The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 4, 1906, Page 10

THE city girl was en Jim a 3 he went over to stopping wi be a ripple, wind that i harp, or it the music like hes the strings g where the be the harsh discordanc are alik onfal t 1 ristbles to the xciting in a wc n who has the fon of the wo- a hero, and there will ever extend a second in- n whose la us. is so inanimate that in anything more than will ne r make'a satis- She will be ly devoid of tends to make didn't stop nor to grease and He entered the f r way mers have g msel and w ced visitor he held out a big washboard and shook her small one Nice winter weather ving,” he said young lady of wealth a tried to squelch him chair and spoke king cows in a wa enterta of llad or two, ™ took his hat, his hand again, and departed, nie, I don't know when I've spent a more interesting evening, and it's LL my £ to re: Oswego the other day have been an émnivor this habjt ot only greatest ribut I have att who said you Jove rea this by say retains comes mor Year”—as is ev s censtantly adding d, as he says i shelves witho a timate frien Jehn Rockefeller Jather's passion some hours dally in And it will be found that, with v exeeptions, the me wh ake {llions are all similar lovers of reading. “When I was a lad,” the late Cecil Rhodes on said, 'my crage for reading almost s vice. Every moment I could s e was spent In poring over some book or other— not school books, by any means. All was fish that came t0 my net, and 1 am afrald that I read a Jot of rubbish, but that the habit, which is just as strong as ever, has been most helpful I haven't a shadow of doubt.” Mr. Peabody's experience was very sim- flar. “When I was a boy,” he sald, “my uncle, who in the course of half a century had amassed about $10.000, thrashed me because instead of saving my money I e heap books and magazines. 1 could not afford to save ntil I had increased my knowl- brain power, whereupon he 2 me again.” Russell Sage pleads gullty to a like passion for reading. “I have never al- lowed money-making,” he says, ‘‘to wean me from my books. Even in my most strenuous days I always put in a good hour’s reading before the rest of the world was awake, and I have found it a capital thing fof getting the brain Into working order for the day. My reading has been, I fear, sadly promiscuous, and I don’t think much of it has stuck, but t has served its purpose well In keeping the thinking machine in order.” J anamaker, another lord of many mi said not long ago: “When I was a lad reading was thought a terrible waste of time for any one who had to make his living in business, and my love of it got me into serious trouble many a I systematjcally read anything I d lay my hands on, and, although h of it was worthless, I seemed to lot of useful grain among the chaff.” aegie, as the world knows, has al- been a bookworm, whenever he could snatch even a few odd moments from his work of money-making, and he has spent many millions in providing for others' facilitics which in his young days were denied to him. Pierpont Morgan is a book enthusiast of another type, for he has spent on many a single volume in his magnificent li- brary a sum which would provide a life books for most of us. “I simply cannot,” he has sald, “overestimate the value of reading to the man who wishes to turn his brains to any kind of profitable ac- count. To me it has been invaluable, and I have never known a man who has amassed money who has not also been a book lover.” a ways COLONEL The feeble snrile indicates the feeble ycharacter. The sncering mouth that cannot laugh without suggesting the snarl of some over- patted poodle is the mouth of the woman who takes a cynical view of every phase of life. The man who would have the courage to woo and win the woman who cannot 7 without a sneer is the one who is g for trouble and the alimony And he generally finds both. are odd sounding laughs that er hears more than once in a life- aughs with such a funny little ring to them to which the memory ever recurs with pleasure. It may be a pecu- ak, a sort of very high C noteh of treble; yet while is little music in it, it is not un- it. On the contrary, it is infec- There one ne tious. The woman with a hoarse, mascudine laugh is sure to be masculine in tempera. ment. There will be a want of polish ot of femininity about her always. Conse- quently. she will always lack the great charm of a lovable woman. Nature has ordained that, in the sexes, he most attractive gualities are those of sex. A woman must be womanly in crder to attain the best of life’s capabili- ties, A when either assumes the pre- rogat s of the other, that moment an intangible something is wmissing, and character is beggered. The masculine laugh in a woman is the false note that destroys womanly har- mon The fiendish laugh is the laugh of mal- ice, the laugh that carries with it both a e IT O, all owing to you. I'm not one of these stuck-up chaps. I'm jest plain Jim Wil- liams, and you'll find me a yard wide and all wool every time. I'll run in quite fre- quently and cheer you up.” Miss Minnie had many criticisms to make after the caller had left, and as- serted if he came again he would get a setback to last him all his life. Aunt Jane . trled to soothe her. “Oh, you mustn’t mind our ways out here in the ccuntry. As Jim has fallen in love with you at first sight he will—'" “W-h-a-t!” exclalmed the horrified girl. ““Why, couldn't you tell that he had fallen in love with you?' “Ot course not! How dare he do such a thing!” “I don't ses why you make such a fuss over it. If you don’t want to marry him you tan say =0 when he asks you.” When Jim had retired that night he got to thinking things ov: “I'm Jim Willlams,” he soliloguized, ‘'m as stout as a bull and have an appetite like a horse. I'm 27 years old and have 3600 in the bank. There ain't no flies on me, and I'm a good "nuff match for any gal that lives. I'm in love with Minnle Stacy. I don't know what sort of a farm- er's wife she’d make, but I'm willing to take my chances. We'll take In Nlagara Falls on our wedding trip, and if she wants candy at 60 cents & box she shall have it. I'll glve her a week to sort o' get acquainted, and then I'll pop the question.” It was all settled in his mind when he turned over and went to sleep, and he saw no clouds on the horizon as he awoke in the morning. Thereafter for nine or ten nights he was a regular caller at Aunt Jane's house. If he saw Minnie he tried to Interest her in snakes, mud tur- tles, frogs and ler novelties of farm Ufe, and gave her interesting statistics of how much hay a cow would consume in the winter. SAN FRANCISCO SUNDAY LT & ZTGg 2T ST FICOR S S FEXR Er DRIGGLED SrcrFRTS tnreat and a menace; it is the laugh that suggests unutterable things, in the way of revenge and all unkindness, and grates upon both heart and ear like the rum- blings of a storm, prophetic of terror. But the jolly girl, the girl who enjoys her life for the very joy of living, the girl who takes things as they come, who is not on the still hunt for lovers or sweethearts, but who prefers friends; who never seeks cozy spoon-holder cor- ners, but who is bright and full of vim, is always the girl who will be loved. I have more faith in a good, wholesome ‘,wl ‘;',‘ L CALL. . TRE 27~ NG SY T IORT A B L 7S &Z7zc GLEZ GO 7ELES, grin, that opens up a face and beams through the eyes, than in all the incan- tations of the liturgy. The girl who can laugh off a dis- agreeable contretemps, who can make the best of an embarrassing situation, who ingtead of being annoyed will only feel amused, is the girl who will accumulate a whole assortment of scalps to decorate her belt. She may be caught in a shower when wearing a freshly laundered gown, and her very best hat, with but scanty purse to replenish, yet she chokes down the sigh of regret, and, though wondering how on earth she will reim- burse the damage, yet she does not display the little ache that is tugging at her heart because of it. With a laugh she picks up her be- draggled skirts, apd runs to cover, thinking the while that it can’t be helped and there is little use in sigh- ing over the saobbing rain. She lets the rain enjoy the monopoly of both sobs and sighs. Should she be out on a lark. enjoying a ramble in the woods. and grows weary, she 1S perfectly satisfled to sit down on the ground and rest. until ready to go on again. Such a girl need never be without an escort. The boys will all love her, because she is not hunting for trouble and does not expect a perpetual ‘adora- . tion performance. £ She is healthy and wholesome from the ground up, with a laugh that is a tonic, and a personality that Is an in- vigorant. For the young she is an inspiration, for the old a life-saver. il N N WL, iy, ,/IT/W/////' 4% «;r'r//g "Wt Wher! Minnie stuck to her room and re- fused to come down he had greening ap- ples and other messages for her, and con- tinued to grow more deeply in love. About the first of March the maple sugar scason opened. The making of the sugar was a part of Jim's spring work, and from the first run of sap he sent the city girl some maple wax on a clean, white maple chip. The snow disappeared, the spring birds began to appear and the ground was get- ting dry under foot, when Minnle started out one afternoon for a walk. She wan- dered over a fleld and into a plece of woods, hoping to find the first spring fower, and of a sudden she felt chills sweep over her and the atmosphere grew dark. A blizzard had stolen upon the country as softly as & thief in the night. In her sudden alarm the girl became turned around. She was hurrying through the woods when the wind rose, the air filled with snow, and she clutched the branch of a bush and shrieked her alarm. She kept up her shrieks for half an hour and then sank down in a collapse. She did not realize what was happen- ing when Jim.Wiillams came feeling his way through the storm, took her in his arms and carried her to the sugar bush shanty, forty rods away. It was a blizzard long to be remem- bered. The thermometer went down to zero and a foot or more of snow fell, and for two or three days the farmers were imprisoned in their'houses. The girl recovered her senses soon after reaching the sugar camp, but there was no going farther. Jim happened to have plenty to eat and plenty of blankets. He gave up the shanty to her for the night and dug out a place for himself before the fire. She might have slept, but he had to keep the fire going to prevent his freezing to death. He had plenty of time to think. The wind howled, the snow flew and the > I IIPT /A5 4 A ans e R e A3 HE TOBRED ACAT ~ s cold made the trees pop like musketry, and Jim's great fear was that the girl would freeze to death before morning. It was a glad relief to him when he heard her voice calling him soon after daylight. The sky had lightened up, but the blizzard was still booming away. Jim made coffee and frled bacon and warmed up the frozen bread and invited Miss Stacy to breakfast. She had passed the worst night of her life and lost her appetite. What she wanted was to reach her Aunt Jane's in the quickest time possible. Jim listened to her re- quest, and then shook his head. “We've got to wait awhile for this blizzard to let up,” he replied. “We couldn’t go ten rods without being lost, and being lost would mean being dead. Lemme tell you how a bull throwed me over the fence two years ago, and chirk you up a bit.” The girl refused to be chirked. She sat swathed In horse blankets like a mummy, and her tears formed icicles on her cheeks. Noon came, and the blizzard was still with them. Jim tried to make her take a hopeful view of things by asserting that he was born and reared in that locality, and had never known a blizzard to Tast over four days, but she wept instead of smiled. Finally, at ¢ o'clock in the af- ternoon, she made an announcement. “I am goilng. I won't stay here an- other minute. If you don't want to come along you needn't,” she said, firmly. “There's only one way you can go,” replied Jim, after stepping aslde to measure the depth the snow. “T'll have to take you on my back. You never can make it otherwise. I'm stout enough to carry vou and a bag of 'ta- ters besides, and if I don’t hurry too much I can keep a straight course.y The girl demurred and protested, but, Her laugh s infectious and dfffuses happiness as does the sun light and warmth. It is never your jolly, whole-souled girl who figures In scandal, but the meek, madonna-faced, angelic crea- ture, so quiet and spirituelle, who needs watching. The jolly girl's nature is as gener- ous and expansive as her laugh. She is not prone to criticise nor to wound. Enjoying life herself, she wants others to enjoy it. With' those of her own age she s the life and inspiration ‘that begets happi- ness. With the pld she chases morbid fancies from heart and brain, bringing back the fading memorfes of youth. 0ld people should cultivate the com- panionship of bright young people. Laughter robs age of its terrors, its morbidity and the eynicism that comes with experience. And it does not stand to realon that the young girl with her rippling laugh, her mischievous eyes and-sans soucl ways Is devold of sympathy. On the contrary, such girls are generally far more sympathetic' and lovable than those less emotional. A whole-souled, cheerful laugh, one that ripples and bubbles in the fun- loving spirit, is infectious. We laugh with such a one, scarce knowing why. The spirit of fum exudes from the daring, dashing, whole-souled, jolly girl, impregnating the very atmos- phere. Where all is happy. she adds to this happiness. Where grief and sorrow have invaded, her bright face dispels some of the shadows. finding no other way, she at last con- sented. He stooped down, lifted her up and set off with her. It was a desper- ate undertaking, and they were a full “our making the mile they had to go; but he finally deposited her on the door- step, rapped for Aunt Jane, and then said good-night and plunged into the storm again. Two evenings later, when the blizzard had vanished and the high- ways had been dug out, he knooked at Aunt Jane's door. This time he had on a boiled shirt, with a pair of celluloid cuffs under his coat sleeves, and as Minnie rose up, and before she could utter a word of thanks he said: “Miss Stacy, I love you. I love you'a heap. I never loved a gal as I do you. I intended all along to ask you to mar- ry me, and I have been figgering where we would live after marriage. But it's HE sea serpent, at least in many modified forms, is an accepted scl- entific fact. It is coming to be generally belleved that the many and oft recurring stories of the sea serpent cannot all be visions, pictures of the fancy. Many of the supposed sea serpents are whales, lines of birds or patches of sea weed, but it is the consensus of opinion among conservative naturalists that there is some gigantic animal in the deep sea yet unknown to science which occasion- ally comes to the surface, showing por- tions of its form, to the amasement of the mariner who may chance to be in the vicinity. As to the nature of those un- known animals we have several sugges- tions. Several eel-lke sharks have been taken, long serpentine-like creatures that when large must be the sea serpents of the deep sea, and have convinced ob- servers that the tales which have aroused the credulity of people are not without foundation, and that this mysterious realm conceals strange and gigante :orm. which only rarely rise to the sur- ace, The eel-like sharks found are in some instances luminous, emitting a strange light over the entire surface—the light givers of the deep sea. F The fishes, so far as known, are of small size; but this does not prove that there are no large animals in the deep sea. The method of taking deep sea forms pre- cludes the capture of any except thé small and very sluggish ones which lle in the deep ooze, but the time will come when a large dredge will be invented in which the monsters of the deep will be taken, as there dre few naturalists who have given the subject any attention but believe there are In the greater depths THE SEA SERPENT 15 A FACT When such & girl loves she does so with the same amount of vigor that she puts into her pleasures. One of this type is rarely untrue. She is faithful and devoted in love, and should misfortune loom over Cupid's demesne she becomes at omce both helper and helpmate. The cheerful, jolly girl does not sit still and mope over desolations or brood over wrecks. She may be numbed for the time being over some domestic oat- aclysm, but her nature quickly reasserts itself, and her character is ennobled by such upheavals as would demoralise one of less force. Misfortune develops her. We are often astonished to see women whom we never dreamed pos- sessed of such force of charscter rise Superior to environment when it hardly seemed possible. And it is generally the jolly 'woman who never sesmed to have & care who takes the helm in such cages, while her friends comment that they didn’t think there was so much in her “Your quiet, moping woman allows circumstances to crush her. The jolly woman rises above them. So, gentlemen! If you will fall in love, and are recklessly bent on matri- mony, do a little character studying on your own account. Don’t allow an in- fatuation to warp your judgment. Do a little dissecting and analysing of your amorita’s mental and physical caliber. Sift down the moods of your various acquaintances, and while the cold, state- ly, ‘social queen may lend a dignity to your menage, yet for the strenuous wear com- and tear of matrimony I would mend the jolly girl. all off now. I've went made a hero of myself eternal gratitude. You'd be willing to marry me because I saved your life, duf I ain’t no sich feller as to take - tage of a thing like that Take dack youy troth and marry any feller you like, and at the same time I'll look around and see what red-headed they are in the neighborhood be willing to have me. Farewell, Mise Stacy—farewell™ There was a tear In Jim Willlams* twenty-two gallons of molasses that spring, and found his red-headed girl before the first crop of young rodins was off the nest. some gigantic animal which is occasion- ally seen. An interesting form of the sea serpent is the so-called ribbon fish, several speci- mens of which the writer has seen on the shores of Santa Catalina Island. This creature is one of the most beautiful of all fish It resembles a white or silver ribbon siashed with black. That this delicate ribbon fish attains a very large size is generally believed, as good sized specimens have been cap- tured. Some years ago a fisherman was hauling a net on the coast of Scotland, when it was found that some heavy weight was holding the net back. Addi- tional help was obtained, and a dozen men finally hauled in a monster fish, which was estimated to weigh eight hun- dred pounds. It was a gigantic ribbon fish, thirty feet or more in length, so long and heavy that it required the ef- forts of half a dozen men to ecarry it along the deck. It was a verMable sea serpent, and ex- tending from its head were tall deep red or scarlet plumes, like fins, which formed a sort of mane, frequently described as being séen on the typical sea serpent. If these fishes attain a length of thirty ‘feet there is no reason why they may not ex- ceed this. and it is very possibie that some of the ‘“sea serpents” which have been observed at varlous times were gigantic ribbon fishes, which came up from the deep sea and moved along withf undulat- ing motion at the surface. Ome of the most remarkable as well as gigantic ani- mals of the deep sea is the giant squid— & favorite tidbit of the sperm whale. The size to which these animals grow, their strength and their hideous appear- ance place them on a par with many of the weird and grotesque creatures of a x.’lls-! -:“u. “Th. -lnuldu undoubtedly attains nearly, not over, ome hun-