The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 11, 1906, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCOCALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS.,... ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO McNAUGHT.... JOHN . ... Manager PUBLICATION OF EDNESDAY. APRIL 11, 1906 ORIENTAL TRADE. REQUISITES OF N American, long resident in Japan, has written to the New A York Post a discussion of the requisites of Oriental trade. He repeats with the authority of long experience what The Call as often tried to impress upon our merchants and manufacturers. If our is to go farther than flour, cotton and petroleum, we st study the d is of the Oriental market and meet them in r of manufacturing and packing. The writer of this letter er of personal knowledge with him that Americans, s of a certain grade, packed in 2 special manner, Asiatic market, have answered: “We do not buyers want our goods they must take them as When told that they should learn the language seek, the answer is: “Let them learn English. to learn their language.” Germans learn enough Chinese and. Japanese for urposes of trade. Therefore the American insurance companies houses in China and Japan are managed by other by Europeans who speak the language of the coun- one notable exception. The Standard Oil Com: operations, makes a specialty of employing the language of the market with which it is that at present the only chance for commercial ent in the East, for the few Americans who are studying ese in American colleges, is with that company. udents of Japanese, when they arrive, find it nec- to make up for errors in their college in- trade manne 1ere cases, both Chinese and Japanese.in our colleges, the lit- lone is deemed worth attention. In Japanese the ge is scrupulously avoided and the' students are langu apanese, which is of no use in trade, for it is the lit- for sermons, lectures and addresses and text com- guage of common intercourse and trade. The literary e superstructure. -Qur college chairs of Oriental lan- teach the practical, colloquial tongue first, and thor- the student may go further if he need or choose to do jents who have no knowledge of the colloguial tongue t, they find the literary language of no, or little, ng the colloquial, which alone they can use es It seems strange that after so many years ntact with the Orient we find ourselves so little prepared with ns of getting the trade we ought to have. If our commerce is to be confined to flour and raw textile fiber, its proportions will T ju our expectations. It does seem as though our two versities should supply the men needed in that ing knowledge of the commercial, or colloquial, guage of C and Japan. irect con is required for the best conditions of trade, and edge the language is absolutely necessary to make it ef- t present, as our Consuls in the Orient report, the attempts are by correspondence. They say that while English erchants are prompt in response to correspondence, 1 make no reply at all, or, as in several cases oh- runs: “We shall be glad to fill any orders you pon our own terms and conditions.” As the other party’s ignored in advance, no request comes back for a state- ir own terms and conditions,” and there is no trade. 1ese circumstances it is not surprising that Japan is in China that we might have, and_that our E ean g trade in both empires that should be ouss, If v in California who wants a profitable career as a mer- Orient, let him employ a bright Chinese who can teach ial Cantonese dialect, which is spoken also by the 1l have no difficulty in finding a Japanese schoolboy words in each will equip an American for Oriental The time spent will be more profitably employed than in the] pleasure of acquiring Greek and Latin. Chinese older tongues than these, and they are not dead though they have undergone evolution from their If the Pacific Ocean is to become an* American lake, ow the languages spoken and the possibilities of com- the Oriental shore of our big pond. erely intelle ar REFORM FORGING AHEAD. of New York was nearly taken by storm by Mr. earst’s reforms last November. After the two regular parties inated their tickets he put reform in the field, in large was in the shape of a municipal ownership ticket, that e ballot by petition. The petitions for that purpose yned by tens of thousands of names,until they repre- ore than a majority of the voters of Greater New York, not merely straws showing the direction of the political I'hey were loads of hay, and the politicians followed them ngry horses follow hay trucks in the street, Everybody liking the strong side said, “Go to; let us get in Mr, f{earst‘s rm band wagon,” and they climbed in in such numbers that the rs of the old parties got the fright 'of their lives. When they k of it yet their teeth chatter like castanets and their knees together. It was a great day for reform, and Mr. Hearst has written about it ever since in his numerous and more or less newspapers, not in- ently illuminating the text by printing his own picture, not for rposes of vanity, but as a guarantee of good faith. This con- turing of the affair, in which the courts and the Legislature have been used for what the cold and unfeeling call advertising pur- poses, has made the humble and unnamed teadjutors of the chief reformer vain of their part in the great work. Indeed, in some of them it is worse than vanity. They want pay for their services and talk of contracts that are not honored in the observance. * All of this earthly and basely material sentiment is found among the humble camp followers of reform who. obtained the petitions signed by a majority of the voters, which were the lure that led men to vote for reform thinking that its day had come.” These people who seck lucre at so much per, for the names they furnished, have kicked up such a bobbery that the rear guard of reform is in confu- sion. Some members of the rear guard assert that others forged thousands of names to their petitions, and counter charges are made that the accusers forged tens of thousands of names. Even the dear little children, whose infant hands Mr. Hearst wants put in cotton gloves so that they will not get microbes in their mouths, now admit that they wrote long lists of names in the reform peti- tions, drawing upon their infant imaginations'for the same. It is all very distressing. The voters who took a plunge into reform on the strength of.those petitions now have 'a bad ‘taste in their mouths. The worst of all is the serious shock to Mr. Hearst. His fine nature, which revolts at the use of money in politics, for he would not give an old red cent of the vintage of 1810 if it would make him President this minute, is wearing the weeping willow, and the Tammany tiger, wicked beast, is grinning and purring like the Cheshire cat in its happiest hours. : Unless he contemplates-going on the stage, it is hard to seec what Mr. Rockefeller gains by exciting so much talk about himself.—Philadelphia In- quirer. P ———— Cornelius N, Bliss says that he does not know Apdrew Hamilton—an- other case where ignorance is bliss.—Boston Globe, ubstructure of Japanese and Chinese is the colloquial | With the approach of the grand opera season preparation has begun for many fupctions among the smart set. Not only are box and opera partles already being formed, but the post-opera supper is being arranged on an unusual scale. The palm garden and ladies’ grill at tie Palace will be scintillant with gorgeous gowns and their accompanying jewels upon the open- ing night of the musical season. Among the hosts and hostesses to be are Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Knight, Mr. and Mrs. M. H. de Young, Mr. and Mrs. William Cluff, Mr. and Mrs, Albert Pissis, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Coryell Jr., Mr.\and Mrs. Mortimer Fleishacker, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Fleishacker, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Roth- child, Mrs. E. M. Gonzales, Joseph Green- baum, J. C. Wetmore, L. Dinkelspiel and Charles B. Russell. In the ladies’ grill tables have been re- served by Mr. and Mrs. I, W. Hellman Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Herman Heyneman and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Buck. Yo e e The Juvenile Court Ald Society is receiv- ing more attention than even the most optimistic had hoped for, and an immense throng will fill tHe auditorium of the Cali- fornia- Club next Saturday afternoon. Nothing has more poignantly appealed to the public than the establishment of the juvenile court. While the chief motive is to entertain children, thers will be amusement in plenty for the growsm folk with dancing, singing and vaudeville acts. Two beautiful prizes for boy and gir, to be awarded at the fair, will be on view during this week in the windows of the White House. They are a model auto- wagon and a very” handsome doll, the donors being James D. Phelan and Jogeph ‘Chamberlain. o . The Easter wedding of Miss Marian Mc- Kenna and Davenport Brown is a matter of continental interest, each day adding a detail of news regarding the affair. Mrs. John L. Pultz (Hildegarde McKenna) will @ & THE SMART SET & ¢ By Sauy Sharp Brown, a dister of the groom. will be ons of the bridesmaids. Miss Colton and Miss | Foraker have alse been chosen. Not far in the future Miss Alice Brown will wed . Robert de Normandie, who is also one of the attendants of the Brown-Mec- Keana nuptiais. Mss. Oscar Mansfeldt will be the guest of honer at a reception by the Sorosis Club next Monday afternoen from 4 to § o'clock in the clubrooms on California street. . . . » Mr. and Mrs. Clarence. Martin Mann were hosts of a box party at the Kubelik concert on Monday night. o858 Mrs. Dargle of Oakland was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Allan Dunn on Monday evening at the Kubeiik concert. ®e &% @ Mrs. H. D. Green of Portland, Or., who has been touring Southérn California and visiting Ord Barracks, Monterey, returned to town a day or two ago and is at the Princeton. > Mr. and Mrs. Paul Clagstone left last evening for the East, en route for Buropa to spend the summer. .8 Miss Lalla Wenzelburger will spend part of the summer in Yosemite. VRS Miss Cecilia O'Rellly of Portland, Or., is the guest of friends at the Roanoke. . o - Miss Abbie Wright of Philadeiphia is the guest of relatives at St. Dunstan’s. PEGRNY Mrs. W. C. Ross, after spending several weeks in town, where she has been exten- sively entertained, has returned to Ber home in Tonopab. . * A dramatic recital of Ibsen’s “A Doll's House” will be given tonight by Elmer B. Harris In the Mapie room of the Palace L2 1 the trade language of that country. A vocabulary | be matron of honor, and Miss Alice | at 8:15 o'clock. WOULD-BE GIRLISH WOMAN By Dorothy Fenimore vives the buried with her high school graduation essay. “She rolls her eyes plaintively as she were frightened at the bigness of a social system which has just been revealed to her shrinking perception. who would be younger manners she should have HE girl Tthan her years usually manages in the long run to fmpress the observ- ers with the fact that these same years have not yet taught her wisdom. A woman of 40 who affects the manners of 20 brings those forty years into the limelight by the process. She invites criticism from the world at large, and the world answers the “R. 8. V. b Al with commendable alacrity. it She plays the baby stare and the dim- ple In her chin as heavily as she thinks will be effective. She shies at any mention of her grad- When she meets a girl of 18 or 19 o uation class. She tries to make the +y | she always speaks of “us girls” in a women who were girls with her in her OCCIDENTAL ACCIDENTALS I By A. J. Waterhouse g - 3 SISTER SORGUM ONg AUTOS. It gives me a dilapidation. of the heart, (¢ NEVER used ter could see,” said | jest to tell it.” - lssstsr Sqggum, “one of these here | “Was he badly injured. Sister Sor- bisickles whizzin® "long, like es if§ gum?” I inquired. 1t wanted ter turn owver an’ hed for- “No, but he would have ben ef he got how, but it used ter miake me turn 2 all faint an’' sickly—sorter bi-sickly, hadn’t got up af’' run dway. It wus a mighty narrer ’scape, ap’ all that you know. I've got over that now, but I never kin look on one of these ought saved him was the pertection of a resignin’ Providence. Some people to mobiles tearin’ an' trancin’ erlong |claim ’'at ought to mobiles ought to, but 1 think they hadn’t ought to. They | but I desist they oughtn’t to mobile allers did give me a dilapidation of | w'enever I deflect on Iittle Ananias’ the beart an’ a failin’ cessaticn, but|narrer ’'scape frum death or dislocali- it's ben worse sence Brother Boggins'|zation of his bones, don't you? There's little boy had his'narrer ’scape frum |that Plymouth Stone hen bound ter annearhilation.” sit, an’ I'll have ter go an’ pour water “I guess you mean annlhilation, do you net?” 1 suggested. on her. Hens is like human bein’s. It tekes baptism ter cure 'em of set- “W’'at diff'rence does it make? Ain't near an’ nigh ’bout the same thing? tin’ in ways of 'niquity. So Sister Sorgum left, and T remain- Ever hear 'bout the little boy? No?|ed behind to reflect concerning little Wial, I'll tell you. His name wus Ananias 3 —Apanias Boggins. Seems like a queer Ananias’ narrow escape. name ter give a little, innocent child, don’t it? But his'pa an’ ma explained ’at they'd noticed 'at children most al- lers grows up ter be jest the opposite of folks they're named after; so, es they didn’t want the little boy ter de- velop up ter be a liar an' dequiver- cator, they named him”Ananias. “One day little Ananias wus settin’ in the road, makin’ mud pies an’ eat- in’ 'em, in childhood’s innercent, hap- py style, w'en a ought to mobile come racin’, rampagin’ an’ gcrampagin’-down the road, His ma sees it, an’ she hove one scream an' fainted away in- ter a dead prance. Waal, the Iittle feller set there, éatin’ the last quar- ter of a pie an’, in the undeflectin’ way of childhood, not dreamin’ of danger. The owner of the ought to mobile put on more steam, ’cause he seen ‘at he'd have ter Go that or git his shuffler fesane e s i fined. “He has but one standard for all “So there little Ananias set, his face | mankind.’ beamin’ with happiness an’ mud, w'ile | * “What is §t?” the ought to mobile come chug-chug- “Himself.” chug an’ death drawed nigher. There r—— “She could cook such dainties on a he sot w'lle the devilstatin’ monster rushed at him! At last it wus all but | chafiog dish that he fell in laye with her on him, an’ then-aoh,-dear! oh, dear!|Fight then and there, proposed, was ac- cepted and they were married. He says ==k | 1, was terribly disappointed.” Oncle Biff's Observations. | | Wy so?” i ;i 2 S “He ascertained too late that she eouu,nft cook anything except in a chafing dish.” 2 1 DIFFERENCE IN THE CLAY. It you have a sort of potien That your clay is rather fine; If you pay yourself devation As a winner in your line; Kindly ask yourself a query, As the humblest mortal may— Though the answer make you weary: ‘What's the difference in the clay? ‘Worthless tramp upon the highway Knows emotions you have shown; Meanest. siner ‘on some byway Love and hate and joy has known, ‘Wants his breakfast and his dinver, ‘Wishes clothing op his way— Now, as you're a favored sinner, What's the difference in the clay? 1s the difference In the gilding? Death will make it rather dim. In the structure you are buflding Six feet does for you or him. You and he alike are doubting, Stagg'ring, halting on the way, Care defeating, trouble routing— ‘What's the difference in-the clay? 'RANDOM PHILOSOPHY. If some men and women had to say something every time they talked you wouldn't notice any difference between fhem and deaf mutes. The richest man in a community may not be the best or the brainiest man, but I will bet a dollar that he gets the most attention. The seed of the righteous may not beg bread, but they sometimes wQ\l!d grate- | fully accept a few potatoes. 3t may not be exactly truthful to say that any man can get wark if he wants it, | but some of us find the sentiment very - It's mighty hard for the man who lives |in a palace to understand why the man who Hves in a hovel shomld lain about 1ife’s Inequalities. : I have known four Socialists that were 108t to thelr party. They.became Tich. | Did you ever pause to reflect that you ‘| never saw a big thing which was not com- HEN Jeft Jackson fell off th' ladder an’ landed in th' scfapiron pile he hol- lered “Gosh, but I'm glad.” O man Toner wanted to know what he hed to be so glad fer, an’ Jeff sed he's glad he didn’t light on his head, b'goshi— Admiral Dewey was a hero for a time; gfter he is dead he will be a hero agaln. In the meantime he is taking @ rest from the business. But he need not h'n"\louelv. "| pious and increases the functional activity real girlhood belleve that she was very young when they were very old. She speaks as if they were really a whole generation in advance of her. She re- members them as a child could recall 3 grown woman, of course. She cultivates a note pleading in her voice. She assumes a girlish ingenuousne that any well- Informea girl of 1§ tries to lose in these times of ours.~ She grows kit- tenishly playful. She devours the liter- ature of the style of the maiden with the deep brown eyes in whose orbs a shadow lles, standing with reluctant feet where the brook and river meet. As she is, and not as she would be known, do we all knew her. After all, girl acquiesces politely while she I8 AND BUSINESS talking to the elder. Afterward she re- lates the phrase to @.crowd of her By Wallace Rice. S own age with the gusto of pure enjoy= ‘ 'ENTI.!A;I'ION as a sclence'has néver - recklessly youthful fashion. The other i VENTILATION The elder one delights in being con- stantly in the company of her juniors. Shé makes a companion of some young girl and tries to fool the wise old world into the bellef that they are contemporaries~ And he laughs with a laugh that she thinks one of good fellowship, but he winks at the man behind. She wears her hair parted in the middle and very low on her neck; she buys poke bonnets and great flufty of girlish ment. been fully developed, partly because it Is a really modern discovery, part- ly because the general ignorance of the subject has not pointed out the need for a constant supply of fresh, clean air for those who work with bodies or brains. No man who is engaged in any occupa- tion requiring mental concentration has failed to notice that after a few hours of such work he becomes tired almost to the | tulle bows; she revels in the most pro ety boglimted qmptit. -, point of exhaustion. It seems to him to rampantly youthful colors; she re- T e Tt ;" o be & neryous fatigue, since lying down for | f————— et pficli ndl’w'hon £ a gpell brings none of the refreshment it should. As a matter of fact, it is because his labors- have clogged his system by thelr products, and the fack of fresh alr in his office has given him no chance to get these produets out of the body. He is self- poisoned from lack of oxygen. Better than lying down to rest in such a case is throwing open the windows wide after tarning on the st¢am in order to pre- vent chill and taking in a number of deep breaths of the freshenmed air. Drinking water is also an excellent thing, since it makes the insensible perspiration, which is the chief vehicle next to the breath for the withdrawal of body polsons, more co- she will never grow another day younger. AT S UL S Dame Fashion’s Mirror. Some I_H___fierence- H. J. Allen, an editor of Ottawa, Kans., while electiongering for Con- gress among the farmers of his dis- trict, took with him the champion corn husker of the State. “You see,” 'sald Mr. Allen*to a re- porter, “while I argue and plead the corn husker pitches in and husks corn for the farmer. Thus the farmer’s time is not wasted. Whije he stands idle listening to me the corn husker carries on the work of the farm for him. “Between listening while the work goes back and listening while the work goes forward there is not much-of a difference, yet it is one which has a remarkable effect on the impression I create. In this way it is like a certain compliment. “One man said to another: « pleased Mrs. Brown tremendous- 1y the other night by asking her If she was herself_or her daughter. Sald I couldn’t tell them apart. “The other man frowned, «sThat's strange, he muttered. ‘T worked the same scheme on the daugh- ter, and she didn't like it worth a cent.’ "—Chicago Inter Ocean, @ Crown of Gold. “The late Paul Lawrence Dunbar, the negro poet,” said an editor, “once ad- dressed a Sunday-school in New York. An odd incident happened, though, at its %end, an incident that Dunbar laughed at as heartily as the rest of us. g “Dunbar, toward the close of his re- marks, sald: “‘And, my little frignds, if you do all these things some day you will wear a gold crown. Yes, each of you some day will wear a gold crown.’ “A little chap in the front row, catching the poet’s friendly eye, piped: “‘My fader wears one now.’ ' “‘No! sald the poet. “‘Yes, he does—on his toof,’ said the little chap.”—Chicago Inter Ocean. . Probably Strong. “So that is De Vere, the great nat- uralist. -poet? I suppose he has written some beautiful things onflowers?". “I don't know about that. but I read a sonnet he wrote to an onion t was a peach.”—Milwaukee Sentinel. ————e—————— Answered. “After death, what?’ solemnly in- quired the turkey. “Roasts for two days,” replied the facetious rooster. “ croquettes of the viscera. ‘The law has recognized the necessity for a certain amount of air by prescribing a glven number of cubic feet for every work- er in factory and store. It has been shown that the denial of this amount of air brings disaster and eventual death, But the employer generally, while concediag the main peint, has not been able to real- ize that a long and wasting illness of subtle character is also brought about by lack of air and that he is paying for the labor of men and women more or less dis- eased, when a little forethought on his part would give him heaithy labor at all times. Take any counting-room where the books of a great business are kept. It is well understood that an error in book- keeping may cause endless trouble, and - that a great-number of errors nay spell failure in whole or in part of the business itself. 1If fresh air in abundant quantities is not supplied the men at work on the books, if a proper amount of pure water is not al- ways on hand as well, there will be a fail- ure of oxygenation, a dulling of the wits and an inevitable tendency to error, coupled with a persistent inability to do the best work. Nothing is cheaper for an employer than fresh air and fresh water for his employes. SERVICEABLE TAILOR- MADE. OT WITHSTANDING the vogue of the dressy tail- ored costume, those of the Severest type are being adopt- ed this season by the best dressers. And the woman who knows the value of the mew water-proofed materials obvi- kneeline, and flaring gracefully from that point to the hem run with with matehing buttons and butten-holes. The regula- tion coat sleeve is button- trimmed and machine-stitched, as are all the edges of the coat and the narrow coat col- lar and revers. The hat Is this sealon’s model of the tricorns a satiny, honey- ‘After for a week and then hash.'—Milwaukee Sentinel. ——— e BT S S e etched boxes. New store, 167 Market. + ), 30