The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 11, 1903, Page 9

sl | She Is Harmless, Laughter- Not Easily Shocked, | retic and Exceedingly | Charitable, Declares “Colonel Kate'—Because She Doesn’t Spe Her Time Over Arch- eological Researches, but, on he Contrary, Is Bright and Frothy; a Great Man With Heavy Responsibilities Often ¥ farries Her So That He Will G e Proper Mental Relaxa- n in His Home—And She Is Brewe of Much of This World's Charming Compan- p and Happiness. JEN we consider h rely sgreeable stan k thet he masort grefer : :w st ga & pois - . w &r s 2 ks & g s & fews she susp trying . . a e w 2 - n judgment 3 . woman. who she thinks 5 . whose profession or 1. r st ght eight eds r xa n after . tings a . e a nothings s w et at his ho 2 e of gles partial to the woman and the fr yers an Invoice of In y an inter- w who i par t companion for a mau verburdened with the re- fesional cares. perhaps, has ntense suffering nerve set on edge, want e greeted by the s e crank who takes a fe. He wants to for- y that he was 1ts to replace he longs for as been tortured the reaction of the who takes him out ces a newer, hap- relieve the horror who, eside the bed of. his eve a mistake t suppose that the t s woman is devold of feeling. She s @ creature of extremes, and in pro- as she I ridicules the is frequently pore he woman who is too serious has little for those who enjoy Ilife. She wants every one modeled on the same She has none of the present in her veins charity es as her own. ghiness of the annot understand the sparkling ef- fervescence of the woman who lives in . fe's sunglow he serious woman is not a pleasant companion for either young or old. She gt AT PILT TRSTLES Lvay = =7 g Sl = o’ y ‘WHEMN AER HUSBAND WEARY PERSONIFICATION OF DOMESTIC SUNSHINE.” COMES HOITE SHE J3 THE. crushes the spirits of the young and is & walking obituary notice for the elders. She lacks the buoyancy of hope. She views life through a pessimistic lens that ps pleasures of to-day into ns for the hereafter. mag: fish and the s the soul of a E s f ar -water spray. Her pless rious as a spent 2 nd her morals as oppressive as a Novergber fog. is good, because she is too forbidding to be anything el o above all, she regards herseif for inventors of not only her enses. She g W g way It the world is kept in t to hold anything as essed a teresting , the ion cof the fact t ems b rtless when she m ay sneer at her and womea A8 ng “#o foolish,” yet they rably to the woman who ances, and the worid woman who thinks the whe erse holds a grudge agatnst her. She is not so overly precise as to be horrif insignificant infractions of conve rules; instead, she laughs relieves the embarrassmenis of the moment She is a ray of sunshine in the sickroom and a tonic to those trying to bear up against_crushing sorrows You rarely find her opinionated, for she cannot be serious long enough to form opinions, And she is generally generous to a fault. In fact, the frivolous woman is often an epitome of negative virtues. She is not an overly pious woman, nor is she irreverent. She is not always as discreet as she might be, because she does not take time to weigh appearances, a consideration that haunts the serious woman. She does not criticise others, because she enjoys the folbles that the serious woman at times construes into harm. Taking everything Into consideration, the frivolous woman goes through life dif- fusing happiness about her. We may ad- mire the serious woman and wonder at her cleverness, but -after all in the real enjoyment of life we are largely indebted to the charming companionship of the iight-hearted frivolous woman. & “COLONEL KATE.” Sl < COINCIDENCES TRULY REMARKABLE — ERHAPS notl u'ld be more = inciges hich happen within the experience of some people ast whi ving evidence at an inques 1, who teen killed b man naia sex, Englanc. statement I wa had lost two husk both of whom ha been run over by a wagon and kiled i that in e case it was the same which caused death A similar coincidence was Brought to light at the inquest on a plate.ayer named Dean, who wus knocked down and Kilied by a train at Bromley Station, England. The widow informed the jury that the u man was her second usband and that her first killed by train at the same spot fourteen yeais It will perhaps be advisable to give the fullest particulars in the following in- stance for the information of the skep- tically inclined. In August, 1894, Willlam v clerk, left Water- y an excursion train ain reached its destination 2 dying condition!alone »f the compartments, and & "few At the in- scovered ‘that his father sudden at the same station rs before, and it was the .dis- the elder Moses’ death; cer- tificate in the pocket of his son that re- vealed the latter’s identity to the raijway authorities. While in Mounts Bay, Penzance, Eng- land, in December, 1900, the Newlyn fisu- ing boat, Dewdrop, gave a sudden lurch, he was found in in one minutes afierward expired. quest it was d had died by which Edward Ladner, a fisherman, - was thrown into the water and drowned. On the same spot, half a dozen yeara before, another Newlyn fishing boat, the Arethusa, came to grief, with the resuit that the captaln, who was the father of the above-named Edward Ladner, lost his life in the same way as subsequently dig his son. Not very long ago a couple of weddings were followed by an extracrdinary string of coincidences. Both were celebrated on the same day, at the same church, the contracting parties being two brothers and two sisters. About twelve months afterward each sister gave birth to a female child- on the same day, the two children recelving the same names and being baptized by the same clergyman. Both subsequently be- He ER %LOD[é}:ffiZ v FRIENGS AND SUGCEEDS 2" “SHE MNEVER TAKES HERSELF OR HER FRIENDS SERIOUSLY. ”’ bodles of men who all not only bore the name of Smith, but the Christian name of Willlam as well. = Moreover, therc wes no relationship whatever between them, and all three bad died at Notting Hill on the previous Sat urday afternoon between the hours of § and § o'clock. came unwell, were attended by the same doctor, and, despite ‘his attentio dled the same day. They Were both burfed the same day by the’same undertaker and clergyman. Hardly less remarkab'e is the following: Some little time since three inquests were held at Kensington (In London) on the