The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 23, 1905, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDA 1905. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, JOHN D. SPRECKELS. Proprietor ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO JOHN McNAUGHT. .. Manager UBLICATION OFFICE JAPANNING KOREA. - bone of < icn between ] anded and s ler the su 3 at Peking Other it A% a‘result of the Chino inty of China and imme an and Russi i Japar for wa. -Jap- tely ds Korea ¢ Fed the suz When the late w mto Kor : landed on s of the co d when the war ended the The peace trecaty mitt nd now th Marquis Ito. The Empero: 1 and confirmed has been com- pan. the wily spirits of l ) secure t to leaving the « t sters, of whom he had seven. A these considered a good suim in hand of more impor ancestors in the ground, and with them the negotiation ) ror ret into his ¢a 1 and tried {o placate the SHITHLS hi s by ordering his s assassinated. But ¢ presence 1 of 30,000 troops of the ever-victorious army of pa ts the execution of this spirit placating decree. ws the policy of Great ain in India, by appoint- g iministrator of Korea, to co-operate with the Em- I It is needless to E: ror's part in.| ntry will nog keep hi In the usual be last of his{ be complete, and rs 80,000 square mi le more than half and is credited with a population of 10,000,000. r the country lies between 34 and 42 hich implies the physical conditions which are en 1 California, and the south lirfe of he crops include rice, rye, wheat, millet, tobacco, cotton, potato was introduced, but its cultivation Government, probably for fear of offending ulare, hemp and ginseng. The g n by the ancestors. The domestic animals are small cattle The dogs are used for food, and eir skins are exported in considerable quantity. Only the Em- raises sheep and goats, and he uses them only in religious The country is well watered and is known to be rich in copper, iron and coal. The Government has prohib- so that these mineral resources fall to Japan as a prize it be slow to take and use. The spirits of Koreans 1 to their forefathers were supposed to abhor mining, se will not respect the objections of those disembodied nd will go on and develop the country. gion of the country needs straightening out as much as t and industries. It is a confusing mixture of Bud- ianism, boiled down in a syrup of singular super- ymmon people are convinced that the devil runs and that he can be bought off. So the devil has a and does a big business. One feature in the reli- of the people is of singular interest, since it is the survival that was general among the ancient peoples of Eastern Eu- and was cherished by the Greeks and Romans. This is the f ancestral fires, on the domestic altar. This ined at all cost, as the Vestal Virgins in Rome - temples. That such a religious custom should ind over the vast stretch from Italy to the Yellow Sea is an » evidence of the agreement of primitive man upon what by them all as an essential in an early form of the fe- us idea. Among the finer characteristics of the people is the mg affection of parents for their children and the filial respect of iren for their parents. This is the excellent contribution of Con- fucianism to their manners and customs. As a part of Japan Korea is destined to be better known to the d. The kingdom tried to get itself on a better basis some years ago and employed the late General MacE. Dye and another Ameri- can officer to reorganize its army. It is of interest to Californians that the late Clarence Greathouse, formerly a San Francisco jour- 1 nd lawyer, was for years the adviser of the Korean Emperor. TO ATTRACT TOURISTS WESTWARD. ferior quality. rses, tle, swine and dogs. ing preserva fou mterestir 1 WOor Europe if you will, but see America first, is the appeal to patriotism and common sense made by the Commercial Club of Sait Lake City in their endeavor to obtain the western part - country a juster share of the many millions of dollars Amer- ists spend annually in sightseeing, health. hunting and It is estimated that during the season of 19o-03 sightseers spent the vast sum of $150,000,000 in foreign countries, The Commercial Club has set itself to the task of ob- taining a large share of this tourist travel by making better known the advantages of the United States west of the Mississippi to the great number of Eastern people who rush off to see the well- advertised sights of Europe before they have examined and appre- ciated the glories of their own country. The officers of the club are perfecting arrangements for. a con- ference of the Governors of the States and Territories affected, and of representatives of the chief commercial bodies of the West and of the railroads interested. The Commercial Club will then pass from generals to particulars and present a “detailed, definite and comprehensive plan of procedure.” The date set for the-conference is January 18, 1906. 1t is, of course, absurd to raise objections to Americans tour- ing Europe for pleasure and cultivation when they have the means to do so. The old countries have an immense advantage in the way of artistic, historic and religious interests, scientific progress and music ; but there are a great many who travel just for amusement, to behold scenic grandeurs, to find health and to be on the watch for investments. To these a Western trip would be just as satis- factory or more so, Particularly to people who for the first time find themselves pos- sessed of the leisure.and the means of travel the attractions of their own country should make the strongest appeal. They should know their own country thoroughly and be prepared to tell Euro- peans about its glories before they go abroad to learn -Europe. Another class that should be persuaded are those who have the leisure to make repeated trips. Those who have seen Europe shopld consider the Rocky Mountains, the Columbia River, the,magnifi- cence of California, in planning their future trips. What they spend in the West is much more likely to help build up the general pros- perity, so as to add to their fortunes indirectly, than would expendi- tures on foreign trips. Particular attention should be paid to that advantage there is in leisurely travel and observation—the watch out for good, new and unmonopolized opportunities for investment. Many an expensive pleasure trip might thus be turned into a profit- able adventure, and the cost of the enjoyment be finally overcome Dby a big sum on the profit side of the ledger. ner: 1t seems that Admiral Evans can crochet some too, or he wouldn’t be able to keep up with Prince Louis of Battenberg.—Detroit Free Press, 4 were draws hole kingdom | All the fruits of Central LEurope are pro- | o "IN A FAIRYLIKE PALACE, BERUTIFUL - QUEEN CARMEN SYLVA DEVOTES MUCH | i THE ROUMANIAN QUEEN AT WORK. . still beautiful, white-haired, The Sketch. sense of the word. says some years ago. ANY Queens have written verse, from Mary Queen of | and, not content with produeing masterpieces, she delights in Scots onward, but none have devoted thelr lives to lit- | reading and in appreciating erature in the same sense as has “Carmen Sylva,” the royal poet of Roumania, Her Majesty is a worker in the most seripus She spends long hours at her writing-table, those of others. Many great writers ‘have stayed with her in. the fairy-like palace where | she and the King spend all thelr spare time, and Pierre Lott wrote a charming account of a sojourn made by him there | HIS WEDDING CARD. William Busnach, a well known Pa author, who is 73 years of age, has ust married a young actress, Mile. Yrven, aged 23, of the Folies Dramatiques Theatre, says the London Mail, and he advised his friends of the marriage ding out the following postcard: 1. William Busnach has the honor {o intorm you of his marriage with Mile. Marcelle Yrven. P. 8.—Please send neither flowers nor wreaths.” being interviewed concerning his riarriage, the author sdid: “In spite of the fifty years' difference between us we are both of us pleased at being married. I am an old man who has fallen violently in love with a young woman whom I saw | one day by chance. Of course, there | will be a lot of satire at my expense, but what goes it matter? “I am the first to make fun of myself. I do not ask my wife for a love passion, | which, of course, I could not expect from her, but merely for a good, honest affec- | tion, such as a very ycung woman might be expected to feel for a man old enough to be her grandfather. “My wife thinks me very funny, by no means a bore, and ghe is pieased to bear | & well known name, Mwe, Busnach. That i« why we have married. [ am shortly about to produce a dew play, ‘Mme. Bovary.’ " M. | | e i oirrs HOW HE WORKED. James Branch Cabell, the author, has been so annoved lately by inquirles from | strangers as to how he works that he “has adopted a form of reply which he declares to be efficacious. *I find I do | my best_work,” so runs Mr. Cabell's statemenit, “lving at full length in a | marble tank filled with gold fish, with the water at a temperature of 80 to less- | en the heat of inspiration.” As a mat- ter of fact, Mr. Cabell admits that he | does mnot know his method of compo- | sition further than that he rarely aver- | ages a thousand words at a sitting and that he works only at night. GROWING OLD TOGETHEK A Few Lessons for Married People Shown in Several Touching Life Stories. BY DOROTHY FENIMORE : o LIKE to escape whenever I can from l the hubbub of divorce court news and the scenes of marital infelicity with which the horizon presented by the daily press is usually disfigured, to let my mind dwell in the cfiertul atmosphere of homes where married life is a sacrament and not a travesty of sacred things. Otherwise I could not at weddings listen with any kind of equenimity to that sol- emn marrriage vow, “For better, for worse; for richer, for poorer, In sickness and in health, so lopg as we both shall live.” I enjoy thinking about the gentle acts of marital devotion wherewith the pages of personal history—o? the Tumble as well as «i the gPeat—are full. It pleases me swhenever I see one of a couple making \gacri’ces forw ths other. And to my eyes ‘thera 1s not a companionship in the world imaore attractive to,look upon than tuat o2 |2 married pair who have grown old to- ‘gether, Becausge this is my taste and pleasure I am forever stumbling upon little inci- dents of wedded romance which do me good, and a few of them I shall relate | in the hope that some of my readers may happen to have a predilection like my own, I wohder how many of you noticed that anecdote of the late Prince Bismarck's wife, recoupted at the time of the no- bleman's déath, which shows that her love was not born a twin of jealousy. ‘When, some time after her marriage, she found hidden away in the garret in an old trunk of her husband’s a picture of X for while wintry blasts ments. vor is divided ustrati in the garment illusirated is a b ings of silk the in dark green, a lor of crimson velvet through which MIKROR OF DAME FASHION HE reefer ever remains the style that the small miss demand t! ‘between the plain mixed tweeds, such as are used in the overcoats for 35; i kerseys and coverts and Brown- i the lovely Princess Carolath, with whom he had. eloped a number of years before, she had the picture handsomely framed and gave it place of honor in her bou- doir. She loved her husband enough so thhat all that he loved was precious to er, There was another story in the papers this past year which caught my fanc: { It concerned one Samuel Savel, a me chant of the Newark ghetto, who on his deathbed underwent the fatiguing and |unnsual ordeal of a divorce before three not wed his brother when she became a { widow, in accordance with an old Mosaic i law, still cbserved by the orthodox Jews, On the ocean jlner which brought me back from Europe last summer I had an experience which moved me deeply, for it gave me a glimpse into the tragedy of a loving human heart and at the same time offered me a view through the gold- en portals of that fufinite goodness which is at the soul of all unselfish living. One evening I was sitting on the wet and windswept deck with an elderly lady, an actress, whose life had been uncom- monly full of domestic trouble. Her hus- band had wronged her to a degree that most women would have considered un- forgivable, and finally for some years be- fore his death had been as helpless and irresponsible as a foclish child. Though the burden of bringing up the family was thrown on her shoulders she stood brave- ly by the man whom she had married un- til death released her. All this I learned from another than herself. In some respects the years had harden- ed her, yet that night, as we sat side by side, watching the darkness closing in upon the wide expanse of the waters, she opened her heart to me, a stranger, sweetly and without pitterness, in spite of all that she had suffered. “If only we could have grown old to- gether,” she sald. *“That was always my dream, even as long ago as when we were married. Have you seen that queer little old couple who walk up and down the deck? He is so good to her and she leans on him so. The tears come into my eyes when 1 see them, for they are like my dream come to life-what I wanted and what was denied me."” “Qh, my child,” she sald, turning tow- ard me impulsively, and her voice, train ed to eloquence, was musical with feel- ing: “There is nothing so beautiful in married life as growing old together.” PICKINGS FROM PUCK. SCIENCE OF THE GAME. — The Freshman.—Our star halfback, “Biff” Gouger, broke four toes and sprained an ankle in yesterday's game. Geel But the captain roasted him to a turn! The Bartender—What for? The Freshman—Rotten judgment. “Biff” tried a.kick for the stomach, but the guy ducked and blocked it neatly with his head! NO DECEPTION.—Assistant—How'll I head this column of bor mots of stage children? A Editor—"‘Qut of ‘the Mouths of Press Agents.” . BLISSFUL.—The Count—Ma foi! had & beautiful dream last night! The Baron—What was ze dream? The Count—I dream zat I was marrying into a life insurance family. SPORT.—“Have good luck on your hunting trip?” “No; poor. Guides awful scarce this season; only got one and winged an- other. ¢ ‘Get any deer?” “Ob, yes, Five or six.” A LONG JOB,—“How long hev you been a printer?”’ Inquired a r-necked young native who had percolated into the of the Polkville, Ark., I ‘Weekly Clarion. “Been setting type for twenty-seven years,” replied the veteran. “Heck!” was the amazed comment. “And ye ain't got it all set yit, neither!” AT THE SILVER.—Burglar—Now, if dat kid in de next room wakes up and ‘begins_ter holler, wot'Il we do? His Pal—Wot'll we do? Wy, we'll say we're missionaries, uv course; same es de insurance guys do. e QUALIFIED.—Undertaker — But have you had any experience in embalming? Butcher (out of a job)—Have 1? Well, I guess so! I worked eight years for the ‘beef trust. = A . SAGE ADVICE—"Now, Lester,” said the Olg Codger, addressing his callow nenhew in 8m tone, “it 18 a8 e | OF HER TIME TO WRITING POETRY { | “Your rame?” quoth the warden. “A list 1% rabbis in order that his beloved wife need | OCCIDENTAL ACCIDENTALS BY A. J. WATERHOUSE. || | | | I; el THE SWEET LITTLE SAINT. - DEAR little, queer little, sweet lit- tle saint Flew up to the City of Rest, { And she said to the warden, “Deliciously’ | quaint, Let me enter the home of the blest.” 1 keep here | Of each that from sinfulness turns.” | She gave him a card that was per-| teetly dear, | Ang it read, “Marye Lysabeth Byrnes.” Oh, then did that warden straight open his book, Ara turned to the letter named B, | And long did he look, and @id look, and did look, | But nowhere that name did he see. | { i | | “1t grieves me to-mention,” he whispered, | forlorn, | ‘“For my spirit in sympathy year | But vou'rni have to stay out just as sure vou're born— no ‘Marye Lysabyth Byrnes Without the bright gates of the City of 1 Gold 5 | That sweet little saint ever flits, And she couldn’t e'en be with the duffers enrolied No more than Saint Peter discerns— | That the name which her parents had | given to her |. Was “Mary Elizabeth Burns.” | On,, dear littie maidens, ye butterfly | | brood, | | Ba yaur sweet affectations forgiven, But swil if ye long for the home of the | good, | ‘And a part in the rapture of heas | Don’t mutildte names till Satan’s upse Though that, I'l! admit, might/be bless- ing— \ But think of your grief and your fearful regret If Peter got left in the guessing. EXIT THE BALL GOWN TRAI I note with pleasure so degp as to be almost poignant that trains on ball gowns are going eut of style in London, and, of | course, it follows that they also will go out of style in that portion of American society which is so English, doncher | know, and after that probably other American soclety will follow suit. For this, men and brethren, let our halle- lujahs arise. This feeling of bliss on my part is en- tirely altruistic; it moves me in behalf of other sufferers than myself, for my daneing days are practically over. To be sure, I never had much or many dancing days, my good people having been con- vinced that dancing was a sin and thatf the light fantastic toe tripped straight'| away from heaven, but, in my wicked way, 1 took enough shies at it to walk a few ball gown trains into something ap- proaching demolition. | I recall one sweet little giri—bless her! | —~whom I escorted to a ball. I had known | her from her babyhood, and 1 am sure | that no purer or sweeter maiden lived | anywhere. On this occasion she wore her first train, and as soon as I saw it I feit that Nemesis had been spelled for me and that my folks were right in insisting that | | he should abandon hope who entered a | dancing hall. I was right. | The trouble began and ended in our first | dance. Every fresh step I took brought | away anothér yard or so of the train.| When I got done the dear girl was wear- ing no skirt worthy of mention and I} would have given $5000 if I had possessed | that sum to have been $000 miles away. | ‘Then that blessed girl opened her ruby lips and uttered an expression sueh as I am sure she never used at any other time in her life. She sai “Damn such clumsi—" 3 X She never completed the sentence, and I did not ask her to do so, but in my heart of hearts I felt that she was justi- fied. And yet I do not doubt that !hE‘ went home and breathed yards and yards | of virginal petitions for using words | which any right-minded citizeness might | have employed. Three times that evening I asked her to dance witn me—this was | after the other girls had more or less | pinned her skirt to her sylph-like form— but in every instance she expressed the deep regret she felt that she was already | engaged. Then she “sat out” those dances. It was the memory of a few such epi- sodes as tue foregoing that caused me to lift my hallelujah in behalf of dancing men on receipt of the news from Lon- don. Doubtless I am not the only man with the rare grace and abandon of a cow, who has worked havoc in a ball- room ere now, and so lots of men ought to be pleased, while I should think that the women would be almost “tickled to death.” Let the ‘innovation come, and the sooner the better. “Yes, and Ethel told him that she had cut her eye teeth.” ““What did he say?” “He admitted it, and said he would bet she had lost them, too."” “Why, the horrid monster!” PRODIGAL SON AND THE OTHER. You may talk as you please of the prodi- gal son, And condemn him as much as you will, And of course you are right, as our morals have run, And as they are running still; But I've this to say—and I hope you'll hear— 1 should sooner have known that chap Than the brother who stayed in e home of cheer, To look for the “softest snmap.” The prodigal's blood is the red, red blood, ‘While the blood of his brother is thin— Oh, I know that the former may delve in mud, And eat of the husks of sin; But his brother is bound by selfishness’ chain, As I think that you all may agree, And, theugh I may look on his way with pain, : 'Tis the prodigal son for me, Rural schoolma’am (to the bright the class)—Now spell grafter. i The bright boy (without a moment's hestiation)—P-0-1-i-t-l-c-i-a— “Right! You may go to the head.” Sunshine on the meadows, sunshine In the glade; in the valle; with it the hade: v Just tem Sunshine on the mountains that breezes only fan— And the only place where sun shines not is in the heart of man. o I R SR N proper that you should pay the fiddler as it is to liquidate any other debt, but it's a dum fine exhibition of extry width betwixt the eyes to inquire the flddler’s | price before the dance begins.” ‘Perhaps, after all, the best policy is never to do anybody any harm unless | thereby you can do yourself some good. After all, what is the wisdom of age. hnyl:bng a mere defect the courage of | yout In at least one respect the Interstate Commerce Commission should be treated like the vermiform appendix. If you} can’t make it useful, cut it out. The political machine never shuts down, however little demand there may be for | in Berkeley. | place in the pres | formed BY SALLY SHARP. THE SMART SET l The St. Francis Hotel ting of a brilliant wedding to-night, when Miss B rice Bromteid of San Mateo will become the bride of Arthur be the set- Judd Ryan of 1 ss Juliet Garber nome the bride's parents, Judge and Mrs. John Garber, at 8 o'clock, will take nee of 100 guests, The ceremo Miss Alice Treaner and Miss E Chickering will be tne honored to-day of Mrs. Frederick Palmer, w o | wiu enterfain at bridge. . - . The nuptial ceremouy hetween Miss Marie Bull and Dr. Walter C. was quietly performed las o'clock at‘the home of the b her, Bull, gowned ith duchesse lace, om's keeping by thleen Bull, sery a gown of fed a shower on her brother. M ing as mald of honor, wo pale blue chiffon and c bouguet of Bride roses. Under an arch of holly and greens Rev. Bradford Leavitt of the Unit church read the solemn wor groom being supported by Dr. Albert y. U. 8. A ell and Alpheus Bull Jr. per- the office of ribbon-bearers, these. little people making a pretty pie- ture in the wedding accessories. Only a very few were present and after an informal reteption Dr. and Mrs. Chides ter left for a brief wedding trip, as they are to sail on Saturday for the Philippines. an the Miss Nana E. Mighell became the bride of A. W. Splivalo yesterday a: high noon, the ceyemony taking place at the home of the bride’s father. W. E. Mighell, 1533 Oxford street, Berke- Ie Only the families and a very few close friends were present at t ice, performed by the Rev, Dr. Clam- pett of this city, and, after a wedding breakfast, Mr. and Mrs. Splivalo de- parted immediately for their new home, which has just been completed at Beimont, near the paternal Splivala home. The groom, a holds a remarka cha ionship in a Stanford graduate and tennis player, alse widely-known man, Jle record for tha athletic sports; he is and a fine polo holding med als for horsemanship, being the Initia- tor of fox-hunting in San Mateo County. and Miss Bertha Good- Miss Franece rich were luncheon > Hotel Knickerbocker taining a dozen gues were Miss Janet Coleman, Mis: Langhorne, Miss Julia Langh Marie Rose Dean, Miss Anita H Miss Genevieve Harvey, Miss Bells, Miss Dorothy Bells, Miss Orr, Mrs. Thomas Driscoll. Miss Edna Hannigan entertained three guests of honer at a card party at her home yesterday. those in enjoyment of special faver being Ursula Stone, iss Edith Henriel Mrs. C. Frederick Andrews. Miss Rose Nell Baggett will make her Mis and debut on Saturday, December 2, at the St. Dunstan’s. Miss Baggett's coming out will add another beguty—an arch type of South- ern beauty to the steadily growing list of debutantes. Last year Miss Baggett attended the assemblies, but in abbreviated frocks. ! . [ An affair embracing the most exclusive of San Francisco society was the coming out tea yesterday of Miss Barbara Par- rott, third daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Parrott and granddaughter of Mrs, Abbie Parrott, at whose home the func- tion, occurred. The commodious rooms of the Sutter- street residence were attractively dressed in the greens and flora of the season, holly and chrysanthemums predominat- ing. Nearly three hundred guests called upon Miss Parrott, who was assisted in receiving by Mrs. Abbie M. Parrott, Mrs. John Parrott, Mrs. Joseph Donahoe, Miss Abbie Parrott, Miss Emily Parrott and Miss Marie Christine de Guigne. . e Next Monday evening the Society of California Pioneers will be the guest of the Daughters of California Ploneers, entertaining at Ploneer Hall. o e Mrs. Prichard entertained the Daugh- ters of the Confederacy at her home on Sacramento street a few evenings ago, on which cccasion a handsome portrait ef General Stonewall Jackson was presented to the Jefferson Davis Chapter. e Major Carroll A. Devol, chief of the army transport service, who, with his family, has been spending the summer months at the Presidio, has taken a flat at 1676 Broadway for the winter, « et Judge J. C. B. Hebbard has returned from a week's hunting trip in Somoma County. . . Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Scott were pas- sengers on the Mariposa yesterday, sail- ing for Tahit!. Fokie Walter 8. Martin was a supper host at the St. Francis last evening, entertaining a large number of guests. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. SENATOR MITCHELL—L. G. M., City. The penalty imposed on Senator Mitch- ell of Oregon for frauds was a fine of $1000 and imprisonment for six months. ferry-boat Berkeley that runs on the Bay of San Francisco are: Length, 2614 feet; breadth, 40.2; depth, 14.1. Her ton- nage is 1245. Her passenger capacity ig not given in the records. —_— SATIN, A. M, City. 1f you have been painting on satin and there is a stain around the design, it is probable that you have been using poor material. Go to seme first-class art store and there you will obtain first-class material and books of instruction. ROYAL FLUSH—A Reader, City. Hoyle “It_is possible for four straight or royal hes of the same value to be out In the same deal.” The same. work definles a royal flush as: “A straight or sequence, all of the same suit, ag for In- stance ace, deuce, trey, four and five." DIMES—Sul City. Dime is from the French word dixieme, a tenth, expressive of the tenth part of the standard silver dollar. It was firsc spelled “disme,” and thus appedred om some trial pleces struck by the United States Mint in 1792. “The coin was au- thorized in 1792 with a weight of 41.6 .:zju. Coinage of sueh was begun in 1796. Its weight was in 1853 reduced to 38.4 grains. There are no issues of dimes during the years 1799, 1306, 1308, 1812, 1813, 1815 to 1319 inelusive, 1824 and 1826. 3 Townsend's California glaes fruits and choicest candies in artistic fire-. etched boxes. New store, 767 Market, * —_—— ‘Special inf tion supplied dally bulnn: m::.n " )