The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 18, 1902, Page 8

THE SUNDAY CALL. RMERICR’S FRIDE AND ENGLAND’S MOST RERUTIFUL TO STAND SIDE By SIDE RT CORONRTION. HE Coronation will be a Beauty Show. Standing, side by side, there will be the American beauties, each dressed in her appropriate gown and wearing her prettiest smile And opposite the American beauties looking at them with envious eves, will ve the h wor And the two will be intermixed and in- termingled. The American women have married into English families; and the Countess of Essex, America’s pride, will stand side by side with the Countess of Anglesey, the pride of Engiand. Which will be the handsomer? And will you be able to pick one nationality out from the other, looking over the whole? The prettiest woman of King Edward’s court is the Countess of Warwick. Her fame as “The Babbling Brook” went abroad.long since. In her late thirties, she of her loveliness. But ess there has been ess, an aplomb; « has lost none ive e Lord Rosebery he makes you forget that there is 2 blue sky outside of wide blue eyes America is fond thinking that its e prettiest in the world. And are. But there are certainly ce ner ik the Eng- pe than the ic, conven- s in out- » massive with her wit and r tact, catches the But the Eng! n holds it longer. w be the lovelier? The rival beavt] ged in rows at the Corona- tior: will s d there for the world to s and judge Who will be Paris that awards the the prize of beaut her? The C« Westmoreland, holder of an old title, is among the handosmest of women. And the Countess de Grey is s0 famous that her face is almost an English land he has been used in beauty books ic prints, upon trade and a art head pictured in costyme as Cleo- the patra, for s bear ! strong resemblance to Queen 1 Vincent, the woman r# the truest type ged that thd grandeur s0 widely ssition uld be It was L whom the Queen irged of English beauty robe less important, there OVNYEHD oF WESYT MORE-~ QLAND & no question of precedence, while the robes would be vastly more becoming than those that were assigned to the “ladies.” Another woman who has fought for richer gowns Lady Londonderry, who wishes to/ dre: in crimson. Her Lady- =hip is blest with a neck and is the owner of a graduated circle of diamonds that Just meets around it. Below this she wears a double string of the biggest pearls in England, or the oldest ones, a slight tint revealing their years. Her carrings are exactly the size of hdzelnuts At the Coronation these beauties must bow to the decree of the Court Chamber- lain and wear the gowns that come to them by rank. But at the royal ball, which follows the Coronation by a few cays, then all will dress as best becomes them and the beauty rivalry will wax fierce It is a when petty points become great ones. When a woman is struggling to main her beauty supremacy every- thing c The arrangement of the hair, the of crown, the angle at which it be worn, the jewdls that czn be placed in juxtaposition to the face —all of these become 1 import Perhaps if Juno's h. ad been ar- ranged higher: perhap s had had earrings: perhaps if He placed a butterfly her hair, all wouid have They might haye might have m. Troy emeral hav been different in marre e it. One beauty can we: these things and another can The existing pictures of these ladies show them as beauty unadorned At the Coronation all must be cast in one mold, as as dress Is concerned, and the bitterness comes in the thought that some cannot bear the test These points will characterize the lish beauty: . Ske will wear a fow bang. ‘ H Her hair will be built high. [ Her waist will be large. | She will carry her head | stiffly. | Her complexion will be her | own—not quite as high as her rivals, perhaps. ‘ She will go in for great ct ‘ | fects rather than delicate ones. —_— — But who will be the prettier? . The beauty of England or the beauty of Amer- fea? None but the King will know, for each must make her obeisance to him, and for one whole moment he can study each, And will he tell? Probably not. Un- less, perhaps, he record it in” his diary for the profit and edification of the beauties of future generations, ARE THERE ANY W R. A. D. KINSMAN, a Bible student of Erie, Pa., raises, not for the first time, the interest- ing question, “Are there any females in heaven?’ He has gone a step further and has proven 1o his own satisfaction, at least, that there are no women “up ther Mr. Kinsman bolsters his theory wi the stronge blical evidence Btrange as it may seem, it will be rezd- 1ly admitted that there is not the slight- est evidence in the Bible that females of sort are among the inhabitants of aven. We know that the members of the Trinity are always spoken of as men end the disciples of Jesus were all men. 'n both the Old and the New Testanierts, #hen occasion offered to speak of one who had passed to the other side, it was always a man who had been o fortunate, And, likew , when a prophet, saint or disciple had pccasion to mention any one whé had reached heaven the name cf a man was chosen, B0, oo, we find it in the case of angels. There are Gabriel and Michael, but in all the named heavenly host there appears not one feminine name In this connection it is interesting to mote that in each case where a pronoun is used in reference to an angel masculine forms are invariably found. COMEN Mr. Kinsman also poinis out the fact that all the evil spirits mentioned in holy writ hive masculine names, Including Mephistophelcs himself. This may be most readily tested in the book of Reve- lation. In the New Testament a man is #ald after death to be gathered unto his fathers, not unto his mothers. After thus proving conclusively to his cwn mind that there are no women in either heaven or hell, Mr. Kinsman asks the rather naive, not to say startling Guestion, “What does become of woman after death?’ He startles us still more by asking a second question, “Are they annibilated We may choose one of three alterna- tives: First, that no women rcach heaven, and are, therefore, annihilated or B0 to some place of which the Bible makes no mention; second, that women reach heaven, but, in common with men, become sexless, and there is hencetorth no distinction between them; third, that women reach heaven and become males. The first proposition—that of eomplete annihilation—is too forbidding to be en- tertained. Of the second alternative it may be sald that the invariable reference to all such inhabitants as masculine ren- ders it extremely improbable that those inhabitants are sexless. IN HEAVEN? There is, apparently, nothing left which is at all tenable, save the third conten- tion, viz., that women, upon reaching heaven, become males. To prove which Mr. Kinsman quotes Jesus' reply to the Sadducees, when they ask of the disposi- tion on resurrection morn of the woman who had seven husbands: “Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures nor the power of God. For in the resur- rection they nelther marry nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.” For those who find pleasure In mental speculation of this sort, this is the most plausible theory, as well as the least, re- pellant one. It is a theory which merges the mysteries of love and life into those of death and the resurrection. Most peo- ple, sometimes even the most practical, like to cherish that pretty sentiment that there is a certain, particular woman for a certain, particular man. In other words, we all recognize in a greater or less degree, the theory of hu- man affinity, the classic Jyth of the wan- dering soul seeking Its mate, its comple- ment, I belleve that a good woman goes to heaven just as a man does—that 1s, as a perfected whole—the complete *‘ego.” Huxley and other sclentists have proved conclusively that the human has not al- ways been differentiated by sex—that there were not always male and female. May not what is true of matter, be equally true of spirit and soul? As Guy de Maupassant says, it is man’s awful isolation which is the tragedy of his life— the hidden cause of all his sofrow—ever and always the human walks alone. He or she vainly attempts in love to escape this awful isolation of the soul. He or she strives to it, but they fall. May they not, possibly, find in death what they have been seeking in life, the complement of each other's souls, and may such a soul mot enter heaven unchallenged? Such s apparently, in my mind, the only way by which a woman can enter the kingdom of heaven. Mr. Kinsman's screed was presented to Mrs. Almon Hensley, president of the so- clety for the study of life. In comment- ing upon it Mrs. Hensley said: “From what I can gather of Mr. Kins- man’s ideas, I fancy he has soared to some weird Buddhistic heights and re- " turned to-earth a little mixed. His theory would seem to .be a curious jumble of Christian theology and theosophical evo- lution, For, of course, the whole ques- tion depends on the assumption that the body acconmipanies the soul to its future state. Otherwise, if the thing that ex- ists and persists finally be simply the g0, the individuality, apart fr¢m the per- sonality that Is manifested through our physical frame, whence this talk of man and woman, of male and female? “If in a future state it is the Self that continues to live, that Self. itself immor- tal and therefore a part of Deity, is and can be neither male nor female. Mr. Kinsman, while holding in his mind cer- tain progressive ideas of reincarnation and karmic experience, and assuming that evolution is through the female experi- . ence. to that of the male experience, ap- purently desires also to hold on to the conventional Christian thought as to the fesurrection. of the body. The two don't fit; therefore, exit the female. The po- sition Is altogether untenable; the as- sumption is without legitimate basis. ‘““Are the sduls in a future state men dand women (or men or women), or are %hey just souls? If the latter, there is no question of sex; if the former, by what right of argument does this arrogant champion of male superiority claim that women are to be excluded? “From the moral and spiritual superior- ity of the masculine character? I should scarcely think so. From the intellectual superiority of the male animal? This superiority would scarcely seem univer~¥ sal; hardly a safe basis for such a starts ling assumption. “Mr. Kinsman is, doubtless, satisfled as to the comfort and cooiness of his own future condition. I should like to sug- gest that he will, however, in all prob- ability find himself somewhat lonely. From my experience of his sex I should judge that if women are to be excluded from heaven there will be no undue crowding in the celestial corridors.” Man Who Bzars By Ris Tecth N old man south of Market street, who is almost stone deaf, has a peculiar way of enjoying himself. His one pleasure in life is to go into a certain saloon and clinch his teeth on 2 music box there. By this means he hears the music. Here he will sit_for hours dropping nickel after nickel into the machine. The men about the sa- loon often treat him to a tune. They -ay that after he has spent an afternocon in this way he is amiable for a week. When the world again gets out of gear he be- takes himself to the music-box and gets his soul soft-pedaled and returned again to the music of the spheres. The bartender will tell you that this man listens to music through his teeth. But Dr. C. Morse explains the matter more selentifically. “It is through bone vibration that the man hears. This method of hearing is oftea employed when the auditory nerve- is un- affected, aithough the person may be deaf to sound waves coming through the ear. y delicate member. It is fearfully and wonderfully made—the Jeast understood of all the organs of sense. It has a most marveious mechan- ism—it contains the greatest number of tools In the smallest compass. I refer, of course to the inner ear, where, within an inch of space we find the three smallest bones of the body and a rolled up key- board on which is played the great gamut of all audible sounds which the mind registers. “Sound comes to the person with unim- paired hearing through sound waves, whick strike upon the ear drum and set in motion a fluid, and the vibration passes through these three tiny bones before it is considered by mother nature subdued enough to touch the semsitive auditory nerve, which in turn transmits the im- pression to the brain, and then the mind is conscious of the sensation of sound. “In cases of deafness wher the audi- tory nerve is not affected the vibrations can be transmitted through the bone to the auditory nerve and telegraphed to the brain. 1f* the sound vibration can reach the auditory nerve the rest of the process is the same as it is with those whose hearing is unimpaired. “A friend of mine who was so deaf that I fairly had to shout to him could hear me talk through the telephone in my natural voice, so I used to send him in an adjoining cffice and ring him up when I had anything to tell him. He would put the receiver close to his ear and the sound waves would go direct, carried by the bone vibration. “If you take a tuning fork and while it is still vibrating touch the head with it you can hear it. The sound is trans- mitted to the auditory nerve by the means of bone vi tion. If you listen to it in the natural way you will per- ceive that the sound is much louder. The sound transmitted tarough bone vibra- tion is much more indistinct, owing to the difference in the medium through which the sound wi tions must pass “The natural mecthod employs the most Celicate contrivanees for transmitting the seund, but it is wonderful how well thy benes can do work in this line with tice. “Practice, practice. can we not constant “Sclence is ma; apid strides in helping the des lLiear. the blind to lame see and the and hait to W " PARISIAN DELICACIES. RENCH statisticians have discov- F ered that during last wititer 800,000 tons of snails were consumed in Paris. This indicates a renaissance Jfor the snail, for although it has always been especially esteemed by the French people, it has fallen into disfavor for a senson or two past, owing to the fact that the culture of the snall has been taken up largely by speculators, who have aimed at quantity rather ‘than quality in their productions. Many of the snalls sold in Paris really come from Burgundy and the Savoy dis- tricts, but are represented as from the vineyards of Dijon and Macon. One of the methods of the speculating snall growers Is to ralse them in pens of tarred boards that prevent the mollusks from traveling far. Much depends on the proper culture of the snail. In anclent Rome the raisers fed them on flour and wine, thus giving them fatness and flavor. Americans as a class do not share the enthusiasm of the French as regards the snail. The care that Is necessary for their proper preparation débars them from the fleld of the average cook absolutely and great chefs fail sometimes if they have not the proper French blood in theff veins. Even at the fashionable restaurants it is often impossible to obtain snalls. When they are seryed they are tough and leath-" ery, and people wonder why they have ‘& Waki) ever been included in the lists of good things. At the French restaurants, these establishments oniy, can one -et snails cooked properly, and porsons who have once tasted them retura again and bring friends whom they wish to surprise with a new dish. ‘We serve quantities day.” said a well-known French restaur- ateur. “While Americans do not gener ally appreciafe the snail, they are learn- ing to regard them as a quite up-to-date dish to order. The preparation of the srail for cooking requires care. They must first be taken from their shells with a little salt and washed in cold water many times, then drained and placed ia 2 stew pan covered with water, saited. This method is called a la Bourgogne, and Filipini, who for so many years was with Delmonico and was famous for cooiing the best of of snails each *nuns. declared it the Lest way in which 0 serve them. “A bunch’of hetbs is added to the snails in the stew pan, with cloves and whole peppers Ued in a bag. The snalls are cocked until they fail from their shells: no longer. Then they are emptied, the tafls clipped off and the shells are scrubbed thoroughly. Some shallots, parsely, butter and some chervil chopped fine are put in a bow! with sifted bread crumbs and one glass of white wine and are mixed to a paste. “The shells are partly filled with this puste, the snails replaced and more of the mixture used to fill. Then they are put in dish and are browned for four minutes."—New York Sun.