The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-07

California is just beginning to ripen well
all the way through.
The man who opposes City improvement
opposes his own welfare.
Nearly everything that happens in these
days seems to happen right.
Whatever is given from great motive
may be accounted great gift.
Human Laughter is the brand of cham
payne that is drunk by the gods.
The measure of a mans self-respect is
his respect for humanity at large.
A hollow tooth and an empty pocket
both feel better with gold filling.
The loveliest things in Easter bonnets
will not be on view until next Sunday.
Society gossipers are now referred to as
people who talk through their millinery.
No man can be prominent long who
doesn't help to make his city prominent.
out of sight unless everybody looks at it.
God will be in the open air and in the
sunshine to-day, as well as in the churches.
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Good cheer is the negation of gravity,
and that is why it lifts Us above the earth.
A good way to begin home improvement
is to talk cheerfully at the breakfast-table.
Progress at times may seem to be aggres-
sive, but it is really means of self-defense.
One of the most effective ways to develop
your staying qualities is to call on pretty
girl.
Our ambitions are like balloons-they
are safer when anchored to something
solid.
The good citizen never criticizes his city
except to point out how it can be made
better.
Venus is getting ready to shine in all
her glory during the love-making month
of May.
Happiness is a mental state which is
secured by cultivating the habit of con-
tentment.
The girl on bicycle is the latest wheel
added to the complicated machine of
civilization.
Rather than take a single progressive
step, the silurian would sit down on his
own interest.
It will not be long before Memory will
guard with solemn round the bivouac
of dead silurians.
1t has never been recorded that the way
of the righteous is cobblestoned unless the
wicked did the job.
That man lifts himself a yard toward
heaven who raises his lowly neighbor
thitherward an inch.
Some men who won't take the best of
advice when given to them will eagerly
steal very poor idea.
The man who allows himself to be over
looked in this world is very apt to De run
over at every crossing.
One of the most distressing events of the
day is the attempt of the cuckoo bird to
utter the eagle scream.
Very few San Franciscans have a sufi-
Gent acquaintance with the City to know
what its best attractions are.
The discovery of perpetual motion is not
so important as the finding of means for
overcoming industrial inertia.
No Californian can love God and at the
same time neglect to reap the riches which
He has sown in the soil of California.
e. 1t is grievous to observe that our con-
temporaries print our City with small
&C. and our silurians with capital as
II the Grand Jury can strike up tune
that will make the affiliated eight dance
lively, the public will regard it as popular
melody.
Sunday is a good time for rejecting that
one owes as much to ones neighbor, to
ones community and to ones country as
TO ones self.
Every man who encourages the develop
ment of public sentiment in favor of mu-
nicipal Improvement is doing good work
for the community.
IENo man should abuse an American,heir-
ess for marrying foreign Count unless he
has proposed to her himself and given her
chance to do the proper thing.
The men of San Francisco deserve a
great deal of credit for their self-possession
in refraining from kissing the matine e
girls whom they see hereabout these days.
If the girls of Boston could only realize
that the superb beauty of the San Fran
cisco girls is product of the climate, they
would exchange their spectacles and beans
for sunshine in their souls and roses in
their cheeks.
The Almighty has "a kindly way of re-
warding with health, good looks and pros
perity those who show an appreciation OF
His generosity by accepting the use of the
bounties with which He has so generously
endowed California
People who object to creating munich
pal debt to carry out public Improvements