SECTION FOUR,
Pages 1 to 12
D ram atic, Ph otop lays
Real Estate and Autos
VOL. xxxvi.
Portland, Oregon; sunday morning, 3iay 27, 1917.
NO.
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PORTLANDS NEW AUDITORIUM RECEIVING
FINISHING TOUCHES FOR OPENING IN JULY
Granite Steps on Third Street Is Only Portion of Building's Exterior" That Has Not Yet Been Completed and Final
Drive Is Opened. '
NO WAR PRICES
x AT GADSBY'S
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Our stock was purchased before the war and bought right. We are still retailing goods at the old prices,
and intend doing so as long as our. stock lasts. What the future has in store for us, we don't know. Prices
are advancing rapidly, we therefore enjoin you to buy now anything you need in the housefurnishing line.
Goods are 25 to 35 per cent higher, at the factories than they were three months ago, and still going up. So
jwe urge you to get busy. We also extend to Portland people our usual credit terms.
Overstuffed Davenports
Upholstered in Tapestry
Davenette for $33.00
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$33.00 $5.00 Cash, $1.00 Weekly
Solid oak frame, best grade Imitation leather covering:. Seat and back
are well upholstered. Can easily be converted Into bed. Bed springs are
guaranteed. We show the largest line of Bed Divans. All styles, all finishes.
$3gsoB $3950
$75 Davenports,
$61.00
J85 Davenports,
$69.00
$90 Davenports,' J150 Davenports,
$79.50 $99.00
Other Davenports as Cheap aa S25.00.
THIS IS YOIR OPPORTUNITY TO BUY A COOD DAVENPORT CHEAP.
SOME VERY SPECIAL REDUCTIONS
$45 Solid Mahogany Daven
port. 60 inches long, up
holstered in green silk
velour. S25.00
$30 Napoleon Bed. m a h o g
any veneer, rubbed and
waxed. . 81S.OO
$38 Chiffonier, Circassian
walnut, plain Adams de
sign, dull finish, with
mirror 14 by 16 inches. .glO.OO
Dmtirni, Chiffoniers, Table, Dream
in a; Tables, Cabinets. Rook Racks.
Wardrobes. Library Tables. Tele
phone Stand., Sofas, LonngeM. Dav
enports, All Reduced Ezvept Con
tract taoods.
$28 Chiffonier, m a h o gany,
high polish finish, Uouls
XV style, six drawers,
mirror shaped oval top,
rounded corners,vl4xl6..S15.00
$25 Sideboard, -oak. with
three drawers and cab
inet, 45 inches wide, 72
in, high, mirror back S12.50
$20 Dressing Tables, in ma
hogany, birdseye maple,
golden oak and Circas
sian walnut S12.50
$25 Chiffoniers, quarter
sawed oak with oval
mirror, hat box, five
drawers , Slo.OO
$14 Hope Chests, genuine
cedar, moth - proof,
length 46 inches, depth
18 inches, width 18 in... 8 9.50
$12 Hall Chair, quarter
sawed oak, elaborately
carved panel 8 COO
$11.50 Piano Duet Bench,
finished in mahogany,
brass trim'd, claw feet.. 8 5.75
$200 Davenport, kid ney
shape, overstuffed,
high est-grade springs,
full Turkish upholstery,
black or m u 1 b e r r y
striped velour 898.00
$25 Bookcase, quart er
sawed oak, height 61 In.,
width 36 in., double door,
ground glass decorated.-815.00
$50 M a h o g any Arm Chair,
u p h o 1 s tered In brown
Spanish leather, full
spring back and seat 825.00
$27.50 Rocker, low back,
wide overstuffed In
genuine brown leather... 817. 50
All Ram and Carpets Except IVhlt-
lall'a Patterns for 1017 Reduced.
Slightly-l tnl Gm Rana-ea and Steel
Rangea Alwaya on Hand at
Half Price.
A Great Sale of Odd
BUFFETS
$75 Buffet,
$60 Buffet,
$50 Buffet,
$40 Buffet,
$35 Buffet,
$30 Buffet,
$25 Buffet,
$20 Buffet,
$18 Buffet,
special
special
special
special
special
special
special
special
special
S59.50
S48.25
S39.45
S33.00
S29.85
S24.85
S19.95
$17.50
$14.45
Buy Your Gas
Range Now!
Why Pay Others
More Money?
Buy your Gas Range now, pay for
it while you are using it. Cabinet
and low-oven styles, family size.
833.50. Other styles as low as
$7.50. ABk to see. the slightly used
ones.
Trade Your Old Range In on a nr
One. We Allow the Biggest "
Pricea on Old Ranges.
Terms S3 Cash and 5 Monthly or
si Per Week.
We Allow All Your Old Stove Is
Worth on One of These
New Ranges.
Good Mattresses
$5.00 Mattrea ses priced t Q QQ
now at... wOOt7
$6.50 M a 1 1 r e s ses priced 7?
now at Ix I 3
$6.75 Mattret ses priced t C og
now at wUiO
$7.50 Mattrei ses priced
now at
$5.95
$9.00 Cotton and
Mattresses now at
$12.00 Cotton Felt Slat
tresses now at-
$15.00 Cotton Felt Mat
tresses now at.
$20.00 Floss Mattresses
now at.
Jute p o
0 .OiJ
$ 9.90
$12.25
$17.00
Pillows on Sale Buy Now
$1.98 t onfvr.?..pf.,.c.e.d.now$3.85
$2.50 grade priced now
at only
$3.50 grade priced now
at only
Buy Your Bedding; Now,
$2.89
$5.00 grade
at only
$7.50 grade priced now r qh
at only ul J,i7 J
Comforter Alao Reduced la Price.
Sale of Room-Size Rugs
Ruga Are Advancing Rapidly In Price.
Uuxera to Take AdvlHtire of Our
xiz velvet Hug, 'pe- CI Q CA
cial now at wltfiOU
9x12 Brussels Rugs,
seamless, now at
9x12 Wiltana Seamless
now at
9x12 Wilton Rugs,
now at.
$17.50
$29.50
$48.75
We Would Allvl,. Prn,n.tl,.
rrirm. HLtJTlll I, I l I I K l.
9x12 Saxony RugsQO df
now at.. OOiOU
9x12 Axminster Rigi(nr Cf
now at 06jU
9x12. Scotch Rugs now r 1 o tn
at only olO.OU
SMAIXF.R flK KOR
LKSS JIO.VKV.
$12 Solid Oak Library Table $9.85
$ 8.00
$10.40
$12.00
$16.00
$19.85
$23.95
$10 Library Table now
priced at-....,
$13 Library Table now
priced at
$15 Library Table now
priced at.
$20 Library Table now
priced at
$25 Library Table now
priced at..
$30 Library Table now
priced at
Parlor Stand as Cheap
Pedestals Reduced for
an 81. 50.
Thla Sale.
Solid Oak Dresser
$17.50
Dresser, Colonial desifjn, in oak or ma
hogany finish. Specially .priced $17.50
$60.00 values now at.... $48.55
$50.00 values now at. . . $39.95
$47.50 values now at.; $43.00
$39.00 values how at $35.00
$29.00 values now at $25.85
$25.00 values now at $21.75
$22.50 values now at $18.95
$20.00 values now at $16.00
$15.00 values now at .$12.50
Other Dressers as low as $8.50
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Opening Sale of
Refrigerators
Gibson's Cold Blast Refrigerators, white
enameled lined, nickel hinges and locks.
Use less ice and save you money. On sale
at last year's prices no raise in prices at
Gadsby's. From $12.00 to $35.00.
Sturgis Luxury Go-Cart
See Our Special Display This Week
$25.00 Carriages now CJOI Q JT
priced at ;.. tD-i.oO
$20.00 Carriages now.C"lA AK
pricea at... v
$15.00 Go-Carts -now 1 f( -
priced at WlX.JU f -
?12.00. Uo-Carts priced CQ Qf
now at .. D.U
$10.00 Sulky priced now gg
$9.00 Sulky on- special d-7 fT-T
sale at only Ol.lU
$7.00 sulky on special dJXES&h&-1
sale at only wew
$5.00 Sulky on special GA ft
sale at only. . ...... VVf We Are Agents for Sturgis
Other Sulkies as low as ... .$1.25 Luxury Go-Carts
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Gads
1DV 61 500
Corner Second and Morrison Streets
Member Greater Portland Association . . .
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Use Our Exchange Dept.
If you have furnltur -that doesn't suit
want something more up to date, and .
better phone us and we'll send a com
petent man to see it apd arrange to take
It aa part payment on the kind you want
the Gaiiby kind. We'll make you a
liberal allowance for your good a and we'll
aell you new furniture at low price. The
new furniture will be promptly delivered.
Exchange goods can be bought at our
Warehouse, First and Washington streets.
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I'ppcr Vlrw of the Andllorlnm on Third Slrrt Sldr. Ixwrr Gllmpae of One 5r-tlon of the Baleoay and Gallery,-
Showlna; Workmen PrrparlnB to Place the Seata.
Portland's beautiful public Audi-
torium Is within one month of com- I
pletion. 'Workmen of all classes have
begun the final drive which will make
the building; a finished product before
July 1. At the requeHt of City Com
missioner Baker the City Council has
set July 4 as the da.te for the formal
opening and dedication.
Kxcept for the completion of the
grranlte steps on the Third-street side,
the exterior is finished. The interior
has progressed to the point of com
pletion of the marble and terazza
floors, painting and decorating of the
overhead portion of the main, audi
torium, complete Installation of the
heating and ventilating system, com
pletion of all piers and pillars, setting
of marble walls and construction of
the removable floor.
The balcony and main floor have de
veloped to the point of settLng the per
manent opera chairs. The chairs have
been delivered to the building, and will
tie put in place as rapidly as possible.
The principal part of the work from
now on will be the completion of in
terior decorating, completion of the
stage, installation of the lighting fix
tures, the placing of finishing touches
on the rooms adjacent to the main
auditorium and the installation of the
pipe organ.
City Commissioner Baker, who has
charge of the work, says he Is. confi
dent that the work will be completed
and the building ready for occupancy
July 1, and that the dedicatory pro
gramme scheduled for July 4 can ba
staged, according to schedule. The
building will be ready also for the Na
tional Kducation convention, which
will bring thousands of visitors to the
city.
Mr. Baker says there is no chance of
further delays In the building, all dif
ficulties having been put out of the
way and the materials all either being
on the ground or on the way to tha
building.
Visitors to Portland say It will ba
one of the finest auditoriums in tha
United States, being modern in every
respect and Involving a number of new
ideas which add to the attraction and.
the usefulness of the structure.
DRESS REFORM, BROUGHT ABOUT BY WAR GOD,
CULMINATES IN TROUSERETTES FOR WOMEN
No Longer "Will 'Whims of Men Hold Weaker Sex in Tradition's Fetters, for Bifurcated Nether . Garments Are
Permanent Institution Now, Says Leone Cass Baer.
BY LEONE CASS BAR.
When grandfather delved.
And grandmother span
No one asked: "Which Is the man?"
But with trouserettes
That seem scarce human
All of us ask: "Which is the woman?"
THE above and foregoing more or
less impassioned burst of doggerel
was inspired by the sight of a pair
of blue checkered trouserettes tramp
ing up and down a potato patch "some
where in Portland."
What 7000 Doctor Mary Walkers and
Jenness Millers and Else Opplers and
societies for the suppression of t-kirts,
and little groups of serious persons
crusading for trousers as an universal
garment for women and men; what all
these folk have failed to do with their
dress reform Ideas, the war lias ac
complished in the proverbial winking
of an eye. It has given us the- trouser
ette for women. At a -moment when
the "female of the species" are less fet
tered in thought than ever before In
their blessed existences; they choose
also to be unfettered in their appear
ance. Men Held Responsible. .
Heretofore, you know, the female of
the species has screeched to high
heaven that she is a sturdy oak, and
the screeching was done in utterly
feminine cllnging-vinish apparel. She
howled for the ballot and got tfc In
a' picture hat and French heels. Al
ways she has pridVd herself as being
enormously capable, "with a man's
brain." and her daringly original read
ing of the role was in & hobble skirt
and Marypickford curls.
Right here It may as well be con
ceded and recorded that it is and al
ways has been brute man who has
caused dress to be at once woman's
profoundest Interest, her amusement,
her profession, her recreation, her re
ligion and her wildest form of dissipa
tion. I grant all this before we go any fur
ther on the snbject of trouserettes. be
cause, knowing my jlstern pretty well.
I have that intuitive process known as
a "hunch" that some one of the little
band reading only this far will take up
her pen and cudgels tomorrow and lay
the blame where It belongs.
So I'll outguess her. The blame does
belong; with, .tha. men. It la they, jetc.
(see foregoing paragraph). But this
story i. about trouserettes, not about
men. The only thing in common be
tween men and trouserettes is the
woman who wears the trouserettes. If
we started in to catalogue in print the
vices and frailties and general delin
quencies in women that men are re
sponsible for we'd never get to the end
of the chapter. Besides, as Rudyard
Kipling says, that's quite another
story.
It appears that the bifurcated nether
garment is among us as a permanent
institution. Whether this latest erup
tion of eccentricity is an outward and
visible proof of the complete lack of
a sense of humor to which we women
have always been accredited, or whether
it's a screaming vindication and proof
that we have a. sense of humor, re
mains to be seen.
So, too. do the trouserettes.
As an individual I have ever done my
bit, even in the face of tradition. In de
fense of man's assertion that woman's
sense of humor is a dent rather than a
bump.
On the contrary, it is quite as keen
as man's, only she wears It subtly and
not like a sandwich sign and glaringly
apparent.
-Women Are Serlona About It.
It has been, therefore, somewhat of
a solar plexus to my missionary work
upon discussing the eiibject of trouser
ettes and the relative merits of ruffles
at the knee or . at the ankle with a
group of women to hear tJiem all em
phatically agree that theP cannot see
anything inherently comical in the bi
furcated garment and that It certainly
is not a cause for uncontrolled mirth.
In fact, they have all looked pained and
seemed to think any story I might get
together about it was an Irreverent
handling of a sacred topic, which after
all may be or may not be ex'ctly an
argument against women's deficient
sense of humor. It may simply mean
that clothes are too vital and Intimate,
too fundamental an interest in her life,
for any- woman to be able to view them
humorously.
Tomes and more tomes have been
written on woman's dress, its history
and its psychology. You can go to
the library and read Its history from
the original figleaf down the ages to
the moment-of-going. to-press-trouser-etts.
By seasons we have shrunk like vio
lets within seven tons ol . petticoats.
bustles, hoops and rats and veils, only
to emerge in the next season with
nothing on to speak of. One Spring will
And us draped in everything but the
kitchen linoleum and by Kail we're
Thedabaresquing around in & string of
pearls or near-pearls, according to who
we are.
We rush in for hygiene and discard
corsets, while we hobble along in shoes
two sizes too small. We nonchalantly
expose our collar bones to our waist
lines, and wear a fur rug draped across
our back. We throw away rats be
cause they heat the scalp and wear
airtight, hidetight hats.
Just now we scorn concealment.
Mystery! Uosh, we abjure it! Fear
lessly we have leaped, literally and
figuratively from short skirts Into
trouserettes.
Portly dowager, and sinuous snake
vampire, we are to be as near alike as
the oft-mentioned peas in a pod. The
too. too solid flesh, aggressive curves,
sagging areas, or voluptuous sklnni
ness, all are to be dropped into, stuffed
Into, shoe-horned into or lost within
trouserettes.
"Weep" Ont of Sweeping to tin.
We're to wear them to work
and to play. We're to guarden
In 'em. and whether the truck
patch is in the back or in -the side or
on the front lawn In plain view
of all, the overall trouserette has al
ready received the sanction of usage,
at which there is no caviling. We're
to wear 'em instead of house dresses.
Trouserettes will take the "weep" out
of sweeping for the first time since
primitive man took us out of a cave
where we carried a club and put us in
an apartment where we wield a broom
or a carpet sweeper. Trouserettes ac
tually promise to put a spring in
Spring housecleaning.
A nurse's costume with trouserettes
has also appeared, and fascinating uni
forms with trouserettes for house
maids and hired help in general. - Tha
trouserette negligee has been In for
several months. We're used to it now
in the shop windows at least, though
I predict it will never become a fad
with some wives. It's a sort of cross
between a Yama Tama costume, and
is giving the old-fashioned wrapper,
and latter-day kimono a rush for its
very life.
In khaki the trouserette has been.
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