The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 27, 1903, Page 15

H, my preclous dumplings, I am sure you'd like to know About the strange and funny Gourds and how they do and grow. It is said they are the oddest of the Kingdom’s won- drous creatures, could see their And I'm sure you'd smile if you funny forms and features. Some are tall and lean and straight and some are small and squatty, And some of them are smooth and sleck and some are rather knotty. Wt at home they dwell in vines, and they are earnest workers, And ¥ you could see them climb a tree you'd know - they are not shirkers. The greatest climber of them all is Luffa, who's been known To season thirty feet—and of course he is no drone. L greatest mission is to serve in kitchens clean As a h cloth or a scrub brush, and he works with happy mien, Little Japanese Nest Egg Gourd is in his glory when He snoozes snugly in the nest of some old setting hen. 0ld Dipper Gourd is useful when tin eups are not handy, And 'way down South where the Colonels are he associates with particularly in the Western cbuntry, have had such advantages. This, however, is probably accidental. A Continued From Page 11. reasonable degree of proficiency I - - —— would consider absolutely necessary &he Toil for Millions. one's t If, all to successful management of a busi- be not inherent they ness, and would consider that the must be cultlvated. highest education possible is desirable of qualifications, but the thorough success in em. " to fit a young man for afiy vocation in life.” “You have the reputation, Senator, of doing a great deal of philanthropic work. quietly. What in your opinion constitutes a philanthropist?” “I do not care to make any public statement as to what I may choose to do in the way of philanthropic work. Unobtrusiveness, to my 'mind, lends one of the greatest charms to such work.” “It has been stated, without contra- diction, that you contribute liberally to educational work. Will you state in a general way your method of conducting this feature of your busi- ness, and what line of educational work appeals to you most and the ed- ucation of which sex?” “I answer this question by applying my remarks to your previous ques- f experience you college career is of man who intends ss life? The question left out of the argu- you employ a large number capacity, what ion as to the lege men to busi- with others?” I bility of col compared C he was silent. It was a mat- which he did not care to discuss ter and he replied to the question briefly: “I do not believe that a college edu- is necessary to qualify a man business career. I it will be found that few brilliant business men, cation for a s think th of the most tion. - But I will say, however, that I do not think that the highest re- sults are to be obtained by the addi- tional endowment of already rich col- leges and universities. It is all well enough, perhaps, in the first organi- zation of these institutions, I find that a direct application of aid to enable young people—particularly girls without means—to prepare themselves for the unequal struggle in life is fruitful in graiifying results.” The Senator, in-spsaking of his lovs for Montana, continued: g “When a mere child in my native State, Pennsylvania, I was first in- spired with a love of adventure and a desire to go to the wild West by hear- ing my father read the adventures of Lewis and Clark, also a description of the gold discoveries ia California. This invested that far off country with a halo of romance in my mind that I never wished to obliterate, and I em- braced the earliest opportunity to make my way to the frontier, where I have passed over. forty years of my life. I love the grand old “Rocky Mountains and I leve my own State, Montana, “having co'ntqlhutegl my e humble erforts since its first organiza- tion after my arrival upon its soil to build up a great commonwealth and one of the proudest of this great na- tion.” “What do you think of New York, Senator? You have traveled exten- sively.” “New York possesses advantages for an American above gll other cities In the world. I like it. When the ‘streets are improved and excava- ting is no longer necessary the streets will be permanently fashioned and New York will be something pretty to look upon.” Senator Clark has what is doubt- less the most complete and rich- est collection of pictures and tapes- tries owned by any individual. It is his one fad. He has paid as high as $75,000 for a picture. Sixty-four are stored in a gallery in Vienna awalting the completion of the Fifth avenue mansion. One Rousgeau, Senator Clark maintains, is that artist’s mas- terplece, and it has been so procldimed by many art critics. The subject in- terests Senator Clark intepsely. He _was anxious to allow the conversation FRANCISCO SUNDAY CALL. \n\un‘p:;-;- * i to run to this subject. keen joy on his countenance as he spoke. “I was born with the innate love of the beautiful in nature and in the arts. Even in childhood I was at- tracted to all kinds of pictorial repre- sentation, and as I grew older I often gazed with delight and fascination up- on beautiful landscapes in the pictur- esque region of Western Pennsylvania where I was born, I read books re- lating to art, but had little opportu- ‘nity to inspect any paintings of a high order until my first visit to New York and Boston in 1866. Ten years later, at the Centennial at Phil- adelphia, I spent many hours of my time in the art exhibits. In 1889 I commenced my annual visits to Eu- and suitable galleries wherein I may rope, and it was there, in the great galleries of England, France, Ger- many, Belgium, Spain, Italy and Hol- iand, that T acquired a distinctive per- ceptien and correct notions and taste in painting, sculpture, architecture ‘and other beautiful arts. It was pot, however, until about sixteen years ago that I began to make a gollection. QL = (i il One of the beautles of the lot imparts a fragrance sweet When nestling in the pocket when you go upon the street. It’s gaudy in its colors gay, and its name is long to dwell on, For it goes about as fair Queen Anne’s Sweet-Scented Pocket Melon, Old Bottle Gourd is useful, and strong and stanch withal, And he does not hurt or break himself whene’er he gets a fall. Hercules Gourd is khown to all as the giant of the lot, For he stands a foot in his stocking feet, and he wears the stripe and spot. Young Gourd Orange is one whose jolliest fun is to masquerade about As an orange cf the sort that’s good to eat—plump and rather stout. But the one that has the greatest sport is Pear-Shaped Gourd so sleek, And every housewife meets him, pets, at least one time a week, His workshop is the holey sock, and there, when wifey darns, He dreams in sweetest ecstacy of the fields and trees and farma, There’s a host of gourds petite and small, and ’tis said their greatest joys Are to serve sweet children in their play as unbreakable little toys, Here’s a plan for the little girl who loves to draw and sew, And if it’s follbwed out I think the time won’t go so slow: Have dear Papa get for you a Gourd of the bottle shape, And with colored chalk or pencils, eyes and nose and mouth you make, Then measure the Gourd around the waist, and make a skirt to fit, And I'm sure that if your work’s done well you'll sit and sit and sit And look it the Gourd all dressed in style, with its nose and mouth and eyes, There was Sifice that time I have acquired some beautiful treasures, and with the ex- ception of one instance, where I asked the advice' of Dr. Breirius, of The Hague, concerning the work of some Dutch masters, with which I was then not famillar, I have invariably pur- chased pictures upon myown judgment. During my frequent sojourns in Eu- rope, I acquired some knowledge of several languages, which were helpful to me in many ways, but I claim to have acquired a thorough reading, speaking and writing knowledge of only one foreign language—French. “Do you intend to live in New York, particularly when you have finished bullding the marble palace?” “While it is not my intention to re- linquish my home in Montana, my business requires my presence here several months in the year. I have two daughters living"in New York, and I concluded, in order to provide a home for all members -of my family display my pletures, tapestries, Per- sian carpets and other treasures, that I would erect a house that should be a model of perfection as near as may be of the French Renaissance of the And afford Papa when he returns a glad and fine surprise. Louts XIV period. With this end in view I secured the highest talent in New York and Paris. To carry this out effectively I have been obliged to purchase and equip a granite quarry in Maine and a bronze foundry in New York. “Senator will you talk about the copper industry, its future and pres- ent conditions?” “Now, if you will excuse me on this subject I will thank you. It !s a vast subjeet. I will say this much. Do you know that 1,000,000,000 pounds of copper is taken from the ground an- nually? Of this twenty-five p comes from Montana. est individual owner of coppe in the world. I produce bout bout 000,000 pounds a I don't think there will be od in the near future when ‘copper will be scarce, but one can never tell. There is no great amount of copper stored. The consumption each year about equals the productiom. The world is not getting ahead very much in cop- per. It is a mineral that cannot be overlooked and there is more demand for it every day.”