The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 24, 1905, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, MAY THE SANFRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKEIS. ....c.ccvce sooeeeacasnnsanneeeesessr - PrODHStOr ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO JOHN MCNAUGHT....c000z000m0ssnsssnessscss: .- THIRD AND MARKET STREPTS. SAN FRANCISCO Manager BLICATION OFFICE...... .MAY 24, 1905 THE IRRIGATION COMMITTEE. CONGRESSIONAL committee is coming West to make nation of irrigation applied to agriculture and hor- e. After the itinerary of the tour was made up, it was t the committee would make a brief stop at Yuma, would or three days in Southern California, and then would come co by a night train on the Coast line and from here north. As this cuts out all of the extensive applied irriga- the San Joaquin Valley an effort was made to change the nerary, but this failed. As this committee is making its inspection ith a view to reporting on the utility and cost of Federal irrigation, be regretted that it avoids the opportunity to inspect private rigating systems that would have served the purpose of comparison blic systems. ne 17 the first Federal irrigating plant is to be instajled taking its water supply from the Truckee River. It s expected to irrigate about 250,000 acres at a cost for the water of ¢ If the committze had visited the San Joaquin Valley inspected the Modesto and Turlock districts, supplied om the Tuolumne River by the highest diverting dam ishing water for 250,000 acres at a cost of $10 per i be an object lesson worthy of study. An expert of it might suggest economies that would be of import- Government. The committee might also have learned take to suppose that irrigation everywhere, in the | ce, is to be expected to yield results up to the This mistake has been made by many super- nd enthusiastic writers and advocates of Federal is error has led to the conclusion that the high cost | istified by the high returns expected from g cre Joaquin Valley the committee could have studied | gation to intensive farming, in a winterless climate, e variety and value and number of crops in a season are | y other part of the world. The committee could | the San Joaquin Valley by irrigation are pro- ins, the genuine Smyrna fig, and all other variztizs ty of deciduous fruits in number unknown Nowhere else in the world is irrigation applied -. What is done in the San Joaquin ve given the committee information of the greatest that is what the trip is for. ir is to be extended to the arid regions on the high pla- iere Government irrigation works are under way, the com- d have had before it the contrast of climates as an element f gation. It would have learned that outside of | iety of fruit and field crops is far less in number, vear-round succession of harvests in this_State r in the regions where the season is short and nditions arrest all production. An officiai report on e subject would save much future disappointnient of | Federal irrigation districts. They are being led by suppose that the climate of California is found also . and that of necessity California production fol- | Our local isothermal lines do not project eastward y Congress, e. Department is keenly alive to the danger of g made by taking California as the irrigation del for land that is under climate and crop conditions erent from ours. That department is proceeding in a very cal way to save settlers on Federal irrigation much disappoint- | It is moving to establish on every tract irrigated by ent a demonstration farm in charge of practical men, n the kind crops the region will produce nrethod of cultivation, seeding, applying the demonstrations that may save settlers from | rule of thumb. All such settlers have to pa\" nt the cost of the irrigating systems which | T'hey are allowed to own only eighty acres, and rited holding must support themselves, meet all the ed by wind and weather, bad markets and high trans- nd also pay off the Governmént mortgage of $26 an will have no time to waste in empirical farming. They | 1 be 1 in their obligations to the Government and the loss nd. The plan of the Agricultural Department will savc‘ h sorrow and distress and its demonstration farms may save thc} hole Federal irrigation policy from wreck. i Perhaps it would be wiser for Congress to seek instruction from | orts and work of the practical men in the Agricultural De- | rather than from the flying visits of Congressmen, who | srobably not practical agriculturists and are but little equipped | proper digestion of what they see. The experts in the depart- | are not only trained scientists, but back of that they are ex- nced farmers. They have tilied the soil themselves in Kansas, | nnesota, Jowa. in the New England and Middle States and in | th and in California. They know the science and art of agri- cultu They are employed by the Government for what they v. and Congress will do well to pay some attention to the reports € ake. It will save the expense of committees, which at best | an only duplicate the observations made, without adding anything to the conclusions reached. "hile the pride of California is somewhat touched by the com- ttee’s faulty itinerary, the State loses nothing that is of real im- The loss is sustained by the committee. | WHISKERS MUST GO. portance. R. KENNEDY, who is described as a member of the Iowa D Board of Health, has started a crusade against doctors’ whis- kers. He finds that hair on a doctor’s face is a catch-all for colonies of microbes, capable of spreading a great number of dis- eases. He impeaches whiskered doetors rather severely. It is intimated that they maintain their practice by peddling microbes ir door to door in their whiskers. Every bearded doctor is a formidable battery of germs, which he drops on his calls. - Even the graceful mustache is a lurking place for all kinds of wriggling bacilli and must go with the beard. The doctor does not say how he proposes to enforce his bare- faced reform. He intimates that it may be done by law. We think, however, he will have to fall back on professional ethics. When medical colleges refuse a degree to a he;'ded graduate he will be villing to enter the profession by a close shave. Laymen have scme questions to ask in this matter. If a doctor’s whiskers hide icrobes, what does the lay beard do? True, the doctor in the sickroom has a better opportunity to acquire a stock of germs than he layman has, but is it not possible that every bearded citizen is | 2 peril to the public health? If so, the state, in pursuance of its police powers, may lather and shave everybody. But should the reform stop there? Is it not a halfway measure to take the hair off 2 man’s face and leave it on his head? Has not natare played a low down trick on us by giving us hair at all? If whiskers catch germs, the hair of the head must do the same, and the only rezlly safe citizen is the smoothly shaven man with a beautiful bald head. This may have been understood of old. When the children jeered the prophet and said “Go up, old Baldy,” they were annoying the only sanitary citizen in the settlement, and were very properly eaten by forty she bears. An examination of the hair of the head will probably find it dangerous to the public health, and the barber’s job will henceforth run from the chin to the nape of the neck. The Chinese tonsure will then appear to be a sanitary measure of the highest value, and Christians will respect the pagan queue because it presents fewer roosting places for the bad bacilli : lef | —I*Roum,m of a any seasons in cut-and-try experiments, for that will I { to him. o e G e ] \ A Tall Hat 'And a Baseball —_— serious nature s pending in one of the preparatory schools not far from San Francisco, and it is due to a combination of a tail hat worn by a teacher and a base- ball propelled from the bat of one of £ the best of the pu- pils in the 'institu- tion. Explanations have been forthcom- ing, but so far they have failed to ex- plain. Billy Badger was at the bat, doing his full share in a game of scrub just started by way of getting the fellows * into practice for the sea- son. Dr. Marver, the Greek master, was proceeding in his usual dignified and near-sighted manner along the path that leads from the school recitation building to where he lives. This path runs just behind second and third base, within a few feet of that side of the dia- mond.. Most men walk around behind the home plate when any sort of a game is going on, but Dr. Marver al- ways takes the most direct route and ex- pects the game to stop. This and a number of similar things do not add to the pop- ularity of the mas- ter in Gri —in fact, the Greek it- self does not. But .the man never played a game of ball in his life, knows absolutely nothing about that or any other form of sport, either out - of doors or in the ——————F gymnasium, and is “DR. MARVER.” | not on.y wholly de- g void of sympathy for such games and for the boys who are chiefly interested in them, but has been heard to say that he despised them as so much absolutely wasted time. > Billy Badger would be the captgin of the school, if such a position exisfed in this country. He is not only a good all- around athlete and captain of the football team, but he stands excellemtly in his studies. Nevertheless, he is a healthy boy, and Dr. Marver is not one of his favorite instructors, to say the least. By way of final grievance against that unfortunate teacher of youth, it is to be said that he always wears a silk hat of an ancient pattern, and that he fre- quently appears with it and a short coat together—a combination which the boys regard as unholy. Just at the beginning of the season, as aforesaid, Dr. Marver and his unpopular silk hat came along. Billy, without giv- ing the remarkable car; «power of his veice any m ‘ed to the pitcher: “Give me Marver's pl But the plicher was working for a place on the school niné, and he wasn’t giving easy ones to anybody that day. He sent in a beautiful curve, but Bill caught it for a dandy liner just be- tween short and third, And as Dr. Marver's hat chanced to be at the particular point formed by the intersection of the line of the pall and the line of the path going to Dr. Marver's house, the hat had very much the worst of it. In fact, though the ball did not go clear through it, it gave an excellent imita- tion of an attempt to do that same thing. Dr. Marver, underneath it, was not in the least in- jured, but it ‘will be admitted that he was surprised. ‘When Billy Badg- er saw what he had done to that ancient and venerable plug, instead of running to first, as was his duty to the game, he dropped his bat and fled to offer his apologies to the in- dignant and - im- placable instructor. “I beg vour par- | don, doctor,” said | Billy, though he felt like laughing, “pbut I didn't mean to do- that.” “You did, sir,” re- torted the instruc- tor. “I heard you plot to do exactly whate you have done."” It isn’t pleasant to be called a liar, even by a teacher, but Billy held on to his ~ temper and again said: “I beg your par- don, doctor, but I didn’t mean to.” “1 heard you tell this young man"— pointing to the pitcher, who had hurried to the scene with the rest of the 32"98“’ one and see me swat “AN EASY ONB." | boys—"I heard you tell him to give you an ‘easy one,’ for the express purpose of offering me this gross indignity.” “But I didn’t give him an easy one,” objected the pitcher. “That will do, sir," eaid Dr. Marver, “the matter shall be duly reported.” Now, fortunately for Billy Badger, all the rest of the school faculty knew enough about baseball to be assured that it was the merest chance that led Billy's liner to Marver's plug, and they, singly and collectively, have tried to explain it But so far he has refused to listen to any explanations and insists that if Biily is not expelled the instructorsiup:| in Greek will be vacated. And the boys hope 1t will. * —_—————— ‘Sneexing Competition. A sneezing competition between half 2 dozen old women took place nt- - Mirror of ,:Damek Fashion - DRESSIEST OF LINGERIE BLOUSES. For all daylight functions and the less formal of evening ones as well, the dainty lingerie blouse is quite the thing, and there is simply no limit to the exquisite handwork that is piled on these. In the illustration a model is shown in which a heavy white crepe de chine—the best of them launder- like linen—is treated in just the same ‘ashion as is a sheer handkerchief linen. The yoke is cut to shape and embroidered separately, the front plastron being cut in one with it, and the whole done in a heavy white untwisted silk thread that makes every stitch show up to the utmost ad- vantage. English eyelet work is combined with a heavy raised blind em- broidery, and the edges of the pattern defined with scalloped buttonhole work. The embroidery is posed over a thick, double \white chiffon, which gives an air of softness to the effect. The fastening is In the back, the em- broidered strappings being continued dowr: efther side of the fastening as in the front. The sleeve is puffed at the shoulder and the embroidered cuff is fashioned en suite with the plastron front, the double-width one-seam crepe cutting to excellent advantage for those oddly shaped pieces. Wasted Energy BY ROY FARRELL GREENE, IN FOUR-TRACK NEWS. F those who “root" at ball games Would ‘“‘root’’ as much at work, | With ardor warm imbuing Each step in wealth pursuing, There’d oh! be lots *‘more doing” With merchant, cashier, clerk - - If those who *‘root’’ at ball games Would “root” as much at work! The late Adolf Menzel did not care much for women, and he was apt to treat them with scant courtesy, no matter what their rank. When he was making his picture of the Konigsherg she sent Field Marshal Wrangel to teil him so. The artist took the criticism very ill, and bluntly told the marshal that he had better mind his military affairs and leave art to artists. - a violent altercation, Menzel pointed to coronation, the Empress Augusta cAme | the door, and Wrangel, red with rage, to the conclusion that the women in it | retired with the words: ‘“‘You are a had not been sufficiently considered, so| nauseous toad!” f— — The Sunny Side of Life Mrs. Bug—You rude thing, to stand in my presence with your hat on and your pipe in vour mouth. Don’t you kmow I'm a lady-bug? COULDN’T HELP IT. “Do you think he's honest?” ‘No. He even cheats himself when he plays solitaire.” \ prov says “Marriage is a lot- ne : mflm&‘!%flé:i : Senator Grabber (to constit- T g are yon Con ~ After | i A Study in | Love on | Shipboard - By Dorothy Fenimore LI e S Dorothy Fenimore is now in Paris. having gone abroad to make a special study for the benefit of The Call read- ers of the sentimental topics in the handling o. which she is an expert. Below is the second of her observa- tions on shipboard. NE of the most interesting of the O studids in love that I am making on the steamship which is carrying | me to France is the mutual devotion of a poetic husband and a prosaic wife, who | sit near me at the captain’'s table. Never was better exemplified the attraction which opposite temperaments have for each other. | He is a genuine day dreamer, whose fancies are ever flying like sea gulls be- tween the depths of earth and the depths of sky, now giving themselves up to the | breeze of current prejudice, which pushes | the minds of other passengers along, but | more often facing it with winged power, | borne up by it, and strengthened greatly. | One can see, just by watching the chang- | ing lights in his face, that personalities appear to him like impressionistic pict- ures, beautiful with color. Yet over his| eyes there always hangs the light mln} of poetic melancholy. His wife, on the contrary, is quite or- dinary in looks and manner. She is one of that feminine multitude who spend thelr little lives in alternately posing and supposing. Yet she has a certain charm. | Short and plump, in the morning she per- sonifies good health and cheerfulness, for she is as optimistic as a well-fed song- ster; at evening she has a way of set- tling down comfortably into her little round figure, like a tired canary bird. It was a leve match, I am sure of it, since the two people are American. Were they FEuropean one could not say for cer- tain, remembering that naive matrimo- nial advertisement which appeared last winter in a Roman newspaper: “A poet, humaritarian, of sensitive nature, poor and alone, would consecrate his existence to the service of a gentle lady desiring to marry who would be disposed to assist in the publication of his work and to share in his success. Apply, etc., MHan.” Yes, they are American, and this single | fact contains a whole volume of infor- | mation about them. First, it means that they married because they feil in love, and not merely because the poet needed the wherewithal to float his ideas, be- cause he was “in a state of intellectual independence, but économic instability’ — as I once heard a socialist who was hard up eloquently describe such embarrass- ment. Then it implies a sincerity of their ap- pearance of devotion. Rarely does an American who does not love his wife take the pains to hide his indifference. He is civil to her, and he pays her bills, and he lets her do as she pleases, but he makes no pretense of an affection which he does not feel. But what interests me most about the situation is this matter of the attraction of opposites. For it offers one more ar- gument in support of that theory of Har- | riet Beecher Stowe that “there is noth- ing in the world so congenial as differ- ences. To be sure, the differences must be harmanious. In music, now, for in- stance, one doesn't want a repetition of | the same note, but differing notes that | chord. Nay, even discords are indispen- sable to complete harmony.” R Looking Forward | By Wa—/l;ce Rice +——_—__—————+‘ OQOKING forward to unpleasant L things is one of the commonest forms of worry, and about as uncheerful an occupation as the world holds. There are several anti- dotes for the habit, and one of the best of them is the inscription that Thomas Dixon Jr. says a retired banker had carved on the mantelpiece in his li- brary, reading: “I am old, and have had many trou- bles—and most of them never hap- pened.” Another antidote proceeds by the law of dlssimilars. You are to look for- ward eagerly to the good things that come in the course of life—there are more good things than bad, for most of us, tHank God! Almost everybody would like to take a European journey. Practically every American who can does take it; so it is reasonable to suppose that the rest of us would if we could and that the only reason-we do not is because we cannot. But we all know we will when we can and the point is to lock forward te it. It requires nothing more than the reading matter put out every vear by the international steamship companies to afford a firm basis for the proceed- ing. Guidebooks help a great deal, and second-hand ones can sometimes be picked up very cheaply in the second- hand book stores or can be borrowed from the public library. Books of travel, of which there are many very weil worth reading, can be obtained in plen- ty from the library as well. Most of these last are plentifully illustrated, | and will aid one in coming to a deci- sion regarding the points of interest. This {8 only one instance of the amusement to be obtained by looking forward, and it is taken because it rep- resents one of the most nearly univer- sal aspirations of the American heart. What you will do when your ship comes in is another. There are scores of things you would like to have, the procurement of which—since they are | always luxuries rather than necessities —1s necessarily postponed to the time when there is money of an unexpected sort available. It is surprising what an amount of gratification can be had from anticipat- ng the possession of such things, if you can only get in the habit of look- ing forward to them. In fact. almost all the world knows that the pleasure of things possessad is largely in the looking forward to pos- session. Why it is not more generally made a rule of human conduct no one seems to know. It is worth a trial. Pope Opposes Nepotism. Pope Pius X does not believe in nepotism. A brother of his is a postal clerk at Mantua, one of his sisters keeps a tavern at Riese, another does i — | The Smart | Set By Sally Sharp —_— The preparations for the San Franeisco Maternity benefit at the Palace on May 31 are progressing successfully. More ar- | tistic talent of the highest order is being enlisted. Added to the attractions al- | ready noted will be the harp playing of Mrs. Jack Casserly, who is a finished harpist and whose consent to appear for this benefit is an exceeding favor. Miss | Carolyn Halsted Little will also be heard in several vceal compositions. P W An “at home” was given by Mrs. A. B. McCloskey last Saturday eveming in her beautiful studio on College Heights. The location is not only ene of the finest in San Francisco, but perfect in every wa for a studio. An evening of conversation and music was delightfully passed. Among the guests were Mr. and Mrs. Emiyn Lewys, Dr. and Mrs. S. F. Long, Miss Emily Curtis, Mrs. M. H. Richard son, Miss Bartlett, Mrs. McCray and Charles H. Lombard. o e & Mrs. E. E. Schmitz will be hostess at a musical “at home” for the benefit of St Vineent de Paul booth to be heid in the Maple room of the Palace Hotel May 3, at 8 o'clock. The programme will be in charge of Henry Heyman, and Mrs. Schmitz will be assisted In receiving by the ladies of St. Vincent de Paul booth. Tickets may be purchased at the home of | Mrs. Schmitz, 2849 Filimore street, for 3l | Over a thousand have already been sold. s The wedding of Miss Florence Turner lof New York and S. T. Price Jr. of St. Louls will take place this evening in the Empire room of the Palace Ho- tel. Miss Mozelle Price, as maid of honor, and Miss Grace Jones of Buffalo, as bridesmaid, will be the bride's at- tendants, while Earle Robinson will serve as best man. The ceremony, to be performed by Rev. Frederfck Clam- pett of Trinity Church, will be held n the presence of only a few friends and relatives, though a large reception will follow. Jerome B. Landfleld was host at a luncheon a day or two ago in honor of Sir Henry Tichborne. The event took place at the Claremont Country Club, Oakland. The guests were Enrique | Grau, Senator Jeremiah Lynch and Percy Hall w-ie Mr. and Mrs. James Lawrence Hough- teling of Chicago are at the St. Francis. During their visit on the coast they | will be the ests of Mr. and Mrs. | Mayo Newhall at thefr San Mateo home. | e S o | Major and Mrs. William Lassiter of | Ord Barracks, Monterey, are in town for a brief visit. g . » | Mr. and Mrs. J. Parker Currler will spend the next few weeks in Tuolumne County, going later to visit the Port- land Fair. Depositing the City Sewage in Bay. “TD the Editor ‘of The Call: Touching upon this subject of de- | positing the sewage of our city in the bay and the possible danger liable to | result thereby, will you alfow me to furnish an example for study? I bave good authority for stating | that the harbor of Santos in Southern | Brazil was at one time considered one | of the deadliest places along the line of shipping. British sailors rebelled. even to threaténings of mutiny some- | times, rather than go to Santos. In- vestigation and reasoning showed It was not malicious disobedience, but a right to refuse to go to what appeared to be certain death. Santos is an Important harbor, the gateway for the State of Sao Paulo to the main, one of the richest coffee bearing provinces. Some remedy must be had. Somewhat like San Diego bay, landlocked and a heavy growth of tim- ber on the sea side of the horseshoe, breezes could not circulate well. The trees were removed and it was forbid- den to throw dead animals and other decaying animal matter into the bay. These two difficulties Maving been overcome Santos can to-day boast of a vastly different sanitary record. For an almost tropical port she can furnish a pretty clean health record. Sewage deposited In our bays and streams aided by unusual heat or light- er winds may some off year surprise by furnishing food for the pesti- lence that walketh at midday. I be- Heve it is unusual climatic conditions aided by the neglect of years that bring the dire results occurring from time to time in different portions of our globe. | JOSEPHINE KINNEY WALKER. Chairman Purity of Streams Commit- tee, Civic Section of California Club. San Franecisco. May 28. Answers to Queries. ROOSEVELT—W. P, City. Alice, the daughter of President Roosevelt, is the daugliter of the President's first wife, who died two years after marriage. MARRIAGE—Subscriber, City. The | church asked about does not recogmize | divorce, consequently its officiating clergy are not permitted to marry divorced per- sons. \ UNDER AGE—L. L., Bellota, Cal. In | the State of California parties desiring to | marry must be of legal age, but a minor may marry with the consent of parent or | guardian. | MARRIAGE RECORDS — Subscriber, | City. The marriage records of San Fran- | are to the public and may | en in the Hall of Records. They run for many years. The index shows “,hnny name of each contracting TO CLEAN SILKS-P. B., City. In the | reférence-room of the Fres Public Li- | brary there are a number of books that i H 55 WOMAN SUFFRAGE-A Subseriber, In the United States women pos- | sess suffrage upon equal terms with men R e In Q‘Ieh of these es ‘women vote for Presidential Electors. MARRIED—". The question asked as to whether a certain person is ‘married or not a class that this department answer. Whether Yot - that the writer send a ler of inquiry to the person named. = Sweet out-af- s box of bon-bems for %::