The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 31, 1905, Page 11

THE SAN FRANCISCO SUNDAY CALL. : 4 Mar or the resp body else, ure makes m pain and anguish and the handicaps that half well. We dis- t me add, we disobey too, and then we plous- quire why we are so often Il divine providence, When a girl has persistent headaches and can assign no reason for them, she gare T SO Rz AT < SN\\w, S crowred with success that Cal- urging Congress to admit her 1 to recognize her as ng bitterly opposed in re the feeling -between ion apd the abolition- ed, and, realizing representation of forceful pital to further the the ambitious State, a dele- 1om the Gen- to proceed to California’s of a natfonal c: was late osen fight fo ck is departure, d by General Crosby with et e and ange for Francisco. This when ched the led this mission he ded on to Wash- :d into the- fight which, a State d had been opposition and wod bill, sme ve ave ngre yholed by hate, to its Cali the situa- n to San oppe or- shown. a better New Cro; em of I Du s early the cor d to the poor < Congr at one measure i to be Senator Sew- A ] st. A om strabismus, sit an oct great many ome 11 or un- If the ple recourse to a doctor serl the proper glasses. No y risk by selecting Av toa tndispensable , money and strength a headache is mere- f danger. from N tal habit nibbling between meal too free- for candy, may ach. nach goes on a strike there ws the nightmare known as It girls would carefully of candies and sweet- somewhat meager dessert, r a meal of plain food, these dainties lo them little harns. But there who fairly gormandize on bon- sweets. T could tell you tales pasty, sallow complexions looking pimpies and very entirely due in my lve eating of can- a case st is a dis- of sprin ence, adache and other confectionery. In its place, candy injures no one, but it was er meant to be a steady diet. It is rather by the way of being a sort of d of merit and a crown to a little The trouble is that over-eating veets surfeits appetite and then one not care for roast beef and mutton s and rice pudding and baked apples other admirable articles of food, which give one good red blood, and build one up in wholesome vigor. If your mother has been wise she has not permitted her schoolgirl daughter to taste either coffee or tea during her child- hood. These beverages should be the sole consolation of grown-up people, who may be supposed to understand the uses of a stimulant. A growing gl. should not drink a cup of coffee or a cup of tea under any circumstances. If she wants & warm drink for breakfast on a cold morning, let it be either cocoa or hot and T T T OGRS NSO Wimbrells -7, s> ISRaSSSsSy vancing toward General Bidwell, asked, as a peculiar smile illuminated her fea- tures: “You don’t mean, general, that your fears for the bill center around any pos- action on the part of Senator Sew- Yes, madam,” responded the general, and if I could be assured of the friend- p of the Senator from your State, I would feel certain that our bill would be >d before the close of the present ses- Crosby and Senator Seward had been schoolmates, and hdd grown up as NOBORN0N t E. Sangster’s A O PP PN PIPP RRSGGSRGRNGRIRN NS, milk. both of which are nutritious and 1f you wish to keep bright eves and red cheeks and to feel buoy- innocuous. it and well, let tea and coffee alone il you are long past school days. But drink an abundance of cold water. « s s A fruitful cause of headaches is con- stipation. Unless the physical system be regular and the body periodically re- lieved of rubbish.and debris, no one can hope to be well. Girls sometimes neglect this important rule of nature, particu- larly if they are away from home, or if they have not established in themselves a definite and Inflexible order about the matter. One can nevir neglect the pe- riodicity of nature. A girl who would be boiu beautiful and well must attend to the necessary drainage of the body, In its every form. Another caution may be pardoned by the ambitious girl who goes to school who wants to keep up with her classes, and who longs to take a high rank in the studies she prefers. Do not work too late at night. The beauty sleep comes be- fore midnight. Do your studying, so far as you can, by daylight. If you must work at night, do so in a room where you can be quiet and where you have the bright light of a well-filled lamp. Do not wear tight corsets. Have your clothing loose and let its weight hang from the ghoulder and not from the hips. A headache may be due to pressure wpom« the lungs and the abdomen of a eorset that is mistakenly supposed to insure & good figure: g I wish 1 gould persuade every girl ia the land to revere the house in which she lives. The body is the soul's house. Body and soul are strangely united If we abuse the body we suffer pain; if we treat it with fairness and give it freedom, if we feel for it the reverence we should, Wwe go througn ute cneerrully equal to the day's work. The foundation for a healthful, happy life is laid in youth, You ere bullding for to-morrow.. In many cases a headache is more than a blun- der; it is a sin. There are no doubt times when this language is too strong to fit the occasion, but taking fhe great host of schoolgirls as they are they have no need to be nervous, irritable or in any way depressed by anv phvsical L v gl — ) lSeosSen pasaaaa i bat Made MHistory ! distress whatever. If they will obey the laws of. health they will be well. My last word about headaches is, don't have them. ° s e ‘What was that you said, Dorothy? Am I sure that I heard you aright? Are you really afraid of s little gray mouse that you eould hold in your hand. that scuttles away from vou in tar- R T2 Y Z2ZRARAD SO SN 7 <= STEHE CNBRELZY ZZg7m 4 TR T REDY CHLFUI TS, SEFTEEZOOD CAHBROTE R v e ~ ror and that, measured by inches, is less formidable than a rabbit or a squirrel? Yes, you own it without a blush. You really are afrald of a mouse. So are Frances, Jane and ever so many others of your friends. A marked aversion to the entire family of rodents is a pronounced feature of most women whether they are little or large. The little woman of ten screams at the sight of a mouse and so does her older sister, and very likely her mother and her grandmother are equally as alarmed at the appearance of this small monster which is indeed a beast of prey, but such a wee bit of a beast, not in the least like.a lon or a tiger, a panther or a wolf. Probably the dislike to mice is natural with most of us for the very §00d reason that a mouse in the pantry makes disagreeable depredations, and apart from the toll he takes is anything but clean; that a mouse fn the bureau drawer nibbles gloves and eats buttons 12 they are covered with silk, and that a mouse in the bedroom anyway is not just the companion one would choose at the midnight hour. Mice are pretty little things with their gray coats and their bead-like eyes, but they belong to the class of creatures which for our own preservation we must fight. I am not asking my girls to like them, but for pity’s sake, Dorothy, do overéome your terror at their mention. A mouse has never yet been known to devour a schoolgirl. \ « s e .1 wish I could persuade you not to be afrald of anything, great or small. We must take certain precautions. To walk up as some fearless girls do to a strange dog. patting him on the head and tryving confident that her influence might be ex- erted in behalf of California. She so in- limated to General Bidwell and then pro- posed that Senator Seward be invited to her home as a guest of fareweil dinner she had arranged prior to her departure to the West, At that function Mrs. Crosby quletly approached the Senator on the California statehood bill, remarking that inasmuch &8s she was about to leave for Califor- nia, which was to be her future home, she would like to see it granted its much desired position among*the other States of the Union. Years before Senator Sew- ard had proposed marriage to Mrs. Cro: by and had taken his rejectment ser ously, but as he looked into her smiling face on the day of their final parting he gould not resist her importunities in a good cause. History tells the rest; of how Senator Beward announced on- the Senate floor his sympathy for Californians and ex- pressed the hope that his colleagues would admit the State unconditionally and at once. In that notable discussion the pro-slavery exponents had concen- trated their strength in an effort to de- feat this bill, and brilllant oratory flowed from the mouths of some of the most dis. tinguished statesmen the country has had. Days of struggling between the oppos- ing factions in the Senate ended In a vic- tory for California, and on September 9, 1850, President Fillmore affixed his signa- ture to California’s statehood charter. A few days afterward saw the Califor- nia party, including Mrs! Crosby and her daughter, departing from New York on their way to the isthmus, exuberant with Joy over the success of their mission to ‘Washington. Prior to leaving New York General Bidwell had suggested to Mrs. Crosby and heg daughter the advisabll- ity of securing heavier clothing In anticl- pation of the rainy weather they wers likely to encounter on the isthmus trip, and with that good judgment that women generally show in preparing for a long trip the Crosbys had purchased two um- brellas, little imagining the importance that was to be later attached to one of them. Immediately after their embarkation General Bidwell had turned over to Mrs. Crosby the various official documents re- lating to California’s statehood that had been received by him in Washington, be- lieving that.the precious papers would be in safer keeping in Mrs. Crosby's hands than in those of other members of the party. In turn the papers were handed over to the charge of Miss Crosby by her mother and remalned in her custody until they were finally placed in the hands of the Federal officlals in this city a month later. Night after night on the way down the Atlantic coast these papers reposed un- der the pillow of Miss Crosby and dur- ing the day they were as carefully guard. ed.by her as though they were her per- sonal treasure. When the voyage of seven days and nights in an open boat along the Chagres River was undertaken and the heavy rains of the tropics were encountered, Miss Crosby bravely sacri- ficed her 6wn comfort to shield the pers from the wet by secreting them in the folds of her silk umbrella, which ‘was never raised to shelter her head from the downpour. In this strange receptacls the papers remained during the tedious ride on mule back across the isthmus to Panama, where the Californians board. ed the steamer Oregon for San Franc On the voyage up the coast the fornians agreed that the honor of ali- be the first to land from the steamer and to transfer the valuable papers to the proper authorities rightfully belonged g to Miss Crosby as a reward for her faithful care of the documents. The ship was made spank and clean and, at the last moment, lavishly dressed with all her gayly colored bunting prepa tory to engering the Golden Gate, be- yond which thousands of anxious peo- ple were dally turning their eyes to- ward the summit of Telegraph Hill in the hope of seeing the signal that had been agreed upon. On October 18 thelr long nourished R R S D D e DGR R ROSEO0G0R00000) hope was real he hill signaled t Oregon, and a veyed the infor Bidwell and h with good news., one bit of good news for t Francisco, and that was that C had been granted by E statehood. In ten minutes’ rapidly growing city was i eat excitement, w Oregon, !, when the lookout on tew 1 increased as with her ns loudly ing, stean up th bor 1 anchored off the main portion of San Francisco. Thousands of people greeted the first boat party to land, and tion of the news that Ca inally been admitted to State was a signal for r of enthusiasm. Business to a standstill and the populace gave way to its joyous feclings and continued the impromptu celebration into the nigh Meanwhile, arrangements had been made for a formal celebration on Octo- ber 29, when a parade through principal ‘streets by all the bodies was followed by a gather the plaza, where the Su Justice, Nathanlel Bennett, delivered an oration and other exercises were peg- formed. In the even ain a scene ionable peoy ball, others congregated resorts and cheered and success of ds paraded up ughfares and shout: illuminated b: bonfires on Teles Potr the of excitemen in dra te, the and do hy were the f h Hill and Rt Wi . MO can so cle: of that not: for she was then pretty Miss Cros: long after that sk of Major S. Jay Hen journeyed to California 40's. He participated In t affalr and was after Sutter Fort, when John from the sluices at Su gold founq In Califc y of the s ed by a young ar Joyed a falr knowlec and that the I nuggets to be pu officer was Maj a portlon of the newly & which later formed placed on the fing The ring Is st Hensley and on th cent meeting w gon she proudl and relate it. The in to It promp Filct tl codicil to ring to Calif ing that it in old Sutter ed to do, 1 expresse pl a the thought that the ring will ual t hust in hi Before the go s the rap amon in Cla from and wood obt: it is 1 case 10 latter 1 future ) " Talks to Girls | with him without being acquain nzerous to be friends sure that the is sometimes risk. “Dog Lave in the creation. loyal to their nd th times seem endowed with alm intelligence. But they are ve: lke men and women. They pr choose their friend d they sent approaches from. people who h not been properly introduced. N feel or show apprehension when y a dog that is quietly going about arest are the ¢ brute maste may anima use or cat or other domestic you have a risht to do so have entered the circle of its friends A _girl who is afraild of any from a cow in the pasture to a mouse in the wall, carriess about with her a need- Icss handicap. We shquld go about the world bravely and fearlessly. I have seen a lady In a drawing-room make a spectacle of herself in the ‘presence of a group of very brilliant and distinguished people because she was afraid of a cat. In walked Muff, the splendid Angora, that was the pet of the hostess, and up on a sofa with a shriek and a scream and a clutching and gathering of her skirts jumped a lady who should have known better than to behave In that fashion under the roof of a friend. One rule we may as well as not lay down for ourselves, girls, and that is a rule of self-control. One may be a little frightened e, but she does not need to proclaim Because we happen to dislike bal bec: it. Dbeetles, June bugs, dragon flies, or any other members of the world of creeping and flying things that scurry out of space to disturb us, we need not communicate our feeling to others. If we choose we may ccntrol all expression of dislike, dismay or dread. We may sometimes' fecl afraid, but we may keep ourselves from showing it. e All through our lives we should try not to be in bondage to any form of fear. Some girls cannot bear pain. They distress themselves more In the thought of what they may have to suffer from a slight operation or an injury than the pain itself would amount to. In other words, they suffer more from fright than m reality. Once in a while one meets ® girl almost grown up who is afraid . the dark. I hope this is not the hav or un stantly distr other you or I sh enaced by se: let fever, or smallpox, is very need and quite s us for ¢ work. This courage that 1 3 about thus far arely ph would not like any girl for wt to be afraid to cross the ent or the ocean because someth t happen on the rail or on the sea. The ship is the captain’s business and the railway train IS In charge of the conductor dnd engineer. You may be reasonably sure that the average man will fulfill the r quirements of his position and ycu as a passenger have nothing ta do except to enjoy yourself. This, too, belongs largely to the realm of physical eourage. Now I want to speak about a higher kind of courage. There are brave peo- ple who never shrink from danger that menaces the body, but who are moral cowards. They are afrald to speak the truth If the truth will injure themselves. They are afrald to endure anxiety about their loved omes. They hide from their own ecyes things they do not want to see. Whatever eclse one may be, one should try very hard to be morally brave., At any cost, be true and noble. Let me quote for you Charles Kingsley's stanza which every girl should know by heart: Ba =ood, sweet mald, and let who will be er, Do nobie things, not dr:am them all day long; And so make life, love and the grest for- aver