The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 8, 1904, Page 8

NCISCO LL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER & 1903. THE SAN FRA NGISCOGALL Proprietor JOHN D. SPRECKELS e ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO + .THIRD AND MARKET STREE' T_OCTOBER 8, 1904 THE POPULIST CANDIDATE. OM WATSON, the Presidential nominee of the People’s party, ould do many surprising things if Judge Parker would only | get out of his way and allow him to control “the great militant | | Democratic party from sea to sea.” He is modest enough to admit that even under these highly improbable circumstances he might not actually whip the Republicans, but he would promise his opponents a battle royal worthy of so great an occasion. The Populist candi- ate “longs for and loves the thunder of the guns” nearly as much as he seems to love the sound of his own voice, but inasmuch as Judge Parker shows no inclination to abdicate in favor of his some- vhat noisy rival we may assume that the Democratic party has as little use for Mr. Watson as has the country at large. When Tom Watson detailed some of the labor misfortunes from which the country has momentarily suffered he was simply utilizing the well-worn stock in trade of the Democratic party, which seeks its oppor nd its advertisement in human misery and social Jawle ives to reap a political harvest in the fields of dis- conter The Democratic party knows well that national prosperity means Republican success, and their dismay at the overwhelming proofs of the country’s progress is sufficiently evidenced by the zeal parade and exaggerate every transient factor which distorted into an opposite indication. he country is, however, a matter of invincible sta- tistics and bank balances. For the month of September Government receipts were nearly $4,000,000 in excess of expenditure, and this I to a big surplus at the end of the fiscal year. The Democrats f course hoped for a deficit, which woul@ have made them feel at home. The expanding receipts, moreover, come from revenue, and this again means increased purchasing power, the surest indices of national wellbeing. The savings bank In 1896 the deposits 277, while in 1903 they had risen to $2,935,- Such evidences as these could be multiplied almost ad President Roosevelt was not using mere terms of speech es of rhetoric when he said at Minneapolis: “We are now i rosperity unparalleled not merely in our own his- in the history of any other nation. This prosperity is deep- of tt ns are of an even more convincing nature. mted to $1,907,156, 204.845 American has in him the stuff out of which victors are iilitary contests of the past, and because he is now able to ities to best advantage under our well- THE SUNDAY CALL MAGAZINE. iE GRAFTERS, by Francis Lynde, will begin in the Sun- ay Call Magazine to-morrow. “The Grafters” is, as its ame might suggest, a political story. It is told tersely, di- forcibly ; fe. and a thorough knowledge of the subtle gradations by which n of too little stamina succumb to the lowering of their princi- y and right until they are in purely for the “graft.” As popular novel, there is a thoroughly enjoyable contest at s between the young lawyer who throws himself heart and soul ggle with the junta, and the girl who is his inspiration, ars he in turn will become one with the grafters. In view of the coming campaign the story is particularly timely. In shorter fiction and essay matter the edition is, as usual,| graced with such celebrated names as Marie Corelli and Jerome K. the former having “The Madness of Clotfies” and the latter ing Introduced,” both keen satires on social topics; the reg- ular installment of the “Batch of Love Letters” series is contrib- uted by W. Pett Ridge, and Frank T. Bullen contributes a humorous ¢ Monxey.” cial articles and facts, fads and fancies for women there le scope of entertaining reading matter. Augusta Frescott of the return of the high shoulder puff for women, describes g silk gown, gives some tips for prudent dressers, and a nn of advice on how women can make their own trim- gs. Madge Moore writes on “Masculine Taste in Manners” and 1swers correspondents; and Professor Miehling contributes the Jerome { colu There is a full page with splendid half tones on “The Newspaper Artists’ Exhibit,” which is to be held in the Maple Room of the Palace Hotel shortly; a page on the Greek drama, “Ajax,” to be presented at Berkeley ; and the book page, by Robert W. Ritchie. In ition there are shorter items of interest and storiettes sprinkled l}]‘;f;flaugh:mt the sixteen pages, and of course, the puzzle page for the children. [ ' LOVE OF THE CITY. HE editor of a Southern California weekly journal asks: “Why should any one like San Francisco?” Then he presents a col- umn of reasons, social, political and climatic, why nobody should like San Francisco as a permanent dwelling place. He thought | he knew whereof he reasoned, for, as he says, he spent two consecu- tive unhappy weeks in San Francisco. But his query is not devoid of interest to the several hundreds | of thousands of folk who like San Francisco well enough to make it their home. Their reasons for preferring life here above life any- where else would probably be just as convincing as those adduced by the Southern California framer of public thought. People like to live in San Francisco because their residence enables them to find more 10 gratify their personal comfort than they can find by residing else- where. They get more of the things they desire than they can in any other city, town or hamlet in this or any other country. The visitor from other Pacific Coast communities can never quite understand the San Francisco attitude toward either San Francisco or toward the other Pacific Coast communities. As a matter of fact, the San Francisco resident seldom thinks at all about other communities, and certainly is never jealous of them. He is as indifferent to them as he is careless of their opinion of San Francisco. The Seattleite or Portlander or Los Angelan can ex- press any opinion he chooses of San Francisco, and the average San Francisco man will not wrangle with him about it. All that he insists upon is that he prefers to live here. The visitor who spends only two weeks in San Francisco cannot comprehend the spirit of San Francisco life or understand the San | Francisco point of view. He is certain to fail if he has been a prom- inent figure in a smaller community, for he is so quickly absorbed in the mass that he can never quite forgive the city for its utter in- difference to him. Which may be explanatory of the query pro- pounded by the journalist from south of the Tehachapi who spent an uncomfortable fortnight here. “October first and all’s quiet at Esopus; chants the watchman of the night. —— . The Atlanta Constitution is carrying on a crusade against the custom of burning negroes at the stake. All honor to the work. i Wb Uncle Henry Davis has delivered himself of his letter of ac- ceptance and now he may easily slip into the limbo of forgotten things. — Now that there has been for‘mcd.in New York an egg testers’ union, we suppose that the cry “unfair hen” will soon be heard in the land. B L ARRESG The warm weather in the East gets to the nerves of Commander Peary and he is hastening preparations to get back once more to that dear North Pole. / and stands on a firm basis because it is due to the fact that | - great industrial contests of the present day, just as in| 1 and throughout the author has shown a keen| into the motives that actuate men for good or evil in public | [ Fueetep e KEVORE THAT ORDER ALTon B.PARKe E//’M/M" | | | 1 COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY SPECIAL ARRAN | Uy o) [ iy ATV (N AN WA RS N g K ENT OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL WITH THE ) | | { | EVENING MAIL. X | Mitts to the Fore. i The day of mitts is returning and their popularity is due to the Marie Antoinette sleeve. This is a sleeve which is tight to the elbow, where it is met by a wide ruffle of lace which | falls off the arm. This sleeve is used | for dinner gowns and for evening | dresses. It has been worn more or | less all summer and will be the fash- | ionable sleeve of the coming winter. It is particularly handsome as an opera | sleeve, being mneither too short for good | taste nor too long for elegance. | The mitt, be it black or white, is | lcng, is made of silk, of course, and is | embroidered upon the back. The dainty knitted silk mitt is affected by women | who can afford to hire the Kknitting | done by hand. It is open work, is done |in flesh color and is a mass of intri- cate stitches. The seed designs are most popular and the openwork drop stitches, so well known to the knitters of bygone days, will be seen. At a din- ner given recently a guest wore mitts ventional raised vine upon the back, | all in pink and green. Her fingers were loaded with handsome rings and brace- lets adorned her arms. Another guest present wore black silk mitts embroid- ered upon the back with pink roses. These roses were raised and were re- markably pretty, matching the gown, which was a shell pink voile, perfectly. Delicate Fabrics. Shawls and fabrics so delicate that they could be “drawn through a lady’s ring” is a type of luxury familiar in o0ld tales of Oriental magnificence, and many of the new silks displayed on | the counters this fall are so thin and supple that a width of the fabrics might easily be threaded through as small a circlet without leaving a crease, says the New York Sun. Chif- fon weaves have invaded all the fa- | miliar silks, faille and grosgrain be- ing the last to fall into line. Rumors that silks would take on more body and rustle this fall have all been si- lenced by the appearance of the new materials, which, as a whele, are softer if anything than ever. Authorities as- sert that the silks being woven. for next spring’s trade go even further in this direction. Chiffon faille, an old friend with a new characteristic, is one of the most popular weaves with both dressmaker and milliner. It comes in all the modish tones at $1 a yard. All the season’s silks have more luster than for many seasons. He Likes It. Four months ago Colonel Bryan was being chased by the money devil. Now he is fleeing from the war god. Is there no peace for this good man? —ZKansas City Journal. ‘Women Wouldn’t Need It. There would be a lot of money in it for the man who could patent a way argument.—New York Press, of flesh-colored silk with a small con- | always to get in the last word in an | sent to a sanitarium for “automania.” Man Bargain-Counter Fiend. “Do you see that man over there?” asked the floorwalker of a big depart- ment store in New York the other day. “Well, he’s unique—the only one of his kind I ever saw. I've seen lots of men before who were bargain fiends and who haunted auctions and fire sales and laid in a stock of all sorts of useless things, from an anti- quated bar to a collection of chromos o HERE'S A PRETTY EN that would make a Fifth avenue stage horse shy, but this man is a bargain counter flend. Just as regularly as there is a sale he turns up and gets right in and hustles with the women. He elbows his way energetically to the front and samples everything and buys nething, on much the same principle as they do. It appears to be his only form of amusement.” GLISH PICTURE — | 1 i | LADY CHELSEA AND HER SIX CHILDREN. HE names of the children, reading from bottom to top, are: On the Tleft the Hon. Edith Cadogan, born 1895; the Hon. Cynthia, born 1896; the Hon. Victoria, born 1901. On the right, the Hon. Alexandra, born 1900; the Hon. Sybil, born 1893. The little boy sitting on his mother's lap is Lord and Lady Chelsea’s only son. He was born in 1803 and will one day be Lord Cadogan. Lady Chelsea, who was married in 1892, is a daughter of the late Lord Alington. Lord Chelsea is the eldest son of Earl Cadogan. The National Malady. was about fifty times as large as it is A little Cincinnati girl has been | that might be an effective method for disposing of the adult automaniacs.— If our national sanitarium capacity | Chicago Record-Herald. | — For the Table. Here is a tasty dish that utilizes an inexpensive cut of meat: Select a neck of lamb, separate it into the natural sections and cut the meat from the bones. Have a casserole at hand, put into it two tablespoonfuls of butter and saute in it a small onion. As soon as the onion is a golden brown put in the lamb, which has been rolled in salted and peppered flour. Saute it until it is nicely browned on all sides. Then add two large slices of tomato, a table- spoonful or two of minced ham and two cupfuls of seasoned meat stock or hot water flavored with beef extract and a little kitchen bouquet. Cover the dish tight, put it in the oven and cook slow- ly for two hours. If vegetable flavoring is liked, about twenty minutes before the dish is to be served diged carrot | and turnip and green peas may be con- | tributed. Send to the table in the cas- serole. Fruit Salad—Peel and divide into sec- tions one large orange and two Man- darin qranges. Shell and halve twelve | English walnuts; take thc seeds from twenty-four Malaga grapes; shred one medium-sized pineapple, and slice two red bananas. Chill fruit before prepar- ing. Mix with a French dressing. Serve ! at once on lettuce leaves with mayon- | naise. Salmon Jelly—Soak two tablespoon- | fuls of gelatine in one-third cup of cold water for one hour: then stir it over | the fire until dissolved; then add one cupful of boiled drzssing and one can | of minced salmon; add more seasoning | if necessary. When ready to serve turn it out of the mold and serve on a bed of lettuce. For J‘wefl Charity. They called the party a “thimble,” And every guest brought one; They met to sew for the church, you now. Alack, no sewing was done. They talked and talked together. _And away the thimbles rolled Under the chairs and down the stairs, The silver ones and the gold. The ladies talked, God bless 'em, Of everything under the sun; Of church and school and cooking rule; Oh, how their tongues did run! Of the work they planned to finish Not a single stitch was set; They were too unnerved until tea was served-— That work is waiting yet. You can trust a clever woman To get up a project neat; They had frittered away their time that lay, But they all fell on their feet. For they auctioned off the thimbles, And the bidding prospered so They made enough, with their little blufr, To let the old sewing go. —Chicago Record-Herald. Could Save Wear ana Tear. ¢ Now the lifelong Democrat who will yote for Roosevelt and the lifelong Republican who is for Parker will | ———— I Only Heartache | in Platonic Love | — LATONIC love is platonic fool- + ishness. It looks nice on pa- per. It sounds well in high- sounding, stilted sentenc But when put in the balance with common sense it is lighter than wind-blown mist, writes Dorothy Feni- more in the Chicago Journal. For this reason, probably, platonic love does not thrive in our American lization, which has a cold-blooded y of looking facts in the face and calling them by their right names. W have friendships and flirtations; we have true love, strong and deep be- tween betrothed and married lovers; we have unrequited love, a painful malady, a thorn in the flesh of the lover; we have follies and infidelity of thought and action, and we have di- vcree courts in plenty. But platonic love, that etherealized human passion, does not exist among us. Such a colorless incense of one soul before another belongs to a ro- mantic, a sentimental people. In our practical world of every-day life there is nothing in the notion—except the heartache. I have only Spartan advice to give | when a young matron writes to me that a young man, not her husband loves her, and she, a loyal wife and fond mother, does not know what to do. Should she try to influence him through his love fcg her, and inspire him to all that is noble and good; or should she hesitate in such a course, lest, if she allows his love to grow, it will make him unhappy in the end” ‘When suffering must sooner or later be inflicted, a quick, sure pain is the kindest to give, and the easiest to bear. A woman who is married to a good man, and is mother of his children must not play with fire. She cannot get hurt herself without her family's sharing in the disaster. And ten to one some floating bit of her mental drapery will catch the blage and ignite her mind and soul. Then there is the other side of it, the man’s side. If a woman cannot marry a man who loves her, for one reason or another, there is one way, and one only, that she can be his in- spiration—by letting him keep his ideal of her as pure and high as it was in its inception. Disappointment in love never yet ruined a really strong man, provided he was able to keep his ideals unshattered; and no lasting good will come from buoying up a weak man, unless you can undertake a life contract. When a woman takes the trouble to assure herself and others of her loy- alty to her husband and her children, the time is a more critical one for her ! than she imagines. There is only one sensible course when a married woman suspects that a man friend has fallen in love with her. She must end the relationship as quickly and as tactfully as possible, for his sake as well as for her own. The Oakland Bonds Editor The Call—In spite of the noble work of the San Francisco Call the im- provement bonds have again been de- feated. Who is at fault, the people or city official fakers? Why were not the Iimprovement bonds subjected to the people as the | interest of the city at large? Over 7000 votes were cast. Over 4000 selfish people, unreasonably in the ex- treme, voted “yes” on somehing to benefit themselves and “no” on what would benefit friends, relatives and their children. Yet they all were sup- posed to work for the future Oakland. For seventeen years I have known Oak- land and during all of that period I have observed the selfishness of the people. May God help us to stick together In the future and think as one man of the interests of our city and its future inhabitants. OLAF J. HANSSEN. Oakland, October 1. He Blames Us. Professor Thomas Oliver, address- ing the industrial hygiene section of the sanitary congress in Glasgow, sald | the system of “rushing” work intro- duced into Britain from America not only caused unwholesome fatigue and many accidents, but “predisposed the individual to ill health and created a taste for stimulants, unhealithy recre- ation and love of excitement such as | was offered by theaters and music halls.” World’s Healthiest Trade. The best and healthiest trade in the world is that of dyemaking from coal tar. Tar and the smell of it is the best of all tonics and tissue builders. The average life of a tarworker is 36 years. The mortality is 80 per cent lower than in any other factory trade. Ternina Has Facial Paralysis. Milka Ternina, the opera singer, is now living in a cottage just outside of Munich and will be unable to sing for some time, as she is suffering from a form of faclal paralysis, which has af- fected the optic nerve as well as her voice. Painters Painted. Two Paris painters, who were ac- cused of theft by their fellow work- men, were, as a punishment, painted— one black and the other white. They were then left to go home, but were ar- rested for disorderly conduct by the police and locked up. Poser for the Police. A man who was sued at Halifax, Nova Scotia, for one penny damage for striking a match on the Town Hall, asked the police to prove the damage by showing which scratch he made. So many were found that the case was dismissed. ————— Townsend’'s California Glace fruits i artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 Market st.* —— Finest eyeglasses, 15¢ to S0c. 79 4th st., front of Key's Celebrated Oyster House.* —_—— On November 1, 1904, Townsend's Cal- ifornia Glace Fruit will be advanced 10. 1b. Holiday orders received up I: . mt date at present price. appear on the scene and make the air blue with their rival claims. What a pity they could not fight it out op a vacant lot!—Chicago News.