The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 13, 1900, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1900. THIS QHINESE SER QOCK 15 A RUNDRED YRARS OLD fcles on f . age be ol k place t glee how hi uld be str 1 the ma 11d not be i¢ a ¢ SORIORS 0930 HELD THE NOTE WHILE T GREW OVER TEN FILD Allen Howard’s Suit Is Contested. RS PR HERMAN BISHOP HAS A STORY e LOST HIS FURNITURE AND NOW IS A DEFENDANT. xR Pledged His Chattels to Secure a Small Loan, Paid It Back and More, but More Is De- manded. erest the defend- on fact, has wrone deserted ck, was up for t vesterday, but demurrer went Say as as- plaintift $50, secured by a which chattels lleged, into note. aintiff with interest, answer which ert M. Arm- efendan In p note he POSTUM CEREAL. LOST THE TASTE For Ordinary Coffee. t is strange tnvent some v people will try to 5 for their feeling bad, » charge the trouble to ¥ have that they od reason to believe is the real tance, all the time that coffee on our table I was occasional terrible head- we were ect t0 and my husband was half sick nervous troubles. We felt satisfied that coffee was the e, but were afraid we wouldn't like tum Cereal Coffee, and therefore 1 in every way to think that some- 1 the food, or some other reason, s the real cause of our troubles, er reading several articles in regard the evil effects of coffee Arinking : merits of Postum Food Coffee e convinced of the truth of the and called my husband's tion to them. “He was skeptical on the subject, but please me said we would give Pos- tum a trial, so he procured a package »d I made it. but the milk we were using was of the kind that produced little cream, and that did not give us as good a beverage as we found after. ward could be secured with cream. However, in spite of the drawback, ws grew to like the Postum Food Coffee, d both of us found ourselves greatly efited by the change. My head ~d to trouble me entirely, and my usband was practically made over. “We were out of the Postum for a ime, and having coffee in the house and t and feeling 80 much better we conclud- coffee again, but in a few ed to try th days my h became satisfied where the real trouble existed. We used Postum for a long time, and still having some coffee in the house, tried coffee again. Imagine our surprise in discovering at we no longer cared for the taste of the ordinary coffee, so the next morning we had a rare treat in a cup of piping hot, delicious Postum. “Coffee is no longer kept in our house. Our children are very fond of the new kind of ‘toffee,’ as they call it, and we give them as much as they want to drink, without fearing to in- jure their health. 1 find that it enables | me 1o furnish baby with a more abund- ant supply of milk than I could other- wise do. Postum Cereal Food Coffee b deed been a great boon to our —Mrs. Mary Wade, Saybrook, he world went ¢-war made to loc he pirates swarmed »wn on them protege of that gentleman. in which the | simply | aches came back, so that | el Xl IO RO% to sea Thursday the Custom-! ears.” on the wh »use read, * Captain Foley, however, because he can remember a century ago. sf-war before the days of steam. ted with pirates and it was the duty work to hunt the sea robbers. The ship used to be fixed up to deceive the ick and the yards lowered. Tattered much like a wreck boiling water and while the e in alongs! by some of e with their guns and 1p Chinese, but is still a that h before he n on at least Lew Wil- aptain Wil- \ese himself. 2 oyage Ca 1 jams Thursday, he will live to be at least a vessel, and I'll & of during her & 4 R A that_he gave admit his_personal d German d acce rest for a ye elf hard press- 1 i a year, the de- issuing summons. CLATMS FOR DAMAGES. Sequel to Destruction of Maclean Hos- pital by Health Officials. The destruction of the Maclean Hospi- and Sanitarium on July § last had its in the filing of a de- by Dr. H. T. Webster, \ting the value of property belong- to him which wa: the building was destroyed by the health officials. “Inasmuch as the destruction of the »perty was owing to the faflure of the to provide a suitable pesthouse,” concludes the petition, “and as the loss is directly due to this cause, it seems to be a just and proper charge against the city.” The property enumerated as destroyed | consists of 934 stereotype plates, 800 coples of unbound books, 5% pounds of type and certain printing material. LEATHER MEN TRYING TO MAKE HIDES FREE MEETING CALLED TO OPPOSE THE TARIFF. tal | Local Tanners, Leather Dealers, Shoe Manufacturers and Others Are Taking Part in the Movement. | The local dealers in leather and hides, | the tanners and also the manufacturers of )fihues and others who use large quantities | of leather have signed a call for a meet- | ing to be held in the rooms of the Board of Trade of San Francisco next Wednes day afternoon. The purpose is, according to the language of the call, ““to discuss the hide duty and adopt resolutions favoring its repeal, to be forwarded to the Cali- fornia delegation in Congress, and to take such other action as the best interests of the trade demand.” All persons are in- vited to attend who may be interested in the repeal of that section of the tariff 1}4‘:‘\ which imposes a duty on foreign nides A. J. Marcus of the 8. H. Frank Tanning Company, who was one of the signers of 1l, ‘'explained_yesterday the reaso - ‘meeting. He sald that simila meetings had been held by the leather and hides men in the Eastern States. Prior to t enaction of the McKinley tariff law there had been no duty on foreign hides. A bill had recently been introduced by a Congressman from Massachusetts, which is the center of the shoe and leather in- stry of the United States. The hides and leather men protested when the sec- tion of the McKinley bill placing a duty upen forelgn hides was under considera- tion, but their protest was not heeded. Now the struggle for free hides was about to_be renewed. The committee calling the meeting In this city are the following: 8. Ni burg of Cahn, Nickeisbur, Kullman of Kuliman, Salz & Milton L. Cook of H. . Cook Belting Company; Albert Derham of Buckingham & Hecht! Alfred “Marcus of the Frank Tanning Company; A. L. Bryan of the A. L. Bryan Shoe Company; Main & Winchester, Le- gallet-Hellwig Tanning Company; Bissin- Q er & Co., Charles G. Bennett & Co., J. C. ohnson & Co., Morris Windt, W. H. Pur- ! telle. e e————— | Use Phroso for the complexion—it will sur- | prise and delight you. . D e — | “O0M JOE’S” FLAG. It Is Now in the Custody of thePolice, ‘Who Fear It Might Cause a Riot. “Ooom Joe” Bkelton's Boer flag, which caused a riot at Tenth and Harrison streets Wednesday, 1s now In the custody of the police, as it is considered danger- ous to the peace of the city. O. W. Richards, who resides on Dore street, having imbibed too much liquor, began to trophize the flag, collecting | crowd. Policeman Fontana came upon | the scene and arrested Richards as a ‘drunk.” He took possession of the flag and the Judge before whom Richards is taken to-day will have to decide what shall be done with it. Richards came into prominence during the recent bond election by giving Louis Berger, an election officer at the booth at Tenth and Harrison streets a bottle of carbolic acld to drink, Berger being un- der the impression it was w) ORORORIRVRGR GROLOROIRIRONO %l ckels- | & Co.; Herbert | | to_put into Sydney | the | tired of | folk Island m: BRITISH SHIP MUSSELCRAG I NOW IN' SAFET Reaches Sydney Distress. in BOUND HERE FROM ANTWERP —_— RECORD RUN OF THE BARK NORFOLK ISLAND. L Came Here From Newcastle, Austra- lia, in Forty-Eight Days—Train- ing-Ship Adams to Start on Another Cruise. e Among the vessels that suffered severe- ly in the October gales off the Horn was the British ship Musselcrag. She is now out 178 days from Antwerp for San Fran- cisco and, as she has put into Sydney, N. 8. W,, in distress, it will probably be another hundred days before she gets here. According to the reports received by the Merchants’ Exchange yesterday | the vessel is badly strained and the cargo will have to be discharged and a survey held before she can come on to this port. The Musselcrag left Antwerp on July 18 last. On September 10 she was spoken in latitude 33 south, longitude 51 west. All through the heavy weather in Octo- ber she was not heard from, nor was nything en of her in November and December. Then the underwriters began to get uneasy and 10 per cent reinsur- ance was offered on vessel and cargo. When the overdue fleet began to arrive | and tales of heavy weather and disasters were told the rate on the went up to 2 per cent. At last on January 4 the overdue vessel s heard from. Captain Johnson had his battle with the elements off Cape Horn and was coming to San Fran. usselcrag W | ¢isco via the Cape of Good Hope. During the struggle the ship’s decks had becn swept clean, the bulwarks were stove in, nearly a whole suit of sails had beed | blown from the bolt ropes, the cabin had been gutted ‘ ,» the forecastle washed out and sev al of the crew had been hurt. | When Cape Otway, the most southerly point in Australia, 'was sighted, Captain Johnson stood in and signaled the light- house keeper that his vessel was badly d, but that all hands were well, time it was evidently his inten- to come on to San Francisco, but as the hull must have been very foul and the crew worn out, Captain Johnson must have considered It the wisest course N. 8. W. elerag was built in 1896 and is . Corsar of Liverpool. She is net burden, 266 feet 6 inches long, 40 feet beam and 23'fect 7 inches deep. he Muss The British bark Norfolk Island arrived | in port terday unexpectedly from New- castle, 8. W. She was listed for Ho- nolulu, but Captain Thomas says this was is cargo of coal is con- signed to San Francisco parties. The Nor- de the run across in forty- is the banner run of the cason and has only been beaten twice in In 1894 the British ship Os- borne made it in forty-seven and in 1897 Loch Toredon made it in forty-six days. Strange to . the Norfolk Island s exactly twent. our days from New- le to the equator and twenty-four more from the equator to San Fran- w cisco. Both captain and crew .of the bark | are very proud of the showing made b vessel, and are confident she will | Dorr, stored in the annex | | | { | | Bay |in | | | | equally good run from here to > with a load of wheat. of the new charter made a number of changes at the Harbor Hos- pital Dr. Thompson has gone to th Hall. Drs. Frank B Robin, . Morrison will not be e duty until February 1, arr and Thorne will take watcn- .md-l;‘ tch during the remainder of the month. The United States training ship Adams will get away for another cruise early this morning. The apprentice boys have been anxious to make a start for quite a while, but the powers that be ruled oth- erwise. Yesterday all the officers were ordered to be aboard at 11:30 p. m., and with the morning tide the training shi will put to sea. It was originally the in tention to go from here to San Diego at then to Magdalena Bay for target pra tice, and then for a cruise among the Hawatian Islands. Since Ylugue news has been coming from Honolulu, however, the Government thought it best to drop the trip to the Paradise of the Pacific. Thne Adams will accordingly come back here after the target practice in Magdalena and will then go north for a cruise uget Sound waters. Lieutenant Com- mander Henry Minnett did not go out on the Adams. At the last moment he was detached from the training ship and or- dered to the navy yard The transport City of Puebla is to sail from Nagasaki for San Francisco to-day, | and in that event should reach here abouf January 3L Nicholas George and Peter Black, fire- men on the steamer San Juan, had a fight a few days ago on board the vessel, and honors were about even. Yesterday morn- ing Black wae found on the Malil dock with an ugly wound in his abdomen. Po- liceman Winzler was notified, and Black told him that he and George had renewed the fight and George had stabbed him in the abdomen. George was arrested end taken to the City Prison, where he was booked on a charge of ascault to murder, Black was taken to the Recelving Hospiai and later to St. Mary’s Hospital. Tha wound is a dangerous one and may prove fatal. The police could not find an eye- witness to the stabbing, and have only Black’'s word for it. Alice Edith Straitjacketed. Alice Edith Dickason Blythe was ar- rested on Turk street yesterday morning. She was booked at the City Prison as a “drunk,” but she was £0 violent that she had to be sent to the insane ward in the Receiving Hospital and put in a strait- jacket. Ceeie e fgel el Bl ga e Sulralt Interesting? Very! HAT to do when your best ng says ‘ves.'” That is the question. Funny story con- nected with that remark— clever illustrations too. Look out for it! Lucky Baldwin is going to leave California and go td Cape Nome! Run a theater? Store? Dance hall? Hard to tell unless you get the story straight from him. He has bad hard luck of late. Once millionaire, you know. Most inter- esting life! He tells it well, too. “Great Guns!” Not merely an in- terjection, but literally speaking. We have them now out by the Golden Gate—more coming, too. You should keep posted upon these matters. These same guns and fortifications would be of vital im- portance if another war should oc- cur. Have you read the story of the artist's models of San Francisco? Great story that! Splendidly illus- trated—photographs with most artistic pen and ink decorations. So well printed—clear, absolutely no blur. The same applies to the dramatic page, a very swell one, in next Bunday’s Call. By the way, have you any idea how much it costs an actress in a stock company to dress? Or again, not to digress too suddenly, aie you aware that California’s vast forest supply s slowly but surely disappearing? Well, read about it all in next Sunday’s Call. You will also find a great many other inter- esting stories there. | | | | o . Xy ‘ e § ' 0*0—0—0—04*0—0—0—0—0 British Ship Musselcrag in a Hurricane. R e e R R S I S g SICE GOOD MARKET POR REALTY HILE there have been no large sales of real estate reported dur- | ing the past week, in a very mind. It has been since the demand for good investment | properties was as active as number of big deals are practically closed, the facts being withheld un are pa: the recording of the deed to Hotel site and the mortgaging Blythe block to the United gage and Trust Company of New York Mrs. Blythe-Moore intends for $1,000,000. to use a large fraction of thi: lars in erecting one or more that portion of the prope Brooks alley and O'Farrell street. It Is alsp stated that Mr. shortly begin the erection of a splendid store and office building on Hotel site. the city property in that vict to command attention and crease in value very perceptibly. Baldwin & Howell report the following | recent sales: Lot on Twenty-first street, $1050; Eleventh avenue ,south of M street, 50x120 feet in size, $500; east of York, entire block (No. 13) in Cast dition, $5000; lot on north sids street, west of Guerrero, 50x115, $2500; two lots on Folsom street, between Thirteenth ; lot on the north side of Fourteenth street, east of lots on Nineteenth avenue, south of H street, $750 apiece; lot and Fourteenth, $1850 each Folsom, $1600; two on the west side of Eighte south of H street, $600. The purchaser of the Leon Kauffman property on the corner of Ellis street and Carlos place, just east of Mason street, Minnie P. Shotwell. complete the five-story building now in course of construction on the site, which will bring her total investment was Mrs. ,000. W. H. Thornley of Gardner & Thornley, Custom-house brokers, has 50x120 feet on the east line of Nlne!eenll); avenue boulevard, 150 feet street, for $1450, and has started to build the first house in the block. The lot 40x87:6 feet and i on the southwest corner of avenue and Webster street has been sold b‘y Emile C. Quenel to G. A. 9,000. Easton, Eldridge & Co. held a regular of local real estate the followlng Northeast corner of Sto lot 36:9x68 auction_offerin Tuesday, at W were made: ton and Pacific streets; and “L" 16xI8 feet, togethe: improvements, renting East side (Nos. 1120-11. worth street, 22 with two flats; rents $40 per West side (1315-1315E) ich with six flats; rents $127 50 300, subject to conflrmation. corner of Hayes and Webster streets (01 Hayes street); lot 37:6x62:6 feet, with house renting for $20 per month; $3%0, subject to approval. East side (2 to ) Zow street, street; lot 4075 feet, with o one rear building; $0900. West side (&4 David Bush, manager of land department of G. H. Umbsen & Co., reports the following sales o interfor of this State: Three twenty acres of land in Ant. Kern Ccun(y.gnr( ing, from J. H. K for wooded, watered and miles from Nag from Rudolph for $10,000. The loans upon city local savings banks, bul and ing ildin, follows: San Francisco Bavings Bavings and Loan, 314, Mutual, $69,350; Frenc bus, $35,900. ists Amon; one o ings Union, another of $40,000 bank, one of $63,500 by the ings, one of $35,900 by ings and three by the Hibe the largest loans of t ? $66,000 of ,000, X an 0,000 Nearty ol o the mon was at 6 per cent. were $185,255, showing that pleasant frame of ed, for obvious reasons. The two notable events of the week were With these contemplated im- provements on the main thoroughfare of or $88 per month; 11x80 feet to Golden court, Steiner street, feet south of Ellis street; lot 5x% feet, per month; $10,- feet south of Bryant rents 3% per month; 4, Capp street, 80 feet north of Twenty-fourth street feet, with two-story house; $2 farming and part graz- elley to J. ; 953 acres of farming land, wel improved, a City in Napa County, ordan to Geer & Ritter, real estate of the rivate capitalists for the week end- anuary 6 amounted to $388,275, against 104,225 for the previous week. ngs banks loaned a total of $364,300, Hibernia, $117,650; German, Union, ; Humboldt, $900 35000, The loans ‘of private ca; and others amounted by the San Francisco Sav- the Columbus Sav- ut out brokers are | a long time now, and a til the deeds the Baldwin of the States Mort- s million dol- buildings on rty between Flood will the Baldwin nity is bound naturally in- ro-street Ad- e of Dorland enth avenue, She will up to bought a lot south of mprovements Golden Gate Wangen for on | ales ck- feet r with brick 20A) Leaven- month; 34600. 100 . Southwest ne front and lot 20x55 the country f land in the hundred and elope Valley, L. Walters, seven assoclations he sav- as $113,600 and Col\Em ital- to ,975. he week was the same tual Sav- M rnia Savings respectively. ast week $1 efie?euu last week much new money found lodgment last week. Twelve new bullding contract ting in value $73,749, were the week endin aggre- filed during January 11. The largest contract was that of Mrs. E. B. Crocker with Wilson, Cook & Banewitz, to build a two-story and basement frame buildin, on the northwest corner Franklin streets, for $18 of Clay ane ,239. Another lead- ing contract was that of Charles L. Til- den with Thomas Butler, to erect a two- 8to) brick warehouse, for $18,100, on the southwest line of Spear streef, 137:6 feet southeast of Folsom street. Funer and wife contracted Hughes and J. A. M frame building on the sout Joseph M. with J. . H. cDonald to build a heast corner of Thirteenth and Jessle streets, to cost . John F. Kennedy contracted with ohn F. Long for fifty-eight on the jail floor of the cost sliding doors Hall of Justice, to Joseph Frowenfel awarded a contract to Ickelheimer Bros. for alter- ations to cost $5669 on the Royal House, on the north line of Ellls street, 137:6 feet o o Mamp pWillam s tracted w! gan story frame building, to cost :oar“ ot Devisadero street. for try, t street, way. The other contracts red In value from $1347 to e {u.r 1899 was a one tofi Ii;euamldl interests says the ng News last two months did , between Pacific and fairly and Re xpected, but this w-l;“p.n.h”ly e . inordinate rise in prices William Getseiman con- erect a two- $4092, on the line of Golden Gate lyre;.me 125 feet e Falr estate let a contract to James G. E. Coleman olst work, etc., to cost west line of Broad- of thé week $2900. Sperous this city,” view. ““Tho ": totals due to the of ‘many mate- | rials. At present cost of large buildings owners are arguing the fact whether or not they will receive a fair interest on their muney. A building that will cost now $160,000 in case of a forced sale in a few years would not probably command much more than one-half that amount. This is a serious point to consider, and I8 much used by owners before making up their minds just what to do in the future, It is almost self-evident that the present high prices of certain materials cannot be maintained for a period of years. This is the fact which is preventing many contracts from being closed. It is also the reason why buildings on Ellis, Mason, Market and other streets will for the %resem be only two or three stories high. he least fall'in the prices of materials, with a greater prospective decline in the | near future, will be the signal for a gen- eral increase of building activities all over the coast." Four hundred and five mechanics’ liens aggregating in value $127,28 were filed in this city and count in 1899, against 330, valued at $55,636, in 1898, The releases of liens for 1899 were 183, val- ued at $4198. The Bullding News and Re- view says that the increase in the liens during 1899 is partly :counted for by al- lowing a pr‘rm-nmfi extra owing to the fact that the building summary showed | an increase of one and a_ quarter million of dollars; but that this does not explain all of the large increase in the amount of | liens. During the year a great many pro- | ratas were settled. ! Plans are being prepared by M. G. Bug- | bee for a new building to be erected for E. Avery McCarthy on the north line of | Broadway, between Steiner and Plerce | streets. Mr. McCarthy’s residence, on the | northwest corner of Hroadway and Stein- er street, Is nearing completion. Work on the monastery and church building, of brick and stone, which is to be erected for the Franciscan Fathers of St. Boniface parish on Goiden Gate ave- nue, west of Jones street, will soon begin. It I5 expected the bullding will be com- pleted during the present year. plans prepared for a large building to be er on the fifl)'-\'nriifinl on the corner of First and Mission streets, recently pur- chased from the estate of Charles Meyer. The new building to be erected by A. Aronson on the southeast corner of Post The Crocker Estate Company is having | and Jones streets will be five stories in height, with a basement, and is expected | to cost $50,000. It is designed for an apart. | ment house, with stores on the ground | floor. The District Council of Carpenters and | Jolners of this city has given notice that the minimum rate of wages for carpent of this city will be $3 50 per day on and | after the first Monday In April nex Also | that all foremen will be required to belong | to the Brotherhood of Carpenters on and | after the date named. | Buyer and Seller is the title of a new publication devoted to real estate inter- | ests, published by Baldwin & Howell, the first number of which has just made its appearance. The circular Is attractive in form and contains much of interest In it the prediction is made that durin the present year activity In real estate circles in San Francisco will be greater | than for a number of year: | A Tlot ganized urchasing society has heen or- by the congregation of the Rich- mond Methodist Episcopal Church for the purpose of raising money with which to | purchase the land on which the church | building, which is owned by the congre- gation, is located. The officers of the clet President, S. A. N president, Mrs. H. H. Thnen; s E. H. Wilcox; treasurer, H. Thneu. Improvement officers have been elected | to serve for the ensuing term as follows: | Federation of Mission Improvement Clubs — President, A. S. Lillie; vice president, Gustave Schnee: secretary, Joseph Tuoh treasurer, W. Crouch. Eureka Valley and Park Lane Tract Improvement Club—L. Daniels, presi- dent; J. Whitaker, vice president; D. I Wyatt, secretary; A. Adams, treasurer. The club will endeavor to have a school built in the district west of Danvers street and south of Sixteenth. Market - street Improvement Club— President, A. B. Morgan; vice president, J. McDonnell; secretary, Willilam E. Du- bois; treasurer, M. C. Gimpel; sergeant- at-arms, C. Crowley; executive com- mittee—Denis BBH’éZ W. M. Morgan, B. Joost, George A. Clough, J. McDonnell; financial committee—Frank Ryan, A. L. Tunison, W. J. Cuthbertson; delegates to the Federation of Mission Improve- ment Clubs—A. B. Morgan, W. J. Cuth- bertson, W. E. Dubois. Point Lobos Improvement Club— George R. Fletcher, president; Edward Ginley, first vice president; Charles R. Hansen, second vice president; Will P. secretary; John J. Cassidy, financial secretary _and corresponding secretary; Philip J. Ward, treasurer; Charles Goodall, sergeant-at-arms; ex- ecutive committ alirman, James M. Wilkins;_ secretary, John J. Cassidy: George Magoonis, John T. Williams, E. L. O'Connor, Fred L. Jones, W. Deane, J. J. Dufty, A. Hemenover, D. L. Fitzgerald, H. U. Jaudin. At a recent meeting of the executive committee of .ne Builders' Assoclation of California Valentine Franz was elect- ed chairman of the committee and J. D. Hannah secretary. Holly Park and Mission Improvement Club—S. P. Douglass, president; F. E. Sautter, recording secretary; B. Kramer, financial secretary; John Felix, treas- urer; Emil Knoch, sergeant-at-arms. An executive committee was also elected, composed of T. R. Hulling, T. Santry. H. B. Winkler, R. Smith and H. Carlson. H. E. Poehlman, real estate agent, has removed to 321 Montgomery street, .e- low Pine. Johnson, Safe letter delivery for Nome, via St. Michael, starting Jan. %, via Kodlak; limit % oz.; $ per letter. Mohns & Kaltenbach, 20 Market st. * —————— La Estrella’s Officers. To-night the recently elected officers of La Estrella Parlor of the Native Daugh- ters of the Golden West will be installed by Mrs. J. A. Steinbach, D. D. G. P, in Sierra Hall of the Native Sons' building. After the installation, which will be pri- ‘vate, the committee on entertainment will present a programme and have a finerfl 0od time for the members and friends. !'he conflttfie %ofl!lltl of lu(i-l. E,l. soldo- mann. . B. Thier! 58 J. Vasse- 1in, Mrs. H. Hall, rs. 3. Vincent, Mrs. M. Katz and Miss Alice Maunder. | stantly met FOODS FOR INVALI DS AND CHILDREN. Copyright, 1900, by Seymour Eaton. HOME SCIENCE AND H Contributors to this course: Mrs. Hele Kate Gannett Wells, Mrs. Louise B. Hogan, Miss Emily G. Baleh, Miss Lucy OUSEHOLD ECONOMY. n Campbell, Mrs. Margaret E. Sangster, Mrt Miss Anna Barrows, Mrs. Mary Roberts Smith, Wheelock and others. XIV. FOOD FOR INVALIDS AND| CHILDREN. | Owing to differences of temperament | and constitution every case of feeding ! needs individualization, and where there is doubt on the subject, even in conditions | of health, the advice of an authority on the subject should be sought. Fortu- nately for both invalids and children, sci- | entists and physicians are inclined to pay | special attention to this important phase of preventive medicine, and it is possible for mother, nurse and physician to co- operate on food questions with some hope of achleving desirable results. The study of dietetics as applied to the nursery and the period of childhood, as well as in its relation to invallds, requires practical application of theory to indi- vidual needs, no matter what system of feeding is decided upon. Parents must understand that what is provided for the average table in the way of food may not always be given with impunity to children. Well-trained nurses and expert physicians | appreciate more fully than parents the | benefit in disease that comes from well-se- lected, properly prepared and thoroughly | assimilated food. Parents as a rule and many untrained nurses forget, althousgn they may acknowledge the importance of the fact, that the food an adult can re-| celve and assimilate does harm to the tender organs of a child—organs that de- pend very largely for their development | upon a proper selection and administra- tion of assimilable food. Carelessness and ignorance at this period of life are quick- | ly_followed by pernicious resuits. The treatment of almost all diseases r quires the special application of food pri ciples, and many of them, especially in children, may be avoided by care in this| direction. Any one who will study the | nature of food products, whether nitr genous, carbonaceous or mineral, their proportion of waste and water, ' those | needed to bulld tissue, furnish heat, purify the blood, etc., will comprehend at once the value of dletetic knowledge in the selection and preparation of the £0od required under special conditions. Dr. Burnet of London says this knowledge is the foundation of sound practical diet- etics, and the subject is one of the great est importance. . Rotch, professor of diseases of children at Harvard, says in| “Pediatrics”: “Just gs the highest aim in | medical art should be directed to the rovince of preventive medicine, so the | Pighest and most practical branch of pr ventive medicine should consist of the study of the best means f starting voung human beings in life. * * * It is a proper or an improper nutriment which | makes or mars the perfection of the com- | ing beings in life. * * * We should be guided by what nature has taught us throughout many ages in_studying the form of nutriment suitable for an especial eriod of life.” PoA Tourishing diet must be sufp_!l((l dur- ing the entire season of a child’s youth, and at_the same time be supplemented by favorable hygienic surroundings and by plenty of exercise of various kinds to call every set of muscles into play, lack of sufiicient _ exercise diminishing tissue change. During this early period of life larger sup| of certain food elements are required than in aduit life, when physical growth has ceased and bodily activity has grown less. It must also be understood that under various conditions in the life of the child different foods and quantities will be required. The diet must be adapted to the power of the constitution at the time, and it musi be of the highest nutritive value possible for resent digestive power. If the child’'s Slze!lion is normal and its life an active and out-of-door one it can assimilate more and stronger food than if, from vari- ations in ciimate and other causes, it leads a _more quiet life, and if for any reason its digestion is not up to the nur-‘ mal standard, consideration must be given articularly fo quantity and assimilation. | fl must always be remembered that eat- ing, through repair, is intended to bal- | ance, not to increase, the waste caused by the constant actior and change going on in the organs. This waste, if not fully counterbalanced, will socn cause suffer- ing and iliness, but the mistake so con- | h of over{eeding must be | absolutely avolded. The amount of nutri- | tion in the cases of delicate children and | of invalids must be even more carefully considered. One of the most important reasors for this is that energy must not be wasted in getting rid of superfluous | material, as organic disease may result. A little food thoroughly digested is far better than much that is half digested. It | is reces as nearly as possible, the s hat the body is regularly {hetance, when we glve heat-forming food in cold weather and liquid in hot weather. Drink constitutes food as well as what | we eat. As each nutritive ingredient serves its | own pecullar purpose, it can readily be | seen why it is necessary for a mother, nurse or physician to understand some- | thing of the elements of food and their | action. A mother or nurse should be able | to detect immediate needs in individual | cases, as on account of proximity they | are generally the only ones who notice the daily variations in conditions requir. ing daily modifications of diet. While they need not actually cook the food r quired. they should know just what to se- lect under certain conditions and exactly | how to have it prepared. They should not @riroroeieieieieg THE NATIONAL UNION. Entertainment by a Fraternal Order | That Was Enjoyed by a Large Audience. | The entertainment and dance given in | Golden Gate Hall last Thursday night by the National Union Social and Literary | Club under the patronage of the San | Francisco Cabinet of the union was at- tended by an audience that not only filled | every seat in the hall, but forced many to stand during the performance. The pro- amme was high class in every particu- for and cach number was a gem. After selections by the Bichel orchestra Miss | Cecil Haas entertained with ‘“To-morrow | at Tea,” a monologue; the Sisters Porsh | presented “‘La Dance de Tarentella”; Miss | Abelle Healy gave “The Window Curtain,” | a monologue; Signor Abramoff sang the invocation from “Robert le Diable”; Miss Laura_ E. Person gave as a recitation | “The High-backed Chalr and the Blue Woolen ? Miss P. Sandolin rendered ““The Islan: g of Dreams,” a mezzo-soprano solo; Leo Cooper gave an entertaining and well rendered monologue; Miss Aman- da d'Australie Corcoran gave as a so- prano solo “The Holy City.” The last number was “Drifted Apart,” a sketch in one act, by George A. Dennison and Miss May Sullivan, assuming two roles. A pro- | ramme of up to date dances followed, | eeping the lovers of the whirls together untll maidnight. The club proposes to sive a similar entertainment several times a year. All Readers of Books, Attention! Plumber for carpenter work? Brick ma- son to tune pianos? A minister to fight a lawsuit? Of course not! Who ever heard of such a thing! Every man to his trade or profession. e Sunday Call book re- views are written by H. B. Lathrop, pro- fessor of English literature at Stanford University. What could be more satisfac- tory or appropriate than a literary de- partment in charge of so able a critic? —_——— ‘Will Receive Holy Communion. On Sunday, January 14, at the 7:30 o'clock mass, the Gentlemen's Sodality of St. Ignatius Church will receive holy communion in a body in the large church. It will be a time of unusual devotion for | the Sodality, being the first general com- munion of the new year, as well as the | Inative | infrequently | lation of fat to food, | times, as only be able to nete by results whether directions have been carried out but > be willing, it > sonally t vision judi. prevent diffict cur as ely upon the One should se needed in health stages. t enable to ably suppleme: of physicians anc cases of slight indis- | position one might frequently be to seize the opportunity through care of overcoming ailments for, might prove se s it one recogni proce would cut do stance k t . ¢ illne hampe n _albuminoids constipation, th cereals, etc e relatively greater in menus than mi €ggs, meat, etc. Again, as the preparat intervals and amounts in feeding and invalids are of equal importan such knowledge as is indicated o be likely to feed less at a time and make the occasion more f he food would be more daintily pre in_order to make it more ea: d than is required for conditio a of iliness one would fully realize that cess in treatment depends upon the trouble taken tions and preparation of are allowable and one would give as varied a diet as the nec In such itations would allow. A= tion temperaments must always be studied and tastes and likings consulted, which questions are of the greatest importance through the influence they exert on the digestion of food. Naturally following as a result of such study, the fact would be discovered that more liquid food should be used than is common and less of solid giving of water is one of the mc nt fea- tures of invalld and infs Many conditions require it : calthful at all times unless stages of ill- ness when it wo he at- ive infants almost entl use they drink milk. The fact that miik, though a liquid out of the body, becomes in the stoma solid food, containing all the nu for an infant's normal growth. Irregular action of natural laws of the t the resulit of such tions and can easily be corrected by use of what may appear to many to be an excess of water. Among the uneducated, strong in the oid theory of teething being the cause, it is a very common custom to tolerantly upon serious infant “Errors in diet and consequent of digestion, which frequently give to violent convulsions In infancy, would occur less frequently if,” has aptly said by a physician, r ‘teething we would read ‘stomach and feeding'; and if we would always consider whether these are at fault we might, although proving disagreeable and troublesome at times to the mother: s, do mare g00d to the suffering " If food is not such as n can master it is useless and can only do harm Not being turned to proper account, the blood receives no new supply and is i poverished; there is no nourishm for development of body, and tendencies to various diseases are by those whose duty it is to prov »d of a nutritious qualit 1t it is carefully administered. Many of the diseases to which children are liable would disappear entirely under stri pervision of hygiene and diet, the various intestinal disorders, ir many resultant throat, catarrhal | nervous troubles. Nature resent | lessness and is relentless § eciall udin an ment. What the doctor cal ) fantum, rickets or marasmus, ete. the mother is often inclined to con dispensation of Providence, is only too frequently the direct result of violations of the most common laws of home scien The whole study of feeding children and invalids may appear to be a vast one, yet it resolves itself into a few simple and generally acknowledged facts. The evil conditions that arise from improper feed- ing are not always the resuit of lack of knowledge, but very (requeml{ because what we know we do not do. When en- deavoring to apply the principles of food and nutrition we must both know and do. Knowledge and action must be combined for good results. The few underlying principles ember when studying now to Individualize each case of feeding whether it be invalld or child, are these 1. What is given to an infant as a sub stitute food must resemble its natural food as closely as possible. This can be done with the aid of a physician, upon . | whom every child’s health should depend if possible during at least the first twelve months of its precarious existence. 2. Following infancy comes the more dif- ficult period of childhood, although not usually considered so, when necessary supplies of nutriment must be furnished to repair the constant waste caused by the active growth of the child. It is at this time that the constituents of various foods should be thoroughly understood and the amounts necessary for various periods, the methods of preparation and adminis- tration required, etc. General knowledge will not be of service at this period un- less directed toward specific study, sucm specific study taking up the laws of heat and its effect on foods during cooking, the proper balancing of dietaries, the re- the use of cereals and sweets, when and how to use meats, . fish, etc., what are the reasons for se of inorganic salts, contained more particularly in green vegetables and fruit, what foods are laxative in their influence, which are suitable for winter and which for summer use, which foods are supple- mentary in certain conditions of rapid growth and which are basic needs for all for instance during the school period, when children so quickly develop anaemic conditions from overstudy and lack of hygienic care. These and kindred subjects come up under this special phase of the study of foods for children. 3. Following the period of childhood comes the time for the study of estimat- ing correct quantities and proper selec- tions of food to be used In regulating the diet suited to the individual needs of girls and boys approaching maturity, the ex- cesses to be avoided by those of seden- tary habits and questions of similar im- port. 4. A simple presentation of the physiol- ogy of digestion would undoubtedly serve to show why there is need for care in diet during illness. Inasmuch as every alimentary organ has its specific work to do, it is plain that certain conditions call for certain foods. When digestion is faulty or disordered from illness it is nec- essary to know which class of foods is to be withheld and which should be given, as, for instance, in (yfihold fever thers must be no tax upon the intestines, and foods must therefore be given that are easily absorbed and digested In the stom- ach, such as peptonized milk or beef, white of egg in water, koumiss, ete. Tt is also necessary to know that in cases of doubt in illness total abstinence from food is the safest plan until a physician can be called, as this is sometimes the only way by which absolute rest can be obtained for the diseased parts. Foussa- grives of Paris says: ~The number of cases of disease which can be arrested in children by instituting a preventive diet is almost incredible.” The late Pro- fessor Gross of Philadelphia once sald: “The dlet of the sickroom has slain_its thousands and tens of thousands. The ordinary preparations for the sick are, in general, not only not nutritious but in- sipid and flatulent. Animal soups are among the most efficient supporters of the exhausted system, and every medical man should know how to give directions for themrepaw!)on. The life of a man 1s his fo Foussagrives maintains that the feeding In illness is a question of the very greatest delicacy, which embarrasses educated physicians themselves, and that it is a subject of important research. With opinions like these and many oth- ers not noted to encourage us in our effort. we may well study further a sub- ject which is of vital interest in its ine fluence on the happiness of our hom Feast of the Holy Name. All the mem- bers, comprising 700, will march in pro- cession from their chapel on Hayes street, helld:fl b; !:: ofllce: and blnéler: &l the soclety. e will a reception new members after the ceremonies. L 2 g Philadeiphis