The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 23, 1904, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1904. THE SAN FRAN CISCOCALL Proprietor JOHN D. SPRECKELS ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO ........... veeo... slanager JOHN McNAUGHT OFFIZE. _THIRD AND MARKET STREETS. SAN FRANCISCO __SEPTEMBER 23, 1904 CLASS REPRESENTATIVES. HE city of San Francisco is entitled to a strong and influcntigl Tfrpresemation in Congress. This city hag much at stalfe in being in the right attitude to the Federal Government. Every session of Congress our commercial bodies are asking for attention to some of our many interests, and these petitions and, other evi- dences express belief in our need of friendly treatment in national legislation. We practically have two Representatives in the House. They should be men who know and sympathize with all the needs of all the people of this city, and they should, by the proper arts of association and contact, be capable of making friends on the floor in all parties, to the end that their efforts for their constituents may find allies and assis It is wit that we declare that i ire whatever to promote any partisan interest present Congress San Francisco has no representat true that two members were sent to the House, but the seats might as well have been left vacant. The blame i vhose votes elected the men who proved to be ion to the office they sought. . ation is very serious, a The other commercial centers of the country are well rep- plez resented in the House, by men who are helpful to others and de- serving the reciprocal help which they receive. They are not all members of some party, but they are representative$ of all the in- terests which are of importance to their constituents and are equally at the service of all. . The result is that the other commercial cities of the country get proper attention to their wa San Francisco, happily, gets no attention at all. Measures needed by this city yassed by the Senate fail in the House by the indifference of our ntatives, or by their direct opposition. Union Labor party two years ago, subsequently receiving the mocratio nomination. Now the order is reversed and he has the dem nomination again. He came into politics as the representa- tive of a class. This he avows in his letter accepting the Union Labor party nomination, and he frankly declares that his status will be unchanged in the next Congress. We desire that the people shall note this situation. The Repub- | parties stand in opposition, but each is com-| posed of individuals who represent all of the varied interests of the | lican and Democra In each party are workingmen, financiers, manufac- rchants, mechanics, lawyers, doctors and preachers. When 2 representative of either party is elected to Congress he represents the whole community and not a self-isolated class. Mr. Livernash, in his letter of acceptance, says that he goes to Congress “commissioned to speak for organized labor” alone. He represents not all'labor, but a certain class of labor, and makes it plain that he will owe allegiance 1o nothing else. This is class representation solely. He feels no sense of alle- e to any other part of his constituency nor to any other interest giar of San Francisco, great or small. a restricted allegiance from which the public is excluded. He does not allege, nor do his supporters, that a candidate representing the whole community would not be as attentive to the petitions of or- ganized labor as to the requests of merchants, bankers, manufac- turers or unorganized labor. But he expressly declares that he will represent only one class and its interests, and no other part of the community at all. with This puts upon all other interests in the city the need of com- | 'FASHION NOW DEMANDS SLIM WAISTS AND THE GIRLS MUST WITH VIGILANCE SUPPRESS THEIR APPETITES bining to secure the election of a representative of all, excluding none, but standing for organized labor as well as for every other in- terest and activity which is part of the energy of this great city. Popular gevernment and class representation cannot exist long to- gether THE CITY AND COUNTY HOSPITAL. N instance of much needed charity being denied a petitioner for entrance at the City and County Hospital through lack of accommodations at that institution recently made manifest the | crying need for added appropriations devoted to the exigencies of | the city’s asylum for the sick. Beds are not altogether lacking at the institution, but the funds for the support of more patients than are now installed therein are lacking and the hospital doors are therefore closed perforce. The last appropriation for the City and County Hospital in the budget of the Board of Supervisors fixed the sum allotted to that charity at $120,000. This was made to include everything—salaries of the officers and attendants, the expenses of the nurses’ training school and the maintenance of the patients. With every item save the last deducted from the general appropriation, there remains $76,- 500—the annual allowance for the actual care of the sick inmates. With the recent decision of the Board of Health to the effect that a minimum of 34 cents a day must cover the cost of each inmate’s support, the number of patients which the hospital can care for at one time is 425. There is room for more, but the money for their nfain- tenance is lacking. The city has voted bonds for the building of a million-dollar hospital which shall have equipment and appropriations commen- surate with its magnitude. But it will be several years before the new hospital is open and ready to reccive patients. In the mean- time the city’s sick are clamoring for attention and there should be no diminution of ghe efforts to alleviate their sufferings in an- ticipation of what wi tution. 3 THE METCALF BANQUET. . HE commercial bodies of this city were the hosts at the ban- quet given to Secretary Metcalf as an enthusiastic expression of California’s gratification upon being represented in the Cabinet. This feeling was especially appealed to by the fact that the Presi-| dent for the position of greatest interest to California chose a Califor- nian, long tried in the public service and proved in his dignity, char- acter and statesmanship to be strong and worthy. The appointment of Mr. Metcalf and the gratification it has caused will have a distinctly useful effect upon public life and service in this State. We now have representatives in each of the three co- ordinate branches of the national Government. We have in Justice McKenna a citizen on the Supreme bench; our Senators and Repre- sentatives stand for us in the legislative branch of the Government, and Secretary Metcalf represents us in the executive branch. Not many States enjoy this distinction. We share it with Massachusetts and Ohio. That is a class in which California may stand with pride, that is enhanced by the fact that our representative in the executive branch is worthy to stand with John Hay, Attorney General Moody and Secretary of War Taft. The Figaro of Paris in detailing an account of the Kitchener- Marchand interview at Fashoda recites how the natives of the dis- puted district recognized the advent of the French mission by the initials molded in their bullets. In the absence of an interpreter all European “missions” to African tribes may now introduce them- selves by simply firing a volley at close range. 3 o RGN News reports classify the casualties resulting from a “rush” be- tween warring classes at Perduc University, Indiana, unlder the various general heads: kicked in the stomach, wrenched spine, ear torn off, etc. Who can say that a college education has not its spirited side as well as its gravely academic? From phlegmatic No; comes the story of a whale bei tured whose stomach yielded eleven sealed bottles of Milwalfllx:g t‘::r; upon post-mortem examination. This significant evidence of the lack of sobriety among cetaceans should open a new field to tem- perance workers. g 8 i d such an experience is un- ernash was brought into politics by the nomination of | He is an esoteric representative, | be done under the regime of the new insti-| — b ] | | | f | 1 | | | | l} ] B i | | { ! » Inner Woman Not to ' Receive Such Gen- grous Attention. | ——— | ! UST how the big, substantial girl with the waist of the Venus of Milo is to be pared down into the | sylph-iike, wasp-waisted creature | which fashion now demands it is hard to tell; but one thing is certain, that | there is an intimate relation between | the- waist line and the appetite, says fl.he New York Sun. | Before the era of large walsts it | was held that a maiden should ap- | pear to live on the smallest amount of | foed and drink that would sustain life {and that she should display such a | dainty capriciousness about this trifle as to suggest a fairy sipping dew from | the flower cups. KEagerness for food was considered indecorous,for she was presumed to be a creature of so much delfeacy that the needs of the inner | woman were the very last thing she thought of. Indeed, at the slightest mental dis- turbance she usually refused to eat al- together, and never remembered the lack of food until she®*swooned away from hunger. This was all extremely interesting, but when blg, strapping girls became the fashion it was neces- sury to pack away in lavender the no- tion of a genteelly delicate appetite. The young athletes were obliged to have fuel for their vigorous frames, and it soon became quite permissible for a fashionably mannish girl with a straight-front figure to take ;wx’uly masculine interest in her food. adays she is frankly hungry and eats straight through a meal of any num- ber of courses with much enojyment and with no great amount of conven- tionality as to table manners. But if fashion demands waists re- Adhering to the Standard. Uppyn de Ayer—Do you—aw— think it makes any difference to a girl who really loves a man whether the engagement ring is gold or silver? Carrie A. Bigstick—I do. I consider the gold standard irrevocably estab- lished.—Chicago Tribune. Did You Ever. Mr., P.—The doctor told Jack that he had been studying too hard lately. Mrs. P.—And what did he recom- mend? 3 Mr. P.—Oh, he advised him to go into society a little more and give his brain a rest.—London Tit-Bits. Always Tell the Truth. Father—I hear, my boy, that you have lately told your mother several falsehoods. This grieves me to the heart. Always tell the truth, even thought it may bring suffering upon you. Will you promise me? Boy—Yes, father. A Father—Very well. Now go and NO NEW COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY SPECTAL ARRANGEMENT OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL WITH THE NEW YORK EVENING MATL. | POLICY WANTED. 4 <= s | duced by many inches the appetite will surely have to be curtailed by many courses—and what true woman would allow the pleasures of the table to interefer with an eighteen-inch waist? Did not the comfortable duughters of the dark ages sacrifice their flowing robes and buxom out- lines to become heroines of chivalry, ethereal creatures, part angel, part fairy princess and of an elegant slim- ness of shape? The practice of tight lacing was the ratural result of the growing admira- tion for a ‘“‘gentyll body and middle small,” which the poets of the Mid- dle Ages delighted to praise. of course, in the struggle for fashionable fragility the appetite was sternly re- pressed, not only because of the in- evitable results of its indulgence, but alsq because greediness wouid not have been a pretty quality in the ideal woman. All the quaint old courtesy books re- quired that a well)bred damsel should eat but little, and her table manners | were regulated with all possible nicety, especially when fingers took the place of forks. Barberino, an Italian poet of noble family of the early fourteenth century, tells how a bride should con- duct herself at table on her wedding day: “Leet her have washed her hands aforetime so that she may not greatly bedim the water. Leet her not much set to at washing in the basin, nor touch mouth or teeth in washing, for she can do this afterward in her cham- ber. Of the savoury and nicest viands leet her ‘accept but little and avoid eat- ing many. Leet her not intervene to reprehend the servitors, nor yet speak unless occasion requires. Leet it ap- pear that she hardly minds any di- version, but that only timidity quench- es her pleasure. But leet her in eating so manage her hands that in washing the clear water may remain. Leet her drink be but small. I approve a light collation, eating little, and in like wise at supper leet her avoid comfits and s fruits. Leet her make it rather slight than heavy.” In seventeenth century English cour- tesy maxims have not quite so stately a tone, and a spade is frankly called a spade in the following extract from “The Accomplished Lady’s Rich Closet of Rarities or Ingenious Gentlewom- an’s Delightful Companion™: ‘A gentlewoman being at table abroad or at home must observe to keep her body straight and lean not by any means with her elbows, nor by raven- ous gesture discover a voracious ap- petite. Talk not when you have meat in your mouth and do not smack like a pig, nor venture to eat spoonmeat so hot that tears stand in your eyes. ‘Which is as unseemly as the gentle- woman who pretended to have as little a stomach as she had a mouth and therefore would not swollow her peas by spoonfuls, but took them one by one. and cut them into two before she would eat them. It is very uncommon to drink so large a draft that your breath is al- most gone, and are forced to blow strongly to recover yourself; throwing down your liquor as into a funnel is an action fitter for a juggler than a gentlewoman.” Codrington, in his book on “Instruct- ing of the Younger Sort of Maids and Borders at Schools,” suggests that “the best refection that young gentlewomen can take in the morning is the Pana- da"—nowaday this nourishing com- pound is composed of crackers and water with a little sugar, and gives them warnings against “fat meat.” Yet he is so far from insinuating that the “maids and borders” are greedy that he kindly admits that they are ‘“for the most part not subject to the least excess, unless it be of the sugar plum or the macaroon, and for this they are too often punished by the discomplex- jon and pain of their teeth.” During a comparatively brief reign of the empire gown the vigilant sup- pression of the appetite was secretly much relaxed, there being no delicate walistline to preserve, and a course of see who is knocking at the door. If it's the rate collector say I'm not at home.—Stray Straws. —_— His Closeness. Miss Lovey—I don’t see why you don’t like Mr. Spooner. Her Father—Well, for one thing, he's too close. i Miss Lovey—Oh, father! Were you mean enough to spy upon us last -evening in the parlor? The Thing to Do. “I don’t know what to say to this man,” mused the agricultural editor. “He asks, ‘What shall I do with my hens? Every morning I find several of them dead.” ” 7 “That's easy,” replled the snake editor. “Tell him to bury them.” Fii ety % Beat Tom Taggart. “I have just been beaten at my own game,” laughingly ~acknowledged Chairman Thomas Taggart as he and Willlam F. Sheehan joined a mufual . hin % . m&@sflmfim{; méé s at a well-known Broadway cafe the other day. . . Replying to a query from the other, Chairman Taggart continued: “Sheehan and myself were not' very hungry to-day and the colored waiter only brought us a check for $2. I handed the waiter.a $5 bill and he brought me back two ones and two half dollars in change. “What do you suppose he said when |T asked him why he didn’t bring me some smaller change? He just shuf- fled his feet'a moment and sputtered: “‘De Lawd loveth a cheerful givah.’ ”—New York Times. Poor Memories. “I may be forgetful, ma,” said Tommy, looking up from his book, “but I ain't as forgetful as sailors are.” “How do you mean?” asked his mother. . | “Why, they can never remember the weight o’ their anchor. They have e Y SOME MERRIMENT IS HERE FOR THOSE THAT SEEK IT. | pect from so misguided a crea ‘Men and Women in Street Cars “Why is it women are so stupid in street cars?” asked a cross old bach- elor the other day. “They spread their skirts over two seats, refuse to move up and get mad if a man looks at them, and madder if he doesn't.” Well, that will do for you, Mr. Bachelor. But then what can you ex- » He looks only for faults in women and passes over the particularly stupid | things that men do in cars and other | places. He forgets that every night of the world long suffering women are climbed over and their feet trod- den upon by men who go out between the acts at theaters; he forgets, too, how often tired women stand up for miles in the cars, while some of these weary bachelors sit still. How a man can enjoy a seat in the car whem a woman stands beside him in the aisle clutching the back of his seat and trying hard to think that he is a gen- tleman, but a very tired one, is be- yond the comprehension of the wom- an’s department. If the bachelor thinks that women are stupid in cars, what does he think of some men in cars? Those who will rise with alac- { rity for a pretty girl and let a tired washwoman with a bundle stand. If | he knew the withering contempt that some of the girls feel for him it might open his eyes. Yes, women are stupid sometimes, but then men cannot corner all the stupidity in the world. A great many men give women their seats, but many do not; in fact, some women have gone into business with such vigor they are obliged to take their chances with them in many other ways, which is fair enough. But the bachelor evinces a strange fatuousness if he thinks that a woman cares if he doesn’t look at her. It would be im- possible for him to believe that thers are women utterly indifferent whether he looks at them or not. Bachelors who are or consider themselves eligi- ble come to think that the entire fem- inine world is managed in relation to them, while as a matter of fact there is 2 day now and then when they are not thought of all day long. Funny, isn’t it, you cross old bachelor? But to admit the stupidity of some women in cars is not to agree with this masculine grumbler by any means. For one can see women evince intelligence about seats almost every day, and the writer not long ago saw a young woman rise and give her seat BB S e T RS R e G Big, Strapping Girls, Now Have a Prob- lem to Solve. B high feeding seemed to be the only bulwark which these nymphs, half clad in muslin, could put between themselves and death in the shape of winter draughts. But soon the long, small waist came to its own again, and extreme delicacy was a more popular fad than ever be- fore. Miss Amory's admirer was asked what.he would say about her when her back was turned. “Say!” says Pen. “Say that you have the most beautiful figure and thei slimmest waist in the world, Blanche!” | Now the &ynical author asserts that “When nobody was near our lttle Sylphide, who scarcely ate at dinner more than six grains of rice of Amine, the friend of the Ghouls in the Arabian Nights, was most active with her knife | and fork and consumed a very sub- stantial portion of mutton cutlets, in which piece of hypocrisy it is believed she resembled other young ladies of fashion,” a favorite masculine fallacy, by the way, for neither Thackeray not his male admirers quite knew their little Blanche. A girl with anything under eighteen inches of waist to live up to would then or at any time cheerfully sub- sist on six grains of rice in order to preserve it. When it comes to that, famous dandies of the Byronic type have left a shining record of literal starvation for fear of losing the small, trim waist of early youth. Perhaps It 1s a sign of the times that there was observed recently at a fashionable summer hotel a young man whose elegantly attired figure dis- played a waist as slim as a girl's. His breakfast ' consisted of half a glass of orange juice, a peach and a cup of coffee. Marked Advances. “Has Oldboy made any advances toward a recenciliation with his gay young wife 2" “Yes, I think he has made an ad- vance of several thousand dollars.”"— New Orleans Times-Democrat. Behind the Before. ‘While stumping the State during the last gubernatorial campaign Governor Frazier of Tennessee entered the of- fice of a village hotel, where he dis- covered a corpulent German seated at a table writing. Suddenly the Teuton paused in his task, frowned, scratched | his head, chewed the end of his pen, | and looked so obviously worried that Mr. Frazier good naturedly asked: “My friend, can I be of any service to you?” “Yah,!" was the prompt and relieved r ; “blease tell me vedder you puts an ‘e’ behindt ‘before’ 2" It ‘was several seconds before the affable candidate grasped the man's to a man! He was old and ill and he thanked her very nicely and then, of course, all the young men in the car who had sat still when the man got in wanted her to sit down. But she thanked them and said she did not mind standing at all. Then the other day there was a man who sat sidewise on the long seat of a Selby car, taking up twice as much room as if he had sat straight, his head was buried in his paper and what cared he how many tired wom- en stood? But finally a woman had the courage to ask him to move up: he grunted disagreeably and did so crossly. I wonder if he could have been the bachelor who uttered the above plaint about stupid women. I should not be the least bit surprised if he was the very man. He Is just the sort of creature who would say things like that and be occupying two seats while he said it. The greatest fault to be found with women is that they appear to have a prejudice against moving up or down as the case may be. You will see three sit huddled together with a wide open space just the other side of them. But as a rule their behavior in cars {s much more creditable than that of men—so there, Mr. Bachelor! —St. Paul Globe. Camera Fiend. He took the house, he took the barm, The children at their play, He took the dog, he took the cat, And Dobbin, Nell and Gray; He took the pretty parlor maild A-swinging on the gate, And posed me with a rake and vowed The picture simply great. He took Priscilla fifty ways— In-doors and out-of-doors (I've loved Priscilla ever since She romped in pinafores): He took himself away by stealth * One night without adieu, But, oh—the hardened miscreant! He took Priscilla, too. —lstppincott's. ANSWers, A BACK DATE—A Subscriber, City, April 29, 1860, fell on a Sunday. BOARDING SCHOOLS-C. O €, City. If you will look in the clagsified part of the city directory you will find a list of boarding schools. This depart- ment does not advertise such. PRESIDENT—J. 8., City. Rutherford B. Hayes, who visited San Francisco in September, 1830, was the first Presi- &ent who while fllling the Presidential chair visited the State of California. - A SCHOOL—L H. P. and H. H, City. There is no public school on the Far- allon Islands at this time and there has not been any since 1898. Prior to that date the Board of Education of this city maintalned a school on the island with Miss Daisy Dowd as teac MAIL TO MANILA—-W. H. G., St Louis, Mo. All transports from San Francisco carry mail to Manila, P. L. and also carry mail on the return trip. The transports leave Manila about the 15th of each month and the transit is about thirty days. All steamers from China, coming either to San Francisco or Seattle, bring mall from Manila. SNOWFALL—Subscriber, City. The heavy snow storm in San Franeisco, | when snow to the,depth of seven inches fell in some parts of the Western Addi- tion, was on Saturday, February 5. | 1887. There was a heavy fall of snow from 11:30 a. m. to 4:30 p. m., Sunday. December 31, 1882—amount, 3.5 inches. In 1883 a few flakes of smow fell on Tuesday, February 6. Townsend's California Glace fruits in artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 Market st.* ———— ‘business houses and > Press men the e ot oA ) ’:"-"‘