The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 7, 1904, Page 6

8 . THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL MONDAY, NOVEMBER " 1904 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL| JOHN D. SPRECKELS......cccc0eevccessscccvcccctnsscseccss Proprietor ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO JOHN McNAUGHT.....cconee sessescsiesscescasss Manager . ~THIRD wviesssssssscssss NOVEMBER 1, 1904 PUBLICATION OFFICE... AND MARKET STREETS, SAN FRANCISCO REMARKABLE ANTE-ELECTION WEEK. MONDAY AST week was remarkable from a business standpoint. With a L Presidential eiection only a few days off the record for the week was in almost all respects ahead of that for the corresponding week last year. Therc was an increase in the volume of business, sccording to the bank clearings, of 5.2 per cent, the failures were only 239 against 246 last year, 10,000 Eastern cotton-mill hands re- | sumed work, some iron and steel products were advanced in price, an improvement in collections was reported by the mercantile agen- cies, while the October railway earnings showed an increase of 7.6 per cent and the foreign exports from New York gained $789,276 and the imports fell off $297,752. \ oty For the week immediately preceding a Presidential election it was a record-breaker. The usual apathy of an ante-election week was nowhere visisible. Instead there was a feeling of buoyancy all over the country. Of the seventeen most prominent cities only four —Cincinnati, Kansas City, Cleveland and New Orleans—showed a decrease in bank clearings, and they were all small, the largest being 6.1 per cent at Milwaukee. The clearings themselves were record figures, mounting up to an aggregate of $2,854,750,000. When it is considered that for some years past $2,000,000,000 has been a good average volume for these clearings, the gzin in business last week becomes apparent. For months during the early part of this year they stood along in the neighborhood of $1,800,000,000. Here, then, is an apparent gain of 50 per cent this fall over the spring and sum- mer months. Of course, considerable of this gain is to be credited to the greatly enlarged trading on the New York Stock Exchange, but it must also be remembered that this increased trading in the stock market has been based wholly on the improved business conditions throughout the country, so the increase on the Exchange was merely & consequence of the expansion in general business. Had business not made its marked improvement there would have been no in- crease iing in the stock market. One proves the other. the business field in detail is corroborative of the A survey o statements above. Pittsburg, with a gain in bank clearings of 28.4 per cent, affirms the reports of a pronounced improvement in the iron and steel trades. Philadelphia, with a gain of 24.4 per cent, increased activity in the textile industries. Minneapolis, | with 2 gain of 15.6 per cent, shows an improved movement in wheat and flour over last year. Baltimore, with an increase of 17.7 per cent, indicates just so much expansion in exports of general mer- chandise. San Francisco, with a small increase of 3.4 per cent, saves and that is about all. Still, it places our city on the exhibit. New York shows an increase of 30 per | it runs all along the line. - g the detail further we find an active market for hides with prices higher than a month ago; a brisk movement h has been passing out of raisers’ hands at a rapid S rsuin end leather, in raw wool, vhi pace; large crops of corn and cotton, with an excellent demand for both at good prices ; high quotations for wheat, which is bringing the gr 1 general expansion in many lines of manu- fac ly employed everywhere, except where the or better terms for themselves, and an abun- itted the movement of the crops sistance, and with no strain whatever upon not for years has the financial and commercial is time of the year, and as far as the vement of crops is concerned it has not been as encouraging as it 1 line in European exchange during the past week ance of foreign trade is again running in our ne of business in the country shows an expan- ent exception is provisions, which are quiet le situation this fall. ing signs anywhere. It could hardly be better. In finance, stock and bond nings, manufacturing returns, farm prod- ising, crop prospects, collections and failure ne cheerful reports. Business is in excellent r to continue so, C "AN INVITATION. a are not given to vain boasting nor the vaunt- es, our land and institutions, but occasionally oved to give our Eastern brethren a little disinter- is about the time for some of this milk of human Winter is coming. i ining to screw on their double windows, set up their base burners and oil the hinges of their storm doors. A bank ! about the pump, cordwood for the furnace is being the turnips in the cellar are warmly battened 11 not freeze too early. With the first frosts nber moth balls are shaken out of furs, mittens are dug out 1 recesses of, trunks and Uncle Silas has a new rub- ber band sewed on his ear muffs. Winter is no snap. Of Fastern friends are wont to become somewhat huddle about the big Franklin stove and read surf bathing out here on our coast. In the in- of the st course our peevish when they of Opt roses ar tervals between mming up burst water pipes they ejaculate somewhat testily that they are getting ‘tired of all this land-of- sunshine talk and they turn to face the frightened mercury in the tube with count ces stamped with patriotic resignation to the | vagaries of their own clirhate. Remember, though, we do not urge a visit to California in the winter ; we only suggest. The matter is too obvious for discussion. If one would rather shovel tons of hard coal into a stove for four! months than eat strawberries under a rose tree, that is his privilege. We only very modestly point to sapphire skies, billowy green hills ' and riotous acres of vivid wild flowers with the heartily spoken as- | surance that there is enough for all and to spare. THE PRESS OF THE NATION. It is a long time since a candidate than was that of 1900, although that ©f either party for the Presidency hesi- | tated to meet the people on the pub- lic platform. Grover Cleveland was no orator; but he never was afraid to speak and he never failed to get an eudience and attention. Judge Park- er’s seclusion is going to be closer than that of McKinley in 1896, which was rather noticeable. But the whole country knew McKinley’s person and views, and Canton was a central point for visiting delegations. Besides, we believe he did make several important speeches. Anyway, nobody ever accused him of distrusting his power to ad- dress and persuade his countrymen. We cannot wonder that the Democrat- ic leaders are a little disgusted with the decision of llyir candidate.—Min- neapolis Tribune. Japan is crowded. Will anybody dare to ask If the present war is a Providential way of getting rid of an enormous surplus population that could be of little if any use on earth? Life is but a span at the best. The Japanese seem to be endowed with a spirit of fatalism that makes them willing to forego more than half of what at the best is but a brief breath- ing spell—Cincinnati Enquirer. This is & year in which the Repub- licans cannot be content with a small rance in the electoral college. should try to make it heavier was the largest since Grant's lead jover Greeley in 1872. The broader the jmargin on the Republican side in No- | vember the better it will be for the country’s business, honor and credit at home and abroad for the next four | years. The incentive among intelli- gent, patriotic Americans to roll up | an immense majority for the Republi- | can ticket was never greater than it is | iu 1904.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. | The Democrats should have waged this campalgn, 8o far as the tariff is | concerned, against the abuses, nof | against the palicy of protection. It[ was a big, bad blunder to declare that | | “protection is robbery.” It cut the party loose from any bond of sympathy | with Republican tariff revisionists and | it declared a doctrine that is foreign | to the views and feelings of a ma- jority of Democrats. All the conser- | vative utterances that followed the “robbery” declaration in the text of | the platform and In Judge Parker’s| frank deliverances cannot antidote that | outburst of passion—Washington Post. | —— | Mr. Thomas Watson wants Judge | Parker to get out of the fleld and let | him beat President Roosevelt. As the Republicans and the Populists are running a partnership campaign they would, of course, like to have the de- feat of the Republican party left to them.—Philadelphia Record. FOUR MORE YEARS AHEAD! Y\ P i ? ) COP‘HGHT_ 1904, BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL WITH THE NEW YORK EVENING MAIL. \|" COLLEGE GIRLS and || MATRIMONY HAT less than half the young | women who! graduate from Vas- sar College marry is shown by | Frances M. Abbott in a recent micle{ in the Popular Monthly. Miss Abbott | says: “The statistics for 1887-1896, which show only twenty-eight marriages per 100 graduates, with an average of less | than one child per marriage, are ‘ob- | viously incomplete’ because half the | members were under 30 in 1900. “During the thirty years from 1867 to | 1896, 1302 women have graduated from | Vassar. Of these, including 118 since deceased, 541 were or had been mar- | ried in 1900, being 41% per cent. That | means that less than half ‘adopted | matrimony as a profession.’ Taking | only twenty vears, all the graduates of | which may be assumed to have reach- ed marriageable years (they would average from 36 to 36), one finds that out of 701, 372 were married, a pro- portion of 53 per cent. This is still | only a little over one-half. | “The number of children from these | 372 marriages of full-grown graduates was 666 in 1900, an average of less than | two per family. But since 131 of these | | children were born in twenty-eight families (an average of over four), the average for the bulk of the graduates | | was only one and a half child per mar- riage. “Such are the facts as to matrimony, namely, that of the 700 women whe left | Vassar previous to 1886 and who would now show a minimum age average of 40 years, only a few over one-half are now married, and of those who are | | married the average family Is less than | two children.” Miss Abbott comments as follows: | “Of graduates of the first ten classes, | | whose average age now would be from ! 1 50 to 60, 56 per cent have never mar- ried. It is quite possible that some of | the living members may marry yet, but making allowance for sporadic cases, 80 per cent would probably include the | ! complete marriage record of graduates of this period. “These figures would seem to confirm | | the worst fears of those who, forty, | | years ago, opposed the admission of | | women to college. It is difficult to make comparisons, because so many | | | eircumstances enter into the question | | of marriage. College women come from | | all sections of the country and from “ most diverse social and pecuniary en- | vironment. The rate here given is un- doubtedly less than that for the whole 1 KX FIGURED G0OODS There is really no limit to the fig- ured goods that are seen, nor to the flowered materials. One of the hand- somest materials looks like black satin. Upon it are nouveau art roses, big straggling things of heroic size, ragged in outline and supplied with big green leaves, This material looks more like upholstery than dress goods- Yet lead- ers of fashfon are ordering whole gowns made out of it. PRETTY SHIRT WAIST The new shirt waists are lovely and one pretty waist was trimmed down the front in a lattice design. Narrow strips of silk were stitched and lat- ticed down the front of the waist. The same lattice was employed upon the tops of the sleeves. The cuffs were also latticed. And the stock was a white silk one latticed with narrow black | silk ribbon. ‘ NEW HAIR BOW. | | ‘With the new fashion of dressing the | hair in Paris, the roll at the back, with | the long comb put in sideways and the | tightened sides, a new style of hair | ornament has come into being. This is | a broad bow of pink or blue velvet | made unusually into a stiff knot, the | two bows at one side and two wired | ends at the other, and almost covered | with glittering sequins. These new | bows are rather startling in effect at | first, though the eye soon becomes used | to them. . SHIRT WAIST SETS The shirt waist sets of last summer are being utilized this fall upon cuffs and collars, and to fasten the fronts and the backs of shirt waists. They are made in all sizes and a perfect set of pins varying in size can be pur- chased for a dollar or thereabouts. BELTS OF LEATHER After many seasons of mediocrity, the leather belt has come into prominence again. There are lovely leather belts as well as belts of kid, suede, ooze and of rough leather with the hide on it.| Stocks are made to match these belts | and one sees cuffs to harmonize. SAVED HER. Hix—Nixon stopped a runaway team last week, and he’'s been kicking him- self ever since for doing it. Dix—Why so? Hix—His mother-in-law was in the team. FOR THE TALL WOMAN The tall woman— Should never show that she is conscious of her height. < | Should cultivate repose and a dignified but rational carriage. Should never allow herself to 8toop, because the result is awk- | ward and yet not an inch ap- pears to be detracted from her height. Should avoid very small hats or | startling colors and plaids in dresses. Should above all things avoid diminutive furniture, for a tall woman in a small seat is abso- lutely ridiculous, whereas a tall Juncesque figpre in a high-back- ed chair is a joy to an artistic eye.—Chicago Journal. - FAIR DIANA. The Soubrette—Why do the poets call it “silver moon"? | The Comedian—'Cause it comes in quarters and halves, I guess. PHONETIC LAZINESS A paragraph on ‘“phonetic laziness” in the London Daily Chronicle recent- ly brought out the eccentricpronuncia- tion of some of the curious plade names that adorn the map of England. Some forms are unfamiliar and may help travelers in out-of-the-way places in| that happy land. According to the | Chronicle, these are the local pronun- ciations: Rhudbaxton is Ribson. Woodmancote is Uddenmuckat. Sawbridgeworth is Sapser. Churchdown is Chosen. Sandiacre is Senjiker. Little Urswick is Lijosik. Aspatria is Spethry. St. Osith is Toosy. Chaddenwyche is Charnage. Happisburgh is Hazeboro. Salt Fleetby is Sollaby. I Almondesbury is Amesbury. Congesbury is Coomsbury. Of places better known Ulverstone is Gost'n and Hurstmonceaux Horse- mounces. It is a safe rule, apparently, in Britain never to try to pronounce a name according to the spelling. The man who was born great may not die that wav. female population of the country, but | perhaps not less than might be ex- pected for a specialized and highly ed- | ucated class.” : | It will be seen that the writer is put Mary Kelley, giving an address in| ., po; gefense even when the statis- East One Hundred and Twenty-second | ;.. are stretched to 60 per cent. But street, leaving a dry goods store on (. giatistics for thirty years lie be- Third avenue, New York, the other . ... d 53 per cent. None the less afternoon, bulged considerably. the following arguments will be found ‘““What did you steal here?” asked satisfactory: thf Tnanager, slopping l‘fer. | | “The tendency of civilization seems A lace handkerchief,” admitted ¢, pe toward comparatively late and Mary. féw marriages. One can almost judge Mary walked to the East One Hun- | g¢ the advancement (!) of a people as dred and Twenty-sixth street station 5 whole by the number of single | with much difficulty and there the women Females among savage races, matron solved the mystery of the a5 ip the animal kingdom, are not al bulge. In a bag under Mary's skirts jowed to remain unmated. It is an | she found four water glasses, four ypysual thing in these days for a well- | saucers, a brush, three handkerchiefs, pred girl to marry under 20. In our a box of shoe blacking, a bottle of glue, > WHY MARY BULGED. pins, one doll, two pieces of silk, five time girls married at 15 or 16. pairs of stockings, threce hatpins, a. O | ashes. mothers’ day such a course was emi- | four side combs, a thimble, a paper of nently proper and in our grandmothers’ | | Turkish empire. MANY TOWNS for MEN ONLY N the borders between China and Russia in Asia, almost due south of Lake Baikal, is a good sized town known as Malmatehin, which is exclusively inhabited by men. The place has a considerable trade and is also a military post. An old law | forbids women to live in this territory. and they cannot pass the great wall of Kalkan nor enter Mongolia at all «“The Prison of the Ten Thougand™ is the name given by the wandering Arabs of the district across Jordan to the fortress monastery of Mar Saba, on the Dead Sea. Not many years ago there were actually ten thousand monks living in this grim retreat, and even to-day there are more than a thousand left. The monastery Is one of the oldest in the world. having been founded about thirteen hundred vears ago by Eutheymius. The Empress Eudoxia formed a ro- mantic attachment for this stern old anchorite, and built near by a tower, which still exists, from which she could watch him at a distance. True to his vow, Euthymius utterly refused to see or hear the voice of a woman. Now the tower is Inhabited by a watchman, who keeps guard against the incursions of prowling Arabs. Twice during the last year the place has been raided by hordes from the desert. The monks who live there to- day are the most rigorous of any i the Greek church. They pass their lives in everlasting penance, without hope of pleasure or cheerful incident. Many of them go mad from the horror and desolation of their surroundinas. No woman is permitted to come within sight of Mar Saba. When Montana City burned seme strange facts concerning its inhabitants came to light. The town. which held | at the time about five thousand inhabi- tants, was occupled omly by less than a hundred Chinamen, who lived bv working the tailings of a once valuable mine. Small wonder that the fire raged for days till the town was reduced to It is said that for years mno woman had been seen in that once prosperous town. - Another Far Western settlement which is composed exclusively of men is Excelsior City, situated in & wild. rugged stretch of country on the Mexi- can edge of Southern California. This. too, wag once a mining town and has many fine buildings, but the ore zxave | out and it was deserted. Gradually it became a resort for escaped criminals and outlaws, who are practically all men. There are sald to have been three hundred of them in all, murder- ers and desperadoes every one. But as there is no port or railway anywhere near, they are entirely isolated and practically prisoners. A spot practically unknown to ctvili- zation on the shores of the Red Sea at Midi is the home of pirates and slavers. a regular nest of crimin The place is inhabited almost entirely by men. for the sheik who holds absolute con- trol there allows only the best of his warriors to marry. It pays no tribute to the Turkish government. for it lies t the end of g. long, narrow harbor inaccessible to vessels. It seems prob- able that it will continue its career unchecked. There are 300 American educational and philanthropic institutions in the cook book, four mustard spoons, a monkey wrench, a vase, two comts, a bottle of mustard, a bottle of cologne and a water pitcher. | 7The matron, in her surprise, advis d ‘that Mary be locked up as. a shop- lifter. COLORED WAISTS After a season of black and white | waists Dame Fashion turns toward the | colored waists. The loveliest shirts are | made of Scottish plaid silk and of piaid flannel and there are waists of plaided satin. They are made in the most fetching modes and for those who | are not too stout to wear plaids noth- ing prettier could be imagined. LACE CUFFS One of the prettiest of fashion’s frills | is the lace cuff. This consists of a triangular piece of lace, beautifully fin- iched around the edge. It Is sewed to| the upper part of the sleeve just as | they sewed lace cuffs to the sleeves a hundred years ago or nearly. EMBROIDERY PASSAGE OF Editor The Call: but failing this San Francisco, Nov. 4. ENCOMIUM TO ECONOMY Oh, let me turn my deep, sad gaze From regions of astronomy And pause a moment in the praise Of that sweet nymph. Economy— Economy, Economy! That reckless maid, Economy. “Why do you build yon railway gap,” I asked a railroad president, “To be a deadly danger trap To each suburban resident?” “Economy, Economy!” Explained the rallway president. “Why do you build your boats so cheap,” 1 asked a magnate, querulous, “That Death lurks near while trippers sleep, And every ride is perilous?” “Economy, Economy!” Explained that magnate, querulous. Embroiderx is more used than ever, but it partakes of an Oriental tome. Colored silk and plaid silks are em- broidered with tiny figures that look as though they were scattered over the | gown. “Why are your workrooms so disposed,” I asked some wealthy savages, “That men and women are inclosed Where quick consumption ravages?" “Economy, Economy!” ;VILLMM GREER HARRISON FA | { THOSE AWFUL NAMES. Hixon—It's a good thing the nights are so long in Russia. Dixon—Why? | colored people when a boy. “The weath- | er was very cold,” sald Judge Merriton, | #Hixon—It gives the natives a chance to go to night school and learn the lan- guage. Explained those wealthy sava: “Yon theater's a hall of death,” I told a builder. pottering, “Yon bridge would tumble at a breath, And every pile seems tottering.” “Economy, Economy!" Remarked that builder, pottering. And thus is many a soul released To realms beyond astronomy, While Death enjoys a lavish feast— That's paid for by Economy. e hat Thinciipped nymph, Bconomy That thin- nymph, onomy. v —Baltimore Herald. THE DEPARTED SISTER Judge Clay N. Merriton of Alabama was asked by a reporter how he had acquired the facilify with which he turned from one case to another. In ex- planation he stated that he had learned this from what he saw at a baptism of “go that to immerse the candidates they were obliged to cut away the ice. It happened that when one of the fe- male converts was dipped back into the water the cold made her squirm about and in a moment she had slipped from the preacher’s hands and was down the stream under the ice. The preacher, however, was not disconcerted. Look- ing up with perfect calmness at the crowd on the bank he said, ‘Brethren, this sister hath departed—hand me down another.’ "—Chicago News. # — VORS AMENDMENT NO. 11 Shipping should be absolutely free of all port charges. Amendment No. 11 is the best substitute offered, and as an individual deeply Interested in the welfare of this city, I cordially indorse the amendment. WILLIAM GREER HARRISON. SOME GOOD RECIPES Date Cake—Cream one cup of sugar and one-half cup of butter together. Add the beaten yolks of two eggs, then two cups of flour sifted with three level teaspoons of baking powder, after reserving enough to flour the fruit. Add one-third cup of milk, slowly beating all the time, then the stiffily beaten whites of two eggs, and last ofie pound of dates stoned and cut in pleces, and roll in the flour that was reserved. Beat and bake In a moder- ate oven about three-quarters of am hour if in a deep pan. Lemon Sherbet—The request for a good lemon sherbet is constantly re- peated. A plain water ice must have a syrup foundation. Put three cups of granulated sugar and two cups of wa- ter together and cook without stirring until the syrup will thread and is thick. Cool, add the juice of half a dozen lemons, two oranges and a level tablecpoon of the yellow peel of the lemons grated. If any of the white peel is used it will affect the taste of the sherbet, giving a bitterness that is unpleasant. Set this mixture aside to steep nearly an hour, then strain into the freezer and freeze. Sea Foam Rolls—Pour one pint of scalding hot milk on one tablespoon- ful of butter, one of sugar, and one teaspoonful of salt; mix well and when cold add one-half yeast cake and three cups of flour; set to raise for two or three hours and add flour enough fo knead; then raise again and knead the dough again, roll out into thick- ness of an inch, cut jnto biscuits, roll each biscuit into an oblong shape, brush with butter and fold over; brush the tops of rolls with butter and let rise until very light; bake in a hot oven. Pone—Two cups cornmeal, two cups wheat flour, one cup sugar, one-half cup melted butter, one egg, one tea- spoonful salt, one teaspoonful soda, one teaspoonful cream of tartar. Mix with enough milk to make a moderate- ly stiff batter and bake in hot oven. —_———— Townsend's California Glace fruits in artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 Market st.* e Special Information supplied daily business ho‘l;m and public men ..': Press Clipping T&u’uu (Allen’ u)&?. o elepnone Mala