The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 14, 1901, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 1901. [| » NEWS or THE BAY CITIES. VETERAN OF THREE WARS PASSES AWAY Southern Pacific Employe and Former British Soldier Dies After an Eventful Career. -3 ND, Jan. 12.—Willam Hall ars & member e 0ld veteran was in [ 1¥'s employ. ¢ com are familiar res. He had charge for s of » pler entrances at the gauge ferry slip. A year sick with the grip. He n ’ confinement, at the ferry de- 1 weakened the itution, how- bed, swhich leave in life. JLLETS PIERCE 1NDOW AAD DOUR dence of Engineer C. Poole. e San Francisco Call, | 8 Broadway, Jan. 13. rty-eight caliber red the residence ket street, One of the parlor window. lodged deep in owed through inner door cas- cxo e 1A \ s of the mysterious cupled by Poole, who B engineer, and his 2 n his run this morn- o the house To Detective to investigate le narrated the »t throw any | of the pistol user. m when she heard led the of the broken glass siles striking the 2 Oskland’s Pulpits. Jan. 13—Rev. A. W. Rider of the First Baptist es to-day in the ab- Hobart, who has gone *asadena. preached at both ser- rowr 12 been conducting & geries of services at this church during the week of prayer. 16y have been S0 puccessful thet they will be continued an- her week. onal ireh this morning for the pastor, Rev, W ps. W. Frazer of the Brooklyn n Church has begun a series 1€ sermons of great interest. The | delivered to-night upon the topie aning of Life.” These sermons actical and intended to be of 1ife. Benjemin Fay Milis of the rian Church delivered the sec- Sermons in Stories” this even- he Redemption of David Car- v. H sbyteria To Take Part in Ceremony. KELEY, Jan. 13—A representative m ihe Berkeley High Sechool ani Alumni Association will speak aying of the corner-stone .of the w_high school on February 22. William Cleave, president of the senfor class, en chosen to_represent the high | their | the base £chool and Harry Johnson, president of t ni Association, will represent the [ tes. President Benjamin Ide Wheeler will de- ver the principal address of the day. ey st e The man who returns an umbrella is not consclence stricken; 18 is & case of mental weakness. Hall was a native of Devonshire, where he was born sixt; At an early age he enlisted in rmy. His first campaigning r ring the Crimean war, parti- & In the battles of Inkerman and Al and in the slege of Sebastopol. Later he served through the China war in 1580, receiving medals for bravery at the taking of the Taku forts and Peking. He also saw active service during the Sepoy rebellion. In 1575, Mr. at the request of his children, the old soidier came to California. He is survived his wife and three children. One son, Willlam G. Hall, was with Dew- ey at Manila and is now a warrant offi- cer on the battieship Indiana. James Hall, another son, is employed by the Southern Pacific Company at 'Sacramento. There 1; a daughter, Mrs. Donlan, of San ose. The funeral will be held to-morrow af- ternoon at 1 o'clock from the residence. Rev. C. L throp, formerly rector of 251 Andrew’s Episcopal Church, will of- ate. B S S S A ] ] AWAIT OPENING OF UNIVERSITY Students Have Returned From Vacation for Next Term’s Work. BERKBLEY, Jan. 18.—The University of California will open to-morrow for the eecond term of the college year. Most of the students have returned from thelr ya- cations. The streets are filled with groups of college men renewing acquaintances. Recorder James Sutton has announced that registration will be held in the gym- nasium to-morrow, commencing at § a. m. and ending at 4:30 p. m. All graduate and " iuate students must register for term’s work between these hours. of instruction -will keep office hiours for consultation with students from $:30 a. m. until noon. At 1 o’clock instruc- will commence. freshmen students are expected to upon their counselors Monday morn- ice regarding the studles they sue and the arrangement of iversity cadets will assemble morning. At this time the regi- ment will be reorganized and divided into three battalions of four companies each. The officers recently_appointed will take mmands. During _vacation the was moved from North Hall to ent of the gymnasium. The of- fice of Captain Henry de H. Waite, pro- fessor of military science and tactics, has been moved from the mechani loPlhe (x;ew armory. e bulld!n‘ resident Wheeler will not arrive from the East Monday as expected. H leave Chicago until last night ifl’a“&"fi not reach here until Tuesday e had intended to arrange hl-yd;:m&‘bgg he and Mrs. Wheeler could be here on the ning day at coll , but Hant made the dats of nia arrival Jars (7° DENTIES APPLICATION To SUE TOWN OF LIVERMORE Attorney General Advises Opponents of Reincorporation to Make Their Complaint More Positive. LIVERMORE, Jan. 13.—The application of John Bweeney for leave to sue in a test of the reincorporation of Livermore has been denied by Attorney General Officers armor; Tirey L. Ford. The refusal is based the ground that the complaint in the “el;?ig carries allegations that are made on “in- formation and belfef. The Attorney General in his opinton ad- vises that the complaint be made more positive. Then he will determine whether the objections to the incorporation pro- ceedings are within the law of such. & nature s to demand defense from the R i e lcation was e _upon filed prtmmm . Hassett James F. Tevlin. The petition was sed b( Attorneys Thomas Scott AM? . Huxley in behalf of the town. plliate . it g Death of a Fifeman. OAKLAND, Jan. 13—Thomas J. Pull & member of Hose Cm-n‘l'lo. 1, di to-day from pneumonia at his residenc 458 Bixth street. The deceased fireman was @ years of age 3.3 was married ATTEMPT TO COMMIT SUICIDE AKLAND, Jan. 13.~Mrs. John McConahy, a middle-aged woman, of Ban Francisco, leaped from the after deck of the ferryboat Berke- ley as the steamer was entering the slip at 9:30 o'clock this morning at Oakland pler, with the evident intention of committing suictde. Just before the despondent woman sank from sight she screamed, attracting the attention of deckhands on the ferryboat Pledmont, ly- ing in the inside slip., A boat was quickly lowered and the rescuers reached the drowning woman just in time to save her from the death she courted. The woman was unconscious when the deckhands carried her Into the depot. She was wrapped in blankets and put aboard the Alameda local train and taken to First =treet and Broadway. From there Police- man Andrews and Detective Shorey hast- ened with her to the Receiving Hospital. Dr. Stratton and Assistant James Page after an hour’'s effort succeeded in restor- ing the woman to consciousness, though the doctors thought she had suffered a severe congestion of the lungs and that her condition was serious. As soon as the woman had revived, ef- forts were made by the hospital staff to oarn her identity and the cause for the dee To all Inguiries the patient was At the outset she said her name 1 . that she was the wife iing on Grove street, ~quently she declared sumed name used to v inquirers off the track. t d kill my husband and child if they knew what I have done,” she burst | out’ suddenly, and then as suddenly re- apsed into sphinxlike silence. The only evidence that would lead to ie solution of the mystery was in a postal card, found in her clothing. The dimmed and biurred superscription read so far as | could be deciphered, “‘Mr. John McConahy, Grove street, San Francisco.” On = reverse side was the following: Dear Sir: Please call at 914 Pine street to- | morrow, Friday, afternoon or Saturday morn- | ing to lay carpet. December 6 The address, *“428% Fulton street,” was also written on the eard. Not a word would the patient utter con- cerning her plunge into the bay. e KILLED BY TRAIN HE DID NOT SEE Peter Emrich Meets Tragic Death at a Crossing in Berkeley. Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, Jan. 13. Peter Emrich, a sausage casing manu- facturer, was struck and fatally injured by the inbound San Ramon local train at the stockyards crossing, Berkeley, at 5:45 this evening. Emrich died on the train which struck him, while he was being taken to Oakland for surgical treatment. Emrich had been to supper at his board- ing house on the west side of the railroad tracks. He left & few minutes before tho accident and started, it is supposed, to cross the tracks to go to his home on Folger avenue, close to the opposite side of the railroad right of way. In trying to avold the outgoing Southern Pacific Owl train he stepped in front of the local, and béfore he could heed th; rning whitsle he was struck an :g:;g“w :leu “(’:t the track. The train was stopped and Conductor Wylle took the In- jured man aboard, hastening the run in- to Oakland, but Emrich was dead in a few minutes. His injuries were internal. The body was taken to the Morgue. Deceased was 46 vears old and a native of Germany. He had been In business at the stockyards for several years with John Breuer. DRINKS CARBOLIC ACID AND DIES INSTANTLY Miss Minnie Stevens Commits Sul- cide While Insane, at Sister’s Home, Point Richmond. OAKLAND, Jan. 13—Miss Minnle Stevens, aged 20, committed suicide at Point Richmond this morning while in- sane. She was living with her sister, Mrs. George French, and ate breakfast with the family at the usual hour. She seemed in good health and spirits and ate a hearty meal. Shortly after breakfast the mnoise of a fall was heard in her room and the fam- {ly found her dying from the effects of carbolic acld which she had taken. She had once been in the insane asylum, but for more than a year had apparent- 1y been of sound mind. No cause is as- signed for the act. ———————————— LADIES’ NIGHT OF THE RELIANCE CLUB the Benefit of Mémbers and Their Lady Friends. OAKLAND, Jan. 13.—The Rellance Ath- Jetic Club will give a ladies’ night to-mor- row. The Alameda orchestra, under the fon of Herr Voght, will take part ‘:‘nrdeathe following programme. will be given: 3 Ore! tra “‘Stars " (Souza), o ey “lounod); double trapeze, Durn: ing and Grim; specialiles, George Hammer- . barytone solo, prologue from ‘‘Pagliac- O o Jacques: Manurice Cramer, ragtime fanist: orchestra, ‘‘Tales From Vienna Woods'" Johann Straues); tenor solo, sele W, J. jons, ‘W. Hickey; monol- en! i, Voot rhimets” il o chestra. —_——— WIIL GO OUT ON A 3 Miners of Fremont County Decide to Quit Work to Assist Strikers 0] ‘opxm_3e PUEBLO, Colo., Jan. %N special to the Chieftain from Florence, Colo., says: A big mass meeting of coal miners of Fremont County was called this afternoon to decide what action should be taken in assisting the present strikers at Erie, Colo,, and Gallup, N. M. The meeting “:d. e, the stren, of a tel a8 CAllel olant Mitoheli of the Netonal United Mine Workers’ Union of America to Distriot President John Greer. The meeting wuflheldhl,t‘tl:; T:“wn H;t“ :z e N s o Brooksida, Goal Cresk, Rockvale de, , Fremont had full delegations ent. :‘f‘t’u considerable debate in English and es il go to, thelr Work, b loyes g0 r work, bu e purpose of loading out such SpEe bl e my But Is Rescued. BY JUMPING FROM FERRYBOAT Mrs. John McConahy of This City Seeks to End Her Life in Oakland Ferry Slip While Temporarily Deranged, RS 7 WOMAN ATTEMPTS TO END HER LIFE IN THE WATERS OF THE BAY BY JUMPING FROM FERRY-BOAT BERKELEY AS IT IS EN- TERING THE SLIP AT OAKLAND. * doctors surmise that she has been sickly and is possibly under some severe mental strain, which has caused a temporary de- Mrs. McConahy is about 45 . plain of features, bearin filness upon her drawn an pinched countenance. She was decently but plainly clad. TWO WEEKS MORE GF DAY BERKELEY Technical Delay Will Keep Saloons Closed Until Last of Month, . BERKELEY, Jan. 13—No liquor licenses can be granted by the Town Trustees until January 28. This delay ‘s made necessary by a provision in tha town charter. The Trustees will meet to-morrow even- ing, when it was expected that the li- censes would be' granted. Instead the board will recelve the twenty applica- tions which have been flled with the Town Clerk and refer them to the license com- mittee. This committee cannot repoft un- til the next regular meeting, two weeks from to-morrow. Although the saloon men will be paying for licenses from the first of this year, thev cannot open until after practically a month has elapsed. They had expected to have their saloons open by January 1, but a misprint in the liguor ordinance, coupled with numerous technical delays, has kept their doors closed. Naturally they are indignant over the turn affalrs have taken. The license committee consists of Trustees Christian Hoff and Thomes Dowd, both from West Berkeley. As all of the men who have applied for licenses have been in business here before a favorable report is expected in each case, The Trustees will also consider bids for the construction of the new high school. It is expected that the contract will be granted and work commence immediately. The protest against the Haste street opening, which has causcd unusual {nte=- e will be heard. TWO RAILWAY OFFICERS RESIGN THEIR PLACES General Passenger Agent Bailey and General Freight Agent Sneve Retire. DENVER, Colo., Jan. 13.—~The resir- nations of General Passenger Agent W. F. Balley and General Frel‘h&Ann! Anthony Sneve of the Colorado 8idland road have been accepted, to take effect on the frst of February. Mr. Balley will be succeeded by C. Spelrs, secretary of the local committee of the Western Passenger Assoclation at Chicago. No successor is named for Mr. Sneve. Mr. Sneve will leave for Japan, Korea and Cluna early next month. It is pos- sible that he will remain in the Orfent in connection with one of the rallway enterprises of H. Colbran, but be expects to return to Colorado after an absence of three of four months. Mr. Balley has gone to New Orleans to attend the meeting of the Transconti- nental Passenger Assoclation. He has eeveral positions in view, one of tha most favorable of which is ‘the chairman- ship of a bureau to be maintained by the rallroad companies for the purpose of looking after legislation to abolish ticket brokers. This bureau also may look after counterfeiters who have been issulng spurious rallway tickets. Denver Oontingent Accompanied by the Famous Cowboy Band of Pueblo. DENVER, Colo.,, Jan. 13.—Several hun- dred delegates to the National Livestock Convention at Salt Lake left Denver to- day in special trains over the Rlo Grande and Colorado Midland railroads. Stock- men and assoclates from Missouri, Kan- sas, Nebraska and Coloraado made up the parties, and accompanving the Colorado Tepresentatives was the famous cowboy band of Pueblo, Colo., under the direc- tion of “Jack” Sinclair. The members of this band wear the l:re‘tula.tlon cowboy m p, even to the lariat and six-shoot- er. The band has been maintained for years by the Colorado Midland Railroad and has won numerous prizes. g FOUR HUNDRED JAPANESE MAY HAVE BEEN DROWNED ‘Officially Reported as Missing and Thought to Iave Lost Their Ldves in Recent Storm. YOROHAMA, Jan. 3.t is officlally re- e T that they are suj in a storm Jmu-.i';"n off the west coast. phrededi sy Bail From Bermuda. & HAMILTON, Bermuda. Jan. 13.—The United States war vessels Annapolis, Frollc, Wampatuck ‘nfi Plluu.zu. con- ting the it . which arri Bt et iary o aalied this masentag 0 X2 John McConahy, of §22% Groye street, San Francisco, called at the Receiving Hospital this evening and identified the woman as his wife. He said that she had | had a suicidal tendency for some time. She left her home this morning and had evidently come right to Oakland and at- temnted to drown herself. MANY NAMES e DEBATED UPCM Struggle to Control the Mu- nicipal League Nomi- nations. Oakland Office 8an Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, Jan. 13. Though the delegates to the Republican and Democratic conventions have been elected it will be two weeks before these conventions are held. During this inter- val there will be plenty of time for the delegates to discuss possibilities and can- didates. The executive commuttee of the Munici- pal League held a meeting last night and there was a great deal of discussion over future movements of the organization. There is an element in the league that Is trying to prevent the Republican Commuit- tee of Twenty-one from swallowing the league and there are some members of the league who are In favor of the committes of twenty-one. While Lhe Republicans and Democrats had no contests in their ranks the Municipal League seems to be the storm center of all political activity. The executfve committee finally decidad to refer all matters to the full league meet- ing, which takes place to-morrow evening, when the date of the urimaries and the convention will be det¢rmined upon and the official list of deiegates announced. This meeting is bound to be exciting be- cause of the two elements that are seek- ing for control. Many names have been mentioned for different nominations, but there are few declared candidates for any particular of- ce. The only recent declaration that has been made is that of Councilman B. C. Cuvellier, *who wants to be re-elected. Mr. Cuvellier had declared himself as an aspirant for the Municipal League nom- ination from the Third Ward, but to-day he said that he would be a condidate for Councilman at large. George fitzger: is likely to be the nominee of the commi tee of twenty-eight and Mr. Cuvellier wil take his chances at lardge in preference to ‘e fight with Fitzgerald. For Mayor the names of the following have been mentioned in connection with the nomination of the committee of twen- ty-eight: Anson Barstow, W. H. Chick- ering, Willlam Moller, Frank K. Mott, D. Edward Collins, Harry N. Morse and J. W. Evans. The names mentioned in con- nection with the Municipal League nom- ination for the same office have been H. A. Powell, John F. Towle, Walter G. Man- uel, J. W. Evans and ¥rank K. Mott. Tha Defocrats seem only to have one name under consideration—that of Warren B. English. Willlam R. Davis will not co=- sent to the use of his nams in connection with the office of Mayor. For City Attorney the names of James A. Johnston and Asa V. Mendenhall are before the delefi(ol of the committee of twenty-elght. e Municipal Leaguers are considering Clarence Crowell and W. A. Dow and the Democrats J. B. McEl- roy and H. A. Luttrell. e_indications are that the fight for cuhl!?nxlneer will again be between M. K. Miller with the Municipal League nom- ination and Monte Clement with the nom- fnation of the committee of twenty-eight MOB BENT ON LYNCHING FOILED BY SHERIFF Negro Fred Alexander Removed to Another Town, Where He Will Be Safely Kept. LEAVENWORTH, Kan Jan. 13.— Judge Moore to-day issued a warrant against Fred Alexander, the negro who attempted to assault Miss Roth yester- day, and to-night the Sheriff “went to Lansing to serve it. ly persons thought that Alexander would be brought back here to-night and a large crowd of determined men armed with guns and ropes gathered at the jall. But the ner was left at wansing, where he ‘will remain until the officials deem it safe to oring him her = TS, MURDER THE SON AND ATTACK THE MOTHER HOME STUDY CIRCLE FOR CALL READERS Shakespeare’s Plays the Only Records of Everyday Life in the Eliza- betha n Age. Copyright, 1901, b y Seymour Eaton. XXIII. The historians of the Elizabethan age tell us little about the everyday life of the time and we find slight information on the subject In contemporaneous writers except the dramatists, Shakespeare in particular. He was familiar with life in both country and city and among all classes from peasant to noble, and, in a measure, even to rovalty Itself. About half of his life, including the first twenty vears or more and the last five or six, was passed in Stratford, and the rest in London, where he became a favorite In literary and polite circles, was patronized by the nobility, and recelved many marks of favor from Elizabeth and James. His works abound in allusions to every phase of life, whether in nature or in man, which passed beforé his eyes or came to his knowledge. Naturally he was keenly interested in his own art, which | in his bovhood was entering upon a new and important stage in its development. 1t was not until 1380, when he was 14 years of age, that the old religious plays at Coventry were finally suppressed, and he may have been an eyewitness of the lat- est of them. He must have heard about them if ke did not see them, for he has not a few allusions to them In his plays. He knew how King Herod used to blus- ter and rage on the boards of the theaters on wheels which were drawn about the streets of Coventry ‘“for the better ad- vantage of the spectators,” as the ver- acious Dugdale relates; and the royal bully recurred-to his memory when he made Hamlet say of similar extravagance in later times, “It out-Herods Herod, and when Mistress Page, after reading Falstaff's beast that, like a true knight, he will fight for her love, exclaims, “What a Herod of Jewry is this!” The buffoon, or Vice of the ancient moralities, is recalied in the clown's song in “Twelfth Night”: .1 am gone, sir, And anon, sir, I'll bes with you again, In a trice, Like to the old Vice, You need to sustain; Who, with angge&o! lutll:;' e and his wrath, I s An. ha! to the devilV Like a mad lad, Pare thy nails, dad! Adieu, goodman drivel. So Shallow is compared to a ‘Vice's dagger” in 2 Henry IV,” and the char- acter is also referred to in “1 Henry IV “Richard 11" and “Hamlet.” The “lost souls,” who, dressed in black or black and vellow, figured in scenes of the last judgment, appear in ‘Henry V.’ where the flea on Bardolph's rubicund nose Is compared to “A black soul burning in hell fire. The historical pageants, not based on biblical subjects, that were familiar to the gnud people of Coventry a century before | ‘hakespeare was born were also known to him when, in his first wholly original play, “Love's Labor's Lost,” he introduced the burlesque of “The Nine Worthies.” The original text of the drama on the same popular theme, which had been performed at Coventry before Henry VI, in 1455, is still extant and portions of Shakespeare's travesty seem almost like a parody of it. Whether the dramatist actually saw any of the Coventry moralities or not, he must often have witnessed the theatrical per- formances associated with the rural fes- tivities of Whitsuntide. Perdita, in “The Winter's Tale,” when distributing her flowers at the shepherds’ feast, says: Methinks 1 play as I have seen them do In Whitsun pastorals. And the disguised Julia, in “The Two Gentlemen of Verona,” tells how “‘at Pen- tecost” in a play on the classical story of Theseus and Ariadne, she took “the women's part.” She sveaks as a boy, and this reminds us of sundry allusions in the plays to the fact that In Shakespeare's day female parts were still played by boys or young men. In the epilogue to “As You Like It” the youth wkLo, after personating Rosalind, appears in his true masculine character, could say, “If were a woman I would kiss as many o vou as had beards that pleased me”: but Wwhen Modjeska recited this epllogue it was a mistake, as I told her vaen I met her afterward, and later she made a slight fhange in the passage 'o avold the consistency. Inc?eepa(ru?a.hfldylflns the possibility of being carried captive to Rome. says: The quick comedians Extemporarily will stage us, and present Our Alexandriap revels: Antoby Shall be brought drunken forth and I shall see Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness, where “boy” is of course a verb and not a " will be remembered that Flute ob- jects to pla; lr‘:F Thisbe in the Athenian interlude ("{fl summer Night's Dream'), because he has “a beard coming”: and Edward Kynaston, a favorita actor of female parts In the tlme of Charles II, kept that monarch waiting for a tragedy to begin ‘“because the queen was not shaved.” Quince tells Flute that he can play Thisbe “in_a mask’: and not to dwell longer on Shakespeare’'s countless refer- ences to theatrical matters. on which a L . volume might be written, the su-gestion of Quince reminds us that ladies in tha days of Elizabeth wore masks to prot;ct their complexion. Julia, as a_page. when describing her real (“Two Gentlemen of Veron When she @id think my master loved her well, She, in my judgment, was as fair as you, But since she did neglect her looking-glass And threw her sun-expelling mask away, The airehath starved the roses in her cheeks, And pinched the lily-tincture of her face, ‘And now she is become as black as T. In “Troilus and Cressida” the heroine speaks of “my mask to defend my beau- ty": and the same practice is alluded t3 in “Cymbeline’’ and ““The Winter's Tale.” Black masks were worn by ladles at the theater. In “Measure {or Measure” Ange- 1o has an eye to the audience in saying: As these black masks Proclaim an enshield beauty ten times louder Than beauty could display'd; and so does Romeo when he says: masks that kiss fair ladies’ brows Being DITE put us in mind they hide the fair. Space would fail me even to give with- out comment a list of Shakespeare’s many references to male ard female apparel which throw much light on the fashions of the time. I may, nowever, call the at- tention of feminine readers and studenis to a scene (iil., 4 In_“Much Ado About Nothing,” In which Margaret and Hery are discuyssing the weading trousseau of self to Sylvia, says the latter. It I8 too long to quote and there | are things in it which the critlcs cannot agree in explaining. One touch shows that human nature, or woman nature, was the same then as now. Margaret refers to “the Duchess of Milan's gown that they praise so,” and Hero ruplies, ‘Oh, that ex- Cceeds, they say.” The costume of a lady o4 ‘mfim -tng;y it would appear. t s in A . e n(?du: “By my troth, it's but ht- gown in respect of yours. * * a quaint, graceful and excellent fashion yours Is worth ten on ‘t.”* It should be understood that “nightgown' here, as Awful Crime Committed by a Negro, ‘Who Was Assisted by a White Man. PORTLAND, Me., Jan. 13—Thomas Clifford Moshire, aged 27, of Gorham, was clubbed to %uuh and his m%t!hn:h brutally assaulted two men, one om was a negro, who broke into their house Sat- irday night. The negro has been arrested, but the gl.hn man escaped. —— President Much Better. - ‘WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—President Mec- Kinley was so much improved In health to-day that he was able to go out for a snort drive. 4 elsewhere In Shakespeare, means a dress- ing gown or robe de chambre. ht- gowns in the modern sense had not then come into use. The aping of foreign fashions was coim- mon then, especially with men who had ed, and Shakespeare has more than one hit at the affectation—as, to give a single Instance, in Portia’s deseription of the Englishman am uitors: iong her suito; “How | oddly he is suited! I think he bought his doublet in Italy, his round hose in ce, his bonnet in Germalty and his behavior ““When Julia, fn a ed above, calls herselt “blac s "t “}'a“m under- 1y-'smon was matter of gos- | 1 been a proverbial expression: “Black men arg pearls in beauteous ladies’ eyes.”” This does not refer to negroes, though in a cer- tain book of SBhakespeare quotations it is | put under that head in the classification Men might be swarthy and yet comely: but not so with women. The favorite type of feminine beauty was the blonde brunettes were not in favor. As Shakes- peare says in the one hundred and twen- ty-seventh sonnet, “In the old age black was not counted fair.” He says “the old age” because he is addressing “the dark lady” df that group of poems, and he goes on with an elaborate plea for her claim to | beauty in spite of her complexion. Later, | In a different mood, he calls her “a woman | color'd 1. So, in “Love’s Labor's Lost,” Biren, who has fallen in love with the, | dark 'Rosaline, defends her against his | fellow lords, who sneer at her pretensions | to beauty, and declares that “no face is | fair that is not full so black.” Earlier in | the play, when he is chiding himself after the manner of Benedick for treachery to bachelorhood, he describes the lady as— A wightly wanton with a velvet brow And two pitchtalls stuck in her face for eyes. All the references to black eyes In the plays are in a similar vein. Apropos of women, their manners In that good old time were sometimes not what would now be regarded as ladylike In the “Midsummer Night's Dream," when Helena and Hermia are quarreling | and the former has called the latter “Pup- p‘e‘l * Hermia, who 1s short of stature, re- | plies: Puppet? ay goes the game. gran” PSSRV N i S g | How low am 1, thou painted maypole? Speak How low am I? I am not yet so low But that my natls can reach into thine eyes And in “2 Henry VI"” the Duchess of Gloucester, when Queen Margaret boxes her ears, mixes a touch of slang with a similar threat: Could 1 come mear your beauty with my nalls Il'd set my ten commandments In your face! There is a suggestion of the same sort of feminine pugnacity in “The Two Gen- tlemen of Verona,” where the gentle Julia addresses the picture of Sylvia, which that lady has sent to Proteus, thus: I'll use thee kindly for thy mistress’ sake, That used me so; or else, by Jove, I vow, 1 should have scratched out your unseeing eyes, To make my master out of love with thee. We “need not be surprised that ladles could indulge in profanity when Queen Bess had set the example, but it is never- theless amusing that Shakespeare makes Hotspur ridicule his wife for her mild a Why so? Aye, that tempts in that line. When he say “Come, Kate, I'll have your song, too, and she answers, “Not mine, in good sooth,” Hotspur exclaims: [_U“Not yours, in good sooth! Heart! you wear Itke a comfit maker's wife ‘Not | you, in good sooth,” and ‘As true as I liv and ‘As God shall mend me,” and ‘As sure as day, And givest such sarcenet surety for th: A ocaths, if thou never walk’st further than Finsbury, ear me, Kate, like a lady as thou art, A good, mouth-filling oath, and leave sooth” | And h test of r-gingerbread | o velvet-gua m«ny-cnunm. | That is, swear like a lady and not like | “n To velvet-guards the wife of a London tradesman. The time here is that of Henry IV, but the manners, as in all the historical plays, ars those of the dramatist’s own day. Beef and beer were typical of English life then as now. The food of the com- mon peovle was better in some respects than it is at present, and better than it was in continental countries. Travelers | who visited England often commented 'ugon this; just as the Frenchmen in Shakespeare’'s plays refer to the “great meals of beef” of the English soldiers, who ‘‘eat like wolves an fight like devils,” as the Constable says in “Henry V." ‘“Aye,” replies Orleans, “but these English are shrewdly out of beef.” shall we find to-morrow,” says the Con- stable, “they have only stomachs to eat and none to fight.” In “The Taming of the Shrew,” Grumio says to the hunn;y Kate, “What say you to a plece of beef and mustard”" and in the ‘““Midsummer Night's Dream,” Bot- tom says to Mustardseed, “I know your patience well; that same cowardly, glant- like ox-beef hath devoured many a gen- tleman of your house.” This association of mustard with roast beef persists to- day. It is curious that it has disappeared in this country, though we still use mus- ard with corned beef. In traveling on the continent the question has sometimes been raised at the dinner table whether a person sitting near by was English or American. If he takes mustard with the roast beef we have no further doubt as to his nationality. The association of capers with boiled mutton also dates back to the days of Shakespeare. In “Twelfth Night,” Sir Andrew says, “Faith, I can cut a caper”; and Tobey tgzies. “And I can cut the mutton to't."” with roast and apple sauce. In “Romeo and ullet,” Mercutio says to Romeo, “Thy wit is a w bitter sweeting; it is a most sharp san ; and his friend retorts, “And it is well gerved in to @ sweet goose.” The “sweeting’ is one of several varieties of apple mentioned by” Shakespeare, and some of them are known to-day In War- wickshire by the same names. If T were writing a series of twenty pa- pers I might go on to refer to hundreds | more of allustons in Shakespeare to mat- ters connected with home life, school life, mes. sports, holidays and festivals, f;lk-loro and superstitions, and so on; but the few random illustrations I have given may serve to show the student to what a fleld of research and entertainment the dramatist thus invites him, and he may be led to explore it at leisure for himseif. W. J. KORFE. Cambridge, Mass. REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS. Alameda County. Mary Finch (wife of W. W.) to Agmes Far- relly, all interest In lots 851 and 33, Drexier Tract, Oakland; $1000, Henry Prideaux to John Curran, lot on N line of Thirty-second l(rvelg 15 W of West, W 0, N 82.59, 50.217, 8 T to beginning, lot 3, block 2041, Rowland Tract, Oakland; $509. John and Anna Curran to Bernard Curran, all interest in same; . Bridi Peterson (widow) to Elizabeth ¥. 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