The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 24, 1906, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL ««. . Proprietor JOHN D. SPRECKEIS......cccce. -2 ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO N MCNAUGHT.....co0nevssneesseececcanenns .Manager THIRD AND MARKET STREETS, SAN FRANCISCO THE ARMY CANTEEN. COURAGEOQUS member of Congress from Philadelphia-has ntroduced a bill to restore the army canteen, and it is now efore the House Military Committee. The official reports officers and that of the Secretary of War disclose the ap- effects that have followed the abolition of the canteen. Dis- nd degeneration appear among the enlisted men at every post. to the deadfalls that sprang up when the canteen was and drink poison stuff and are demoralized by the de- hat follows. Discipline suffers, and the whole service is the canteen the men had the use of beer and light wines; with refreshments as they needed to eke out the army ration. was not all. The canteen was the enlisted man’s post club. rofits provided a library and reading-room and the recreation of an social being. He craves the contact and company llows. If these be within his reach under circumstances ke the association innocent, his craving is satisfied, and he is a better man, whether he be a citizen or a soldier. If his social tincts cannot be gratified in an innocent way, especially the sol- 1 seek that gratification under conditions that drag him down is a THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, / JANUARY 24. 1906. NO INTERFERENCE. ise parents let their children play while at home and play with | nd permit to them other needed recreations innocent in them- | is a safeguard of good habits and a preventive of immoral | g contacts. The same principle goes through life, from | gh manhood. Army officers have their post club and | from the monotony of post life in time of peace. has the same social instincts as his officer. He craving for relief from the monotony of post routine. ot get h relief innocently he will have it viciously. the enemies of the canteen have the soldier do? In| e are no means of amusement, no chance even to| There is no post school in which he can strength- | his education. He must be an exceptional man ssly seek a break in the monotony by means 3 3 n morally and physically. He will not occupy d reading tracts upon the dangers of alcohol and tobacco, nor s himself in the perusal of pious tracts. Many think, t he should find such occupation sufficient to satisfy nd it was believed by the good and well-meaning on the anti-canteen crusade that they would be y into a great and pious camp, where tracts and the giddy round of recreation. wrong. The medical statistics and reports of the w wrong they were. We do not expect that any pre- of testimony will convince them. They will go up like 1 banners against the bill to restore the canteen. They by the vicious element that profits out of ‘the sale y in the deadfalls that fringe every army post. Cunning | imple-minded virtue will go hand in hand to beat the Iphian’s bill. Vice will know just what it is doing and virtue e deaf and blind to the sure consequences. s the common sense of the country should assert Francisco has a great army post within its borders. Every | of this city who has taken the trouble to observe knows that | re was a post canteen the moral and physical condition of | ers was immeasurably better than it has. been since. We ired that the same testimony is given by citizens at every army the country ' e the men their post club again, where they are in the asso- n of gentleme Give them their library and reading-room and Give them the light wines and beer that satisfy | f the social glass, and keep them away from the dis- 1ors that are poisoned to increase the profits of their sale. | irman of the military committee has been a soldier and many embers have seen military service. They know how entirely | ticable and impossible are the expectations of the people who the canteen on prohibition principles. They know that the en- | 2n may be led but he cannot be driven. They know he must e opportunity for reasonable indulgence or he will find a 1 indulgence. They know that the cantecn as a or the enlisted men will be a boon to many that do not It will improve their surroundings by making better fellow soldiers. ¢ appreciate the good motives of the prohibitionists who op- | e canteen, but they proceed against all human nature, of a great deal in a soldier. With his post club the en- takes an interest in military life. Without it he is di-| vice from the pride he should feel in his profession. a d easonab! TO ATTRACT TRAVEL WESTWARD. EADING most eloquently for our just share of the immense s spent by Americans in the luxury of travel, the beautiful L s tourists’ book, “The Road of a Thousand Wonders,” will cer- | v be very effective in helping forward the movement which has | en inaugurated to call the attention of Easterners to the advan- | tages this coast offers to sightseers and health and recreation hunt- It issued by the Southern Pacific Company and printed by | the Sunset Press. It might be classed as an art book, so fine are the tinted illustrations of the:glories to be seen on the journey of sand three hundred miles from Los Angeles to Portland. a very impertant public interest to the whole coast that this sorthy publication is intended to serve, and a wide use should be made of it by ry enterprising firm or individual interested in the general upbuilding of prosperity this side of the Rockies. It is estimated that Americans spend annually $200,000,000 cross- ing the Atlantic and touring Europe. It is desired to divert a good part of this travel to California and the coast States. It is believed that many people who spend money in sightseeing in Europe have never seen the beauties that are to be enjoyed by a trip to our West- ern coast. Their attention has not been so emphatically called to what the West has to show them as proper advertising requires. The argument of patriotism—to see their own country first—has not suf- ficiently been impressed upon them. No method is likely to be more effective in fixing in the memory of Easterners the fact that we can offer equal, and in some ways superior, inducements to intending travelers, than wide circulation of such eye-delighting circulars as this. It is magnetic. T volving such officials of the last administration as were not in harmony with it. Ex-Sheriff Curtis was first put on the carpet and given a scarlet record, but when the charges against him were examined they evaporated and left no mud on his reputation. Then Mr. Dam, attorney for the new City Treasurer, made the discovery that ex-Treasurer McDougald was guilty of a failure to control the appraisers of estates of decedents and that immense sums had been lost thereby in the form of the collateral inheritance tax. Mr. Dam was much excited over this, and so was the whole Dam family of of- ficialdom. Anything to take a fall out of John McDougald. Of course the answer to it all is that the appraisers of estates ere appointed by the Superior Court, and officers of the court, and lawyer Dam knowg that the City Treasurer has no more to do with them, nor control over them, nor power to change their appraisement than Dam has to do with the phases of the moon. But Dam has his instructions to damn the opponents of the administration. For that purpose he was made Treasurer’s attorney, and the ass knoweth his owner and the ox his master’s crib. As the charges against the ex- Sheriff and Treasurer fade away, a roar rises from the Auditor’s office | N ,” THE ALLEGED SCANDALS. HE new city government seems to be in need of a scandal in- work, now, you know. This is all going to be investigated. | roads. I’'m digging a canal. / 1 ’ffflfi-h“"k (TTatl8! OLD PARTY ON THE BANK-—I say, me good man, you'll have to quit PARTY IN THE DITCH—Better go back home and investigate the rail- —NEW YORK PRESS. +— =5 . 2 e —3 Don’t Miss These Household Hints WHO FINDS A i REALIZI To make biscuits light—drench with gasoline and ignite before serving. How to keep servants—chloroform them and lock them in the cellar. 1 ADVICE TO A YOUNG WOMAN By Angela Morgan.* HANDICAP IN NG HER AMBITIONS | Quickest way to get rid of peddlers— buy all they have. YOUNG woman asks me to pre- g A scribe rules that will help her to be interested in her duties, which, she declares, are too common- place to admit of any zeal or enjoy- ment. “You write about the magic in life and the zest we ought to put into our work,” she says, “but I cannot see how we can be happy in doing things that are not interesting in themselves, If I could@ have followed my ambition to become a musician I know I could have found existence worth while. But I was compelled to abandon that. A sud- den change in circumstances cut short my musical education and here I am, tied to drudgery, a hoysekeeper. for a family of small brothers and sisters. Try as 1 will I cannot become recon- ciled. I am discouraged when I think of my talents and aspirations going to waste.” I realize fully your trying position, my dear young woman, but let me tell you at once that it is impossible for your talents and aspirations to *“go to waste” unless you consent that they shall. No matter how homely the activities of your life are at the present time, it is possible for you to hold steadfastly to your higher longings; to live so positively the life of ideality within yourself and to perform so thoroughly and radiantly the humble work given you to do that you will be a better artist for this experience than you ever could have been without “4t. Bometimes it is required of us that we should abandon the heights and come down to the dead level awhile to test the real value of the inspiration we gained on the mountain. This hard experience has come to you as needed discipline, as a helpful les- son in this school of earth we call life. It is “stuff to try the souls’ strength on.” How to remove fruit stains from linen—use scissors. How to keep rats out of the pantry— place all food in the cellar. To entertain women visitors—let them inspect all your private papers. To entertain men visitors—feed the brutes. To keep the children at home—lock up all their clothes. To keep hubby at home—hide his toupee. In order to prevent accldents in the kitchen—fill the kerosene can with water. To stop leaks in pipes—send for the nearest plumber. To economize on coal—get a gas range. To test the /freshness of eggs—drop them on some hard surface. To propitiate the janitor—it can't be done.—Smart Set. Answers to Queries, PUGILISTS—J. T, City. There is no published record of the ancestry of Jack and Mike (“Twin’) Sullivan. DIMES—O. 8., City. Somebody started the story that dimes colned in the United States in 1594 brought fabulous prices. This is true only as to dimes coined in that year in the Ban Francisco branch mint. There were only twenty-four of these and it is for that reason that they command a premium. i THE REASON, Theo. Logge—The minister said in his sermon to-day there is no marrying in heaven. Miss Flirter —I suppose that's cause there’s not enough men to go round. — and ex-Auditor Baehr is charged with being short several dozen li- Miranda—Yes, dear, when Alsy proposed to me he was on his knees. Myrtilla—Yes, and after you had accepted him I suppose you were on them. > 3 cense pads, and it is said that the Mayor will lay the missing pads | before the Grand Jury. Now we desire, and so do all good ;;eople, that anything found wrong be exposed and the guilty punished. If there be any way in |, which a newspaper can assist in the work, we volunteer. But the petty attempts so far made to smirch officers who offended only by opposing the oligarchy which is just now in the saddle are deserving of contempt. Mr. Curtis may have stolen the keyholes of the County Jail, and John McDougald may have carried off the air in the Treas- urer’s office, or filched the sunbeams that sifted through its windows to warm a hot bed to raise winter cucumbers, and Harry Baehr may have pocketed the rubber doormats of the Auditor’s office, for aught we know, but so far the “exposures” made by this Dam lawyer and the others are mere Ws of spite and of a desire for re- — If, instead of rebelling and complain- ing, you will accept it as such dis- cipline, performing its duties thor- oughly and heartily, giving the best that is in you to the care of those young brothers and - sisters In your charge, you will find that you ‘have gained splendjd qualities and gifts that you could not have obtained in any other way. Duty clearly points the path for you to follow at this time. It is useless to fight against the forces that would push you on to a higher development. = Ally yourself with these forces and you will find the problem before you a welcome one after all. While you are resisting and protest- ing, you are preventing vourself from seeing and appropriaung the good that lies in this lesson for you. Slighting the disagreeable duties only blinds you to their real significance and cuts you off from the power and knowledge that ‘would come to you through them if you would only perform them with all your heart, your mind and your soul. Through this seemingly unkind ex- perience you may, if you will, gain strength of will, tenacity of purpose, application to work, concentration, pa- tience, devotion to others, sympathy, forbearance, poise and power. Through it you may learn truths that you would never have guessed through the mere study of music or art in the abstract. After all. we must come to see that to make of Jife an art Is the greatest of all achievements, and that unless the study of the arts makes us better, nobler, finer, unless-it brings us closer to the divine ideal, it fails to give us the highest culture. If in the fulfillment of the obliga- tions that confront you now you learn to make your life an art, if you learn to invest with melody and charm the common duties and activities, have you not acquired a something far greater than the thing you feel you have missed — A WISE BOY! Tailor—Well, my little man, will you have the shoulders padded? Bertle—Naw. If you're goin' to put any paddin’ in the sult put it in the pants. through having your musical edu t! ‘ul for the rience bef: you. Determine to learn all of its |'::f sons thoroughly; to extract every bit of its gold. The sooner you adjust yourself will- ingly and gladly to its demands, fl:o sooner you will realize its teac and the sooner you Mg;r grade in th ‘will be ready for a o ly T a g Occidental Accidentals By A. J. Waterhouse ——— HO, FOR VANITY FAIR! O for the gold uncounted, millions H for pomp and show, The gems of the mine that spar- kle and shine o’er bosoms 2 as white as snow! Ho, for the dally glitter, and ho for "the nightly glare, And the shallow pretense where they pitch their tents, the players in Vanity Fair! Ho, for the mad, mad domain where Self is the king on high, Where our dancing feet miss never a beat till the spectral Death draws nigh! i The dlamonds 0f matchless luster o'er bosoms that heave and swell— And, ho, for it all! and, hey, for it all! for the world doth love it well. Btill the starveling brood skulks ever Just over the border there— ° But, ho, for the gold uncounted! And, ho, for Vanity Falir! Virtue and love and honor—thess are a three divine: But, ho, for the gold of a worth untold torn from the dusky mine! 'hose were the trio honored by the fathers who gave us birth, But we ask instead when a man Is dead, “What was our neighbor worth?” What was he worth in bonds at par? And what was he worth In stocks, In metal he kept, while his consclence slept, sequestered by bars and locks? These be the welghty questions, or, faith! we would ask them not— So, ho, for the glare of Vanity Fair and its players who scheme and plot! Still lleth the City of Sorrow Just out of the glitter and glare— But, ho, for the gold uncounted! And, ho, for Vanity Fair! The dream of a day and Its glory for- ever is haunting me, When the spell of a love that is woven above shall set His little ones free; When brother shall care for brother and peace shall with each abide, And we'll go our way through an end- less day. with the word of a Christ to guidé. But still do we heed the glitter and glamour of Vanity Fair— ho, for the souls a-weary and the hearts that are breaking there! Ah, still we must learn, as learn we will in a time that is writ above. That the only bliss which our lives ne'er miss is the bliss that is born of love. And, The millions kin to Worry, The babes who are born to Care— | | And still there is gold uncounted! And still there Is Vanity Fair! “My boy is a great prevaricator.” “That s too bad. Of course. you |are trying to break him of 1t?” “Yes, 1 have tried faithfully, but I did not succeed.” “What are you going to do about it now?” “Train him for a professional poli- | tician.” “I'm tewwibly puzzled, deah boy.” “Weally! What's puzzling you, Chawles?” “The other dgy. doncher know, that chawming Miss Bwooks awsked me how I liked the new play. I told her it appealed to me strongly.” “Yaas?" “And she said, then she guessed she wouldn't go.” “How surprising!” “Yaas. What do you weckon she meant?” “I weally cahn’t imagine, deah boy.” “I have heard thit an optimist could | see something even in Satan.” “Well, why not? He is persevering, isn’t he?” UP-TO-DATE DEFINITIONS. Science—An answer “How?" which ought to satisfy you if you never care to ask the question, “Why?" Religion—Something that must be writ- ten in the soul of man, or It never yet was in his creed. Faith—A guess in the darkness that is satisfled with itself notwithstanding the darkness. Hope—That which gives the capacity to stand after you have been knocked down. A Sinner—That which we admit that we are in the abstract, while we deny it if possible in the concrete. A Miracle—An event that you would look upon with suspicion if f took place in yvour neighborhood. Trust—What you can get at almost any store if you don’t need it. Hero—There are two varieties—saviors of men and slayers of men. The latter generally receive the more plaudits. Suspicion—The medicine you would give to others because you feel that'you need it yourself. Law—A rule of action that is more or less likely to exist until the next Legis- lature convenes. Pass—In euchre an indication that you do not wish to play the hand; in raflroad politics an indication that you are playing the hand for all it is worth. WHAT YOU THINK IS RIGHT. If you do the thing that you think is right, Why, you need not mind for the rest, For the conscience you own is your one light, And its is the final test. The world may mutter, “This ‘thing Is wrong,’ Or, “He is mistaken, quite”; ke But you need not mind, as you jog along, If you do what you think is right. I know that our consclence oft is blurred; "Tis dim and its flame burns low, Yet somewhere or other I have heard 'Tis the only light we know. Your way and my way may vary some- ‘what— : In fact, they may differ quite, But that, as I deem, should matter not, If only you think you are right. 1 judge that the One who made us all Of varying class and kind, Kne'm': should stumble and grope and 1 v Blinded, but not quite blind. He gave us a light that our dim eyes see In even the darkest night; And all will be well with you and me If we do what we think is right. “Don’t you think that Signor Pound- akeyskl's music. is wonderfully weird, fascinating and eerily attractive?” “Can’t say that I do.” “Well, you should. Music, you know, hath charms to soothe the savage breast.” to the question, | +_________-—————_'+ The Smart Set By Sal—l;—Sharp — Two prominent brides will ensage soclety’s attention to-day, both being much favored and holding the affection of a wide circle of friends. Miss Mar- garet Wilson will pledge her vows to Lieutenant Franklin Bache Harwood, U. 8. R. C. S, in Trinity Church this afternoon at 3:30. Only a few outside the family are bidden to the service. After the ceremony the bridal party will convene at the home of the bride’s mother, Mrs. George Wilson, on Clay street. The attendants will be Miss Eliza- beth Allen, maid of honor; Miss Grace Llewellyn Jones, Miss Marian Hunting- ton, Miss Ruth Allen, Miss Jessie Wright, bridesmaids. John M. Young will serve the groom, and the ushers will be Cecil Borden of Los Angeles. William Goldsborough and William Breeze. The marriage of Miss Dorothy Dus- tan to Lieutenant Willis Grandy Peace will be a brilliant affair to-night at Grace Church. The ceremony Will be read at § o’clock by Rev. David Evans. All the accouterments will be of mili- tary splendor, the groom, Wwith his retinue, to be in full regimentals. Sev- eral hundred guests will be present at the service, but the Teception at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr- and Mrs. Robert Jaffray Dustan, is lmited to £ 3 Tmflw party is composed of Miss Ethel Shordb, maid of honor; Miss Jo- sephine Smith of Washington, D. C Miss Brent Watkins of Los Angeles, Miss Helen Bailly and M Elsa Draper, bridesmaids; Lieutenant Mor- ris B. Locks, U. S. A, best man: Lieut- enant Thomas E. Seifridge, U. S. A. Lieutenant Charles C. Pulls, U. S. A. Lieutenant Doe, U. S. A., and Lieuten- ant Anderson, U. S. A. ushers. Lieutenant Peace will make a wedding trip with his bride before ing for the Philippines early in Feb- TUary. Three brid o . rties will be held to- day, the hostesses to be Mrs. Edward T. Houghton, Mrs. Henry Foster Dutton and Mrs. Joseph Trilley. & aEe Mme. Fabbri-Mueller will give a con- cert Friday evening, January 26, in Steinway Hall, with a programme of fine compositions. Mme. Mueller is a ploneer artist In the profession, having sung in the first Calitornia production of “Les Huguenots,” over thirty years a Miss Bdith Treanor, Mrs. Claude Ern: | Brigham, Mrs. Burr Bastwood and Mrs. Orlow Eastwood will form the receiving party to-day to assist Mrs. M. H. Sher- man and Miss Sherman, who are enter- taining in homor of Miss Ruth Foster. Two hundred cards have been lssued to guests, who will readily respond to greet the favored maid. e o The social horizon discloses & veritable star cluster of bridge events. Mra. Be‘f tody Wilder Stone will entertain at t game on February 6. - Miss Sara Dean, who has recently re- turned from & four years’ sojourn abroad, is residing at the Hotel Pleasanton, whers she will be at home Monday, January 2, from 4 to & Miss Elizabeth Huntington entertained at a theater party last evening in homor of Miss BEthel Melone, who is one of the very popular debutantes of the season. . oo Mrs Alfred Tubbs onurtunm ed t.btou; hty guests yesterday ernoon ::: l; her h«llz on Broadway, the house being generously decorated in varieties of pink blossoms and greens. o e @ Miss Josephine Hannigan entertained a large number of callers yesterday at her home on Van Ness avenue, to meet Miss Ruth Foster, the pretty Los Angeles maid. Those réceiving with the young hostess were: Miss Foster, Miss Olga Atherton, Miss Emily Marvin, Miss Flor- ide Hunt, Miss Caroline Mills, Miss Ruth Merrill and Miss Edith Treanor. e e Mrs. H. D. Green of Portland, Or., is spending a fortnight at the Hotel Prince- ton and will make a visit to Southern California before returning to her home. —_————————— If You— Talk about your ill-health it will | make you less healthy. Worry about your work, it will m“‘ you less capable. Imagine you are disliked. make you less likable. Find fault with others, it will make them faultier. Anticipate evils, you will be sure to bring them upon you. Talk much of what you are going to do, you will never do it Sit bemoaning the past, never get on In the future. Complain of lack of opportunities, you'll miss what you have. Wall bitterly that it is an unjust world and life not worth living, you'll find it come true for sure, in your own case at least.—Philadelphia Bulletin. —_———— Townsend's Callfornla glace fruits and choicest candies in artistic fire~ etched boxes. 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