The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 27, 1905, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS.... ADDRESS ALL COMMUN JOHN McNAUGHT... Antidote , Te Colic MAY 27, 1905 EXCESSIVE IMMIGRATION. ication that the immigration to this country 1 b 1 every ¢ crease both in numbers and undesirability. from Europe will inc 3 y the 3 of June this year’s infmigration will reach 1,000,000. This make for 1903, 1904 and 1905 the enormous total of 2,- 669,016. By the time Congress meets in December the indications are that this number will be extended to 3,000000. This is ex-| e. It is unjust to our own people, and equally unjust.fo the rants themselves. No country can usefully to itself or to-im- and care for such an accession to its poptlation. slic land, ready to be farmed, was open to settlement price of $125 imr acre, our citizens who were driven ies by foreign immigration resorted to the land. For-| ners increased in the large cities, but Americans increased on The public domain was a safety valve which pre\'emed; i ration from being felt. The result was the »nt of the prairie States of the Middle West, and the Americans to the farther West, where they found refuge al and grazing lands. These conditions have now e safety valve is permanently closed. No more and upon which a home can be made self-supporting:in to be had for $1 25 per acre. jon immigrants per year take on the aspect of an in- landed to fight with our own people for the means of conomic system there aré supposed to be va- eath and disability for a little more than half a year in all of the industries of the country. That ers in all productive vocations is supplied annually wcrease of our population. That many reach an- ng age and equipment, to fill the places vacated by umstances. It will be—seen that with a half million reaching industrial maturity and a million immigrants country, with places for only half a million new acquiring an annual surplus population of one mil- cessiy be ased Goverr to nent > hard figures and the cold facts. If vast areas of re still open for settlement at $1 25 an acre, this Id be taken up by settlement in rural occupations, hy be well supported. Referring to the experience of ere was plenty of such land, has caused us to look pon the increase in immigration. Therefore some ing about proper distribution of immigrants As there is no place to which i, it is no solution at all. If it be said that farmers, the answer is that this requires , tools and implements required, and they ire this equipment. If they become rural ply crowd out those already in the field. h way one will in search of a solution by which the open to ever increasing immigration, and the problem 1 It is further aggravated by the fact that these vears from the date of their landing become citi- ies the strain upon the country. As total ‘and | ase, there is a largér element that looks to Already we are made familiar with y rich men who covet public office and honors tion by ostentatious charities to the poor in A student of Roman history will see the analogy | conditions here and the processes by which the Roman r a century and a half v nsciously prepared the way problem. s of support. v his question of immigration has been too long has been done and complacently called a remedy is We have proposed to exclude certain “undesirable sically or morally diseased. But in the face of such number of immigrants increases until the incre- n is far beyond our capacity to absorb and utilize. re becoming foreign. A majority of the popula- oreign, embracing numerous classes and nation- hem antagonistic to each other, and alike only in f our institutions. When we received but few rned our language from necessity, imitated our | Americanized. Now they come in such numbers foreign in their language, habits and methods, and milation is slow, too slow for the good of the country and | they were remedy is a close season, a period of years in which all s and races are treated alike and excluded alike. It is | 2 recognized principle that a nation has full power to protect itselfs| inst immigration, or to help itself by inviting immigration. For considerable part of the last century we needed more people and ve invited them. We offered citizenship to them on easy terms, | protected them in it by forcing expatriation treaties upon the | All that was good policy for that time. It has There is no more cheap land, our industries | dle people are estimated by the million. We| nough for our economic needs. Pauperism and citi- | ropean nations. its crowded rved purpose our people zenship meke a bad team to pull a republic through, and easy con- | dit ty ms of naturalization should cease. . : | I'he statement that President Roosevelt considers that the sit- | ion is acute and must have attention is gratifying to the country. 1f he call the attention of Congress to it the people will expect ef- ficient action from that body. It will be opposed by the steamship companies which profit by a million steerage passengers a year, but | their interest should not prevail over the good of the nation and | the interests of the immigrant s themselves. | | | i | Tflw shadow of the hoop skirt was rising over the world of fash- | ion. The present generation Mardly knows what that means. If| an old fashion plate, as late as the first years of our civil war, is| consulted, it will give up the required information. The hoop skirt | was a cage of wire and tape, fearfully and wonderfully made, in which our grandmothers moved about, with an amazing amplitude of costume. It disappeared under the pressure of war prices for | dress goods. Economy swung its club and drove fashion off the | field. When calico gost as much as summer silk does now, a dress | over an expansion hoop skirt cost enough to clothe a family in gar- ments of smaller circumierence. i It seems now that we are not to look to Europe for dictation | in fashi There is an American Dressmakers’ Association (the blessings of the grateful are upon it) which has met in Ghicago and decreed that the hoop skirt shall not be worn. That settles it and that skirt will remain where it abides at present, in history. The president of the dressmakers declared that Yankee ingenuity has solved the problem of shaping skirts by “a moderate amount of featherbone, judiciously distributed.” We don’t know what feather- bone is, but are willing to bet that it is a wise-and good thing. Seriously this decision of the aggregated dressmakers proves that we have progressed in all directions. We take orders from nobody, but just issue them to ourselves, in our industries, business, finance and fashions. Hail to the American dressmakers! It will not be long before Europe will be copying our fashions, as now our manufacturing methods are copied, and when an American woman goes abroad she will not have to readapt her dress in order net to seem singular among foreign dressers, for she will find them all clad a Ja Yankee Doodle, from hat to boot. res A NEW DICTATOR OF F:‘\SHION. HE sinister rumor has been wired, wafted and carried by mail fr rope across, under and over the stormy Atlantic tha: | parties afterward, | veloped colic. | night undertook to tell 4o “Wher she paid ber visit.” 3 | - Winter took an fiat HEN Charlie bullding a year or two ago he found it so delightful a place to live that he induced his old friend and business associate, Billy Goodman, fo come out into thg same house and rent the apartment directly across the hall from him. It was the more easily done because Mrs. Winter and Mrs. Goodman were very good friends, indeed, and they had never had an opportunity to see as much of each other as they mutually desired. For a term of months they were very bappy together, the four of them, going theater and to little supper taking Sunday ex- cursions in rented automobiles and otherwise enjoying life in a large city. It might have continued indefinitely if the Goodman baby had not been born— indeed, that might not have interfered if the poor little youngster had not de- Colic, it is perhaps need- ful to observe, is treated by means of peppermint, Holland gin, cagnip tea, ginger, whisky and fourteen or fifteen other remedies, taken singly or in com- bination. As colic seems to be incur- able, except by time, all that’ most of these medicaments appear to do was to add a number of rather unpleasant odors to the cries of the colicky one. It has been noticed that children select: the moments for exhibitions of developing lung power that others choose for rest, and the Goodman baby was no exception. As the child's father really had to have his night's sleep so he could do his work the next day, it was deeided to remove the youthful Goodman to the bedroom most remote from that of his parents, where he could scream his blessed little head off, if need be, without disturbing any one but the nurse. Now: this bedroom was cn the court which ran between the Goodman and the Winter flat, and the only way it could be adequately venti- lated was by leaving the window into the court open all night. Pretty soon the combination of baby and colic began t0 make nearly every- body in the Pleasant building sit up and take notice, generally in the middie of the night. Charlie Winter undertook to call his chum’s attention te it by saying that he had heard the baby talking in his sleep, and Billy opined that he mustun’t believe all he heard. 8o nothing was done, not until the Winter's maid arose and left because she couldn’t sleep for the noise of the infant adjoining and contiguous to her own sleeping room, and no one could be found to take her place as long as the noise held out. Mrs, Winter after a particularly hard Mrs. Goodman about-it, and when she paid her visit and found the dear little Goodman youngster sitting up and smiling back at her as if he had never had even a place to put the colic in, her courage forsook her and the word was never said, much as she dis- liked being without assistance in her housekeeping. But, something had to be one. The Winters bought an automatic plano player, and the Goodmans liked the noise t made so well that they bought one. The Goodmans were still one baby with | the celic ahead of the game. Charlie! knew a chap who played the cornet, and he asked him in of evenings. Billy be- lleved that he had a friend who played the cornet still better and could do stunts on’ the ophicliede to boot, and he used to ask the Winters over to Hear him. So musical instruments were dropped by tacit consent. At last there was sent to Mrs. Winter from the sunny South a large and able- | bedied colored servant. A friend of hers knew of the family being without a maid and volunteered to supply the de- ficiency. When she came Mrs. Win- ter's coascience compelled her to ask Malindg if she was a good sleeper. “De best evah,” said Malinda, “Dey jess couldn’t wake me up, oniess it was de smell of "possum cookin’.” So Malinda was given the court bed- room that night, with a good consclence. The next day Mrs. Goodman's nurse eomplained that she hadn’'t been able to get a wink of sleep—not even in between the attacks of colic. “Dey vass a noise she explained. Two days after she left ta take a place the other side of the river—she was not certain that she could escape the noise unless she put miles be- tween it and her ears. ~ Then Billy remonstrated. “That woman like 2 delicatessen come auf dot court.” | RECENTLY heard a group of young l women spirjtedly discussing the foolish traits of man—with a small m—and the susceptibility of his kind to feminine attractions. | With expressed disapproval of such | weakness, yet with apparently the ;g: test relish, these female anauto- m; lon”the flirtatious tendencies exhibited 1 by-all men, married or single, and de- nounced the sex as heing utterly with- out prineiple in its readiness to suc- cumb to the charms of woman. ‘The prettiest girl of the group and one with the most frivolous aspect had : the most to say on the subject and was i the most anxious to say {t. Despite her | repeated assertions that she deplored such tendencies in men, it was with upon the subject, detalling the short- | comings of the sex whose “imperial race,” Pope tells us, fair tresses can easily ensnare. She closed her argyment with the emphatie assertfon that all men were alike, that every men was like wax in the hands of a pretty woman, and that few men wounld consider principle, duty or honor when the favor of a charming { woman was to be galned. I wondered what this girl would say it she could realize just what sort of ments. ' T wondered it did not occur to {her that her denuneiation reflected | against herself as well as the sex she was flaying. - Whenever I hear a woman talik as she and her companions did I feel a sort of shame for my .own sex. It seems strange indecd that women canuot see how they condemn themselves when they cendemn men in this wholesale fashion. The woman who has nothing but evil to say of her men associates proclaims her own weakness and frivolity of char- acter. She is judged out of her own mouth. For, as a rle, men display to women just the kind of qualities the wo- men themselves draw forth. Nine fimes out of ten the girls or the women who are loudest in their discus- ston of man's susceptibility to the at- tractions of the -opposite sex are them- selyes vain enough and silly enough to be flattered by that very quality in the men they encounter. 1t is the frivelity of women that is in a large measure responsible for the friv- olity of men. Wherever there is found a man who is willing to forget ‘honor, duty and principle” for a pretty woman, there must be a woman weak enough or vain enough to permit him to do it. Despite the protest women utter against this sort of folly in man, it Is unfortu- nately true that a large percentage of of such attention—indeed, would be of- fended if man failed to exhibit this in- clination. In all women there is perhaps an ele- ment of the savage; an Inferior instinct which causes them to refofce in making men the victims of their attractions. Many women exult in the hearts they capture, just as a savage exults in the number of scalps in his belt. But this instinet s unworthy a really womanly woman. More than they real- ize, women hold in their hands the mold- R ;i The Reception of Ye Editor The editor stood in a spacious hall, In h swallowtaii coat, starched shirt, and all. 3 The crowd filed pagt him, in close arrs And every man had a word to say. “Hello, old man!" said the first to pass, “Don’t you know your old friend, Veritas? Shake hands with Justitia”” “Glad to know—"" < “Put er there! I'm Pro Bono Publco.” “P'rh Constant Reader. Oh, by the by—' “You remember me; I'm Vox Popull.” “Hurry up there! Don't stand in the way, You flipper, old chap! I'm your friend, Fair Play.” Then Old and One YWho Knows, And Pax Vabiscum trod on his toes. Inquirer and Vindex wrung his hand, And buzzed in his ear, to beat the band. Subscriber Then came Well Wisher, One Who Was There, Amicus, Candor, Truthful, Beware, Fidus Achates, A Grateful Guest, Nil Lesperandum, and all the rest. Then Many Voters came trooping along, And gathered around him a hundred strong. They seized him. they spoke, And then the editor shrieked—and awoke! —Chicago Tribune. ———————— Townsend's Cala. Glace Fruits, in ar- tistic fire-etched boxes. 10 Kearny st. and new store now open, 767 Market st. * R In tones of thunder Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 30 Cali- fornia street. Telephone Main 1042, * oo iR S i you've got snores like a Mississippt steamboat when the safety valve's loose,” he explained to Charlie. “You mustn’t belfeve all you hear,” observed Charles. “She doesn’t shriek for grade crossings all night, at,that.” The Goodman baby sleeps no longer in the court bedroom, and Malinda has re- turned to her old Kentucky hénie. So the Goodmans and the Winters are still friendly. But each is so afraid the other won't move that both have given up their flats In the Pleasant buflding. i B2 A RUN ALL RIGHT. Ours is a nation whose greatness and prosperity are known of all men to be the wholesome results of the peace policy.—Dallas News. ——pea, The schoolgirl who got married because she could mot do her arithmetic lessons showed she knew how to add one.—Chicago Post. She—Do you think the Russians mm’gmflbfl&z&fln 7 AR 'BY ANGELA MORGAN./ s of masculine character expatiated | the greatest delight that she enlarged | confession was revealed in, her state- | them are pleased to be the recipients | ing of men's characters. Instead of mak- ing the susceptibility of men the sub- ject of boasting, every woman should realize the responsibility that rests upon her as the possessor of such power. The more attractive a woman is the greater is her responsibility in this mat- ter, the more controlled she should he and the more careful to see that the in- fluence she exerts upon men is elevating and ennobling. The woman who appeals to the worst in men should be ashamed to confess it. Every true woman can draw from men the highest qualities if she wills it. | | | tellers i |away from their beds, knew by | | click—the Men What Women Make Them|Oysters Ope’d |[The Their Mouths ¢¢/~\ YSTERS will soon be done now." said the oyster-opener. ‘‘Are you : interested in oyster storfes?” The patron shook his head un- " sympathetically. ke spid. id the: other: 1’} teli you something -about oy wiil suiprise you. “In January we got a fine lot of Mau- | rice Rivers. I was looking at those grand oon, e 'nerl'; ‘moutn with a simul- he mouths epened to- gether like soldiers drilling. It was the | most perfect thing I ever saw. They | stayed open ten minutés or Sq. Then | they closed again. = | “The next day, a little later in | ernoon, the oysters | again, ' The next day, a little later still, ! they did the same thing. “It was a strange sight, a sight never {to be forgottem.- Try and imagine it. A “thousand oysters, as still and dead {looking as that chair—then, elick, ail of | them at the same instant opening their mouths, “We couldn’t understand Finally, though, we workad “Ne, John.” sters that | of them opened h taneous click. T the aft- the thing at it miles instinct flood tide, the tide that brings hegan, and at the moment of 'its beginning they opened their mouth: | expecting to feed. We watched the al- i manac, me and the boss, and every day { to the minute when the flood tide set in, oysters’ mouths opened."— { Philadelphia Bulletin. Electrical Shoe. A. R. Cooper, a shoemaker of Find- ley, Ohio, has recently Invented what e calls an electrical shee. In the ac- | tion of walking it is said that consider- | able electricity Is generated in the sole of the shoe and by a suitable arrange- ment of copper this current is directed | into the body and has a very desirable { action, being especially valuable in the | case of rheumatism. out. ““Those oysters, though many | when the up food, — - trast, thi upon the low coiffure. smartly posed at the left side. FASHION'S MIRROR LATE EXAMPLES OF MODISH MILLINERY. The upper hat is one of the many modifications upon the familiar tricorne turban, which seems to retain all of its hold upon fashionable affections. A very lacy straw in pale lilac is used, the wire foundation being silk covered in the same tone. serves to give the chapéau that smart downward tilt in the front, and close clusters of heliotrope in all of its dainty natural tints are bunched in each crevice where the shape is pinched. Rather a bright green velvet rihbon is cleverly used to effect the necessary note of color con- seeming to hold the back brim to the crown and carried down in a series of rosettes to the front. sailor shape somewhat upon the order of the shirt 'waist or tailor- made hat, in coarse satin straw of a somewhat burnt yellowish tint, and trimmed with a rather brilllant geranium velvet ribbon. The brim is<turned up all around, with a bandeau in the back to tilt the hat for- ward, and many loops of.the velvet ribbon dangle from this bandeaun A large white. coque pompon and plume are A deep cache peigne in the back The other hat is less dressy, a ) S e LINGER HERE A WHILE AND HAV ml —$ “Well, anyway, | when every one opened their mouths | Smart Set BY SALLY SHARP. Away off in Florence, Italy, pretty Ber- nadette Robinson. daughter of Mrs. Luke Rodinson, was married on Thursday to | her Itallan soldier-lover, Lleutenant Da- vid L. Trezsi—in fact, she was married twice, once before the splendid altar of the Oratory of St. Joseph, and once again { by the civil authoritles. Witnessing the ceremonies were Mrs. | Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. George P. Tal- | 1ant and several Americans who are tar- i rying in the old city, whose charm has | held captive so many Californians this ‘winter. At the church sérvice the bonnie bride | was assisted by her sister, Mrs. Tallant, land was given Into the keeping of the | Count—for sueh the groom is said to be— | by her brother-in-law. And thus hath | California lost one of her fairest daugh- | ters, & type of the rugged West, but rare to the adoring Italians, who, it is said. have been known to follow and wait for her carriage just for a glimpse of the | “beautiful American.” | Miss Robinson’s greatest charm is her | rare coloring—her hair of burnished cop- per, her splendig skin and her firm white teeth, together with a Hebe-like figure, | distinguishing her even in the West. | From letters recently received it would | seem that Sicily is to be the home of the | truant Californian. although Rome has formerly been tife headquarters of the | bandsome young soldier, and it was in | Rome that he laid siege to tive heart of | the fair foreigner. It is not believed that the Trezals con- template a visit to California, but the rest of the Robinson family will soon | return—a rather sad phase of all inter- | national marriages—the inevitable sepa- | ration of loved ones. . A week from to-morrow. Jume 8 Miss Linda Hamilton of Sausalito will become the bride of Charles Wright. The cere- | mony will take place tn the little chureh on the hill, the bride to be assisted by | her sister, Mrs. Winslow Beedy, as ma- | tron of honor. The Wrights will make thelr home in San Francisco after the | post-nuptial trip. | . [ i Down in Los Angeles Miss Madge | Moore, the clever young writer, will be | wed to-morrow to George Palmenteer. i will be quietly celebrated. . ® The ceremony The officers of the Umbria are having | a beautiful time. Scarcely a day goes by but they are entertained—and by peo- ple who don’t make a bore of it. | * Yesterday Miss Grace Lilewellyn Jones { was hostess at a tea given In homor of the officers, when a lot of Interesting peo- ple were presented to them. “And, by the way, Miss Jones_is one of | the few society maids who is as much “at home” with a foreign tongue as with her English. S | Mrs. Henry Glass and her talented | daughter, Miss Frankie, are planning to ! spend the late summer amid the rugged beauties of the Shasta region. e The Maternity Hospital entertainment | scheduled for Wednesday afternoon at the ! Palace—not the evening, as many Seem to believe—promises all sorts of interest- ing things for those who are willing to | part with $2—and those dollars will help { mightily to comfert some forlorn weman and her luckléess babe. { Going? . . Next Thursday will bring forth the nup- | tials of Miss Alice Livingston Newhall | and the Rev. John Alexander O'Meara— the only impertant sacial affair on the | cards for the week. | There seems to be an epidemic of matri- mony among the clergy of late, ree prominent churchmen marrying within as many weeks. * s e Miss Edith Pillsbury was hostess at dinger in the Palm Garden of the Palace on Thursday night, cover§ having been laid for eight. e Ter e Mrs. William Cluff entertained in the garden at dinngr on the same evening. - Congressman W. P. Hepburn of Towa and Mrs. Hepburn arrived In San Fran- cisco yesterday morning, and while in the eity will stay with their relatives, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Martin, at 3474 Clay street. The Congressman and his wife | will leave next week for Honolulu to visft their daughter, Mrs. Chamberlain, and will later joln Secretary Taft's party for the Philippines. ANSWERS. ASTORIA-M. C, City. Astoria, Or., was named for John Jacob Astor, founder | of the American Fur Company there. The | place was first a fort, then a trading sta- | ton. THE KOH-I-NOOR—A. 8., City. The | great diamond Koh-i-noor, in its umecut | state, weighed 798% carats; after being cut its weight was’ reduced to 6110 | carats. BOYS IN THE NAVY-R. M, City. Boys between the ages of 15 and 17 years | may be, with the consent of their parents or guardians, enlisted in the serviee of | the navy of the United States until they ! shall arrive at the age of 21. For fusther information address a communication to the commandant, United States Naval | Tramning Station, San Francisco, Cal.. {and you will be furnished a circular of information. A RIVER—Subseriber, City. The reason that a river always appears more shallow than it really is in fact s because the light proceeding from the bottom of the river is refracted as it emerges out of the water. A river Is about a third deeper than It seems to be. If, therefore, a river seems only four and a half feet deep it Is actually six feet deep. Many persons get out of their depth in-bathing in consequence of this deception. E A MORNING SMILE