The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 29, 1906, Page 8

] THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS.. ADDR! .. . Proprietor Manager > MARKET STREETS, SAN FRANCISCO MARCH 29, 1906 JOHN A CLEANER CITY. mpaign The Call upheld a cause which it be- Y cleaner city, physically and morally. We need | to our readers the many signs that the defeat of that nditions in San Francisco that would make decent . dark. But it was defeated, and the immediate yur worst fears would be realized. From out- , its prey, migrated to San Francisco, and | in public places and flaunted their lure in ul situation, known to be so by everybody who e of the city. Painted temptation beckoned in ed its red snares at night, while official authority p or gazing on the constellations. Meantime the the unwary were sinking in the ooze. The silly ed into the hard lines of vice. Homes wailed for i the grim light of the jail shone upon repentance C 1s too late. To the judicious and the decent the rs loomed as a saturnalia, in which the good name , would be mucked beyond cleansing. satisfaction in this apparent confirmation of our reputation as a prophet would be dearly won at ich the city must pay for it. There are two sources of ere journalism. One is when a good cause that it ydicated by acts. The other is when out of a bad issue the virtues that seemed alien to it. We y this precise pleasure. We do not go into the mo- t know what they are. We are concerned only ts that in a brief e have made District Attorney Lang- 1 man in the State. It was supposed, when he 1s merely part gf a system, a tone only in a promised to offend the eye of decency, a was to be turned by the immoral forces e city like an army of ants. Suddenly, upon ma- ypeared at the front, no respecter of personms, ty of hié office, and smiting hip and thigh up the shrines of vice in confidence that the hem. Having put his hand to the plow there The furrow is to be turned as deep and necessary to extirpate the influences that co smell like a garbage dump. s to be regretted t the Police Commission is divided in jorting Mr. Langdon, and that the division is im of the support he deserves from that official members who shy at their duty should remember not ®op nor seriously impede him. The law gives t authority ‘to leave them weltering in the pit they will selves, while he goes farward to the complete accom- his purpose to use his office as the law intends, for the s nt and extermination of vice in the city. 1 less to say that the full resources of the law have never istrict Attorney’s office before. He can not h the immediate evildoers, but he can go ast them as tenants and hit their landlords full in the face with of the law. If every resource of the law is drawn bling and her destructive vices cannot retain a foot- The latv projects liability, civil and criminal, in ‘ m, District Attorney Langdon had the proper | ea of his oath and duty and converted that idea into energetic | )se. ed fist let him be supported by the press and people. If the ioners step aside from his support, there is a power at ‘commission, and that is the force of decency and | If those Commissioners get too obviously obstruc- sympathetic strike whenever the District Attorney ler, or walk in darkness whenever he puts the lid on a % ic opinion can compel the Mayor to oust them from appoint men who are in sympathy with the execution of them know that nothing succeeds like success. ct Attorney has the allied decency of San Francisco because he has, without ostentation, done his to his standard daily. It is obvious now that k office unhampered by any promise to wear blinders so as| and stuff his ears with cotton so that he could not he song of the siren. When he took office he was his own man, i 2 ette wheel nor shut in a pool box. The Call op- on in the fear that he would not do what he is doing. justified, and we rejoice now that our opposition h his defeat. We desire to hold up his hands and munity to his support. If he persist, when his c hed the people will have learned the full possibilities of the law in the hands of a fearless officer RATS! g ago a faker in Colorado was photographing the astral and now a psycho-therapeutist has watched the soul leave its body at death and go floating off to some | hole. This matter of the spiritual immortality of Il is beginning to raise some very serious questions. The | ided we pre-empt a homestead in the right place, »sed to be a state of satisfaction, of compensation for losses of our clay-footed pilgrimage and sojourn. While i s eat our young chickens, our grain and other sub- ; mice frighten ladies and lions into hysterics; mosquitoes s and poke us full of malaria; fleas pasture on us and flies on our bald heads. These things all have life. If a rat is rtal, why not they? Are we to be followed by all these creatures that gnaw and ng and bite and frighten us? If so, what becomes of the promise f peace, if the windows of the house of many mansions must have screens, and fleas are there where there is no spiritual buhach? If hese psychological discoveries go on there will be a field for the reaching of a new form of the religious idea, which will put man rward as 2 monopolist of immortality, with the promise that he will finally get away from the other forms of life which here prey on him and cause him to cultivate profanity and bad temper. “No raf: in our new Jerusalem” would be a proselyting promise of high value. Another wise man has announced thai he has caught microbes and bacilli in 2 brown study, thinking what they would do next. Are these microscopic individuals also included in the plan of salvation, and will we have ineffable appendicitis, too? Men will soon call for a bill of particulars about the great white future if these discoveries go on. 3 According to Mr. Carnegie no rich man can be happy. H. H. Rogers would probably be able to furnish strong evidence in rebuttal if something horrible were to happen to the Supreme Court of Missouri—Chicago Record-Herald. —— s After having reformed the spelling of the common citizen, Mr. Carnegic now desires to reunite the Coreys. As a strenuous endeavorer' Mr. Car- negie has Mr. Roosevelt beaten to a frazzle—New York World: —_— A Washington paper talks of starting a popular vote to determine who js the meekest Senator. The choice is believed to lie between Smoot of Utah and LaFollette of Wisconsin.—New York Mail. ' St i i SRRSO There will have to be a general shutting up of race tracks before John W. Gates can be counted among the unhappy millionaires.—Chicago News. i . Secretary Taft may be pointed to with pride by Ohio as one of the men whom the office has sought—Washington Star, £ MARCH 29, 1906 SIATE SHINGLES ‘WouLD. BE BETTER l\\‘ VaceTsieussase TVE FOUND THAT THE REAL RAINES LAW SANDWICH - WIL LAST LONGER THAN EVEN SHEET STEEL. THE HAM IS RAINES_LAW SANDW(C GOSH! YES, AND RARE- BITS! WHeO! 000F! 'COPYRIGHT, 1906, BY THE NEW YORK EVENING TELEGRAM (NEW YORK HERALD £O + v > + AT SUGGESTIONS FOR WIVES ||| No Higher Court By Dorothy Fenimore. ; SMALL town in Colorado, 13,200 feet k3 Bt ALCHRES S A “above sea level, boasts a Justice 3 - of the Peace. Recently a suit was 11 IS wife takes care of his health. ymy husband is a vigorous eater. S0 4.4 before him that stirred the com- You bet she does—there he |our bills-of-fare are substantial.” munity 1a"its center,’ from ‘the fact thét goes, carrying an umbrella.” This wife desires to please her hus-| one of the parties imported a lawyer from The words were spoken by a|band in what she places before him to| a gistant city. little woman garbed in gray, and then her companions, two women, laughed. Of course there was a joke in the lit- tle oration—to those who saw it. Apparently the man in the case was known to the small group of women who were fixing their raincoats and skirts and lowering their umbrellas, preparatory to ascending the step of the car. It is safe to assume that the three woman had been discussing the man— and incidentally considering his wife, As like as not the gray-draped woman did not notice the large import- ance couched in her remark. But it is there just the same. “His wife takes care of his health.” The man in the case has a level- headed wife. It may be assumed that she loves him, and that her affection crops out in a certain material care of his physical comfort and safety. But along with this affection there's an in- tuitive caution against the exposure of the husband to climatic influence that might disqualify him for endeavors necessary to she material support of the domestic situation. g The average husband is not particu- larly grateful to his wife for little prac- tical attentions that tend to the preser- vation of his good health. Not while he feels in fairly buoyant physical condi- tion. He rebels against “putting on rubbers” and “buttoning up 2is coat” in spirit or in speech, no matter how the weather may reek with frosty hu- midity, while his health holds to nor- mal temperature. But the level-headed wife knows that the husband's good health is the Jargest asset in his business capital. She keeps a subtle glance on this as- set. She regards it as the germ of thelr prosperity. She applies . her knowledge of hyglenic sclence to this germ. She nurtures it carefully and in accord with the necessitous conditions of its environment, A certain wife said the other day: “I don’t care for heavy foods—meats and potatoes, boiled dinners, and such, I prefer simple salads and fruits., But Mrs. Nooparte—I suppose you “Pads Agenl e not that kind of a B - JUST A MINUTE eat, of course. But, furthermore, she knows that his physical and mental ef- forts are more strenuous than hers, and she means to furnish the fuel that keeps up the fires of his ambition and industrial success. That the wife is tactfully material- istic in keeping her husband ‘“strong and well” does not at all argue that she is selfish and lacking in the emotion recognized as ‘fJove.” Generous senti- ment and a practical turn of mind are often limited in the nature of a woman. The man who wins a wife with these congenial qualities is in good luck. He has a running mate who is as loyal in mutual affection as helpful in her sense of practical requisites in the conjugal proposition. So, regard not the woman who is “finicky” about her husband’s health as foolish or whimsical. Give her credit for sane calculation in promot- ing,dnmesuc prosperity while doing her best to remain an affectionate wife instead' of becoming a premature widow. ORE THERE, ALL RIGHT. In a car speeding over a Western prairle, according to Everybody's Maga- zine, one man remarked to another: “This is the first time\I ever traveled over this line without a newly married pair on board. I have been studying the passengers and there is not a bridal couple among them.” C Just then the train stopped, and a man who had been seated with a lady and a little girl across the aisle walked to the end of the car. The-child leaned forward and in a shrill, penetrating treble asked: “Mamma, which papa do you like best, this new papa or my.other papa?” —_—— TRUTH? Mrs. Slimson—I thought you were com- ing home early to punish Willie for tell- ing that lle. § Slimson—I was, but I had to stop at the City Hall and swear off my taxes.—Life. - SENSITIVE. Miss Ladiesade—My poor man, you love e, do you not? = WITH THE FUN MAKERS. g The case dragged itself out to an un- precedented length, and the populace had never dreamed that law was so full of objections and exceptions, motions, pro- tests, expostulations, and the like, as that lawyer proved it to be. But there was one thing he could not prolong, and that was the prompt, crisp, decisive “Judgment for the plaintiff,” as ‘soon as the trial was fairly over. ““Well, sir,” sald the lawyer, in tones of superiority, ‘“we shall have to take this case to a higher court.” “You can't do that, mister,” replied the magistrate. ““And why not, pray?” “There ain’t any higher court. This court is 13,200 feet above the level of the sea, and it's several hundred feet the highest court in the country.”—Tit-Bits. ANSWERS T0 QUERIES. AN OLD DATE-M. E. G., City) The 14th of April, 1862, fell on a Monday. CAPITAL—H. P. L., City. The com- mercial statistics do not show which na- tion has the greatest amount of capital invested in foreign countries. STAMPED ENVELOPES—A. 8, City. A stamp cut from a United States stamp- ed envelope is valueless as postage. A stamped envelope or a stamped news- paper wrapper that has been spoiled in directing may be exchanged upon pre- sentation in whole condition with satis- factory. evidence. LAWYERS—J. D. F., City. This de- partment bas no information relative to certain New York lawyers who adver- tised for heirs, and if it had it would not advertise them, as it is a rule of this department not to publish an answer to any question which will amount to the advertisement of any private business. —_————————— Townsend's California glace fruits and cholcest candles in_artistic fire. etcned boxes. New store, 767 Market. * —_——————— Svecia! information supplied daily to pusiacs nevees and PERIG T e €SS ng Bureau s ali- fornia ltggm."relennom Main 1042, ¢ A SHORT VARIETY. Mrs. D. Vorcee—Yes, my third husband is rather short. So were , you know. 5 Lake Fronte—Yes, dear. I Mrs. noticed that you never had them OCCIDENTAL ACCIDENTALS LEGEND OF THE ORIENT. EAR a legend of the East as it is H told by .wandering herdsmen on the Arablan plains even unto this day. For is it not true, as it hath been writ- ten by Een Ammon, the wise man, that the stars shall fade, the suns grow cold and the generations of earth be forgot- ten, yet not the less shall man’s helpmeet and companion anxiously inquire if her hat is on straight, nor shall she cease to yearn with an exceeding yearning to be described as young, beautiful and fresh? Hear ye, then, the legend, as it is mur- ‘mured in the tents of Islam beneath the scintillant glory of marvefous skies that span the wide-reaching desert. As Lot and his wife journeyed from burning Sodom the fair lady remarked that she would like to look back Just once. “You must not, my darling,’ plied. 3 “But it must be quite a bonfire,” urged Mrs. Lot; “it must beat eéven a Coney Island Fourth of July celebration. Oh, how I should like to see it just oncel™ “Come! Mosey along!” Lot gruffly re- sponded. So Mrs. Lot moseyed along, but all the time she was yearning to look, and at last she said to herself, “I will take just one tinety-winety glimpse when Mr. Lot is looking the other way.” Then Mrs. Lot rubbered. Immediately she was seized of & strange, prickling sensation, something between a stroke of paralysis and thir- teen Alviso fleas boring at once. Where- upon Lot, who did not know what she had done, called in the family physician, who diagnosed the case as appendicitis and said an operation would have to be performed. But while the/physician was preparing his surgical implements and sending out for an assistant Lot discovered some- thing and immediately cried with a loud voice of sore anguish: “My dear! Oh, my dear, you are turn- ing into a pillar of salt!” Even the family physician had to ad- mit that this was so, but he explained that the case would have been appendi- citis if it had not been something else. But a few moments remained to Mrs. Lot. “It is a comfort to me,” she gasped, “to realize that—that—" “That what, my darling?” “That you will—will know where to—to turn for salt hereafter if—if the family sack gives out: but—but—" “But what, dear one?” “Ah, woe is me! Woe is me!” “No, perhaps it isn't you,” Lot whis- pered, in the hope of comforting her. “Yes, oh, yes, it is!" “What makes you so dead certain of it?” Lot lowly inquired. “Be—because—oh, alas! alas!” “Why alas?” “Be-because men still may say that I am beautiful, but they—they cannot add that I am fresh!” So she crystallized and, as the atmos- phere was becoming uncomfortably warm, Lot journeyed on and left her there. It is, indeed, true, as Ben Ammon, the wise man, hath written, that the stars shall fade, the suns shall grow cold, and the generations of earth shall be forgot- ten, yet shall gentle woman not cease to yearn to be considered beautiful and fresh. That is, I guess it is true. Lot re- In its quiet corner of the pantry the oleomargarine was weeping. “What's barking your mixed pickles inquired, way. “I hate these invidious distinctions!” the oleomargarine bitterly responded. “What invidious distinctions?"” “Why, there is butter, and a buttery; lerd, and a larder, and I shall know no peace until—" “Until what?"” “Until there either is an oleomargarin- ery or an oleomargariner!" Now that you pause to think of it, it does seem tough, doesn’t it? shins?" the in their sharp “Does Sloman run a good restaurant?” “Excellent, but you should be careful not to order lamb in it.” “Why so?” “No matter how well the cook may in- tend, it wil be mutton when it reaches you."” “He is recognized as a peerless enter- tainer, and draws the largest crowds of any man who visits our elty.” “Is he a singer?” “Nope."” X “Actor?” “Nope.” “Orator?"” “Nope.” “What, then?" “Pugilist.” “He feels assured of his political posi- tion.” “How do you know?" “Why, he doesn’t hesitate to write so that nobody can read it.” LITTLE THINGS. Your hero met a little, discomforting thing—and you lost him forever. The added little things of married life sometimes sum up in a big divorce. The baby is a little thing, and you are big, but, heavens and earth! children, how the little thing can drag the big one out of bed at 2a. m. Your wife's foot may be a little thing, but, dear me! when she sets it down! A tooth is a little thing, but notice its size when it yanks you to the dentist! Many a man who had determined to be almost painfully good met a little thing— and there he was! v Your wife deemed it a little thing w she promised to “obey” you—and there is room for suspicion that it was. A CUTE CALLER. “f wish you would excuse me this even- ing,” said the pretty girl to her caller. “What is the matter?”” queried he, his- ing to go. “I have acute headache.” “You have a cute head, t0o,” replied he; then she said she feit a little better and he might remain a little while.— Houstgn Post. s SMAB;I‘ SETn By.Sally Sharp, Sequolans are all agog for tonight's witchery, which promises much for thosae lucky emough to be on the membership roll. One exception—and one only—will ba made as to the issuance of outside invita~ tions, afd that is for Mrs. Gertrude Ath« erton, who s visiting in town and whosa presence at tonight's frolic will be cor- dially welwmod.. . . A large and earnast attendance iy ex« pected at the meeting tonight of the Ja« pan Soclety of America. There will be an address on the subject of “Stencils and Towels."” The address begins at 8 o’clock in Century Hall and will be aided by 1~ lustrations. . . The California branch of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae will convens om Saturday of this week at Sorosis Hall, 1820 California street. The programme for the day anno these events: Lunch- eon, 12:30 o'cl ; business meeting. 3 o'clock; address by President William J. Tucker of Dartmouth College, 3 o'clock; social hour and tea, 4 o'clock. Mrs. Al E. Graupner is president. -5 e The engagement is announced of Miss Maude Mishaw of Houston, Tex., and T. Campbell West of this city. Miss Mishaw belongs to a well-known old Southern family and is at present visiting In town, being the guest of friends at the St. Nich~ olas. Mr. West is a well-known attorney and was at one time Queen’s Consul from Canada in Alaska. The wedding will take place within a very short thme. * rere Misyg Ethel Hager will be among today's hostesses, entertaining at a luncheon inm her Gough street home. > e N The departure of Miss Bisa Draper for New York next Tuesday will cause much regret, as she is one of the very popular maids and a charming young hostess. Miss Dorothy Draper enjoyed a delight- ful winter in New York and Washington, and now Miss Elsa goes for the summer pleasure under the chapronage of Mr. and Mrs. Laighton, who are visiting Colonek and Mrs. Draper. .« s . Several of our prominent citizsens have spent the past week in San Jose, a few being guests of house parties, others visitors at resorts. Among them wers Garret McEnerney, Knox Maddox, Cap- tain J. A. Penn, U. S. A, ald-de-camp to General Corbin, and Major General A W. Greely, U. 8. A. Captain Penn will soon leave for St. Louls, where he is to be stationed. S The Misses Morrison have returned to their home in San Jose after g brief visit to this city, where they came to attened the Kubelik concerts. . 658 The wedding of Miss Edith Harris and Louis Levy took place last evening in the large reception rooms in the mezzanine floor at the St. Francis. A profusion of spring blossoms was used in decoration, large boughs of the deli- cate pink and white flowers being placed at close intervals _about the rooms. The service was read bemeath a_large canopy made of dainty pink il- lusion and canterbury-bells, with streamers extending from the center | to points beyond. The bride, who is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Harris, wore a beautiful robe of white | satin and point lace, carrying a bouquet | of lilies of the valley and orchids. Miss Florence Rels, as maid of honor, wore pink silk and carried pink carnations. The groom was attended by his brother, Eugene Levy. Ninety guests witnessed the cere~ performed by the Rev. Jacob reception mony, Voorsanger, after which a was held. Mrs. Levy, mother of the groom, wore a handsome imported Worth gown of black lace, Mrs. Harris being beautifully gowned in black velvet with point lace and diamonds. Mrs. Dusen-~ berry, a sister of the bride, was gowned in white satin, heavily embroidered in gold. The groom's sister, Mra L Cooper, and two brothers came from Seattle to attend the wedding, Mrs. Cooper wearing a handsome gown of white lace. \ Mr. and Mrs. Levy will leave imme- diately for Europe on a wedding trip, to be away indefinitely, though their home will ultimately be established iny this clty. MIRROR OF FASHION bishop, with a nar- Tow and - buttoned cuff, which may be opened and the sleeve turned up over the elbow. The skirt is a five-gore pattern, Pk NG, Pk on WUR & ner- afl‘tnul .ubm‘:: .,