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About The advocate. (Portland, Or.) 19??-19?? | View Entire Issue (July 28, 1923)
jg, ....... .............a—n • l J L By MARTHA WILLIAMS ! ’ M • • • • SB if SB SB The House of Quality ! She Was Their " Half-Aunt J BP*« <•- Mil, toy M b CI m / b N**«p»|»«r toy«4UaAB) Florette dashed down the garden walk, wearing her grand air the least bit askew. To tbe girl studylug her-, self In a band mirror, she hissed soft ly : “Poor Esiue Hamsun1 The 1’bllto- tlnee are upon her, just as she has bobbed her hair. And there's nut a Plsaslng and Attractive fltyiss In Uta New Delilah of excuse for IL” “Well, what of ItT* Eeme-Haineon asked, yawning faintly. “She can't do any more or worse. Already she has cut me off with one poor dollar In her will." “But today she seems relenting. Anyway, she has come to take us on an allday ride, and the hamper breathes of richness even afar and through Its sole leather," Florette ex In ear Poney Qaeda Boetlon~--Ptoln and Novelty Qoorgsttoe, Silk All pounded. evar Lacca. Metaline Cloth, Ombre Qoorgsttoo, Silk Deml Flounclngo, ”1 love your Imagination,” Esme eta. All flratquallty fabrics at priese surprisingly law. We Invite said, rising laggardly. “The hamper peer Immediate Inspection and selection while the assortment la at coot so much she never feels she can Ito beat afford to put anything In It except bread-end butter sandwiches and jam crackers, with the jam mostly left out." “Thia time Is different. Listen I” Florette flung back. “There's to bo somebody else—double somebody else. In fact Two men—actually. That means eats on top of eats. You know how Marla cottons to trousered beings as well as that she knows men have to bo fed If you expect or wish to see them ever again." “Abem I This grows exciting." A super* toilet noceeelty. In four shades— Natural, Pink, Brunetto Esme answered, reaching both arms and White. High Brown Face Pewder haa earned Ito place la the above her head for n apecinUy choice yellow rosebud. It was no mu.v oeloem of the moot dlocrlmlnato and skeptical unsre of toilet articled golden than the hair straying mistily by Ito own distinctive merit and the complete eatlafactlon to be de above the smooth forehead, no more enticingly curved tflan the slightly rived from Ito use. parted llpo. They said languidly, "Names, please. I'd hate my expecta tions to get a crick tn the neck." Then, Manufactured only by after the least pause, “Names don't really matter so—If only the bank rolls THI OVERTON-HYGIENIC MFQ. are big enough—and the noses not too COMPANY big." “Fate sought to conceal them by naming them Smith—their mother did CHICAQO more and worse by making them Jos eph—Jesse and Joseph." Florette groaned, pretending to bide her eyes In sympathy, though they MRS. I. □. CANNADY danced to match the leaves overhead. “But that Isn't alt nor even the worst,” 402 Buchanan Bldg., PerUand, Ore. she went on. “They ere known to each other, hence to all their familiar Pacific Cocci Distributer world, as Joe-J ease and Jesse-Joe. Ad ditionally—they are twins—of the very worst sort—llker than even two peas'' “Can heaven suffer such things!*’ Esme apostrophised wildly. "It can—and we must.” Florette re turned “Because our succoring Philis FRED JORG, Prop. Broadway 1211 tine Maria told me after reciting those things that they were so awfully glrt- shy ahe'd forgive us all our sins of omission and commission If we'd man age even to bring one of them to the altar—and. of course—the halter." FRESH AND SALT MEATS "It will have to bo 'both or noth ing.’ " Esme sighed. “Since they come Also s Full Line of Staple Groceries double-bsrreled needs must we take 'em so. I wonder bow we'll ever know which le whose?" Phone Order» Delivered Promptly 295 16th Street, North “We may have to resort to brand ing." Florette began. Esme clapped 000004000000OOQOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOQOOOOQOOOOOOOOQOQ her hands. “There Pat Parker will come in well—ho knows all about such things." she cried. "But not on such stock," Florette dissented, adding after a nice balanc ing upon one tiny foot: “Come along and make ready for the sacriflce." "We're no kin at all,” Florette ex plained three days later to a twin Smith—she was not sure which, “Maria resulted from my grandpa marrying Esme'e grandmamma—when both ought to have known better. So she's 170 te 178 Union Ave. North our Joint half-aunt. That excuses our Irreverence—we can each lay all we WEST SIDS OFFICE don't like about her on tbe other blood." 202 Broadway, near Taylor "What Is It you don’t like?" the twin asked, giggling softly. "Her luck." Florette answered shrug ging. “You see. she married money— "By keeping your wardrobe spick and span you'll save much millions of It—and served only six months of tbe life sentence that went in thia year's clothing expense. Have winter garments with It." cleaned before storing.” "And she won't try the game over— bad scran to her!" Pat Parker Inter jected over the girl's shoulder, pre tending to frown. “Heartless. I call It —kapln' the lllegant three av us clane out av our unconstitutional rights The guv'mlnt should alt up and take notice at wanst." Pat was no more Irish than his at tempts at brogue, but liked to be thought so—It excused some of bls audacities. Hence the foreshortening of his baptismal Kilpatrick to a single syllable and maltreatment of the com "The Laundry With a Purpose" monwealth's English. “Say," he balled the other twin Smith now approaching If you’re Prompt with Esme: “Now about maktn* med particular Efficient icine— maktn' It right. Supposin’ the call East 0092 Reliable three av us go at Maria. In battalion, wan by wan—proposin' to her In the „1------------ 1 ■ ■ ■- -- — y selfsame hour—what d'ye reckon would happen?” "The police—on a riot call." Esme laughed. “Our half-aunt is so canny Tm sure she was born with her eye MORTICIANS teeth cut. She may not know what she wants—but she certainly does Montgomery at Fifth know how and when she wants It." Phono Day or Night “Lady—logic—Is Irresistible," Pat Main 4122 returned, bowing. The new-come Smith looked thought ful. “Granddad says, any woman will marry—except a dead one," he said. OUR WAY THI REQAL "I fthat’s true—there's a risk—" paus- Ing with eyes fast on Florette—who le Steam Cleaning or Quality Cleaning cried at him atormlly: "Shame on you I French Dry Cleaning Fie and double Be! We thought you Pressing and Dyeing had at least some sporting blood—we Not merely sponging know Pat and Mr. Other-Smith are and placing a hot iron There la a difference dead game" between our way of on and in thia way doing work and our work the dirt Into the Brother Williams. Imltatora. Our cus garment. In thia way Dey say Time an' Tide won't wait tomers’ clothoe always much harm la done in for no man. an' dey must be too wise look new and have a stead of making the to wait for de women. — Richmond more aristocratic look. garment look like new. Timee-Dls patch. We care for and store your suit while you are out of the city Suits and Dresses High-Brown Face Powder People’s Market Broadway Dye and Cleaning Works Portland Laundry Comp’y J. P. FINLEY & SON Regal Cleaners, Tailors and Hatters 127 North Sixth Street, Bat. Oilcan and Hoyt (with the Orange Front) Phone Broadway 139» Satisfaction or No Pay Mall Orders Solicited I BALL BLUE. I "Tua really want as to try?" fnm> Mr. Ollier Mmlth. Florette nodde-l, Esme shook her head, but the guy chorus from the three men overrode her protest. Tbe group broke up. with a promise to gather and hear the re turns before tennis that afternoon. The girls were over-prompt—nothing masculine greeted their eyes as they strolled toward tbe courts. But dis concertingly, Marla, the Philistine half aunt, was In evidence, yet luckily. In a dissolving view. She called over her shoulder: “itemember, girls—we are due for a long drive after It” and went away high-headed—a small upright fig ure on tiny feet that stepped so de- clsively there was distinction In her movement. Esme looked after her say ing: "Hhe might have married fifty times over—but for the money, it makes her suspect everybody—" “No wonder," Florette Interrupted. "Dad toys she was an ugly duckling Inetead ef a joyous surprise. Ku she was nagged and picked at as long as her parents lived. Enough, 1 say, to ruin any disposition." "Our Argonauts are late.” Esme said, glancing down at her watch. “Coming! I see them In the offing— but they approach like beaten hounds." Florette answered, scanning tbe dis tance, where three laggard figures made baste very, very slowly toward them. When tbe trio were just well within hall Maria shot from an ambush of; shrubbery, saying melllfluously: “Well met, young people! Just what I was hoping for. I bave news to tell— j thanks to render—a weighty choice to make. You have all known how I thought of myself—a pill, so richly gilded some were willing to swallow It—only because of the gilding. Today I have been shown my mistake—three times over by these noble young fel- lowa Tbe morning peper told how my riches bad taken wings—at least, after I die. My husband's executors have dug up a residuary legatee. u littr’y grandson nobody dreamed existed. Yet —these three straightaway proposed to me, one after another—“ "And you accepted all three! I know it I" Esme shrieked with a con vulsive giggle. “Gratitude forbade anything else," said Marta. “Though, of course—I bave a preference.” laying a possessive hand on Pat “But I do hope you girls will be wise enough to realize that my leavings are almost as good as my havings." There she broke tnto the most real laugh of a lifetime, her eyes shifting from one to another of the blank faces fronting her. Pat came up first, say ing with a hard breath: "Oh. ma'am— I renege—because the game was crooklt from the start, belave me— besides, I don't deserve ye." "Indeed," said Maria, trying to purse her lips but falling—they were so full of giggle—then to the Smiths: "And you. Still In the game?" "I am," said Joe-Jesse. Jesse-Joe looked at Eame: "You—you've got tbe say for me." he muttered. Again Maria laughed happily. "She may have you and welcome,” she said, “because, you see, the lawyer-person who took away my fortune Insists that he did It solely In order to give me a better one—his own." Which brought tbe tangle to a prop erly happy climax. eßOY SíDUTS (C»»dvcte4 toy Mallon«! C om «»el I of Ito« •«f Brouta of America > BANKERS AID SCOUT THRIFT Of all countries of Europe, Holland affords, perhaps, the best example of bow the topography of a country af fects the habits of its people, and In- nuances their Ilves. A considerable p-wtian of the low country lies below the level of the sea, and It was to resist its cruel invasions that the gi gantic levees, or dikes, were built Nevertheless, some of the flooded re gions, periodically inundated by the sea, bave been orator-logged for cen turies, and one of these is the prov ince of Overt aoeL Perhaps Its quaint est spot le the floating village of Oletboorn. Taking advantage of the condition of the soil, these hardy Dutchmen have lenrned how to cut away sections of turf, and then float tbem to tbe spot where they are wanted. Considerable skill, of course, le necessary to escape a ducking, because the footing Is uncertain and slippery, and the marshland deceptive and treacherous Poles, about 12 feet In length, are employed to shove off the floating borne sites, which are cut away beyond tbe village limits and then guided to town. Some eight or ten men follow this work exclusively, and. naturally, are very adept In the handling of their poles and the “Is lands” In their charge. Glethoorn has been built up tn this manner.—Popular Mechanics Magazine. Whippoorwills-Woek at Night. Nighthawks and whippoorwills work chiefly at night, when most of other birds are off duty, and at daybreak their good work Is taken up by the swifts and swallows, says Nature Mag azine. These birds are provided with big saapnet mouths, and as they swiu through the air over wide areas of country, they edoop up almost unbe lievable numbers of Insects. Six hun dred were taken from the stomach of a single Arkansas nighthawk. Homing pigeons probably are closer to the human family than any other form of winged life. The birds have remarkable Intelligence. They mate in pairs and the female of each as Ion has exercised her right of suffrage to the extent that the male helps her In hatching out the eggs and la caring for end feeding the voting Feed Baltimore, Md., takes great inter est In her scouts’ citizenship training and offers them frequent opportuni ties for community service. During Boys’ week 50 acted as tr’"< officers. Scout William Aire, Troop 117, above, was stationed at the busiest corner In the city. BOY SCOUTS AS LEADERS When the city of St. Louis, some months ago decided to put on Its safe ty council a corps of junior safety cadets. It placed the responsibility of electing representatives to the forma tion meeting of tbe cadets in the hands of the school children. Then boy scout leadership qualities received a tribute, for the school children elected the entire scout organization—approxi mately 50 troops—for the Important mission. The junior safety cadets now constitute a division cf the council as strong as any of its other divisions It numbers a total of 3,500 boys, who pledge themselves to watch for and stop dangerous practices among their fellows, to report to the proper au thority all dangerous conditions that come to their attention and to spread safety propaganda. The city also con ducts examinations for safety merit badges among boy scouts as part of Its safety program. LIONS DO SCOUTS GOOD TURN The Sacramento (Cal.) boy scouts are rejoicing In the gift of a week end camp site near ’enough to the city so that they can easily go there for week-end camps and for training In outdoor tests. The camp site 1s the gift of the Sacramento Lions, who plan also to raise money enough to erect a lodge on the grounds. SCOUTS’ COUNCIL TO MEET The National Council. Roy Scouts of America, will hold Its thirteenth annual meeting at Interstate perk. New York. July 9 and 10. The sessions for the most part will bo held out-of-door», one discussing camping matters take place around a mammoth campfire at the boy scout camps. Inter state park, the largest boys' camps tn the world. The nat'onal council con sists of over 1.000 members, many of whom are nationally prominent, In the church, school and other lines. Fundamental of Roads Will No. 30, 1 »23 Young Little Do Decayed Animal Causes Limberneck Among Fowls Water Carries Sound. Details The sound of a boll, which can be Better Help heard 45,»M>0 feet through the water, It is not necessary that the rank and can be heard through the air only file of the public should become expert 45« feet. road builders, but the best results will not be obtained until the people them selves are conversant with the funda Are Taa SatfaM? la the biggest, moot perfectly equlpprS mental details of good hlghvmj« and Business Training School In the North- are Intelligent enough to discern be wssl Fit yourself tor a higher position with mere money. Permanent positions tween good legitimate plane and bogus assured our I'.reduatea ones. Write for catalog—Fourth ana Yamhl Portland. P. N. U. Guineas are good layers; the eggs are good for cooking and table use. and the meat, while not as poplar as chicken. Is used extensively In hotel circles to take tbe place of game birds, which their flesh resembles very close ly. The meat of old guineas Is very tough, so they should be eaten before they are a year old, unless kept for breeding. They do not scratch like hens, so are very useful fur eating bugs in fields and gardens. This suits tbem fine, for they dislike confinement, but are great foragers. When the guinea hen starts to lay you may remove some of the eggs, but this must be done very carefully and without touching any of the eggs with the band. It Is recom mended that they be taken from the nest with a wooden spoon. Not less than five eggs must bo left in the nest all the t'me the hen Is laying. She will lay many more than are nqulu-d for one sitting If properly mansqvd. Tbe extra ones can be marketed or used in the household, or set under hens or turkeys, but if, after tbe first five eggs are layed, there are not that many In tbe neat at any time when the ben re turns to lay, it is said she will abandon the nest and start another elsewhere. Some people say the guinea fowl can count five. If not she has a remarkable intuition, and it is well to humor her with regard to her peculiarities. They should not be confined with bens, as they are very domineering and will chase hens all around the yard or pen and prevent them eating with any de gree of comfort. A line of boy scout depositors drawn up at a receiving window la charge of a boy scout teller, Is a fre quent occurrence at an Increasing number of banks where boy scout thrift departments are an established feature. The thrift training of tbe scout pro gram appeals to business men, and American bankers are more and more becoming active allies in scoutlng's work for substantial citizenship. Tbe president of a national bank of Ulchmond, Va.. Oliver J. Hands, says of scoutlng’s thrift requirements for advance In rank: "Earning and de- positing a dollar In a bank before a tenderfoot becomes a second class scout, and two dollars before he be comes a first class scout, means that many thousand Amer'—>n boys are bo- Ing taught tbe great lesson of thrift." A national bank In Spokane, Wash., le an enthusiastic supporter of the movement. A neat tittle folder In which scoots ran paste 5-cent thrift stamps Is is sued by a bank of Portland, Ore. San Francisco scouts for deposits of money earned through their own ef forts receive double points in a thrift contest conducted by a savings bank. This Institution In addition allows tbe boys to make deposits at troop meet ings. A scout’s main Inspiration in saving Is the ninth law which says: "A scout Is thrifty. He does not wantonly de stroy property. He works faithfully, wastes nothing, and makes the best All Chicks ase of his opportunities. He saves bls but It Often money so that he may pay his own Young chicks should be fed a little way. be generous to those In need, and helpful to worthy objects. He may at a time and often. They should be work for pay but must not receive tips fed early In the morning and just be fore going to “bed” at night, and not for courtesies or good turns.” less than two times In the Intervening period. For the first two weeks they A BALTIMORE SCOUT ON DUTY may be fed three meals of soft feed and two of hard, feeding less soft feed as they grow older. No more moistened soft feed should be given at one time than they will eat up dean. If any feed la left It should be removed or It will grow sour and cause bowel looseness and dysen tery. The finely cracked grains may be safely used from tne start, but ths chicks do not as a rule grow as rap idly as when a part of the feed Is ground. When the chicks are from four to six weeks old tbe frequency of feeding may be decreased to three times a day. From the very first chicks should be Induced to exercise. Activity Is a prime factor in promoting health and growth. Feed grain In the litter, and make them scratch for IL A little fine chaff or finely cut clover makes a good litter. FLOATING LAND IN HOLLAND Turf le Transported From Marshland to Add to the Area ef an Exist ing Town Site. Flesh of Guineas Much Like That of Game Birds Limberneck is recognized by the fact that the fowl seems to lose control of Its neck muscles, thereby allowing the head to hang down and touch the ground. Tbe fowl seems powerless to raise tbe bead or bave any control of IL The trouble, according to Harry Embleton, professor of poultry hus bandry at Oklahoma, A. and M. college. Is brought about by tbe eating of de cayed animal matter. "The best means, therefore, of preventing further trou ble la to look the premises over for a carcass of some kind,” Embleton says. “In some cases we have found It to be rabbits. In others, snakes or carcasses of fowls. Castor oil given by means of a small funnel and a rubber tube Insert ed in the food passage seems to help somewhat In restoring the affected birds te health.” Light Brahmas Are Too Large to Mature Early The Light Brahmas are used com monly for capons, but they are rather too large to mature during the com- parativaly short summer season. Nine or ten months would be required for them to mature If they were standard weights Ontario College Gives Tuberculosis Treatment The Ontario Agricultural college re ports that tuberculosis in poultry to very common In that province. There la not a county from which there has not been received for examination bens either dead of, or suffering from, this disease. Almost Invariably a latter accompanies such birds stating that deaths are occurring in the flock at frequent Intervals. Tuberculosis results in considerable financial losses to the poultryman, due to decrease in egg production, and heavy mortality in the flocks where It la present. The disease Is chronic rather than acute. The birds suffering from it usually Lose flesh, turn pale around heed, become listless, tflopy and fre quently lame, while egg laying to re duced to a minimum. To be sure that auch a condition of the blrda to due to tuberculosis it to necessary to bold a poet-mortem exam ination of one of them, The bird should be killed and opened up. If tuberculosis Is present the liver and spleen will be spotted with white or cream colored spots varying In size from s email pin bead to a pea or bean.. These are the eocailcd tubercles, which are composed of dead tissue that has been killed by tbe action of the poison secreted by the tuberculosis bacteria which have developed there. These tubercles are often found on tbe lniertines and In tbe lungs and bones as well as to tbe liver and spleen. Birds suffering from tbe disease give off large numbers of the tuberculosis bacteria In their droppings. Other birds in the flock scratching around ard feeding with such birds pick up the bacteria with their feed and grit and so get Infected. When this disease Is found In a flock It la advisable to kill off all the b rds. Those birds which on examination do i.ot show evidence of the disease may be use«! as food. Those that show the disease should be destroyed by burning or burying deeply in quicklime. The entire premises in which the birds have been kept should then be well scraped, cleaned and thoroughly disinfected by the application of a disinfectant wash or spray, as quick lime, cresol, etc. The runs should be well covered with quicklime and then ploughed deeply. Even after such treatment It would be preferable to establish new runs on fresh ground and then restock from flocks that are known to be healthy. Poultry Producers Now Favoring Infertile Egg The beat of summer has exactly the same effect upon fertile eggs as does the hen or the incubator need to batch them. The fertile germ in hot weather quickly develops Into a blood ring which spoils ths egg for food or mar ket purposes. Heat is the great en emy of eggs, both fertile aud In fertile. On this account poultry pro ducers are urged to keep nests clean during warm weather; to provide one neat for every four fowls, in order that the nests may not 'be used too often and soil the eggs; to gather eggs twice dally; to keep eggs in a cool, dry room or cellar; to market eggs at least twice a week. Hens Isolated on range and pasture from the male birds produce Infertile eggs of desirable market qaallty. In general, about two weeks after the roosters are removed from the flock tbe bens will sgaln yield Infertile eggs. Occasionally hens running with mala birds produce infertile eggs, but as a rule this results from the fowls being confined too closely, being overfat. or not having access to enough green feed. Best Plan to Segregate Geese From Other Birds Geese need a separate range from poultry if many geese are raised. The big birds are not particular where they dig their bills, but are sure to wash them off tn the bens’ driuklng water POULTRY POINTS er the crocks of sour milk. This means dirty water for the hens or fie- The rearing of ducks for market on quent emptying and refilling of troughs a large scale requires extensive capi or pails. If the hens are on a limited tal and experience. range they will need plenty of tender e • About SO per cant of the chicks grass and geese also need a lot of hatched die. For every six eggs used grass. If geese are allowed to range where for hatching purposes uno mature young chicks are growing the geese pullet Is produced. eeo will steal the mash and some of tbe After the growing poults “shoot tbe scratch feed. This Increases the cost red” as It le called, that la after the per pound of producing gooee meat, bright red begins to show on their and the profit in geese la duo to the heads and necks, there fa comparative fact that they are largely grass eaters ly little danger of loss except through and can be raised, on chea^feed. accident or hostile animals. Interesting Changes in Jerusalem Artichoke Is New Type of Hard Road Good for Growing Stock The Jerusalem Artichoke, and espe cially tbe Mammoth French White, de serves more attention from poultry men. Extremely hardy and prolific. It can be grown almost anywhere and un der any conditions. The green shoots form abundant shade and eucculent feed for growing stock, the closeness of the foliage helps to choke out weeds, while the tubers keep well, are rel ished for winter feed for laying hens and early spring feed for little chicks. —-a----------------------- Several interesting changes are ap parent tn a new type of concrete road form, described In Popular Mechanics Magaslne. The new form Is of stool, tbreo-aixteenths of an Inch thick, and comes In twelve-toot sections instead of the usual ton-foot lengths, and Ito top edge has been made rounded, no that It is Impossible for small stonoo or concrete to lodge there and canoe the finishing machine to ride high. la Shape All the Time. There Is no longer any question that most of our dirt roads If rightly cared A giant sand dune overlooking Grand for would bo In fair shape at any Haven, Mich., la to be rescued by tbe time of the year. local boy scouts from disintegration by Ride In Airplanes. sand blows Seventy-five scouts passed By the time all the statee get their their spring vacation working to save the dune. More than 20.000 poplar good rewds programs finished the world clippings were planted along the sides. will be riding In airplanes. Yearly plantings will be made until the brush growth controls the blows. It Is estimated that five years’ work will be required before the dune la out of danger of annihilation. ___ SCOUTS TO SAVE GIANT DUNE