The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 3, 1898, Page 19

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JULY 38, 1898 Wi <o SHEE| P2 7/ i Z \ S0 b '!. A THE RICH AND HIGHLY RESPECTABLE MATRON DONNED HER SWELLEST GOWN AND DID NOT DISDAIN TO COMPETE FOR ADMIRING GLANCES WITH THE NAMELESS LADY OF THE FLOWERY CHARIOT. , But in half an hour what a change! | and prosperous in the carriages, the| man or the woman whom you have | The spirit of the thing pervades one's | middle c gaping on the sidewalks, | oo " o8 "5 SO T e ever ee | veins like wine. One realizes that it is | and unde hithe horge's.feet gather- | BEVEE Be0H A One R it not the flowers, that it is not the arches | ing up the flowers that fell between | 28ain; it is once in your life when it is TO THE FL WEK F’ETE nor the dis that brings forth that | the carriages, shrieking, grabbing | Quite comme il faut to neglect the lit- | dense Parisian crowd, but that the|at your purses, snatching the flowers | tle proprieties on-which you have been whole thing is simply C1 f | from your the rabble, the | resred. It is-a .grand frolic in which ‘afl( noon $ E: m that no ol.e| there is no choice 'but participation er compre- | after one is there. n American rabble 15| y think this thing could not exist in queen’s drawing-room. 1In|any other place in the world, for it is n crowd you tremble lest |y ot essentially :Parisian—it is the t her= it is lest | spirit of Paris unfettered. ed and your hair “ ian rabble is some. | Among the Americans whom I no- to be feared as wild beasts are | ticed at the fete were Senator McAl- lister and wife and = Mrs. Woodward 3 i and daughter of San Francisco; also o O esertions (o) the | Mr. and Mrs. Willlam Hunt and Miss s The well.breq | Helen Lindley of Sacramento. On Pentecost Sunday the students of the Latin quarter celebrated the Feast .| of -Fools. and -the Ass, .a revival of a medieval custom. Naturally the cele- bration was unique in the extreme. The | idea was to reproduce exactly the pro- cession of the fools and the ass as con- ducted in ‘the fifteenth century. The procession, which consisted of the theo- logians, ‘the woman on the ass, the s hoofs and yet | prophets; the' vagrants, etc., finally | the voice of the street is surely not a | made a triumphant entry at‘the ker- All the World Turned Out to Join in the sl b o i o' carlet who is quite as good as Lively Scenes in the Bois de Boulogne. i cccision, madim. & sosd 'vou Why the Californians Were Surprised. |mini i e il s | the wor By Genevieve Green. world which compr The rich and highly res donned her swellest gown and did not n to compete for admiring glances | i de | luxury of dec ration that cha z _the nameless lady of the floy he | the California festivals. Afte the | chariot—with her who wore onquet Californians have more of everything |in the top of her satin boot and left it | w. And Cleo d all the Pari s more than ou ab Special Paris Letter to The Sunday Call. HE - floral fete on-'the Bc Boulogne fs.the last event sen. - Then society | ihan any people that 1 have seen. I |carefully exposed to v : city dust -from its gometimes wonder if we are not a little | Mirode was there looking like a flower -befrillod petticoats and hies | vulgar in our profusion. | herself in a pale pink gown and away' to the country, leaving the big However that may be a Californian Eious hee.igea‘;“;fmi‘a“I;iruncelu town “desertcd” - e point of | €X s i She was very de re, this madonn old it hl 5 :‘;",’h f;‘f"l‘,,”_‘.‘,."“’”,rh' T R A Piace thanhedda at) Tae T and Guite nropariy. chinssone view of. the. high-bred Pavisian. The " ui) 4ye true Caltfornia spirit T went | They made me think of Juliet and the | very uncertain straw to show the di- | messe, Which had been installed on the ceaseless hum of. the unimportant mil- | ¢, "4ho Paris fete and at first ex- |nurse, she and her chaperon. Surely | rection of French prejudice. Place du Pantheon. Here was repro- lions ‘who. remain-does not alter the |perienced a sensation of disappoint- | Cleo must eventually be like Juliet, a| But one does not philosophize for | duced the drama of the “Mystery of desolation. nent. What I had expected I do not ‘\‘i(‘lim n{]h;{fi,‘:nr ;m other death »\‘Oulg | many continuous seconds at the fete; figa“’"' vcgmgrisn.g the Pexpgll.smnu?r iGselw sy ’ know, but the flowers seemed scarce to | be at a ng for one o rare. A | the spirit of the thing is to forget, am and Eve from Paradise, the Thote-who have witnessed the floral | 2%, JH o ecorations meager. My | wrinkle in her face would mean as |abandon ' Gneself fo' the en(‘hnrfier;er‘\}t) death of Abel, and finally a procession We experi- dences of this anti- ir't on the afternoon of the he taunts came festlvals in California I think are at|Cg)ifornja temperament asserted itseif | great a trageuy though hardly so ar- | of the hour. It is really an experience | Of prophets predicting the coming of first.4 pointed in the Paris fete. One | stubbornly and vigorously demanded | tistic as the dagger of Romeo. | in one’s life, this Parisian fete—it is re- | Christ. ~ Numerous devils and angels misses. the splendid profusion and the | “more.” | Yes, all the world was there—the rich | celving a smile and a flower from the | made the thing complete. ¢ THE DOGGED DOG AND THE DOG-GONE CURIOUS STUDIES | OF BRAIN PROCESSES Notzble Instances Where Men Went Through the World All Right With Only Part of Their Brains in Working Order. ITHOUT the connecting struc- | a good memory; his speech was free ture thers can be no exact co- | and easy; his intelligence was such as operative action of the double | :;;:}Pum expect to find in an ordinary ;"fia‘;:nce 1“(1“ 'sr:::vlez;tm;&? | In the ordinary working of the brain e dent e nab i deis one half is more active than the other, S e pus callos a )t | and exercises a superiority on its neigh- necessarily been attended with the ef- | bor lobe. This lobe—in ordinary per= fects which, on the theory of the sin- | sons the left, of course—is -the -cere- gle nature of the brain, we should have ‘ bral Ty ):g;”a;“:"fl“ expected. In instances in which it was N e comBIICE Ot discovered after death that the con- | aces, 'R short, Wwhich mold humian life 0 ) a at ti | —have tended, by some process of.phys- necting bridge between the hemispheres | iological selection, to place. one lobe was entirely wanting, neither derange- | over the other in point of importance. ment in intellect was observed, nor any | The other (right) lobe is .the servant other abnormality of life in the way | 9f the left in e e oy = | e 1 , an re- of movement or sensation. | quires the control of its better cultured Thus, in the notable case of Bichat, | neighbor in order that life may be con- one of the foremost anatomists of his | ducted int flhse"fible and sare f“hiiom 5% T 5 %t 'he mos: opeless cases of insanity, fn“;rkeé‘l‘; ‘::;]fe’r ht‘;a:rfi: ';‘::mf ‘"}‘;i | Wigan would have held, wouid be thosa | in which both bemisph 5 x was, in fact, deficient in one-haif of his | fectad. | I one was alone. alling. the brain, and yet his mental and physical | other might exert more or less control life was in its way notably of a high | over it, and the extent of the control order. In another case, reported by | ‘.\'ou!d'dcpend on which lobe exhibited Cruveilhier, a man died in the hospital “;‘:an’.“ti?a:?dm::gfi“anmfige ;gi‘;eimfi; at the age of 42 years from heart dis- | 4,5 o ‘accounted for on this suppo- ease. - He exhibited no lack of intelli- | gition of the relative control of one gence, yet after his death it was dis- | hemisphere by the other.. ' The perfect covered that his left brain was practi- | life is that in which the better and cally destroyed and replaced by a wat- | higher half controls the weaker -and by Andral, ;\'as of aman ;who- dled-At ness occasionally forms the subject of the age of 28. -He had suffered from | jega] deliberations. For'a man in’his a fall when three years old, and as a| second self may commit a crime " of result .'was paralyzed on his left side. | which he has no recollection whatever The right half of his brain had practi- | in his natural state. ~He is, in other cally disappear:d, so_that the parts be- | }‘;;cfifg:l'\ofi; 223 :“‘;3 t:eh?x i];\‘l;lgl .f(:'th?rs low this -hnlf cnnsufltuted the floor tlrr! a responsible citizen, and a respem.a: an empty space. Andral says of this| pje friend. Then, when he lapses, he man that he “had received a good edu- | becomes the Hyde of the romance real- cation, and had profited by it; he had!ized to the full 4 7 PPOPIVCVVPOPP900000000000P000P0CCOOPPPPPIVVPPVVC PPV OPVOVVPVOV0VVPCPPVVVIOVPVVOPVVPOOD ©VPOCOVV0900009PPVIVVVPVCVPVP0P0O00000000S ROCKET,