The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 7, 1903, Page 14

14 THiZ SUNDAY CALL. - - more inte 5t a boat ha pleasures of 10} our waters and gh to meet some w bere and Vallejo and s Sperry has been boarding her sev- es week to take her les €as ng around the huge wheel picture she ma wind, feminine t frou- The Man of oottt frous flutterfng as she stood there. The captain and pilot are both genial men, w took great ple e in giving the lessons to their fair pupil, for she was so full of genuine love of the thing and, as they said She did he most sensible estions like the work ely because it takes one out of en paths. 1 do regular but I think 1 shall soon to take the examination for license successfully b dear, no! 1 do not expect to go the gh seas and pilot the b'g out through the Golden Gate. s in « 1 ven expect to pilot any a ss it would be a pleasure cr perhaps. 1 just want to have some pro- me work that I can do. It ch a good feeling know re is something one can do to earn ving even If one does not ever € do it. And then, piloting is such fua. “Oh, there are ever =0 many things that . learn before one can pass the and she neld up a '} examination that gave a list of all the sho: lighthouses, routes, s s, whistles, belis and countless other things that a pilot must be familiar with is true that the examination is very difficult and it must be passed in letter perfect shape—there is no such thing a percentage less than 100 cent one through. T g to the path per pilot’'s will carry examination differs accordi over which he is to take his b 1 concerns that particular water whicn he is travel and he must answer questions relating to all the tides of that water, to its reefs, its buoys, its lizhthouses. The examination is made especially hard by the problems proposed. There are dread- ful questions which ask if you were at and such a point and heard a whis tle blowing in such and such a way and the tide was doing so and so—enough to rattle anyb wouldn’t vou think so? But the brave California lass is making re for those questions with a right good will and will keep a level head when she comes to them. She is the scc ond woman who has learned the business on San Francisco Bay. The other woman obtained but lost her ER PRRERRREIPY the Hour in a license, nerve His Infinite Dariety. E following story of President osevelt's boyhood is told b3 4 George Cromwell in the Philadel- ¥ 1 r One cannot well read g t feeling anew the truth ng that the boy is father it was a great event pecially for young- ears of age. Mr. the voyage he and sevelt took when they were rousers. things T remember about ge, he says, was that after the ad got out of sight of land Theodore rked, half to himself, as he glanced water, “I guess there ought to be many fish here.” jdea suddenly struck him and ) me he sald, “George, go get 1 rope somewhere and we'll fishing game.” ter the line and while T was ught out all the detalls of the game and had climbed on top of 2 ed cable, for he was to be the fisher- man “Now.” said he, as T handed him the line, * ou fellows lie down flat on the deck here and make belleve to swim around like fishes. I'll throw one end of the line down to you and the first fellow that catches hold of it Is a fish that has bit my hook. He must pull just as hard @&s he can and If he pulls me down off this of rope, why, then he will be the fisherman and I will be the fish. But if he lets go, or I pull him up here'off the deck, why, I will still be the fisherman The game is to see how many fish each can land up here. The one that catches the most fish wins.” I'he reSt of us lay flat down on our L and made believe to swim and Theodore, standing above us on the coiled of us omac) cable, threw down one end of his rope. My brother was the first “fish” to bi Then commenced a mighty struggle. It would seem to be much easier for the fish to pull the fisherman down than for the fisherman to haul up the dead weight of a heavy boy lying flax on the deck be- low him. My brother held on to the rope l 1 with both hands and wrapped his le around it, grape-vine fashion. heodore braced his feet on the colile cable, stiffened his back and held on, but he did not pull much. Ofe course the fish pulled hard. He rolled over on his back, pulling and twist- ing, just as Theodore hoped he would do. You see, all this time, while my brother was using his strength, Theodore simply stood still and let him tire himself out. Before long the fish was so out of breath that he could not pull any longer. Be- sides, the rope cut his hands and mades them sore. Then the flshern‘;n commenced slowly and steadily to pull on the line, and in a very few minutes he had my brother pulied up beside him on the coil of cable. —_—— “13” and the White House. To those who are influenced by the old superstition of sitting down to table thir- teen in number an invitation from the President to dine at the White House oft the new state service of china, manufac- tured by the famous firm of Wedgwood, may well be looked at askance. Whether intentionally or by accident, the mystic number is curiously repeated in the crest, and even in the transaction by which the service was ordered. Any one who visits the St. Louis exposition may observe the former, as the service is to be placed there on view. To begin with, there‘are, of courpe, thirteen stars and thirteen bars in the shield, representing the original whien she ran her little craft into a larger one during a thick fog and never again tried it. However, Miss Sperry seems to be gifted with greater bravery than most wormen, partly because she is Iy healthy. Who knov Piloting may soon be the fashion for werld-weary debutantes who have tasted the pleasures of a gay season and found it has left them unsatistied Schools for teaching pretty girls the in- tricacies of the calling n on be es- ablished should follow What if the ) ould not the sterner sex the coll follow maid DOROTHY FARGATE et o thirteen States of the Union. In one claw the eagle grasps thirteen bolts and In the other an olive branch upon which there are thirteen leaves and thirteen berries. The pinions of the eagle, too, have thir- teen feathers, and it will be found that there are thirteen lefters in the motto “E Pluribus Unum.” Further, there are thirteen letters in the Christian names of the President and his wife—Theodore and Annie—and thirteen letters also in Staf-| fordshire, the county in England in which | the Wedgwood ware is manufactured, but | perhaps the most significant fact of all in this respect is that the service was de- | livered on Friday, the 13th of February | of this year. Under these circumstances it would seem to require only a party of thirteen to make any one sensitive of such mat- ters search his mind diligently for an ex- cuse to absent himself from the table. SRR RN “Roosevelt’s Natignal Hotel.” Mr, Roosevelt entertains not occasion- ally but constantly, not exclusively but democratically, not meagerly but lavish- ly, not a few score guests but hundreds and thousands. He has a multitude of guests to lunch, a muititude to dine, a multitude to hear music or to take part in various kinds of “drawing-rooms” and levees, 2 multitude to stay the night un- der his roof—not a multitude all.at one time ‘but a multitude in the aggregate. Rich and poor, snob and democrat, black s —m———— and white, American and foreigner, capi- talist and laborer, Maine woods gulde, ‘Western scout, fashionable and frouzy— all equally welcome, all equal at his court. Morgan and Jacob Riis, Countess de Castellane and Booker Washington, ‘Wild Bill and Bishop Potter, Duse and Rough Rider Rob, Will Allen White and a New York cotillon leader. Not long ago when some one said in bis hearing, ““There’s no first class hotel in Washing- he replied, “You forget the White House.” He has made it indeed a na- tional hotel, or rather a national assem- bling place. And he {s ever unsatisfled, is ever reaching out for more and more “doers,” for more and more people of in- terest or importance. He wishes all peo- ple of mark to bask in the Presidential sunshine, to give him the benefit of their intellect or character or whatever they may-have that is worth seeing or hear- | to give. OSFERRy “EALEY Proro, L s ing. For he wishes to recéive as well as And he is determined that his court shall be entirely and’completely representative. ’ A Presage of Regal Splendor. Mr. Roosevelt's White House,: astound- ing though it is as d sudden development, is but the crude beginning of the.Wash- ington of to-morrow.; But it:is a begin- ning—a most audacious move on the part of one of the most audacious men who even rose to first vlace in the repubile. This year the White House demand upon Congress for running expenses leap- ed from the customary $35.000 to $60,000. As Mr. Roosevelt's salary is just under a thousand dollars a week and .as he evi- dently believes the people expect the Pres- ident to spend his salary upon. the em- bellishment. of the position,. it appears that the new White House, the new court, is now on the average costing In the neighborhood of $2000 a wéek, half from the pocket of the people, the other half from Mr. Roosevelt's private pocket. As the heavy expense is crowded into five months of the year—December to April inclusive—the probabilities are that the new White House is costing during the season not far from 33000 a week. ~ This means’ that the new departure has cer- tainly doubléd and has perhaps trebled the cost of the White House court—for most Presidents haye contributed about half their salary toward holding court and have called on Congress for a sup- plementary appropriation of $25,000 a year. | some beautiful white siippers that | her stockings, L TREASURES DEAR TO THE HEART OF THE JUNE BRIDE The bride’s shoes may be of white satin, but it is very smart now to overlay the satin with applications of lace. Thers are are made of heavy lace interlined with satin, and these the bride wears with white silk stockings trimmed wi lace medal- lions. White lace slippers and whits lace stockings look very smart worn together, and the bride can ornament them to suit herself. She can apply the lace to the slippers and can set lace medallions in after which she can cut the material out beneath and finish the edges as she ‘pleases. Sometimes the edges need no finishing, other, times it is best to sew a bit of white silk around them or to buttonhole stitch the edges. All bridal slippers have bows to them | and the newest ones are very large and are made of chiffon, so that they shall bs fluffy. The big, soft, fluffy chiffon bow is | a feature of the new bridal slippers; and some of thess bows are so very largs and so very fluffy as to resemble the chiffen bows which are worn at the back of the neck. , There come immense -chiffon choux, which are attached at the back ,of the neck of the bride, and these same choux are worn upon the slippers. And, in fact, a bridal gown can be aimost trimmed with them. One dozen of the ordinary chiffon choux of different shapes were attached to a bridal‘dress recently. The material of the gown was a soft, clinging white crape, made lovely with a profuse decoration of lace of three varieties—Bruges, filet and Valenctennes. The choux began with the slippers, where one amented the tos of each. - Then there were choux at the belt, at the bust, upon the stock and at the back of the wown. The bride’s sash is a pretty thing of silk trimmed with lace. Sometimes the bride prefers to wear a long jabot-like ar- rangement of lace no wider than your hand, but widening at the ends like an oar. This s trimmed with lace and is fastened at the back of the belt under a chou of chiffon or under a pin of pearis The sash is very graceful and the bride can select one if she thinks it will im- prove the appearance of her gown. She may be sure that it is In good taste, for some of the prettiest of the new wedding dresses are trimmed with wide sashes of silk and chiffon or of lace. As for jewelry. the bride can wear it or not as she prefers. Absolutely unqual- ifled plainness Is a desirable thing for a bride, for it is her last opportunity to assume simplicity. And she really needs no jewels at all. The latest note, however, is that the bride shall wear pearls. And a charming bridal ornament is found in opals and pearls, while another is In turquoise and pearls. The ornament is worn suspended around the neck by a very narrow gold chain. | -