The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24

Make the best of your leisure as well as
of your work if you wish to enjoy the full
ness of life.
The cheapest recreations are nearly al
ways the best. Good things are too plenti-
full to cost much
There is one thing about Jake Schafer
Although he has met his Napoleon he ad-
mits no Waterloo.
The distinction between fool and
silurian disappears the moment the silu-
rian begins to talk.
Every attraction added to Golden Gate
Park is an addition to the wealth and pop
ulation OF the city.
How many San Franciscans have seen
all the attractions of San Francisco or even
know what they are?
Enterprise is so truly local issue that
when reduced to the last analysis it results
in the individual effort.
The halo about the head of honest prog
ress casts shadow on the throne of mo-
nopolistic corporations.
The best way to enjoy the advantages of
San Francisco is to keep continually at the
work of improving them.
When cooking shall be elevated to the
domain OF fine arts the culinary artist can
no longer pose as a model.
After we shall have learned the lesson of
cooking as fine art it shall be in order to
learn how to eat as a science.
When we are helping home industries
we must not forget that music art and
elocution are also industries.
No man makes the best use of all his
faculties who does not cultivate an habitual
avocation as well as vocation.
The local police have nut to crack in
Commissioner Gunst's insistence that they
wear their clubs outside their coats.
The fitting end of every silurian is to
rattle his bones over the stones; when dead
he's pauper whom nobody knows.
EThe incoming OF the valley road will
probably have an important effect on real
estate values south of Market street.
Under the new law compelling the filing
for record of all marriage contracts, mar
rage in California cannot be considered a
failure.
He is wise man who delights in his
work as if it were play and he not less so
who puts as much zest into his play as if it
were work.
The stage-driver who permits himself to
be held up by highwayman armed with a
sausage is not sure but that the weapon is
likely to bark.
The business community that depends
upon the silurian promise of better day
coming leans upon the broken clutches of
false pretense.
The progress of the valley road compels
even the head of the Southern Pacific to
incline to the belief in the future advance
ment of California.
Superintendent McLaren has said what
he will do for Golden Gate Park if he
be allowed money enough. Let him be
allowed money enough.
If all the festivals and excursions now
season will be as noted for the revival of
pleasure as for that of business.
Whatever we may fear of the possibility
OF fraud in public improvements it must
not be forgotten there is always more cor
ruption in stagnation than in progress.
The dissolution of the California redwood
tree, transplanted to the frosty soil of the
Nations capital, is an object lesson on the
. fallacy OF shipping raw material out of the
State.
The public will sorely miss the cars
which for long time have been following
each other on Bush street at so close inter
walls that they looked like string of link
sausages.
Much Of the unhappiness of the world
results from the persistent effort of an in
dolent minority to disturb the machinery
of government constructed by an industri-
Gus majority.
Governor Budd's stipulation that the
lease of China Basin shall not be assigned
was as cheerfully accepted by the direc-
tors of the San Joaquin Valley Railroad as
it will be welcome to the people.
A golden key is often used to unlock
secrets, but that prepared for the Me-
mortal Museum is none such, for Director
General de Young made it a stipulation
that the doors should never be locked.
AS it is reported one scene in play now
running in Paris represents Herod and
John the Baptist in Greco Roman wrest-
ling match it appears the irreverent wits of
France are so eager to make profit of
their iests they are willing to make jest
of the prophets.
The need for comprehensive pure-food
law throughout the Union finds another
illustration in the report that nearly 300
cheese factories in Wisconsin are reported
to be making filled cheese"-that is,
cheese from milk which has had all the
butter fat extracted from it and cottonseed
oil substituted in its place.