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journal, .Gotland, cunday morning. " November . 0. isi3. PERTINENT HINTS TO HOMEBUILDERS 1 f " Exterior ''After having' obtained fomplete"plana and specifications, the next thing ot irn portance ia to, have the borne properly built from 'them by a good contractor. .', Contractors as - a., whole are honest. capable- "inn,' who, try to do the beat ln4 : jof ork in the beat ; ;'manner , known to rthe trader There are, how , ever,' black' aheep1n every 'fold.. Trob- ably the moat, exasperating man , that ' one. can. 'attempt to do business with .a the dishonest contractor. , , , . .Bonis of. hie poor work. Is (apparent While la being done, but by fsr tho '.' freatfr portion of it doea not show it- .) self until a year or more after the home la complete, it la not until the piaster : ing falls down, , the doors go to pieces, the plumbing leaks, the beating plant fails to work, tba basement floor cram bleu, or the fintsr ruba off the wood ' work,, that the Atwner. realises .that ba r r.as been ''buncoed", and wisnes n naa let bla contract to the man whose bid " was thra hundred.' dollara higher and save tho additional expenditure of thia amount, afterwards, to say nothing of the annoyance. . . . v- To not let the contract to the loweat ,t bidder In, of course, not fair or Just. . The owner should, therefore, be liure and invite to submit figures only re liable men to whom he would let the contract Because, a contractor baa a reputation for .doing, work cheap doa -, not necessarily' recommend him, for It , often happens that the.man who doas work cheap doea cheap or inferior work, wh'.ch la the most expensive kind Jn the ' long run. r The best man la the cheap- E BY VERY LOCATION Bread. Water and Drainage, a A City's f Threes Essentials, Is" ;!'- Possessed In' Plenty, Thia la the laat of a aeriea of eight aructea aesenpuve or an '"all tne year round" highway route from the Cana dian to the Mexican borders through Central Washington. Central Oregon and yanroroia aqvocateq py Bamuel uuu j "Whit does the- all the - year' 'round highway mean to Portland t" X aaked. i "It means that thousands ot prosper ous people who tour, the coast in their machines will atop over for a day or two in Portland.", said Samuel If ill. ; "They win taae away witn tnem mere than an impression of Portland's -beauty, for they cannot fall to note the desirability of Portland as a place for investment and as a home elty. ?'-,,".':..-. i r;;7 , r , "Thompson says that the three things essential to make a city are bread, wa ter and drainage, ; Portland baa her bread brought to her from all over the ,Wide stretchea ot the Inland Empire and the.. Willamette valley. .Traffic, like water, runs down bill. : Not - only the bread, and by. that I mean Wheat but the fruit and hops, the bogs and cattle and sheep and all of the other products of the drainage basin of the Columbia flow into Portland. sf. w m -; Hl "Portland has a water supply that la famoua everywhere. In tact there are A-.'i ' II put u n .'.- ...' '-t '; 'V; ( : . v . ; Cum .a : I I I :.: ' J. "!"' 1 Jt-"8af, . . l'C3e ' ; Ep) , . ; 1-1: ! H- ' ! - . - nr"i - ; V I i "vv ... ra-i J P, f ' i Sf.: ill T H.'rS i ... GREATNESS FUTUR ASSURED PORTLAND THE SINGLE TAX - .. evoinxionT 11 is aireaay Being put - . Canadian jr orthweet, and la Si Ditlas of Pittabargii and Boranton, Pa., and Pueblo, amPOWarao u DUt 1 into nultial fcing-le caxere in teS???.!" lu77di5rlalWiio.; of our faariiwpiS ad flflTia I mmt tt K ,1. Z.m 4"BlnT, x " ominr, and If you want to laant more iJ l ai!a , , I I"" axponent, "The JubUo," which , L. Vi. Amioa 'nmental demooraoy la all things, feouadid by Z.ola r. yosl, now Assistant Ssoratary of I.aoo at WasbiSgtOn, , ' Three booklets oa The Clngle Or Xx and The Public 13 weeka, Z3C ON SELECTING;A GOOD CONTRACTOR , and interior arrangement of ideal , est regardless of bis price, provided tba i is reaaonaoie. " -' rxoftt Xnst 9a KatuaL ' 1 -) ' Any transaction to be "mutually at Isfgctory; must be mutually profitable. l get good work you must allow a reasonable profit. i i Vt S : f '" r To mak aura that your lowest con tractor ts a gooa man is a simple mat ter. . Ask hlnv f or references. Tell him that you want to sea,;; soma ,. ot the homes he has built, preferably several built a year pr two back. : If Jie doea business 'on', tha square." he will be glad to have you look' him tip. Then talk with the owners of the vhomts ba refers you to. They will i tell you what kind of a man be ia to do buai neaa. with, and you. can see with your own eyes if his. work stands, the test of time and wear wall, , i '-..!,. lltv la best to .let the con tr acta for the general -construction, the v. plumb lng - and heating - separately. If ..all the A work is let to ' the general con tractor, he will Invariably sublet the last ,i two - Items , to sub-contraetora, from whom he will, In turn, obtain competitive figures and charge the owner about 10 per cent of their eoat for acting aa middleman. ' When tha owner obtains bis own bids on heat lng and plumbing he baa the oppor tunity of selecting his own '. sub-contractors and aavea the ten per oent When It comes to writing up the con tract It is beat to have an attorney at tend to It. since this is essentially un attorney's work. The blank form c-f contract which some architects . carry on hand covers the average home or building fairly well, but ca contract few cltlaa so bleaaed in their waUr sup ply aa la Portland with' iu - Bull Run water. ' L6a Angeles la spending millions to get What Portland haa secured at small expense. . : rfi . "Not only ba Portland the bread. and water to eat and drink, but It has the Columbia and the Willamette, to serve perpetually as great ; , highways over which ber heavier travel may be moved and to serve the equally important pur pose of keepng the rail rates down. "Portland also has - the drainage so that she baa the essential elements for the making of a city and no tourist or visitor ean stay Here long without real ising the possibilities of her future greatness. . -i . :i . '' ! iV . "One" ot the first . problems V in. the maxing ot a great cuy is tne maiter ox raw products and ' transportation. No one will 'deny that Portland has ou abundance of the raw products and end less possibilities for the production , of more,;: with the raiiroas centering in Portland, - with its. electrlo- lines and with its water transportation. Pprtland haa all of the elements Of future great neaS from the standpoint of transporta tion. To make-transportation profitable, there must be people. No matter bow rich the garden of Eden was, the trans portation companies would not have been able to declare very heavy divi dends hauling Adam and Eve around the Garden of Eden, and so the problem for the transportation companies la to at tract a desirable class of settlers, men and women who will go out on the land and become - producers, and , become more than mere v producers, become prosperous and contented family units of our atata for our atata'a nmaoarltv la based on the welfare of the family. A population of bachelors will never make a great clty.w They may make a mining camp nut what-becomes of the camp wnen tne truce plays outr - The men scatter all over the world, . , ropiuatum and lead. - "Do you remember what Jimm t Hill said some time ago, Population without land la a mob and land without population laawlldernessr We have the lana, we bave room, for the population. What do you know about this ' great reform that ' promisee the solution of va social end industrial to practioal taat. i on at on, Tmeki, and the -, Colo., have fnaa baaa There are a aoora nr nor. ma 4m 9im, .......' uvl... a. THE PUDLIC Ellsworth Building, CIHCAGO residence. vtfrles to some '.extent , in Its require ments, nd even when a bfank form is used it Is best to bave an attorney fill it out , It is then done right Archi tect have to be Informed on a great many tradea and profeealona. but they are not Uwyera and cannot be expect- w uui wwjrwi ana cannot oe expeoi- ed to know any more about the technical pitfalls of the law than a lawyer does about the atrength . of building ma- itertalg. v i i i vri ja ;; What Specification Is. Some pepple ake the mistake of thinking, that a specification t is the building form of 'Contract If la "not k?n'dTworkn??ns'nr ntJilJS'i !mSJf rm pecif,1.U?on Xh Y.orln. lraT: re -StrSS trriwri' .t fficilfVt. financial, aundlng. , Remember, if be .... '-'." ' - abor. you wMi have to do ao, for. in the eyes of the law, -he la your agent! The house ia on your property. Md til haa merely, made a convenient, arrange-1 MSj aa V r . r A mm y. w . ea aa . 'O r n ae aa aian S mm VI 1 sll 114 V . " it for soar . If you intend to require your euuir&tior (urouu a tobb you anuuia i ao inform hlmr before be blda or else stand the expense youraelf. - i J , The proper construction and artiatia appearance of a home do not depend so much upon the proper writing of a con tract or the furnishing of j bond aa it doea upon the proper preparation, of the piana ana speciHcauon. ana wm "meo- tion of a reliable contractoiv? vrv I It'ia Up to ua to aee that we get the right type or population for the land. Natioif building la involved. In city building, for a nation la merely an ag gregation of 'units and a city or a com-1 m unity can taiae or lower the standard or the entire nation. S.r'y:''Mi UniverthrPoTuand SZ While nature baa been good to Port' tTJtit ieop" that ifc?VejS ' J Bll once saldj "It ia the oeonle hat'wW ove?coalmtp.y 'tSeoeb ' Byhul epigram ha meant , that it la the people ment' .- ..-?;?c. . . . j t. "One-fourtn of the nonulaUon of the globe Is on the Atlantio ocean, t Three- j fourths of the population of the e-lobal ia along tb. pacific. - Wha( we lack here in Portland Is breath of vlaion. What most men Jack, In fact, is the abll- ity to look, into the future. When the urai aatuera 01 roriiana ' maae . tneir i "'row sireeis ..inrougn tne tail tim ber, they made them narrow so as to save the extra labor of cutting down the treea and improving a Wide atreet They looked at Portland In the light Of a village or. a email community. What we must avoid bera la having our build ings grow up into sky-scrapers, thua making narrow canyona of our atreete. We have the room' to expand and we anouia ao so. The time la coming when all of the land on the west aide, not on the bills, will be the business dlstrlot The residences will cover the hills and go on the east mA'Urli?Av:T,:j,M'i "Every indication points to a dense population along the coast Climati cally, and from the standpoint ot phy sical geograpny, i-omana is oestlned to be one of the great cities on the Pacific Mental activity is stronger here, There I la not the lassitude to be found further south. There la not the constant fight against nature to be found farther north. ( -i r We are always In sight of the moun tains Whica are an inspiration to nigner . ideals and civ!a righteousness. Did you ever- stop to think that no nation surrounded . by mounlalna has ever been alaveaT Take the mountainaara Of Spain, of SwlUerland, of Montene gro, uo wnere you wiu. you will find them a tree, hardy and courageous peo- "There is a line aomawhara in ttrit. ish Columbia, traveUng southward to a point In California where the and is . wnaia irn cumaie is mild, wnere me ooniutlons are ideal ami wnere in tne ruture,. we are to have our. densest , population, in, the United ETUtea Our Cities Will ba almoat m. tlnuoua through the eatablishment of homes on small tracts, ?.;? t ,x.w ',v Environment Za Ail Zmportant. 'A man to do hla beat mint - rleht environment That ' we are af fected by our environment anyone who has ever lived in the tropics can eaallr prove. If a silk worm faila off a mul- borry leaf, Jt dies. Ehopenhauer ayH, 'A man 1a what h eats.' or. It la put ; even mor graphically In . tha eaylnr. 'Tell m what you at ana I will tell you what you are,' "Did you ever atou to reason why l Portlana ha tha elementa . of futur t greatneaa as a cJty not possessed by many other cities ? Take any of the larger eastern cities If you want to get awa from the east wind or from the constant and "trying-.; . changes ' ,of temperature or the slush and cntumiv In Portland, within a few houra' rid. I except tha sub-tropical. A three-hour i ride will DUt van tt .Thi Dalles of ftt MaryhllL where even In winter you win find a braolng air and sunny weather. you want, vne mountains, in three houra you can smell the resinous sptcy odors of the fir or pine. Three hour will put you at the. acacoaat where vo j can hear. ,the murmur of the aurf -aa it breaks ceaselessly- on th.. foam-wet hore. -' 4, 'ir.: v .v. , - ' . 'i ' , "i . v "Ufa Is a' ouestfon of f.iiin.. . a pint cup ean be just as full aa a quart cup. In Portland Ufa can be full. Nature la so prodigal and man haa ao multi ple bl eapaclty for enjoyment. In other worda, we bav speeded' tap our llyes, so that where the pioneer used the oi-o.rt and the pony .express we have luxurious train, tha lrnh the telephone, the. typewriter, the aten oarapher, the dictaphone and a score of other labor-saving devices whereb on man can accompuan in one day what li i wuuio. ibk score or men to do a i few decades ago, '-.; "After 1 HIT ha fair.. .... - It. bread and water and drainage, It turns to the ; aesthetlo aide of , life. A man can only bring back from a foreign country what ha , baa taken there. He can only get out of a book what be takes to the .book. In other words. If we hava a narrow vision and nv and email, we will not get the greatest "uIor ur"vea or ror our city. The constitution, as von win . member, aaya wa are to' provlda for I the common defense and i nromota th general welfare, if I ever bad a slogan or a motto It would ba that phrase, to promote the general Welfare, for In no way can a man make hi a life worth more than by try in tu ti of .1 Km, 4a him fellow men in other words promoting the general welfare. That' r aa.fi v i. h. main-spring In aU of ray deslra to sea bettej" roads. That la why Portland will ba benefited by the bulldln of hih. waya,' . . .y -;v '. -sw.-. . ... i , , .. "If you have read touv Tfln will remember whara r JkAttl ansae. Ir-aa a jnw mo Ming separated by moun - tains and mutual distrust. Make It easy fwyn w travel ana they will get acquainted with each other You wilf at leaat break down th na i. trust If 'you hava X,": 1 I trie. whToh' ;,"ow" IfSS!? f?"n- Uted. are most civilized. " land an- .r.; """""i vv Drese? -hTJl tl n,Int,eancL cf our of service Tto our ?l or S, SIT! :1J2,2' ?ur..,tat nI I our-nation it.i . . -- - one oi thmJr?Tt? J j,e"Unedl to 0 6 the great clUes of the country." - . . ' INhW SALES RFPflRTPn . ;, ' 77: .7 5 V O !' bULUMislA I HUST i Tr?.,Vo 5. I Th Columbia Trust Et fHw.i1 k A th C0Pn SS!L81 "d ?olWl"- ' Oregon SSIf -STOf' ?.Becon' Church of Ch Sc'enUst 112.600; B. M. Ander- ttJ?-iZJrs'Tim'J t Hood SillSnifLw- IwXk $12,000; 2T fa ?lt5r ftmPny to local - In- veTto 50U" It in Vernon. $8000. J. C. Meehan, local T. M. C A. offi- ci. m purcnasea house and let on East Tbirty-elghth and Knott atreeS? in Beaumont, mmm.hm.. t..r , . " W. H. FitiM i,.. .,.w house and lot la Beaumont next to the AsBaaaivi . , . . I w,w oni on jsast Forty-aec. ond atreet for tJ7SK , : ; i , . jr. ,i. jmuer, vice- president of tha t I I P. Co., haa recently takan tin. to a very complete bungalow on East j cuiu'Hraaa BireE near- jrmnn(' .tn. 4500. J. O. Convll. tatalv i.i(i ...i. lent superintendent of Darks, aa nur. I j chased, the aix room bungalow on Eait Forty-second near Knott for f000. . , ' 1 HARTMAN & THOMPSON ; REPORT REALTY DEALS -..Sa - Hartman" A Thomnaon mail id. wing aalea thia week- thronri. h.f I reauy aaparunent. I m . . f I House and lot In Rosa Citv Papfc a I N. Holrne on. acre In Pirkrose io 52T CJ? rawrec rtwo fJ?d crea to r, A. Bennett at F,t tyton; thirty acres near Turner Moal: .even' "rr"""on. lP. ' tocaine ctoia in violet.., . Paris. Nov. AT new matho n ,. illicit sale ot druga baa been discovered to meet the ever era win- damanA t I Montmartre. . A young man named Daniel Gay baa been arrested by detectivee whUe in the act of selling small bundles of cocaine conceaiea in punches of violets. CLOGS THE KIDNEYS f0lBtiliy0tiraCJ: AQXta ot ldder bothen you--I)rink more water. URIC A ID IN MEAT tf n.u. ..llirht thev havine to eexrv a candle or aat It, but flush your kidneye with I occasionally, . aays a , noted au- I thorlty who telle ua that meat forma brio acid which almost paralyses the birtn.va in th.i, .f(-(-i. " rw" w T'". V"H ioe oiooa. ; xney; Become aiuggisn.and weaken, than von auffar with a. Ji.iii misery in the kidney region, aharo ealna in the back or elck beadach dlaslneaa. your atomaoh aoura. tongue la coated mi whan tha mmmtwm la h. .... l rheumauo 'iwlng;i" The TurlnV SaZ wIfe cloudy, fuU of sediment the channels told ma th -hrhCd tlxedo tha room often get sore and irritated, obliging it? 2fEwt i-.. L van aair r.tia . .h.-l iZl5 wouldn t X please send her a girfi r,.fci ii,V . " . t JJ2lta?il?rtl' inl l 'f P J1y RfiTroman''nn'.0.0 ' Jad Baits from any phamacrP here; take a tablespoonful in a class of Watar I w5S!l AaJS wh0 know how to cook and do house your kidneys win then act fine. This work are not only easier to work for famous salta is made from the acid of but they know how to rat mnoh YAtmmiZ.lUw U8t the day before Thanksgiving to flusb and stlmuate sluggish kldneva. ant .v m. -.r, v.. . - " :iVtin?"LVi" Z7 11 "," auua. anojogiine xnajixagiving dinner. I asked her bladder weakness, v, ....... -.: v If the turkey would be stuffed and she Jad Baits ia IneXDenaive! cannot in. I mmiA v.- t ...... - t . - " " - --a- a J ""y.fll m"KM a delightful ef f ervea-I cent llthla-water drink. I FINDING WORK FOR GIRLS, ; HAS MANY DIFFICULTIES i : v. m v . i m m ' , ! m ; .: . L 1 uonBoanco waeaiuoa, eecreiar ! t , ; Bureaa., By V. W., Getting the girl a lob. ' v ifiJS kDerVtXyr It's one of the big problems of -social " I... , Question, larger than that of fe,f in" 007 . ,00' i gina, , ana moreover, Dy i irainmg- ana temperament, they seem better fitted to ' la few places in Portland la there a hrreater aodal and economic service be- . .c. uui we " Performed than in the employment bureau of the ToUng Women's ChrUtUn I Association. ' - : "l P aoeount of the number I or peoP' 3 .caI the bureau in !!rjc5,."1 rJZl.wr',- V"""", iw R 7mr'li "people' "wS cam a" Into TPrin offlceVirled from 47 to each .day. Theee figures do not include thoae whom I met in the waiting room and told that I did not have their kind of work at that time, or the great ntMnf bar of telephone calls, for I have j,an assistant whose entire time ia given over to anawering f the telephones! During the month of September 295 placea were I e through the aaaoelaUon bureau, "Our- new rooma .in . the remodeled iKntMin. . -. t...nM I.M kh.w .. - t,.M . claaa of people who tfted the eunahlne . . 4 a . m m . lana rrean air, ia me peopie wno come ft tha hnraau. . Thr maka rood of the magazines, too, and I am always Irl to see a girl reading, or better u,, doing a bit of embroidery or tat ting while she waita, rather . than sit atari ng at the walla. "We secure all possible Information concerning both employer and employe be,or fIU,B" potlona and make every effort te fit the girl to the niece, be cause a girl who ia perfeetly satisfac tory with one mistress may be . abso. lutely impossible with another as the point on which : binges the pleasing of some women is scarcely considered by others. ; Some women want girle -who are good with children, others require them to wear a uniform, aome require - ..... MM4 1 " vw-vwm u4 uu "" omera me trauty to cooa .SP.- VrSTStr their acarcely any time off. This par- tlcular subject haa been responsible for "TL - .ff - lV - -Va TX an,. I. :;Vi. J J Jf-. S ZlT".:i Ume does a girl have after doing tip tv.. lnnv. n-w M A.a. do a litUe shopping and get home by I o'clock to get dlnnerf "I bave a syatem by which I keep the name, addreaa and telephone number of employers and employes who frequent tne bureau.' - On these cards I note the date a girl takes position, the date she leaves it and the reason. After three unfavorable reports from either side X talk very plainly.' I had three consecutive complaints of a girl's indlf f erenoe, whereupon I told ber that would recommend ber to Just one more place and If a similar complaint came in I could not send ber out again, thus endangering the prospects of oapable. faithful girle. She listened and heeded end la a till at that fourth place, and that incident was five months ago. "Three girls came back from a cer tain borne, each bearing a tale of the uncomfortable room they were obliged to occupy. it bad neither tire nor l!f,.n- " V?? 2.p.w TJ"7 . n 1 !.ftndv l! V v 1. T"U" had Ktien rTic laewhere.j , When this woman f nd ,a?lf1 nie why Ishe could not keep a girl. I told her varv . nlalnlv that th. Ma.nn h- -n,,! Ui'wZ a ' tiT . ra r V, not keepagirl waa on aocount of that "J. "A l.f ?ul! B0 nd ? .n S"'?. A1"." .3T SLVlutZ !?titffiSE&,ffi naro tnat I waa afraid the association aia and she la there yet for the wo- r-ally vwy nioJ woman. but ."Tn ""tr of training; in domestic science for both mistreea and maid Is imr..... . o' ko'rs the next day VoooiT aw a, vwMva Hw.f . tuvn ' a aao rvrtl IltT 1L the pln-feathera had been removed and her -What?" over the tcleDhon. iniJ 01 u x, w,,;, A, jumpioymeni cated that her knowledge of pin-feathers waa very limited. I also found out that the pies - were not made and finally sent the woman a caterer, who was busy all day preparing that dinner. The woman meant all right but she simply didn't know. Many women are sending their alrls to our domestic sci ence classes and paying their tuition, others are attending and paying them selves in' tne hope of bettering them selves. In other , instances women are taxing courses in cooking and then arc teaching their girle what they learn. Kind of Work la -Demand.- ' "General housework, cooking, child nursing, sewing, second work, kitchen helper, chamber r work, waitress, house keeper, governess and day ; work of cleaning are the kinds of work most often asked for. Then we furnish ex tra help for wholesale houses. "Recently a woman called up and wanted me to send her a scrub woman to massage ber neck. I asked ber why she wanted a scrub-woman and she re plied in all seriousness. Because she is sure to have good strong arms. I sent the acrubwoman and I guesa the re- auiis were aauaiactory. . . '.The women who come for day work le surprisingly large, they Include wo men witn sick husbands, whom . they have to care for at night; women whose nusDanaa nave aeaertea them and wid ows who are obliged to be at home with their children. " Foreign glrla are also adopting tne plan of doing day work, a group of them take an apartment and men so out to do catering, cleaning, etc, by the day. '-?. - :' w. '.-; '; "The foreign glrla who moat often come to ua' for employment art Ron a. mian, Bwiaa, Scandinavian, j . Flemish. Oerman and Icelandic. : Jewish glrla al most never seek oomes tic employment. uuk mjr worn in arreat numDers . in stores, ahopa, etc., and they are found in great numbers In beauty ahopa.- Fre quently glrla come to ua who. want of. f ice work or some other special kind of employment and upon questioning them, I find they haven't the first idea of what they are asking, they know abso lutely nothing -about business. ; - . Xmpostorg Axe rreguent.-":' ' The impostor find her wav n 4fca employment bureau Just as she does other places.' A few daya agar a woman atuck her head in the door and ai na me, said with much disgust VO. you're here yet are your I answered. Tea, I am here and X bave oa my records all three of the names that you have gone under in Portland.' whereupon the wo man grabbed bold of her husband ana said. Come on. John, she'a Just as darn particular as ever and out they went I cooperate with the Associated Chart-, Does Your Business Need t" ".. , ' , ., ... .. , -.. , -An Infusion of New Blood? NAPOLEON SAID"I WIN MY BATTLES , WITH MY lVIAIHALS." ; ; ; " He picked' the men whom he could rely . : upon 'and gave them opportunity by throw-' ing responsibility on them. ' I am not 'looking for an ordinary open- . v tog, but for ' the right opportunity with the 1 -. right man. " i- - The1 job I accept, or .'the business that I invest in, must be' one that will keep me . ' hustling to keep, up its requirements; and one ' ' . to' inspire all the initiative; energy and ability V that lean muster,' ; , I do not pose as' a geniusmerely a reli able, wide-awake individual, who can' adapt' k himself to your business and grow as duties , and ' responsibilities are placed on my shoul- ' dersv Married, age 32, record clean, executive 1 experience; busy now, but looking for bigger opportunity. - - " ' w Tie man who, reposes confidence, in 1 s will be repaid with the full loyalty and fid:! t ity that it merits. To meet ma hzts to f;rc, r"T ties and other chariu.!-'. i. t i ' gnnlzatlons in an fff.'tt to w. t . t t . impostors and serve the 1. . i vin-r. " Impostor isnot conflne.l la t),e v? -" V seeking employment, I hn.l a in.in ttn in the Other day w caring' a w.t..: -i ." .1 ault of. brown velvet and atiylnir that t.e raised hogs brown velvet anj hog a, a somewhat .unusual combination to ) sure, but of couraa there la money In hogs. He wanted a housekeeper, but I soon found through. ., tils unwillingness and Inability to give proper recommon WfiWMojUh..." A(ii eon 'to Ivhom I could send a Woman or irii''vr "Portland women are aa a rule very charitable in their dealings with girl, as they well understand the selection ct a girl with me and with them Is more or less of a lottery. When a girl comes In to tell me about her mistress and de . ciarea 'She's a lady,' I know that woman la Inherently courteous and I am always Willing to give ber my beat girls. ,4 "No fee la required either of mlstreas or maid, but we do try to-get the girls ' to Join and become happy members of ' our international family. Last year several, times we turned , these bureau rooms into living rooms for the evening ' and gave national parties; , one party " was for Swedish girls, i another for ' Scandinavian and another for German ' glrla. They entered into the spirit if the occasion, got acquainted With each other and with ua and had a splendid ' time, j Then at the conclusion of the Sunday afternoon vesper service - we' bave a social hour over the tea cups. 5 Many of the girls who first knew us' through the bureau are new members of our various educational classes, some j. taking sewing or cooking, others etudy--. lng the English branches and man v an. Joying-the work of. the gymnasium. ' v FRENCH GOVERNOR HAS . ; VERY; HISTORIC SWORD Paris.' Nov7 a. When Kintr Alfona and President Poincare were returning; oy train recently rrom Toledo to Madrid the king noticed a aword that General . Lyautey, the French military governor of Morocco, waa wearing, -Surely, that is a sword with a history. General," h said, "it ia not of modern design." - fit belonged to my grandfather, aire." ' replied General Lyautey. t "He was an ' officer in the army ot Napoleon J." The general drew hie aword and banded it to ' the king, who read out alowlv the namea of the great battles engraved on the ' blade and kissed the blade gravely. , . He then banded back the. aword to. General Lyautey, who, deeply touched by the graceful act aaluted and returned It to its scabbard, ' . , ' ' PERSONAL ESTATE OF . , JOHANN SEBASTIAN SOLD Vienna. Novi .-i-The past few weeks have witnessed the eele under the ham-' mer of the personal effect of Johann. Sebastian, brother ; of Frans Josef I., who was last year legally declared dead, ater, a 'disappearance Of twenty ' yeara He la remembered - as. "John Ortb." and as a lover ot music and art his life was ideal. - v v t- When' he married pretty little Frau. . leln Stubel of the Vienna stage, be was obliged to retire into, the background, but never was he lost eight of. in true democratic simplicity be mingled with the musical Bohemia of Vienna and Gmunden,, and artists from every na tionality were bis guests and constant companions. Hie death ia shrouded irt mystery, but he ia thought to have been lost at eea on bis way to the western -hemisphere in search of freedom in his., private life. , i - . . .. a , ENGLISH ADMIRALTY To i ' ESTABLISH AERODROME London, Novl SiA conference be tween representatives of the admiralty and the Dundee harbor trust made pro- visional arrangements for a v seven years' leaae of a site on the Tay within half a mile of the submarine base,, for the establishment of a.-, navy. : aero drome, !A' ,. --'j v- :v-.! The station will bave accommodation . for 1 machines, and launching ways, ' will be laid down. -U Is probable that this base will be the headquarters Jr Scotland of the naval aircraft and that a repair factory will also be erected, . KING AND QUEEN MUCH " -AFFECTED BY DISASTERS London, Nov.. (.Few -realise - how profoundly great . disastera lnvolvlntr lose of life affect King " George and Queen Mary..;; There are A always, of course, the royal messages of sympathy, but the majority of these are read by the public ,ae merely formal announce mentc A-r--"; 1" - "V--- i"- i- - As a sailor King George was deeply affected by the terrible Volturno disas ter and Queen' Mary was even more up set by the awful coal mine tragedy in South Wales. Both of these calamlttcs cast a gloom over Buckingham palace ' and added to them waa the fear of suf fragette disturbances. . r
