The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 19, 1895, Page 23

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 19, 1895. - In Giildhoods Realm The Humming Top. The top it hummeth a sweet, sweet song To my dear little boy at play— Merrily singeth all day long As it spinneth and spinneth away. And my dear little boy He laughed with joy When he heard the monotone Of the busy thing That loved to ¥ing The song that is all its own. Hold fast the string, and wind it tight, That the song be loud and clear; Now hurl the top with all your might Upon the banquette here. . And straight from the string The joyous thing Boundeth and spinneth along, And it whirs and it chirs As it birrs and it purrs Ever its pretty s0ng. WIll ever my dear little boy grow old, As some have grown before? ‘Wil ever his heart feel faint and cold ‘When he heareth the 50ngs 0f yore? Wiil ever this toy Of my dear little boy, 'When the years have worn away, Sing sad and low Of the long ago As 1t singeth to me to-day? EverNe FIELD, in Scribner’s. Dorothy and Dolly. Youis a very awful bad naughty dolly to make such a much fuss about it’s hot. | nor take you to play in no sand then, any- way I'll put some nice cold water in the bafftub an’ put you in, all over your hair an’ everyfing, an’ leave you for to soak an’ soak in there 'most all summer till it ain’t hot no more. The Diet of Children. Regarding the proper food for the young Herbert Spencer says in his work on education: Consider the ordinary tastes -and the ordinary treatment of children. The love of sweets is conspicuous and almost universal among them. Probably ninety- nine people in a hundred presume that there is nothing more in this than a gratification of the palate, and that, in common with other sensual desires, it should be discouraged. The physiologist, whose discoveries lead him to an ever-increasing reverence for the arrangement of things, suspects something more in this love of sweet than is currently supposed, and inquiry confirms the suspicion. He finds that sugar plays an _important part in the vital processes. Both saccharine and fatty matters are eventually oxidized in the body and there is an accompanying evolu- tion of heat. Sugar is the form to which sundry other compounds have to be re- duced before they are available as heat- making food, and " this formation of sugar starch changed into sugar in the course of weight of meat is obtainable only from a larger weight of bread or from a still larger weight of potatoes, and so on. To fulfill the requirement the quantity must be increased as the nutritiveness is dimin- ished. Shall we, then, respond to the extra wants of the grow. ns child by giving an adequate quantity of food as good as that of adults? Or, regardless of the fact that its stomach has to dispose of a rela- tively larger quantity of this good food, shall we further tax it by giving an inferior food in still greater quantity? Postal Oards and Telegrams. Not a thousand miles from 8an Fran- cisco dwells a most irrepressible small boy, who for convenience’s sake may be called Frank. Quite recently Frank’s mother and sis- ters arrar.ged to go for a brief sojourn at a neighboring fashionable resort, and de- cided, for reasons not difficult to divine, that Master Frank should be permitted to enjoy an outing elsewhere. An excellent and highly esteemed rela- tive, who lived in the country, would be glad to take charge of the young man fora consideration. 4 It was thought that a nine-year-old boy could bear the separation from his mother with equanimity, particularly as he wasa child :?independent, not to say rebellious, nature, All the arrangements went forward smoothly. Frank was duly established at the farmhouse, comfortably supplied with | spending money and with postal cards. e had even demanded and received a number of telegraph blanks, ‘“because something might haggen and I might spoil a few before I could write a good one.”” Mamma and the young ladies arrived at their hotel very late at night, but were not to rest quietly. Two telegrams from the son and heir awzited them, both evidently written at the same time and strictly lim- jted to a business-like number of words. One read: “I do not like it. Please come and get me.” The other: “They don’t have anything to eat. I am starving: %uieted as tenderly as e come.”” Mamma was gos- sible by repeated assurances thatthe dear boy would be all rifiht in a day or two and was_not really suffering. But the morn- ing light brought more telegrams, and the first mail brought to the fond mother twenty-five postal cards, all terse and to the point. g “They don’t give me anything to eat,” was the oft-reiterated burden of the young hoveful’s song. And the strong suspicion that the postal cards had been given to various members of the country relative’s family to mail was verified by subsequent events. The gemetually recurring tele- grams and the delnge of postal cards broke the mother's spirit before the hour of noon. A return telegram was sent and the conquering hero arrived at the hotel in charge of a servant, just twenty hours — e~ —_— . A PLEASING PICTURE. [From a photograph by Marceau.] I is mostly melted my own self, an’ course don't want to see you talkin’ an’ talkin’ "hout the same thing all the time. I spose you just thinks if you cries an’ whines an’ makes such a trouble that anybody can’t stand it thet you will be taked down be- #ide of the sea, where you can play in the Tovely sand most all the time an’ won't have to wear much clothes what is starehed 1ip all nice and pretty. 1f you is a good little dolly girl, an’ your papa has got 'nough money, maybe you can go jest a little bit of awhile. An’if youisa bad girl 'an your papa is not got much moneys, then you can’t go Poor Dorothy True. [Reproduced from St. Nigholas.} ,.‘smy atall. An’ if you is & good girl an’ ‘" 'your papa is not got 'nough moneys, then Idon't gnow nuffin’ 'tall about that. My papa said if anybody’s mother would - go to camp out somewhere an)‘pody could wear their worstest ole close an’ have fun, :But folkses' mammas they just oniy likes “to stay in a old hotel-place an’ wear great big new dresses what gets all spoiled down if anybody just only takes a walk. ‘Now, ]goily, 1 is goin’ to tell you a se- cret. It's ‘bout my mamma, an’ you _musn’t never, never tell. When my papa . 'says she can’t never have no fun ’cause .she's 'fraid she’ll mash her sleeves, she ‘don’t say nothin’, an’ when he says sh’e 't learn to ride onto a wheel she don’t othin’. An’ when my papa is all gone'd away she goes an’ she puts on some awful funny close what she keeps hangin in my closet. She put on a skirt onto each one -of her legs, only the little skirts is -puckered np ’roun: ttom. An' when she gets all fixed awful quick she just get out my papa’s wheel an’ she just >, -8eoots. £ CAint that pretty hmnxz,' Dolly? 'cause T'musn’t tell my papa nuthin’ ’bout it, an' mamma will buy me a little wheel all for my lone self. I wantsit most awful bad, an’ sometimes I most thinks I needs i ‘cause when my papa aint gone 'way of ona wheel my mamma is, an’ whole lote of times when my vapa is gone my mamma is gone on somebodyonelse’s wheel. ‘When I rides onto my wheel Iis going A\ to tie you on too, dolly, so you needn’t to begin to cry 'cause you ain’t ‘i?,‘ 19 wheel. An’ may be I'll i“ my papa buy you a " dittle bit of a_wheel foo, dolly; for, any- way, I wouldn’t have no fun ridin’ an’ bavin’ fun with everybody when my r little dolly was home all by herself. Obil- - drens likes to_have fun just as much as big folks, an’ I thinks it would be awful cute for you to ride onto a little wheel be- hind me, an’ I'd ride behind mamma, an’ & she could ride behind my papa, or else be- | ma; front of him. An’ anyway, if [ can’t buy you no wheel is carried on in the body. Not only is digestion, but it has been proved by M. Claude Bernard that the liver is a factory in which other constituents of food are transformed into sugar, the need for sugar being so imperative that it is often so produced from nitrogenous when no others are given. Now, when to the fact that children have a marked desire for this valuable heat- food we join the fact that they havea usually marked dislike to that food which ives out the greatest amount of heat dur- ng oxidation (namely, fat), we have rea- son for thinking that excess of one com- pensates for defect of the other—that the organism demands more sugar because it cannot deal with much fat. Again, children are fond of vegetable acids. Fruits of all kinds are their de- light, and in the absence of anything bet- | ter they will devour unripe gooseberries | and the sourest of crabs. Now, not only | are vegetable acids in common with | mineral ones very good tonics, and benefi- cial as such when taken in moderation, but they have when administered in their natural forms other advantages. ‘“Ripe fruit,” says Dr. Andrew Combe, ‘is more freely given on the Continent than in this country, nnd,panicuhrly when the bowels act imperfectly it is very useful.” Bee, then, the discord between the in- stinctive wants of children and their hab- itual treatment. Here are two dominant desires, which in all probability express certain needs of the child’s constitution, and not only are they ignored in the nursery regimen, but there is a general tendency to_forbid the gratification of them. and milk in the morning, tea and bread and butter at night, or some dietary equally insipid, is rigidly adhered to. e contend that were children substances behind his affectionate sisters. He was touched and rejoiced at being with his dear mother again. But 2 young man who is devoting his summer vacation to entertaining the pretty sisters has pri- vately declared that the interesting youth %reeted him with a fiendish grin and a rief remark which proved him guilty, and with malice aforethought. Philosophy From Babyland. A six-year-old was seated in a barber’s- chair. “Well, my little man, how would you like your hair cut?” “Oh, like papa’s; with a little round | hole at the top.”—Tid-Bits. | “Talking of killing that elephant in Cen- tral Park reminds me of a baby that was fed on elephant’s milk and gained twenty pounds in one week.” ‘“Goodness gracious! Whose baby was “The elephants.”—Hello. Little Ethel—I wish I had a new doll. Mamma—Your old doll is just as good as ever. Little Ethel—Well, I am just as good as ever, too, but_the angels gave you a new baby.—Good News. ‘“We are going to have Mabel very highly educated,” said a clever young matron re- cently. “I don’t want to be highl’y educated,” came the unexpected voice of Mabel (a tot of &) from another room. “I want to be just like you.”—New York Tribune. Two-year-old Hattie had a difficulty with grandma. ‘“Don’t you know,” said papa, “tbat you should mind grandma just as you do mamma and papa?” Hattie answered nothing. Papa re- peated the question, but still there was no answer from the little girl, who stood with | clasped hands gazing out of the window. “‘See here,” exclaimed her father, impa- tiently; when I speak to you I want you to say something—do you hear?” ‘Without turning her smali head the lit- | tle girl quietly remarked: | “I fink it is a very nice day, papa.”’— Babyhood. Doting mamma (to Alfred who is strut- | ting about in his first trousers)—Alfred, come over here and kiss me. Alfred (firmly)—No, mamma, I can't love you any more. I'm too old. Victims of Injustice. — Nurse — Sure, ma’am, the twins have been making a fuss all day, ma’am. Mrs. Olive Branch—What about? Nurse—It's because they can't have a birthday apiece, like the Smith children next door. They think they have been cheated.—Indianapolis Journal. Grandpa’s Birthday.—Many happy re- turns of the day, grandpa; and mamma says if you give each of us fifty cents we mustn't lose it.—Life. Little Gladys—Granny, go down on your hands and knees for a minute, please. Fond Grandmother—What am I todo that for, my Cherries Are Ripe. [From a painting by Bouguereau.) allowed daily to partake of those more sapid edibles for which there is a physio- logical requirement they would rarely ex- ceed, u"&ey now most‘}; do, when they have the opportunity. ere irmtu. as Dr. Combe recommends, to constitute a part of between meals, but along with them) there would be none of that ecraving which prompts the devouring of crabs and sloes. This relatively ater need for nutri- ment_being admitted, as it must be, the t ains is, shall we meet it %‘;ey\?fiz‘::un:c?fid;e'qmmy of wl;:: foods or a m e tit :( concentrated food? nan 0 %ho nut.flgnent obtainable from a given the regular food (given, as he advises, not | or, e Little Gladys—'Cause I want to draw an elephant.—Tit-bits. PRETTY FLOWER GARDENS, The Boys’ Association Will Take Up the Matter of Beautifying the Streets and Gaydens. The movement for better streetsis not confined entirely to the bicycle riders of Ban Francisco. Several days before the agitation for impraved thoroughfares was begun by the knights of the wheel, 8.8, Peixotto, president of the Boys* Associa- tion, read before the Floral Society a very interesting paper on this very sub- ject. The efforts of the boys, as outlined by Mr. Peixotto, tends rather to beautifying of the flower gardens and sidewalks in certain sections of the City, though should the movement be properly appreciated the boys are willing to pitch rightin to the more imporiant street work. The Boys’ Association is on Bryant street, between Fifth and Sixth. “The plser Iread before the Floral So- ciety,” said Mr. Peixotto yesterday, ‘‘was limpfy an appezl from the boys to the so- cia',g'e for flowera and plants with which to beautify this section of the City. The work at Ensent will be purely a ‘neighbor- hood’ affair, though we ect later to widen our field of labor. e sidewalks here are in wretched condition, though a little care would soon make them as at- tractive as any in the City. The flower gardens, too, need attention, and if the mmz.wm f\nt furnish us the plants we will have in 2 year's time the prettiest gardens in the City. The Boys' Association is purely a social nization, with 8 membershipof nearl: . During the day and until 10 o’cloc at night the boys are Yflvilegad to come and go asthey please. Innocent es are provided for their amusement, while a well- equipped nasium and large play- ound afford ample opportunity for physi- &devdopmmup et i st 2 SO Americans used 66,086,058 pounds of oleo- margarine last year. A Woodsy Snuggery. Prowling about in the underbrush along a little stream I chanced upon an ideal snuggery. The bank was covered with a thick bed of wild myrtle, with a few pale-blue blos- soms still remaining of the spring-time bloom. Mosses and brakes grew in wild profusion in the shade. On one side a blackberry tangle made a very jungle of greenery, and the stream was nearly cov- ered with the white blossoms of the water- cress. Overhead the branches of the swamp-willows interlaced, and the slarting afternoon sunbeams made a pretty pattern in green and gold on the myrtle, the mosses and the ferns. Scrub-oak and eucalyptus trees further up the bank in- tensified the shade and cast a very woodsy air over the whole scene. And yet it was not in the woods at all. With the wind in the right direction I could hear the hum of the electric cars, a mile away, below me, the ferry-boat whis- | tles, and a dozen sounds from the city close at hand. The little rivulet beside which the snuggery les is scarcely two feet wide. In no place is the water more than two feet deep, save during the win- ter, and a moment’s climb from the ravine will gain the dusty highway. Yet Mother Nature is as much at home here as she is in any place that you could IpyLs or THE JFIELD. BY A NATURALIST AT LARGE. and ren‘;ammn titmouse, who promptly ap- ared. In the midst of my, amusement over this little drama I became conscious of a sound that had been assailing my ears for some time. It now became so insistent that I began to look about for its source. It was a sharp, rather faint, but pene- trating cry, not loud, but sh: and ear- splitting as the chirp of a cricket. I arose to investigate, and In doing so startled a oldfinch so badly that he nearly jumped fnto my hands. The sound was now close at my ear and intolerabiy shrill. Turning 1 saw, within a yard of my face, a warbler, a plain little bird, without the vestige of a tail. I recognized the nnfortunate at once a8 a constant frequenter of my barn, com- ing for her fill of grain every morning. always pitied her crippled condition and gave her the freedom of the grain-box. Now she was rewarding my kindness by endeavoring to drive me from the snug- TY. gehy was quite evident that she.regarded me as an intruder. Her shrill remarks were plainly for my benefit. She wished me to retire. Now, my friend, I thought, the outer world is large. If my company is unde- sirable, why not go away? I was here first. Was I, though? My warbler came an inch nearer, and her chirp was more deter- Plainly, if T would not leave amicabl mined. She spread her wings angri}x. i she must resort to sterner measures. began to suspect there was method in her madness. Now, where was that nest? mwflmn%fl@mo find after journeying many miles by train or in a steam yacht, or even by chartering a donkey and ascending a mountain. You may make elaborate preparations for visit- ing Nature and not'find her at home when you arrive, bag and baggage, with all your microscopes and books. On the other hand you may find her, if you love her, close at your door, nestling, it may be, in a crevice between two stones. You may sweep the horizon with your fieldglass, searching for Nature’s wonders, and miss a whole chain of evolutionary processes close at your feet. Nature works on a small scale just as conscientiously as she does in her mammoth undertakings. I can judge of how a sandbar forms at the mouth of the Sacramento by observing how the minute particles washed down by the rivulet have heaped themselves up just where the stream runs into yonder pool. All you need bring to theafiable old dame is juutayoursel!, your loving eyes, your alert mind. 8it you quietly down almost anywhere in her haunts and she will.show you treasures undreamt of. I made myself a part of the landscape, here in my ‘snuggery, and awaited devel- opments. A red-eyed towhee bunting came flitting in where T was sitting quietly, and as quietly fluttered away when he discovered me. The birds have the keenest eyesin nature, but smell—that sense which is the guadruped’- great reliance to warn him of anger—is very deficient with most of tbem. This is why birds are always ap- parently taken by surprise when they catch sight of you. They have not first scented you, or even heard you, though their ears are fairly keen. Bird intelli- gence, quick as it is, has curious limita- tions. The little creatures come quickly to recognize that a man with a gun is dan- gerous, and they will flee from him white making no effort to fly away, unless closely u‘s’s roached, by one who is unarmed. en new arrivals come about my place they are usually thrown into a panic at sight of my fieldglass, but it does not take them long to learn that the instrument is quite harmless. On the other hand they never seem to learn that a human being on horsebuck may mean mischief. I have frequently ridden into a field to study the birds and found that they minded my presence no more than that of the cattle and horses, until I dismounted, when there would be an instantaneous dispersal of the congre- ation, So, too, I might whistle to them my lungs’ exlmuauon, and they would listen most attentively. Let me speak a word, however, and at the first sound the audience was gone. There seems to be something in the human voice that strikes terror to ail wild-birdkind. 1 had evidentiy stumbled upon a favorite haunt of the birds, for presently a gold- finch few almost into m{fnce. Then a funny little titmouse perched just beside me and began to chirp before he discov- ered me. He gavea most dramatic start when he spied me, and mn:g to a higher branch. 1sat motionless and he was pres- ently . By and by he was joined by another and in due time a third tit- mouse hopped down from above, and the three sat quietly contemplating me. The; were evidently young birds, their creste heads absurdly bi r their tiny bodies, and I doubt whether their round, aston- ished eyes had ever before beheld a human creature. As they sat there, innocent and gonnding. .nllmh mfivdy £fo a song-sparrow appened along. 3 )y led upon th: B:unch. n.nd then, little mrsd rl:eop- robate that he was, he deliberately hop sidewise until, one by one, he had those small bird] off their perch. The little things fled, chirping, and our spar- > s'uunod to take himself po.u. row, too, doubtless fearing the vengeance of papa | d: I began to peer about me, when her tactics changed. She flew off a little way and began to chirp more rapidly. Then made a feint of diving into the bush. as who would say: “Nest? Who said nesi? Surely you do not suspect me of having a nest anywhere within & hundred miles of here?” Suddenly, almost in front of me, but cunningly set where a drooping branch quite conceaied it, I spied the little nest of twigs and hair, with two small, light- colored, spotted eggs in it. I did not pro- claim my discovery. I have known birds to desert a nest on less provocation, but I quietly retired, leaving the little crippled warbler in possession of the field. Doubt- less she felt sure she had intimidated me. The amazing part of it all was how I could have sat there so long without seeing the nest. It was in plain sight, and yet so artfully concealed as to be almost invisi- ble. figven the eggs were so colored and disposed that, light-hued though they were, they looked exactly like any one of half a dozen different objects immediately surrounding them. This is probably why so many nests escape the prying eyesand pilfering hands of boys and collectors. Most of our smaller birds lay eggs all spotted and streaked and tinted in such way that they are hard to tell from bits of moss among the branches, turning leayes or young, tender foliage, even sometimes from tiny patches of sun- light filtered through the leaves. The lit- tle sheltering mothers, too, are protectively colored. However gay may be the male bird of a species that builds open nests, the female is in nearl{ every instance sobor-hued, olivaceous, brown or quaker gray. Thus di:guiued, sitting upon the nest she can hardly be told from a leaf or bit of bark or moss. Most of them know this and will sit motionless close beside you until they see you have discovered them, when up they whirr and begin to make a great row. 4 What pluck is often packed away in those little feathered bodies. A humming- bird has even been known to attack a spar-| row-hawk under such circumstances. That the sober garb of the female is pro- tective is indicated by the fact that among those birds that build covered nests she is generally bright hued, or else, as in the case of the orioles who build their open nests, although the female is brilliant hued, the male is a ver: warlike fellow, who stays close beside his mate during the Yeriod of incubation, and offers battle to all comers. There are even a few curious cases of ‘‘the new woman” among birds, who, while they build open nests, have the female more brilliantly colored than the male. In these cases, however, the female is strong and warlike, while the more sober-hued male is quiet and retiring, and it is he, be it understood, whohait.s gpon the nest and attends to hatching the eggs. Well i% is for the birds that they have developed sc many protective devices, for they need them all. No creature, not even the human one, suffers as do the birds. They are a prey to so many vicissitudes. Let a blacksnake find a nest and how terri- the tr: y enacted. Let but a hawk, or some stray shot, or some snare capture a ome-coming parent | and the doom of a whole nestiul is sealed. And then there are the disasters from climatve and storm that deplete their ranks. With every great wind hundreds along the coast are blown out to sea and drowned. In every great storm they perish by hundreds. In !nog. it has been said that no birds in their wild state die a natural death. They 53 a prey v & thousand fears of which other whose life they brighten by their songs and their beauty. It would bea compara- tively easy thing in fact to exterminate ever{ospecxes of bird in a_very few years. Our boys might almost do it by the simple process of robbing the nests. I have heard these facts used as argu- mentsin justification of the caging of birds. The captive bird lives longer, but length of days is by no means the measure of life. Better fitty days of freedom ‘Than a cycle of the cage. TO BUILD A FACTORY. ‘W. J. Houston Making Preparations to Manufacture Woodenware in South San Francisco. A factory for the manufacture of wood- enware is soon to be built in South San Francisco by W. J. Houston of Hartford, Conn. Mr. Houston has leased several lots on Kentucky street upon which he will erect the necessary buildings. Work will be begun on them about August 1. Mr. Houston is a man of considerable wealth. He has a large woodenware fac- tor{ in Hartford which has been a source of large profit to him. A study of thne coast, its needs, and the woods of Califor- nia convinced him that a factory similar to his Eastern establishment could be operated with even greater profit here. Mr. Houston left for his home Thursday | evening. His trip was made for the pur- | pose of purchasing the necessary machin- ery for his plant. The new factory will give employment to about one hundred men. DURRARTHAS THE MONEY, Christian Endeavor Society Records Will Become Strong Evidence. General Dickinson Says They Will Prove Much in Favor of the Alleged Murderer. The records and a part of the fund of | the Young People’s Society of Christian | Endeavor of the Emmanuel Baptist | Church will torm a part'of the defense of Theodore Durrant, the alleged murderer of | Blanche Lamont and Minnie Williams. The members of the society say that Durrant has done wrong in refusing to turn over the records and funds of the society, which he held as secretary. Durrant was seen yesterday at the | County Jail. He said: “What do. these | people want? Do they think I can walk out of here and turn over the things thev | want? I certainly would like to walk out | of here and give them everything I have.” | said Durrant, with a smile, “but I don’t| see how I can do so. My attorney, General | John H. Dickinson, can explain the whole matter.” General Dickinson spoke freely of the matter and disclosed a part of the defense of Durrant. He said: “Why, I have the records and the money and I intend to keep them unless they are obtained from me by due process of law. I intend to produce them as evidence when Durrant | is%rought to trial. ““It has been claimed that Durrant was in a worried state of mind when he came to ihe meeting of the society. None of the witnesses seem to have remembered what he did at the meeting that evening. This book shows that he was in a quiet state of mind. He received the money paid in as dues, and in his ordinary way—by no | means an excited one—he credited the dif- ferent people with their payments. He brought this book to the meeting, received $14 40 in all, and, as the book will show, | his handwriting was just the same as usual. This will go farto show he was not | fcience, troubled or excited in his mind. Durrant | NEW TO-DAY. DOANE & HENSHELWO0OD OUTING GOODS. Just opened, new assortment Ducks in light and dark grounds; new Percales, Galatea Cloths, new Plisse, latest styles; new Dimity, Organdies, Dotted Swiss, Scotch Zephyrs, Ginghams, Seersuckers, Cheviots, ete.; sfso 100 p:el%es Outing Flannels at 10 cents per yard. PARASOLS. Carriage Shades at 75 cents, $1, $1 25, §1 50, $2; fancy-trimmed Carriage Shades from $3 to $5; close-rolled Sun Umbrellas in navy, brown and garnet; Fancy Parasols, Mourning Parasols, etc.; last season’s Parasols at half- price. SILK DEPARTMENT. New Fancy Silks for waists, Black Brocades for skirts, Fancy Weaves in black; Japanese Wash Silks at 40 and 50 cents; Swivel S Black India Silks from 50 cents u Printed India Silks at 50 cents; inted Sil from last season at half-price; Plisse Silks in plain colors and fancy. LINING DEPARTMENT. Chamois Fiber Hair Cloth, Grass Cloth, Black Moreen Cotton, Taffeta, extra Crinolines, Percalines, ete. 132 Kearny st., Cor. Sutter. DR. SANDEN’S Electric Belt PERSONAL CURE WEAKNESS FOR ALL OF MEN The crowning trinmph in Electro-Medical with Suspensory for Weak, Debili- tated Men, for men suffering from the effects took this book aud the money with him | 0f abuse, excesses and exposure, from Lost when he leit the meeting and went home. | Manhood, ““This seems to have been something that | all the people who were at Dr. Vogel's | house that evening have forgotten. Dur- rant had no time to turn the money over. | ‘When I was retained in the case Durrant | know nothing. They are !canism, is found in * Don 3 always on the quivive—always fearing | where it occurs as one of the sayings of anger. They cannot even trust man, | Sancho PZnza. % told me about the book and the money, | which he had left at his house. I recog- | nized the importance of them as evidence | and I had both the book and the envelope containing the money brought to me, and 1 will keep them until the trial is over. If the ‘members of the society make a de- mand for the money I will give them a re- ceipt for the valuables, but [ will not allow them to go out of my possession unless by due process of law."” A TEST CASE. The Classical Exhibition of Antiques by the Art Association—Living Bronzes. The Art Association’s tableaux on the 28th will be interesting, not alone as a pre- sentation of human statuary after the an- tique models, but as an evidence of how far realism may entrench upon the prejudice against the nude, even when sanctioned by artistic precedent. The models selected by John Stanton are handsomely built | is young men, as close to the Greek standard | as the material offered could furnish. They will be covered with bronze paint and will pose for fifteen seconds, when the | curtain will fall and a new statue be ex- hibited. The subjects will necessarily demand as much nudity as the modern idea of those affairs on this side of the water will per- mit. How far that will go must of course | rest with Mr. Stanton, who poses and paints the men, and the committee under whose | direction he acts. | An antique statue, or the counterfeit presentment of one, cannot be exhibited to an intelligent audience in _spring trousers or a flannel tennis suit. Nor can ‘‘Venus with her doves” bear the slightest Tesemblance to a modern fashion-plate. | Among those chosen for the association’s exhibition is one girl who has posed to the | artists of this City. S8he, like the others, | will be painted bronze, and in her case, as in the masculine, the perplexed question of how much and how little drapery will enter into the pose holds a prominent part among the various points of prepa- ration. ‘When the Art Association was in its be- ginnings the nude, and how it should be treated, puzzled the founders. They were brought face to face with the problem. They had small time to rule one way or the other. They were divided among themselves. 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