The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 15, 1904, Page 8

NCISCO CALL, JOHN D. SPRECKELS ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO JOHN McNAUGHT.. PUBLICATION OFFICE. THURSDAY THE SPIRIT OF THE MESSAGE. IME enough has gone by to enable consideration of the Presi- Tdem's message, in the light of the comment and criticism which followed its delivery. The conclusion is that the message marks a new epoch in our national history and in the condition of the world. The opportunities of life here have been so extended and developed and wrought out upon our abundant resources as to make necessary less guardianship over the gaining of wealth and more over its use. We have reached the parting of the ways and the final test of free institutions. The very abundance of our natural resources and the ready conversion of potential into present wealth make ne- cessary an extensive regulation of the power which wealth can ex- ercise. Human nature being what it is, power will be riotously used by its possessor, if the use be unrestrained. Property has been accumulated here more rapidly than else- where and is more generally distributed because the country’s latent wealth is great, and its laws have perfectly protected the rights of property. The law represents the judgment of society as to what shall be held as property. The day being pere in which the law must regulate the power of property, two schools of thought are open at the parting of the ways. Socialism is there crying out for govern- ment ownership of all the means of acquisition and distribution, and for an equal division of the acquired wealth of the country. Taking advantage of the economic principle that property exists at all only in the assent of society, this school proposes that the social assent to the existence of property shall be withdrawn, and all laws pro- tecting it repealed. No one denics that that would be a remedy. It is a proposition to remove all danger from the power of property by destroying roperty, ab: ng private ownership and bestowing everything verybody. This remedy, however, proposes that human energy and skill shall continue without the incentive of personal acquisition. So it means the impossible and the impractica- ble. It means the stagnation of society, the rapid necrosis of enérgy and the decline of effort to a minimum. Bat it is a remedy the evils of which are in its future and unseen by those who support it. upon and enterprise Over against this is a school of politics, not partisanship, but ! politics, of which President Roosevelt is the leader and exponent. As such leader his message is written. Its spirit affirms that the law has done well by promoting the creation and ownership of prop- erty; that the law has not thereby created a Frankenstein to turn and destroy its creator, but that the creative function shall now be supple- mented the regulative fun which shall place metes and bounds aro the power of property, and within them continue to promote its acquisition and enjoyment. It is in its corporate form that property has the greatest power. Therefore its regulation in that form is the first necessity. The Pres- ident develops in high relief the function of the new Department of Commerce in t connection. It has not come to destroy but to Ifill. The law having created property for a good purpose, bene- icial to the citizen, now comes on its mission of fulfillment, to carry good property, not by destruction but by co. ope The President leaves no ground possible of occupation in opposition to him except that taken by Socialism. Every citizen who is not a N d by of purpose le ground. cr. is message absolutely eliminates the actual Demo- c party by absorbing it. The President has advanced the political frontier until it is the between the two great schools—on one side a representative democratic republic, led by the President ; on the other Socialism with its banner inscribed “Property is robbery.” No genuine Jeffersonian Democrat hesitates a minute as to where he belongs. His place is beside the President, and that party disappears as a party and joins line the force which has uttered, through the President, the political gos- | pel of the new epoch, “What the law has created the law must reg- | ulate and discipline and not destroy.” Men must now study the politics of the new epoch, just as in 1896 their fears compel]ed-thcm to study finance. The past is rolled up like a scroll. The anti- British politics, that long survived the Revolution, is no more. The sentimental politics that began in John Quincy Adams’ defense of the right of petition, and ended in the Civil War, is no more. The sectional politics that followed that struggle and made its gibber and jangle and tuneless inharmony pass for principles so long is no more. We are face to face with a new phase in our national life and a new issue. It has emerged out of conditions that have been our pride and boast. It is the evolution of our natural resources and man’s best opportunity, joined. The President declares that that which came from a good cause, for a good purpose, need not be destroyed, lest it work harm. It is our part to prove that free, representative government, under universal suffrage, can deal with all problems that its freedom | has caused, with all property its laws have promoted, with all power subordinate to its sovereignty, by conserving and regulating and not by destroying. The President is the leader; fall in! : The message is wonderfully illuminative of the political situa- tion. It is a classifying document, a stroke of political chemistry that discloses affinities. It puts Mr. Bryan and all his school, advo- cating government ownership of production and distribution, with the Socialists, where they belong. They have been tum-tu ming partisan catgut under the national windows in the twilight as harm- less troubadours. The President’s message is the policeman’s dark lantern turned on them and revealing them as porch climbers and not minstrels. So Roosevelt has not only disclosed a new epoch, new duties, | new dangers, but he has done what no man has done before him: | WHEN THE RAINMAKER WORKS. he has compelled and dictated the partisan alignment of the future. E of the rainy belt will all watch with sympathetic interest the promised work of the new “rainmaker” in Los Angeles. With admirable assurance he has announced that before the first of next May he will have extracted eighteen inches of moisture from the azure skies of the southland: failing, he will retire from busmes§ and let niggardly nature handle her own precipitations. Something in the proximity of $1000 as a side bet, contributed by some of the Los Angelenos of sporting proclivities, adds jest to this experimentation with the atmosphere. . Everybody has hopes of the ultimate success of the rain con- juror except the weather prophets. To them this tampering with the immutable formulas of the elements can but strike terror to the heart and call up vague fears for the peace of the skies elsewhere. Supposing, they argue, that this young man of Los Angeles lets off chemical bombs in the cerulean vault and succeeds thereby in start- ing a miniature storm center to swirling over the desert, what will happen in other portions of the heavenly territory? This sudden condensation of the atmosphere over Southern California might sur- prise Kansas zephyrs into a little twister ; the Oregon chinook might be deflected to Cape Cod and its four feet of snow would disappear in a breath; the gentle blizzard of the Dakotas, once disturbed out of its chosen territory, might make State street, Chicago, look like Deadwood on a frosty morning. This tinkering with storm clouds outdares Prometheus himself, say they. But do they think of the glad surprise that must surely attend cighteen inches of home-made rain down in the south?> The gentle Mogqui, unwashed child of the desert, must of necessity enjoy the mysteries of his first bath. The labor-loving Mexican ‘will for the | first time learn that the roof of his "dobe dwelling is not designed to keep out sun alone and he will knock off work on the section gang to sit and watch the leaks leak. The peaceful cow-puncher will mar- vel greatly, then look at the skies through numerous and various glasses and shoot up the old town. Verily the varied display of human emotions attendant upon this promised rainstorm will in itself be worth the cost of producing it » & cialist must stand with Roosevelt. There is no mid- " THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 190 - LOVE IS BOTH ANDCOMPOUNDOFELEMENTS o AN ELEMENT S LOVE an entity? Or is it com- posed of the various elements of mind and spirit? This query, which has been put to me by a reader of The Call, I am going to answer in Yankee fashion, by a question of my own. Do not both of the descriptions given fit love well? As the chief of human passions, love is a single, a separate, thing. One may [ | INE @A consider it apart from the lover, as a mighty influence on mortal destiny. But, as the unified expression of the entire being, it is made up of many elements: it is the very self of the one who loves. In some respects the case is similar to that of a musician's music or of a painter’s or a sculptor's art. Here the technique is one thing and the immor- tal soul behind it is another. Either attribute may be judged separately; but it takes both together to reveal the artist’s geniu. The man is the instru- ment of his a but, equally. the art is the instrument of the man. In love, the similar relationship is ore intimate, more personal. Love without the lover is an idea devitalized. And, on the other hand, it means little to say that a man loves, unless the quality of his performance is stated or implied. In his book of essays called “The Kinship of Nature,” Bliss Carmen at- tempts a detailed definition of love. - By Dorothy Fenimore. Love, he says, is composed of three parts. First, there is what we call the physical element, that unreasoned,, in- comprehensible attraction for another which often draws us in spite of our better judgment and our finer instinct. | The second constituent is spiritual; it partakes of the nature of worship and reverence. It leads to those beautiful, enduring acts of devotion which are so commonly associated with the idea of | love. But pride is the third constituent | tal manifestation of it. “No love,” says | the essayist, “is complete without pride. In the relations of men .and women, pride ig the savor of love.” | There is an illustration in the pretty | story of Charlemagne’s answer to a | courtier, who asked him whether he held King Meliadys or his son Tristan | to be the better man, Thus replied the | emperor, wisely: “King Meliadus wnnl the better man, and I will tell you| why. As far as I can see, everything | that Tristan did was done for love, and his great feats would never have been done save under the constraint of love, ; which was his spur and goad. Now, this same thing can never be said of King Meliadus. For what deeds he di he did them not by dint of love, but by dint of his strong right arm. Purely out of his own goodness he did good, | and not by constraint of love.” All this discussion is profitable in its | own way. It makes us entertainment ' over the teacups; it is a good subject | for speculation in a lonely idle hour. But when we come down to the truth, of the matter, does it mean much more | to you and to me than mere words and | a pleasant story? What really con-) cerns us is not love as we reason it out, | not love &s the romance depicts it for | us, but love as we feel it—the drenm,J the ecstacy, the strong, exultant lhrill.J Preservation of Flowers, | Professor Constantine Gregory o(“ Naples has discovered a new chemical | process for the preservation of flowers and leaves which has won a silver medal from the Neapolitan Institute | for the Advancement of Science. Plant leaves as difficult of preser-| vation as those of the orchid and the begonia have been kept wonderfully well by this method, and Professor Gregory is hopeful of preserving even fungi in a remarkably natural condi- tion. | | | Justice for Dandies. The man who nowadays desires to | beautify his clothes either in color or cut—knee breeches and silk stockings, | for instance—is generally suspected of effeminacy. The suspicion may be well founded, but at the same time, says the Westminster Gazette, we are bound to admit that the teaching of history does not confirm the idea that any lack of manly qualities is the | necessary accompaniment of satins, velvets and lace. silks, H The clouds are 1 lift mine eyes The sun Is smiling . Why do |1 smile? Why do | weep? I do not know; it lies too deep. I hear the winds of autumn sigh, They break my he. 1 hear the birds of lovely spring, My hopes revive, Why-do I sing? Why do I cry? It lies so deep, | know not why. —Philadelphia Record. | KNOW NOT WHY 1ift mine eyes against the sky —+ weeping, so am [j again on hizh, , 80 am I. art, they make me cry; I help them sing. — NATURE Walking out one day we met a fine woman. “I am Nature,” said she, pleasantly. We expressed our gratification, and | complimented her on the looks of the ! woods and fields. | “Oh, yes,” said Nature. “The arti- ! ficial @igestion of food lets me out of a !lot of confining, thankless work, and enables me to get out doors more.” We remarked that it seemed to agree with her, whereat she thanked us, and passed on.—Puck. TOO MUCH PROGRESS The City Council of Venice has voted to buy several electric launches to be used on the canals. The City Council of | Venice ought to be dumped into the | canals, The gondola should reign un- challenged in Venice, where, as in Flor- ence, every “modern improvement” is |an anachronism and an impertinence. Florence has been much spoiled and | despoiled. Venice has lost the Cam- | panile and gained the electric launch.— | | With the Procession, BEverybody’s!tion that they'd encore ‘Bedelia’ if I | Magazine for December. dared blatt it.”—Town Topics. { T + THE MODERN FIREMAN The chief disconcerting feature of the problem is to procure a man who will | be sufficiently muscled to withstand the | heavy manual labor at present imposed | upon the fireman of the modern mas- | todonic locomotive, and who at the same time possesses the mental caliber | for locomotive engineer duty when his time comes for promotion. This ideal | specimen of modern fireman must be | a man to whom nature has been un- | usually kind in her endowment of both | physical and mental strength. This particular combination is distressingly rare; hence, this troublesome feature of the problem.—Railway and Locomotive Engineering. GETTING UNPOPULAR “Sound the retreat!” roared the Rus- sian officer. The bugler could do naught but obey. “Geeski! But I'm sorry for the poor | devils,” he muttered. “They’'ve heard | i i i | this tune 8o often that I'd be willing to bet ten yen against an emergency \ra- — { NEEDED POSTING. Pat—That spellbinder last noight said he knew no North, South, East or West. Mike—And what did you tell him? Pat—I told him he ought to study his &eography a bit. 4 JUST SMILES Little Sister (studying her grammar lesson)—How can you compare the words “beautiful girl?” Big Brother (absent-mindedly)—Posi- tive you call, comparative you propose, superlative she accepts. of the passion of love. This is the men- | . | preciate music a bit. | derstand are a few oily dauby-daubs, | | dow and listened, and when a full, [ FOR ARTS SAKE. By lzola Merrifield. T WAS nobody's fault but her own. ‘Whenever trouble came a-knock- ing at Philippa's door, all kind friends raised hands of innocence to the skies and declared thank- fully that it was nobody's fault but her own. “He had no earthly right to raise his hat and smile when I met him in the elevator.” “He had every right in the world,” | which | guests: | of honor at a dinner given last even- 7 The luncheon given to Miss Charlotte Wilson yesterday by Mrs. Alexander D. Keyes was ap affair thoroughly en- joyable throughout. The color device, red, was continued through all details, American Beauty roses, name cm_‘ds and carddelabra giving out this rich | hue. Ten guests were bidden and| their pleasure was fully apparent dur-| ing the entire affair. The following | were present: Mrs. Danforth Board-| man, Miss Charlotte Wilson, Miss | Margaret Hyde-Smith, Miss Ursula | Stone, Miss Maud Payne, Miss Azalea Keyes, Miss Emily Wilson Miss Maisee Langhorne, Miss Carol Moore. R | The Sequoia Club members were never more delightfully entertained than on this last Tuesday evening, when a harmonious contingent was present. The hostesses, Mrs. H. E.| Huntington, Mrs. Linda Bryan and Miss Spieker gave charming hospitality and succored the Interests of the: friends and guests most successfully. AR Mrs. Theodore J. Hay was the guest of honor at a luncheon given yester- day by Mrs. Willlam Alfred Rogers. Mrs. Hay is visiting San Francisco from the East and will be the reciplent of many teas and luncheons during her stay. Polnsettias graced the table, at were seated the following Mrs. Theodore Hay, Mrs. Spencer Buckbee, Mrs. Grant Self- ridge, Mrs. Worthington Ames, Mrs. Stanley Stillman, Mrs. Sticox, Mrs. Earl | Brownell, Mrs. Edward Pond. P Mr. and Mrs. Downey Harvey and | Miss Anita Harvey will entertain to- day at an elaborate tea. Many invi- | tations have been issued and an enjoy- | ble affair will be the result. ohe . | | 1 { Miss Marjorie Josselyn was the guest ing by Mr and Mrs. “Before I go I want to know | | if I may tell her.” B o contradicted Elizabeth calmly. “If | I had been in his place I should have come right down and called on you, | after you had acted like a love-lorn | lunatic, Philippa.” “It was not lunacy! It was inspira- | tion!” Philippa half turned from the; piano to argue. *“You weren’t in the | studio at the time, Beth, and you don'ti know a blessed thing about it. I| wasn't even practicing. 1 was clean- ing up.” Elizabeth smiled. She had seen Philippa’s cleaning up process. It meant the hustling of everything dis- orderly out of sight, under the divan, behind the wardrobe, anywhere at &.ll,’ so long as it was unseen. And he sang my pet duet from ‘Il | Trovatore.’” Beth, it was splendid. You poor old heathen, you don't ap- ! A you can in- | or a pen-and-ink sketch, but had only heard him— | “If I had heard him I don’t think that I should have flown to the win- dow, and warbled back an answer up a New York air shaft.” “I don’t care.” Philippa's tone was lofty, and her attitude belligerent. “I didn’t care a rap about him personal- | 1y, and § hadn't the slightest idea | what he looked like, but the voice was | divine. It was the voice of ‘Manrico’ | calling, and ‘Leonora’ answered it {ori art's sake.” “Well, ‘Leonora’ had better attend{ to her cleaning up and mind her own | business. Now she hasn’t any cause for complaint at all, because ‘Manrico’ | raises his hat to her in the elevator and says ‘howdy’ In neighborly fash- fon. Are ¥you sure that it was ‘Man- ico? ™ “Oh, yes. He looks it,” Philippa | spoke with vague enthusiasm. “And | Lafayette says that he is the new one | in the studio over ours.” | “Well, you had better send Lafay- | ette a little printed slip to post up in| his elevator: | “ ‘Students may sing grand opera | duets through the air shaft, but any! promiscuous greetings in elevator will | be followed by eviction.”” “1 suppose the poor fellow was so| amazed and delighted when he saw | how completely I fulfilled his ideal of | ‘Leonora’ that he lost his presence of | mind.” Philippa could be as sweetly, simply and contentedly vain as Nar- cissus among the water lilies. | - “Presence of mind is never lost.” Elizabeth added a high light daintily | to the left eye of an Italian fruit ven- dor on the canvas before her. “It is mislaid. As long as he didn’'t lose his heart he needn’t worry.” Philippa laughed and ran her fin- ers teasingly over the piano keys. “I think he is worrying,” she said. But there were no more duets through the air shaft. If the occupant of studio 5, on the third floor, hap- | pened to be practicing her trills and quavers the occupant of studio 7, on | the fourth floor, sat by his open win- if you rich tenor floated down from studio 17 Philippa would tiptoe to the wyindow and listen also and be glad and proud in a way, because somewhere in the golden to-morrows of hope success lay snugly and surely tucked away for the tall, brown-eyed boy who dared to greet “Leonora” in the elevator. He had *“dared” only once. Long after even Elizabeth deigned to bow | friends about her on New Year's eve | | pleasure was given yesterday at the| | when the population was | thoughtfully reviewed . William Bourf. | g g Miss Carol Moore will gather her for a jolly dance and informal enter-! taining. Though many have been asked, all formality will be dispensed | with, and the young people are looking | forward anxiously for the date. L Mrs. James C. Sims will entertain to- day at her home, 914 Union street. This is the first reception given by Mrs. Sims | since returning from her wedding trip. An afternoon of enlightenment gnd home of Mrs. Breeze, Sutter and Frank- streets. Mme. Zanzi Mussini, a Floren- tine woman of letters, gave an instruc. [ +THE SMART SET= | BY SALLY SHARP. tive discourse upon the poets of Italy, Also a linguist, Mme. Zanzi will at dif- ferent times lecture in French, Italian and German. The seventh annual reception and ex-. hibition of the pupils of L. P. Latimer opened yesterday afternoon in the ple room, Palace Hotel. Many v attended, and the evening’s view w diversified by music under the manags ment of Henry Heyman, the followir soloists taking part: Henry Heymar Mrs. Richard Rees, Miss Hazel Gilbert, Miss Persis Goodman and Garner Sten- house. - Percy Pettigrew and Dr. A. J. Hin er, who are both interested in mines at Goldfield, will be home for the holidays Dr. Hinlker will return about the 20th and Mr. Pettigrew, with Mr. and Mrs. Lemman (Helen Pettigrew), will spend Christmas in the Callaghan home. N Dr. and Mrs. W. J. Younger are liv. ing in Paris at the Hotel Elysee Pala. S 5 Lieutenant and Mrs. John Franklin Babcock are at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Parmelee Eells. * e Colonel Max Mayfield of Boise, Idaho, is in town, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Kaiser. o ‘e e The Valentine Holt Soclety of the Children of the American Revolution will giye a dance in Century Hall to- morrow evening. These affairs, annual- 1y, are usually given at Easter, but an exception has been made for the com- ing event. The patronesses are: Mra. A. S. Hubbard, president; Mrs. Charles A. Warren, State director; Mrs. Wil- llam T. Baggett, Mrs. W. B. Carr, Mrs. G. E. Mayhew, Mrs. Thomas Bon- ner. ¥ Bridge was the motive of & party given yesterday afternoon by Mrs. Wil- liam G. Irwin. The players enthusi- astically enjoyed the sgame, which brought to the winning contestants beautiful prizes. Mrs. Irwin's guests were: Mrs. William Hinckley Taylor, Mrs. Gale, Mra. James Carolan, Mrs. ‘William Prentice Morgan, Mrs. Henry L. Dodge, Mrs. Chauncey Boardman, Mrs. George Moore, Mrs. James Pot- ter Langhorne, Miss Jennie Hooker, Miss Minnie Houghton, Mrs. Freeborn, Mrs. McKinstry, Mrs. Southard Hoft- man. o el To-night the piano recital of Miss Cecll Cowles takes place in .Stelnway Hall. This talented child has the en- couragement and patronage of many of our leading society people. ANSWERS TO QUERIES MATRIMONIAL AGENCIES—J. C., | Visalia, Cal. As matrimanial agen- cies are not public institutions this! department eannot advertise them. | CALIFORNIA'S POPULATION—A. O. 8., City. There has not been a cen- sus of the population of the State of California since the official one of 1900, given as 1,485058. Since then estimates place the population at 1.800.000. ACTION FOR DAMAGES—R., Davis- ville, Cal. If any one sustains dam- | ages through the acts or neglect of a| county official the party affected or| parties in law empowered so to do | have a right to sue the county for the | recovety of compensation for damages | sustained. As to the particular mat- | ters contained in the letter of inquiry | such would have to be submitted to| an attorney for his advice. NATIONAL HOLIDAYS—A. D. McK., Paris, Cal. There are no na- tional holidays in the United States. There are legal holidays which are ob- served in all States and Territories, | such as Sunday, New Year's day, | Washington’s birthday, Memorial day, | Fourth of July, Labor day, Christmas, | Thanksgiving day and day of general election, but all such days are so de- | clared by the Legislature of each| State and not by Congress. That body passes laws of that kind only for the District of Columbia. NAVAL ORDNANCE — Constant Reader, Yountville, Cal. The United States naval ordnance table says that the charge for a three-inch gun is five pounds of smokeless powder and a 1 14-pound projectile; eight-inch gun, from 105 to 115 pounds eof brown powder or 115 pounds of smokeless powder for a 250-pound projectile; twelve-inch gun, 425 pounds of brown powder for an 850-pound prejectile, and from 280 to 350 pounds of smoke- less powder for a projectile weighing 850 to 1100 pounds. The figures quot- ed in the letter of inquiry show the aggregate of powder and projectile used to fire one round of all the guns on the vessel. ‘WORDS IN USE—Subscriber, City. The vocabulary of those who speak and write the English language is small compared with the number of words in a dictionary. Dr. Bloom- laugh, In “Gleanings for the Curfous,™ says: “Dictionary English is some- thing very different, not only from col- lcquial English, but even from that of ordinary written composition. There is probably no author in the language from whose werks, however volumin- ous, so many as 10,000 words could ba collected. We would be surprised to find, if we counted them, with how small a number of words we manage to express all that we have to say, either with our lips or with our pen. Our common literary English probably hardly amounts to 10,000 words; our common spoken English hardly tq 5000." —_——— Townsend's California Glace fruits iy artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 Market st, and Wakelee's Drug Store. B ———— Special information supplied dally ta business houses and public men the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’: l:’&h. fornia street. Telephone Main 1042, < s certing to the dispenser, until he finai- Iy cornered her in the Japanese alcove and forcibly finished up the remaining sandwiches himself. “And he never even said a word about the duet,” Philippa answered later, when she sat, like a Hindoo idol in a pink kimona on the bed and the evening. “He's a gentleman and a scholar. And Bobbie saps he's all right. Solid, old Maryland family and all that sort of thing. First name's Marbury, Mar- bury Ellot. He has only been in New Yerk a couple of months and he doesn’t like it very well. He thinks it'’s lonesome. He says we're conser- vative and clanish.” “There’s a good remedy. to be a clam unto himself.” Philippa shied a pillow at the scof« fer. ' “Goose,” she said. “Can’t you see? He wants to belong to my clan. I'm Tell him a comradely good day to him, Philip- pa passed on her own way, a slim, ar- rogant, blonde young person in gray velvet and squirrel furs. Elizabeth preserved a graceful posture on the neutral fence. Warring factions were not in her line, but when she was sending out invitations for the month- ly Dutch picnic in studio 5 she did not think it amiss to send one up to studio 17. Philippa was passing club sand- ‘wiches when Bobble Clarkson intro- duced her to the tall, brown-eyed boy. She did not drop the tray. She merely smiled most graciously and asked if Mr. Eliot liked club sand- wiches made of a celestial combina- tion of chicken salad, chopped al- monds, olives, deviled ham and to- basco sauce. It ap_eared that Mr. Eliot did. In fact, he naced after the dispenser of celestial sandwiches all around the studio in a deliberate, going to the Czarga concert with him to-morrow."” “See? Of course I see,” quoth Elizabeth. “One Philippa Yates, founder of the Society for the Pre- vention of Lonesomeness to Strangers in New York, providing said strangers are gentlemen and scholars, from solid old families and can sing duets and eat club sandwiches for art's safe. I see the end.” But Philippa only smiled and was silent. It had been a most entertain- ing and interesting twenty minutes spent in the Japanese corner. One’s point of view on life in general may alter considerably even in twenty min- utes. It was two weeks after the Czarga — was tucking a couple of “Tl Trovatore™ tickets into her handbag when he greeted her. “They're for Beth and me,” she told him, happily. “We live on strawberry Jam and crackers when the opera is in full blast. Do you know, I never g0 there but I wonder when my turn will come, don’t you?" He did not answer her directly. They had crossed to the SiXth avenue ele- vated and were walking along beside Bryant Park to the station before he spoke to her. B “I am going home this week to spend Christmas with my mother in Mary- land, and before I go—" A vagrant wind swept down upon them, and Philippa bent her head side- ways to avoid its sting. As she did so, her eyes met his in one swift glance. Sh‘e Was not smiling now. Her face was aglow with a curio - i us, half-frightened “‘Let’s hurry,” she said. “It's so ecold.”™ He stopped short where only an audi- ence of sleepy cab horses could listen. “Before I go T want to know if I may tell her that next year you will go home with me.” Cab horses are very discreet. They did not even hear the answer. “But it won"