The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 1, 1906, Page 2

THE I ”h‘\[vl‘ THE MAN BEHIND THE BAT Oh, yes, we all have heard about 'he man behind the gun, And of the bieacherite that grins Behind the sausaged bung And though we’ve heard of him that stands Behind th thing and that, b greatest of the lot today’s 'he man behind the bat. He throws the ball to “second,” and He lines it down to *“third,” And catches quick the pilayer who Skims homeward like a birds; And though the pitcher may outcurve Himself, we throw our hat Alo ad split the welkin for 1an behind the bat. as the yak the peanut gulps Iy on the fiy the ball that like a shot f a Bachelor Gir J soft white towels within her All day long, from morning till ig waited on m er My stud er finer As she & 1g them dy for er dezvous for were now irers of rother. At first 1 w ed t e cafe suppers P E nd by, t ef me lonely w I W step- s 2 mat- 1g as Sammie remained awayv g s younger and young . < a girl. The long that she had slept the yout n her. The life of went straight to her head. The nt became her And her e w £ friend ho! said the ba window, the into the the elor girl were d they were voung man who cab?" she 1 see Sammie kX Nothing Doi ng ,. for Armitage t thing to have a bank ac- . 2 xcept on That's what T D Armitage ell you if you : m about his experience in getting down to Palo Alto last Sunday morning S A ge takes pride ir s bank pays of bills by quently he carries only a for car fare and ciga-| . nches with m He used s take pride, too, in having lived in street for ten years, resisting the : s ptown tren of things and being a 5 vit we known figure of his section of g w which happens to be near the king « of Jefferson Square, but the nat ed him to move along with the p 1| It was week-end house party to . ® o had been asked, but - . alf holidays have been 1 . andoned for a time, so he had to go o g nday morning. However, there >ensation for that is the fact just back from » oing down on Sunday, i arranged to meet her at Armitage thought Miss Dal- & mighty fine girl and was anx- is to make a good Impression on her. wore his newest April 18 was disti nged the suit and smart for the first thought its When he in his pockets he ered that the money he had pru time since nctly things T iz ‘_y\ dently secured at the office the day be- fore had mostly been expended in the glass er he had had with his friend Par- . Bhe dnoked about Saturday night in Oakland. All he - S *® had left was $1.30.. But that didn’t worry Armitage, who armed himself th his 4rusty checkbook and set It was so early, for Sunday morning, landlady was not in evidence, 80 he could not ask her to cash a check. He led to get the money at the restaurant on Oak street where he had n breakfasting orning dec for he was greeted and with After a by and years by hat the pro- the accus- while the smiled at tor waiters cordiality strolled again prietor Armitage the ¥ way,” spoke up Armitage, I'm unfortynately out of money this morning. Would you mind check for me?” w. ette < cashing u = . gl o The smile faded from the proprietor's R e e. “Whose check is it?" he asked : e been | coldly . v . t waked | “It's mine,” replied Armitage. “I'm ng to waken, SOTTY to bother you, but—" an't attey. | “The fact the proprietor's voice come; was now like ice, “I can’t cash checks :’(““‘ £rom | op Sunday niorning. Not enough 1money 1 had to. 1|In the cash drawer.” And the voice the exertion | went on. before—and With surprised and offended dignity lept Jate. 1| Armitage paid his bill, betook himseif paring hLer little|from the restaurant, for the last time o her bath and put|he mentally vowed. Across the street ! I Séarn photo SAN FRANCISCO SUNDAY CALL. “What Will And when the He isn’t half as And he The man behind he Ba.tter Do™? You’ll shout, 1 “How do we spend our time” Why in admiring our husbands,” replied wife of a British | visiting Frenchman fifty Jules Cambon, in a recent after-din- ner speech, used the story in ecomparing French and English women ‘Our women do not only spend their time 4dmiring us,” he boasted. “The. also sustain and direct us through ¢ | entire lives.” And while he did not say Lit, the thing is well known to foreign- |ers in France. Frenchmen would sink |into innocuous desuetude were it not | for their females. Paris, in particular, ! is the paradise of the incompetent and | lazy good-looker. The peculiar cause of the phenomena |is the .enormous proportion of moderate | but sufficient incomes from investment that distinguish France from every { other country—<¢apital built up threugh | generations by systematic saving and dded to by marriages and inherit- ; ances. the Minister to a vears ago Prime Vhen The e isitors’ Star Datter Struck Qut emuiii wioek his. condented lazi- ness, but we find it hard to criticise with logic. The baby-faced young wife | about dressed like a Parisian doll really does make her own hats, ‘When Is a Man . Twenty-One? By Professor John Waurts of Yale Law School. It sald that law mon sense. While it is true that principles originated in common sense the law itself is the combined experi- ence of many men; for no two men un- | instructed in law will agree as to what is applied common sense. Then there are many rules which undoubtedly have a sense origin but, changed, history fails origin Yet these very retained in order not sonal and property rig no man can depend on instructed common sense law. To drive this statement heme, trequently put to an incoming class the question, “When deoes an in- fant become of age The ansver is always unanimou: “When he is twen- ty-one years old. The next question appears ridiculous to some and makes them laugh, while others set their alleged common sense at work, and never with correct result “When i -one years old One student On his twenty- first birthday. of course, he does not mean fit, for is about a year ot ‘On the of his birth- This sounds better, but, even if is not specific enough. “When leted his twenty-first an- “At the beginning of that is twenty-first anniv | at the precise hour of his birth, | other answers. And then I surprise the guessers by | saying that they are”all wrong. | In computing time it is a general | rule that the law disregards part of a | day. In applying this rule sup, a man was born just one minute before | midnight on January 2, 1880. At midnight he had lived but one | minute, vet the day on which he was born was ended and the law considered him one day old. So In computing the twenty-one vears which a man must live in order to reach his majority, we do not begin with the. moment of birth, | but with the commencement of the day of his birth. Now, since we must start with the first moment of January 2, 1880, it is perhaps natural to say that this man |did not become twenty-one years old goes Sha copy- is is appHed law of law common being this must be ke per- Therefore, own un- know the conditions to rules to disclose s his to I have law but, he Another ventures, of the way twenty-first day.” | correct, anniversary was the cigar store at which he also an old customer. But there w strange face behind the counter. dealer was ill, and his substitute celved the check proposition suspiciou 1y and his hand lingered on the till cash appeared to pay for them. By this time Armitage was e there wasn't and made for They didn't time, He a grocery next know him there, thought he might stand as chance there as anywhere. He did. I'ney would be glad to cash a check if gome one would identify him. Armitage bolted out again. He looked wildly out door. but he good a galloped The train left at 9:50, and it was about the street for some other place now. ifty cents was all he bad to try. His tailor's was closed; there He thought of Miss Dalrymple : was no time to rout out friends—it humiliation of borrowing the was 9:35—it was all up, Miss Dal- for the railway tickets from her. rymple would have to buy the ticke Check book in hand, he dashed into a| Good morning, Mr. Armitage.” Re- drug store. He had bowght soap and|called from his thoughts, Armitage tooth powder there hundreds of tim turned to see a burly. ruddy Irishman. The clerk looked at him with inquiry, | speaking to him. It was Brady, the but without recognition. porter at the ofice. Brady's clothes “I'm an old customer here,” blurted | were of the resplendent ill-fitting sort Armitage, all in a breath, “got to catch|that the laborer usually dons for a a train—out of money—can you cash Sunday outing. in ordinary eircum- small check?—great favor—give you stances Armitage would hzve given him my address—reference—" {a patronizing nod. But now he shook “We don't cash checks for strangers,” | Brady by the hand and slapped him on | was the response that seemed to come | the shoulder. from the ice In the soda fountain. Armitage wanted to say something about the soan and tooth nowder. but \gleemlly. “How are you, old man?’ he shouted | “I'm delighted to see you. tickets while I.-was waiting. Do you know any one in this vicinity | or we'll miss the boat.™ until the close of January 1, 1901. Math- human | ematically speaking, this is true. to cash a.check for| Twenty-one years in that sense re- | quires that the last moment of January | 1, 1901, should have arrived in order to | make the man of age, and, obvious e was of age at that point of time. But here again the rule is applied. As the man was of age on the last moment of January 1, the law disre- gards the entire part of the day inter with enough of the milk of kindnéss in them me?"” m the boy,” responded “How much do you want, sir? don't want no check from you.” “Let me have $20,” gasped Armitage. | he grabbed the money and jumped on | to an electric car, the bewildered | Brady staring after him open-mouthed. Brady. But I Down ¥ililmore and Ellis streets | vening between the first moment and went the car, passing automobiles on | the last, and consequently he became in the wa Armitage. his $20 in one|law twenty-one years old on the first hand, his suit case on his knees, hur- lmoment of January 1, 1901, the day pre- riedly straightened h tie and | ceding the twenty-first anniversary of smoothed' his hair. it was 9:46 when he reached East street. At the ferry stood Miss Dalrymple, | his birthday. This rule is a part of what is known as the common !aw and is applied in cool and captivating, if.a pongee suit. | this country in all States where the| She smiled triumphantly as Armitage |common law of England has lreen tumbled ouf of the car, still red faced | adopted and remains unchanged by and excited. statute. A man may vote or make a “Well, it is such a struggle to get up |valid will .on the day preceding the early Sundays, Isn't it?” she said. ' “I|twenty-first anniversary of his birth- | knew if you got here at all it would | day, although the right in the one caSe be at the last mowent. 50 1 bought ths |and the capacity in the other is given Hurry |only to persons “who have reached the age of twenty-one years, ! And really when a young hus- | band brings a lump sum equal to NiS| jigeounts wite's dot ou'| Amerivan ideals may |, aicohol incandescent lamp to Comes whizzing from the sky; bowwow scoots along To overtake the rat | lively as The man behind the bat. He capers round in g€ircles, and He reaches high and stoops, is everywhere at once, And so the ball he scoops; Oh, nothing ever’ passes, for As lively as a cat That gayly scrambles up a tree’s the bat. 1 Now, when you figure up the men Who glad the public eye, Though soldiers, actors, bankers or The builders of the pie, and very suddenly, “Now, by Jehosophat, The biggest of the pile today’s The man behind the bat!” R. K. MUNKITTRICK. ng the new Rue de la Palx he is elegan at the shop- Keepers show her th rest, imagining she wil buy She manages to get swell tailor gowns low as $20 from houses that are eginning: while for t flc nts she directs a dressmaker comes to the house for sixty cents a ¢ay. And she dresses her Guillaume very smartly in 320 suits nade by a London tailor who goes four times a year to Paris for orders. ¥as, silk lined. You can bet that Guillaume not soil his suits® She buys him an imitation panama, sews a new band on it, and it looks just great! Guillaume's patent leather shoes have got to last two years! In summes she compels him to wear whit> canvas pumps—and pipe clay them immacu- tely white each n'ght. They make a swell effect—and save his brown: leath- ers! Do you kmow? This doll-faced little Flou Flou holds the common purse, gets groceries from Potins to preveat the servant’s rakeoff with the lacal dealers, all bills for cash and b " cldeteie NERL hills. S Guillaume has 10 r..u\m, for cigarettes. The rest she buys him. “My little hear T heard him say once, “I spent it on cab fares!™ He was explaining the disappearance of a $2 gold piece she had given him to earry in his pocket hou! it all nt to cab fares— Did you notice—"to g back to you the quicker™ It was that saved him! Y it was his capital as much hers. » other country has anything like this proportion of incomes from long family accumulations where breaking into capital onsidered a crime. One consequence is that women quite as fre- quently as men have thei own rew nues Now. as Jules Cambon pointed out, the French married woman wishes, above all, security for the ewjoyment of her “little man.” She fears change and is an enemy to enterprise. A French girl with $20,000 marriage portion will eer= tainly prefer a sband bringing the same or more conditio at he be “serlous’’ —say once, obedient. But, having a sure ’ of her own of, say, $750, she w 1st as certainly pre- fer an obedient young husband earning $10 per week In a Government office, with shert h and a moderate pem- :r who might double or quadruple her capital. And if she have $1500 a- year she will still more cer- tainly prefer an obedient young hus- band earning nothing to a wonder of enterprise—who is always at his office. This explains the immense vogue in France of these professions called “of perfect repose.” The phrase referd to repose of mind in that these professions seldom tempt men to risk capital in un- certaln investments: but repose of body {8 no stranger to their walks. They are army officer, Government functionafy (one French voter in ten is a Goverfi- ment functiondry). barrister. doctor. engineer and university professor. Engineers either of civil or military specialties or of private enterprises are quoted high, but rather special. Often they are men who work Sometimes they have opportunities to invest monéy advantageously. It is a trifle too um- certain, energetic, too masterful The mass of young Paris doctors, barristers, functionaries, professors— and all army officers—can be depended on to make model French husbadds. I know the case of a young doctor whose ambition is to write a book on sion, to a hust the French watering places. To mv certain knowledge he has three fine girls with ample marriage portio chasing after him. The mother of one said the other day : ‘T told him I would make Berthe's portion $65.000 and pay my own ex- penses if he would agree on his word of honor that I should go with them.” “A dream of happinesss” her gossip replied. “Your only daughter pigeon- holed, a swell son-in-law, with nothing to do. always beside you.™ “And the relations. my dear—think of his relations! (She referred to his professional relations.) We would fiit from one watering place to hotels at half price, douches halations for nothing. jump immediat: ly into the best medical sets of Viehy, Bourboulle, Mone d'Or. Uriage, Con- trexeville, Vittel, Plombleres.” ‘While he is writing his book?™ “Exactly, my dear! Provided he don't write it too quickly ! 1f Re marries Berthe, I'llssee to that! She need not worry. The roung fellow will f—thet hook will be his and daily jollying of see to it hims life woik—that Berthe. " To make a business of marsiage! Two-thirds of the better sort of young Parisians of the' day are doing it Cateh them marrying a girl without a dot! The special type is called the Zigoto, the -boutgeoise branch of the great gigolo gen Should you ask what distinguishes him from the average young American, | would reply—his ! seriousness with womea