The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 19, 1906, Page 8

e THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL ... Proprietor THIRD AND MARKET ETREETS, SAN FRANCISCO iARCH 19, 1900 WIDESPREAD STORMS AFFECTING BUSINESS. h against trade last week, being stormy all over ted was reat , with the exception of several South Atlantic and Pacific Coast reau stated that it was the most widely spread This condition of course diminished the volume storm for vears of business The result appeared in the exhibit of the bank clearings, which | showed a decrease of 5.1 per cent from the corresponding week in It was with the aggregate clearings down to $2,756,000,000. noticeable, howev that the best reports continued to come from the Pacific Coast ies, all of the largest showing gains over last le leading with 82.8 per cent, Tacoma 60.5, Spokane 31.4, os Angeles 48.5 and San Francisco 32.8. The increase at Portland 21.8 per ce Western and Southern sections of the country, those acific Coast showed a uniform gain in business over the period in 1903 > stormy weather cut down the volume of jobbing retail trade throughout the country, it was very beneficial to the crop, giving the plant plenty of moisture, and snow sections which had previously.been exposed to freezing Hence e results as a whole in spite of the weather the spring trade continues to makz nt showing, and commercial statisticians are predicting will exceed previous ‘records. An encouraging factor at mprovement which has become apparent in the during the past week. The decline which has been a number of weeks seemed to come to a halt at last, othened in sympathy with a better foreign situation s the gressing for 1 New York. The leading centers everywhere re- better demand for cash wheat, and the exports from this i la during the week were 2,010,000 bushels, against g the corresponding week in 1905. A still bat- 1 to date, being 99.152,000 bushels, against 45.590,000 exports of farm staples in February exceeded last 500,000, »w York also showed substantial gains over 1905. The likewise made an excellent exhibit, being 8 per 1 1905 nued easy and plentiful at all points except New l'hursday the rate for call money suddenly rose to 8 advance was maintained for a moment only, \ ling back. The stock market was weakened by the money there was a general selling of stocks, the situ- 1 der a cloud by fears regarding the threat- I'aking the week as a whole, however, the stock ful and without any violent change. week was the statement of the steel corpora- g also cast icrease in the net income of $56,840,000. The e $43,365.000, an increase of $38.317,000, and the nfilled orders on the books January 1 was 7,605,000 tons of manufactured products, against 4,696,000 January 1, ] exhibit, the coal showing is not uary statement showed a heavy loss in net earn- ompared with a year ago, and should there be no strike a shut- a considerable period seems likely, as the roads report a nulation of coal on hand. This condition may possibly somewhat exaggerated in order to deter the operatives from s recently broken sharply. hide, leather and footwear lines have shown pronounced 1ess in all positions, and the tendency in hides is now down- ard, with quieter markets. Cotton, however, is being taken freely the spinners, the aggregate purchases being large. p Crop prospects everywhere continue excellent. The conditions he Pacific Coast are particularly favorable, and unless some un- be very large this year. This outlook is so cheerful that no- y seems to expect anything else than fine returns to the farm- ers during the coming season. The large numbers of colonists and visitors now flocking to California create a remarkable demand for ny lines of farm produce, and general activity in trade is reported by all the Pacific States T and the prevention of consumption is a plan of operation adopted in the East. The opening of the exhibit’was set for the last day of February, to begin in the city of Boston, whence it will tour jthe State of Massachusetts. A stationary exhibit of this kind has been held before, but the new idea is to send the school of instruction out on a tour and so bring the information close home to all the people. Two societies are backing the scheme, the Boston Association for the Relief and Control of Consumption, and the South End Socia! Union. The Boston Transcript reports that its value to the crusade against consumption is recognized by the highest authorities. South- ern California will gladly welcome this innovation, for it is one of the pities that the glories of that sunshiny land should be so mingled with the sadness that so many hopelessly afflicted consumptives come bod TUBERCULOSIS CRUSADE. RAVELING exhibits to educate the public about the dangers out here from the East only to be disappointed and to die. It will be I so much more satisfactory if the East can learn how to control the dread scourge, and to so thoroughly understand tuberculosis that it will not send out here hopeless cases to add to the other ills of the | disease that of separation from home and friends. This touring €ducative exhibit consists of pictorial representa- tions and lectures. They are designed to be so interesting as to at- tract the attention of the whole population of the districts through which they pass. One of the striking features is a representation of light rooms contrasted with dark rooms in such vivid way that they show clearly the conditions conducive to the propagation of con- sumption as opposed to the better environment to which the disease must yield. They exhibit also models of tents and shacks for con- sumptives. The expense is about $100 for each place where this consumption school is set up to teach its lessons of prevention and relief. This traveling method of putting valuable information right un- der the eyes of the people so that they can hardly avoid paying atten- tion to it may turn out to be;a home missionary movement of prime importance. It will be good for the spread of many kinds of instruc- tion, but there can be few, or none, of more moment than this about the great white plague, which the physicians tell us is one of the two chief scourges that war against human welfare. Universal as the interest will be in any crusade that helps to eradicate the curse of tuberculosis, it will be gratefully appreciated in California, for al- though our climate does not generate the disease, we have to witness much of the affliction of it. This system of instruction if extended to other Eastern States will tend powerfully to prevent mistaken friends from sending consumptive cases out here which are beyond the force of California climate to cure; and for this our physicians will be profoundly thankful. American contractors are going to dig the canal—wait, now! This one is to be in Russia.—Philadelphia North American. Wait! States. On one day, according to the Weather Bu- ¢ was either raining or snowing at all stations in the coun- | Thus, while diverse reports were received from | the storm was more beneficial than detrimen- | demand for flour, large foreign shipments of which | longer period, the exports, including | 5 per cent, and the foreign exports and | the gross receipts during the year of | encouraging. | but Wall street evidently accepts it as true, for Reading | (DX P~ Sy L . ‘ | FKE e RARED(T | SHALL | | Yo AT STuRDY 1 ||AMERICAN, MISTER ‘ij = GET THIS MESS TOGETHER AND CLOSE RIGHT HERE WHAT DO YOUTHNK THIS 15 2 ERes SOk P QUR EASLE IS QuT| e RESSSH POTATER YoM MELOMS- SQUASH AND PUMPKINS. BEET RADISHES, CARROTS AND CABBAGES WHO WANTS FRESN' + ST Dol VEGETABLE S 2 ot FRESH YODAY! NEGETABLES | SHQULD SAY. YEST THEY CANT L0SE ME! ‘GOPTRIGHT, 1908, BY THE NEW YORK EVENING TELEGRAM (EW. YORK HERALD 500 T Bachelor Girl's Lot. ||| s = OGCGIDENTAL ACCIDENTALS. = & | %k By Angela Morgan. i ! By A. J. Water—house. __L | [ PROMISED a friend of mine that I { [ would write an article for the self- | % sutfictent bachelor girl. My aim should be to point out the disadvantages in living | “n!ane and to show how much broader, | | sweeter and truer existence would become | | if shared with a life partner. : As I attempt now to fuMill my promise, | however, the other side of the question | flares vividly before ‘me. I am not so im- | pressed with the forlorn condition of the | independent bachelor girl as Tam with the tragic position of the wife tied to a man with whom progress is impossible. | Say what we will of the blessedness of | marriage, of the necessity for the experi- ences it gives, we must nevertheless admit that a woman would better never marry at all than through marriage find herself prevented from developing the best withfn her. | There is no question that marriage, for the majority of people, is an improvement upon what is termed single blessedness. Living alone very often tends to make a man or a woman selfish, narrow, self-cen- tered, unsympathetic. On the other hand, sharing one's joys ana sorrows, aims, hopes and ideals with another human being undoubtedly adds to the significance and beauty of life; makes | one more generous, unselfish and human. Ji But suppose a woman cannot find a man | | with whom it would be possible to share her real aims and ideals? Should she | marry anyway, simply to escape the lone- | 1y life? Here is the question. Unless two uniting | persons are in thorough accord, unless they have the same motives/and purposes, unless thay think and live on the same plane, a real union of interests cannot be. In considering marriage people do not as a rule lay sufficient stress on this re- quirement. After love, identity of purpose ghould be named as the thing most essen- tial to happiness and growth in married life. When two people whose aims and standards are totally different marry there is little hope of blessedness for either, They are unequally yoked. They cannot progress while thus united. The | more aspiring one is being constantly kept back by the other. Far better' would it have been for such unfortunates had they remained apart. it This matter of adapting one’s entire mode of life and of purpose to suit an- other human being is a very serfous thing. | It 1s well that girls do take more time nowadays to consider marriage than they did in the past. The question every woman should ask before she enters the yoke of matrimony with any man is this: “Can we pull to- gether?” This is the most important point of all. She should not deceive herself. She should look ovef the man’s charac- teristics; should find out what are his real aims. She should ask: “Do we believe alike? Are we working to the same end? Do our ambitions match? Are our aims identical?” How sad it is to see about us married people who, though presumably living and working together, are yet in fact continu- ally pulllng apart; who, though side by side in the same house, are yet living and “breathing, thinking and planning each In a totally different world. Such mismated l | ones are in reality as far apart as though an ocean divided them. Lack of the progressive quality in the one or the other is responsible nine umell out of ten for this unhappy difference. | | What is more deplorable than the sight of a progressive woman mated to an un- progreéssive man, or of an aspiring man yoked with a woman of inferior aims? Better for the woman to live alone, better for the man to live alone, in either such case. The mere wish to escape the lonely life should never be the motive for marriage. It is not my object to discourage young women from matrimony. But I would urge all women before taking such a se- rious step to consider particularly the questions I have emphasized: “Have we the same purposes? Are we working to the same end? Can we pull together?” Let every girl ask these questions before ! she gives herself to the man she loves. ’ O SWEET LITTLE GIRE. NCE there was a little girl who was S0 very sweet and attractive that her dear papa and mamma could not bear to cross her, for they said: “When she does not have her own way we have noticed that she Is less | sweet and attractive, and how sad that is!” (Which, of course, shows that the dear papa and mamma were Very wise and that they were right into their job, to speak after the manner of men; now, i doesn’t it, Augustus?) So the little girl gradually grew up and she had her own way about nearly everything, which is very pleasant to record. Of course, there were melan- choly exceptions, as, for instance, when she cried for the planet Venus, which her papa could not get for her, al- though he tried. However, such cases were but exceptions, and generally she had her own way about everything, and consequently remained a very sweet and attractive girl, So this sweet and attractive little girl grew to be a very sweet and attractive young woman. And after a while a young man came along who was lured by her because she was So sweet and attractive, and he sald some lootsy- pootsy words to her, which quite fas- cinated her, and she tremulously and blushingly responded that she would be his'n. So they were married and all that remains is the— Moral, (to be mentioned only in a whisper)—Lord help the young man! “They say that he is a regular lady fascinator.” ) “Do you know anything else against_ his reputation?” THING THAT COUNTS. Quail on toast and terrapin stew— ‘What does it matter at last to a man If these were the things that his lifetime knew, Or it it was run on a humbler plan? Bottles of wine in divers amounts, Or simply a slice of butterless bread— It fsn’t the thing In your stomach that counts, But the thing that you have in your head. Pate de fois gras, truffles galore— Never you mind If their taste you miss. A gourmet is often a thing to deplore, Finding in viands his enimal bl Less than a man, if more than a Isn't it true when the truth is sald? For the thing In your stomach is worth the least, Campared with the thing you keep in your head. An Edison wasn't of truffles born: No Washington springs from & stew, And I claim that the fellow is most forlorn Whose Stomach is god whate'er he may do; For life has its best, as you need not be told, A best that Is never on provender fed, And it fen’t the thing that your stomach may * hold, But the thing that you keep in your head. “He proved himself to be very self- sarificing.” “In what manner?” . “Why, he knew from the best of au- thority that a good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, but when he had a chance to make a choice be- tween the two, he said. ‘Oh, well! Let some more deserving chap have 'the good name, and I will try to secrub terrapin along on great riches.’” JusT A Mi Harold—When did the Rev. Mr. Bluff take orders? Charlotte—Let me see.’ He was married in 1891 and he's been taking them ever since. WHAT HAPPENED TO MABEL. Sweet Mabel had a fine new dress That made the girls all talk, dear, And after that, I'm grieved fo say, She had to hackward walk, dear. The cause of this, her awful fate, Perhaps you have discerned, dear If not, I'll say she walked that way Because her head was turned, dear. DON'T BELIEVE IT, OF COURSE. You are right, my friend—or perhaps | you are—in never believing that which | you do not wish to believe. This is| quite a philosophical way of doing, and if you doubt it notice the manner in which the philosophers treat some sub- pects. Just say that it is not so, and then, if you get your fingers in the fire, perhaps you can convince yourself that you have not been burned. It sounds a little absurd, does it mot, my friend? But it is the manner in which the world treats many subjects. “It is Fine clothing ne'er can make a man, A poet spoke his mind, dear. With women ’tis not always so, i As T at once opined, dear, When I saw Mabsl on the day Her dress was first displayed, dear; At least, I'm very, very sure She felt that she was made, dear! not so,” we say, and, of course, that set- S tles it. Then we get our fingers in the First sweet young thing—Oh, I think | he is just too fascinating for anything. Second sweet young thing—Why, Mae! I don't see why. You certainly don’t con- sider him handsome, do you?” “Goodness, no!” “And he isn’t smart, is he?’ “Mercy, no! Anything but that?’ “Well,.then, what Is there fascinating about him?” ; “Why, he has the reputation of being so delighttully wicked.” + fire and—there we are! For instance, “Disease,” we say, “is a delusion.” Then we get the appendicitis, or something of the sort, and die of it—which, of course, is quite absusd on the part of us, who know better. ¢ And so we go our queer way, denying the fire, though our fingers tingle; and so, I suppose, we will continue to go un- til we stand face to face with the nlti- mate truth and begin to understand it. But in the meantime, my friend, if you would sooner not believe a thing, say it is not so, and thus settle it. Never mind about your fingers. Is it mot better to swim with the majority? = Mirror of Fashion. ‘What is the basis of his religion?” “His creed.” “Well, what is the basis of creed?” “I never heard that it had any.” “Yes,” murmured the fair young ] usually deserve the name. malden, “I feel that his fate, whatever it may be, and mine are indissolubly united.” ‘What about it? Nothing, only within fifteen months from that time she was earnestly pleading with the Judge to get out his hammer and kfiock a hole in the indissoluble bond. Which shows that insoluble fate may be dissolved if you just use the right solvent.” FABLE OF THE IRON PYRITES. A gentleman who had just arrived from the East discovered large quantities of gold on the beach and Immediately or- dered a bale of gunny sacks and began to accumulate the precious metal. He had filled seven sacks and was busily engaged in filling the eighth when a Cali- fornian came along and inquired what he was doing. “Oh, nothing much,” cautiously replied. “That's nothing much of an answer,” the Californian remarked in his crude, brusque way. ““Well, if you must know,” the Eastern- er sald, “I am picking up a few sacks of the first gold I happened to run across out here.” The Californidn looked at the gold, and long and loud he coarsely laughed. “Ha, ha, ha! Ho, ho, ho!” roared he. “That isn’t gold; it's—oh, ho, ho!—iron pyrites!"” But the Easterner, convinced that the Californian spoke in envy, continued to gather the pyrites, and his heart was filled with gladoess. Moral—As long as the enterprise gives you cheer it doesn’t matter so much. as you might think whether the result Is gold or pyrites. HAND EMBROIDERIES ON TAILORED WAISTS. FEATURE of the new tail- ored shirt waist is hand embroideries on the pleats, collar and cuffs. The ingeni- ous woman is stamping and working her own designs, while others gifted with less skill are quite satisfied to buy the pat- tern ready stamped. Here the full fronts are tucked elther side of the narrow front pleat, these tucks running to -the waist line, and between these and the two box pleats, stitched to yoke depth, is another group of tucks of the same depth. The back is plajn, with three box pleats set on and stitched, or these may be omitted with equally good effect. Hand em- broideries decorate the box pleats, the front pleat, upper and lower edge of deep cuff and the little turnover collar. the Easterner NUTE WITH THE BUSY FUN-MAKERS. NO UNALLOYED JOY. Goodman — Thq work you have to do here must be com- ‘ fortingt : Wickedman — Yes, but it's rather too confining. SURE THING. Lulu—Do you think your - sister will marry him? Gladys—I think so. Er for- tunme teller told her she'd be | | unlueky in love. s s ' Writing of Poetry. l By Wallace Rice. VERY once in so often T have sub- mitted to me the poetical product of some aspirant for literary honor, with the request that I pass judgment upon it. If a third person intervenes be- tween the writer of verse and myseif he almost always asks me to say something kind—as kind as possible, in any event. Everybody seemsg to be suspicious of the person who writes verse. Such poetry, so submitted, does not Of all the things In the world, poetry of worth is the most difficult to write. In the first place, the rules of prosody are well es- tablished and can be transgressed or em- larged only by genius. For the average man they remafth fixed. But they are not fixed at all in the sense in which begin- ners think. It 1s- necessary to know the rules of any game before they can be broken in- telligently. It is needful that the would- be writer of verse should know the laws of prosody so intimately that they cease to be conscious knowledge and become pure instinct. Great poets seldom have this instinct as a gift and the early poems of the greatest poets are very bad indeed. It is an apprenticeship that must be served before anybody’s poetry can be called worthy. After the rules of the game are assimi- lated in this way. so that they are an essentfal part of the intellectual equip- ment, study of the best poetry will show that scores of these laws exist onmly for the purpose of artistic violation. The beginner observeg all these rules rigor- ously. The true poet violates them at will. His only thought is the poetic effect; his only. binding law the problem of whether it comes out to please him. The beginner’s verses scan with exactitude; the true poet’s lines often do not scan at all in the sense the beginner places on the word. To the assiduous reader and student of good poetry it fequires nothing more than a glance to see whether the verses sub- mitted for criticlsm have reached that point or not. If they have not they are the verses of a beginner, not of a poet. If they have, it merely follows that the writer has reached a point not a bit far- ther advanced than that occupled by gev- eral hundred living writers of English verse. What he has is fechnique, a necessary but not the only necessary thing. It means that he knows how to say it—he must still have something to say. The point is, that until he knows how to say it, his first thought must be of the manner, not of the matter. The real peet is free to consider the matter alone. —_——— FATHER'S THOUGHT. A New York teacher of instrumental music was one day telling the father of a pupll, & lad of 10 years, of the progress made by the boy In his studies. “I think he is improving a great deal’” sald the professor. “He will certainly learn to play the piano.” 2 “Is that so?” asked the father, much “I didn’t know merely getting used to It.”—Harper's Weekly. day. Some stood in front of them for a long time and seemed unable to get away. “Greatness cannot be ‘achieved in a “morning after “But it can be achieved in night."—Indlanapolis Star. A