The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 9, 1904, Page 22

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, OC OBER 9, 1904 THE SAN FRANCISCOCALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS. e sestBusipstenansnssne ERODMNIDIE ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO 3 AUGHT..ccoceocencessscesssscose socessccocc-----.. SAnAger .THIRD AND l;ARm STREETS. SAN FRANCISCO OCTOBER 9, 1904 | RLICATION OFFICE. THE COMING CONFLICT. S the date of the Presidential election draws near, the issues | A before the country tend to become more definite and precise as fundamental principles and policies emerge from the mere verbiage of attack and recrimination. The true and responsible voice the country has now made itself unmistakably heard in its jemand for a continuity of the policy which has already placed America in the forefront of the world’s progress. The supreme re- te of the moment is not for the political patent medicines nor sleight of hand by which the Democrats have so un- - sought to impose upon the sagacity of the nation, but 1 guarantee of continuity, and for the assurance that be no meddling with the fiscal system which has been | of the sccessi rather for there will proved to lie at the very roots of the national prosperity. Continuity and consistency are as essential to business enter- | prise as is a firm foundation for a building. . Nothing is so justifiably | 1ensive of change and shock as the vast commercial edifice of | ion ; nothing is so easily and immediately discouraged, confused and checked. That the country does not anticipate a disturbance, which would be nothing short of a national calamity, is sufficiently shown trade reports, and by all those other indices which most actually demonstrate the existing business situation. | The New York State Department of Labor, which has a pecul- | iarly representative character, shows, for example, an unusual activ- ity in every department which it covers. So far from there being a depression in business circles there is a very unusual activity, and | this is peculiarly significant coming as it does after a period of phenomenally good times when some reaction might reasonably be | expected. If there were any general doubt as to the electoral results | | we should see an inevitable nervous reticence on the part of capital and enterprise, which would react disastrously upon the labor mar-| ket. That there is no such doubt is proved by a general activity and confidence, and by the fact that an unprecedentedly small num- | ber of men are out of work. Such a showing would be impossible if | there were any anticipation of a change. | The claims of the Democratic party to be intrusted with the | government of the country would perhaps carry greater weight if | it first showed some capacity for governing itself, some power of | unselfish cohesion in support of a basic principle, some faculty for subordination and controlling the self-secking elements of its own | s. The necessity of seli-mastery applies even more forcibly to | ical party than to the individual, but the only unity which the »mocratic party has so far displayed is in menace, criticism and | uction. Its ly unanimity is in unscrupulous and personal attack, in its efforts to place the country in the worst possible light;| to array class against class and interest against interest; to mag-| nify discord wherever it is to be found and to create it where it t now exist. A party banner which has become a mere [ does n rallying point and meeting ground for all the disrupting forces of | greed and discontent is not one to commend itself to a commercial »eople, nor is it likely to win the sympathy of those who ask nothing | peof ) Y Y g more of the Government than that simple stability of policy and of | in ion which will enable them to forecast the future with reason- | able confidence. This is of course the very breath of life to every business community. Of responsible and constructive policy the Democratic party | appears to have no trace whatever, and it could perhaps meet with| no worse fate than to be called upon to face its own discords and to reconcile its own internal, conflicting and mutually destructive | Its advocates have no more alluring prospect to offer | long and ruinous term of tariff meddling, which would par- alyze commercial activity, shatter every trade relation, whether do- mestic or foreign, and supplant the general confidence which now prevails t idespread and well-grounded apprehension and dis- tru We t seen the extent to which a political campaign may be carried on by mere stone-throwing, but we are not likely to be persuaded that a country can be governed by the same means. The Republican party—the party of deed and accomplishment— needs to-day no special pleading and no defense other than that which is triumphantly afforded by every index of prosperity and by the dominant position which the country incontestably occupies in the councils of the world. It has no warring factions to be fed and ap- rsonal or sectional interests which must be gratified policies. tha no'p aassa mnd peased ; at the expense of the country’s well being. It presents a united pol- icy of enlightened patriotism of which the future is guaranteed by the past. PAYING THE FIDDLER. OW that the British “mission” has concluded its business with N the titular head of the Government of Tibet and turned to breast the passes back into India before the snows come down, statesmen in far-away England are gravely secking to discover whether or not the game has been worth the candle. True, the armed commercial envoys have exacted Tibetan agreement to the letter of a treaty which gives England trade precedence in that | bleak country over all comers, notably Russia; true also that with | character ugality the leaders of the invasion have wrested | from the Tibetans indemnity enough to cover the cost of the long | transmontane march: but what are some of the by-products of the | affair so expeditiously consummated? 4 The Dalai Lama, whatever may be his personal unfitness for the station, occupies toward the Buddhistic world a position nearly com- parable to that of the great medieval popes in Christendom. To tens of thousands of Great Britain's subjects in India the name of this great high priest of Buddha is hedged about with a sanctity that embodies all the intense mysticism of the Oriental mind. By their armed cntrance o the Forbidden City, against the desire cf the Dalai Lama and to the detriment of his peace of mind, the Young- husband expediticn trenched upon that sacred being’s prerogatives to a degree that must seem nothing short of impious to the stern religionists of the great sect. . In China, on the other hand, the followers of Buddha divide with the Shintoists the religious convictions of countless hordes of peonle. | The Chinese Buddhists will take to heart the violation of their high | priest’s dignity no less keenly than the Indians. England has gro?}v- ing interests in the yellow empire of far weightier import than the | petty question of trade with an ice-bound principality on the roof of the world. How the recent high-handed treatment of sacred personages in this Mecca of the Buddhists is going to react on England’s ephere of influence there, as well as upon her subjects in India, is a matter for present conjecture. Some London papers voice the sentiment that the fiddler has yet to be paid for the little military dance up among the clouds of Thibe: With delicious unconsciousness a London paper prints the story that in Arkansas watérmelons run so wild that the farmers have to build pitfalls about their houses to prevent their being overrun by the succulent vegetable. Our English cousins are still impervious to American humor. PSR P g The witty friends of a Sioux City bridegroom manacled the happy benedict’s hands just as he started on his wedding tour and left him to fume in impotent wrath for hours of traveling. Imagine his torture when he found himself unable to pick the rice out of his collar. — A French savant claims to have found a germ in the Balkans which prolongs life indefinitely. This is in seeming contradiction to the usual manifestation of the Balkan germ in Macedonian revolu- RIDING FOR A FALL. COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY SPECTAL ARRANGEMENT OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL WITH THE NEW YORK EVENING MAIL, i * - . a+> DAINTY CHIFFON POSIES FOR GOWNS b = = ~F RESSMAKERS as well as mil- <* jand slowly roll up the length with liners are finding that the possi- the thumb and first finger of the right 1 hiff 1 t 1 hand until the heart is formed. Do ilition of cEan mee SR 15~ this rather tightly at first, then more exhaustible and the newest and and more loosely near the finish, tak- perhaps most novel use of this ing care to keep the folds even at the lovely and perishable material is top. Now bring the folds of chiffon in the making gf chiffon flowers. together at the bottom, and, taking There is an airiness and delicacy about these chiffon roses and other flowers that quite surpass any other artificial flowers and makes them exceedingly attractive for trimming hats and ball gowns. At present they are being used wherever possible on women’s gowns, and their popularity is proven by the fact that many wedding gowns turned out by noted costumers are decorated in some way with these dainty hand made posies. Almost any of the flowers—roses, dah- lias, snowdrops, fuchsias, sweet peas or geraniums—ma: be made of chiffon, and good results may be achieved by the ordinary girl who is possessed of patience, clever fingers and deftness with the needle. In making these flow- ers there is not only the delight of be- ing able to fashion dainty things, but a real saving in personal expenditure. Roses are perhaps the most popular and about the easiest to make. For these, parts of old w-rs, stems, leaves and calyxes may be used. but if not at hand all that is needed is a spool of green mounting wire and some of the green calyxes that can be purchased for a few cents in the shops. To make a bunch of four roses wll require three-quarters of a yard of chiffon of any preferred color, white, pink, red or yellow. In beginning the rose fold the chiffon width so that it is three-quar- ters long by four inches wide. Measure along the selvedges five inches and cut straight through the width; repeat this three times. Take one of the fivesinch pieces, fold, cut edge to edge, and run a thread through both of them to hold them together. Be sure and let the material be slightly eased on the thread before manipulating it into form. Now take one end at the cut edges ANTI-KISSING CLUB. Resolved to stop the practice of kissing, a dozen pretty Lexington, Ga., girls, who decided that it was a silly custom, have organized an anti-kissing club and adopted a rigorous constitu- tion, some of the clauses of which are: The object of this club is to promote bygiene, candor, saneness and finance among members. Each member shall sign the following pledge with her own blood, secured from her lips: “I pledge myself to never kiss any one except father, mother, brothers, sisters, husband and children. “I pledge myself furthermore to never kiss my betrothed until I have become his wife. “If 1 fail to keep this pledge I will pay a fine of $25 and ask the club to erase my name from the roll.” On the marriage of any member of this club, each member shall pay $5 to the treasurer,” who shall present the amount as a bridal gift to the bride. THE CHIFFON FLOWER GIRL. | colored silk with knots at | should be put through the center to the rose in the left hand, twist a piece of mounting wire over the chiffon, just above the line of stitches, and very tightly draw it down to the last tiny raw edge of chiffon. Crook a piece of mounting wire, or the wire with a | piece of tubing, if you have it; secure the base of the rose on top of the crook firmly, and slip over the stem a green calyx. Now take a ,iece of green chiffon about half an inch wide, place one -end close to the calyx and wind the stem evenly and secure with a thread and needle to prevent un- raveling. You will then have the fin- ished rose. Sweet peas are easily made, as only two petals are required, one like the geranium petal and a square puff in front of it. The variegated effect of these pretty flowers can be obtained by using chiffons in two colors, one over the other, as, for instance, the wing could be made of pink over white, the lobe, or lower one, of white over pink, and so on. In bunches these chiffon sweet peas are very love- Iy and pay for the time and trouble expended in making them. In fuchsias the petals forming the cup are made on the same lines as those of the geranium, except that it is necessary they should overlap each other. Be sure to get the long, nar- row effect peculiar to those blossoms. Sometimes this difficuity is met by making petals of velvet. The green part that comes next before the green calyx may also be of velvet. The petals are gummed on between outer | Threads of | rows of petals and calyx. the end finish the flower. They should be left at unequal lengths. Dahlias, forget-me-nots, violets and | other flowers having small petals are easily made if one only follows the lines laid down in the making of pa- per flowers, there being only one gold- en rule to observe—get as near to the real form and coloring as possible. | Lies Brighter oide. | An Illustration. ‘Wife—What is meant, John, by the phrase “Carrying coals to Newcastle”? Husband—It is a metaphor, my dear, showing the doing of something that is unnecessary. _Wife—I don't exactly understand. Give me an lllustration—a familiar one. Husband—Well, if I were to bring you home a book entitled “How to Talk,” that would be carrying coals to Newcastle.—London Tit-Bits. —————— Theory and Practice. “The rewards of science are but scant,” said the man with the high forehead. “Yes,” answered the man with a square jaw. “Nobody is going to pay you as much for picking up a rock and telling you what geological period it belongs to as he will for directing him to a market that will take it up as a building material.”—Washington Star. Those Boston Girls. All Right! Edith—I was asked to sing last even- | Miss Rapidde (in dark hall)—0-0-0-h, ing and when I had done so I was com- | mercy! Who is that? Bob Gayleigh—Jack the Hugger! . Miss Rapidde—Oh, how you scared Come right in here, where we shan’t be disturbed.—Town Topics. ———e Cheaper. “The cable dispatches say that the Bey of Tunis went to Paris and was plimented in the highest terms by everybody in the room. Bertha—And yet there are people who say there is no such thing as Christian charity in this world!—Bos- ton Transcript. — HOW SHE KEEPS YOUNG Old Mother Smiles-at-Woe, the old- est member of the Winnebago tribe, is living with her people on a reservation in Nebraska. She is 107 years old and is the only living Indian so far as known who was with the original Six Nations in New York State. nebagos had their origin in the famous old Iroquois, and in their unhappy peregrinations, ending at the Nebraska reservation, Mother Smiles-at-Woe has remained with them. She has shunned the vices which the younger people have acquired, and to this fact is ascribed her longevity. ———————— Music at the Park. The following programme will be rendered by the Golden Gate Park band this afternoon: The Win- | A YOUNG HUSBAND'S CURIOSITY. We had been married just a month, and my inquiries as to all his doings during the day had begun to draw forth remarks about woman's prover- bial curiosity, when, one evening after fea was on the table, I picked up the evening paper and found a recipe for “prune whip,” which I cut out and laid away for future use. After the head of the house had changed his coat, donned his slippers, eaten and made himself comfortable for a cozy evening with his newspaper, he asked, “What did you cut out of my paper?” “Oh, something that would not be at all proper for you to read,” I replied. “Well, I guess I'll read what I choose. Please get it.” I refused, and things grew uncom- fortable, and when I returned from the kitchen I found an empty chair, empty slippers and a discarded paper. About an hour after the head of the house returned and with a particularly jubi- lant alr opened a brand new news- paper. He scanned column after column eagerly until he found a recipe for “prune whip.” Now when the head of the house becomes any way domineer- ing I feed him on “prune whip."—Eliz- abeth Ogilvie, in Good Housekeeping. —e—————— VELVET HATS. Beyond a doubt velvet hats will be extensively worn during the coming season, the lighter weight chiffon vel- vets being used for shirred and draped hats, while heavier velvets are more at- tractive when drawn plain over the brims or crowns. — e LINGERIE. Lingerie is more attractive than ever this season. Most exquisite materials are used, and the hand embroidery has reached a rare degree of perfection. BIRD’S NEST SALAD. To prepare this attractive dish take a little spinach that has been cooked and drained, and while still hot press with a spoon to extract the green col- oring matter. Rub enough of this liquid, with some black pepper, into a Philadelphia cream cheese, to give it a delicate green color. Shape into balls the size of robin’s eggs. With clean, sharp scissors cut crisp lettuce leaves into shreds and arrange them In nests on a pretty plate. Place five eggs In each nest and cover with a little may- onnaise or French dressing. Serve cheese straws with this salad. PEAR DESSERT. Cook one-half cup of rice twenty minutes in plenty of boiling salted water. Drain and put in the double boiler, with a half cup of rich milk. Cook until the rice is soft and the milk absorbed. Sweeten lightly and season with a few drops of vanilla, two tea- spoonfuls of preserved ginger juice and a few drops of lemon juice. Turn into a mold to cool. Drain a quarter of stewed pears free from juice, fill their centers with preserved ginger chopped fine and moistened with a teaspoonful of orange juice. Turn the rice into a low glass dish, arrange the pears about it and garnish with ginger and whip- ped cream. | APPLE SNOW. This is made by whipping two whitus of eggs with two small cups of sugar and two tart apples grated. Whip the whele until it is firm. Flavor with lemon or vanilla and serve with soft custard sauce. MAKING TEA. Have you tried making tea like this? Moisten an ounce of tea, finely ground, with eold water and let it stand for twenty minutes. Then pour on the tea a scant pint of boiling water, and In one minute it is ready to drink. ' NORSK NIGHTINGALE. Yudge Parker ban qvitting his yob To do dis har President stunt; He ban qvite a foxy old lob And alvays put on a gude front. But Teddy ban president now— Ay vant him to stay dar, by yee! Ven yu're happy don’t start any row— He ban a gude faller to me. Yon Yonson ban saying last veek, “Dis Democrat ticket ban fine!” Ay tal him, “Ay hear vat you speak, But none of these geezers for mine!™ Ay know ven ay got a gude yob . An so ay ant kicking. yu see, Dis Rusewelt ant like Guvnor Bob— He ban a gude faller to me. Bill Bryan ban talking all day "Bout capital making big trust. | Ay ant giving dam vat he say— | Ay know ay ban making the dust, And so ay skol woting dis fall For Rusewelt and gude G. O. P. Ay can't turn his picture to vall— He ban a gude faller to me. —Milwaukee Sentinel. 'ANSWERS TO QUERIES. | ARIZONA—G. L. W, City. The bill to admit Arizona to statehood did | not pass. | IMMIGRATION—Reader, City. Dur- !ing what is known as the gold period in California, 1845-1354, the immigra- tion to the United States was as fol- lows: 1348, 226,527; 1849, 297,024; 1350, | 369,986; 1851, 379,466; 1852, 371,603; 1353, | 368,645; 1854, 427,833. LAND IN CALIFORNIA—A Read- er, City. To ascertain what vacant land there is in California write to either of the United States land offices in the State for a plat of land that is open in the particular district in which the of- fice is located. These offices are located at Eureka, Independence, Los Angeles, Marysville, Redding, Sacramento, San Francisco, Stockton, Susanville and Visalia. Plats cost $1 each. Informa- tion relative to the taking up of land may be obtained on application to any of_these offices.