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PORTLAND, OREGON', SUNDAY 3IORSIXG. MARCH 3, 1918.
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UNIVERSITY GIRL PLANS MUSEUM AS AID TO
CHILDREN OF OREGON IN STUDYING NATURE
Miss Opal Whiteley, Affectionately Called "Sunshine Fairy," Who Has Made Deep Study of Birds and Flowers,
Proposes to Establish School for Young Folk of State Wild Life to Be Portrayed.
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College 'Women to Learn How to
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OREUOX AGRICULTURAL COL
LEGE. Corvallia. March 2. (Special.)
In compliance with a request from tha
Food Administration, a course In food
will b aiven by tha Oregon Agricul
tural College domestto science depart
ment. Tba present-day substitutions
will be-ertven apecial attention and the
students will be taught how to use the
aw food a in balanced menus. Conser
vation also will be featured and left
aver portions will be used la making
savory dishes.
This course Is designed especially for
women not registered In borne econorn
ce. for It la tha wish of tba Pood Ad
wialatratloa that every woman ander-
atapd foods and bow to aervo them eco
nomically and to the beat advantage.
Census Shows Cattle Increase.
ABERDEEN. Wash, March J. (Spe
cial.) The Grays Harbor County farm
census, now completed, shows that In
the past yssr the number of cattle In
the county has Increased IS per cent;
the number of brood sows about It per
cent, and that there has been a 38 per
rent increase In tbe sllsge crop.
Slight Increases In tha crops of wheat,
oata and peaa are also shown.
Drala Little Folks Patriotic
DRAIN. Or, March . (Special.)
Mrs. Madeline Cool, teacher In the third
and fourth grades, has a patriotic band
of little folks. They not only do Red
Croe work In and after school, but
have their plans for war gardens all
laid.
COLLEGE GRADUATE NAMED
Benjamin Thompson to Help in Food
Production Campaign.
OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL
LEGE, Corvallia, March I. (Special)
Benjamin B. Thompson, who recently
completed his course In entomology at
Oregon Agricultural College, has been
appointed specialist In control of cereal
and forage crop insects In the Bureau
of Entomology. The position wss cre
ated under the provisions of the food
production act and his duties will be
to give Information to farmers, or-
chardlats and others engaged In food
production. Demonstrations, lectures
and conferences will be siven by Mr.
Thompson. He will work In Oregon
and Washington, with headquarters at
Oregon Agricultural College.
Mr. Thompson is a resident of Staedd.
Or. He received his B. S. degree re
uegan nis new work this
OFFICER'S KIN SHOdTS SELF
Suicide Attempted on Train After
Visit to Slilkary Camp.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14. G. N. Hor
firan. of Unlnntnvn l- ,A . j .
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clde On a Richmond. Freedrlcksburr &
.ruiumao rumway train by shooting
himself above the right eye. His condi
tion Is serious.
Morgan, with his wife, was returning
from Petersburg. V w .-
been on a visit to hie hmih., 4.
an officer atationed at Camp Lee.
morgan s act is attributed to a ner
vous breakdown. Flnt a ih ...
dered by the train crew and the strick
en man was removed to a hospital in
Fredericksburg, Va.
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T -rNIVERSITT OF OREGON. Eugene,
I I Feb. 20. (Special.) Like a tru
v-' "Sunshine Fairy," the name by
which she has been known since
child. Opal Whiteley, a sophomore at
the University, is bringing her nature
study work, carried on since early
childhood, into practical every-day us
for the children of the state.
A children's museum of natural his
tory, made for and by children. Is he
latest plan for helping the boys and
girls get the key to tha fairyland of
the out-of-doors.
The museum, which will be estab
llshed on a small scale in Eugene next
Fall," says Miss Whiteley, "Will repre
sent work of the boys and girls of the
state. It will be their museum." Among
other things. It will contain specimens
of minerals, fossils, flowers, butter-
files, and other Insects of Oregon, care
fully selected and prepared by the
children, sketches of their observations
of nature, life histories of the birds
and butterflies, interesting homes from
the fields and woods, and photographs
and snapshots of children becoming
acquainted with the things of the out-
of-doors. The museum will portray
wild life of Oregon in the fullest poss
ible detail.
Miss Whiteley, who was 20 in De
cember, knows children all over the
state. She has traveled through Ore
gon delivering nature lectures and has
come to know the children through her
nature study classes. Her work as
superintendent of tbe Junior Endeavor
of the state for two and one-half years
has brought her into close personal
touch with them.
"Children are often enthusiastic col
lectors," she says. "Rightly directed
so that they may know how and what
to collect, they may do much. They
will be taught not to try to catch
everything that flies, but only what
Is needed to help them In their under
standing of nature." .
Love of Nature Taught.
"The boys and girls will learn
through their nature work to discover
the real Joys of life, to love the birds,
flowers, as their friends. They will
acquire accuracy through close obser
vation and will gain exact Information
which will be of use to them later.
The deep and growing Interest they
will take In" the out-of-doors will be
a source of joy to them. They will be
helped, too, in finding for themselves
answers to their how and why ques
tions, and, doing organized work, will
get real good from their vacations."
Tbe museum which she Is planning
will give each child the opportunity
to exercise his particular talent and
do the things, in which he is most in
terested. Some children will prefer
collecting specimens, others will choose
to spend their time modeling or sketch
ing. Pictures, which will answer graph
ically the child's questions as to. where'
the thing came from, how it grows,
and so on, will accompany the speci
mens. Or tne cnimren win get me
Idea much more readily from pictures
than from written descriptions," says
Miss Whiteley.
The organisation of the museum will
be under the direction of the Phusls
Phlloi. (lovers of nature) Club, which
Miss Whiteley has Just organized at
the University among girls interested
In science, art, and music. These girls,
will interest the children they, know
in their communities In nature study
work, and they. In turn, will help
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others to know of the work. "Every
child who wants to, may have a part
in -this museum," says Miss Whiteley.
When the museum has become es
tablished after its start in Eugene and
has grown to sufficient proportions,
the dream of its founder Is to have a
real children's museum in some central
ly located town of the state. Around the
building will be a garden of the wild
flowers of Oregon. At the museum will
gather once every year children inter
ested in the wonders of the out-of-doors,
who will come from different
parts of the state to talk over what
they have been learning and ways In
which they can find out other things,
After the museum Is established, th
Phusls Phlloi plans to issue a monthly
bulletin to the children all over the
state telling them of the nature life
of Oregon, what the children have done,
and about the progress of the museum
Before Fall, however. Miss Whiteley
will issue a message to the children,
giving them detailed information as to
what they may do for the museum this
Summer.
I have been doing nature work ever
since I can remember," says Opal. "One
of the strongest memories I have is
of my first wild flowers garden. When
I was three years old, I pulled up some
wild flowers by the roots and planted
them in a bed my mother had pre
pared for geraniums."
Nature Answers Questions.
When Opal was small, she spent
much time in the fields and woods
observing the birds, flowers and but
terflies and keeping notebooks of her
observations. "When I was a child
was always wanting to know how and
why," she says. "I asked questions
constantly and when the grownups
couldn't tell me, I sought my answers
in nature, turning last of all to books."
She always had lots of pets of all
kinds, turtles, caterpillars, bifds, bun
les, squirrels, cats, lizards, frogs, and
trangest of all, a pet skunk. At one
time Opal had 11 cats, but they both
ered the birds which she loved better,
and she had to let the cats go. She
amed her pets after characters in
istory and the opera. A pet lizard
as honored with Rlgoletto. bne
amed 12 caterpillars after Jacob's 13
sons, and when she added tne ltn.
combined the letters of them all, get
ting-such a tongue twister that - one
day -when she saw the 13th start-to
rawl away, she calmly turned her
head and let him go.
.She began very early to write na
ture stories and plays. She told the
stories first to her dream children
and then to the children of the lumber
camps. Now she Is working them over
carefully before publishing them, so
that they may be of benefit not only
to the children of this, but to those of
succeeding generations. In the nature
plays, she brings child-life and the
out-of-doors together. Both her sto-
rles and plays are for grownups as well
as children.
Children's Gatherings Joyful.
In her work with the children of
the lumber camps, one of the most
beautiful ideas in her service for them
was the cathedral in the woods where
she met with the children Sundays
and sometimes in the evenings for twi
light hour. The cathedral had for it'
sides some wonderful old trees; the
sky formed the roof. The ground waa
carpeted with moss, and moss covered
legs were used as benches. The aisle
was lined with the palest wild flowers
and these delicate flowers also decked
the altar. Birds nested in the treea
and furnished music for the services.
Here In the peace of God's great out-of-doors,
some of the lumber camp
children heard of His work for the
first time. "We sometimes did not
talk at all," says Opal. "The children,
could read God's Book In the out-of-doors
sooner than they could other
wise." "My dearest girl chum was my
mother," said Opal. "In my love of
music, art, poetry, biography, the
drama, history, she was in close sym
pathy with me and we had many won
derful twilight hours together before
her homegoing last year. The one big
point on which we differed was my
nature study, which she opposed, since
she had, planned a different career for
me, but I felt that through my nature
work I could give my best service to
the world. Of those hours I cannot
speak, but their memory Is sweet and
will go with me down tnrougn tne
years.
This young nature student has a col
lection of 20,000 specimens of rocks,
minerals, fossils, flowers, ferns, moths,
butterflies, beetles and other Insects,
birds, bird homes secured after . the
birds left them, and seashells. The col
lection fills three rooms. She has col
lected about 12,000 of the specimens1
herself. The others were sent her by
people who knew her or who have readj
of her work. "Best of all I love things
living In the out-pf-doors," she said.
Sometimes I pick flowers to take toi
Deonle where I know the flowers will
cheer them, but I never pick anything
just for the sake of picking it. I have
never killed birds for my work, for
warm friendship throbs for them In my
heart."
MIkh WhlteHr will leave for California.
the middle of March to do research'
work there until September. She will
carry on her work In the Sierra Ne
vada and San Bernardino Mountains, in
the Yosemite, the Catalina Islands and
the Mohave Desert. She plans, to lec
ture on her nature work, while. In California.
I want to say to my many friends
In Oregon." she said, "that I am not
saying good-bye to OTegon, but am
taking Oregon right along with me."
She will continue her work In the Uni
versity beginning with the next Octo-
er semester.
MUSIC COMES INTO ITS OWN IN EAST AS
MOST NECESSARY OF WARTIME LUXURIES
Enthusiastic Audiences Greet Operatic Triumphs at Metropolitan and Lexington Theaters in New York City.
Gallr-Carci Tremendous Success in ?La Traviata" Mary Garden Again Proves a Popular Favorite.
BY EMELIE FRANCES BAUER.
. EW YORK, March 2. (Special.)
Il Music has been an Important
topic In the week's excitement,
notwithstanding that everything in the
political world which might have been
expected to consume all the Interest
there waa to spare. This country has
been "In the war" now almost a year
and has proved that while things may
not aro on exactly "as usual" music has
come to be the most necessary among
the so-called luxuries.
No one could have Imagined that any
one was hard pressed for money if he
had caught a glimpse of the scenes
surrounding the Metropolitan Opera
House for the second performance of
:'L Prophete" on Friday evening or
the Lexington Theater, where Galli
Ctircl 'Was heard for the first time in
New Tork as Vloletta In "La Traviata."
It is not exaggeration to say that at
the Lexington people were pulling each
other's hair, tearing, clawing, scratch
ing their way to a box office, where
long hours before there had been
"nothing to selL" The lobby was one
seething, howling mass of humanity.
which seemed to be trying to make an
onslaught upon the theater, whether
they had tickets or not. '
AH credit must go to a remarkable
police for getting this ocean of tem
peraments under control and from the
different languages heard it was easy
to imagine that this was to be a second
Tower of Babel.
Great numbers were turned away
from the Metropolitan as well and the
stupendous spectacle offered by the
Meyerbeer opera as well as the galaxy
which included, in addition to Caruso,
the Idol, Mme. Matzenauer, in a posi
tively marvelous impersonation of
Fides, mother of the religious fanatic;
Miss Muzio, as the betrothed of Jean
of Leyden.
'Le Phophcte" Comes to Stay.
There Is little doubt that "Le Pro
phete" has ceme to remain in the rep
ertory -of the Metropolitan, where it
had not been sung in IS years. But
with this must be added that Gatti-
Casazza knows how to make a pro
duction that will carry, even over ob
stacles that others have not been will
ing to fight.
"Marouf" Is an interesting work in
point. There are many reason why
the new Henri Rabau opera should not
become, a popular success. -Oriental
music has asi its first element an at- I
most overpowering monotony, especial- 1
Ily when the orchestral lights and
shades are not clearly defined. But to
offset this the secenic effects, coloring,
costuming and general staging are so
marvelous that the splendor overbal
anced the shortcomings.
Then, too. the title role taxes the
powers of De Luca to the limit, but his
resources seem inexhaustible both vo
cally and in impersonation.
He remains, notwithstanding the
most gorgeous raiment ever put onto
a man, the same Marouf, the cobbler,
to whom the world's best gift is a piece
of cake. But his singing! That is an
example of the rarest type for the en
tire singing world and the Rabaud
opera gives him every opportunity.
- Mme. Alda has had an unusual series
of roles, superinduced In many cases
by her personal beauty. The part of
the princess Is no exception and a love
lier stage picture is not conceivable
than this radiantly beautiful woman in
shifting costumes until she closes the
list with the most fetching "male at
tire" ever seen on the stage.
It would be unfair to her as a vocal
artist to overlook what she brings to"
tne part in the way of exquisite sing
ing, because. there, too, she is an artist
of luster and rare qualities.
There were several changes in tha
(Concluded on Pas 4.)