The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 30, 1901, Page 7

. THE SUNDAY CALL. '« HE has arrived She 1s Its is the chauffemse to be of the twentieth o independent with dence destined e of the itury. - 8he the indenen- of the time; she i vigorous of it; she is ambitious, and with of mind. And what makes her dear to the r fancy, to the artist and the jin- hionable verse is, above al!, her the vigor r-headed cles cool presence “or the woman who runs her own auto- e is always, If you will notice, crisp in manner and in dress. This with the use of the machine. in the same spirit 0 s in now snappy » come the our growing when ene woman honors all to herself; now we Moore., M Miles Baird, Mrs. and they are not half the list. of them, Mrs. Moore and Mrs e been through the park exam- Moreover, they have passed It u have 2 a park examing u will re respectful ere no ompelling raticn to be passed by the runners of les, so the park has to look out f. It is and nothing ¥'s safe pleasure rest own in line with We they was 1a and Time ave are city st and last a pleasw interferes witlh s to be allowed bables and at the machines the sensitive feel- the babies and the nurse malds ) be considered me about that a park ordinance reated, ruling that no automobile driven within park limits un driver thereof had obtained a means of various red-tape-tied The amoynt of the thing is that to puss an examination in the e machine, and iIf this t s successful you aresgiven the per- due ceremony. The number of ix fastened in showy white let- to the back of your machine, and officious officer about the park who time challenge ycur right to otoring therein may be show the sign which refers him your e permit at inasmuch have not as was permit by at any Moore acquitted herself Ty, they say, when she was gh her paces on her locomubile. chine is a natty little runabout handles no more dextrously does the heavier surrey and dos jos. But the runabout is her pet. In vou can't have an auto of any kind hout reminding your friends of a fond with the first-born. An auto has t individuality, and if you don’t think < alive. that just shows how much you w about it little bit nervous about when 1 started In’ says “because 1 had heard that was a very strict axamirer.” D. 3 park engineer, certainly mean business when he goes about t. It is all up to him, you see, anl the autos that he has passel get fresh” afterward within park ssys he would hear of it. So provides for emergencles in his ques- Charles C she was a the mination Moore Savi exa fuesday that the test came Tuesday the day set aslde for cxaminations, and Mr. Saville's from 3 to 5 on that day, is to be the would-be chauffeur. " When Mrs. Moore started out thought she knew all about her little ma- She was certain of the reason for Jever and gauge and she was cer- tain of her steady hand. But when the engineer looked at her and through her, she wondered if her hand was going to steady. He looked over the locomobile and he Jooked over her. Then he leaned an elbow on the dashboard and glanced casually at the brake. “What's that for?” he asked suddenly. “That? That's the brak she answer- ed, puzzled. “Yes. What's it for?” It.had always seemed plain enough what was for. It was plainly meant to keep r right foot busy. is ness she every keep It occurred to her this was a very simple examinatoc: after all and that she needn’'t be excited over it “It’s to stop the machine,” Ty “All right. Now breaks and you want to stop in a hurry, what are you going to do?" . “Why, it never does break,” she stam- mered, and with the thought of her per- mit ahead she couldn’t for the life of her think of a better answer. The examiner saw that this sort of a test was hopeless. “Let me get in there,” he said, and took his place on the seat. He started the machine whirring along the South Drive, where all automobiles are confined. He covered the brake with his foot. “You she sald glib- suppose the brake he sald. is can't touch the brake,” Then, the instant, “That trightened. Stap.” he cried And automatically she closed the throt- tle. turning off the steam. and the ma- on team WirH THE chine came to a dead halt. “I did know, after all”” she sald, course I knew all the time. She laughed then and was over. The examination went on with the smoothness of a well-rehearsed play; and the word was passed from one way- farer to another to come and admire. As she drove smoothly over the rolled surface of the South Drive her examiner asked “of her nervousness questions and proposed problems ‘7Y that were to test her quickness and’un- derstanding. The preliminaries over “What do you know about the throt- tle?” “It is used to shut off the steam or let it on.” “And how do you open it when starting up the power?" “Very slowly.” She fliustrated, bracing her hand by hooking the third finger into the irén so that the hand found it easy to move slowly instead of in jerks. This is better for the machinery. It is this throttle that keeps your right hand busy in running the locomoblle, which Is a steam-propelled machine with a gasoline engine to do the heating. Mrs. Moore then showed, the deftness of her left hand with the Steering bar which"is te be held lightly, not gripped. - If you ride a wheel you know 2.1 about that. The auto are quickly satled tle, glving the steam full sway to do the hard task ahead, while the machine snort- ed and puffed up the slope like a pudgy, apoplectic old mian. “Down we go now. What about {t?"* The slope was sharp, and she turned oft the steam altogether, leaving the brake off, and coasted. “No use of wasting steam when gravity will do the work,"” she said. “Didn’t you know that you threw a child off a wheel as you passed—at the top of the hill? Go back, quick." Mrs. Moore paled like a Laura Jean Libbey lady, for she did not yet know the extent of Mr. Saville's imagination. “Quick,” he urged. She drew the steering bar inward in or der to turn. “No, no; this road s to¢ narrow. You can't turn around here,” he exclaimed. Then her grasped the color came back, and she idea that the narrow road 20™ CENTURY CONES THE CHA UITEYSi responds as quickly as a perfect horse to your lightest turn of the bar. “Go, fast,” ordered the engineer In a smooth stretch of road, and she turned on the steam and z-z-3, they were off, her left foot attending to the bell. “8top quick, now,” and the well-trained steed halted within its own length. “Here we are at a hill, and a pretty steep one at that. How are you going to climb 1t?” And she threw open the throt- and the fnjured child were the fictitious emergencies that it is Mr. Saville's busi- ness to invent., She entered into the spirit of the thing with gusto. “I'll get up that hill,”” she nounced firmly, and she proceeded. You have got to know your machine pretty well if you are going to make it run backward up hill by reversing the steam arrangement. When Mrs. Moore did this she had scored a point that back an- counted, Before they started off again the en- gineer made an excuse to jump out and peak to a park policeman on business. Looking over the machine before he climbed back he contrived to put out the fire. As Mrs. Moore opehed the throttle slow- ly there was no sign of renewed life in the vehicle. “Hello! What's the matter?” “I'll find out what's the matter,” she sald, and descended. “The fire's out,” she exnleimed. I never knew the wind to blow it out before. “What are you going to do about it?” “This,” and she took from a pocket a box ‘of non-blow-outable matches. With a Golden Gate gale sweeping In along the drive she lighted the mimic engine and they were off again. “How fast are you allowed to go In the park?” he asked as they coasted. “Twenty miles,” she replied, for she knew the truth. sinfully, WS-TIRCOT™. ‘When Mr. Saville had Impressed upon her the obligation of a maximum ten-mile rate he tried her judgment of the rate. This Is a test where the average appll- cant falls. Tt {s a hard thing to gauge your own speed, and it is guesswork at best. However, Mrs. Moore's guess ap- peared to be a good one. Golng up the next slope— ““That horse ahead of you is frightened.” he cried. Mrs. Moore saw nary a horse in any dl- rection, but she showed presence of mind. A quick turn to the side of the road. Off with thq steam. On with the reverse brake, and there they halted, stock stlll, in the midst of ascending a hill. For the rule of the park is that if any- thing, be it man, woman, baby or horse, shows fright at the new-century steed that steed shall be halted until the victim be calmed. Just how long this halt shall last, supposing the baby continues to weep, Mr. Saville says, becomed a matter of sentiment. As they started the engineer was seized with a desire to go back. “This road s wide enough to turn in,” he sald. ‘“Turn shert.” There on the hillside she did it. by a delicate handling of the steering bar. a keen hand on the throttle, a foot quick at the brake and two eyes everywhere. Poth feet and both hands are always oc- cupled in the driving, to sav nothing of toth ears and both eyes: and it is only the exgert who dares to talk. The locomobile which Mrs. Moore handles gives ocupation to the eyes part of the time In calling upon them to keep track of the water gauge. It is reflected In a tiny mirror at the right—it looks like a thermometer fill- ed with pink mercury. If the water rises above half or sinks below it, then some- thing s to be attended to. A« they rode along, fictitious carriages and pedestrians and frightened horses sprang up in every direction at one wave of Saville's wand. in every care the chauffeuse turned to right or left, sjowed or stopped as the case might be. Near the end of the journey: “1 hear a runaway coming around that curve,” he shouted. She laughed with the fun of the game and on the Instant glanced up. There, from the tree-hidden curve, dashed a maddened little sorrel with a powerless artver clinging foolishly to the lap robe while the reins trailed the ground. Mrs. Moore's face tightened. It was all in an instant. A sharp jerk on the steer- ing bar that twisted the loco to the side of the road, a closing of the throttle, and there the machine stood against the grass and out of the way of danger. while the horse flung itself into the trap of a mount- ed policeman’s bridle. “You're all right for your permit, saville. But there can’t be a real runaway made to order for every Tuesday's test, and un- fortunately there isn't one. So Saville says that he hopes in time to have matters ar- ranged as they are In Paris. There, in an inclosed space are dummies—peonle and horses and vehicles. They stand in your way, they jump out at you, and they welgh your presence of mind in the bal- ance. There are plenty of smart automobiles appearing In the neighborhood of Burlin- game. Lawrence Scott has.a beauty, which has already made trouble for him. It gave out when he and his flancee were many miles cut in the country and after walting hours for something to attach themselves to, they saw the morgue wag- on and hailed it as a life saver. Hitched to it, they were towed into San Jose. No doubt the ladies of Burlingame will distinguish themselves as chauffeuses be- fore long.” In the East those of the smart sets have taken to the sport with a venge- ance. Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs and Mrs. Willlam K. Vanderbilt are hot. enthusiasts —Mr. Vanderbilt following in Willle K.'s footsteps therein. Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish taught herself to drive and did much damage to Newport property In the process. Before she fin- ished her first lesson, she had driven di- rectly up the steps of her own high ver- anda, which would have been considered an expert feat if she had meant to do it. 141y Oelrichs is a skilled chauffeuse, and if Peter Martin brings her out here as Mrs. Martin she will boom the fashion hereabouts. - What HE nightmare has nothing to do with horses, althcugh they oce: have it; the word mare this connection a specter. to the Bavarian popular belief the nightmare is 2 woman who ap- in the morning asking to borrow something. To keep her away at night they promise her the three white gifts if she will come for them the next marning. and when she does conie, ag she @urely will, she is given a hamdful of flour, a handful of salt and an egg. In Morocco it is customary to place a dagger under the pillow at night to ward off the night- and in Greece a black-handled knife s supposed to have the same effect. The cient Germans believed that nightmare was due to a demon who, during sleep, seated himself upon the chest of' the sleeper and oppressed his breathing. The symptoms of nightmare are varia- ble, sion- really ns ir Accord pears mare. though they may be always extreme- disagreeable. It may be a realistic sensation of falling from a high such_as the summit of a steep precipice; or one may suffer all the horrors of a flood or fire or a struggle with enemies superior in foree and number. Frantic ani- mals may attack or spring the sleeper, and with all these visions there is an inexpressible anguish and pain, with a'sense of imminent danger, escape or defense seeming impossible, while the vic- tim is unable to cry out for assistance, or in the always present struggle at last ut- ters a groan or two which may awake him Nightmare i& especially distinguishable from dreams by the sensation of depres- sion and suffocation. It is, in fact, a true upon place.. ichtmare Really Is and temporary, miniature delirium. Sometimes long after awakening it leaves the subject a prey to nervous anxiety, violent palpita- tion and unusval debility. In fact, it has a marked ana'ogy with insanity. and if it is conetantly recurring it m of seti- ous portent, pointing to scme affection of the brain or mind. Not that nightmare causes nervous disease or insamty. but that nervcus disease pre-existing causes, on the contrary, this special disposition of the brain to temporary delirium. From this it can be understosd why nightmare is often hereditary, just as ab- normal nervous impressicnability may be inherted. The child, too, sensitive to the slightest impression, a living bundle of nerves, is more especiai'v subject to night terrors, even while awake, owing to the power of the mind to project ideas into spece and with the eve to see them as actualities imbued with life. Next in sus- ceptibility and men whose brains hove remained in the infan- tile state properly called simple-minded. Anaemia, fever. disturbance of the circu- lation, coused by diseases of the heart of the large blood vessels: disturbed respira- tion, due to acthma or a full stomach, are the most frequent predisposing causes and are as powerful as nervous disturb- ances, such as hysteria and hypochondria, in causing nightmare. Sometimes nightmare is due to pro- longed wakefulness, a radical change in diet, or faulty position of the body. such as lying upon the back or face. Some- times it is due to some mechanical inter- ference, such as an aneurism or even swol. len :onsils. West has reported a cuse in which, In spite of all hygienic treatment, be are women some nightmare continued every njgfit for a long period, due. as was djCovered after careful cansideration, prolonged uvula, which, during sleep, in the prone position hindered free respiration. Cut- ting off the point of this mischievous uvula caused the permanent discontinu- ance of the visits of the nightmare. In rervous persons emotfonal in charac- ter aightmare may be caused by gruesome or waful spectacles, grief, discour- In fact. the most intense nightmare is due to exhala- tions of passion, due to the loss of dearly to a loved relatives or friends, sudden and ex- treme reve:s: of fortune, disappointed ambiticn, the fear of ease, Oor even a shock to qne’s self love and esteem, which, as has been aptly sald, slays more vic- tims than love. The treatment of nightmare consists in awakening the subject, and, if ther: perturbation of mind. glving some mildly sedative potfon, such as warm water sweetened with syrup of lattuce. Follow- ing this, cate should be taken to remove the supposed cause, to prevent récurrence of the nightmare. In the case of children 4 ‘Wonderful Instinct of NE-of our commonest and most 11~ teresting Insects is the thread- waisted wasp, which builds ihe mud nests which are so numercus in old outbuildings. The children usually call these insects “mud daubers.” It is intensely interesting to watch these light, slender-badied wasps busy with their ina- sonry. The mud of which their nests is composed is aften carried for some d tance, as It is essential for them to u ®00d, Stff clay. At the edge of some pond or'stream you may see these insccts running about, continually twitching their glossy wings, thelr black backs showing a fine steel blue in the strong summer sunlight. Some of them are nearly stand- ing on their heads as they roll sticky lit- tle balis out of the stiff mud with tueir heavy jaws. With this heavy load of mud they rise stowly, and having gained somne height they get their bearings and fly mn a straight line to their nests. In this they resemble the bees; indeed, all the wasps and bees seem to have a wonderful fac- — the Wasp for flying directly home from any point. The expression. “making a' bee line,” is derived from this habit of ihe bees and their close kindred. When the wasp has gained the place it has seletted for a building site she put the tiny ball of mud against the wall of the building and rubs it tight by moving her head from side to side very rapidly. When doing this the insect makes a low, rapid buzzing sound. This operation js probably performed to insure the proper texture for the mud, just as we work the clay with a big wheel when making brick. The outer surfacé of the nest shows a serfes of rings with sharply defined lines between most of them, but the interior is always extremely smooth and almost a perfect cylinder. While building her nest the Insect is very careful and con- tinuaily runs in and out of the tiny cylin- der, examining It minutely with her “fual. ers.” If a rough place is felt on the inuer surface she carefully smooths it out and Tubs it smooth. When the cylinder is fin- ished the wasp goes hunting for spiders. ulty intense moral impressions, weird stories and gruesome tales should be avolded, es- pecially before bedtime. . The child should be put to bed early to avoid the exciting environment of the so- clal circle. of animated conversatlon and convivial jollity. Thé evening meal should te a light one, both as to quantity and quality of food and drink, avoiding highly spiced relishes and stimulating drinks. The chamber should be spacious and well- venttiated, the bed not too soft and with- out too much bed clothing. Perfect mu cular relaxation, avoidance of false posi- tions and perfect freedom, all compression Interfering with respiration or ¢irculation must be avoided. The feet ought to be warm and lower than the head. The body should be extended and not cuddled up into a ball. When the bed is in an alcove or surrounded by heavy curtains night- mare is sure to lurk within, for they pre- vent the free circulation of air, and the brain is stupefied, as it were, by laugh- ing gas produced by the sleeper, the air vitiated by'him being breathed over and over again. The bed dught to be slightly inclined from head to foot, but the proper eleva- tion of the head varies according to tem- perament. Anaemic people need to have the head quite low, but full-blooded peo- ple rest.easier if the head is higher. An excitable, congested brain may be relieved by warm baths, tonlcs and anti-spasmod- fes like the bromides and valerian. If there is a tendency to palpitation the person should lle upon the right side; If the liver is disordered by chronic digestive troubles the person should lie on the left side. The stomach should be in good condition, es- - Its Prevention, pecially if there is flatulence due to gas- tric torpidity, leading to fermentation of food, and dilation of the stomach should be energetically treated. In Bacon's “Natural Histor: which 1s quaintly worded and based.on very crude knowledge of natural history, as it is un- derstood to-day, the author says, with a grain of truth, “mushrooms cause the in- cubus of mare in the stomach.” The same might be said of Welsh rarebits and sim- flar indigestible delicacies eaten just be- fore retiring: these lie hard on the stom- ach ard cause more horrible dreams in those not hardened to such gourmandism. But it is equally erroneous to go to the opposite extreme and prohibit all food be- fore retiring, for often a light repast is a most excellent nightcap, and the pleasant- est and safest remedy against insomnia and, in fact, against nightmare, for an empty stomach may cause it just as much as an overloaded one. Not less important in the treatment of nightmare is an endeavor to neutralize, as far as possible, all injurious moral causes. This is often simply a matter of good counsel and caution against the dangers of poor hygiene and excess of passton. The friends should especially endeavor to reas- sure and render cheerful those unfortun- ate belngs who have a morbid fear of dis- ease (nosophobia, as it is technically call- ed), to discourage their broodings and en- courage them not to give way to despair. Unfortunately, the physiclan of to-day too often scorns and neglects this animiso- latlo, this solace of mind, which is none the less often far superior to and more ef- ficaclous than the most potent drugs.—In- dianapolls Journal. ) ) Y %) S e