The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 13, 1902, Page 11

THE SUNDAY CALL. 11 Hama Koike, in other Seashore Small-Pond, me to see and hear Madame Butterfly.” known her before she sed, American-wise, with tarched collar and heeled he had submitted to the throes of i hatpins. But to do honor al occasion Mrs. Hama -sleeved kimono that B ow linings when she moved, white crest adorned her should- a hat roper to wear hat-with ki- ched Mr. Koike, kissing his a so proving his right to ent as was proper. face of a manager greet- ed us the theater and preceded us to Mrs. Belasco, alias Miss nging her nationality by sueh grease-paint and 3 k wig. The Jar e woman who is se P r d during the career of an sat rearranging ornaments wig while Mrs. Belasco was arch- ng her evebrows them too high,” whispered irs. Koike to me when the awe of the began to wear off. vour evebrows too e Butterfly. no like Japanese,” ex- Koike, standing by her col* ifle alarmed. ure,” assented Mrs. Fred, real Japanese eyebrows mirror. “Tll change ght ike beamed. She was manager, director now. v and she spoke ronizing tones to com mystery re a face of mon-assent. ned in English ir too low. Jap'nese . rrange hair on top like these.” Mrs. Belasco, “but I am to dress the hair low I has ect the awe-inspiring sound of au- ique, and Mrs. Koike nto her native diffidence ve my obi tled, pleas ott’s voice over the par- s Elliott entered by way of changing the complex- to that of Suzuki's. emen in the stupid- of “The Great Un- h the hall to their nouncing the end of the lights were high when the audience was fan- iling, looking for some- , one of us being in e what might techni- an entrance. Alcazar management clever ito the audience now to r?” somebody whispered. e Small-Pond pit-patted to concealed con- her first experience in an Ameri- ter. She knows the Japanese the- & & well-educated woman of To- ohama. When the introduc- ers entered Mrs. Kolke gasped p'nese theater,” she whispered d what I knew any way—that Selasco always steps surely. in rose and Madame Butter- e prayer began. Shaki! Hall! Hail! she cried. I d@id before I was Methodist Epis- ccpal whispered Mrs. Koike. She be- gan her education after the approved meanner of Yokohama young ladies, the severest course being that of Slower ar- rangement; but she wound up in a mis- elon school of Tokio, where she learned the contortions of our language and suf- fered the tortures of civilized arithmetic. Therefore it was that the halling of Bhaki 4@ not move her. But when the humanness of the prayer developed and we heard the plea: “I am quite clean. I 4+ + YOUNG OFFENDERS OF FRANCE. age of juventle criminals in France / has increased with almost fabulous rapidity during the last decade. The jon of these statistics, the com- of which was completed recently, i a shock to the nation. The con- ar of Frenchmen that France is n the decline received a tremendous im- petug when the figures were made public by Garni chief physician of the e department. years, from 1888 to 1900, in- shows that among criminals ge of youths (from 16 to 20 old, inclusive) has risen seven eg, or 1400 per cent. Unless there has made a grave mistake in the figur- ss police regulations have be- 1 stricter, the figures betoken Il of a diseased nation. hong 1000 criminals twenty were € of 16 and 20, inclusive, of 1000 were between these ing the same years the average son (30 to 35 years, inclu- sive) has remained about the same—twen- ty in the former year and twenty-five in trer In 1900 juvenile criminality was about six times more frequent than 2 criminality. In cases of assauit by t example, there are three crim- Is between the ages of 16 and 20 to one to 3L To alcoholism and the hereditary degen- eracy resulting from alcoholism M. Gar- nier ascribes theincrease of juvenilsa crim. snals. In France the adolescent criminal is almost invariably the son of a drunkard, and has in the few years of his life ac- quired the absinthe habit himsel? TATISTICS prove that the percent- :> PHOTOS By ALISK > / SHoVLD NOT LAY Little Mrs. Rzma Kcoike DisCusses Mazame Butierfly Aggording o LiGhts of the Mikado’s Land am shivering with cleanness. Therefore grant that he, Leftenant B. F. Pikkerton, may come bgck soon,” I heard a little Japanese sob beside me. “Oh, poor thing!” came from the midst of It, and there were tears wiped away with a paper handkerchief. She has told me since that she knows by heart the story of the deserted Japa- nese wife. “Many girl get marry says: ‘““Amer’can man mar Some girl understand, b some don’t. They think they are ma really marry. These girl feel v bad when husband leave them. “I knoéw one like Mac She not kill herself, ar' die and the bet without her. he then leave. me Butterfly. us’ get sick so lonesome nor of the 1 Japanese giggles. ted Pinker- chuckled with more at all kinds 'Mer’'can Koike followed with ppres ‘When Madame Butte: ton’s Ameri: appreciation the prophe language “My h \n’ speak some English, too,” she whispered apropos. When the American Consul entered and iifficulties n iuiged in the went thro ng vpon t m of always h e troubles git- gig- ee how he say o down sudden erican,” ting on floor, thc gled in reminiscence. and ‘ah! then he bang like those.” “I forge ¥ apologized Madame Butterfly ring her pipe to the Consul. “Tha's the way,” murmured the voice beside me. ‘“Japmese woman smoke a lot herself, too. Jap'nese woman smoke toBacco. She love tobacco.” The entrance of the marriage broker called forth another gurgle of recognition. “I know a lot Jap'nese girl get marry that way—by broker.” She approved of Mr. Belasco's makeup. His screen-panel poses w realistic enough to carry her clear across the Pa- cifie. Pinkerton’s ship came In supposed sight and the floral rejoicing went on apace. Mrs. Koike grew breathless in expecta- tion. - Night set in and the lamps were lighted.- They are the four incandescent lights over which the managerial chests puff proudly, for the lights have been taught to flicker candle-wise, as incan- descents never before knew how. They are regarded as an electrical achievement, bug Mrs. Koike did ot approve. “Ihose lamps use now oniy in few country house. Madame Butterfly have American husban!, she would have American lamp.” But as the spell of the night scene grew upon her she forgot criticism. As the voice outside broke the -deathly stiliness sald: “There the nig! It was her last commen he spell of the tragedy was upon her, and she sat breathless to the last pathetic line. “Too bad those didn’t nes’ again.” She was very quiet all the way home. I tried to drag criticisms from her, and I gathered her opinions that Miss Crosby walked and stood with approved Japan- ese stoop. That she sat up on her Knees fustead of down on'them, but that she was moré to be pitied than blamed for this, inasmuch as American muscles are not trained to Japanese etiquette. That watchman in bowing before the shrine should lay her palms upon the foor instead of placing them together. That her obi is hat in her motions fter the manner of beautifully tied and she is always gentle Cho-Cho-San's rec «“She must be ver' like Jap'nese woman —the play must be ver like Jap'nese— cause 1 feel so homest coneluded Mrs. Koike, with a sniffle into the paper hand- kerchief. And thereupon all our technical and rhetorical and psychological praisings of “artistic,” ‘“convincing,” “dramatically complete,” fell fiat before the compiiment paid by one little Japanese woman—the play made her “homesick.” + - HAS A HAND THAT ATTRACTS GOLD. STORY has just been told about pure gold found in this instance in river sands, that reads like saperb fiction. No one would give it the slightest cfedence if it were not told by a scientific man 6f unquestionable authority, for it is one of the strangest narratives that bver adorned a very dry and thor oughly sclentific picce of writing. It comes from the pen of Mr. L. Gentil Tippenhauer, who has been making a geological investigation for the govern- ment of the Island of Haiti. The results of his work, with maps, have been pub- lished in a series of papers in Peter- mann's Mittéilungen, one of the most scientific of German publications. The following is a translation of the story as it appears at the end.of Mr. Tippen~ hauer’'s papers: “I will make mention, in conclusion, of a very peculiar phenomenon. As I was en- gaged in a miscroscopic investigation of the gold-bearing river sands 1 observed that the 13-year-old daughter of my com- panion, L. Aboilard, had only to lay the flat of her hand on the sands and parti- cles of gold dust would adhere to it. Every time she repeated the action her palm was almost covered with =nld dust that continued to cling to it. Whenever she grasped a handful of sand she would shake her hand, the sand would fall to the ground, but the flakes of gold would remain clinging to it. “No other person present possessed this peculiar ability. Since then all the edu- cated Europeans in Jacmel, including Dr. Zervas, geologist and representative of the Standard Oil Company; Roosmals Nepven and Mr. Dorn, Dutchmen, owners of the gold reduction works at Para- maribo, and others have borne witness to the fact that the young girl possesses this remarkable peculiarity. The aum- berless particies of iron ixed in the sand did not cling to the girl’s hand. “1 must, therefore, come to the conelu- sion that there is in nature a power whose influence in attracting gold is sim- flar to that which magnetism exerts upon fron and the related minerals. The du.u%l;. ter of Mr. Aboilard seems to have t! power.,”—New York Sun.