The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 2, 1901, Page 9

THE SUNDAY ' CALL. [ place to dig for the exams. or while away & summer hour. The T Delta Tau Deltas are a regular or- chestra in themselves. In other words, they’'re y musical. Whether one must be 2 musician in order to be eligible or not dor know, but this much I do know—that if he isn't his nose will be out of 3oint Their pariors are not very large, but they are brimful of banjos, mandolins, base viols, violins, megaphones, grama- phones and - other kind of phones that x market. The plano Is open re for work, and a groaning music rack stands near to help the good r stands a glass tank filled er of gold fish. Around re fernery and the ferns f they had ple of water. are severa about, and Lucerne guar e of the periodic e table to Is are car- enlighten other *f Their house cely furnished all the way t hing reminds one of that homely saying, “Neat but not the house that one e there—it's the boys, for nearly every one of them is thorough- 1y at home In the art of entertaining And speaking of entertaining brings the Sigma N boys into full bl Wisey re never so happy as when the house is full to overfiowing and when no one c ear & word that anybody else is saying on ac- count of the general jollification. Go there to luncheon and nine times out of ten every man jack will stay at home to see that the other fellows don’t neglect the house isn’t so large, but it is very y arranged. The hall, parlors and dining-room all open into each other and the chimn o the center. When they dance everybody goes round and round and woe be to the fe low who tries to circle the wrong way Japanese lanterns and smilax are usually up, for just as soon as one little affair is over somebody -has a happy thought and place acts as a pole J Ml I flmuummumm _—— it is quickly put into execution before it is lost. A home that points with pride to its relics he Phi Gamma Delta. Over the door just to the right of the mantel hangs an oil p: Huntington, and what g of Collis P. mere, the card which is attached to it reads, ed to his friends by Collis P. Huntington.” His writing alone would make most peo- ple swell up until they couldn't see straight, but although the boys are prou of it, they don’t tell eve time that Collis dined w his portrait behind to convince them that it had been no p ream Then, they po: piece of the flag that was captured at Maniia ins! st that was fortuna it is no fake enough t there was down ent and sent it hasn't been through the war, its certainly bel: Pictures of noted men and brarces of them confront one Another thing that the Phi ( boys differ from their brethren ir flow question. ases France roses stand place. The flowers are e attention, but truly vases and not steins shows that they must be very popular with the sororities 2y And, by the way. one of the prettiest and mest homelike of the giris’ fraterni- home ties is the Gamma Phi Betas No one h; “frat” h to lcok at it neighbors on one side send ove messages, ‘‘Please do not make so much while those on the other side de- “The g are just the quietest things that ever were.” Their floors are alllhardwood, and rugs are scattered here mh there. A tea table s before a cosy corner, but perhaps it is called a tea table by courtesy only. The ture is all light weight, and C would know immediately, if not sooner, that the buyer had her eyve on the artistic Another pretty to the Kappa Alpha Theta girls. It is small but g0 awfully comfy looking. The furnishings are on the artistic antique order. The portieres are made of silk sorority house belongs in the old y are ver: uncommon. -The 1ad come out of t sweet 1 style rag-carpet pretty and also piano looks as if he ark, but the tones everybody is treated A little table is a noothed and polished and branch. lesticks, very it are brass vases. brass , are every- has a windo and there are all sorts g tions of pillows there. But the cutest rcem in all Berkeley cpens off the hall. It is just large enough for two and a telephone. olutely horribly un- comfortable. architect that built that house knew what he was about. When it comes to howling swell look- ing houses, the Delta Kappa Epsilon hoid their heads up the highest. Their ho painted in bright red and white, is a land- mark in thet part of town. People sa “Oh, it's just one block from the ‘Deke’ house,” “It's just around the corner ze’ house."" nterior is every bit as swell as the A Jarge hall opens into a recep- tion room and a dining room on one side and a billiard room and a large parlor on the other When all the folding doors are or from the ‘D The i opened wide there is plenty of room to entertain all the friends of the fraternity and not be crowded in the slightest. The bedrooms are all differently fitted up: the studious fellow naturally has things as different from the gay chap as night from morning. But each and every one of them is interesting. The Kappa Alpha fellows have a new shirgled home. The first things that one sees on entering is “For matron, press the button.” Of course, they would never gef over laughing if some greenhorn really tried to. Over the windows in the parlor hangs ‘“Christian home for unemployed girls.,” Then the ‘“Anti-saloon League’ has its sign and the ‘Pastor’s study” and ‘“Modes,”” and heaven knows what not. Their house reminds one forcibly of col- lege life and makes one want to shout, “Rah, rah, rah, California, U. C. Berke- ley, zip, boom, ah!” | | | NEXT WEEK. | R In the Fraternity Houses at Stanford. & St THE PIRATICAL FLEA AS THE HE flea possesses all the piratical in- incts—thirst for blood, rapacity, cruel He is further as ingenious in devising tortures as he is untiring in the torment of his vietims. The fiea is bullt upon lines that make him ferever hungry. But his continuous wce appetite is far from being oddest thing about him. Proportion- he is the Samson of the uni- verse. If an el nt had the same rela tive strength he could come near to over- setting a steel-framed sky scraper. A fiea, wingless, with a body out of all proportion to his head, and all over less than the sixteenth of an inch in length, will leap upon a plane surface more than e yard. This, too, when he has been batched in halr, or straw, or sand, and never known what it was to have a full meal. More marvelous still, he will epripg performs the ately to size perpendicularly upward from one to two feet ncy a man or boy standing flat- footed and all of a sudden leaping over a church spire. Wonderful things have been dope with fleas. They have been put into gold col- lars and set to drag about lengths of gold chain at least 100 times their own weight. Furtler, an ingenious goldsmith back in the leisurely seventeenth century made a coach and four in ivory and gold, with a coachman upon the box, postillion and out- riders, yet all so tidy it was dragged by a pair of fleas, workink in gold collars. They worked under a bell glass, and were ex- Eibited in London and Paris. To fight like cats and dogs is the syn- onym of continuing strife, but even cats and dogs do not fight so bitterly as cat fleas and dog fleas. Oddly enough, the cat fleas are bigger than the dog fleas, so AMSO should be always victors. elsewhere condition tells. If the cat fleas are lazy and luxurious—fat they can never grow—the small, lean, keen-beaked dog fleas kill them out. The combatants stand up to fight quite like a pair of prize-ring ornaments. As they have six legs they have plenty to stand on and still spare a couple with which to belabor each other. Upon neu- tral ground, as a floor or walk, the cat and dog fleas keep the peace. But let one invade litter or a coat sacred to the other, and there is straightway a fight to a fin- ish. Something even more curious than this inborn antipathy is that dog fleas will not hive upon a cat nor cat fleas upon a dog. Fleas lay eggs after the insect manner, whick hatch out tiny wrigglers very near- ly invisible to the naked eye, yet capable But’ here as N OF THE WHOLE UMUERSE of feeding on moisture and microbes—at Jeast one judges that to be the diet, since fleas breed so largely in sand, hair, straw and litter where other food is lacking— ana after a while spinning themselves co- cocns. The cocoons are no bigger than tiny grains of sand, but under the micro- scope show as semi-translucent ovals beautifully banded with pink and pearl. They are formed upon top of the matrixy whatever it may be, where the sun or the light can strike them fair. Rain just at' the hatching time often kills a whole brood of sandfleas. A flea’s beak is sharp and hard, some- thing like a bird’s, only more pointed. A. flea bite is not poisonous save and except in rare cases where a flea has previously been biting infected tissue. Certain French scientists have shown that both fleas and bedbugs could thus carry tubercular in- fection.