The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-31


in taking steps for recreation.
The ideal San Francisco is worth work
ing for as well as talking about
II the beautiful life can be lived any
where, it can be lived in San Francisco.
Theater-goers have noticed of late that
the loveliest girls never wear high hats.
Silurians are not always old men; there
are some people who are born that way.
Pleasure as well as business will have
grand drive when the boulevard is open
There are more living pictures on the
streets than ever were shown in a theater.
Many Easter bonnets are now on view,
but the loyeliest are said to be out of sight
So long as we have cobblestones on the
streets, progress Will have an insecure foot
ing.
s.."Devil take the hindmost' is an old say
ing but as rule he takes the first that
comes.
The man who reaches for the stars may
not grasp them, but he keeps his hands out
of the mud.
The man who neglects to praise his wife
doesn't know how to make the best of
good thing.
If we cannot have musical culture with
out grand opera, it is time to whirl in and
build an opera-house.
Joaquin Miller saw Hawaii with poets
seye and depicts it with poets skill in
the CALL this morning.
. The craze for cooking lessons is one of
the fads that may be counted upon to i'm
prove the taste of things.
There is many a man who counts his
dollars. by the thousands who himself can
not be counted for anything.
Notwithstanding the temptations of
gold, it is easier to be honest in money
matters than in anything else.
pace with individual enterprise, individuals
Some women require Easter bonnets, but
every devoted husband knows his wife
would be just as lovely without one.
The Lenten firtations in society have
about reached the point where both sides
are wondering how they can turn loose.
There is source of delight for all intel
lectual people in the mere thought of
living in the most picturesque City in the
world.
Whatever defects as a place of residence
exist in San Francisco have been caused by
human folly and can be removed by human
reason.
Don't fail to read the opening chapters,
which we publish this morning, of Cap
tain Charles Kings new story, fort
Frayne."
Men whose work requires sedentary
habits during the week, generally recreate
themselves on Sunday by lying in bed for
a change.
Why wait twenty years for public i'm
provements when we can make the inn
provements now and pay for them in
twenty years?
The law that made it possible for com
petlng railway to secure a foothold on this
peninsula is a declaration of CALIFORNIA;
independence.
The Manufacturers Association has no
intention of forming monopoly in its
efforts to encompass the whole State in its
grasp of enterprise.
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sea and shore is all that is needed to COM
plete the attractiveness of San Francisco,
and the boulevard will give US that.
The full name of the sunfower poet has
been incorrectly spelled in the kilograms
10 this country, for the Westminster Ga
zette OF London gives it as Oscar Fingal
O'Fhahertie Wills Wilde
Eastern papers talk of the onion social
as the popular form of amusement in the
rural districts of that section, but we have
noticed in our country exchanges that the
Polly Doodle social is the prevailing Len
ten diversion in California outside the
metropolis.
A curious anomaly in English law has
been made public by a recent breach of
promise suit against young man 20 years
old, in which the court decided that while
the man was old enough to marry he was
under age and could not make promise
that was legally binding.
Mr. Seward Webb has leaped to emf
nence in New York by clothing his SER
wants in livery composed of black coats
with gilt buttons and gold festoons, black
plush breeches with gilt buckles, yellow
plush waistcoats, silk stockings and low
shoes with large, plain, silver buckles
A livery of this kind, neat but not gaudy,
is an evidence of how far the simple grace
OF republican society surpasses the gor-
geous folderols of arstocratic courts.
An obstreperous Populist in the Ne
braska Legislature was brought to order
the other day by sergeant-at-arms, who
seized the belligerent's luxuriant beard
and twisted it1until the owner gave up the
unequal struggle. Thus in the economy
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