The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 31, 1901, Page 11

THE SUNDAY CALL. 11 s are in order wers lay eside essed s of sflk borne by four or six young very oid men of course, the is merely one of honor, walks the nt, vested in a white cope, bearing hands the veiled chalice in which consecrated host in token of the as burial From the high altar and down through the church the procession slowly advances ancient, solemn music of the Latin Lingua,” sung by the choir with- an accompaniment. That last night at supper lying, Mid the twelve his chosen band, Jesus, with the law complying, Keeps the feast Its rites demand; CHCTOGRAPHING JEWERRY 15 ] WIS PRECAUTION AVOID a o) JING jewelr T protection | now that e diamond br d recovery. 1ab welry that aution. y pletures of ork said the ever One pre ) takes m few of them ever had phed wearing their ce it had become the style to jewelry than formerly. He random over half a dozen por- tr mud recently, and there was y on any of their originals jewelry ROBBERY. that amcunted to more than a few hun- dred dcllars in value. Yet the majority of these women own jewels worth thou- sands of dollars. In England the custom of wearing jewelry in protographs is much mcre prevalent than it is in New York. Pictures of English women of wealth and position usually display the entire contents of their jewelry boxes, and their tiaras, 'stomachers and neck- laces are frequently conspicuous enough to be serviceable as a means of identifi- cation were they stolen, although thieves rarely dare to keep such things intact for even the briefest time. American women owning valuable jewelry are not likely to possess any photographs of it, unless they were especially taken. And that precau- tion has so far been observed in few cases—New York Sun. Then, more precious food supplying, Gives himself with his own hand. the procession advances the little atter flowers which they carry in baske! It is an act of respect and at th me time reminds one of his entcy into the Sacred City, when children of long ago threw flowers in the same fashion in his pathway. girls By the way, the children are not essen- tial in any way, but they add greatly to the beauty ‘of the occasion. They are kept downstairs by the sisters until the conclusion of the mass. It would only tire them to wait until time for them to march, and besides they would only be in the way. Borne by the minister, the Eucharist goes among the people, who are deeply bowed in adoration, completing the clc- cuit bf the aisles and returning whence it began. The procession re-enters the gates of the sanctuary and veiled children meanwhile kneel on either side at the altar ralls. Within the sanctuary boys likewise kneel with their tapers, while the minis- ters of the mass accompany the celebrant to the Chapel of Repose. The repository is usually one of the side altars of the sanctuary, upon which the blessed sacrament is to be reposed dur- ing Good Friday, for on that day in token of his death in the tabernacle on the high altar in which it is kept during all the other days and nights of the year is empty andeits door stands open. The altar itself is stripped of all fts ornaments with the exception of a naked crucifix, which surmounts it. Thus is the desolation of the Lord symbolized by the bareness of the altar. But there is rep- aration to be made and so the altar of ¢ | | HE little people who march i’ the | Holy Thursday Procession are rush- | ing about trying to get the frilllest | most beruffied gowns that can be { thought of. They are more particu- | 1ar than thetr cldgr sisters or even thelr mothers, for their small heads are not often hothered with eny kind of fashions. To be sure children have worn white for ages and ages, but this year more time has been devoted to them than usual, and the results are a delight to everybody. Of course they are not cheap. .~ One of the awellest is made of Indian lawn. The skirt is tucked all around the walst to a depth of six inches. About the same number of inches intervene between the tucks and the first ruffle. The ruffies, and there are three of them, have a clus- ter of three tucks near the bottom, and | they are edged with lace. The skirt has : just that fullness that girls from four to 12 need so'much. The baby waist has a tucked yoke and a broad ruffle edged with lace gives a graceful finish. The fullness is belted in with a wide, soft sash of the same, The sleeves are the crowning delight, Tiny tucks run from the top of the sleeve to below the elbow, and the fullness is held in place by & narrow band of rib- bon, which ends with a bow that nestles close to the ruffle. It's very dainty, but it takes a long time and yards of lace to make it a sucess. Another elaborate one is made of = soft point @' esprit. The, skirt is plain save for three rows of baby-ribbon. The waist is made with a yoke of lace. A wide lace to match s gathered in very full folds and falls in a soft, graceful fashion over the shoulders. The sleeves have a ruffle edged with ribbon at the elhow, and a ruffle of the same finishes it at the hand. A rosette of the ribbon placed at the right side gives it a little more dressed-up ap- pearance. A frock that does not pretendto be near- ly as elaborate and that really is much more serviceable is made of white dottea pique. In the first place It 18 worn with Dainty Gowns That Have ~ Beep @hosen for the gligious Progession. the repository is decked with the richest ornaments, and white is used, the color dendting joy and gladness. Lights blaze in profusion and lilies breathe out their tribute of- fragrance. Amid the triumph of this great feast a web of sorrow is interwoven to show that the joy is not lasting and that the trials of the Lord have not been forgotten. Bells rings out joyfully in answer to the organ’s peals, but after that both bells and organ are silent until Holy Saturday, to show the sorrow of the whole world at our Savior's death. honored the faithful make restitution to him during the hours of his humiliation. All day long on Holy Thursday the re positories in churches are the places of pllgrimage for the people, wha offer their faith and love in gratitude to their Savior. So the celebration of Holy Thur: comes as a brilliant light in the midst of blackness, a bright day slipped in between the darkest of the dark, and it will con- tinue to be celebrated with all {ts solem- nity and picturesqueness until time is n» more. 2 kneel in worship HERE are ground snakes, water T snakes, sea snakes, burrowing snakes and tree snakes. But ail sorts of them more or less infest each other's chosen habitat. The hign- land moccacin, a ground snake of the pur- est type, can upon occasion swim as far and as fast as his congener, the watcr moecasin, although the water moccasta, after the manner of watér snakes, wears | his nostrils in the top of his flat head. | A snake’s tail never dles till after sun- | down.” That 1s an article of rural faith. | By way of re-enforcing it, it may be sall | that with some species of snakes a sev- “*ered head bites an hour or even two after cutting off, and further, that the headless body will often leap its own length if frr tated. That is not, however, quite so strange as that the leap is made toward the irritator—as though the body could | still measure distance and direction with- out eye, ears or brain. All snakes lay eggs. Some snakes hatch out their eggs before depositing them. Thus there is a distinction. The egg-lay- ers are sald to be oviparous, and others ovoviviparous. Viper, indeed, is derived from that reptile’s supposed habit of pro- ducing its young alive. But no matter what the specles, every snake egg as soon as formed begins to hatch. Thus it matters little as to when or how they are extruded. Barring accident, there is very sure to be a fine brood of young snakes at a very early date. While the young snakes are very small the mother reptile guards them vigilantly. Upon the ap- proach of imminent danger she opens her mouth and lets her young run down her throat. The fact was for a long time dis- puted and reckoned only rural fable. By a comparison, tabulation and verification of actual observations, extending to more than 100 cases, it has been established be- yond cavil. Pythons brood thelr eggs, arranging them in a pyramid, and winding them- selves around the pyramid in a sort of Turk's cap shafie. This even in captivity. There, however, the eggs almost never hatch. The period of Incubation is fifty odd days, throughout which the brooding python eats nothing, though she will drink thirstily if water or milk is provided so she may reach it without stirring her folds. Viper eggs are commonly linked into a sort of chain, but not invariably. Other snakes sometimes lay linked.eggs, but oftener single ones. The size of snake eggs is strictly proportionate to that of the species. Occasionally a snake shows attachment to her unhatched eggs, but commonly she runs away from them ut the least hint of danger so long as they are merely eggs. Occasionally scattered egss of the larger species have beea picked up and set under barnyard hens —with the result that in a week or such matter thers was a lvely small wriggler in the nest to terrify beyond measure the unsuspecting fowl. A knot of water snakes swimming and playing In a clean Umestone creek is a Iliberal education in gracious curves and glinting color, especially water moccasins. They have copper-bronzed coats, with fiue dlamond-grained scales, and taper exquis- itely toward both extremities. They are accounted polson snakes, but their shape makes against it. Almost all venomous guimpe, and can be washed easily. The embroidery s heavy to match the materi- al itseif. It has the appearance of two ruffies, but in reality thers is only one that runs all about the guimpe. The sec- ond or under one serves as sleeves, and only meets in the front to make it look even all the way around. The belt is a broad plece of insertion, and any color of ribbon can easily be run through. The sleeves show more plainly than anything that attention bas been given to the ward- robe of the little misses, for the sleeves are short, as they are in most of the swell afternoon gowns at the present time. Another of the same style is made cf mull. The funny lonz-waisted effect that looks so well on some youngsters has be- come a fad. The skirt must necessarily be plain, the only trimming that could possibly be used being insertion. A broad collar with butterflies or some dainty pat- tern worked in takes away the plain look. The walst is anywhere but at the waist, but as long as it Is style evervbody thinks it is very cute. The little guimpe that is worn with them may be very fancy and usually is. One of the most popular ways to trim them is o have a multitude of lace ruffles running either all up and down or all across. There is another pretty way to make a skirt of thin material, Insertion is al- ways very popular and when thers are five or six Tows of some open pattern and a ruffle edged with lace to match oue would have to look a long way to find anything more swagger. There is one thing about short dresses that most people do not give enough at- tention to. There is a homely length and a pretty one. Nine out of ten people man. age to strike the wrong one. Remember, if you would have vour little daughter look her very best—and what fond parent wouldn’t see thatgsee that the skirt be either very short, not longer than the knees, or else very long. It makes all the difference in the ‘world. Just logk for yourself and see. SNAKES FROM HERE, THERE, AND . EVERYWHERE. THEIR PECULIARITIES. snakes are disproportionately short and thick. The puff adder gets his name from his peculiar habit of mflating himseif when angry. He is an impudent fellow, with a rusty black coat. pugnacious, es- pecially in early spring. If you trespass upon his beat he will dart at you, swelling visibly, hissing loud and darting out his wicked-looking forked tongue. But he is for all that an arrant coward, as bluster- ing braggarts are apt to be. If you run he will chase you, but if you stand your ground, or make a motion to strike him he shrinks one-half and scuttles off to the thickest cover. Still he Is not so queer as the glass snake or joint snake, of whom the book- men are still increduwous. He exists, for all that, not too plentifully, to be surs, but in reasonable numbers, all along the historic parallel, 35 degrees 30 minutes. That is to say, from the Carolina seaboard to the western edge of Arkansas and Mis- sourl. If he extends farther west the fact has not been reported. He is brown, a sort of earth brown,“vith a deeper black- ish-brown stripe down the middle of his back. His coat Is not scaly. Instead, it 1s glassy smooth. He has a perfectly flat, triangular head, and runs with incredible swiftness. It is almost idle to think of catching him In midsummer or autumn. The best time to observe his pecullar ways 1s early spring, just as the plow turns him out into a raw March world. At first he looks and acts like any tor- pid serpent. By and by, when the sun has a little enlivengd him, nettle him with light blows from a keen switch, and watch what happens. At the first he starts a bit, the second makes him squirm, the third sets him shivering throughout his length. Then he begins to think there must be something doing. The something is to cast off a joint or so of himself, and scuttle away as best he can. If pursued he casts off other joints until omly his head remain. The remnant is stout and thick. It has need to be, since into it are crowded a full set of snake vitals. Once safe away the snake lies quiet a bit in the sunshine. Then If thers is no further alarm, he crawls back seeking the fragments of himself. He seems to fol- low his own trall, no matter how devious, and as soon as he comes to a cast-off joint, backs himself against it, and re-at taches it. This keeps up until he is made whole. Evidently the reconstruction is an exhausting process, as after it the reptile will He perfectly stiil for hours, unless roughly disturbed. Tn all nature’s mechanism are few things more deft or better contrived than the provision for casting off these joints and picking them up asain. The first of them, the tail tip, Is, of course, the small- est. At the break tha end of it fits accur- ately within a projecting ring scale. There are further three small holes in the facs of it to receive three small gristly pro- jections from the other process. BEvery joint is the same. But at breaking apast they do not bleed. Indeed thege is na evidence of any sort of circula Yet circulation there must be, else the de- tachable joints could not be nourished. There are from four to seven joints in tie back of the snake, varying less, according to size than to habitat. Sometimes tha joint snake reaches a length of six fect. But commonly he is iess than three,