The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 6, 1905, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CAL THE SAN FRANCISCO,CALL .Proprietor | G | JOHN D. JOHN McNAUGHT.... .Manager | PUBLICATION OFFI TUESDAY THE WORLD'S EQUILIBRIUM. 1 OME woeful prophets are in trouble about the Anglo-Saxon | race, because Japan has fought her way to a footing among | great nations. These Jeremiahs treat Russia as the rep- | re white nation, and bur sides are expected to ache every | = gets a rib cracked. Civilization is not a matter of color, f sy . Modern civilization is a cult; not a complexion. S { Not long ago an enthusiastic young gentleman delivered an ies, in which he said that it was | stern st destiny that the white race was to use the blood of all the Zent its civilization of steam and steel. That was® f meant their de;trun! tion alien to them. | n order to get material to cement a civiliz But the young man was not blameworthy for taking his inspiration from the past treatment of most of the dark races. America was | cut and carved and parceled out. When the native races had | | been reduced below the power of resistance, then the nations that | had used their blood for cer ing purposes fell upon each other, | and we had war of 17 , which France and Great Britain | fought over their spoils. s \frica has undergone the same process, and Boer and Briton have added to h woe and sorrow in a struggle which was in ; respects the most pitiful in history. Germany, France, Bel- and Great Britain may come to blows any time over the par- { the sum total of human sorrow may be in- the world’s equilibrium is disturbed on that conti- 1as long been regarded the prey of the European her day as a colonizing and conquering nation, the races of Europe were living in und or i that stood on stilts over lakes and 1a, after going far afield for conquest and dominion, | degraded the calling of the soldier to the lowest prese rld that had been overrun by her armies. ‘She lost the | when she ceased to be offensive. Then the world | and for nearly a century there has been a | and destroying her sovereignty. | into te 1 is the invocation of Christendom, | m has been tempted and has yielded. So for many e peace of the world has been in peril from the destruction in Eastern Asia. The real interests of the Anglo-| nd of white Europe have required the rise of an Asiatic ng enough to compel justice to Asia. When a warship ashore to raise a flag, steal a province and sanc- v plan missionary station with a fort on one | f good rum on the other, it meant that | g were oppressing the weak, and that, in the end, is bad | Now Japan has risen to first rank. She has wiped‘ f it 1 been only a chalk picture on a blackboard, | She has restored the equilibrium | W ing up her te y Crew a godown a sed a sponge. ns of Eastern Asia to say upon what terms aliensi ay and go, just as the white nations say, in safe- | t be respected. The status quo is in no| n yance. rest in the title given by possession, but am old theft | more be pleaded as a valid reason for a new one. Japan has | lization of steam and steel voluntarily, and ar- ned it into a means of justice and not of oppres- 1 for the morals of the Western nations that they must forth deal with Eastern Asia as they deal with each other. een them there has grown up a rule of action, the common of nations, an international code by which each is restrained re bound. The battalions of Oyama and the squadrons of proclaimed the law of nations in the East, and have put Korea and Japan under its statutes. The Anglo-Saxon has w-building race. Instead of molting a single feather of | it should rejoice that an Asiatic people have adopted its itated its best instead of its worst. The conflict on Manchuria and at the gate of the Sea of Japan is a | between modern civilization represented by Japan and | al ideas, social and civic, represented by Russia. Let civil n rejoice that it is proved better than the cruelty and supersti- Middle Ages € zati OUR NEW NEIGHEBOR. HE destruction of the Russian fleet was the conquest of all Russian territory in Eastern Asia. The island of Saghalien original ¢ ivostok w ally belonged to Japan and was taken from her in the er primitive weakness by Russian craft and force. Vlad- 1 e the fate of Port Arthur and Japan can annex the pper Islands in Bering Sea, and become our neighbor and part- in the sealing industry. Saghalien is a large island, separated ia by the Gulf of Tartary. The latitude of London cuts it | dle. There is no information extant as to its value in | e, but it is of importance to Japan for its command of | f the Sea of Okhotsk. With that in her possession the island empire of Japan will retch from Formosa under the tropic of Cancer to nearly 60 north d will inclose the Yellow Sea, the Sea of Japan and, by t Kurile archipelago, the Sea of Okhotsk. The defense of such an empire will require the maintenance of a strong navy, and the perpetuation of the genius and spirit of Togo, Kamimura and Ka- taoka by their juniors. The Japanese are following closely in the footsteps of the peo- British isles. They are sailors and have the sea-going | character and spirit. The alliance between Great Britain and Japan | is perfectly natural. It joins two peoples whose national strength is in their navies because they must defend their islands. No mat- ter what Japan may occupy in Korea on the mainland, the seat of her empire will be insular, and her people will be sailors and sea fighters, not inferior to any on the planet. As our neighbor in the western half of Bering Sea, if she choose to take what she may in that quarter, there is every feason | to believe that she will second our efforts to preserve the seal herds | and protect the marine life in those waters. Tripe age of 69. His entire active life was occupied in robbing banks. He took nearly $3,000,000 at one time from a bank in New York City. He relied upon getting into the strong box and weter figured as a forger. After preying for many years upon East- ern banks his spirit of enterprise caused him to come West, and in this city he planned the robbery of the old Sather bank. He was caught in the attempt and rendered the State some service. At the expiration of his term he did a little time in New York and then retired to private life, living at ease in Brooklyn on his pro- fesgional savings and devoting himself to music. His wife says that he died of grief because his record as a bank robber was so frequently referred to. We regret this illogical thinness of Mr. Hope’s skin. When a young man, and under no pressure of necessity, he selected his calling. as a burglar, turning finally to that profitable specialty of his profession, the robbing of banks. In a way he did some good, for his exploits caused the in- vention of the time lock and other safety devices for bank vaults, the manufacture of which now adds to the honest gains of Ameéri- can #nechanics. Hope was a rascal of great eminence, and retired from his thieving Activities only when age and the better protection of bank money compelled him to quit. He made his record and had no right to complain because ®bthers remembered it. He should have had the foresight to measure conseauences before he began. ple of the THE TRIALS OF MR. HOPE. HE death of Mr. Hope is announced. He had. attained the r economy, resorted to philosophy and learning and shut | it wvous for microbes. Beauty at Par in Fi | Though Woman There Is a Siren, " Nevertheless She 1. 1 evertheless She Is a Slave. | | ; BY DOROTHY FENIMORE ( Paris, May 14. NE cannot live long in France without new appreciation of Edmund OBurke’s definition of love as a passion caused by beauty, & personal quality which acts mechanically upon the human mind by the inter- vention of the senses. For in France love has neither the high intellectual nor the spiritual quality which characterizes its finer types in our own land. It is “the grand pas- sion,” an emotional spree as heady as champagne. Our American ideal, and the place in the social scheme which our men agcord to woman, is abso- lutely incomprehensible to French thought. In a land run wholly in the interests of man, woman is either a helpmate or a plaything. Socially she may be a force. But she is not to be trusted out of sight. She must be watched and she must be guarded. Her great triumph in life is to awaken ad- miration and love, not such a love as we believe in at home, the dedi- cation of one’s whole life to a single supreme joy, one noble in- spiration, but a love which is a selfish delight, an exhilarating pleasure. Mere beauty of form and feature has therefore a value to a French- woman which it would never have to an American. For by beauty may she win her queendom or lose it. If she is ugly she must make herself interesting, if only super- ficlally. If she is fair, her charms are never so great that they can- not be enhanced artificially. Does fashion call for a com- plexion of pink pallor? Then nine Parisians out of ten will put on pink pallor. To French ldeas a nose shaped into good outline by parafin is a feature far more worthy than it would be if left in its natural uncomely state, its lean places unpadded. Watching the theatrical display of French femininity, and endeav- oring to compare it with our womanly standards, T am reminded of Man- tegazza's classification of beauty. There are, the Italian psychologist de- clares, three daistinct beauty eras in the world’s history. I'irst we find the ideal of beauty extolled in Solomon’s “Seng of Songs' Stature lik: the palm tree, a head poised proudly on a siender neck, evidence of frosh youth and perfect heilth, de'icate yet brilllant loveliness of featur - Then there is the ideal which charmed Frederic Lingini Into esthetic and amorous raptures in the fifteenth century, extolling mere physical perfection which sought consclously to charm, to attract, to allure men into love. It was the beauty of a siren, who yet was a slave. And finally we have in our own day a standard which so . far as vigor and physical perfection and unconsciousness is concerned is like to that of the song of Solomon, but which has new power of strength and capability, but also too much delicacy to be masculine. This last conception of feminine seems to me, when we view it from the sixteenth century ideal still obtains in France. be a siren, nevertheless she is a slave. T 2 5 TR B b o A B G 5 T T e 7 e e e s Answers to Various Queries DOROTHY FENI/IGRE SRR S L A beauty is our American ideal, it the standpoint of love; whereas Here, though a woman P persons who ‘“coach’ intending applicants for civil service positions, but this de- partment cannot advertise such. g WEBSTER-STREET DISASTER — A Reader, City. The accident on the Web- ster-street bridge, Oakland, by which a Jocal train went through the draw and thirteen persons were drowned, happened on May 30, 189%0. MONEY-LENDERS—B., City. There was a bill introduced at the last held session of the Legislature providing that no more than 1% per cent should be | charged by persons loaning money on chattel mortgage. CIVIL SERVICE—C. H. M,, City. Per- sons desiring to take examination for po- sitions in the United States branch Mint in San Franecisco can obtain all infor- mation relative to examinations and so forth by inquiry at the Mint. There are SAFES—Subscriber, City. James Con- ner, known in his time as a type founder in New York City, is credited with hav- ing made the first fire-proof safe in the United States, between 1829 and 1832 His strong box was of iron, the space filled with plaster of paris. In 1843 a man named Fitzgerald applied for a patent on a fire-proof safe which included all the ideas used in the construction of the Con- ner safe. There was a contest, Conner claiming priority of invention, but the courts decided against him on the ground that he had never made his invention known. between the inner and outer walls being TUESDAY, JUNE This is how the Chicago Tribune cartoonist views the Iowa order to physicians to remove their beards, said beards being considered a rendex- (rcagrem _ Paving the Streets With Stones of G/a_s.v. Mention was made in these columns some time ago, says the Philadelphia Record, that the experiment of using glass for street pavement had been found to be very successful in that it was very durable, but that the first | cost of the material made the scheme almost prohibitive. Now comes the word that the cost has been reduced by the discovery of M. Garchy, a well- known French scientist, who has de- vised a process of melting all kinds of old glass and transforming it into ma- terial as hard and serviceable as Bel- gian blocks. Although the process has just been announced to the public, it was dis- covered many years ago and has been in the course of perfection. In 1898 he obtained permission from the mu- nicipal authorities of Lyons to pave a portion of one of their main streets with this new material and thus prove to the world the value of his discovery. The street selected was a principal thoroughfare, which was under con- tinuous and heavy traffic, and yet the glass is still as sound as when first put down. M. Garchy claims for “ceramo-crys- tal,” as he calls it, that it can be manu- factured at’a much more reasonable figure than any other reliable build- ing material now on the market in Europe or America, and that it is prac- tically indestructible. It is also highly attractive and artistic in appearance, and M. Garchy fully expects to see it taking the place of the building ma- terials now in use. — 7 he Sea Fight By W. A. Phelon N the tide, O Where the flags of battie ride, Plates of steel and hearts of oak Strive amid the swirling smoke— Strive amid the eddying breeze For the lordship of the seas! Vast gray forms Crash among the reeling storms, Hurling, with their brass-lipped breath Ton on ton of metal death; Smiting till the armored bulks Turn to shapeless, shattered hulks! Nelson—thou Of the victor’s wreath-crowned brow, Saw’'st thou ever such a sight, Even in Trafalgar's fight? Was there ever, in thy day, Equal to this steel-clad fray? Not a sall Flaps against the sulphurous gale. Towering columns, iron masts, Totter in tne flery blasts, Rope and shroud have passed and gone, With the fighting ironclad’s dawn! Old romance, 5 ‘When the battleships of France Fought the British, closely laid, Boarding-plke and hand-grenade— All have joined the long-past stream Like the shadows of a dream! | Modern skill, Plates to save and shots to kill; Armor and electric art Play to-day the heavier part In the game where fighting craft Counter broadsides fore and aft! 1t is done— And the Yellow Men have won And the red sun lights the wave ‘Where the Russians found a grave; ‘While the great gray victors ride Shattered, but insconquering pride! T ST T SRR Townsend's Cala. Glace Fruits, in ar- tistic fire-etched boxes. New store now open, 767 Market street. . Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s). 30 Cali- fornia street. Telephone Main 1042. * g— 2% CONDEMNED TO THE CHAIR % | .| Miss Elizabeth Callender, i ! _l____________——-——‘—_'_'—_—_\i‘ & THE SMART SET % By Sally Sharp Richard Tobin writes from London that “The Cat and the Cherub” is on the eve of being produced as an opera. This wils be welcome and surprising news to many. for California is thus given another laurel, and the fact that Mme. Meiba is to sing the leading role emphasizes the importance of the announcement. s . s To-day the wedding of Miss Linda Hamilton and Charles A. Wright will take place in Sausalito. The home of Mrs. C. H. Hamilton, an aunt of the bride, will be the scene of the ceremony, which will be quietly performed in the presence of only a few. Mrs. Winslow Beedy (Olive Hamilton) will serve as ma- tron of honor, Miss Minerva Hamilton to be bridesmaid. The groom will be at- tended by Herbert Sutton, best man, Revaud Blanchard and J. Crosby Beedy, ushers. . . Many in San Francisco who had the pleasure of meeting Miss Hallie Rives during her visit to this coast are inter- ested in hearing of her presentation at court. The social success accorded Miss Rives in London has been as great as that of her literary productions. Miss' Rives’ lineage of English origin entitles her to much prestige in the cov- eted set of London. e ¢ Mrs. Gaston Ashe was hostess at a dinner in honor of Miss Linda Hamilton last Friday evening, Mrs. Ashe bidding twenty-four guests to meet the bride-to- be. The home at Sausalito was attrac- tively decorated for the occasion and the guests enjoyed a most charming affair. In the party were Miss Linda Hamilton, Miss Mabel ‘Watkins, Miss Minerva Hamilton, Miss Louise Howland, Mrs. A. Starr Keeler, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Kilgarif, Mrs. Wins- low Beedy, Mrs. Frank Findley, Lileu- tenant Jamieson, H, Clay Miller, Dr. Shadwell O. Beasley, Sherril Schell, Dr. Hartnell, J. C. Beedy, Herbert Sutton. i The lovely home of Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Hickman at Sausalito was ‘filled with welcome last Friday evening for the home-coming of Miss Mabel Watkins, who has been visiting through the Phil- ippines for the past six months. Among those who extended the most cordial greetings were Mr. and Mrs. Hickman, Mr. and Mrs. A7 A. Watkins, Mr. and Mrs. H. Willlar, Mr. and Mrs. Gaston Ashe, Mr. and Mrs. A. Starr Keeler, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Ross, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Martin, Miss Etelka Williar, Miss Con- stance Borrowe, Miss Shepard, Dr. Brechemin, Lieutenant Jameson of Fort Baker, H. Clay Miller. . s . The reception to be givem by Miss Mary Bell at the Sequofa Club next Friday evening will be a delightful affair. The guests of honor, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Palmer, have been warmly greeted since their return, and this opportunity for meeting them again is anticipated with pleasure. As Florence Mason, Mrs. Palmer was a favored belle, and her two years' residence in India since her mar- riage has given her many interesting in- cidents to relate. Mr. and Mrs. Fenry Foster Dutton left | yesterday for the northern part of Cali- will continue to Vancouver, however, by train, and will be the guests for a time of Mrs. Cyrus Wright. - - = Mrs. Charles H. Blinn leaves to-day for “Sleepy Hollow,” the country home Richard Hotaling at San Anselmo, where a house party Is In convention. Mrs. Farnsworth and Miss Laura Farnsworth are the guests of Admiral and Mrs. Tilley at Monterey. Ay Mrs. Daniel Drew Blackburn announces the marriage of her daughter Harriet to Nor Holbrook Bennett at Paso Roble# June 1. The bride is the daugh- ter of the late Danfel Drew Blackburn, a wealthy land owner and early resident of San Luis Obispo County, and whose social prestige s second to none in the southern part of the State. The groom is assoclated with the Oceidental and Orien- tal . Stea. ip Company. After a wed- ding jor ey through the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, Mr. and Mrs. Bennett will make their home in Pledmont, where their new residence has just been com- pleted. o Rt . Miss Anne Louise Daniells of Alameda, who has been under vocal Instruetion in Germany during the past two years, will be joined by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Danlells, who are en route for Bre- men. A Mrs. Horace Wilson was among the passengers sailing for Hurope from New York during the past week. Delroy, the entertainer, will give & psychic melange at the Palace hotel on the evening of June 12. Appendicitis and the Teeth [ S Appendicitis is often dus to bad teeth, said Dr. E. S. Thompson, lecturing at Greshan College, London. The same or- ganisms, he said, were present both in defective teeth and in the diseased ap- pendfx, which proved that dental decay was capable of causing appendicitis. “I see no evidence to show that our teeth are deterforating to an alarming ex- tent with the growth of civilization,” he declared, and he pointed out that an even larger proportion of diseased teeth had been found among Egyptian and Roman remains than existed at present. “Tobacco has an Injurious effect on the digestion,” he went on, “but I do not think that nicotine has any more effect on the teeth than alcohol. But tobaceco cer- tainly blackens the teeth, and so causes many persons who are careful of their personal appearance to brush their teeth more often than they would otherwise do.™ He had found cod liver oil amazingly successful in promoting the growth of teeth in children, and he recommended the toothbrush drill as part of the curri- culum of schools. Dr. Thompson also urged the practice of washing the teeth after meals, and rubbing them twice a day, and particularly the last thing at fornia, going in their automobile. They ! night. — Mirror of Dame Fashion the front. — HAND-MADE LINGERLE BLOUSE. A novel design for those smart hand-made blouses welcome, and this one, taken from an imported model waist, uhow‘l'u:x:::‘{e:tum that are essentially smart and capable of faclle reproduction. One of the round thread linens—the Irish weaves are best for this—is selected, since this kind shows up every stitch of the work to the best advantage. hTe yoke extends well over the shoulders, coming down in a heart-shaped point in the front. This yoke is formed of shaped pieces fagotted together with a stout linen thread, and the edge is embroidered in Mount Mellick work, each part of the motif well’padded so that it stands out in bold relief. The instenlll‘ is in the back, and all over the front big dogwood blossoms are embroldered at irregular intervals. The sleeve is a very full puff, with the fancy stitcheries running lengthwise, and the deep-fitted cuff shows the same fine work. The collar follows suit, and a dainty old-fashioned looking little bow decorates white — 1 WILL TRY THIS SPRING MEDICINE, THAT MY % doe &/ ~MOTHER-IN-LAW MIXED, —UBicaaw JUURNAL