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Newspaper Page Text'■ f H IB N bw B 6 R 0 GRAPHIC POI IN HAWAII. Till* Faaullaj- Food Is to tho Native m Broad la to Ua What bread ia to the American 0 1 European poi ie to the nativa Ha waiian. No meal ia complete with* oat it, and for the great majority o f the natives it forms the princi pal article o f diet. While they prob ably could at the present time live without this accustomed dish, the time once was, before the a d roit of the whites to the islands and the in troduction o f new foods, that life without it would at least hare been precarious. P oi is made from the tuberous root o f the taro plant, a species of the caladium family, o f which the well known elephant ear plant is also a member. The tuber, which averages in size that o f a large sweet potato, is baked and after ward founded up with water until a smooth white paste is obtained, much, resembling a wheat flour paste, except that the color is a pale pink or purple, dependent upon tne variety o f taro used. This paste is allowed to slightly ferment, or sour, when it is ready .for use. In olden times each family prepared its own poi, the work being done by the men, as in fact were most other cooking operations. A t the present time poi factories in which machin ery grinds the taro and mixes it on a large scale have largely supplant ed the old hand method. The Chi nese o f the territory have come to be the leading manufacturers o f the product Many o f the white residents of the islands eat poi to almost the ex tent as the natives, but the taste is largely acquired, and strangers sel dom care for it. Poi has a high food value, and, since it formed the principal article o f diet o f the old Haweiians, some persons have cred ited it with the splendid physical development o f the race. Poi was always eaten from wood en bowls, or calabashes, and was conveyed to the mouth by the fin gers, one, two or three being em ployed, according to the consistency o f the food, which also establishes a designation o f one, two or three Angst poi. White poi eaters now usually employ a fork or spoon in lieu o f fingers, although it is still common even in the highest fami lies to give native dinners, or luaus, at which knives and forks are ta booed and fingers only used. There is as much etiouette amonsr the Ha waiian» in eating with the lingers as with modern table implements, and the graceful motion by which a por tion o f poi is twisted upon the fin ger* ana transferred to the mouth would not shock the sensibilities of tiie most refined. An invitation to a real luau, at which poi, baked pig, fish baked in leaves and cocoanut in various forms form the principal part o f the menu, is something that U always looked forward to by every visitor to Hawaii and always plea* antly remembered afterward. Unjustly Blamed. Speaking o f the unreliability ott circumstantial evidence, a lawyer said: “ Bandera McDowell, a coal heaver o f Peebles, said angrily to his wife one night: “ ‘ Havers, , Lispeth, hoo many times am I to tell ye I winna hae the children bringin’ up cool in my top hat!' “ ‘ H oot, Sanders, mon, be rea sonable,’ said Lispeth. ‘ Y e’ ve spoilt the shape o’ the top hat wi’ yer fun ny head a’readv, an', since ye’re heavin’ coal all day, wot can a little extra coal dust in the headpiece matter ? “ ‘Woman, ye dinna grasp ma ar- gyment,’ said Sanders. T only wear that top hat in the evenin’, an’ if I’m oot an* I tak’ it of! it leaves a black band around ma forehead. What’ s the rasoolt? Why, F m ac cused on all sides o’ washin’ ma face wi’ ma hat o n !’ ” • — St. Louis Globe- Democrat. Bobby*« Unfortunate Oolay. He was five years old. On this rticular day mother had dressed n with unusual care and was very much displeased to have him come in with clothing dirty and torn. Sne had so often told him he must take his own part in the boys’ scraps— fight should the occasion demand it. This he would not do. And now she intended to punish him. Bob became very indignant and said, “ Well, mamma, I just told the boy I wasn’t ready to fight, and when I got ready he was settin’ on me.” — Delineator. E Manly Littl« Fallow. “ Now, my manly little man,” said Mr. Mildun, laying his hand kindly on the boy’s shoulder, “ you didn’t drop that banana peel there on pur pose to make me slip on it, did you?” “ Course n ot.” replied the manly little man, wriggling away. “ 1 put TH E COLORADO DESERT. it there fer yer nearsighted brother, who wouldn’t V dodged it/*-«-Kan- Hew Sound Carrloa and the Way Ml- ragoe Coma and Go. sas City Times.___________ Talk about wireless telephones! Baroastlo. The Colorado desert goes science There is a certain Wilmington one better in that line. According business man, o f a rather waggish to travelers in that neck o f sand disposition, who contends that his and sagebrush, you can dispense wife has no imagination. A t dinner with any kind o f telephone, with or one night he enanced to mention without wires, at least up to a cer a tragic circumstance he had read tain distanoe. in the evening paper on his way Two men a mile apart can carry home. A passenger on a transatlan on a conversation in an ordinary tic steamer had fallen overboard in tone o f voice, particularly i f there midocean, and he had never been happens to be a small hill behind seen again. “ Was he drow sed?” each, writes Harvey Hall K essler in asked his wife. “ O f course so t,” the Travel Magazine. The prevail answered Jhe irrepressible bobby, ing silence is so intense that it “ but he sprained nis ankle, I be might be called deafening. lieve.” — A rgonaut Perhaps, after all, the weirdest among many strange features o f the Just Har Habit. desert is the mirage. We have A widower'was being married for camped perhaps and gone to bed the fourth time recently. During the ceremony one o f the guests is early in the evening with the ther surprised to hear violent sobs pro mometer registering not far below ceeding from a woman in a corner the hundred mark. We awake, shivering with cold beneath our o f the church. “ Who is that lady who is crying blankets, and look toward the east. There is the slightest suggestion so bitterly?” he asks o f the by o f light in the sky there, which as standers. we watch grows slowly in strength. “ Oh, it’ s only Martha, our cook,” A grayish haze marks the horizon’s answers one o f the bridegroom’s edge, which stands out more sharply children. “ She always blubbers when papa gets married!” — London at one point,- from which broad, pale rays creep up and out high Mail. ________________ above in the sky. These again slowly fade as a point o f brilliant Ought to Be Thankful. “ Doctor,” growled the patient, light appears at their base. This “ it seems to me that .$500 u a big oint grows to a half circle, then charge for that operation o f mine. reaks and runs along the sky line It didn’t take you over half a min in a surging, golden lake. Upon the shores o f this lake ute.” “ My dear sir,” replied the famous cities spring up, towers, spires and specialist, “ in learning to perform ■olid blocks. These fade into fields that operation in half a minute I and forests and farming scenes— have spoiled over eleven pecks of fields o f golden grain, cattle stand such eyes, as yours.” — Success Mag ing in green alfalfa, sheets o f wa ter. The mountains near the edge azine. o f the lake separate from their A Q raat Chang«. bases and float upward, topple over Several years ago Lord Clonmel and stand on their heads, their un brought to this country a string of race horses, and at the close o f the wieldy feet in air. Soon our lake begins to contract season Phil Dwyer gave a banquet and collect into a big round ball of in k*s honor. Sheriff Tom Dunn of dazzling brilliance hung just above New York was called upon fo r a the horizon. Farms and forest dis speech. “ Faith and this is the wonderful appear. The mountains, as though country!” said Dunn. “ I was a poor abashed at being caught in such an Irish lad, and me dear old mother, unseemly attitude by the broad God rest her soul, hardly had pen light o f day, quickly resume their nies enough to bring me over. And normal position, while all the stark here I am tonight sitting cheek by landscape stiffens into unstirring en jowl with Lord Clonmel himself! durance o f the garish light and Why, me friends, back in the old blazing heat o f the desert sun. The Tipiperary days I couldn’t eat near mirage is gone like a bubble. Only enough to h u lordship to hit him the gray desert remains. with s shotgun!” — Everybody’ s. THE * Evening Telegram and Th e Graphic By Mail Entire Year of 1913 FO R $4.50 Balance of this year F R E E Regular Price of The Telegram For 1 Year is $ 5 .0 0 S E N D U S Y O U R S U B S C R IP T IO N The Evening Telegram ia progressive and Independent Prints it* newt with out fear or bias. Its the only Portland afternoon paper with full Associated Press service. Its local news is the beat The W om an’s and Sporting pages are unequaled. Saturday edition is extra size and contains a superior 4-page colored comic supplement Now is the T im e to Subscribe (or Both Papers I VILLAINY AND NERVES. DR. C A. ELDR1EDGE Tha Naat Cara Might Hava Mad« Nara a Harmlaaa FaddiaL DENTIST Many overwrought villains o f the nest, if they were alive now, would Office over First National be subjected to a rest cure, which, Bank though it could not turn them into good men, mi^ht make their vil Phone White 3-1 lainy leas irrational and dangerous. The w on t tyrants of the middle ages and the renaissance, the worst Roman emperors, seem to us incom v ¿*x*yj*i**y>*i4*H *yw j*yt**M >> prehensible monsters o f iniquity, DR. A . M D A V IS men who did evil for the love o f it. We should understand them better if we considered how likely their D E N T I S T way o f living was to disorder their nerves. No doubt Nero, even if he j O ff lo « m r F a rg u a o n 'a D ra g I t o r t had been brought up in the most £ S H O N I B L A C K 37 modern way, taught from a child to take an interest in nature and to eat only the most wholesome things, would never have been a very useful or pleasant person. But he might have been a harmless faddist or an D r. innocent if undistinguished minor poet. PHYSICIANS SURGEONS As it was, he was the master o f Office over U. S. National Bank th* world, with no one to prevent ^ Office phone Blue 171 him from eating and drinking what Residence Phone Black 116 he chose or from taking whatever other unwholesome pleasure he was inclined to. No doubt he exceeded in everything and suffered from ex treme irritability in consequence. LITTLE FIE LD & ROM IG Unfortunately he could indulge his irritability without restraint. If PHYSICIANS A SURGEONS when he felt cross o f a morning he ordered a senator to die, the sena tor did die, and he heard no more O ffice in F irst N a t’ l Bank Building o f it. Moreover, there was always P h o n s Black 31 fear to work upon a tyrant’ s nerves, and some emperors became tyrants because o f that fear. Domitian was a martyr to it, though a good man o f business. I f he were a stock DR. T H O S .W . HESTER broker o f today, no doubt he would worry himself incessantly about the Physician and Surgeon state o f the markets, and every one would pity him for his nervousness. O ffice in D ixon Building As he was a Roman emperor, we NEWBERG - - OREGON | think o f him as-a sinister villain, who killed men for the pleasure o f r ♦ a * * * * * * * a **« * a *« ***» it. We often hear talk o f that terri Or. Alloa 0. Bowen Dr. H. D. Sowar ble taedium vitae from which Ro man nobles suffered. We should OSTEOPATHIC PH YSICIANS call it nerves now, and our doctors Qradnataa of the A. S O.. KlrkirlUo, Mo. would prescribe a strict diet and a A y e a r ’ s post-graduate w ork in C a l i course of golf or gardening fo r it. fornia ju s t com pleted. W om en ’ s But the Roman noble did n ot know D iseases s S p ecialty. how to treat it. He made a feast O ffice, upstairs opposite postoffice. and drank deep and fast and crown Phones: O ffice, W h ite 75; R e s .- ed himself with flowers and the next morning must have felt it worse than ever. But since he was a Roman noble he is a romantic fig fteaaons Far Baing Indignant. ure to us and not a mere sufferer There was something in the at from our modern disease o f over Phone Office White 22 Res. White 8 mosphere which told him that strain.— London Times. Newberg, Oregon things were not exactly the same. •he Stumped Gladstone. Silence followed Boon after the The story is told that at Hawar- usual greetings,, but at length she spoke. “ Are you aware, air,” she den one morning little Dorothy began, “ that one hand o f the Bar Drew refused to get up. When all tholdi statue measures sixteen feet other means had failed to coax her Chronic di. caro. a .penalty. Calk «m irim i ont o f bed Mr. Gladstone was five inches?" promptly day or might. “ So I have heard,” he nodded, called. Office 213 Main St. opposite Commercial Hotel “ Why won’t you get up, my happy to be addressed again. Phone.: Office, Black 21; Re.., Red 69 “ The thickness of the head from child?” he asked. “ Why, grandfather, didn’t you ear to ear,” she pursued icily, “ is tell me to do what the Bible says ?” ten feet.” A . E. W IL S O N asked Dorothy. “ Yes.” O p t ic ia n “ Yes, certainly.” “ The nose is four feet six inches “ Well, it disapproves o f early ris Eyes examined and glasses made long.” ing; says it’ s a waste of time.” “ That’s rig h t” to fit. Mr. Gladstone knew his Bible bet “ The mouth is three feet across.” Phone Blue 38 202 First SL ter than most men, but he was not “ I believe so. Just imagine it.” “ The waist thirty-five feet equal to Dorothy. For once in his life he was nonplused. around.” “ You listen, then,” went on “ Y-yes. Why?” “ Then will you kindly explain, Dorothy in reply to his exclamation sir,” she continued, “ why you stated o f astonishment, and, turning up in the poem which you addressed ti her Bible, she read the second verse Office over U. S. Natl. Bank me that I reminded you of the God o f the One Hundred and Twenty- dess of Liberty?” — Ladies’ Home seventh Psalm, laying great empha Phone Black 171 sis on the first words, “ It is vain for Journal. ________________ you to rise up early.” ♦ ♦ ♦ • ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ a »»# # »»»»»»»»»«» John S. Rankin S Drs. Bowers & Bowers Dr. E. P. Dixon Dontlft DB. Q. E. STUART Physician & Surgeon J. C. PRICE D E N T IST S treet L ig h tin g . The streets of New York were first lighted in 1697, the lighting being done by a lantern suspended from a pole stretched out from the window of every seventh house. The lighting of streets with gas was first tried in 1816 in Baltimore. At Philadelphia a theater was thus lighted on Nov. 25, 1816, the first >lace o f amusement in America il- uminated in that manner. Gas was first used for lighting houses in Boston in 1822. It had been used thirty years before at Cornwall, England.— Scrap Book. ( Ha Kn*w. They were country people pure and simple, but they had read the papers and thought they were edu cated up to all the improvements of a city. When they went to Wash- ngton they went through the navy department and saw the models of onr ships of war. Pointing to a companion ladder hanging over the side o f one of the boats, she asked ter better half what it was. “ Oh, that’s the fire escape,” ra llied the husband.— Lippincott’s. Ha Got tha Oirl. He had gone to ask her father for ter hand in marriage. '‘ Well, sir, what is it?” snapped out the old man. “ Remember, 1 am a man e f few words.” 'I don’t care if you are a man o f only one word if it’ s the right one,” replied the suitor. He got the girL Veterinary Surgeon Tha Prinea of Grumbler«. When Mr. Beeton asked if he did not find many unreasonable people among his summer boarders Farm er Joy quickly assented. “ Lots an’ lots are never satisfied anyway,” he said. “ N o matter what’s done for ’em there’ll always be something wrong somewhere. “ Now, last sim m er,” he went on, with a gleaming eye, “ we had a man here that was so fond of grumblin’ that one day he actually called for a toothpick after he’d had a glass of m ilk!” — Y outh’s Companion. ; ; d r . j . j . M u r r a y : : \ I Graduate o f American Veterinary 3 ! ; ; College, New York City, 1881 Office Commercial Stables. Phone Black 112 W . W . Hollingsworth A Son Funeral D ire cto rs & E m balm era Graham Criape. Calls Answered Day or Night Lady Assistants. No extra charge Office, White 25 Res. * Black 94 Still Looking For a Sit. at H od son B ros. S to ro N e w b e rg , O re . Mix two cups o f graham flour with one teaspoonful o f salt and one cup o f water. Roll out rather W ILLIAM M. RAMSEY thin. Cut into rounds. Put a layer Attorney-at-Law on a greased pan, brush them with melted butter and put on another M c M i n n v i l l e , O r e g o n layer, pinch edges together, brush Office in the Elsia Wright Building again with butter, prick clear Third street through both layers in several places and bake twenty minutee in C . O . KBBJSBY a hot oven.— Good Housekeeping. “ Sir,” said the youth as he enter Cleaning, Pressing and Pratical ed the private office of the busy Tailoring merchant, “ I am looking for a sit uation.” T h e G rap h ic an d Sem i-W eekly “ Nothing doing, young man,” replied the buav merchant. “ Had J ou rn a l co m b in a tio n fo r $ 2 .0 0 a yon wanted a job I might have been y ea r. W e are a ls o offerin g the able to do something for you. But P o rtla n d E v en in g T elegram and 1 have too many people on the pay G raph ic, fro m n o w until Jan u ary roll now who occupy ait-uationa.” — 11, 1 9 1 4 , fo r $ 4 .5 0 . Chicago Newt.