The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 29, 1903, Page 10

THE SUNDAY V2 GE 700 INTERESTE THE K and its and p a kitten at g, and the the shad the light for with has sained she would are of the plays with fire. Ir is like a child that has esources, and as g amused is ready 8 schief. Indeed € do all with- decidedly she doesn't succeed 1l rolling at ‘a merry t because she h at girl can res the temptation f seelrg how far she can twist a chap about her little finger? Just absut one every thousand, and you may cou n it that the one is too busy her fancy, or else she would nger in the pie. So it happens lassie fair who casuaily re- marks, “Droy about candle light- ing bas a deep laid scheme oi her to carry out, although to look at aughing, innocen. face one would never guess, or even dream of it Instead of .ghting up brightly. and treating Mr. Man as a guest that is gh and mighty, she makes her first ing by coming twinkling down the irs eandle in hand as he lays aside hat and cozt, and she tells him , “that the family are out and act as her protector until their return.” That is & clever bit of diplomacy, for straightway swells up and expands a inch or so, holds his head a trifie gher, and is thoroughiy pleased with he nself apd the world in general. In his own opinfon of himself sud- y goes up Just sbout four notches. hat one trifle purs him in a splen- roliicking good humor, and he fol- lows her Into the ruddy glow as though he were stepping on clouds that were gorgeously rilver lines instead of an ordinary, prosaic carpe! and his leather chair might be a golden throne for all he knows or cares. This sly miss has carefully pulled the great lounging chair within the radius of the light, and she proceeds to gather a few plllows, and commands the six footer to be seated, “because we want to have a nice, comfy chat, you know, and daddy thinks I'm a wonder with cushions.” Oh, se’s 2 wonder. There's absolute- 1y no doubt on that score. She fusses d feathers about patting this one e and that one there, making her- self not only useful but ornamental, end in & captivating manner that she has down to a fine point. And her art- ful speech about, “Daddy” didn't fiy wide of the mark, either. She is some. what like the girl who dilly dallied with her father and two young men and kept them ell guessing, while she look- ed about a bit. One ehap worked for a living while the other took life easy and tried to see how much of this world's goods he could dispose of. The father was merely a figurehead who pald her ladyship’s bills and act- ed as her messenger boy generally. “1, what am I golng to do with my- eelf? Why not much. I'm only going to keep house for father.” 7D ANDLET porzr BOIZ OVERY Jhe here was the domestic wife for him, and the rich chap settled back with a smile as he thought how easy it would be to bowl her father over. And so it is with this girl. By doing for her guest she wins his heart and he inwardly wonders how i1t was he hadn’t noticed how handy she was about the house, and as he sinks further into the great chair with a contented sigh, he vaguely dreams of a home of his own; a hearth of his own and a wife to grace it. And that's the first inning. Put- ting the thought in his head without his even suspecting it is going a long way toward success, for she knows that the rest is but a matter of time, for he has virtually signed away his freedom and is & doomed man. But she doesn’t stop there. When she is quite certain that he is comfortable, she sets to work to entertain him. And this she finds so ridicuously easy, for it is one of the first steps in her little act to make it her business to dis- cover what his interests and hobbies are, and thep ell is plain sailing. One thing leads to another and the next he knows the thought will flit through his brain that she is one of the brightest girls he has ever known and he will find himself seeking her again and again, and of course, always in the cause of the one absorbing topic. It is so perfectly natural to grow seri- ous now and then and use a voice low and vibrant that was made for the ex- press purpose of making the blood tingle through the veins of any man not carved out of stone. hgn the subtile witchery of a soft, sweet voice casts a spell that rivals the glow of the hearth and that when the two are combined the man's EII.‘II practically M&S é}‘igaefie c/?/f'\n):/zde ‘? A B a/ge Aoore For well she . mighty her cunning. or’ the ‘ Of course, the girl who dotes on put- tering about with a popper and pan piled high with corn and apples is only another kind of a temptation. She plays the part of a spolled child to per- fection, and unconsclously permits one to see what a simple,. unsophisticated lasste she really is. - Bhe pushes back her chair as a troublesome. .conventionality and sits down on the floor, but she manages to find a spot where the flames will throw fitful shadows on her face, and then when everything is arranged to her complete satisfaction, she devotes her- self to the bursting of the brown ker- nels into the snowy flakes with all the enthusiasm of a youngster, and ' her merry volce and gleeful manner fill the room with good humor and high spirits. Yet with all her pranks and childish in- nocence she never for a single instant permits the faintest trace of flippancy to creep in to undo her deadly work. A fireplace always calls for an abund- ance of greens and this in itself affords * Miladi Wise one of her very best op- portunities and one that she is never slow to seize upon. She comes down bounden duty to take him out for some much needed exercise and out he goes, before the onlookers are quite certain what has happened to them. To be sure, greens, that is, of the right kind and grown especially for decorative purposes, are not to be found on one's back porch, nor yet withing a stone’s throw of the house. The very best one can do takes at least fifteen minutes hard olimbing, an hour or more of resting under a shady tree, and a few seconds quick picking. But somehow or other the time has a queer way of slipping by as though a bit of magic were employed, and when they do get back the merry walters have disappeared over the brow of the hill on horseback. So the day is won with all hands dewn. { Tt is scarcely the wisest thing in the world to take a basket and sally forth after huckleberries, and at the end of four hours put in a sheepish appear- ance and swear by all the saints that there wasn’t a singfe, solitary huckle- berry on the hill. That is too coarse for anything and nobody under the shining sun would be gulible enough to believe that any one in this age and generation didn’t know the difference between, s wee berry and the great banks of green that are so plentiful, even if Miladl did open her eyes with well assumed wonder and protest with growing and righteous in- dignation. And then it follows as a natural con- armed sequence that these self same greens to protect her with | any one Pos- sibly volunteer, she whirls about and laughingly calls one chap a lazy fellow, #nd solemnly declares that it i3 her % > , & heap g girls fairly revel in lording it over a oS5 v 70 SEzrmy WO PZAAKE TV CANDSY . And isn't it queer hdw much helping up and helping down that lddder is positively necessary, and how thought- ful and kind it is for the fellow on the substantial hearth to keep one hand busy holding the lady fair so that there might be no danger of her falling, handing up branches with the other one, and taking desperate chances of having the hammer hit him squarely on the head every minute? And in the midst of all this, he actually finds time to send up a perfect volley of speech- less messages and actually counts him- self the luckiest fellow in all Christen- dom. But then he is rewarded, so what's the difference? So far as he is con- cerned he is perfactly blissful, and, be it sald to his credit, such an idea never entered his head, but after hav- ing gone so far, Miladl wants to come in at the finish with flying colors and she nonchalantly unfolds another little scheme that she has kept carefully hid- den up her sleeve. Nearly every man under the heavens prides himself on being a fine cook and openly boasts that he can make bet- ter coffee than any other fellow that ever was born. 8o she tickles his vanity and suggests that he take » W . Do/ FORGET IR WO s 7R R VER bl .9 turn at it, but at the same time she tzkes precious good care to peep into the larger and see that it is well filled ~ith dainties that might prove more fempting and more appetizing. She does the measuring, laughing all the while and asking his advice, and then he is permitted the questionable pleasure of doing all the stirring and watching to see that the pot doesn’t boil over. And sometimes, if she is overly bold, she even goes so far as to sit back and watch the proceedings with all the indulgence of a mother, even going 3o far as to et him bring his wonderful concoctions to a wee table that she has prepared under his ad- miring eyes. There is something tremendously fas- cinating and cozy about sitting down to a table set for a sufficient two and to have the face that smiles over the coffee urn the one that haunts your fancy both early and late. Somehow it seems to have the faculty of setting the mind to work, and making the bachelor lorn get &~ bee in his bonnet, the very worst kind of & way to have a home of his own and to repeat the same preformance three times a day. And when that bee is once lodged firmly it is just about the most obstin- ate thing on earth to loose. There is no casting It aside or. throwing it away for it bobs up serenely with renewed vigor until the only thing that is left to do is to humor it to have any peace of mind, and then, the fireside girl's vietory is complete. o+ -+ REFORM of a REFORMER Fable for the Foolish (Copyright, 1903, by Albert Britt.) R. ASPINWALL GOLDBONDS ‘was one of the best citi- zens of the town; he admitted it himself.’ From his youth—up or down—he had la- bored unceasingly to construet an air-tight reputation and a bank account that would shed water, and, so far as any one could discover, he had met with great success. He was good for a large touch to any deserving charity that published the names of its unselfish benefactors in the newspapers and he was the founder of the Goldbonds Hos- pital for the Prevention of Privacy to the Poor. In order that there might not be any mistake about it he had his name carved on the front in letters that loomed up after the manner of a Dutch man-of-war in a fog. Mr. Gold- men’s businesses; when there was a the sanctity of vested Interests and the necessity of leaving the conduct of great enterprises to the men to whom Morgan had intrusted it. Being so public-spirited and constant in all good works that the newspapers ‘were likely to hear about, it was natu- ral that he should sooner or later turn his attention to the conduct of the af- fairs of the city which he favored with his residence. 'When he raised his eyes from the gliding tic tape one day to consider the condition of the politics of the city he was shocked at the sight that met his gaze.- Men were actually making money out of the city; and men, too, who were being pald to ad- minister the affairs of their offices for the good of the people. Shocking! Mr. Goldbonds inquired of the atmosphere in his vicinity if he were right in his idea that this was a free country. No one could tell him positively, but a few hazarded the opinion that it was so considered, or had been at one time. The farther Mr. ooked the nts Mr. Goldbonds an- tion of redeeming the clutch of evil and giving , for ‘ciljation of labor and capital, in other it over to the care of men who were endowed by nature and the social regis- jece of masculinity and watching strike in one of the plants that he was ter with the ablility to look after other interested in he would tall big about people’s business better than they could T FOUZ. . manage thelr own. au glowing terms he described the superlative polit qualities of the man whom his party bad nominated for Mayor—a man, as he feelingly remarked, who had not only won all the prizes oifered for Greek composition while he was in col- lege, but had also given the city one of the best Sunday schools that it had ever seen. He promised were elected, that no shameful sight be se dren of tender years to four flights of stairs th with the battered old famil grasping real estate agents should be compelled to furnish a nice n with each and every lease and a waiter should be installed in all tenement houses. In eloquent words Mr. Goldbonds d clared: “The' eyes of thé world an of Dr. Parkhurst are upon us and com- mon prudence demands that we good.” He was also of the opinion that democratic government was on trial and unless the city showed its ability to rid itself of corruption i high places it was all up with the ment aforesaid. Of course, der racy has been on trial a good many times in the course of its life and has usually managed to secure another hearing on appeal or a certificate of reasonable doubt, but Mr. Goldbonds was compaigning and we must not be too critical. If all men were compel to stick close to the campaign- orations e fewer speeches and much less f the unregenerate By a strang £ fortune r whor friend Goldb: L pushed into th tight a squeeze ths buttons off his ov through. But freedom screamed or twice to show t was still doing bus atand. Mr. Goldbo: mitted that he was the pr of the victory and that if i for his strenuous efforts in good government the poor old aforesald would have been on the r with the grafters sitting on his w bone. Incidentally, he managed to a trust . or two of doubtful c through the lines under cover of t smoke’of the final guns of the said g having been fired afterss were down and civic virtue sat enthroned with i adjusted the proper .amgle and a fountain d its ear to beg tle blew. For N nt merry as the bel ster of an =all-nigh rose and then set, a average citizen—n his ten hot work for did pay and paid his taxes and @ imminent deadly automot much as before. But it happe in the hurry of the campaign Mr. Ge bonds had allowed one or two men slip into impertant offices whose re ords he had not had time to inspect as carefully as he should have liked Now, some of these men had very pe- culiar ideas about s W they owed to the city. To Mr. Gol bonds’ surprise and horror they w actually of the opinion t paid $10,000 a year In owned only $25,000 was as the stern eye of the law as able criminal who ran a policy sh in the back room of a sometimes made as m week. This was a condit that he had not bargained for, and he was a good judge of bargains, too. These bigoted individuals had the au- dacity to suggest that the street car company, which had for years been al- lowing the city to maintain streets along its right of way, and had ne crammed more than twice as man people into its cars as they were in- tended to hold, should pay back taxes on their franchises and take their tracks off the city property or bmit to the degrading alternative of a law- suit. Also they announced that the wholesale merchants sh lowed to add to thef by utilizing the side purposes; and this, In that the merchants were w the public walk on the they didn’t tip any of the boxes over Mr. Goldbonds called on the Ma fn hot haste and demanded to k what he meant by infringing on the erties of the men who had-shed coats and their coin to seeur tion. That ungrateful creature < him a cutting look and the c formation that the laws were r all alike, without regard to or size of campaign cont vain did Mr. Goldbonds r L the Mayor that he was elect a out the laws against gan ol - other unincorporated ent 1 that it was not inten t business men and faith Pers should be made way of doing busine: was wasted, and wildly crying out t had been done to of its friends, a despotism and had returned. the bird of freed which reference has beer had recelyed a joit from be long in recovering. - Nothing could be done with the durate officers who sat In places power, but when the next c rolled round Mr. Goldbonds c distinctly discerned sitting on other side of the house, mnd his cle were working overtime malling ca paign contributions to the chief corr tionist. The other fellows mjzht grafters, but he knew how to talk 1 them. The result was that the reform candidates for re-electionr were bu so deep that nothing less than a ste dredge could find even the fain traces of them. If you ask Mr. Gol bonds about it he will probably tell you “that he has learned that while politics may make strange bedfellows. “the man who understands his business can get a berth all to himself if he has the price. He has also learned that the way of reform is often hard-—on the re- former, if he happens to be Interested in some other business at the same time. the duti A