The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 6, 1906, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL Proprietor JOHN D. SPRECKELS. ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO <eeses Manneer BLICATION OFFICE. AND MARKET STREETS, SAN FRANCISCO TUESDAY fARCH 6, 1906 EDUCATING THE BLIND. HE education of the blind and mute has long interested the benevolent and philanthropic people of this country and Eu- rof it in inf of efficienc lose their si e They read by palpation and the use the Morse alphabet of telegraphy. he attainments of exceptional individuals who lose ancy. Among these have been sculptors, surgeons, ness men who have achieved great succe! Herre- der, who has built the swift yachts that have s cup in the international races, has been neric ood. 1 of the juvenile blind are of exceptional talents, and nual training is coming to be recognized as a necessity. public interest in such manual training is shown in e put A recent Boston special to The Call news of the argument made before the Massachu- for industrial training for the blind by a blind successful lawyer. r of pride for Californians that this State has the 1 institution for the blind in the world. use of high e mining and construction in this State accidents, and the eyes of the victims suffer the most upon it. success indus causes a large number of people to lose their sight i its loss is the most serious. A study of the sub- fierentiated the adult from the juvenile blind, in respect and Many years ago the State established Adult Blind in Oakland. After the {ome needs. for the t ing strial | of Joseph Sanders, who has been totally blind supporting since he was eleven years old. Skilled lind handicrafts and, with the mercantile faculty highly he at once made the Aduit Blind Home a sSuccess. handicrafts the head, and mattress, mat, chair seating, knitting and needle The Oakland institution takes the adult utory to self- if the State sel eir order. a new trade and makes them contrib wifactures have a high reputation, an: ge its dormitory and other facilities so that ¢ 10date all of the blind legally entitled to its shelter it can manu- facture a large percentage of the broom supply of the State. cert callings are reserved entirely for the blind. See s never invade that reserve. This is very wise and t philanthropy. When we reach it the vocations best suited 1 be also reserved for our blind, to the extent to which ble to supply the demand. Already Texas, Iowa, Michigan ¢ have officially surveyed the Blind Home of Califor- as a model for like institutions, and France has also | inquiry into its methods, with the intention of adopt- The present movement for a similar institution in achusetts has its origin in an inspection of the California Home. 1 has long been the center of education of the juvenile blind. ition founded by Dr. Howe, the husband of Julia Ward almost performed miracles in the education.of Laura an and Helen Keller. But the interests of the adult blind, heir need of industrial training, have had no attention until te has been admonished by the example of the California tution. That example is of value beyond the industrial training of the adult blind. It is a demonstration of the necessity of putting institutions under the superintendency of blind men. Michigan 1pressed that this was done and her industrial home for the s at once put under the superintendency.of an able blind success from the start. nders has done a work of world interest and significance nonstrating the superiority of a blind man in such a pesition. ng man, no matter what his capacity, is under the dominion ure, and even unconsciously is always trying to handle the through their vision which they have not. The blind man ch h has was a in a world of touch and not of sight. The demonstration so lly made by Mr. Sanders was not made in ease and by 1 concession. It was accomplished against prejudice and op- position of the most stubborn sort. Even the adult blind themselves were often found in violent doubt and revolt, in the helpless stage of their loss. They were so pitifully helpless themselves that they could not comprehend how another under similar affliction could | not only take care of himself but teach them to care for themselves and contribute to their self-support. All of these difficulties Mr. Sanders has conquered, and in doing so has made California the world’s teacher in ways helpful to the adult blind. In addition to his other gifts Mr. Sanders is a good swimmer and an expert fisher- | man and flycaster, so that he is a living witness to the fact that the blind may not only be trained to manual skill in the trades, but may learn to enjoy the sports and pleasures of life as well. The Call wishes success to the commonwealth of Massachusetts in following in the benevolent footsteps of California. M held a high conference of Socialists at his elegant country home in Connecticut. It was for the purpose of uniting the Socialists, public-ownershipers and all other elements of opposition to the present constitution of society, in a political party having for its creed the making of all pint pots hold a quart. One of the con- ferees was Mr. Hearst’s editoridl writer, Arthur Brisbane, who has announced the highest duty of every man to be the making of every other man discontented. The members of the conference were so very radical that each had his own standard of radical orthodoxy, and the meeting did not result in anything practical. It is not necessary that these gentle- men should tell the country that some things are wrong. That is a matter of common knowledge. Some men in combination with each other have taken to themselves an unwholesome quantity of the national wealth. But it is no remedy for this to say that because some have too much no one shall have anything, for that is what the Socialist cry of “Everything is everybody's” means. Mr. Hearst, through his idea man, Mr. Brisbane, has cultivated extreme Socialism. Mr. Stokes, like Mr. Hearst, is the owner of many inherited millions. They both want others who are rich to make an even divide. How do they know but others are waiting for Mr. Phelps to throw away his millions and go to raising cabbages at East Haddam, and for Mr. Hearst to give his inherited wealth away and earn his bread running a linotype machine in his news- paper office? When they do this, maybe John D. Rockefeller will divest himself of his fortune and make his living peddling news- papers at the depot in Cleveland. The sturdy common sense of the country is in conference all the time. Making use of the knowledge that portentous wealth has been amassed, by taking unfair and often unlawful advantage of transportation rates and other short cuts, that sturdy American com- mon sense proposes to cut out the short cuts, and equalize the oppor- tunities of genius and energy. But that same common sense is not to be fooled into thinking that, to equality of opportunity, can be added equality of ability to use equal opportunity. This is what Socialism proposes, and it will succeed when it can, by passing a resolution, ake all men of the same weight and height, and with the same color of eyes and hair. v THE SOCIALIST CONFERENCE., R. STOKES, the millionaire socialist, has summoned and —a The book training of the juvenile blind, of those who | ancy and miss it but little, has been brought | sed letters or by the Braille system, which resembles the | There has seemed to| ch time in experiments, the institution was put under the | philanthropic | ed to the blind, broom-making stands | it can ac-| them and handles them, through the sensitive ends of their | { | | | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1908. Y || SEVEN AGES T% UP TO DATE —r | HE following clever parody, origin- ally appearing in the Chicago Tri- bune, is reprinted in the new Munsey magazine, the Scrap Book: » All the world is graft, And all the men and women merely grafters. They have their sure things and their bunko games And one man in his time works many grafts, His bluffs being seven ages. At first the infant Conning his dad untll he walks the floor; And then the whining schoolboy, poring o'er his book, | Jollying his teacher into marking him A goodly grade. And then the lover, Making each maiden think that ehe Is but the only one. And then the soldler, Full of strange words and bearded like a pard, ceking the bubble reputation, ven in the magazines. And then the justice, | Handing out the bull con to the bench And Jollying the jury till it thinks He knows it all. The sixth age shifts To lean and slippered pantaloon, With spectacles on nose—his is a graft! For he s then the Old Inhabitant And ail must hear him talk. Last scene of all, That ends this strange, eventful history, | 1s second childishness and mere oblivion, ns graft, sans pull, sans cinch, sans every- thing. UNLUCKY THIRTEEN. Representative John Sharp Williams be- fore he came to Congress was a member of a board of visitors to the State prisons of Mississippi, says the New York World. He with others was making a tour of the penitentlaries and saw a dejected-looking convict sitting in his cell. “What's the matter, my man?” asked ‘Williams. “Nothin’ much,” the convict said; ‘“‘only I'm a vietim.” “Victim of what?" “I'm a victim of the figger thirteen—a Judge and twelve jurymen.” RACKET MAKER. " called the mother sternly, “‘what is all that nolse in the basement?"” ““Why, mamma,” replied Johnny bland- | 1y, “I am playing President Roosevelt and chasing bears.” “Well, it occurs to me you are playing President Castro and need a spanking.”— Chicago News. " NOT WORRIED. Friend—So your son is In college. What is he preparing for? Father—Don’t know. But by the suc- cessful way he works me I think he's go- ing to be either a diplomat or a financier. ~Detroit Free Press. Occidental Accidentals BY A.J. WATERHOUSE. FABLE OF THE TRULY GOOD WIFE. NCE there was a dear wife who O was truly good. Indeed, she was pretty nearly the best ever, as any married man will understand when I tell him that she sewed on her hus- band’s buttons without being told sev- eral times about the missing link, and gave him a. whole drawer to himself in one of the bureaus and almost never put things with lace on them there to trouble his soul and make him wonder when he wore them last. = Also, she led him to church twice every Sunday, but of course, that is a different thing. Yes, she was a truly good wife, and did not dally with perniclous pleasure, nor look upon it save with reproach. But, unfortunately, her husband was not truly good. He was a good fellow, but there were spots on him. He was quite fond of dallying with pernicious pleasure, and sometimes he wished that he had a wife who would pleasure or pernish a little with him. Some- times he even suggested it, but when earth and the fullness thereof belong? The class (as with one voice)—The Standard Ofl Company. Then the teacher explained to the dear pupils how often appearances are deceitful. “There is the contractor who paved our city streets.” “So I understand.” “He never would do for that kind of work in the infernal reglons, would he?” “Why not?” “Why, they say that hell is paved with good intentions.” “He was found gullty and sentenced to imprisonment for life.” “How did he take it?” “Philosophically. Sald it was a great relief to feel that he had struck a per- manent job at last.” “Shes felt that he had injured her, but when he asked her to marry him he mentioned a joint bottle of the ruby | she consented.” his wife ordered ice-cream soda, and there he was—up against it real hard! “What made her do so?” “Wanted a chance to get even with Now, I would not be understood as | him.” saying a word in favor of the man who was not truly good, and I honor BAND OF FAITHFUL RESOLUTES. and respect his noble wife, but not the less, it is a shameful fact that his yearning to dally with perniclous pleasure grew upon him, and as he could not thus dally in the bosom of his family, he gradually learned to dally: elsewhere. In brief, he had so much truly good at home that he didn’t feel any yearning for it whe{x he was out for an evening. So the paths of these two gradually severed—he sheould have been ashamed of himself—and I am looking for an announcement in the divorce column of the paper almost any day now; which, of course, gracefully leads up to the— Moral—Qil and water mix no better in’ the marriage relation where, and the devoted wife whose husband evinces a disposition to dally with pernicious pleasure may do well to make a harmless bluff at doing just a Mttle—a mere trifle—in that line her- selt. “I judge that he is In the shipping line of business.” 5 “What makes you think so?” “He is always talking about what he is going to do ‘when his ship comes AR e - The Teacher—To whom! does the . 4 ON THE ROAD T0 THE BEACH. doln’ Guv'ner. i e E: s REFRESHING PRANKNESS. “Why haven't you been up to see us?™ : “Oh! T have a gas stove now :39 I get up all my meals on than else- |- m_lu = Torata strters Teleph The Band of Faithtul Resolutes for Betterment of Men Had made of Tule Junction quite a proper sort of place; It had scourged the wayward wicked with its tongue and with its pen, TH! a man inclined to straying scarcely dared to show his face, Excepting old Bill Boggins, who was brazen on a toot, And scorned the way of betterment, or really acted so; And so the Faithful Resolutes remarked, “This fs our fruit,”” And dropped a balt for Boggins and took him in their tow. One night to meeting he was led, though he was somewhat “‘shot,” And Brother Bilkins rofe and sald: “This errin’ brother here Has saw an’ felt that error's ways is all too burnin’ hot, An’ praps he'll riss an’ briefly speak, our falthful souls to cheer.”” Then old Bill Boggins grabbed a pew to help him to arise, +And backward swayed and forward swayed, &s timing of a tune, And sald, T feel thish drinkin’ (hic!) is shin- ful an’ unwise, An’ I would'n’ (scush me) do it if it was'n’ for (hic!) moon. “1 allersh shay ‘at T'll reformsh an’ sheek a better way, But ‘bout 'at timsh (bic!) moon gets full—1 shay it to her shame— An’ her (hic!) zample is the thing 'atsh lead- In’ me asthray, For, coursh, you shee, I can't resisht, an’ go afi’ do the same. It "twashn't for her zample (hic)—" he . wept and sat him down. Then Brother Bilkins rose and said, T fear his words are true!” And sympathetic sisters' wept, & wicked world 3 to drown, o The while they sald, “‘The moon's to blame. Alas! What can we do?" The Band of Faithful Resolutes for Betterment ot Men I do not wish to say a word against the honest &ood Who o thelr best to lead mankind in truer paths to stray, And yet I think I've noticed, with a griet that's - understood, That they sometimes strive to do it in & rather lunar way. ——— xnwnm-qdl California glace fruits and choicest candies in_arti: fire- etched boxes. New store, 767 ll:?;nt. . —_——— Special information supplied daily to houses and public men by the (Allen’s), 30 Calf- The event of the week, and probably the most Important of the Lenten sea- son, will be the wedding this evening of Miss Elizabeth Huntington and John Brockway Metcalf. Extreme quiet will surround the ceremony, which is to be witnessed only by the families dnd a few very close friends. Miss Marian Huntington will attend her sister, Mr. Metcalf to be served by Mr. Roeding. Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Perkins have arrived from Pasadena and are guests in the Huntington home on Jackson ‘Street, where the nuptials will ocur. e e Henry Payot will give the first of a course of lectures before the Channing Auxiliar this evening at 8 o'clock. The subject is “The Land of the Rising Sun, Japan,” and the lecturs will be given in the parlors of the First Uni- tarian Church, Geary and Franklin streets. .« . The concert on the 13th to be given at the Tivolli for Mrs. Paxton, Miss Roma Paxton and John Paxton is almost an assured success, for the daily demand for tickets is large and the programme of unusual attraction. Those to take part will include Mrs. Ernest Willard Crellin, Mrs. Paxton, Miss Lillian Burkhardt, Mrs. George Macfarlane of Honolulu, Arthur Cun- ningham, Mackenzie Gordon, Dr. Ar- thur Regensburger, Herman Heller, Willilam J. (“Billy”) Hynes, The Ha- wallan Glee Club and the Harmony Club. Mrs. Clarence Martin Mann will en- tertain the Van Ness Seminary Alumnae +_____________———————-—+ & & THE SMART SET « < BY SALLY SHARP. | board the Independence for the next few weeks is pleasurable news to the dancing set, who will thoroughly eg- joy these informal events. - Paymaster Richworth Nicholson will be host upon these occasions, his ship lying at Mare Island. . . Mrs. Watson D. Fennimore enter- tained at a luncheon and bridge om Saturday in her home on Pacific av- enue, those enjoying the affair being Mrs. Harry Nathaniel Gray, Mrs. Wil- liam R. Cluness Jr, Mrs. Eugene Bresse, Mrs. Charles Deering, Mrs Lester Herrick, Mrs. Eugene Freeman, Mrs. Willlam Shotwell, Mrs T. W. Huntington, Mrs. J. H. Wallace, Mrs. Matthew Brown and Mrs. Bentley. . . Much informal entertaining will be done through Lent and especlally in the pretty suburban towns, where it is a double delight for city folk to pass a day or so at this time of the year. Those whose homes lie across the dbay will offer more frequent hospitality, while the Sunday tea will be In es~ pecial favor. Mrs. Gaston Ashe entertained inform-~ ally at tea on Sunday In her Sausalita home. - . . Captain and Mrs. Willlam Winder left yesterday for their new home at Mare Island, where Captain Winder will be stationed on the Lawton. % Alaskan trip for June. eiie . Miss Maybelle Toy !s planning at a musicale in her Washington-street home during Easter week. . . . The prospect of bi-weekly hops on . . Mrs. Emma de Noon Lewis and Miss Mabel de Noon will leave soon for & visit to Southern California, remaining until summer. ———p - Women Masters of Economy BY DOROTHY FENIMORE. e bl HE spirit of economy is various, and Tespecla“y hard to comprehend when in possession of a woman. No doubt man is a fast-and-hard, close- ly calculating creature when it comes to garnering pennies and saving dollars. It must be allowed that he resorts to trick- ery that deserves the qualification of “mean” in some of his methods of divert- ing profit to himself. It may as well be admitted without ar- gument that woman can break even with man in the small and broad economies incident to business and in the cheapened craftiness of seizing the odd cent. But in the matter of ingenuity in turn- ing a situation to personal profit certainly woman is supreme. An illustration of this supremacy was given a while back—to be quite exact, on the 14th of Febréiary in this year of grace. On that memorial day of Cupid’s pranks and serious intentions a girl in this city found herself short on cash when she flg- ured out the cost of the souvenirs she had listed to send forth. “Anyhow, I don’t want to spend my good money for valentines,” she declared, frowning a bit. “I shall need so many new things to wear in the spring.” She put her elbows on the table, held her hands together, turnir : the palms upward, and then placed her chin on this improvised resting place It was plain she tried—in vain—to sift the price of these suits out of the domestic funds. Then the mother’s ingenious economy rose to the situation. Some bicycle outfits past their pur- pose were transformed into spick-and- span little trousers and blouses. A cracked parasol cover was done into resplendent little neck scarfs. Some pleces of a scarlet blanket worn into a labyrinth of holes In the center were shaped into little caps. The lads trot- ted off to school as well dressed as the children of richer neighbors. In the length and breadth of the land there are many and many homes where woman's ingenious economy !s | making the family show up far more financial backing than the salary of the master of the house stands for. 1In her own attire the presiding genius “looks™ a larger income than her husband gets. The children's toggery adds to the im-~ pression that the family is living away beyond its revenue in dollars and cents. This erroneous impression is brewed by women who are not geniuses in the practice of economy. Also by men who have had no famillar associations wita , women gifted with such economic ge- nlus. To the man who has had reason and chance to become famillar with tae tactics of such an economlie genius it must be clear that she deserves the was trying to figure out in her mind how she could compass the valentine proposi- tion without depleting her treasury; or she was building a gloomy resolution to cut her whisperings of Cupid out of the year's pleasures. Either way, a bright idea suddenly bloomed somewhere within her mental scope, for a drift of delight came into her eyes, while she exclaimed: “I have a perfectly lovely collection of valentines—of course, I have. Oh, yes, it's | easy.” This turned out to be the prelude to the girl's utilization of the valentines that had been sent to her for several previous years. The wonder is if she so mixed the souvenirs that none of them was recog- nizable to original purchasers. But this wonder doesn’t count here or there in the general citation of woman's ingenuity in economizing. It's the exam- ple that reckons in with the grist. Not long ago a certain mother’s two lit- tle lads needed new sults—trousers and blouses. For three weeks the parents PRI RS T S ANSWERS TO QUERIES. ABBREVIATION—A. F. B. G, City. The letters R. S. V. P. at the bottom of an invitation or letter are the abbre-, viation of the French words repond s'il vous plait, which translated mean, answer if you please. “THE JILT'—Subscriber, Oakland, Cal. Inquiry was made at the Majestic for the name of the song that was sung in the second act of “The Jlt” recently pro- duced at that place of amusement, but no one there could give it. ASTOR BATTERY—A. A. H, City. .| During the Spanish-American War the Astor Battery came to San Francisco from New York and sailed for Manlla, P. L, June 28, 1898. The battery was in service, returned from the islands and left for the Empire City January 6, 1889, ‘AHE SEASQNS—S. P, City. According to Washington, D. C., mean time, the seasons for the current year commence as folls Vernal equinox, spring begins March 21, 8 a. m.; summer solstice, sum- mer, June 22, 3 a. m.; autumnal equinox, autumn, September 23, § p. m.; winter solstice, winter, December 22, 1 a. m. LIMIT OF VISION—J. D., Lidell, Cal How far the naked eye can see an.ob- ject on the ccean or on the Western ig E;tgfi L i R H i i } zggg §iz highest applause. He must comprehend that she builds to even a sublime cli- max in domestic pride, and against big odds In necessary resources. Isn't it up to this man to make a concerted protest whenever a woman ‘s accused of ruining her husband's dusi- ness, or swamping his salary and accu- mulating debts, through extravagant expenditures, as told by the smart ap- pearance of the family? At least the woman in “the ruimous case™ should have a falr comparison— from the soclal outlook—with the has- band’s every-day expenses Incumbent upon his habits outside the home. Like as not the woman has been cone ducing to the husband’'s selfish extrav- agance through the practice of hem economic genius In the home. —— MIRROR OF DAME FASHION. i il AH i ;‘f i i ¥ ¥ i i | l 1 ii 2 g i it ; i i i g;’i § afii FHEE i 7 § i : ] ! i i i ; [ / I J i L i H : i st il e fiéf i s I it i { i !