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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 22, 1918)
SECTION FIVE Pages 1 to 12 Women's. Section Special Features VOL. XXXVII. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, DECE3IUER 22,. 1918. NO. 51. POWERS THIRD AND YAMHILL POWERS USE YOUR CREDIT ft POWERS Santa Says I've Sent My Very Best and Newest Inventions to' Powers' New Toy Section Santa's Heaquarters in Portland are undoubt edly at the' Toy Department of this store. A wonderful collection of toys ingenious, in structive, well made are here. Every father and mother, or SPECIAL SHOWING WHEEL TOYS OB Wooden Wagons, special S1.69 Strong with wooden wheels, reg ular $2.75 Toyland Furniture Sets. . ..23 Children's Rockers . .S2.95 Children's Folding Tables. . . 75 Toy Trucks, special S1.98 C Hardwood Jo-Carts, special 9S5 Children's Chairs, special SI. 5 5 Doll's Four-Poster Beds. -S1.60 Children's White Enameled Decorated Tables S2.30 Reed Doll Bassinets S3.40 Large Doll Cradles S2.38 doting relative of any variety, should visit Powers' before purchasing gifts for the children. Sailor Sets, 23 pieces. .2.89 Soldier Sets, 24 pieces. .$3.43 Soldier Sets, 30 pieces. .3.98 1 sK" All Styles in Doll ' Carriages Tho latest models and sizes are here. Reed Doll Bugies,"with hoods, $8.45-$13.95. Folding Doll Carts, with hoods, $1.69-$5.75. Featuring Beautiful Karpen Cane Living - Room Pieces These fine pieces embrace Queen Anne, William and Mary, and Adam designs, and are of very superior quality. ..- "We advise an. early selection. Handsome Karpen Cane Davenports Cushioned in Splendid Velours, $134. Come, in and Hear The Brunswick Phonograph You know the virtues of .the Bruns wick splendidly made and finished, sweet-toned, plays all records. Will bring delight and entertainment, to the household every day of the year. Large stock of records to suit every taste. Sold on Easy Credit Terms No Interest ' is-j i L'liiiiiiiiiitiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMi: LIBERTY BONDS I Accepted at Face Value in Payment of 5 . Merchandise or on Accounts " niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiriiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiT The Book-hover ' Will Welcome a Handsome Set of Book Blocks They are very convenient and practical for holding a few favorite books. Will add dignity to the library table. $350, $40 to $6.75 Many Styles Powers' Adjus of LStO Chairs Beautiful Mahogany Cane-Back Chairs and Rockers Unusual Values at $13.85 For a handsome, substantial chair you cannot do better than purchase some one of these pieces. Are well built, too. Use Your Credit There is a splendid variety in these prac tical Powers' "Adjusto" chairs, for there are thirty styles to choose from. They have dis appearing foot rests, and are variously covered; some with Spanish leatherette, others with tapestry, and a few with genuine leather. Very attractively priced. Priced $26.90, $29.75 up to $65.00 Use Your Credit to Buy Christmas Gifts A Christmas Gift special i nis Regular $11730 Tapestry Covered Overstuffed Davenport $93. 50 Nothing gives a more homelike appearance to a big living room than a davenport like this comfortable, luxurious, with deep spring seat, and covering of beautiful tapestry. Can't you just imagine your wife's delight if you were to purchase this handsome davenport for her Xmas present? Many Remarkable Values in Daven ports in Powers Great Stock. A Big Showing of Children's HIGH CHAIRS ROCKERS, TABLES, and DESKS The day is past when children have to ' use furniture unsuited to their size and age. Here is furniture, childish, pretty and comfortable. Come iu and see It, parents. Plenty of Pretty Nursery Furniture for Kiddies at Powers A Very Special Value This Gate End Table $12.60 The most convenient little table ever de vised. A space and time saver. The table shown is mahogany; 12x26 inche3 closed, 26x39 inches extended. Any Number of Gjft Ideas at Powers' This Full Quartered Oak Buffet at a Special Price $31.80 If you have been planning to buy a good looking buffet for your dining room, here is the opportunity. Simple and digni fied in -style, and roomy in build. We can recommend it. A nother Special Oak Buffet A Real Value at $31 JO - i Quaint and Charming as a Gift This Martha Washington Sewing Table $12.60 Any woman who sews will certainly appreciate the usefulness of this little sewing table. Is a regular $16.50 value. Betsy Ross Sewing Stands .$11.90 Mahogany Knitting Stands $ 3.90 Colonial Knitting Stands ...$7.75 Mahogany Yarn Winders $720 A Gift That A ny Hostess Will Receive Enthusiastically Th is Pretty Tea Wagon Special at $115 There is no need of tellingr any woman who Keeps bouse about the usefulness of a Tea Wagon. This particular one is finished in mahog any or walnut. 181 A Cheering Christmas 'M Gift A Beautiful Art Lamp $15 to $35 Artistic lamps with mahogany, oak, and old ivory standards. Lovely silk shades to match any decorative scheme. Also metal art lamps in brass, bronze, mahogany and ivory finish. Art Lamps of Every Design v OPEN MONDAY and TUESDAY EVENINGS liPiliMIII A r j . - ,rrw; i ! a t tonal l.eaB;ii for Women's Service. tValefc Collect. Toy. for Portland Vlrtory Chrlstniaat Tleadlns; From - Ijr-tt to Rlffht Mr. A. Jones, Mrs. Alice Benaon Beacn, Cnnirman; Mrs. 1. B. Simmons. THB task of collecting:, classifying; and distributing- the toys, clothing, candy, nuts and fruit for Portland's great victory Christmas has been un dertaken by the National League for Woman's Service, under the chairman ship of Mrs. Alice Benson Beach. Every day for a week or more Mrs. Beach and her committee nave been at Liberty Temple receiving: the donations of dolls and toys which have poured in from all localities, sending: hurry calls for clothing:, fruit, decorations for Lho great tree which has been erected In front of the temple a. accomplishing: the thousand and one tasks which will go for the final success of the gladdest of all Chrtstmases. Mrs. C. A. Jones, who has been as sisting: Mrs. Beach, has undertaken the task of classifying; the toys and books as they are received according to the age of the children in the institutions where they will be distributed. While the appeal for gifts for Port land's homeless children has met with a hearty response, there is still a need of more toys of all kinds for children between the ages of seven and 14. More candy, nuts and apples will be needed before Christmas will be com plete in all of the 10 institutions which are looking to the .public for their gifts and celebration. Clothes, warm sweaters, underclothing and stockings are needed for children from five to 10 and an endless number of little shirts and socks are needed for babies up to three years old. Dolls are still wanted, and woolly lambs and mechanical toys, but there is the greatest need for warm clothing. Four hundred little guests have been Invited to Thomas Swivel's annual Christmas treat at the Chamber of Commerce at 3 o'clock on Christmas afternoon and a large proportion of this number will bo unable to attend unless they axe first outfitted from top to Joe. While gifts of clothing are solicited, the committee will receive money and do its own purchasing. Several Gen erous gifts of money have already been made and they will be used to buy many of the needed articles. Tuesday evening the great victory tree will blaze fortli in all its splendor from Liberty Square. Hundreds of lights will sparkle, one for each of the wee boys and girls and older folk who will receive their Just share of the great peace Christmas on the following day. The Portland community Christmas will enter the following institutions: Multnomah Farm, Multnomah County Hospital. Tuberculosis Hospital. Al bertina Kerr Nursery, Louise Home, Florence Crittenton Home, St. Agnes Baby Home, Frazer Home, Boys' and G-irls Aid Society, Waverley Baby Home. Each Institution is in the hands of a committee of business men who will see to the distribution of gifts and furnish a Santa Claus. "Work." Miss Alice Hutchinson: "Clothes," Miss Viola Charleston: "So cial Life," Mrs. Laura N. Tapscott; "Pleasures," Mrs. Metta McElroy. Miss Ida V. Jontz responded to "The Y. W. C. A." A clever resume of the year's activities In verse was written and read by Mrs. Thompson. After dinner the annual business meeting of the committee was called by the chair man. Miss Margaret A. Fleming. After reviewing the work of the past year and discussing plans for the future activity, of the committee, the following officers were elected for 1913: Chairman. Mrs. Metta McElroy; vice-chairman. Mrs. Glendora Thomp son: recording secretary, MIm Martha Ooldapp; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Laura N. Tapscott; treasurer. Dr. Mary E. Giles. Y. W. C. A. War Committee Reviews Year's Work. "Happiness" Theme Discussed at Tearoom Meeting. TO celebrate the completion of its first year of activity tho war serv ice committee of the business women of the Y. W. C. A. gathered at dinner In the T. W. C. A. tearoom on Tuesday evening. With Mrs. Julia Kirker Eayre as toastmistress, the theme of "Happi ness" was presented from different viewpoints by the following members: "Home, ' ilisa ,&ell& Pltcliard; Courageous Young Women Needed in Russia. Chance - Open for Reconstruction W ork, in Archangel. THE National Y. W. C. A., with head quarters In New York City, is offer ing an opportunity to specially trained women desiring to do reconstruction work to go to Russia to join a force of nine secretaries already at work In Archangel, a city .behind the allied lines. The women who will be accepted for this service must be trained to par ticular lines of work, ouch as recrea tion leaders, who are much needed at the present tlmo in that country; cafe teria directors, dietitians, business workers, gymnasium experts and wom en experienced In handling Industrial The women who answer tnis can must be courageous, filled with the pioneer spirit, ready to meet privations in food women wim sieaay nerves nu the conviction of spirit that will make them hew to the line even though rev olutions rage around them. This is the way In which Miss &4ran S. Lyon, head of the Y. W. C. A.'a bu reau on nersonnel for overseas work. challenges the young women of Amer ica to hard service. Annual Christmas Exhibition of Art Is Open. Plaster Figures. Representing Christ. Msry and Joseph Are Kestnre. THE fourth annual Christmas exhi bition now is open at the Portland Art Museum -under the direction of the Art Association. - One room' of the museum has been set aside for a collection-of rare ex amples of art of Christmas traditions. The room is exquisitely decorated. In one corner is a little group of plaster figures, representing the Christ child in the manger, and Mary and Joseph kneeling In adoration. The figures are the work of the children's art class and they have been artistically arranged by Miss Stephens in a little improvised temple, hung with rare old tapestries. The exhibition includes a rare ex ample of the Flemish "Master of the Legend of St. Ursula," culled from "The Virgin Enthroned and Three Por traits." painted in 1486. Copies of many of the most famous pictures of the Nativity also are on exhibition. The museum will be closed on Christ mas day. but will be open all otber dayff. Tho Christmas exhibition will continue through, the holidays. Saturday afternoon a special Christ jmu celebration, was sivea w Uia chil dren of the music education school and the young women of tho occupational therapy class. Lr. Joseph K. Hart, of Keed College, delivered an address. The children sang a series of quaint old Christmas carols and the class gave a group of tableaux vlvants represent ing Christmas subjects. Those who will appear In tho tableaux are the Misses Mildred Bel haw, Beatrico Burbidge, Edna Byrd. Elizabeth Harmon. Loretta Hussey. Gertrude Hyatt. Iantha Irvine. Almeda McEachern. Katherine McVay, Lucile Messner, Miriam Myerhoff. Helen Phil lips. Hazel I'lympton. Glen Shope. Ida Victoria Strand. Bell Stuart. Helen Theis, Martha Wright and Marian Young. ' Miss Ellyn Whitehill. formerly of Portland, who has been serving as Red cross dietitian at Camp Devcn. Massa chusetts, for some months, has been promoted to Instructor In Army Nurses Training School. She was selected out of 100 others because of her ability and the fact that she was a colleae graduate and had hospital experience before being called by the Govern ment. Saturday afternoon the Camp Fire groups of the Y. W. C. A. will meet in the building for a general good time together. . Auxiliary to the 65th Artillery will meet tomorrow evening at S o'clock In room 201. Courthouse. Y. W. C. A. Notes. CHRISTMAS day will be open house at the Y. W. C. A. The rooms, already resplendent In Christmas decoration with a gaily dressed and lighted Christ mas tree in the social hall, will be open to any girl who wishes to spend Christ mas In the building. Tea will be eerved In the afternoon and Miss Ida V. Jontz. general secretary, will preside as host ess during the day." The house will be especially at the disposal of tho nurses in the service at Vancouver who may wlxh to spend a few hours before the fireplace in tho living room. Friday evening the secretaries will receive at the association building and all friends of the Y. W. C. A. are asked, to call. The regular board meeting will be held on Monday of this week instead. of Tuesday, as scheduled, at 10 o'clock at the association building. Friday evening of the past week'tba E. T. C. Club was hostess for a party at the building under the direction of Miss MitchelL Friday morning's staff meeting at the Y. W. C. A. took the form of a spe cial Christmas "family gatherirfg." at which all of the members of the pres ent staff and all those who have been, formerly connected with the associa tion were present. Miss Ida V. Jonts presided at the gathering and Christ mas music was sung. Those present were: Miss Bertha Brainerd, Miss Mabel Fraley, Miss Myrtle Walker. Miss Willie Hatch, Miss Ethel Mitchell, Mrs. Cora Bullock. Miss Emma H. Pen field, Miss Ruth Blair, Miss Ines Couey. Miss Elliott, Mrs. C. C. Callahan. Miss Helena Saxton. Miss Genevieve Chapln, Mrs. Anna West, Miss Mercy Flint. Mrs. Anna B. Thompson, Miss Amelia Foshay, Mrs. Sophia Allen. Miss Alien Ludsate, Miss DtBok, Miss Marian Kenney Mrs. D. A. Danforth, Mm. Tenipleton. Miss Minnie King. Miss Ruth Walter. Miss Helen Pearce, Miss Eleanor Lwinir and Allis Carrie Srv aula-. .