The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 8, 1900, Page 10

10 THE SUNDAY CALL. - \? \ i |l.! I )um\ii T I \ | l 1 )~ THE / LECTRIC PALAC ALGERIAN BUILDING Isn't this one splen- Mot to see it in the beginning. I tell you, did! Do tell me the these exhidbitions sharpen people’s wits, name of it!” don’t they, Mr. Simpson. As I told Mr. She turns to & Brown befors we left home, it costs & large canvas por- good deal of momey to go to Paris and traylng & man on gee the exhibition, but the education is horseback falllng worth it. Just think, now, of what we've from & prec already learned s af Jenny FEQW Sree Foally: and I had both clean that the Spanish sectior S ey Phussa but Mr. Simp s & e evidently a little e &) muddled after the Out at the American commission, confidence of Mrs, Wwhither I went the other day for the Brown, seems to be S er the impression that it i3 the sh section. He takes a logue of the T from his pocket and turns to the number of the picture. “Number 3. Ah, I have it—The Execu- tion of Charles 1.” They all look for a seco sllence. Mr. Simp- son is not quite sat- 1sfled. He looks again at the num- ber, then at the cat- alogue. There it is as big as life—n ber 33—the exec tion of Charles Mrs. Brown is first to break t lence. “Well, that they queer way cutlng pec those times pose they on horsebs then . chase horse from the prec- ipice. It mal think of the wax- works In New York, where they have el- ephants stepping c men’s heads. Ha you ever seen the Mr alkc the ‘expo- & greater im- 10ng oth- e t e those who cannot r soverelgns and There COme are at least 1abo! ary to wait some If d have never ple- I man- tience I am very man in le a graceful m titled “Walting he is here now. two 1 watting waxwork Simpeon? about things being natural. There ain't a picture in exhibition true to waxworks. Mr. Simpson | aisposed to before ‘“‘the exe f Charles horrid Amer- s No. 42 logue end exqu a half-myst al way. “So w feeling. Don't you ad- eating a poor ! A sympa- ng the cxcuse of the ed in one of the dally exe » Mr. “Yes, very N of picture than the other one. I'm not Viges 3 fond of historical subjects. They're too schefies worked b 5 P pretentious. 1 like the simpler painters es in Parls whose s gush from the heart as I 2 spacious residence near 5 2 2 pwers from the clouds of summer or aphe, Certainly the ex- there has been a degeneration In kings anxlous to get Into the twentleth'century Brown?' Mrs. Brown—No, I'm not very frem the eyelids start. You remem- © all boy visiting his grand- since the days of long ago, when I found procession, just like everybody else. Jn tired; but, I might as well own up, I'm ; t not to bankrupt any nation, MY greatest delights in roval circles. I thelr bullding there is not even a plc.ie about ready to burst. It's all Tenr . -~ . Czar. even if thi tion be poor old S v But :um m.\; eyes and see whole troops of of the Acropolis, not a shadow of broken fault that I'm so puffy to-day She e give eclat 1 edly this manner of simplifying ‘(»v'"m”vvs. h w vn I used to lm' on most statuary. Evidently the modern Greeks thought that I had too much abbdomen, turns all sorts of colors and aga A i ; nes has not oceur to the Queen ;"v"‘:"nvrv‘zmlsl. {rh-re was old h'lnz CulP: are trylng to go it alone without the aid or abdohmen, whatever you call it, and in the catalo The old lady r : > merry old soul, a little free and easy of their forefathers’ ghosts. For my own hauled me off to one of these here French the pict tentively. “I M T nt s ¥ I saw the King of Greece. ::~H‘u» d yet always arrayed as became a. part this new Greek Is pitifully uninterest; corset-makers. Well, they do work won- Simpsor a’'t quite understand why see Pal- Xing, with velvet and ermine and jewels, ing. The fact that they manufacture stiff ders, fordook at me now; I'm just as flat they call the picture ‘Waiting.” I suppose ded by an it in one single instange do I find the : P o hat re g for L5 ronts Athe o+ hairbrushes in 28 a pancake, and you know what I usec he“idea is that they walting for the re. It was the first I8#ble pre RPN Bl hirt fronts in Athens or hairbrushes in P what I used the“idea at th &) ip from the It is more my style young men gaz 1 t and sald s s should think he he (¢ ain question wever, came wing to the 1 verse, don't you? at he looks eying »n is so embarrassed xpected poetical fi 1 to be passing the when out he came nch s Samothrace does not inspire me with the to be.” She strokes the new corset ap- rain to stop: but evers body o s i S A - Il aver aehn plain black clothes and wearin =i ., 5 » i ng Lhad ey e (‘]‘l syt wearing, forsooth, giontect” enthusiasm. provingly. The young man blushes a lit- getting out of it as fast e 5 . )\' ey 2 4B PROCK T AdOF b NIy o d e BB % tle-and tries to look at anything but the don't see any one waiting.” Mr. Simpsc re fs the Not that there was anything extr wordin- King George of Greece, it seems, was Scene in the ‘\‘” iy ot ithe “I’:““Tl_‘x t indicated. The girl says simperingly, agaip looks uneasy. The same th - es . : Do, VU e ‘“‘ ontrary be- passing through and intends to re- 1"‘"' d ""‘, = :““' o8 ;" I”"r""'h_ sir mma, Mr. Simpson isn’t used to talk- had umdoubtedly crossed his own mi 5 F « e was just exactly like an ordin- dress e latest Paris s g . > 3 WAS' S an ordir ter a little more formally, I be- oo o Y atest Paris fashipn, a0 5,0ut corsets so familiarly. He turns once more to the number in the Wz Now g gallan le lifted his hat as he s s " spruce young man and fat, matronly — o o en—Well, he'l catalogue, but Miss Jenny comes to his ri he « ’ 13 vealing a very bald head and I _° sy o (im0t VIO y'h‘.[oxposltllon at all, person, evidently the girl's mother. The '“r '”’“"’ LB ot Moy e & S . o \ ol when T wome ¥ or, if 50, it was strictly Incogs His bulld- old lady warm, very puffy and to It if he stays a while in Paris.. Land -ue. - 3 : & b e . . 3 “Yes, mamma, e are some people bright black . t v 3o EaTEE s Sk ing at the exposition is_a surprise. It very . & sakes, corsets ain't a circumstance to the Yeu:. medinta; - there ar . poap £te Ve lo kings wear crowns n - very red in the face. She takes a seat, in the background waiting under an awn- hundred, f do ems to me to be anythingon earth but and leans against the back of the bench things they talk about in this town., You Greek. It is all round arches and square so that her feet do not touch the floor. know, Jenny, what the folks at our hotel ose they don't and I experi- ing. Put on your glasses and you will laces wr of disappointment in think- sy : S 3 e ... pillars, as if some one had taken a de- i told us last night! see them. sent over t r Fran xment the good old days when Neht bn vaverslns sh . She manipulates her fan furiously. The Mra. Brown excavates inf the reglon of posed thaf the success of the exposition is King sat in the parlor counting out sing the ancient idea. I young man and the girl remain standing. ~Jenny gasps perceptibly and hastens to = T o0 Touie on her glasses and I thousands of o forth that his money, while the Queen was in the SUPPOSe they are sick and and tired down The former addresses the old lady very change the subject, “Oh, Mr, Simpson, ;. again. “Oh, yes; I see them. But they wer s oomis “Hark, harl - Ritohiad L e Silsragy there of being coldly s AT - s i < ot ks ain. . yes; I v h e x:‘ 5 H. >‘k a‘.k hark, i ;5 ng br M;l and honey This L3 y classical and are solicitously: '‘Are you very tired, Mrs. do tell us something about the pictures! I tell you, Jenny, that isn't why it's called gencarme’ gs bark, the Czar 1s coming @ear old King always were a crown and . ‘Waiting." Don't you see those cabs there gler in a fight a to town?” had long, curly locks and beautiful whis u lined up before a bullding: they're walt- The dog was kors. If he of Greece be a fair sample ing for customers. It was stupld of us rested. \\‘ A ‘ ’\\’CH;A_N.\F:’/ED\E e /l’/[ll fals?: ST 21 A THE _BuiLbIing OF THE Jjcity oF ALEXANDRE THE NEw BR|DGE..) —