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About The Dalles daily chronicle. (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948 | View Entire Issue (June 13, 1899)
I have just received a fine line of Woolens in Suitings, Overcoatings and Pantinge, and will be pleased to tave you call and see them. J. A. Eberte, Ife Tfea Dalles Daily Ghfonicle. SUBSCRIPTION Pities. One week $ 15 One month 50 One year 6 00 TUESDAY JUNE 13, 18 9 IS IT EXPEDIENT? The annual worry incident to the demands of graduation from the high school is taxing the energies and straining the financial resources of a score of families, more or less, in this city at the present time, and of a multitude throughout the country. A bevy of young women educated in the main without the slightest reference to the reasonable requirements cf their future lives, daughters of work-a-day parents who are straining every nerve to bring up their children intelligently and to provide for their bodily comfort, are being bedecked for the graduating occasion in a style tiiat lays heavy tribute upon the domestic purse, and perhaps foredooms the rest of the family from the father down to the nursling (and certainly the self-sacrificing mother) to go shabbily clad for half a year. This' is one of a number of ways in which our grand system of com mon school education has grown into a heavy tax upon its supposed or in tended beneficiaries. It will be said, of course, that judicious parents, who cannot afford to spend from ;$25 to $50 in this way, should be independ ent enough to refuse to comply with the demand of custom and dress the daughter for the occasion simply and in accordance with their means. But this is shallow, being wholly at variance with human nature. Talk as we may about independence, the fact remains that this principle is not a ruling force in the domain of fashion that, in fact, it has seldom been introduced therein, and never except to be quickly frowned down and out. The very spirit that urges parents who cannot afford to spend the sum ol money required by the present graduating custom to enter and keep up with the grand educational pro session, often at the cost of the most pitiful and pinching economy in the essentials of life, is the basis of the high school structure. The idea is to give the children of the poor the "ad vantages" of a more or less ornate education, equal in all respects to those which the wealthy may buy for their children; to bridge, so to speak, the channel between two distinct stations in life and merge them into one. Having been encouraged to do this, is it reasonable to expect par ents to fail at the last moment to meet the requirements of the situa tion? Is it any wonder that it is decided in family council that Mat tie, or Mamie, or Jennie, must have an overdress ot organdie and lace, over a white satin petticoat, though mother's rusty serge must again be darned and turned; that she must have white kid slippers, though John ny cannot go to Sunday school be cause he is barefoot ; that fatbei 's battered old hat will "have to do," bat a "class pin" must be bought? These are homely, commonplace things, but they represent conditions thai are familiar in myriads of beset, straightened households today. The weary mother, striving, with an In adequate knowledge of "slj'les," to make the girl's graduating dress her self and thus save something toward the ribbons and flowers at the ex pense, as one recently expressed it, of her own "blood and bones." (She was not a high school graduate, otherwise she would have said at the expense of her "vitality.") Anxious fathers, chafing under the strain but striving manfully to meet it; fagged young women, approaching the oc casion as one might approach a dentist's chair and wishing it were all over friends, is it not true that we have encouraged a growth upon our educational system that bears no relation whatever to real education? In completing a course of study at the public schools, have we not grown into a display that apes wealth without compassing its advantages? Since individual parents are power less in the -matter from reasons that are clearly patent, is it not time that the brakes were put upon the ma chine by those in control, to the end that its headlong course be arrested and its movements be made to con form more strictly to the needs of the public? In short, is it not lime that, with all our getting, we should Strive to get understanding? Ore gonian. K(a! Dyspepsia Cure. Digests what you eat. It artificially digests the food and aids i'uouiD xii eiieugiueuiu ana recon structing the exhausted digestive or gans. It is the latest discovered digest ant and tonic. No other preparation can approach it in efficiency. It in stantly relieves and permanently cures Dyspepsia, Indigestion, - Heartburn, Flatulence, Sour Stomach, Nausea, SickHeadache,Gastralgia, Cramps, and all other results of imperfect digestion. Prepared by E. C OeWItt A Co.. Cfelcaao. For sale by Snipes-Kinersly Drug Co. A Beautiful Skin. Ladies, If yon desire a transparent, clear and fresh complexion use Dr. Bourdon's French Arsenic Complexion Wafers. Their effect is simplv mimical, possessing the wizard touch in producing and preserving a beautilul trans parency and pellucid clearness of complexion, shapely contour of form, brilliant ejes, soft aim Biuuoijj eKin wnere me reverse exists. Jiven the coarsest and most repuisive skin, marred by freckles, moth, blackheads, pimples, vulgar redness, yellow und muddy skin are permanent ly removed, and a dclicioasly clear and refined complexion assured. Price per small box, 60 cents; large box, 1, or six large boxes, $5. Bent to any address post paid aud under plain wrapper upon receipt of the above amount. Write for free circular. The Parisian Drug Co., 131 Montgomery 3t,Saa Franeidjo Cal, 741SSif! Ta ja Restores VI 'I'AtiTV, P S LOSTV'GOR i & 1amd manhood Cures Impotency, Niglit Emissions and wasting diseases, ail effects of seif- SJfepgS) abuse, or exces3 and indis feSiL J cretion. A nerve tonic and. blood, builder. Brings the pink glow to pale cheeks anc" pSi restores the fire of youth. ifiiiS By mailSOeper box; G boxes for $5.50; with a written guaran tee to cure or refund, tiie money. NERVITA MEDICAL CO. Clinton & Jackson Sts, CHICAGO, SLU PROFESSIONALS. JJ A. STURDEVANT, Dentist. Office over French fc Co.'s Bank Phone 6, THE DALLES, OREGON JR- GEISENDOBFFEE Physician and Surgeon, , Special attention given to surgery. -Booms 21 and 22, Tel. S28 Vogt Block FEED. W.WIL80N, ATTORN ET-AT LAW, THE DALLES, OREGON. Oflice ovei First Nat. Bin. B 8 HUNTINGTOK H WILSON HUNTINGTON WILSON, ATTOBNEYS AT LAW, THE DALLES, OREGON Office ott rst Nat. Bans: Branch Office Oregon Viavi Company, . Room 7, ovei French's Bank. Office hours, ' Charlotte F. Roberta, 2 to 4 J. m- ; , Local Manager. Free health lecture every Thursday t S p. m White House Clothing Company. sw. kjj Ljii Niiijti A " "M OUR IMMENSE STOCK OF SHOES MUST BE CLOSED OUT IN THE NEXT 15 DAYS COME AND SECURE BARGAINS. NO HUMBUG. AT YOUR OWN PRICE. White House Clothing Company, 166 SECOND STREET, THE DALLES. A good drug sign.. Y? Ml - y You well know that a good dreg sign ia the patronage which ia bestowed on the store. It is the purity of the goods handled and the manner of doing busi ness that makes and keeps this business. We are pleased with the result of our ef forts to supply the best drugs . at the best price. We are particular about the compounding of them. Simplicity Durability Rockford Quick Shot' 12-Plate Magazine Camera. Quick Sellers No Complaints "Turn the lever and you are ready for another." No plate holders with slides to draw. No sleeve or changing bag. No chance to fog plates. No failures. - - If you want 12 pictures quick, buy the "Quick-Shot, 'J the only magazine cams era that holds the plates securely after they are exposed. No rattling or break ing of plates. Beet on earth. . 3K4K $6.00 4x5 $9.00 With one dozen plate holders. Manufactured under the Conley patents by the Rockford Silver Plate Co., ROCKFORD, ILL. We sell only through local agents. Ask our I agents to show you this "Quick Shot " The Dalies. Fortlaei and Astoria Navigation Co.' The Snipes- Kinersly Drug Co. AGENTS, 1 he Dalles, Oregon. RELIABLE PHARMACISTS. 175 Second Street. THE DALLES Tile GolnniHa FacKing Go., , PACKERS OF PORKand BEEF . MANUFACTURERS OF Fine Lard and Sausages Curersof BRAND HAMS & BACON jRIED BEEF, ETC. NEER BAKERY. I have re-opened this -well-known Bakery, and am now prepared to supply every body with Bread, Pies and Cakes. Also all-kinds of Staple and Fancy Grocer es. GEORGE RUCH, Pioneer Grocer. - r'f Uasco Warehouse Company Headquarters for Seed Grain of all kinds. Headquarters for Feed Grain of sii kinds! Headquarters for Rolled Grain, au kinds. Headquarters for Bran, Shorts, SEKSS, Headquarters for "Byers Best" Pendle- t.fiTI yi miT This Flour ia mannfactnred expressly for family J, uoe : every Back ia jrnaranteed to give satisfaction. We sell oar goods lower than any faonse in the trade, and if you don't think so call and get oar prices and be conYinoed. Highest Prices Paid for Wheat, Barley and Oats. Ste Regulator d Dalles City Daily (except Sunday) between The Dalles, Hood River, Cascade Locks, Vancouver and Portland. Touching at way points on both sides of the Columbia riyer. Both of the above steamers have been rebuilt, and are in excellent shape for the season of 1899. The Keenlstor Line will endeavor to give its patrons the best service possible. For Comfort, Economy and Pleasnre, travel by the steamers of The Regulator The above steamers leave The Dalles at 8 a. m. and Portland at 7 a. m., and arrive at destina tion in amplo time for outgoing trains. Portland Office. The Dalles Office. Oak St. Dock. Court Street W. C. Allaway, General Agent. private Boardii7iou5 Table board $16 per morjtl? Qor. 4tt) arjd U9I09.