The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 3, 1900, Page 8

THE SUNDAY CALL = MATTERS THAT ARE OF INTEREST TO WOMEN* > ANNA RATHARIN GREEN ROLFS AEJD i HER Som~ I S e mani- a rst iterally Jome Points Concerning the &earing of Gloves ST n ot realize the v f ve. An ill V//\N r pr glov o b b o ¥ 5 nd the to. K have dwin- f : nct of dress - T . es is treated - s 2s a poor w elessnes | in regard t vering is noti and com- me r extent which, if the fair v . 1d cre- e & T ch are gloves. If your in- Also the Right and &rong &ay o Put Them On are long enough p fastens at the 10t 0 m perfectly discovered, your tra as bad that *dealer glove buying as is ving. . do not wear gloves ¢ backs, wrinkle y wrists do not give inement of appearance which all women covet Do not wear a glove with a button off or rip in some seam, thinking it will not be noticed. Such a defect is giaring to strangers and Almost any store will have ar which have been bought from -rly mended for a gloves look much better thar Do not put a new when led at home. )ve on car mex The Right Way. come is limited you might better don neatly mended. ut, good qual- ity gloves than of poor shape and qual Do not wear evening or dress gloves e v oceasion: cep It se e fmportant occasion ey become soiled or have been cleaned thes tess impor s, and a y soilcd g rs to be nough to run out in or to wear “good e shopping.” This is thoroughly bad taste form. For traveling 2nd shopping wear a medium h ume or a stout Engl giove of scme neutral shade. This will prove more economical than always pur- chasing dress gloves, which when once gotled are hacked out so quickly and look #0 elovenly. Do not try to make the hand look small by wearing & tight glove. In selecting a matching the co The first wearing molds the glove to the hand and decldes its future appearance. Be carefu! to get the fingers straight and work them gently on, little by little, each in turn. Then put one finger in the paim and, by pressing outward, adjust the hand part. The thumb follows, and when the scam on the outside of the hand is even and smooth the glove may be buttoned or clasped. Do not wear kid gloves without sprink- ling powder in them if vour hands are inclined to perspire,, Do not take a glove cff carelessiy if you desire it to last well. In taking gloves off turn the wrist over the fingers and draw until the fingers are half uncovered, then the finger ends may be loosened by the tips. This makes it an easy matter to readjust the glove right side out. It is a good plan to breathe in a glove after tak- ing it off. It preserves the softness of the kid by quickly drying any slight moist- ure, B TH A TA AR AT A DA TAOAS A TS AR AR [ ] # Princess &ho Is Raised in “ }omely Dutch Fashion.” “The Princess Victoria, the only daughter of the Emperor and Empress of Germany, is being brought up in a homely Dutch fashion. The Emperor sald: “I could wish no better for the men of my nation than that the girls of Germany should follow the example of their Em- press and devote their lives, as she does, to the cultivation of the three great K's— Kirche, Kinder and Kuche. And 1t may be readlly understood that & woman whose life is bound by church, suiting years old, and her brother, three or four years older, who owned a toy printing press and font of t used to take great delight in sett orinting her girl- pe k product two children playing author er”” to their own great satisfactic finite amusement of the older he family. Most of t ions from the boy little mac dastroyed, b ed a few, whic to her inti- nte’ ort, and most the beau- ties o flowers, the bl he bright = “The Mar- ng, ht at the ttempted a abored 1 roy it at 1 Yet it must some merit, for, as she now remembers it, the piot contained she germs of “The Case,” which was the solid t fame. Though neither else was aware , that period of her life s an important link in her mental de- lopment ie seemed fairly possessed he impulse to co uct stories, and much of the time.which she would other- wise have devoted to play was given up of it at th wi to lonely wal during which she told long and ingenicus tales to herself. Be- S e S R T children and kitchen will train her daugh- ter in domestic virtues. he little Princess knows nothing of xury or self-indulgence. She gets k in the morning, and until 1 the hour when the imperial fam- ines, Is b with her tutors. Her 1d body are carefully watched over - Her play hours are as rranged as her study hours. There were already six sons when this little daughter was born to the house of Hohenzollern, and the coming of a baby sister was a happy-event. There is row- ing on the lake with her brothers, riding on her pet pony, picnicking in the woods of the park and long botanizing expedi- with her mother as a companion, I through the round the p autiful grounds that suc- 1t Potsdam., Princess Victoria has an intense love for animals. She has pets of many kinds— dogs, a big white cat, birds, fish, squir- rels and rabbits, and it is her daily delight to feed them with her own hands. She is a quiet, amiable, affectionate little girl, with much of her mother's sweetness: of nature.—Harper's Bazar. Womon Rzsponsible - for the Loss of Wany Rattles. Many as the cases are of battles through the agency of we of Boadicea and Joan of Are, there can be no denying the fact that equally num ous, if not re so, e those of victories spoiled by the fair sex and of battles lost owing to feminine machination There are manj ¥s Tit-Bits, who as- rt that failure of the Jameson raid at the outset was brought about by women. President Kruger is in the habit of employing countless detectives, both male and female, in the Transvaal as well as abroad. The barmaids of Johannes- burg, for example, were sald to be in the pay of Oom Paul. These ladies, by means of thelr propensities for extracting confi- dences, are alleged to have wrung from some of the raiders long before the raid itself was entercd upon the fact that it was forthcoming. The consequence was that when It came about Cronje was fully prepared. France can point to a number of cases {n.which victories connected with the re- public have been spoiled by women, and the whole con Genel cour: Pquence ¥ al Boul : of events changed In r example, the fall of ser was brought about by a member of the fair sex. But for the vicom de Bonnemain there is the chance that he might have become the ruler of France.” The lady induced him to pay her a visit on the night of his election as a member of the Chamber of Deputies, when, had he refrained from so doing. end instead marched upon the Elysee, as his particans begged him to do, the his- tory of the republic might have been en- tirely altered. Somewhat similar is the Old World case of Hannibal, whose wife was the uninten- tional cause of his fall and the fatlure of his once successful armies. The great general was so foolish as to marry when he should have been devoting all his time to the conuuct of military affairs. Mis troops became utterly demoralized dur- ing the period of his honeymoon, with the result that they were rendered quite un- fit for arduous service, and never re- gained their former standard of discip- line. Again, in this_connection, there is the case of James 1V of Scotland, who is said to have lost the battle of Flodden Field through a woman. It is argued that if the King had seized the opportunity given him of occupving a favorable position wherein to meet the English forces the battie that ensued might have had a very different ending. But James lingered at the castle of a titled lady whose charms had captivated him, and so it was that the southern troops were allowed an opportus nity of choosing a suitable position, which could never have been secured had the monarch not hesitated. The lady was a certain nobleman’s wife named Heron, u&ghwu :egbeemiutul. i . noted Russian gen was found guilty of treason and seniencrd to death a year or two , thanks woman, one of his own.f:muy. s - 4 ANNA KATHARINE SREENS \vORK Room yond a doubt the framework of more than ome of her later works was then planned and set up, destined to forgetful- ness for years, but ultimately to be of great use. At 13she was sent to the Ripl College in Vermont and her school duties occupled her time and encrgy until after she was graduated. Then she returned to s Female O X THTITHTF TN @ Jhis Js the Crown Prince of Germany. The Crown Prince of ( many, whose coming of age was d with great state and ceremony the other day, is said to be immensely popular from one end of He r of tika his father the empire to the otn face, rather slim. is sm and he has been so guarded from outside influences that he Is said to be very boy- ish. Next year he will go to Bonn and ake his place as a full licutenant in the imperial army. So fond are the German people of their young Prince that his pho- tographs are sold by the thousands, ORUROROROROR GRONOROROKOKG Clara Wforrio to the One Who Would Be an Actress. “A Word of Warning to Young Act- resses” is uttered in the May Century by Clara Morris, one of the most successful actresses America has produced, and author of “Little Jim Crow,” “The Silent Singer,” ete. I know, she says, of but three powers that can open the stage door to a girl who comes straight from private life—a for- tune, great influence or superiative beau- ty. With a large amount of money a girl can unquestionably tempt a marager whose business is not 100 good to give her an engagement. If influence is used it 1ust indeed be of a high social order to be strong enough to affect favorably the box office receipts, and thus win an opening for the young debutante. As for beauty, it must be something very, very remark- able that will on its strength alone secure a girl an engagement. Mere prettiness will not do: nearly all American girls are pretty. It must bé a radiant and compell- ing beauty, and every one knows that there are not many such beauties, stage- struck or otherwise. * * ¢ You will say good-by to mother's pet- ting; you will live in your trunk, The time will come when in that poor hotel trunk (so called to distinguish it from the trunk that goes to the theater, when you are traveling or en route), with its dents and scars, will be the only friendly object to greet you in your desolate boarding house, with its one wizened, unwiiling gas burner, and its outlook. upon back vards and cats, or roofs and sparrows, its sullen, hard-featured bed, its despalring carpet; for, you sece, you will not have the money that might take you to the front of the house and four burners. Rain or shine, you will have to make your lonely, often frightened, way to and from the theater. At rehearsals you will have to stand about, wearily waiting hours while others rehearse over and over again their more important scenes; yet you may not leave for a walk or a chat, for you do not know at what moment your scene may be called. You will not be made much of. You will recelve a “Good morning” or “Good evening” from the company, prob- ably nothing more. If you are traveling, you will literally live in your hat and cloak., You will breakfast in them many § FRVORITR AUTHORRESS TELLS OF HER EARLY SXPERIENQES AS & WRITER her home in Brooklyn, where she at once set about the collection and revision of her verses. Having accomplished that task she tried to find a publisher, but failed. Then the suggestion that she turn from poetry to fiction was renewed. Remembering that in a previous effort £he had failed to please herself, the young writer hesitated a long time before tak- ing the offered adv: At last, however, she concluded to make the attempt, and from that time till a date quite two years later she lived in -a ‘little world of her own. She had the plot all mapped out before she began, but it had to be changed and modified as the work progressed, and much of the writing had to be done over and over again. Thus chapter after chap- ter was recast and rewritten. and on se eral occasions she felt sorely tempted to burn the manuscript and forget it. It was not until the story was two-thirds written that she dared ¥ anything about it to any "Then she showed the copy to her father, who read it, saw that she had struck a veln, and encouraged her to finish the tale, albeit he suggested many modifi- catlons. These the daughter accepted without question, for her father was a lawyer, and his suggestions were all along the line of practicality, logical de- velopment and conformity to the legal technicalities in the parts which had to do with the courts. “I felt grateful to my father for his kindness in helping me,” says Mrs. Rohlfs when talking of the circumstances now, “but I must confess that the way he tore some of my most cherished construction all to pieces was almost disheartening. However, I reconstructed and pieced to- gether the parts which he had condemned, and set about completing my work. I had already written about 100,000 words, and the story seemed to me not more than haif developed, but as my father warned me against making it too long I com- pressed the remainder, and when at last the manuscript was completed the story exceeded 150,000 words by only a few hun- drea. "I was then eager to take the copy to a publisher, but my father suggested that it ought to be revised again, and by a judge. So to a judge of our acquaintance the copy was taken, and he waded through it most patiently. I say this advisedly, for, as it then stood, the manuscript of ‘The Leavenworth Case' was the strang- t looking mass of paper you-ever saw. You see, I had written part of it at home in Brooklyn, part of it at the seashore, part of it in the mountains and other parts wherever I had chanced to be as a guest, on journeys and so on. I had pro- cured my paper and ink from the nearest dealer in every case, without a thought of uniformity. Chromatically the copy w: more like Joseph's coat of many colors than anything else I can compare it to, for some of the paper was white, some blue, some pink and some buff. But the judge made, no comments on the motley appearance of the manuseript and was very encou: ing in his report on the work as a whole. It had held his interest from first to last, he said. and the only technical criticism that he could offer was O T RTNDO R TR THE RO TR TSRS RO Y TR TR T RO TR P THET and many a time, you will dine fn them regularly. that you may rise at once and g0 to the theater or car. You will see no one, go nowhere If you are in earn endure the firs you will simply ure and study— and all for what? after dressing in the corner farthest m the looking- glass, in a dismal room you would scarce- 1y use for your housemaid's brooms and dusters at home, you may stand for a few moments in the background of some scene, and watch the leading lady mak- ing the hit in the foreground. Will these few well-dn d, well-lighted, music- thrilled moments repay you for the loss of home love, home comfort, home star- dom? We are not the radiant, winged crea- turés, we actors, that so many flighty young stage-struck girls think we are. Our wings only unfold in the calcium light; in the daytime we are merely hard- working, every-day men and women, with, here and there, one who carries the magic wand of imagination, at whose waving all sordidness disappears, and who bears lightly the trials and tribula- tions of this truly hard life. Yapolcon Used RBran and Lemeon ]n:tead of Soap. British critics £ the Boers are fond of asserting that the sturdy Transvaalers use liftle soap. This may be true or not. Even if true, there is plenty of precedent. The Japan- cse, the most cleanly people in the world, rarely use soap. The Russians use vapor baths for cleanliness’ sake. Rough inside clothing cleanses the skin. There are doctors who have cured skin diseases by insisting upon their delicate patients abandoning silk underwear and using very coarse stuff Instead. Napoleon, whose hands were good to model and beautifully white, used bran and lemon juice and no soap, unless to shave. In England, on account of coal smoke and smut, soap is more needed than in countries with clear air. Many fashionable ladies of to-day, who would be much offended if they were called barbarous or uncivilized, never use soap. They grease themselves with vase- line and such stuft and carefully rub it all off again. on my use In one place of the word ‘equity.’ So far as the word's ordinary meaning was concerned I had used it properly, but it had a significance in legal pariance whieh I had failed to gras %y I fixed up the word ‘equity’ and took the much scarred manuscript to the head of a well-known publishing house. He didn’t mind the appearance of the copy —though I'll confess I'd hesitate to offer such manuscript to any one nowaday and had It read. He warned me, though, that 150,000 words was altogether too long, and, further, that he wasn’t very hopeful that a story of the sort I had described to him, particularly if written by a young woman, would please the public at all. “The reports of the readers were fa- vorable In the main, but the publisher would not regard them as conclusive. ‘Now,' he said, ‘you cut out 50,000 words and then get Rossiter Johnson to read it. It he reports favorably we'll vring out your book.” It had been hard enough to write the story in the first place, but it was harder still .to cut out one-third of what had cost me so much time and ef- fort, but I t my eyes, so to speak, and after several s of hard work the ex- cisions were performed. “Mr. Johnson, as it chanced, was a friend of our family, and, though a very busy man, he was willing to pass on the story. He came to our house fn Brook- Iyn for that purpose, and in view of the condition of the copy I volunteered to read it to him. So he settled himself comfortably In his chair and I began. He said that if it were very bad I needn’t read It all, and, though he said it more as a joke than anything else, this filled me with a terror that can be more easily understood than described. After I had read two or three chapters I noticed with alarm that his eves were closed, and, thinking that possibly he might have fallen asleep through sheer lack of in- terest, I stopped. There was a pause of opening his eyes, he saild the one word, ‘More!” So I went on till midnight or later, when the reading was suspended till next day. After it was all read Mr. Johnson wae good enough to give the story his approval. In due time the book came out, and that is how I made my start as a story writer.” All the manuscript Mrs. Rohifs writes now !s read aloud, as was that of “The Leavenworth Case,” but the author is rarely the reader. When she is producing a story she devotes the major part of the day to the work, writing rapidly for eral hours, after which she devotes some time to correction. In the evening, when the lamps have been lighted, she and her husband and the governess of their chil- dren gather about the table in her writ- ing rocm, Mr. Rohlfs reads and the ot listen, until one of the three has a cri cism to make. In the nature of things, the criticis e oftenest made by the author herself, and she is constantly mak- ing notes of the way the story strikes her as the reading progresses. At the same time she plans the work of the coming day, and in the pauses Mr. Rohlfs goes over the finished copy and crosses the t's and dots the i's. Mrs. Rohlfs is essentially a home wo- A Few Recipes for Making [ =i el ol A at mx:omz&masg % FASHIONS AND g & OTHER MATTERS & g MORE OR 8 § LESS FRIVOLOUS. 3 @LOROOLORORN T [ORORIWINI%ND man, despite her calling, which in a sense Is a subordinate consideration with her. When she is writing, however, she devotes herself very closely to the work, be ning at 9 o'clock in th sometimes writing or rec the night, after the r reading has been accom days to adjust if to a new plece of work, but once has begun can drive it out ¢ not mean that everyth way to the sto as hostess or as gu tertainments an she is writing a plece of the same as at other times. But whatever she does she never lets go of the thread of her story, and thus in a way she almost leads a double existence from the heginning of the work to its finish. There are three children in the Rholfs family: Rosamond, J5; Sterling, 13, and Roland, 8. Out of study hours t.ey spend OONRORORON S RONRIRIARSNS Find JSeven Pabies in This Picture if You Can. One and one and one make three any one would say upon glancing at this pic- ture of the fine little boys. It is not what else must give deed she often acts es out to tions whi you see first that is the right answer. Look again and perhaps you will-be sharp enough to see that one and one and one make not three, but seven. @LONRORNORONON G LNGRTRIIONG much of thelr time in the writing-room of the author and much In the studio, where their father ¢ ructs the chairs and ta- blegf and ot c articles of house- hold use ar dornment that have 3 tracted the of those who appre- ciate st Zach of the children splayed special apt n Rosamond and § showing grea d the boy -for s already a special line. c, the girl (u\: vrnlnr ikings of his Idren take delight in the ation which they are encot > er, h elf an expe: - entific botanist. Mrs. Rol religious wom: who believes fai 1 be chiefly man fested in works Buffalo whose been mark tical chari Glace Fruits, Candies and Other Confections Neo box of assorted candies is complete inside: without some glaced fruits. For this, the syrup should be handled differently. Take the same proportion of sugar and water, but boil the liquid until it comes to the crackling point. Test it by dropping a little into cold water. If it is brittle when cobled it Is ready for the fruit. Take the Jkettle from the hot part of the stove, but set it where it will keep warm. Dip can- dled cherries, grapes or Brazil nuts, or whatever nut or fruit you may fancy, into the syrup and then put them on waxed paper to dry; when quite hard, dip them a second time. One of the most success- ful home-made candies is the opera cara- mel, that somehow. takes on a profes- sional air, however it may be handled. Take three cups of granulated sugar and add to it a cup of cream and a little less than a saltspoonful of cream of tartar. Boil this in a double boiler, and as it has no tende: to grain it may be stirred during the process. Boil until it may be easily molded into a soft ball. Then fla- vor with vanilla or chocolate and stir in chopped assorted nuts; when it gets suf- ficiently cool roll out and cut into cara- mels. A mest delicious confection that is rare- Iy seen is made as follows: Take the orange rinds that are left over from breakfast, cut them into strips, removing carefully- the Dbitter white pith from the Put the o water and bof til they are der. Now make syrup by p £ water to a c - the fire and br then put in the orange five minutes. Remove from the st leave the rinds in the syrup until then drain on sieve and roll in gra sugar. Placed in a dainty box | Ik paper this dainty confection is n acceptable. Delicious maple creams: Take a quart of maple syrup made from pure maple sugar. Cook the syrup until a little drop- ped on ice will thread—not wax, as it must not be too hard. Remove from the stove; then put in two tableéspoonfuls cream and beat long and t a soft inals in German ng the legisla- tors. In 188 the offenders nu bered 30,iv+, tue total rising to 453504 in 1894,-and to 47,975 in 1888 The increase of all criminals in 1398 over the preced! year was 3 per cent, an increase dispr portionate to the growth of populatio The juvenile criminals, however, creased alarmingly, the number in 1398 be- ing 6 per cent over that of 1897. A4