The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 4, 1904, Page 8

THE S FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1904 -— = THE SMART SET - BY SALLY SHARP. | ! ';HIRDA D MARKET STREETS, SAN FRANCISCO THE SAN FRANCISCOCALL . Proprietor JOHN D. JOHN McNAUGHT. PUBLICATION OFFICE. .. m ..NOVEMBER 4, 1304 | | FRIDAY.. OUR INTERESTS IN CONGRESS. RACTICAL efficiency is the test of a Congressman’s fitness. | | F San Francisco needs that sort of “efficiency in the House. i it it she lags behind her rivals on the coast, and | | rear of the procession of American cities. No ornc | 1 that this city was deprived of efficient representation session of the House.. Messrs. Livernash and Wynn did Ives capable in practical legislation. If we got t of the session it was bestowed by others and not by esentatives of other districts in the State had their ; | ng for their own constituents. It is a fact that they to do something for San Francisco, but their in- Id have required explanation involving the condemnation mbers. | ng to have a proper representation, was the city, and it is theirs to correct. Even the r two members esteemed themselves the es gained nothing by them, and will gain lected. A member of Congress must have ging desire for social reforms. Society as it ¢tion and conflict of ages. No human society cquipment beyond yond a is was made by the has ever been perfect. The attempts at perfection made in Socialist commur always failed to effect their purpose. How idle.is - hen t n to Congress in the expectation that they will per- that 1cture is not corrigible by the efforts of re- cted and exclusive community, supposed to be at er like San Francisco cannot afford to vert its energies by electing its sole purpose of social experiment, or to carry into i the avarice and spites, that are insepara- the programme of social reformers, who expect to correct in ety that is the natural’result of ages. Ye: to do by re-electing Messrs. Livernash and to be judged by their own declara- of social reforms by academic dis-} 1se of Representatives is not the proper 1 one session of Congress and brought nothing nts. Having been practical legislative ability, their service rs of known merit and usefulness sent 1 cen ir opponents they disappear as fit instruments great city. They are not men of are not a part of the active enterprise of the in experience, strangers to the great energies They are in the field of theory accomplishment. Mr. E. A. st Mr. Wynn, has embarked his fellow citizens. He is a| ra active owner of business property. If bad egi ghbors, it touches him. If good legislation g ent atte iven to practical business that ntion be J > cons * man. nts is equal. He is a good mpresses his associates and attracts sympathy and friendship. | n of abuse and misrepresentation \ir. Hearst. It has been malicious, pose is to deprive the Fiith District who will do the things San Fran- r 1o continue in the House a Representative ng and will do nothing, the He STORY OF A SEALSKIN. Mrs. R. H. Sawyver, who returned from a- trip to the Coast. tells an interesting story of the capturg of a fur seal om an island ‘near Tacoma. Mrs. Sawver brought | the sealskin home with her and | prizes it very highly. In company ict will greatly dignify themselves by | with another”lady she was riding in a slanders and ‘mud-| boat on the sound near an island. On If they permit Mr. Hearst | nearing the island the seal was seen Haves, let h = {to climb out on the sand. The party ayes, let us hear no moOre | 4, proached and found that the seal | had just been shot and was dying. he misery of the seal was soon nded, and the party carried away recently less used against hir life a2 man like Mr. decent men in politics. needs no introduction to San Francisco. His oppo nash, has descended to personal slurs against him, | 5 c - 5 | the skin. The sealskin is quite small, have their records for comparison. Mr. Kahn served | pu¢ s very vlluable.-‘l—Anaconda two tefms in the House, and while he represented | stanaara. nterest of San Francisco lacked attention and no ap- | ed. He was a popular member, to whom the | whose efforts, for his own people rallied help! He not_wrap himself in a mantle of exclu-| 1 seli-sufficiency. e was responsive, friendly and ap- , and above all had an intimate personal knowledge of the San Francisco and California. A man of affairs himself, he | "0 V=00 o 002 the hospital his duty to make 2 personal study and investigation of | gusering from cancer in the tongue. 1 matters, and used his leisure in gaining information | 1t was decided to try the effects of ra- that enriched his equipment as a national legislator. He was able to | dium, but instead of applying it - in- meet on equal terms the ablest men in the House of either party and :';;‘r"eud ":i: ::'::v:';:o:m"’:h:nd:’:; was in all respects a model Representative. Where Mr. Livernash [ ;n e has reveries, Mr. Kahn has action. While Mr. Livernash dreams of | The man could not bear the sensa- a social Utopia, Mr. Kahn does the duty of to-day in behalf of the | tion, and swallowed the radium, which . social structure that is. |is said to have been worth nearly 2 - $250. y - RS . Pain and ulceration followed. We cannot believe that the people of this city will any longer | ook Kyl o o chase phantoms and imagine voices, but we have faith that they will elect Mr. Kahn and Mr. Hayes and secure the practical working rep- | resentation which San Francisgo needs. SWALLOWED THE RADIUM. An extraordinary mishap in nection with treatment by radium is reported to have occurred at one of the London hospitals, says the St. | James Gazette. con- They Spell Roosevelt. There are nine Presidential candi- dates in the field. Their names are as PASSPORTS TO RUSSIA. s PaRker. . ey & - > I WatsOn. USSIA has heretofore refused to recognize the right of Jews SwallOw, R to expatriate themselves. When a Russian Jew, naturalized| 3::;"‘“‘ in the United States, returned to the empire with an American Roose Velt. passport, he found that his American citizenship was no protection | PEnn. ~ -to him and his life and liberty were in peril. This was especially | H“_{_‘:‘;:’;l‘_’- .hard on the Jews of Poland, who, like all the Poles, are unwillingi subjects of the Czar. But their feelings in the matter were not con- | sulted by that autocrat, and American citizenship was insulted by him in denying its efficacy when bestowed upop self-expatriated Jews. President Roosevelt and —Chicago Tribune. A Spinster’'s Reflections, Some women are $o jealous that they cry when their husbands embrace a lamp post. A man never wakes up his second baby just to hear it laugh. ‘When you see a woman in tears it's | a certainty that there's a man at the bottom of ft. . Secretary Hay have set about ending | " this religious discrimination among American citizens. It is thz most offensive of all discriminations. A member of the orthodox ““Russian church, naturalized in this country, could safely return to Russia protected by an American-passport, while a Jew under the same circumstances returned at his peril. At last the case of the Jews has been put to the Czar in terms so positive as affecting the national dignity of the United States by denial of the efficacy of cit- izenship in this republic that the Czar has weakened and yielded. When the present negotiation is ended a Russian Jew, panoplied .by Americin citizenship, protected by an American passport, can visit his home and his people without risk or peril. The dignity cf citizenship has been vindicated by President Roosevelt, and now - there is no part of the earth where it is safe for 2 foreign power to disrespect John Hay's passport and the great seal of the United States. It is a conspicuous triumph of American diplomacy, of human rights and of religious liberty. | braska. Well, perhaps by that time that | other Nebraska farmer, William Jen- nings Bryan, will be willing to relin- quish the center of the stage.—New York Tribune. Admiral Stirling, commanding the Asfatic squadron, says in a special re- port to the Navy Department that he wants more ships in the Far East. see whether he'll need them ?—Boston Globe, History repeats itself. The most an- ‘clept human beings were cave-dwellers and the most modern are about to be subway-dwellers.—New York World. “There is always a bar at the mouth of the Mississippi River,” remarks a Southern contemporary. Né wonder it mouth waters,—Chicago Tribune. Indianapolis beer has taken a medal at the World's Falr. And yet some people presume to declare that we ex- cel in ne art except literature!—In- dianapolis News. % i Ruyters Kra at 1 o’clock | §00d plot for my story. Doem Wright—Why don’ SURE! XKramp—I'd like to get a 700, FIRED ON THE WRONG FLEET. COPYRIGHT, 1904 BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL WITH THE NEW Miss Carmen Seiby is a bud who was | introduced yestergay by her aunt, Mrs. | Edward L. Ayer. A tea was the motif of the occasion and a pleasant, merry | time there was in greeting the fair young debutante. - Mrs. L. L. Baker and Philip Baker | have returned from the St. Louis Ex- position. p | ' 1 Miss Evelyn Craig, daughter of Mr. | and Mrs. Hugh Craig of Piedmont. | and William Pattiani will be married | on Tuesday evening. November 15. The ceremony will be only for friends, [u:ough a large reception will follow. | v S : Miss Isabel Kendall and Miss Hopps were guests yesterday at a card party | given them by Miss Noelle de Golia in | | Oakland. Miss Kendall will be mar- ll’led next week and Mis¢ Hopps is visit- | ing here from the East. PR R | l The marriage of Miss Susan Patton | |and Dr. Le Moyne Wills of Los An-| | geles will take place in this city on No- |\'(mber 23. Miss Patton, who is a | sister of Mrs. Hancock Banning, ex- | pects a large number of Los Angeles | friends to attend the ceremony, which | will be performed in Grace Church. | *’ o » | Mrs. A. W. Bacon and her daughter, | Miss Alice Bacon, who is seon to marry Tom Driscoll, have been spending much time lately at Mare Island. Great attention has been paid them and just new, particularly, Miss Bacon has { been besteged with honors. One of the | enjoyable affairs was a card party a few days ago given by Mrs. B. F. Tilley. Seven-handed euchre was the game and the afternoon was a very | | delighttul one. . | | Mfs. John' D. Spreckels and Miss | Lily Spreckels have arrived in New | York after a tour abroad. They will | | be in California in a short time. ! j Miss Mabel Watkins and Miss Etelka | Williar will leave for the Philippines | about December 1L ! Mrs. Charles * Kleinberg) has Peabody Huff (nee | left for Bremerton | CASHMERE BACK AGAIN. | { Cashmere is back again with a great- | er prestige than when it left. It has many qualities that adapt ft to the present fashion—a highly finished sur-- face, suppleness and a long range of colors, says the New York Sun. All the rew tones are, in fact, out in the old| YORK EVENING MAIL DEFINITION OF A BLUSH. According to a medical Journal, this Pacific | is an accurate definition of a “‘blush” “A blush is 2 temporary erythema and caloric effulgence of the physiog- nomy, etiologized by perceptiveness of the sensorium when in a predicament of unequilibrity from a sense of shame, anger, or other cause, eventu- ating in a paresis of the filaments of the facial capillaries. whereby being divested of their elas- ticity, they are suffused with a ra- diance emanating from an intimi- dated praecordia.” LAUGHTER PARALYZES HER. Mrs, H. J. Stoutenburgh, wife of a Des Moines coal operator, recently saw “Babes in Toyland” theater. She became so0 convulsed with laughter as to bring on a para- Iytic stroke. She was removed from the theater and taken to her hotel in a carriage. | Her condition has somewhat jmproved. — x4 AN EXCEPTION. ' She—Don’'t vou believe in the saying “Seeing is believing.” He—No, I've seen a great deal of your brother Ananias lately. JAP WOMEN KEEP SILENCE. Japan has its communities of silent female recluses. There is a convent at a place called Yunakawa, about seven miles from Hakodate. A matren of some 50 years presides and her. in- structions are implicitly obeyed. The ‘women are all young, ranging from 16 to 27, and some of them are described as very beautiful. The building stands women do not engage in any agricul- tural work. They spend mcest of their time indoors and they observe a strict rule of silence. ROUTED BY HER TIGHTS. vasomotor ' at a Chicago | — SWEETS FOR VOTERS WIVES The most unique campaign on rec- ord is being conducted by O. A. Pig- gott, a Republican candidate for the Wisconsin'State Senate. H2 is not dis- pensing free drinks and cheap cigars. On the contrary, he is giving away 10- cent clear Havanna cigars to the men {and* high-grade candies among the wives and sweethearts of the voters. He says: “If you give a man a cabbage leaf rope to smoke instead of a good cigar | he will remember to vote against you. | Give him a good cigar and get his |vete. Give the children caps with | your name on the band and the women { candy and you’ll win, sure.” CARRIES NEEDLE 14 YEARS. After wandering all over her body for fourteen years a needle was taken from the shoulder of Bertha Coler at | the Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadel- | phia. When she was five years old | she fell to the kitchen floor and the | | needle entered her left ankle. ! At intervals of two or three months weave—the American beauty shades, the pretty greens, of which almond, bronze and lichen are just now the most popular; all the browns, including the | favorite mole and cinnamon; the blues, | with Parsifal leading them, and the purples, dahlia and copper shades | With the old fabric again regnant it is| consistent that black velvet should re- | turn to the front for trimming. and it is here touching up silks, eloths and even gauzes. For the bisque and pink and other pale tinted cashmeres no trim- ming is better suited than black velvet, | especially if a note of Persian embroid- ery is introduced and there is a gener- ous touch of lace. Especially for after- | noon gowns the revived texture lends itself to attractive and economical cos- tumes. For simple home dresses many | | cashmere skirts are being made to ac- | | company silk blouses that match them i in shade. And here is a new fancy for cashmere skirts. When there is full- ness to be brought into the waistband, ! very flat, overlapping lingerie tucks are employed to do the work of fitting and | shaping at beit and hips. A pretty cashmere frock has a skirt | whose only decoration is these tucks, | she felt pains as the needle was mak- | forming a yoke shape at the top. The| | ing its way through her body. Several | Waist is one of the draped surplice attempts to remove it were un-; bodices, with high silk girdle and flow- | Shecasitul {ing elbow sleeves. The unders of the | | sleeves are compesed of numerous puffs | Theater in Iceland. | ending at the hands in narrow frills of Perhaps the most curious theater in | the silk and wide frills of lace. A nar- | the world is that at Reykjavik, the | row puff of silk the shade of the cloth | capital of Iceland. The company con- outlines the self-colored lace yoke of the | sists of twelve persons, who are all | bodice. | amateurs, and ‘the-theater is open only | These nparrow puffs, bouillonnees, as! | on Sundays during the winter months. | the French dressmaker calls them, are | The auditorium contains about 300 peo- as much used now as in the spring. ple and the favorite plays are those of | They trim skirts, bodices, evening coats | Ibsen and Bjornson. But the Iceland- | and wraps and even the wide brims of | jers are now beginning to wake up t0 big velvet hats. Another vogue to con- the possibilities of the dramatic art|tinue is the use of upstanding ruffles | and the Government has just voted a ang plaitings. These appear at the| subvention of 300 crowns for the| pead of nun's folds, other bands “di theater, while the commune has sent | aounces. the leading lady of the amateur troupe, | In the gown of the blue chiffon broad- Madame Josephson, to Copenhagen 1o cioth the use of the puff is weil illus- study elocution. Consequently the Ice- {rated. An undulating shirred band | landers are looking forward this Win- | .ggeq with velvet folds -hems the ter to a greatly improved series of gounce of the skirt. The bolero, tucked | TenyeRntstions. | at the shoulders, ends at the girdle in a The Return Invitation. {7ty gun of, pua “Please, Mrs. Subbubs, mamma says T:L‘:“::;:::e;“ne:;;‘:‘fio .'::' - she'll be glad If yow'll come to tea on | DOPUAT teatment, fancituly shaped Monday." H 5 “With pleasure, Bessie. Tell youri"'r:;!::":,flhz:m_c“',: ‘h;“':"dn; mgg;er lt'l really teo kind—" | the woman of abbreviated stature there ; no! Mamma says she’ll be glad | arve shorter skapés that are fi when it's over.”—London Punch. i i e P10 ;Tp-m‘t’::i | large in proportion for her other dimen- | sions will do well to avoid the tight-| . fitting basque coat that ends at the | in- or below them. It accentuates the | | girth at that point. For such figures | | there are half-fitting Coats far and | away more becoming to those who have | | lost their girlish res. MARY UP-TO-DATE | | 1 | | Hotel on Saturday. ps | bers. Navy -Yard, where her husband. En- mflufl.umwontber. 8 8 Wyoming. Mrs. Huff Wwill remain porth until the Wyoming returns to this city. Mrs. A. S. Langstroth and her son Ivan Langstroth; have takem apart- ments at the Westminster, where they will be located about November 15 P The debutantes will receive hospita- ble attention next week from Mrs Louis Monteagle, who is preparing to make all these merry maids happy at a luncheon. 5 = 2 Mrs. Grayson Dutton will be hostess at a large reception at the St. Francis on Monday afternoon. Yy Dr. and Mrs. Shiels and Major Shiels will be the guests at a dinner given by Dr. William A Martin at *he Palace - Mrs. Frank Whitney and George Whitney have taken apartments at the Pleasanton. They have just returned from a tour of the world. - Judge and Mrs. Erskine M. Ross will leave in a few days for their home in Los Angeles. They have been spending the last six weeks in | San Francisco. SR Rt Mr. and Mrs. Albert Gallatih, with their daughter, Miss Lita Gallatin, have arrived in New York from a Eu- ropean trip. Their stay East is in- definite, though the probabilities are that the near future will see them homeward bound. Miss Gallatia re- turns with a Parisian trousseau, for | her marriage with Mr. Hall is one of the near and eagerly expected evenrs. . - . A bridge club that has a congenial membership was entertained ti= first of the week by Mrs. William Smed- Those who passed the after- noon with this favorite game wera Mrs. Timothy Hopkins, Mrs. Pond, Mrs. George Moore, Mrs. Otls, Mus Russell Wilson. Mrs. William P. Mor- gan, Mrs. McAllister, Mrs. William Thomas. | S —— M A PLEA FOR THE ACADEMY. (While The Call has editorially expressed itself 3s opposed to the comstitutional amend- ment referred to, Jm a spirit of falrness it publishes the foliowing communication.) Editor Call: Having read im your issue of November 2 your unfavorabie comment on the proposed constitution- al amendment td exempt from taxation the California Academy of Sciences, | desire to submit to you the following statement: The California Academy of Sciences is an institution quite as deserving of exemption from taxation as are Stan- ford University and the chugches, in- stitutions already exempted. The lib- erality of our State In respect to edu- cation, which has characterized it from the very beginning. is one of the chief glories of California. © No Caitfornian can be opposed to the free offer of an education to every child in the State. The work of the academy is exclu- sively educational, and is as exclusive- iy for public as contradistinguished from private purposes as is the work of the public schools, while at the same time the academy did not cost the pubiie a dollar, nor is it reeeiving or asking for any public support, as are the public schools. It is founded chiefly on the philan- thropic benefactions of James Lick, and is, and has been from its start, de- voting every dollar of its income to public educational purposes, such as maintaining excellent and constantly growing scientific collections always open and free to every man, woman and child that désires to examine or study them; also in printing. publish- ing and distributing throughout the en- tire civilized world the labors of scien- tific men from all parts of the State, and in sending out. as far as its means will admit, exploring expelitions for the purpose of adding to our knowi- { edge and keeping pace with advancing civilization. To carry on this work, much of which is done by public spirited citi- zens gratuitously, requires money, just as the public schools require money. But the difference is that the academy is asking né public aid in the same sense as are the public schools. All it asks is that it may be allowed to use all its income for the purpose of ex- tending its public usefulness. % THEODORE H. HITTELL, For the Academy. San Francisco, Nov. 2. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. TERRY M'GOVERN — 8 blv:flh.e.r, City. According to the record, Terry McGovern's first fight was with Frank Barnes in Brooklyn, N. Y. April 17, 1897, when he won in ten rounds. CONSUMPTION OF COAL-H. C W.. Watsonville, Cal. Ocean steamers |like those known as the ocean grey- hounds of the Atlantic fleet in the or- dinary run consume from three hun. dred and fifty to five hundred tons of coal in twenty-four hours. On one oe- casion, the Deutschland made a run o six hundred miles in that period of time at a cost of eight hundred and twenty-five tons of coal THE STATE PRISONS—Sub., City. J. W, Tompkins, Warden at the Stats Penitentiary as San Quentin, advises g. i il H