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THE NEW ATHENS.

II thou wouldst view the Athens Of our Estate OF
Gold"
wouldst contemplate the picture all unrolled
And wrought in details definite and grand,
Then climb up to yon lovely tableland,
Where the white walls of the .'Rotunda" rise
In castelated beauty toward the SKIES
And founts and springs OF healing water spray,
Sparkling and pungent, all the live-long day.
Glance southwark Ger the unduatng lee.
Cleft here and there with curving road, and SEQ
The emerald fields and vineyards stretching wide'
And wel-tilIed farmland stamped on every side
Creeks, rivers. streamlets wind their silver aises
Through glade OF oak and mistletoe for miles,
While in the distance San Francisco Bay
Sleeps calmly, meath the SUMS caressing ray.
Look westward where Tamalpais 'gainst the SKY
Colossal leans In austere monarchy
With gorges, deep and sheltered grading mlss
That lie, ike ghostwraiths. their ramparts amidst
These are the offspring born her of the sea,
Who loves his bride with chaste fidelity
And never tires of murmuring at her feet
serenade, in measures low and sweet.
Now fix your vision eastward where the dome
OF grand old Mount Diablo towers alone,
Yelled in tran sparent mists of violet hue,
Which, from the line OF heavens ceruiean blue,
Reach softly down to kiss the dusky pines
That form a cl oister on the far confines
OF the valley. Here the weird wInd-sprtes come,
And to their Friar at midnight chant the "fe
Deum."
Ncrthward, beyond a stretch OF sylvan sheen,
Mount ST. Helenas pinnacle is seen
Printed against the sky In clear outline
Sanctifed type of Iovelness divinel-
While the Coast Range lifts enchanted chain
To girdle the valley and the fertile plain
Beyond the river margin, where there rise
Oak and odorous cedar's intricacies.
oh when the summer day is closing and the skies
Are dappled with soft opalescent dyes
Then stand above the valley and review
This modern Athens! Peradventure you
Would contemplate the picture in another phase.
Go, then. when in the illimitaole haze
OF heaven the stars SHINE. and the Queen OF Night
Rolls DER the ramparts with Thanksgiving light
OF pensive beauty that me seems
Through whole lifetime would enchant thy
dreams.
There with thy soul deep-steeped in ecstasy
In silence stand, and let thy vision be
Feasted and satisfied Oh, Napa Vale
Athens of California-thee we haii
We crown thee with the bay wreath! Thine the SOD
That wears the banner OF our nations God!
Ndpa CITY, AprH 49, 1891. ADA L. HALsrEAD.
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doubt they would resent any interference
designed to save their aching backs, as they
are always to be seen in pairs, pounding
their clothes with rude energy and gossip
ing all the while with so much apparent en-
1oyment that one wonders how so small
place Can furnish requisite news and scandal.
Picturesque as these women look, with gay
colored handkerchiefs tied about their necks
and heads, the scene in '.the lavoir'' is
even more artistic, because the elements Of
life and shadow are more effectively con-
trasted. The basement admits light through
leafy screen, and the watts of water are
half in and half out of the light. Steep
stone steps, wet and messy, lead into the
cellar-way, and here the women come and
60, in their simple, quaint attire. the whole
scene full of rich color and RembrandtesQue
chiar0scuro.
But pictures ABOUND everywhere, and
those that require almost no changes as to
composition are innumerable in this rural
spot. 1t is not different, perhaps in other
Continental countries. Dress, habits of
work and modes OF living are primitive,
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Robert Bonner says that the bicycle-rider
will never catch up with the trotting-horse
for single mile, but Mr.. Bonner is prelu-
diced witness and apt to be mistaken. The
m lie record has been much more rapidly re-
duced by bicycle-riders than by trotters,
and that the makers have not exhausted the
possibility of improvement is altogether
probable. The cushion tire proves to be
not much of an improvement upon the old
solid kind. but great things are expected of
the pneumatic tire, which consists of h0l-
low rubber tube blown full of air. The
great trouble with this tire so far is that it
has to be made soft and flexible and soon
wears out and bursts. 1t may be doubted
whether 1t will ever be much used on cheap
road machines, but for track-racing it is
certainly great invention. saving several
seconds ON the mile. One inventive Phila-
delphian has devised steam bicycle which,
he says, will go fifteen miles an hour with
no more labor than that of steering. With
such huge profits to be made in the sale OF
wheels, the inventors are likely to keep i'm
proving them every year.
When men began to ride bicycles they at
once, as rule, adopted practically the
costume they now wear something re-
sembling baseball players suit with the
addition Of a sack coat. Minutise such as
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of the table to young girl whose delicate
beauty have never seen equaled. Not,
painter, this young thing, surely, l thought.
No, indeed, not an artist, not the embodi-
ment of that beauty which is Its own ex-
cuse for being" She was model, an ad,
junct of the Partisan studios. She had
posed for those skillful painters of graceful
femininity, Lefebvre, Alfred Stevens, Made
leine Lemaire aud others. She was
here under contract for the season
to a young French painter, who, though
so rich a man as not to feel the spur of
necessity, had already acquired honorable
mention from the Salon jury. The winters
he had spent in Algiers. and innumerable
photographs as we'll as sketches, tes-
tilted to his industry. And here he
went daily to his task, and perhaps
with even more regularity than most
of the Americans. This little model was
posing for him as a rustic in the priests
garden. Was it not an anomalous situation
But in France, where they see with different
eyes than ours and think more philosophic-
ally, it proved scarcely comment. 1t was
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Dark colors, black, blue, gray and brown,
short skirts, absolutely devoid of trimming,
close-fttng bodices; these have been the
rule in ladies' cycling costumes. This sum
mer an element of divergence will be intro
duced by the liberal use of staiched shirt
fronts and vests of very mannish aspect by
smart young women. When the very hot
test weather comes thin, loose silk blOuses
will be the most worn.
The English Bicycling News says that a
ladies' college debated the question whether
wheeling was proper sport for women.
Afterward the women voted on it, thirty
two favoring the sport, fourteen denOuncing
it and seven hedging" 1t is difficult to
see why any one should wish to negative
such a question, provided the woman has
time, money and strength. Or rather, time
and money alone. The strength comes by
using it.
The best sport of all is sometimes seen
when husband and wife go leisurely trund-
ling along upon tandem, and three or four
children of assorted sizes come following
after, mounted singly or doubly upon their
own wheels. Such sight is not uncommon
in ''the Oranges" JOHN L. HEAToN.
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laid out the designers understood the great
secret of concealed methods. Rose vines
Chamber at random on the succeed walls,
and cIumps of passion flowers, peoples,
hollyhocks, etc, attain such vigOr and pro-
likeness as testify to a rich and friendlysoiL
There are no lines other than curves in these
flower massings the set figures of the city
bred florist having here no hint of existence.
Plants and trees have sprung into being
with the sole purpose of spreading joy and
fragrance.
Our first meal at the village inn-for in
our domiciie no food was provided for US
introduced us to the Gree type Of garden.
1t is here on pleasant days that the guests
take their light breakfast of cafe au lait
and rolls; it is here, too, under secluded
arbor, that any other meal may be served,
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MEN, WOMEN
And WHEELS.
Wonderful Popularity Of the Modern
TWO-WhGSlGd Vehicle.
Nearly 100000 Bicycles in the Country, With
Half Million Riders-small Machines
the Favorites-Lady Riders


ORANGE IN. j.. April 2o.-A few years
ago there came time when cycling seemed
to have reached its limit. One would have
said that it was likely to remain stationary.
or even to decline in public favor.
Since that time a few things have hap
pened, however, which have changed the
appearance of things wonderfully. The
perfection OF the safety wheel has made it
possible to ride without the constant fear of
broken nose. The invention of the ladies'
bicycle has relieved the weaker sex of the
burden of third wheel and set women all
over the country to cycling. The pneu-
matte tire has placed the bicycle-racer
abreast of the trotting horse for short dis
tances and away ahead of it for long ones.
The prices of machines" have dropped as
their quality improved. The Improvement
of the common roads has been due largely to
the persistent clamor of cyclists and reacts
to increase their number. Here in Union
County, N. j., for instance, where road
making has been reduced to a science, the
valuations have increased 100000 in a
very short time, largely due to wheelmen
and road-makers. The Oranges" are the
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for the first time he never goes farther
afeld until he has sketched this bridge
from at least five or six different points of
view. And Tor that matter, there is whole
seasons work from the foot of this very
path. where a slender tree, rivaling our
elm in gracefulness, trails its branches 10
the stream. Meath its shade boat is
nearly always to be found, with oars rest
ing In the rowlOcks, awaiting those disposed
to exercise or pleasure. Another picture,
ready made to hand, is ''the lavoir," which
ment of a wing of the inn. 1t Is the
common habit Of the native women
to wash al the rivers bank. No
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POETIC THOUGHTS.
Written for The SUNDAY CALL
SOUNDS.

iEax ,MoNG the blessings that G cd hath bestowed
yAEAIR To cheer and help us in our daily rounds
ga q And make soft music all along the road,
IVY Count that of pleasant sounds.
The drip of rain, just at the winters close,
when all the earth grows warm and moistu re-
STEPPED,
The splash of April drops through snow and rose,
OF branches blossom-heaped;
The liquid notes OF song-brds when the day
Parts back the shadows from her violet skies,
As midway OF her Journey pauses May,
With sunny, smiling eyes;
The song of summer zephyrs IN the morn
That stir like silken wings amidst the wheat,
Or send faint laughter down the aisles OF corn,
Like fairy-musc sweet;
The BALLADS Of the placid streams that sweep
Through and shade as oceanward they fee,
The purIing of the meadow brooks, and deep,
Grand voices OF the sea;
The happy ehirring in the hedges brown;
The sylvan wnisperings where'er you pass,
As II you heard the fieeting summers gown
Stir lightly In the grass.
What should miss, our lifelong journey through
(In all our duties and our daily roundsl,
OF tranquil gadness II we never knew
The charm OF pleasant soundsi
81 Louis, NO.. Aprft 1891 HATTIE WHITNEY.
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manners Of the rural simplicity of the peas
ants and the artificial habits of the city. By
nature the artists incline to the unconven-
tional, and in their dress they readily adopt
a style suited to their outdoor work. But
as for their food they demand aud obtain
quality for which the average Partisan res
taurant has set the standard. In the uu-
precautions inn at Gree, where bare floors
and but little in the way of comfort or taste
is provided, excellent meals are furnished
and at hours in absolute accordance with the
artists demands-a very good breakfast or
luncheon at u 80 O'clock, and more than
tolerable dinner with wine are served. At
this latter repast, set at7 As o'clock in sum-
mer, in order to give the painters every adj
vantage of daylight and evening glow,
twenty persons assembled. They repre-
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A DEFECTIVE PHOTOGRAPH.
The Artist Tells the Original How tn
Fault Can Be Remedied.

The Artist Tells the Original How the
Fault Can Be Remedied.
There is no love being lost between GER
tain photographer and society lady. and
all because of the latter's unreasonableness.
Not long ago she had her picture taken at
his gallery.
The lady is very proud of her classic pro-
file and also of pair of diamond earrings
which she possesses, says the Philadelphia
News. A negative was made showing a
profile of the lady's face and the photog-
rapher finished dozen pictures and sent
them to her. thinking she would be greatly
pleased with them.
She sent him note saying that she was
pleased with the profile, as it was exactly
what she wished, but that she was much dis
satisfied with the pictures because they
showed but one of her diamond earrings.
The photographer replied, saying:
Dear Modam-Aereafter when you wish a
profile picture taken in manner that Will show
both OF your diamond earrings please hang one
OF them In your nose. Yours, truly, -.
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IN sPRINGTIME.

The kiss OF morn upon the mountain,
rose glow in the sky,
rainbow DER the silvery fountain,
floating butterfly;
mass of bonnie. blushing clover
Bright with the sparkling dew
gentle gIadness all the wide world over,
A prom Use old yet new.
noontide splendor warm and goldens
Filling the world below;
A song of waters, dear and olden,
That down the valleys flow;
south wind whispering tender praises,
Green leaves that rise and fall,
wealth OF buttercups and daisies,
A blue sky over all.
Rare scents upon the breezes roaming,
last song Of the birds,
something in the purple goamIng
Too sweet to say in words;
Past days, past dreamlngs backward thronging
heart-song half Sigh;
A thought, a wish tender longing
For summer b. and by.
ALICE Z. STONE.
NJ Y dnrfy 1871
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If desired. 1t is here that some of the
artists may be seen at work, and here they
meet to banter, criticize each others
sketches, and discuss aria theme as vari-
able as women, and not less fascinating
than love. Fancy taking ones breakfast
under leafy canopy. gentle fresh breeze
for stimulant. perhaps a bird orchestra
holding matinee rehearsal near by, and
wide, but rendered more narrow and
waYy by the tall sedges which jut out in
clumps of feathery green into its CLASSY sur
face, wherein is reflected the tone of sky, its
fieecy clouds, and the somber. shadowy
curves of an old stone bridge, with most
picturesque grouping OF arches. 1t is
scene of sylvan lOveliness, rarely excelled.
1t is said that when an artist comes here
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~ nLAYOIR,n oR WAsALNe.PLAo

ridiculous by ignorant attempts to beautfy
themselves for the occasion. In their Dig
nifty of most worthy, stolid sort, they pre-
sent themselves in wOTkaday garb, and sit
with tireless patience, conscious of earning
quite easily something more than the pit
tance which rewards their ordinary labor.
They do not understand the quality of their
attractions, nor why the artists are eager to
marmotte to which the sun and many wash
ings have given a rare SOftness and harmony
of hue; but the good woman who wears the
coveted article is thankful for the exchange,
and is confident that she has the best of the
bargain.
But GREE, by reason of It's annual influx of
artists, affords many anomalistic incidents.
There is curious blending in the visitors
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AN APRIL DREAM,

The pensive stiffness OF the April morn.
With murmuring winds, low signing, faint,
And suush ne struggling through the mists forlorn,
Seems on my dreaming soul to paint
varied landscape filled with gorgeous CLEANS
or summers golden, gorgeous tints,
When earth shall bask in Juue's warm beams
In lieu of Aprils heetiug hints.
Into a miracle of loveiuess
The budding Howeret soon will swell
Earths throbbing heart the warm south wind ca
ress;
The song bird to his mate Will tell
In airy food OF melody his love;
The flashing rivulet reflect,
In It's translucent depth the blue above,
A sapphire sky. with summer clouds Light fecked.
April, 1891 j. T. II.
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and, as is well known, it is the hand work
ers that are generally artistically interest
ing. Progressive ideas and people and
manufacturing districts are not friendly
to art. Here one encounters peasants
plodding along under load of faggots,
leading their cattle. wheeling their bar
rows, etc. Such figures are part
of the very landscape in which they
appear. The artist sees them with delight,
and recognizes that rare unity which he has
sought in vain in our enterprisng, energetic
America. The picturesque figures of this
village have posed over ana over again
Tor the artists. They do not, like rustic
models in New England, make themselves
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TO A PHOTOGRAPH.

A SONNET.
Her very eyes though shining not SO bright
The same bewitehing smile of golden yore
Those pretty poutny lips that covered DER,
Two rows of teeth that were matchless white, d
That showed their luster through the darksome
night,
All these that look so natural-what more
Need 1.-The very tresses that she
All seem so realistic to my ST, hit.
All! when on thee, o photograph, gaze,
Methinks her lips prepare themselves 10 speak,
I almost the flush rise on her cheek,
And then before my vision comes haze,
The tears start in mine eyes-ah can 1t be,
That her pure spirit comes 10 visit me?
T. NoRBET CARNEY.
San FrGnctsco, Aprft 81, 1891
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Together we sit In the cleaning,
With only a step between
His mother with fifty summers,
And with Just nineteen.
We sit there long In the twilight.
While the darkness deepens fast;
/ smile, for l think Of the future:
She weeps, for she thinks of the past.
She folds me close to her bosom.
While her tears fall thicker and fast;
Her lot to bear, to nurse, to rear
And then to lose at last"
Sobs break the silence that folds US,
And say, as raise my head:
"You are losing him not, dear mother,
But gaining daughter instead"
1 thought my dream was the sweetest,
But certainly hers stood the test.
She's read the book through to the ending
While I've but begun, at the best.
Ledduitte, Colo, Aprti, 1891 RUTH WARD KAHN
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scented almost every nation under the sun,
but in sympathy of interest and in spirit OF
tolerance they made for the nonce an ideal
family. The period for dinner was the CHIEF
hour in the day, and by those who had
worked, as they thought. to some purpose
it was often turned into time of hilarious
mirth.
Artists are, proyerbially. boys all their
days, and when 10 person with dignity 70
maintain is present to impose restra Mt they
are won't to give full vent to TEL peren-
nially youthful spirit.
had been seated at my first dinner only
few minutes when there glided into tne
room and took her seat on the opposite size
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A POSSE AID EssE.

Upon the untouched canvass
The painter can discern
The glowing picture, finished,
Where sunsets glories burn.
Though blank the sheets before him,
The rapt musician hears
Celestial tones that haunt him,
Unheard by other ears.
Within the rough-hewn marble,
The sculptor's eye can see
The form Of faultless beauty,
The Psyche that shall be.
The faithful Chr stian toiling
For man, with God for friend,
Goes on in trustful travel
And sees the certain end.
The mists OF doubt drift ever
Ger Rublcons uncrossed
TIL under hopes bright sunshine
They vanish and are lost.
And so to all who labor.
And so to all who long,
To see fond hopes accomplished,
Look forward and be strongl
zlqmeda, Cal, Aprts Is, 1891 ASatEH
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"FoRGET ME NoTs."

One Sabbath morning. q crowded city car
In her small dlmped hands, girl with SOFT brown
eyes,
held blue forget me nots," wee bits of summer
skies.
Whom shall not forget? gu STONED mg soul;
Low breezes from the tropic replied,
Forget him net-the Lord-the crucifed"
Son Francisco, A!3rik ~, 1891. GRACE HIBBARD
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WHAT HE WANTED.

II have come in here, sir" said tho
angry citizen to the superintendent Of the
horse-car company, ito get justice. Yes
terday as my wife was getting on to one Of
your horse-cars the conductor stepped on
her dress and tore off yard of it."
"Wel, sir, calmly replied the superin-
tendent, II don'tknOw that we are TO blame
for that. What do you expect US to do. get
her a new dress?"
"No, sir" l do not" grimly replied the
other, brandishing in his right hand a small
piece of cloth. I" What l propose to have
you do is to help me match this cloth"
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They Mixed Them Up.

Once upon time reporter for one of the
New York papers went out into neighbour
ing county and reported murder trial. AS
requested he sent to the editor portrait
sketches of the District Attorney, the
Coroner and the murderer, all properly
labeled. But in the office were many, many
pictures, and those three got mixed up so
that the murderer appeared as the Coroner,
the District Attorney as the murderer aud
the Coroner as the District Attorney. The
District Attorney was very angry and
threatened TO sue the paper for damages.
but was appeased by the present of Sl50an
q nice appreciative write up" in which his
many excellent qualities were strongly set
forth in print
1t was the same paper which once printed
a smooth-faced jersey politician counterfeit
presentment by mistake for Editor Stead's
bearded and thoughtful countenance.
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A famous surgical scientist mentions the
case of a railway guard who had met with
80 serious an accident that he was compelled
to have his elbow, including the elbow
Joint, cut out. at the place OF lesion the
bones, with balls ana sockets, membranes
and ligaments, we're reproduced, and the
arm became as good as ever,
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sHREDs AND PATCHES.

Witty Paragraphs Written for the Cloak
Review by Tom Mason.
Look here, young man." said the stern
father, do you realize that my daughter is
in the habit of wearing dresses that cost all
the way from $50 to S1O0?"
Il do" replied the young man firmly.
"and, SIR" he continued, an exuItant ring
in his voice, sit was only the other night
that we took an account of stock and found
that she had enough of them to last three
wears ahead"
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COURAGE.

Courage! sisters in the struggle
For the daily wants of life;
Know ye not there waits another.
Free from any form or strife?
Know ye not that Christ, the Savior,
Numbers word and deed and care,
And that they will CLEAN resplendens
Jewels in the diadems yen wear?
CourageI brothers in the turmoil,
Though the way be dark and cold,
Ye shall find the golden promise
That the Master made OF old.
"Onward. upward" be thy motto
IT'LL the day of life is done.
And We stand before him glorious,
Harbored safe. the victory won.
San FrdRcisco, Aprt 10, 1891. BETH.
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AYeteran Yirtuoso.

The other day, among crowd OF gayly
dressed women who were going into raptures
over the lovely things displayed at an an
tique furniture-store-and, by the way,
New York is getting to have about as many
of these as Paris-I saw grim figure which
contrasted oddly enough with the graceful
ladies'. 1t was that of heavy man, with a
heavy black mustache, heavy black SLOUGH
hat, heavy black beaver overcoat, though
the day was warm, and pair of crutches
which called attention to missing leg. 1t
was General and Sheriff Dan Sickles, OF
Chppendale and empire screens and tables
and cabinets. This may seem queer hobby
for man of war, but il is shared by such
sturdy old chaps as Abram s. Hewitt and
Charles A. Dana and Coleman Drayton and
O lot of others. New York is the best mar
ket for these gimcracks now.
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STILL HERE.

"Did 1 hurt your finger last night, dsr.
ling, when l squeezed your hand so hard ?"
he asked. tenderly. bending over her TO
before had cost him weeks salary.
at is of no consequence, dear," she au-
swered, merrily, STRIVING with her Jersey
City choir accents to reassure him. at IS
somewhat disfgured, but" she added.
quickly, noting the sharp look Of pain that
shot over her lovers face, " it is still in the
ring"