The sun., 1908-12-27
BAEIHGHB BVAYTOADPLOHA
MR. HARRIS MAKING BREAD
AND STUDYING MEDICINE.

AND STUDYING MEDICINE.
PiaA Of student in the FIewer Hospital
Medical College fer Getting an Edu
catisn WIthsut . Bank Account
Started the Enterprise In Oregon,
II could tell many young man vine
wants an education and thinks It wouH
cost moro than he can afford TO pay how
TO get II, could teach three or four OF
them my way Of doing 1t in an evening
would be glad to do 1t. too. II 1t would in
spire some other young man to do like.
wise."
No one could doubt the sincerity OF
the big. blue eyed young fellow. Ralph
w. Harris. who was speaking and who
has solved his own problem of how to
get an education without bank account,
Mr.. Harris spent his boyhood In the Pima
spioed air of Oregon. where there Is
plenty Of room for every man TO grow
10 his full stature In body and brain, and
he is without the fear that in passing on
any good thing he has discovered he Ia
lessening his own opportunities or under
mining his own prospects.
Besides he Is thoroughly convinced
of the superiority Of his own method
over those that his friends are using
His plan. he says, does not 30 drain
physical strength and spirit so as to i'm
pair capacity for study.
MIR. Harris Ia q student In the Flower
Hospital Medical College. and whila
there he has paid his entire expenses.
excepting only small part of the tuition,
by baking ell the bread used In the hos.
pital
He sets the bread at noon. and does
the rest of the work In the evening, from
9 to perhaps 10. While the bread is baking
he does his studying. II takes four bak-
inEs at Flower Hospital. because he ex-
plains, IF you do not put 80 many loayes
in at once the baking is much mora
thorough"
Some of the other students earn 81
q day by proving drugs. The drugs are
given under a physician's direction
but still 1t sometimes Injuries ones health
a bit. or at least endangers it.
Others are ushers at Carnegie Hall
and various other places. Some take
tickets at dance halls or carriage stands
or wait on tables In restaurants. But
the baking does not tax your health, or
exhaust you physically as these other
avocations do it is an agreeable change
in kind Of employment. and besides there
is great deal more money in it.
The only stock in trade that Mr. Harris
had to begin with was a supply Of enter
prise and store OF the Western brand
of common sense, breathed in, perhaps,
with the ozone of Oregon. He had ho
previous knowledge of baking other
than what he knew from helping around
at home.
While he was in the preparatory school
at Cook Academy. Seneca Lake. the baker
suddenly left. Mr.. Harris asked tc he
allowed to take his place, and was finally
acoe,ted on trial. "for." he laughinely
a adnlttcd. they thought was blufing
them. as / was.
Il Ihad only one nights instruction from
the bake before he left, but everything
ALWAYS went all right from the start.
| havo rove. yet had TO throw away
batch of bread.
Cook books2 oh. no, have no use
for them. II things did not seem just
right. / changed the next time.
II made all the pies, cakes and pastry
nj the academy, as well as the bread.
Perhaps could make an apple pie and
plain cake before went there, but had
reyc. done more than that. I made all
tho other kinds by varying these.
II had ten varieties Of pies, and changed
them SO often that they did not grow
tired of them. earned my tuition,
board, laundry and SIS in cash each Of the
two school years that was there. In
the summer / worked as CLERK in
summer resort. and there was where ]
met Dean Copeland OF our school and got
nv present job.
Flower Hospital formerly bought all
the bread it used, and then forty-fve
loaves q day would suffice; but now
the baker must make about sixty, sfor
you know. they eat so much more when
It is home made he said.
Mr.. Harris modestly lays all his success
he is willing to explain to any who wish
TO know. t-. IT..
When asked If his bread making and
summer clerking had paid all his expenses
during the yeers he has been studying,
he replied that it had with but one ex-
ception. When he was IL and ives work.
ing for some chemists out In Portland
he saw in a scientific paper q statement
p the NEED Of Sartridse shell tina. oss WSald ad
On the subject there but did not complete
his experiments. Afterward. while ct
Cook Academy, he perfected his investi-
cations. A man was found who was WILL
ing to supply the money necessary for
the cartridge.
AAnd got something for that he said.
Now have the drawing all ready for the
4. .-I A. IA