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THE SAN FRANOISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 5, 1895 23 A Cb’nldhoodsfitalm o~ » s L ith light stains of shall be well nor when we know, hou shalt grow; er faint and low 5 well. , nor how 1 with thee, oh, soul, 1s wither like a scroll, et to roll, these are unobtainable, the children will be entertained by potato forms. When frozen in such a shape the molds are pow- dered with cocoa before the cream is put in, to carry out the deception. The table decorations, even if very pretty, wiil not especially appeal to the cgildren unless some feature which they can understand is combined with it. The bonbons may be in little crepe paper- bags, tied with ribbon, and form a center- piece on the table. Flowers may be used with these, adding to the decorative effect, and let,the top be crowned with the dude Brownie. Ribbon or flower garlandsora combination of both may outline the table, held before each place by a Brownie. The Brownies may be obtained clothed in gay- er colors than their national costume if de- sired, but will not add materiaily to the decorations. Pink is the prettiest color for a child’s party, as it eiveslight and life and will be especially good with the dec- orations suggested.—Table Talk. Dorothy and Dolly, Now, Miss Dolly, you can just come right straight here to me, and let me put | on your, very worstest old dress. gaged to disease are guilty of nothing short of a cruel and unpardonable sin. Do give this wee dependent the care ofa thoughtful, unselfish, intelligent mother, never forgetting his helplessness and your rei;wnsibility for his health and comfort. 0 not imae%ine that your time is more urgently needed for other things than baby-tending, and that your dut§ is done when a good nurse is provided. You may pay your social calls, take your trips, attend your meetings, your lectures, your plays, and do your embroidering, your painting and such things—all these thmfis you may do now, or you may put them all off for years, and_ they will not spoil for the ~waiting. It is not so with the baby. Never again will he need the tender mother love, the watchful care that he needs now. FPut him off now and when he grows up verily he will not come back to you. You will not be all in all to your boy unless you begin by being so to your baby. It is sweeter to hear a baby Voice say My mamma” than to see your name printed dozens of times in fashion and literary papers. Don't, if you love your baby, don’t take him to lectures, to plays, to picnics, or even to hear the finest sermon that was ever preached. If you cannot possibly stay at home with him® yourself, leave him at home with some trustworthy person, even if you have to impose the charge on some kind aunt or sister. If your own pleasure | must come first with you, it is better to inconvenience grown people than your | helpless babe. There is nothing more ob- We're goin’ to clean house hard to-day ! noxious to the little one than any kind ofa " LeEwis MoRrms. Caring for Babies. ican medical student writes a description of the fashion babies in Germany which rent opinion that Ameri- the most devoted and intelligent care of any babes on earth. French and English babies are largely given into the hands of nu for care. French mothers, even those 1n quite com- fortable circumst s, think nothing of send from home to be cared nal baby-tenders, whe far from scientific in their methods. In Germany, we are told, the infant death rate is out of all proportion and seems to be due to maternal mismanage- of caring f confirms the can children hay an mothers believe flannel too hard nt’s tender ski nd the little lad in cotton or linen. The pil- r *“‘bettehen,” upon which the child lies for the first four or five months of its nce, would be thought by an Ameri- can mother a most unwholesome contri- A thick feather pillow is_put into an elaborately beruffted case, which has an extra length thatisalso decorated with lace, ruf] or” em] dery. The pil- low, with a sheet of rubber cloth | THE SPRINGTIME OF LIFE. (From a photograph by Marceau.] an’ you must be all ready so when any- ) public body rings the bell you ¢'n jest run to the strang door and tell a naughty story about your ’Course it won't | | mamma is not at home. entertainment. The lights, noiseand e faces make him nervous and fright- ened. Hisonly pleasures in lifeare eating, sleeping and lying in his little nest of a crib, kicking and cooing and growing. be a really naughty story because your | Have you ever thought what a cruelty it is i | it not be naughty. else but what it sounds, but I am too busy | to ’splain that to you now, so you must | | run away an’ play till youis more older, | tho mamma told you to say it, and that makes | to take him away from this, dress him up Tt means something | fussily and take him to church, there to | sit through the long service in your lap— ‘?'our stiff, prim, gros - grain lap? e ooks around in solemn wonder at sea of strange faces, and even an’ then you can know your own self that | mamma is strange with her perk-up bon- when big folks says things that ain’t so it’s | net and her frizzly u ‘cause they means something that you is | raged baby-nature gets the better of him ly bangs. No wonder out- too little to understand, an’ little” girls | at iast and he makes the welkin ring with must n't ask silly_questions. | Now, you can help to do work, an’ I am TELEGRAPH HILL. A SNAP SHOT ON partly covering it, receives the baby, and = the extra length is pulled goin’ to carry all the things out of my | Kouse out on the front porch. I'll play | his cries. Babies are a nuisance in public places and public places are a nuisance to | babies. In the face of these potent facts is | it not strange that some women persist in taking infants into society ? Do keep your baby clean. Do give him pure air at all times. Do let him have a few spoonfuls of water several times a day. Do not let every one kiss him. Do not let any one jostle and shake and tickle him. Do not keep him so warm that he cannot sleep. Babies, as a rule, are bundled up too much. Do not neglect him, and then when he cries for some needed attention say that he is a “cross, bad-tempered little nuis- ance.” A healthy baby seldom cries when his wants are properly filled, and a sickly one certainly has a perfect right to make life a burden to those who allowed it to become So0. Do act as if you expected your child to grow up a healthy being, eyery way, }ook hopefully into the future, and there- ore Do not worry neediessly.—Lela Willson- Barrett, Rusk, Tex. Philosophy From Babyland. “I guess I know why they call idols idols,” said Bobby: ‘It’s because they sit still all the time and do nothing.” “You seem interested in me to-night, Willie,” said Mr. Softly, observing that the boy was gazing intently at him. “Yes,' ' said Willie, “I'm waiting to see | | | up over it after the fashion of a counter- | this place is a front porch, so that old bad | pane, The cover is tied firmly in place with bows and bands of bright ribbons, and the child becom: asg it were, an ap- purtenance of the pretty pillow, decorative, but assuredly en uncomfortable. The baby wears only a tiny shirt of linen and a little white waist abundantly trimmed. Its limbs are tightly wrapped in swad- dling-clothes, so dis cannot disarrange them by kicking, and folded so multitudinously as to require no pins. The child is as helpless as the little A Citizen Without Opinions. Eappoosc strapped upon a board, and its ead is often flattened unduly from being pressed always in the same position. Menu for Children’s Party. Date Sandwiches Ice Cream Cakes Fruit Bonbons The menu is necessarily limited, as the party being in the afternoon the children’s Fegu]nr hours of feedinz should be as little interfered with as possible and yet have re- freshments. The date sandwiches may be omitted if desired and the fruit and bon- bons are designed to be accessories to the menu, for ornament during the feast and favors after it. For such little children, baked custards would even be better than icecream. If the latter be used it may be frozen in animal or Brownie forms; or ill [ sed that the child | | lady what lives ‘cross the street an’ hasaold | carriage to ridein can see how much bigger |an’ prettier all our things is than all her old things. I'm most sorry for you, doily, ‘cause your house has to be all cleanded | up, ’cause when it gets all fixed little girls | can’t hardly stay anywhere, nor do most anything. ‘An’ “most all your nice old dolly rags and all your dishes that is braked an’ your old shoes an’ things has got to be frowed away. I some sorry for | your papa too, dolly, dear, cause when he | comes home an’ wants his old coat an’ his raggedy slippers they’ll be all selled | to the ragman. An’ ’sides, the curtings will be so clean that anybody can’t smoke, an’ the pipes will be all frowed away,’cause they is filthy. Papas ain’t a bit glad 'bout | a pretty new chair what youn can’t sit down into unless it will break, an’ sometimes you can hear your papa talkin’ awful loud ’bout goin’ somewhere out in the woods, an’ you most hope you're goin’, too. But if you hurry an’ run to hear what they is all sayin’ about, they most always stops before you can tell, an’ when you asks questions they tells you to stop! When they gets things fixed up, then Mrs. Fixem an’ Aunt Sara will come to call, an’ they will look 'found an’ be just nn‘, nobody can’t stay ‘in the house much an’ muss it up, so we can plnf' in the barn an’ have fun. An’ papa will have toeat on the back steps when he comes home, an’ I guess he’ll say about how anybody could take a tent an’ live on a vacant lat an’ have more fun an’ not cost hardly any money. An' I wish we could do it, ’cause I just love to not have to be careful so much, an’ houses an’ things is just mostly to make other folks feel bad "cause theirs is littler, orelse they have not got any carpets an’ nice velvet chairs what you musn’t sit down ip 'less’n you’ve company. Now, L am goin’ to get you some dinner, you bad, old, cross dolly, and you're in ! my way just awiul to-day. ou can‘t | have anything to eat ’cept those shoe- | buttons, Dolly, an’ a old paper napkin. | An’ if you cry an’ fuss I am just goin’ to spank you awful, ’cause I'm so busy I ain’t got no time to stop an’ tend to you. I just only want you to know.that I are got something more ’portant to see about than stopping around to see to a bad, ’bominable dolly what gets in my way most every minute and goes 'way off where I can’t see her and don’t know where she is, an’ am most worried to death, an’ can’t | stand it one single bit longer! So there, | now! Don’ts and Dos for the Baby. Do, first and foremost of all things, re- member that the baby hasa right to be born of healthy parents, and that the father and mother who deliberately bring into the world a creature pre-natally mort- ’stonished 'cause everything is so clean; | you bust.” “Bust?” queried Mr. Softly. “Yes. Maude told me she thought you'd pop to-night, and I love to see things pop: corn makes such a funny little noise when it busts.”’—Bazar. The eldest of three little chaps was sternly reproved by his mother for bad be- havior. “You are the oldest, Cyrus,”’ she said, “‘and you ought to be an example for Homer ana Jack. ‘“Well, I'll be an ex- ample for Homer,” said Cyrus, “but I won’t be an example for both of ’em. Homer’s got to be it for Jack.”’—Boston Transcript. Professor—In Russia criminals are often sentenced to be kept awake until insanity A Lesson in Oause and Effect. [From a photograph.) \ or death results. Now, how do you_ sup- pose they keep them from falling asleep ? Little girl (oldest of the family)—I ex- pect they give 'em a baby to take care of. A three - year-old child whom [ know, said a friend, made some request from her father which he refused.. The little one drew herseli up in a dignified manner and remarked: “IfI'd;’a’ known what kind ‘;)fo ud father T'd have I'd ’a’ staid with Five-year-old Freddy was showing the young minister about the place. His eyes frequently glanced up at the kind face and then rested with a look of troubled inquiry on the pointed toes of the Piccadilly boots. Finally he blurted out his anxiety in the uestion, “Ain’t you got but one toe?”’— abyhood. “Mamma, please gimme a drink of w ater I'm so thirsty.” : “No, you are not thirsty; turn over and £o to sleep.” A pause. ‘“Mamma, won't you please gimme a drink? I'm so thirsty.” “If you don’t turn over and go to sleep I'll get up and spank you!” Another pause. “Mamma, won’t you please gimme a drink when you get up to spank me?” “Won’t you have another piece of pie, Mr. Claverly ?” asked Tommy., “Thank you, Tommy,” replied Mr. Ciayerly. ‘‘It’s very kind of you.” ©Qh, that’s all right,” returned Tommy, with energy. “I'm a lookin’ out for my- self. Ma said if it was necessary to cut another pie, I could have two plryeces,”__ Harlem Life. INTERCOLLEGE ~ DEBATES, Last Year’s Participants Ban- queted at the University Club. Next Year’s Successful Debater Will Receive a Prize of Two Hun- dred Dollars. The debaters in the intercollegiate con- test which took place in Metropolitan Temple on April 20 last were banqueted by the University Club yesterday. The tables were decorated with red, blue and yellow flowers, sent by Senator George C. Perkins for the occasion, and the menu was all that could be desired. Among those present were: Warren Olney, Charles Page, ex- Justice Myrick, Professors C. M. Gayley and Thomas Bacon and Dr. L. S. Hengst- ler, of the University of California, and Professor Nathan Abbott of Stanford; Benjamin F. Bledsoe, Burton M. Palmer and E. de Los Magee, of Stanford, and James W. Clarke, Martin C. Flaherty and George F. McNoble, of the University of California, and J. L. Dinwiddie. On behalf of the students A. M. Cathecart and George W. McNoble thanked the judges for the interest they had taken in the contest, and Charles Page responded. He considered that the debates in questign on practical problems of the day wo\Sd result in more good than was at present apparent. Judge Myrick also spoke highly of the yearly contests between the two great universities of the West, and hoped that they would be continued and their scope enlarged. Warren Olney is another who has the fostering of these contests at heart. He made a casual remark to Sena- tor Perkins on the subject last week, and the result was the following letter: Warren Olney—DEAR SIR: Referring to your remark on the Oakland boat this morning that you wished you could find some one who would give $200 a vear for three years, to be divided between the two best speakers at the annual intercollegiate debate between the students from Stanford University and from the Uni- versity of California, it strikes me_ that your wishes in the matter are very modérate; and as I am in most hearty sympathy with the movement to encourage the students of these two grest universities in their intellectual con- tests I shall _consider it an honor to contribute the sum desired. Therefore, please bring it to the attention of the proper parties that at each of the annual intercollegiate debates in 1896, 1897 and 1898 the judges are authorized to draw on me for $200, to' be equally divided by them between & Stanford debater and a Uni- versity of California aebater. The judges, in addition to rendering a de- cision, as required by the gift of the Examiner cup, will also select irom each side the speaker who, in their ukinion. is best entitled to the money prize. The judges shall take into con- sideration both excellence of argument and delivery. In case the Examiner cu 1898, no doubt: there will some other gen- eral prize to contend for, and my agreement remains open if there is. Lot A e is awarded before Pl at As you know, it is one of my hobbies that government by discussion is the only govern- ment possible for a free people. There are con- tinually arising for solution new problems in economics and sociology. The educated men of the country should De the leaders in these discussions and will ve if the students in our colleges a1e trained to think correctly, and ex- press their ideas with clearness and force. In so far as the educated men and women of this country fail to oceupy, their natural place in the front, by so much have the colleges in the land failed in their work. There has been a failure in the past, or, if nota failure, there have been woeful shortcomings on the part of the alumni to fill the places they ought to oc- cupy. If they cannot occupy the front ranks in the march of improvement, then there is some- thing wrong in their training. Believing as 1 do that o Mutusion by young men of the questions of the day will tend to develop right thinking, foreible speak- ing and thereby insure good government, I am glad to contribute anything that will act as a stimulus. The amount is'small, but to be earned as the students will earn it ought to be considered an honor. May the best men earn it. With kind- est regards, I remain cordially yours, GEORGE C. PERKINS. _ The students have taken the matterup in earnest, and the subjeet of next year's debate will be decided at once. The mem- bers of each college will then debate the subject among themselves from time to time, and the choice of candidates will not be made until a month before the joint discussion comes off. THE OREGON DOCKED. She Is Taken From the Ways and Ts Ready to Receive Her Armor. The new battleship Oregon is at the docks of the Union Iron Works in as clean a condition as a ship can be after being thoroughly scraped on a drydock by a gang of men working four days. Yesterday morning the word was given and the tugs Sea Queen and Edna pulled on their hawsers and the big battleship slid from the coffin in thch she had rested for the past week without even as méxch as a scratch being made upon her sudes. The Oregon was towed alongside the wharf at the iron works and is awaiting the mounting of the armor-plate now on the way here from the East. It will be several months before the protection has all been put in place. - — THEY ARE INDIGNANT. Residents of the Richmond District Object to Straying Cattle. Residents of the Richmond District are indignant at the recent action of the Board of Supervisors in regard to one Patton, who was mulcted in the sum of $120 for permitting bis cattle to stray. He appeared before the board and for excuse stated that his cattle were on the way to be watered, though it was shown by F. A. Osborn, the Poundmaster, that it was 11 o’clock at night when the cattle wore found roammg‘ = Notwithstanding the evidence of the Poundmaster the 'onrd favorably consid- ered Patton’s petition to have the money re- l\flirned to him, and made an order to that effect. The Richmond District property-owners are dissatisfied with the Supervisors’ ac- tion. They claim that the straying of cattle in their neighborhood is a menace to them and their %royert)', and have written to the Chief of Police to ask his aid in supporting the Poundmaster’s anthority. atton is an old offender in the line of fiarmitting his cattle to roam. In 1862 ayor Sutro had to take action in regard to seventeen head of cattle which were found on his preserves at Sutro Heights. e ———— Turkey sends out tobacco, the cereals, nuts, almonds, olives, all sorts of dried fruits, coffee, madder, opium and an enor- mous amount of wine, the last named article to France, to be rebottled and ex- ported. A very important trade is also carried on in fish, sponges and coral, Books 3 A few, it is to be feared only a few, read- I ers of the CALL will remember a little gray book of poems that appeared six months or so ago bearing the imprint of a San Francisco publisher and calling itself “A Light Through the Storm.” The little gray book proved, in most in- stances, a hard nut for the reviewers to crack. It was difficult to know just what to say about the meat it contained. Un- | questionably it was meat, the content, but | the shell was hard; here and there the | busk adhered; here and there the nut seemed altogether unlovely and undesira- | ble. It looked doubtful whether there | would be found meat enough to repay the | cracker for his trouble. | But to drop the metaphor, the little gray | book is full of promise of what we may yet | look for from the young singer, Charles A. | Keeler. I Mr. Keeler is yet a very young man, | scarcely 24, but aside from what he has done in a verse-making way, aside from a | musical gift with which alone he might | win distinction, he has already achieved | in the realm of science much to which an | older man might point with justifiable pride. Charles A. Keeler was born in Mil- | waukee some twenty-four years ago, but removed with his parents to Berkeley in | and o= = Bookmakers ot omy in their application to the presen problems of labor, law and the liquor traffic.” The author is Alphonso A. Hop- kins, Ph.D., professor of political econ- omy in the American Temperance Uni- versity. He has designed his book as a text-book, and the chapters are subjected to a topical and sub-topical arrangement, which, while it may possibly be of assist- ance to an occasional special student, is very irritating to the general reader.. Six different faces of type on a single 8vo page are enough to discourage any onebut a de- termined seeker for arguments in support of prohibition. Such arguments Dr. Hop- kins’ work is especially designed to fur- nish,” and to meet the writer’s ends ac- cepted theories of political economy are often bent into queer forms. To the two classes of industry, productive and unpro- ductive, usually “given by economists, he adds wo others which he styles reproduc- ive and unreproductive.” His defini- tions, or rather illustrations, of these | two classes of labor are very subtle. For instance, a perfumery-bottle is a product of skilled labor. It was made in a factory which labor built; it grew from a pile of sand that labor trans- muted. It could be again melted and re- made into a saucedish_if the glassblower should please. There is long and possible reproduction in that fruit of productive CHARLES A. KELLER. 1887. From earliest boyhood he was in- terested in the mysteries of life-forms. Nearly every poem’ in his little hook be- s}venks the lover of nature. Every phase | of life appeals to him, but when he was | about 14 years old his attention was | directed to the study of birds and to | this study he has devoted nearly all the years since. In 1889 he was sent to Ne- vada to collect birds and mammals for the United States Department of Agriculture. He subsequently entered the University of California and was | elected a member of the Academy of | Sciences, where he has been for several | years an active worker, lecturing, writing | and partly editing the magazine “Zoe."” | He was a prime mover in the organization | of the Zoological Club, besides organizing | and for three years conducting the Evolu- | tion Club of Berkeley. During these years | there was growing in his brain the plan of a book which has caused more than a little stir in scientific circles on the evolution of | color in birds. In gathering the notes for | this work the author visited all the prin- cipal museums of the East. Unable to | procure the manufacture on this coast of the plates that illustrated the book, orto give time to personal superintendence of their J)rodnction in the East, he was| obliged to learn the lithographer’s art and make them himself. The bock was issued by the California Academy of Sciences, and is a valuable addition to the literature of ornithology. A year or two ago Mr. Keeler married a daughter of J. ‘S. Bunnell of Berkeley. Mrs. Keeler, who is a niece of Mary Mapes Dodge, is as gifted in pictorial art as is ner husband in poesy and science. The little book of verse is illustrated with drawings of hers and photogravures from paintings by William Keith. An analysis of Charles Keeler's verse would be difficult to make. It is oiten crude. His expressions are sometimes harsh, and here and there are limping lines, but through all of his work runs that subtle, indefiunfile something that stamps the work with promise. None of it is merely pretty, though now and againa bit sings sweetly as any bird, as in this song: It's O! and it's O! Where the cowslips grow, Down in the meadow, my love, we'll go, Where the song sparrow staris from his hidden nest. And dewdrops hang on each grass blade's crest; We'.\lhflnd where the breeze murmurs coolest and | est To rest. my love, to rest. Perhaps no better bit could be given to represent both the naturalist and the poet than this sonnet: TO A FLOATING SEED. Frail winged fairy, born in summer’s glow, Taunching upon the world's uncertain way, Slight, dainty voyager, brooking no delay Upon thy course that bends at last 8o low: Chasing the careless winds that round thee blow, Or climbing at the sky in airy play Upon thy lite's one foyful holiday Before thou seek’st thy patient, silent woe: On, seedling, when I see theé loating by Heart is filled with wonder and with awe 0 think what loveliness thou dost imply ; What promise! what result! what constant law! To think that thou art frult and flowers to be, ‘The joy and gladness of futurity. At present Mr. Keeler 1s at work upon a series of poems which he calls “Souls of Creation.” ‘‘Readings From the Epic of Evolution” would be a more comprehen- sive title, for this is exactly what the msare. He has put into verse, at times nto heroic verse, something of that mighty, mysterious poetic force that is working behind the ages. Wealth and Waste. This book, its sub-title tells us, is a study in “the principles of political econ- labor. But suppose instead of a perfumery- bottle a brandy-bottle were made. Sup- pose a young man had bought ‘it and runk its contents to satisfy an abnormal thirst. Suppose the drinking had made him crazy drunk, and that while in that condition he had committed a crime. Back of his deed there would have been that productive labor—unreproductive as to final good, but awfully productive of ill. It may be that the cause of temperance can be served by making it responsible for such nonsense as this, but the proposition isto say the least a doubtful one. Ata time when the world is anxiously seeking solutions to our various social reforms we are in need of teachers, not of biind leaders of the blind. This is no time for the warp- ing of the principles and facts of political science, such as we have it, to meet the ends of special reformers. The man who does this must be intensely ignorantor a chartelan. Noend is in itseli sufficiently commendable to justify this sort of liter- ary humbuggery and juggling with scien- tific” phraseology. [New York: Funk & Wagnalls.] A Blameless Woman. John Strange Winter has given us in this a story that shows certain phases of British character in a strong, if not flatter- ing, light. Margaret North is a young English girl of wealth and family, an orphan. She meets and loves a Russian Prince, who desires to marry her, but ex- plains that for political reasons the mar- riage must be kept a profound secret for two years. With the consent of her guar- dian she goes to Berlin to study German. The Prince follows her. They are married and live happily for two years. Then the Prince declines to make lKe marriage pub- i althoth protesting with every show of sincerity that he adores her, will die if she leaves him, and begs her to remain. She takes time to consider, and learns through the Russian Embassador that her husband is already married—that what she su poses is her marriage certificate is merer a promise, in Russian, to pay her a hundy- some sum each year during her life. Stung to the quick in her love, her pride, all that makes life of value, she returns home, without seeing the Prince again, and takes up her old quiet English life. In time she marries an Englishman. The two live in comparative happiness. Her husband worships her—she learns to love and trust him. They have two charming children. Everything is lovely until the Prince appears again. The meeting is unexpected by either. Then disaster - begins. A profege, for whom Margaret has done everything, pries about and discovers the early entanglement. She exposes it to the husband, who at once applies for a divorce. A jury of twelve good Britons and true grant it him, the fact that Margaret deceived him once being presumptive evidence that she has done so all along., The poor woman is disgraced, outcast, her children taken from her and her life ruined. Then the Prince’s wife in Russia conveniently dies. He comes forward, marries Margaret and takes her away. [New York: e Inter- national News Company.] History of the University of California. It seems almost a pity that a work which ought to have a permanent value should have been written under stress of haste. In his preface the author, Pro- fessor William garev Jones, explains that the exigencies of gufillcnion required that the pages should be printed off almost as fast as they were written, so that no op- portunity was afforded for revision ang little book is readjustment. That the work has suffered under such treatment goes without saying. It gives us, however, an interesting ac- count of the growth of an institution of which every Californian is justly proud. ‘What is now the University of Cali- fornia started with three pupils in 1853in a former fandango house on the corner of Broadway and Fifth street, in Oakland. It was a private institution, known as the Contra Costa Academy. It is now one of the leading institutions of learning in the country, with property, en- dowments and special funds amounting to over two and a half million dollars. The steps by which it has climbed to its high estate are set forth in detail by Professor Jones. Typographically the book is a very hand- some quarto, printed on heavy calendered paper, and it 1s profusely and interestingly illustrated with portraits of the faculty, regents and all who have helped in the growth of the University, besides numer- ous views about Berkeley and in the Uni- versity grounds, which are of great natural beauty. Santa Catalina. Charles Frederick Holder is of all men avle to write lovingly and appreciatively of that isle of summer whose name gives the title to this handsome little volume. It is an exceedingly interesting territory, abounding in Indian relics and curios and remnants of workmanship that show the primitive Catalinians to nhave been far superior in development, in rivilization and a knowledge of the arts and industries to the Indians of the mainland. There is a mystery surrounding the origin of these early dwellers upon Catalina. Who they were, what language the?' spoke, is unknown. Professor Holder thinks they were probably a mixed race, made up of wanderers from Bering Strait, Japanese and_Chinese fronr the west, with possible additions from races in the south and from the lower islands of the Pacific. Con- siderable space is devoted to the attrac- tions which the island offers to the sports- man, the health-seeker and the lover of grand scenery, and the writer throws out a fascinating suggestion that botanists will find it to be a * Western Atlantis.” The rofusely illustrated. [Sam Francisco: C. A. Murdock & Co.) A New Local Periodical, From Murdock & Co.’s press comes this week a periodical that must pass as unique, even in thisfin de siecle epoch of the weird, the genre, the unusual. We have the pe- riodical of yellowness, of greenness, of the minute and of the medieval, but in the Lark San Francisco has certainly struck a new note. The Lark isa miniature monthly. edited by Bruce Porter and Gelett Burgess. It professes no more serious intention than to be gay—to sing a song, to tell a story. It proposes to sing within doors when so in- clined, but if spring calls or the road in- vites then its readers must follow it afield, where the{ may hear the birds calling and see trees blowing and know the great con- tent of earth. Despife the protests of the editors it will be difficult for a certain or- der of mind to believe that the Lark is not intended as a satire on the literature of decadence. It is quite true, as is claimed for it, that the projectors have no motive inview save the apostleship of joyousness—of optimism, of that in _life which is healthy ~and clean and mirth- inspiring. “Life is a bigger thing than art,” say the editors. Pioneers of Prosperity. “A Story of a Public Awakening” the author, David H. Walker, calls the little book which he has just published, and which he dedicates to George K. Fitch, late editor of the Bulletin. It is an interesting document, dealing with the rise of a pro- gressive spirit in California. It chronicles the rattling of dry bones that took place three or four years ago when the Armida sailed through the Golden Gate laden with American goods that had been shipped from New York to Europe and thence around the Horn to San Francisco, a navi- gation of half the globeto save freight rates. The story follows up this first evi- dence of Enb]ic awakening in California through the successive steps that have led to a competing road and an ogening era of prosperity for the State. The little book tells the unvarnished truth about a num- ber of matters and people of whom it has been customary heretofore in California to speak velvetly, and in various chapters make interesting reading. Poems of Richard Realf. Admirers of Richard Realf will be pleased to learn tHat a complete collection of his poems is to be issued by a New York house early in the autumn. Thisis to bea lim- ited, subscription edition, square quarto, of 300 pages, and is to contain three por- traits of the author and a sketch of his life. Only those copies which have been previ- ously subscribed for will come to this coast. Miss K. H. Durham, 1036 Vallejo street, is authorized by the publishers to receive names. A Yearly Souvenir. Clapp & Co., bankers and brokers of New York, issue yearly a review of the financial, cotton, grain and provision mar- kets, as incorporated in their regular weekly circulars. A glance at its pages shows the quotation for railroad and in- dustrial stocks, bonds, grains, etc., on the New York KExchange for every day in the year. Cuts of the different exchanges in the country are interspersed throughout the work, which is a heavily bound quarto, with gilt facings. It is a souven'v sent to customers and is not for sale. 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