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. THE OREGON - SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 6, 1908 HHP Ml ffr --Vir je- .-"l"' - . t -I"' lJ . , fr r- if .3 " i if?! it if i E . i JiWJ wmEm m& iiuu ill iu nvvw a it i r ..irfr.-.r a" tot 5r ?ssrj& JRocr? r? Stir ISAzfe Socrse The Pleasing Personality of the Daughter of the House of Taft, SSKaffiAi i . -,7- - s . IS TENT over the pdgcs of a schoolbook, g in a pretty "den" such as, the college of today loves to adorn, studying ; hard, very hard, at liryn Mazer College, near Philadelphia, is a h'idd covered with. a wealth r of light brou-n hair, in zchich golden tones I catch the light that streams from the near window ';' .'.i The studious altitude diflers but little from that of hundreds of other girls at Bryn 7 Mawr,r except, perhaps, that it evidence a ' triple more of' intcntness, of concentration, than is characteristic of most other girls, even in that place of assiduous learning. , : would not be especially noteworthy if ' it belonged to any of those other girls. But . lit is the present attitude of devotion to her " studies, ancr of complete indifference toward ' the rest of the world, of Miss Helen H err on S T aft, the daughter of the President-elect, who can look forward now to making her debut in 7 society in the White House, at ff 'ashington. - Few, indeed, have been the scaool girls t who have anticipated the ending of their t studies with as desirable a sequel, and fewer those who have so consistently maintained the h same unchanged ab sorption in the "grind" of . " Study, when once the assurance of the brilliant i future was received. ' 1 is a most brilliant future that awaits 1Ielcn Taft but, then, ii is a brilliant Helen i Taft who awaits the futurs. t It 1- a-.' Y-V't- X; ... . . I 1 ft ! rf"7 ?" m N VqIUIVA ;f I?: if - . 'X. y r T-P I'1,-' Abert yrrfa Souse' j3crSs -f cfyt? vA Ysss TZrff T (d.- MMte Hoiit-e throufth i ,'M" t inn, if one choose the ;.m, 13 s:HH'thlnfe th:it miijht i 'uiglits of any girl for . . !,;, (! beyond the tl!ii. : , Avi en man .' expi-ct 1 . . '. will a 1 1 - n.l H ttlien as I . k----v 1h- w hole . . ., i ....lu.i I v. licn her i :. in M.irch in-xt, i j-)iiy liiti:c- l! I, l'l:,:-.i 1 I: f,ifl 'r 1' i ;n ; ii . rt nr.'l. ir fjr- ri ti . ; o an - :.ill- v. n i :' I out n v. -l.oV ;ii i . 1 i i :i t u o .! ' ' well tal" u; a ' Jfears lii-for-ii,na!. k Kven thouzh I. or 1- ! asi fal., or li.i ! v. . tr ;: f If 'to occur, tie ) oi... . i .. . ICdocs l;.Uc j'io i' i . -i ... fcorizon of ti.e to'i . v ! f ) ' . Thou if 1: ' I father fuo 'i;;, :.- ! Wiss Taft will I ' I .. tlon as ucc:'.:f j 8tatft t'.ni cf the .Ao,( ! ' U The va':. , . ... ' ' TSTilte liouy. o Itnttfh as t!.( y .. cvnvenienre i : dona mopt f : i lunate daii).1 ' Tliere v I. iflSUgliter of i), ! ciJy dauglit' i. v. t to find her pai ;k-. i ltd in the W-.'A- . private rofchi' ' In ."ellie l.!: . ; i White Houso i. small In com fan' . ; . ,. merits that f.-rm ritmi" of the .r. . Wftich Creneral Gi : -i boudoir,'. atttliiK tti.il commodious, ind' od. t ' m ;' )ioe fainiiips tun- tha -United Stat , hi.o . . apartment lultes ro.-oi . i . families here, and .1 .y : ; DAINTY SUITE TOW ' That room va orcuf ?' . X)r," 3. W; Sfttt, the f'..-r . f I . .. iu flrt wife; "aalrf." by Miss l-'r.i:.' : . came i tbk-gvet of Mis- ' ''.-. ,,. ,i ;.,,. .(.,,. her visit, yielded to th- w.'..'. - r i . !-...-,... , a., .'ronsented Id become Uk- miett. ' f w .... n and, later, Iy Mis Mary liarl..-: .V-. M when aha pawed the v. irtor .:-,: i. v. ... ., , the fruest -f her aunt mul I'm r.t M Im" ... The modernizing of too munition, in . (. ".,!., .. t. v . 'tfie Ittereaaei) .'demand of t :..- -x-. ,;,v tr.nt tb relenalon of the t.usir.es ,.:.-.- to .... .... vindertaken aotne years. aj.-o h- l'i -sidi nt H.i.,s ,,. -t' preatiy Increased the spac at .iii.t sa! i.i- jivlt-tr -,.u. Vii-ie and Incidentally, .afforded ti e daughter or : l.ite House" a full a t(ke ! apartmei.ts ir: id u , , f the aiisrte. room, which, in the new arranji.'riie'nt. t o rain th Vleening: chamber, v. ;th comn.nii.ius bath ruum and nittlnir roorm corair. inioatlng. lentil iaer. luarrUtpo. Mrs. NictipJaa lionifwutlh en joyed these new C;ccniniodatlonK by- reason cf her In.fcition a Uia' older daughter, now, they are gien vvar tr !"?r Biater. Kthei.. 1 lie y are decorated in dainty ttue, and have the moei cliaroiinB -of aijken curtain nd rrtmentaion In Bilver. Thl j ih renlly mnple and beautiful utte that, to ijit. Tatt. will la 4'hone" whenever, temporarily r prrroatientTy, ha 'foirsafcea her student "den" t I .) u :Jar. . Only a siri, and a yyuoff girl at that; caa quite appreciate all it means to have such a sufficing, attractive domicile for her very on. Thj other splendors of the White House will, how ever, becoroe nil in). i lei y more heis than, perhaps, even her mother's--tor moiio-rs with a single daughter com ing out into Kociety, however pn-asinK Ho; ie."ii"iil Oilitles of hohti'b.s may he. have an inborn trait of really living in Ihe spirit of tiie girl rather than en joying lite on their own account. That is one of the. things it means lo be the belle of the While House. The Mate dimnK room of the While Hi. use may take on . I lie iiiimi; ! n g personality of her father, thfl lJrcdih nt. tor l.e Ik tt man whose bonb nininte as well as his Individuality, makes an ineffaceable impress wherever he appeals; anil the .stately ..partment uheie the White House halls are held will be predded over by In r mother. Hut. throiikfioiiit the dwelling, with Ihe likelihood Hint the great social event of (heir hve. Miss Taft's debut, will take place iu that ballroom, and V 1th the presence of the While House belle ill evidence continually, it will seem to all her young friends almost as though the dignities exist for her pl. MMll ing Will she take kindly to It all. or will she find her chief delight in ll.e big library, where tier father can instal the fat nit u re of massive, carved te.-ikwo.od which he bought while he was iu the rhlllpplnes? It i.s a HUc'itlori which doi s not answer Useif for the present, ;it least. Thus far. the one conspicuous note, unmistakable to all who have met la r. iht the daughter of ihe 1 't eslde i , t -eh ct is a very sensible normal and unusually bright girl, who understands fullv the hoi Willi h has rome to her father, yet 1-ea.llzty niifcriiy that Fhe Is a girl w hose affair 'with life, Just now, is simply straightforward study, like any other gin in ),er circumstances, with her oppor tunities. The vanities which ate ordinarily an integral part In t lie make-up of a fflrl are emphatically wanting In Miss Taft. ."he Is an attractive girl, of the type that oftentimes expands into the handsome woman. f-'he has the height, and she lias features that are .strongly indicative of character. Hut when, some little time hack, growing public Interest In her father und his family brought an ur gent request for a photograph that would treat her fairly in its reproduction, she was more than indif ferent to the opportunity of an informal debut, in print. But the penalty of publicity becoming apparent, she consented, as indifferently, to give a class picture, taken when she graduated at the school preparatory for Mryn M-awr. Now, that vva.i exactly what wasn't wanted. At the tittt? there hail already been a series of appeals fn.'ii photographers for a cltance to obtain a genuinely satisfactory likeness: Mrs. Taft's Judgment had finally nine around to the v'ew that some such likeness should be made, "anil the direct, earnest importunity of the vh-'ilor was helped by her mother's acquiescence, fdiouui Miss Taft care to consent. She thought it over, while she regarded the modest class picture critically. "Well, mother,", she remarked, finally, "I don't think this is so bad a likeness. 1 don't think I'll get any thing better." The same attitude of unselfish disinterestedness characterized her greeting of the definite news of her fa flier's election, as the returns reached her, in com panv with a partv of special guests who were as sembled in Philadelphia. her from her -Journey around the world with har parents. But her one concern. Just now, is with her progress In her studies, fche has a keen sense of her respon sibility as a student, for her father excelled In hi classes: her brother Robert leads his class at Tale in scholarship, and phe herself won class honors two years ago at the National Cathedral Bciiool in Wash ington, and matriculated at Bryn Mawr as tha. win ner of the $300 scholarship for the student passing the best entrance examination. ,' So the studious, brown head that Is bent over tier books in the chewful room at Bryn Mawr belongs to a girl who, however splendid the sequel she can anticipate, is far from anticipating anything of tha kind. ,Wrh!ch Is as It should be but very often isn't A i . .a A 1 U X I -j-.-til-" w "it is a glorious victoiy:" sue said. In her enthu siasm; and she followed tbo exclamation with an ll" lummatiug ciiiniiieiit. "I feel that the peopiu of the country really trust my father." As for what it wodd mean in the near future to a certain llel'en Herron Taft she had, apparently, no thought whatever. Of couise. there ueie a greaj many other people who did have some thought about it; and, next day, "at ryn Mawr College, ihe ubiqui tous inquirers were industriously asking her to do eome thinking on the subject. "I'm 'glad of my father's election on bis account, and for the sake of the country," she observed. "It really makes little difference to me, for I will prob Hbly finish my course of study here I'm going to play hookey, and dig at my books, and take life pretty much as I did before election." And with that she went to Tb-nbelgh Hall, whero she has her room on the second floor. It is prettily furnished, with all the little comforts a girl craves about her. and with a number of plctioes and odds and ends of interesting things she brought back with Curious Facts HAT Is snld lo be the steepest railway line in tha world Is that recently opened near Bozen, in tha Tyrol. The Mendel railway, with a gradient of sixty-four in 100, and the Vesuvlan with slxty- thrcp, have hitherto held the record. But the new line in Us steepest parts liaes seventy in 100, and in other parts idxty-six. It leads up the mountain side to Virgl Terrace, on the river Klsack, 'i he system employed is that of tne electrical wire rope, and the ascent Is made at the rate of live feet u second, or live minutes for tha whole distance. In future the boxes rontafnlng butter shipped from Queensland to Great Britain are to be made of straw, and a company has been formed to work the business. Butter boxes Mfcimrto havj? been made of pine, but the drain upon this timber, owing to the heavy ex ports, has been so srvrre thai the wood is rapidly going up In price. In the new box a mixture of kaolin and straw is used. It can be produced and sold for 25 cents. At pixtaentv.l.OiiO.O'iO' boxes are. used in Aus tralia annually, costing $1.000. Ono. The new box will gave the dairy business about $200,000 a year. The total number of stars exoeeding the seventh magnitude is 5900. Therefore the naked eye can never pee from any one spot of the earth's surface mora than 3000 stars. irntes in iRirts the Wsrid Mas Known DAUGHTERS The world is still acclaiming-' the extraor dinary qualities of that exceptional woman, and (.pinion sci'tin to be unanimous that only in Cath arine of IJtissia and Elizabeth of T'.iKland is it possible to find her peer among women for all tha attributes that go to make the rulor. Jitit in her own empire, on the seas, there wn. a century ago, a woman whose career paral leled that of the late dowager empress of China so closely that it is hard to refrain from thosus picion that the more famous ruTor whose end eaine recently did not find her inspiration in the wonderful exploits of mififhty Mistress Ching, queen of all women pirates. For there have been women pirates, as yeri t iMy as there roved and robbed such men marau ders a Captain Kidd and the buccaneers of the Spanish Main. " T 1 A mourning such as no great nation of the earth has known fof centuries, because no, oilier great nation, except Kussia, has for centuries existed so completely under tho sway of absolute monarchy, the teeming millions of China are now paying their last tribute of thu abject abus4Tnent to whiah they were brought by the inflexible will, the tireless diplomacy and the uiucrupulojis chicanery, of the tlave girl who rose to Lo tiioir empress. - IHE Chinese pirates in 1SO0 dominated the empire of the southern seas, capturing cities', leyylng tribute, defying and defeating all the forces the vast king- . dom of China could bring against them, ruling the asts they controlled with the same arrogance as If they w re princes of the blood. Their domain extended from Tonqutn to Foochow, nd their base of operations was among the Islands at t. e mouth of the Pearl river and along the shores' of the southern province of Quang-Tong. There were six squadrons of the pirates, the most powerful ofcaU. being the Red Flag, which was tinder, the command of Mistress Ching. widow of Ching Tih. a fa-, n.ois pirate leader who had perished In a hurricane,. Among the pirate captives was a lad narned Chans; Faou. the son of a flshannan. handsome and intelligent, whom, the dead, chief's widow chose as her lieutenant. In the years that followed the name of Captain Paou w:.s destined to become a word of dread as far ns B,urop and America.' But the true terrors, with the true power, lay In tha dullest "hands ot Mistress Ching. whose name wad one of auch dread and awe that her aubject pirates, themselvea scarcely dared utter It aloud.' In 15,08, lti a great sea bettle, the pirates sante threa government ahlpg and captured fifteen, with tlia com mander. Immediately afterward General Lin was de feated, and half a dozen of his beet war vessels wer added to the pirae fleet. In 1S09 the Chinese government gave Admiral Tsaen 100 ships to wipe out the power of Mistress Ching. Captain Paou was permitted to meet lhat mighty force, and he was beaten, with a loss of 200 prisoners. The Chinese admiral, elated, prepared for a second battle. , But now, with her prestige impaired by the first se rious repulse she had ever encountered, the pirate queen resolved that her favorite's daring could be effective only when directed by her genius. She assumed supreme com mand of the pirate fleet, and. like Clooputra, sailed forth to meet the foe1. Within a .few hours the great Admiral' Tsuon and his vast squadron were overwhelmingly de feated, and fourteen of the Bhips were in the hands of the plratea An English prisoner of the pirates in that year found that Mistress Chlng's squadrons numbered S00 large war ships and 1000 small ones, with crews amounting to 70.000 . men. What heights the great -Mistress Ching might have risen to had not Opatae, commander of the Black Flags, conceived a bitter Jealousy of Captain Paou it is im possible to guess. Opatae, at a critical time in the. war with the govern ment, withheld aid from Mistress Chlng's favorite coift mander. Paou, in a reckless rage, hurled against his associate an Inferior force, and was repulsed. Opatae. In the hour of his victory, was filled with dismay, for he realized that Mistress Ching would punish him with utter destruction.' ' In his apprehension of hej wrath he appealed to the government for pardon, a boon which the beaten and discomfited Chinese admiral .rejoiced to grant. The de fection of Opatae revealed to all the pirates that there Wis a way open to them of escaping the penalty for their hideous crimes, with their sole alternatlee the desperate ne of conquering the whole empire of China. , The proffer of complete amnesty even to Mistress Ching and to Captain Paoui bapught about a grave coun cil of " ail the pirate leaders. Paou stood out boldly - against acceptance. But Mistress Ching at length de cided that the end must come sooner or later, and bade all her followers surrender. Faou was made major la the Chinese armies, and the greatest pirate queen who ever reigned passed info an obscurity from which Jiistory has inc. baen-unabla to extricate, her memory. . - . .-'.' Besides the mighty empire of the sea created by Mis tress Ching, the adventures of Anno Bonny and Mary Head on the Spanish Main, for years famed as the only women pirates, dwindle into insignificance. Both Anne Bonny and Mary Read were tried. In 1720, for their piracies and were condemned to execution. Tha sentence was remitted because of their condition, and they died in prison. Mary Read was an English girl who disguised her self as a boy and shipped on an English man-of-war, de serted, entered the army, fought in Flanders, married a -fellow-soldier and took up the peaceful .calling of Inn keeping until her husbnnd died. She resumed her travels and adventures until, being captured by pirates during a voyage from Holland to the West Indies, she turned pirate herself, aud was ono of the most daring of theinall. Sho was on the ship of Cap tain Karkham when AmV Botitiy, daughter of a Carolina planter, who had eloped with that picturesque pirate, encountered her and the pair fought side by side on the bloody decks of the pirate ship, the only dare-devils of the whole company when, in fierce engagem6njs, the rest of the crew skulked below decks, r . ' "Quaint John Esquemellng. he of tie curious diary so treasured by all lovers of books under the'tltle, "The Buccaneers of America," tells, in his personal memoirs of Sir Henry Morgan's sack of Panama, of a prisoner brought to Morgan from the Islands of Tavoga and Tavo gilhi: . "A gentlewoman of good quality, as also no less virtue and chastity, who was wife to one of the richest merchants of all those countries. Her years were but few, and her beauty was so great as pet-adventure I may doubt w;hetifeer in all Europe any could be found to sur pass her perfections, either In comeliness or honesty." Morgan sought at first to make her his by lavish gifts and luxurious care. When she repulsed him, ha visited upon her all the Ignominies and hardships his evil ln - genuity' could devise, and threatened her with the direst penalties, until her unyielding virtue conquered even his abandoned spirit, und he released her, unharmed.' TmV-'gre'ateat- and moBt-lmnoalngTOfall the. world's pirates. Tie' had offered to that girl tWe position " wfiicti Mistress Ching attained jonly afuer j'earg of conquest, with the alternative' of Bitter suffering and torture as punishment for refusal. ' - 1 It -is curious, indeed, how" out;of the current rocking. Of empire and out, of- past "Jetsam of the sea, splendid morals tiprlse, fitted to the uses of Our most prosaic lives, needed for the ambitions of our. homeliest civilization. - 7 '7 .7
