The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 17, 1906, Page 16

TIIE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, . J0$ - NABEN i’ <Y And sweet release to many a ¢ war ong the briar rose g t s timid soul who g of ted E the v, the un- lity, the deception, the strain, but * C e strengt or the per- the false set. kings of the great few short hours the se gods were d and only the treasures t P et T°% acter, intelligence, breeding and ' the Character, the Per-|gchievemen:. -~ # Brotherhood. eurvives, | Se here we ate, in 1906, back to the tom »;.’.:nx r.‘di:;l’;{n“:n’;;fl &ood old wholesume conditions of truth, he con - | natyralness viduality :ommon - s of old, the days of Péturalness, indlviduality and c se! as opposed to decelt, sham, ex- .~ o iSSP o i ces-and bitter rivairies. T Rl s worldly. poasesslons, |1 ey dress b he pleases, ) I <h I:‘ ‘:n |;:(r: ’»‘r’[’]rdlrl]:' 80 long as he k hin the town . 1 And so m tie s R foundations—char- and W That is now distinctly bad bit of news to Many Men ©5r entertainment, there’s a mption of card games, dinners, luncheo: just as of old, only differ in being normal. The pleasure of the thing, the bring- togetuer of congenial people, is the motive, instead of show, |rivalry and reprisal, the motives of a 500d nine-tenths of art” functions. £o0 out of the temporary collapse of our mate:ial wealth has come a soclal and monta readjustment that will compersate for our losses. Meanwhile we are finding a new in- | terpretation for the term “friendship,” new to the young, but weli remem- {bered by the Argonauts, 4 s . . Theére's weeping and wailing in half a dozen sub-sets of the smart set over the latest order of the War Depart- ment, the decree that General Funston shall go north -to look after the maneuvers of troops. Now, the truth is that it is not exactly over the pass- ing of the general that the tears are | become a benedict and reputed to be | not much of a flirt, but because when | he goes he takes his ald with him, f| Licutenant Burton 3. MiteRell, they | falling, the general having long since ' au 217 Yy Ana | that's why. | However, since the ahsence is but| | temperary, there's a smile behind the | tear. | . | Has it over occurred to vou that the | | War Department is the arbiter of so-| |clety in San Francisco? Well, it is.| | 1t makes and unmakes friendships and | | marriages with as much directness as| |a nuptial bureau. Only it Isn't 80| | considerate. | | . | Among the young matrons who re- {mained in town during the upset was| | Mrs. Joseph B. Duggan, whose home at 2027 Pacific avenue became a place | of refuge to a host of friends. It is Mrs, Duggan's intention to re- | main in town during the summer, with short trips into the fields and forests near by, that she may do her part Im |the relief work that has beéen sub- stituted for teas. ! . * * Mrs. James Carolan has become a Burlingamite for the summer, whither |she went from Santa Barbara, her first | refuge from the antics of the 18th! Dr, Herbert Carolan is rather more |of a professional than a society man, and town fs jgood enough for him. | Week ends, however, find him under . - i QAxranp ~ ** o Ziin ST / i fifll,é/ ] ! =l | where she has her home for | Some years. Mrs. Dorn, a young woman of unusual charm and Intelligence, has made the most of her residence abroad, spending | her winters in the art ecenters, but | mostly in Paris, where she maintains A cozy flat. Most interesting are her summers, mostly spent upon a little farm she purchased some years ago, & short distance from Trouville. On this little farm the peasant care~ takers raise apples for the cider press, and are never so happy as when the summer time brings their mistress to the little thatched cettage. Mrs. Dorn proposes to remain in town for some months with her mother, Mrs. Columbus Waterhouse, at 3840 Clay street. They are at home Tuesdays . - . Mr. and Mrs. Louls Glass are emter- taining their niece, Mrs. Lionel Hare | 8us, at their Octavia street home. Mrs. Hargus might have found a | more beautiful eity had she arrived | sooner, but she never could have found | it more interesting. | Physically and psychologically, San | Franeisco is to-day the most intereste ing spot in the world. e e made i | Miss Marie Withrow and Miss Evee lyn Almond Withrow are contemplate |ing retfirning to Paris next spring. In | the meantime much of their time will what a gift of .mumi;bo spent in Berkeley. A CHARMING Ygg G MATRON, WHO 'DECLINED TO LEAVE TOWN DUR- ; ING THE “FUSS,” BELIEVING IT A PART OF VALOR TO REMAIN, | AND A SMART YOUNG OAKLAND MAIDEN. the oaks that spread o'er the sanctified. | or ill-bred. And The fact that a Carolan Is ag Bur- | their joyousness. | lingame is comforting—the Frank‘ The interesting Latinists referrad to Carolans having bidden their adieux|are the Count and Countess Nasselli, to it months ago, and are now press- the Itallan Consul te the Pacific Coast ing their sandals to the soil of France. |and his wife, and Countess Fabbri, What {s Burlingame without a Caro- both of whom gave vallant service to lan! | thoir people during the crisis, when | the Count filled the post of acting San Rafael’ has among {ts com- Consul from Italy. muters a most elegant assemblage of AN LT BN £ Italian nobility, an entirely chnrmlng; Among thehlntel‘vl‘;!r\g visitors . in coterie, with all the fluency and ef-|town is Mrs. Nellie W. Dorn, who r fervescence of: the Latin, either well ! iurned a few weeks ago from Par . Mrs. Russell Hotchkiss is the guest of her brother, Colone! Leo Febiger, in this city, where Mrs. Hotehkiss will spend the summer, her home being in New Haven, Conn. LT Y Mr. and Mrs. Charles Huse have tzken a house in Chicago since recent- ly returning from Eurepe with Mr. and Mrs. Selby Hanna. Mrs. George Wells e-|leaves soon to be the guest of Mrs is, | Huse. . . . Worse tragedies happened during the fire than the passing of the old Art Inmstitute. Nevertheless, with all its faults—its inaccessibility, its inadaptibility for the purposes of art, its lack of security from firel-even the least of us feel a pang of pain when we view now but a pile of blackened ruins. ‘We recall the kindly intent of the donors, the honest efforts of the Art Association and its directors to' create within it a temple of art, that the city's people might grow in the knowledge and love of the beautiful; of the sanctity of the place that sheltered a Gerome, a Dupre, & Rousseau, a Corot, and the other beautiful messages from nature; of the still shrine where students loved to roam in the lefgure hours, to dream and drink inspiration from the masters that lined the old House Gallery; of the expectancy that awaited the exhibitions of the -local painters, with their disappointments, rejoicings and little jealousies; and, | HEAD BY ADA ROMER NSHA BY THE ARTIST THAT AN—ONE OF THE FEW THING! AT 3836 CLAY STREPT™ 8 DONE SURVIVED, THE WHAN STUDIO IB%IOW i THE NEW INSTITUTE OF ART o TR 1 e i S e 5 St e alas! for the follicking fun of the Mardl Gras—gay dreams of the roseate past. Never again! But these are only dreams, mem- ories, pearls that grow upon wounds. - And now is no time for dreaming— it's sowing time, elee we shall not | reap. = | Hence must plans be formed and | 1deas developed from among the paint- | ters und People Who Know as to what the next Art Instituto shall be. That one shall rise somewhere 1§ a certainty ~—as certainties go in these unstable | days—for there is an insurance of $150,000 for rehabilitatlon, besides the value of the lot upon which the tur- reted old chateau stood. Whether to build upen the old site is one the mooted questions; and what to build is another. But this much is assured, that the structure shall be fire and quake proof, and that it will be constructed for the purposes of art, with a suitabl alle for exhibitio i hael | _be, let us hope that it will be worthy of t sister of ethies. of the few things saved mes ns of California painters. -Au'sc‘nl!o ::’ Sixth and Market WHAT SHALL IT BE? —BY LAURA BRIDE POWERS 'wallowed up early in the fray. ' As’ a supplement to the story about She rejoices, however, in the rescue|the fund raised by E. W. A. Water- of her big canvas, “La Boheme,” which house for the bencfit of artists ad in the success of its future. ;hn.d been stpred in the Empire apart- other people who lost their equip s ‘What would be thought of a mer- ment early on the fated Wednesday for | in -the fire, 1 desire to say that any chant's sanity if he exposed hig wares safety. artist of known repute is eligible to for wsalo in an unpopulous and un-| But wheg the vellow demon wu»nn-'thn benefits of tne fund, other things frequented part of the eity? | appeased athis downtown sacrifices and | being equal. Art has its . commercial side—the was leaping on and on, evidently bent| « & & L ultra-artists notwithstanding, to which upen devouring the entire city, Romer Of course, the fufid ($12.000) raised the same commercial laws must apply Shawhan und Henrl Salz set out tojin New York among the artists for as obtain in the case of any other mer- /save the big pieture. thelr suffering fellows out here and chantable commodity, » | The Bmpire was almost ablaze when sont tg Arthur Mathews some weeks Therefore, when the empowered| the young rescuers reached the spot. has relieved the necessities of body convenes, whose business it will and a guard was holding the peopl.‘r:ny of the painter folk. be to decide where und what the Art back with. the bayonet argument., But I am of the belief that many Institute of New Sin Francisco shall Somehow—the lads themselves know | worthy burned-out artists are still un- a4 home not how—they pasted the guards, en- | provided for in the way of equipment— and a iit.tered the cellar, found the picture and th: wherewith to malntain themselves, people to Jugged it out. Knierging, ‘the flames| and if there are such. 2 line to me at for art is the half-| were upon them, and they were forced | The Call, or to Mrs. Columbus Water- r SRS W Mstx retrgat with their “house. 3340 Clay strest. may set mat- ‘The head predented to day was one treasure. But they made it! ! ters right. d trom the Plucky chaps, and iucky! Those| And it's nobody's business but yours, Ada Romer Shawhan, whose bayonets were kept awfully sharp those | the good people who raised the fund streets was days. 2 lznd they who gave it one might add, “Build it wl people can get at it." Accessibility would count one-third | here the I § name of Art, place wherein to lead the higher things, o %