The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 22, 1901, Page 7

HE week beginning on Sunday, December 22, will mark the com- mencement of a new and remark- able era. The earth crosses the line with Cancer on the 23d and will be in parallel conjunction with Neptune, the ruling planet of the week. The year of 1901 draws to a close under the dominion of very strong powers, yvielding a favorable ending to the floods, droughts, strikes and general calamities of the year. The Christmas festivities will be on a larger and more liberal scale fhan usual, and will be of a dignified and imposing character. Public institutions will be very largeiy remembered under the ruling planet of brotherhood. Influences render health conditions good, but those who are ill will find con- valescence slow during this week. The weather in the greater part of the country will be clear and cold. Marriages. This is a most propitious and impressive period for wedding ceremonies. The holi- day season will be marked by a large number of elaborate church weddings, and those married at this time will be- gin their wedded lives under most aus- picious conditions. Business. December 22 (Sunday)—A favorable day for matters suited to the day of rest, for church going and for social and family visits.- December 23 (Monday)—This day will prove a profitable one for both wholesa.e and retail dealers. It is a good day to start upon journeys and to make import- ant engagements. # Speculation will be in the larger stocks and raw materials for manufacturing. Wheat may go down and sugar up, and some large deals will be made. December 24 (Tuesday)—This day will be marked by a great rush and excitement in the commercial world preparatory to the holiday on the 25th. There will be much hurry among belated shoppers and retail dealers should realize great gaina. The stock market upon this day should be extremely changeable until 11 a. m. Mining stocks may at that hour drop a few points with a slight rise at 1 p. m. SR el PREDICTIONS FOR THE WEEK BY A PROFESSIONAL ASTROLOGER, SHOWING LUCKY AND UNLUCKY DAYS FOR BUSINESS, LOVE AND MARRIAGE, GIVING BIRTHDAY ADVICE AND LIFE FORECASTS OF INFANTS BORN DURING THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS. . % 0 +_ Wheat should lead the market from'12 m. to'l p. m, December 2 (Wednesday)—This day is the anniversary of the birth of Jesus Christ and should be observed with great joy and festivity. There should be no business transacted upon this day nor money exchanged. This is an unlucky and inopportune time to ask favors of superiors. Do not start upon long jour- neys upon this date. : December 26 (Thursday)—This will be a dull day in business circles and there will be many financial annoyances and losses. Speculation will be spasmodic and uncertain. The provision market should be highest during the early hours, until 10:30, but may drop between 12 and 1 o’clock. & December 21 (Friday)—Conditions will be more favorable upon this day for the consummation of large business transac- tions. There should be some heavy foreign trading, and those importing fur should make some advantageous deals. Specula- tion will be on a heavier scale. Iron and steel should lead the market at noontime. December 28 (Saturday)—This is an ex- cellent day for the institution of changes, for moving into new business quarters and for starting on important travels. Dealers in groceries and provisions should experience a large financial gain upon this day. Speculation opens with a fair mar- ket in mining stocks, metals and food- stuffs, but will be very changeable after 11 o'clock. : Birthdays. December 22 (Sunday)—\'i‘his is one of the lucky days of the calendar, and those who celebrate the anniversary of their birth upon this date will experience a most fortunate year. Men will acquire wealth and young women will marry happily during the next twelve months. 'X' " lawsuits. December 23 (Monday)—Those who cele- brate their birthdays upon th's day will find their next year an eventful one. Men may make important changes in their business. Young women who aspire to social honors will become leaders in their own sets. All should guard well their health and the disposition to yield to 1ll tempers. December 24 (Tuesday)—Those whose birth falls upon this day should not un- dertake new enterprises or start upon im- portant journeys during the next year. ‘Both men . and women will be fortunate in domestie and family affairs. Young giris will be wooed, but should test the sincer- ity of their lovers. December 25 (Wednesday)—Those who celebrate their birthdays upon this date will be fortunate in large business deal- ings during the next year. There will be many small annoyances and family wor- ries. Young men in salaried positions should have opportunities for bettering their conditions before the expiration of many months. December 26 (Thursday)—This will prove to be a very uncertain and an unsatisfac- tory year for those who celebrate their birthday upon this day. They should be- ware of business losses and sickness. Young men will court but will not marry because of financial restrictions. December 27 (Friday)—Those who cele- brate the anniversary of their birth upon this day will experience losses through Their extravagant tendencies will militate against their success in busi- ness. Young women engaged in profes- sional lines will meet with recognition. . December 28 (Saturday)—Journeys, changes, grief and illness will fall to the lot of those celebrating the anniversary of their birth upon this day. Young men who travel will find success in business. Young women will experience several love affairs before they are wedded. Births. The children born during this week are destined to become men and women of great force of character. They will fill influential positions and will be leaders in important movements. As children they will develop slowly, but will be truthful and sincere. December 22 (Sanday)—The children born upon this day will prosper in all their undertakings. The boys should be- come lawyers, statesmen and financiers. The girls will marry early and become loving wives and fond mothers, but should they not marry they will always be capable of making their own living. December 23 (Monday)—The children of to-day will be of bright, happy disposi=- tions, and will always enjoy great popu= larity. The boys will be more successful in the employ of others, than in their own cnterprises. The girls will be social suc- cesses. December 24 (Tuesday)—These children will not be very robust during early youth, but will grow stronger after the _age of 7. They .will be fond of social en- joyment and make friends readily. They will show marked signs of extravagance and will never save money. ; December 25 (Wednesday)—The children born upon this day will be endowed with strong mentalities and will be leaders among men. They will possess broad and charitable natures. The boys should be- come naval and army commanders and railroad magnates. The girls w.lll have quick tempers, but will rise to prominence in the world. December 2 (Thursday)—The children of to-day will be economical and practical. The boys will do well in salaried positions and will be trustworthy. The girls will make excellent housekeepers and happy heads of homes. December 27 (Friday)—The children born upon this day will be quick tempered, ag- gressive and fond of an argument, The boys should become lawyers or politicians. but will do well in business. The girls will be extravagant and fond of display. December 28 (Saturday)—The children born upon this day will be inclined to acute illness while young. They will be sensitive and should cultivate independ- ence. They will be cosmopolitan in their tastes and be fond of spending money. The boys will do well in business and the girls will make happy marriages. Linen Closet That Is a Model of Convenience for the Housekeeper HE finest linen and plenty of it—and country washing.” .Thus said Beau T Brummel. The finest linen and plenty of it, and the equivalent of country washing every house mother ought to aspire after. Still, though her linen may not be of the finest, she can take heaps of comfort and pride in its care and due arrangement. A word in the beginning. ILinen ought to be for use, not for show, Better the simplest cloths, fresh from the laundry, even if something frayed, than the richest demask yellow with long lying. Indeed, it cught to be a cardinal rule in every home that the silver, linen and fine man- ners are to be used every day. Use prightens and whitens all three and does not wear them anything like so much as lying in wait tor company. Use, which is thus essential, should be alse equal. To fusure that, have a drawer apart from this main linen closet. In it store a two weeks' supply of every linen requisite. ‘Wken all its contents have had their turn take them back to the main closel and bring others in their stead. Since a linen closet may be nothing more than a cuddy or a stately apart- ment all over the shelves and tables, it is worse than idle dogmatize regarding fts arrangements. But in a general way one principle runs through great and to small. Tt is orderly and systematic plac- ing. In the linen room of the world’s finest hotel there is a specially marked shelf space for the linen belonging to each of the seven hundred odd rooms. Linen ig not a conventional term there. Sheets, pillow-cases, cushion-slips, everything is of real linen, Irish or German, grass bleached, hand-sewed and embroidered with the hotel initial with a wreath of oak leaves. Further, in the table linen section each day of the week has a shelf. Monday's cloths and napkins go out only upon Mondays. Tuesdays it is the same. Even in times of great stress the rule keeps intact. The proprietor had rather buy extra things than to set the system of giving out and checking the main sup- ply awry. This lirten room keeps books with itself, Every room is charged with the things issued to it. The chambermaids and laundrymen are responsible for its safe return. The laundry, which is up in the airy top, beautifully lighted and venti- lated, can wash, iron and return five thousand pieces within an hour, and that without strain, Steam, steel and elec- tricity do the work, plentifully supple- mented by human skill and muscle. The big steam mangle rollers are ten feet long and four feet Six girls stand either side of them to spread the damp linen in place and take it off as it comes up, dry and shining. ACross. No housewife, even the richest, can command all that. It has been mentioned merely by way of exemplifying the value of systems. What the hotel does in large the house mother may do in little by di- viding her shelves and marking the spaces appropriately, as “Huck Towels,” ‘“Hem- stitched Towels,” “Damask Towels for Blue Chamber,” ‘“Towels and Sheets for Jack Room,” or “Nursery Sheets and Towels.”” Tie each week's wear with a separate colored ribbon and besides the marking put matching ribbons numbered 1, 2, 3, 4. With the blue ribbon empty there can be no question as to which col- or's turn is next. With a sufficient towel supply, divide the towel shelf and mark the divisions with the days of the week. Thus use can be regular., To insure that with napkins, always take out the fresh ones from the bottom of the pile, or else put the clean ones \""glurn(-ulh as they come from the wash, "Keep shelves and drawers as near- ly as possible free from dust. A good way to do it is to curtain them with white oileloth daintily secalloped along the bot- tecm and deep enough to reach from shelf to shelf. Tack the upper part to the shelf edge and along the bottom sew stout hooks eight or ten inches apart. Oppo- sile every hook in the shelf above and below put in a tiny brass screw Hook down the curtains after the shelvea eye, are filled and hook them up out of the way in taking down or putting up linen. To light a closet of any kind, but more especially a linen closet, the safest thing is to light a clear glass lantern with wire guards outside the glass. Swing it by a light chain pulley some little way in front of the shelves. Thus a touch sends it up or down, throwing the light wherever it may be needed, The fine invisible dust which oozes into every space not hermetically sealed will get into a linen closet in spite of all pre- cautions. Therefore, wipe off the shelves of it once -a month with a clean cloth dipped in boiling water and wrung vefy dry. As to finish, the shelves may be merely sandpapered and varnished, but are better painted white. In damp weath- er open the linen closet almost an hour each day. Rosecleaf sachets give the linen an exquisitely delicate fragrance, Gather freshly opened petals and dry them in the shade. When thoroughly dry mix with them half their own bulk of dry lemon peel and calamus root, both grated. Strew the mixture thickly over sheets of wad- ding and tack the wadding between either cheesecloth or china silk. Fasten the sachets to the closet walls or lay them along the shelves. Now and again give them an hour’'s sunning. It freshens them wonderfully and brings out the odor anew, EMILY HOLT,