The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 13, 1906, Page 8

fHE SAN FRANCISCO CALL THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. S!’REJEKM............ ccssossseiencesseesssssss PROPiCtOP ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO JOHN McNAUGHT.......00 ceetissasssses. DNanager THIRD AND MARKET BTREETS, SAN FRANCISCO weiessssee.n FEBRUARY 13, 1906 LICATION OFFICE, PL TUE A FORESTRY SCHOOL. ing interest of the country is seeking to raise an it for a school of forestry in some American univer- National Lumber Manufacturers’ Association has arge, and without consulting the trade in all parts s already selected Yale College to receive the pro- t lumber interests in the country are located on Here, too, the American forest is making. its last stand. here el the forest is being fought for here, and economic value it exceeds any on earth. All erests of the East, that have exhausted the forests and Minnesota, are investing here. They re experience and a certain guilt. They har- rests wastefully and extirpated a crop that permanent. They desire to avoid a similar wish to secure the assistance of trained foresters mic harvesting of timber and preserve the und. 1 of all conifers here makes the Pacific Coast rld for permanent forestry and for profitable areas. . But it all requires experts, with spe- There are but few in the country. Forestry’ ice is not developed yet into a profitable pro- few foresters we have are in Government em- s that has to be eked out by enthusiasm to the 1ber men showed signs of reform in restry, there was nothing except love of it 0 its dy and practice. Now this is some- e private owners of vast timber tracts in this They want men who know how to keep forest nsect pests out of the timber. They want men trained lendrology and botany and all the learning neces- r. Such men must be trained. mber men to endow a school of forestry, their own necessities, is praiseworthy, but dowment on Yale? The forests are in the eavies de wor 1be the foresters must operate. There is no nly dendrological clinic possible there 1s of New Haven. The most valuable part of a is the actual summer school in the forests. At mer school must Be among the elms, unless the ugh to travel three thousand miles to find real fornia and Stanford University already a forestry course in their regular curric: d laboratory equipment. They are within | avel of some of the finest forests in the world. They | mber interest that needs the foresters and | Then why not endow a forestry school in versities? | Coast Wood and Iron,” the trade organ of those | tries, published in San Francisco, is entitled to a| ibject. It first persuaded the redwood lumber in- i to the propositions of scientific forestry, and they | Gifford Pinchot to instruct them in ways and means to | permanent. Vood and Iron” opposes the Yale | »n grounds that should be"aécepted by the lumber paper puts it on the right ground, that the school the forest, so that young men of moderate means | h a career can fit themselves for it without the great a course at Yale. imagine starting a college of agriculture in| ) teach young men how to raise sugar beets and ap- t as useless to endow this échool of forestry by the’| 1ber Manufacturers’ Association at Yale University, miles from any notable forest, where it will be at- v by young men who are not looking for the small sala- | f forest experts, and necessitating a cost for railroad fare equiv- the expense of half a semester at college. The proposition “Just TELEGRER (NEW YORK HERALD TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1900G. + £¢ HERE'S a deluge of talk and l answer-back in the consideration,| of ‘being happy although mar- rigd” But the achievement of a self- controlled satisfaction with this condition of life isn’t ten-twenty-thirty with the difficulty of attainment of a steady-on cheerfulness, although homely."” This is what a girl sald the other day. She declared a personal experience “‘all through life,”” as far as she had gone, as a backing for her declaration. The girl's personal appearance did not carry out the assertion to an extreme of certainty pertaining to herself. But her words served as a vehicle of significant truth. Many girls of indifferent countenances 1f the school is endowed in the Universtty of California | it will be within a few hours of the greatest forests now being ex- | 1 in the world. The technical work is already largely provided | n the third- greatest university in the country, and a short | little expense will take the forestry students into the woéds.” | he Western lumber and forest interests should heed this ad- The usefulness of a school at Yale to our Western interests | be small. It is too remote and so situated that the practical part of forestry cannot be acquired without a journey that is beyond | the ns of the very kind of men that are desirable in the pro- fession of forestry. T of Miss Roosevelt, is an exhibition of sgobbery that has never been equaled in this country. It has compelled the President in self-defense to issue an explanation concerning the invitations and their number. While the lady is the daughter of the President of the United States, her marriage is none the less a.purely personal matter, affecting only the two families concerneéd, who are just as free in the matter of invitations to the ceremony as if all of the parties were in private life. When Mr. Cleveland was married in the White House there was an outbreak of the same sort, though not to the same extent, and he and his wife were pursued on the wedding trip by packs of people with cameras and field glasses. Not only has political influence been used to solicit invitations to Miss Roosevelt’s wedding, but rich vulgarians, not even ac- quainted with the Roosevelt or Longworth families, have sent in costly presents with requests for an invitation to the wedding! Noth- ing can be more vulgar nor more exasperating. It implies that in- vitations are put up to trade for wedding presents, and the low sug- gestion is very properly resented. These incidents are by no means representative of American society. They are illustrative of the vulgar and reprehensible.class of “climbers,” who have no motive in life except to get into*what in their ignorance and besotted ambition they suppose to be social high life. The only compliment there is in a wedding invitation is its voluntary bestowment upon one who is esteemed as a friend of the parties, and of their families. If bestowed or accepted for any other reason it loses all significance. J The President and the Longworths naturally wish that this oc- casion, of so much interest to them, shall retain in all of its features the sanctity of the family and the friendly relation. They desire that it shall have no political or other significance at which good taste revolts. Such being their desire the annoyance to which they have been subjected by the “climbers” must be immeasurable. It would be proper punishment to expose the impudent and ignorant creatures who have in any way solicited invitations, to the end that the press of the country might gratify their desire for social notoriety by flay- ing them to a finish, and making them bear a burden of ridicule and reprehension that would be a warning to all the low bred snobs of the future. RAMPANT SNOBBERY. HE action of society people, so called, in regard to the wedding Morales has resigned, taken refuge under the Stars and Stripes and been conveyed to Porto Rico on a United States warship. Now it is President Ronsevelt’s turn to say what we shall do with an ex-President—New York World. o Sl Rl In the cufimal’on of necrologists last year was remarkable for the demise of many eminent politicians without the formality of burial.—Philadelphia and pronounced intellectuality are ready to rise to the corroboration of the pre- ceding testimony. The little schoolgirl who “isn't at all pretty” soon discovers that the small boy ignores her bundle of books and passes by in the fulfiliment of his intention to gather the volumes for lovely Bessle, eager to worship at the shrine of a straw- berry-and-cream complexion featured with lumifous blue eyes and artistically curved lips, and set off with a wealth of golden tresses. Furthermore, this home- 1y little girl soon discovers that the next small boy attaches his services to the pronounced handsoma little brunette girl. Bo it goes through all her juvenile years—the homely little girl gets left to her own lonesomeé self-helpfulness - and companionship. Even the girls in her class orefer association with the girls mutually pretty. or those who are pret- ter. It cannot be denied that beauty carries its magnetic influence even during the carllest years of life. The homely littlo girl doesn't always grow irto the homely young woman. If ghe Coes, no matter how distinctly clever she may be, ghe is continuously left, so- cially, in the sense of preference, and in tke distribution of admiration and adora- tion. Her appreciation of the situation has developed with her years. She ex- pects the young men to be civil in their social associations with her, and to give all thelr attentions to the beauti- ful young women. At balls she is relegated to the least des‘rable partners. At dinners she is paired with the man who isn’t wanted by girls and women who are classed as ‘“‘pre- vessessing.” . All along the line she waits for what is left to her in escorts and in £ *tentions. \ Often the homely girl who is clever in- tellectually is popular—exceedingly popu- lar. She is an indispensable quality to a HOMELY GIRL'S PLIGHT. . By Dorothy Fenimore. e certain social ‘“set.” Her homeliness makes her cleverness picturesque. She gives a scintillation that is distinguishing to the whole crowd, in that she colors situations that without her clever conver- sational adaptations would turn out flat fallures. She keenly realizes that her soclal lot would be semi-neglect, united with a pleasant forbearance, were she as dull of intellect as many courted and applauded “beauties.” That she is indispensable, and therefore “wanted” In general, is somewhat of a solace—rather a cool sort when she needs sympathy. However, it often happens that a level- headed man falls in love with the clever, homely young woman, and for the full, sweet largeness and sincerity of her na- ture. Then she is not denied conjugal felicity. But all her life she must know that ‘when there’'s an exploitation of her steri- ing merits, done by her friends, there's a finish in the guise of an “apologetic” com- ment on her “homeliness."” It is easy to see there’s a good deal of herolc self-discipline in tha attalnment of normal cheerfulness by the girl unde- niably homely, although clever. The story of the dull, homely girl is tl:cturod with pathos and ordinary trag- edy. ANSWERS T0 QUERIES. ATTELL.—A. 8., City. Abe Attell, pu- gllist, was born in San Francisco, Cal., February 22, 1883, — WARTS—A Subscriber, City. The fol- lowing is given as a method for the re- moving of warts on the hands: ‘“Touch the wart daily elther with a little nitrate of silver (lunar caustic); or with nitric acld or aromatic vinegar,” IN THE NAVY—Subscriber, City. A boy under the age of 21 {s under the con- trol of his parents or guardian. If par- ent or guardian wants to put a boy eighteen years old on board of a United States training ship he does not have to ask tHe boy's consent. — LIBRARIAN—Subscriber, Country. The answer to your question “To whom shall I write to find out about work as a Ii- brarian?” is, write to the librarian of the library you would Nke to be employed fn. Those who are employed in libraries must be possessed of certain qualifica- tions which are discovered by examina- tion. stummick wit' a snowball.” “Well. do ye think he's gpin' to throw fishballs at ye?” Record —— hs 7 - — Sure to Find a Morning Smile if You Linger Here a While.* store. _ Miss Priome—Do you take 'ne for a pallet ghl” — | HEARD IN CHICAGO. | — “SayMi!” exclaimed the girl at the handkerchief counter. “Wotsmatter now?” asked the girl at the ribbon counter. “Afntchoogittin nufteet?" “Wojjaskin thatfur?” *“Yooralookinkina thin.” “Aintnuther!” “Yartoo. Betterficksher Scummin down."” “Quitcherrubberin. Mine'jeroan biz.” But she fixed her back hair. “SayMIl” “Saycherseff.” “Jevvergitcherforchun told?” “Yeh—wunsertwice. Ever gitchoors?” “Yeh. Ootole juh?” “BErdkitsmith sayinso. Cumtroo?” “Notchett.” “Thinkitwill?”" “Lykaznot. Letchoono fit does.” back hair. “Sayjen. Juno Kittenbills keepincomp- ny?” “Awka moff!” “Stroo zima stainnineer.” “Howjeerit?” “Sallright. Yooleerabout it soonuff. Say- jen, canchooketch on—' “Say, there, you girls!"” interrupted the floorwalker, who happened along at this moment. “Go back to your customers! Chicago Tribune. MISSOURI SOCIETY ITE ‘The following graceful acknowledgment and news item combined appeared recent- ly in the columns of a Missouri contem- porary: “Mrs. Henry Woggs, who is a pleasant and estimable lady, and who can bake the finest cake ever made, having sent us some and therefore making us a judge, and who has a family of nice, clean, polite children, and who plays the plano beautifully and gives lessons on the same to a few fortunate pupils in our little city, had a tooth pulled Friday."— Harper's Weekly. AN ESSEATIAL. “T hear your wife has become quite re- ligious; a regular attendant at church, isn't she?” “Yes, she finally succeeded in getting pew No. 24.” “What, that so important?” “Oh, ves; the stained glass window throws a pink glow over that pew, and it's so becoming, you know."—Philadel- phia Press. $ For “My Valentine.” A heart-shaped box of sweets for the sweetheart. Haas' Candy Stores, Phelan building and James Flood building. * | The dentist took a small @ @ THE SMART SET & & By Sally Sharp. — The Japan Soclety of America ‘will open the first exhibition at the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art next Friday evenlng. to continue a weeks from 9 to § o'clock. The first peep of these rare treasures, how- ever, will be allowed the members of the society and the San Franciseo Art Asso- clation on Thursday evening of this week. when many enthusiasts of the Oriental work will view for the first time in this city paintings, handwriting and screens, all of which are genuine and bearing the age of 400 years. It is purposed to give these exhibitions yearly, and in keeping with the occasion the gallery will be ap- propriately decorated. Water colors and original paintings in sumi are among the collection, and catalogues will give a mine of information, with minute detalls. Recelving the guests will be Mrs. Bow- man H. McCalla, Mrs. Emma Shafter Howard, Mrs. Charles Austin Coolldge, Mme. Uyeno, Mrs. Bernard Moses, Charles H. Lombard, Richard M. Tobin, Consul Kisaburo Uyeno and Richard C. Harrison. P g et Thursday will be a red-letter day for society events, among which is the ail- fmportant and elaborate Caarity Ball, to be held at the Palace Hotel. All invita- tions have been eagerly responded to, and the contra-diversion of bridge and five hundred will be provided for those tiring of the dance. High anticipation is ruling among minds concerning the Cafe Chantant to-morrow night at the Union League Club, and the event bids fair to evolve as pretty an en- tertainment as has been seen for many a day. The spacious rooms of the Sequoia Club ing the reception to Miss Nellie Stewart, | who was greeted by nearly five hundred guests. The assembiage was brilliant and notable, including a delightful comming- ling of artists and society folk. The chat was pleasantly Interrupted at intervals by charming music, among the numbers be- ing songs by Mrs. Thomas Nunan and Robert McMillan, whose offerings were most acceptable. For the coming Thurs- day evening Sequola announces a pro- gramme out of the ordinary and one to be thoroughly entertaining, with St. Valen- tine as chief patron, who will guide many fanciful antics with artistic touch. The future will be delved into by Mrs. Louls H. Loflig and Miss Martha McKim, each | using individual method, with Mrs. Fran ces Nourse Nunan singing swee® ‘songs. | The others who will stand sponmsors for | the evening's success are Miss M. E. Gris- | wold, Mrs. Bertha Stringer Lee, Mrs. | Maynard Dixon, Allan Dunn, Jules Mers- ; felder and Spencer Wright. | . : . . Admiral and Mrs. Bowman H. McCalla | entertained at an exquisite luncheon on | Sunday at their Mare Island home, among | the guests being Miss Katherine M. Ball, Miss Spaulding, Miss Pond, Miss Stella McCalla, Captain and Mrs. Powell of the navy and Charles H. Lombard. R St. Valentine will rgcéive an offering in | the way of a pretty dance this evening at,the home of Miss Maud and Miss Lot- tle Woods on Octavia street. About fifty guests have been bidden and delightful informality will prevail. v The Presidio residents will call a large number of friends together this evemnsi were fully taxed Sunday afternoon dur- | for one of the hops which are ever in such favor. A jolly contingent of dancers will go from town, and representatives from the other posts will also enjoy the affair, which is led by the officers and ladies of the Presidio. . el e Lester Herrick entertained fifty at bridge yesterday in her apart- at the Empire, the affair being In of her house guest, Miss Francis. PR A fine exhibition of pictures by women artists will be held by the Sketeh Club this evening In the California Club rooms. R Mrs. guests ments honor The Mills Club will hold a reception to~ day at 1620 California street, honoring Mrs. Susan B. Mills. . . A large tea for which several hundred cards have been issued will be given off Thursday of next week by Mrs. Willlam H. Mills at her new home on Pacific ave- nue. Mrs. Mills will' be assisted by her daughters, Miss Ardella and Miss Eliza- beth Mills. An elaborate bridge party was held yesterday by Mrs. Timothy Hopkins, who entertained at the New Century Club. A hundred guests were present at the affalr, which was one of the mest beau- tiful of the season. e General and Mrs. Charles Austin Cool- idge gave a dinner in their home Sun- day evening in honor of General and Mrs, John R. Brooks, who are soon to sail for the Orient. . . Miss Alice Hueter and Miss Hilda Pel- zer, who are soon to leave for a Euro- pean trip, were the guests of honmor at & very pretty luncheon given by Mrs Ernest Hueter, to which were biddea thirty guests. Miss Mollle Phelan will be hostess at @ large tea next Monday at the Phelan home on Valencia street in honor of Miss Dunne of Boston. Mrs. George C. Carr held her second at home yesterday in her apartments at the Buckingham. . Mrs. Milton Pray received a large num- ber of callers yesterday in her apartments at the Empire. The final meeting of the Monday Night Skating Club took place last evening at Pavilion and notwithstanding the fact hat there have been accidents, more or less serious, genuine regret prevalls that the merry pastime is closed for the sea- son. Several prizes were awarded the very adept skaters. the The wedding of Miss Alice Sprague and Percy Williams, which is to take place on the 27th of this month, will be a very quiet affair. The ceremony has been named for 4 o'clock and only the relatives and intimate friends, numbering fifty, have been bidden, the event to take place at the home of Mfs. Richard Sprague on Broadway. Jiin Miss Lucy [Sitton of Portland, Or., is the guest of fridnds at the Hotel Wellesley. BA T Mrs. S. Frauenthal and Miss Hilda Frauenthal of Seaitle are at the St Franeis. I OCCIDENTAL ACCIDENTALS. | By A. J. Waterhouse. ES PERHAPS WE'D BETTER DIE. (Dr. Cornwall Round, a London physician, claims to have discovered how men may live | forever. He says that dying is a “bad ractal | babit,” and is due to the *“death instinet.” All you have to do is to overcome the Instinet, and there you are!] t HEN the racial habit’s broken, | and that instinct fades awa When the undertaking business | is a thing that doesn’t pay; | When, as children keep on coming and their parents do not go, i Man will populate this planet ninety | layers deep or so; When mortals shoved clear off earth we frequently will see, Still hanging to @ rope behind and | yelling, “Wait for me!” ‘When, lacking a vocation then, Death sulks in courts below, A happy, happy, happy time children all will know. the earth's i Oh, yes, a happy, hap—But hold! Let us reflect again, . For, oh, one gloomy, gloomy thought is filling me with pain; It you and I should live alway, as we would like to do, Would some derned duffers that we know keep right on living, too? The chap who duns us twice a week, and sometimes even three, Would he present his bill to us through all eternity? The soulless knaves of usury who fool with coin supply; Their pound of flesh to claim for aye? —Perhaps we'd better dle. the | The Rdckefellers, Morgans aud others of that ilk, ‘With aeons still to take the cream and leave the rest skim milk! The Chawleys, sim'ring vaguely, their skulls a vacuum; The Edythes whom a single thought would strike both deaf and dumb; The blatant fool who knows it all, the fool who nothing knows; The street-car chump who takes his stand upon your aching toes; The doit who thinks that costiy clothes will lack of brains supply; If these must live forever—well, per- haps we'd better die. in Of course, if all to live for aye were just like you and mes- That Is, It they were quite select, as any one must see; If each of them were long.on brains and marked in ils plus— 1 mean were they constructed to as- soeiate with us, then, to lve would be quite sweet. as any one must know, But when we look about us on this dratted earthly show, ‘Why, 'Tis well to take a second thought— perhaps we'd better die. WHAT THE T FOUND. auger, sot a sawmill to going to increase the ef- fect, and began to bore. He bored through the enamel; then he bored through some stuff under the enamel; then he bored into and through a pink tea which a number of the nerves happened to be holding that afterncon; then he bored into the cellar and disturbed a committee otp‘ toe tendons that had met to consider ways and means of Increasing corns; then— “I have found it,” the dentist blithe- ly remarked. “I knew you would,” the vietim re- plied, with a visible wince and shud- der—"1 knew you would if you kept on long enough. Now you want to be mighty careful that you do not let it out.” “What do you think I have found?" the dentist inquired. “My immortal soul, of course,” was the answer; “it was a cinch that you would do so if you continued your operations. Then the dentist picked up a larger auger, and, humming a merry rounde- lay, resumed his work. “Blinks says his landlady bores him | terribly by her ceaseless chatter.” “Well, that is what he pays her for, isn't it “What do you mean?" “Why, to get boar = ) “THE ETERNAL QUESTION. We talk a great deal of dry rot in this world, my Alphonso, to the affect that woman Is a strange being and in- explicable unto man. This is the theory which Gibson's sketch, “The BEternal Question;” typifies. Man cannot under- stand woman: forever she is his un- solvable problem—this is the proposi- tion, as you will hear it mouthed or see It printed. It is dry rot/ my Alphonso, as I have said. If there is any sex distinction in soul and mind, it is not so broad that it need give anybody deep perplexity. The man who understands himself is sure to understand woman passably well. There is no emotion that moves him which does not also move her. Love, hate; hope, fear; joy, sorrow; ambition, despondency—these are no less major influences in her life than In his. Precisely the same strings are in either bharp of life, and from it ring simlilar tunes of happiness or dlscords of despair. Let them go to, with their prattle of the eternal question, Alphonso. Woman simply is man’s mother, sister and wite, angd between them, let us thank heaven, no wide gulf of distinction is set, for if there were man never would bridge n. . Special information supplied daily to business and public men by the Tocam e o I nsend’s California glace truits ¢ in S e ~