The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-04-28
DOROTHY Q'S CHAT.
She Tells About Some of the
Latest New York Novelties.
What Californians Are Doing in the Empire
City-A Catching Name Adopted by an
Elderly Popcorn-vender.
Special Correspondence of THE Monsrse CALL.


and spring flowers. They were invented in
| England, but they viii. taste good in Amer
lea. But to tell what they are and how TO
make them. They are made of bread and
butter, of course. First you must have deli
| cious new butter, golden and palatable,
wrap it snugly round with thin oil-paper or
cloth, and put it in stone jar lined with
! fresh cherry, orange, clover or locust bios
SONS. Smother the butter in blossoms and
| shut the jar up tight. Next wrap a crisp
crusted loaf of bread in thin cloth and
smother it in blossoms, too. Then when
the hour arrives for the luncheon or tea cut
the bread in thin. dainty slices and butter it
well, and lay the slices together. The odor
of the blossoms is delightful, and the taste
| of them as delicate ard elusive as the
| fragrance of raspberrles. Think of tasting
| spring-tme in this wayl
The fiower-yenders ara selling flowers so
cheaply this year that it really seems as if
! there is such a seas on as spring in New
| York City; and then the Coaching Club is
! preparing for its gala days and drives, and
the initiated know that in the gay world
| these coaching parties are counted among
| the merriest of springs pleasures.
You know the Coaching Club was origi-
mated to encourage four-in-hand driving in
America. No one is eligible for member
| ship unless he can drive four horses or owns
a fourth of drag. There are forty MEM
bers and thirty-fOur coaches. The uniform
of the club is dark green cutaway coat,
with brass buttons, and yellow striped
waiStcoat. The handsome dress es, gay and
airy parasols and hats of the ladies, and
these gay uniforms of the gentlemen and the
handsomely caparisoned horses in the snowy
drags make the annual parade of the club,
which occurs the last Saturday in May, a
brilliant pageant
LITTLE INDIVIDUAL CHOCOLATE POTS
OF daintest chinaware emphasize the fact
that this age considers more and more the
needs of the individual, particularly and ex-
clusively. What with individual bottles for
condiments and pots for coffee, tea and
chocolate and individual tea-balls, TIE fes-
tive family board will suggest finely ap-
pointed restaurant, instead of the old-fash-
toned table with community dishes. Speak
ing of finely appointed restaurants, there is
one that has been opened but a short time here
that is worth telling about. 1t is restau-
rant for wOmen-a place where men cannot
go. Who has not heard of the delicious sal
ads and tOUthsome relisheS in restaurants
where women cannot 90, and who would
not enjoy telling one OF ''woman's natural
protectors" (as the Rev. Morgan Dix desig-
mates nam with the same air of having SUI
peror advantages, which it is quite natural
for him to assume, that there is at last, be-
sides the Ladies Club, restaurant where
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served at reasonable rates, where men caa-
not come. OF course, the idea that men
cannot come doesn't add to its pleasure
Eve wouldn't have enjoyed the apple il she
hadn't shared it with Adam, and we are all
daughters of Eye-but it is especially de-
lightful to be able to inform noble lord of
creation that there are charming restau-
rants. with good things to eat. where men
cannot cOme-just for the sake of saying it!
Mrs. Elliot f. Shepard, you remember,
oil in nna of NV laft fad To
the Young Woman's Christian Association
q magnificent stone building six stories high
and beautifully furnished, as temporary
clearinghouse for self-supporting women.
She also equipped a restaurant in connec-
ton with this house.
Upon an iron swinging sign, artistically
wrought and shaped like shield, is lettered
in pretty script Restaurant for Women"
The doorway, a wde prettily tiled vesti-
bule, fulflls the promise OF the sign that
here is
AN ATTRACTIVE PLACE,
The India silk curtains of a soft, light
olive green show through the glass door,
which, upon being opened, leads into
wide hallway. off which, on the right, is
neatly and attraetively furnished sitting
room. The restaurant-rOom Is large and
spacious. Its floor of mosaics, its wood
work of oak, its immense fireplace
with rich brown. tiles, its electric
lights, its stained-glass windows, dainty
lhDeTY, Hn6 CulndHHTe anu eNcEllenL
service make it an ideal restaurant for
women. 1t has an air of luxury and refine
ment, but its prices are more reasonable
than any other restaurant in New York.
But the evolution OF this restaurant is the
least part of the good work done by Mrs.
Shepard. The Margaret Louisa Home is
charming from the laundry and the house
keepers closet, wherein is complete scrub
bling outfit, 20 the handsomely and artisti-
cally furnished parlors. Mrs. Shepard saw
| to every detail from the new fashioned
| soap-dish to be fastened on the Scrubbing-
| pail to the dainty vases and handsome yell
| low lamp upon the upright piano In the par
| lorS. Everywhere is the impress of woman
who combines with rare Judgment the neat,
| thorough housewife and the artistic lover of
| the beautiful. A glimpse of one room will
reveal much of the house to you.
| Seyenty-eght women can be easily ac-
! cOmmOdated. The bedroom, with its we'll
| illed-Out bed, pompous pillows and iron
| bedstead painted white, with posters capred
with brass; its hanging shelves of oak; its
| stylish oaken table, with linen cover
daintily embroidered in red or yellow wash
silks; the white washstand with its prettly
| Powered set; the bureau with its plate
| glass mirror, artistic scarf, embroidered in
| silk and pattern to match the tabe-coth;
| its pin-cushion, match-case, quaint CANDLE
| stick, cretonne bag for soiled clothes in the
wardrobe, give the impression that the
room was prepared for an expected guest
Dy Il uOSplIdDlb HUoLSoS, lusltdu OIL LOT a
| wayfarng stranger.
THE BIBLE ON THE TABLE,
! The scrap-basket u1der it and the inviting
| rocker beside II, and the little silken banner
| upon which IS written tender goodnight
blessing that swings from each mirror
| where It Will surely be seen-all suggest a
| home with love touches of welcome in it. in
stead of clearinghouse whose very air
seems charged with indifference as great as
| the price. IL is no use to try TO tell you how
| charming the entrance, how artistic the col
oring in the furnishings or draperies, for
| any one OF you who wants to, and who is
armed with references above reproaeh, can
sojourn there for thirty days at most as
tonishingy reasonable price. Mrs Shepard
| supported the house for month during its
experimental days. 1t is. self-supporting
now.
Mrs Shepard's own home is one of the
| baDdsomest in the city, of course. IL is tile
| palatial house of her iather, w. K. Wander
| bilt, and it is especially noteworthy for its
picturesque and exquisite carvings. The
electric button at the door is in a lions
mouth of handsomely wrought iron.
| Through the handsome glass doors the cur
| taius of rich Irish point lace show in clear
| relief. The walls on the lower floor are
| hung with rich draperles. One exquisite bed
room has an inlaid floor of polished wood,
and the bedsteads and whole bedroom SEA-
tables, chairs and book-case-are inlaid
| with mother-of-pearl. OF course the house
| is very rich and most elegant In its appoint
ments, but forgot all about 1t as looked
at Thomas Hills fine painting of the Muir
glacier that hangs In the hall upon the sec
ond story of this palatial home. How ad-
miraby the artist portrayed that bewilder-
| ingly grand work of God! 1t carried me
back to Alaska, and that same feeling came
over me that did when l saw it upon glo-
rious MONDAY, with its ice turrets, groitoes
and noble facade sparkling as with the daz-
| cling glory of millions and millions of gems
that all mans handiwork was nothing be-
side it.
IT BEGGARs THE IMAGI NATION
| And leaves one reverent and humble. Mr..
Hill has caught the grand old glacier in
favorable spot and light. His picture is
| much priced by Colonel Shepard.
1t Is pleasant to come upon these re-
| minders of California and Calif0rnians un-
expectedly, and it shows that the artists
that are identified with the far West are
| treasured in New York, and that their pic
| FOR tal han aatE H., u.