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I IFE IN A
l. STAND-UP FLAT.
Plant Of a Homeless Man Who
Has Seen Better Days in
a Tenement.

Ever live in a standup hat?" inquired
Mr.. Jones. not over choorfully. NO?
Well. | have lived in one. In fact, ! live
in one now.
1T il a six room and bath with all the
modern improvements affair" he wen on,
and costs 1913 a month. The parlor is
decorated as beautifully as an Avenue A
wedding cake.
st is furnished with a mahogany set Of
spider legged furniture upholstered with
brocsded silk of delicate tints. There are
a bookcase, a writing desk dady's sizel,
a chair for it and u centre table OF the same
wood. On the floor is a rug that cost 1
don't know what, reduced from my wife
knows whet.
Separated partly from the main parlor
by hardwood pretzel work is a little second
parlor. In it are a piano, a mahogany
chair, suitable for anything but sitting in.
and a large box couch. This couch is en-
tircly occupied by fancy sofa pillows. Then
comes a bedroom that must always be in
order, because you can look into it from
the p~arlors and the private hall.
Beyond this bedroom is another bed
room. which belongs 70 my wife and is
usually kept closed. Life is too short to
tell what things occupy the chairs. Be-
tween the bedrooms is the bathroom.
Further along is the dining room, with
oak furniture, the chairs covered with
leather and very slippery. One can sit
on them at mealtime il he is hungry. In
the kitchen il a small cane seat chair.
"Now, a horse can stand up all the time.
Most horses stand up while sleeping in their
stalls. 1t is said also that a stork never
sits or Lies down; but a even though
he dwell in a fiat, wants a place where he
can sit down. He can lie dow in his bed
or in the bathtub, but where can he sit
down and have any comfort?
what do ! do? We'll, / glance at the
morning papers while sitting at the break
fast table. and after breakfast | would look
around for q comfortable chair in which |
could smoke my pipe and read the news,
but such q thing Is moi an the Nat.
$50 / stuff my pager in my pocket and
steer for the room Jack of a ~ncighboring
barroom. | can sit down there. The bar
keeper knows that buy n glass Of ale there
once in a while in the evening before going
to bed and he does not EXP eCt me To buy
anything in the morning. Prom there 4
go to my work, which does not require me
to be ON hand very early.
I'm the evening ! have my dinner sitting
on n slippery leather bottomed chair. Then
Isno into the little second parior and drop
3k4k-aud talk with my wife till J feststke
LA
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OF the women after they have learned
an that We can toaob them" aid Mrs.
NJ, A. Williams, the superintendent. -Of
course some of the women we keep right
on to act as working instructors to the
new comers.
One woman who has been with us al
most from the first " now practically the
o OF the ironing corps. She has only
one arm but in spite Of this she is our best
ironer.
% course many women are sent here
for instruction and have places waiting
for them when they finish. In fact, many
of our patrons begin by sending us their
laundry to do and end by taking one of
u graduates and continuing our system
in their own homes.
The women are of all ages, but most
OF them are mothers whose children are
put in day nurseries while they are at work..
We have ONE woman Of rs in the school
Just now. and she is doing good work, too,
and there are any number past 50.
we average about forty pupils in the
school. and have had as many as sixty.
The majority are foreigners. Last year
we had 49s irish, 100 Germans, 16s negroes
and two white Americans. F."
Another school closely allied to the
Charity Organization Society is the school
for bead workers maintained at the Home
for the Aged and Infirm on Black wells
Island. Miss Emma Fowler goes over to
the Island every day and teaches the Grip
pied, psralyzed men and women TO make
their hands useful.
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colored. The whites for the most part are
foreigners, who avail themselves OF the
classes in the common branches and OF the
classes, full to running over, which teach
English to foreigners.
Americans make w the classes in manual
training, 81 in all, of which those in dress
making for women, and those in the care
of boilers and in electricity for men, are
most crowded. There are eight dress
making classes, and the course Of four
lessons a week turns out finished dress
makers in three years.
The cooking classes also are full-of men
AZ well as women. Here is taught not only
domestic md fancy cooking, but also in
stitutional and restaurant cooking.
Much of the present interest in industrial
training If due to the efforts of the settle
ment workers. Greenwich House in Jones
street maintains a handicraft school where
girls and women are instructed in lace
making, weaving and allied crafts.
The classes are under the direction OF
Miss Katherine Lord and are held for the
most part in her studio. an old stable dis
covered by Miss Lord in the rear Of the
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The work that these forlorn people do,
once their clumsy fingers nave been trained
a bit, is remarkable. Elaborate bead EN-
broideries, chains, belts md trimmings
are made, while really beautiful baskets
are turned out.
Beginning with the bead work, other
things have been added, wood carving.
crocheting and knitting, until the collected
exhibition Of their work looks like a booth
at a village church fair. One old man
who had been spending his life sitting be-
side his bed in hopeless idleness, last year
knitted twenty-five shawls and thirty-seven
pairs Of wristlets.
With the proceeds from the sale of these
things he bought delicacies for a son dying
OF tuberculosis at the Metropolitan Hos
pital, and later paid his sons burial ex-
pensee. Nearly 81 900 was earned last year
by these old people, to whom. up to the
establishment Of this school. ever the bless
ing of occupation was denied.
The effort of department store mana
gers to get more efficient clerks has re-
suited in the establishment Of a school for
shop girls, where classes are held and teach
ers are employed for the sole purpose of
instructing the girls in the duties that will
be theirs behind the counters.
Not even the special clerks taken on for
the holiday trade are permitted to come in
contact with customers until they have had
instruction" said the manager Of a Sixth
avenue store. we have from twenty five
to thirty young men and women in our
classes all the time and two men do nothing
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allowing his wife TO dictate to him in these
matters. Now. my husband does all Of
his smoking at nome in the kitchen. He
prefers to smoke in the kitchen. l taught
him TO prefer the kitchen to smoke in, and
nov he never says a word about it. but
just goes out there and does his smoking
after meals. When we were first married
he'd smoke all over the place. but when I
pointed out to him how much nicer il
would be for him to smok Q in the kitchen
and nowhere else, why he entered into
my idea perfectly, like a reasonable man.
Il just carried an easier chair out into
the kitchen one evening after dinner and
placed his evening papers over the arm OF
the chair, and then, when he was ready
TO smoke and reached into his pocket for
a cigar l merely pointed to the easy chair
in the kitchen without saying a word
and he went out there. not saying a word,
either, and then | closed the door leading
from the kitchen into the dining room.
so that none of the smoke could get in there,
and told him to open the kitchen win
dows when he had finished his smoking
in there, and he did it just that way, and
I haven't had a particle Of trouble over his
smoking since.
james knows perfectly we'll, of course,
that he has the privilege OF smoking any
where In the apartment that he wants to,
but James is not a man TO take advantage
Of the privileges l grant minded not.
He ~consults my likes and dislikes. He's
Just as independent as a hog on ice, Of
course. but taat doesn't prevent him from
doing the things that please me. am posi-
tive that he'd rather smoke in the kitchen
han anywhere else in the apartment.
Its the same way about drinking. My,
but you just ought to smell the hall down.
stairs when most OF the men folks in this
apartment house come in from their bust
ness in the EVENING" It's a combination
down there of cloves and peppermint and
roasted coffee and such n~onsensical things
that those stupid men nave taken with
the idea Of Disgusting their breaths from
their wives.
Now, my husband and | nave a perfect
understanding as 20 his drinking, and we
never have the least semblance of a quarrel
about IL. He knows perfectly well that l
will not tolerate drinking on his part. At
first, for a year or 80 after we were married.
he would come in from business occasionally
with his breath smelling OF things that IL
had no right to smell Of, although, Of course.
l never knew him TO drink to excess. But
/ up n told him that he'd simply have 10
quit drinking altogether or stay away
from me whenever he took as much as
one ~drink-one thing or the other.
He agreed 10 hat suggestion with the
greatest good will, and o that is our ar
rangement. Whenever James takes as
much as one drink, why, he simply does
not come home at all. He telephones to
me that he's detained by business or some
thing. and then I perfectly understand that
he has foolishly taken one drink, and that
settles II, He knows my rule about that
sort or thing, and he doesn't come hons
az AL. Sometimes he stays away from tho
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AUTO HELPS BUILD 4 CHIRCH.
10 Horse Car HOSTS I,ssO-POund stones
10 Height OF 8S Feet.

1t remained for Lewis A. Dow, Il Boston
architect and builder, TO demonstrate the
usefulness of a 10 horsepower automobile
in helping to build a church.
Mr.. Dow was awarded the contract for
erecting a Methodist Episcopal church
in Medford. When the foundation for the
structure was completed the contractor
was on the point Of hiring "A hosting engine,
when he happened TO think of his autOmo-
bile as a substitute.
Mr.. Dow said to a reporter for the Bos-
ton Herald: Il wondered Why my auto
could not do the work, "a il had never lacked
in anything before. The first thing i did
was TO rig up a tackle. | then experimental
with a small load, which proved no work
at all for the car. When the SUCCESS of
the experiment was assured the machine
was called upon to hoist heavier loads, and
it did everything asked of it in a most
satisfactory manner.
1t was as easy as rolling Of a log for
the machine TO hoist q loaded ShCle box
weighing l 800 pounds. For two months
the machine has worked steadily raising
this load from 7 A. NJ. to . p. NJ, lifting
the weights from 40 TO 70 feet"
The large stone ornaments at the base
Of the tower Of the church weigh 1850
pounds each, aud they were raised and
lowered n position at a height of siXty-fiVe
feet. and were deposited in their final
resting place with the assistance of three
men. Mr.. Dow found considerable pleasure
by his machine.
When the days task was done the ma
chine was always ready for a evenings
pleasure trip, when four adults NJ !thres
| ohildrsn snjsysd mary rdss through ths
9faporot- tssSsrs7s ~ 1keN .ss M
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TIVE Italian laces, and especially the o6
Italian cut work. u
The work is beautiful, but Il is far fronf
inexpensive, 1nd the person. who expects
to pick up Christmas presents at bargain ]
prices here will he disappointed. A smalt
pillow cover or bag brings from $40 to $50
while bedspreads, curtains and similafJ
large pieces run well up into the hundreds&
The pupils earn from 81 TO s. a week whils4
learning, and as they gain in proficiency
their wages are steadily raised.
or the making of demonstrators there}
is no end. A woman may. il she choosesS
take a course in gas stoves. with q good
place waiting for her when she has finished
and is prepared to demonstrate a stoves
virtues and correct its vicess
She may receive special instruction 10
sewing machines, and forthwith proceed
to earn her living by disseminating her
knowledge. She may learn to be a trained
nurse maid or a mothers helper, a lady's
maid or a telephone girl, all at no cost to
herself.
Whenever there is a strong public interest
in any particular subject, just as surely
will there be chances TO become experts in it.
For the past few years every place that
instructs chauTeurs has been full to run
ming over, while recently the demand for
competent operators for motor boats has
been 50 great that a school has been organ
lied with a regular course of instruction IN
that subject with full training in CONSTRUCT
ton and practical drill in operating under
all circumstances.
Some of the railroads have opened schools
for the instruction of their dining car COM
ductor3 in department and conduct, as wen
~ in tho nODnn1iGGaTv danartmant If AhA
service. One OF the big retail cigar COM
panies has a course of two weeks, which an
the clerks are required to take, in treatment
of customers and the judging Of tobacco.
When it comes TO special instructions
where a fee is involved. the opportunities
are az the sands of the sea. One may study
to be a manicure or an actor, a real estate
expert or a barber, a Wall Street investor
or an office boy it is simply a matter Of tue
price and the time. w
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NHORE THAN ONE WAY
IVl TO TRAIN A HUSBAND
Mrs. Rubberino Explains Her
System Of Imposing
Penalties.

well, Of all the mean, t~yrannical shTlmps
Of women-what do you suppose I've heard
about that pasty faced, watery eyed, shin
gle shap ed Walkohalk creature in the second
floor fat on the court?" said Mrs. Rubberino
10 her caller. why, she makes her poor
little. pitiful. srineless husband DO his home
smoking on the fire escape! just as true as
1 live and breathe! The janitor's wife told
me about il this very day.
Nov. I'd often noticed that wretched
little Walkchalk man-really, l can't pity
him so much, allowing his wife to bulldoze
him that way-standing out on his fire
e~scapaafter dinner all swaddled up in a big
frieze oyercoat, smoking away for dear life
on a cigar almost as big as himself. But l
never dreamed, naturally, that he had to
take to the fire escape TO get an after dinner
smoke.
Il imagined that maybe he was a fresh air
crank, or that he didn't enjoy smoking I'M
less III was in the pen air, or that perhaTs
he was merely trying to get away from the
sound Of his wife's voice for a little while
dear knows, I'd never blame him for that
or that perhaps he wanted to spy around
from his position on the fire escarc
and see what he could see. But the idea
that the backboneless little man was being
actually chased out on to the fire ESCAPE to
take his after dinner smoke never for a min
ute entered nv mind, deed it didn't!
why. the idea Of such a thing! I'd
lust as lief be tied for life to a Hottentot
or a Fiji Islander as a man who didn't
have enough spunk to insist upon smoking
anywhere asound the house that he wanted
TO.
Il noticed last winter that that poor
little cipher of a Wslkchalk man had a
horrid cold in the head all the time; but,
of course. | didn't ave a notion in the
world that he had the continuous perform
ance ~sneezings-yOu could hear him all
over the place-from being harried oIt
on to the fire escape to smoke after becoming
overheated at dinner in a hot dining room.
But It's all clear to me now. l think it's
a deliberate conspiracy on the part Of his
wife. I'd be willing to wager anything
that the poor little jellyfsh OF a man will
die OF pneumonia or bronchitis or some
thing before the winter b over; and then
that poisonous minded creature Of a wife
Of his will 20 about making the bluff that
she Is sorry, when she Is forever Dragging
about the big amount Of life insurance that
her husband carTiesl
Il simoSy oannot understand . man
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IL Is a poor orkm nowadays who can
not exhibit a diploma. II washerwoman
may have her sheepskin and 40 may the
%janitor, while the shop girl must graduate
from the school of instruction especially
provided for her.
This trend toward special training Is seen
at its largest development in the various
trade schools maintained by the Hoard OF
Education, but Interesting phases arc
found in the small schools and classes or
gsnized and managed by associations and
by the efforts of individuals.
More Interesting. too. than tho classes in
which fees are exacted and the applicant
must have some r~udunentary knowledge Of
the subject are those in which people are
taken in all their crudeness and Ignorance
and converted into skilled woTkmen with
no cost to themselves other than the effort
of learning. Hopeless, helpless dependents
are made into efficient laundresseS, men
whose greatest ability has been in running
an elevator are instructed in the care Of
delicate electrical machinery, and crippled
women are taught To make the finest lace
and embroidery, =,
Tho school for waSherwomcn established
by the Charity Organization Society. al
~ ANNN hhoiA tOhi Noi bNN 10 " NhV
oldest Of these training schools for adults.
Here women 50 shiftless as TO make even
this work almost beyond them are taught
old fashioned, domestic washing.
In the whole three floors of the old resi-
denoe on West twenty eighth street that
the school occupies there is not a single
piece of machinery with h exception
Of tho humble wringer. There are tubs
md soap and water, and the women are
taught only to use the things found in the
ordinary home.
The course of instruction varies accord
ing to the ability OF the woman employed
The greenest hand is started with the tubs
at a daily wage of 81 cents. She spends
perhaps a month or six weeks there be-
fore she is put on plain ironing and her
wages raised to b. Later. as she pro-
crosses upward. her wages advance also,
and when she attains the dignity of shirt
ironer she receives si.50 a day.
Then she graduates. At least she grad
yates IL she can be persuaded to do no.
Our greatest difficulty is in getting rid
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DOTS AMI CROSSES.
The Middle AGED Man Emancipated Free
the ThralI OF Petty THINGS. u


81 find" said the middle aged man, sths1
1 am now. in writing. more and more inclinea
to leave the dots of my is and the Gro sss4s
of my Us. y
aOnce, when l was myself moro precise
such omissions seemed to me to indicae@
slovenliness OF undue haste on tho part 81
a writer, and so they might reveal a lac&d
of proper consideration for the person ADJ
! dressed; but now when 1 find that ! auAG
myself falling into such ways I have a fees42
ing OF greater lenienCy towaT those whonA@
| once thought offending. y
Now it no longer seems to me that faihst
ure to dot our is and cross our rs indicates
carelessness or Indifference; it may shove !
! simply an effort to save time, on the part =
| OF a writer hurried. or a philosophical d0@{
sire to avoid the waste of time, the most
valuable of all things TO us, and the only
thing that is allotted to all men withouu<
regard to worth or capacity, in a~bsolutekP,
equal and inalienable shares. N
And SO now, il l get from a friend q
letter without all the is and rs duly dotted5
and crossed It may not indicate that he "a
careless himself or ~thoughtless OF me, hut
that he values time, and trusts me not o.
he offended that he writes to me in his ao&
customed way. "
~ We RIOW OhsAf NlAIlC WEuCh We AQD|
thoughtleSsly waste IN our youth, becoma4,
more and more precious to us. FortunatS&l
ly for us, however, we never realize howfd
little OF IL we now have left, else we should{
worry over that; and so, as we grow oldert
if blessed with good health we find morek
and more joy in existence. Z
5 it Is IN my growing years and keenerE
knowledge Of the value Of time that 1 ind.
one reason for my dropping my dots nd
crosses, but | am inclined TO think after ain
hat the controlling reason for this lies I'M
our common later life tendency to makah
less Of details. As we grow older wa
come to discover that principles are tho.
things. not the million petty details. BY
In youth, with our narrower vision, all
details are important to us, and they may
seem all important; their punotilious obAH
servance may then constitute for US OUR
main duty, but a. we grow older spd takes
a broader view we are likely TO smile and
perhaps to wonder over the time we wastedt
and the worries We once gave oursalvas%
over inrumerable things that seemed co.
us Of Importance, but that really were or
no account at all. As We grow older wat
gain that great advantage in flea reedomr
result OF observation and expertenoe--anH
ability TO get aloBG without worrying owed
tTI1es. -
And 80 I am inclined TO think that IL "a
not 50 much the saving OF time therebyJ
a. il IS this later life emancipation fronA
the thraldom OF petty things that movesK
me now in my manner OF writing. am NO
less careful Of the substance; I think, inde8dX
that | ain now more thoughtful OF thaeE
and more thoughtful az well OF maktnGB
my meaning clear and even my writ1n6E
.essy - ! 0Sse- I'D sBaus N Ss6s-
= 1885, 49, S,ENe.f
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Wild Ducks stocked Fish Pond.
From ne London Globe.

Many people. not without education and
n general knowledge OF natural history. are
mystliied by the presence of tish in enclosed
waters. For many years there was open
mouthed wonder over the perch. Dream
and crayfish found in the newly cut dams
near the Marguerite River in New South
Wales. In ZONE cases he water had scarcely
settled after the rain had filed the dam when
the Ash we're obssr we'd. and the Australian
farmers started a theory OF spontaneous
production.
This obtained and gained wide crcdeRce
until = sydney professor chanced to PICK M
well dotted WITH fertile and alinost hHtchrd
titos fhssTz wa jpsspsiS wiskafsvs &
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1906-12-07
Successful Institute.

The annual teachers institute fol-
Polk county will close tonight after a
successful three days session. The
attendance is larger than usual, about
1876 teachers being enrolled. Prominent
educators from all parts of the state
are taking part in the work, and great
interest is manifested by the teachers.
The reception to the visitors on Tues
day evening was one Of the most
pleasant social events ever enjoyed by
the people of Dallas. Speeches Of
welcome were made by Superintendent
Starr, Mayor Biddle and Principal
w. I. Reynolds and pleasing talks
were made by Prot. d. M Metzger, Of
Dallas College, and Supt. L. r
Traver, of Pendleton. Among the
prominent educators taking part in
institute are State Supt J. Fl. Acker
man, President e. d. Ressler of the
Monmouth Normal, Supt. L. r.. Alder
man of Yamhill county, Supt L. r
Traver of Pendleton, and Presiden
B. F. Mulkey of Ashland. The people
of Polk county have never enjoyed g
finer literary treat than the lecture OF
Hamlet" by President Mulkey on
Thursday evening. Lack Of time pre-
vents us from giving this lecture thu
mention it deserves and we shall have
more to say of it later. The schoo
officers of the county will hold theil
annual convention here tomorrow.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1906-12-07

All officers salaries and the usual
pauper accounts were ordered paid.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1906-12-07
Notice..

Bids will be received by the County
Court of Polk County. Oregon, for the
publication of the delinquent tax roll,
for the year 1905; and for the sale Of
property for delinquent taxes for said
year.
Said bids to be opened on the 9TH
day of December, 1906, at the hour OF
/ O'clock p. m. Of said day.
Z. M. SMITH,
Clerk of said Court.