The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 24, 1900, Page 11

THE SUNDAY CALL. PULPIT oF MARINERS CHURCH ueTe ing them into out for more. of strangers to the the harbor's edge, and workers in the church f propagating the the ¥ x @lait — 255 ; ; ). The ."rf' 1 ng, like all others be- Jhe Youngest Theairical Manager & s . i il e ial building con- g and trying-to lose itself which underlies that part the eity i _Hmerica. x would have succeeded in its effort not been for the noble n men-of-war: He bankl part of 1 a habit of ng the larg r by 5 posores o : x his wages after each payday an¢ going tearing spree with the remainder, rning to his work only when the last L T %of ms allowance was spent. But drunk or sober, no matter how thirsty he might &be, he never drew money from the bank. 7 He became, for a sailor, a rich man. { While his savings made him wealthy, his ¥ sprees brought him to the notice of the pious mariners. who converted him. % Thankfuiness with him was real and he ) gave the church $10,000 for a *‘windward (/ anchcr.” As the church has just barely & enough for current expenses, it was only () by means of using this repair fund that » the building has been able to keep above ground. O The Mariners' Church observes Sunday ®in liberal fashion, having tea for sallors in harbor after the day’s devotions, and in that way keeping the congregation *from drifting apart. The refreshments are served by the ladies of the church in the gallery, where there are tables and cooking necessities. While this day Is devoted to the Lord, % sailors are not allowed to go to the devil )on other days. To entertain and instruct thbse of the seamen who have leisure, three free reading rooms are maintained at the church. The English reading room M was the first established in San Francisco. s d ro ontains French books, »magazines and papers. The third, just yopened, is a German rcading room, and is the first id only German free reading *room in San Francisco. ) One of the most valuable aids of the (Elite Photo.) @humble little church, in its unending task, Charles M. Thall % £ WAHEN THE STEEPLE : SAVED A S0UL b, T B g & WERAE o e ix what fs known as the “Floating Soctety of Christian Endeavor,” an organization composed of young people of the various denominations. They have built a gaso< line launch, board ships as soon as possi- ble after they enter the harbor, hold at- tractive services there, and bid the sallors welcome ashore to the reading rooms, the 5 o'clock teas and the quaint prayer ser- vices which are led from the deck of the ship in the chapel. There was kindness in the heart of the man who suggested that pulpit. A sailor off ship is usually as lonesome as a chick which has lost its mother upless he can see the familiar sights, and there is noth- ing in this world on which he rests his eye more lovingly thun the steering wheel of a ship, such as forms the reading desk in the ship pulpit of the Mariners' Church. San Francisco has been the “‘jumping off place” for many who feel that here {8 the “end of the earth,” and nothing be- yond—not even hope. Young apprentice sailors more than any others feel this. They have usually been condemned to 11 Has the Sterp of a Ship for a Pulpit apd a Steam Caundry Upder Same Roof. sea for some Indiscretion or weakness, and just as they most need counsel and ex- ample they are thrown into a blackhole of a forecastle with a mixture of earth Jregs for company and a brute of a man- driving second mate for their master. Their arrival at San Francisco is for them the brink of the cliff. To again sub- mit to the privation and discipline, return- ing to their families: at the end of the voyage as sunburned heroes, or to end their misery by a plunge into tI which their companions are already I ing on shore—that is the qu C It Is to these young men that the efforts larly who was at tal sy One nig crawled up a light of one «¢ in th over the houset roof, all of the time w waist of ended for : had made the who the adv as + moral The steeple which death seemed to with all had not 1 pered and r for his we d That is one ¢ ] > sand others 5 Y ble little b keeps are le church of s his light the sal ts home from Srowth of the Human Hair. very curlous facts in re Som ard to the growth of human hair have jusf been lished in blatt, Pohl the Dermatologisches C: the author of the article being The general bellef up to the pres- has been that the ad grows at the rate thirty-three m Pohl says it is not n met He further maintains that hair grows m slowly after it is ¢ h any other time, an at elapse before it normal rate. F' hair after be than the otk time, for before same time provision m: bald spots o son why its loss is not more apparent is because in each of the c ntless ! onles there is at left, and all these the bald J give the death v to many old-t ories ¥ regard to hal tle doubt that his will prove of rare many scientists. LS Setting Into the Smart Set. People who go about and into soclety tell me that when a woman fe- sires to make herseif one few of the smart set there is rea ing she will stop at, and some same persons have been 1ling story in fllustratic high officialdom is a a spring crocus, who w: inner circle long before she becam of offictaldom. On one days she was chatting women, when the servar arrival of a woman w get into things struggled befo: by sight merely, an as a bowing acquaintance w official people are used to at their reception house bowed with her The climber's quick eye took In the ation. She saw the two Cabl and she knew they caw her. the occasion in masterly fashion “My dear Mrs. Blank,™ she said gush- ingly® clasping the hostess’ hand warmly, sorry not to have been at home ou called on Friday. It was so sweet of you to come so soon, and I do hope vou'll come very often, informally, that way.” And before the hostess had recovered from her surprise the climber had passed.