THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 20. ; 1807. 551 One of tKc Finest ' of the Stately Homes ' of England, to Become a Hive of Industry for the Disabled Children of Povertv Rooms in Which Monarchs Have Been Entertained 5 an to harm. The deal wti mid and r. Pearson took hold of tha Cripples1 ONDON Trentham HalL tha fam- oua aeat In Staffordshire of tha Duks and Duchaaa of Suther land, la undergoing converaton Into a factory for crippled workers. Built from tba . design - of Barry at a coat of 1750,000 in tho daya when labor and material eoat lasa than half what they do now, Ita walla N adorned with a wealth of plcturaa by tha old masters, rich in statuary, en- oioaea oy oeautirui gardens and con servatories, set in the midst of a mag nificent park, Trentham Hall haa been for generation one of the flrat of Eng land m ahow-places. Now a wondrous transformation la to take place In it The halls In which monarcha haVe been entertained will soon resound with the din of Industry. The rooms In which the titled favorites of fortune were wont to gather will be filled with the victims of misfortune from their birth, engaged in overcom ing life's handicap by tha arts of cun ning craftmanshlp. It la like a fairy tale made real a socialist dream re alised. It la all part and parcel of a scheme by which the Duohess of Sutherland's pet charity the Cripples' guild, haa been turned Into a publlo company which will pay dividends to its share holders while providing a generous sur plus for the disabled workers. It is a recognition of . the principle that the fihllanthropy that saves Is the philan hropy that' pays.- The duchesa will continue the presiding genius of the whole bualneaa. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland have many Interest in that Motion of England known aa "the Potterlen." Thia comprlaea the counties of Staffordshire and Worcesterahlre but the firat named la the very center, not alone of the dis trict but of the Intereats of the Suther land. They hare estates there, they take aome of their tltlea from tberfc. The Lady Bountiful. For the past decade the duchess has been thev "Lady Bountlfu" to the poor of the Pottery country. For seven yaara ahe haa especially looked after tha crippled children, many of whom are now grown up. These cripples ahe gathered Into a guild. Workshops were established In which the crlpplea were taught various trades so that they might succeed in earning their own living. The Guild waa aupported almost ex clunlvely by the duchess. Of late the guild hss grown so large that It was almost Imposalble for the duchess to devote the time necessary to properly conduct Ita affairs.- In the town of Hanley In Staffordshire the guild haa a great factory In which aome 340 crip ples of both sexes are dally employed. There la a staff of Instructors and a business staff. But the duchess, aa the president, had to personally look after all the burlness. The demand for the goods manufactured by the crlpplea waa ho great that the duchess was eonn .adrift on the deep, and to her unknown, wat ers of the trade world. The duchess Is a arrest society leader. She la also successful In many other roles. But she Is not a business woman. Her lit tle home charity had grown to be quite an Industry. It was crushing her. Her social and public duties are many. Her Ignorance of business matters brought the affairs of the guild Into a hopeless tangle. Apparently aa a work ing concern it was paying big profits. Tet It was a continual drag on the duchess' purse. Both demanda on time and money kept Increasing and the durheaa waa on the verge of despair when on the Riviera she met England's greatest hustler, C. Arthur Pearson, the editor and owner of the "Dally Express" and a large number of other British dallies and publications. Are Old Friends. The duchess and Mr. Pearson are old friends. To blm aa a business man she confided her troubles. Mr. Pearson was interested. One of the greatest charts tlea in England, the children's fresh-air fund, is his. The duchess promised her . a I it I . DO strangera with a taate for mod ern dramaturgy ever tell it to you Instead of employing tho Long-Lost Soliloquy T Here ia my freshest experience: I was standing in the back of the front of the New York theatre pondering on the "advancement" of Klaw A Er langer's advanced vaudeville when a total .and I have no doubt tactful) stranger remarked: "This is the worst orchestra In New York." Answer: "You haven't traveled much." Neat answer? rather? yea? But It only Just now occurred to me, on the way home. Cab wit, as the hall room boys wouid say. But it happened to me in the subway. What I really answered at the New York was, "Shake hands," whereupon the stranger gave his en thusiastic glove to mine and, to be thoroughly sincere and accurate, I have not seen him since. When that orchestra at the New York theatre Is permitted to play simultane ously in seven bunches of regular keys, not to forget occasional incur elona into the Chinese and enharmonic scales, while innocent women and chil dren and brave men get It full In their Trentham Hall, magnificent palace that will become a hospital; the kind-hearted Duchess of Southerland and a group of crippled chll- K. .V,aa; bu.S t ' Prom by. the ldy. ge.ero8lly. ADVANCED VAUDEVILLE IN NEW YORK-- Ashton Stevens Gives His First Impressions as Dramatic Critic as a foil and as penetrating. It went atralght through that orchestra and home to ua, and with the last syllable Intact. Truly they do know four or five thlnts about enunciation in Lon don. Little wonder the English lyric writer ia as happy, even If not as pros perous, aa Wallace Irwin, the poet caser of the Rockies. What se says goes. So after all. Miss Hetty had no great difficulty in singing a new song with every new coat-and. And they ranged from pentail to white serge, from lounge jacket to frock, from black Chesterfield to a green cutaway that would find its affinity In Wilson M li ner's emerald anklets. A Real Old Hornpipe. But the sallorboy suit brought the song that killed the sallorboy who had three girls in a single port and sang, "I'm Going Away." And not only sang, but danced a reel old hornpipe that made sailors of us all. I defy any gen tleman in the audience to remember suspenders while Miss Hetty is execut ing the yo-ho-pull-'em-up movement Her voice may not be specialized for lullabys, but she dances like bubbles - auditory nerves, I take it upon myself at the brim to protest. Why, In the whole augA merited band there Isn t enough music to fill a bagpipe. It is worse than the ululatlons of Johhny Ray, the Welsh stage Irishman with the face of his native rarebit Not a Gun Fired. Small wonder the college bred stal lions tried to eat the lady's hay from under her very millinery. No surprise at all when not a gun was fired at Mr. Nat Keefe's bronchial yodellng; for Mr. Keefe (I assure you his "Mister" Is in the playbill) preferred the accompani ment of Mr. Tony Pearl's Eyetallan harp, and' we preferred it, too. But there was no alternative for Miss Hetty Klnur. straight from Merrie England, with a Gladstone full of new ditties and eight boxes of London tailor ing. She had to take that orchestra, an orchestra which, with nothing short of satanic Ingenuity, contrived to evade the pitch ty every conceivable hemi- The "special engagement of the dis tinguished commedlenne Hope Booth" ought to read "the special engagement of the distinguished George Him Co- a nenl.ql HTehroiv impersonator. I am fonfliient that Mr ban's "The Little Blonde Lady.'" For Winter wlll aree Kith me when I say mm. wi. im.-KH Unction. lift IS I shall continue our dignity and con servatism at the old stand. A Chance for Melons. If they had a greater garlic belt at tho New York I am sure the orchestra would receive melons. A well-mu-nltloned garlic belt would not In kind ness listen to the accompaniment that is misfitted to the ltallanate singing of the Romany Operatic Troupe, and there is always the, additional prospect of some projected souvenir of the gallery's dlsesteem carromlng from the ear the lnHUer thinks he hears with to the bump of unmuslc on the papier mache tenor. "Every little bit added to what you've got makes a little bit more," warbles Mr. R. Q. Knowles, the monol cglst, appropos of ladles that paint and pad. He is ever so Intimate. Sometimes his intimacy fairly slaps you on the back, which is rather annoying if you happen to be a tendor and sedentary soul. But he is grammatical, even eplgrammatlcal and a grammatical monologist should be encouraged. He Is really advanced vaudeville when he can talk for ten minutes with out once saying, "Between you and I." and then not turn a hair when some up stairs wag shouts "Author!" Mr. Julian Rose also monologued. Irtir'ner ti,a r . HM . T. , 1 ; t. t . specialty, substltled, "Levlnsky at the cation of the gallant little company of Discovery during the long dark months Taking Observations. wcnuinjr. ne is not FIRST NEWSPAPER OF THE ANTARCTIC Cap tain and" Crew all Helped Write and Illustrate the Magazine L IEUTENANT SHACKLETON, who exceedingly pleasant to look back upon." moment or two your face Is enveloped I. commander nt an ndttIon to the suggestion of Sir Clements in the loose covering of the tent door, is commander of an expedition to Maknam andnr. Scott Keltie and oth- you are In complete darkness, partially the south Polar seas, edited the er friends closely connected with the ex- suffocated, but through your furs you South Polar Times, a monthly pedltion, the "South Polar Times'' has feel you are progressing inch by inch been Dermanent v reproduced By Messrs. iuwara me maiue. si moi . y magazine which was written and Smith. Elder, under the superintendence light of the lantern, but the writhing illustrated by the members of the Dis- or Reginald Smith of that house, and gasping must be continued until covery expedition during the winters of and the two handsome volumes remain you can lie alongside. Instead of on top 1902-3. and produced on the typewriter V.TX ent' doing T " " " w.o d.i.j, 0 o.co.u ....o anrt ,h6 enthus asm or all on noara ino here Indeed the skltdoodle is the thine. It is called a satire. It holds up to rldlculb and eggs the modern dramatic critic tho pompous, frivollng. blaek- fuarding critic that "signs his name." f this critic had his way Drew would bo driving a car, Hackett polishing win dows, and the survivals on the stage receiving never more than three dollars" a month. "A critic," we are told, by George. 'Ms a man that tells the audi ence whether they liked the perform ance." But that is merely mlfl and funny. This critic prognosticates and prints his prognostications the day af ter the premiere. The Typist's Plot. The new typist hardly has entered the sanctum and been kissed by the ury extra ory orut. such a sour ness! He was the only human that har monized with that abysmal band. seml-demltone. The wandering wood- critic, and by him invited to wine and wind and the indeterminate fiddles as saulted her in the right ear, the blar ing brass In the left, while the per cussion department volleyed and thun dered just where her hair ways shortest at tne necx. Here was a duel between a lone woman In trousers and ordnance. What criminal odds! And all England's ear to the cable, listening for the out come! Routed the Artillery. There was the situation. Miss Hetty Kin stood in her rent's evenina wear. perspiring excitedly at the temples, but otherwise Impertubabl. Not a lash did she bat at the prelude. As it closed she opened an aluminum throat and routed the artillery with the first dis charge. She did it She literally soaped the viols, and nepoered the brass, and boiled the kettledrum, and slit the dine and drive tonight, dear, before this critic-coward Is dictating and "signing" a "roast" of a certain piece written by a woman who has betted that he will give It a "good notice." "Ah. but If I had written It?" Is tho languishing query of Httle Dolly, the new typist. And Just to show her that he la not only Just, but Versatile as well, the critcuss dictates a panegyric for the same piece. "Sign it." she coaxe- "Oh, not on your life." or words to that effect he answers, discovering Dolly to be the gambling playwriter. But Dolly already has possession of the ensianatured ''roast" and threatens to publish it in the Evening Journal Moved By the Spirit. From the Home Magazine. "Who's there?" shouted the occupant of a hotel bedroom, aa he heard a noise in the corner of his room. There was no answer, and the queer noise stopped. "Anybody there?" No answer. "It must have been a spirit," he Said to himself. "I must be a medium. I win try." (Aloud.) "ir there is a spirit in me room 11 will signiry tne same b saying 'aye' no, that's not what mean. If there is a spirit in the room u win piease rap tnree times. Three very dls in explorers then held fast in the Antarctic Ice. In a preface, Captain 8cott, the dis tinguished commander of the third fa mous voyage, explains the origin and Idea of the volumes. The Idea and the Enterprise. ' "In March, 1902," he writes, "we were busily preparing for our first Antarctic winter as we watched the sun sinking towards Its long rest. We knew that daylight would shortly disappear for four whole months, and our thoughts turned naturally to the long dark period before us and th means by which we could lighten its monotony. And so It hf the Antjirrtlo winter Many of the personal Jokes and sa tires are, of course, mysterious to out siders and land-lubbers, but the clever caricatures and sketches some of which reveal the spirit and beauty of the Polar scenes by Dr. Wilson and others, are delightfully interesting to everyone, while the comic verse, the seamen's yarns, tho record of adven tures, the vivid descriptions of life on board ship amid a world of Ice, and the articles of serious scientific Interest aro all full of entertainment. Naturally, to the public the personal experiences of the explorers fire most noteworthy, and Captain Scott's real istic description of the discomforts and difficulties of getting to bed during a sledge Journey Is typical. y was in this month that we met in coun- Getting Into Bed. ell around the wardroom table to dis- ,.a.,. , , 11 enaa tho ttmt Antflr.tff Tnlirnal- then 1 liree flir-Clail rhree VerV distinct ran wer mciw wo uuiuiciieu u, fusji-nicu n the direction of the bureau general lines, and appointed Mr. Shackle Is 1 : th? 8D?rlt of mv sTste'r?" ,on an edltor to Kulde lts destiny. Ou fo answer sister; journal, we decided, should give lnstruc spirit of my mother-ln- No answer. "Is it the law?" Three very distinct raps. "Are you happy?" Nine raps. "Do you want anything?" A succession of very loud raps. "Will you give me any communication if I get up?" No answer. "Shall I hear from you tomorrow ?" Raps are very loud In the direction of the door. "Shall I ever see you?" He waited lon for his answer, but none came, and he turned over and fell asleep. Next morning no round the "Bpirit On board ship there was always hard work to do. for in the Aotarctio regions domestic economy Is not so easy as In a London flat, and even to obtain water for drinking and cooking involved hours of desperate atruggllngs with hooks and chains to drag up an ice floe to the melting-pot. Then for the officers there were experiments and observa tions always on hand, for they took their duties seriously, and scientific re search was one of the chief objects of this voyage. "Observations" sounds mysterious to the landsman, and one of the poets on the Discovery professes to share this perplexity as to their ob ject: "An observation! What Is that?" I think I hear you say, "A scientific function that is practised every day?" Not only every day, I fear, far oftener than that, A useless entertainment and it fairly knocks me flat. To astertaln the object of thia Miotic game, Of taking observations la my everlast ing game. To at tha four hours before the first curtain has of his mother-in-law had carried off his lifted on "The Little Blonde Lady." So what can tha crtticule do but - There Is no escape from such satire. The modern critic .("Mr. Hammer," watch and purse. raincoat his trousers and his The Servant Problem. Snare. Truly they do make band-proof George calls him) bad better change throata' In foggy London, : , his liver and take. up aome honorable T t cuss the first Antarctic Journal: then 1 lm "l"lu " and there we christened it. suggested its possible absorb the floor space or a c- tent, and consequently it Is necessary ror ,' them to be stowed one at a time. The lion as well as amusement; we looked first man can get into his sleeping bag to our sclentinc experts to write lumi- Inside the tent with assistance rrom one nously on their special subjects and to 0f the others, and except when he cup record fhe scientific events of general sizes the lantern and a quarter of an Interest; while for lighter matter we hour passes In finding, relighting and agreed that the cloak of anonymity fixing it. no great delay takes place, should encourage the indulgence of any it iH a moot point whether the second shy vein, of sentiment and humor that should put on his sleeping bag Inside or might exist among us. Above all, th outside the tent; in either case It is a 'South Polar Times," as we had deter- considerable time before he can be mined to call it, was to be open to all: placed gasping and exhausted in a head the men as well as the officers were to and feet position alongside the first, be Invited to contribute to its pages. "When this is accomplished there is just sufficient space left for the thirl "Certainly the 'South Polar Times' man to lie In, and if you are that un fulfilled its Durnose In interesting and fortunate individual, you must perforce amusing the members of our small col- pet into your bag by yourself, outside, wrha't' matteW it tn ato'vnna w ony, which indeed was all we aeked of Having at length accomplished thia feat wnal iufla thara h? 7 - T It. I can see again a row of heada bent and toggled the bag to the blouse, llko 0(, -lch wv "the r moving TW'a over a fresh monthly number to scan the competition in a sack race, you tn- Vr .? fjzL t n.i-- ,?J the latest efforts of.our artists, and I continently lose your balance, fall flat. Barometer? are futllJ T thilr nredlrtlnn. can hear the hearty laughter at the sal- and are powerless to right youraelf , ""0mvnu in Jt Predictions lies of our humorists and the general without getting out of the bag and go- WAlu'tha l.ni?r of th Wftntw ma ,hn alv alln.lni. tnttnA ita lnr through tha whole oneratinn a tain nature or in weataer W4 may be aroused from slumber deadest-of the nlaht To take an observation, gives UB all a morbid blight;'' How in the name of all that's blank. can temperatures down her t Concern those- scientific men at home fromyear to year? - - To us alone they matter, for It's old enough; alas! -To frees tha tail and fingers -Off a monkey made of brass. Mrs. rom Ally Sloper. way thlm proud If rom k.iiv i in nniLr er , i i nim iiruun kuuiui .uim.iam ul hid ,ui a. i-aiirtui vi. jvu. l.omauv--. w v u 11 v Now. don't for a. week Imarine that emrjlovMent such aa washlnsr French soovyneer nosfeyards from me darter the page t hap should reveal his work, tent entrance with caution till a final Hetty King" la a vocal heavyweight, manuscripts or teaching the art of act- Maggie tha fourths this month, be- and the shy author desirous that his spring again landa-you rm your back. 6h:aaa small aa a messenger boy. But ing by the picture postcard system, gorry! She sinds me wan every tolms pages shoulr be turned quickly. Iwas but this time with your legs Inside tha bar voles bas no adlposa. It la as lean But,'of course, Mr. William Winter and aha changes tor place, all .very simple and primitive, yet It Is tent. You then start to wriggle; In a enarr wnen some iv allusion lounu ua intt m run mi ma wnun uucnuunumn. . . . 4 borne. Memory recalls, also, tne and on tne next occasion you are more Th, unRhtnometer r think the sad fate I author .expectant of the turn of careful of your balance approach tha : ' V d"d b" fall M" ? a 1 To be stowed inside a locker, but we've got tio .sun at all. debating club .was started. oa fulld. He visited tha potteries and saw he wok; went- Into the fullest details witn tne start as wen as with the crip, pled workera themselves, and when ha reported to the duchess he declared that the only way out of the difficulty was to make the guild a regular business concern. And so was entrusted to Mr. Pearson the work of converting a ehartty Into a public company. The name was changed from "The Potteries Guild of Handi crafts" to "The Duchess of Suther land Cripples' Guild, Limited." The capital was placed at $26,009 tn 4.900 ordinary shares and. 100 deferred shares of 5 each. The (Vdlnary shares will receive a fixed dividend of IS per cent per annum, and the deferred sharehold ers will receive the remainder of tha profits. The deferred shareholders have agreed to apply such profits to the . training school and the charitable work of the guild. As experts who have looked Into the matter have figured It out that, run as a business concern, the profits of the guild should be fully 20 per cent there promises to be a hand- some surplus for the charitable branch . n f Ik, umla.lalrln. Directors of Company. The directors of the company ara tha Duchesi of Suthnrland, chairman; C. Arthur Pearson, 8. J. Waring and J. F. Campbell. Mr Waring Is head of tha Important firm of Wa rings. Limited, and also Waring A Gillow. These Arms have Immense stores In London and . elsewhere devoted to house furnishing and hardware generally. Mr. Waring Is also a partner of Mr. 8elfridge of Chi cago In the coming huae department store which Is soon to startle Kngland. Mr. Campbell Is head of the celebrated chlnaware firm of Minton's. The capital of the company waa all subscribed within a few minutes. With such a unique company and a duchess as chairman, a hundred times the amount wanted could have been se cured. To further insure the success of tha scheme the Duke of Sutherland trans ferred Trentham Hall and the magnifi cent estate surrounding it to the com pany, free pi rent. It detracts nothing from the Tnunlficence of the gift that Trentham Hall has been for the last three years abandoned as a ducal resi dence because of the pollution of tha river Trent, which runs through tha grounds, by the many factories on Its banks. The duke went to law over tha contamination of the river and was beaten. Still It was open to him to sell the property for manufacturing pur poses and it would have brought him In a lot of money. But he has preferred to take the more generous course. And so It comes about that It Is-to be turned into a factory for crippled work ers. One of the apartments has been specially fitted up for the exclustve use of the duchess in her capacity as chair man of the company. The beauties of Trentham have been Immortalized in Ixrd Beaconsfleld'S novel, "Lothair," where under the name of Brentham it is described as "an Ital ian palace of freestone, vast, ornate and In scrupulous condition." board the Discovery, and In the even ings many subjects were discussed with great earnestness, among them being sucn prooiems an wornnnn nignm. "Conscription." "The Commerce of the British Empire," "Sledge Traveling." "The Habits of Penguins," and "ICS Navigation." Conversation and Candor. ; But the debating club was not the only opportunity for discussion. "We were most fully employed during 'the morte salson.' " explains "Hero No. 2." in an Imaginary conversation with his lady love, "in a species of most en tertaining arguments, and in exploding one another's pet theories. Weird the ories' and 'new and brilliant Ideas' were especially prolific amongst ua. There , Is something in the keen strong, non mlasmlc air of the Antarctic which, seems to foster these uncanny things, . and they frequently required all our re sources to grapple with them. We did not even get tired of one another, nor . become sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, nor get depressed and grow long hair; quite different to what we ought to have done. I am afraid, out of harmony with some former expeditions, nrwl m.tat iinuaual Wa trcti aecuntninen to the vagnries of our friends, and ac- ,: quired an extreme delicacy of touch in . dealing with one another's feelings. . T ittia flaws In one'a character, and . idiosyncrasies hitherto successfully smothered, were calmly unearthed and gently revealed In a moat beneficial " ' manner." Among the many interesting events recorded In the month's diary for tha , "South Polar Times" are the following: , "Great Penguin chase by Dr. K. 'Skelly and Boatswain. "Dr. Koettlltz discovers Bacteria in a seal's Intestines." "Concert and Theatrlcala." - - "Vlnka. the wife of Wolf, of four pups. , "Muggins landed a ten-ieggea sea spider." In an "editorial" for -August. HOI. there is the following interesting note: : "Without doubt the principal event of ' the month has been the sun's return. Though day light has been well assured -: for the past three weeks, it waa not until a few days ago that wa aaw the t true sunlight shining on the peaks of -the western mountatrvs and brightening the smoky pall that hangs over Erebus. ' It was on the 22d that we saw the sun Itself and there were many of us out to catch the first glimpse, for the day was beautifully fine and very clear, t hear that a dinner Is to be given in i, honor of King Sol. One of tha best fnieriuinint'iiiB wmi hiw mvi In the Royal Terror theatre waa tha , Dlshcover Minstrels' show; It went off without a hitch, and reflects great credit on the manager and troupe for the excellent way in which it was car ried out. It must have required a good deal of resolution on the part of thosa 1 who attended the rehearsals during tha '. three weeks of stormy weather, when the journey from the ship to the hut was often done in the face of a blizzard and the temperature well down In the ' minus thirties.'' The Southern Sledge Journey. . Though the light social aide ot.ths expedition takes up most space- In the "South Polar Times," there ara many articles of serious interest, and among .r them a detailed account of : tha famous sledge journey to the south. It was a daring enterprise, . and the travelers suffered great hardships. Relying on,, their sledge dogs to carry the, baggage, they were disappointed and Endangered by the inability of the animals to do their work. Day- by day they dropped . down to die. or were so exhausted that the explorers had to stop their journey until tha poor beasts recovered a little. It was discovered thaf the' stock fish upon which they were fed rastalntd, and poisoned them, but aS.1t was the only food available there was no remedy! Lieutenant Shackle ton and his . companions were themselves In a con dition of semi-starvation before tha end of the Journey, and the intense cold, th fatigue of dragging sledges over soft snow, the constant stumbling into ice cracks, and the thousand and one hard ships of traveling over the lonely Ice fields exhausted thera -to the last ! gree of human strength. .- From this brief account af the con tents of the "South Polar Times, and ; from the Illustrations reproduced on this page. t will be f"JuJL interest Is be Journal edited by Lieu tenant Bhackieton, who 1 fiown his way again to tha unknown south. 1 Who Wouldn't? ' From the Philadelphia Pre. Tom -Mary Prettyman J ' . Hansom went risht up ' ' tiav and kBd her. Fleas Md y" tv-r ( , . T om bi't l '' chance.