The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 7, 1900, Page 10

10 THE SUNDAY OCALL. and spears an: rey studied ked, and shut mness fitted at the ful nisk directs striped ¢ and c called “art depart store From f any dry goods the center of the grille hangs a nalyze it and you will find 1t ation of old brass somehow the edly Turkish to reminds him of that cost most R T | ,mllml"m iy The sa.ue embinetman who makes yot, grille can fit a three-sectioned bench into the bay. This may cost as much or as little as your purse pleases. It may be oped into a box couch with stow- away corners for old magazines or gowns. Or for less money it may be the rudest kind of bench, having no recommenda- tion but strength. With this as a basis much can be added A layer of padding on top may be cov- ered by some of the same striped material that serves for draperies. Hang a valance of the same reaching to the floor. Plle Up as many cushions as you can gather. The cushions in this particular window &re hand painted and they carry out the oriental scheme of the whole room. Both- well Brown has turned his talent to prac- tical account and has designed Turkish heads for the cushion covers. By the m"’h ¥ 1 M’fll’" ll, "‘U"'“'"’"'l‘ i in I». |I ...Jll ’rd il w same gift he has been able to decorate Turkish faces which fit upon many & pedestal and bracket about the room. The flag of the Sultan’s land can be bought or made at & small expense and ANCE | 1 M‘N A iy m Yl l"" "III it fllls any troublesome corner. Don’t for- get it In your furnishings. A pyrographic outfit is of limitless value in carrying out such decorations as these. The tabourette in the bay is ornamented £ .,.l......lunllu mill mu[ mun“l I 6] T 'iiii.,i'm | '-\TI(T“ ITHSTANDING the fact that | every census enumerator . naa i 1 prepared instructions dules, the latter having printed he s over the columns for names, ages, ¢ the cupations, enumerators nativity, ete., succeeded in and enigmatic entries. The g women who manipulate the punching machines in the census office have found themselves sorely puzzled over some of these records. Whenever the punchers found on the schedules an occupation which does not appesr in the specially prepared and printed list furnished by their chiefs they are instructed to punch it either “O. T.,” meaning “other things” or “N. G.,' standing for “not gainful” Thus when &n enumerator in Indiana gaye the oc- cupation of & man as “drunkard,” the puncher was in a quandary what to do. Her chief came to the rescue and In- formed her that drinking intoxicating liquors was certainly not a gainful occu- pation, especially as the next column on the schedule showed that the man in ques- tion was so engaged twelve months in each year. She was therefore instructed to punch it “N. G.” The same rule was followed when other enumerators entered & woman as an inebriate and certain men as topers. A New York enumerator, who was per- haps something of a sleuth, entered sev- eral men in his district variously as “pickpockets” and “gamblers.” For some reason these were entered under the head of “not gainful” pursuits. A Georgian who ekes out an existence by doing chores about the neighborhood in which he resides will appear in the census as “odd jobs.” His occupation will be found very properly under the head of “other things.” One of the Southern enumerators came ODDITIES OF THE RECENT CENSUS. across an invalld who had spent several vears in the South for his health and promptly entered the sick man's occupa- tion as “traveling for his health.” This, of course, was punched under the head of “not gainful.” In Pennsylvania an aged woman was entered as “occupation—invalld,” and an- other under the same heading as ‘‘para- lyzed.” Bach entry made on the schedule being paid by the Government at a prescribed rate, an enterprising enumerator in Ohio, seeking to swell his temporary income, sought the resort of a number of Weary ‘Willies on the outskirts of his town and entered them. To each of these he gave the occupation of “tramp, not gainful.” One of the Western enumerators put down & worthless fellow, known as the —; occupation, loafer; not gainful; un- employed twelve months in the year.” An aged veteran of the Civil War was entered In the occupation column as “lives on pension,” and snother as “‘miser,” while still another was reported in the same column as “lives on sav- ings.” Some of the other oddities of occupa- tions are given: “Boarding,” visitin “not at work” and “musically incline Of course, none of these can be found in the prescriued list of occupations and they are consequently entered variously in the “O. T."” and “N. G.” columns. In many of the returns from the rural districts from the South a large number of children under 10 years of age are re- corded as farm laborers, and under the proper headings it is said that they are so employed elght months and attend school but two months in each year. Two Southern housewives appear in the occupation column as ‘“‘does housework’ and “minds baby.” Numerous Indians, whose census has been taken, appear on the lists as farm- ers, with here and there a hunter. Gyp- sles are given as horse traders and for- tune tellers, and in one Instance as ‘“ho- bo.” A Kentucky woman, whose hus- hand is entered as an ‘“idler,”” gave her occupation as “washing and wishing.” The punchers who came across this entry remarked that the phrase meant that the oman was washing to support her twelve children and lazy husband, and wishing that he would go to work and assist in the maintenance of their num- erous offspring. In many of the returns from the South- ern States men of means and leisure ars entered In the occupation column as ‘“gentlemen,” and in one instance as “rich.” An invaltd in Illinois is given occupation “lald up,” and a paralytic figures in the same column as “has fits.” It remained for a Pennsylvania enu- merator to record a German, 45 years old, as “occupation—villain.” Whether this was the enumerator's personal esti- mate of the man or whether the Ger- man himself gave this unique and sug- gestive occupation Is not known. Neither is it known whether the villain was en- tered as “N. G.” or “O. T. —Washington Letter in New York Sun. —_———— “Who was the scientist who made the discovery that baldness is a sign of in- tellect?"” “I don't know his name. AN I know i that he was bald."—Stray Storfes "'m I,lll i by fire etching, and it is an excellent subd- stitute for the carved ones that cost what- ever a greedy furnisher chooses to ask. Tabourettes, tables, chairs and cushions can all be etched by the fire process. A good chair is the one made by a common carpenter whose pattern came from & valuable orfental design. After being turned over to the fire etcher it came out anything but a rude affalr. Elaborate scrolls are traced on back and seat and legs; dark wood stains are used in com- bination with the etching, and small leather cushions are fastened with brass nails. The moneyed cost of the whole was almost nothing. Of course it is advantageous to havs as many real Turkish curios as possible, and these can be bought now and then for a very little money by watching the Turk- ish shops which the Midwinter Fair scat- tered about town. A tabouretts of more than a hundred years’ history was picked up for a song, mended here and there, colored over In its original red, black and yellow, and now it bolds the Turkish pips from which some Iidls gentleman omce drew the smoke of his beloved lataia Close your eyes and you can fairly ses the dancing gir! swaying or the rug be- fore his drowsy eyes. A darker corner of the parlor is fitted out with a divan. A four-dollar oot can be used. It is springy. The better the cot the better the divan. It is draped with the cotton stripes. Still more of the goods is drawn Into a canopy above—a canopy of which spears form the supports. A large painted panel forms a good back- ground above the divan, and cushions— heaps and heaps of them—are piled high in the shadowy cormers. A Turkish table stands near the end of the divan and an occasional palm gives the happy touch that green always gives a room. If you have an artistic soul of course will cause you a momentary pang when you buy imitation rugs. You will cast longing thoughts after the Bokharas that burs. But the coples grow bet might be ter all the time, and rem ber that a you can hope to do with small means is to produce good effects that will not bear analysis. Pedestals are dear to the O heart, and they can be made by man and painted by yoursel a detall—but the d ‘Who was it that made a mark about the genius of infinite pains MEN OF 1900 WHO DWELL IN CAVES. troglodytes. t. horri- llows who gnawed hu- dimmest g llke habi- r cabine They are afls count. y true re- Cave dwellers, ble, hairy, busy fi man leg bones in the farthest, corners of their burrows, gr beasts at intruders—wers pleast tants of this earth in very old days. Cave dwellers there are , even In civilized lands, though they no longer, gnaw leg bones. Many fishermen along the north coast of Scotland live in hagpd-made caves In the cliff side, but whether these dwellings were made In prehistoric times or by the smugglers one knows not. These fisher- men are all of very small stature. At Granada, in Spain, Is a tribe of gyp- sles who have lived for centuries in & row of caves that pockmark the great hill on which stands what is left of the Alham- bra. Some years ago, noting the exceeding purity of the air in the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, some smart aleck thought it would be a good place to curs consump- tion. A healthy man is greatly exhiler- ated in the cave and tired after leaving It So were the consumptives affected: but the “galloping kind™ galloped the harder, and the doomed galleries echoed to the exhilarated coughing of the coughing kind, and the experiment was abandoned. It is curlous that the establishment of a ganitarium above ground to which the marvelous air of the Mammoth Cave could be piped is now proposed. Perfectly pure dry air and sunlight would not be a bad combination. Of course the alr in little caves is not pure or dry. Nevertheless, the late Duke of Portland, one of the richest men in England, spent his later years in the cel- lars of Welbeck Abbey, cut off from the outer world, where the sun could not reach him. Elizabeth Browning, 00, wrote many of her finest poems in the cellar of her house, whers she was compelled to live after her sight had given way. An ectentric old bachelor In England once furnished for his own use a smug- gler’s cave In Dorsetshire, where he could always be within sound of the many- mouthed sea. Here he lived seven years, but even here the enemy sought him out, and he was married and went to live In & ity house. Most extraordinary of all subferranean dwellings was that of Saurier, the eccen- tric French novelist. He had in his gar- den a large lake. One day, worried by noise, he conceived the idea of a study under the lake with a roof of plate glass. This was built at considerable cost, and in that room Saurier ltved throughout the day. When not busy he had only to look through the glass and watch the fish. A cave 13 cool in hot weather and warm in cold weather. You might do worse. s S E e e Many of the characters in the Chiness language are very suggestive of the rela- tionship between husband and wifs, and leave no doubt as to the subordinate posi- tion which the woman occuples in Chinesa domestie life. The part which the China- man plays in securing his bride Is vigor- ously fMustrated In the word to seize, the character for woman crouching under the Chinese symbol for claws, while the char- acter for wife, Indicated by a woman placed beside a broom, is evidence of the Chinaman’s opinion with regard to the proper position of his helpmate t his household.—October Ladies’ Home Jour- s