The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 7, 1897, Page 29

9 THE SAN FRANCISCY CALL, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7 1897 San Francisco owns the finest surgery have a deficit every month, west of Chicago. And the California Wo- s Hospital owns San Frascised's W heiber the fullest and best use shall b of that most perfect of orec-at- s with its exquisitely com; lete arrang meonis for horoughly aseptic work cevends, however, upon San Fran- isco. The manasers of U Womun's i 1 Lave built and f hed a sur ost interesting of neisco to the visiting yarts of the Pacific \is work, to provide 1 enable surgeons and the irea which Jousand women in the e particalar care of t a paving mucn i able, from voof creed or ded into d whose them to Lome— test of d nu ses’ s given to tunate, unfortu ford 1o pay the full e destitute ar ule se at ree ward There are ts to occupy the beds at the week. Butif the re- better-paying in use, the revenue received 1id not pay one-third of curred by the hospitalin a is always full. the ones— Wi wara ren’s Hospital rep- resents an a manent charge (o the | al ot Where is v h ch neglects the health wor And there can be no healthy k {ue sin the rich mantd> whom t seem to realize our need the manag ade we are rar m of rs. Iy urgery is. Iel Susan Mills Willats a deserved com tic worker in ristesen was en stus C. Aug Worthy Grand Patron. ele peiron. Mrs. Clara Augusta ¢ Mrs. May Anna H Ellen mdon treas- ure Miss Megzie Ella Eradley K Lyun associnie c Augasta Hobe, Mr-. J r. Mary Sophronia 3 The date for,the installation hapier last Friday clected offi- s lours tor the ensulng term: Ez1- thas We matrou, Gorge ushnel y patron, Annie M. esiociate matron, Eva Muy Hare r d>ra Horton trensurer, Emma, { rier conduct-ess aad Nora Sanborn associ- ate conductzess Harrison D. Rowe, the rccent'y electea grind patren of the Grand Chapler of the Ord rof tve Eastern ar of tie State of Cah- forinia, is a we.l-known insu-ance man of this buta reside Ile became 8 mémber of Mc Eilglr, Lk, in t of Oakland. nitor Lodge in 1876. Atthit time he was tenching school in s district ten miles from Elgin, and to prove the interest he took in the oraer it may be stited thaton eich of the three nights that fhe degrees were conferred upon him b walked ten 1ailes through the suow 1o reac We shall not | te able 10 go on much longer ike thi-. | What are we togdo? No one hasany | idea of the exrense atrached to an institu- | 1ion like ours. 1s ihere an o} eration to be | performcd? The poor woman who comes | bere—at the very last moment, of cour e; vou know a woman never gives up tll she is compelied must be built ur. She must be strenginened that she shall bifl1 able to endure the operation. You know, “ or perhaps you don’t know, what that me=ns. There is po 0ot but the Lest that can nourish these women. They are | given what our private patients pay §25 a week fer They must have There is | no other way. They mus: have the best of | nursing. How absurd it would be (o fit | up a gery at a co<t of $30,000 and ietour patients die for lack o! proper nourishment or carefui nursing! *The Woman’s Hospitai is in need of | money. I am sure that if the public | knew our needs it would help us. The | hospital has been in existence thirty | yvears. In that time we have not ap- | pealed to the public. We do now. We frankly coufess our poverty, and we look anxiously buthopefully 1o the benevolent peonle of San Franeisco 10 help us to Lelp the women who suffer.” Wom Hospital out on Sacramento treet. The building is unpretentious— merely a great old-fashioned, many-win- dowed struciure, standing back of a well- kept lawn and bedged in from the street, Tt | | | There is nothing picturesque anbout the | | | e visitor 1s struck with the simplicity of the building and of the arrangements for the care of the si There is a re- freshing absence of rule< and regulations, except those strictly necessary for the fort of the sick and the convaiescent. Thereis alack of red tape, of the institu- 1onal pomposity with which a little mind | is inflated when put in a po mportance. n of some | The interior of the building is furnished most simply. There are no cirpets in the sitting-room ana the waiting-rooms, no beavy banging.. Instead on polished | floors there are rugs, and on clean, fresh | walls a few p'ctures are hung. The cur- tain > white and fresh and simple. The chairs are comfortable. The p'ace speaks of daily hourly use. ¥ir the external adornment, for the pre- | ntious furnishing of other institutions, which might favorably impress the vis- | i‘or and be only a mockery to the ones for whom the p’ace was intended, in the Cali- | fornia Woman’s Hospital there is a com- pensating grace and comfort for those who ie sick and sufiering w.tnin its walls, an | additional luxu for those whose lives have seen so few lux iries There scems {0 be no time, as there is no thought, for show or for pretense here. Everybody is so busy, s0 many are suffer- ing, so much skili and care and patience are at lives sbould be saved and hat the sick should recover, so that those eeded t who wait cu side may came in and be re- lieved. For thisisthe only place in San Francisco—qxcept the City and County Hospital — which receives poor wom. | of application and who are ill besides being destitute, and brings them back to health. “Thers are only eight beds at our dis- posal in the free ward for charity pa- ients,” said one ot the surgsons in churge, hese are always full—as you may ima ine. You know there are free clinics twice a week, when advice and treatment are given 1o poor, sick wemen free of charge. We watch these cases and re- ceive them into the hospital as soon as we have a vacant bed, accordinz to the date the urgency of the case. At times,”” the doctor smi ed, de- vrecating the iniraciion of rules, *‘when the case is urgent we put another bed in the waid.”” This, evidently, is the spirit of the in- stitution. ence for precedent, no hidebound follow- in - of ruies, no blind devotion to the idol, red tape. A broad-minded charity pulses through the mechanical regularity of routine work and breathes life into it, For my part,” said one of the man- agers, wrinkling her smooth, white fore- bead, *I won’t have these women worried. Oune of them couldn’t pay ber bill. She There i3 no paralyzing rever- time to this bis ated, and to. wus the first da From that y has not & c as b av heisas vne juned. In 1878 he removed to lown Ci wa,and toere received the Royal Arch de- | ree after having affiiiatid with Jows Lodge, nd he also beca he council | ind then was ma Templarin that | v in 1881 e in 1885, ilinted w + the Oak- | wnd Royal arc he d Commund- 1594 he He e i T. L Temp.e bocame a s an acty riner, 1 > mem- Leat Chapter of tue Order ot the | siarn Star. is_O.iver Stephens, the associate grand sa well-known resident of Fresno,a | r of Refsin Chupter, and he has served rm s wortiny patrou of that chapter. | Snray Chupter of Monterey will cele- | brate cac filieenth anniversary of zaii>: on the 11th i 115 organi- | The Odd Fellows. Granl Master Drew paid an official visit to | “verereen Lodge at Sebastopo!, Sonoma County, | | tast Saturday | The geneial relief committee last Friday | visized San Fr the members © e warmiy | riained 3. Ferretd, D. i . wil vt ths Fresno odge next duesday and exjlsin the unwriuen (1iy Encampment will g soiree wusicale | nie in finc ent L 0. u. F. on e . The grand mascer bas snoouncel the following | visica 1ons for the cur ent month: November ¥, odi; 10, Ciements: 11, Locktord: 2, =an anl| trea<: 13 Murphys Camp Ruilroad Fl:t: 16, | West Polnt; 17. Jucksou: K. - oke umue Hill: | 9. Voic uv: -0, Oletn: =%, Plymonth: 23, lone; Sutier Creck | The Kebekahs. xcelsior Hall was crowded o1 Halloween by the memtership of Mission #ebekah Lodge and its riends, tae sfor being a Halioween perty Z L.JSTFVENS- | { Ing of «h | arrangements fo. | givenon ihe 4th of ) ec mber to members and | selcetion m homes and » » the and comfor: a d i awsy from th 1 s exness, givin endea 10 the re.1ef of ended & mother and eight chiidr.n reglecied by a irunken hustand. and while the case was one | thatdid not come under he laws of tue order t 2 s sied (hem mate Ing chicle 1o mage es for the cliidren ‘1he Iadies have n reliwi-box for the 1eceipt of dis carded ¢ 0 hing and they will take the donailons and make them over for ihe little ones who wil ans! hom bekah Lodze No. 1 ment and bai in Odd Fellows' ux of Friday, the i9th inst. Tue Hal owern pacy (ha was given las day night by Loval Rebesah he most urique affairs (hat bas ihis enerprising nody with 100 fanterns, in erspersed hewds, (he exes wnd 10 ¢ and were agiow with meliw lizht <uriking was the one represeniing Wil give a Mon- been Tue null was aecorated with prmpkin- h uth of whi Ule 0f Lhe mos the face an dress of the yaler ki ALLCE a brief session cretuinen out and th remalned it il'um na fon produced by ihe lanteris, enterta, Cerus 1 followed a programme for the for the benetit of al p Mis. pajer des rip.ive «f ‘me; read kames, Mrs. 1. soi0, *1 C’Shenei”: Miss badwin recited “Money Musk,” the membe s of (he lodge sang Com nig Thiough the Rye piavded the ffort, and o re. F i skit desciiniive 0f the evening's enier aimment Iben foliowed the «rana march, Preparatory to du cing for an hour or more. Eachonel: the { wasasu pers ally and star ed a sew- | esting address on | turned Lodge wus one of | vada, given by | ties. hudloween | A 1todehead favored with a plano | | and vociferous y ap- | . Warren reciced | Jmar b was handed o dainty ittle bag of faxse-d | ke home and place benes b the pil.ow to help the - can ot love and lovers Y venis of ihe evenin Sthu S 110m the fum 15 of tortu e vas the pluck- and snother was the teil 0+ Miss Meiniuberger, who, sated 1 One corner, (OKed far pre.tiec that i witches detcribed by S.usespesre as dar ciug around he caldron in the play of *Macbeth. Mys Wiries, who was ihe chairman of the com- miliee 01 ArTangements, 1s euiitied 1 (he of ithe novel entertaimment, great'y evjoyed by | &Ll Ancient Order U ted Workmen. most notable celebration was by Oak and, Pacific ant Keystone 1o1ges in Hamilton Hail, nd o1 Whici 0 casion & Very file progamme: was pie. sented. Last Monday the grand master workman and North | emescal There wis o 7int Initiation of & c'ass of twenty- five cancidates in nal week under the auspices of the Gakiand iod b floor work was I ustrated by the drili (cam of Prosperi y Ludge, and i. was peiformed in a very accepiable manner. Last Sunday Haywards Lodge inaugurated beautlful ceremony—ihat of pincinz a memoiial tablet on the grave of Abruham Thomas, laiely deceased. The grard masier wor~man grand recorder were present ind m appropriste to he 0. cajon. 1he L ture place a tabiet over tue rave of e Der who passes away. Last 1hursday Industre Lodge of Pleasanton celebra ed its nineieenth annive sary, when :here were addie 8% by Grana « verseer Buhrs, Grand remarss wili in fu- ery mem- Receiver Luoth and Grand Recorder liirsnbers, The werk of the order was piese ted on & screen, sua ihen followed ua intere-ting mus.cal atd li erary | rosramme. Franc in Ludze has comple: d ‘t4 arrangements for the stag soclal 10 be eivan next knday evening to members of e vider 1d 10 their friends in their hai . Grand Master Vioter, Past Grand Mas ers Barnes and Danforn and Grand I ecosder Hirshb rs wid ae- Liver addiessvs and h-re wiil be s pogramme and cizars. Al Who are yot niembers of tLe o1d 1 will be welcome. AU IS me-tng iast Erilay night this Jodge inl:iated one candidat- a1 d 1ec ived iwo by piicutions. 1t also ¢l Cus-€a & 1ioosition 10 Se- cure a general rendozvous for sli the lcdges of the order in this CILY aud esiablish & workmen's quarters. Mr. Winterburn, Dr Donnely and Jiofftman were appoiut-da commiitee o lay th matier before the eiher local lodges. Pro-penty dril team had a lwigely attended social in the A rbullaiig last Tu s la, ihe de ury grand master, grand receiver and gr. nd recorder on 1ist Eiltay witiessed the joint Initie o in Fraeraity Hall Oakisnd, of twen.y canaidates for «uiltornia, Uccldental, temple and Bay Ci ¥ 10 ges. Burn Lodge has appointed a committae to make the prepuring of adinnerto be Ul e jambdes 10 el bratios of its anniversary. on \ednesday eveul g last Dostiiv Mo, 4 of this clty, consisting of ~an Fian15co 1odge Uni y Lodge No 27, ~piran Lod « No notia Lodge No. 41 und Para Loogs No. eiv attended meeting ot B. 8. Hall, ny followinz prozramine of exercises was offered: Over ure. orchestra: opening 1emiarks, District Lepuiy A. W. am Booth: mus cai Ligou: remarss, Grand Musier Wi er: reading in 0'd i uglish, Mies Carcie Stearu: atdress, Crand & corder b, . & Hirshb rg; com'e selectlons, Wi iiom Hanse . i Associate Grand Patron. cornes aule, 1 I AJarsdues, Meswrs: 5 menn el Lyunch: comic selccjons. Ke.y and Marlowe: { solc, Miss Miiared A. Clars. Amiong the visio s There was a very fine lterary | 1 tne | given by the lodz progrsmme that cccujled the fore part o evining ana that was fol «wed by a good pro- | \ gramme of dancing that turnished enjoyment for | he younger portion of the audience. | At thelast meeti g of Urlenial Lodge there was | asurw.i-e i store for Mrs. George T. Shaw in ' he na.ure o the pre-entation o Ler of a ma:nificen: pa-t grand col ar, in recoznition of her ma y velu- | able services on behaif of ta membership” Miss | ria eyrrderss made the presentaton ou behalf | of the lod Mrs Helen Traversof Fresno, in a jetter to ths | sscretary of (he Udd Feilows rellf committee, 1115 0: che active and ¢nervetic manner i+ which the iiehekahs iy th t fon «f the country are | Srx.ng 10T the Teder of thowe of the order who ar- i need of (heir help and t-lis ot & sumoer of iu which true chariy was practiced. preseat were: Past Grand Masters 1'unforth and Barnes. Grand Overseer Bahrs, Listiice Depu fos | biackmun, hiansen and Curtle. In behuit of Unity Lodge No 27 he grand recorder presented a bai dsome gold rin to Mr. Tuzgy. the Jwih duitiais set in diamonds, thial deputy of Di.trict No, 4. The Degree of Honor. A new lodge I3 to be Insiituted this month at Dinuba, Tutare County. A petition wih twenty- turce nemes to it was In circulation for such la t week. The entertainment tha was to have been give by Siver Spray Lodze on ihe 16th Last., has been pustponed until the 7th of December on ace unt of adeath in the 10ds; Ivy Lodge had an intereitinz meeting last Weduesday, and after the close uf Lusin:ss t ere | thé grand receiver paid a visit t) Lemple Lodge in | Hal, Oakinnd, iast | cred v | The anniversary of tbe foundiig of the crder | on Tuesday nextin A issic i | was observed by appropriate exercises by a num- | The »ot rtamment th t w ust Wednes- ber of the | cges outside 0f San Fraacsco. ihe | 0¥ €V ningin Rrdom ity soy e loniben| | | one, ewcn of the PAr.ici, KIS AC 10 10 A Ve i tie | bad been here two weeksan ! had agreed to pay so much a week—as much as she could afford. She wasn’tin the free ward, | you know. Well, poor woman, she found | she couldn’t pay. And I siid, ‘We'll just wipe the whole thing out, If ever | vou feel that you can afford to give 1o the | hospital what wiil benefit some other poor woeman who’s sick, you do it. And if you | can’t—why, forget all atout it.’ { “What's the use of (ryire to cure their | poor bodies and torturing their minas? The women who come here are terribiv in need of treaiment, of care, of peace of mind. I won’t bave them worried to pay | | debts.” What an unbusiness-like, sentimental, | charitab'e point of view! “Don’t you want to see our babies?” | TuE CALL reporter was asked. “Babies? You haven't children here?"” | wWell,” udmitted thismember of an im- | pos‘ng-sounding committee, “we really | oughtn’t to have babies, but the new ob- stetrical ward is to blame for that. Sce them, aren’t they lovely 2"/ bt red-faced babies lay slumbering in arow. Eightbabies as like as so many WOMA nd a short progran Th's ledgo | will give s zi0d bezanr aud vavdeviie periorim- w ancein A O, U, day evenings 1 Grand Recorder Mrs, F. S Poland, at a meeting | of ~an.a Cruz Lod delivered au inter- 1 organizing a D Liali on Wednesday and Thurs- gree of Honor Lo Ly out of tne mem- bership of ihut i0dge. Asa result of her address there were obtained thirty-Lwo signatures toa pe- | titlon for & charter | The Native Sol 1 Grand Second Vice-President Mattison has re | to his home :fier a visit to pariors in Ne. | Placer, Ki Dorado ard Sacremento coun- | The funeral of the late Dr. J. P. Tennant, past president of Mount Diablo Parlor, was held under the ausplces of the parior named. Sequola Parlor .niiated & number of candidates fn the presence of the grand officers Iast Monday. After he work the gocd of Lhe order committee 100 charge o0l presentsd un ¢ xeo lient prograrum for the eatercs 1ument of the visiiors. 4 his parlo whicn Is No. 160, wants 10 have that many wem- brs. 1he boarl of reifef,of which J. B. Stovall president and H. I, M. rion i8 Secreti ry, r. anumb rof app lcations, which were referred Grand Trustee J. F. Coftev is Visiting par.crs in the northers part of the Siate. is ived The 1800 commitiee of « aliforuia Parlor has | secured ihe Press Cub Quariet and ohertalent | of the same standard for its enter.ainment on (he i 1sth. A fiue jrogramme bas Leen prepared. ‘Y16 charters of Prospects Parior, “ihe baby.” | and that of the prrior at Winters having been de- | stroyed 1y fire, have ) e | 1, Jebiaced and tho two PHFIOTS Ble OIS Tt b T lor 14 Surta Clxra County will send a strong ueie ation ty the next Grand Parlor, with a | View 10 cap uring the rext Admiscion day celcbra- | tion for the Garaen (it | 1 Lorado Pariorwil, give a1 entoriainment at Native > ous’ all on tie 19th, and wili be as- sisted by ihe members of Ori da Perior of the | Na.ve Daughters The ladies will present living pic_ures Preciia Parlor wili give b anmiversary ball 1or w8 atte ore than 10U jersors, and the miingirel PErfOIMANCe gIven WiSan sdm rab Cre bie manner. ihe jrgr.mme was made up of & good s lec 107 Of sentimental snd coon songs, | and ove of ‘he features was ihe in‘roduction of he madrigal bovs of St Luo's Chur.h, who made up the chorus. Afier the minstre. show there was ui enjoyable dauce. ¢ Uity Parior wiil civs & minstrel show in Sons’ Hall on ihe vvenng of the inst. 1n aid of iis 180 celebration tund. The Native Daugnters, The tu-'00-tu-loo-tu-'arrun party giv Lomas Paror ir Miss.on Parlor Hall ) 53 0 greAl SUC( 831N ev(r/ sense of chat | he decoration of ihe presty hall in fpon- | and the shating of the Urh.s With ti-sue paper of the swme color. produce: a very nove fle t The monotony of oue color wis relieved by the disp ay Amonz the f8100ns of o number of American flags stars i nd shieids, and at one end of th: hall the neme of he parlor in le ters of goid. ‘lhe invitations wers of ihe provailing Coor msd in the dec rafons, as were alio th | dance progremn es, while not a few of the mem- | Lers, e majority of whom we e dressed fa white | wore neck riobo.s and Sashes f Lie s me colo There was a large number of friends o' tue jarlor Lo es jov, not 01 ¥ the se «ci programme of dan but gather s ron i Wi ine the oy psv Qu \ho in her booth of red, attirel fn Giicntii costume 101 the pas:, Drese:t and fu'ure of (he young peo- ple who wall.el L0 KUOW if some oLe els: abew Wiilnz, the Gypsy Quren, I | Mre. L. Cartie, | specchimakes | ins peas, save two at the end, smaller, more wrinkled, more antique-iooking than the others. “Those are tbe twins. The others will !l be taken home soon by their mothers, | but these twe—"" “Yes? “Well, these two won’t. That's all The mother’s too poor. She can't take care of thrm. soon, poor little tots. Their four months means really only two months of this world. We bave to have a nurse exclu- ely for them. But, I ak you, what | would a poor woman, who has to go out do with two frail [it- tle things like that? Why, they’d die. And then what would be the use of hav- ing kept them al ve as we have? “Why, we had to pack them in cotton— make a real incubator for them—and it was only by the most persict:nt care they were made to It Where would be the use if we sent them hLome now? No, the hospital will take cire of ¢ em.” “*And the money ?” asked a less impul- sive woman. working by the day e N’S HOSPITAL. And they were born tco | cisco vill take care of thut +Ivisn’t asif we didn’t give, oursolves, when we beg 2o shamelrssly for our hos- pitals,’? said the enthusiastic woman, i smuling. 1 made myself responsible for two water peds in an incautious moment, Well, I got them. I bought them. My iiusban | paid for one of them, and now something toward the other. They were so much needed. You know how neces- sary they are for w.men who have to lie upon their backs long.” “Well, I was bound the chimney should be repaired. I paid for it, because no one | else seemed able or willing to do it.” “I'm begging now,” said a third mem- ber of the boird of managers. “Tue trouble is that when one sees a thing so | vitally necessary, she just is compelled to | get it and trust to luck or to her friends’ generosity to help her out with part of it. Now, here’s a room. This woman sub- mitted to a capital operation yesterday.” “A paying patient?” “No. Sne was in the free ward. But now that she has undergone such an operation she must have a room alone. And she must have a nurse to herself at least for a week. She couldn’t have bet- ter care if she were a full-paying patient, could she?” The reporter looked from the patient’s flu-hed face as she tossed on her pillow, avbout the sunny room and at the nurse stanaing, pencil in hand, so trim, so fresh in her white gown, awaiting the sur- zeon’sdirections, What answer was needed ? ‘We take in no nurses who have nota high-school diploma,”” said the doctor. *That’s a high standard for nurses?’ “Yes; butwe have more applications alwayson tre list than we can take in."” The surgery, which it has taken eighteen months to build, is at once the pride and the despair of the hospital authorities. They marvel-at its scientific complete- ne=s—and a at its power of absorption of money. To construct an asepiicsur- gery required not only the $10,000 be- queathed the tospital by Mrs. Mary Crocker, but all cash in bank owned by the hospital. To keep this surgery n operation it is neces:ary that the gener- ous woman in whose honor the annex is named should have imitators, This modern surgery is three rooms in | one. The walls of all three rooms are | wainscoted and their flyors laid with a pecuhiar and rare volcanic stone which was brought from British Columbia. The | surgery proper is built oi this stone, | ceiling is ot glass. | | | | eled metal and all the water-pipes and faucets are nickel-plated. Ci.eanliness, aseptic safety is the god worsaiped here. The white operating-tables, the stands, the glass doorknobs, the sierilized gauzes and instruments, the extreme of cautio of doctors and nurses—all is a means to one end—:hat the woman who enters the operating-room shall take no risk from septic poisoning. Everything is sterilized here, No germ *“Wel — well, the people of San Fran-] I'm begging my friends to please give me | The | Tuadoors are of enam.- | dare make -his honfe in anything that is part of this medically clear: vlace. Along one wall there is a row of stationary wash- stands; carved out of one piece cf rock, so that there be no interstices in which the enemy of aseptic surgery may lurk. Befors every operation the pipesare pur.fiel by means of steam, the wails, the fi o~ every inch of the operating-tables and stools are scrubbed with corrosive subl maie, the surg.cal instiuments are boiled and steril- ized, the c!oth:, a sort of gauze, the sponges are steamed for hours and dried by heated air for more hours. Tae very air is sterilized. It is driven by means of a blower through a fil.er of sterilized cotton and exbausted by an- other fan. In this way t-e air of tke surgery is main:ained at an even, regular temperature ani completely renewed or | chauged in a few minutes. The water | used in surgical op2rations i« distilled and reborled, and boiled yet again it it re- | mamns long 1 the boilers. | When things are clean—as only a sur- geon understands cleanliness—the surgery becomes a holy of holies. No one dare enter this septic sanctuary save the one who suffers and those who are to relieve her sufferine. The patient is brouzht into the room where anesthetics are administered. Itis a bare room, for it is one of the threa which submits to daily purifyinz. But it 18 also bare of sharp-edgel, glittering in- struments—of all the cruel-looking, sug- | gestive appliances of the surgeon’s table. Wouen the patientis borne into the oper- ating room she is unconscious; and she is unconscious when she leaves it. Her nerves are most mercfully spared the shock of realization. The surgeon enters the dre sing-room on the other side of tue surgery, where he puts on a linen smock which has been washed and bakea and steamed into sterilization. The nurse gives him a cap and then doctors and assistants procee i to a Lady Macbeth process of hand-washing. Such a hand-washing! For five minutes | with green German soap—of course, the brushes and cloths have been praviously discivlined into being antisept c—then as long azain with corrosive sublimate, and then later with alcotol. And then the surgeons are ready to battle with tumors and abscesses and other unpronouncesble, | intricately horrible enemies of woman- kind. And here's success to them! They de- serve it; and, as a rule, success rewards their care and skill. Thirty-five years ago, in nine cases out of ten, women who lay down upon an op- eratine-table practicaliy said good-by to e. Nowadays, thanks these same minute precautions, out of thirty-seven | capital operations performed last year, | the surgeon in charge of the Woman’ | Hospital lost not one case. Is it worth while, do you think, to go to the care and expense of fitting up a fin de siecle surgery? And if you think the minimizing of human suffering, the sav- ing of human life worth while, what share of the work is yours? [} to Miriay MICHELSON. what they kn he 1uture. The ladies of this parlor had determined upon a noveliy and the. presented one. The floor di- rector wrs Mre. r. Knox: sssistant, Miss M. Burke: re eption commi tee—Miss k. ¢ Breiing. Miss ). Mrs = rington an niey. he v sitof thie grand officers to Buena Viita Tarlor iast Thur-day night was a4 event in the Listory of the purlo:—one that wi 110ng be rew em- bered with feelings 0f pleasure by wl Who were present. “Ihe mee.ing hall wis most tastefuily decorated with flowers. evergreens and California hoilyberrie . the electric iithe were shsded to represent the colois of the order, and the arrange- ment 0f the stations snd the hull Was mOst ar- tistic. There was an exempiifi ation of the work that was performed ti the entire sa lsfaction of the Visitors a1 d representatives from sli the local jarlars. ‘hen fodoved a1 evenlng of speeckes witer an addrss of welcome by Miss Nelii Ra- der ine president f the pur.or. ‘The speakers were Grand Fresident Mrs. Belle Jist craud Presidents Mrs. M. E. 53 May Wilkins, Mrs. Louise P. Mor- and ~ecretary Mrs. ‘G. C. Ryan, Grand Douglass Grand 'Trustee fiss Lil y 0. Reicaliug (the foun- der of the order). Mrs French of Alia Purior. Mrs. Kelloch of ~ans oucl Parior, Miss Birdie Mayer of U10 Fino Perlor, Mrs. Darreb and Mrs. 1 rigss 1 Princess Parior. Miss Jokanna A ever und Miss Fohrenkrug «f Golden Siate Par.or and Miss - ar- garel Giro eof Alta Parl r. Ihe semurss of all the speukers were inieresting, but the witiest wero those of Mrs, Carile, who being & natural born bad many bright things to say of all the past presidents of the order. Leiters of regret were rord from Miss Mariana Bertols and Miss Clara K. Wittemeyer, pis presitents. Dur- ing ihe everirg Mrs k. Wehe was pressnted a fine pain ing douxted by ‘the pres.d-uf, i . recog- uitlon of ber eff rts in se.ling the greatcst num ber ot tckes for the tecent minstrel entertq nment, and Miss Antie Ben ing for her interest in get- U1 up the prosramme, Was aiso given a pain ing, ikewise donated by Mrs. Kadeo ‘I hen foliowed & ba quei, where & pio &sant hour was spenr. ibe reep fon and encertinment of th_ visitors was nrranged by Miss Annle Westhaus, Mrs Eva Gimple, Mirs M. i 5hoen, Waters, Miss K. Bell, Mis. J M. Bur Tis, Iriasurer Miss Lizzl Steeline, Mrs ~ dcie Levy, Mis. Mamie ~heel.an, Miss Auuie | Miss Gertie Swoave, Mrs. Lomuarai and or:ie Coiter Ryun. ars Souct PArior will have un 1ts iriends o1 <he evenii g uf iLe 15th Inst. Gulden Siate Pa give iis social in Na tive Sous’ banquet ball ou the evening of Tuesday 1ext. On tne 13th st La Estrella Parlor will_give snat home i s hatl. On Decenber 16, 17 it 18 (his par or will huve “Contrusts,” a novel enter- tamment, which wil represent on one side of ‘he 1l the sber, b 1and of 1rost, S0CW and ice, and th e'will represent Califor- niw, (he lund of sunshine ar d flowers. at the sams tinje of the year. A comumittee s az work arrang- ng the detsils. Duiing the past week Grand Presiden: Mrs, Conral paid offic al vi its to th - parlors in Weav. ervilie, shasia, sarysy e, Dixon and Anderson Ling of « amel In I arlor of that p.ace she sw' s che manuer fo whch the members erfo m the work Is wonderfui: that in he ent e ceremony Uiere Wi s not olie £ 044 OF movemeit that called fora vir e cil icis Mis. J A.~tenoach is taking steps to orzanize anew rarlorar Valei and th re aie gocd pros D cis 5 another puilorin tiis city. On e eveniog of caurd y the S0th of Ucte- ber, Alta Puilor o1 the Sat ve Laughters of tha Guide » West i ave w Holl ween party, of an ‘ut Home,” inthe burque: hai of the Nadve sons' bu diig. Thers wus an unusuaily larie att unce and (he Venlng Was spnc in & most enjs- sble munner Ther was a. the besin: inga shore p.ugramme. which was made up of u faicy dance Niiss ¥y, :ulief solo by I rofessor Munstield, vocn $0io by Miw 4 offmai a d comica itles by Josh Davis. This was fo lowed by a dance that Wits Kept up until miduigni. The hail hed been pretuly dec ruied for the occasion with ever- ireens, trom which depended a number of red ap- pent meeting for pies, the wiole picduciug & very s.riking effect. | W1 houtany pretense f grand-stani «fect alta Par.or gayea most enjoyibie niertali ment. The Nutional Union. Ca ifornfa Council hes during the psst month met wi.li thice [03ses In the deaths of W P. Bui- lard, G. 1L Cariborne and C. F. ~murr, each of whom had n beneficiary certificate in the sum of £6(00. Tue astnamed wus the fi st pre-ident of the council oceupying he chair of president in 1592 and that of ex-presi-ent in 1838, For some i ne prior Lo bis demise he was so taken up with the transaction of busire s that he was unable to d vote much time to (hs counctl, a1d the last visit he P id (0 1 WS Ol Lhe 0LCHSION—10 ADFil [ast—of ihe cficial vidt of the San Fraucisco cabinet. when he defivere i a short a:dress. At the meetl & ¢f Caifornia Council last.Tues- day night there wers elected six candidaies, four Of whom were in‘tia ed. The iwo othets will be Initinted o the next meetinz. The redu ed rae lor the admi:sion of members was extendea 't he Conncil nOW haus 278 membirs &nd a steong eff ru is be ng made to increa-e the Lumber 10 50U be- fore (he Clos= of th+ year. The ccunci apiointed a committee to draft res- clust ns ot respec: to1ha memories of the thr-e members who r.e 0 ly passed away. At ihe ciose ¢f the busi-ess the spaser introduc-d a short programme of entertainment. which ne.uded son.s recitaifons ard seect ons by th-counci ’s fam. us quartet. ' he principal events of (h- pro- gramme were an address by N . R. Arter of Golden Gate Courcil, vocal -0lo by Mr. Lutz of the «u r- tet, and five minu es’elcGu-nce by Lay or Rogers. Goiden tsute Uy 1 aun uices ain “at home on rext Tu- d.¥ eveningin t.quariersin riks Tial, cornercf W ter sir et and Grani wvesus. L Wil be an evening ¢f song r-citation and speeches from pro 1 e Cinembrs of (he order. For b juipose of showing (hose un .couarted with the se et Work o1 th-orier, the fuli (hree £ rosof injtation wli be ciyen. he piesiie t Cf the cruncil 8oy ©you will miss a guod time By uaty awey” Y oxewite Censcil has move ! into larger rnd mor: con medi s hill on the seco d floor of the Foresters’ rnilding. At ti.e cabinel mee'ing last Thursday night the seml-aunual ber capi & taX of § ceats was levied v ard what they might look for in | on the councll of the jurisdiction of- California | The inv.talon to atens the meeting of Golden Gate C(urcil next juvesday night was accepted. | The cabu et ceciced to visit Yosemite « ouncil on the 15th ipst. ‘The :ecietars was jnstructed 10 | notify two of the counci's Lt have not been hoid- ing meetings reguiarly of late (DAt uniess Lie (ww | a8 to meetings is con plied wih they wouid be | suspended. ‘The Chosen Friend The usual open meet ng of Sccial Council an- nounced for next Thursiay wili be skipped, but the entertainment commi:tee is making urrange- ments for a grand tinie to be given on the st cond Thursday In Lecemb r. ‘This council will g.ve a proressive euchre party on the 18th inst. Grand Counci or Eoehm Visited Mariha Wash- fngton Counci! at San redro on the 29th of last month, and he was accompsnied by Assistant Conneil T ~avaze, wWho escorted him from the train 10 the ball. wiich hinl been | oraied for the occasion. The counucil Is Going | metive werk. After addresses by tre visitr | oti ers thers was a banquet and acneral good ¢ m | “on the 24 tnst | with the assisiant cou cllor wnd 1) | counc lor, visited Paselena connci. There iwasa large auendance ana ihe membsis were enter- talued Wiih 8 concise accouniot the work of the tse35100 of the supreme lodge. The council recived fiv- applications. Afier the clo-e of the council there was served a toothsome supper and then tollowed toasts and speeches Grand Kecorder Wa 118 pa d & visit to Eik Grove las Tuesdayand he was greeied by tendance a* the council mesuing und tothose pres ent he imparted some [iteresting informatiou as twthe condition of the order ani iis progre | " sext . riday the wrand recorder will visic the council at Cluverdale. . P. Wilson of America Council has acknow «dged ihe receipt of $3102 of an old age ceriifi- cate. Bay City Circle 0n Jast ‘I hursday evening had'a very piestant s. cinl in the Social Hall-of (he Al- cazar, and the st ndence of members and iriends was decidedly flatiering to U e commitiee that had the frnction in churge. There w.s a fine pro- | pramme cf dances and excedent music. - The affair was managid by Mis k. Gouoman, chalr- man of the commiitee of arraigemens, assisted by Nr. Marks, floor manager, Miss Ressie Boren, assisiart floor manager, Miss Res Volmer. Miss Ida Berkheim, Mrs. Koth, Mrs. Berz, Mrs Gro- nosky. Mr. s Lutish and Mrs Neudorfer Tk circle will hoid ity election shor.iy, und this wil be followed by an_instailation social on the fir Monuay in December. Past Chief Compunions, F. 0. A, That an interest i being man fasted in the work | that nearly fifty past chiefs at:eided the meeting. | The maiter of rendering assistance 10 those circles WhiCh are not a8 Strong or A8 % ive as they should | te was uiscussed. and 1t was decided that a com- | miitee of ten from the associivn and as many .0 e past chiefs as cond .t nd shoald visi: cir- cles aud 1iovide spenkers and ence.tainment, to The end that :he enibusiasm of the memlers ip e aroused. 10 awaken the dormaut membersof the vailous cir:ies and induce them to atteud meetings regu- larly ana make them in ercating. 1f the &5« ciation receives (he encouragement iv deserves the « ominniors of (he Fore-t wil, ina hort t me, 1 e onie of e iexdine fraternal oriani- | zations in this city. It was ar.snged that one committee of ten should on the evening of e 11ch § st visit San Fiancisco Circle, ana another commitee on the same evening visit Loreley Clic e, and tin: on the ev.niig ¢f the 1610 & com- mittee shonld visit Presidio Clicie Mrs. £. Har- ringien. the granu chief companion. and a num- ber of giand officers will accompany each com- mitce Imvyroved Order of Red Men, Nex: Tuesday Great Sachem Whipple and other grand officers wili visit Ked Cloud Tribe in Sacramento, sud on the following night they will be with Wenonah Council in the sumecity. (n T} ursday they wiil Visit shawnee Tribe in Wood- jand, and on Friday they will be with Yuba Tribe 1o Margeville. TLast Monday the grand cfll ‘ers were with S¢mo- set iribe in Vallejo ani withessea un adoption which was done to ine satisfuction of all who suw it. After ihe work there was a banquet in houor of the vVisitors, and addresses by Great Sach-m Whipple. Great Chief of iecords C. F. Burgman, John Emtage of Pocahoutas Tribe uud otheis During the week the grand officers were at Angels Camp, ¢ a:averas County. iust “alurday & nsw tribe was Instiiuted at Stockton. 3 The Druids. Laurela and Norma groves Laa astag Installa- « aid smoker in Druids’ Hall las: Fr day night There w.s a larze atiendunce of the membership of he two eTOves and many of the frends of the mem: ers of hoth. Afur tie corem.ny of Instal- 1 tion ther- \ as & good programme that en.er- { 1ain-d he company for sever . hours | "o raeviie Gr.v: conferr d ihe second degree | on two caudidates on the 30th of last mon h The rove has one candidaie to receive Lhe mitiatory eg ce. Vasco da Gama Grova ini‘iated oné candidate last Monday and ins al.a the officers for the ea- su ng terin. Junior Order Americ:n Mechanies. The S'ate cfficers paid a vsit to Starr King Council last week #nd found a good attendance of the membership i ce the council moved in o town ‘here his been a marked increa e in the st- { tendan e. here wes work in the ininato.y de- yree uid iddresses by the vidtors. Amoug he most proniuent speakers were -tite . onncicr +chaerize , Depu'v ~ationa: Ceuncilor Saul-bury and National ~eutir el de Fowley. ‘Ibe Sta e officess will visit Henry Clay Councti to-muiTow night -Reports thai a1® comiug In from all parts of the 1 astefuliy Cec- | the grand councilor in_company | M. True, past | a good - | thattle Pst Chiefs' As-ociation is erguginin | was made manitest last Mond < night by the tact | 1t w1 be the aim of the association | | State show that ccns der tanen in the contest for j | nunber of candidates iniroduied wi hin a given time. The race se ms o be betw een Faul Rever. Alcxander Hamiiton and 1iapcock Couscils. bie interes:t is being 208 fcr the greates Knights and Ladies of Honor. | West End Lodce held intere last Tuesday night. in addition to a large mem- borship there svere preswnt Past Pro ectors alr | and Mrs. E. H. Bourguignon of Mistletoe lo!g", | San Joss. There were a number of speeche« upon the good Of the o:ider that were attentively list ened to. 1ast Proector J. A, Marasnos (f Aurora Lot whese death occurred last week, was one of the clde t and mi st respccied membiers of ih« order. | 1 he election of ofticers wili be In crder next monih, and theie is an unusual interest aL the meeing, 4. t1s time. an ng meeting Young Men’s Institute. | Fraternity Council ¢f East Cakland will give an entertainment on Thasksziving eve. Golden Gute - ouncil will celebrate the ann ver- sary «f ity instituiion on the 11th inst. in Union- square Hall. Next i hursday there will be a a'strict meeting of the coutclis of Oakiund and Alameda. The Low d of cepu ies wiil meet nex: Tuesday for the consider tion uf imporiant matiers. Deputy Ginid I esident Pinkinm a d o'hers visited ©an Ratiel Coundil last week and wers well enterc: iued Horiome. n_Counc s arranging for an enter- tamment to be gi in the near fuure and Las appcinted th- fol owing-nemed as the com- mit « s dDOw el. i S, Fuzackerly, K. k. Carier. 1. F. A dchel, R Crawford St. g atian Cauncil wilce Versary by au enterisinment i tate its tenth anni- Metr polias Hall. | Bloe E'rith. There was a larze a tendaice at the twenty seventh anniversary ball givin by Cslitorn Lodge tn B. B. Hall last ) hursday n'ght. The march aud lancers were dedic: t ato I'ast i resid | J. L. Fruukim. ‘ILe programme « f dances was a | £00d 0 e f1id 10 il -0t d Or - 0Od MUsICLLCie Wi enjoyn ent il midnight. Hob-rt Mann was the chai m 1 (f tue commuitre of sriangements and | the floor mu .ager was e.ry Bait Ancient Order of Forestors. Pine Grove was recen:ly instituted at Loomis, Plecer County, wih twenty-six charter members. G. C. Boler is (he chief ranger and ¥, W. Grice the recordi g s-cretary. High thisf Raner M. Boehm has beea | visiting ihe southern par.of the State On the 25th of las: n:onth he otlicially visited Courts San Diego and =an Miguel at Diego, and witnessed | thie tniciution of candidat s which increased the Court mem. crship comsid rublv. A leciure by ihe visitor on aws aud venefiis of the order was recerved with many marks of . ppr. bation. After the conrt ol sed ti-1e was & ba que i Stia il man, J. Schieim-r and Deputy Biac~legse are en | titled 1o creit 10r n: success of ro.estry in San Diezo « ouit ‘The sume officer ulso pald a visit to Court Lilac | at Falibrook in the sam- county, and he was | mieetd by a Lirze a.sembly. (n the 28.h hs Visites Couri Seasiie at Ucvanside and at each place he was a we cone Vis.tr and hankea for the 1 formation he aried in relation to the order und the riu st work. Me ia compavy Wb Mesirs. Strehiman and Sch'eimer, paid a visic to Court k1 Csivnon the 1 BU.h of last mOuth. ¢ n ihut 0CCAION € Very wem- ber of the cour. was present, and they theioughly apireciated a0 exenmp ific tion of the ritualisilc work. The prescnce of tue vi-iors awukened & new interes. in the court. Jhe Visitors were en- tertafael st a supper. et Moutay Court Southern California re- celved a VL1t ;rom the sub-h gh chief ranger. i The Old Friends. The 01d Friends (incorporated) have made ar- rangements for & buli'> nead breakfast. (0 be given in Miil Valley, Mar.n County, on Sunday, the 14th inst. T. J. Crowiey will be ihe master of cere- monies #nd Kawuri (onnol y will be the chalr man of the r.Ception commitis XEW TO-DAY. 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