THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY , MORNING. AUGUST 8, 1909.
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WOMAN - FOB MATOH." Dy
. toy Helen M. Wlnalow. It ws
Francos Wlllard ,' who said
that Mtrhan PrisclUa stepped
a Plymouth Bock the Amer
ican lrl wu "born." , Tbli may account
for tho dear, well defined conception or
'woman i s pnere, ' as sei iorm in inn
book by a descendant or mat name ru
fjrlm stock. Tho story Is by no mean
ntnnded to aid or abet any militant
auiiraBciio louvviiivuv, uwi w .b,
or moral, revolutionary or to advocato
the usurpation of any of man's political
?reroctfvea, aa- the- title might Imply,
n fact It Is wholly on the other aide,
after it has one clearly demonstrated
the fact that women are needed in poli
tics, and when once In are fearless and
capable." ' . : 1
While the entire atmosphere 06 the
book would indicate that its scenes are
laid in one of the ' eastern states, we
know this cannot be a fact, for the lit
tle elty of Roma, that for one term had
a woman mayor, gave its women -the
right of equal citizenship, so It must
nave oeen in one or rour western siutes,
Let un think It was our nearest neigh
bor Idaho, where we know they have
had women mayors who have been as
successful as Miss winaiow's neroine.
Of course, the movement to give
Roma a woman for' mayor started in a
woman's club. No- one knows better
than the author Just what pqwer and
efficiency lurks In a woman's club
when It takes a header, and this is Just
what the "Progressive Workers" of
Roma did when they decided that city
hall politics must be purified and that
if a good man couldn't be found to do
It, a woman must The good men were
all too busy attending to their private
business or too noiy to De aeiuea dy tne
present condition of politics; so It fell
to the lot fit Miss Gertrude Van Deusen
to accept the nomination for the club,
believing, of course, that she would
receive the Indorsement of the munici
pal league and other bodies who were
at sea about the right candidate to
"clean the Augean stable."
But not ao! They immediately got
busy and put up a strong man who
would make a three-cornered fight, with
the chances all on the side of the bood
ler to win. In the usual reform way.
Miss Wlnslow has chosen her candidate
well; she has taken a single woman of
SO years of age, the daughter of a form
er united States senator, of Independ
ent means and without family ties; re
fined, cultured and one of the protected
class. She put her hand to the plough
with the assurance of the generations
of sturdy stock back of her, and with a
self-confidence that never contemplated
defeat. Indeed, the author . in sketch
ing the character of Gertrude Van Deu
sen has almost made ber symbolic of
the feminine ideal In politics. The
womanly woman whose sphere of
womanliness Is not confined to the four
walls of her own home, but who recog
nises that home as the haven of the
blest
One must read the story to get any
conception of Its Interest or its worth,
or of the "machines and anti-machines"
that the woman mayor encountered. It
is certainly a curtain-lifter, both for
men and omen, for the woman mayor
learns some things about the neglected,
home duties of her own sex, as well as
those -of the political rings of tne other.
For Instance, after a hard day's work
the woman mayor cuddling up before
the fire in her easy chair remarked to
her cousin: "i never appreciated runy
what It meant to have a comfortable
house well kept to draw up after a
hard day's work before one's own fire
to let the world go by while 'I take
mine ease 'In mine Inn.' I tell you,
Jessie, if women all realised what this
means,' there would be mora . happy
homes and fewer divorces.
When a man gets home at night, weary
in body and mind with the grind of his
business, he wants a good dinner, an
easy chair, his newspaper or magazine,
his pipe. I can understand how like
heaven a woman can make his home
a woman with tact;, or how like the
other place It might become with her
discontented grumbling or her determi
nation to get mm into even in clothes
and drag Mm Into the outside world
again to be harried and worried and
Kept uncomiortaoie ror several hours
ore.
'lhls is a strong argument for the
assertion that the economic independ
ence of women will make happier homes,
for It requires a woman who has gone
out into the world to fully understand
this feeling, and appreciate what home
should really mean to both man and
woman. Miss Winslow has done a clever
bit of. work. In a very clever way. in
turning this side of the mirror for
the women to look into, and the unex
pectedness of It, in a book with such a.
title and motif, makes It all the more
effective.
A pretty romance adds the . pastel
tints and draws the stronger coloring
Into a tender climax.
The present book, lh every particular,
far outdistances the author's last story,
"The Bplnster Farm." ReiUy & Brltton.
Price $1.60.
'The Quest of the Rose of Sharon,"
by Burton E. Stevenson.
"The Rose of Sharon guards the pla.se
Where the treasure lies; so you must
trace
Four to the right, diagonally three,
And you have solved the mystery."
This was the Perplexing little verve
which directed an unhappy widow and
two bright, earnest children where to
find a comfortable fortune, which had
to be found within a certain time or
forfeited. -
The storjr Is told by the little girl
who grows Into young womanhood be
fore it - is -well finished and a moat
bright and winsome tale she tells. .
When Mrs. Truman la left a. wManr
snd without means, the Grandaunt Nel
son comes to take charge of the faml'y
and decides sha,,will sell the house the
Trumans live In and will take the little
girl Cecil and her mother home to live
with her, but as for the little boy. Pick,
she decides she never can have a noisy
boy around the house, and he must be
sent to "a school that will take tho
noasense but' of him." But she counts
without her host and when the mother
positively refuses to be separated iroin
ber boy "Grandaunt Nelson" walks out
of the house In high dudgeon and lets
.tie family . severely alone - to struggle
with their poverty for several, years,
and then she dies, 'leaving her snug
fort line to them, nrovlded thev find - it
with th Impossible directions she -has
given in tne mile verse or xecrauio
?oetry. ? In case the- fortune was not
ound it was to go to one. Silas Tun
stall, who was the leader of a . new
cult, ana naa uranaaunt jseison - very
much under bis control, before her
death. ' - - - . : - , .
Almost the entire book Is occupied
with the" story ttt the . hunt : for' th
fortune and the machinations of ' (he
wuey anas, mvery one mat came n
contact with Cecil, who Is the leading
spirit in the hunt became interested in
It, but more for the unhappy little girl
really, than for the fortune, and as the
days began to be tolled oft on the last
half of the month. Without results,
every one becomes excited to fever heat
everything that could mean th "Rose
of Sharon1' was investigated and like
many another "Rose of Sharon." "it was
so plain it was a wonder It didn't bite
you," e and yet was the most unlikely
thing possible. The book, while supposed-
to be written by a child and
with a child heroine. Is fully as Inter
esting to an adult reader. - It is charm
ingly written and Is a good wholesome
story.
The book is beautifully gotten up with
an exquisite cover design that should
make It very desirable as a gift book.
L. C. Page & Co. J. K. Gill, Portland.
Price $1.60.
"Marriage a la Mode," Mrs. Hum
phrey Ward A very Interesting and
easily read book, with an American girl
aa heroine and an Englishman aa lead
ing man.- Tho courtship, marriage and
subsequent divorce are the running
themes of the tale. We often wonder
If an Interesting novel could be writ
ten where these themes were left out
Daphne Floyd is an orphan girl of
American birth whose mother was a
Spaniard and father an Irishman, who
amassed many millions in questionable
ways. She, early In the twenties. Is
sole mistress to this enormous fortune;
she Is imperious willed, and undisci
plined as one might expect, under such
circumstances. For her to wish for a
thing was to obtain it to compel It,
through the power of her millions
even to smuggling out Italian master
pieces of art from their native land
and caring nothing for the great hue
and cry resulting.
The Englishman, Impoverished by
his father's death, has come to Amer
ica on a prospecting tour, and although
one ought to feel disgusted with him
for such Ignoble pursuit, here the per
haps unconscious art of the English
novelist comes in and subtly creates a
sympathy for him all along. He Is so
handsome and so famous at Oxford for
hie athletic prowess, which covered his1
lamentable deficiencies along scholastic 1
lines. His features and chyaiaue are
likened unto Apollo, the Greek god.
Danhne, who is small and bright look
ing, rather than pretty, meets this
Apollo In Washington, where he is with
his tourist uncle, an old English gen
eral, who Is constantly appallel -by
American extravagance and general li
cense of conduct
laphno has inherited all the fierce
passion of jealousy which belonged to
her Latin mother as well as the mer
curial temperament of her Irish father.
They marry and return to his home In
England, which her money is to re
claim. His mother views the emanci
pated conduct of the young wife with
alarm and horror. "What have we
here?" she groans to herself. "What
sort of a wife is this, no meekness.
no wifely obedience to her husband's
wisnes, no deference to .English tradi
tions and customs," etc. Her only
solace is to pour it all out to a visiting
clergyman's wife. There is a girl baby
born to them of whom the father is in
ordinately fond. Daphne proceeds to, tear
down and pitch out family helriooms
which sne considers In bad taste in
artistic, for she has a trained, cul
tured viewpoint on such things.
While Daphne Is not satisfied with
her English life, she tolerates It In a
pettish, good humored way and Roger,
the husband, meanwhile has grown very
fend. In superior, Insular style, of his
intense, passionate natured wife. All
might have gone well had not a former
sweetheart of Rotter's appeared whom
.he had never - told Daphne of. Then
the trouble begins. The other woman
Is handsome and self confident and
draga poor Roger Into a tangled web of
her weaving of deceit to his wife, who,
ready enough to be Jealous without un
due piovocatlon, now becomes a torrent
of fury who grabs the child and es
capes to the United States before Roger
is aware. She takes' up her residence
in Sjoux Falls and has her divorce be
fore Roger finds her. Here follows a
most excellent peroration on the laxity
of pur marriage customs, and this is
the piece de resistence of the whole
story. Hr one state can surrer from
the looseness of divorce laws in the
other, as well as embroil residents of
otner countries who are held bound In
marriage In one country and free to
marry in another. May the perusal to
the end of this tale start thought out
of which will come publlo opinion and
In time reform. Doubleday, Page A Cor
Fllce $1.60.
"Chile, " A handbook, compiled by the
International Bureau of American Re
publics, of which Honorable John Bar
rett is director, and Francisco J. Tanes
secretary. Before ene even attempts to
digest the subtoct matter of the book
they are dald by the wealth and
beauty of its illustrations. "which run
wclK toward 800. To the casual reader
this perhaps, at first glance, would be,
the' most vaiuaDie feature or tne book,
which is necessarily largely statistical.
But the compilers of the book have cer
tainly done their work well and made
their ary statistics wonderfully inter
estinav ... ' '
Everything pertaining to the country
is not only touched upon, but thoroughly
sutea ana maae reuaDie ana presented
in a clear, comprehensible manner. -
Geography, topography, climate, the
nora ana fauna,, government industries,
commerce ana traae, .cities ana coun
tries and means of communication; In
fact every feature that would contribute
to building and maintaining a country
nearly 3000 miles in length and from 65
to 185 miles in width, and with an ap
proximate population of 4.000,000, IS
gone into in detail, and while no one
could begin to remember the enormous
quantity of figures that go to make
up this resume of the country, it is a
book invaluable to a library or to one
making any study- of. or interested in
Chile, which is a country working Into
our commerce and upon our sympathies
constantly. - :,. ifc - -
A large and valuable map is attached
to the back cover, and a close scrutiny
of it can not fail to increase one's inter
est in the country, for the many famil
iar names 'will at" one suggest the
close trade relations of these Pacific
coast . countries.
Mr. Barrett certainly has muob to feel
Etified over. In this work of the In
latipnal Bureau of American Repub
, with which he Is so .strongly identi
fied. The frontispiece is a handsome photo
gravure portrait of Senor Don Pedro
Montt, president of the Republio of
Chile. The work is published by the
government - Price $1. . ; r
"Mission Furniture: J How to Make
It" This book Is one of the series of
handbooks on Industrial subjects being
published by the Popular' Mechanics
company. The texts and illustrations
have been prepared expressly for this
handbook series by experts who are up
to date, and have been revised by a
competent editor. The book gives al
most every article of furniture that
comes in mission style, with the most
minute directions as to materials, pro
portions and construction, with Illustra
tions of the completed article. It even
goes into the more elaborate articles,
such as a roller top desk, and combina
tion billiard table and' davenport. Sev
eral pages ar devoted to the process of
making various stains and varieties of
oak, and there are several more pages
of chairs, illustrating the furniture of
different ages. -
Even If one did not want to make fur
niture the book is interesting and con
venient to have If for nothing but to
understand the woods and polishes.
Popular Mechanics Co., Chicago. Price
25c
BATTLESHIP RELIC
OF ANCIENT DAYS
Chicago, Aug. 7. Decked out in all
Che ultra-modern magnificence of a
white hull, buff stacks, and wicked lit
tle machine guns, the United ' States
steamship Wolverine, a veteran of ante
bellum days, took possession of the port
of Chicago and submitted gracefully to
being visited by every pretty girl within
reach of the Randolph street viaduct.
The little man-of-war Is a bundle of
contrasts. In appearance she is as trim
and youthful as though this were not
at least her fifth generation of visitors.
Her guns are fitted with the most mod
ern sighting apparatus, and her decks
are In possession of nearly 100 youthful
bluejackets and a group of even mora
youthful graduates of Annapolis. But
her enormous sldewheels, three cumber
some . masts and old-fashioned figure
head tell a different story.
As a matter of fact, the Wolverine,
originally named tho Michigan, was
built in 184 and was one of the first
Iron vessels to be constructed by the
government. She now holds the distinc
tion of being the oldest iron-sheathed
vessel in active commission.
IM1! LEAVE
. CHINESE ALONE
Following: Elsie Sigel Hur
der Hissioriaries Take
" Long Vacations.
New York,.; Aug.-' 7.hinatown's
women missionaries have abandoned the
scene of their labors, , leaving their
slant eyed Bible students tq return to
the worship of the gods of 4helr illus
trious, never to be forgotten . greatest
grandfathers of thousands of years ago.
For the first time In many years 'the denl
gens of Mott, Pell and Doyers streets
are without their spiritual leaders,
and the cause echoes back to the mur
der of Elsie Slgel and the disappearance
of William Leon, th Chinaman sus
pected of the crime.
When Elsie Stgel's bod was found in
Leon's trunk and it , was learned that
her relations with the missing Chinaman
originated in her own and her mother's
seal is converting Lfcon and other celes
tials to Christianity, the agitation
against sending young white girls down
into Chinatown's dens to lead the Mon
golian from the worship of Buddha
grew to such, proportion as to cause
many of the women missionaries to
abandon the work tu once. ,
tnitnass-Show Hostility.
A number of the elder women' .stuck to
their posts for a time, and It was not
until th Chinamen themselves began to
show signs of hostility toward their
teachers that the general exodus began.
-Miss Mary Banta, the missionary at
tached to the Church of All Nations,
and the one who discovered the plight
of - two - little - so-called Chinese Slav
girls recently taken from their foster
parents and turned over to the Gerry
aoclety, was the last of the women mis
sionaries to remain at work. Miss
Banta accepted the advice of friends
and went on a summer vacation that is
expected to be permanent unless the at
titude of th Chinese changes.
' Chinese Psrseouted for Ortm.
Tha hostility of the Chinese against
their women teachers grew out of the
persecution suffered by practically all
the Chinamen in the city after the 61 gel
murder. The burden of the crime .fell
heavily upon the heads of all the mem
bers of the race, and as the activity of
the police Increased the resentment of
the Chinese against the missionaries
grew until it began to appear dangerous
for the women to -continue -their visita
tions to the quarter.
Tom Lee, 'rmayor of Chinatown," and
other representative Chinamen express
themselves to the following effect:
"When Elsie 81 gel was killed all the
Chinamen were blamed, and It grew so
bad that we did not want the missionar
ies around any more. So they have
gone. We made no threats. We do not
threaten women. But we are afraid
that some other missionary girl may
get killed, as did Elsie Sigel. Then
what would happen to Chinatown and
our homes and businesses?"
LONG AUTO TEIP
BY FISIIING PAKTY
(Rpcll IM'patrb to Tbe Inornal.)
Pendleton, Or., Aug. 7. Covering 800
miles in central Oregon within six days,
traveling in an automobile, fishing and
hunting for a week along the rivers
and mountains, C. K. Cranston, Charles
H. Carter, G. I. LaDow and Cress
Sturgls have returned to Pendleton, hav
ing had one of the most unique trips
Imaginable. FrOm Pendleton the party
went south through Pilot Rock. Uklah,
John Day, -Prlnevllle and -fiend to the
headwaters of . the Deschutes. Eigh
teen miles south of Bend permanent
camp was made and Ashing and hunting
trips were taken from that place.
In the car was carried a full camp
ing outfit for the party of four. Th
weather was ideal throughout the trip,
and no accident occurred to mar the
pleasure of any of It. Large catches
of trout are reported as being easily
taken at several points on the Deschutes.
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