The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 13, 1899, Page 23

THE SUNDAY CALL 28 Home Without a Kitehen and Dinpper Prepared Without Use of a Stove, table in the with the sh on the many questions of is a natural food, as is v the fact that nature herself HAVE been out to dinner. Now to ly be ited out to pendently midadle ife. M b Japaeiail a supplies it for the use of the young of e both man and beast.” er. But to be nter of the table Mrs. Henshaw here passed me a plate fell to my £ mixed fruits of salad, which, being dressed only fon is of a ts and with pepper, salt and oil, T found myself Flanking side was a large unable to really enjoy. She also placed mmonplace, Platter « and on the other & generous slice of the cream cheese * 2 pitche <hape full of the Upon my plate, and gave me a heaping ucer of strawberries. I looked about a sugar-bowl, but was doomed to disappointment. “We mnever eat sugar,” sald Mrs. Henshaw, noticing my visual search among the dishes and speaking sweetly enough almost to make up for the miss- ing article. “Saccharine foods are quite as bad for the stomach as meats and starchy edibles. They all tend to create an unnatural appetite for liquids, milk. t of 1 host and t within 1 an ideal kitchen and walnuts, tes and glasses cutlery and forth of the locality 1 overheated h she not a I thought, that hostess, hov % S nds of a pecu- and are exciting rather than soothing o 11 v e band ot ng in their effect upon the et e for some o i < ! < dinners back. Beneral system.” and freshest “Jt was never intended that artificial e L heat should be applied to anything de- and so, upon my I signed to enter the stomach. The chem- fcal chang caused by such applica- “You look C- % oy ook L sk 8¢ tion render even fruits and grains unfit lar ubled to get & ‘com- for the purpose for which they were in- ach & day as this ‘¢ tended “I would not h e “Bananas are the most satisfying romised. It u for the hollow un- fruits of all,” declared Mrs. Henshaw, peel a large, fat one deftly as she spC nd apples are nex.; after them come all the others—pears, apricots, peaches, oranges, pomegranates and all kinds of berries and grapes. Then nuts martyrdom t such weatk A the oss the unto the Mam- hour, of it,”” was the— s and nys accompani- and omega of " nd while telling sa: compassion in truth ut know that my secretly craved the and meats and vege- of the ordinary un- g meal in this w eficer because y for eigh- Henshaw, d in this ed at years My host if I had ccuston said, with, I am to a far more ex- chewed accustome tensive range, but I a raisin Americans Versus Chinese Bupils Tn Our PUbIi¢ SChOCls Eirst to Present the Facts 1n the Qase- v C 3 g the facts Wong Bock Yue, at- itage than any other or color in the city. rage of any white stu- Robert Dougherty of the Mission Grammar through with 94 per cent, 1 was attained by just promoted ghth grade. Wong Bock gained as high a t Dougherty, the h grade of from 84 to 97, & In the fourth -idual percentage E ile no pupil ran In some of the white the pupils ran as low as entire grade averaged only Qan “One of it I everal s who a jolt white wheels g Bock Yue th s stand for an pupil in the lists.” school _ That ali s pretty hard on the higher des,” but we shall see later on blood will tell, and the little s “top_notch” aminer's state- nt to the contrary. bove quotations well {llustrate the - mind of the writer an icle. WONG HIGHER b OTHER RADE OR COLOR IN at his percentage was THAN ANY NY GF and th § HAISHT s<HOQ RECEIVED | NINETY-NINE- ' PER CENT ,* firmly and reflectively and sald nothing in dissent. It is, of course, delightful for a woman to be emancipated from the thralldom of a cook-stove. A house which contains no kitchen and never harbors within its walls the reek of steam, the cdor of fried onions or boiled caulifiower or burning fat or any other cooking-produced smell which wages aggressive warfare on sensitive nostrils, must be pre-eminently satisfactory in one way; but in another it certainly could never be to me. Mrs. Henshaw rejoices in the extra time which her freedom from the heaviest burden of housewifely care gives her. There is no storm of preparation raging about her exquisitely served repasts, and no deadly, monotonous calm of “clearing up” follows after them. Her regimen, she declares, gives her a clear mind in a sound body, and time to read and study and think. She stands shoulder to shoulder with her hushand as a bread-winner, and their marriage, which took place at gea and was a ro- mantic “love match” between a pretty native daughter of Santa Cruz and a man thirty-five ‘years her senior, has been a particularly happy one. Mr. Henshaw, who owns to 70, and has eaten only nuts and uncooked fruits and grains for over forty years, looks like an astonishingly well-pre- served and vigorous man of 50, and his pretty wife, who is really 85, looks like a girl in her twenties. I thought of this as I was wending my way restaurant-ward after parting from my kind and hospitable acquaint- ances, and for a moment hesitated. But hunger was strong within me. I touk my seat in my usual corner,and gazed unflinchingly at the hint of crow’s feet in the outside corners of my eyes. “I might look young at 70 if T ate only raw thing I reflected, “and have more time to improve my mind il but’—and here I shuddered—“I should be starving hungry every blessed min- ute of the time!” And then I ordered my dinner. CLARA DOUGLASS. \ \ 1 WEDDING (CF SPECIAL MR.-AND MRS.DOVIS AT THEIR PHOT1O FOR SUNDOY CALL Qap You Gugss the Exaet Time of the Prrival of the Califorpia Volunteers? IF SO YOU CAN WIN $50 AND ALSO HAVE THE HONOR OF DONATING $50 TO THE GENERAL FUND OF THE ENTERTAINMENT COMMITTEE. VERYBODY is on the tiptoe of expectancy as to the date of the arrival of the California vol- unteers. Can you guess the exact time, if not how near? To the person who guesses the near- est to the exact time (day, hour, minute and second) the Sunday Call will give §100, one-half of which ($50) goes to the lucky person to the general funds of the entertainment committee. The Merchants’ Exchange of this city will furnish the official record of the sighting of the transport, and from that record the decision will be made. The terms of the contest are: T guesser and the other half ($50) will be donated in the name of. that All guesses must be made on a coupon cut from the Daily or Sunday Call. Lo s Each person is allowed to fill out as many coupons as desired and they may be mailed each day or all together, at the pleasure of the guesser. ; No coupons will be received or entered into the contest that bear a posimark later than August 20. Fill out this coupon and mail to Coupon Editor Sunday Call. in the mirror beside me @ TATSASASA AT A A SASASH K L S0 e ASASK A @ % | GUESS THAT THE TRANSPORT SHERMAN WITH THE > - CALIFORNIA VOLUNTEERS WILL BE SIGHTED BY THE 7 TIMEKEEPER OF THE MERCHANTS' EXCHANGE AT : Hour...... Yinute......Second...... A Groom OF KEMONY i ythen sgain <IN THE FOURTH GRADE__(PRIMARY) AN INDIVID- UAL PERCENTAGE OF 9 WAS AT- TAINED.” In other words In {ts own story the Ex- aminer puts “'on; Bock Yue as the ‘“‘top- notch pupil” at 97 per cent, and then im- mediately makes a statement that an- other little Chinese boy had 99 per cent. G\\'HY WAS NOT THE FOURTH RADE BOY AT 9 PER CENT GIVEN ABOVE THE SEVENTH GRADE BOY, WHO ONLY RECEIVED NT? It further states: a daily attendance of about “There 87,000 pupils in the San Francisco public £chools. Wong Bock Yue has, approxi- . 36999 competitors. He holds a higher Tecord than any.” Wong Bock Yue could easily give the Examiner a little lesson in arithmetic. He could tell them that 97 is not as high & percentage as 9 and also that a class, he highest member of which had 97, could ardly be credited with making “a ‘school record of 100 per cent.” Miss Thayer, the principal of the Chi- nese school, upon being questioned ex- pressed the greatest regret that such an article had appeared, placing the Chinese boys in a false light and at the expense of the white children of the city. In speaking of the matter she said: “A YOUNG MAN CAME HERE FROM THE_EXAMINER D WISHED TO TAKE SOME PICTURES AND LOOK AT THE SCHOOL RECORDS. OF COURSH I COULD NOT ALLOW HIM TO DO EITHER AND REFERRED HIM TO THE PROPER AUTHORITIES. I DID TELL HIM THAT WONG BOCK YUE OF THE SEVENTH GRADE HAD MADE 97 PER CENT, BUT 1_ALSO TOLD HIM THAT TWO BOYS OF THE FOURTH GRADE HAD MADE 9 PER CENT EACH:L:!\)ND WHE¥ THE EXAM- INER SHOU. PICK OUT WONG BOCK YUE AS THE HIGHEST 1S BE- YOND MY COMPREHENSION. I TOLD HIM THAT IN THOSE TWO GRADES, THE FOURTH AND SEVENTH, NONE OF THE BOYS HAD FAILED OF PRO- MOTION, AND THAT IS POSSIbLY WHAT HE EXAMINER MEANT WHEN IT STATED THAT THEY HAD ‘MADE A SCHOOL RECORD OF 100 PER CENT,’ ALTHOUGH A STATE- MENT OF THAT KIND —REALLY MEANS SOMETHING ENTIRELY DIF- FERENT. FURTHER, THIS IS NOT AT ALL FAIR,” and Miss Thayer pointed out the following: For example, the Chinese are of a more ad- vanced age than the whites when they enter school. The American urchin takes his greasy little primer to the schoolroom when he s T. The Celestial aspirant for white knowledge is nurtured at home until he is old enough to know something before he is trusted to try his speed. He {8 about 12 when he ventures into the light. He has got ready to do a little thinking when properly invited. “] HAVE BOYS HERE 6 YEARS OLD. THE CHINESE ARE NOW BEING EN- ROLLED AT RELATIVELY THE SAME AGE OF WHITE CHILDREN.” he Chinese boys have done well under Thayer's able supervision and they deserve credit, but not to the detriment of the white childten. Now for the truth of the matter and the exact relative standing of Chinese and white school children as VERIFIED BY THE OFFICIAL RECORDS—dls- regarding the emanations of the fertile brain of a Sunday Examiner scribe. Robert Dnughcr(f’, who had 94 per cent, did not attain ‘‘the highest average of any white student,” for ALMA TADD OF THE SIXTH GRADE IN THE HAIGHT SCHOOL HAD 9 PER CENT, 5 per cent higher than Robert Dougherty and 2 per cent higher than Wong Bock Yu Wong Bock Yue had his average beaten in his own school’and by his own country:- men, for in the fourth grade Yim Dye Kee and Chan Bing Gay both had 9 per cent. Now with reference to the relative men- tality of the white children and the Chi- nese youngsters a_close comparison can be drawn by another glance at the offi~ cial records. In Wong Bock Yue's class there were but seven pupils and these had averages as follows: No. 1, 97: No. 2, 95; No. 3, 94; No. 4, %: No. 92; No. 6, 90; and No. 7, 84. Adding these averages together and D %ant/l...........Qa{o..... Wame..................... A0S .vvvvrerienn 2‘Q>4Q¥<>¥©¥@¥Q¥Q¥Q¥@¥Q—¥M‘QWMMQ¥ Ninety-One Years And a pride of Eighty=-5ix Sirst RAUthentic Pictures of the CQouple Ever Published, cee 3 ssce0ses0s0s0sssrveccsa ssvessssssssssssssans [ IS8 N AN s s E ANTA BARBARA, Aug. 10—Despits the fact that he 1s almost a cente- narian the Rev. David Davis of Summerland is & bridegroom, and last Sunday night the whole town gathered to rejoice with him and wish bim many additional years of lifs in which to enjoy his new-found happi- ness. At this reception, in addition to other guests, there were four generations of the families of the just married couple, the great-great-grandchild of Mr. Davis, re- cently born in Florida, being too young to take the journey across the continent, even with so laudable an object in view es offering congratulations in person to his aged relative. Mr. Davis has been for years a spirit- ualist lecturer, and befors entering that fzith was for a long time a clergyman in the Congregational Church. His im- promptu speech, delivered in response to the address of congratulation made By Rev. M. E. Taylor, who officiated at the wedding, convinced every one who heard it that he has lost little if any of the forensic fire with which he has electrified audiences since his early youth. Though lacking only nine years of the century mark Mr. Davis is still sprightly and is able to run up and down the hills surrourding Summeriand, on which ars the homes of his children and the children of his wife. He is over six feet tall and bears himself erect; his eyesight is good and his memory remarkable, taking him back even to the days before the war with England in 1812 and 1813. Lucy Elizabeth Crossup Bennett-Davis, the bride, is a native of Nova Scotia, where many of her family still reside. Beveral of her children are residents of Ban Francisco, where also live a num- ber of her grandchildren and great-grand- children. She carries her elghty-six years lightly and speaks with confidence of many more to come, as her father, she states, met an untimely death at the age of 109, being killed by a falling tree branch while he was at work in the ‘woods. This is her fourth voyage on the matrimonial sea. She was 50 vears old when her youngest daughter, Mrs. Kemp- ton, was married, and Mrs. Kempton is now a grandmother. These generations live In cottages clustered about that In which the newly married coupls will dwell and above these, on the same hill, is the home of George Davis, a son of the groom, whose roof shelters as many gen- erations of the Davis family. Recently a reunion of the Dav's family was held, at which there were present ninety-six de- scendants of the Rev. David Davis. Mrs. Davis posittvely knows of but twenty- three direct descendants, although she is certaln that her family is very large. The bride 18 owner of the cozy littls home in which the marriags took placo and here the couple will hereafter live. Mr. Davis draws a pension from the Gov- ernment for the death of a son In the Civil War and this, with other small means, makes them independent of thelr many offspring. FRED T. DUEN. Wife’s House, Where Marrlage Occurred, and Where They Will Reside. dividing by 7 gives & class average of 92 2-7 per cent. Tadd's class at the Haight Mary A. Haswell principal 9 H , 97 3 No. 4, 97 7 1-5; No. 6, 97 1-5; and No. 17, 97; gives an average for the first seven in the class of 97 4-7 per cent, or 5 2-7 PER CENT HIGHER THAN THE CELES TIALS. In other words, the first seven of the Haight School class did as_well as and even better than Wong Bock Yue. OZENS AND DOZENS OF WHITE CHILDREN DID AS WELL AS ROB- ERT DOUGHERTY OF THE MISSION SCHOOL, WHOM THE EXAMINER EX- PLOITED AS THE HIGHEST WHITE CHILD; AND A GR ' MANY RE- CEIVED OVER 97 PER CENT. In the Chinese seventh grade there, are only seven pupils and all of the seven were promoted; but it hardly fair to credit such a small class with a ‘“school record of 100 per cent” when the whits classes are so much larger. Alma Tadd’'s class ccmprised forty-six and of that number only one failed in the examination for promotion and three were held on ac- count of absence through s ness or oth- er causes. So our boys and girls are not nearly so stupid as the Examiner would have the world think.