The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 1, 1903, Page 2

2 THE SUNDAY CALL and young woman kept her days f ess bracel bins her strin; 3 p dressed—this was the first time he had not disposed to look upon the feminine 3 m'}mdv’:u from her otring. fve pied her health and happ! lly thought about her. Perhaps journalist as & woman. Still, &s he bad T e i Ve ondered why She was s0 assured. Miss Munson Was. J e were due to the fact never shed his regard for the sex in spite e den N responsive. Ballle deciared best dressed wo stening to a story from of the quaint specimens with which he et it by istake Mrs. Hutchinson's clothes wers ild bave been whispered came In dally contact, he allowed his Mmplexion recipes crept into Lamp-Post reveled in the He walked away and masculine eve a little outing at Miss e i and Lamp-Post Lucy’'s ater-goer, and tr night city editor again. He Bydenham’'s expense. Sallie, as a ru AR S JOourmn 4 to Mrs, Hutch- deadhead t be any use “ringing was a great fund of amusement to him. ;d"‘;.'";‘;‘:‘g“‘i:nt“d&‘;‘wg‘;ld il Ve den il ssively \ Parkhurst and asking him to He enjoyed her chatterbox utterances, and o ed iy )iked to listen to her criticisms of plays, e stage. He knew that the em!- was entertained by the quaint Ylews of ‘“1'1: e Ay tive woman tn the office because they were V. re—afte ergyman would bafl the chance of things that she invariably took. He liked ®yire. Hapgood Hipton, dubbed by orthodox manner € ing, even at @ moment’s Do- riding uptown with her in the small p- o Sl uline owls Happy HIp- ment. Mamie Munson said t e sat down and wrote to hours of the morning, when none of the e rre e R ivied. | She was the have afforded fo buy her three seats. Mrs. Green friends for whose opinion he cared could D ighet that drew the men to this cheer- mother thought that ely see that play. He had see him. He was not a bit of & snob, Jeas feminine sanctum. Her hips b a silly to & s B ew g her t e © Dy espected e prop! ties hey 2 kK "About Not :‘gPe:\foxr?:'eugrcuadf = B B s P s and wobbled as she walked that sy little woman were very good thin heir ways very highly perfumed—s; kespeare—except - They walked slowly across City Hall Sydenham cailed it—and wr - Lod - s M efuge for e destitute. Park, that spread out like a silver map (to the qther sex) she 4\[ T4 e Sallie S m wrote before them, bathed in an ine mix- to her prey and whi y. Munson we: . Occa she ture of moon and electricity. Battered Nobody knew exactly a fe1 ¢ - 2 ghe cheerless men dozed on the seats and t paused for a moment lers slouched fu by—with the - ad wri Then tiveness that 1 at night, ke 2 1 w t the a fever, and d n the daytime ficted w! ga after Jack Childers shionably cut rag- - ek e a ian, hurried ie discon- humar am took Soe- ose —which 3 ing > dden in the folds of her dress, and : Micult to extricate—and gave it to ¢ v . as_the old man with a hopeless, wrinkled ty, natty hats on Division st E r. Childers stood rather impa- bty WESHS e t was while she did this. Then he 1'ght garette and they moved quickly c allie chatted persistently, her tem- porary letbargy dissipated. She was anx- to live to her conversational repu- entertain her companion. She admitted e to her column, and talke: and Jimmie, and Billy knew all its foibles and h explolting them. Her s a8 < to the fact that she appeared to . gonally present at the swag Al these admirable, women_ assembied In ow ctumn, looked somewhat b Amelia Amberg articular morr utchinson, La 1appy Hippy, Anastasia Atwo s Mamie Munson and Rit peared to have somet < - Ll Men pesa. a . meadits - . New 2 i ; s | % 3 play are scanda y 2 E 4 Tealgn s 1 < 3 " i % [ apparentl m f d % prs 3 Positively eif and 2) : 5 ¥ 13 Bhe writes ~ 8 e s amuse him he y erested in everyth He loved her ruthless comme ipon the e office, whom ghe saw with his her sglary. She was mlways “writing & s own native 1t story that was going to make a sensa- thoug with s good v cussed the women of tion,” and consul®ng every available edi- care of me, w all the i Ao tor about it; but it never seemed to ap- business of the A y P o take pear, and was never even “set us ** Hap- dear Mrs. Hutc nes nspl:f Py Hippy used to sigh a good deal. and prosalc s anx ;. Bhe wish that she were married and removed {ety. Bu s, & K r L wgershad from the torment purnalism. She had tell him P a 1 en. She utterec secured a divor ne husband, whe I"—very t a 83 8 g nee, that would had been jealous of her popularity’ with ham's - art < of the average the literary set (he grocer) and that It will & had -treated her very Newspaper Lamp-Post » proof- to-n'ght life was killing her, she said, and she and down the r n the train simply couldn't ure it much longer, 88 handed a pap lliant ce of it was so very hard on. a woman. Then Atwoo o1 k y howled with she would slide aw hips wobbling, t ph at r descript.on of the hero- and exhaling patchouli from -every- pore, _“gallie Syderham makes ths to see if Mr. Childers hadarrived and to ot R of wn” gl = i X Sallie Sydenham was silent ask his advice about her:st She liked fce to- my « ging ed was king almost fever! Jack Childers immensely, but she could tp ble th v w as w e ¢s that pleased h:m not tolerate the horrible persons who sat Wt t women de: was g ¢ including herseif. in their shirt sleeves and ate hamsand-- gubjects instead of graces. | k embarrassed her. wiches. Jack Childers remembered that man? Miss Sydenham - s t when she wrote. she was a woman, and she was not IN- this in a taphouse. . was § ¥ ciined to let him forget it. She amused. Jack Childers ca. pe the other men, enveloping them In the crogsing Ha 8 « pungency of her essences, and flattering night—is. somethir she inter- their eve with the saliency -of her perpet- 3 f the sudiject e . ng s imn of back of ‘the room. in a pensive er savory ¥ of Inexorable prettiness, sat the g Yet she | ate .of the dffice, one of the 4 € - g T the men cant features of Newspaper tor 1 had Row. did not write poetry beca s w er with Mr. Green in_ her she was obliged do so, old eve p T acious way,_ and had not been body whom she d b ¥ s of the impr x:r]t-x % P husbard, to whom she was X A iy "o Da SWSoTr THIre [ Ana - o Vening's experence A BEERAL FIw)LT somewhat Happy Hippy le was again 1d her pertness was “No,” she sajd, and she laughed for of humor. She held herself aloaf from SiFOng. pyschic inst < X Teasserting iteelf. He did not motice the 80 long that the giggling giris and the the chorus, and the chorus, as will be Eral i sgnglhfi!r iy et atted about the defiance in her.tone, perhaps because he rather tough looking young men were si- shown, resented that fact. ,,_.\r sancrbit elt< Just let him pflrc:‘ . rarely patronize was not looking for any such commodity. lenced. ‘“They would want to put thelr The prime and most expensive desk was el this newspaper office s err: at’s - “Yes, women are strange.creatures,”’ he feet on the table wouldn't they? They occupied by a stodt, flaccid lady with & extremely beay of own. When s s -night went on, taking her words at their face Wwould sit and smoke Instead of attend- ,pimples, who conductéd a_column entitied material ~ access rticle this morntng I put my distasteful sub valugtioh. *You can beat us at o many IDE to the house. They would shock all ““How to be beautiful.” She made a ad vety little n E aside, unable to eat. It was k play can never become thing nd you are 80 vain about it. Men their neighbors and bring grief' to fthe: study of the quest'twm, impersonally, of exquisite and pellueld an 80 coarse, %0 .nje cate—I am re arring ar rs =aid, thoughtfully. are different. ‘They would be rather in- heart of the landiord. Oh, they would course, and her work was much admired, pale poetes } they we the article. it had bee P instinctively® recogn dignant If they were asked to write fash. be quite impossible. They would be like She had speelal Tecipes for the removal nary women would call nobedy w: s good for it anad what is jon articles, or adviee to mothers, or fishes out of water, It is so much nicer of freckles and chilblains, and her advice dusky line above her & womar ach a little, in order to hu old recipes. They wouid hate it. for them to assocliate fraternally with the In the matter of pimples was looked upon Indicate that a little ¢ n, 8o to speak, but things you' are happy when:I tell you Toms, and the Dicks. and the Harrys, as second in importance to nome. The pound that the. w & by a law as immutable write ltke @ man, -only much and to do their work for them. Long live fact that her own face was not unspot- So2p and water w < t & Still, Miss Syden- the average man, and that the jolly good fellows!" ted from the world used to amuse Miss ‘aided Anastasia's s w ng you. You did the of subjects that generaily Childers felt that he had made a Sydenham, _who wondered why the sanitary w: er indeed, Everybody k him is frankly entertaining.’ hit with Sallie Sydenham, He had struck talented lady falled to patronize her rendered tiie cor . will w see a play that you lampoon Yes it makes me very happy,” she what they call “a responsive chord.” own remedies. It never occurred to necessary. N rd, between our e d gravely “And you." she asked »pose you had to be‘gentle and un- frivolous Sallle that perhaps Mrs 1 = w r minute’s pause, you find It P cated.” he went on, for a litile Amelia Amberg Hutchinson had no time ne swer. She turned from ‘eusy when you are talking to a woman— ‘embroidery on the theme that.would not ¢ worry lflmut‘ hér own - imperfections. p oked from the window at the a woman HKe myse!, for instance—ta for- be amiss, “What a gorgeous joke Her clients '““"1" communi with we of silent houses, in_which she saw Eet that, after uil -she does belong to the would be! 1 can imagine yo her by lettor. Had they called to ses al gleam of light, and the out- s€x? Ddes it—does it not embarrass you, boiled mutton for dinger and her the list of Mrg. Hutchinson's adhe some nocturnal household over- just a little bit, at time clotkes’ on Monday morning: 3 ents might have.diminished. They look e f persistent “Elevated.” ° She did not look at him as she asked would be awfully amusing. 1 shou.d love UPOn her, through her. writings A P Tha selves,” hurt the question. The train had stopped at to see you at it sible Venus. . She told them how to re- 4 h hat, after all, the Eighth-street’station, and she was - “I shou'd be very funny, sald Sallie, duce their welght and how to cope with . s willing that apparently waiching two giggling girls quietly. “But it wouldn't give me much & 100 retrousse nose. She - the office, but who were being propelled into the car by scope. And perhaps even you would look Aauthority on etiquett u couple of rather tough looking young upon me as a fallure, after a time, when Cconsistent ddctrine th: g known about this play,” he men. "% T'was forded to be dreadfully proper.” worn in the morning was decidedly bad then ridd 1 would have gone with you “At first it was a bit 0dd,” Mr. Childers _ “You couldn’t be,” he retorted gallant. form. This, one would think, was a self- poetry ater to-night. 1 so seldom see answered, anxious to please her (of course ly—for he was always gallant, and it took evident fac But it was just the kind The:desk next to that occup! K hir and I should rather have en- it wouid please her) by not admitting that this unusual form in dealing with this Of fact that the journalistic lady loved Atwood belonged to Eva HIgg ching the effect of this hig -ehivalrous 1 °ts-had for at least unusual girl—*“you couldn’t be, even if you to elaborate upon, and in candor it must mous feminine “interviewer, he women in the audience. a year violently reb at the anomaly. tried very hard. You would make some be sald that her correspondents llke to been secured on account of the woman's 1l me that there was & sen- “You see 1 was brought up in’such an awful break amd live up to your reputa- Féad her luminous and unanswerable ar- delicacy that she brought to a mission pis?” old-fashicned way. to look upon women tion guments usually intrusted to vain apd wordy men. nk”—and she-tried to in- as household bric-a-brac. ven now, . Undoubtedly,” she said, still very Mrs. Hutchinson sat at her desk, blink- Miss Higgins was five and forty. addicted e he spirit of flippant impu- when we have finished dinner at home, quietly. “But I would sooner not try the Ing in the morning sumn, with a plle of to a kind of nervous wink that, in her ) her words—"'that you would my aunt and cousin would be shocked if experiment. It would be so exceedingly unopened letters before her. The sun fell youth, would have been provocatl and een more comfortable af a play of I did not rise from the dining-room table risky. This is Twenty-third street, Mr. upon her disordered complexion, but did Qquite 'disposed to look upon the entirs rt with a ma and hold the door open while they passed Childers—my station. I must hurry. (food- not worry her, as it had no questions to world as rmere subjects for her work, Childers laughed and looked at her to the drawing-room. I mention that just night.” ask and was not embarrassing. She “iInterviewed” everybody, and it was n amusement. There was no doubt ‘to show you that I was educated to hold “‘Shall I see you to your house?’ But Very near to Mrs. Hutchinson—that is remarkable that all her victims spoke he was really a very funny girl the sex in reverence. At first, as I said, as he asked the question he took from to say, near to her desk, and not to her allke—~charmingly and poetieally The sual character it was a bit 0dd to overcome' thess ten- his pocket & newspaper and prepared to heart—was an elongated damsel, famil- beauty of her own mind affected tHem, eclared, jovially. “If you dencles. 1 did it by positively refusing read it during the rest of his trip home. larly known among the feminine owls as it was supposed. She had alked” with 1 saying 0, 1 should have to consider the newspaper woman as any- ‘*Certainly not,”’ she said, smiling. “For Lamp-Post Lucy. Lamp-Post Lucy wore Spilke Hennessy, the safe-breaker, and g with you. You see things thing eise but a man. She does a man's heaven's sake, don't pretend to treat me. a very short skirt betraying feet that Mr. Hennessy's views of life were as d not- be appgrent to a man. work, and earns a man's salary.. And now as though I were the gentle, unsophisti- would (in the language of the office) have sweet and unaffected as those of Calve why _you 'are so- valua- it is quite easy, and even amusing. And "cated ‘home’ contrast. In_twenty. min- supported the Equitable building or the the operatic star. The late Dr: Talmage the “office, my dear. You I look upon you, Sallie, as a jolly good utes from now Miss Sarah Sydenham will Brooklyn bridge. She was ‘“in journal- had prattled in the same delicate vemn than._a man. My sex is fellow—as one of the boys, in fac. be sitting en negligee, with her dear little ism,” as she never tired of telling, be- as Anna Held, and it was noted. on one o treat these things humorou He was sincerely anxious to show her feet—she takes sevens—on her landlady's, cause she loved a “literary life.” From {on, when she Interviewed Sarah masculine critic goes in for beau- how much he thought of her. He empha- unblemished bureau cover, and”—sinking- earliest childhood she had written. At rdt and Bishop Potter on the same n m —which we don’t =ized the “jolly good fellow' vehemently, her valce—''she will have just one cigar- the age of six she had compesed a poeni, v, that they both sald - 't own the most val- and when he elaborated the expression ette before she retires. There will be no entitled ““The Apple Blushed,” that had imes. The Bishop wrote to of all—the power to show into “‘one of the boys” he felt that his brandy and soda—because she can’t get it. been published in the biweekly journal -per, protesting that he had never u ents the lens of ridicule, and to apprectative testimony to Sallle’s sterling Perhaps she would if she could. Good-° of her native town. She felt that she “Such a picturesque but suspicious expres- from an unconventional point merit could go no further. He looked night,~Mr. Childers. 1 always enjoy a had a mission, though at present it seem- 8ion, but the paper stood by fss Hig- d what you said about the at her to note in her face the pleasure chat with you—as one of the boys.” ed to have been lost in the shuffle. Her gins who had notes to show timony K bhalf a dozen of the that he was sure he had conferred. But He saluted her with mock reverence, daily duty wa to give advice to love- She had mad her greatest hit by means edit d they laughed so that Miss Sydenham'’s eyes were enigmatical. and spread out his paper. Sallie pushed sick mer and women. Saille Sydenham of an intérview with the late Li Hung P 1 thought they would have col.apsed. You She was still watching the giggling girls her way out of the train and walked insisted that as Lamp-Post Lucy had Chang, in which that eminent gentleman v see, I'm crowning you with compliments. and the rather tough looking young men rather solemnly down the stairs of the never been kissed—for a stepladder would had talked gushingly of the two-step and You are woman enough to appreciate in the seats opposite. The boys were call- elevated raflway station. A man, slightly have bben necessary in order to reach her had declared that the figures of American t , I'm 4 ing the girls “peaches” and ‘‘dalsles’ In the worse for drink, spoke to her on ruby lips—it seemed absurd to make her dances—and women—w e flnest on & ‘How well vou know us. Mr. Childers,” fervent, normal, east side approval. It Twenty-third street, noticing her pink an authority on affairs of the heart. But earth. It was popularly believed that if she said with a laugh that was not was a somewhat rowdy and vulgar quar- cheeks and the bedraggled finery that she the old argument that it is possible to Miss Higgins were assigned to interview r caused by sheer and undiluted satisfac- tet, but Sallle saw in it rude health and wore. She laughed in his face and, tap- criticize a plum pudding without being the Eden Musee, all the wax figures wourll < iox quite marveiou-. .4, the eternal fitness of things. These un-' ping him on the shoulder, sald, “Go ‘able to make one was Sallie'’s answer talk in the effusive and paragraphic man- I You have just couth Lubins were not regarding their home.” He stared at her in astonish- when she attempted to reason the matter ner that had been proved so entertaining, 1 t I'd paid me a very pretty one, indeed. Are Dulcineas as jolly good fellows. They ment, and wondered what he had been out with Jack Childers. and that the Pope or the King of Eng- going home You 3 sure that you realize it?"’ saw them in all their pictoria]l femininity drinking. Lamp-Post Lucy was quite spectacular land would not have hesitated to utilize P ck Childers felt that perhaps he dld —such as it was. Sallie-could nat help BT in her morality. To that large majority that manner. She had a marvelous fac- ® not quite unders her. He knew that sighing. Yet she could imagine these CHAPTER IV. of her feminine correspondents craving ulty\for the interview. Sallie Sydenham there was some furtive sarcasm in her girls, a few hours later, with dust cloths Owldom, In its feminine aspect. offered to know whether good usage allowed a —uncharitable Sallie!—declared that Eva's words, but he had no idea where it lurk- on their heads, going through a dozen an alluring contour to the uninitiated. girl to embrace a man before she was motto was, “All coons look alike to me.” ed. Her mood was an unusual one. Per- household duties that she would have The cheerless little office on the seventh engaged to him she invariably replied in But Miss Sydenham was frivolous and haps she was “gu him for her own loathed. Still she sighed. floor, into which Jack Childers, manag- the negative, and added that such a unworthy of assoclation with so serious . innate delectation. He had meant to gay ‘‘You are very kind, Mr. Childers,” she ing editor, had swept his newspaper chor- course would be heinous. To be sure, her a topic. extremely pleasant things to her, for he said, for he was looking rather disap- us, looked as though it were tenanted by correspondents seemed to live for HBast Miss Mamie Munson, who received a r . sincerely admired the recklessness of her pointed at the silence with which she re- a tealess tea party. The treasures of-a Side dances and promiscuous ‘‘clam- small salary for telling impecunious wom- s work, and as a managing editor, cast in ceived his remarks, “It is nice to live rapacious journalism were' there, for it bakes,” to which they could never go anhood how to.look like fashion pl a human mold, he thought that encour- one's life as a good fellow. Petticoats was now generally felt in Newspaper Row - alone. But Lamp-Post Lucy was fervidly on nothing a year, and n . agement would do her good. He occa- are a horrible nuisancs, aren’t they? How that woman's soft, maternal instinct—if conscientious, and her responsibilities best way of converting ery glad. I sionally used it with—the other men. The would you like all girls to be good fel- it could be obtained—was a good thing weighed upon her. She had reduced her into garments that would have startled v w other men! lows?"” to own. Only the cynics belleved that work as much as possible, to a system. Fifth avenue on fete days, was a han ‘If 1 realize that I have paid you a “Oh, no—no_thanks: I wen't go so far the hard paternal powers of men were She knew exactly what to say to each somely garbed woman, inclined to Yery pretty compliment?’ he said, repeat- as that he protested argumentatively, better able to cope with the newspaper brand of sufferer, s a barber recognizes upon Joutnalism somewhat apologetically, ed he ‘closed 8 p & r ing_ her question. “I tried to do so—to ‘‘One must have contrast. The gentle, un- nugget, and professed to see in the news- in the upturned chins of his cllents the Miss Munson was always extremely tired, prepared himself for the make it fit. Some girls like to be told sophisticated, girly girl is very restful. I paper iady a diluted imitation in corsets call for brushes soft, medium or hard. but was never weary of explaining that, me urney—the one hu that they are pretty, others that they are don't think that we could get along with- kuomeumeu) of a newspaper gentleman. She bad one parcel of stock advice for like Mrs. Atwood, she “dldn't work in a simper—" f her ds He not clever—' out her, do you, Miss Sydenham? After As a chorus however—a chorus that w: the ffequent damsel who had discovered newspaper office” from necessity. She “1 do, (‘And others that they are men,” she all, we must have our homes, and the not called upon to sing tra-la-la—this lit- her Lothario to be “‘a married man,” and liked it, and mother always gaid that it Post L added, rather deflant Jolly good fellows .wouldn't be happy tle gathering of feminine owlis appealed a father several times; another for the was demoralizing for a girl to id He laughed heartily. Ballle Sydenham there, would they away Greek— very strongly to Sallle Bydenham’s sense coy young Sadie or Mamie who dangled her time. Mother belleved that if a seems a trifie misty—but