The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 19, 1903, Page 12

12 THE SUNDAY CALL. . Strangzs Works of Art Fashioned From the ¢ Glistening Grains on the Beach S — - - ¥ frequently body. and vent amoring beil s number Brand glass instead. tries to perfect a had defied him on but as soon as t he mashes t to try to the a shapeles next day. Just under the 1 mass only esaving bridge one way find him wr ng with the sand and the sun. Sometimes his friends pose and then again | models from a print. Any- thing, it makes no difference to him, is tried. From Venus de Milo to an anchor; fri head of Medusa with her snaky locks to the sm dog that chances to pass him b Anything, everything. From the smallest bird to people size. And always In sand t To be sure he attracts attention, but he K . dinary sand. Tt is as different from clay !s a man that brocks no Interference and (13 > as black Is from white. The one clings that would just as scon fight as model and so w s together and stays where it Is placed. Rather, In f hink. As I sat thers - hile the other dries, crumbles and falls. two officlou ows came along and 2 o No sooner is one part completed to one’s stopped out ty. satisfaction’ than another part nofselessly ay, what 7" one of them ran » » breaks and goes in a miniature landsiide 4 as he kicked the eand fn all direo- S back to Its old home. i e As a general rule men have but a wes “Well, I'm going to lick you If you don’t e : F s store of patlence, but this man proves the stop kicking eand about,” was his . exception to the rule. To watch him bufld sole answer. ere’s plenty of room on ‘ t and rebufld with {nfinite diligence this beach for both §ou ar e and not nd 2 oue think that his fairy godmother gave be iIn ramped I nim move than his share from the barrel guess. Wk ou K? = : of fortitude and calmne from Bra s position ks king advantage of es no tools. In fact, untfl they thought go too. At an ¥ a months 2go he didn't even know move ‘ o what they were, but he does know how - OF when the usual crowd g ; . to use his fingers, and every one a silent man e s BAPS el Sk too. Without the slightest exertion w a : - e g bends and twists them nearly dc ™ and w ’ . F turns them in and out and em f e & ‘ - serve ail his purposes. W rest beca - . ling the sand remains falirly ested. That of ®, tact, but the minute same careie - ma €Ccu . " . LS . maker with a breezy skirt or a dancing It meant suggestions an ’ . > foot comes scattering the sand along, Out of the tiresome old . goss a % some part of his labor pays the penalty While this glass blower fs talente bus ‘ Oh, yes, he does use something besides bhadn't the means, nor the ways, a - his ten fingers. Here ard there along the 25 that is concerned, to make . a : 2 r beach just where the tide chances to toss ©f them. FHis work was not stationa bt Sy 1t are bits of cocoanut shells. Some wise for he Is far too Industrious for tha . - soul discovered that necessity was the the progress that should have ab mother of invention and Bfandhorst Was lacking. g : found out that it was true. The heat NOW everything Is different. By a lucky oy are. His from his hand drted the sand and caused S5troke of the wheel of fortune he has e se more B ol ahuorhea le a handker- tered the institute of art, and it only . s € s chief crept into corners whesé it was not Mains a matter of time untll the enter- e wanted and the result was frequently taining “sand man” will be a thing of the disastrous to h figure and to temper. Past. So after all this only goes to prove ‘ " Whnat he needcd was a brush with which that If you want a thing long eno £ . to scatter the particles and noth- YOU strive hard enough and have a spir bt Chme el 5 hat simply will not be downed w . P Turning about he stumbled over a shen 13 bound to come—that is, .if you don't & dee and In a fit of rage he kicked it as far as 3i¢ 18 the struggle. St ke, pa he could. As went whizzing through -sgfhin the air the brush-like ends caught In the » wryy AGE IN THE TREETOPS. s mem . breeze and flew in all directions. « dams He had a sudden Near Paris Is a remarkable village, the 3 g s e brimful of wM. inhabitants of which spend their lives in = P the tree tops. If you look for this curious | g hinge e BRANTHORIT spot on the map you will find it speiled e iong ¢ i Sceaux, though it is perhaps better eve g . THE SRND known among the Parisians as “Le Vral 3 StuLpPror Arbre de Robinson.” g . It appears that some fifty years ago Mr. | . Guescenin canceived the idea of building tha a restayrant in the tree tops. d at Scea tree. In He owned h stood a grand old MITELING THE HERD. which were réached by rustic staircases. The view to be obtained from these lealy heights s unique. To celebrate the unconventional delights of feasts ta perched among the branches M. Guescenin called his o “Robinson roppihg the Crusoe he fame of the e and fts ing-rooms spread—all soctal, literary, artistic Par's made it a point to breakfast or dine among the rustling leaves. Imita s soon appeared on th scene, and to-day ceaux Is no a village bulit In tree tog a score of trees s g rooms, many also sleeping and living apartme 1 on the stout branc - tallest tree may be story dwelling. It t t rooms, bullt one above the ¢ AN ARTIFICIAL AURORA. At the Royal n = rec experim of the no of ap an the the when a rre of the e ed downw those of presence Ramsay’s duced in tt fied atr wi ex top a WORKING AGAINST 0005 experime @ren, tney drew figures and dabbled witn the tiny grains. One of them sald “he Steaa or mesn ana blood Nke ordinary mortals. help a fellow. Say, does that muscle look Jjust right to you?” stepping aside and in- After a minute he walked quletly over to the despised thing and stripped it of " G RMLESS FIAURE ON THESEACH exactly please his fancy efther, There Severa) craved for; beach dropped on the sand to and to watch the throng that streamed by Suessed he’'d dig a trench and fortify 1t and straightway burrowed until the sand became molst and ,sticky. Talking and laughing, he unconsciously commenced to mold, to pat and to shape his toy people. That was the beginning of Willlam Brand- horst's modeling, but {t was not the last by any manner of means. In a moment he had discovered what years of thinking had not revealed to him. Trottirig along the glittering stretch eariy one morning I nearly rode over a man that seemed to have euddenly risen from the very sands. Veering around to one side it dawned upon me that in an- other ;e 1 should have ridden over a a lady to be sure, made of mii- 1 wee. hard ins of sand In- “It's & wondeér I didn’t completely anni- hilate her,” T said, still trying to keep at a safe distance, For answer he merely smiled. Just fooling.” 1 persisted. He barely nodded. And right then and there I got down. slipped the bridle through my arm and £at me down to soothe my abused feelings and Incidentally to walt untll he was good and ready to talk. Never appear deeply Interested and possess yourself with patience and you are as certain to gain your point es the sun !s to rise. “Know anything about 1t?" he suddenly asked, without even as much as an up- ward glance. “Well, I dgn't, elther. Was 11 hopes you'd know something and could clining his head slightly as he viewed the figure. “Don't it bulge & little too much on the right side?" “Too round, anyhow,” he sald to him- self and then to me, “I use myself as a model or one of the fellows down at the works when they will stand for it. I don't know what's the matter with me. I've been working on that leg all day and can't get the thing even to begin to suit me. T'll bet I'll ix it now.” With a grim Jook of determination he jumped up, took his coat and hat off and then bent over the silent figure and became utterly ab- gorbed in his play. I might have been another pile of sand for all he knew or cared. Fancy a man working in common, or- Its hairy head. With the ald of a rubber band he bound it, and lo and behold, had & brush which any scu would not scorn, In a small way this man krows of the men who have made thelr names im- mortal. He knows that such men exist- ed and has a hazy glim 8 what thetr names were and what they did. But strange to say. he thi but little about their we unless he can get a small print and then he uses it to model from Anything that he can copy would, for the moment, please him almost as much as the most valuable painting in existence. A rheumatism advertisement serves his purpose. although he now fully realizes that it serves him but poorly and that ft —_———— e A COSTLY PERFUME ng. whick ttar of Ylang rivals the Yl ttar ld it begins flowers ard at duce femic K} being used s value as a per fume for hair a flet waters, the pro duct 1s prized a natives as a medicine, being toothacke and wit curing