The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 4, 1900, Page 2

THE SUNDAY CALL @ragzed by an aged skate of & horse and drive: t @ swarthy youth of 16 or 17 years. A'few words in the Italian tongue exchanged by . e youth and boy and the latter hands over the package of food, while the floursack is replenished with matches. The driver of the wagon does mst fall to collect the money recelved by the child, who starts off up the street again to make the eame or a similar plea to those who will answer the ring of the doorbell. A few blocks away the driver of the dilapidated rig mentioned 1s holding an animated conversation with another lit- tle dark-skinned match peddler who un- er, s 'as he scampers. off up the ng in his mind some partic- tale of ‘privation and dear ories at home s of the next custo- the wagon moves block, zigzagging back and L certain territory, gathering e the ‘work of half a to ‘wham he adminis- the whip when he The stock ~of aller and_the load of rows correspond- of the situation, as shown by the furtive glances he takes upon turning each cor- ner. He gives a start upon seeing a big, powerful Itallan, evidently from Sicily, or Corsica, approach. The latter grunts out an inquiry and the youth hands over the purse of dimes and nickels and points to the provisions stored in the wagon. If PREVIOVSLY USED oN ON IS APPLIED TO THE BATK AND LESS oF OF THE JTREET MVIISIAN THE- LASH, THE HORSE, Memms THE YOVUNSST = the day's work Is satisfactory the man grunts again and strolls along. If not, the fact is apparent from the unhappy expression on the face of the vouth, who knows what to expéect when the day is over and he gets back to the place called PSSO * kK *x¥ that the ability to child as it grows older. The first smile is observed when the child is about forty ty days old, but it does not begin to laugh until some time after that. According to Mantegazza and others the power of laughing has to be acquired, just as a child learns how to talk or to walk. Laughter at the earliest Anthropologls Jaugh;comes to t 1s observed in infants only after they are jthree months old. ! Children and women laugh more than men, not because the cares of life lle less heavily upon them, but because the former are more excitable and because the mdderating power of the cerebral hemispheres is less in them than among men generally Prqfound st y makes men serious, and s0,foolish people are sometimes noted for laughing immoderately. Yet laughter is not so much an index to intelligence as Jt s to the condition of health. Healthy, vigorous people are proverbially of good humored, joyous, laughing natures, while the “‘sallow, gloomy-eyed dyspeptic” is a description sclentifically accurate, al- SOOI T > WHEN &ND WHY WE LAUGH home and when the big man takes pos- on of the horsewhip. Woe be to the ch peddlers when the ‘‘father” a. Such is the operation of 'a “padrone” system carried on every day in the streets ST @ * %k ok % %k Ho though it has its origin from the brain of a poet. The envious, wicked and malevolent rarely laugh because, phrenologists say, they are impregnated with bile and are therefore morose. and the awkward also laugh very little for tear of losing their dignity. The Spand ish people, who are proverbially grave are a good example. People who have lines extending downs ward from the angle at the mouth toward the chin weil marked rarely laugh, and, moreover, show a tendency to pensiveness In youth and melancholy in after life. Those who have lines raying outward from the eyes are, on the contrary, people who laugh a good deal, especially when the upper lip is framed by two deep fur- rows running down to the mouth. Lavater, the noted Swiss physiogno- mist, s that frank, easy, coplous laughter indicates “a good soul devoid of vanity." Such people often have a great many wrinkles running obliquel, utward and downward from the eyes. ey also have full, oven lips and o B a round, large The haughty, the vain, Poor Slave CH“ | Pabdrone Dypstem Heve Blgain dFen Taught to Beg or Steal That Their MaSt@F May Enjoy Wealth and QUxUry. ¢ of San Francisco under the very eyes the police. It was belleved that this shocking form of child slavery had been wiped out of every city in the United States, but it is not. The padrone system of making children earn a living for lazy able-bodted vagrants originated in Italy among the lower class, where it fl to-day. The “father,” or padrone, 1s called,.hires, borraws or steals st tle children as serve his purpose best by briite force and Intimidation com his slaves to beg In the streets door to door. In many instanc or to play hever they show The thieves are but there is less dan- to 1t him money dropped 1 “ians as 1e or cap Is ger tambourix safer than that pilfered from pockets or houses. A crust of bread and a the master's reward to b lashing if the da The earnings of 8o to the wine sel A very small portion gn or one of the saints for the following day. The paarone system of chil or a too smatl 8 returns are e children r and the card table. is offered to the Vir- for good fortune invariably was tmported into this country with the fiest Italtan fmmigrants to land at Castle Garden, and for years the cities of the East were overrun with little olive-hued chlldren selling flowers, playing and Jod for n 2 befifting ntenced to The padrone wa term for vagrau Rix Years th manner. full Judge Hale learned that the Italy ntly restored, v paid a revealing their where has been mo chiid known [ made an ex t the wagon in t} p of the pa- roved no easy for among this ligation 2 the result o system wi dre task to get oft- little peddlers see epring being utiliz this way ng as (he Weett hetugs w dimes. - The seems. to be yw who drives od for which on Vallejo the day being stormy t Ing on the streets and openly begging. The authorities at last put down the evil and now only isolated cases are reported. A number of years ago a padrone was dis- covered In this eity. He brought from the East two pretty little girls, whom he compelled to beg from house to house. The police took the little ones Into cus- tody, and later the well-to-do Itallans of TWO PRETTY LITTLE LS wHoM HE SOMPELLED TO BEG FROM WoUSE 0 MOVSE~ another starting up v line of It is barely pe at the laws of the State are not broad enough to cover these cases, especially if the defense should be made that the boys sell matches on com- mission—and beg of their own volitjon. However, an effort will be made soon to break up this imported system of child slavery. same stripe was business.