dinner was the best way to improve
present housing conditiona in the part
of that district requiring it. Mr. As
tor, who Is a member of the naval re
serves, was not able to be present, as
he was on duty in the guarding .of
municipal points of vantage and im
portance in this emergency. Misa
Ruth Draper charmed the guests at
the dinner with a number of immigrant
monologues, showing the struggles of
the newly arrived "at our gates" in
trying to make themselves understood.
Mrs. Olive Stott Gabriel was one of
the principal guests at the annual
breakfast of the Portia Club, of this
city, wfcjch was given on Saturdav In
the fountain room of the Hotel Bllt
more. Other guests of honor were:
Mrs. Charles S. Whitman, wife of the
Governor of the state: " Mrs. John
Frsncls Yawger. president of the New
York City Federation of Women's
Clubs; Mrs. Belle de Rivera, founder
of the same, and eight other women of
prominence in the community.
Quite a number of Oregonlans at
tended the song recital given by Miss
Elena Gerhardt, the well-known singer
of German lieder, at the Comedy Thea
ter on Wednesday afternoon. Mrs.
Henry Ladd Corbett was there with
friends, as were also Mrs. Henry Metz
ger. Miss Strauss, who visited her
brother. N. Strauss, in Portalnd last
Winter: Mrs. S. Unander. Miss Con
stance Piper. Frank Dekum. Miss Mar
gery Haussman. Miss Emelie Frances
Bauer. Mrs. J. D. Farrell. Miss Helen
Farrell and Miss Leah Cohen. Miss
Gerhardt is contemplating a tour to
the Pacific Coast.
Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Edwards, who are
here somewhat indefinitely, owing to
the present uncertain conditions, are
being much feted during their New
York visit. On Thursday ' they were
the guests of Mrs. Henryt R. Hoyt. in
her box at the opera, for the perform
ance of "L'Elisir D' Amour." in which
Caruso is scoring one of his greatest
successes. On Friday, Dr. and Mrs.
Lewis Frissell gave a dinner in their
honor. Miss Julia Chester Wells has en
tertained for Mr. and Mrs. Edwards on
two occasions, once with a dinner for
IS. and again with an opera party, and
their other friends, whose name is le
gion, have taken every minute of time
they will give to social gaieties. Mrs.
Edwards Is also much interested In the
different benefits betng given for Al
lied war relief.
The Misses Carrie and M. L. Flanders
are at the Hotel Belmont for a several
weeks' stay, after a tour of Southern
California, and other parts of that
States. Just .before coming here the
Misses Flanders visited In Washington.
D. C. where so many of their family
connections and friends are either liv
ing or passing the Winter.
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Mr. and Mrs. Max Hlrsch. who have
passed a busy fortnight at the Hotel
Blltmore. in this city, theater-going,
sight-seeing and shopping, left this
week for Portland, by way of Wash
ington. D. C. New Orleans, and differ
ent places of interest along the South
ern route to the Pacific Coast. They
were accompanied by the Misses Fran
iConvluded oa Page Xl.