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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 23, 1899. E promise er Lent” and of ‘‘gayer times s fafled of fulfill- | f much impor- | 1 | ent few far between, | e most agreeable happening of week seems to have been the | agement of M geon John Evel hich has given rise to | nplimentary sayings. | The prospect for the coming week not muc eerful, at least not for evening partles, this sort scheduled re party to be given by n Kohl on Thursda Mrs. Newhall and Mrs. E. o give next Friday are the ments made. | s 1 Indeed, t Mrs Williz which Hunce g the honors | wrest th atter of en- and Mrs, Belle Mhoon Miss Jessle Glas- Alexander Cun- pl ne Stock: the a very quiet The following item, wt eared in paper, will of interest to nesday at Co- thel Rodgers, W. Rod- ty. Miss e handsomest of 1 belonging as fes of Colum- r Hobart of ushers at the 4 ter-in-law honor, and the d Miss Pepper i [ e S e g e S o e g O PEROSI, the young | er, e Wagner of as one of his en- | b called nsation of the n, , like its a tremendous t all musical remark- the e being at le s fellow s of the new n pub efore it of hearing any oratorios given in full, nd orchestra, as demand $5000 for \ no manager has t to pay Perosi's striking person- ter of his work as ex- torio, and of the res In its audiences 2 recent article by a of the London Daily nted ones have had those who walited for Pe- > seen him face to face, writes graph correspondent. The extra nces of “La Risurrezione _dif have proved no way superflus o r A throng jus before seized upon the av almost 00n as their issue was an- | nounc i Yesterday afternoon the fronting the anclent Church of ‘ brose might h * been the popular playhouse, so e: [ e R e 1pprod y were its | M IS8 FLORENCE HUNTLEY, in her book upon “Harmonics of Evolu- tion,” has essayed to place perfect riage upon & mathematlical b She used Robert G. Ingersoll as an example, rating him as “a man whose life I8 lived largely upon the physical plane, with etrong appetites and pas- slons.” Bhe says that the average woman is “a medium’ physical organiza- tion, an average psychical development and a strong and sensitive spiritual or- | may be as well to say something of the of Kentucky and Miss Anita Dibblee of San Francisco.” Mr. and Mrs. Dibblee will make their home with Mr. Dibblee’s mother in Ross Valley. t of honor ast Thurs- Crocker. rated and ut_the at table the host of honor were am H William G. Irw Clinton Frederick W. , Henry tt, E. W. Hopl T. S. Bullock, W, Mayvo Newhall,* W . Hobart, Rus- sell J. Wilson, Cha y R. Winslow Henry Veave, J. W. Byrne, Jos Crockett, Robert K. Nuttall and William F. Herrin, James M. Goewey d umber of end ¢_evening. The ta 1d yellow. Mr. and Mrs. elight- fully : Fillmore, Miss Dillon M. J Magee, . King, W. and Frederick . James D. Whitney gave an enjoy. luncheon recently m at the Palace Hot 1 for eighteen ladi s of pink and ¢ lesign. in an J. Downey Harvey arty at her reside last Thursday. F s played and tne prize ome or and Mrs. Frank A. Vail ed from a two weeks' visit s and Cc hand Majc tur Los An- rrester of Los Angeles is ing_her paren . and Mrs. J. rthy at their home in_Oakland. nd Mrs. C. August S Tew ¥ ted home 500 Judge and Mrs. W. C. Van Fleet sailed New York last Wednesday for yuthampt Mrs. wife of Rear Ad- miral accompanied by M G came up from California last’ we a K, her in this city or ters Charles Holbrook and M brook are making a brief v Robles. W. B. Harrington left recently for where Barbara, she will make a “of Mrs. e in San R: fae! 1. n Terry, wife of Captai . of the Towa, and Miss Terry arrived from Washingt )5 G during the week and are stopping at the Palace Hotel. Mr. a1 0 and Mrs. Willlam S. Tucker (nee P | Kellogg of TS| | Whittier) will leave next week for Geor- | gla, where they will visit at the home of | Mr. Tucker's parents. | Mrs. Willlam S. \Whitwell left last week extended Bastern trip. M M. Masten , Ariz. Joseph léft for Burope yes- Al‘ months. A, angerm terday to be gon Lando and daughter will leave iursday for a trip to Portland, Or. ind Mrs. i A. Comte Jr. will leave on their country home, Rose Cot- e, San Mateo. in_Goldsmith leaves to-day ton, W. Va., on a visit to rela- M T W. Cs | and maid are in n and her son Louls n Jose for a few days. s e » fifth anniversary of the organiza- | tion of Company A, L. C. C., was cele- d in_Goldén Gate Hall on Frida 'll'h“ entertainment and ball was tended. fifty-fourth meeting of the Fort- y and musical lay evening Donnelly at g were present: » Mr. and Mr: W. H. Palme: and Mrs. D. F. Walker, Mr. and Mr: 4 Mr. and_Mrs. W. F Donnelly, 0 :, Mr. and Mrs, J. F. Biven, Mr. Mr. and Mrs. C. Miss Dakin, Rev. George n, A. Smith, Mr. Pal- rkbride, Walter Joh kie, Alexander Dickie, C D. Read and F. Dickle. 1 Dic oW residence, 2304 Post stree v evening, April 19. the con: parties being Miss Helen Wrig- ey and Milton J. Tompk Rev. M. W. Jifitems Of r1he Wast wnrsuan Church performed the ceremony. The ended by her_ sister, Mi mald of honor, and Joseph Vent officiated as best man.” The | bride was elegantly attired in a_dress of { white organdie over white satin. The | groom is the proprietor of stal gs Ranch dairy and son of J. Tomp- capitalist. The bridesmald was : red in > organdie with blue satin ribbons and wore a corsage bouquet of choice 1 The mother of the bride wore handsome black silk _crepon ned with white appliqued chiffon and gles: ornaments dlamonds. Mr. and Tompkins took the morning train r Del Monte, where they will remain a before making a_tour of this State a. They will return in a few ir new home on Post street, f the groom’s father, and wili home Thursdays. Among those ding were: 3 . L. Wrigley, Miss Hattle Wrigley, Mr. and Mrs. J. Tompkins, Mil- n J. Tompkins, George and Clafence Tompkins, the Misses Mamie and Evelyn Tompkins, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Vent, at be pre M ent at the we gads New Excited Audience Crowds the Church of St. Ambrose, Milan, to Hear the Latest Oratorio of the Young ‘“Wagner of Church Music.” precincts invaded by Nor, I am bound to was lost in the interfor of the basill The audience—for can scribe the gathering as a_congre; surged and murmured in the side chapels like a stormy political meeting. ca. This outburst was at last merged in the applause that greeted the young priest mounted the ros- mposer as he trum set for him beyond the high altar and its C\Irflh’l. Of the choristers and in- strumentalists one saw scarcely anything, for nearly all were screened from view by the arrangement of the orchestra. But the figure of Lorenzo Perosi in black cas- sock could be looked upon by all, framed in the columns of porphyry the altar's glided canopy. Here stoad the voung priest, baton in hand, with his musicians massed round him in the choir of the church, and behind him a gather- ing of listeners filling cven the remote | corners of the furthermost chapel But before speaking of impr formed at performance yesterday's it composer who made swiftly to the heart of the tion. Lorenzo Perosl i1s 26 y. his way Ttalian from his earliest years. More fortunate than Handel and ofher composers, whose genius had to rige superior to their youthful surroundings, Perosl sprang from a family in which a musical ed tion was a_matter of course, His lessons he received from his fathe was himself an organist of some apt a pupll did youn Lorenzo show himself, and so quickly did he win juve- nile distinction as pianist, organist ang gantsm.” You represent all kinds of people by triangles, thus: MN is the physical eide of man, MA his spiritual side and NA the psychical, and the three sides of the triangle are of varying thickness. Of course, the perfect man or woman would be an equilateral triangle, like No. 1; but there's no use looking for such a person. The primitive man (figure 3) has a physical nature developed at the expense of his finer qualities. Figure 4 might be that’ support | t he was sent to the Instl- composer, , at Rome. Here fur- tute of St ther tuition him, and at Ratisbon als which led him alway: church and its musi ted to a fessorship at. the Tvatory of , but inclination led him to Venice, ¢, confirming vows he had already taken, he assumed the ecclesfastical habit. At Venice the priest-composer found himself amid surroundings that brought him_constant flow of music from re and more rapi a num- ber of and other church came to be added the t won the young musi- reputation outside his’own imme- ircle. Peros! conceived the idea of ating in twelve of these works the pel narratives of Christ’s life on earth. In quick succession four of these oratorios d; indeed, if I am not elvemonth has given 3 Passione di Cristo” _a Transfigurazione di_Cri ved by *“La Risur- while the latest of urrezione di Cristo,"” to which Milan has just been listening, These are the works by which, thus far, we have to plumb the depths of Perosi’s genius; these are the compositions which | are fast pouring the riches of the world th: C o he continued to contem- As quite pen ame m: time went on, to , Mo wrong, | birth to all succeeded into the young priesi's lap, and which have so far won himr the Pope's pat- ronage and good will that he stands y. | to-day Maestro di Capella at the Sistine Chapel. Perosi, I am told, accepts his J 700« fortune in a calm and modest spirit. n person he answers to a type not un- -6 N . 7. o, “an Indian chief who rules in council,” strong physically and mentally. Figure 5 1s an Indian squaw who works bead moceasins. Figure 6 is Colonel Ingersoll. Figure 7 is George 1V of England, weak, foolisi and sensual; weak but luxurious. Figure 8 is the woman type. Figure 9 is the sensitive philanthropist who dies of overwork, and figure 10 represents the man like Emerson, who has a strong spiritual and - psychical nature firmly posed upon a slender physical base. Now, of course, there is an infinite varlety of shapes of triangles possible encouragement fell to | Fred Roettger, Miss Carrie Trinkett, Mr. and Mrs. L. Larson, Mr. and Mrs. C. Ramburg, Mr. and Mrs. C. Solomonson, Mr. and Mrs. F. Backe, Frank Backe Jr., Mrs. Ada Backe, the Misses Julla and Katie Backe, Mr. and Mrs. Crogan, Mr. and Mrs. J. Morrison, Mr. and Mrs. A, Pollak. Mr. and Mrs. Vent, Mrs. Ander- son, Miss Dollie And on, Miss Nellie McDermott, Mrs. Carventer, Oscar Stein- back, Mrs. M. Sauer, Miss Annie Sauer, E. Servean, the Misses Florence and Nel lie Rooney, Miss Gerile Pollak, Miss Eve- AUKEGAN, IIL, April 5.—There fs in this city, which is -a thriving port situated on the west side of Lake Michigan, thirty-five miles north of Chi- o, one of the most singular clubs that to the notice of the reading pub- Mc for some time. It is the ‘Waukegan Bachelors' Club, recently brought into prominence by the singular experience of | its first president, Dr. W. W. Pearce, now | Mayor of this city. Some years ago Dr. | Pearce offered a prize of $50 to the mem- | ber of the club who should first become | the father of twins. The prize was won | by Dr. Pearce himself, and this queer in- stance of a man- winning his own prize, | together with the novel nature of the cag has come competition, has called general attention | to an organization that is one of | most unique in existence. | The Waukegan Bachelors’ Club was in- the corporated under the laws of Illinois, Au- gust 18, 1591, The incorporators of t.e | club were: Dr. W. W. Pearce, J. A. Car- man, A. Lloyd Logan and J. 8. Shute. It is an organization of men banded together for social fellowship and enjoyment. Con- trary to the inference derived from the name, all members of the club are not | bachelors. Originally they were, how- ever, for bachelorhood is a first requisite for membership. The right to marry is glven to the members by spectal election, one being chosen every year, whether it may be.his own desire to enter the realms of matrimonial bliss or not. There were seventeen charter members, and none but those elected to do so has ever broken | the solemn and fraternal vow of single blessedness. The club is composed of the best pro- fessional and business young men of the city, the limitation of membership totwen- ty-five belng the only disagreeable feature in the minds of the youns men who long- ingly desire to become “Bachelors.” To have provided by the constitution that members should never marry would have been to attempt the impossible. So, in or- S| der that the salt in the club life might re was a pretty wedding at Mrs. C. | not lose its savor, with each succeeding vear it was decreed that one member hould be elected to make some woman happy or miserable, as the outcome might “Cupidian vews do not destray the love each one has for his alma mater, and at the club he is as much of a bachelor | as his unmarried brethren. | | The annual meeting of the club Is its | red-letter day. Great anxiety over the | election is manifested in the city as well | as in the club, for on that day the fate of some bachelor must be settled. During | the supreme meeting the balloting is al- ways a solemn affair. Occasionally sharp | politics are brought into play and votes | are bunched for a particular man, but | oftener the vote is scattering, and after | the ballots are counted some unsuspecting man discovers himself suddenly thrust into a sphere of matrimenial necessity. | With him it is a case of tie up or lose the claim to bachelorhood—a paradoxical sit- uation. The end of an election is always the | time for an elaborate celebration. The vic- tim—for many of them take the mandate in the spirit of one victimized—is ban- D e S S e e o et CRS SR S SR S = ] PRIEST-COMPOSER PEROSI Popular Idol of Music Loving Italy. common among the Ttalian priesthood. He has a clear and benignant eye, hair that curls upward from the forehead, and a downward twist to. the corners of his mouth that would seem to betoken a de- termined if not an obstinate spirit. are, the characteristics of the absence of set and airs, and the preponder- ance of irregular phrases, either fluent or | dec designed to enforce the meaning and sentiment of the words de- | livered by the soloists. Sometimes these | are supported for awhile by a consistent | instrumental figure; sometimes the ac- | companiment is more undecided in shape; | Bometimes it verges on the amorphous, | The works are divided into parts, and len(‘h part shows an abundance of sections | which, aithough “full close are fre- quent, are intended to follow one another without a break. The choruses, many of | which have a Gregorian foundation, give ‘ the works their chief grandeur, and must needs be most moving in performance. | I have said that Perosi has not resisted | modern _influences, and the most super- ficlal examination of his music will estab- | lish this fact. With a show of severe | countergolnl he mingles dissonances, some | of which are too harsh to be even touched | upon a pianoforte and call for all the | softening that strings can give them. In | the freedom of his wanderings from key to kev, too, he follows his operatic com- | patriots. The new oratorio is orchestrated with none of the lavish color to which youn; Italy is addicted. Perosi chooses lnstoag a sober and dignified manner, which be- cu{{;;‘s his fi'nu[slr well. hat will Lorenzo Perosi do with his victory? Will he remain the priest-com- poser, or will the day come when we shall speak of him as the composer priest? Wil] his church or his art hold him the faster? | Thus far the church has the mastery. Perosi has taken his triumph with Decor: ing modesty, and he remains firmly sot in his Intention to devote his gifts to the sole service of his Creator. That he may con- tinue in this spirit will be the desire of all who hear and consider his music. ¢-9-oo e e e ot S S S A Y e S e e e e S SECEY SECRD S S AR DA S New Theory of Ideal Marriage. B T e upon the same base, not to speak of the big and little triangles which represent big and little natures. Now as to marriage. In Mrs. Huntley's conception each_ side of the triangle is a fiddle-string. If the man's psychical, Eh_\'u(cal and spiritual sides twang in armony with those of a woman they may safely marry. Unison is as unneces- sary as it i{s impossible. All this is more or less intelligible, but when reduced to practice it means that husband and wife should be so constituted as to “get along well together.” lyn Peterson, Miss L. Nelson, Miss " Gouailhardon, Miss B. Gouallhardon, Miss Alice Garson, B. Eckland, Willilam W. Broderick, Miss L. Broderick, Miss C. Katherine, William Vent, 8ol Sanders, William Campbell, Charles Childs, Rev. M. W. Willlams, Fay Morrell, Henry and Dave Wempy, Mrs. Burns, George M. Kelly. The Monteford Club will be given a benefit performance by its members next Thursd evening at Golden Gate Hall. The evening’s entertainment will cons of a minstrel show, followed by a danc The first reception of the De Koven Club will_be held at Mission Opera Hall on Thursday, April 27. An _assembly and german will be given on Friday evening, the 28th, at Golden Gate Hall by the Lockwood Cotillion Club. A very interesting programme has been arranged. The Germania Club will hold its twenty-sixth annual excursion and picnic at Mirabel Park, on Russian River, Sun- day, April 30. Excursion will leave T buron ferry, foot of Market street, at $:45 a. m. committee of arrangements are: A. Vogler,. chairma H. Muller, treasurer, }mg H. D. Ascher, secretary. Following are the arrivals at Highland Springs for the past week: Charles Jor- dan, Red Bluff; H. C. Ingram and wife, Trvington; 'W. H. Hilllard and wife.JNEw ;W .a Y or’ i Welcker, Berkeley B Rosie, Santa Rosa; Mr. and' Mrs. W, | Brewster, Valentine; Norman Selby and | wife and J. A. Delahay, New York; R. G. | Fitzgibbon, Toronto; Ed P. Fish, H. S. M. Matthews, D. Van Iderstine, H. M. Lewis and W. M. Gridley and wife, San Francisco. [ e o e s St e S aam s oy SRORS SECES SRCEe o SOh e s e e o ) QUEEREST BACHELORS (LUB queted and made the hero of the hour. Thus far all who have been elected to renounce a life of single blessedness have succeeded before their year ran out in convincing local or distant belles that they are among the handsomest and best of men. Members who have been elected to matrimony are: J. P. Hulll, W. E. Warden, T. H. Durst, Dr. G. H. Slyfield, C. E. Shultis, Dr. Percival Pearce, Dr. W. ‘W. Pearce, W. I. Lyon and E. P. Bidin- ger. Several years ago Dr. W. W. Pearce was the choice of the club. Soon after election day he made a trip to Boston and brought home the intellectual bride, who recently presented him with twins. The occurrence was doubly interesting, inas- much as the Mayor won his own medal, which he says he will always be proud to wear. The Mayor's brother, Dr. Percival Pearce, was elected to be married in 1895. The summer had scarcely passed when he led to the altar Miss Jessle Cooke, daughter of Homer Cooke, one of Chi- cago’s leading attorneys. He met the young lady while rusticating at the club's summer retreat at Third Lake, in his own county. Last year R. F. Bidinger, a leading shoe dealer of the city, and Town- ship Assessor, was the chosen one of the club, and he was married before the end of the year. Another election In recent years was Willlag 1. Lyon, who found a lovely bride in Poughkeepsle, N. Y. He is a son of Hon. G. R. Lyon, a leading member of the Illinois Legislature. No club is more patriotic than the Bach- elors’, the patriotic spirit of every member ws aroused to the highest pitch. Most of them were prosperous men with busine: on hand that they could not leave, yet all recognized the fact that they should be represented in the conflict for Cuban freedom. Accordingly the ballot box was resorted to and a representative was elected to serve in the ranks of the United States army. W. C. Parker was the choice. He joined the Illinois Calvary, Troop M. The present officers of the Bachelors’ thur Smith, vice president; Theodore Durst. secretary and treasurer: Dr. Por. cival Pearce, chaplain. The headquarters of the club Is at Third Lake, in Lake County, Illinois, where their summer houses and beautiful grounds are situated. The Old Maid is their famous sailboat, known as the champlon all over the string of lakes in that vicinity. No organization ever contained a more sociable lot of people, and when ladies’ day at the clubhouse comes around every vear the climax of the pleasure season is reached. Four degrees are conferred on members by the bachelors, as follows: Junior Bachelor, Senior Bachelor, Married Bachelor and Most Reverend Bachelor, The last is conferred only once In seven years and on the chaplain alone. It is to be hoped that some way will be found of perpetuating the organization, but with the compulsory marriage rule in operation the name will necessarily have to be changed some day to the an- omalous one of Married Bachelors' Club. OO0V P0PPPPOIOCLOIIOD The Sunday Call, 82 pages, delivered at your home by mail for $1 50 a year. Subscribe for it. 9000000 @ * i 4 @ @ ® > @ VOO POO00OOOOOOGOGLS I | ‘When war broke out with Spalni Club are: Cyrus Blodgett, president; Ar- | T J. The following Californians are among the cabin passemgers on the Hamburg American liner Graf Waldersee, which sailed from New York Saturd inst., for Hamburg: . Schoemann Roeding, Mrs, M. D. Cohn, Mi. John Nelson, Andrew Full, Mr: Mr: ty-first street, Among tho Miss Eva W elmann, Har: ma Anderton, Robert tie Katz, Bertie Katz, lie Nicol, Miss Lizzie_Nicol, Lucy Tillie, Charlie Tillie, John Smith, Harry Smith. Miss Lillie Jansen. Otto Anderson, Miss Marion Woolford, Mi ggie Spar- v, Miss Gertie Sparrow, Wlllie Gri Evelyn Mars, Fritz Bauer, M = Bauer, Miss Josie Brown, W Wright, Harry Wright, Mr. and M Banks, Miss Ada Edwards, Mrs. Hen Winckelmann, J. Ayers, Miss M. Rice, A. B. Tait, Mrs, Darling, J. Mulligan and Mr. and’ Mrs. George W. Wright. he Nocturnes gave an “at-lome” on Friday evening at Cochran-McNear Hall in San Rafael. The fol present: _The Misses Alice Harrison, Miss Kinsel nette 1. Prescott, the d M. Richard Marie Doll: Misses W fam Scott, L. Seibel, Walker, Koch, Melville De Hayden, V 2! h on, E. . Dub ¥ Her: Walker, Rudolph Licl and T. Barr. Mr, and Mrs. a number of their friends with music their home, 109 J. M. Semeria entertained at day evening. The following were pres- ent: Mrs. R. Grimmon, Mrs. A. Young, Mrs. C. Semeria, Mrs. J. M. Semeria, Mrs. D. Hereford, Miss Spence Miss > iss K. Tranganee, F. Worth, C. Rickardson, 8 Goode, Miss C, Genazzi, Miss Carrie Gen- azzi, H. Medley, Dr. Hereford, W. Wright, W. Van Brunt, A. Medley, R. Foster, C. A. Howland, B. Schmidt, W. Manning Jr., C. Kuss, E. Wise, P. Gor- don, J. Newman. E. Lampe, G. Johnson, E. Copeland, C. Penthony, F. Wahlen, W. Ramiry, E. Lyons, J. M. Semeria and W. A. Genes; General and Mrs. W. E. Scott gave a very enjoyable dinner party on Wednes- day evening, April 12, at the Hotel Mira- mar. The party consisted of General and Mrs. W. E. Scott, Mr. and Mrs. H. Hoff- | man, Dr. M. Wilson, Mrs. W. Phaff, Mr. and Mrs. E. Hoffman, J. Jackson, Mrs. E. H. Tylor and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hoffman. Mr. and Mrs. M. Greenblatt celebrated their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary Saturday, April 15. The announcement has just been made of the wedding of Robert L. Harrington, the popular representative of Caley & Ro- der, and M Bertha Simon, daughter of Joseph Simon, wholesale crocke dealer. The ceremony was performed March 17, but has been kept secret for fear of pa- rental displeasure, the contracting parties being of different religious beliefs. This obstacle to happiness having been over come the young people will start south to-morrow_on a_wedding trip. -Mr. and Mrs. Landry C. Babin announce the engagement of their daughter, Marie Babin, to Frederick T. Martens of San Francisco. The engagement reception of Miss Etta , the 22d | # Union street, last Thurs- | Lewis will be held A Al chael and Aaron 3t 1598 O'Farrell Iy t ay from 2 to 5 p. is announced of H. W. 0 ¢ ment R Carash of Oak- Leveridge and Miss is announced of Dr. Francisco, well engagement r Reeve Bryant of San f the late Dr. B. Bryant, the n pioneer physician, s take will Trinity Church, San » ‘wedding K {ate E. Lucy and 15 Mr After the ceremony San Jose. . 10, D. of P., will o party at Laurel 1120 Chu the couple w Alfarata Cou give apron and ne hiels building, ¥ . Moore a reception el Belveder ¥ ty « . will take evening, JMay 2, at Sara- T toga Hall. Bay City Circle No. 11, Companions of the Forest of America, will give a cake- h of April at Social Hall, walk Hart, who for the past been visiting friends and s in Los Angeles, returned Mon- and will be at home Tuesdays at 108 All street. 1ss Kate O'Leary, who has heen the guest of her sister, Mrs, Maurice Long, at 2 8 street, will leave for her he ester, Mass., this evening. E ; Sloan, accompanied by her niece, Miss Te . Shine, has gone to Red Bluff to her daughter, Mrs. Jud Boyd. Dr. and Mrs. Samuel Parsons Tugrle | bave moved to the northwest corner of age street and Central avenue to re- side with Major and Mrs. W. O. Gould. Mrs. Max Abrams of 1238 Jackson street will discontinue her evenings at home during the summer month: Mr. and Mrs. C roth, accom- | panied by their daughters, Miss Alice and M lorence h, are spending a few weeks in Southern California. Mrs. Isidore Myers will be at home. the first and third Her sister, Miss with her. s of sen, the month, uesda Jacof will receive Mrs. Alfred Cohen and Miss Millle Kat- zenstein will be at home the first Tues- O’Farrell day ((;l every month at 1418 et ollowing 1s the list of arri raiso Springs during_the Field, Montere: A. Strecker B. Spreckels, John Har Robert Effc Delaney, D. A. Quin T. Romie, Frijoles, New p Dernange and chi Soledad: Mis: Perrault, Edwin Kincaid, Mrs, S. J. Per- rault, Mrs. Georgia ; ;. Sawers, H. D, Fraser, F. A. Marriott, J. Coughlan and J. Perrault, M. D., San Francisco. The following passengers salled on the 6 Grace steamship Marip last Wed or Honolulu—Mrs. M. C. Aldrich, Mi Aldrich, George C. Alferifz and wife, T. H. Benton, D. M. Crouse, Mrs. B. M. Deemer, J, H. H. Holmes, J. T. Irv B. Koeppe and wife, H. wife, Miss M. Morrison Smith, M. . Parkhurst; wife and two children two_children, Miss M v ans, H. Francis, Mrs. 1ne, W. A. Kinney, B. Martin_and M. Mott- Raas, | T. Rvan, | daughter, William W Win- | ter and two children, A. B. 3 | Apta—Lieutenant J. H. Hetherington, Lieutenant W. S. Hughes, Lieutenant W. H. Scheultze, Ensign Frank H. Schofield, | Dr. W. H. Solf and_servant, Surgeon Thomas H. Streets. For Sydney—R. B. | Hogue, H. N. Paige and J. W. Winton. LR o S o e OB O R Ol SISV Y Popufar NovelisEs Who - Write Against Fleeting Time LTHOUGH no English writer can rival in productiveness the late Mr. Halsey, the sensational nov- elist of America, who left be- hind him no fewer than six hun- dred novels and made light of completing a novel of 100,000 words within a week, says a contributor to Tit Bits, we have| many writers of fiction who haveachieved marvelous records as writers. The average English novelist is confent to produce one novel a year, a feat which cannot be desplsed when we consider that the average novel contains from one hun- dred and fifty to two hundred thousand words, and that merely to copy it would represent a month’s hard work, writing five or six hours a d Several of our novelists, however, have produced three, four, and even five of these novels in a | single year; three have a joint life record of 230 novels; and at least two have aver- aged two and a half novels for every year | of their writing life. In the newest school of writers S. R. Crockett, the author of “The Stickit Min- | ister,’ takes the palm for fecundity in numbers, if not in volume of his novels. His first novel, the famous ‘‘Stickit Min- ister,” was produced as recently as 1893; but its success was such a stimulus to Mr. Crockett's industry that 1894 saw four of its successors, and in six thor has written and produced teen novels, or almost as many as Mr. Black- more has produced in thirty-five years. Mr. Barrie is content with a much slow- er rate of production. He began well by publishing four novels in his first two | years, but, singularly enough, his first really successful novel, “The Little Min- ister,” seems to have given a check to his industry as a writer of fiction, for in all the interevening seven years only two of Mr. Barrie's novels have seen the light, “Tan Maclaren,” like Mr. Barrie, is con- tent to go slowly and to produce one book a year; quite enough, by the way, for ears its au- | | thorough and consclentious work. Last vear he produced twe books, hut one was { merely a collection of short stories. Among other leading writers of fiction | who have averaged more than one vol- | ume a 3 is Mr. Jerome, whose record | 1s sixteen novels in eleven years. Stanley Weyman, one of the most painstaking of all our novelists, has published eleven novels in his nine years of writing, but | he never attempted fiction until he was 3 | and had lost the first fervor of vout Frankfort Moore has publi novels in twenty-four Macquold ~ fifty-seven in thirty-seven years. | George Gissing is responsible for seven- teen books in fifteen years, and Rider Haggard wrote twenty-one novels in seventeen years, four of which were pub- lished in 1888, In recent years the seduc- | tions of country life have been stealin over him and sapping his literary energy. | Between 189 and 1393 he seems to have given the world nothing in book form from his pen. Among the “laggards in literature” the chief is perhaps Olive Schreiner, whose average rate of production is one book |in five years. Indeed, for very many vears | it seemed likely that her first brilliant | venture, “The Story of an African Farm,” would never have a successor. George Meredith has produced | little ‘ more than one book in every two years of his writing life Mrs. Humphry Ward has been content with seven books in eighteen ‘yn:\rs, Mr. Hardy has produced eighteen ;nu\('ls in thirty-four years, or a rough average of two years for each book, and Mr. Blackmore's record is very similar, with sixteen novels in more than twice as as many years. Of our older writers Mr. Henry takes the palm for industry, with a record of over one hundred books, and 1s followed by Miss Braddon, with fifty-seven novels in thirty-eight years. .+WWHWWW*‘®+@W*MWWQ+@4MW. ather Perosi Directing His New Oratorio in St. Ambrose’s Church, Milan,

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