The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 14, 1904, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL THURSD. Household Economy. BY DORA MAY MORRELL. (Copyright, 1904, by Joseph B. Bowles.) So far as can be inferred from what $s kpown of humankind in former | ages, and of primitive peoples to-day, there were no business methods either to men's or women's work in the begin- ning nor for many centuries afterward. | The division of labor seemed to be that man should bring in the raw materiai when necessity called and woman should adapt it as besi she could to the service of the family. For many generations mankind simply lived from day to day, but as experience and need taught man he gradually grew to think of a possible to-morrow and to make | to-day serve by its abundance the to- morrow wherein he should be unable to | be a producer. From this appreciation of the demands of the future and from desire to meet them fittingly has| come the evolution of the modern busi- ness man, keen to make every dollar count and every step tell. Has woman made like evolution in her half of the partnership? Has she been alert to adopt mew methods -to | simplify her work or to produce the finished result with less cost? Though there are more exceptions to the rule| at the present time than ever before, | it still remains the law of custom, as | at the beginning for the man to pro- vide the material or its equivalent and | for woman to use it as best she may for the welfare of the family—and so | it must remain. Does woman know how | to use what she has to the best ad- vantage? Running a house, even of the hum- blest kind, admits of as much business | sense and as much system as is do-l manded for the increase of the mer- chant’s trade. That homes are kepf | witheut the use of such mental power does not change the propogition. There are curbstone meérchants - whe’ carry their stock in trade in a jray’about their necks as well as there are mer- chant princes, and more of them. The carrying on of a house with the many divieions of labor arising from it may well be likened to the carrying on of a large store, and woman may | study the methods jn the one and find | herself benefited thereby in the other. | She has a certain -imcome (on, which | she can depend and which she wants | to stretch to its full capacity. It makes | no @difference in this, so far as the fact goes, whether she has a fixed allowance of so much a week or whether she buys as she needs. A certain definite amount will de necessary to provide the fuel, lights, clothing and food during the year, likewise a certain amount must | be provided for repairs, breakages, new supplies in furniture, and for labor. How many women know what propor- tion of the sum aliowed them by the men of the family goes to these various calls? Yet every business man has like expenses figured to a fine point, and s0 he knows whether he is conducting his store or factory on the best basis or not. He knows what it costs him to produce an article, and whether he can more profitably buy its parts already made or manufacture them himself. How is it with women? Can they tell whether it is cheaper to buy bread ready baked or to make it themselves, though this is an article manufactured by women from time immemorial and used in all households. How many ‘women know how many loaves of bread should be made from a barrel of flour? Probably not one in a hundred, and so she does not know from what brand she gets the most for her money. How many women know what is the cheapest fuel to be used in the home for cooking and heating? Upon the. ecost of fuel often depends the cnswer to the question whether to r:ake for one’s self or to buy ready mad-. It may be a real economy for the woman living in a flat £ad using gas or electricity for her kitchen range to buy her bread and all foods requiring long cooking, while it would be an extrav: ~ance for her sister to do the same, since Ler range burns coal«all day for heating the room quite as much as for cooking. These may seem small shings to a woman, but it is on the attention given to trifies that prosperity rests in the home, and there is much more waste in many a kitchen than would be toler- ated Ly the head of a large concern. In business men eagerly avail themselves of the saving of half-cents, but in the home apparently unthriftiness too often is regarded as a virtue akin to & merosay, or the hous. ife has too little . terest in her “usiness to find small leaks and stop them. She forgets that a rhip may sink becaus. of a very small leak. She does not ‘‘dignify her « dce” so that she has pride in her share of ‘he enferprise. Even if this is not always true she proceed. by hap- zard, because that is thc way her mother before her did, and she has never tried to find any better methods. s - One of the first things for the busi- ness-like housekeeper to do is to take an inventory of the household proper- ties and their condition with cate. It is considerable work to do this at first, but very little to keep it up to date desirable, since from these one ki.c s how long service was received and whether napkins and other lizens have been as profitable as some other weav wogld be. The inventory n somewhat after this strie: | 1, 1908, twelve dinner napkins, damask, embroidered, new. Under that, twelve medium napkins, plain, partly worn, and so on through the list. An- - W ' INSTRUCTIVESTUDIE-S | areth is built, being of that age and | | have formerly formed the shore line, + other date line should be left at the right for time of usefulness ended. Be- sides the advantage of knowing how long one’s goods have lasted there is also the satisfaction of knowing at any time what one has and 'in what condi- tion, and in cases of loss by fire such inventory has proved the best basis for adjusting claims. Such jinventories often have to be made when estates are settled. No one who has ever had such a record of her possessions Wwill care again to be without it. One's memory is most unreliable when one cepends upon it for information of the kind con- tairded in an inventory. The Story of - Limestone. BY G. FREDERICK WRIGHT, A. M., LL. D. Author_of *“The Ice Age in North America,” “Man and the Glacial Period,’’ etc. Copyright, 1904, by Joseph B. Bowles. One of Professor Huxley’'s most in- teresting lectures was entitled “On a Piece of Chalk.” Chalk is a species of limestone made up mostly of the| shells of minute organisms, which ap- pear to good advantage only under the microscope. The northern portion of France and the southern shores of Eng- land are wholly made up-of chalk cliffs, which present a very striking appear- ance—the old name for England, Al- bion, being derived from a word signi- fying this white appearance. It is found | that in the deep sea dredgings these | minute organisms which constitute the! chalk formation are still accumulating, though at a very slow rate. Chalk is therefore supposed to be a deep sea | formation. | Rocks of corresponding age in other | portions of the world are known as cre- ) taceous, the word being derived from | the Latin word creta, signifying chalk. These formations occupy_a wide belt | in the States west of the Missouri Riv- er, extending from Texas into British | America, but there is not very much true chalk such as we are familiar with | in the schoolroom in this area. The rocks, however, are made up of a spe- | cies of shelis, which are very beautiful | and preserve still their iridescent color. Ancther interesting locality where | chalk is found is over the hills of Pal- estine—Mount Olivet and many of the | summits of mountains farther south in | Palestine, and the hill on which Naz- | consisting, in considerable part, of pure | chalk. | The chalk formations lie in about the | middle of the geological horizon.and are several million years old. Coming down to our own time, we| find the process of limestone formation | still going'on with® great rapidity in certain localities. The peninsula of Florida illystrates this in the most striking measure. Sea shells are 80| abundant all alogg the east coast of | ‘Florida that they are washed upon the | shore in windrows, forming indeed the | entire shore line, -here as one pro- | ceeds to the interior of the State he finds successive windrows of shells that showing how the land has grown by these slow increments. These shells as they are rolled by the water are broken | up and much of them ground into fine | powder, when they, all together, be- come cemented into a loose rock. The | buildings of that region—especially the old fort at St. Augustine—are con- structed of this rock, known as co- quina. In striking contrast with the older limestone rocks, this on the coast of Florida is but slightly cemented, and | forms a mass that would not endure the | pressure which rests upon the tnundn-; tions of very tall buildings. But on going to the other end of the geological scale, we find in the older formations | limestones originally formed in the | same way with those in Florida, but now compacted into most solid blocks, having been, as the geologists say, “metamorphosed” through long subjec- tion to heat and pressure. Still in many of these very old limestone rock forms of the shells of which they are com- posed are perfectly preserved, and the age of the rock is determined by the| character of these shells, the earlier rocks having been produced by the more primitive forms of life. Among the most interesting limestone strata of the earlier ages are the cor- niferous and the Trenton limestone, which appear in special development in the islands of the western part of Lake Erie, and in an area about Cin- cinnati, though the name was derived from Trenton, N. Y., where the rocks were first carefully studied. The cor- niferous and Trenton limestones are favorites everywhere for burning lime, while the solid blocks make the most substantial building material. The great locks at the Soo were built of corniferous limestone from Kelley Is- land in Lake Erie, like Solomdn’s tem- ple, every stoné being fashioned at the quarry and carried directly to its place in the great structure, many hundréd miles away. . This limestone is also sought for very widely for the flux in smelting iron, its freedom from impurities giving it spe- cial value. The extent of these deposits over the United States is very surprising. While they appear at the surface at compara- tively few places, they are penetrated by deep drill holes almost everywhere in 'the Mississippi basin, and in the Hudson River and Mohawk valleys. From what we have already said of the origin of chalk, and of the penin- gula of Florida, it is easy to see that this extensive limestone stratum over the Mississippi Vailey jmplies in early geological ages an equally extensive ex- panse of ocean, which was slowiy fill- ing up with the sediment in some places, but with sea shells in others. Brain Power and Life. The question is asked by Science Sift- ings, which says that on a superficial examination much could, no doubt, be adduced in support of the contention that thinkers, as a rule, live long; or, to put the proposition. into more gen- eral terms, exercise of the mind tends to longevity. Herbert Spencer has died THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor + « « « + « « - . . Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager Publication Oflw(@ iieeeiessesee...Third and Market Streets, S. F. N R R S i N R T SOCIALISM IN THE PULPIT. THURSDAY NE Oakland clergyman recently preached upon the effect of excessive organization, in labor and O finance, and made an able plea for the féstering of individual qualities of self-respect, seli-confidence and independence, and for enforcement of the laws which protect personal rights. Now another Oakland clergy- man has ably defended organization and combination, and has expressed the hope that it will extend to the re- ligious world and induce many of the separated sects to kiss and make up and march on in step. He stated part of the programme of socialism by saying: “There must come an insistence upon social justice and a reorgan- ization of the industrial structure until every active and right meaning life shall have its place at the table of plenty. Selfishness, as a social poiicy, is doomed.” This is the pessimistic view of present conditions pre- sented by the socialist propaganda, and uttered “by Laurence Gronlund and Morrison I. Swift. It is an im-| peachment of the existing industrial and social scheme, as inimical to the welfare of man. It omits the personal equation entirely. It is the antithesis of Dr. Jordan’s declaration that government, civil institutions and soci- ety can only guarantee equality of opportunity, while no conceivable system can guarantee equality of achieve- ment. The active and well meaning life is not sufficient. Added thereto must be the quality of good judgment, without which the avails of well meaning activity are not made permanently useful. . Hoping not to be misunderstood, we affirm that at that point what is usually called selfishness be- comes the conservator of the gains and benefits of well- meant activity. That kind of selfishness is entrenched in the scriptural saying that “he who provideth not for his own house is worse than the heathen.” The table of plenty which is the vision of socialism carries with it de- pendence upon collective and not individual provision. It has been worked into the socialistic schemes of the Australian colonies and New Zealand, and there is being revealed as an influence in the decay of individual qual- ities of thrift and foresight. Any artificial plan which substitutes collective depend- ence for individual independence takes out of man his capacity for entire self-support. The law is universal and applies to man and bird and beast. The bird of boldest wing, that has sought its subsistence by its power of wing and beak and claw, if fed and pampered without its own exertion finally loses its initiative and becomes a helpless thing. The swift trout of the moun- | tain stream that leaps, like a dagger of silver, into the air for the insect prey which is its food, if kept in a pond and fed on raw liver becomes a sluggish and de- pendent creature. The advancement and civilization of man have been led by the individuals whe had the greatest individual power over_the resources of nature, and used it to their own advantage. This excited the emulation of their fel- lows to go and do likewise; but socialism would have de- manded that the leader divide the avails of his enterprise ‘cqually with those who had not put forth exertion to imitate him, and progress and ciyilization would have begn arrested right there, and would have ceased. & The preacher declared that the form of selfishness we are considering is against the command of the founder of Christianity. This we doubt. If every industrious man adopt the policy of dividing with his neighbor every night the gains of his day’s labor, will he have any indus- trious neighbors? But if he, by his gains, increase the comforts of his own house and the plenty of his own table and the warmth of his own hearth, will he not be teaching his neighbors that they can get these things which he has by earning them as he does? Now, who is doing the most good in the world, the man who de- prives himself and makes others thriftless, by dividing with them, or the man who uses his own for himseli and teaches thrift by example? We do not cast out the obligation to care foy those who are disinherited of fortune, who with equality of opportunity have been incapable of equality of achieve- ment. But before we make their presence in the problem the reason for destroying our industrial and social structure, let us inquire into the cause of their condition. Have they gained by industry and lost by deceit of oth- ers? Their ifdgment was bad; it misled them into spec- ulative ventures, relying on promises of the crafty, to increase their possessions. No reorganization of society can artificially create soundness of judgment, or elimi- nate the speculative instinct, or destroy the craft of the tempter. 5 Are they who have not the table of plenty the victims of the incidents of mortality, of weakness and accident? 1f so, they are the defective children of the family of man, and as such in the present social order they are the heirs of our affection and the free sharers of our plenty. It is one of the fine elements of humanity that a defec- tive member of a family enjoys the richest parental and | {raternal love and care. The strong brother and sister 'country again at a time when in Great Britain itself, the ! the workingmen of the kingdom would be worse off un- the recent overwhelming defeat of Tom Johnson in Ohio leaves them without a successful leader of any reputa- tion whatever. The leadership of Olney means of course a tariff cam- paign. We shall have to fight over again the obstinate free-traders who persistently desire to “smash tariffs,” no matter how beneficial may be their effects upon the country, or what degree of prosperity is enjoyed by all | classes of workingmen under their operation. It will be somewhat curious to have a fight for free trade in this home of Cobdenism, the common sense of the people is awakening to an understanding of the folly of the dogma, and a fight is even now going on for the estab- lishment of a protective system. In the course of the tariff fight in Great Britain many things are being said that are of value to us, and it will be well to heed them now before the excitements of the approaching campaign distort the public mind into a condition of such partisanship that comparatively few voters will be able to impartially weigh the arguments of the opposing parties.” The free-traders in Great ! Britain call themselves “Free Fooders,” and assert that der protection than under the present system. They also assert that many millions of the British people are now so near the verge of starvation that the lightest tax that could be placed on imported foodstuffs would be felt by them as the most distressful of burdens. Such statements of course carry their own answer with them, for it is self-evident that if free trade has brought so large a percentage of the British people to the verge of starvation it is high time to make a change. However, the protectionists have not relied wholly upon that obvious truth to refute the argument of the opposi- tion. They have sought information from Charles Booth, who certainly knows as much about the condition of workers ‘of the great cities of England as any man living, and they have found in him a staunch advocate of protection, on the ground that even if it should some- | what increase the cost of food, it would nevertheless | help the’ masses by providing them with better wages | with which to buy food. : In his address at Leeds Chaiberlain quoted Booth as | saying: “You ask for my answer to the question—will ! the fiscal proposals you have laid before the country add to the cost of living of the poorest of the population? My reply is that I do not think they would do so at all. | But if to some extent they should have that result, it would not affect my opinion of the merits of your pro- posals, since the well being of the poorer classes, not less than that of the more regularly employed,and well- | serving. a life sentence to-do, depends much more on the general conditions of | prosperity and the fluctuations of employment than on | changes in the levelsof prices; and your propesals, if | carried out with reasonable prudence, seem to me likely to add to national and imperial prosperity.” It is along such lines the movement toward protection is advancing in Great Britain, while the unteachable | tariff smashers in the Democratic councils are preparing | a retrograde movement toward free trade in this coun- | try. The situation is interesting and merits the careful | study of the American people, for it is likely to develop | the dominant issue of the coming Presidential cam- | paign. | | German newspapers, of anti-American tendency, are | deriding their Government and abusing us because we | have not accepted with what they deem becoming alac- rity the statue of Frederick the Great given to the United | States by Emperor William. It is in such incidents | as this that-our experience with yellow journalism | teaches us to be patient with our misguided friends. We know that the yellow pest has invaded their dominion as well as ours and we understand. B has been sent to The CaH of a warping from Cape Colony against the migration to South Africa of any persons who are not amply provided with means for | maintaining themselves when they arrive. The warning comes as a confirmation of the reports of the labor trou- bles of the country, and should be carefully heeded by all who have had any thought of leaving their present homes in the vague hope of profiting by great opportu- nities that are expected to arise in the development of South Africa in the immediate future, In his notice the Consul General says: “The govern- ment of Cape Colony desire, owing to the present con- dition of trade in the colony and throughout South Africa, that immediate steps should be taken to discour- age the going to South Africa of persons without ample means, or prospects of immediate employment. Num- bers of skilled artisans and others have been thrown out of work, and fresh arrivals accentuate the difficulties of the labor market.” A WORD OF WARNING. Y the British Consul General in this city, notice count it no sacrifice to watch and care for the pitiful weakling. Society in the same sense is the father and mother, the sister and brother of the mental or physical weakling and of the victim of misfortune. What is done for them is not charity at all. It is a duty enforced by all that en- nobles those who take it upon them. No reorganiza- tion of industry and society can increase or diminish the affluence of this sweet fountain of humanity. If judgment cannot be given to all in the use of equal op- | portunity, and if pity's fountain will get no access of flow and force by reorganizing industry and society, why should they be reorganized? The war spirit is pulsating once more through the Balkans and Macedonian mischief-makers are seeking the assistance of foreigners to aid them in gaining their independence of Turkey. The Macedonians come with unclean hands to ask assistance of the world. However evil their dependence may be, they have shown in their diversified outlawry that they can exercise no responsi- It appears the boom in the way of South African devel- opment that was expected to follow British exploitation of the country has not come. The country is rich in many ways, but it will be.a long time before it will be a “white man’s cauntry” so far as workingmen are con- cerned. It is an act of genuine humanity on the part of the Cape government to give this warning in time to prevent many adventurous workers from making a blunder that would cost them dear, and the notice de- serves general circulation by the press of the Pacific Coast, for we have here a large number of men of the pioneer type who, from an instinctive longing for the ex- ploiting of new lands, might go to South Africa and there in a short time find themselves friendless and penniless in a land where there is no chance for employ- ment at living wages, and where even at the best the white man can hardly compete with native labor. The Supervisors have-instituted proceedings which are designed to reform conditions in reference to local theaters and to insure to the public absolute protection bility that would not be fearful to strangers among them. been received by the conservative wing of the A TARIFF CAMPAIGN. HE favor with which the candidacy of Olney has in s - eighty-fourth year, . Darwin reached his seventy- his eighty-fou ve lived several years longer, Huxley seventy he died, seventy-seventh, Newton lived to be eighty-five, and Lord Kelvin is still vigorous in research in his eightieth. Sir George | Carlyle his| firm the expectation that he will receive the nomination Iv Democratic ‘party, and the animosity with which it has been assailed by the socialistic wing, go far to con- of his party, and lead the Democratic campaign this fall. The Bryanites and their successors will of course do what was e in | they can to defeat him, but at present they have little his_eighty-ninth year, Disraeli in his| power beyond that of making @ great nois: for they have been utterly discredited wheréver eh"hvnm up | neither a ticket in a State election for the last four years, and | portion against fire or the dread disaster of panic. In this vitally important matter the public should be an eager, enthusiastic, active co-operator. It should withdraw its patronage from any theater that seems even to be un- safe. No amusement that may be conceived can com- pensate for a repetition of the Chicago horror. William Jennings Bryan says that the: dignity, pres- tige and prospects of the United States demand that we erect, maintain and own in the various capitals of the world legation buildings commensurate with our standing in the family of nations. It might be wise, too, in connection with this excellent suggestion, to provide ways and means to secure representatives who are out of place in such buildings nor out of pro- | upon him forever. The Lucky Card. Ten years ago the Addie Gilmore murder case, with its mystery of the woman's decapitated head found at Lime Point and the recovery of the re- maining portions of the body in Oak- land Creek, gave the police detectives and the metropolitan newspaper men weeks of incessant labor. To the re- porters the searching for the many ends to the story was work that called for severest taxing of mental ability and physical exertion. At one stage of the hunt a,certain young medical student was the object of pursuit. His testimony was the all- important missing® link, for it carried the murdered woman straight to the house out of which she never ap- peared alive. The detectives had been particularly anxious to hold this evi- dence from the public. One forenoon the student's name and his relation to the mystery leaked out at police headquarters. In an instant half a dozen newspaper men were out in hot chase. One of them found the young man at his offiCe. Then commenced a siege, The inter- viewed student refused point blank. The interviewer pleaded, cajoled, coax- ed, begged and threatened. For an hour the men’s wits measured forces and at-last the student succumbed, cast aside police fhjunction, and told his story. It was the great chapter in the mystery from a newspaper point of view. The story was golden to the successful reporter. After it was all over the reporter one day asked the student why he sur- rendered the story. “You were toying with one of my professional cards,” explained the voung man, “and I thought that it had | been given to you by Detective Bohen. I thought, too, that he must have sent you to me after all and that it would be all right.” 7 The reporter remembered the card. He had picked it up from a table in the waiting-room of the student’s of- fice to be sure that he would have the name correctly. During the interview the reporter did nervously twist the pasteboard. To this day he has the little bit of cardboard, the memento of a stern chase that ended in a victory. A Murderer’'s Heart. Murderer who is. now in Folsom prison, found it one of his greatest griefs that h» could not take his rats to the penitentiary with him. For the sum of $3 he had in cold Portalla, | blood waylaid a man on Clay street in the dark of the night, bent his victim's head over his knee and cut his throat from ear to ear. Then he had thrown the knife away and sat him down to a hearty supper in a Broadway sailors’ retr€at when the sudden arm of the law reached out and seized him. While this stoical murderer was confined in the county jail, pending the hearing of an appeal to his con- viction it happened one day that his cell companion killed a large rat which had made her way out of a hole in the flooring. Portalla whittled away the edges of the hole with the edge of an old can and there, snug- gled in a pile of chewed newspapers he discovered four tiny, motherless mites. Then began the remarkable affection of this brutal murderer for these squeaking bits of animals. Day by day Portalla nourished them with scraps saved from his own food. At night he would keep them warm by stowing them away next his own body. As they grew older the rats came to make this friend their only playmate; hours at a time they would spend running in and out of the folds of the man's clothing, he looking on meanwhile with a face which was | alimost gentle. At last it came time for him to go where the prison doors would close The rats went with him in a little hand satchel, but at the door of the prison they, like all the rest of his worldly possessions, were taken from him and consigned to the tender mercies of Warden Aull's ter- rier. / Keen Memory. The remarkable gift possessed by Detective Sergeant Bainbridge, head of the identification bureau of the Po- lice Department, of remembering faces, no matter what period of time has elapsed, is a source of wonder to those who have occasion to see it il- lustrated. Notwithstanding the thou- sands of criminals who have come un- der his observation he rarely if ever is at fault. He was walking along Kearny street on New Year's day and passed a man near the corner of Sacramento street. It struck him that the man was an ex-convict and he turned back, touch- ed the man on the shoulder and said: “Where have you been for all these years?” The man looked at him and said nochalantly: “I guess you've ' made a mistake; I don't know you.” “Oh yes you do,” replied Bain- bridge. “You have done time'under the names of T >bertson and Langley. The last time I saw you was in 187§, when you were sent to San Quentin.” The man tried to carry out his bluff, but finally admitted His identity. After serving his sentence which Bain- bridge referred to he had committed a felony in Nevada and had been sen- tenced to serve fourteen years. He told Bainbridge he was trying to lead an honest life, but the old sleuth shook his head and remarked as he left him that he would soon see him in custody £~=in if he remained in the city. Fighting an Octopus. That vampire of the ocean, the oc- that, and I laughed. But this was to be my last laugh for a lom. time, for just as I had swum Back to the boat and laid my handy on, the upturned keel I felt myself seized around the legs half-way below the knees—seized with such strength and suddenness and puiled down with such tremendous force that the boat was jerked clean over, and came down on the top of my head. Like lightning came the truth. I was in the arms of a devil-fish. I knew that the water swarmed with the decdly octopus. I knew " that one had got me. There was no mistaking the grasp. Every ome ‘the devil-fish's eight powerful arms closes upon his prey, and he pulls dow~ down, until he drags it to the bottom. ‘With a desperate kick I freed myself from the creature below me. Seizing the boat, I had my arm under one of the thwarts when the cevil-fish caught me again. I feit his grasp tighten. The pain was excruciating. With every movement that * made my flesh was lacerated. [ began to grow weak from loss of blood. But ‘I never relaxed my hold on the boat. The agony must have lasted for only a few minutes in reality, but it seemed an eternity before I felt the clutch on my legs loosen. I kicked with all my strength, struggled, twirled, and then felt myself free. I think my :olid boots must have injured the arms of the oc- topus and compelled him to let go. It was not until an hour and a half later that my friends noticed that my boat was motionless on the water and came out to see what was the matt-r. They found me more dead than alive. The skin was nearly all gone from my feet to my knees, and above that it re- mained for weeks as black as a man's hat. For two months afterward I lived only on milk. Altogether 1 was laid up for seven months as the result of my encounter.— Youths’ Companion. Calve at Home. In the Delineator for February Percy Mitehell writes interestingly of the home life of Calve, who is per- haps the most interesting personal- ity among the faverites of grand opera. The Calve of Paris and the other great cities where the ‘singer is heard is a different being from the Calve of Cabrieres, her home in Southern France: There, Mr. Mitchell telis—and the Hlustrations confirm his words—the great prima donna lives the life for which nature intended her, a free life in the open air. She rises at dawn and goes to bed at sunset. She walks for miles over the country, fishes, shoots, lends a hand in the har- vest, takes an interest in gardening. rides and even automobiles. But there is another and more serious side to her summer sojourning at Cabrieres. She maintains there a sanatorium, or home for young girls in ill-health, and 8 a great power for good throughout the region. Needless to say, the name of Calve is revered there even more than in thé outer world. Poor Austin. A London paper takes the following sharp rap at Austin, the Poet Laureate of England. Says the satirist: “A gentleman, who modestly de- seribes himself as Mr. » has written some remarkable verses on ‘Her Majesty the Queen's Bedroom at Sandringham in Flames.' We are struck by some of the meost felicitous rhymes that we remember to have seen. The third verse begins: Miss Knollys by the smoke a) To the Queen’s bed-chamber m—m “The mispronunciation of the lady's name is a mere trifle! Again: A minute scarcely did elapse Before the celling down did crash. “There are many other similar beau- ties in this poem, the whole of which Laureate sent out his poem yet 2" . Christian Japanese. i H i -3 H Is §b§ R i 3 i i i of