The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 15, 1901, Page 6

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News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; Fremont House: Auditorium Hotel WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE....1406 G St., N. W. | MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. BRANCI v 11 9:30 o'clock. 63 615 Larkin, open until McAllister, cpen until 9:30 © £:30 o'clock. 1841 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner Six 108 Valencla, open L o'clock en until 8 o'clock. NW. cor- open until 9 o'clock. —Vaudeville se—Sembrich Opera Company, March 18 Last Word. t performance Thursday night, March 2L The Telepbone Girl.” g By Trained Animal Show. Club (Ozkland)—Races. ——— > —— repres; 1 his threat, “Addicks or no 1s she would her Senatorial t as well o ng in one of delphia wed purpose of getting a rdlocked two Legis exhibited no mer moved from P! that nended | o the State. By pursuing his pe I and selfish ambition he has deprived Deia- ware two Sen rs, and the Republican party oi is mere membership of the agh to its good name, without ation of the strength to whick n Nebraska also involves Tt nd it will be a sorry com- : v and public spirit of the Republi e if perscnal ambition shali bear the same fruits there as in Delaware. If'it do, strong influence in sending the State ave to Bryan and Populism, a slough of despond it was believed to have happily escaped the Senate may be very important to inistration and the party, as well as to the and the men who put their selfish interests above all other considerations will not soon cease to feel the righteous wrath of those they have betrayed. By a recent vote of the Commons the coronation oath of former sovereigns as to contain nothing offen- tive to the Roman Catholics of his empire. The clause requiring the King to expressly repudiate the doctrine of transubstantiation and to declare the invo- cation and adoration of the Virgin and the saints to be idolatrous was embodied in the coronation oath nd has been retained until this time. Thc new King will have to swear to nothing that signifies any kind of religious intolerance. An item going the rounds of the Eastern press is to the effect that if Minister Conger, now at Peking, wishes the Republican nomination for Governor of Jowa he can get it. The report goes on to say he is heavily in debt by reason of bad speculations, but his creditors expect that he will obtain a personal y to clear the slate.” old debts, and doubtless many a speculative politician will make a note of it. —_— It is stated that the Merchant Tailors’ National Ex- change of America not only triumphed at the Paris exposition by taking a gold medal, but that their | exhibit so deeply impressed the Russian Government that it offered to buy the whole thing for display at Moscow; but it remairs to be seen whether the Mus- covite dandies will look upon our styles as models or curiosities. R After Senator McLaurin of South Carolina had voted several times with the Republicans of the Sen- ate on party measures an effort was made in the South Carolipa Legislature to pass a vote of censure on his action, but the resolution was defeated and now the people of the State are wondering what is going to Tappen next. This city has been the scene of an incident whick argues forcefully that the homes for the feeble-minded in this State are not as densely inhabited by ecligible ients as they ought to be. Cooper, the rascally ex-convict, has received mary floral offerings from female admirers. Local Chinese gamblers are now employing white agents, The struggle for existence reduces some white men to desperate and despicable extremities to Live. - { H OFFICES—G21 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open | tory of the Union a | n in the te of Delaware is bereit of repre- | of King Edward will be so changed from the | from the Chinese Government sufficicn” Here then is 2 new way to pay | | WASHINGTON AND ITS WAYS. ASHINGTON CITY has of late become noted for something more than*Congress. Visitors W to the place no longer look upon it as a merz hotel and boarding-house annex to the Capitol. 1t has become a city and is being criticised as such, but | the criticisms are not altogether favorable. | Upon the occasion of the inauguration of President McKinley last week many thousands of people went to Washington to see the sights and share in the pub- lic rejoicings upon the beginning of a second term of four years of prosperity. Most of them appear to have been jarred by their reception; for since their i return home our Eastern exchanges have been marked | by the number of communications protesting against Washington manners and Washington extortion. | The extortion is what scems to have “hit them hard- | est.” One of them, writing to the New York Sun, says: The national capital may not be up with New York as a commercial center, but in hotel enterprise I think a glance ing list of prices for two persons for two d ‘ation ceremonies may be instruc- | tive. One room at the Riggs House for two people must be taken for a week, charges at the Shoreham for one week, $20 a day; the Metropolitan, $50 to $75 for/four days; the Ebbitt, $10 a day for one week; at the Willard, five days, $10 a day. : Such charges are evidence that Washington City understands that the country is prosperous and that the people have money to burn. It is clear, however, { that if those prices are to prevail it will \be cheaper | for the republic to hold inauguration ceremonies in | San Francisco, since patriots from the remotest East could come here, spend a week and get back home for less than is required to pay a hotel bill for two days at Washington. Several authorities’ estimate that | festivities upward of 34,000,000. There are doubtless many cities in the Union that would undertake the | show for half the money. The manners of Washington appear to have struck the visitors in much the same way as the hotel prices. i It is said the manners are very high and have a foreign flavor. One writer who seems to have made a deep study of the subject says there has centered in Wash- ington a large number of wealthy people of leisure who, having never acquired at home any settled social | convictions or any formal code of etiquette, have in | their new location adopm‘ the manners, modes and | precedents of the foreign Embassadors and Ministers. Thus the society of the capital has a manner which | irritates the visitor whether from Maine or from Kan- s, and he feels that he is not at home even when he a | can slap his Senator on the back and call him “old | hoss.” | This student of Washington society says: The American “smart set,” who have to a degree | taken possession of Washington, “dearly love a lord.” | Their functions must now open with the presence of the | Right Honorable Lord Pauncefote and family, and there- | after pursue a gil course down through a series of en- tertajn, t the foreign embassies provide the most cherished gues The President of the United States and his Cabinet and those concerned in the legisla- tive branches of the Government of the greatest nation | | | in the world are but lightly regarded in comparison. They | ave and can have no established and lasting social state | after the European models, because republicanism means o of opportunity and no e. Here officialdom is a shifting and tity. Officers of the navy and army ng this Gemand of “society,” and so are more highly regarded. Such are the echoes that roll around the land after the uproar of the inauguration. There is nothing in all of these statements which need annoy Washington. In a country so big as this there is room for all kinds cf cities and all sorts of folks. Since Chicago does kowtow to a pork packer, New York to a stockbroker, Philadelphia to a sleepwalker and Boston to a lyceam lecturer, there is no reason why Washington should not go into raptures over a man who attends repub- lican levees in a court dress. cisco that we can expect to find at all seasons fair hotel charges and a society based upon genuine worth. In its new development Washington promises to be a very interesting city, and, despite all that captious critics may say, the people may be sure there will be always there some place where meals can be had for two bits, and manners to suit the customers. OR a long time the people of the Balkan States l:had a monopoly of the European war cloud. | Public attention was incessantly fixed upon Bul- | garia, Servia, Macedonia, Albania and Turkey. There | was always a sign of war in that part of the world, | and speculation used {o vary in calculating the time when the cloud would burst. Some authorities saii six months, some said six weeks, and some said it might occur any day. The outbreak of our war with Spain distracted at- | tention from the Balkans, and as the war in South Africa followed and the Chinese imbroglio came soon after, comparatively little has been thought or said of ! them for about three years. Now, however, they are making a new bid for public notice. * Weary of in- | action they have once more filled their skies with | clamors and made the welkin ring with shouts that | give promise of battle. | For some time past the Macedonians trouble with the Turks. TROUBLE IN THE BALKANS. | have had | They complain of Turkish | | Macedonian outrages. It appears there is a strong secret society having its headquarters in Bulgaria which is incessantly working for trouble in Mace- | donia. Recently the Turkish Governmient threatened to line the Bulgarian frontier with troops and make short work of any one found intriguing in the interest | of the conspirators. Another report is to the effect that the Bulgarian Ministry is strongly Russian in ympathy and is fomenting trouble in Macedonia as a part of a Russian programme. At this distance it is not easy to determine the rela- tive rights and wrongs of the controversy. In fact | the disturbance is primarily due to the artificial man- ! ner in which the states of the Balkan peninsula are organized. The people of all of them are dissatisfied | with the existing condition of things, and so long as | that discontent continues there will never be lacking cause for strife. The whole of that portion of Europe | is in a condition of instable equilibrium and very little | in the way of impulse is required to set it rocking to and fro as if about to all to pieces. It has been announced that for the purpose of pre- paring to meet the new emergency “the Macedonian | Committee has summoned an extraordinary Congress | to meet March 31 to consider the complications.” Just | what that may mean is. not clear; but some light is | thrown upon it by the further announcement in the dispatch: “It is known that large quantities of arms and ammunition have been secretly imported into ths vilayets oi Kossovo, Uskuv and Monastier. Two Russian officers, who have recently toured in North- ern Macedonia incognito, left last evening for St. Petersburg. The Bulgarian Government has received sharp reminders from three of the great powers that it will be held responsible for the preservation of order in the border districts. Great anxicty exists in Al- bania, which is in a state of unusual ferment.” Since Russia has so much on her hands in the build- ing of the Siberian railroad and in the advancement there were expended for the inauguration parades and E It is only in San Fran- | outrages and the Turks answer by complaints of | of her schemes in Manchuria, it is hardly likely she can be actively fomeating further trouble for hersell in the Balkans. Still there is no telling what may be going on in that distracted quarter of Europe, and the Macedonian Congress will be worth watching. e — TRACK GAMBLING SCHEMES. E are not_the only community in the Union that is being subjected to the schemes of race track gamblers. There has recently been in- troduced into the Pennsylvania Legislature a bill which the Philadelphia Pubtic Ledger says “while professedly for the purpose of regulating horse racing | and improving the breed of horses is nothing more than an attempt to legalize and encourage poolselling, gambling and debauchery.” The scheme which has been put forward in Pennsyl- vania is so much like that which has been worked upon the people of San Francisco that it is worth not- ing as an illustration of how thoroughly in harmony the track gamblers are. The bill, which is entitled an act to regulate horse racing, and to establish a State Racing Commission, begins by declaring: “The breeding of valuable horses is a matter of public con- cern, and is best promoted by regulating the times and places, when and where, and the circumstances under which, horse racing can be legally held.” That much is said to hoodwink the public. The substance of the bill is to be found in a clause to this effect: “It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to make or sell pools or to make a book or to bet upon the result of any race except within the grounds of any corporation or association licensed as hereinbe- | fore provided.” Commenting upon the bill and the proposed Racing Commission the Public Ledger says: “The Commis- sioners are to serve without compensation, but it re- quires no wizard to foresee that the post of Racing Commissioner is likely to become more lucrative than | the Governorship. The Commissioners, in the first | place, decide who shall have licenses to conduct gam- bling race meets; they lay down the rules under which the racing is to be carried on, and the licenses have to | be renewed yearly. In the exercise of their autocratic | power they will deal with gamblers, crooks, and, in a word, with the riff-raff of the community, who in- clude in their ranks s2mi-criminals and those who are strongly predisposed to blackmailing and corruption. We said that the bill was designed to legalize and encourage gambling. - In fact, it appears to be an act that will encourage the levying of blackmail, and the | Legislature, if it passes the bill, will create a commis- sion and a condition that will prove a great scandal.” The vigor ‘with which the scheme has been de- nounced by the press c{ Pennsylvania is instructive to us because it proves that the evil of track gambling is as well understood there as here. It is, in fact, in- | herent in the very practice of gambling and does not | depend upon location or circumstances. As the Pub- | lic Ledger puts it those who regulate gambling at | race tracks ‘“‘deal with gamblers,” crooks, and, in a word, the riff-raff of the community, who include in | their ranks semi-criminals and those who are strongly predisposed to blackmailing and corruption.” That is the sort of crowd that is to be brought to | San Francisco by the reopening of Ingleside. The | author of the track gambling ordinance in this city, who announced his responsibility for it, will not be envied when the full significance of his responsibility | becomes demonstratad by results that are sure to | follow. - | § e —————— IRRIGATION. HE National Irrigation Congress meets this year at Colorado Springs. It will discuss the progress of irrigation and the condition of laws upon that subject, individual and interstate water rights and the whole body of legal and physical problems involved in the conservation of | water and its equitable distribution and economie use. The appeal to Congress for appropriations to irri- | gate the West failed, and its failure was avenged by Carter in talking the river and harbor bill to death. We are not clear that a Federal appropriation for that purpose will ever succeed on its merits. Federal | appropriations are now only three hundred millions short of one billion per session. The taxpayers are going to soon become impatient with the invention of new objects of expenditure. Our pride is satisfied | because we have the greatest government on earth, but our pockets are sore because it is the costliest | also. If there be any way tp utilize existing public resources for irrigation without resorting to taxation it should be considered. The people of the West should be wise in their day and generation. They should examine their own resources and if possible derive therefrom the means for their development. | The proposition to lease the arid ranges to stock- | men and devote the proceeds to irrigation in the States and Territories where it is derived is so reason- | able and so feasible that it excites the contempt of | those who think a crooked line is shorter between | fixed points than a straight one. A reasonable esti- mate puts the rental of the arid ranges at $9,000,000 ' a year. We believe that Senator Carter “beefed” be- | cause Congress denied $250,000. for irrigation. If, in- stead of leather lunging the Senate, he had consulted | in his own State men like McCormick and John M. Holt, they could have shown him how to get thirty- | six times as much money for irrigation without asking a dollar from the trcasury or getting an attack of | laryngitis by a thirteen-hour speech. In the general meddle and muddle of legislative affairs throughout the country, it is worth noting | that the Wisconsin Legislature is discussing a bill “to promote matrimony.” There appears to be some- | thing wrong with the girls of the State, or else the | boys are waiting for the Legislature to offer a bounty. The Kansas Legislature, recently adjourned, adopt- ed 427 bills which are now laws of the State. One | would suppose from the Carrie Nation hysteria that | Kansas already had more than enough laws with | which to wrestle, The gamblers, it is said, have won everything worth winning in Nome. This fact ought to suggest to the miners an excellent opportunity to make a round-up and get back everything that belongs to them. The Democrats of Denver seem to have reached | that desperate climax where they don't care whether trouble comes or not. They have decided to nomi- nate a woman for City Clerk. William Jennings Biyan has again unslung his pen and predicts dire disaster for the nation. Calamity Bill should learn the lesson which comes in eloquent flashes of silence. Two French statesmen have decided to fight a duel. And the strange part of the affair is that they seem seriously determined to damage one another. ARt v 3 Mr. Nation of Kancas has risen up to say that Mrs. Nation will stop crusading, and we are now likely to - learn at last which is the head of the family, 1 1901. PAPERS ON CURRENT TOPICS. PREPARED BY EXPERTS AND SPECIALISTS FOR THE SAN Francisco CALL. Strange and Costly Wares With Which the People of a Century Ago Adorned Their Tables. By Alice Morse Earle. AUTHOR OF “CHINA COLLECTING IN AMERICA,” “HOME LIFE IN COL NIAL DAY: COPYRIGHT, 1%0L IV.-TABLE FURNISHINGS. The dining table used a century ago ‘was much narrower than that of the pres- ent day. It was a survival of the “table board” of the early colonists, which was simply a long, narrow, detached board t0p 1ald on trestles shaped somewhat like a sawhorse. The tablecloth was then called a “boardcloth.” This narrow table top was ample for the table furnishings of the day. Our grandmothers did not need the five feet of diameter which we now overload with a motley display of linen, lace, silver, crystal, flowers and confections. They had no flowers on the table, and but rarely an epergne, or dish with fruit. There were no ‘“individual” Dpleces, save plates, knives, forks and usu- ally but not always glasses. Sometimes a_tankard circulated round the table, ere was always a salt cellar, one of goodly size; and by 1820 there was a cas- tor, which had been seen before that date, but was not universally used. Benjamin Franklin had cruet stands and castors. A book of directions for fashionable dinner- glving, not yet fifty years old, begins the chapter on table furnishing thus: “Be sure to set the castor exactly in the mid- dle of the table.” At a formal tea party or dinner the P s table was often set with the dessert in Broups oldpretly glasses and dishes, and it deserved display, for the whips, sylla- bubs, trifles, quaking custards, creams and floating islands were the skilled labor of many hours, usually of the house mis- tress and her daughters. There was another reason for the con- venlence of a narrow table—there was lit- tle waiting upon or serving s, save by the persons seated at the table. Men of great. wealth—the great land owners in the South and ship owners in the North —had butlers and waiters, usually ne- roes, often clumsy and ill-trained; but golk of ample means and bountiful table helped one another at meals. Servants placed the food upon the table, and some- times the “help” then sat down at the end of the long table. The host always carved, placing his cuts one by one on the ile of plates in front of hi which were Pn turn passed down the table and su plied by each person with the vegetable or sauce from the dish in front of him until all were served bountifully with all on the table. Wooden Trenchers and Pewter Plates. ‘Wooden trays and trenchers, ever the cheap, cleanly and convenient table fur- nishing of pioneers, had disappeared with the eighteenth century, before the domin- ation of pewter, save in rare instances, as during the Revolution, when pewter was melted into bullets, or during the embargo in the nineteenth century, when London pewter came little to American ports. Then ‘“trencher bees'’ were held, ‘where the young men made trenchers fram poplar wood and the young women scraped them smooth with glass. Pewter, too, was being thrust out. Con- servative folk like John Hancock hated the clatter of china and clung to pewter. It was thought that china dulled the edges of knives. The round ?lntor. or “‘charger,” was used for serv! ng bolled ates had dis- appeared. pewter’ still was a bridal gift in the country in 1801, though china was used everywhere in the ty. Before the Revolution there began to be imported to America from England many pleces of a close-grained, creamy, opaque ware, which was not china and seemed smoother pottery, which was known as “yellow ware” or Liverpool ware, and nearly all of it was decorated in Liver- pool Yn black or red prints by a process of transfer printing or pottery engraving invented by one Sadler, a Liverpool en- graver. He had the notion of china print- ing suggested to him by seeing children when at play in a doll's house decorate their broken pieces of crockery by past- ing on scraps of engravings which he had thrown aside. This yellow ware was very highly prized for many years, and wealthy merchants and sea captains brought pieces home as gtts. We find, therefore, that many of the large pieces yellow ware found in America, such as pitchers and mllrn. are printed with views of ships and sailors, Masonic designs and patriotic_views relating to America. These pitchers are what are known as the watermelon shape, and often hold two or three gallons. Whether they were made in Liverpool or not, they were dec- orated there, as Sadler kept his process a secret, and Liverpool ware is their name. ey are much sought after by collectors, and are usually about a cen- tury old. I have found but one that had the Liverpool stamp on the base. Tableware and Their Designs. Other cream-colored ware were seen on the table of 1801, chiefly the queensware, whicn was made at It is yellow- ish and was imported in some quantity after the Revolutionary war; also a pure white ware made at Leeds. Both are found in basket or openwork wicker de- signs. Often these pieces are unmarked. Some are marked ‘' pottery' or “C. one of the owners G.” (for Charles Green, of the pottery), also a G under a crown and sometimes an arrowhead. % 'rhle Cntle(t‘ard vlnru came to this c?m- T considerable numbers, especial fine whits ware, With surface dipiaed tato enmunmenuozybmndlgx.\te;"v:nécoh wex colored green mpa: nienn are lomelfl.mel l&ednglol;n of ll}wny. the spread-eagle or other ces rela sali-glaze ware * Bte. Such pleces are always old, and are much sought after by collectors and are often found tipped with silver and with silver lids. The other so-called “black china” is unglazed and dull of surface and was made by many of the Stafford- shire potters. It was named“by Wedsg:- wood, as he perfected it, “black ba saltes.” Some of the finer pleces have sliding lids or Iids hinged on metal pins. Pieces Imported From China. A sudden and vast commerce Sprung uj between America and China and was we under way by 1801, so that great quanti- tles of Orlental ware came to our DOrts. The Chinese pleces found in greatest quantity are old Canton and what is known to collectors as Lowestoft. The Canton pleces are a thick and rather clumsy ware of greenish or bluish white ground. with blue figures of Oriental pat- tern. The marks or stamps on the under side of the pleces are generally Chinese letters or signs in bluo, of var‘ous mean ings. The Orlental pleces known Lowestoft are so called from an erron ous impression which has been promul- gated to a most remarkable extent that these pleces were made or decorated in LUSTER WARE 0dd Tableware of a Century Ago. Lowestoft, Fingland. I have never seen a plece that I belleved to be made in PITCLHER AND CUP GOSSIP FROM LONDON’'S WORLD OF LETTERS More love letters! They are by the lady who signs herseit “George Egerton,” and appear to have been written a long while ago. Nay, more, they were accepted by the pub- lisher and might have been out be the ietters about whose authorship thers has been so much mystery. orge Egerton” calls the volume “Rosa Amo- rosa,” and gives it the subtitle of “The Love Letters of a Woman. Mrs. Egerton Clairmont, who is “George Egerton,” is now staying in Norway. One curious feature in the changing tastes of the reading public is how au- thors are turning their attention to the garden, though they have won name and fame by works of quite another sort. Thus Miss Emily Lawless, whose novel “Hurrish" has long been popular, is now writing a garde She 1S a_keen amateur gardener, and in her book is giving her experiences of the delights and sorrows of the garden. Then Miss Jeanette Duncan Is writing experiences and impressions of an Indian garden, Both books will be published by Messrs, Methuen. The eternal controversy about Junius will receive a fresh impetus from the long promised volume of correspondence en- titled “The Francis Letters,” which Messrs. Hutchinson are about to Issue. The book will contain a note om the Junius controversy by C. F. Keary. Written by many members of the Fran- cis family, the letters cover a period of nearly three-quarters of a century, be- limpses of the American col- eve of war with the British Government, of India under Warren Hast- ings and of London and Brighton in the time of the Prince Regent. Miss Beatrice Harraden, the authoress of “Ships That Pass in the Night,” of which, by the way, it is understood thag some 160,000 coples have been sold, has Jjust started upon her new novel. It Scene is to be laid partly, at any rate, 18 Norway, where the authoress saw a gre: deal of the peasants’ country last year. It is not generally known that she broke her leg near the ankle on a mountain ex- cursion, and the limb being badly set she had to go to Christiania to have the heal- ing fracture rebroken in order to get her foot straight, and was thus very much longer in the country than she had an- ticipated. She turned her enforced stay to good account. Guy Bmthb{. like many other success- ful novelists, is now turning his attention to the stage, not in the direction of melo- drama, which one might imagine he would 'do from the nature of his works, | but to comic opera. It is said that both the libretto and the music of the opera are in the hands of a well known London magager with a view to production at an early date. Among other most recently completed works which will be published next sea- son is one by Mrs. Henry Norman, enti- tled "The General; a Story of Soclely and ar. There is also a book coming from Mrs. R. Norman Silver, the authoress of “Hate the Destroy ' who has written a sensa- tional story of modern life, making use of X-rays as the means of getting a se- cret. The story will be published by Jarrold & Son: Marie Hay, who is_the pretty CASTLEFORD TEAPOT — Lowestoft. The ware of Lowestoft is a coarse-grained bluish-white. The decora- tion is often of little stemless flowers in natural colors or chocolate or brown; of shields, coats of arms, monograms or initials, frequently in brown and gold. A border of blue, diversified with gold stars, or a meander pattern of gold, Is seen, especially on punchbowls. The cu of Lowestoft are usually small and with- out handles; the mugs are both cylin- drical and barrel-shaped. The coffee pots | are tall, with straight spouts; the han- | dles of the teapots are crossed or twisted 1 and attached to the body with leaves. The surface glaze of the large pieces is often somewhat rough, as if painted into | shape by hand. There are no marks or | stamps on this ware. The ships of New England merchants in the India trade | brought vast quantities of this Lowes- toft to America in the years between 1800 and 1830, and nearly every old family of | dignity from Maine to Georgia had a | Lowestoft service which was called India china. Hence specimens are not rare, but are much beloved by their owners. | Willow-pattern ware was seen every- where. This willowware was made in England from a design copied from the | Chinese, and it was made in China from the English ware. A table set with wil- lowware had much charm both in appear- ance and in the imaginary story con- ed with it, which was a favorite with children. A sprightly woman wrote a poem to the willowware, beginning thus: 1 have never been to China, and I fear I never can Be chosen as ambassadress to Peking or usan, But I know the kind of place it is as well as older pates From different works on China fllustrated by our plates, The color of the country is a kind of dingy blue, With chaotfo land and water hers and there appearing through, Intérspersed with funny bridges and paths that seem to glide To very funny houses upon the other side. There are frightful flowers growing upside down and inside out, Trees with caterpillars laden, some with roots | and some without. These set designs were followed by blue and wnite ware of clouded outline known as “flowing blue,” which is valueless save for its color. Tea Drinking a Century Ago. ter of the late Lord Dupplin, has | taken society by storm by publishing a most beautiful book, entitled | Dame Diane de Foitier | eschale de Normandie | lentinots.” [ ot I8 many vears since any accurate his- ory of this fascinatin rsonalit been published. ey - hag The volume is beautifully got up, print- ed and illustrated, and contains many de- “Madame la_Grande Sen- Juche: of Va- tails of her life of an artistic and literary | nature. It has been most carefully eom- piled from authentic sources onl trace- | able in rare books from facts which are scattered through ponderous histories of the sixteenth century. Miss Marie Hay is shortly to produts | another book, entitled “The Life of Gl I morgan,” who was a member of the Beau- fort family. PERSONAL MENTION, Charles Welr of Los Angeles Is at the Palace. Dr. G. F. Faulkner of Salinas is at the Palace. Dr. J. Clark of Gilroy is registered at the Grand. Paul R. Ruben, a Fresno merchant, is at the Lick. J. O. O'Brien, an attorney of Sonora, is staying at the Lick. C. R. Tiison, a fruit grower of Modesto, is staying at the Lick. A. C. Calkins of Los Angeles registered at the Palace yesterday. E. C. Chapen, a merchant of Los An- geles, is at the California. D. 0. Cook, an extensive land owner of San Diego, is at the Grand. R. W. Skinner, a fruit grower of Marys- ville, s a guest at the Grand. Alfred Stern of Los Angeles s a guest for a few days at the Palace. A. W. Simpson, a lumber man of Stock- | ton, 18 a guest at the Occidental. E. S. Valentine, an insurance man of Fresno, is registered at the Lick. J. M. Wilson, a mining man of Nev.,, iIs a guest at the Occidental. L. H. Morgan and wife of New York and Herman Schirmer, the musical publisher of the same city, who are at present at the Palace, leave Monday for an exten- sive tour of Japan. General William Ludlow arrived yester- day from the East, accompanied by his wife, and is at the Palace. The general will leave on the transport Meade for Ma- nila, where he will report to General Mae- Arthur. - # Silver spoons were seen on all tables of well-to-do people in 1801. Alchemy and powter spoons were out of date. There | were a few three-tined forks; two tines | were far more common. Knives were of | steel, sharpened for use, with handles of | shagreen, horn, ivory or wood. Table- | cloths and napkins were of homespun lin- | en, ample in number and firm in quality. ; A fashion prevailed of spreading a white damask tablecloth over one of figured colored damask. When the last giass of wine was reached and the almonds and raisins and fruit, the white cloth was taken off, leaving what was called a des- sert cloth. If tea was served it was in handleless cups, hard of hold if the bever- age was hot. The tea was poured into | a_saucer and drunk therefrom. Daniel Webster always drank his tea from a saucer. The feacup was set in a little late known as a_cup plate. Prince de roglie discovered after drinking his twelfth cup of tea that if he wished no more he must place his spoon across his cup. Until he did that his hostess kept pressing fresh tea upon him. A tea urn was a pretty table appointment with tea ana sugar canisters, cream pots and su- gar tongs. George Washington’s Invention. ‘Wine was served in handsome glass de- canters, which were set in silver-rimmed | coasters with wooden bases. These coast- | ers were sometimes double, made to hold two decanters or bottles, and were set on four little wheels like a miniature wagon. They were dragged around the surface of the table by a little tongue or handle. It is a matter of tradition that these double coasters _on wheels were invented by George Washington, and that the word coaster thus used is ‘also American, CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON ‘WASHINGTON, March 14.—The follow- ing Californians are in Washington: At the National—L. Dickson, A. Hunter and wife, San Francisco. At the Raleigh—George A. Robrick, Los Angeles. At the Shore- ham—W. J. Mack, S8an Francisco. “That girl” said the = That girl” said the dentist. “must ¥ asked the next customer, y so?" looking after the retreating figure. 5 “Bec "B.BS wthe she came ause,” replied the said_ wl in was ‘Draw one.' "'—Philadelphia Bulletin. —_—— first thing she hen AT HOTEL DEL CORONADO the season !s Dow on at full tide. American and Europsan plans. Best of everything, including the char- acter of entertainment. Apply 4 New Montgom. tcket, “Very st., city, for special CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, March 14—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—F. J. Tolten, at the Albert; N. M. Smith, at the Marlborough; E. J. Quinn, at the Vendome; F. Older, at the Holland; P. L. Pettigrew, at the Ven- dome; W. Brackett, at the Herald Square, Chotce candies, Townsend's, Palace Hotel.® Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.® Specfal information supplied dally to business houses and public men by thy Press Clipping Burcau (Allen’s), 510 onl’ gomery st. Telephone Main 1042, . ‘Things concerning which we possess a negative knowledge have ng | powermfi accomplish a positive result. 'HOLE IN THE LUNGS There are thousands of men and women, as well as ever, with holes in their lungs: con- sumption stopped. What did it? Some change in way of life and Scott’s emulsion of cod- liver oil. Ahole in the lungs, once healed, is no worse than a too- tight waist or waistcoat. Take the emulsion and give it a chance to heal the wound. p We'll send you a little to try, if you like. BCOTT & BOWNE, (o9 Pearl street, New Vork,