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y e - J JrfBSH9BB9959: . r - v r - aW . ....... Ov . I" w . - 11 I. . VJOMEtt'S CLUBS AND VJORli J v.- J V L) -u J TI1 C. . 1 CU " - v J v - - I 8om Intpu-uif Work " if :r - For Our Sum Federation, ' v .- M the last convention of th Oregon , ..' titale Federation an labia .Mtrwi r ' . Pmfnior Lualla Clay Carson, arouaed " vtbs dab women to enthusiasm ever tbe i project or assisting eservingywun J a women- t obtain an education.. The ." waiter eauie up la busln form at .';'.' tbia recant board meeting, whenMt wm ' j- -'decided that a com mil tea should ba p- ' -pointed to look into I ho question, secure .' Information and put It In a tangible ' form before lh neat convention, to be . spied upon. . - .. '. . Y Colorado lead alt th othnr atata tM -eivitlona Is this kind of work., snd the MroWwrlrTnWincou chairman of this committee, Mr. 1 . ' , of the reaulta IC I 'obtaining. , aba says .V ' "Your yaara : sgo"- or- atata normal ' C school offered us a scholarship for each on for which wa paid 2. J Whll thla ; achoot 1 a tate Institution there are ' . certain fess connected with It. library. athletics, eta, in all amount In to about - us. : Ta start the ball rolling I bald for V ' one echolsrshlp, whinh gave -u two for waa doubled, but we found ao many young women who needed money in " connection with the scholsrshtps tbxt s the committee asked the cluba to make ' ' that tba work of the federation, and the result waa that at the annual meeting ' between tie and 140 wan pledged !'' ' Ia fteptember, 1904,. we bad a fine v." report to offer. . Every gin wa oaa es- V elated waa doing good work In almost : every .case being enabled ta make the ' course only through our aid. The money .'..'we loaned wa coming "back In regular -r monthly paymenta and- the- report spoke , for itself. . Today, we have 14 echolai- ahlpa In the normal school, four in Col V rado college the cheapest J& and two . la. the IMnver Business college. iai year we loaned 70. Every girt ulng ' Our money haa position In Pne of our -public echoola and la a eucoeaa Tbi ' year we have already loaned tl7t. .-, "Now, about our method of work. I wish I could ialk-to your, people and tell them what we have done. In, Colt' rada tit gtrla are trying to go through . vollega and pay their Own expense. It ' .4 possible for a girl making the' first . year In normal school to work for her ' hoard and room. Of course If bard. a but she can get through. The aeoond - year the school work la ao that It 1 almost Impossible for her ta do any- thing outside. The gtrla to whom w have loaned money in most esses are those taking the seeond year. We help no one who can help herself. For tn stance, a graduate of the Kaat Denver . ..High echool worked all tummer In a ' candy atore, went to th normal school, . working for bar board during tha first . year, 8b .went again Into tha store during vacation, but found during th . school year that aha oould not do bar eeheel work and- housework. -- Had-w , pot aided her with 111 ahe muat have ' left acbooL Immediately apon gradua tion eh aocepted a situation in the pub " lie school and la eonaldared one of their flnost teacher. Of th It that wa par assisted that I a fair sample. "We lend money without security,' ex ; cept the reoommendatloa of a federated - club, and . without Interest, and bave never loat a penny, We helped one girl graduate from th, domestic aclanc de . parfroent of . our. Agricultural eolleg and a widow from a medical school ah waa taking tha. course in nursing aocn-or wnom nave positionln oar - state rrwustriaj school lor girl. Today wa have every echolarshlp la use, and are lending money to 10 young women. i t utat a rood work!" Mrs, Harding inclosed with her own delightful latter several from the young . women who are receiving and have for neriy received thi aid, which will be , tsrned ever to our committee,, and are enough to Inspire the club women of uregoa to '"go and do llkewtae." - . - " Ihmlnent Club Woman y ; Writes Intereatiagly From Madrid. - Madrid, vJinory-l.DearTrind: . bsv tcday visited the art gallery but I will not easily forget the atruggle 1 had to do It. My first conflict was with - tba cold; tha biting, penetrating oold ; that overcomes you, althoagh you know It ta not there. This I such a warm country! Tour teeth have no right to , chatter! My aeoond atruggle waa with '. all the chalna and bar of custom. In '' order ta et nr eoffea (that la break. fast I before t. aa aa to have aa aairlv . lunrn. naYinr mm m n nn immMi wim mtw - menoa at that time. , . ' Tbla . hotel I within alght of the Puerta alel 'Sol, tbe central square of " Madrid. When I at laat -atepped out I . aaw a blockade In tbie tquare through . which I meat base. - I determined not - to turn back, but to straggle once more womannilly onward. -f What wa th crowd aboutf I would -find that out anyway. I pushed In among them, but could find excite- r went The streetcar and cabs crawled alnwly along, tbe people parting to let - them pass; no one waa going anywhere; fust standing mobs of people I Men In long cloaks with tba enda bright with f blue, green and . yellow thrown over 'their shoulders, v. Statuesque - poses) - Women with lan mantillas, children too -)ut everybody. The truth at laat - dawned upon me. ' This great mass of people at It o'clock la the morning was standing In the square to. get warm, end h, bow fin It waa there! . - . reopla here-seem to go around with - a chunk of bread bidden somewhere ... shoat their mhmi . ' a chunk come out, a pines broken off - J and eaten. - I watched the Spanish grand sun themeelvee and eat bread , ' for a time, then hurried on. But I - cam directly upon a band of blind beg gars, playing and singing. Would I ever get to the art gallery! No one new to the alghta and sounds of It pain could resist th temptation to stand and Us , ten to such entrancing music. But why ar they ai 'blind? I care acre an. 0theT band of players, also blind, and . on man alone begging, blind too, and a ;. pitiful llttla boy with hla hands -stretched but for alms blind too, As 7 I ram In sight of th noble structure '--"railed Mtisro del Pndu. m iiMiin,iii I -saw three beggars hurrying toward - ra; they wera- pot blind, neither was h so I hurried psst the monument to Ve Usque end entered the gallery at last ' with only an hour (Of my time left I was perfectly taken back by th gloomy solemnity tnat held sway here, flurely the Spaniards ars a peculiar peo lle among the nations of Europe. No ' French gaiety ' beret- ' No seml-Dsaan Itallanlsm! The fanaticism. of a, reilg ' ion which cannot be separated from j atrlotlern was therejI Joqd.ujideL Utid the inquisition., To m tners Is . a somber Influence beneatb aU the Bpeae Ish gladneaa. ' V : i : - "i- ' : ."I could not enjoy th early religious picture. Of course art In every coun try receive,! its first Impulse from the t'linn h, wUich waa muolnlpal , patron. . bnt In no other country waa I her an "inspector of earred picture",, who -td from the artist a strlt-t dncorura la bm- treatment- of aacred "subjecta. A The artl dir not Infringe on any of til- rule 114 down. Man . X the palntera were monka and brought up In a clolater and were aa eminent for their Dlety aa for their pelntlnej. All felt the Influence of aa Imposing religion, and aa I looked at tboaa early plot urea of the fifteenth century,-1 could not feel them prompted by a rellglou love. Be tlgiun aa understood and practiced daily la Catholic apain muat be looked on aa the baala underlying the whole etrue- lure of .Spanish art, which la aecond to Italy Only.. . ; -... . . . . - --,.-Ah, but when I at laat beheld the Vclasquoa and MurUlosuthea my heart rejoiced. There la nothing In the world finer, but thes two great maatera left pone to carry on 4b work, . Uow well Murlllo 1 loved' to" petnr " 'a mendicant monk I Ilia ' name will J ways -bt-ss been called the painter of the Conception, a subject be ao often coos and. a J ways depleted ' with a grace peculiarly hie cwa Murlllo' "St. Jons' With "the Lamb' waa being copied for aale. It be ing very popular.. HI "St Elisabeth of Hungary Washing th Feet of Beggars" waa another Irani whick eoplv . war made for sale. can express the stately grandeur of hla portrait. -.. But ha attempted ' every branch of painting and succeeded In each. There-wer..e f hi In this gallery and only, four ar - of sacred subjects. "St Paul, tha Hermit," and "EC Aalheny Fed by Raven ta th Des. ei, are wonderful. - Another fin n was Ths Arch of Titus at Rome.' where there was a grand Is nd soap f a dark wood at nightfall. Tba costumes .f the early seventeenth century, as seen in 111 portraits of th royal family are certainly astonishing. - i I could not leave the gallery without seeing pletar of -Th Calling of St. MattbtwA In whloh a portrait of Vls qua Is Introduced. This picture -was painted by a balf-eaat slav of Velas quea's named' Juan d . Parya, who on reoeinng hla freedom- stayed with his master and worked In Ma manner, - ,-' I am afraid my letter is getting tod long and it may not b altogether In teres ting, "so I will clos with my best wish to ail aaa Hoping- to be with you all before long. ALICB WEIBTEH. '-t ' .'.-. - ' ,'' Stttg Library Commieaion : " ; ' Should Receive Ioyal Help. ' r t Library work I always of spcolal In tare st to th club women of Oregon, nd th present bUte library commit. slon is but brlnglag to full fruition tbe work begun by t th . atat federation and should bav It most generous gup port and assistance. The following let ter, addressed to ths teachsra of th atata by 'the secretary of th commis sion, deserves careful reading. f . A traveling library baa been sent to your town, to add to It aduoatlonal fa cilities and 'to give the pleaaure that may p found In th reading of good book. ' - . :., , -W believe that on of th best pur poses It may serve ta In supplementing yoar school library and giving, addi tional Interest and st .to the achoot work. . , . - Will yon not examine tbe books be fore any ar loaned to And what will be of moot us to youf Knowing th otill d ran. you will be abi to auggeet book for them and to belp them 4 profit by ma library. . "There are aom good book for read. inr aloud In th school - room; -some which will make th geography lesson mor Interesting, by supplying read ing sultabl for children, or by th Il lustrations. Tou will find some Ameri can history and Inspiring biographies of our great man, . The' librarian rwlll allow you to keep on or two-book In tha school room, if you will allow, tha boy who ba .learned-hie lesson tha privilege of associating with the beat In these books. . . . . "Children miss good thing In book because they do not know how attract ive they ar. Will you not read tan. pica' and let' them finish th book for themselves! 1 ' " "Can you us th library In English or composition work by allowing them to writ about the books, and In book talks on Friday afternoon -.t- "In short, Ot tha. books into your achoot work aa you can, and let m know bow you have don It, so that I may tall others, j.-' a . "Tou whl aid the commission by talk ing .to , tha children about the, car of book and by ahowlng them how to handle them gently, and bow" to keep them clean. , - ' "The loan system for records may glv you suggestion for 'your school library, r ' . . -'., - "Tha - Oregon : library - Commission wishes t be helpful to teacher. If you need book lists or suggestions for ths car of libraries, pleas do not hesl tate to write to tha secretary, Tha list of books from which school libraries msy be purchased under th county fund law 1 prepared by tha commission. If you will writ about tha merit of tbe book you. use it will kelp ua In oomplliag that list - . YCORrriL.IA MARVIN, Bsc" -f Book will be sent to any school If the request I made to Mia Marvin ot Balsm. y M It H Keramic Club Molda 1 An Intereetinf Meeting Tb Oregon Keram la club held It regular meeting on Wednesday after noon at tha horn of Mr. F. F. Boody In South Portland, with a full attend ance, v ... S" '' i '- ' . One new member wa admitted and three name war proposed for member ship. ' After two - slight ehangea h4 been made la ths -constitution It waa ordered printed for distribution. Tb question of Joining th tt federation wa enthusiastically and favorably dis cussed, but voting was deferred until next meeting. J ; " Mrs, Laura K. Pep read an excellent paper on "Hlatorlo Armanent," illus trated by many good pen and Ink de signs. Tbe eketbh pads .and pencil were brought into use and many a! sug gestion was pictured. . Nearly everv member of the club and many outsider took advantage of. the lectures recently given under Ita aus pices by Mrs. 8. V. Culo of San-JTrkn- eiseoi- Mrs. .Calp i t;hlna painter of great merit and thoroughly conversant with ner subject. .Hr talks on "De signing" were Interesting and beneficial. She waa th guaat of th club at a so cial following the business meeting and an eiaooraie collation wa prepared by sirs, uooay, cupias were everywhere aMi hearts and candles Or- toe aaor made tbe dining-room brilliant. , ; The work Dlannad for tha remain. of tht-rurrent seal sbuo tharrhe Oregoa Keramlo club Intends to pro- The Home and v The Oorenunent. ... . - i The questions which are settled at the ballot box .are questions which con- errs every home an they are not -merely Questions ef banklna and current- and tariff. Pure fooo:. pure water, mire ftnilk, eleaa atreeu, proper artUoa ' ' ' , .Ml J .mi. . I .1 ) ' l ;0r i ;"C ' ' if) .2 II v'tfw V-V-'v ' l I I - ... f - 1 "'Cr iv' -. i'i::;r:rvVvVi . V-V Ssf'-: ;Z .-; 'y ls,m. rnwmt , mm.t 7 OfOesre t ae rertlsad Blgh Bcseol ra4-1 7 I ; - vV-v 'ZVTi . . -' Js ssasaaaaavaaBssBBBaBBSBBBBBSW--Bi . I eatlsg class. Beadlns from left te rUrtt; Hae-t h - .Tei --g'. ' - r '-. .. '. . I Br K. JUtS. BmXlMlt: RuU UiWL trwl 'BSBBBBSJBBaSWSBSSBBSBBSBBBSSBSBBaBBBBaSk r- ' l is " Fifty-seven young men . and women who bar -finished--tho- presoibed four years' course of etudy In the- Portland High school will, receive diploma of graduation Wednesday. Of thla number 7 are girl and I boys, - It will be the Urgeat Fsbruary elass that haa ever gone from the school., . Ths graduation esemls win be held In th aassmbly bail of tbo High school and ths studsnts and friends and ralailvss. of th graduates will be In vited to attend. Ir. T. t. Eliot will de liver an addles to tb graduates. Sev against disease, proper protection ' of tbe right of children, good schools. good Influences snd surroundings In which -to bring up children ail these are queatlon of government, all the specially concern women and all theae are settled through th ballot' box. While banking and currency and tariff and other commercial queetlone special ly touch man' aid of life and peed hla brain and hi Interest and hla vote for their ' solution, theee other questions speolally touch woman'a aide ef life and need her brain and her interest and her vote for their best solution. - Th state is but th bora on larger seal. . It Is a one-aided. Imperfect home whloh haa no woman In It, and it of necessity must bs a one-sided. Imper fect state which shut woman out from participation in It affairs. - The Inter eat which mea specially care for In tb Individual homo are wall, cared for in the atata; the Interests which women specially cars for in ths Individual home ar neglected In th tat. We lead the world In manufacturing, but II per oent of th food w eat I adulterated; we have a great navy and are ready to ap propriate untold millions for a canal to aid -commerce,- but 'the -censu of 1100 showsd that 10.7 per cent of our popu lation could not read or write, and in our great cltle thousand of" children are every year turned away from the schools because there ar neither eata nor teachers for them. If all tha In terests of life are to b well cared for women .must, stand aid by aid with men in th larger home of tbo stats aa now they stand aid by si d with men in . the smaller homo of tha household. at k at.- Where Oriental Oirla rV i U; i$ ; ThlriVeo!t American Plan. J ' Miss Karl th American artist who painted Ibe portrait of th empress dowager of China,, read a paper at a meeting held In New Tork laat weak for tb benefit of th T. W, C. A. 8h gar a highly Interesting word picture Of "the old Budda," as th Chinese love to call the empress dowager. Miss Karl also touched on the independence en Joyed by th girl of th Manchu raoe, t which'" the empress r bslongs.Th Only unmarried girl In the world who resembles ths American girl In her free dom end her social Importance accord ing to Miss Karl, la the Manchu girL The Manchu girl may marry if ah Chooses," says Miss Karl, "but may re main unmarried voluntarily, the Manchu being the only oriental race, ao far as known, where thla condition exists. Th Chinese regard the birth of a daughter aa a misfortune. Th Manchu ar dif ferent They . want one son but we com daughtera and allow them much personal freedom and a vole In family matters. " Ths mult In leaving them thua untrammeled la that many of them develop great executive skill and power of initiative.- Mlaa'Kart said that' th empress dowagera resolution and force of char acter might be owing in pan 10 xnis atmosphere of liberty ond respect whloh surround ths Manohu young woman. If Mlaa Karl had mad ths statement positive and said 'It Is wholly." Instssd of "might be owing In part." there would be none, to contradict her, for It la a self-evident fact that tbe more personal liberty man or woman haa tbo greater hla or her resolution and fore of char acter develops. .---,- . ' , t v. A Club Hiatory, v .; But Not Legitimate Work, ' Whit card club h v no place among woman'a olubwork there are - enough clubwomen who play cards to enjoy an intelligent history of their ' favorite game and how fsw .know, wber bridge hist came from. Persia la said to have given us the gam of'poker,-and Turkey, according to R. . F. Footer, author of "Foster's Complete Bridge," waa the horn of thla latest popular -csrd game, Mr. , Foater aaya. In hi- preface: "Bridge would seem to be a combination or outgrowth of various othsr games, notably gere lasch, alseria and preference,, A game very much like bridge has long been popular in Holland; and all tbe element of It are to be traced in many of the older games of card. '-Th name 1 sup Dosed to- be derived from the word blrttch.'. which 1 populsrly believed to be a Russian word, but thsra la no aucn word In - tb Russian . language. The game itself is generally credited to the east ana is eaia to nave ion oeen popular- In Constantinople, a Smyrna and southeastern Europe." - Mr. Footer -give IMS. aa the-data of th first ap pearance or tna game m America, wnea It principle were . explained to aom members of ths New Tork Whist cluo by Henry I. Barby, an Incident which re suited in tna wiinarawat oi a israe num ber of members - who wished to plsy brides to ths exclusion ot regular whist. snd ths formation of th Whist club ot New Tork. -According to the Encyclo paedia Brltannloa, bridge was first played. lngnglnd shout Ulo-but did not really become popular until - , - - - at wt n The Teachers'. Club , . v.'. ; ,-.' Contlnuea Art Study" - - The Portland Teachers' club 4s con tinuing excellent study work, this being Its fourth year with old masters. " Ths club insets the first and third-Saturday evenings of the month la the Art mu seum on Fifth street. , This year's study Is Spanish, Flemish, Dutah and Oermaa art. - At tha past -:. ; ,'-.,''..i ..'"."'"' '-,,'' ' ,.' '. '.' I srer: '; rrtacas Oberteaffer, vtoe-prestdeatt I . . : . ' . . " ' 1 ' , ' ', :''-, t'l eral musical numbers wilt b given. Th dlplomaaw.nl. 'b presented by Mrs. I W, tilt ton. chairman of th City board of education. . ; . '. ,' : t - - The work of tb members of . tb graduation . class is 'practically ended. Th final examination will be flnlabsd tomorrow and Tussday, and , it . Is thought that all the candidates for dl ploma will be successful in- passing then. A large number of the class ars planning to take tip University .work nsxt fail. - :'- :, - ..' -.- ' .".; M The officers of " the .class follow! meeting, which will be February IT, "Rambrant van Rljn. tba Greatest Mas ts r of the Dutoh School," will be tbe aubject -- -,..'-..:. . ' Miss Christina MaoConneU will glv a talk on Rambrant'a life, character and atyla. ... : , "Hla Religious Pictures, Descent 'From the Cross,' The Woman Taken in Adultery,' Toblt and tba Angela,' 'Jacob and tba Bona or joaepn. Tbe uood Samaritan.' "Christ at Kmmaus,'" will be treated by Miss MatUe Train. Mrs. Margaret Alien 'will tell of hla corpora tron picture and similar groups, "Ths Night Watch," "Lessons In Anatomy" and "Tha Syndics -of ths Cloth Oulld." From this outline may be aeon how systeraatlo la th work being don. Tb VMis Richmond;- - vice-president. Miss Dlmlck; . recording aeoreury, . Miss Or label; corresponding secretary. Miss Barnes; treasurer, Mr. A. V Wstaon- . 7 ' .:.-'' W- j . , y A Travelcra' Aid . ' t ;;-.;, 2 Without Regard to Orthodoxy. ; tThe'lfew I tork Council of Jewish omen is earnestly espousing ths proj ect for a National Travelers' Aid so ciety. Xast Tuesday Miss Grace Dodge explained to tha New Tork section the alma and plana of such an association. - This society Is to be composed of or ganisations already formed, but It will greatly extend tbelr usefulness. Both men and woman will be admitted - to the eoolaty without regard to race, re ligion or creed, and It will endeavor te Interest prominent railroad men. - Th work will not be confined to protecting women traveling alone. ' Men coming from Burop wlU b cared for and spe cial attention will be given to women traveling with children. Miss. Dodge, In her address, highly commended the work don by th New Tork ' ship matron ' and recommended that other porta take up th work- Mra. Charlea Henry Israels Is aasoelated with Miss Dodg In forming this - new- Travelers' Aid society. w'i..t'l r-. t t t Some.Sufgetione For Other Cluba te Follow. Taklns- club llfs too seriously Is being flon away with in many-of -the-Urge astern cluba, and while, wnen tney work, thsy work with a win, they have also decided that a little) nonsens now snd thsn is relished by ,tbe best of womsn aa well aa men. .- In evidence of thla Just think of the dignified Woman's Press club of Now York giving . a Valentino breakfast at th Hotel Astorl It I not however, a new thing, xopt as It takes larger proportions saca year. The members are expected to vread original valentine, and no member tekea offense at a bit of good-natured "grinding."- and soma . vary clever bits have been made In times paat . It Is announced this year that mem ber will, be allowed to buy aa many guest card a they wish. Many promi nent literary men and women will be the-guest of the club.. Music, recita tions and vaudeville number -will add enjoyment to th occasion. . , r it t ... - 4 .. , ' - .-'.i ',. -- V New York Women ; , - .- To Honor Mia Anthony: . - A luncheon In honor of Susan B. An' thony alghty-olxth birthday will b given on Tuesday, February 10, at the Hotel Aator, under th auspice of the Interurban Political Equality Council. There will be a reception at 11:10 o'clock, and luncheon will be served at 1 o'clock. Mis Anthony baa promised to be present Among other distin guished guests expected are Miss Anna Bhaw, president of the National Ameri can Woman Suffrage association; Mra Charlotte M. Wllboor, Mra Harriet Stanton Blatch, - William - Lloyd Garri son. .Edwin Mark ham and William M. Jvlna. . v.- - ' Exposition Rink Notict Tha management of tha Exposition rink onnounces that on Thursday even ing. February II. Washington's birth day, ther will ba given a masked car nival at tha rink. Skating will oon tlnua from ' t until 11 oclock,. - Only skaters In masks and eostumes will be permitted on the floor until 10 oclock. at which time valuable prises - will be awarded the lady end gentleman -wi tng tha most unique costume, uenerai skating for all will continue from 10 until 11 o'clock. A full orchestra will furnish muslo for the skaters through out tbe evening and in accordance with the atrlct policy of tha Exposition rink ail masks must be raised at the- door upon snterlng the rink.- Tickets will be plsoed on sals at the rink on Wednee- day, . February 11, aad skate may be reserved at the - tlm - or purchasing tickets. ' A similar masked carnival re cently given In San Francises at th Mechanics' pavilion la reported to bav preeentea onr of tns most magnificent spectacle ever witnessed in tbs city. " . Oarl Json' rtofraaa. 1 ' Cart Denton's program- at Trinity church today will Includ th following Organ music. At 11 a. m-1 Invocasionev uanocci: i-reiuoe , in F." Merkel; "Maestroso from . Becond Sonata," Mendelssohn. . ... . , - At 7:80 p. m.: - -. , "Bridal Chorus from "Lohengrin,' " Wagner; "Berceuse," from th 'Jo-e- lyn.' (todsrd; "Wadding Mareb.", Mcn- dsissohn; ''Aat&sm,'VBuau, Ofdeere ta rertlsad Blgh Be seal satlss elass. Baadlns Cross left te rlsht per N, JasiUes, pneldeat; Bute Uaasss. treas srer: ' rrtmwm Oberteaffer, vtoe-prestdeati kstber gkoirteld,;scrUry; Oeorgs Iiolpa, see-geaat-at a sis. .,..-"... . , President, Harper . K. Jamison;'.- vloe presldent, Fraacla Obertauffert ecr tary, Esther BkolAeldi' treasurer, Ruth Hann sergeapt at - arms, Qeorge Dolph. , Following, ar th graduatea; Florence' Allen; Albert Bankua, Iura Baty, Emma L . Bayer, Christine M. Bergavlk. Ben 8. Burner, Ollle I. Cecil. K rally V. . Currao, fladl .u Dalavage, George K. Dolph. - Olivine Flea, Hasel Ford. Dorothy H. Oulld, Olga Oundersoa. Ethel wyn M. Hablgherst, Bos M. Ham- Gossip of the BooK World WW IKINOS OF THE PACIFIC" By A. C Laut. Thssuthor hss chosen - an attractive title. Indeed, for her oon- densed little history of the explorers of ths Pacific, and not, by any means, an inappropriate one, for theae old naroea, if they were, many of . them, pirates, wera Viklnga as' much aa Brio th Dana, and aulte as bold, and brav. xns book, nowsvsr. is ratner one or biography than of history In Its method of treatment a ahe haa taken the monumental characters ' of north ' Pa clflo exploratlona aad given them and their Uvea prominence, whll surround ing tnsm witn contemporaneous m story. Spanish explorer bav been entirely omitted from the book for, s the author says, they would . requlr an entire volum. . The first to receive th author at tention la Vitus Bering, who sailed away Into unknown seas of loe, at command of Peter th Great who on hi death- bad, in 172i, longed for more worlds to conquer and bad Bering find tb "Gams land" of which be had heard while working 'as ahlp'a carpenter In Amsterdam, in concluding the history of this Viking tbe author asks: "Where does Bering stand among th world heroes? Th world loves success better than : defeat; th spectacular . suooees better than duty plainly dona. , . Ha dispelled forever tha myth' ef the northwest passags If . the world would have but aocepted hla conclusions." , - After . ths explorations of Bering Chapter, and a very Interesting one. Is devoted to Ths Sea-Otter Hunters," In which the author saysr "Just as ths beaver led French voyageurs westward from Quebeo to the Rooky mountains. south to Texas, north to Athabasca, ao tbe hunt of tbe, sea-beaver led to tbe exoloratton ef the North Pacific coast." This chapter. I particularly interesting for th Information it give regarding the fabulous sums realised from the fur trade, and which, as -th-author-says, accounts for why th Russian, American and English explorer preferred sea- otter to tha gold mine oi th Spaniards in Maxioo. - The third chapter gives an account of "The Outlaw Hunters." which is chapter In tha .world' history not to be proud of and but an Incident In th In humanity and barbarism of Russian ruts wherever its banner haa been- planted. The maasscr .of .Indian deeorlbed In thle chapter Is most revolting, but be side thes cruel depredations It give th reader an Idea of ..tha extant and vastness of tb country and tha present possessions of th - United . Statea. - It aaya: - "Ruunning out for 1.00 miles from ths present eosst of Alaska la ths long chain of Aleutian Islands Unking serosa to - pacirio k toward Asia. Oonalaska, the moat Important and mlddl ef these, is as far front Oregon aa Oregon m rrora -wew Tork." 1 Th next "Viking" to receive the author attention la Count Benyowsky, tbe polish nobleman, whoa career waa probably - more picturesque than that of all tha others. He haa filled the pages of more sensational history than any other one man of that time and ha found an interesting plae far th no tion of the Hungarian novelist JokaL The expedition of Drake and Cook are always surrounded with an atmos phere of romance and Interact and Miss Laut haa brought out the main fact la atrong light but th "Vlklnc" whom ah dwell most tenderly with I Cap tain uray. une gives th key to thla by herself saying: "Inasmuch aa Cook's name la a bousshold word, world over, for what be 'did on th Pactflo coast and Oraya name barely known euteld of Boston and Oregon, It 1 wall to fol low Gray' movement." Leoyara and Vancouver atlll - com among tha "Viklnga" and both deserve It, although th author aaya: "With Gray's ntrano to th Columbia,' th great drama- of discovery on th north west coast of America waa drawing to a close." .- - .. ' Some account of th fur com canto naturally muat follow1 th live of theee explorer, and the author ahows herself to have th eltuat Ion well In hand, and alao that ahe ha bean a deep student of the Uvea of thes men and th rec ords they have left, which ar by no meana meager, A closing chapter I devoted to Bar- anof. th Little Csar," and thla brings tns history oowp to ' so near oar- own time, and to tba places and scenes so familiar to vry Alaska touriet, : that it excites peculiar Interest , , In concluding th book on la foreed te turn to th opening word nd re read mia witn . renewea oonvioiion W have become such alar ot ehal rtxllevra In th fetallam whlh rfM,1are Fman the creature of circumstances, that w have almost forgotten th sup rem eat spectacle in Ufa la when man becomes th creator of circumstances. W for get that man can rise to be master of his destiny, fighting, unmaking, re-cre ating, not only hla own eavlronment. but the environment of multitudinous man. There 1 something tltsnle In such lives. They are tb hero myth f every nation' legends. Ws somehow feel that th man tbst throw off the handicaps ef birth and statioa lift thei mond, Ruth Hansen, Eulalle Rarbaugh. Martin Hawkins. Lulu Mao Hawtey, Milton B. Henderson, Kathryn TJ. Hoban, Hatu Hoban, Henrietta Hulme, Scott Jackson, Harper Jamison. Florence Jenkln, Emma Keep, William Kelt. Bess Kern. Leo Krause, . Huldah Nelson. Francee , Oberteufer, Ueorg ; Otten, Archie Perry, LUlle Penson, Edna ptr on, Harold 61ngly. Nellie Raab. Earl Reed, - - Henrietta Retbaohlld, Masis Ruff. Molllo Begal, Lao Shaplrer, Ethel Sherwood, a Esther Skene. Esther Skol field. Ado Smith, y Stella Smith, ' Roy whole human rae to higher plan and na a on or the ood in bim. though tha hero may have feet of clay aod body of beast Such war that Vikings of the north, who gpent their Uvea in elemental r warfare, and rode out, to meet death In tempest lashed to the spar of thslr craft. And aucn, too, war th new world viklnga of tba Pacific. 1 In so excellent a work it la to be re gretted that the author haa Indulged In uoh coplou foot note. It la not In tin with th best historians of ths day, and even with good authority for doing o th readera resentment at being oroxen into jyat in -tns miast or an in teresting line of thought would be rea son , sufficient for omitting them, for th writer, a well aa tha reader.' muat be conscious of this. And whll honssty and fairness may demand a certain amount of credit to be accorded pre vious writers, ther ar othor way, of giving It even If It I resorting to the quotation marks. . ' , , The book Is well Illustrated and Vksbsi tl v KAtii Tbs ' sVf aariU1siPt fV rPrlc fl.Sft. .- . . : .. - "A Maker of History" By B. Phillip Oppsnbelm. , Always bold and daring In plot and expression th author of "Myi tertoua Mr. Sabtn" haa outdone ven hi former reputation In. "A Maker of His tory. This, - whil purely , fiction,- la nevertheless- founded upon fact - and peopled with such towering figures' aa Emperor William of Germany, the csar of Russia, King Edward, tb president of the - French - republic and - well - known secretaries aad diplomat ot th four nations. Tha story 1 on of Interna tional intrigue, plot and incident and told so naturally and so fearlessly mat tha reader 1 first thrilled and then ap pall ad at . the possibility of . such In tricacies - between great- nation - witn their secret service systems and- polio protection. - . -i -;i- .r;, ? Th story eentar about ra young Englishman, who through aom ..mis hap finds himself at nightfall In lonely German forest through ' which tretche mile and mile Of railroad. Worn out with hi long tramp he throw himself on th ground behind soms bushes-snd goes to sleep. Upon awak ening h discover a well -guarded train standing on tbe track clos by and In a abort time another approaches from aa opposite direction. It seem . to have been expected, and -tha young man. Ouy Poynton. la the unintentional wit- nee of a -oonferanc that la of Inter national. character but unintelligible and scarcely Interesting to him. A those la conference srs about to re-enter th train a sheet of paper la carried by tha wind out of tha hands of on of th official and I blown within reach of th young man who picks it up, but finding It I in German, without read ing It put It In hi pocket and here the etory a well a th troubl begins. Th oonfereno later proved, t be a secret - meeting - between - th - cxar and German emperor, and tha paper picked up a moat valuable hlatorlo document and Ilk th young man, ae well as his sister, who Is Involved through him, play an Important part In th making or history, t s -- Many wrenta of th Ranian-japanes war coma Into th story to refresh ths reader's memory, bnt th never-to-be-forgotten Incident of the Baltlo Heat' firing Into tha English fishing boeta in the early day of th war forma ona of tha moat interesting and Intricate parte of tha etory and Is tha climax of tbe book which wa can sap. without fear of contradiction la one of the beat worked out plot of modern fiction. The romance or th - story -1 rrean aad original, but the making of great vent and people ubservlent to hla purpose and - atlll . maintaining th strength- and planalbllity of hla story Is where Mr. oppenboim excels ss a nov elist He has 'In- addition an aocom pllshed pan and vn in writing of gay, wicked and dreadful Paris' does It with arttette finish. ,..-... Th pan and Ink Illustrations by Fred Pegram are vary good and quit an at traction, Little, j Brown A ,Co. Price The 'True Henry Clay" By Joseph M. Rogers.-- There Is no more picturesque figure In American statesmanship than Hsnry Clay, nor a figure written about from - mor - point of view,, but fnona whichever point always Interesting, with just touch ot th nnoanny In whatever light that Is thrown upon him. This shade, of superstition ha been somewhat Intensified of late by several curious in cidents. . ,-, - , ,.. . . Kentucky erected two. memorial to him. One wa a monument over hla tomb at Lexington. It was surmounted by a colossal , statu. . Something . over . two yeara ago lightning-knocked off the head of this atatua and It I now in th vault alongside of, .. th., marble .tomb. The. state legislature , refused aa . ap propriation to repair th statu snd to day It stands headless upon ths .Cor lathlsn shaft and la visible for it mile around. It la ;probabl that such a eon anion ilta .nowhregl Jn th world. Kite been tb cause of much comment by aewepaper editor ail -over th coun try aad by statesmen In and out of Ken tucky, but ther w yat no remedy for the situation. In "The True Henry tiay". there Is a photograph of tb monu ment, made - for tha work cinder . the personal supervision of ths author. It ta an ' Interesting coincidence. . which might point a lesson, to Ksntucky, thst on tbe very same day and. It Is saJd. st th nam hour, the monument erected hi Sioux- City, Iowa, to Sergeant Floyd at the. Lewi and Clark party,' but a. Soul. Sidney Spencer, Harry Swart, Roy Terry. Carrt Thurman. Milton Vernon. Herman WetUrborg and Winifred Borg, ""' ' Thar will' be nearly 4e graduatea from th gramma ecbools of th city. '-' -Thes - will be given diplomas which '" will ntlU them, to promotion to . th blgh school, and it is estimated that at least en half of them will register at th beginning' of- th spring term, a , number of th schools will hold thslr graduating exercises tomorrow, - other . , on Tuesday and several net until Wed ',nday. . j .-.. - ' .'; native of Kentucky, .was' struck by , lightning. : Within' two months an en. , glnesr had estimated ths cost of re pairing, and at ones tha 11.000 was raised ' ' by the lfyal cltlssn of Iowa. Curiously' enough the seoond naeraorisi--the statu of Clarl by Hart, Kentucky's most Im. ' portani Voulptor- has alao heap attacked .' by-nVr tha elsmenta. Th courthouse :' of Loulsvill haa Just been damaged by fir and the atatua badly Injured.- It v..; la believed It can be restored; but It ' , I th eauss of muok comment In Kan- , tucky that ther I not existing Intact , n publie memorial to her greatest son. ,V" - Mr. Rogers In his sympatbstlo life of Clay give many Incident In th career -',,. of the great commoner- which re in curious accordance with th aeddsnts . which -have befallen hi' status. J. Bt-' Lipplnoott company ar Mr. . Rogsrs pubUahera. , : - ".-j . f "Lady BaHlmor By 'Owen Wtster. " Another ' "Virginian" and "more cow- ' boy were what ths public asked Mr. Wlster for, and "Lady Baltimore" l hla ' answer. Hs ba preferred to leav hi old field for an entirely new one. and It V ",. would be hard to find a story more dlf--ferent from "The Virginian" than "Lady v Baitlmore" I In every reseeot - exoeDt - it wholly indigenous character. - . Mr. Wlster ha seen and elsed an other piece of American Ufa, and has j given it to u alive. Instead of the open plain hi soene I a -historio cltyt Instead of th frontier life, we see the ' . pink 'of olvillsatlon, and Instead of rol- ' ' licking cowboys, It 'Is delightful women, - ' young and old. In whose- company .waif ," find ourselves. ' On. this occasion Mr, " Wlster devote himself to the fair sex ':,-:. In a. way wholly new to him. surround ing hi young and Imprudent ber with tbem to th hero'e -extreme prll. From th hero's love predicament , -grows, a ' , atudy of Amerioaa manners, -old fash- , - : toned and new, whloh will furnish food .' for thought to th reader who declrea any thought la fiction; while the fa mtlUr with Mr. Wlster's style will find l it here made to match tha delicate tone : r -of high comedy which la tha essence of ', .'; t this new departure in American fiction. . -Th tory a handsomely bound., .Ths Maomlllaa company. Prlo. tl.rt. " "The Conquet of Jerusalem" BV Myrlam Harry .Thi nove; haa for ita ;.v sosnes Jerusalem ana tne noiy lna they are . today. - The author haa Chosen for her main" Them th oclaT"' Ufa in th European colony of Jerusa- -lent, with ita Jealousies, It bickering and tha persecutions of an mnlnent archaeologist . . - ,:. ;' ',.'. tm tnsme I set in a backsround of -, - trondsrful . word-pictures of tbe land. -IU religion rite, both Christian and ,. pagan of the dssert with it . Omar, ; ... like Ufa, sensuous and seductive. It Is t a story full of compelling Interests. fresh in scenes and original rn concep- . -tlon. . Herbert B. Turner 't Co. Price Literary Note. .V'"' Herbert Quick, whose new hovel. "Doubl Trouble.' Is a Mtoular success : of tb eaon, belongs to the coterie of ,,' writers who ar making Iowa faraoue, He wa Brought up on th prairie when It really was prairie, and Uved as the prairie boy lived in those days when almost " everybody - farmed - end the- simple Uf waa , generally practiced. Teaching achoot carried him into - the law and tha law Into politics, as a Demo crat among bopeleaaly Republican aur- v rounding. ..Once he was mayor of Sioux City, and many people say that he s a gooa one. Always air. quick looked on life ss a thing to be depleted;.'. everything he did or saw seemed to him merely impression preceding expres- slon. , Until necentty his busy public . llfs mads tbs possibility of expression rather, limited. But now he ha bought a cabin by the gulf at Palmetto Beach, Alabama, and la devoting" himself en- -tlrely to literary work. ' . Not far from tha whit Hon In Washington stands an old brick house known as the Octagon bouse a bit ot tha history ef that city." In thla man- . Ion President Madison and hla popular wife. Mistress Dolly Madison. . made , their residence after the burning of tbe White Houss by tb British la 1114. and hers ths ramifications of ths treaty f Ghent were exchanged. For many years, however, It wa untenanted, aav for a well-autbentlcated ghost who ' mad night a thing' of terror for curious ad-1 veaturer. - Ella Middleton Tybout in her thrilling novel of diplomatic Wash" ingtoa life, 'The Wife of tb Secretary of State," haa ao - wovea her romance about this hlatorlo-Octagon houae that. It really becomee an Important feature. In the development ot tb story. : Ths Octagon house was again brought into prominence recently by th marriage f th niece bf the caretaker of th man- : slon the first .tlm a festivity of any kind had been celebrated ther - during th last t years. ' ... owing te tb necessity ror most ear- tut omprison and collation of th new translation of "Chanrptaln'a Voyages, which Professor and Mrs, K. O. Bourne arc preparing for "The Trsilmskers." the standard llbrydfhlatoryaiTd"er ploretton of' which Professor J. B. Mc Master ia nonsuiting editor, the pub lishers, A. B. Bsrnss Co.. will delsy publication of this Important work for a few weeks. A. Londoo publisher appraclaUva ef American humor baa mad an offer for n English -edition of Mr. Chart Bat ten Loomis new story. "Mloerva Maneuvers." , Ths author Is tourlne- In the wr-st with Jerome K. Jerome, offer- ng on the platform an International fimhlnstioa t wit and hnaaoc. . . ,, -I r i ' ' .:' . -' ' ' A
