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About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 20, 1913)
DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, IMS. PA02 ELEVEN t MM a .a f SALEM SCAVENGER Charles Soos, proprietor. Gar- I bags and refuse of all kinds re- I T moved on monthly contracts, at T T reasonable rates. Office 54S i State street. Office phone 2247. I Residence phone 2272. '. Highland Grocery GEO. W. STOXER. Groceries, Hay, Grain and Feed 748 Highland Avenue. PI) ope Main 496. t Carnations, Chrysanthemums, I Roses, Violets, Ferns and Potted I Plants for Christmas Decorations Orders for Cut Flowers Filled Any Time. B. FRANK SCHUITZ Proprietor Avenue Green Houses. Fifteenth 4c Center. Phone 2067 Thomas & t Rosheim THE POPULAR EAST SALEM GROCERY Twenty-Second and State Full line of up-to-date groceries in all leading brands. FEED, FLOUR Free, quick delivery to all parts f of the city Phone 2187 Loans! Loans!!; Do you want a home of your f ownt If so, call at our office, I and wo will help you get it. No delay on loans whatever, if title is perfoct. Money furnished to build. We are agents for two million- T aire companies the Equitable Savings & Loan Association and the Columbia Life & Trust Com pany, of Portland. We also represent leading Fire, Accident, Liability, Plate Glass I and Bonding insurance compan ion. Remember the number, 406 Hub bard Building. Laflar & Bolinger Day phone Main 933 Night phones Main 1300 204-W The Capital City Transfer Co. Wishes all of its patrons a Merry j Christmas and takes this oppor- I tunity to thank all of them for I past favors. LOOSE s EMMETT, Proprietors I Wagons meet all mail and pas- senger trains. Baggage to all t parts of city. Prompt senric f (HHHtttltttttltllHttt T,,,,,,,!, IIIMHMMHIi: Says Marriage Never Alters Man or Woman By Dorothy Dix. A young girl is engaged to be mar ried to a young man who comes to see her nearly every evening, but who never brings her a flower, nor a box of candy, nor takes her to any place of amuse ment, except very accasionally to the "movies." This girl is a nice girl. There isn't a bit of the grafter about her, and she would know the first principle about how to go about "working a man," but she 's young, and gay of heart, and she loves the amusements that belong to her time of life, and she finds it a trifle dull to spend all her evenings conversing with even her swoetheart. She would like a little diversion thrown in on one side, and she wants to know of me if I don't think it queer" that hor fiance never takes her to a dance, or to the theatre, or out for a little supper. I think it is more than "queer." I think that this girl's guardian angel is strictly on the job looking out after her, and that she has received a sol emn warning not to marry that man, and that if she doesn't take the tip she will rue it to the longest day she lives. This young man is giving her before marriage a very small sample of the line of conduct he would pursue after marriage. If, when he's courting, he shows that he's a tightwad, he will make one of the skinflint husbands who expect a wife tu run a house and keep a good table on air, and who asks a woman what she did with the quarter she was given week before last. If, before marriage, a man neglects the little delicate attentions that please a woman, after marriage he will be biirtally disregardful of her feelings and tastes. The difference between having a husband who remembers your birthday and one who forgets it is the difference between matrimony that is angel's food and matrimony that is plain corned beef and cabbage, but the difference being married to a man who is anxious (hat you should always be pleased and nappy and being married to a man who doesn't care whother you are happy or misorable is the difference between heaven and holl. When a man is wooing a girl he is or dinarily wants to do just what she wants to do or at least he pretendB to and so, if in his courting days he What Panama Canal Travelers Will See I By William Hoster. What will the world traveler see who makes the journoy from Colon ' to Balboa through the Panama Canal f Approaching the old City of Colon, formerly Aspinwell, from the Atlantic end, the ship will enter Limon bay, passing Toro Point, somewhere "behind which, in a grove of magnificent cocoa nut palms, are hidden the fortifications, which guard the Atlantic entrance to the "ditch." On the left are the red roofs of Colo'n. The line of the canal is easily picked up through the buoys which mark the channel. Undor its own Btcam the ship will proceed slowly southwarl, passing in transit the new American town of Cristobal, built by the canal commission and so on into the canal itself, one thousand feet wide, across a six mile stretch of lowlond the only unattract- - i ive country traversed throughout the entire forty-eight miles of waterway. ' "Finding the Lake." . Already, however, the tourist will have noticed looming up straight ahead of the gray walls of the first flight of locks at Gatun.Through those marvels of mecbaiical Bkill and construction, by successive stages the ship will be lifted up the throe flights of locks, a distance of eighty-five feet, and, final ly, the upper level having been attain ed, will be floated out upon the broad surface of Gatun lake. A tourist being shown about the can al recently said to Colonel Gocthals: "now fortunate you were In finding this lake here." It was a remark illustrative of tho popular ignorance of the work which has beon done here. A few years ago a broad, populous valley stretched away from the point where the locks bogin. There were half 'a dozen busy little communities between the two hills where the lake now rests. Then the canal diggers came along, built the dam across from hill to hill, and by slow de grees this magnificent lake took shape. Off to the left from where the ship omcrged from the final lock for a mile and a half stands tho famous Gatun dnm, which it was said was an impos sible engineering feat, and which rests so naturally in the scheme of things now that it has to be pointed out before any one realizes that it is a dam and hat this lake, which extends down across the isthmus for a distance of isn't willing to take her about, but wants to stay in a comfortable chair in a place where somebody else is pay ing the rent and the electric light bill, he will make the sort of a husband that. you can't move out of his corner with a blast of dynamite. The girl who marries him may bid adieu to all social life and entertain ment at the alter. He won't want to go to a concert, or a lecture, or to see a play, or to play a game of cards with a neighbor or to any sort of a diversion and ho won't see why his wife wants to go, either. It will be home for hers, and the society of a husband who will spend his evenings reading the paper, and who will think that it's pleasure enough for her just to sit up and look at him. In picking out their husbands girls 'will do well to remember that when a man goes courting he always puts his jbest foot foremost and that best foot s a cloven hoof, if they're wise they will take warning from it, and have nothing to do with him. Marriage doesn't change people. It simply brings out whatever is the strongest quality in them, whether that quality is good or bad. It intensifies virtues and magnified faults. Of courso, marriage is really the big gamble. All do not know what they are getting in a husband or a wife un til they have taken the package they drew in the lottery home and examined it but observation hands us a good many tips on a man's or a woman's character that enable us to give some rather shrewd guesses. By listening to the things that a man laughs at you can got a good working model of the kind of a husband he will make. If he laughs at cruel speeches that Btab like a knife, he will make his wife the butt of his sarcasm. If he laughs at coarse, vulgar stories, he will make the kind of a husband who has no delicate appreciation of a woman's nature. If the sight of other people's mis fortunes fill him with mirth, there's nothing on earth that he will sympa thize with except himsolf, but if he has the kindly humor that can gild every misfortune in life, and if his smilo at others' weaknesses is full of tenderness and understanding, then he is a man to tie up with, no matter whother he's rich or poor, or of high or low estate. He'll make the kind of a husband that '11 keep a woman on her knees thanking God bIio's got him. about thirty miles, is entirely tho work of man. Towed Through LocIgs. During the transit through tho locks the ship has beon towed by little elec tric engines at either side of the lock chamber. But now, as tho last lock is passed, these shackles are thrown off, and under her own steam again the Bhip begins the passage of Gatun lake, one of the most picturesque ridos on the globe. River and ocean together have ming led bore to make this bridge of water across the continental divide. With tho dam built, the problem of tho rag ing Chflgres river was solved. Of old, the charging Chagrcs had swept and swirled across the isthmus, carrying flood and devastation with it rising frequently over twenty feet over night the despair of the canal diggers. Then Gatun dam was devised, the barrier was erected across the hills, and the C'hagros river camo pouring down over the water sheds to discover that her devastating sway was ended at lntit, Harnessed by the hand of man, tho wild er her rage now, and the greater vol ume of her torrential floods, tho hotter Bhe servos the purposo of man in keep ing the flow of water in Gatun lake at the height necessary to float the commerce of the world. A Scene of Grandeur. So out upon the broad surface of Gatun lake the ship steams, over the sites of towns wiped out by -the rising waters, across the bed of the old Pana ma railroad southwest, until at length sight of the Gatun locks is lost in a bent of tho channel, and the tourist finds himself in a landlocked basin, steaming along at a height of eighty five feet above the level of the sea in the midst of a scene of idyllic gran deur. In tho background rise the purple hills of the Cordilleras low-lying foot hills of tho Andes, which slope down gradually toward tho shore of tho lake. The most beautiful vislas open out as the ship moves gracefully along under her own steam. Tropica foliago abounds. Tall cocoamit palms, banana trees ami tho thousand and one varieties of trop ical plants and flowers waive along the banks. Fire plants are in full bloom, a hundred different colors daz zle the eye. A glimpse is had now and then of orchids of the most delicate shades clinging to the barren limbs The Nice Without BY DOROTHY DIX. Among my acquaintaintances there is a dear little girl who is everything that we sum up in the adjective, nice. She belongs to a nice refined family, she has been nicely brought up. She's no beauty, but she's nice and pretty, and wholesome looking, and she dress es nicely and she has been taught not only all the useful domestic accomplish ments, but is a fine music.'an and per forms equally well upon the gas range and tho piano." This girl is exactly the sort of girl that every mothor and sistor would like to see her son or brother marry. She's tho very type of a young woman to make a good wife, but for some reason that nobody can explain she doesn't attract men at all. She never has a beau. She is never invited to go any place of amusement by a man and she's loft looking wistfully after the other young people whon they go trooping off without hor to have a good time. Naturally, this distresses the girl very much. She's young, and she craves tho enjoyment that belongs to her time of life, and she wants to know if there is anything that she can. do to take her self out of the wall-flower class, and got into the bunch bo to spoak. Of course nobody can really toll what it is that attracts a nmn to a maid. In its essence it is that illusive something that wo call personal magnetism, and that is the gift of the gods. Personal Magnetism. We have all soon girls who were home ly and commonplace to the last dogree, who had neither conversation nor wit, aud yet mon flocked about thorn as bees about a honey pot. We have seen other girls beautiful, attractive, intel ligent, end adorned like Solomon in all his glory, that no man ever gave a sec ond thought to, and the explanation of the phenomenon lay in the fact that one girl had that mysterious attractive power for men, the como-hithor look in hor oyos thpit draws mon on, while the other had it not. , Personal magnetism is the result of nature, not of cultivation, and yet B girl can do much to make herself at tractive to men, for, aftor all, men aro simple crqatures and easily pleased. Any girl with ordinary intelligence can learn enough about the things mon care for to talk interestingly; she can acquire the art of listening with an ex pression of absorbed interest while a man talks to hor, and unless she is an uttor fool shb can lead a man to talk about himsolf. So vast is human vanity that every man or woman we moot with in five minutes gives us a tip on his or her peculiar weakness, and wo have only to follow that lead in order to make ourselves agreeable to that par ticular individual. Most of tho girls that I have known who never had a beau had only them selvos to blame. They wore girls that torrifiod men by eithor boing so self conscious and shy that man had to do all of tho entertaining himself, or else they were girls who wore so monopolis tic that they mado a man fool as if ho had boon kidnapped, and was in dangor of being dragged to the altar by his captor. . Howover, in a cose like that of my little- firl friond who wants to have a good time, and who is left out of all tho frolics of tho girls and boys about hor, tho difficulty is squarely up to hor mothor. Thero isn't much that a girl can do herself to help tho situation, but hor mothor can do ovorything. What this girl neods, and tho only thing she needs, is opportunity, and that hor mother can give hor. If hor mother will get busy giving tho girl a series of little lirties, sho will force tho other girls to invito hor daughter to their parties, and tho young men to pay her attention. Mothers to Blame. Tho other boys and girls can't go off and leave Mablo sitting at the win dow watching thorn if they have just boon entertained at Mablo 's house, or are expecting to bo entertained there. Many a girl's social success rests on a basis of her mother's cakes and sand wich. If nothing for nothing is the rulo of the world, it is equally true that something for something always goes, and we can always get what we want if we pass tho legal tcudor over the counter. Mothers can make or mar hor daugh ter's popularity in society, and it is well for thorn to remember that you can make people fight for any Kind of a packago of tea, if you will give an at of trees, but far out of the reach of man. Tropical birds of brilliant plumago float through the air; glistening fish at play leap from tho water just alioad of the ship's bow; wo got a hasty glimpse of an alligator catapulting with electric speed from tho bank Into tho water. If one Is lucky ho will get a flash even of a family of monkeys hanging by each other's tails off there in the tropical jungle. And over all a brilliant sun, whose rays are temper ed by a soft breeze, spice-laden and aromatic. Little Girl a Beau tractive enough chromo with it. There fore, it behooves those parents with daughters who are not run after to get busy baiting their traps. If a girl lacks attraction it is all the more the mother's duty to make her home so delightful and so hospitable that young people will like to coma to it. People will always go where there are good things to eat and a brieht cheery atmosphore, and against a back ground even a dull homely girl shines with a borrowed radiance. Also the people that you entertain are bound in common decency to make some return, and so the girl who could not go any where on her own initiative bowls mer rily along the gay social way throueh hte momentum hor mother has given her. Youth is not only tho pleasure time of life with a girl, it is the season of her opportunity, of hor chance to marry and settle herself well in life, and it is just as much parent's business to help secure good husbands as it is to help their sons get into business. A grouchy father aud an indolent mothor have queered many a girl's chances in life. My little friond 's mother could make hor a belle and give hor a joyous youth if Bhe would. So could almost anv othor girl's mother, and tho pity of it is that the mothers are too selfish and stupid to do it. . Janio: Thore are no sot rulos in re gard to food in ordor to gain flosh. Eat anything that is good and nourishing. Ent plenty of buttor, drink plenty of milk, cocoa and water. Lillian: I am sorry, but I cannot give you a bloach for your hair. Don't bleach your hair, for you will ruin it if you do.' All bleaches make the hair dry and brittle and it will fall and break off at the ends. Little Bobbie's Pa This is awful interesting artiklo In the papor to day, Bod Ma to Fa last nito. It was wrote by a man named Marl In & it tells about tho dnngor of boing a Boslial blundor-or. Ho says that the newly rich is a men ace to tho four hundred. Is that a fack! sod Pa. I didont know that anything cud be a men ace to the four hundred. Pa sod, bookaus I always thought folks had to know something beofoar lhay beocaim alarm ed at anything. What else does MiBter Martin sayf Ho save that a rool member of no cioty, in giving a dinnor, is awful car ful to have all the poepul that sho in vites bo congoonyul to oach othor. He snys that tharo 1b nothing so distress ing to society as a mixed crowd at a dinnor. I agree with him thare, sol Ma. I shall novvor forgit the nite you had that im promtoo dinnor & invltod Kid Broad & sum show gurl & introduc ed thorn to Mister & Missus Blake of tho church crowd I go in. That was about as mixed as any crowd that I ovver saw, sed Ma, & I guoss I was nwar than glad won the last guost hal went awoy from the foost. Ha, ha, sod I'a, I romembor that party That was wen I used to hit it up a littolj wasent itt That sure was a mixod ip gathering, but if I remombcr rite, sod Pa, it wan Missus Bloke & not old Blakony that wanted to go hoam. He seemed to taik quite a Interest in the show gurls that nito, the old rascal. I I supoas thay was tho first ones ho had ever saw, too. That is one beauiy about a mixed party, Pa sed. Every body at a mixed party knows moar af ter tho party has broak up than thay knew befoar the party. Now take a congenial party of the four hundred, what do thay lorn at a dinner! Evory ouo of them knows what the others know, wich maiks thorn congoonyul, so thay sot around & maintain the polite nilonco which is always shown by folks that doesn't know anything moar tj say. Mistor Martin says that it s bad form to use such words as " wealthy " i "elegant" & "homely," sod Ma. Mister Martin is raving, sed P.i. What in tho world Is wrong with the using the word "homolyl" It sooms to me that Mister Oray, who roto the Klegy UNcd tho word "homely" and no body seemed to thing it was bad form, citfhor, I suppose ho used bad for.n wen ho roto The path of glory leads but to the grave, sod Pa. Maybe ho used bad form, but I wish I cud buy a cup pel of bushels of that kind of had form. If I nil, sed I'a, I wuil niulio a present of it to th efour hunilro'l. What else does this Mistor Martin say I Ho snyn a keen sense of humor helps t the members of the four hundred to be patient with the sotdiial blunderers th it aro knwking at the gato between then & good society. Well, woll, sed Pa. If ono of tha members of the four hundred had a keen sense of humor he wud hand in bis resignation t be a regular man, jest ss bis old grandpa had been beeforu him. Yon eon 't have a very keen sense of humor & go along changing your clothes ten times a day wen reel men are out in thare rough suits bilding A doing the work of men, sed Pa. Im agine Abraham Linkun or Oliver Crom well stopping ten times a day to change thare clothes, sed Pa, I am sorry you doant agree with Mis ter Martin, sed Ma. I have affen thought that I wud like to got Into the four hundred. I bet I wud know enuff to have peepul at my dinner parties that was congeenyul. Mister Martin says that a good hostess knows how to "mate" her guests in the four hun dred. I guess that is so, sed Pa, judging from the number of divoarces. JOURNAL WANT ADS. bring results, T V. DYKSTRA SHOE SHOP t First Class Work Machinery of all Kinds 19th and State. 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