The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 16, 1898, Page 29

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY. 16, 1898. 29 005 coo0opOPOOEE OO 0o O OCCco co®e PCO0O0O0 O O o Co© o600 o ) T last t to the and awakened clence has burial in f this disposition tal re ains has at- fofl of learned men of of hu tracted the att all but without a J& any actory than cr a body of s plan that, it will dissipate much of the death and abolish the bar- | om of inte v pro- 1 York that 4"—build- ttern of nd after the | nd as artistic: arranged inside sumptuous quar New York will :ed in handsome p they will be su be taken rooms, where to a will pre: for all time son is dead his or her drive up to the magni through its flowered 1 enfering one of its upc partments gaze like form & whe Re nearby method an admirable one. that by it the bodies of the dead can indefinite red— be preserved int period of time that it will take f and last ceremonie rowing features, tives and fri rites without detriment to their ¢ health, as is now so often the ca; will make it impossible, he says, for a person to be buried alive. When a body is taken to tt posed mausoleum it will immediately ct an 1, R Sy - 4 e placed in a speclally prepared sep hre. made ready to receive it n, and the body is plac At the head of the sepul- is a small hole to which is at- | a tube, through which by | of a fan wheel a current of dry | ne hemicalized air is gently driven over | he remai escaping through a sim- | r hole near the feet. Prior to enter- the sepulchre the air p a rat of sulphur n of the acid upon all moisture from it. g the coffin or sepulchre ses through a hot furnace to the outer world through y. The furnace kills germs which the aught up in pass The body i days. ich, it is ¢ € ain for centuries. The feat 'lv‘- not alter in the least, nor doe in discolor. The it is said, at- and the flesh be nd firm, While the weight to re- | the pro- 1to the satis In A in we hough it remainec nces as ply nine ks the pig from twent alf pov all outside ds, a pa n acec the dissection that followed the sletion of the proc The effe the fatty matter had been. the dry- ing of the muscular and fibrous ti had changed the interior of the s ject to a cellular and spongelike struc- ture. 7 ’0 e Mfim 33000 3y T STt = : S DEY 'HERE IS A NEW METHOD OF DISPOSING OF THE Proposed /?w/q,,, ‘l\ o @)l S oy e O G Experiments were then tried u human bodies, wit tory results. One of the: a man who w fon and transform it into a | n in which it will ¢ i i watched continu a peric ity 1o reinaugurate decay. eight months s having be N ohtestursliAekisn ‘L il pro- jected to the try ment, and : posed mausoleum i »laborate. The of that time the skin building is to t ied by lawns In the slightest. It was as white as at | and flower borderad drives, and if the first, although dry and hard, and when touched had a feeling somewhat like leather. The face and featu: rfect as when the man d intentions of the men who it are carried out it will appear very much like public museums or libr to ere ct Nowhere GIRLS’ BACHELOR CLUBS. sh to see a group of pret vivac! 1telligent and thoroughl independent nineteenth century maidens, of a true American type, just stop long enough at Cape May, New Jersey, to catch a glimpse of the Bachelor Maids’ Club, an associa- fon of twelve charming marriageable | young women, who have banded to- gether to protect themselves from the wiles of unworthy members of the other sex. The members of the club are the Misses Lillian Miller, . Marion Hand Harriet Hall, Louisa Bush, Edna Baliley, Reble Doak, Emma Ewing, Lot- | tie Hughes, Ethel Kennedy, Louisa Whitney, Louisa Miller and Florence ‘Whitney. The organization has only three officers—Miss Lillian Miller, pres- ident; Miss Marion Hand, vic resi- dent, and Miss Harriet Hall, secretary and treasurer. While the duties of the president are somewhat exacting, in consequence of the grave responsibilities imposed upon her, the functions of the treasurer are | not especially burdensome. The presi- | dent is supposed to know the inward | life and reing of each member of the fraternity, and to give kindly ad- vice in all matters affecting the dig- character and loyalty of the or- ation. The perpetuation of celibacy is not contempiated, as every member is in favo, but it must be a marr! the c F you the twelve young men somewhere in this broad world | who would willingly marry these | twelve winsome misses must throw away their vices and prepare them- selves to answer some questions like these: Do you drink, or smoke, or chew, or . wear a silk hat in summer with a blue serge suit, or lie in bed in the morn- ing while your father shovels coai into the heater, or give expression to wicked words when you strike your thumb with a hammer? Do you earn enough to support a wife? Can you see a flower store with- out being directed to it? Do you write love letters with a pencil? How many cousins of the feminine gender have you? What becomes of your temper when you lose your collar button? Do you ride a last year's wheel? Are you fond of ice cream and soda water and poetry? Above all, do yot sympathize with the members of the Bachelor Maids’ Club in their efforts to promote happy marriages? Should these questions be answered eatisfactorily the ideal man may get the number of votes necessary to make | him happy for the balance of his life. standard set by |. It takes a brave yvoung fellow, howev- er, to fo the three pretty office of the club, he be well versed in diploma s likely to fare the worse for the encounter. As yet no constitution or bylaws have been adopted, but the inflexible rules vailing make it obligatory upon the t of the prospective bridegr go under probation for on the end o fore t »pear be- ard of examiners, consisting members, exclusive of the one hand he is seeking, to undergo warnen ated hall, not unlike the main remature burial—or, more our big hotels. The walls will mature desiccation—im- yed, not with with sce of oon as a body is placed | sorrow or images recalling unpleasant an electrical apparatus | mories with bright, rich and de- | is adjusted to it, so that the slightest | licate d and at the end of the | movement of limb or muscle will start | hall wil pacious and beautifully | an alarm in the chief watcher's room | arrangea | tion and retiring rooms, and elevators, as in a mod Rt B L re En r will find himself in a beautifully | and also in the office, which will con- tinue ringing for hours or until the body is visited. A specially devised in- dicator will direct the attention of the rvatory. On either s yors will open into recep- of the hall will take visitors rn cased S50 060EOANAID DOOOC = Q o0OoeoeeooOOQoobocoooooooooocoooooooo0000:;0000000000_000 [=) “mummified” remains will be found in | will regularly visit each sepulchre, The entire cost of desiccating a body and giving it a permanent resting place i vate rooms will, of course, cost more, just as do suites of rooms in a hotel, and the rich man who desires such an expensive apartment for the sepulcher of himself and his entire family will be | charged accordingly, and he may lav- ish as much money for decoration and rearrangement as he desires. n this masoleum will be but $70. Pri- The estimated cost of the first mau- 1 this and other tests scientists | will there be any semblance of mourn- | to the floors aboves Here, as well as | custodian to the particular sepulcher | soleum to be built is somewhat over hat disiccation by this method ing or anything to indicate the pres- on the main fl doors will open into | in which the movement has taken | $300,000, exclusive of land, and it will ve a body from all s of | ence of death. = private rooms, and in these rooms the | place. In addition to this a custodian ' accommodate 15,000 bodies. another rigid examination as to his It was foreign to the purpose of the | priding themselves upon | communication. Thus far the club has | purposes and ambitions in life. If he | club tc attract the attention of the out- | looks, resort to the phot refused to vote upon the question, and asses this g ordeal he has no side world when it st its her trouble tc fear. eventful career at the ¢ t sum- It frequently happens that the care- mer, but so much publi ly groomed and industri given to ds that men of the wave swept cit to attend informal reception: musicales, and the promptness *tter bub- and with which they pen a reply to the daintily perfumed card of invitation is sufficient evidence in itself of the high esteem in which the Bachelor Maids' Club is held. ss of men, who, ilities are that the lovesick ist them in their m the prob: Photog come from 5 rmer will be denied the realization of | frem M. 0 Tex but, like the let- supplication. ters, they are consigned to the flames. | Miss Marion Hand, the vice-president, CLUB BROKEN UP BY A MARRIAGE. l received some s ago a loving epis- CHICAGO, Jan, .—The coming mar- riage of M Tinnie Olson, president | of the Anti-Marriage Girls’ Club of v anston, will break up the club. 1t.was ned three months ago by ten popu- lar society girls of the suburb, who had tle from a self. r-away Ore; young farmer in ved that perm be granted to Miss Hand to nswer his ENGI S - KHAN. | Standing in a Lonely Place in the Wilds of Thibet It Has Been Guarded for Six Hundred Years by the RN N \ M. BONIN. OME six hundred miles west of Peking, the Tartar capital of the Chinese empire, under bend of the Hoang Ho, or Yellow a strange people hitherto but little known, stands the tomb of the once mighty Mongol conqueror, Khan. The spot was visited some months ago by the famous French explorer, M. Banin, in the course of his remarkable journey from Tonking across the up- per.valleys of the Yangtse Kiang and Hoang Ho to Aurga, in Southeastern | stberia. the great | through regions heretofore almost un- | known to the outside world, M. Banin River, in the country of the Ordos, | was able to achieve the distinction of | being the first Buropean ever received Ghengis | sacred spot where rest the remains of Descendants of the King. THE TOMB OF GENGIS-KAHN. Besides traveling over more than 1000 miles of entirely new routes | transplanted by an were, from another land to a place not of their*own choosing. They are the | descendants of the Tartar hordes i whom Ghengis Khan was leading from the wilds of Mongolia to the as- sault of the Great Wall of China, when | he was assassinated at the instigation | of his third wife, “Bagha Etjin,” “The little Sultana.” Here at “Etjin Karo,” where he died, far from his seat of power at Samar- cand, his remains were placed in 1227, under the care of his immediate fol- lowers, the soldiers of his body guard. by the Ordos and allowed to visit the the great Tartar chieftain. The ‘place 1s calied “Etjin Karo,” “The Palace of the Lord,” and lies about eighty miles south of the city of Khoukou Khoto, on the Hoang Ho, down the valley of which the explorer's Toute laid. The Ordos are a strange people, | To this day the accident, as it | body guard keep constant watch over | line of descent, in a wonderful palace | | | NIECE OF THE KING OF DJOUNGAR. descendants of his and his niece, the nearest to him in the the tomb, ever expecting his awaken- | built of bricks that were transported ing to a new and grander career of | on the backs of camels across the wide conquest, as predicted by the Mongol desert. legends. In this loneiy place far out in the Under a huge canopy or tent of white | desert from where any people would felt rests the coffin of pure silver con- | choose an abiding place these people taining all that remains of the “Great | have lived for nearly seven hundred Khan.” Beside it is his saddle of gold, | years, generation after generation, his two-bladed sword and his bow with ‘ with no other object than to guard the his arrows, planteéd feather up in the | slumbers of him whose career was, as ground. The Ordos revere him as a | they believe, but interrupted for a god, and recognize no other. Their | time, expecting him to arise and again chief, the King of Djoungar, is his | lead them on and finish the great work | thirty-seventh and last direct male de- | he began in directing the destiny of the | tar. FASHIONABLE Fe. grown weary of the society sterner sex. Articles of confederation were drawn up forbidding any of the members to marry within five years. There were eight charter members, and Miss Olson was the leading spirit in drafting the bylaws and bringing about a perma- nent organization. The other members of the club say the ideals of the club will now be scoffed at to such an ex- tent that it will go to pieces. The “coming-out” event of the club was celebrated at Kinsley’s in Septem- of the | ber, and Miss Olson says the ‘‘closing- up” event will probably take place just before her marriage. Miss Olscn says that, besides herself, already two of those who with all so- ! lemnity took an oath to remain single | for at least five years have become en- gaged, and that the announcements will soon be made. A SCHEME OF THE GIRLS. BOSTON, Jan. 16.—Three enthusias- tic anti-marriage clubs have just been organized here by young marriageable women. Officers have been elected, and the strongest rules against mar- riage have been formulated and signed by the charter members. Miss Beatrice Chase, president of the | biggest and most enthusiastic club, the | Miles Standish Anti-Marriage Club, on being asked about the cause of this new movement among the sex, replied frankly: “Haven't you noticed yet that girls who get up these anti-marriage clubs | and are the most enthusiastic in sup- porting them are always among the very first to get married? Well, we want to be at the very head of this pro- cession that is marching toward the al- Do you know any better way than the anti-marriage club?” ———— An American gentleman, residing in Berlin, taught a little German boy the simple stanzas, “Ding-dong bell” and “Twinkle, twinkle, little star.” On be- ing asked to write the words of these poems, as he thought they were spelled, the boy produced the follow- ing, according to the Home Guard: Dinn, dann, bell, Pussis in wi well, Hupurterinn, littell ganni gruen, Hutuckerant littell Tammi Truat Wardarnortibeu was tat Tudraun Purpussikat. Twinkel, Twinkel, littell star, Hauelwander wad juar, Ababat wi woel 80 het Leikeldelrmann in wiski. e gt Very satisfactory trials have been recently made of a lifeboat made of pumice stone, which it was found would remain afloat with a load, even when full of water. scendant. He lives with his five wives | nations of the world.