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iff SECTION. FIVE Pages 1 to 12 Women s Section Special Features VOL,. XXXVL PORTLAND,' OREGON. SUNDAY MORNING. DECE3IBER 2. 1917. NO. 48. JACKSON WOMEN HAVE NO DIFFICULTY IN TAKING UP MEN'S WORK WHEN WAR CALLS Mrs. J. E. Bodge, the "Barley Queen," Miss Alice Ilanly, Who Raises Stock, and Mrs. "William Lee Holloway, Orchardist, Meet Emergency Imposed by Labor Shortage in Manner Satisfactory to Themselves. Buy Practical Gifts This Christmas -Buy Furniture Pay for St Next Year "Karpen GUARANTKED IPHOLSTERED PIECES I fix;-? -t For Gift Giving ' No better upholstered furniture Is produced to day than "Karpe tn" guaranteed kind. It Is Ideal for grift giving-. TThe quality Is guaranteed and will give the user years of eervlce. The Powers Store is the only Portland store showing "Kar pen" furniture. The most desirable display we have ever offered Is now ready. Axminster Rugs $1.00 Down, $1.00 Week This 9x12 Worcester Ax- j, m. sav c f minster Rug Is the beat X . o5 rug we have been able to 'm -procure to sell at a price mr MB of this kind. The nap is long, thick and closely woven. Insuring years of long service. It is shown in a splendid variety of colors and pat terns and makes an excellent item for Christ mas giving. The very special credit terms is an extra inducement. . Pool Tables Velocipedes, Wagons Juvenile Pool Table. 24 by 44, rubber cushions, size 19x24, complete, with playing out- Cf fit, very special wtiuU Juvenile Pool Table, 24 by 44 rubber cushions, a most ex- fl Q(5 cellent gift piece, special. ... wOtOO Burrow's Juvenile Pool Table, size 19 by 34, fitted with steel cushions and out- fljQ Cf fit, special 00OU all sizes. . !";. $3.50 to $13.50 $3.75 $5.85 $6.75 Here Is Your Christmas Victrola (Q. First Payment Our $20 Victrola for Christmas Giving on the Most Unusual Credit Terms Ever Offered No home in Portland should be without a Victrola when such low credit terms as these are offered, and no one could think of a gift piece that could be purchased so easily, or one that would be more appropriate. Come In and make your selection of any 20 Victrola and pay only 5c cash, each following payment you add 5c a week second payment 10c. third payment 15c, etc. until the $20 is paid, covering a period of several months. The largest and last payment will be $1.25. Our $119.00 Eight-Piece Suite dJOQ OC in Jacobean Design, Now - -.tpO7--iO This splendid Jacobean Suite which we have featured at so low a price includes six genuine leather slip-seat chairs, a large buffet and a mas sive base dining table. The china closet is not included at the suite price. All pieces are built of selected, quartered oak- richly- finished. The buffet is broad and roomy and the , dining table ; has -an unusual pedestal and leg base. . Buffet, $29.75; Chairs, $550; Table, $2650 Ivory Enamel or American Walnut Finish Dresser, $26.75; Bed, $2425; Toilet Table, $2225 Look at the-illustration -again check the pieces up with these spe cial prices, then you will realize the genuine bargain' we are offering you. The cut merely gives the outline of the pieces. It does not show the splendid finish, nor the care to every detail of construction, for it is the best period suite we have ever owned at a similar price. The chiffonier can be had with mirror at $24.25. ?21 SOtin MAHOGANY WING CHAIR OR ROCKERS FOH ONL.V $12.75 Spinet Desks A MOST DKLIGHTFIL DISPLAY, Some of the prettiest models we have ever shown have just bean received and are ready for your inspection. Prettily designed Spinet Desks in various sizes and grades, from the least expensive to the best. Gate -End Tables $11.65 Open, the tables measure 26x391i inches; closed. 26 inches in length. In hand-rubbed satin mahogany finish. Prettily de signed tables that make excellent' rift pieces and usually worth 18.50. Many other styles in the various sizes and designs are now ' ready for your choosing. Adam Work Tables $11.85 Like illustration, except that they have square taper instead of turned legs. Fitted with three drawers, top one having sliding tray. sot m "Adjusto" Chairs Make Ideal Gifts 26 Kinds "Adjusto" Chairs, as everybody knows, are the most comfortable chairs produced. They recline to any wanted position of the user. They are simple in construction, more than usually comfortable, and represent the greatest values In the reclining-chair field today. We've some twenty-six patterns to show you. in both the imitation and genuine leather, and the variety of design is most favorable for Christmas giving. . Priced $21 and Up Automatic Adjustable Dress Forms Why be satisfied with the old way of making dresses at home, when one of these automatic adjustable dress forms would be such a help to you and at the same time make such a decided improvement in the appearance of your garments? These adjustable forms will conform to any size, figure or height they adjust automatically and are a wonderful help to women who do their own sewing. A small down payment and the easy weekly .terms is every reason for you to own one. - ' 1.0O DOWN JOc WEEK. This Progressive Store bays o Interest C on Crtft Purchases u At this season of the year when there are so many drains on the purse strings r when there are so many presents to buy this store offers credit terms on gift pieces that will help much to solve the gift problem. There is much satisfaction in knowing that you may purchase any piece in this store for gift giv ing without interest charges of any kind attached, and also that you procure the best quality at the price you have paid. METROPOLITAN OPERA SEASON OPENS WITH FEWER DIAMONDS BUT MORE APPRECIATION Singing of "Star-Spangled Banner" by Great Artists Joined by Chorus and Audience Is Notable Feature Which Sends Patriotic Thrill Through Every Person Present. BY EMILIE FRANCES BAUER. NEW TORK, Dec. 1. (Special.) From the hour of noon a line was formed around the Metropolitan Opera-House, where the season opened November 19 with the greatest favor ite in ,all operatic repertory "Aida." Lon before the curtain was raised an eafser and expectant crowd assem bled In every part of the house and while the "horseshoe" was filled to the last inch, there was a noticeable ab sence of the aggressive diamonds that I have made New York, noted or notorious. The brilliancy was not lacking, how- ever, neither was the appreciation be cause each artist received & ripple of applause quickly hushed down in order that the continuity of the music might not be disturbed. Then there was con siderable interest in, the orchestral side of the performance because this of fered the first appearance at the Metro politan, Opera-House o Robert ilo- ranzoni. who had already attracted much favorable comment when heard in New lork with the Boston Opera Company. The artists who appeared in this su perb performance have already made records in their roles, including Caruso as Radames, Miss Muzlo in the title role, Mme. Matzenbauer as Amneris, Amato as Amonasro, Basil Ruysdael as the King and among the newcomers was Jose Mardones as Ramfls. and Mario SundeUus in. tier second, season at the Metropolitan, but for the first timo heard as the Priestess, which, re ceived clear and beautiful singing. Caruso was welcomed with all the old-time fervor as he sang with all the old-time beauty and opulence of voice, imposing in a set of new costumes which he- carried with befitting dig nity. At the end of the first act when Aida remains alone upon the stage, the young favorite was called three times before the curtain. Throughout she presented a lovely picture and there were many bits of personal expressions which raised the part out of a tradi tional routine, while she did not de sert the details established by earlier artists of commanding ability. She was truly the "daughter of a king" and her reserve force was welcome in & role where she might have dropped into "ranting." Mme. Matzenauer has never seemed more noble or overwhelmingly beauti ful, nor has she sung with such skill. 1 1 t . ?- w I J 7?uby I on ""I ti,f N,' . " S CJL if zz rt- - . .. . ' . .... Ill VMtv.v..;oU t MM ..V,-; t i a I (J fun iin mi r m . i.n i . Jk4 Ug ''-'vlv-s vHTC- - V ' Stfr. J3oc?c?e Gather- &arlec Jfer&e-tf - s VJ l " w Kfcr '-Vhr & x j . 4 , 'VtVtfly feri VwdfflSJ r Vn k : it f R-VvCl f-'3S'.; x . 'ill 7 1 - j . w " st-- ,e. u ' -.-a W;1V, -' ZsW r yVr J-7o7Zo w3 cj ?js- f-2 cz-, ' 0 yfv r-weman in -runjny. rMiss Alice -fanlstj tat ihc Buiitn 7360. .(Concluded on Page 4, Column Z. MSDFORD. Or., Dec. 1. (S pecial.) When Paul Paulson anid Charley Mattiney. bakers of this city, went to war, their places were taken by Miss Ruby Wilcox and Miss Grace Kenschelow. What Misses Kienschelow and Wilcox did, hundreds of other Jackson County women and girls have done since the war began, and are do ing now. Because of the l.-tbor short age duo to the war, they lui v e picked and packed fruit, sprayed, pruned, threshed grain, driven trucks, culti vated and aftfr the next rajn at least one woman will do the Fall blowing. Shc is Mrs. J. K. Bodge, the "Barley Queen." Mrs. Bodge does not like pub licity. -Nor does she like to' have her picture taken. A story mlglit be writ ten about the diplomacy required to obtain the photographs oft this un usually capable and remarkable woman farmer, who gets a better price for her barley than any other fSirmer or farmerette in the Rogue River Valley. Competent Help Hard to Hire. This aversion to publicity appears to be due to a certain feminine fastidious ness. Mrs. Bodge does, a man's work, but she doesn't do it in a mannish way. In fact, there is nothing mannish about her. And she is convinced that news paper men are in a conspiracy to make her appear a sort of "masculinised" freak, and with a deep bass volcn and a right arm that could put Jess Willard to sleep. She detests all that sort of thing, the new woman, militant suffragette idea. She doesn't get up at 4 A. M-, put on her overalls and milk the cow because she wants to. She doesn't do the Fall plowing because she prefers that to tatting. She does those things pri marily because with th war taking the men to the front she has tq do them, and secondarily because she can do them better herself than the aver age male helper that it is possible at such a time to hire. Perhaps there is a third considera tion. Mrs. Bodge is not raising barley for her health. She did not make her money in the city so she could spend it in the country. It Is not a "stunt" with her. She has to make her living on her farm, and after' several years she has decided that the only way to make a living is to live like a farmer. And she does live like a farmer. She gets up before sunrise and she works all day. retiring, figuratively speaking, with the chickens. She lrves alone in a dream of a bungalow designed by herself, her daughter is at boarding school in Xew Kngland, and instead of hiring the work done, she does it. Women Firmrrl aTrfmful. And another book could be written on the way she does It. But this is not an article about Mrs. Bodge, but about women doing men's work in the war. so suffice to say that the Bodge cowshed is built of concrete and fir. far cleaner than some parlors you have seen, that when housecleaning time comes around she ta3ces up the rugs and turns the hose on the concrete floors; and when truere is necessary marketing to do she cranks up her spotless touring car, discards o walla and pigtails and, lo. no "Barley Queen" have we here. But' Mrs. Bodge hates flattery, too. Howerv-er. with a smart looking suit, which she didn't make herself, and a complexion that only outdoor life. exercise and regular hours can give. tha.t worry about the new woman suffragette stuff Is harder than ever to understand. Incidentally, Mrs. Bodge makes the farm pay. And so -docs Miss Alice Hanley, sister of ' the famous Bill Hanley of Burns. Or., proprietress of the old Hanley homstead. the oldest and most picturesque place in Southern Oregon. For many years Miss Hanley has managed this ranch, so the general work is nothing new, but the war has reduced her help so that she has had to do more herself and depend more upon the women, girls and buys of the neighborhood. Needless to say. Miss Hanley prefers stock. Every true Oregon lUtnlcy pre fers stock. She lives on the ranch purchased by her father, Michael Han ley, in 1855, and the spring house shown in the photograph, where Miss Hanley keeps the butter that she churns, was built in. 1860, six months before the first shot crashed into Fort Sumter. Shrp Yield 97 at Head. Tes. Miss Hanley has raised horses, cattle, pigs and sheep the past year as her contribution to the country during the war. The wool on one sheep netted $12 and the herd averaged $7 a. head. And the Haniey barn.- the first barn built In Jackson County, is full of alfalfa and grain hay raised this year on the 134 acres surrounding the old homestead. We need scarcely arid Miss Hanley makes her farm pay. And Miss Hanley in boss. What she doesn't do herself she sees is done. A. native-born Ore gonian. sbe takes a great pride in her state and the part her family has taken in Its early life and later prog ress. Mi.-v Hanley's mother was a Burnett Martha Burnett, the daughter of Peter . Burnett, the flrst judge in Oregon and the first Governor of Cali fornia. The wonderful weeping willow tree, shown In the picture shading the spring house, was. planted from a wil low sprig1 brought to Michael Hanley by Smith Kearney, the pioneer capital ist or Portland, fcn a silt potato. Mr. Kearney made the trip from Oregon City to Oie Rogue Kiver Valley on horseback and the willow threw out its first sVioots when Abraham Lincoln was President. As Mrs. -Bodge represents the woman farmer in war time and Miss Hanley represents L tlue woman stockratser In war time, no Mrs. William Lee Hollo- way represents the woman orchardist In war tin-ie. Mrs. Holloway was one of the pioneers in the Kastern emigra tion which made Medford one of the orchard bonan towns in 1910. Orrkardlit'a J'roflt Big. When he arrived she didn't know the difference between an Anjou pear and a Hubbard squash and her agri cultural . experience had been confined to a lit.tle window garden In one of Philadelphia's most exclusive residence district's. But In three years she had dcmorjsUat.cd, Uiat $1000 profit an acre on 10 acres of pear orchard was not a vain boast of the colored booklets, and since war was declared she has demon strated that a woman single-handed can successfully run an orchard with out having been born on one. Mrs. Holloway learned the orchard business at the age well, let us say from 35 to 40, and she learned by tak ing a course at O. A. C. When labor left the valley at the outbreak of the war and the Holoway foreman aban doned fighting blight to fight Germans, ilrs. Holloway was distressed. When she could find time to take the fore man's job she whs more distressed. But now she admit it was the most fortunate thing that ever happened. For Mrs. Holloway had to take the Job herself. She had helped in spray ing, pruning and cultivating before, but she hud never engineered the job. She had never tried to handle the working force. Now there is nothing on the ranch she has not done and does not know how to do. And so Mrs. Holloway is truly inde pendent. Men may come and men may go. but she, with her horses and ma chinery, can make the ranch go on forever. The horror of the foreman, quitting his job has been removed. "I have found," says Mrs. Holloway. "that the only way one can really know how to do a job is to do it. I have picked, packed, pruned, cultl-' vated. plowed and driven the fruit wag ons to the shipping station. Now I know that if my foreman leaves me I can handle things myself until I can get another. It's a great relief. When the war came I thought it a terrible catastrophe as far as my own business was concerned. Now 1 know it was a blessing. What I have done any woman can do. with strength, good health and a love for hard work and thi great outdoors." Mrs. Holloway also lives alone, pro tected by a packof thoroughbred Aire dales and a blue-ribbon Persian cat. She not only tends to her ranch as above noted, but she is an indefatigable charity worker, is Jackson County's representative of the Anti-Tuberculosis League, sews and knits for the Red Cross and every now and then cooks and serves a dinner in her very attrac tive home and washes the dishes her self after enjoying a few rubbers of bridge. Here then are inadequate sketches of three women in Jackson County who are doing men's work during the war, because of the war. There are hun dreds of others, no doubt, but these three are typical. They show that in no other department of economic life during war are women better fitted to take on mere man's burden than on tha farm. 1913 Law Not Repealed. SALEM. Or.. Dec. 1. (Special.) Ar thur Clarke. Uistrlct Attorney for Ben ton County, has been advised by Attorney-General Brown that the law of 1917 relating to registering firearms and obtaining permits for carrying such arms, does not repeal the law of 1913 on the subject of firearms. - The : new law of 1917. the Attorney-General holds, merely throws more restrictions ' around the Bale of. fireafojs. i
