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About The advocate. (Portland, Or.) 19??-19?? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 11, 1923)
TMB ADTOCATB eoOSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMODOOOSMOMOM*» Ducks Grow Quickly and Excel in Laying Ability The House of Quality Plaiting and Attractive Btylaa In the Naw Suits and Dresses In our Fancy Goods Bectlen»-»Plaln and Novelty Georgettes, Silk All* over Lacca, Matallna Cloth, Ombre Qeorgattee, Silk Demi Fleunclnge, eta. All Fret-quality fabrics at prices eurprlalngly law. We Invite your Immediate Inepectlon and ealectlen while the aaaertmont la at Ita baaL In considering the possibilities of the poultry Industry, tbe heavy egg produc tion and quick maturing qualities of the duck should not be overi<oked. Inicks will lay more eggs than chick ens snd will. If properly fed and han dled, weigh six pounds each at nlue to ten weeks of sge. Unllk« chickens, ducks may be housed in very inexpensive bouses. One Indiana woman who a few years ago sold over 81.KM) worth of ducks In a year, housed them In rail pens covered with siren, at a coat of less than 310 for the entire flock. However, their pena muat be well bedded with clean, dry atraw, as a duck with cold feet will not lay. A well-drained location atiould be choaen for duck pena, aa low, damp ground Boon becomea unsanitary. In duck ralalng. aa In all other branches of the poultry Industry. It Is wisest to start with a small number ot birds or eggs, learning as you proceed, rather than to plunge In to “make or break.** which to tbe beginner usually means break. A large, well matured drake mated to five to aeven thrifty ducks will produce 0O to list duck», which la about aa many na the email poultryman or farmer'a wife can care for aucceaafully. Unleaa ilia brooding quartern are warm, ducka should not be hatched too early, aa the loss from chilling and cramps will offset the gains from ak early market. Feeding Young Tur!:?^ Is Not Difficult Task FRED JORG, Prop. Broadway 1211 People’s Market Feeding young turkeys la al>out the same as feeding young chicks, and ■" a first feed for the poult they may be given stale bread, soaked In milk and aqueexed dry, to a crumbly state, and mixed with finely chopped hard-boiled eggs, cracker crumbs and dandelions. Feed them the food frequently, every two hours for the first couple of days, after which they should I* given grain feed of wheat, oats and barley, equal parte, ground together and suf ficiently fine for them at this tender age. After the poults have reached two weeks In age, feed them a mash of equal parts of cornmeal and the. ground grain feed, moistened with sweet milk, to which should be added a small amount of finely cut meat, and feed nt least three times dally. If con fined In rune, or twice dally, mornings and evenings, when allowed to range Grit la necessary, and a liberal su|>- ply should always be near at hand. Charcoal la excellent for the poults, and at times soma should be used In their food. Free Choice System of Mash Feed for Chickens FRESH AND SALT MEATS A study of the free choice system of mash feeding for eblekeus made by the United Staten Department of Agriculture at lta experiment farm Phone Orders Delivered Promptly 295 16th Street, North located at BeltavUla. Md.. showed that th a best resulta and highest egg pro OOOOOOOOOOQOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOQOOOQOOOOQOOQQOQOQ duction are obtained when hens are allowed to select their own mash con stituents. It was found that hens se lected a mssh composed of 66 part» cornmeal. 26 psrts meat scrap. 4 part wheat bran and 4 parts wheat mid dllngs. This mash gives beet results with Leghorns, end a less stimulating mash, containing more bran and ro(/S££ A ground oats, with less meat scrap, hue given better results with generul pur pose breeds. Also a Full Line of Staple Groceries i Broadway Dye and A9VZ4' Cleaning Works 170 te 170 Union Ave. North LEA st 0625 WIST SIDS OFFICE 202 Broadway, near Taylor "By keeping your wardrobe spick and span you'll save much in thia year's clothing expense. Have winter garments cleaned before atoring.“ Light Breed Cockerels Should Be Sold Early Light breed cockerels should be sold early; It seldom pays to feed them to maturity. If broilers are early It pays best to sell the fowls when two or three pounds In weight rather thnn to keep till heavier. This la especially so when the sexes cannot be separated and where the runs are small, the pul lets will soon require all the room and green feed available. POULTRY POINTS Portland Laundry Comp’y "The Laundry With a Purpose" If you're particular call East 0092 Prompt Efficient Reliable J. p. FINLEY & SON Never use a fowl that la known to be constitutionally weak tn the breed Ing pen. • • • Ducks thrive on sandy soil whereas turkeys do best on land which Is high and dry, see Hatch bantams In July and August If you want small-slxed birds as they should be. • • • Prevention costa very little labor; Inspection often reveals surprises. “Stop, look and think." • • • It Is folly to market your large, choice fowls and use the Inferior ones for breeding. «• tr HoCItut N»«<>iM|>«r Br»4ta»l» > Ed Cranston was spending ■ few days of Ills leava of absence from tbe academy at Annapolis la seeing tbe playa be bad been readlag about all winter. Next year be would be at sea and this was bls last opportunity to see some of lite good productions offered from tbe stage. None of Us classmates happened to be with him and be could not tblnk of the address of a single girl In town. Otherwise bo would not have gone to the theater alone. He managed to get a single seat on the center aisle pretty well down in front. He took off hls overcoat and hat and was standing waiting for tbe usber to take him to bls aeut. As be stood In tbe semi darkness of the back of the theater, be saw a beautiful face coming toward him up the aisle. Hls eyes bad traveled no further than tbe girl's face so that when she stood before him clad In tbe Quaker gray uniform of the tbo- ter'a ushers and was repeating “Check please,” be came hastily to hlmaelf and apologised all the way down to hls seat. Unfortunately, tbe seats In^ront of him were nearly all occupied and only twice did tbe girl need to paas him to show patrons to their places. As often as he dared, before the curtain rose, he looked back to get a glimpse of her as she deftly wound her way In and out among the hurrying seat-seekers, "Rowlod over—In my last year,” be admitted, weakly, n< hr i ilrnwl « Uli n secondary Interest to hla program, She had given him the leaflet, appar- ently, though he had forgotten that detail In the wonder of the moment. Craneton thought he had never seen so stupid nor so long drawn out an act as the first setting of the play. The house was dark; be had no excuae to turn around; ha did not know where abe was. At laat the curtain deacended and the lights came on. Leaving hla coat In tbe aeat. he took bls hat and walked back to tbe promenade aisle. Aa be brushed through a group of men he came suddenly upon the lovely ueher. Hla eyes caught and held hera for an Instant, not knowing why he hod come back there, hs wandered aimlessly up and down. Suddenly he discovered thst ths young woman was passing glasses of Ice water, held In a rack, to tl»e per- sons seated. He hastened to his seat In order to be there when she should be no kind aa to offer him a drink. Aa he almost dashed to his seat It occurred to him that he wax acting far more nearly like a plebe than an upper claaaman. It occurred to him, also, that in and about Annapolis. that part of the Sonth so famed for lta beautiful women, he had never seen a girl one-half so lovely as this simple uniformed usher whom he did not know. “Oh—thank you—thank you,” be was saying as he took a glass from the rack. She must think him stupid. In deed. She stood very close to him as she reached over to pass the water to others tn the aisle beyond him. "May I help you?" he asked as he collected the empty clips and handed them to her. She flashed him a «on- drotis smile—a smile that promised to make the second act even duller than the first had seemed. Darkness again. Cranston sat ir ritably watching the actors walk stu pidly across the stage and ntter hits of dialogue meant, no doubt, to thicken the plot of the play. The heroine seemed clumsy as he thought of the graceful girl In gray sitting some where In the back of that endless crowd. When the curtain went down on the big scene, the big moment of the play, snd the nndlence called the play ers back again and again, he looked at the enthusiasts as If they were fit for nothing but a madhouse. They were keeping the house dark: they were keeping the girl out of hls sight. “I've always said that just around the most unexpected comer of life I was going to find the greatest thing In the world.” hr remembered saying to himself as he strode back to get a glimpse of her. He almost ran Into her ax she emerged with her rack of water cups. “rm sorry," he said, bowing, hum bly. “Don't be—please." she replied, laughingly. What a voice I Cranaton knew she was the girt when he had heard her voice. He felt that It had a southern Intonation, even though ha had heard her utter none of tbe tell-tale words. During the third and last act he did not even see the stage. He wax won dering how he was going to meet that girl—meet her properly and wait for the proper moment in which to tell her how completely and wholly she had, in one short walk up a theater aisle toward him. crept into hla heart. Ila left lbe theater with only one other glimpse of her aa abe hurried away with two other girls, after hav ing changed her uniform and donned a big, warm coat and a gray, becom ing bat. At dinner, picked up In a chop house, he was disconsolate. He walked tbe streets untii 8 o’clock, when be found bls way back to the same the ater and bought a seat in tbe xutne section of the bouse. Then It occurred to him that perhaps she was only on day duty. Surely euch a lovely young woman could not be out at night alone. Hls heart skipped a beat whan he beheld her and once more beard her ask for his check. She looked at him oddly. "You must bsve entered the play,” she ventured as she handed him back hls check at the seat entrance. "Ob—a—yes. No—I really didn't quite grasp tt thia afternoon,” be stam mered. Then she did scrutinize him. There was nothing to grasp in that play, baby could have understood IL Even at the night performance watched tbe girl far more than stage ami she seemed to he luteiealed In him—either curiously or otherwise. he could not tell which. At the beginning of tbe third act be did not take bis seat again. He stood at tbe back. She. too, was standing. “I wonder.” he found himself saying, as they stood by the rail together. "I wonder If you know any of the upper classmen at the Naval academy thia year?” The girl's face lighted up. “Do ir she gasped, “I should pretty nearly think I did. My very biggest, grandest cousin Bob Tremain is—” “Never Bob Tremain—tbe old Vir ginia rascal. la he your cousin 7" Tbs girl nodded. "My name is Babe Trenin In—hls Is Bob. I’m crazy about him and so proud of him. He's asked me for the bop." That was all Cranston needed. “Ill see your card before you arrive and— you won’t mind If I—take a good many dances, will you?” he asked. My name Is Cranston. Ed Cranston. Write to Bob about me and get my creden tials." "I don't need a man's credentials any more. I've been out on my own so long now, earning my living and being knocked about a bit. I pretty nearly know a man when I see him.” "Then—I shall hope -and be pa tlent," he said. “I do want us to to» properly’started on what looks to ma like a very prlmrosy path.” She looked nt him and laughed, “It does look pretty—even to me. I'll be st the hop, so don't be afraid of your dances." He wanted to shake hands. He wanted to take her home. But he knew that the right way was to wait And he waited. “You ushered me right Into life, Baba,” he told her after the hop. Beg. Sun. Night B ia A 4 A T««. D.a, Feared the Reeuitc. Father—That fellow you're going with Is a bad egg. Daughter—I know It. Pd have dropped him long ago if It weren't for that. Batter Than Wife Thinks Him. No matter bow much of an old sin ner n married man may be, the chances are that he doesn't do half the things that hls wife suspects him of doing.— Allentown Record. H illa ■ fl VUl I ■■ Emeraoa Hough'. World i .mou. Story of the OREGON TRAIL th covered WAGON e Craaa. (I 10 a EPIC IN OREGON PORTLAND 'The Covered Wagon,” Famous Motion Picture Depicting Founders of the Shown at the Opening Tbe late the Pioneer State, to be Heilig Theater 12. August Emerson Hough wrote "Tbe Covered Wagon” and published , it in Saturday afterwards In the adventures, Evening a book Post and to illustrate hardships, fortitude and glory of the early pioneers who achieved the difficult and hazardous passage of tbe 2000-mile Oregon Trail I from tbe banks ot the lower Missouri to the Columbia. The wonderful record of the pioneers’ feat has been pictured by Paramount. On account of tbe historical and local interest of the theme to all the people of the Northwest, Portland the end of the Trail Is favored with the first unit production whilst the extraordinary Cleaning Leather. Leather pieces that are not badly marred will clean nicely with nfm<md oil on fine cloths. Portraits that are exposed may be wiped very carefully j with a damp cloth, then with a fine cloth with a wee bit of almond olL They should be wiped carefully with soft, clean cloths. Tha wiping must be done quickly and very lightly. Some- , times just a damp cloth will be suffi- flent. A dry brush and soft cloth are all that It Is safe to use In cleaning fine gilt frames unless they need doing over badly, in which case an old-fash ioned remedy is as follows: T’«e flour of sulphur enough to color golden, a pint and a half of soft water. In this boll two chopped onions until soft, then strain and cool the liquid. When cold, use It to go over the frame with a camel's hair brush, and when the frame dries It will look like new. Difficult Form of Song. The Sl-jo Is n long and slow process, said by the Koreans to be ibe most difficult form of song. A drum accom paniment consists merely of a drum beat from time to time as an indica tion to the vocalist that she has quav ered long enough upon one note. The melancholy note which seems the mo tif of most Oriental music becomes an extreme plaintiveness, due probably to on almost unlimited quavering on one note. The second style of Korean music Is the Ha Ch'l, or popular music, the leading song of the Ha Ch'i being the A-ra rung of 782 verses. There is a third style between the classical and popular, but hardly worth mentioning. Love songs are popular. M 3.is «MS is PORTLAND. ORE MISS LOIS WILSON As the Oregon Pioneers Daughter in •The Covered Wagon,” runs in New York, Chicago, Boston and Los Angeles are still in progress. This epic of the Forty-Niners will ■ come to the Heilig Theatre, Port- jland, for two weeks beginning Sun- I day evening. August 12. It will not | be shown In “movie” houses any- where for at least two years to come. Tbe Portland production will have a symphony orchestra equally large as those in the metropolitan cities. While historically accurate, "The Covered Wagon” Is not in any sense a chronicle but rather a love-and- adventure dramatization of The Trail. Love, battle, birth, death, thrill, ro mance play their parts as potently as in "The Birth of a Nation.” Lois Wilson is the beautiful heroine and fair driver of the prairie schooner, with J. W. Kerrigan and Alan Hale as rival suitors for her hand. Three thousand people were employed In making the production. Two shows will be given daily at 2:15 and 8:15 with the price scale of 81.65 top. evening, and 31.10 top matinees. Living on Easy Avenue. A group of wealthy New York fami lies finding the servant and supply problem of private houses annoying, have built on Park avenue a great 313.000.000 apartment house with apartments that range from two rooms tn a bachelor apartment at 85,000 a year to 22 rooms for a nominal rental of 355,000 a year, and the tenants have all been hand-picked. As they didn’t want to be bothered with em ploying servants they sent to France for Louis Sherry, who used to run New York's swellest restaurant in booze days, saya Capper's Weekly. Now when a maid Is wanted the ten ant has merely to press a button and there’s always one waiting to answer ss promptly aa a fire engine. Cooks likewise. A private household can be equipped with every possible need from a box of matches to a flunky to light them In thirty minutes. Big Ship Heavily Insured. The greatest insurance ever writ ten in the American market for a single ship has been taken by the American Marine Insurance syndi cates. The syndicate, which was cre ated more than a year ago, to pro vide a market capable of carrying 82,500.000 risk on a single American vessel, announced that 77 members have accepted an Insurance of 32,000,- 000 on the Leviathan on her trip from New York to Newport News. Tbe giant liner also la insured for $2,500,- 000 while under repair at the south ern port. Additional Insurance has been written abroad. The liability which the syndicate has assumed would have been impossible without the formation of syndicates. Badger Girls Resolve. Pledged to accomplish at least one act of social service each semester, thirteen woman studenta of the Uni versity of Wisconsin have organized a woman’s sociology club, to be called the Alpha Pi Epsilon. The Impetus for the creation ot such a club—which is encouraged by the faculty of the sociology department—came from a group of senior women specializing in sociology. Repays Sum Borrowed When Boy. Mansfield. Pa.—An old man who did not reveal hla name recently sent to Robert Urell a one-dollar bill “in pay ment for 25 cents I borrowed when a boy.” The aged man said he felt duty bound to repay the money, and that he “calculated the 75 cents would cover Interest for the Ioan." The spectroscope can detect the millionth of a milligram of matter and tell the nature of matter billions of utiles away. Red Cross BALL BLUE I ia needed in every department ot houae- ■ keepios. Equally good tor to wets, table M linen , aheeta and pillow ca s e» . Gravara I BEHNKE-WALKER ve IM jansnea: susinisj college Is the biggest, moat perfectly equipped Business Training School In tha North west. nt yourself for a higher position with more money. Permanent positions assured our Graduates Write tor catalog—FourUa ant. lamhi; Portland. Ira Van CatieCaal? P. N. U No. 32, 1923 MORTICIANS A TRANSFERRED GOQD TURN Montgomery at Fifth Phono Day or Night Main 4322 Z! THE REGAL, OUR WAY Quality Cleaning le Steam Cleaning or Proaelng and Dyeing French Dry Cleaning Not merely sponging and placing a hot iron on and In thia way work the dirt into the garment In thio way much harm le done In stead of making the garment look like new. There la a difference between our way of doing work and our Imltatora. Our cue- tomere* clothea always look new and. have a more aristocratic look. We care for and store your suit while you are out of the city A lad and a lady each with a transfer and both without change were the prin cipal figures In the following* ‘'good turn“ by a member of the boy scout troop connected with a Legion post. Milwaukee, WIs. “Gave up my trans fer to a lady who had taken a wrong one," saya the scout's laconic state ment. “Without the proper transfer she would have had to walk quite a way, whereas I had only about a mile to go out of mine.“ SCOUT RADIO FANS UNITE Members of boy scout Troop 1 B of Bloomington, Bl., are very congenial tn their tastes, for each one Is a specialist In radio and signal work and able to Instruct along those lines. Many of the boys are Eagle scouts. These lads are now following a special course, one 127 North Sixth Street, Bet. Gliean and Hoyt (with the Orange Front) evening a week, on subjects Including radio, telephone, telegraph, signalling, Phone Broadway 1399 map reading, visual tactics, elementary Satisfaction or No Pay Mall Orders Solicited electricity, codes, ciphers, aemapbom •j wig-wag, and flash and sound. Regal Cleaners, Tailors and Hatters FIND FLOATING LAND IN HOLLAND —— Turf le Traneported From Marshland te Add to the Area ef an Exist ing Town Site. Of all countries of Europe, Holland affords, perhaps, the best example of how the topography of a country af fects the habits of its people, and in fluences tbelr lives. A considerable portion of the low country Iles below the level of the sen, and It was to resist Its cruel Invasions that the gi gantic levees, or dikes, were built. Nevertheless, some of the Hooded re gions, periodically Inundated by the sea. have been water-legged for cen turies, and one of these is the prov ince of Overyasel. Perhaps Its quaint est spot Is the floating village of Glethoorn. Taking advantage of ths condition of tbe soil, these hardy Dutchmen have learned how to ent away sections of turf, and then float them to tbe spot where they are wanted. Considerable akllL of * course, IB necessary to escape a ducking, because the tooting Is uncertain and slippery, and the marshland deceptive and treacherous. Poles, about 12 feet In length, are employed to shove off the floating home sites,' which are cut away beyond the village limits and then guided to town. Sea:; eight or ten men follow thia 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 In thia manner.—Popular Mechanics Magazine. Originality. The most original authors of modern times are so, not because they produce what Is new. but only because they are able to say things the like of which seems never to hnve been said liefore. Thus the beet sign of originality Iles In taking up n subject and then de veloping it so fully an to make every one confess that he would hardly have found so much In It—Goethe. Declares Science Will Add 20 Year« to Life Atlantic City, N. J—Death under clared, asserting that present-day re seventy-five years of age of diabetes. search soon would make It as great a Bright's disease, cardo-vascular ail crime to die young of one of the now ments and, perhaps, cancer soon will supposedly fatsl ailments as It now 13 be a crime, according to Dr. Claude A. to die of typhoid fever. Burrett of Rochester, president of the Cloisonne enamel was supposed to American Institute of Homeopathy, at have originated In India or Persia. the Institute's annual convention. Pocketbooks, tobacco pouches nnd Modern scientific methods will add 20 years to man's average span of Ufe even gloves are now made from tha within the next half-century, he de-(skins of rata Gems Returned in Dark After Threat of Search Norfolk, Vs.—When diamonds val ued at several thousand dollars d!sap- poared In a womens dressing room st ,i local beach resort tbe manager an nounced to the half-dosen women pres ent that the llgbta would be turned out for two minutes and that If at the end of that time the jewels were not re turned all women present would have to submit to a search. At the end of th« two minutes of darkness the stolen jewels were found on the bureau from whence they bid disappeared. Texas Girl Wed Over Phone. Fort Worth. Tex.— Miss Helen Leona Satterwhite, alttlng at the tele phone office tn Fort Worth, was we*L ded to Horace Keller, critically 111 In the naval hospital at Bremerton. Wash., by a tong distance ceremony.