The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 25, 1905, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JULY 2 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL - ———— 14 RN eeee——— W 1 g R B With |||OCCGDENTAL ||| .. THE \SMART SET.". | T Y a Broken Back. ACCID_E_NTALS By Sally Sharp __l ..JULY 25, 1905 PUBLIC OWNERSHIP. 3 unregulated. To this appreciation we owe the stil].growing system of law devised for the control of corporations and the regulation of the large business operations, which are imper- | fectly curbed, if at all, by competition. It is the business of Gov- ernment to regulate and control these monopolies, to govern them ifi short, just as individuals are governed. But we have an increas- ing number of theorists and politicians who do not want Govern- ment projected into that field as a regulator. They want the Government to be the monopolist, and to occupy the field as owner and operator of railroads, telegraphs, telephones, steamers and mines. This means that sovereignty is to become the monopolist. As sovereignty is independent of control, who and what then will regulate the monopoly? Professor James Mavor of Toronto University has considered this question in an address upon “The Functions of Municipalities, With Special Reference to Public Services,” in which he says: “The view has been advanced that municipalities are face to face with a dilemma: either the public services must be rendered by the mu- nicipality directly, or the people must submit to be mercilessly _fleeced by a rapacious corporation. This view can hardly be seri- ously maintained, but, if it were, then even a rapacious corporation, | exposed to the weakness inherent in such corporations, exposed to the fluctuations of the markets and the progress of invention, and, »ove all, exposed to the criticism of the public, as well as of the pub- lic authority, is on the whole to be preferred in the long run to a public authority, with all the weight of the law behind it, and all uence of possession of the public purse, and without the check of any organized criticism.” This thoughtful observation may well be remembered by the people who are being importuned to make of government a business I In this country we have of necessity party government. ism of the Government is nécessarily partisan. The outs find h the ins. Every criticism is ascribed to partisan rancor rit. The partisans of the ins are impervious to the political ments of the outs, and they rally to the support of their side. e see what this means in the Democratic government of New ork and the Republican government of Philadelphia. When government becomes a monopolist of transportation and ymmunication, or all of the means of production, transportation intercourse, this will be 2 monopoly of the ins. They will have fluence of the power of the aggregated monopolies, added to uence of party, and to its desire to have the monopolies for its own. Back of this will be the power of the public purse. Does 1y one doubt that under such circumstances the Government mo- nopoly will be harder to bear, more costly and less possible of change, than a corporate monopoly? A corporate monopoly has no partisan defense. In the nature of things all parties are its critics and accusers. For the sake of public favor they pick it to pieces. They compete with each other in spying into its faults and in the promise of regulative remedy. We are perfectly aware that the advocates of Government mo- nopolist. nopoly charge that regulation is impossible, because of corporate | influence over and corruption of the individuals who compose the Government in its various branches. Yet these theorists propose to put the vast group of monopolies in the hands of the same in- dividuals, or of others like them, to operate, with only one party in- i of two to watch and criticise them. The views of Professor Mavor were made public a year before Mr. Dalrymple came to this country as an expert in the operation of municipal monopolies. It will be seen that he and the professor the same view. Government is a political affair entirely. Whatever it does is political, in the nature of things. It does, in whatever is best for the party in power, and that is lly whatever will control the most votes. It is majority gov- t, and the policy that gets the most votes is of course the ity policy. With this principle at work corporate monopol ure of being controlled, checked and disciplined, because that is the majority wants. But make the same majority the owner he aggregated monopolies of the country and its conduct will be ) erent. The best evidence that Government has controlled the different lines of business, which the theorists want it to own and operate, is the idable body of corporation law that has been formed by have this country the legislative and judicial authority. The Federal and State stat- utes on the subject make an immense code, and the judicial de- cisions applying principles of law to the business of corporations are of equal volume. But when the Government owns all that it has regulated, these laws and decisions will not be operative. The Gov- ernment ¢ ot be sued. No judgment against it could go to execu- tion if it were podsible to get judgment. It pays or not, as it pleases, for it is sovereignty THEOLOGICAL SUMMER SCHOOL. L sacrifice of essential principles, is both one of the pressing needs and one of the strong tendencies of our times. five sectarian seminaries of this State are to unite in providing a summer school to teach theology in a broad and tolerant way is a for congratulations all around. The school is to be held at It is to provide the opportunity to the busy ministers of the State to spend a part of their vacation listening to chosen lecturers. President King of Oberlin College is to be among the in- structors. Some of the lectures are to be open to the public. One of these has the title, “The Industrial Crisis and Family Life.” That is a good subject and needs wise, tolerant and at the same time sternly moral treatment in discussion at this time. ‘The social organism wants the strongest and best thoughts advanced in order that a selection may be made of those most needed at this stage of our development. In putting forth thoughts on this subject of great present concern it is well to make them as tolerant and broad based as they can be while still consistent with true morality. It is desirable to hear the churches speak upon them with some of the authority of collective wisdom—so that the attention of the listen- ing world may have no taint of believing that it hears the opinions of a house divided against itself. It is very desirable, too, that some of the ideals of betterment and some of the safeguards of conservatism adopted in social evolution should come from the church. If it fails to furnish assimilable ones the big, evolving social organism will move right on with the urge of some other stimulus—making a rough and ready morality of its own, for a morality of some sort we must have. It will be much better to have this morality come from the church, for then it will have more of the beauty of devotion, more of the glow of worship, more of the sanction of divine appointment. There is one particular reason why the views of churchmen on subjects that are on the blackboard waiting solution should be heard with hopefulness, and that is their insistence on personal righteous- ness. No part of political or social system that we can improve or initiate brand new will work satisfactorily without the individual's integrity. Socialism, capitalism, individualism, trade-unionism, easy divorce or indissoluble marriage, are all matters of indifference com- pared with the personal factor. We know, of course, perfection of the individual is as impossible as that of any system; but it is to be noted that the churchmen stick to the teaching of That one most essential thing century after century, while the secular world ex- periments with ever changing systems. It is well to have our prob- Jems of industrialism and family life discussed from the point of view of those who are experts in that principle that holds unchang- ing amidst the rise and fall of systems. Here’s 2 satisfactory score, amyway—Harvard, $3,766,000; Yale, $2, 000,000—Boston Herald. IBERALITY in religion, when it can be attained without the VERY one appreciates the evils of natural monopoly, left | That | - ! CHARLESNOEL DOUGLAS DICTATING TO ' " TN IO HIS BROKEN-Back. e | CHARLESNCOELDOUGLAS BEFORE HIS MISFORTUNES i i song and sent it to May Irwin. o o+ PARALYZED SONG AND STORY 1 WRITER, FORMERLY AN ACTOR, AND HIS SECRETARY. i VER in Pacific street, Brooklyn, | O just beyvond Tompklns ave-! nue, where the houses have sweet little gardens, the afternoon sun | falls on a remarkable invalid, who has lain helpless with paralyzed spine and | legs for eight years, says the New York | Herala. | A pale-faced young man who suffers | | with a broken back sustained in child- hood is his attendant and secretary. | | These two helpless ones—twins in suf- | fering—found each other years ago in | a charity hospital for incurables and | | became friends and sufferers together. | | The invalid is Charles Noel Douglas, ‘)tormer!y an actor, but now a successful, evefl famous, song and story writer. The young man with the broken back is Clarence Helmer. Though a cripple | | for life his head is clear,.and with a | good set of legs and arms he looks after | |'the afrairs of the paralyzed poet, and | between them they manage to keep out | of the poorhouse and give the world | songs full of joy and sunshine. In 1888, at the age of 24, Mr. Douglas, | a young collegian, came to this country from England and went on the road ; with a small theatrical company, which | was stranded 350 miles from New York. | | His baggage was attached for the ho- | tel bill and he considered himself for- | tunate in finding 28 cents in his pocket |on his return to New York. He still | had hopes. In a few months he succeeded in ob- | taining a new position as leading man —the villain—in another company. | With him were Sam Bernard. Harry Gilfoil and the late Jerome Sykes. In making the required stage fall every night Mr. Douglas discovered that he was disabling his spine, and later he “llad a serfous contusion. While in great | favor at Helena, Mont,, he accepted a position in the Surveyor General's office for three years. He was to make maps, and being a natural draughtsman turn- ed out work that was complimented by the Government authorities at Wash- ington. The stenographer of his office | was Miss Kate Roberts, who afterward became the wife of Senator Clark. STRICKEN WITH PARALYSIS. Mr. Douglas imagined that he was re- covering from his spinal troubles, and, | returning East, began acting again, | | when suddenly he was stricken with | | paralysis and sent to a public hospital. First it was a private room, then the ward, and, finally, a free bed. His | money running out, he saw tha* he | would soon have to go to the poorhouse lor into the street. His collapse began | | with a sinking spell,” and he thought the end had come. His body began to vibrate and he feit as if an immense | dynamo were attached to his feet. He says: “The current crept up my legs | and arms and body, which became rigtd and lifeless. I had no sensibility in my hands or limbs. The attendant was alarmed, and administered stimulants and tried to restore circulation by fric- | tion and manipulation. When at last the vibrating current reached my head 1 said good-by to those about me. My | jaw went click! and dropped, and to all appearances I was dead. “Yet almost instantly consciousness returned and circulation seemed to re- sume as by magic. I could see and hear myself speak, and I realized that I was alive again. “The hospital experts believed little in my complaints, the doctors laughed at me and famous neurologists inform- | ed me that the symptoms I had de- | scribed were impossible. Then in my | desperation I said: ‘I wish to God you | had them! For my audacity 1 was | dumped into an ey bath and later my | back was cauterized, that I might not! lie on it. God help the man with an obscure nervous disease in a public | saying, men should have nerves. From hospital to hospital I went, and would have fin- ished up in the poorhouse but for this fact: COMPOSES SONGS. “One day in my desperation I resolved to try my hand at writing a song and raise means enough to get into a home for incurables. Only money could save me now. With a bit of pencil and a few scraps of paper, with neither pen, ink, envelopes nor stamps I set to work to compgse the words of a song. During ! my stage career 1 had written my own encores in verse, and I felt that I might compose something again. “The result was 2 little coon song lyrie, a little lullaby tinged with senti- ment and sadness, an echo of my own condition. A fellow patient copied the “How I prayed and hoped while I waited! My life depended on that song. It seemed as if I were in a dream, when, forty-eight hours later, her check came to me and with it a letter ‘1 will call when my season closes.’ “Immediately I began another lyric, entitled ‘Little Kinky Woolly Head,’' and sent it to Weber & Fields’. After three days of suspense, when 1 thought I could hear e ambulance coming to carry me away to the poorhouse, a stranger entered the ward, threaded his way among the twenty-four beds, and was led by the nurse into my presence. He was from Weber & Fields' and had come to ask me to sign a bill of sale for the song. When I had written my name to the document he handed me a twenty dollar bill. Pages could not describe my joy and hopes. Now sure 1 could write a little, enough 1 hoped to keep out of the poorhouse. “My first earnings enabled me to go to another hospital, where I spent eighteen months, and later to gain ad- mittance to a hospitgl for incurables, where I spent three and a half years. It was here that I began to win fame, many friends and some money. MEETS THE HUNCHBACK. “It was here that I did my best gork, and here 1 met Clarence Helmer, the little hunchback, whose life has become linked with mine. His misfortune came from an accident. He lived on a farm with his parents in the northern part of the State. At the age of 6 he broke his back, falling down stairs. It killed his mother, who was very {ll. His father died a few days after, and the poor boy was taken to the poorhouse at Rome. I can only hint of his suffering for many long years. “He was approaching his majority when I entered the hospital and be- came his friend. Imagine what hard- ships he had endured! The boy had to fight with the rats for every mouthful that he ate. At 9 he was sent to the orphanage at Utica, where he/remained until 18; thence he was sent to the home for incurables in which I was try- ing to exist. He and I were in the same ward, and #t once became friends for Mfe. “At this time I subsisted largely by making pen copies of famous drawings, and Clarence cleaned my pictures, for 1 was too weak to do it myself. He managed them for me, and did other lit- tle services, for which I paid him, and he hid the money in a little bag fas- tened around his neck. It was this money, though it amounted to little, that inspired him to make his escape when he should reach 21 and become his own master. You see, they wanted to keep the boy after his majority, to be a drudge in the hospital, and as the State was paying the institution $200 or $3%0 a year for his care, the concern would be that much in. “This is how he got away. He made a dummy, put it in bed and covered it with sheet and quilt, which the night nurse did not observe in her rounds. The boy slipped out and vanished, and with the money that he had saved he was able to get far enough away for safety. " “Meanwhile my own condition was improving, and a song that I wrote and sent to Francis Wilson brought a sub- stantial check and a heart touching letter. Theaters began to send me work, magazines accepted poems, and after long years of toil, anguish and inexpr#sible misery I was enabled to leave the hospital and establish myself in a home of my own—though very humble it was. “Among my songs were many that became famous. Under my window I heard street musicians singing and playing them and I heard that in the ‘Buster Brown' company they were among the features of the play. I heard that Edna May in London was singing ‘My Cozy Corner Girl' and that the piece had become popular in Paris and ward of a public hospital! Only rich HE old rellable quinine pill must now retire to the rear as a curative | agency in the treatment ' of colds, if the theory of Dr. T. W. Lauter- born of East Orange, N. J., holds good., Dr. Lauterborn advocates the use of a sledge hammer to knock out the snuffles. “This is no joke,” he says. “I know what I am talking about, because I have repeatedly and tried the remedy.” ‘When the New Jersey physician now finds himself affiicted with a cold, he promptly applies the sledge-hammer treatment. Retiring to his physical culture “stu- fllo; reising and uts on .8 exe: ime f:nur- two dlagonally _opposite _ win- | throat or chest, Dr. other cities on the Continent.” T e e S TR A e ST 4y e R SLEDGE HAMMER AS - A CURE FOR COLDS B S e e 3 s TSR I S dows séveral inches, in order to secure & good ventilating draught. aking position outside the range of the draught, he picks up a seven-pound steel striking hammer, such as is used by miners, and exercises vigorously with it for thirty minutes. He is careful not to take a bath after the exercise or to go out of the heuse for twenty minutes; but dons flannel, rests a short time and then goés about his business. 4 Doing this three times & day, the doo- tor says he has yet to encounter any cold in the head, throat or chest that could resist the sledge-hammer longer two days. The violent exercise, he contends, ‘| draws the blood a: from woll : way the swollen m_»,-nl,n_nuumnmun- 'Any Ordinary ssvere cold in the head, i BY A. J. WATEBHOUSE ] — (Among the subscribers for “Fads and Fancies,” the book that aristocratic New York gilded, was United States Senator Chauncey M. Depew. He paldi $2000 for his copy.) EAR SENATOR, I'm authorized | D to write this line or two By a little social body that fixed its eye on you, A little social body that has had some pleasant larks, The Most Puissant Order of the Pung- ling Basy Marks. 'Tis a by-law of the Order that the greatest chump around Shall be its Princely President until a greater's found, And—I'm somewhat pained to mention it, but truth is truth, you know— I've ‘been that Princely President for seven years or so. At a meeting of the order which was held last night at ten My tendered resignation was accepted there and then, For, as several members mentioned, ac- cording to our rule, I could not hold the office if we found a bigger fool. That I shouted “Hallelujah!” is a fact| I don't deny, For I'd felt small hope of finding any | easier mark than L My successor was elected to the honors that we give, But his name will not be mentioned, for you may be sensitive. This is why I now am writing, for you | should be notified That the order now is trusting that | you'll take a westward ride, And will pass some social evenings and will have some pleasant larks With the Most Puissant Order of the | Pungling Easy Marks. | You will kindly please to'notice that I do not name a name, Nor our President's cognomen any- | where in this proclaim, | But until you journey westward and your speech of thanks prepare You may safely bet two thousand there | will be one vacant chair. THE WOES OF THE TROOLY GRATE. | HE Society of the Trooly Grate was holding a session, and one of the | Trooly Greatest had the floor. “Something must be did,” he said, “to shield our well known, timorous mod- esty against the bright glare of too much notoriety. It is the ojus noos- papers that principally. are responsible for this bright glare, as we all know. If one of us gives a party, in some un- explained manner they come out with a list of the names of ‘among those | present’ that could have been obtained of nobody but the hostess, and of course | the hostess is righteously indignant at | this shameful publicity. If one of our chauffeurs, in the delightful abandon pertaining to chaufferism, runs over a defenseless foot passenger, they again publish our names, quite regardless of the fact that we pay our chauffeurs to have their names published. If—but why continue when you all know the dreadful publicity to which we are ex- posed?” “Troo! Too troo!” his audience moaned. “It is this shameless Cads and Nan- cies—I should say, ‘Fads and Fancies'— | it is this ‘Fads and Fanecies’ exposure, however, which leads me to say that something must be did to prevent this reckless handling of our names by the ojus noospapers. Each of us paid from $1500 to $10,000 to get his name in a book, and now the ojus noospapers are publishing our names in that connec- tion without charging us a cent. This | can't be tolerated. Why can't they let us blush in secret? Why do they give us that publicity which we would avoid? Why—" “Say,” said an interloper who was not Trooly Grate, “if you object so | seriously to seeing your names in print, why did you pay a few thousand dol- lars apiece for the sake of getting them there? Why—" “Throw him out!” cried the previous speaker. “He is/not Trooly Grate. He is just a Common Person.” So they threw him out. And it is only Very Common Persons, indeed, who will | continue to ask the question that this Extremely Common Person asked. THINGS RUFUS NOTPICED IN TOWN. | 3 EARANCES is middlin' deceivin'. 1 seen a feller come out of a ten- cent restaurant an’ then &tand in front of the best tavern in town tew pick his teeth. Feller offered me a gold watch fer | two dollars an’ a half. I gin him five dollars/an’ he gin me the watch an’' the chinge. The watch wan't gold an *twont go, neither. Think I'm green es I look, don't yew? Waal, b'gosh! the bill T gin him wus that counterfeit bill Tve hed ever since las' Coeunty Fair. Haw! They don’t fool ole Rufe es much es yew might s’pose. I b'lieve in rollin’ 'em high when yew dew roll 'em. Firs' day after [ come | 1 got my boots shined—got the feller | tew cut the price frum his reg'lar rate | to fifteen cents. To-day I bought a glass of sody. Girl at the countér wus a good-looker, an' I up an’ said howdy | dew tew her firs’ flop out o' the box. Gosh! I'm reckless when I git started. Lost my tavern firs’ night after I got here an’ asked a p'liceman ‘bout it “What hotel is it?” he says. “Tragsient- roomers Hotel,” T says. “No such ho- tel,” says he. “There is tew,” I says; “I seen the name'in the window—Tran- sientroomers—French word, T reckon.” He laffed an' laffed, but he didn’t show me the hotel. P'lice here are no good. A TALK WITH ELNATHAN. While I am on the subject, Einathan, can you not ezee that a pretty fairly ex- clusive heaven must be a necessity of the situation? It seems to me that there must be some exclusiveness, or there wouldn't be any heaven: not for long enough to really make it worth while. I know men who, if they should accidentally enter the realm of peace, would be strenuousiy engaged in trying to work up a corner | in golden harps within twenty-four hours | after thelr arrival, and it isn't so far from | an even bet as you might suppose that they | would come uncomfortably close to being | successful. And I know women who if they should unexpectedly become bright spirits of light, would immediately “cut” some’ of the other angels because their wings aid not set well. You understand, of course, that 1 am | not saying a word against such people. | We all have our little eccentricities and probably yours and mine are worse | than theirs; but can’t you see that that sort of conduct would be likely to inter- fere with the programme in almost any heaven of which we have read or con- ceived? I am almost sure that it would. 8 Now that a great proportion of us have voted hades out of existence, it appears to me that about all that re- mains to us is to Have.a large assort- ment of heavens, so that each man or woman can select his or her own. At | any rate, if that is not the solution of the problem that confronts us, I give it up. costs the avi victim, if he has Grocer— mmfifn“ $19 in money, ten fin h; nfoee the se, loss o and not a | prove that man can do Hickman are their Lide Mr. and Mrs. L. M. spénding the summer months at beautiful country home, the Ranch, in Stanislaus County. Several Sausalito friends of Mr. and Mrs. Hickmfan are guests for a few | weeks, among whom are Mr. and Mrs. silbert, Mr. and Mrs. Winterburn, Miss | Galbert and Miss Winterburn. . . Mrs. Wiliam P. Harvey (Lita Gala- tin) will be the guest of honor at a luncheon given by Miss Estelle Klee- man in Oakland. . B Mrs. Robert Greer will be hostess at a luncheon to-morrow at her home in Sausalito. She will entertain about a dozen guests, luncheon to be followed by a few hours of bridge whist. . . . Mrs. Requa of Highlands, Pledmont, 1§ entertaining Bishop and Mrs. Whit- taker of Philadelphia for Khe summer. Bishop Whittaker will receive his friends at Highlands and many through this State and Nevada will be glad to know of his arl;l\‘al. g The new home of Mrs. Emile Bru- gulere on Miantonomi avenue, New- port, was the scene of a large recep- tion during the last week. . . . Mr. and Mrs. Philip Tuggle Clay are visiting at the summer home of the Clays at Fruitvale. . . Mr. and Mrs. David Kellar Minor will leave the first week in September for Portland to visit the fair city a fort- night. . who was the . . Miss Nallie Chabot, guest of Mr. and Mrs. Vietor Metcalf in Washington last winter, returned with her hostess only as far as Port- land. Miss Chabot will visit the fair for a short time before arriving at home. . . B Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mortimer Plum are spending the summer at Congress Springs. Miss Gertrude Russell, who has been the guest of the Misses Draper at Buckhorn Lodge, Oregon. will return the latter part of July, spending the ! rest of the summer with her parents at Ben Lomond. 3 . . Mr. and Mrs. Charles K. Harley will | not leave for New York, their futu | home, until October and will spend the | summer until that time at Menlo Par where they took a house several weelks | ago. . g e Mr. and Mrs. W. D. O'Kane left on | Sunday for Bartlett Springs, wh Ithey expect to spend some time. . - Mr. and Mrs. Julius C. Rels are at Hotel Pottér for several weeks. P Miss Maye Colburn will soon be t guest of Mrs. Barry Baldwin at b country place near Napa. ;e Mr. and Mrs. Robert Oxnard are Del Monte, where they will remain f an indefinite time. . . . Mr. and Mrs. George D. Toy and Miss Mabel Toy are expected home in S tember from Europe. - Lieutenant and Mrs. Clarence Ca gan of Fort Baker are entertain Miss Julia Langhorne and Miss Mars Langhorne. Judge and Mrs. J. C. B. Hebbard, who | have been making a tour of the Nort including the fair, are on the way to Canada, where they will spend severa weeks. . - . Mrs. William Taylor entertained sev- eral friends last Saturday at the Mare Island navy yard. The Independence and one or two battleships were vis- | ited, after which the guests were bid- den to a dinner at the St. Francis. Among the party were Miss Margaret Welch, Miss Alice Cleary, Miss Agnes Cleary, Miss Augusta G. Kelley, Dr. and Mrs. A. H. Lee of Milwaukee, Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Millet of Rochester, Mr. and Mrs. A. H Ward. E. F. Conlin, Lieutenant F. Wetherby, Ensign T. J. Ward of New Haven and D. J. Stanton. X% G What the Women Do Better Than the Men, = ANY a man maintains that there M is nothing which, if a man gives his mind to it, he cannot do better than a woman; that while she has succeeded in a mediocre manner and with much effort in many of man's special provinces, he has sel- dom cared to invade her domains, and where he has done so he has met with signal success. This dictum naturally rouses the av- erage woman to a wnite heat of indig- nation, but it is one which she finds somewhat difficult to disprove. Here are a few subjects in which man ex- cels: Dressmaking—It is an acknowledged fact that tailors cut and fit with greater aceuracy than dressmakers; and the greatest artists in designing costumes tq be worn by the fair are, after all, | men. What dressmaker ranks with Worth, Paquin or Redfern? Cooking—Where is the cook who has reached the historical renown of the many celebrated chefs—Vatel, Savarin, Soyer, Escoffier and many others? Needlework—It is tpue that in Britain woman holds the palm for that; but to it when he chooses, one has only to point to the East, \ here all the gorgeous embroid- eries are the work of men. Teaching the Young—The great kin- dergarten system, which has revolu- tionized the whole of modern teaching. was the discovery of a man. Is it, then, true that where woman excels she does it only by the forbear- ance of man, when he refrains from competing? Not altogether, for the greatest of all functions is still hers, and hers alone. In the nursery she still reigns supreme, and, unless she should volun- tarily dethrone herseif, there she will remain so long as the world lasts. No man has ever proved a successful | substitute for a mothér—not even in tonese days of artificial foods and elab- orate theoretic training of children. ~I8 is, indeed, an open question whether & woman alone would not be more suceessful in the bringing-up and launéhing into the world of a family of girls and boys than a man in like case. On the whole there are more in- stances in the lives of famous men bearing testimony to the value of a mother alone than of a father alone; though some aggue from that, that a youth left to the sole guidance of his mother will either go utterly to the bad or elsé have all the latent good brought out and intensified by that very fact. Also, although Froebel invented the kindergarten system, certainly the best exponents of it are women. It is only the exceptional men who can really en- ter into a child’s mind, while there are to-day hundreds of women whose lives are given to the successful training of other people’s children, and iaey do it ¥ well. It is true that of famous women per- formers on musical instruments there are very few, but at the same time a woman singer produces more effect | than a man, and there have been on the whole more who could be really called great. On the stage also woman must be ac- claimed queen. Bernhardt, Re.ane, Jane Hading, Eleonora Duse—who can @équal, much less surpass them? In other realms of art the great names are aimost entirely those of men; but into some, women have but lately entered. It is not so many years since Jane Austen.dared only write by stealth for fear of the opprobrium that attached itself to the name of “blue-stocking.” and yet now (though this can hardly be called an epoch of great writers), out of ten successful novels in a year, a good propertion will be by women. In nursing the sick the average wom- an is certainly better than the average man, though certain exceptional men | do make most excellent nurses. On a humbler plane we find women excelling in such dainty work as lac making, or the making of artificial flowers; but it is difficult to believe that men who can do such delicats work as fine wood carving, or adjust with such nicety exquisite inlaying and intricate carpentry, could not succeed in the other work also. Millinery seems to be a branch of women's work hitherto not invaded by man, and peculiarly adapted for wom- en's fingers and natural taste. In many factories women are em- ployed in preference to memn in the branches of the work that do not re- quire sustained accuracy or physical | strength, not only because they are cheaper, but also beecause they are quicker and more deft. In short all that requires insight, sympathy, intuition, tact, and deftness, is better done by a woman; and all that requires strength, sustained accuracy, or great mental grasp, is better done by man. This is putting it crudely. but, to say the least of it. it is roughly aec- curate.—Pearson’s Weekly. ———————— 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 tha Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 30 Cali- fornia street Telephone Main 1042. * ————— | Mrs. Sarah Ann Woolf of Utam who has died at the age of ninety-one, left ten children, eighty-one grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren and twenty-three great-great-grandchildren—in all 308 liv- ing descendants. Fifty-four of her de- ! scendants are dead. HE G to 07 I1. Hello, my lad, what are you bringing that board Sénta.rtul;.a?;bv"ourwon't ant it any more, sir; I'm going