The morning call., 1891-09-28
NEW YORK'S WARM DAY
A Story of Luck as Good as q
Fairy Tale.
Some Notes About Poker Work That Is Now
the Fad East-Edgar M Eddlestone
Tells About California Fruit.
Special to THE MORNING cALs-

| days this year are whiting and warm.
| Every body that can stay away from town
does it with alacrity Everybody that has
to stay in town gets hotter by making warm
remarks about the weather. So, rs can be
easily inferred, New York just at this writ
| ing is not very comfy"
| Despite the heat, however, there is q
happy family here-very happy. They live
down in the tenement-house district, on the
poor East Side. They are as jolly as good
babies that enjoy roliicking in their bath
| tubs. because they received news from San
Francisco that certain Joseph POtruch
had left them the tidy little fortune of S14,-
| 100000. This same Joseph Potruch Is the
brother of the good woman who inherits
his fortune and the cousin of her husband
so it is all in the family. Tonight Mr..
P0truch leaves for San Francisco to get his
fortune. 1t is as good as fairy tale to
think about their good luck and as funny as
a comedy to see how they try to live up to it.
Mr.. Charles Henry Phelps contemplates
leav ng New York soon for a trip on the
Mediterranean. Mr.. Phelps is one of the
few lawyers here whose writings have Sc.
cured for him admission to the Authors
Club. His numerous friends in California
who are familiar with his pen work can APP
preciate how well MIR. Phelps merits this
distinction.
Mr.. Herman Oelrichs, who married Miss
Jessie Fair is reported to be the best known
CLUB man in America. Mrs. Oelrichs will
soon be comforted with little companion
whose tender wants and sweet helpleSsness
will absorb her time and thoughts, and help
to ease and soOthe the heartache caused by
tho death of her mother. While [ am goS-
sipug in this strain, I'll tell you in strict
confidence, that in October, too. there is an
other widely beloved woman, happy in the
thought that she will treasure a pain
bought gift" Yes. 1t is true that Mrs.
Grover Cleveland is sweetly serious and
but don't repeat it. I've told you too much
already, but II trust TO your
POWERS OF DISCRETION
That you will keep the secret-goinz, with
tender comprehension.
Judge John II. Boat and wife, j. B.
Crockett. Russell j. Wilson and Timothy
Hopkins are at the Hotel Brunswick. A
brother of Mr.. Dinsmore, who keeps the
California Hotel in San Francisco, is one Of
| the able promoters OF comfort and good
| cheer at the Brunswick Hotel, and it is be-
coming favorite abiding place for San
| Franciscans.
| Here is q pointer Ito speak In the sharp
| classics of the street, for the ladies at the
| Woman's Exchange. The latest thing in
needle work here is a sachet for the linen
| closet. The sachet is made OF linen and is
worked with violets in wash flosses. 1t is
the length of the shelf. The perfume is
generally combination OF orris root and
| violet.
Typography or hot poker work is going
to be a raging fad. The fair sisterhoOd are
greatly interested now, and it will be the
| fashionable fancy work of the winter. Rus
| STA leather is beautiful material to work
on. Chair seats, book covers, portfolios,
| blotters and card covers or any article OF
| leather may be successfully decorated in this
| 4 raha l,pLr aNo poTlx vol an
leather. Very striklngly fine effects are OBJ
| tanned by hitting this work in water color,
| or touching it with gold or lustra colors.
| But ye California woman, 50 clever. dare
| say you know all about typography at your
| exchange, but humbly offer the suggestion
| and ! tell you that your mart to help your
| less fortunate sisters compares very fayOra-
bic with the chief ones in this great city.
Sothern is charming everybody here at
the Lyceum Theater by his fine acting in
curiously interesting play by Henry Arthur
| Jones entitled THE Dancing Girl"
Sothern wears his clothes like gentleman
| "a fine art, by the way-whch every gen.
tleman has not learned. II l obeyed my
| impulse to expatiate upon the strength and
weakness of 1.-The Dancing Girl " | would
| say too much You will all see it later.
! Mansfield is giving the great public fine
| lessons in fine manners
AT THE GARDEN THEATER,
! By his exquisite Interpretation of Beau
| Brummel by Clyde Fitch. Next week he
| gives new play called Nero" You all
know, of course, that Mansfield is soon to
| marry Beatrice Cameron, the society girl
who made her debut about the time Mrs.
| James Brown-Potter did.
| Miss Abbie Louise Grant OF East Oakland
| is visiting in Boston, and expects TO come 10
| New York about the middle OF October
Mr. and Mrs Clinton Day of Berkeley,
! Cal, are at Cambridge, Mass.
Mr.. Edgar NJ. Eddlestone OF San Fran
| cisco is at the Gilsey House, telling how the
fruit-growers at Lodi, Cal. are in the lowest
| depths of trouble on account OF the millions
of small red spiders that have attacked the
| fruit. | hope these nasty little bugs will
only prove bug bears and be pooh hooed
| away. That isn't offered as a suggestion
for a practical remedy. Indeed, if the
| troublesome spiders are as bad as they are
painted, something stirring and immediate
should be done to eXtlrpate them
While MIR. Eddlestone is telling of the
troubles at Lodi, Mr.. George 5. Gibson of
| Redlands, Cal. is at the Fifth Avenue
| Hotel telling great thing, about the raisin
| industry in his section of the country. He
Is credited with the remark that "Our re-
turns from grape-growlng are about $500
yer acre and we can see the grapes right at
our front gate" That was pleasing
story. But he put damper on it damp
ness, IeIhaps. would better express iO by
| telling the truth about the lack of water in
the country and went on to say that
miners inch of water is worth from 500 to
| $500. according to the position Of the farm"
He patched it up beautifully. however, with
| a fine gold embroidered patch when he said
California is fast becoming the fruit
growing section Of the United States, and
there is no place on this continent that Of
| fers such Inducements to young men of
brains and some money" Now, that re-
mark had good, true California ring to it,
and when | heard it l felt like the sire ia
the STORY of the Jabberwock." who
| ''chortlpd in his i,vD DORoTUy q