The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 3, 1901, Page 11

THE SUNDAY CALL 11 @y nome. Frorn Kve y problem. e A SROUP I \WEVER and my trunk! I had just A SROUP OF WOMEN HOWEVER. Scand my Saonkl 4 BRI < a of over my héad for a st eat. 1 called her Mrs ranged with -her for break- 1E o s Dhing Alscuses e thing to do, r for 10 cents. At least = - PH o = < e > 1 Ty and arranged my e of our leading hotels. They on .10 & ew books, etc & . < e much surprised o e L pCHN { eprese e well the various wou'd give m sat down and democra ave it, b k a ote of . t wa ana m it n, wa o To say he wa it milaiy. 1 ha . of course, fhice t whic is satisfied to adorn ith rings. They are and well established form rnament and they have for a long time answered the purpose. In fact, rings have by many been con- sidered quite sufiicient, although the cus- tom of wearing thumb rings i{s by no means monopolized by Sarah Bernhardt 1e ancienta. it was for a variety actress to find of displaying jewels on the | sign. and upon inquiring T of the apron had a fur-| @ New way let. 1 fo up- owed her x !s her hand In the picture. It is a Ity of novelties, the latest thing, and to be up to date one must follow the lead of the eccentric owner. Or at least she But It |s a doubtful matter y course of action case, competent in ns ons susi smattering of thing, but it w. I do that was of dows diug them Tihe ' sun it with light and | thinks so. . Fghuatin v . eft the hote! without | whether any one will ever deem her style 1 had. how a anything more than eccentric. > ring, on which I hoped 't . ; Not only has the fair Titenia rings on con her thumb and three of her fingers, but said T would | oillowing duy. | D | to the center of the back of her hand and & dlamond earring hung from every nall, In order that holes may be bored in the tips of her finger nalls to accommodate thie spurklers, she has to wear her nalls very long—so long as to be quite incon- venient, one would think. You know that the distinguished Chinese who wear long | nails as a sign of elegance are very help- iless people, ‘having to carry the distin- ey Furs i the Weorld Qome From? EXTY-FIVE p the for coat linings, is another member of the | ot all the weasel, it ir hern part of Canad those of L - Taore southerls sections being of & HEhe | gulshed hand about upon a cushion. With er hue. The skin of the mink is used as,z, I said th . ¥ +E WAD SHARMED TO FIND ' _A. might have deen a beaut woman had she mot patronized 4 | sforfal hatrdresser—I comld &ee that at a glance- but. thanks to him or her, she smerged with a cotffure which sted @ corru- gated roof surmounted by a clever twisted chaln with ‘a coupling pin down the back! It was positively iron-lookinz. No wonder it gave her face a hard ex- pr hen her hands nails th ra badly k well—in ents. f hair.”” and I cou n « v pire, but a creat fas darness, who would be made to us God given her charm of a Ber « I had never thought cf ing of “mark 1 prove new va84 Aar fere Titenia’s Hand ME AN APPRECIATTWE SVEST G a Young Woman ( by witheut Preparation | ITim San Fransises es anent woman-anda her sphere, ce was the home.and the fireside, hould be shielded from the buffets of . ete. e with u," I repiled; mains th many wome: ywn living. They r of choice.” er listen To think had rushed mad- L sleek, fat, wel world was Hard! ard tha then 1p—1> com- hin zolden ap- -thirds of the dancer it is as bad; Is as good as helples A professional manicure attends to the care of the b The nails are dalily treated in a way to toughen' them; a chemical preparation does the work. The boring of the is a matter where gkilled labor {s needed; It would be an easy matter for a break the nail which had been tended so carefully and brought to the length re- quired. . Every littlsa while the nail must be cut and a new hole made. Then the manicure. and manicured are on pins and needies all over again untll the nice operation is safe- ly through. It is sald that one of the rings—nail rings, they should no doubt-be called— once caught in a door as it was being shut. The door had a spring lock and the nearest key to the lock was a mile away. A friend of the actress started to assist her by cutting the nall, for time -was precious and there was a train to be caught. But the lady stopped him by ut- tering plercing screams. *I will lose my train,” she cried, “but never my nail’ And she sent for the key, walting a’pris. oner until it came, and in the end missing. her train. She had to make her next place of engagement by riding on a é&;ring Nung From hc"}"very /Yafi( the adorned hand | clumsy manicure to | and this instance proved no exception to the rule I had coms to accent Thus my peep Into the other world was devold of ser nal Inclde It was not so much thé tr: ut that & dea Iy lost her to help lier o atil she secured | anott sent me to her with a note | ana n an hour I had been engaged as lady’s maid for Mrs. C. She had paid | her former. m: $30—who ‘was. “a French | woman and 2 jewel.” 'She would give me {325 the first month.and raise it the second |12 1 proved to be what she desired | I spent the rest |aprons and dres f my money for caj ita far my. new station in life, and when I presemted. my- self to Mrs. €. I wis as frim: & maid as ever broke a butier's heart. My work I actually enjoyed, and -Mrs. proved a charming mistress, I was lugky in that, for things would have béen unbearable had she been as some others, and even I found that one must preserve & remarkable evenness of temper when two women are so'constantly together as are mistress and mald. Before n week had _passed I was a jewel more rare than Gabrielle, my pre- E_of the m curious invest{ga- tions that has ‘been undértaken during the present year is that of O freight train, but she has always sald Professor C. 1. Norris of ) & that it pald: Rowe's trained animal show, which is now exhibiting at Mechanics’ ““Pavilion. . Professor Norris’ ‘efforts ‘to med and b ’ o ey Were we a city of provinclals, a known to com- taln disgruntled persons had said? e or Atl;fikd our .civilization and most dur: 2 market s el the™ darkest ) pheuon Crine g0? Of a surety, knew them not. It still lacked eeveral hours of 2 o'clock. I put in the time writing notes—twenty- :r\n ;n all—to .mflon-m people, ofleran( my ound in great numbers be- vices as copyist or secretary. By the ")'{ “; uf and Bolivia. To time I had finished it was 2 o'clock. Feel- \ diet, for its food INE just a little queer, I started out to o ahian apply for a position of companion. Need- xiure of its fur. " 1ess to say, I met with disappointment. Hy of fox fur s MrS. A, had engaged a companion for her ugh it is found \nvalid daughter just before my arrival, ko two. the poor eatisfaction of belng told - a soured annually, that had she not already engaged a wom- The cross fox ranks nmext in value, the 2N She would have “loved” to have had darkest skins of which can hardly be toid ™ 4 from the lightest ones of the silver fox. _You can't imagine how I took my first The beauti brush and rich color of disappointment to heart, and I must have the red fox make it.popular always. The looked very woe-begone, for Mrs. A. said, fur of the b fox, which is of a pur- "I am so sorry. I wish I could help you. Ylh-h slate color, is obtained in Greenland, Is there anything I could do for you?" _abrador and the Alaska Islands. Only _All of a sudden the idea came to me—it in the frozen rezions of the far morth is Wwas so brilliant it fairly staggered me. the white or Arctic fox found. The fur “Yes' I replied, “you might. I am a pri- of this animal is pure white In winter, vate hairdresser and manicurist, and if I except for the tip of its tail, could have a few more regular patrons it Virgini d many of the Southern would be a great help.” States produce the gray fox. You see, it came about in this way. Mrs. cer- Had stopped short at second , I had seen coachmen, but- s:cs and Jadles' maids, but nd whither did they the “want column™ t delicate and ex- the world, is obtained in The little animal which ch resembles a 1i 2 a good fift vears of ter for which of its extremely long 3 28, en the hil iven to 1se than upon from the bod Mable and vative. retained a1y Czar's famii) Some ¢ rich an n-ex- 15 used largely in Europe week had passed and 1 could get nothing to do—and my precious money was fast slipping away. 1 found a letter awaiting me—the only answer to all my twenty five, Mr. B. re tel Miss Page to cal that aft aon IL was just ten m utes to, and I rushed out and got on a car, almost overcome by confiicting thoughts. One moment I imagined that 1 was about stepplng Into & pleasant po- sition; the next, that it was merely a goose chase and would end in disappoint- ment, like all the rest. On nrrlv{\dg at the oflice T was requested to ‘wait. B. was engaged. i the seeming hours I sat there my a had time to cool. I tried to evolve the man from the surroundings and finaily ve it up, deciding that his office and urniture had evidently landed there from some chaotic tumbling of the world from all points of the compass. At last I was ushered into the holy of {mlliu—md I heard myself telling my ale. I felt lfke some ode acting the leading role of a melcdrama, and as I went on, pity for myzeif or my part almost over- came me, and if a curtain had fallen I would have taken it as a matter of course, feeling that I had just finished my ast: But my eurtain was just rlelng, and I was gradually taken back to earth by Mr. B.’s deep and almost gentie voice. The voice went on to quote & lot of nice my sisters were.unable to resist. I would see for myself. I turned and with an embarrassed laugh accepted his invitatlon. I feit like one plunging head first into the water for tae first_time, and something caught mo in the throat. Sy n into a room, which has It was velvet s to carpets, chintz paper as to wall, showy as to furniture. A table was set. My host ordered a dirner, which showed him at once & bon vivant and an epicure. Having dined in many climes in my life, that dinner stands out as best selected. He was charmed to find me an apprecia- tive guest. We talked of many things and I found him a brilllant conversationist. He punctuated his sentences with ‘“‘Little woman,” “my dear,” etc., etc. But I en- deavored to avoid personalities, hoping that by keeping in the middle of the road 1 might steer clear of possible smash-ups. My experience with men had been lim- fted to my brothers and the men . one meets in general goclety. From this I had come to judge the American male as a rather fair Sort of an animal than other- wise. He was not as a rule brutish, and had a good sense of justice—also the truth of an old sayving had always seemed s sible, "It takes two to make a bargain”— ‘We were sho its counterparts, no doubt. stvdy the monkey language have attraci- ed the attention of the scfentific' world. In this iInterésting’ work he has included all an‘mals from the dog to the elephani. He has. developed some interesting facts in regard to the language of animals. . He has found that in proportion as animals have the habit of standing or walking erect, the vocal organs are ‘more perfectly developed and constituted, capable of ut- tering sounds, and that animals of this kind seem to have a more specific lan- guage. That the monkey has a language of lts ewn Professor Norris has proved to his own satisfaction, and he {s now able to converse with many of them, of course to a very limited extent One of the most interesting which he has made is that several simple words used by the chimpanzee are iden- :lkc’nl with native words for the same hing. This certainly opens up an interest- ing fleld for new speculation and investi- gation in regard to the deérivation of spe- cles. Those who deride the idea that the human race is descended from the ape are generally those who have not given the subject any investigation. It is a fact, says Professor Norrls, that in Hindustan there are tribes of ‘apes re- garded sacred by the natives, who live L4 iscoveries WE PARTED ALMOST INTEARS the from Aecessor, and was to have $0 ccided before I rly two sets, cons Ine and portemonnaie m in steel and earn and I kept as 3 orgotten work, f $ earned by the toil hands and the sweat of my brow. 1 14 my original loan and had some léft “to the good No one is so rich that he or she can af- fo less, and no one is 86 poor tr >t “help himself, and any old is that it lies within one's mar. ANNE PAGE Man in; San Francisfic Who Crairfis He Qan Talk With Monkeys. in’ villages, building rough huts of branches and leaves, having their lead ers and apparently their laws of some kird. They come in regularly to the n. towns on certain days to collect a ances of food which are made e the native When a white man v mopkey villages he is pol the chief of the apes, ts one of th ely received t given an intimation wi leave. This s one pict: h in Ceyion ther. those built by the Indiar apes. T and “wome: A tribe are thickly co ered with go entirely naked In-the way spee ey have only a few :guttural notes, y live mostly in the recesses of the forest, only going ir he villages ducts wh door of a t for any- thers ing that may have bee them. plac Now who shall say where man begins and monkey ends between these (wo races of living beings? The intestigations of P r Norrts, which he. considers as just a begmning. are certafnly most: interesting and prom ise to open up to the prese dark ar to 18 a new world which t time has been shrouded myster: The professor will deiiver a lecture at Berkeley in the mear future before the - students and profe ‘of the college, which promises esting, %o say the least.