THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, ' PORTLAND, . SUNDAY , MORNING, JANUARY 21. 1912,
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FSIUES OF liEN
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1110 DRINK
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) Protective - League f orV Fam
u Hies Try toStop Habit by
- Appealing to MenV Bet-
- ter Nature.
j.dayv 1910; a woman, poorly clad, and
.with face swollen with weeping, came
to the home of Mrs. Stella Masters, In
the fashionable east end district of
: Pittsburgh. .-,
"I saw your name in the paper and
bow you were working to help people
.'."made, poor by drink' she said between
sobs. ,, "I didn't go to my pastor be-v-cause
lie' couldn't do anything, I'm
,.afratd ny husband wouldn't listen to
' , him. My husband makes 18 a day in
the mills, but he spends It aji for drink
and today Christmas day, just think
' ' of It ha drove our six children but on
the street and beat me. He was drunk.
. 7ls yiere nobody who will do something
', for drunkard's ' wives? Can you help
a , met" he grew hysterical. ;
i Mrs. Masters, W. C T. U. and church
- worker, club woman and suffragist, said
she was taken aback by the woman's
1 appeal and she realised that the 14
years of her- work.' along charitable
lines, had somehow failed to hit the
? mark. Right then and there-she made
the i resolve,- "I'll do something' for
drunkards wifes and children." '
"i A short time later the Protective
' league for the Families of Drunkards,
-- the most unique organisation of its kind
r. in the country; was Jormed,:.
); -"Fledges Are Jokes." ,
Mrs. Masters laughed when she was
"asked whether the league, of which
. she Is president, - had secured any
4 -"swearing off pledges.
r We don't do things that way," she
said. "Most pledges are jokes. They're
; made only to be broken. '
, " "First, we appeal to the saloonkeeper
and then to the erring one himself. It
' neither of these two appeals does any
7 'good we go to, the courts.. '
f "Our work Is broad in scope We have
monthly meetings, but we have no paid
treasurer .or secretary; Our dues are
only 25 cents a year. . We banded our
selves together like tie Crusaders of old
. and aim to do just what our name lm
plies "protect drunkards' ..families.'
f) 1 ' During the year wa have helped 50
JfatnllieB. That is, we were -successful
f.fln that many instances in weanlnsr
,. 'away supporters of families from thel
cu rs of.atrong drink.
Involuntary Inhalation of this poison
o j nw ...... "
j iier. of Texas, and Austin of Tennessee
said tncy iniena 10 me siey. m
. . . . . . 1 ..I. 1. )... Til..
trlct of Columbia of the kind of heater
WUlch IS supposea 10 De especially uau
gerous In connection -with this gas. 1
BEGINS AT PENDLETON
Fifty families sounds small and in-
i consequentisi, doesn't HT But. Isnt it
I: a remarkable thing when only one per
I son. is turned 'into better pathsf We
don't assume things, or go by hearsay.
y Our : members go into saloons thera
selves, right up to., the bar if Jieces-'.-sary,vrr-;i-
.';'-.'.... :v'-
Work With Saloonkeepers.
, 1. 'W, are the saloonkeepers' . frlenda
and they are our friends. We work to
i .gether. .They know now that we realise
they have a legal ' right, at least, to
r make their living as they do, and the
1 better class of saloonkeepers welcome
4 our aid in ' conducting respectable
houses. - . .
; "Most saloon keepers aren't bad at
-heart and then we always have the law
J to back us up in our demands. Li
censes are hard and expensive to get if
' protests are filed in license court But
j we make no threats. We talk it over
? with ; the saloonkeeper and give him a
chance to mend his ways. A second
t offense means more " drastic-methods."
Here is how the league goes about. its
jorfcTatrtety-TmilnmaswTtr
'A drunkard's wife or mother or some
- 'woman of the family writes te the
(T' league, asking for help. " - 'T'1
Doing Fractioal Work.
- One of the members looks - into the
. ?. case.. This' woman detective: gets the
t names and addresses of the places where
the husband or son spends his. money
j for drink. Then she goes to the saloon
keeper and talks the matter over with
,,. him, 1 " ...... . .
If he" refuses to act at the first ap
. pealwhich usually falls on deaf cars
the league member tries a talk with
, the . drinker , himself. If this fails a
printed notice is given the saloonkeeper,
" warning him -hoi to1 sell to' "John Poe"
whot Is, a, person of intemperate habits.
As. copy of -the 'liquor laws 'of Penn
: eylvajiia goes with .the notice and the
' saloonkeeper has learned ' by this time
that failure to comply with the notice
- means trouble . getting a new . license
-next -year."--' - :.;. ---4- :
A particularly hard fight' was put up
on Christmas and New .Year's day last
'' year , to, .close all prices; where strong
drink is sold. f.. . r .
. The' court' refused Mrs. Master's re
tjuest on the groUrid that it Could take
no action within the bounds of law,.
f Xiooklng After Brag Stores.
- Nothing daunted, Mfsr Masters and
her "colleagues icarried':thHmatter"-to
j.' the liquor dealers' association.. The
' . dealers were ready, to promise if ail
the "speak easles and one-man clubs
closed' frlso.;
But tlte women haven't given up the
fight and mean to accomplish their aim
. ' before another year. 1 ;
While .Mrs. Masters reluctantly ad
' mits it's rather Utopian, she is pushing
a fight to have women bared at all
i - tiroes from alt places where strong drink
is dispensed.' The work is beginning to
T attractcountrywlde attention and let-
ters .'. are pouring In,- asking for in
formation relative to organizing leagues
in other cities. -
CONGRESS MAY PASS
STRINGENT GAS LAWS
(Wathlnrtos Burou of The Joarul.)
Washington, .Ian. 20.-How many
lives are sacrificed every year to pay
i dividends - to holders of gas company
J stocks, can, not be determined by the
statistician... Only a day or two ago a
1 beautiful young girl Was smothered in
5 her batb in this city, and the announce-
. : inent was made that she was one ;f
;.' the ;many victims to carbon monoxide,
t the' deadjy' but cheap ingredient in II
, lumlnatjng gas. ' In 1809 Congressmai
f Smith of Michigan introduced a- bill
regulating?' the , proportion of -carbon
monoxide that might lawfully be a
constituent of illuminating ' gas sold in
the district, and limiting it te 10 per
cent. This was after Dr, H. W.. Wiley,
at the request of the president, had con
ducted experiments which determined
the quantity pf carbon monoxide in the
; gas used in Washington at 20 to 20 per
. f c-nt, -while, ordinary; coal 'gas contains
but ( per cent of the poison. , The chem
' f lst reported that carbon monoxide is
-t "on , of - tbe most' poisonous gaseous
, prod nets .known." Many supposed casos
of ntrifl, are probably 'the result of
(Stieclal to Th lonrnal.l
Pendleton, Or., Jan. ?0.Monday
morning will see the high school stu
dents of this city housed in, their tem
porary quarters in the old Fendleton
academy building. At the same time
the work of demolishing ine structure
which has served as a high, school for
so many yearswill' begin. Since the
contract for the high " school building
was let last week to the Advance Con
atruction company of Portland, haste Is
being made to get the site ready for,
operations. '
The Portland company has requested
that the ground be cleared by 'February
10 and a large force of the unemployed
men' in: the city will be set to .-work at
ones to tear down the old building.' By
Its contract with the school board, the
company must have the new high "school
ready for ocoupancy by October .!. .
LITTLE STORIES OF REAL: LIFE
THAT ARE TOLD IN NEW YORK
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j "' (United rress' tewA' Wlrs.) ' - - . -New
Tork, Jan.. JO. Mrs. Petra Bor
ensen, "boss", of the. steamship Cather
ine Cuneo, according .to the understand
ing .of the Cuneo's crew, is in port again
on the voyage that completed her 00,
000 miles at sea.- . . ' "r'l.'i -y.-f
Mra Boreneen IH the' Wife and con
stant companion of Captain 8. P. 6or
ensen, nominally commander ; of , the
Cuneo.. She has been his wife longer
than she has been his constant com
panion, for the first five or- six
years of their married life,; SO years
ago, Mrs., Sorensen kept away from the
sea. But after , tryihg shore lire-that
long Mrs., eorensen "shipped" with1 her
husband, and since that time -he has
never gone- faring' forth upon the blgn
a that ahe waa not on board his
ship. She has made her home on two
sailing .. vessels . and two steamships
with her seafaring husband. -
"But we are getting tired of the sea,'
said Mrs. sorensen. "At least, -1 . am
getting tired of it, and that means that
my husband 'Will have to quit, when I
do. . Four years more will wind us up.
have been, all over the world with
my husband; 1 00 not oeiieve mere
has . been a- port whloh wa have not
visited.- I like St. Petersburg best.
and we probably will make our home
there." .
Mrs. Sorensen, during her years at
sea, has become. an efficient mariner
and could navigate a sailing ; vesstA
arounq the world.' ?' .-.-'
" A1 man ' safdr. "Hello, .'little'.' .one." to
Miss Enisabeth Bulbert as she walked
home through West Thirty-sixth street.
Frightened, the pretty young miss fled).
The man .followed. '- He. : stopped her
again Just outside her door. -
Mrs. Sul bar t, matronly dame of; S00
pounds, heard her daughter's story and
dashed out of the house. -The masher
took it on the run, but Mrs. ' Sulbert
was speedy as well as ; hefty. She
caught him and sent him crashing to
the pavement with -a well aimed right
book to, the Jaw. Mrs. Sulbert calmly
sat upon him. until a policeman arrived.
Mother and daughter appeared against
Michael Campbell - in court. ' His eyes
were 'closed and variegated. Jn their
hues.--'1' He said he had meant no insult
but he paid his $5 fine. ' "
The black-eyes, .the magistrate told
him, were . the only things , that kept
him from having to pay a higher fine.
.- Now that .women will be making ar
rests, 'there Is some question about
what' will happen when ..women serve
as Jurors, listen to the evidence and
settle the fate of prisoners; arrested
by women deputies. -
"Why should not' women make good
jurors?" demanded Dr. Emma V. San
ders, distinguished 'young lawyer and
writer from . Holland, who 'is lectur
ing In New .York, "Of '. course, ' the
responsibility of deciding' a human . be
ing's guilt or innocence, Ufa or death,
is "an extremely, heavy one. But, who
can deny that a woman is Just as cap
able of deciding (a'rly as, a man? ' -v
; ' "Women o they aay will' be more
apt than men to be. guided by emotion
than by the naked truths. . But women
are not so 'soft as men believe. You
roust realise that if women abhor vio
lence, physical suffering and pain more
than men, they will Just for that rea
son, be found severer than men in pun
ishing , criminals who have. been, guilty
of these acts, v l'c-. v-t..,
; "Do not men give way to tears when
a lawyer is pleading before them for
the life of his client and do not these
same ' men convict, that same prisoner
to death? Women' might be moved to
tears, too, and they would be . Just-, as
severe if the evidence warranted a con
viction. -. .:.":..:. v
: The Canadian farmer who started out
to' crowd 390 words on a single grain
of wheat is not accomplishing a very
difficult task, according to -NewrYork-ers.
The art of crowding, they say, is
best known here. . . ,
Why, in this man's town, there are
chorus girls who, can crowd I worth
of Ttco paint on their faces in an after
noon. . There , are many, bibulous per
sons in our midst who can crowd bait
a dosen bottles of wine Into their In
terior, departments in one sitting.. Borne
of the girls, believe us, can crowd in
their, half dosen lobsters after the
theatre. One man claims his wife can
crowd a : 750 werd "curtain lectttre into
three and. a half. mlnuras. Another is
sure .his, wife 1 crowds .a- 40 .Inch figure
into a 26 Inch corset and a No. 'li foot
into- No: 'shoe ahort-TOtnpr-at -that
Some actresses here can, crowd their en
tire costumes Into a small pill box-antl
there. Isn't a family. In .an apartment
house In Gotham' whd-canndt show the
Canadian, farmer s, something , In -' the
crowding line.;,' Ahd.- more than that,
and perhaps the acme pf It all. the high,
polite , and . dalioately; gentle subway
guards can' crowd about 6000 persons
more or less Into a ten oar train dur
ing the rush hours which is crowding
some. ' (J . ,, ' t , 1 " ,
' The New Tork police force is willing
to admit that it can go M. Bertlllon one
better , on his finger print Identifica
tion system, - which, by , the- way, ..was
invented by the Chinese a few thousand
years before M. Bertlllon became a ter
ror, to the French- rogues.v - . -'
On' the strength Of the finger, print,
they have arrested a' man they know
was guilty of a' crime, but whose face
no person ever, saw, :
The,re was a swell gambling house up
town in which the proprietor waa more
effectually , hidden than "the Man in
the Iron Mask." IT remained In :
little room, which he entered from n-other-house,
No one ever saw him; not .
even his employes., ; Alls business was
tranxaoted through a , little ' wicket, '
through which his voice might be heard
but his face never seen.' When a play
er wanted to' bhy cards' or chips, he
passed ,-hls monsy : through the wicket
and got his cards and chips but never
saw ths proprietor. When he -wanted to
"cash in,"' he passed his chips through
the wicket ' and got his ; money but
never sao the proprietor. - ' ;
The nimble wits of the police depart
ment wanted to "pinch' that man, but
they couldn't "get the goods on ;hlm."
Finally, however. Detective f Charlea
Stelnert gained entrance to the placo,
pushed his money through the wicket
and secured a lot of chipsand cards. .
He. put them,, in his pocket and took
them to police ' - headquarters. iFrom
them he took 1- lonumerable linger
prints," left thera by the unsuspecting
gambling house, keeper. These he com
pared with the finger 1 prints 1 in Urn
rogue'a ssUrr.v,v. .-.rjv? ri-H"3f :r." . '
- That evening he arrested a man on
the streets and charged him with con
ducting a gambling house. - And the
queer part of it all Is that the polio
are sure they will convict him, though
no person can.be found who ever actu
ally -"saw,"., the man In the gambling
house. His finger prints, however, are
deadly evidence against him. ;-.
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' A method of planting eyelashes anil
eyebrows has been developed, by s
French -. surgeon.' ' ' . '-V" .-'x.
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