The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 1, 1899, Page 23

THE SUNDAY CALL. 23 ' Pen Picture of Miss Crocker as JShe Js at jiome. me that Jennte baby, of probable sprangly rubber cork one day and in the wake 2lth Is such a ng to little peo- fi NE of the loveliest girls who has ever 1886, when Jennie see little pic- te of a girl red Crocker have ways of Ler eld- the days of her was her was fair-haired ir has turned far darker but the resemblance has al- remembers ction to so- turned & up on the er stand- the great ; knows. npt and bewitching a ruffly little white bbons that fluttered, picture in the in those has de- wit that she quick to-day sprite h d stately bru- Cat Declines ? the big universities in & s of one be and stopped the r 1 subseque: he remarkable | cat, asked e e anim, 1 g Miss Mary Crocker. REGULAR Tl Ol The work is ce; has also its humor Wad some pow To see oursels as Need no longer be the wal mist, for the power is cunning guise of the est reach of and tree ar may be taken tdentity, but the matter. The accompanying art exhibit s One Girl"—belleve it or not, ou please A class in Pacific Heights ol having done some particularly satisfacto work, was rewarded with an oppc to try its talent more amb model turned her back upon workers and in twenty mint fifty earnest es became by beruffied, perfectly symmetrical Ilittle she does not wear a silk hat! What of that Imsagination—that is precious and must not be crushed; the =" 7% A PAINT BRUSHES Pl HoE O INSTRUCTION. If you are proud of y W not w usurping a good share of the time or three R's, and the salt of the rising gen- known that, with the more progressive, he brush has superseded the pencil (the hinese brush that our Celestial cousin leaf expression. To empty a well at a sitting ity 1s no trick at all. *Fill the brush inkfull’* Tho 18 the law of the silhouette. Not all of it reaches its destination—some of it falls the way and s a population. She is a dainty, fluffy, mamma in artistic splashes. All from well to paper are not equally dis- maiden with her hair {n two braids, and astrous. There are Jekyll days and Hyde days, and it may come to pass that on one of the former Mary and John owe “seeing of each other a grudge, and pay it when the Are Twelve Silhouettes Drawn From the Model 7 5 &0 = Iy LS/ g \V- GIVEN . A IN 2 brutal shy at and you will be speedil “We know what we t we may b s of Young America. can be learned by varlous ry, art is rushing in Inky torrents h the department. It is violent ' (come) In the ered by the fogy necessary for the n_ will no doubt be earned aspir- If mamma wonders why Mary and are more dauby than usual, be it for a pen. Patronize white labor. !) and that ink is the medium of carried home to trips THE MODEL. Receives her Esiate of Four Million ‘Dq&rs. abroad in a Parisian school of education has been a t family contention, for Mrs. E: advanced in her id cation, and she very strongly. strongly the other way, ar that her school day Tacitus and soon to return to the solemnity of the hout gives the lie to its and not the least of g visitor. The er jollier green 1 the marbles are the great mirrors she will never so SR S plere . ‘rfvthgf m;‘l‘(;:( Tine Op away to in the t Mrs. Alexan- Miss Crocker to son, but the yman {s so- ing in the rs. Mills will ywever, for the eid is not Aunt being only the cousin but she is the same as n's child receives Miss Crocker rather slender girl with ous at first at closer ac- h fornia is largel home in Burlingame one of her San F Miss Scott’ fairness agalnst Miss Cr Southernmess. Miss Genevieve King, a Smith College girl, is another of the little circle many are the visits e her and Miss Crocker. not a whit for th dtriends, but cho Bhe has known t. York and Washingtor Mrs, Reid has introduced have admired and loved her. The dearest of all her comrades died e In reali rs. Crocker, cker’'s greater eamy. y gn of cleverness. Her mouth She is more striking s unusually bright sition is sunny and ons are pronounced and ply and beautifully, with ve er own for color and form. 0- Her hair {s worn in the heavy, forward 1 that Ethel Barrymore has separable companions there, everywhere, togeth Journed happily at Monter Crag and at all the summer places. With all that this new ! to make life glorfous, there are tw in her heart that no power on earth can u ‘rocker’s hefght and dignity make 1es appear more than her years, girlish rogulshness peeps out ever flll. from Her personal attractions She s in our clty just now, resting pig » make her one of New York's in the California-street b Her mo amous, 50 long as she shall grace aunt, Mrs. Alexander, is with her, fits Che Jolly An interesting papyrus recently discov- ered shows that many of the an Egyptians were quite as fond o good liquor as are an In this papyrus, which the philosopher Ani writ words of warning on the s ect of toxication to a student in Channu: “I have been informed that you are not only neglecting your studies, but thz | are also indulging in the most f: Pleasures, and that you spend a good deal a of your time in drinking ow, how can who has deciphe: {¥ Danefit you to drink so much beer every varlous fact day? Take advice and shun tha é. gyplians, From other sources we learn that stu- the land of the pyramids en- and were quite as fond s practical jokes as any of thelr v of an Egyptian Heuten- flourished about 2000 years ago obtain the interesting information that a q t of beer cost about § cents, and there are varlous entries in the book ich allow us to infer that the average an never dreamed of quenching his han a quart at a time. he erudite Egyptologist d this diary, “there are which justify us In describ- of the anclent Egyptians the follow fous liquo: ~ a receipt for removing ink stains from » pink frocks without removing the children iike 1t? Well rather. te and a bound to 1 get out of ith anticipation. g of it, the whole creature is in the work, brain, body, heart nd soul, and he means to produce a masterpiece. Tidings of his Intentlons are telegraphed through the fearful ten- sfon of his attitude, and as the teacher 10tes or falls to note and reward his ef- forts, so shall he galn or lose his future devotion. When the fever is nf night and has mighty little time for geography and spelling. His cholce of surface is often startling. Landscape ap- pears on the palms, portrait upon fingernalls, foliage upon cuffs and a menagarie between the book covers, pre- ferably on the fly leaves, but the text may be utilized at & pinch and an economical mode of {llustration suggested to the book publisher. Let the {llustrator look to his laurels, and particularly, let Gelett Bur- gess beware, for the original is more virile than the copy—the real thing best got at the source. Young America with half a chance could shock himself into popu- larity in the twinkling of an eye. Your 30-year-old is the most daring of God's creatures. Nor {3 ink the Iimit. Color is creeping in, and any right-minded class scorns to on he paints all IE PUBLIC SCHOOLS SHEGUEEFES FROM EHE EAST BEC s NG SR RAGE AMONG THL YOLBGSTERS. practice frugality in {ts use. The Ink training does not lead up to that virtus. Now two colors make a fine tint, thres s satisfactory, and four make mud! ere a mocker of progress, t be taken serlously, cailed out to ds ime bury work of art- anging around Obvlously the of doctors? their bad w are permitted to , but the ba likely to be fellow s a pessimist. Does the teacher like 1t? Now you're prying behind the scenes. But if you In- of course. Having st about gh to do, and lagging a little behind ular scamper, is very quieting even folk who are neither fogy nor re- 1 and water-color fleld is a little b g to the unguided, overoccupled wan- derer. The pertinent question is: Can she be & certificated and competent (the terms are not necessarily Interchangeablas) mathematician, grammarian, rhetorician, historian, geographer, scientist and gen- eral moral whip, and at the same time an artist with foreshortening and the like and a Nicholson eye for values at her fin- ger tips? Can she be all this with an une impaired digestion? To be less interroga-~ tive, art, letters and time seem to be pressing upon her in different directions, and she has no choice but to bravely await the moment when they shall meet and crush her into an educational puip. Requiescat {n pace. DELIA CARDS. Above by San Francisco Public School Children.