11 Presbyterian church. Major Gilbert will preach the sermon. - -Miss Bernice Mathisen, violinist, has been appearing with marked success as the added attraction at a leading theater in this- city this Week. Miss Mathisen is one of Portland's well known younger violinists. of the EMison-White Chautauqua sys rs-! "SUPER WHEAT" AND HUGE VEGETABLFS ARE RAISED BY WIZARD PRODUCER Richard Diener, Near Town of Kent field in California, After Life-time of Effort Is Attaining Results . - That Are Considered Remarkable. tern, which is to appear at the Sun nyside M. E. church,' East Thirty fifth and Ya'mhill streets, Friday night, ought to be met by a - large audience. The company gives good concerts. The event is given under the auspices of the church board, who are taking a keen interest in its suc cess. Mrs. S. T. Neil recently left for Palo Alto. Cal., where she Joined the musio faculty in piano in Castillya The piano ensemble class of Miss I Martha Reynolds spent an enjoyable I school. Upon her return in June he evening with her recently. The prin plans to resume her music duties, in this city. A little girl named Jessie Long and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Long, 840 Corbett street has a 'sweet so prano voice, and she sang a sacred solo last Sunday morning in Wilbur Methodist Kpiscopal church a solo cipal music number rendered was the 'Scotch Symphony" (Mendelssohn), which the class has been studying. preparatory to Its rendition by the Portland Symphony orchestra-in Feb ruary, Brief explanatory analysis .was given by Mfts Reynolds, and movements from this symphony were played, arranged for two. pianos. Other numbers played were "Caval lerla Rusticana" aa4 Vlae" (Bach- THE SUNDAY OREGOMAX, PORTLAND, JANUARY 18, 1020 1 CALIFORNIA has another wonder ful plant wizard whose produc tions are at the moment amazing the scientific world. He believes that both plant and animal life may be in creased in size and quality by a scien tific prncess he Has discovered until the ordinary chicken, for instance, will become as large as an ostrich. He thinks nature would Impose cer tain limitations to prevent such mon strosities being a permanent breed, however, if anyone were to attempt them; but he sees no scientific reason why they cannot be achieved. In some respects his work is more sensational than Luther Burbank's, and at the moment more interesting because less known. His experimental nursery is located rear the- town of Kentfield. It is in a sheltered valley in the shadow of famous Mt. Tamalpais. In this se cluded spot, working without much danger of interruption from the out side world, Richard Diener that is the miracle man s name has in a lit tle more than three years tripled the size of half a dozen well-known flow ers. ,v . Wait that Is by no means all. He has made six bushels of wheat grow where one grew before, and the whole world needs wheat and is crying for more. He - has developed perfect and blightless tomatoes to a weight of three pounds. He has grown, white beans of bird's gg size. He las taken the common old-fashioned garden variety of petunia and produced a flower of such perfection and beauty that it has become a rival to the orchid. ' He has increased the size of pota toes to such an extent that a single tuber will feed a family of 15 persons; and, finally, turning from the vege table to the animal world, he has cre ated a giant ten-pound White Leg horn rooster, whose progeny may lay eggs that would wreck any actor's career. To some, perhaps all, this may sound like a page from Gulliver's travels, but it is strictly true and at terted by reliable authorities, as Die ner has the goods to show. He promises to become one of the foremost figures in flower and plant transmutation of his time. He is a short, stocky man of 46 and began experimenting with plants when a lad, of 14, in the Hartz mountains. The results he Is now attaining are the fruits of lifelong experiment and hard work. At 17 he began to notice that cer tain plants increased in size through crossirg. It required 15 years for him to master the process. Meantime he emigrated to England, where he practiced horticulture for several years, then moved to Costa Rica, from which point he exported orchids to all parts of the world. In 1904 he came to America. In whatever part of the world he might be located always he was at work crossing different varieties of flowers. Hybridizing species and "tearing up strains," as he describes it. He met with many failures and had numerous disheartening experi ences. Rven after he had practically mastered the system of making every thing larger thiough hybridizing even chickciis he found -himself sud denly without means to pro.secute his experiments and, in desperation, ap pealed to Congressman William Kent of California, whe financed his pres ent enterprise. Work Aftonlnhr World. Since 1915 Diener has astonished the world by his demonstration on eight acria of soil so alkaline that it was considered useless. Here, during the early years of the war. be perfected I is irtrvelous "Lib-f-rty W!uat" planting IS pounds ot seed to the acre irstead of the ususl 60 pounds, and reaping a yield of 150 bushel per acre .as against the 25 or 30 which result from the averagf crop. lie then -turned his attention .to corn, and, though California is not a corn country, produced an ear weigh ing two and ono-Ialf pounds, grown on great 12-foot stalks that bear as hish as a dozen cars apiece. Tumatoes he grows ot a perfect roundness, impervious t blight, and up to three pounds in weight; ordi nary white beana he has made as big as birds'-eggs, and, last but not least, in his poultry yar.I struts a Leghorn rooster weighing nearly ten pounds more thr.n twice the normal size, as bijc in fact as the ordinary Christmas turkey. , Diener began his experiments with flowers. He produced carnations eight inches in diameter, gladioluses of nine inches and petunias waxed so largi that the florists became fright ened and refused to handle them. These petunias are continually in bloom all summer long. Directly op posite to the ordinary petunias, which wither almost immediately after they are picked, these flowers when cut and put in water will last for two or three weeks and even new flowers will bloom while they are in the water. Diener says it is all done by scien tific crossing. It requires two gener ations of cross-breeding and careful scientific selection to develop the big flowers and plants. The exact process he declines to divulge at present not because he wishes to keep it secret, but because he refuses to impart such knowledge except ' through carefu personal teaching. . He has offered the T'nited States government his services as an in structor Tf a class of young horticul turists who are willing to spread tha benefits of his experiments, and it is mor; than likely that a federal exper iment station will be established at Kentfield in the near future. During the course of a recent inter, view regarding his work Mr. Diener ea ill : "I believe that I have conclusively proved that any variety of a plant, fruit, flower or grain, or any. variety ' of animal, can be enlarged- at .will. and tne process can ue i----ifi;il-u um-s that size is obtained which is most tdesirea for continuous use. In plant 1 i. X r " - " - 1 T that was listened to with interest. It was finely sung. The singing of Mrs. G. W. Grayson at Bethel A. M. E. church, where she is contralto soloist, has been a spe cial feature of the music. Mrs. Grayson has a beautiful mezzo, contralto voice which is especially adapted to the interpretation of sacred songs. She was a recent soloist for the Schubert club, of which J. William Belcher is director. Mrs. Benjamin Williams has coma to Portland from Eugene in order to continue her advanced vocal work un der John Claire Monteith. and will pass - the remainder of this season here. Mrs. Williams possesses a bril liant soprano voice and her singing is charming and vivacious. She plans to begin professional concert work next summer. The Vancouver. Wash., music club chorus has chosen February 5 asthe date of its next concert in Vancouver, Wash. The chorus, which-is under the directioi of John Claire Mon teith, is doing exceptionally good work this season and will sing an Interesting programme. These con certs are the musical event of the year In that city and always are we!! attended. The Sam Lewis Concert company mann). The W. C. T. U. women at the central library have been highly en tertained lately, Wednesday nights. by fine musical programmes fur-1 nished by Miss Mary Ellen Mullan and Mrs. Ella B. Jones. The recent vesper service at the j.- w. c A. was a happy affair, and those having I part in the music are Miss Martha Hilton, Miss Cora Oauzemiller, A. . Bartemus, Fern- Connelly, Thelmal Thompson, Ella B. Jones, Francis! Peck, Edith and Evelyn Rydman, Hleta Simpson, Viola Reed, Dorothy Turney, Naadene Race and Agnes Little. Mrs. Mischa Pe'lz and Mrs. Elsie Hall Cook, who were soloists at the Council of Jewish Women, B'nai B'ritii clubhouse, charmed their listeners with the combination of their beautiful- voices. It was charming, to hear two soprano voices combined in such liquid beauty in rendition of the duet "Rose of My Heart" (Herman Lohr). After a talk by Professor Kohr of Reed college. Mrs. Pelz sang "Visi Dar te" from "Tosca," followed by "A Song of Changing Love." This was Mrs. Pelz' first public appear ance since last summer, when she became .ill. She was given a hearty welcome. - IS ii 111 II i i . ill r - . Tbztr 2Ti ej-g io-tss i ansa's. VYo e T'Jz e TxTtsX .JvisgxTizficefri Flower.' it takes only one cross -tor double the size of the parents. In animals (I have had opportunity to try it on chickens only), it takes two crosses to bring the same result So I am sure it works with animals as with plants, in which I have tried it a thousand different ways. Another in teresting fact is that by reversing the process I can make plants smaller with each crossing. Discovery Declared ital. "This discovery means .so much to civilization that few will be able to grasp its effect. Already from the common wheat, producing 25 to 30 bushels per acre, a"! used by the farm ers here, I have produced new varie ties which yield at the rate of 150 bushels per acre, and this with the same labor, the same fertilization and the same land. "My new tomato yields 30 to 40 tons of fruit per acre and has proved in every respect far superior to any thing existing now. The size of the first fruit reaches the weight of three pounds, but the average fruit weighs about one pound, is perfectly filled out, arid does not contain any hollows, in increasing the size of plants and make other desired variations. "Fifteen years of constant experi ment was required to work out this process to such a point of perfection that I could be confident of results. This confidence r.ow extends to cer tainty as to results which will be ob tained from certain proposed cnoss ings, as to size, form or color." MUSIC Y. W;C. A. ATHLETIC DIRECTOR ' TO ENCOURAGE GIRLS IN SPORTS j- Emphasis Will Be' Placed in Contest Games to Develop Fair Play, J". Miss Lillian Hansen Says. (Confirmed from Page 10.) bim. He proved tha. he knew where of he sang, for he-gave to the -negro melodies the speech, motion and feel ing of the colored people, in an In imitable mannet. Through all the songs one could hear the mammies crooning before the cabin door, sway ing as they sang, ad the men at work in the fields, accompanying their work .witli their old songs." -A special musical programme has been prepared by J. William Belcher for this morning's service in Central LAZINESS rather than delicacy characterizes the average Amer ican girl who needs athletic de velopment, especially at this time to develop in her a spirit of fair play needed for the world of politics, which she is now entering.' ' , .. Such is the belief ot Miss Lillian Hansen, who arrived in Portland Thursday to take. charge of the phys ical trainings-department of the city Young Women's Christian association. She comes to Portland from the Uni versity of Minnesota, where she was training college girls in swimming and physical culture.' She has also been connected with the Minneapolis Athletic club, Y. W. C. A. and other civic and institutional enterprises concerned with girl development. She received her training at the Chicago normal school and the University of Minnesota. Miss Hansen's arrival In Portland at the present time comes as the first of a series of plans made by the new general Y. W. C. A. secretary, Mrs. Norman Christie, and the board, of directors. Reports . of the last year and the programme for the coming 12 months will be given at the annual meeting scheduled for Tuesday. It will be in the form of a dinner for all members and reservations must I , I ' - "I 3- - I ' 1 te " x - sA-rr , t I JUVENILE ENTERTAINERS OF IRVINGTON SCHOOL WHO WILL PRESENT PROGRAMME IN FRENCH WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT CENTRAL LIBRARY. Misa Lllliaa Hansen, new Y. W. C. A. trimming and KTnm. i ii in teacher, who arrived Thursday from SllnneapolU. - ,tinj n ii "Hi up i 1 1 I rup in w null iin1"! II I II I I , mil i I i -1 r ' ' ttrA - trrf- & A , ik9 i-. vnr irf-: sw? f -f - y - l V r Learn the Creole's Secret! Don't Let Your Hair Grow Gray r 1 'HE. Creoles o Louisiana are famous for the wonderful -- beauty of tKeir Kair. TKis glorious dark hair is a distinuisKing, mark of tkeir pure French-Spanish blood and is a special pride and care among these aristocratic people. For generations La Creole Hair Dressing has been a favorite amon& them. It preserves the youthful beauty and color of the hair even to the sunset of life. Color Brought Back Without Dye La Creole not alone prevents &ray hair. La Creole will brinfc back to its former color hair already &ray, &ray streaked, or faded. It works no sudden change because La Creole contains no dye. Depending on the condition of the hair and scalp two to five weeks treatment will brin& back any shade lightest brown to deepest black. La Creole must not be confused with dyes it &ives no dyed appearance, it cannot stain the scalp and there is nothing, to wash or rub off. La Creole eliminates dandruff and is an excellent remedy for scalp troubles. Write for fascinating booklet,"La Creole Hair Beautiful." Shows the style of hair dressing, best suited to each type of face. At Drugstores and Toilet Counters, Price $1.00 If your dealer can't supply you, send his name and address. - We will see that you are supplied. LA CREOLE LABORATORIES, Memphis, Tenn. be In at the T. W. C. A. by Tuesday morning-. An elaborate programme of stunts has been arranged by Mrs. Christie and Mrs. C. A. Morden, the nature of which she declares will be kept "dead secret" until that time. Miss Carrie A. Holbrook, president of the board, will preside. The new Y. W. C. A. team will com- 1 mence tomorrow. Among the new courses will be two rather unusual lecture .hours, both free to the gen eral public. One of these will be conducted by George Hotchkiss Street each Friday evening at 8 o'clock in the social hall. Mr. Street will tell the story of the more familiar grand peias and will sing their famous rias. The course, will be supplement ed by lectures on Italian music and easant life. The other new course will be given each Monday noon at 2:45 o'clock by Mrs. Christie, who will lecture on women' of the Ilible. Each lecture will be devoted to the tuay or one tiiDie character, picked for importance and general pictur- squeness. This course will also be given in the social hall. Contest Sports Featured. Emphasis in the gymnasium classes will be placed by Miss Hansen on ath letic contests such as basketball games and other standardized sports. Girls need to cultivate a spirit of good eportsman'ship and of fair play hey are going to need it if they in tend to compete in business and poli tics with men." declares Miss Hansen. "Boys, seem to be born with this spirit of give-and-take, probably be cause of the generations and genera tions of ancestors who have played like so many other varieties, and the surface is as smooth as an apple. "The flesh is more solid than any other tomato now known, and for de hvdrating is a most valuable variety. It i.s a magnificent dark red shade, which makes it very attractive; it is verv sweet and free of the acid taste. "The most astonishing ihiner about this tomato is that it lias proved to be absolutely blitsht-resisting. This year thousands of acres in California have been destroyed by blight, and this tomato has grown alongside of other varieties which have been killed off entirelv by blifrht and has not been in the least affected. -t "Thus far my woi k has been chiefly with flowers; it is onlv since the lat ter part of 1915. at the request of Consr-iEsman William Kent, and with his financial aid, tha.t I have worked on food plants such as whea com, tomatoes, beana and soudan grass. "As to mv 'method. I will mention the fact that when T was but 17 years of age. while crossing tuberous be gonias. I fo:ind that many of the re sulting offspring were vigorous m growth and the flowers therefrom greatly increased in size. These ob servations suggested an unknown law worth hunting for. "Consequently, I made an endless number of crosses, keeping careful records of the sizes of the plants used or of the sizes of the flowers used in mak-ing the various crosses. With the?o, records at hand when the seed lings came into bloom, it gradually became clearer to me that 1 was on the track of something very useful. For while all the crosses showed dif ferent results certain crosses gave me an inkling of the method to be used toner row Catherine Waatell. VaJlace Fraxler. Margaret Beggs. Helen Mir ike, Jane Coebrnn. Simeon Cantrtl. l.ovrrr ran Phyllis IMIklngton, Dorothy tllelkr, Dorothy Dougnll. Virginia Fox. Ralph Klsher. Cath erlne Cole. Upper left Margaret Beggs as an old maid. Upper right- Helen Mlelke pi a messenger. Members of the French classes of the Irvington grade echool will presen an entertainment in the auditorium of the central library on Wednesda night, .January 21. at'8 o'clock. "The entertainment will be unique in th work of elementary schools in that it will be given in French. The programme will be presented in two parts. Recitations and songs wi comprise the , irst prt. The second part is a farce-comedy, "Le Uepart d Pierrot," directed by Miss Irma Carter, teacher of French in the Irvmgto school. Kach number on the programme will .be appropriate! v costumed. The general public is invited to the entertainment, for which no admissio will ba charged. ' the game, fairly and squarely. There are not yet many generations . of women who have figured, publicly, back of the girls of today. Then. too. girls haven't the active disposition of the average. boy. .If the boy hasn't anything else to doie'U start a fight just for the fun and the test to which it puts him. Girls, from laziness -as far as I can see, prefer not to take the initiative unless necessary. They will start a fight, too, if their energies are. not otherwise directed, but it will be a wordy one and usually over an ex tremely Email and trivial matter. Average Cirl Xt Uelicatr. "The average American girl Is not delicate. She does not need to be pro tected from exercise but needs rather to be urged into it. In the majority of cases girls can take almost as vio lent and rugged exercises as boys but, of course, they must be worked up to it gently, starting with moderate ex ercises carefully supervised. "During the war every red-blooded American girl found more work to do than she had time or energy to give. She learned efficiency and application valuable lessons. Since the falling off of the necessity for high pressure. patriotic duties, she has suffered a relnnse. At firsi she just rested a natural sequence to her overcrowded war days. Now, however, she is rest ed and her energies need direction.' There is still plenty to he done and it can be done the better if her body is carefully trained." Miss Hansen has planned her gym nasium .Masses for women during the early afternoon periods so that the work will not interfere with the usual social and lume duties. Classes for school girls will come during the late ,afternoon hours and little children will be given gymnasium Work on Ssturriay morning. It is hoped the IV W. C. A. "classes will be able to compete with other athletic classes of the city. Investi gations are being made which may result in the Y. W. C. A. teams play ing with those of Lincoln high school and other of the larger pity schools. LINN TO RETAIN AGENT Farmers l'Icdgc $2 2 00 Towards Paying Official's Salary. OltEGOX AGRICl'LTUKAL COL LEGE. Corvallis. Jan. 17. (Special.) More than 100 farmers of Linn county, at a recent meeting, by unani mous vote, agreed to guarantee money necessary to retain S. V. Smith, the county agent, in the county for the coming year. Twenty-two men pledged $100 apiece and will raise the money by popular subscription In their districts. This is the third time that it has been necessary to raise the money in such a manner, the county court having refused to in clude such provision in the budget. The state will match the money given by. the county, dollar for dol lar, so that Linn county will have between $4000 and $4400 for a county agent next year. i Li n ii Gets Kxtension Schools. ALBANY, Or.. Jan. 16. (Special.) The extension service of the Oregon Agricultural college is preparing to conduct three-day extension schools at Lebanon and Snedd at the request of the Linn county rami bureau. The Shedd school will be held on Feb ruary 2. 3 and 4 and the date for that at Lebanon has not been fixed yet. They will be conducted by Pro fessor W. S. Carpenter of the crops department. Professor K. B. Fitts of the dairy department and Miss Lassie Lane of the domestic science department. Painful Files A. Free Trial of ryrnmld Pile Treat ment is uie or tne umani Events Von liver . Kxnerienced. You are suffering dreadfully with itching, bleeding, protruding pileo or hemorrhoids. Now. go over - T.I How Lack of Iron In The Blood May Change A Woman's Appearance And Break Down Her Physical Strength While Plenty Of Iron Makes Kich Ked iSlood Corpuscles mat . . v. . Give Health, Vitality and beauty Every Woman Who Looks Pale, Haggard and Worn Should Have Her Blood Examined for Iron Deficiency-Administration ot sim ple Nuxated Iron Will Often Increase the Strength and Endurance of Weak, Nervous, Care-Worn Women in Two Weeks Time and Make Them Look Tears lounger. r V JhJi- CL ' If. J. ' " . , J Ton PonWIvelr Cannot Afford te Ignore Tbeae Remarkable Pyramids. to any drag' store and Bet a 80-cent box of Pyramid Pile Treatment. He ller should come r,o quickly you will jump for Joy. If you are in doubt, eend for a free trial .package by mail. You will then be convinced. Pon't delay. Taka no substitute. FREE SAMPLE COUPON PYRAMID DTTUa CO M PANT, 670 Pyramid Building., Marshall, .Mich. Kindly send me a Free sample of I'yrnitild Pile Treatment, in pi airj wrapper. . Name Street cm- Ptate . M Longing for the Tveen 'activity, the youthful step, the fresh rosy cheeks ana ine sunny uiaiiuoiuuii of buoyant health is making many a wo man iinVmrmv. A i S - contented, wrinkled . and old before her time. S 1 e epless nights spent worry ing over supposed ailmpnts. constant dosing with habit- forming drugs and narcotics and use less attempts to brace up with strong coffee do not help the real cause of their trouble, which may be nothing more than lack of iron in the blood.- For want of iron a woman may look and feel old at Viii-v tihIa hao-irarrl. and all run down while at 50 or 60 with good health and plenty oi iron in me blood she may still be young in feel ing and so full of life and attractive ness as to defy detection of her real age. That women . miy become tronpr, healthier, more beautiful and better able ta meet the cares of ftome, social and busi ness Ufa by Increasing -the supply of iron In their blood is the opinion of Dr. GeorKe H. Baker, formerly rhysiclan ami Surgi'on of llonmoulh Jlemorlal Hospital. New Jer sey, mho says: "What women need to put roses In their checks anil the sprinstlmo of life Into Iholr step Is not cosm-ctts er stimulatins druas. but plenty of rich, pure red hloeirt'. Without It no woman im do credit to" herself or to her work. Iron la one of the greatest of all atrength and lilooil-bull'le'-e, anil I have found nothing In my aiperienco ao clXcclttc for helping V." .i . ai 73V-t t-.TS5M'3 '.: tions show now a woman ir.t"Vs ,. ;vJ T Crrf mair look whpn she has onlv frV 'CH'J S jf JO ??;- VBA blnnrl rnrnusplfs and her 1 5t &jS?ttr- 100 Thpse illustra tions show how a woman i V Kl cri ic ctflrvinp fnr iron and the change that takes place m her appearance O U A V naar-,nn4-n or A tf TCI A fiOVniKfloQ I Tl - S! CIease as er blood becomes filled with strength- giving lronr to make strong, healtliy. i-ed-bloodel wom en as Nuxated Iron. Krm a careful ex amination of the formula and my own tetsia of Xuxated Iron. I fee. convinced th:it it is a preparation which any physician can take niiueltf or prescribe for Ins patients with the utmost cinfifience of ohtatninir highly benef iciiil and satisfactory result.' Among other physicians asked for an opinion was Dr. Ferdinand King. New York Physician and Medical Author. Dr. King: say: "By enriching the blood and increasing its oxygen carrying power Nux ated Iron will often transform the f la ohy flcsh. toneless Uemies. and pa lid cheeks of nervous, run-down women into a Blow f In a!th and makp them look years younger within & surprisingly short time." Dr. James Francis Su an, formerly I'hysiclan of He.llevue Hospital ( outitoor Itept.v. New York, and the Vestchcter County Hospital, says: "Ai 1 have said a hundred times over, organic Iron im one of the greatest of all strength bnildcis. 1 have prescribed Nuxated Iron org:tnt: iron many, many times, and I have eii frequent Instances w here it gave renewed a trenail! and cucrcy, increased power and endurance, steady nerves, and the rosy bloom of health In about ten days or two weaks' time. I consider Nuxated Iron on of t lie fnrumoit blood and body builders the best to which I have ovr lad re course." It is surprising how many people snffVr from iron deficiency and do not know it. If you are not strong or welt you owe it to yourself to make the following test : See how long you ran work or how far you can walk wit hout becoming tired. Next t.- ke two five-grain tablets of Nuxated Iron three tunes per day ator meals for two weeks. Then lest your strength again and see how much you have gained. Manufacturers' Note Nuxated Iron, which is V rescrlbed and reoom meiti--l hIio by ph fie in us. is not a cectet remeciv bui one which is well known to il niKsisip. I nUke the older inoigunic iron products it it easily arxinulull ar,d does not injure t he iff make i hem black, nor upsd tih1 rtoniicil. 'i he ma n uf act un i s ciiainntf successful and entirely fealUf.tcloi y rt-jttii;?' to every purchaser or they will reftmd mir money. It is dispensed in this city by Tni iwl Drug Co., and all other druggists. Adv. A