The Monmouth herald., July 08, 1910, Image 5

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Local and Personal.
Miss Elma Harris from Dallas
visited Kathryn Hughes last
week leaving for home Sunday.
Mr. E. C. Cole, manrger of the
V. F. Daniel Store, accompanied
by his wife and children went to
Aumsville to spend the 4th and
visit his mother. He returned
home yesterday.
Report of Public Schools
Annual Report of the Schools of
Polk County, Oregon, for the
School Year 1909-10, Ending
June 17, 1910.
No. of school districts in county
No. of dists. maintaining school
No. of children in the county be
tween the ages of 4 and 20
years: Male ...
Female .
Total .
No. of teachers employed dur
ing the year: Male
Female
Total....
No. of teachers' certificates is
sued: Male .
Female
Total..:
No. eighth grade diplomas is
sued: Male
Female
Total...
Average number of days pub
lic school taught
Whole number days attendence
Whole number of days absence
Whole number of times late...
Average No. of pupils belonging
Average daily attendance
Percent of attendance...
No. of pupils neither absent
nor tardy during the year...
No. of visits by parents
No. of visits by members of
school boards
68
66
2142
2020
4162
25
107
132
14
56
70
61
82
143
141
336897
21346
3858
2540.6
2389.2
94.4
171
750
289
The following schools have
been placed on the roll of honor
for the county for having made a
per cent of attendance of 95 or
more during the entire year;
Dallas, Red Prairie, Lewisville,
Ballston, Monmouth, Scroggins,
Gooseneck, .Oak Point, Elkins,
Puell, Spring Valley, Harmony,
Lincoln, North Dallas, Enter
prise, Etna, McTimmonds' Val
ley, McCoy, Teals', Falls City,
Pioneer, Rock Creek, Mistletoe.
The following schools have not
any tardies during the entire
school year; Lincoln, McTim
monds' Valley, Rock Creek.
While our per cent of atten
dance this year has not reached
the 95 percent we were striving
for, we have made a very large
gain and I believe that with the'
same co-operation next year in
the matter of attendance we will
be able to reach that 95 per cent
we have been working for.
In the beginning of the school
year we asked that all school
houses be fitted with window
boards if they did hot have other
means of ventilation, and we
have been working along this line
all the year and now out of the
66 schools in the county 61 have
the window-boards or some other
way of proper ventilation, and
59 schools have the individual
drinking cups or the fountain, so
that we have along the lines of
health made great advancement,
also nearly all out-buildings in
the county have been placed in
a sanitary condition and many
school grounds improved and
drained.
Respectfully,
H. C. Seymour,
School Supt, Polk County, Ore.
INFLUENCE OF COLOR
By ARCHIBALD SPOFFARD.
(Copyright. 1909. by American Presa Asso
ciation. "Doctor, I have a problem for you to
solve. I ani aware that you study the
science of your profession rather than
practice that profession.; that your in
vestigations have pertained to the dif
ferent conditions wherein mlud domi
nates matter and other kindred ques
tions. 1 have heard that you have
even analyzed love between the sexes
and are prepared to place men and
women iu positions where they will
love and other positions wherein they
will hate oue another. Am I rijibt?"
'Tartly. We are all affected by our
environment. Bad weather, for In
stance, makes us quarrelsome."
"But we cannot control the weather,
and the problem 1 have for you is to
produce love. As you know. 1 am im
mensely wealthy. My wealth must all
go in time to Isabel, my only child.
She is now trying to decide between
two men. One of them 1 wish her to
marry; to the other 1 have serious ob
jections. She will not be influenced
by me. Can you instruct me how to
influence her by natural causes?"
"I can suggest a method for you to
try," the doctor replied, "if you can
bring about the necessary conditions.
Arrange, if possible, that your daugh
ter, when the man you prefer is with
her, shall receive him in rooms deco
rated with soft colors harmoniously
blended. Let some of the apartments
be entirely of green. Arrange also that
when she is with the man you oppose
the rooms shall be all hung in red."
"Do you really think"
"I have observed." the doctor con
tinued, interrupting, "that people with
green surroundings are likely to be
amiable, whereas when shut up to
gether iu red they are predisposed to
quarrel."
Mr. Percival Smythe resolved to try
the experiment, lie sent decorators
to his country house with orders to
decorate certain suits In red, others
in predominant green. Ills daughter
had determined to invite both the men
she was to choose from to spend the
winter holidays at this country house.
They were Dwight Williams, whom
her father favored, and Russell Barnes,
whom she slightly preferred.
Mr. Smythe intended to be at the
house continuously and see that the
doctor's instructions were carried out.
Nevertheless he was detained in the
city for a few days, and Mr. Barnes
arrived before both him and his rival.
The result was that the young lady
passed several days with her favorite
irr whatever rooms she liked. He nat
urally selected the green rooms.
When her father arrived she told
him that It was useless for Williams
to put iu an appearance since she had
about decided to accept the other man.
Mr. Smythe begged her to wait a week,
wrote Mr. Williams to delay his com
ing and put decorators in the green
rooms, ostensibly to make changes.
This forced his daughter to pass the
time spent wrlth Mr. Barnes in the red
rooms.
After three days she told her father
he might send for his favorite. She
had discovered certain disagreeable
traits in Mr Barnes that she had not
looked for. Mr. Smythe telegraphed
his friend to come at once, changed
the decorators from the green to the
red room and invited Mr Barnes to go
a-hunting with him.
Mr Williams was thus left free to
press his "suit with the lady, using the
green room. Mr. Smythe kept Mr.
Barnes with him for a week, and
when they returned he was informed
by his daughter that she had been sur
prised to find Mr. Williams far more
amiable than Mr. Barnes.
Meanwhile Mr. Smythe had deter
mined to unite his fortune with. that of
another multimillionaire. He shut up
the green rooms, thus forcing his
daughter and her two lovers into those
hung with red. Within a few hours a
triangular quarrel occurred. It was
natural that the rivals should be at
swords' points, but in this case the an
tagonism extended to the lady. After
being very abusive to both she went
to her father and told him to send them
both away since she would have neither.
Mr. Smythe did not need to be so
discourteous since both his guests
inn de excuses to leave before the ex
pected time. The new man, Mr. Os
wald Beam, came soon afterward. The
red rooms were now locked and bolted,
and the newcomer was turned into the
green suit with the young lady.
The father watched anxiously for
the result he desired. It did not come.
The couple seemed to be fairly well
pleased with each other, but made no
visible headway toward a betrothal.
The period of their intended stay in
the country was approaching an end,
and Mr. Smythe became impatient.
lie wrote to the author of the color
plan giving a statement of the results
of his treatment up to date and receiv
ed the following reply:
Put them occasionally, for short periods,
Into the red suit. ,
Mr. Smythe did not understand the
object of the doctor's change of treat
ment, but had great confidence In him
and carried out his instructions. Three
doses of the new medicine were re
quired before results were obtained.
Then Mr. Smythe noticed an estrange
ment which gave signs of being a lov
ers' quarrel. Mr. Beam announced his
Intended departure. Mr. Smythe de
tained him and soon after turned the
couple again into the green suit.
When the party returned to the city
the medical scientist who had suggest
ed the experiment received a check
for $3,000 accompanied by a note stat
ing that his prescription had worked
admirably and the lady was engaged
to a suitor who would add $3,000,000
to what she would possess.
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Meets every Monday night at
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