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Women s Section
Special Features
VOL,. XXXVIII. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MOKXIXG, MARCH 1), 1019. NO. IP.
130 Oak Dressers in a Big Special Sale
A Sale That Means a Saving of Many Dollars to Home Furnishers, for These Dressers Are
Priced Lower Than Has Been Possible to Price Them for Many Months Plenty of Good
Patterns to Choose From All of Solid' Oak, With Heavy Plate Mirrors
fte fSllter 8ter rHSllir itpBliir Vmi'
lpl yn ii pjpn tH
Regular $22 JO
Oak Dressers at
$17.45
As illustrated. A handsome
pattern with oval mirror and
scroll decoration. A eplen
did value at $17.45.
Regular $24.50
Oak Dressers at
$19.65
Well built, well finished, in
a substantial design that
will never go out of fash
ion. Deep drawer epace.
Regular $24.75
Oak Dressers at
$19.90
The sketch shows voir what
a roomy, well-proportioned
dresser this is. Shaped mir
ror, as illustrated.
Regular $26.75
Oak Dressers ' at
$20.45
A spacious, well-constructed
dresser with plenty of room
in its deep drawers. Hand
some shaped mirror.
Regular $29.75
Oak Dressers at
$23.45
A dresser of exceptional
beauty and finish, with pood
shaped mirror of fine plate
glass, as pictured above.
Regular $3250
Oak Dressers at
$25.90
A dresser that will stay in
style as long as it lasts,
flood finish and built for
wear. J'lato glass mirror.
Reduced Prices on Other
Dressers in Various Finishes
$38.50 Dressers of QQI Qfl
Oak. Reduced to DO.7U
$38.75 Walnut Finish CJOI "I K
Dresser. Reduced to.. DOJ.J
$34.75 Ivory Finish CJO fTA
Dresser. Reduced to.. I "
$99.50 Walnut Dresser QQ Qf
Reduced to OUU
$59.75 Mahogany C?OQ Kfl
Dresser. Reduced to.. dOV0J
$67.50 Mahogany
Dressers. Reduced to.
$119.50 Mahogany
Dresser. Reduced to..
$94.50 Mahogany
Dresser. Deduced to..
S49.75
S91.75
S73.75
Dining-Room Chairs
Reduced for Special Selling
$2.95 Brace Arm, Saddle Seat, Dining Chair
in good substantial pattern. Re- CJO Qfl
duced to .OU
$4.85 Panel Back Dining Chair in a much
admired pattern. Reduced for ? 7
special selling DO I J
$4.75 Dining Chair, with upholstered scat, in
box-frame pattern, a very special C?Q QC
value, at OO.OtJ
$5.85 Slip-seat, High-back Dining Chair, a
very special value at this reduced QQ
rffSj "3
r
Regular $22.75
Oak Dresser at
$17.90
There is plenty of drawer epaco In
this exceptional dresser at J 17.30.
Mirror with handsome scroll fctand,
as illustrated.
r
This $8950
Tapestry
Over
stuffed
Davenport
$69.50
As Illustrated Above. Upholstered in beautiful figured tapestry in
handsome colors. Built in cushion effect in seat and C?IQ Kfl
back. Greatly underpriced ut. Dv)7tJO
This Exceptional $115 Tapestry Overstuffed
Davenport
$97.50
An Unusually Fine
Pattern, with deep,
spring seat, sott,
comfortable back, and spring arms, as illustrated. The best CQ7 FQ
value we know of anywhere at tDU I tlvr
Regular $1850
High-Back Oak
Rocker
$13.90
A durable, good -looking pat
tern, as pictured below. Genu
ine leather auto scat not to bo
surpassed for ease and high,
three-slat back. A rocker that
will bring comfort to any home.
Specially reduced in price.
Your Credit Is Good
Sale of Oak Library
Tables
Choice of Four
t
Handsome Designs
Values Up to $25.50
$17.85
Here are the four patterns,
each worth a Rood deal more
than this spcchtl sale price. All
are of heavy, selected oak. in
massive, substantially built
styles. Each has a convenient
book ehelf. drawer space for
writing matt-rials and the like
and Is splendidly finished. It is
seldom, indeed, that such tables
as these are offered for as low
as $17.85.
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at Powers. We
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Rugs, Carpets and Linoleums
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Rugs in five excellent
patterns. Regular 37.50
values.
Velvet Crpeti,( QC
Special', ard "JliiJJ
Ten different patterns,
with stair carpets to
match.
Linoleums
A choice of many new
patterns and coloring's.
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or if you are thinking of buying one of these
smaller instruments for use during the summer
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DAFFODILS AND NARCISSI, IN
FORM MUCH ALIKE, DIFFER
Botanist Explains Flora of the Season and Also Tells What the
Jonquil, Also of the Same Class, Really Is.
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BY ALRFtlT RADOIN SWKKTSEO,
Profeor of Hotany in V'nivcrjitty of Oreicon.
UNIVKRSITV OK CiRKliON". Eugene.
March 8. tspecial. From this
time on the plan will be to select
for our weekly study either exalted
dignitaries or some less known and
humble Individuals from the flower
parade now forming in forest and field.
on hillside and in garden.
While the attention will be turned
to structure and classification and bo
tanical facts, tbcre will alto be an at
tempt to inject some of that spirit
voiced by Ruskin in one of his lectures
on art, "What we especially need at
present for educational purposes, is to
know, not the anatonv' of plants, but
their biography how and where tlify
live and dt, their tempers, benevo
lences, malignities, distresses anil vir
tues. Wo want them drawn from their
youth to their usr. from bud to fruit."
That Is, we are interested In botany as
plant biology. Today It i.s the swing
ing and ringing of golden bells that
fascinates our gaze and mayhap might
peal a chime for us. were our tym
panums tuned with fine delicacy, tine
has well said. "It is not alone the In
dividual and collective beauty of their
riowers that endears them to our
hearts, but the bravery of their ad
vent, for the time of the daffodil closes
the gate on bleak winter and ushers
in with trumpets of gold, longed-for
spring."
I.oe Story nrt-alled.
'This Is a daffodil, but whnt Is n
n:irclssus, whnt a Jonquil?" Such is
the inquiry often propounded by pux
slfd individuals. The answer to this
query will compel the use of a few
scientific names which have been part
ly popularized. All this group is in
cluded in the genus narcissus, a word
on the same root as narcotic, from the
tireck. meal ing torpor, in allusion to
the poisonous qualities of the bulb.
The Ureeks had a, beautiful l-cnd
which Ovid relates In book III. be
ginning with line 370. a considerable
portion of which is repeated in Kull-
rint h s Age of table and also in bis
"Ltolden Ae."
It happened that the saucv goddess
I.VI10, who is still wont to talk back to
us. teeing- the beautiful youth Narcis
sus, fell in love with him but by her
very nature Is hindered from ap
proaching him. Now it chanced that
Narcissus becoming separated fron
his companions, cried out. "Is any one
here'.'" and this was Kcho's chance, who
immediately replied "Here." In amaze
ment he cries "Come," which he im
mediately answers. So the dialogue
progresses until he finally spurns her
and runs away and she hides herself
In lonely caves and pines away until,
as Ovid eays. "Only her voice and her
bones remain; then only her voice: for
they say that her hones were turned to
stone." Echo appeals to Nemesis, who
proceeds to punish Narcissus. As he
eclined by a clear pool of water he
fell in love with his own image mir
rored back to him and made love to It.
Vainly he attempts to caress, to em
brace, to kiss the image, which ever
eludes him. until he dies of a broken
heart. As the Naiads were building
the funeral pile Ovid says "his body
was nowhere to be- found. In place of
his body they find a flower, its yellow
center girt with white petals." Any
one who desires to peruse further this
delightful bit of legendary literature
may find It In a translation of Ovid
made by Frank Justus Miller.
Hut now for an unraveling and
straightening out of the terminology.
As we, said above, they are all in
eluded in Narcissus. liut as amorir
the Browns or Smiths we may dis
tinguish John Brown. Mehitable P.rown
and Henry Brown, so among the Narcissi.
The striking Paffodil would be sci
entifically designated as Narcissux
pseudo-narcissus. The common name
has in some manner been transformed
from Asphodel which, used by the old
poets and writers, referred to the Daf
fodil. Figure 1.
Chinese Sacred l.ily Traced.
The Paper Narcissus, or Polyanthus
Narcissus, figure S. has a cluster of
flowers springing from a clump of
broad leaves and - may be white or
yellow or intermediate shade. Its bo
tanical name is Narcissus tazetta. and
when Polyanthus Is used as its desig
nation it should always be coupled
with Narcissus, us Polyanthus is the
name of a member of the Primrose
family. Here belongs, the Chinese
Sacred Lily.
The poet's Narcissus or Pheasants
Eye Narcissus. Narcissus poetica, has
a solitary white flower, the saucer-
shaped crown being more or Jess 'yel
low tinged with red.
The Jonquil. Narcissus jonquilla. has
slender rush-like leaves, deeply grooved
down the center. The flowers are from
two to six In number and some shade
of yellow.
These individuals, which in the be
ginning were so easily separated, have
married and intermarried until the
hybrids and varieties are bewildering
and In some cases distinguished only
with difficulty.
Although exhibiting an apparently
considerable difference of form an ex
amination of figure 3 will show a sim
ilarity of plan in them all. The draw
ings are of lengthwise sections of daf
fodil and paper narcissus. At the top
of tho flower atem Is a dry husk or
brac t remaining, attached to the stem
in the clustered sorts, but often carried
up and cast off by tho opening daf
fodils, as may be seen in fi'gure 1. The
flower tube cannot be distinguished as
calyx and corolla but consists of a
blending- of the two and is spoken of as
the floral envelope or perianth. That
i portion, often luiatakcn. Xor pet Ala id
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a mrMifiratlon of the perianth and is
railed the crown. Within are the fix
pollen -bear in it Rtamrns ani in the cen
ter the pistil. ti pol irn-rMept tve upper
portion jolnel by the H end or style to
eutj ihm1, roiiulinn? the numerous eccs
that after fertilization will ripen into
ae-d.t.
When 1 he ilafforilT "pnshen its way
up from the ground it holds haughty
hiad rrrct. hut a.s it breaks out its
jclnrious bell it iM'tiJs that rain and
dew may not fill the golden chain
and injure t he pollen, thus preventing
pollination and the perpetuation of the
rare.
While usually cu Itivatec! f rom the
bulbs all new forms are obtained by
crofs pollinating and raisins from seed,
S4 nd thiJi takes eonsiderj bl t i mr.
Sheridan Soldier Tells of
Battle of Argonne.
Iltmcoc Tnlhot In Tblek of KIbllMff
in Whh-h American Took. Hum
Mrongbuld,
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11ERID.VN. Or., Feb. 13. (Special.)
Itoscoe Talbot of this city tells
the following interesting talc of the
Argonne battle:
"The barrage we advanced under, at
the Argonne. was some noise; there
were big guns and mall guns belch
ing fort.'i noitc and destruction on a
"o-niilc front, and the tog was so thick
that about 'JO eel ahead was the limit
for seeing. We picked up guns and
amniumi ion. carts and horses, and two
or ihrte men. After we went on a
ways farther some men went back
after more crts. Wc then marched
farther on und I was sent back to
guard the ammunition and direct the
carts in.
"While sitting there alone in the
fog. listening to the shells pass over
me from both sides, and the Bodies
hitting Just the other side of me. the
SMlh came scattering in. from three
different sides and covered, with mud
and dirt and blood. 1 shook hands
with a fellow I knew and he said that
they caught hell back by the carts.
Then the ones who went back after
the carts came up and said that the
horses and carts were hot to pieces,
so we picked up the ammunition and
went up to the company.
"We marched on over the Hun first
line trenches which were cut up by
our big guns. When we were up to
the front lines a lost plane came eoar
Ing down and turned machine guns
on us. but nobody was hurt. We shot
at it with the same effect. We then
run onto a machine gun nest on the
opposite slope, and after we cleaned it
up the infantry went over and cap
tured whnt few were left."
Fighting of Second Division
Held Second to None.
Milea Rarrrlt Writes of
Made bjr Marlaes.
Heeerd
Tun Id division is the best Ameri
can unit in France, in the opinion
of Miles Barrett, gunnery Fcrgeant in
the 97th company. 6th regiment. Vnited
States marines, according to a letter ha
has written to Major llichard I'cich
of the t'regon state police.
"No doubt you have read a great
deal about the accomplishments of tho
various divisions over here during the
war. and particularly of the 4Jd. a na
tional guard division composed of tho
Ohio. Iowa and New York regiments.
This division gets all kinds of news
paper publicity, while the old 2d. an
outfit that lias it beat four ways from
the Jack, never gets any at all. The
last drive of the war we took the place
of the -d In the center of the line and
made nine kilometers the first day
where they couldn't make any."
Sergeant Barrett's letter Is written
on the back of a divisional bulletin
telling of tho fights in which the id
took part and quoting tdwin L. Mimes
of the New York Times us authority
for the statement that It had dona
more fighting than any other division.
According to the bulletin, the 2d fought
at Chateau Thierry, Su Mihiel, Kheima
and. iu llio isutlau operation: