The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 24, 1901, Page 10

10 work and ceilings the bug- . The woodwork in modern by being i thr so that its whilom ess, ex i is now a The me height, when a brc the f the w with t c . [ Lo in coloring thing whieh th to avoid i has t impr the woodwork is exception of the 1 blue black. The 1 wall, ceiling ar The sec its tinting. the furnishing it is the c tistic has been said, “If you want to get at real manner of a man look at his Like his speech, it betrays his n life. And in its completeness or incompleteness it gives you an idea as to the rest of the house is like. The all of Earl Court is used as a re- cept 1 room. the court outside really be- ing the entrance to the house, for unless one has been Initiated into the workings of the bronze tes one must ring from th street. Rich red walls, deep llow ceiling and border of bluish blac work are combined in the hallway kish rugs are on the inlaid floor, and ouch and chair are of highly polished nd leather. Heavy Chinese and one or two rare paintings walls. A grandfather's clock el @) SQRCOL TO TRAIN WRITERS- in Austria are now /.A.'TEP.F L J lea g their trade just like /W ordinary mechanics. They do not serve as apprentices to employ- ers, but instead go to school in Vienna, where experienced professors teach them how to walt at table. Their instruction s twofold—theoretfcal and practical First the professors tell them what they should do, then they show them how to do it, and finally they test them in order to see if they can do it themselves This final test is interesting. Four per- gons, two gentlemen and two ladies, who ere posing as guests for the occasion, enter the schoolroom, which is arranged &s & cafe, and order a light meal. A walter approaches and serves them, while at a little distance the professors watch his every motion. If he blunders in the smallest detail a black mark is set sgainst him In their notebook, and he Is o 1 to study a little longer before he 1 obtain his diploma Indeed, terribly strict these professors are, as may be judged from the fact that at a recent examination one of the walt- ers was disqualified because, when un- corking a bottle of Rhine wine, he used | 5 nary corkscrew instead of an au- | tic one, as is the general custom. | From the very start this school has | been popular, and it has now several hun- | dred pupils. Some of the old time walt- | ers, who have learned what they know | through experience, are disposed to sneer | at it, but the younger men, whose ambi- | tion In life 1s to serve deftly and skillfully in the cafes, which are such a popular institution in Europe, regard it with high favor and with few exceptions claim that only those who have obtained diplomas from it are entitied to be considered members of thelr honorable profession. tom and potted plants on teakwood tabour- ettes complete the furnishing. A suite of rooms off the hall is done in cafe-au-lait and rcbin's egg blue. The carpet is a soft tan covered Wwith a faint tracery of pink roses and green leaves. The furniture s of dark wood. The THE SUNDAY CALL. heavy portieres are brown, with a cream lining. Another room, and an especially at- tractive one, has alive green walls, chrome yellow ceiling and a deep red car- pet. The furniture in this room is of ma- ple and the hangings carry out the three colors—green, red and yellow. A downstairs living-room 1s done In golden olive and cafe-du-lait. The rafters are creamy white and the floor is inlaid and covered with costly rugs. The ad- Joining room, « bedroom, has rose leaf pink walls and a cream ceiling and bor- Qer. a most white, this are rare In one corner of t room is placed “comfy” looking couch The downstairs hallway has pale yellow Ils and deep strawberry ceiling. Wt - border begins is built a shelf, to match the woodwork bric-a-brac A mpose cres hina chest and a chair or two ¢ the furnishing. The griliroom, which opens off this hall, has walls of olive green and ceiling of canary vellow. A shelf runs around the room and is the resting place for bric-a- brac, s the « in t hall 11 the furnit ed in this room of ebony. The large windows op2n into the ¢ vatory, deliciously cool ané grill is arranged /with small tables, seat- ing not over four. Fine china shows through the doors of cabinets. The wall shelf adds to the coziness of the little tables tucked away in corners, tempt confidences. Beyond the gril kitchen, complete in modern appointme of sinks, shelves and atries. Its rar is a work of art, with compartments for every possible culinary emergency, -fr-m a roast of beef to a roast of flamingoes tongues. v lies The most striking feature of the house— the feature for which It was named— the court. The house on front and sides is shut in from the street by a high wall of yellow brick and two bronze gates, over. which hangs a quaintly fashioned lamp. The floor of the court is tiled in yellow to cor- ' MING an ant weuld seem to be ar almost impossible feat, but it has been lately accomplished by t Jes father Wasmann, who after the Engiish natural is, t Lubbock, the man who knows most about these irsects. Wasmann keeps many different tribes of se Is con- ants in artificlal nests. To nected a feeding tube termirating in a glass bulb closed by a cork. Into this tube, he remarked, one of the insects came reg- ularly, It was easy to recognize it to be always the same, as |* was particularly small and otherwise different from its companions. The creature licked up the honey or sugar placed in the bulb and, having gathered a supply, returned to share it with its companions In the nest. ‘Wasmann then removed the cork, upon which the Insect came out and sougnt around for food. Ho then approached it with the point of a needle dipped In honey. The ant at first shrank back as SCIENTIST TAMED AN ANT. the wall. To the right a large plate glass wind looks down respond as one enters through w night, when the lamps atory a finest: it n of years of travel ne T of much money; bu room itself gives the and to display it, its they four-p surround are worth st advantage against w h as colonial keepers f in the at- tempt to ke d. Light rattan fur- niture s in a room with a brass wall is the a te background. Dark boc table take kindly to rich red w A Have an eye out always to the fitness of things. it frightened; then gradually drew feeling about with its antennae last it came up to the ne dle and licke oft the honey. Later he accustomed to take the honey directly from the tip of his finger, a - arer, until at isin when we member that the least unusual odor the slightest movement outside their nest is either repulsive or terrifying to ants and drives them efther to flight or to de: onstrations of disgust. Wasman ed in taming the fnsect so completely that at last it quitted the oulb immediately the cork was removed, came In quest of the honey on his finger and at the conclusic n of its repast, without any attempt at re- sistance or flight, allowed Itseif to be lifr- ed on a bristle-and carriel back to ths nest. —_———— Child labor in North Carolina mills has decreased 30 per cent in the past threg years,