The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 3, 1906, Page 8

Herr Fric Interesting Collection of Drawings Scratched on Calabashes. In the days of the Spanish conquest 1 ¢ i his botanical re- es of cacti’' have | South America was the land of won- amed after him, a ders and of ® The explorer re- appears in the | t back won- hevaleta, the di-| turning 1o Spain br derful stories of treasare and of the museum at Montevideo An Bvil Spirit vage wild tribes inhabiting the 1e into conta new conti v hribers: She” GhaNE ed to devote | Details of a hunting trip . pmowndays do met regale wus Wit idy of their life With this ..mp.!l such descripticns. To the ethpoloz through speech. This view, it has long panying it with instructions to his Indian | his calabash, gréatly to the amusement enger and homest in his search trip to Centra been. peinted out.'is erroncous, ‘and it has guide to note down everything that hap- | of the Indians in camp. who subsequently . > 8 the ‘Plicomayo.: This st been thoroughly confuted by Fric. pened during Fric’s hunts or travels. read the account. The Indian's idea of R s S S P a the of innumerable / The calabashes, consisting of a certain { Every incident that took place has been | perspective and proportion is admirably mighty rivers. Amagzon, La Plata and oypegditions, most ‘of which _terniinated 4 dried fruit, the pulp of which is entirely | inscribed on the outside skin of the cala- | shown in this sketch. o have long ceased fo he the disastrous i { removed, leaving. only a hard shell, are bash. In one of the crude pictures is | There is a photograph of Explorados fke savages of the dnys of the| Fric followe e ‘trail -of Ibarétto, a | used for keeping all sorts of things. Every | Fric with a collar, five strokes of the Fric in the depths of a primeval forest P » n murdered by Indian possesses his calabash, upon which | South ‘American artist's instrument rep- playing with a small ant bear, the Indian G Pilaga, ar the camping | he sqratches those things that intercst | resenting the explorer's whiskers. The seated before him following every motion = L Pl S e w e ommitted and | him persohally. = This calabash is seldom | drawing shows the subject with only of the explorer with keenest interest. o all explorers who start with the hon- v the unfortinate man f 1 | shown to any one, for it forms his diary. | three fingers on each hand and both his not to 'miss any plcture for his cala~ estintention of triously stedring was tha P from {he murder- | Should, however, one occasionally phss | feet.turned sidewise, although the draw- ba s i R ans protest : selves, that Fric hear \ : Herr | from hand. to-hand, it is clearly under- |ing is en face. another picture is that| Other figures represent evil ' spirits, against the ~atrocities and the un- \ 7 Vogtsch | stooa by the members of tribe the | of an ibis, a third a heron and ene Por- which play such an important part in the serupuious exploitation committed by oxT g 4 |same as we understand printed books. | traying Fric's dog. There is also one of jlives of » primitive tribes. .Indians e sriipen, Sl e retura svith Angs Fric | Frie, being a stranger, and not possessing | a deer, which is recogniz by its ant-| imagine to themselves tlic umivérse as he bext opimions of the tribes they el toward his calabash. the chief of the tribe he |lers, and scattered in v productions peopled with evil spirits responsibie for Bave visited. Those ~whao stop -for |some tirie w visited presented him with one, ccom- |of the Indian are samples of his idea 6f aji the evils and- ills- of this life; It is greater 1 of time and who tnorthi birds. All these animals represent the they who ez ess and death, which tempt to id ify themselves with | 8ame that was bagged in the hunt. in the ordinary way would not fall to the matives are enthusiastle in He t ent .some time - among | ~ A drawing of two birds includes a line lot of man praise. It bas, however. not been the 2 resa ( na | denoting the course of a bullet t killea . In order drive away these spirits lot of mamy efhnelogists to -live natives ‘of the® vi Ke | them both. Fric tells how the picture of -drawings of them are made op calabashes Indiaux ameng Indinnx, owing proba- . SR |'the @eer provoked laughter among the and, armed with these, the Indians seek bl their jnubility fo exist w R 3 | Indians “when the calabash bearing the to Tid of the unwelcomea out the comforts of vivillzed life ‘or accompanied 13 these sturdy spec drawing was pa: in sed around the huts, for gue 2 ceremony 1o Inck of necessary- time. The . re- hat country no native kills a stag by as much nois of 2 yousg Cze le of making. [ buck. the indescribable stench of its flesh mens of huma are caps explorer, Ve Frie, who has spent rendering it unpalatable. Among tribes visited' by, Frie @ cons in Chaes Mattc iknown {er- | Another figure represents a steamboat ception the evil spirit was that of & » Grosso, is o object, - often adorned importance as drawn by an Indian who accompanied weird,. unea to those Interested im the uncxplored | the explorer to the river. The artist has | with two he three feet or with parts of South - | the- heads o left out no detail of importance, the a suropeans. chor, m: s and smo¥ke being as -accura for instancedr 1y repre at drawing of an average American et | «nother drawing is a caricature of Fric and a skit on hi nted as in the early attempts evil spirit in the shape of full dress; with high about ‘to start-on a hunt. ve a peculiaf 1 spirit, a portion s represents and we- } kill as a huntsman. 0 yrtune Having one day followed two parrots Tepreseatation of bulky natebook of Ind for some distance without success, they With the short horizontal finally settled down upon two trees be- Ing the head tween. which Fric was standing. which, Per shaped figures at each side. the hands, 1 the wi s, .the stov- toed feet . he thr side being o= however, owing to the thick foliage the the thr it e explorer could not detect. This did not trich feet; the spir %o has a tall. In escape the sharp eyes of the Indian, and short, this spirit has an | he imemdiately depicted the incident on ance of péc Fortunes in Eggs of Biris_ attaching to the have become extimet by the accident that spectmen of the great tutes one of the tredis- ures of the Scar eum. : Kept securely guarded in t it was- re~ cently placed on public exhibition. - By ome means’ or rer it has become cked, and its value has beeir depreeis ated by more than £60. “These egaw, which Wwere as plentiful as the ordinary chickens’ eggs inthe .early part .of the st cen . are now worth small for- tune highest price realized fo a . paid by an enthusi- collector in North Londén, who now sts four of these eggs, representing & total value of £1415 There is one now carefully preserved length of the coat than there is in the; The single breasted sack is still the under a glass case in' the National Mu- New York compromise. most popular form. Double breasted coats seum at Washington, which the Ameriean All these liberties with the sack coat are rarely made up in these or any other authorities value at no less than £2008. have tended to make it a garment aimost goods this summer and unly on special When first brought into the marke¥ this The enorme eggs of birds has been re has befille auk, whie dress has not, since.the early signe 2q out of the o e tow the st and two n angle and 5 nar the material. None summer suits has regular turned cuffs, as the material is too thin r for more than a v short xin! articular c ad three buttons and it does not likely that vill. .be any ~ immediate reaction his tender Men's ¢lothes are row set o: of thes be more. conspicuous before they juieter . s A chart of tyle issued by a as variable in shape as the dinner jacket order. Spechmen was seld UL ERRE Sye SR . a o . a Fin Of LoNGonAekEters fins Just nea il etk s which tailors have been changing and| There are again beautiful materfals for _TI® *""r"“h"_‘"" iatgs with ‘";4*:90’“ s . PR | s ks ) b e b S s o v altering at their pleasure for vears past. fuse in these flanmel suits. The blue and e T I v v:fi:;l g Mr. W g00d o s bk o young. MOSt distinguishing feature, Practically Now the staid sack coat, which was al-{white pattern, which is now a standard, Mantic. In sihexph sole v 109 s cloth it shows are your N A . - % , . two eggs at ! ! » S s apy s £ \ .. there was only one button on the front | hays regarded as more or less fixed by | never loses its popularity and comes this | sach. 4 Nttie later he parted with bis ¥ ed b € d ¥ T 'course; e expected TAL | ;pane cont; where under obdinats Eirowmms \,." 086 :‘a:r'h“‘:e‘:"v":"::s':‘ gl”‘“”-“ 'F“»-”‘_;’“';‘ pr|year in some beautiful combinations of ,rgains for no less than €480, - Another p : c would ever follow such deci stances ere should have been three. “‘w‘ ] anhion -n:h 5 \z‘:»:“:h“f‘;'\‘l ‘l‘ ’;1 l:"‘ the two colors. Then there are stripeS specimen purchased for £40 realized sub= ® ' s was The single button used was at the bottom i et e ool s Deen of different shades of blue, stripes of sequently £160 from an American cobe ¥ A« L of the cor es of the coat we | shor by the designers of 1 but one plack and blue, dark b »wn striped with jector. There gre only about eighty of green and yvellow, brown with dark green these .eggs in existente, of which - the and red, and brown with thin stripes of British Museum po: steel blue. There are no mourning styles senting a valwe not far short of £5000, in plain black, as the solid color flannels = Valuable though the egg of the great As a specimen of summer informality |do not wear well. So these styles are auk is, it cannot compare with that of the which avoids on one side the London black and gray ground, with white aepyornis, or moa, which thrived in Mad- exaggeratedness of style yet shows the stripe, or in varied shades of gray with a agascar some 200 yvears ago. -.e egg is proper deference to the advance in fash- black stripe. about twelve inches it length, and the ions, the sack’coat shown in the picture The tailors are now making in a number known to be in existence can be so turned form a roll col button. Most of these changes came from London, where -the sack coat is looked upon as such an informal garment that ! anything may be done to it. from this button as to ar of the kind used on dinner jackets. The lapels were not pressed at any point. They were simply turned back from the collar and fell away 'in a loose roll down to the single butt There were no other button holes on the long roll colla It was simply intended to be caught at the bottom and thrown back on each side. esses twelvg, Fepres two side p for the coat ep_set on cuff and ittons 1 reful is the ally be undone, so is the cut of this coat which makes it nusual. Of ordinary breadth over the yulders, made it I out stilfentng ar pad has its advantag§s. Its shoulders are cut style identical with the flannels two piece counted Upow: the ers. - When the first w Ming of suy.kInd, the cont.1s out to Ne il Jiie Coatieennt buiuiis P e O square, but theére is the prevailing ab- suits of soft cashmere and other smooth (P**"mv:‘vd“;:s h-}:”xht to Europe, ‘In 1851, S v o the figure as closely as if it were made | fell Straight with rounded edges. With PO O Miime. The coatcle, cut; | tuiabed (gooey - Thisk e - shanbiied 1 16 IERS. e R e M e Britan - bout the waist; it is proportionately full Waistcoat. of the same material. It s rolling soft lapels show .that the wearer |and white and brown. .The long sack Museum which w s obtained in quite & ecens ; hipe.. Civecs ot ratist oo | Gt 56 iR AR Rt o regards his attire as most unpretentious. |coats are the same in style as the flannel et T o b st ‘“‘“f.‘ 4.:1;‘9 “': . - ¥ figure are supplied by the skill for the tie. It is this stvle which has Iheskht falle y ol Crerithe gt MIncI LUl TTie cONIE dheiunlived and. T, the | SUR SRR SRR S R conetituses el pert cutter. The coat is so long as to Made the narrow ties so much the mode S i Nt oxcessive lcark, ke eedaiy outh coveied whi il Wi £ et G S y ell between the waist and nee, to-d These waistcoats are always fin- spicuousness by’ the. cut in waist. The ! object of these coats, although they are type. It is impossible to estimate’ ita A - Soulnd Gatwiins s e 3 ished with a smeligcollar oy pockets are placed low and fail forward, |of another material, is to make them as ‘YPe It i imp gt ey 4 t . L BUNGS S that the hands may fit easily into them. much a lounging coat as a flannel would . R g . - : e flannel, relieved with a white This style of puliing back a collar from one bution Loth In flannels and lighter | That s the most important service that be. Like the flannels they are made 1) 3% €% of this bord has not been pus Suits, it was not supplied with a the final resnlt of th r tweeds. They have not the courage of |the lower pockets seem to have in a without waistcoats. With the striped i e 3 2o watstcoat: The loose thotsers. -worn With 4 the: collis Lesk iy tendency to roll the London tallors in putting this solitary 'summer coat. They are welted as they | flannels, which are likely to have colors . & g The togwe trfumars -worn With { o e semn (part of the waist- hutton at-the bottom of the coat front. wear better: when finished in that way, enough In their own patterns. only solid Revm “f fm MS " e e T e ded loqw shiourt | orath ok Latanth 48 i the New They heg fhe question by putting it in and In flannels are less likely to @ar color walstcoats should be worn. They Whole P()Dulflhou IS workmg I e The, saok ottt L T d the tend- the middie. Of the two fashions there is under the pressure of the hands. The may be white, biscuit colored, mauve or tervals of an inch. Like all the last button of the coat is, of course," The German Kaiser receives about $3.« s London extent. Already much more but'they 1d haw g : et . ady smartness in the out and out | trousers made for these flannels are broad | gray; but they should have no Stripes of o0 o o . . the improvements of the de- ' there are tailors making couts with only | Londen e fos depth equal nearly to the | and long enough to-allow a deep turnup. | ornament of other colors. o year ‘as King of Rvessing: bt nothing as’ German Emperor. Besides named ' 3 = e 3 ; 3 3 SRE # o A SO s e " | this, he has an enormous.private mcome. 1 " ne v "0w h % ind cut in. two again.. The action . o oge . derived from mines, fisheries and estates, e e e Nation Marks Graves of Its Fighting Men - = i s "5t 5% Phone roves Valuable Agent of Civilization 5= s Swiri=as : and, it being allowed to drip in at the man in Prussia. The King of Bavaria peo; At Lee, in" Berkshire County, Mass., from the freight office to the cometor Sldes of the saw. de of maple. 'NTe are being turned out, under Go ‘ t sixty pi ernment supervision, is cut, smoothed week to mark gra everything More than 500,000 stopes have already H civi Mgk dpiri 75 ‘nm. provided and are marking the graves 1ch - stone . which -is turned out. | agent in the spread 0{’xl\lllutlfm. in i of the nation’s dead throughout the coun- tion is very strict. If there | assisting exploration and in substituting ilors, | ¢ All of these marble slabs have been IS a blemish in the stone, however slight, | peace for war is.shown by the history of nurses or others who | taken out of quarries operated at Lee or Il is cast aside, the Government réfusing | the talking instrument. ernment inspector ecarefully in- 'That the phonograph-has been an active | hostility. On such occasions, the colonel receives $1350,00 a vear, the King of isimply set the phonograph in action. and Saxony 385,000, and the Grand Duke of | the” unsophisticated natives were almost Baden $40.0M. The Czar of Russia is | prostrated by terror when they heard the paid $6.7350.000 for his private use. while tones of- their august monarch proceed each Grand Duke receives $1.000,000 a es of soldiers, marines, scout « o 4 from what they termed the “speaki vear. I i - ebeny finger- vy or maval sorvice of the United | . D¢ White marble of the Lee quarry however: but sawed up. into ~marble plorer of the wilds of Central Africa, had e el Nhacd Veha eal 2 X it g eyl e gy 5‘ - & e ing holders, and | Diltar : 5 of the Unlted|is celebrated for its quality. One wing | “bricks,” as they are called. many difficulties smoothed from his way | V¥ e v ToYal | conmmaies - " SRd paruisiied of af g of the Capitol is constructed with this| When the finished headstone is ready by this instrument. Part of his projected they ""i"}; very 'fl"lsa_"l»~ and proffered many kinds, of which few outsiders ¥no e e spmbstones are furnished free by | marble. as well as the State House at for delivery to the Government it meas- journey through Barotseland and about | tRelT advice and assistance with the ut- anything. % ¥l £8:¢ sent out upon Boston and the City Hall at Philadelphiz. | Ures three feet and three inches long, one | the headwaters of the mighty ' Zambesi M@St prodigality. The Sultan of Turkey's income is ehor- 1 relative, a member of | On the grounds at the Lee quarry the foot wide and four Jnches thick. = Each River lay through a wild country peopled In this way Colonel Harding traveled Mous. Hesides deriving $2.500,000 from the slous skill in | Army of the Republic, or sto Is polished, marked and crated. | Stone weighs about 250 pounds. On each | by blacks who objected to the passage of OVer 8000 miles without the slightest mo- State taxes, he is said to dvaw two or ng the-violin after it is fitted up, CItiZen of the United States, who fur- | Twenty men are employed the year |i® @ sunken s { es, put the pj most difficult per- in m Id or wreath, and directly | 3 white man's expedition. lestation, and never had to use his riffe ' three times as mueh from crown prop- 1 aimost “every family has its own DiS'€S the name of the dead soldier or|around in polishing and marking head. |under this the name, the rank and regi-| King Lewapika of that country ap- On a4 single occasion in self-defense erty. He oins a very large number of method of polishing, whicl sallor and his regiment or ship. The mili- stones for the nation’s dead. ‘Fwice a |Ment of. the dead. seldier. © {proved of the expedition, but the difficulty | against the blacks. palaces on the Bosphorus, and many bt anded down from mother to daughter, '* rv»(:n-‘l’.uh‘ office then looks up hls‘yenr the Government receives bids from The headstones ‘are then sent to dis- wae to transmit his wishes to the thou- . When the Americans were extending | the best villas on its northern banks, some excelling b a deep wine color ;::nd,:-uud: g ":!Flr.\lil)ln;; place and the .4nnn-m-’mrs‘ and the contract is let to | tributing points, where they remain until sands of his subjects in the remote cor- | their occupation of the Philippipe Islands Which he grants during his pleasure tg ‘ #3 $n citron.or orange eolos B st B ] the lowest bidder. | requisition is made for them by the War ners of his dominions. | the people of a certain socereignty mani- Ministers and favorites, or to Dpersons | who have married members of his family. It is said that 3000 persons are fed dagly in his palace. while he sends owt @inngry (%9 & still larger number. Shore Sxpaadive vrallln Sk SEMN. h overnment pays all transportation | The marble is taken out of the quagry | Department, hargs on the stop to the nearest in blocks three feet squ 3 a V. Pttt ] st | tuare. Great iron|are Boston, New York, Washington, set out upon his hazardous journey. As|was induced to visit « warship, and, while Considered parfect and seame (oney ATe freight office. All that' then remains Is|saws are then used to cut the blocks In Vicksburg, Chicago, Denver and Port he penetrated into the country the mative li the. aptamra cabin was entertained n f ¥ for use. | for the relative or friend to have it taken |two, after which they are strapped to- |land. % ichiefs displayed unmistakable signs of |by the productions of & phonograph. These distribution centers| Armed with these records, the explorer |fested a disposition to rebel. The Sultan