The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 8, 1901, Page 6

1:30 p. m., on 8 s e wording o my m S smany Naltve N nd th om then subject mentioned say anyth n, t I Sacramento to celebrate Admission day and ther I had the fever we 14 accomplish so m mediatel went after home. The when the thing Yy Are h d have held an impromptu meetng r 1 all about it before I word in edgewise, ¥ T « them knew and conse. wenty that were in towa ' I of commendable curiosity Tt sding-room, which had been bor- rowec « few—a ery few—of the N Sor who were in the s t, was his cest. There were all K d cons. and nobody really kne wer taiking about, nearer to the point, what they wanted k about. 1 was the only one who ¥ 8 ject at all, and 1 hands full to keep nensio corrected. ation was what I proceeded that far e v backslide. The girls wanted time—wanted to think it over and have another meeting. As 1 d see any necessity for that for members enough to fill thc nd 1 got them. So the organiza- t is in such a flourishing condi- launched without s. of the sec- a private fuil quota of offici adjourned the we date nd meeting was designat d as Saturda) tember 25, 1886. I breathed easier idea that had been bothering me so . straightway wanted to proffer. assistance and have, if not the lion's share, a good part of it Curtis H. Lindley gave us invaluable aid in writing the constitution, by-laws and the ritual to further facilitate organ- ization. Mr. Lindiey presided by request at cur second meeting. The charter offi- elected and then as there must president 1 was chcsen to act Those selected to act Ti L. Kand, .. Freeman, Mollie Folger, cers w be a past that capacity. with were: president; Mr ‘e pre in me Mrs, ord vice president; Mrs, Lizzie M. Lind- ley. third viee president gzie Stasal, recording secretary: Mrs. Amy Badere, finarcial secretary; Flora Dunning, mar- shal; Kittie Murray, treasurer; Agnes Leonzrd, inside sentinel; Rose Stasal, tside sentinel hese were the first officers, and I doubt if a third of the active memler: bave the faintest idea what any of their names ar 1 then we were kept busy from thut time until March concentrating all our ff+rts on establishing a secret saciety. With a bevy of ladies esting and advising 1t is difficult to at a defi- iriy Even then ritual aad we used in Landley wrote our it for eight years steadily. That ritual, by the way, contenticn in the lodge for Some of the bright shining lights im {hat they were briiliant enough tual of their own. They fai- *ritual rite conelusien a was a bone of a long ' Lima. agined to w ea that the “Old Judge Lindley about out, and besides they wanted to be original. Weli, they found out that to be nal extremely trying dnd dificult work. After a long, hard struggle “they Gnally had to cknowisdge themselves well b The work of the Judge was plenty good cnough for a’l of Four years after that timg one of cur uddenly sprung a ritual on us worn was or was members that was a clever surprise, and that pleased us mightly i man s Mrs. Minnie Gunzendorfer, and since that time the old rituai has been laid rcide and hers used constantly and well. So that proved that wemen have as much brains, as much executive ability anl know as much about parhiamentary laws as do the men. And pariiamentary law reminds me of The Native Daughters pride on knowing the rules that are laid down in that little brown book, bickward. They can reel them off by the vard and take pleasure in deing it in the something themselves bargain Once in a while during a session Mrs. A. proposes a certain motion and thea to show wherein it will prove a distinet ad- vantage to everybody concerned brings all her knowledge to bear on the point Of course that is merely to make it per- fectly clear and comprehensive, you uu- de and If Mrs. B. does not like the idea she will stand forth and oppose the she, in turn, y very much more long had been given a fair start amendments right heartily. apt to be well carried out And then the men came to the fore will try and outdo her neighbor’s exten- The notes were ambiguous I intended they usually do. If we had failed they sive knowledge in the House of Pariiu- them to be. That was an almost certain would have kept a grim silence with an ment's by-laws and, if she is clever, way of getting them all there “I told you so expression on their things will suddenly veer her way. sald why 1 desired their presence faces. But as we succeeded they There is a battle roval on. In a very & — - + Third Th Series OF Whist Lessons by MrsS. RdOIph Bess OF the San Fran- CiSCO Whist Qlub.- HOPE =all those who are taking ad- vantage of these lessons in the “Best of All Games” now are perfectly fa- miliar with the leads, as it is essen- tial that they should have their minds perfectly clear to draw the nfer- ences to be drawn from the play of each card, and, therefore, they should not be harassed by doubt as to the card they must lead first of all. Taking it for granted that you do know exactly what to lead, we will begin on the fo or second pla in the same suit. You pick up a hand containing ace, queen, jack, eight of spades, queen, ten, seven of diamonds: eight. six, fo hearts; ace, king. two of clubs; the que of clubs turned for trump to your right At & glance you know spades to be the suit you should open. You ‘also see that you have an ace lead in it, and you lead it, to which falls the two, four, six of spades respectively. Now, as you have but four in sult, and your partner can- not be sure until your sec play whether you held originally four or five your second play of the queen télls hin that vou hav exactly four in suit and that have the knave also and you deny the king. Had you five in suit you would follow the ace with the knave, showing the que and five in suit It has been proved that giving all the in- formation possible to your partner as to exact holdings rives you the greatest ad- vant even though your opponents are also informed, your partner being in the position to asslst you to establish your suit Again, you bold ace, ten, nine, e seven and two of spades (no lead the .nd it makes, must follow with your trump: ace Here you fourth best, even though your seven is in scquence and ap- parently as valuable as the eight, your fourth best. If you must play from this suit again before you have establiched it you must play the seven, holding up the two. The t not failing to the three rounds, your partner gives it to you, thereby reading you with si you played the two he co you for five spades, which m: material difference in his game. _ Holding king, queen, ten and nine, y Jead the king, showing four in suit. wins. Your partner apparently has the ace, else your king would have been 1aken, althiough an opponent holdirg ace, knave and small will sometimes, if strong trumps, play low 50 as to win the sec- hd trick with the jack. holding up th e to prevent you from establishing yo suit, but as this does not happen often it spades. Had a only play make a u it will not be mentioned again. You follow with the nine, showing the ten, queen and no more You lead king, You lead hand containing a knave, nave and three small. the kn and when you nexi lead that suit you must lead the gueen showing six suit. Had you followed with the king vou would have shown five in suit exactly. Holding ace. KIng, queen, knave and three small you lead the knave, A follow with the queen. Your knave winning gives you the ace. King ana queen. You follow with the queen, snowing two old a queer in higher, the king and the ace, and shows seven in suit. Had you followed with the king you would show x, and had you followed with the you woula xactly five in suil. Your first lead er ace. queen or knave shows five at least in suit, Your follow determines er u held exactly five or more; if more, how many mor The lead of the ten shows four in suit and shows queen and knave also in hand. or foliow ow Yotr second lead shows the exact length; if you the ten led with the knave. you ive in suit (the ten winning): if fol- wed by sueen you show four in suit, and you show ihe ninealso; if followed by aller card than the nine you show four cards in suit and deny the nine. You hold ace, king, queen and two more, it a qucen lead. Followed by the ace shows the king and exactly two more. Followea by the king shows theace and three more making in suit. The lead of the nine shows exactly four in swit, except from the combination of king, knave, ten, nine. if the nine forces the ace you fol- low, of course, with the king. If it forces the queen and not the ace, you follow with the ten to show six, o* with the knave to show_five, and the king to show exactly four. There is hardly a single fol- low that will not proclaim the exact nu- merical strength. ‘lhe management of ject the best writers on the game do not all agree upon. Some say if you have five trumps it is always right to lead them; others that unless you nave a good g suit and a. r in another suit our partner by his lead has show strength in trumps it is- best not trumps is a sub- or great 1o lead them. To lead out all the trumps must be good for one side only—the side possess- ing the long suits—so if you extract the trumps and the saits must winson thelr merits, vou should possess those suits to win the game. You are very likely to play the adver- saries’ game if you draw all the trumps just bec use you had five trumps and had 1o suit to bring in. It is better to play a backward game, unless your hand is invincible or unless your partner has shown great strength in the suits or between you vou have one great suit with a re-entry in another, or 1o prevent a double ruff if the adversaries have shown weakness in trumps, thereby giving your partner some strength, two rounds of trumps will do no harm. To attemnt to lead out the trumps and to establish a long suit when vou are not strong enough to do so isa fatal error. Hoiding six trumps, unless you are void of two svits and weak in the third, you shouid lead trumps. Holding seven trumps, it would nearly always be right to lead them. With four trumps, unless you have good cards in all three of the other suits, it would be seldom right to lead them un- less vou had a suit estabiished which was in danger of being ruffed. a re-entry in another suit, or your four irumps were the best Sometimes it is right to lead trump; from three or even two trumps, having command of all the suits, or to prevent a double ruff or protect cards in your own or your partner’s hand. Whist perceptio. alone can enable a player to determine the time to lead trumps. A round too suon or a round too late may ruin a good hand. ‘The ace of trumps is the only singletan ever led by strong players. When « player leads the ace of trumps (a singleton) as an original lead, he should have com- plete command of all the other suits. The next lesson will be on the “signal” for trumps and the second, third and fourth hand play. ik ~a Photo by Alisky. THE SUNDAY CALL. BY LIILY @ REIGHLING. dignified way, you know. When Mrs, A. reaches the point where she simply can- not stand it any longer she will bounce up and inform us that entirely too mich rule is allowed and not enough common sense used. But with all this little real trouble. there is comparatively Things run smoothy and well. The girls have a queer way of getting rid of bad thoughts and words if they have them. if they call some ong a “ple face,” “hatchet face’ or “black maria” they seem satisfied and, as they call these endearing names to their faces there is no harm done and it certainly is 4 200d method of avoiding real difficulty. But to get buck to the first parior. Ursula was its name. Her formal debut was made quite an occasion. The N tive Sons presented her with a complete set of regalia and between refreshments and all the festive accessories which g0 to make such an affair enjovable made specches, telling us how delighted they nere to have a side issue. They chansed their minds completely. No woman cou.d have done it more gracefully. We were but was called up lor No. 2, in Our succes: lated upon o horn daughters ell the ranks. This second parlor ‘came into existence with fifty-four members, and its first of- when 1 Par- launched n to Minervi the M'ssion, San I'ranc had been commentel and di much that other native- wanted (o join us and formally install ficers were installea on March 10. Alta Parlor No. 3 of S8an Francisco was also ready for installation by this time and had fully 24) members. They were in- stalled March 12 by the trio that usually did the work—Mrs. Amy Badere, my sis- fer and myselt, The Santa Rosa parlor came next with ‘forty members, and others followed in quick succession. You can irpagine how much we had grown when [ tell you that the State demanded four deputles. Again some idea of the rapidity of the organ- izaticn may ‘be gained when you know that within four months after the start of the first parlor there w seventeen ready to form the Grand Parior, which convened in San Francizco July %, 1887 We had our meeting in Pioneer Hall, and thirty-nine delegates were present. What a time we had! The very newness of the thing enchantment and variety. Everything that did was a great pleasure and no trouble whatsoever. If that spirit only could remain with us alway would be x much stronger lodge and our imterests would be infinitely lent we we [ better looked afier. ' But we have grown and prospered ex- ceedingly. Even at that time our mem- bership was close to 1000. It now Clotes over TFhen we were struggling and i get on our feet, now we hope to be able tofput others on their feet ard to be of some material use to our State. “the Grand In 1885 it was voted that Parlor shall be composed of past grand presidents, the founder, Miss Lilly O Reichling, and the past grand secretary Georgie C. Ryan, retaining continuous membership in the order, all grand offi- cers of the expiring”terms and all dele- gates duly elected by the various subordi- nate parlors.” So you see the Grand Parlor duly recognized me as the founder, and the were extremely courteous to me and Miss Ryan. Then in '% they gave me a voice and a vote. thing happened about the Grand Lodge. When the delegates were being elected for the Grand Parlor some of the ladies plainly that too young to be sent. They thought soffle one wiser and more de- liberate should be chosen to help the first executive body. Even when a friend of mine laughingly remarked that if I was old enough to set such a ball rolling, I One funny st said 1 was certainly knew enough te give it a good push in the- right direction, my elders were firm and carried the day. I didn't go then, but later when I had gained wisdom with years. My sole ambition now is to do some- thing to belp the State as w petuate the order. Now that things are swinging fairly well, I have centrating all my energies on one object That is trying to make the girls see what a big benefit it would be if we could buy up all the State’s historical landmarks and all the ancient documents and serve them from vandalism. that measure would estimable service to us all. o1l as to per- been con- pre- It seems such a be of in- At the last Grand Parlor T presented a resolution that ought to assist very materially in this line of work. I will quote it exactly We report favorably on resolution introduced us by Lilly O. Reichling relating to historical landmarks, ete.: Whereas, It Is apparent that many historical landmarks in the State of California are fall- ing into decay, suffering at the hands of van- dals or giving way to the march of “im- provement’; apd whereas, it is believed that many relics and documents of historical value exist which are held their possessors; this Grand Parlor that such landmarks, when practicable, should be preserved and their historical value made public, and that the relics, documents and other scattered arti- cles of hijstorical lue should be gathered to- gether and preserved for the benefit of the State and its people, and as it is a just and becoming task for a patriotic organization like the Native Daughters of the Goiden West to andertake the work of searching for, preserv- ing and perpetuating such landmarks and gatkering together all such historical docu- ments and reies as are not alréady set apart in the archives of the State or in museums or other repositories accessible to therefore be it is in light appreciation by and whereas, it is the sense the pablic; Resoived, That preliminary to the work ervation and collection the Grand is hereby authorized to appoint general committee of not less than three, which committee shall proceed at once, upon its ap- pointment, to communicate with the subordi- nate parlors with a view to securing informa- ticn concerning the location, character, owner- ship, condition and value of such articles or of - and Be it further ommittee herein the next Grand landmeris above mentioned Resoived, That the general provided for shall Parlor a plan for utilizing the may acquire: and be it Resolved, That the Grand Parlor recognizes the value of the historical research carried by various persons and that it is at all times willing to submit rformation it n societies, and o-operate with such societies and individuals: and it dered that copies of these re known organizations . the co-operation and supp to an act and to th of which Is earnestly desired and press, e equested LILLY O. REICHLING, BELLE W. CONRAD, ELIZA D. KEITH. The task looks too large to some of us and our funds are too low to enable us to buy many of the valuable relics, but I do know of one way -that our tradi tions, at least, could be kept fresh and new: If we could collect a series of stories and myths concerning the early days and have them ited and introduced into our public schools as readers, it would do more to keep the memory of early California alive than anything that I can now think of. At the same time the expense would be comparatively tle, of chief objects tained. You know, is patriotism, that of some help to those assistance, and there are plenty of them in this of ours Our new president asked us to take for and one our one of our main principles desire who the people and old world our motto, “Do right.” She furthermore told us that “Words are little things, b they strike hard. We utter them so eas ily that we are apt to forget their den power.” She urgently asked us to follow her rule. Women are, prome to find out that power and use it as they see fit, and it is not always in the best and wisest way. Our order is a beneficiary one, but we have not beem able to pay sail the b fits that we would like to. This coming year the subordinate parlors will debate on how it will be possible to have a uniform funeral expense throughout State. It has already been pr: ) tax every member 10 cents, which will permit of paying $75 toward each funera This wil] in no wise interfere with the regular sums pzid by Individual parlors. In that way every one will be aided and at such a time there is always plenty of use for money. It Is often & Godsend to some of us. The small tax of 10 cents fully 3450, and as soon as amount falls below 3300 the will be levied again. Last year there were only twenty-five deaths, so the individual small. We cheerfully need it, for none of know will be our turn. When any significant movement has been on foot that wHl aid the State we try to be the first to offer our hearty co- operation. If we can always be the first in_the field to do good I shal that m{ part of the work has mnot been 1 vain, and I shall be entirely pleased and fied with it. bring f. the same sum the sum members that afford you see demanded from would be ver; ery help feel ev- one those who it of us can to us when owr = + artholdi’s Most Famous Paintings, Qalifornia of Qld and To-Dau. | | See Page Twelve for the | Halftone Reproductions of These Remarkable Photo- | graphs. T has been left for a Frenchman to paint California as she deserves. Bartholdi has done it. Barthoidi, who molded for us the form of Lib- erty as she has never been moldedsbe- fore: Bartholdl. who by the masgic of his sculpture represented our own Washing- ton in a way that made America proud; Bartholdi, that Frenchman of Iialian or- igin, who has a fancy for chiseling out our American traditions and heroes and ideals in a way that we have to admit is more American than anything that we can produce. Bartholdi has a brush as well as a chisel, and though he does not love it as well. he picks it up now and then and dashes something on a canvas just to show that he can What he dashes off what others could not accomplish in the labor of years The Barthcldi paintings reproduced here and autographed by the artist represent the two phases of California’s wealth One shows the hard and rough side o the State in its early days, the era of th mining camp. The other represents the golden fields the happiness and success brought by the agriculturé of to-day. Cajifornia of Old” and “California of To-day” are five feet by eight. The can vases now hang in Bartholdi's own studio and he has refused many an offer to par with them by a German. “They will go to America or stay where they are,” replied the artist And it. too, for there pretty. about Bartholdi. work represents to himesomething e than dollars and cents. he largest sum offered was he meant sentiment American themes nave always appealed to him. His greatest work, the statue of Liberty in New York harbor. was mada for us. Perhaps, however, there was soms patriotism of his own worked into that He wrought it when the Franco-Prussian war was over, when he could mot enter Paris on account of the commune, and <o wandered to the United States. There ho thought out the project of a monume tending to preserve the remembrance the earlier friendship between France and her sister republic, and thie outcome was the statue of Liberty facing the ocean looking toward Fragee. His patrio heart was grieving for the wounds of his OWn country and it seems that his gen was heightened by his keen suffering The majestic form and face of Was Ington appealed to him and he wrou the group “Washington and Lafayett which Pulitzer presented to the city Paris. It was erected there in the Plx des Etats-Unis {Square of the United States). There are few enough of the world's great geniuses who have chosen Califor- nian themes. We are not enough as yet. Therefore our flutter of sati tion is pardonable when we view Bartd oldi's “Californias.” nown