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WHAT EVERY WOMAN WANTS TO KNOW
ATTRACTIVE DESIGN FOR THE INDUSTRIOUS NEEDLEWOMAN DRAWN BY SARAH HALE HUNTER
Women in tne
Week s News
What the Fair Sex Every
where Is Doing.
THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNIHG, FEBRUARY 21, 1915.
Chicago The "Women's Peace Par
ty," as the great world-wide woman's
movement for 'peace recently launched
In Washington in -called, has chosen
Miss Jane Addams as its first presi
dent, and its headquarters for the pres
' ent are at Hull House in this city.
The purpose of the organization is to
enlist the efforts of allAmerican wo
men in .arousing the nations of the
V world jasainxt war, and it is jpidly
. organizing branches in all parts of this
country and affiliating by correspond
ence' w,th women's peace organizations
lp other countries. One huge crusade
for peace which will ultimately em
brace. the world is the aim of the lead
ers. ,Thc party's platform includes 11
planks, the first favoring the calling
of a convention of neutral nations in
the Interest of an early peace in Eu
rope. One of 'the first efforts of the
party toward that end will be to secure
the appointment, by the government of
the United States of a commission of
men and women with adequate ap
propriation and authority to take defi
nite steps toward promoting interna
' tlonal peace. A petition to congress,
with signatures representing the great
mass of American womanhood, is now
.under way with this purpose in view.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, presi
dent of .the. International Woman Suf-
f rage association; X3r Anna Howard
Shaw and Mrs. Henry Garrison Villard
of New York, were among thote prom
inent In organizing the party.
New Yofk The stork has Interfered
with, the musical program of New
York this season. Mrae, Louise Homer
was .to have begun her 14th season
Monday with the Metropolitan opera.
If expectation of an interesting event
in the family had not altered her
plans. Mine. Homer Is already the
mother of four lovely daughters, and a
rival of Mme. Schumann-Heinck. her
self the happy mother of nine, for the
title of "most famous mother on the
operatic stage."
Washington A "Holly Madison"
breakfast was the program for Mon
day for the Women's National Demo
cratic league, of which Mrs. William
- A. Cullop of Illinois is president. Mrs.
lr,.Hnl... 11 : e a . i , i .
iTidiaiidii, wiiu ui 1110 vice presiuoni,
and Mrs- Clark, wife of the speaker,
are the guests of honor.
Philadelphia. February 15 was "In
gathering day" in a monster fund
raising campaign now going Sh in
Pennsylvania for the purpose of educating-
voters to mark "yes" opposite
"votes for women" on th ballot next
November The women suffrage par
ity's aim is to gather $100,000 for the
cause.
St. Louis Mrs. William Gerry Slade
of New York, national president of the
Daughters of 1812, presided at the un
veiling of a sculptural allegory in the
Jefferson Memorial, commemorating
the centennial anniversary of the traa
, ty of peace between Great Britain and
the -United States and the patriotism
of Missouri men and women of that
period. Iiepresentati ve women from
all parts of the state attended the
ceremony Tuesday.
Cincinnati Because the regular in
come tax, including the supertax, for
incomes of more than $40,000 have
both heen doubled by the war in Great
Britain, it Is estimated that th
Duchess of Manchester, who recently
inherite, the $10,000,000 estate of her
rather, Kugene Zimmerman, will have
to' pay into the British coffers $25,-
0.10 out of every $100,000 of income.
This will bo in addition to the income
tax on any American securities she
may care to leave Invested here.
Laredo. Texas Senora Carranza,
whose husband. General Jesus Car
ranza, Mexican leader and brother of
the Constitutionalist president of Mex
ico,, was recently executed by order of
General Santimanez, is a refugee here.
Together with Cenera Carranza, his
son, Abelardo. and a member of his
staff, were shot.
Cincinnati "Wher do all th hair
pinfl .g?7" ,s th anous query of Ohio
officials, mystified by the waste in
state Institutions, of that Important
detail of the feminine toilette. About
" a year ago the state board of admin
istration bought a ton of hairpins for
the femal inmates of state institu
tions, fondly believing that a ton of
hairpins would be enough to keep
every woman in Ohio In hairpins for
years. And now another request has
come for hairpins. In another month
or two a second ton must be forth
coming. And so hairpins Is no small
enigma for the colons
SOME CHOICE WOODS
Rosewood is the name applied to
the wood of different trees In their
respective countries, so the commer
cial rosewood is not always the same.
The rosewood of Brazil is considered
the finest in every way, and is made
into beautiful furniture.
The myrtle tree, a common one In
Palestine, Is useful because its leaves
are used for sachet powders, and
from it an oil is obtained which is
used In perfume. The myrtle is an
emblem of the Jewish feast of the
passover and is mentioned several
times in the Bible. It is not a large
tree, for 20 feet Is usually Its maxi
mum height.
Ebony of the best quality comes
from" fad la, Ceylon and other tropical
countries, where it is obtained in logs
sometimes 15 and 20 feet long. The
very word .ebony means dark, and the
darkness of the wood increases with
the age of the tree. It is a very hard
wood and hence it is desirable for fine
furniture making. Its unique color.
too. makes it always worthy of notice,
and it was combined with ivory by the
Greeks to bring out its color.
Satinwood is produced both in the
East and West Indies, and. indeed, an
Inferior variety comes from Florida.
It is another very hard wood, of fine,
flight grain almost canary yellow In
color. It is used for cabinet Work and
nowadays very largely for the backs
of hair brushes and clothes brushes. It
takes a very high, satiny polish.
Lignum vitae. another very .hard
wood, comes also from the West In
dies. It is so hard that it is useful
for making pestles, pulleys and other
things that require great strength
It has a flavor like the h'epatica,
which comes in clusters.
IVot Fido's Fault.
Harper's Magarine.
Mrs. Haniey was greatly excited
when a neighbor came in to call upon
her one morning.
"Just think," said she, walking over
to the other end of the room, "that
fellow entered in broad daylight and
actually stole the clock off the manteL"
"And you say your dog was in the
very same room!"
i "Yes, but he couldn't do anything,"
returned Mrs. Haniey, loftily. "Fid'o
"lm only a watchdog."
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Milady to Be
Checkered
By Margaret Mason.
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(Written for the United Press.)
Dame Fashion's latest costume
To ravish her exchequer.
Has squares like a checker board.
Of black and white to deck her.
And though you may make game of it.
Not even this will check her.
New York, Feb. 20. On the square,
the latest move In th game of fashion
is destined to make man's wife look
like a regular checkmate. At any rate,
many is the modish maid bound to
have a checkered career this spring if
the early showing of checker board
silk is any indication.
Positively all the smartest frocks
and suits are in that ever striking; and
becoming; combination of black and
white and everything is checked up
against the fair wearer to beat the
cubists at their own game.
Naturally the checks vary in size
from the tiny pink checks and shep
herd plaids to the checkerboard dimen
sions. These latter, being the newest
and most daring of the check variety,
since the smaller effects have been
wished on us many; tlmea before, are
therefore attracting the most popular
attention.
Not only Is the checkerboard silk
used as a. trimming, but Is made up
into whole gowns with stunning,
though not exactly soothing, results.
Cunning little shepherd plaid suits
are rapidly taking the place of the too
numerous, sand colored covert cloth
ones. They ar natty and chic, are
built on trig straight line with smart
little hip length coats almost box in
their cut. The inevitable belt, set well
up under the arms, marks the omni
present Empire waistline.
Black and Wait Popular.
A cunning little silk frock of black
and white about the modest dimensions
of a postage stamp is made with a full
skirt pleated onto a short waisted belt
of the same silk and straps of the
same passing suspender-like over the
shoulders of a plain tailored white
pussy willow taffeta blouse.
Silk sweaters are shown in this
popular black and white check com
bination, hats are trimmed in ribbon
and silk of like ilk. purses and bags
have checks without, even if they may
be a bit shy of them within, and even
hosiery Is breaking out rashly with
an eruption of checks. In fact, the
more prevalent this cheek epidemic is
bound to become, the more we try to
check it.
By the way, have you taken the veil
of the cubist ordef? All the smartest
new vejlla of the Glaring .variety that
TODAY'S DESIGN
PILLOW SHAMS.
PILLOW shams will be much more effective with this motif embroidered on them and with
the initials introduced in the wreath. The flowers, leaves and dots are soUdlyrked
and the stems done in the outline stitch. . The edge of the ribbon is closely buttonholedwWi
n B5l5 5TM,St t0 t5eLmSideu bars are formed of stranda of S con stmched from
one side to the other and buttonholed across without catching through the material which is
cut away underneath.. Use mercerized cotton No. 18. mcrHl wnicn n
DIRECTIONS FOR TRANSFERRING
T.-J.nVreon Paper, face down, upon the material. Place the newspaper pat
Li TfSi,?Ver "with a hard, sharp pencil firmly trace each line. If the L
!. mi if fur' nJ,e over the Pattern and design drawn direct on the goods
required g When handled in this way, impression paper, of course, will not be
flow so voluminously from the tiny
turbans and spread their ribbonbound
edges atop shapely shoulders are of
filet mesh. As every woman knows,
this means a square mesh, and most
of these are bordered with alternate
squares filled in solidly with the
thread. in taupe these filet mesh
veils are great beauty enhancers to
even the plainest of countenance.
Bright Colors Taboo.
After all, there lsa good practical
reason for fashion's decree against
bright colors this season and a putting
forth of the neutral, somber tints and
tones of gray, drab, dun and black
and white. Quite a novelty it is. too.
.fir fashion to have anything stable
as a foundation for her vagaries, and
yet the real sordid reason for the
present monotone of mode is the short
age of foreign dyestuffs and the in
ferior quality of our own. It certainly
seems strange that the made in U. S.
A. dyestuffs aren't good enough to
dye our garments; they have been tried
out with such success in all our drinks
and foodstuffs.
Under cover it seems, however, that
bright colors aren't of necessity taboo
if one may Judge from a recent Fifth
avenue window display of undergar
ments. Highly sensational as well as
highly colored and highly priced were
sets of chemise, panties and petticoats,
one of royal purple chiffon, edged will?
apricot colored ribbon, another set ot
Nile green roes saline with apricot
edce trimmedv soantHjt with, a single,
nosegay of orchid shade chiffon rose
buds. Then there was an apricot satin
set and another of orange chiffon.
It is to bo opined that these hectlo
garments are offered for the trade of
fair but frail beauties who earnestly
desire to match up their lingerie with
their reputations.
Mrs. Carman to Be
Tried Second Time
Freeport, Hew York, Woman Accused
of Killing Mrs. William Bailey Must
Undergo Another Court Ordeal.
Freeport, N. T.. Feb. 20. After a
conference with William Bailey, whose
wife was shot and killed in the office
of Dr. Edward Carman in this village
June 30, last. District Attorney Lewis
J. Smith of Nassau county announced
that Mrs. Florence Conklin Carman Is
to be placed on trial again in May or
June, accused of the murder.
The first trial last October resulted
in a disagreement, and since Mrs.
Carman has been at liberty on a bond
of 25,000.
Followed the Manual.
Boston Globe.
Sentinel Halt! Who goes there?
Colonel (irritably) Fool!
Sentinel Advance, fool, and Sive the
counbarsLKo. , -
Gospel of rVork
Social Safeguard
By Dorothy Dix.
Henry Ford's assertion that he
could make every criminal in Sing
Sing Into a decent citizen by turning
him inte a first class mechanic, ca
pable of earning good pay, is the most
sensible reform propaganda that has
ever been put forth.
The gospel of work is the salvation
of the world, for it is not only true
that Satan finds work for idle hands
to do, but the majority of people who
go wrong are crooks because they
don't know any straight way of mak
ing a living.
Mr. Ford believes, and rightly, that
the best way to reform a criminal is
by giving him fairly paid work to do.
He might have gone a step farther
and have said that the way to prevent
people from becoming criminals is
to teach them, while they are still
children, some trade by which they
an earn enough money to live on
honestly.
Most Criminals Are Toting.
It is a pathetic and a terrible thing
that most of our criminals are so
ypung.- Go into any court and you
will mmm that the thieves, the Pick
pockets, the gangsters, the gunmen
who commit murder for hire are Just
boys.
Of course, there are some unfortu
nates wJio are born physically and
morally deformed, and who would be
criminals under any circumstances,
but the great majority of those who
become criminals are more weak than
vicious. They are simply those with
out much intelligence, without any in
itiative of their own, who follow the
line of least resistance, and go in any
direction in which they are pushed.
Boys and girls of this 'type do not
do well at school. They have not
what homely people call "book sense,"
and they fall behind in their studies.
The teachers scold them and their fel
low pupils ridicule them, and they be
come truants, and drop out of school
altogether at the first possible mo
ment. These boys and girls have no been
taught' one single, solitary thing by
which they can earn a decent living.
They have to take the lowest paid
kinds of labor. They s cannot earn
enough to live on in any sort of decent
comfort, and so the boy is drawn In
evitably into the criminal gang, and
the girl takes to the streets.
Teaching of Trade Saferuard.
If, along with their "a, b. c's." these
children had been taught some trade
at which they would have become
sufficiently expert to command s liv
ing wage, I believe that 90 per cent
of them could : have . been saved from
ever becoming; criminals, la the first
place, their pride and self-respect
would have been saved even in school,
for very often people who have little
Intellectuality have a strong mechan
ical sense. The boy who can never
learn the names of all the president
may be able to do things with his
hands that will redeem' his -scholarship
in the sight of his fellows, and
thus keep him interested and eager
to go to school. Instead of making
him a truant.
Nor should we forget .this most Im
portant fact that the habits that we
form in childhood are practically un
breakable. They follow us as long as
we live, and it is a safe assertion that
no child who has the habit of indus
try, of doing some sort of particular
work accurately and efficiently, in
grained In him or her, will ever devel
op into an. Idler and a loafer.
HAS NO USE FOR $10,000
Chicago, Feb. 20. Judge Pope, In the
circuit court, reduced the $10,000 ver
dict returned in favor of the late Miss .
Mary Sheets against the International
Harvester company for lead poisoning
contracted while in their employ to
$8000. Three days after the verdict
was returned Miss Sheets died. In re
ducing the amount of the Verdict Judge
Pope held that, inasmuch as the com
plainant In the suit would not benefit
from the money, received; the amount
Ivaa excessive. An appeal was takcefc