The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 3, 1897, Page 21

BERKELE While Eating They Discuss the Y GO-EDS AT TJHEIR LUNGH i bly be one or two who really do feel that | they should have some sort of recognition THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, on the college daily.” “I am sure I don’t want any extra work Management of the Gollege Paper. If there is any prettier sight of the kind in'the wide world ‘than the ladies’ room | in North Hall of the University of Cali- | fornia between the hoursof 12and 1 of a college day, I should just like to see it, | that’s all. | 1k about “rosebud. gardens,” that «vom, at that particular time, is a rosebud conservatory, that’s what it is, and full of the very prettiest and sweetest and choic est blossoms on this earth—sweet, lovable, bright and altogetaer charming girls. But roses: surely never make such a buzz and a hum and a rustle as do thess young women when they turn their minds | from the study of the arts and sciences, tbe "ologies and the 'isms .and- the living | and dead subjects, a knowledge of which constitutes a modern liberal education, and come back to the plain, every-day facts of girlhood, a good appetite and the lunch hour. Some of them, it is true, select secinded corners—al least. as secluded as can be found ider the circumstances—and ex- hume their refreshments with one hand | from the cavernous deptbs of theover | grown satchel, which is fashionable | among the co-eds, while their eyes and the other hand are occnpied with tomes which seem toa frivolous jerson like my- self about as hard and dry and heavy as zeological specimens of like size. These unsociable individuals, with a faith in their cooks which is . almost sublime, put their food in theirmouths without wast- ing a glance upon it, and dispose of it as hurriedly as possible. There are ‘‘crams” in more senses thanone, and the ques- tion arises in_my mind, as I observe them, if.an education plus a case of chronic dys- pepsia is reaily going to be worth while. However, there are only a few of these unco studious; and decidedly foolish. vir- g ns—just enough to give an artistic hint of shadow to.the picture. The great majority of the girls at the noon hour sensibly lay @ ‘their work and their Chickering of the Californian had, figura- tively speaking, played the part of Paris, and thrown into their midst instead of a golden avple of discord a certain little i'em which was decidedly those of his feminine feilow-students who had noticed it at all, and a number of the girls were exchang youthful worriés and ambitions and at- tend . strictly to the business in hand, making the most of the period of rest and recreation which is to help them to go creditably through the remainder of the | day. And how thev do chatter, to be sure; and how they do laugh! And what, by the way, is sweeter to hear than the light laughter ot happy-hearted girls? And how they do crowd into the big chairs, | three -and four of them atatime, and what delightful little imprompta picnics they arrange in their laps or on pre- empted portions of the wide tables. And | when iunch is disposed of, the fat, brown | satchels—the satchels must be brown to be good form at Berkeley—are repacked | and left standing in orderly rows and their owners gather in little groups to dis- | cuss ccllege and personal affairs before going back to their work. Ordinarily the pronouns ‘he” and| *‘him,’” save as referring to those in au- thority, are rarely heard in these sympo- | siums, for the average co-ed has quite got | over the idea of there being any novel: her position and sees only the busines, eof the arrangement. Her object is to secure a colleziate edu. cation and to make the most of her oppor. tunities—the young men with whom she is” brought 'in contact are simply facts rr which-have no special bearing on the situa- tion. There is an unwritten .law among college girls wiich is so strictly ugh silently. enforced that the most flirtatious of young persons hesitates to openly transgress it, or to seem to fall in the least below the high standarg which | the girls have set up for themséives in | these matters. Tbe dav that I visited them, however, was an exception as far as *'talking about o subject, “You see,” explainea 5 me one of the older ones in the little coterie by the cor- ner window, ‘‘we don’t believe that any of the Berkeley co-eds wrote that letter ask- ing for recognition on the paper at all. We think that some one from another college did, or that possibly it was prepared in the Californian office and published as u | just to see how the 1dea would | ‘feeler,’ trike us. I never heard any of the giils even hint at such a thing myself.”” ““There are over 600 of us,” =aid a seri- ous-looking dazasel, with one forefinger | shut into a copy of *‘Herodotus,” *“and | npleasing to | & opinions on the | myse/f’—a girl with fluffy yellow bair, who was curled up comfortably the window-seat, with aureole of her bright locks, shook her pretty head decidedly—*‘but now that I think of it, it seems to me that when notices are tacked up all over our special domain thatitis our ‘duty’ to ‘support our college paper’ by subscribing thereto, and our ‘duty’ 1o encourage athletics by buying tickets to benefits, and so on, we vught to be allowe! some trifling say about such things.” the sun making an | SUNDAY OCTOBER 3 21 | young ladies as stant editors,’ ’’ said a | brown-haired young person, the “he” re- | ferring with sligntly scornful emphasis to Editor Chickering, “but all the assistant | editing they will do won’t amount to | peanut-shells. I know boys—I've got two | brothers of my own, and they just can’t | abide to have girls meddling wita their work. They like girls well enough— they’re es good as goid to me about some | things—but girls’ ways and their ways are different, and they hate to be interfered ith and suggzested to and all that.”’ “I fancy that they are afraid that we girls would outshine them if they gave us half a chance,” supgested a plump fresn- man. “I beard that there was a great deal of talk last vear about the boys and men not liking the co-ed idea anyway, and I think it’s all jealousy.” But this view of the case did not meet with ap- proval. *‘All the bright and clever students, the broad-minded and progressive ones, like “The Associated Women Students are going to talk the matter over,” said the black-eyed girl, *‘and secure an expression of opinion from the entire 630 of us, if vossiole, and if we, as a body, really want to have a hand in the management of the Cahfornian I rather fancy that Mr. Chick- ering will permit us to do so without serving a term’s apprenticeship. What w+ ouzht to have, if we have anything at all to do with it, is a co-ed who will be a co-editor with Mr. Chickering, and halve the duties, and the responsibilities, and the honors with that extremely clever young man.” “It was that word ‘permit’ which ruffled my temper,” confessed the fluffy-haired girl smiling like an angel as she produced a box of chocolate creams from some mys- terious place of concealment and passed them sround impartially. *It wasn’t chivalrous at all, nor even kind. I hate to b2 snubbed, but I hate worse to be patronized, and that word fairly made my “In other words,” put in a black-eyed | having us here,” declared with dignity | blood boil.” “TALK ABOUT ROSEBUD GARDENS.” | beauty, balanced on a chair arm, ‘‘vou | don’t believe in taxation without repre- sentation. no more than fair that we should have more than a subscriber’s interest in a publication which claims to voice the sen- timents and advocate the interests of our university.” It wou!d be nonsensa to undertake to run the paper one day in the wee de- clared the serious damsel, *‘for one day's issue s dependenton another to a great | degree, and it would mix things to have us bothering around, sporadically as it were. Ishouldn’t like that plan at all.” the boys” was concerned, for Editor Allen | perhaps in that number ihere may possi- | ‘‘He says he is going to appoint ‘several Neither do I, and I think it is | | the sophomore who bad started the di | cussion. *‘It was only a very small m with the existing order of things and they were for the most part persons who were notcapable of doing very good college work | themselves and did not like the idea of coming in comyparison with ziris who were determined to make records for theirown sakesand the principle oi the thing. The great majority of them feel a warm inter- est in our work and a pride in our suc- cesses. The idea of our collaborating on the paper, though, is a new one ana, like all new ideas, requires time for its proper | consideration.” nority who even hinted at dissatisfaction | The brown-haired girl unobtrusively | helped herself to another chocoiate. “He aidn’t mean it,”’ she said; ‘“‘ne’s quite a nice fellow as boys go, but he’sa boy for all that, and boys—the best of them—are apt to be bumptious.” Frorexce MATHESON. | | | An oak tree was cut down at Baraboo, Wis.,, recently, the trunk of which had nearly 400 rings, which, according to the generally accepted rule that & new ring 1s | formed each year, would indicate that the Elree started on its earthly career after | Columbus first sighted the New World. I The tree was six feet in diameter. LIGHT FOR KLONDIKE Next to the Food Problem Is That In the face of all the familiar untoward conditions prevailing mn the Klondike. with the long severe winter montns al- ready begun in that northern region, and daily reports reaching us concerning the misery and sickness occasioned by scarcity of food or by stale provisions, the prob- lem of communication between tbe Klon- dike and the outer world auring the long shut-in season is becoming more and more serious. The question naturally arises asto what Edison, T-sla and other wiz- ards of electricity can do to solve the prob- lems. An old miner recently returned . food question, the next serious matter | would be that of light and warmth. Con- sideration of this calls to mind at once the reports of many travelers in Alaska that evidencesof much coal have been seen in all parts, and especially in the Klondike tegion. Thereason that these coal fields have remained hitherto undeveloped is lack of transportation. Now this resource suggests at once the feasibility of changing the energy of the | coal into electricity by means of power- plants situated at the mines, the elec- | tricity to be transmitted to the different To open up these coal fields would be a diversion from gold-mining, yet would surely prove a profitable undertaking. AlL this 1s merely by way of suggestion, but without doubt it is only a matter of time when electricity, with all its advan- tages and conveniences of modern devel- opment, will come to be regarded of the very greatest importance in this new min- ing dustrict of the frozen north. Every student of electricity understands how the latter gives up 11s energy in the form of heat when resistance is put in its path. In fact the highest temperature obtainable is produced by electricity in the arc-lamp. In many homes in the East already all the heatinz and cooking is done by means of electricity. Could this genie-like power be transferred to the mense value would be at once demon- strated. For instance, take the electric blanket, | which is one of the newest inventions. This requires no more energy than that consumed by from one to thres incandes- cent lamps, according to the desired tem- perature, which may be regulated at will by a switch or rheostat. In appearance this blanket would resemble the ordinary. | Two-layers of asbestos insulate and in- close extremely fine wires laid back and forth, so that when the current flows and these wires become heated the asbestos serves to distribute the warmth evenly and protects the blanket from being scorched. The delivery cord connects one often register such high temperatures as above stated, the cold of the winters is so inteuse as to freeze the gravel-beds where the sold is sought to such a depth that they are never thawed out. Even near the surface of their claims the miners find zreat difficulty in accomplishing the latter. Their usual method is to fill the shaft full of wood and set fire to it. This, however, is a2 waste of much time and trouble, for the charred wood and ashes have to be removed before work can be recommenced. Moreover, this system is further ineflicient because mostof the beat rises up the shaft. Now, as the gravel must be loosened we | can again turn to electricity for aid in ac- complishing this. All that would be needed would b simply a device for heat- ing made of coils of resistant wire, which a proper protecting case would inclose, attached to a handle, so that the thawing and working of a claim could proceed simultaneously. Besides all this, many of from the Klondike stated that after the | mining camps and towns in the Klondike. | Klondike, some :cientists think, its im- | corner with an incandescent light-socket. | Although the summers in the Klondike | of lllumination and Heat. | the latest and most improved modern methods of separating the gold from sand { and gravel, as well as refining the saine, | depend upon electrolysis. But mechanical appliances independent | of electricity will soon cut a considerable | figure. On the other hand ice, with | proper sledges, makes a most perfect track. | This is proven by the great speed attained by ice-yachts in recent experiments on Eastern lakes. We read of them: ““There is no known mode of locomotion which outruns the ice-yacht in speed. It travels at the rate of a mile a minute, out- strips fast railroad trains and when con- trasted with ordinary sailing vessels is nandled with ease and safety. Moreaver, stranze as it may seem, the ice-yacht travels faster than the wind, because it acquires a momentum and in the lulls of the wind its inertia carries it along.” The following gives an idea of the strength of ice, as ascertained in actual experiments by the Russian War Depart~ ment: Two inches of ice will support a man. Four inches, 2 man on norseback. Five inches, an 800-pound gun. Eight inches, a battery of artillery with | carriages and horses attached. Ten inches, a whole army. On the strength of these figures travel by iceboats ought to be a perfect success in the Klondike region, for the frozen river-beds and even the hard snow crusts of the Yukon and its many tributaries, along whose banks the mining camps are situated, will form splendid tracks for these boats with their heavy loads. Moreover, any wind may be taken ad- vantage of and power saved by providing the sledge with sails. In case the wind cannot be depended on, the sledges may be s0 constructed that the main weight lies over therunners, which are practically frictionless, while a pair of traction or toothed wheels, operated by steam, gaso- line or compressed air, serves as a pro- peller. Ice-yachts are light and yet service- able. One bound for the Klondike would probably find it a good investment to fur- ther add a small motor in the form of a asoline or steam engine, such as is used in launches. In case this addition is made, a modification of the ordinary ice-yacht would be advantageous. Take, forinstance, the light naph ihaand steam launches continually seen on San Francisco Bay. Provide these with run- ners like those on ice-yachts and discon- nect the engine-shaft from the water- propeller, as described above. Now we have aregular ice launch, which is heavier than the yacht and capable of traveling many times faster on ice than on water, and at the same time carries larger londs. In summer these runners and the ice- propeller may be easily rsmoved, and the launch n:ed for going up and down the streams. E.B. M. Hoped He Wouldn't Gome Up. A well-known M. P. was addressing an agricultural meeting in the south of Eng- land, and in the course of his remarks ex- pressed the opinion that farmers do not sufficiently vary their crops and make a mistake in always sowing wheat. One ot the andience obposed to him in | politics asked him what crops he would recommend. “Everything in turn,” he replied. ““Well,” said his interlocutor, *if swedes don’t come up, what then?' “Sow mustard,” said the M. P. **And if mustard don’t come up, what then?” And so he went on through a whole list of crops, until, the M. P.’s patience being exhausted, he put an end to his question ing amidstroars of laughter by saying: *Ob, sow vourself, and I hove you won’t come up.’’ G CUT HERE AND FOL D. Copyright, 1897, by Gertrude R. Spellan.