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The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-07-20
A NEW GERANIUM.
Some Advice to Those Who Guilt
vate This Popular Flower.

EAN San Francisco there is scarcely any
HI one who makes any pretentions to rails
40 ing flowers, be it in elegant grounds or in
afew pots on window ledge, but has some
variety of that pretty and popular flower,
the geranium. To produce new varieties
has been the aim of many floriculturists
and each new variety has been hailed with
delight by those who are anxious to secure
the new shades In Vicks Magazine for
July is given the following description of a
new variety of the salmon shade called the
sCountess of Derby" and some hints on the
training OF geranlums:
The large. round flowers. of good sub
stance, with their handsome salmon color
on white ground make this an attractive
sort 1t is dwarfish, compact grower, and
produces Its flowers in n great abundance.
IL is good bedding variety, and especially
valuable as specimen pot-plant 1t is in
this form that the geraniuin, in its numer-
Gus varieties, holds the popular heart. 1t
is the window-plant par excellence. And
what beautiful shows of geraniums are
often made in windows. Probably the best
effect IN this way is produced by allowing
the plants always to face the light, and never
turning them. This gives the passer on
the street all the beauty of the plants and
flowers, while the grower has the. labor
OF attention and the satisfaction of con-
tributing to others pleasure. We like it
and it adds greatly to the appearance of a
house or apartment from the outside. But
while this mode of training the plants is de-
sirable, we would have others trained as
specimen plants, that is developed equally
on every side, an object which can
be attained only by exposing the
plant to light on all sides. A SYM
metrically developed plant is the highest
form of cultivation and the highest test
of the growers art. What defurmities
one often sees in long-legged plants with
tuft OF leaves at the top of naked stems!
Can 1t be possible that those who care
enough for plants TO tend and water them
can see any beauty in such specimens? Or
have they an eye only for the few poor
flowers that such plants produce? As has
been already noticed, plants grown to pro-
Guce certain effect such as their appear
ance from the outside of u window, or as a
mass IN bed, need have but little attention
given to their development as individuals,
but when we wanta handsome plant, for the
plants own beauty, then we must attend
to its growth from its earliest to its latest
stages. AS soon as the young plant enters
upon vigorous growth the formation OF
branches should be undertaken and kept
under control, and not be left 10 accident.
A little experience in pinching the ends of
growing shoots, and thus checking them
and causing them to push out new branches
Will show any one how completely this mat
ter may be kept under control, and how VIC
have the making VI the plant IN our own
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These fresh air hats and bonnets were
novel, and, as bazaar prices go, not dear.
One which pretty American was easily
persuaded into buying was an excessively
smart little bonnet composed wholly OF os-
trich tips mounted on an open shaped
edged with jet and provided with narrow
blue velvet strings. A black Leghorn hat
of a poke shape, larger and more pro-
nounced than is seen ut homo, was trimmed
with the deep red peoples which lend such
q warmth of color to the English fields:
Quite original and very tit for the plquant
girls Of Dublin was Connaught hat Of
cream lace straw, rolled back from the
face in a half moon and trimmed with
a heather wreath and standing loops OF
cream-colored ribbon. The fancy straw
hats one sees at garden parties are
most daring and bizarre. 1t was but yes
terday that / vexed my eyes for ten minutes
following the quips and turns OF small
thing in gray that stood up behind and lay
down on the sides, and hung further down
in front, and was withal only handful OF
lace straw plated TO hold mass of blue
morniDg-gl0ries. Roses and ribbons are
the favored hat garnitures, but few things
are especially noteworthy unless it be the
bridesmaids hats at one or two OF the FASH
ionable weddings. These are about over
for the present. but l strayed into church
yesterday morning, where hats OF drawn
chiffon with punches of forget-me-nots
crowned three bright heads, while posies
of yellow roses and lilies tied with blue and
gold ribbons we're carried in the hands.
Ada Rehan must find 1t rather odd to
play to an audience Of such extremely low
bodices. Granted that q pretty woman
looks her best when in evening costume,
she bares her neck and arms, it remains
that the display must be modest to be in
the least degree attractive, while the decol-
lete corsage, as one sees it this season in
London, is not infrequently vulgar, and
occasionally, not to put too fine point on
it, disgusting. have not been in the habit
OF thinking myself sQueamish, but in the
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boxes and stalls Of London theaters it has
occurred to me to wonder why the police
were not called in to put stop to sucn
violations of common decency. The worst
offenders are the same young matrons VINO
at the races and the tennis matches are SO
severe in the tailor gowns. so frozen, such
proper paragOns
Hyde Park is wonderful place for the
display of parasOls. The English girls have
way that is rather pretty of knottlng
ribbon on the handle and then carrying one
long end up to the top of the stick ana
tying it there with another bow. Other
ribbons are twisted round the wires of the
frame. making a pavilion fluttering with
bright ends. The logic of all this adorn-
ment, | fancy, is the awkward length OF the
parasol stick, which calls with loud voice
for something to break its ugly line. Since
the woman who doesn't wear black frock
is very apt to wear white one, the para
sol is red to go with either gown. 1t has
pinked fiounces to edge its smart and fussy
petticoats and white or black bows, &C
cording to the toilet near the handle. The
combinations of red and white and red and
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The English dress for tennis is mt once
pretty and suitable, with full skirt without
foundation and blouse, without rundown
collar fastened with ribbons. Miss Jack,
who is winning the championship matches
everywhere, wears creamy brown serge
skirt with seven tucks in front and the
back in full gathers, a bunch of cream and
scarlet ribbons at the side and second
bunch adjoining the little round sailor hat
which nfests England in even greater num-
bers than America. Royalties are often
distinguished from other people by the fact
that they do not dress as well, and SO 1t
happened that the pretty Princess May,
daughter of the Duchess of Ieck, who dis
tributed the prizes, wore heavy brown
velvet irock and mantle, with brown bon
net trimmed with old rose and gold-more
suitable, according TO any taste but noole
British one, to midwinter than to days
when the hedge roses are Towering.
Miss GeneyieYe Ward was among the
spectators in a frock of pale green wool.
with Medici collar and a bodice that fas-
tened under tine arm, the small buttons con-
tinuing round the armhole up the shoulder
seam TO the neck. The sage green velvet
sleeves were even higher on the shoulders
than is the elevated New I UTk custom, ana
the black lace hat was trimmed with maid
enhair ferns. a blonde girl with the thick
est braid of yellow hair it has ever been my
fortune TO look on wore gray serge frock
with gray velvet Zouave jacket and white
WaistcOat. Pink roses were pinned in
great fragrant knot on her left shoulder.
The young English matrons look so cor
rect and reserved that Yankee girl would
surely call them rrim. Their backs are
very straight, their waists too small for
their shoulders and hips, and their faces
rather long When Miss Violet Pinckney
made one Of her very harI and low fore
hand drivers they would nod grayely in APP
probation OF her neat style and say just
fawncy!' without excitement and without
a smile A very good specimen of this
type who sat next me and lectGred a REBEL
iCus young American on the other side of
her whom she was chaperoning wore
good gown of cream nuns yelling, with
bands of dark green velvet on the skirt, and
a full bodice with side pieces of the velvet
which came in point to the 'front.'
| notice that good many handsome
black dresses are worn in London this
summer, and the Zouave jacket is en- evil
dence, heavily trimmed with passementerie.
One of the oldest things l have stumbled
on lately was a bazaar in fashionable resi-
deuce in aid of boarding-Out fund,
trans atlantic fresh-air fund for the East
End children. A group of royalties sold
flowers-the royalties are hard orked over
here-but the thing | meant to characterize
as funny was stall devoted to the sale of
millinery, half dozen of the best Regent
street houses having been mulcted
politely in the name of charity by their
best customers of their best hats and bon
nets. 1t suggests a new terror, doesn't it,
to the church fair?
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a" A SERMONETTE."

This Is a Brief Harangue to Those Who
Are Given to Slang.
|HIS "sermonette" is especially for
SSESS you, dear girls. The advice could be
S1SS put in three words-Don't do it. Pos
sbly there might come an oecasion-say
once in lifetime-when good round bit
of the genuine article slang" would prove
funny. But to hear vulgar words used by
gentle girl is almost invariably shocking.
l remember passing two girls in the street
and hearing one Of them say, "l'll bet you
a quarter" 1t gave me SILVER. And
when a group of schoolgirls fill their con-
versation-as, alas! they often do - with
one slang phrase after another. the effect
on an outsider is painfully disagreeable.
The habit of talking slang grows rapidly.
1t is like reporting Bit of scandal Have
you never noticed if you say an unkind
word against a neighbor, how quickly a
chance comes to say another And with
just that same appalling ease habit of
using careless coarse words increases.
Weeds grow rapidly.
There is plenty Of good strong English TO
give expression to wit, drollery, indigna-
ton or sympathy, without recourse to the
phrases which belong to horse-jockey
gamblers, tipplers and vagabonds. The
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-07-20
GOWNS FOR
SUMNER GIRLS.
They Can Wear Something That
Is Altogether Out of Common.
A Choir Robe and Pretty Church Costume
of Black Silk, Set With Plain cured
Meshes-A Jaunty Bonnet.
Special to THE SUNDAY CALL

NEAEW YORK, July Z, 1S90.-When the
TANK charming summer girl tires for an
A7XlS hour or two of the regular round Of
amusements and longs to do and be some
thing little out of common she may betake
herself TO church or chapel-to that little
st. Somebody's-b y-the-Sea-and there, DON
ming surplice and cassock, and the mortar
board of the collegiate don, she may be-
come one of the vested choir, and with
sweet and stately gravity march in process
sion, hymn book in hand, and with such a
far-away, exalted expression in eyes and
lips that you could swear she, at least,
among fair madens, could never stoop to
'frivol," and that 1.-THE world, the flesh"
and that formidable third party who goes
to make up the eminent trio could have no
place in her plan of life Our Illustration
shows her attired in her
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black give much animation to the prone
nades. There is close connection in this
rainy country between the weather and the
women's tempers. The summer thus far
has been gloomy cut from descTlp-
tiOn of a coaching meet this very English
sentence, 1T was fine meet, there were
but five showers" and it is hard to under
stand how courage is obtained for putting
on such light frocks that in single after
noon are more than likely to be spoiled.
| wonder if | have said that | have seen
Miss Philippe Fawcett who wears her
Cambridge honors still fresh upon her. She
looks fair-compleXioned. rather timid girl,
with bright face, not altogether at her
ease in society. Mrs. Oscar Wilde, whose
pink liberty silk couple of years ago was
famous, is wearing this summer frock OF
art green mixed with black lace and green
feathers. Her favorite posy is stephanotis
mixed with ferns.
With the black and white frocks | ought
to have included yellow. 1t is everywhere,
and looks well as a landscape feature when
one does not connect it to close with any
particular woman. There is passing this
moment-it is not yet too dark for obserya-
tion-a woman in yellow bengaliDe toned
down with black velvet. Her bonnet is black
with rOsettes of yellow.
The fashionable bodice reaches nearly to
the knees. The extremely long waists are
quaint on slender women, but painfully alb
surd on those OF generous proportions. L.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-07-20
ENVY wAYr1ruL 1.rsENps

Are told of the rose. One of the origin Of
the moss rose is given in the German. An
angel, whose duty it was to battle the young
buds in dew, slept beneath the shade sof a
rose tree. Grateful for the shelter, she
offered to confer upon it any favor which
the rose would choose. 1t asked another
grace. The puzzled angel wondered what
moment of in spiration, it threw over it a
covering of moss.
And robed in natures simplest weed,
Could there flower that rose exceed?
Withered roses have literature of their
own. In tile fictiOns of the day they have
been found in secret drawers, in cabinets
and over broken hearts. They have SOFT
ened natures and brought up bitter memo
ries. A witiered rose has been the tails
man by which some knightly lover has
been incited TO deeds of val0r.
A touching story is told OfPuritan times
which has all the sadness of TRUTH A noble
and sued for her hand. But the young girl
had given her love to Isaac tombstone and
came with her outlawed lover to the drear
New England shore, where unaccustomed
hardShipS brought speedy death.
The Duke never married, but at his
death, years after, there was found next
his heart a case containing withered rose,
given him by the one woman he had loved.
The rose has had dark days in its history.
1t has been drenched in blood. For thirty
long years its name was the signal for deeds
of violence and devastation. Perhaps there
never was a more bitter contest than En-
glands war of the roses" never greater
joy than when in the marriage of Henry of
Lancaster aud Eliza beth of York there was
celebrated the union of the white rose with
the red, and with that union peace.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-07-20
A CHlLD'S QUEER SLEEP.
How n Cyclone Affected a Pennsylvania
Girl

How Cyclone Affected a Pennsylvania
Girl.
kFSId STRANGE case is pulling every
{AA body at Franklin. Pa, physicians
A%Ay included. 1t is seemingly the result
of the cyclone that passed over Victory
township May 10th. Since the day Of the
disaster, says the Washington Star, one of
the Welton children has slept every other
three days. For three days and nights i'm
mediately after the disaster the child did
not sleep wink, then she went to sleep and
remained so for three days, all efforts to
arouse her proving vain. No amount of
noise or even pinching while in these
sleeps disturbed her in the least. When
her arms are placed in any position they
will remain so until changed by some cause
or other than that which comes from her.
The muscles will hold the body in any posi-
ton placed, even tc delicate feats of bal
ancing. When the child awakes from these
spells she declares she heard the rushing
of the winds and the smash and crash of
the trees aud house just as they sounded
on the day of the disaster, and that she
plainly sees them as they were huddled to-
gether when the storm struck their home.
A number of physicians have examined
her, but cannot account for these strange
spells. When awake the child seems to en-
Joy good health, eating, playing and doing
chores about the place the same as before
thus attacked.
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ENGLISH COURT ETIQUETTE.
How Unwritten Customs Are Strongt
Thnn Pnhl,sh Ia1rs

How Unwritten Customs Are Stronger
Thnn Published Laws.
EATIQUETTE is the very life and
= Z health of a court. 1t is observed
@S even in the arrangements of seats.
On each side of the small low dais,
intended exclusively for royalty are
rows of chairs which, L was told, were
definitely and clearly assigned, not by law,
but by absolute although unwrttten GUS
tom, to the different orders in the social
scale who accept the Queens invitation.
No one but those prescribed might
occupy them Thus on one side are
DucheSsPs and MarchionesSes; on
the other Enbassadresses and the
ladies of the Corps Diplomatique. 1t was
my good fortune to witness a very pretty
and graceful little ceremony in connection
with these distinctions, when young and
beautiful bride arrived, who, within the last
few months, had become Duchess. This
was her first appearance at such at court
ball, and she was making her way diff
IDENTIFY toward the position to which her
newly acquired rank entitled her when the
whole of the Duchesses present rose stimuli
taneously to greet their slster-peeress, and
to receive her into their circle.
What makes the Court ball so well worth
seeing is the fact that almost everybody in
the room has some well-grounded claim to
distinction. My own, | will admit, was
but reflected luster, and | entered paradise
under the wing of others, like the rest of
the debutantes. But these others repre-
scented all that is most notable and promi-
nent in London. Social rank Of all the
higher grades was fully represented, wealth
where it was associated with meritOrlous
money-getting, distinguished service to the
State, and high professional repute. Moth
ing proved this better than the bril-
liant display of decorations, the
consultations OF stars, crosses and medals,
all attesting the presence of every degree
Of merit and every form of celebrity. Lit
tie less distinguished but from extreme
contrast was the plain, almost homely,
black dress suit Of the American Minister,
who, OF course, wore no decorations what
ever. He was the only man there thus
simply attired, the type of great republic
which acknowledges no kind of distinction
but that of personal merit and perhaps, so
my father says. thinks more OF such baubes
than the most aristocratic nations in the
world urray's Magazine.
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Tho Growing Crops of Tex.s


The crop reports compiled by the News
are by far the most favorable and encour
aging that have ever been issued by il at
this season of the year. The reports are
thorough and complete, covering the entire
cotton-producing area of the State. Almost
without exception the correspondents note
an increase in acreage varying from to 70
pei. cent and averaging about 10 per
cent. The plant is about ten days later,
though its condition is uniformly good and
the farmers are well up with the work of
cultivation. The delay In development was
caused by the heavy rains early this month.
but no other damage was done than to i'm
pede teamwork. At present the growing
crop promises to be one of the largest ever
raised in the State, and if no serious
changes take place in the situation these
promises will be fulfilled. The condition
Of corn, oats and wheat. while not so favor
able as that of cotton, is very good. and
there is no indication at present that the
yield of each will not be fully up to the
usual tandard.-GalYeston News.
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tFEI. MONG the many novelties which
}Eaas have been designed and presented
INV TO the public are the following,
which are described by the Jewellers Re-
view.
Silver filets are exceedingly becoming
one of late issue showing succession Ell
fieur-de-lys with moonstone centers.
Some new Observation-Disclosures of stained
ivory assume vegetable forms, of which d
recent specimen is a sweet potato.
In the ivory stick Of Il new and attractive
fan nestles an enameled orchid, with a dia-
mond sunk into its outer surface.
Bracelets have been devised in silver in
the form of long French nails curved round
and held together in the center by small
padlocks.
One Of the latest fancies in brooch es is
an obOng opal set across gold bar, with a
double circle of diamonds surrounding the
opal
A novel watch charm that is cropping up
anew is a copy of q quarter dollar, which,
when blown into from the edge, emits a
shrill whistle.
A charming collection of new hair-pins of
sterling silver includes one topped by a
harp-like arrangement of slender wires in a
richly chased frame.
Another new fashion for which London
is responsible is a broad velvet ribbon for
the hair upon which sparkle trio Of but
terfies encrusted with diamonds.
The racing season has developed an ex-
cellent selection of new chronOgrspbs, with
diamond ornamental backs. equipped with
split second and hy-back appliances.
Col0red pearls are the choice Of many
and afford an interesting contrast when
worked in with harmonZing effect with the
glittering diamond, the lustrous sapphire or
the fiery ruby.
Original and artistic is brooch made in
the form Of full-Dl0wn rose, which effect
is produced by skllful enemeling on gold
In the heart Of the flower may be seen dia-
monds in raised settings, arranged in a
small circle and giving additional beauty to
the brooch.
A manufacturer has just produced for a
fashion prince snake ring of an original
character. The ring is of gold, notified
with oval spots, and the belly of the reptile
is in yellow enamel, to represent to life the
ugly monster it is proposed to copy. A
blood-red ruby, set in the head, brings the
price of the ring to an almost fabulous
figure
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THE FASHIONS
IN LONDON.
The Summer Fr0ck as 1t Is Worn
i'm Old Merrie England.
Dress at Tennis Tournament-Milliner Who
Are Made TO Contribute to Charity.
Low Bodices in Theaters.
Special to THE SUNDAY CALL.

EISONDON, July s. 1S9O.-The long sum-
tS.k mer twilight is very sweet on the
EzzS Thames. Before in the morning it
is light and at in the evening am still
writing by an open window. The hawthorn
flowers have dropped from the hedges, but
everywhere the honeysuckle blossoms, not
least luxuriantly in the breast knots of the
bonny English lasses, for whom the season
of ruralizing is just about to begin. Some
of the bonnest of these lasses handled rae
Quets at the tennis tournament at Richmond
a few days ago. A greater number of girl
players, | notice, are able to volley than
with US, and, whether equal to the over
hand service or not, English girls look Won
derfully well while playing, their larger,
more vigorous frames, deeper color and
heavy braids of Saxon hair. which some
times give them an awkward appearance as
contrasted with American delicacy and
grace in drawing-room, coming out to best
advantage under the open sky and on the
green turf strewn with daisies.
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A shor. win aud Big Estate.

The will of Alexander Thompson was adj
mitted to probate recently by Surrogate
Arlington of Rochester, n. Y. Consider
ing the fact that the deceased had an estate
Of $500, 900 to dispose OF, his last will and
testament is one Of extraordinary brevity.
1t reads as follows:
l, Alexander Thompson, of Rochester, Monroe
County, N. Y, do make and declare this to be
my last Will and testament, hereby revnking all
former Wills made by me. 1 give, devise and
bequeath all my estate, both real and personal
to my wife, Helen B. Thompson, and / hereby
appoint my uncle. John II. Adams OF Rochester,
aforesaid, executor hereof. ln witness whereof
have heieunlo subscribed my name and affixed
my seal this 29th day OF November 1887.
ALEXANDER THOMPSON.
Rochester Post-Express.