THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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RURALISMS 
Oregon’s Pride ; Beautiful Roses; Happy 
Children. 
“Roses fragrant, roses fair, 
Roses, roses everywhere. 
Children happy, children fair, 
Children, children everywhere.” 
Yes. everywhere, in the far-famed, the 
beautiful Willamette Valley in Oregon, 
flourish and thrive in all their glory such 
an abundance of lovely roses and strong 
healthy children. This misty valley is 
truly a region of roses and maidens mys¬ 
teriously fair and beautiful, on the 
farms, among the hills, over the valleys, 
in the villages and in the cities, you will 
find rhem side by side, vicing with each 
in all qualities except its delightful fra¬ 
grance. It blooms from May to Decem¬ 
ber and holds its bright satiny pink color 
even in the hottest days in August. It 
is one of the best of Fall bloomers. 
Probably no rose today, at least in this 
western country, stands higher in pub¬ 
lic estimation than Caroline Testout. It 
is the official Carnival Rose of Portland, 
chosen perhaps, because its delicate shell- 
pink color blends so beautifully with the 
healthy rosy cheeks of the hundreds of 
children who help make the Carnival a 
success. 
There are many reasons why the chil¬ 
dren of Oregon as well as the roses at¬ 
tract the attention of the stranger in 
our midst. They are so wholesome, so 
stalwart, so bright-eyed, so good to look 
An Oregon Rose in the Children’s Parade. 
other for first place in beauty and per¬ 
fection. Portland, the metropolis of Ore¬ 
gon, holds its annual June Rose Festival, 
and it has been named the Rose City. 
No other city in the world excels or even 
equals it. in the beauty, the perfection, 
the varieties and the number of its roses. 
It is said to have one thousand miles of 
rose bushes and a drive over the city 
will justify this distinction, for there 
w ill be seen great masses of roses of all 
colors and lines, blooming on the lawns, 
along the sidewalks, over the porches, 
in the parks, on the school grounds, in 
the churchyards, literally roses every¬ 
where, giving such a color, beauty and 
color effect that every stranger is charmed 
and will ever remember Portland as the 
city beautiful. 
There.-.is no royal road to the produc¬ 
tion of perfect roses; in fact Her Ma¬ 
jesty, the Queen of Flowers is very ex¬ 
acting, and to develop at best her peer¬ 
less beauty demands quite a number of 
things besides planting and cultivating. 
The soil and climatic conditions are very 
important factors in the successful grow¬ 
ing of roses; and these conditions, as 
they exist in the Willamette Valley are 
nearly perfect. Yet this queen has other 
demands from the one who wishes to be 
a successful rose-grower. He must have 
not only admiration and enthusiasm, but 
also thoughtfulness, reverence and watch¬ 
fulness, for as some one has said: “He 
who would have beautiful roses in his 
garden, must have beautiful roses in his 
heart.” 
The varieties of roses are almost legion 
and although the American Beauty might 
almost be called our national rose, yet 
no collection of roses is perfect without 
La France and Caroline Testout. La 
France is a beautiful rose and a great 
favorite, but Caroline Testout excels it 
upon. Why is this? To what is it all 
due? Climatic conditions have been cited 
as being so necessary in producing fine 
roses, and they are just as necessary in 
the production of fine boys and girls 
physically, and it might also be said 
morally. Climate is something we al¬ 
ways have with us, and it affects our 
health, our comfort, our temperament 
and our general appearance every hour 
in the day and every day in the year 
throughout our lives. So this Willamette 
Valley country with its cool Summers, 
mild Winters, gentle rain and warm 
moist sea breezes, with no extremes of 
heat and cold, no cyclones, hurricanes, 
blizzards, sunstrokes or severe electric 
storms to harrow the nerves, is truly a 
land of comfort and these conditions in 
connection with an abundance of the fin¬ 
est fruits, vegetables and pure water 
would naturally produce strong healthy 
children. Oregon takes much pride in 
her magnificent roses, but she is even 
prouder of her wholesome, happy, rosy- 
cheeked boys and girls. There is likely 
no State in the Union that is conscien¬ 
tiously striving to do so much for the 
welfare of its children from babyhood 
up, as the State of Oregon. 
In 1013 in the Court House at Port¬ 
land three rooms were formally opened 
for the Parents’ Educational Bureau to 
be conducted by the Oregon Congress of 
Mothers and the Parent-Teacher Associa¬ 
tions of the State. The object of this 
bureau is to further child-welfare work 
in all its phases, that is, it is civic work 
in its broadest and highest sense. Every 
Portland visitor should see this bureau, 
as it is one of the most interesting sights 
in that splendid city so teeming with 
wonders. This bureau has various de¬ 
partments. Among the most important 
is the literature section, which gives out 
leaflets and recommends magazines and 
books bearing upon all phases of child 
culture. It also has the maternity edu-- 
cational section, the eugenics section and 
the section for the examination of chil¬ 
dren for adenoids, defective sight and 
hearing, etc. lias this bureau been a 
success? Let its report for the first six 
months answer: 254 babies were exam¬ 
ined and scientifically scored ; 1.100 moth¬ 
ers called for advice and literature, 262 
mothers attended the lectures and dem¬ 
onstrations. and 400 visitors were regis¬ 
tered. A fine record, and the hope now is 
that many other cities will follow Port¬ 
land’s example and establish such bu¬ 
reaus and thus carry on the true mother 
love and mother thought into all that 
concerns childhood in the home, school, 
church. State and Legislation. 
In May, 1015, the National Convention 
of Mothers and Parent-Teacher Associa- I 
tion was held in Portland with child- 
welfare in its broadest sense, as its cen- | 
tral idea, “to save the babies, safeguard 
the boys and girls, give to the youth high ' 
ideals of marriage and home-making, ed¬ 
ucate the father, train the mother and I 
ennoble the home.” As a means to child 
welfare advancement, this Congress s 
working for a Children’s Department in 
the National Government, and a woman’s 
and children’s building in Washington. 
[The Children’s Bureau of the Depart¬ 
ment of Commerce and Labor was estab¬ 
lished in 11)12, Julia C. Lathrop, Chief.—• 
Eds.] 
Thirty-eight years ago the first Chil¬ 
dren's Society was established in New 
York City, and today these societies are 
counted by the hundreds not only j 
throughout the United States, but also in j 
many foreign lands. The New York 
pioneer society alone has cared for near¬ 
ly 925.000 children now ; if to this good 
work can be added that of the Parents’ 
Educational Bureau the lives of the fu¬ 
ture children will surely be strewn with 
roses, and our ideals of true manhood 
and true citizenship will be realized. 
HRS. GEO. SIXEPPARU. 
Transplanting Evergreens. 
I have three small evergreens, balsam. 
I think, which I wish to transplant. 
Would you tell me the correct time of 
year for such work? p. w. c. 
Marcellus, N. Y. 
As this inquirer wishes to transplant 
her evergreens this Spring, better go 
ahead with the work as soon as possible. 
Evergreens transplant quite successfully 
any time from April 1 to June 1. Per¬ 
sonally I prefer about May 1st, as they 
seem to suffer less from being disturbed 
then, than any other time of year. K. 
“Willie, what part of speech is an 
egg?” “A noun, miss.” “Yes, now what 
gender?” “Can’t say till it’s hatched.” 
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