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About Weekly Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1900-1924 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 20, 1904)
WEEXLY OSEaOU" STATESMAN: TUESDAY, DECE1IBE3 20, 1901. umwmvm sale In our fashionable Readj-to-Wear section. More" style, garments and a wider range of selection than you can find elsewhere and then the pnceH-heres where you save h just1 ' : : - . OMD HAILF . : : Pf ,aAlIie Sarmtnts are Pclircguiar. -'. Ilemember we are show ing THIS SEASON'S 81TI.ES and they are inelnded in this mag nificent ofTer." - . . - 1 , Lfxdies'i Suits. Skirts, Jackets, WaJste end Children's Dresses. 1 Are being offered as a grand closing to this ' year's business. -.They are all reduced OBJED HAILF . - $10.00 Tailor made salt reduced to "aZO.OO " . - $25.00 930.00 ' M ' I ft ...S5.00 .10.00 .SI2.50 .$15.00 UMBRELLAS A con t I n uoua it h ly. " A mott ac ceptable gift for either lady or gentle man. Here can ' be found a grand as sortment in all the wantetT kinds. Lad lea' umbrellas in colors red, navy, green, plains, changeable and polka dots . S2.75 to S5.00 Clanks with all manner of pretty handle. The best 45c to $12.50 The staple articles for men's needs are here In great varie! - 75c to $8.50 DRESS GOODS VELVETS Plains and flared for waists, and shirt waist suit. The newest eflects.............7c to $1.23 CHIFFON The newest novelties in ' figured chiffon, 44 inches wide, in great vailety., ......... ...... $1.75 LACE ROBES The swellest gar ments for evening wear; in wnlte and blank. ...........$IS 50 to $30. OO DRESS PATTERN -Beautiful fa ; brkis of dress' goods for mother or bister Is by far the best and most radical gift -you ooald select- We ive a splendid variety in blacks and colors. HANDKERCHIEFS In great varieties. No lady has too many. Oar variety offers a wide range of selection " , 1c to $5.00 WRJST BAGS Are in great demand as gift for wom en ana among the newest novelties are the' , ENVELOPE BAGS and card cases in brown and blacks, with all neces sary fittings, lined with figured fcilk....... ....,............$1.25 to $2 SO "PEGGY FROM PARIS" is an. ot her very popular shopping Lag, : .We have them Jn all wanted colors and slzes...........7Sc to ST. SO INDIAN WAMPUM BAGS In col ors, red, green and grey. The new novelty bag finished with stringed beads- ............78e to $1 .25 . : 1 1 GLOVES Beautiful line of Christmas gloves la all sizes and shades. A very pleasing gift to your lady friend. Never mind the si .e get a certificate and let her make lier own selection ? $L00to$2.00 ! v RIBBONS The newest effects in ribbons are found hert first, such as t DR.ESDENS PERSIANS FLORALS AND FANCIES .. - . , .... .. . .... , " : ' - , .rUERAH for ganta Clans and for all the wonderful things he i uririgs, riiib uusy swuo i iuu witu iiuutucus auu uuuuicus of choice presents for; everyone- Remember now is the time to make your selections as stocks are still complete and they may not be when, the rush is on. J CTST SIX SHOPPING DATS IN WHICH TO FINISH. Perhaps we can help you m ' . A ' rTT . T solve some 01 tne perplexing quesxions Dy onenng numerous sug gestions m this announcement where everything is as represented and prices much lower than elsewhere. m TOYS FOR. BOYS Just a bint of, the many things for boys presents. : . . Ste&m Engines . SteeLin Boats Locomotives) J Magic Lanterns ! Dattledoor and Shuttlecock Mechanlcekl Toy t Rvbber Ball .x Sword, Gun Building Blocks : Rocking Hors WEDNESDAY ONLY Special Sale No. 207 Lsst week's picture sale was such a pbenoiu enal success we have decided on anftthor which eclipses all former ellori. For Wednesday we offer a line of . : . . pictur.es Rauglng In price from 50c to 75c and bargains at those prices 25c TOYS 'FOR GIRLS Just a few of the many fine gifts for gtrls Dolls, Doll Bed. . Doll Dishes. Shoe, Go-Carts, Work Box Clov and Hat Box . Jumping Rope Toy Piano ' Horn Cup svnd Saucer. , Prtty Vaao Garnet, Stove Pictures SKop In the Mornings SKop in the Mornings RAirJ'C'OAl-SI Na other mercantile tstablis&ment offers sacb grand bargains in men's serviceable rain coats as, can . be found in this grc.it shopping center. Ihese garments are all of this season s sor. injs and are made up of rainproof: goods . including the justly f imous "Cravenetto"' goods in colors, tan, grey, Oxfrtrd and dark mixtures. $12.00 RaiAcboLts Reduced to S9.S5 SI6.00 ' S13.50 , S20.00 , " " " S15.00 522.00 - ' "- " S16.00 MUFFLERS Just received a full line of Drum mer's Sample Mo filers No two alike. Exclusive patterns all marked at special prices which are 23 per cent lower than regular Boys Sweaters Paves mother work and makes the boy happy. Newest tock, best patterns. All combinations of colors. 75c to 52.25 JUST IN Advance styles of spring Hats for Men In three styles and colors 53.00 aid 53.50 CARD CASES A fine showing of tle newert and best leather aiticlcti for holiday presents lor men. . Leather pocket bookn Leather Corcl Cases In sies, shsfM and any fancy r jMirwe. prjees to tuit i LEGGINS Ladies' Black Jersey and Russet Leather Leggins. C b 1 1 dren's sizes In colors, red,' white and blue velvet and corduroy leggins 75c to 52.00 NECKWEAR. A superit exhibition of special holi day neckwear for men im ludingthe staple and always wanted FOUa-I N-lfANIS TECKS, PUFFd, AND ENOL.ISH SQUARES In almost eudic-ss variety. Twill be easy tn please you with this elegsnt assortment. 25c to 52.00 SUSPENDERS Of every description. Iltwts of styles to choone from, from the lojs' size to the full size; fancy embroidered ones specially made for gifts 50c to 52.00 HANDKERCHIEFS Of all kinds. No need to be with out one when you can get them here for such little prices. Mention is made of a few. JAPANETTE INITIAL 10c LINEN INITIAL 23c Othtr values np to. $bOO Tamoshantcrs Regular 50 and The wooly. kind. 75c values, special 25c Store Open Evenings Until Mas Seve n A m bitio ns of Woman A woman's longing for a rarecr is "ky, Saliie, I'll furnish the grub far lite if you II conie and sit opposite me. What do yoii nay. Is it a bargamt'f Hy tlje end of U- Iter first soaion the girl has generally abandoned her first Hint it ion to be uislly, poetically ami romantically 1ovn1. She's lnjfiin j to get a little acquainted with the worll um it really exist, and ft'iic has found out that romance is a blanket that rover a multitude of vulgarities. It doeHn't strike, her as romantic any mare to meet a drummer in the park, or itet letters that are addressed to a false name. It seems downright rom- either a manifestation of abnormal vanity, pinching poverty or domestic BJiflery. The natural woman cares little for fame, or philanthropy, and-'when she starts out on a still hunt for the laurel wreath, or undertakes to reform the Sins of t'ue world, you may depeiid Ufoa it that there is a pebble in her shoe somewhere, and that she is t Ty ing .to distract her thoughts from her suffering by outside diversions. - ' Generally speaking, therefore, the interests of a girl who has a good home and agood father, able and willing to give her. frills ,and frivols, concerns themselves with matters of the affec tion. She wants to be loved. She ex pects fo maW love her career in life, and she starts out with t bene seven am bition: ' 1. Ta'lo lored msdly aad rotnan ticallr. " -'2. To be the only one 3. To be Idved. 4. To marry her ideal, To get married. - v . To be a perfect wie. , 7. To get along in reasonable" peatfe. It's rather a sliding scale, but most things ia life are. f When a girl first begins to.thhik of love her standards are those ot the novel and the stage, snd she wants to bo wooed-in sizzling - language by a lover Wiio will clutch her to his manly breast in a way that will loosen her bark. hair. This is a time when good little girls, who do not mean ay harm in the world, answer advertisements in the papers, and have clandestine ' ap pointments with men their psrents never heard of, and then they write letter that their fathers have to pa out good money to get baek sometimes. Thev are simply - hypnotised, dragged, doped, oa romance, and, like Lydia Languish, are ready to marry anybody who will elope with them. widower, if only, ahe can be assured that the affection she is, getting is gen nine. , - :. . She still clings to oue idea ten.ici ously, however, and t'nat is that the will not marry until h? finds her ideal. She doesn't know exactly what that i, but it is something between a detnigad and a count of Monte Oisto. lie miwt be big and strong and able to command events. He must To so stern that oth ers tremble at his frown, yot sne must he able to bend him to her slightest wish. He munt rule her, vet never let her perceive it. lie must be soulful men, and indecent, and servant-girlish, and intense, yet able to make money, Hht has also ascertained that whatever only, of course, yon muftTtrt be able to other charms and fascinations the av- smell the grocery or the dry goods on ersge msa has, making picturesque the money. lie must be a man of tne lore 19 not one of his accomplishments.. world, yet a model of all the virtues. No Knglishmsn or American can do it. j 'She doesn't find. that kind pf a man. They aren't built that way. They can He doesn't exist, and though it comes be earnest enough and forceful enough, with a wrench, she finally tears the am but they can't get down on their knees bition out of ser heart to marry her witnout feeling idiotic -and looking the, ideal. She begins then to think of part. i . 'matrimony on a common-sense plat- In consequence of all these draw- form, and to realize that explain, prac hncks tho girt revise her ambitions, tieal husband who is willing to stand She doean't care so much for the mere for ber shopping ticket, m worth hav-words-of loye, but she yearns to be'ing, even -if 'ne hasn't any yearnings the Only One. , She wants to feel tbatafter the what ness of the what, and up to the time a mao met iier his heart! knows more about the price of salt was an impregnable Vortres that wo- j codfish than he does about Browning, men bad stormed in vnin, or that he Moreover, she begins io find out that had gone through life hopelessly seek- she can be exceedingly fond of a fat, ing an ideal creature until by chance freckled-faced, sandy-haired man, wao he discovered ner. She isn't heartless, doesn't come-within a million miles of or, unkind, or unsympathetic, but it af- realiiing her girlish dreams of the ort fords her exquisite rapture 'to believe , of a man she would permit to lead ber that should she say "So tbatlis life to the altar. Now and then, it is trne, henceforth would be dust and ashes, as long as he livew in time of donaes and t'nat he would never lore again. , i tie: stress, sh will think tenderly of tee This curious ? vanity of women, -iatideal she didn't find, and who would wanting to think that they are the only have understood her, but she never v ... . i" It 1 . i j ' ones who could inspire anection ia, u. man. is so well recognized thst ; men generally head ofT the inevitable quesj tion: "Did yon ever love beforef" by starting out with the mendacious as ser tion t'nat the girl they are. courting is . My dear child, doa 't be- th. lamt a cirl win iinartu,! vnnnirtths first one n . her and would I lteve it if the man is over IS, and doesn 't make any" "difference anyway. Love isn't like a' irarment. It isn't fellov. who real! v loves her and would . pay her bills for her the balance of her life without complaiaing, but who halts and stumbles and threatens to ehoke on Lis Adam's apple in hi lovemsking, for any kind of a picturesque wretch 'with a glib tongue. This is the time whtn she thinks 'love is enough,-and : ih&t it would be simply sweet to starve witu a man who passionately adore1 her, but wouldnt-work for aerr or to . live ia a garret with an unappreciated geams and be hisinspirationw Nothing 'short of a man-threatening to eommit ,aicide if shewoa't rernrnthis affee- made over to fit each individual." It is always new and fresh. The quality that attracted a man in his, first love and the quality that holds aim ia his laet may be entirely different, for love is progressive, snd the calf love of the bov is no more to be compared to the deep passion of the man of forty than water is te wine. . Oalr debutantes it' may be said, believe- a man when he tells them ie nev er loved before, snd by the time a gin reaches her second or third season she - si -. -it- tion goes W!th her, aaa ' 'tT' flrti.nlar about beine the Utter, scorn to observe ,tnat :-"?"fitV-she'bM fooni out tut ","irK Trtr'mn.telv most . eaa be too xasMaioua auuv girls have - sensible mo them saf civ through this existence, and they live to marry some man who is short on poetie language, but long on faithful affection, and who p-ps the question across, beef steak and onions at a restaurant by ' saying: health. '".B;"Jh "lier ambit ien becomes a ehastened otic, girls have sensible -pothers who see , ner amu i them safelv throuc-h this crisis of their .She. only. :j&,-.nr peart, to ttc u KiLj -j and loyally.' She's wining to ut iout the romsnce and the passionate wooing, and evea td accept a jouging m w juueh-oceupied heart of a three-times There is one thing remaining her fixed intention of being a -perfect wife. Strange to say, no woman ever doubts her ability to do this until she marries. When a girl looks at a married woman and sees that she has gotten dowdy sad slouchy in appearance, that . she hss 'lost that, ineffable charm that comes from a woman trying to please, that she sags, and frets st her hus band, and shows him all the unlovely sngles ia her -character, and that she has spparently eome to look upon the man she married as nothing mere than a piece of household fprniture that' it is indispensable to have about, but not valuable enough to tm eare of whea a girl, I say, rees a mafcried woman ja that state of disillusion and dwillnsion iag, she H honestly shotted. She no more believes that she eould reach that state tnan she believes ibe could be come like the ragged beggar woman oa the street, or the criminal behind the bars.:- - v r. She sees herself always attractively gowned, welcoming -a", husband home with a sweet smile, snd to a' dainty dinner, always - amiable, aereae - sad competent, managing- a home tnat runs along on greased skids, and it is only after she is tired and Worn with wrest ling with Incompetent - servants, ' and teething babies' and a husband whose te'mper is , like a' train of fireworks, that sue realize that she, too, has fall en short of ber ideal, and failed iaaher ambition to be a perfect wife. Her last ambition, and the only one of all she - started, ont. with,, that she ever achieves, is1 when she finally makes up her mind to accept life and love as they are and te make the best of them By this time, sue has discovered the hollowness of things. She knows ro mance is nothing but the glamor vouth throws over commonplace objects, and that like poor . silver plating, it aoon wears off; thsit one's ideals are broken reeds-' on. which to lean, and that 'love has to be muttered' up on bread and butter." Hy that time, also, a woman learns to qnft trying to reform her huttba'nd 's litiio ways, and make him take soulful views of things. She takes him as he is and when tue hour arrives when, instead of sitting up for him at night with : her heart in her mouth, imagining somebody has waylaid him, she can go calmly to sleep, it marks not the en I of things, as the sentiment si might think, but the beginning of peace and the real enjoyment of life snd matrimony. Dorothy Dix, in Globe-Democrat. - WITH THE ASSISTANCE OP NA- TUKE. Thiswriter predicted several years ago that the time is coming, snd not far away, when the unlimited water power going to waste in the Columbia river at the Dalles', Celile and the Cas cades will be utilized as a motive pow er for all trains running between Hunt ington nnd Portland. And the time for this, prophecy to take tangible form m likely to be nearer than most of us an ticipate. The attention of railroad magnates and 11 Outside investors, as well, is being drawn to the incalcula ble poswibilitie of thin immense power of gravitation which flows on and on, unueed, as when the sound of its own dashings was associated only with the warwhoop of the nntutored. Indian '. or the yelp of the skalking coyote. .The power fMrnisbed by the mighty waters of the Columbia as it makes its way by the channel iteelf has worn through the Cascade . mou otains, will be much greater than the entire possi bility of the Niagara falls in that re spect. It is too valuable an asset . in the great problem of transportation to be much longer neglected. It is, on the direct line- of the J great trans-continental route which will finally be : the leading one following the only water level passage to the sea, and its meas ureless -value will .! one of the great elements finally permanently solving tuis important, enestioauy , - When this comes to pass we ahall see the curious , phenomena of the "great River' of - the West fnraishisg not only the. means of railroad . transportation slong its banks, but the water transpor tation which will prevent railway exf tertioa - in, rate . matters for eithe freight or passeagers.; - ' f T , ' And thus will the. great and puzzling forces of Nature interpose to maintain that equipoise - which guarantees that two and two shall never make live! Old Santa" Clans can get some good pointers oti the proper things for Christ mas presents by reading the Statesman The Street Urchin's Chance in Life NEW YORK, Dee.; 17, 1904. One of the largest Christmas partiesin ; t'nis great city this year will.le held in a stone building on Washington Heights, where over 1,000 little folks will gather around two great Clirbitmss trees laden with toys and the gwd VniiigH apfro prlate to the soason. After these gifts have been distributed, there will be an entertainment, in which very likely a sleight-of-hand performer or ventrilo quist will lie the central figure. To many of this regiment of children, the gathering wilt -be the first Christmas party in whirh they hare leen included among the guests. They have come mostly from the crowded Kast Side to be made into good Americans by the New York Juvenile Aylum,'an institu tion which in the 50 'yesrs of its exist ence has sent out into Sheworld 37,000 boys and girls. - ' v' ' - The party on Washington Heights has an especial significance this year because by the time another Christmas comes, the work of the intitution will have been transferred to a new home which, when completed, will represent an expenditure of three million dollars, capital invested in what mav be de scribed as the business of transforming the raw material of the slums into the finished product of; good citizenship. The great najority of children receiv ed into this New York asylum are the victim of misfortune to which tbey have not themselves contributed, and they 7Xo not enter the building on Washington Heights through the police courts.. Among them are - onlv a few who have been committed to the asy lum because of misdemeanors. They, are mostly the orphans of the tenements or the children of parents who have found the struggle of life too bitter to enable tbera to keep their families together. These children of today constitute the raw material from which s re to be made the men and women of tomorrow. Left to themselves or to chance ehsritv in the- erowded streets they would be in constant danger of falling into wrong-doing. Under the care of the ssylum they are brought trader health ful and - helpful , influence both is the institution Jtself and in the homes which are found for them. ! In every state and territory in the Union, including . far-off Alaska, are men and women now prosperous sad successful who recall similar Christmas parties in the asylum building on the' Heights. One of the Christmas ser mons which will be ' preached in New: York this year will be delivered by a1 farmer pupil of tne asylqm, for heis now the-rector of a lsrge church "in Brooklyn. Another,, graduate, 'who a short time ago added to the Christmas (beer of the directors by sending them a generous check, tne proceeds to be added to the graduates' building fund, is a' prominent lawver i a s. Wee tern eity. la his case,' it may be truthfully said that he got his -start in life; byj mcaiing uyynra jrum n pusn-csri on tne TL-iwrr r tie vat nnlr if vmh aIiI f VA.I nl,iH err t v n nn. m r rm a.-. Til influences from which he wis removed because of his theft of the apples, , a fact to which he jokingly alluded ia the letter accompanying his check. ITe said that while it might' be true that Eve's fall came through eating1 an ap ple, it was certain that bis. own regen eration was directly traceable to the same cause. . ' Still another of the asylum boys who keep in touch with the institution wnere they received their early train ing is now a county judge in a western state and has been prominently men tioned a one who is likely to be num. bered among; its future governors. He was only seven years old in 1861 when he became an inmate of ' the asylum. A I per remaining there a little over ad year, he was sent West with a number of other boys and girls, a home being found for him in the family of a well to-do farmer. Too boy's foster father had two sons of about the same age as the Utile waif from New York. Years sassed and when the three had finished their education in- the schools of the nearby town, the farmer offered to send one of his sons to college, but neither cared to go and so it came about that the former street-urchin had the benefit of the higher education. After graduat ing, he st Allied law and was admitted to til" bar. " He nas since made a Dime for himsvlf, has been prominent in politic of bis stste, serving ia the up per branch of the legislature, and num bers among tia friends manydof the leading men of the country. ' ' Many other instances might be cited of foe beneficial results whirl i the in fluence of the .asylum - training has brought about ia the lives and charac ters of its charges. At.leasJrom of its former pupils ha t actually . held the office ort governor, serving a. chief magistrate of one . of the terriforiws, and .there are today hundreds of men snd women occupying positions of use fulness! and responsibility ia the com munity who, gratefully u acknowledge that they owe most of their success in life to the early training they received at the asylum aad to its efforts in find ing homes for them in the West. Strange stories are , sometimes brought to light in the history of these little waifs of a great eity, but as a rule the tale would be a monotonous re cital of hardships and poverty. There is little that ia romantic in the daily life of the garment worker, street ped ler, factory hand or dock laborer living ia- the tenement "district of the Ameri can metropolis, bat now snd then there cornea to light a bit of family history which serves as the exception to prove the rule.' ' ' Tour years ago three small children, two boys and? a girl, were sent to the asylum and, after the usual period ' of training, honies were' found for them ia the West. There taee children were beard speaking of a wealthy New York woman who had recently died. - Thev aid that she was their aunt. A lawyer cuumuini iuu tun emciais or 1110 asylum were appealed; to for proofs of file" alleged relationship. These Were obtained and with the identity of his clients thus established the lawyer filed a claim upon the property and confi dently expects that it will lie sustained by the courts. If this hapjeiM the ehildren will each be the poscor of a comfortable fortune. The work of such institution ns this New York asylum is of particular in terest at this timewben papers and magazine are filled with acroqntt. of the increase of crime in the cities. Not only are tbe asylums taking hoineloM and neglected children from the slums and turning them iuto good citizens, but they are sending them out into tho country to take the places of the young people drwn from the farms by the glamor and glitter of eity life: More than ever before it is incoming the policy of the msnsgers of snrh estab liJhment to , early implant . in tiie minds of their young charges the Iuva of eountry life, and the New jYork Juvenile Asylum, in carrying opt this idea, is . now completing what will bo perhsps the most ' complete establish meat f its kind in the world. liirit maa" will be observed witu a greater lavishnes . than nsual at the asylum this year in recognition of (ho fact that this ia the last celebration of the holi day to It held in the building Woicli has I7een tbe home of the society for the last 53 years. Early in the spring, the ssylum will move yrom New York to Dobbs IVrry where its new cottage colony is bcit)";j built on a traet of 277 acrta? located ou hijrh land near the .Hudson rivir. York Sc Bawyer, the New York 'archi tects, have prepared plans which rill for the erection of 73 cottage, " '.i ,l buildings, club , bouses, a gytini-A-nnm artd an electric, heating and power plant. 'Kaeh. of the cottage in arrang ed "to accornmo'date twenty boys la nnder the care of a ' bouse mother" and, a ' house father." At pres?ifc only jtfteen of theae cottage are rc i ' for oeempancy but the powrr j l.n.l ;.rs"( one of. the school buildings nr.? 1! - i! c I snd tike remaining .cotta4s will ? , built 'as fast as the money for t! i 1 1 forthcoming. Of the 43,W0.000 u. .1 to complete the work, at las-t $2 , 000 must be.raisvd. by outside sut s-i.;.-tioas. . In this!ncw home the'" children will live ia what is virtually a rural r-m-inanity. They 'will have a ti'U (f c,OTintry life in the making of r iir.l 1,-,,-t and tue garnering of fruits and ero:., and the love of home will be stlm.,!,?. cd bv dJviding them, into famiH- s of wnic'ii will !occupy a house j - w-;i bo lit 'and attractive as thone in v.'.i h live i he 5 children of the well-to ,'.). It is believed that great r.s Iihs bcrn f! . sucx'rM of, the asylum in the j i Stting its charges fur nffi i; will acttiin -an even greater nn-n s, , .' sitceess in the 'future. , 'The rubber exported fri.ni 4 azonrivr in the - ;ihu -of j amounted io tllHil pouu l-i. v