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THE,. OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL,; PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 27, 1915. rv- TO KNOW A -Hemstitcte J Scarf Race i Quali ty on Quantity? ?y Dr. Woo J Hutchinson, - A. Af., Af . D. ' In this article Dr. Woodf Hutchin son, who, by th-way,. Is a former Portland physician, indulges fn uorne plain taiK aoout a moat vital topic His thoughts ara expressed in the am vigorous manner that has triad his articles so popular the world arouno. -... i-.v, r " -. - . '- ' n ' ' ' 1 " o o o .1 I n : ' II O The moat unprofitable and astound Ing, but one of the busiest, industries of mankind baa always been the manu facture of taboos. It is not an In fant industry -of modern growth, but one of the oldest and moat childish In . the world. .:' - XX 'X: Slnca man first stood upright he baa plastered the wbola face of the uni verse with taboos. ' Every Interest and every event of hie life and for tune baa been covered with one birtb, death, sickness, the names of his an cestors, itbe names of bis gods,- the , names of his kings, his wife, his mother-in-law, his children, have been made bad form or impious to name in public. ! : "V We have got bravely over moat of these silences of Ignorance and cow ardice, although w still "knock on wood whenever we boast of good tuck. I -i, . Birth the - Great Taboo. But others is one subject over which , ths taboo , still hangs as black and heavy as in the foggy dawn of civili sation, and that is birth and its causes, j Etiquette, convention, - morals : all the forces of good aociety atill flo their f best to keep the origin of the human species as' much of a mystery ts was that of animal species before the epoch making work of Darwin. . The more completely we can rule the subject out of court and prevent its every mention in public, the more mugly delighted we are. Even such a modern of the moderns as Kipling naively echoes the ostrich-like satis faction I of social convention when voicing the superior claims of the old three volume novel "the stanch three decker,"! which was "carrying tired people to the Islands of the Blest" ever modern real! em and frankness: f ' . . . I - --" "We raised no risky problems. We probed no hidden shame, : We never talked obstetrics, - When" the little stranger came." Of course, the moment we cease to mention a thing it ceases to exist' dies Of mortification and a broken ueart. Whether we talk obstetrics or ot, the "little stranger" did not grow in a gooseberry bush or In a cabbage patch. : - Nor will he grow strong and healthy trom diseased or depraved or defective : parents,! or reach his full stature of tither mind or body under starvation, avercrowdlng, or in the factory or iweatshbp. Humanity is now insisting jpon the lifting of this last taboo -jpon letting In the llghr of science ;wui of j reason upon the mystery of airth. - "But,r challenges some one, "for hat purpose?" : 1 For the same purpose for which all the other great forces of nature team, electricity, wind ana wave, chemistry and physics were invest!- : (ated,' studied and mastered for the purpose of controlling them for the : tervice of? man. v. To the further question, "Why5 not cleave it to Nature?,. She knows best. tomes the answer at. once: We ourselves, with all our powers, ithour reason, our intelligence, our tense of justice, are a part of nature, tnd certainly not the lowest part.-The luestion of 'birth control is merely be tween Control - by higher or by lower intelligence, or by instinct. In the language of an honored and "lately departed ex-president, "It is a condition, and not a theory, whicn con Fronts us." In few words, this is the condition Birth control, in the sense of limita tlon of the number of children born to i family, has come, and come to stay, It has I spread all over the civilized srorld, land is - penetrating into every tlaas add level of society, whether we tpprove of it or not. We might Jus is well attempt to sweep back the ris Ing tide of ocean .with , Mrs. Parting ton's broom as")to stop it with argu nent, or sermons, or laws. The only tuestion is whether we will recog sis it frankly and make the best of it. Keep it on a rational basis and from going - to unreasonable and injurious txtremes. , What are the risks that are run by It? We are assured at once that the Mrst la extermination of the race, de say of European civilisations, and their overwhelming by floods of Asl ttif or! African barbarians, - Began a Hundred Tears . Ago. - Here ! are the facts : The modern tietboda of birth control first began 10 be publicly agitated about 100 yeara tgo. and were widely denounced as menacing race vitality at least is rears " ago. Within that period the population of the western, or civilized, world Ibas Increased nearly 600 per lent. S-nd Its wealth more than 1000 r cent. No serious danger of racial tecay visible in that. . Within the last 40 years the birth rate of civilized nations has steadily lecllned from about 36 to about 24 xr. 1000 living; and this decrease, in she opinion or tne most careiui stu lents of vital statistics, has been due Urnott ! solely to intelligent in terf er nce and deliberate control. Yet in his period of 40 years the population -f the western, world has almost loubled. 7 One iglancer at the vital ledger ex tlains the paradox." The death rate in the same period has gone-down from ibout 32 per 1000 to 15. In other vords, j. white the t birth rate' has de fined St) per cent, the death rate has en reduced 80 per cent. ' This again y the continued, . and Increasing ap plication or intelligence ana scjen if io methods to human problems. In - other words, a. family of three thildren will ' maintain & population ind keep it steadily advancihg as well ta a family or six would have done 50 rears ago; and, by1 curious adjustment, ihat I just what the average modern tamllyi has settled down to. The "Best families" Bugaboo. But In spite of this huge increase in nass we are aasured that a danger (till threatens us, and that is that the eally k desirable ( classes the bes; sumlUes," the more inteill gent groups md 'classes, the "old New 'England itock,"! etc.- are : really diminishing md dying out. : And as their place is eing taken by recruits from the la boring' classes, r by .swarms from the brecastlea of emigrant ships, by alien lrlf tings over our - border, the nation m really : txAng . recruited r from the east .. intelligent, least . desirable lasser. There is nothing . whatever new the Fly Menace By Irene Westonl By taking steps to destroy all rub bish about the house much may be done to reduce the number of flies during the summer season.. It is well that all should be prepared to deal with the Insects which happen to ar rive at maturity, and these ' will be quite numerous enough, we may be sure. In the borne, poisonous solution must be absolutely barred, , but there are one or two aafe concoctions which are better than the average fly papers. Take a quarter of an ounce of quassia chips and throw this into one pint of water; boil for 10 minutes, and then add about a quarter of a pound of treacle, f lies will corns from all parts of the house to drink this mixture and It very soon kills them. Another good mixture can be pre pared by adding a teaspoonful of well- powdered black pepper, and two tea spoonfuls of brown sugar to four tea. spoonfuls of cream. House flies seem to be greatly atracted to this concoc tion, but the pepper seriously affects their well being and they never live long after the feast. When flies are dead lose no time in seeing that the bodies are burned. It should never be forgotten ftiat though the insect may be no more the disease germs which it is carrying are still Jn an active state. Deadj flies should never be allowed to lie about. Certain plants are - "very obnoxious to flies, and these might be used with good effect, ; A young eucalyptus near to the window makes passing flios hesitate before entering, . seeing that they hate the odor of this plant. This wil keep gnats and mosquitoes at.lay-s well; and, seeing a speci men can be purchased for about 25 cents,! the Investment is one worth making. Tomato plants also have a similar effect, and a couple of these in front of a window is a good protection against all kinds of winged nuisances. Hardly any insects like to go into !L!l??m.1!.wlL-ch there 18 good-sised DOWl Of th bracken -Tern. Th : of the fronds, while not unpleasant to 1 uun.au oeinga, is detested by many ni iianuus creatures. about thia complaint. It is one of th wiuest in recorded history. We our u" peopie our families the real people tha have made and sustained the country-and. filled th nf fio furnished the work, and dodged the mica mtvo always been dying and de- uumng, according to our own story. It ig perfectly unconscious, but colos- .in its conceit. -"Surely- we are the. people and wis dom shall die with , us! . n rnpa, sentative of one of the first families ox -aiesun wailed 8000 years ago, Always Hew "Snperiors." xne lamentation iias a certain amount of truth behind it, tof it has been one of the commonest characters, one of the most invariable habits of superior peoples-good families nobll- ities. royaiues and other aristocratic slue xo ate out and leave no trace. Only 70. if or instance, of th nan odd English peers who are members of tne house or lords date back more than about 150 years, although their titles ana iairy tale pedigrees run back to King Solomon's stud and even to Adam. But the consoling feature of It is that their place has always been taken by other superior people and best fanf ilies Just as good and, if anything, bet ter, who have sprung from the ranks, from the sturdy bosom of the great masses of the people, just as those born aristocrats themselves, in th first place, did. : There was sound biologic truth as well as poetry in Omac She Tentmaker's famous lines: 'And r fear riot lest existence, closing your . Account and mine, shall know the like no more; The Eternal Saki from the Bowl has poured Millions of bubbles like' us and shall Besides. In the tiresent aar. th rm determination to bring into the world no more children than can .be properly fed and educated and nti!nn4 i growing -down throuah all ranks of society at such a rapid rate that we'll soon all be on the same level, all nnHr the same handicap, so far as small families are concerned.' - i ; - Careful students of racial -nrorJpma are decidedly of the opinion that there is no race or class of modern unHotv above the level of th 3 to 5 per cent oi corn aerectives, rgeblo minds, pau pers, vagrants, prostitutes.' etc which can be regarded as unfit or undesir- aoie parents ror the next . generation. piuviueu ui ineir cniidren are given good food, good homes and a good edu cation, a white men's chance generally; rawer Birtba, Fewer Beatha. Two things always ro together th worid over a nigh, birth rate and a high infant i mortality, c Fewer births mean fewer short coffins, fewer little bodies stunted by starvation, crippled uy disease, poisonen oy. roul air. irour interests profit by a high birth rate purveyors -of patent medlcinesi the exploiters of child labor,-whether parents or employers; the emperor-who wants cannon loader, and; the prophets and priests ; of false . religions who want dupes and tithe payers. - - w hen once we - have admitted he rlgh tness of 1 rational birth , control In and for the interests of the child (who is the only person, worth considering) among normal human beings, then we will have the right and the means to insist xipon similar control in the in terests of the unborn child among the abnormal and - the defective. Whea birth comes under due and. intelligent control, with all the other forces of nature, we shall sea a new earth, and no heaven 'needed.' J Food Must Look Good By H, Addington Bruce 5 It is not enough to have L the food on your table "pure and iwholeaome.! In order for food to attain : fully its purpose of providing nourishment, it must be served in an appetizing form. , It should both look and taste "good, exciting a real desire to .eat it. If it doea not o this, Jthec process of digestion will not be set properly in" motion. And unless the digestive process-works smoothly, ' mal-nutritlon will result, and the health ; will ; suf- fer. r.-y, .si. )r J--"'.vr-s, -s; V-3 -Tim t the mere exciting of a desire for the food placed before one plays an important part In the Assimilation of that ; food 'has been proved by a number of Interesting experiments on animals r and human beings. : These were made possible . by conditions which . allowed the experimenters to observe -the movements of the diges tive organs. ' ; - Some dogs studied In these experi ments had openings in : their throats so large that food swallowed by them did not pass to the stomach, but- fell out on the way, :-Other openings per mitted an inner view of the stomach. It waa found ' that ' when : the dogs were riven appetizing food, an active flow of gastrio Juice began . in the stomach within five minutes after 0 0 a :0 .0 Os- 0' hey had started . eating. On the other hand.' when food was permitted to reach the stomach there was no flow of gastric juice ' what ever. If the dogs were not hungry or if the food given to them was not appetising. v, .. The same phenomenon was observed in the case of people i in - whom dis ease had . caused external 'openings Into ; the v. stomach.:. -v. When palatable food was chewed, secretion. of saliva and gastric Juice began at bnce. But the chewing of tasteless and unpala table food wasnot followed by se cretion. :, ' . i r.. The ' sppllcation of these' observa tions to household 'economy is obvious.- . ... - . , .i They help to explain why so many people, suffer from" indigestion. - their food not beiagv served in an appetis ing way. - And the facts stated point clearly the way to , increased health through: paying closer attention' to the niceties of the culinary, art. - The flowers on the -table, the spot lessness of tne table ; linen, the ar rangement of the dishes, the garnish ing of the . food these are pot the trivial things many people seem to think them. , -.v Helping to render food pleasing to the eye and savory to the nostril, they promote the psychic , state which sci ence has proved to be essential to the proper beginning of .the digestive pro cess. . - Especially " are they of importance when, through illness, the appetite is poor. 1 f Then, indeed, the serving .of food "A 1 Design For D For tne Aoman Vko Sews -By Gattarine Greenwood A HEMSTITCHED SCARF Design for a hemstitched scarf. Use heavy linen. Arrange design in middle of front, about an inch and a half from the hemstitching and across each end of the scarf. Use satin stitch or eyelets and work with mercerized cotton No. 18. v DESIGN FOR A PLATE MAT ; Plate mat to the set of which the centerpiece and doily have 'al ready been given. Work air barred spaces in ladderstitch. . Flowers in eyelets, stems and leaves in satin stitch. Before commencing to work the edge, buttonhole the loops between the scallbps'"airrun a thread through lines of edge to strengthent the scallop. Then in a tiny-close buttonhole, do the edge. Use mercerized cotton No. 25. DIRECTIONS FOR TRANSFERRING ' ' Lay a piece of impression paper, face down, upon the'materiaL Place the newspaper pattern in position over this, and with a hard, sharp pencil, firmly trace each line. If the material is sheer, thia may be laid over the pattern, and the design drawn directly on the goods, as it will show through. 'When handled in this way, impression paper, of course, will not be required. 0S D o made tempting looking . by these sim ple artifices may mean the hastening of a return to health which other wise may never come. Owed ITS. 20 Cts.. . I For Bacon and Eggs UiUcbowa Contributor to Conscience TnntL Send Stamps for Pood x - rnchedfrvom too Government , r 'Washington,.- June - 26. The secre tary of war has received from Chicagc a letter enclosing 20 cents in stamps With the. statement that the sum is inclosed "for bacon and eggs." - Mr. Garrison could not recall the transac tion , so he turned the letter over to the treasury . department. : where the 20 cents was added to the "conscience fund." It is supposed that a. retired soldier during his term of enlistment ate more than the law allowed and that he now compensates the govern ment for his meal. The conscience fund, which in real ity has a separate 1 existence only on J paper, nas been growing slowly since President Madison's administration, when a- contribution of S was re ceived. Thea contributions now total nearly 1500,000. The money is really turned Into the general - fund and is used for the ordinary. expenses of the government. . .. ; ; Iowa's weeds cause farmers a loss of not less than 925.000,000 a year. a Plate Mat Q 0y X1 a VrVomen in tke Week's News What They Are Doing. Ann Arbor, Mich. A mother and daughter received an earned degree from the" University of Michigan last week. Mrs. Louise Crandali, of this city, received the master or arts de gree, while her daughter. Miss Adele Crandali, took a bachelor of arts de gree. - . . One . of the most interesting cere monies in the college world was -carried out by the girls of the senior class last week. At the senior .break" f aat. each engaged girl of the class was in tionor bound to arise, bow and eat a piece of lemon. This ceremony of acknowledging that she has "drawn a lemdn" is not always comfortable, but the "guilty" girls went .through the ' ordeal, and T an- unusual number this' year ate the conventional sour fmit. . . . -- v , .;f.--:J New Tork. The suffrage campaign fund provided in the will of tlo late Mrs. vyrank - Leslie, known as : the Baroness de Baxus. will reach. SI, 300. 000, and the suffrage leaders are re joicing vover -the fortune: that $ nas come to ' them. The only barrier in the way to turning over the entiri amount to Mrs.- Carrie Chapman Catt Is a suit brought toy sons of tne late Frank Leslie. - The suffragists will get part of their campaign -barrel" 0' at once, and every schema for its le gitimate U. in furthering woman suffrage will be tested out. Ti-Washington. The ; "Belle of Equa dor, Miss Maria ; Angelica Carbo, daughter of "the late Ecuadorean min ister to the United States and Mma. fCarbo, is engaged to marry a Balti more lawyer, Willis XR. Jones. Ths engagement has been announced by Mme Carbo, and the wedding will take place early In the autumn. Los Angeles, CaL A sensation was sprung In the State Federation of Wo mep's clubs by the withdrawal of the Ebell club of ; Los Angeles, one of the largest member clubs. Charges that ."political methods nd trickery" bad com into ths organisation were made by t the withdrawing club, and bosslsm and politics were deplored by the members in voting to taka this action. Chicago. That the - services of a dentist to his fiancee during . ths period of their engagement constituted a labor of love, and there for a pay. fns-nt, cannct be collected. Is the de cision of a Chicago Judge in a recent case. The dentist sued his ' former fiancee. 'who is a pianist. in a mo-ring picture house, : but ths lodge laid down the principle that his work was done for love and not for money. - Minneapolis This city has . devel oped a young feminine genius, -who has conquered ' the arts of manual training, has made a complete set of furniture ; for her : bedroom, . trij now seeks new worlds to co-mur. Do mestic science Is o study for mi. declares Miss Birdie Kraft. "Z want 0 to do aomething that permit you to see the results of your work. ' in do mestic science you eat the .suits jl your work." Miss Kraft has completed her i high school course aid plan o take up mechanical enginooring it the University of Mlnneota. Chicago. When Miss Caryl Cody, said to be the most popular co-ed of the University of Chicago, waa trsr ried Thursday to Carl Pfanstlefil. h wore a wedding gown that, mat?!:-.! the titian hair of her new huh.in-i. All of ber trousseau had been made o( material harmonising with t! bridegroom's bain The bride won higu honors in college, and completed a four year course in three. Alsatian Towns in Need of Provisions ' . Basle, Switzerland, June 26. Provi sions in the Alsatian towns 'and vil lages are becoming painfully scare !. At Rufach and Mulhauaen, the t'ha' ' tants must now get their potatin f wejl as their bre-d by means of car The staple food of the people in t villages now consists of cabbure, r ' lshes, : turnips and carrots. Many " the spring carrots, which had l,ar time to grow to a quarter of t!,Ir J size, have already been pulled cut the ground .and eaten. A 80.000-ton pdlp pit Is belr? I in the sugar beet district of C