The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 29, 1900, Page 10

10 THE SUNDAY TALL How Many California Girls @an Build a House With Their Own Hapds? —_— She Wore Qut Two Pairs of Overalls in a Month and a Pair L4 of Leather Mitiens Every Week Whileat Work. er 1o me For Her and Child. § she had planned to comfortable ! N £ house there for ed dollars g o % : he s t was a pl wuld throw st away such sweet - less prospects r . “I suppose you know, my dear. that brick f : there's less than $1000 r f g " left,” he wh red. ° ; : “Oh, yes; but I've some plans of my own that you know about,” came A the confident - - A Mre. David plann M that night, while s her fast asleep. She and when breakfast was over she hired £ shing o a woman neighbor to come and care for g % her husband and child while sh: M ) 5 about executing her plans. Her he r k ! : scemed like lead, but sh not let a days Mrs. D - soul know but that she the most bul A 1 blithesome. chipper person town. bar 1denly 1 bega a 2 She went over to C ) wife we work on. the fously mort- about for 2 =, in the fc I b route lay prin- lumber dealers. rew rougt s of 2 : s it e : K s imasine a house such she wished e g Paas wat s . thousand questic 1 be AWay % and how and w e w 1 L . - ting up a house. Tk rget lay I wut . vid had a law Mr. 1 as entry upon the . ; : an ked the first load of lumber a , Pr n I ha the “site of the house. w 1t T we g had paid the lumber bill g my a v - : o on all the discounts com get together ) I That was 16. The Colton ‘Urnedy i t : people will still tell w e ” : glowing. words of praise e y: 3 little wohan how frequ se | February da s S 2 Mrs. David seated 2 : local carpenter and o lumber company's wag 2 g : 3 ; shingles, redwood b« 1r : tlings on the way to Y ‘ posed house m away ove hilis out of town. The - the .scene of the pr : 8 g work and feeling that Yankee blonde, with a ) a ¢ re to es their liv 1 brero over her flaxen lo - = later the St tne o Davids and contentment and v ; i worth the S pg going éme in Colton w and Rive s the: etivu jured stances o slasleit i the " 1 burn. 1, ther s - : daunted energy David: much tis as The work on the littia home began with =0 this as you would 1 the first load of JumBer en the scene. FiZ¢é. before going:forth on any ity Every day Mrs. Davi§ went there with 'U'e [ Which sauare Iitcly. 0 st lone white-haircd carpenter at 7 in Ut tke e preca e ning and she fetu ed withs hfm - » ng. She worked hard and labor- s with 4 iousi under the ¢ - 1 . Ske did a man’'s w « ca ed you t ached 1 : t ficient aj b e E she had the run B D) t rdled nd s 2 s handling of s as her ¢ fa W dcts 1k me erribly weary, » have a home for k 8 x v - her and owe r : upon it kept her e night she dropped P 1 “" i : 4 : the tabie Every noon she got out her and sitting on a pile meal from tin Keepiag the doctor's w, se foothill re build a house for her ram:ly. of = When Mrs. I 1's re- et, shé revolved the idea ¢ iome the orm w the towering San Bernar v returned to her nus- carpenter's pla fternoon she they rode back to town ry spot Wwork of all when we were bui aid Mrs. David, In te late tt mind Mountains southwest from Colton vand's bed \ de- found a spot—six miles from t ler—where a ligtle water mig SPOL.- {n the foothills over and over in voarry about for week. At last she reach Some d the v fight for new house,” told him how she had f to malke to-be done t be nad soon. L husband and baby in among the desolate hill It had once 1 renewed life. She was sure those d when I bade m the care of a s -in-law. who came on teen taken up as a Government land ural sanitarium for weak lungs had husband and my baby good-t from T ns., voung Mrs. David and then had,been abandoned. It been found by herself. t the sick hus- started out at dawn to do more work and drove fifteen miles out hired a cs ns and en- thereby get a home so much cheaper.” ad for comparatively band only smiled ecided to thu: nto th on f u rave little womar sm. Whe he told how When the frame was up and the boards jovieofecdmle] g D e e Ao oo oo oottt PR RER WA RIS ht Find an to Make One s, ®chool con- cmblex s0 to app when finished. After being paste. The portions of the engraved trac- surviv. and cak particvlar i The zins t approved the drawing is submitted to the ings, such as letters, flowers. etc., which The npanying cuts of medals are of them in a sum- G sis e process and Revela- engraver, to whom the goldsmith hands are to be enameled, are then filled in with those prepared for the coming school con- cach of them there tion are p ta amels and y rmed by the lis m ra College, and th n who en- over the medal, prepared in proper pro- the paste mixture and the medal is put tesis of the Sa s. Between these two portions and beaten to the required thick- to bake. When thoroughly done the patterns are wrought B s there | ich of cutting, tracing. nes: With curious little saws dnd knives roughness of the enamel is ground away conception of what engraving. bak heating and maay the engraver goes to work, following out !n some manner known to the jeweler, in- tom of medal award other things that jewelers do. the indications of the drawing in the volving the use of emery paper, chamols grever and the ename have The designer evolves from the idea pleces of metal, executing the design In cloth and such thi : then the sections to the execution, and the med: given by the person who orders the a number of sections. Meanwhile the en- are given a high polish and put together. ing brightly on their tinted velvet of metals queer de- medal an creation in pencil or pen ameler has been grinding into dust a curi- When, behold, the medal is complete— fons, awaiting such time as their wi wrought, each tracing, representing the medal as It Is ous kind of glass, which he mixes into a ready for the fittest In the struggle for are determined. r the designer's me-honored ¢ f misceliancous thi demands. Out of gold a riously