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none may deny, but of its fitness there
might be question.
say Brownie because 1 suppose 1 am
right. All these smooth, small, dapper
little mincing men-they are Brownies?
And where, then, are the real men?
1 met some real boys. AS awfully
jolly, genuine, well-bred, well-looking,
well-mannered boys as one would wish to
see. l am fond of this kind of boys, and
of all men of all ages they are the most
direct and sincere-whether they are will
ing to admit it or not. And they will give
one straight, square. clear-sighted view
of life as they see it-and heaven knows
they have a trick of peering-and they
look through little hollow spaces where
one would least expect them to, and they
have no earthly use for shams, and as yet
no need to learn their usefulness
read somewhere, not so long ago, that
this kind of an American boy was dying
out.
Heaven help the race!
But ah, bah l do not believe it. / meet
them everywhere. They are the other
side of all boys-even of the Brownies.
The Brownie is not nearly so well-dressed
as he pretends to be. He wears such odd
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When I arrived at the Tennis Court
rather late on Wednesday afternoon
looked about me and saw the people who
do not matter. There were little rows of
them, neatly piled one above the other,
like little loaves of bread on the shelves of
a Dakeshop, and it occurred to me that
they were all pale and heavy and a trifle
underdone. They were principally girls,
light, indefinite girls, in blue shirts, white
duck skirts and white sailor hats. They
sat and breathed and stared. They stared
a good deal at the little boys who were
playing tennis, whom they knew, and they
stared even more at the little people who
were not playing tennis, whom they did
not know. When there was a sharp rally
they applauded fabbily. When the
wrong man made the right play they
Kissed rudely. When they discovered a
stranger or so in their midst they COM
mented audibly.
I observed that their hands troubled
them, that their feet were a responsibility,
that their frocks were another, ana that
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pleased to arouse controversy and anxious
to create sensations. The recent sickening
Woman Shows have encouraged girls to vie
for public approval with the poor slaves
sold in the market-place for the beauty of
their bodies, and they have proved to the
world that feminine vanity, like the yell
low squash, attains prodigious size beneath
this genial sky. But they have not yet un-
earthed any rare specimens of the sex who
could go forth fearlessly to do battle
against the beauty of the world. They
have not RIM to cover that mysteriously
lovely type, that exquisitely colored, dewy
eyed, rich toned, generous, abundant
beauty, which is said to be indigenous to
the soil.
Naturally, one does not look in the
smart set for beauty of this order. 1t
belongs to the people. But so did some Of
the smart set just a little while ago, before
papa made money and went out OF the
saloon business into something respectable,
and mamma ceased to wash her neighbors'
linen at home and her own in public.
Not so many generations removed but
that some few characteristics of the people
might be yet discoverable to the naked eye,
but this rich, warm red blooded beauty is
not among the few. The girls I saw were,
as g whole, exceedingly indefinite of tint
and chillingly cold of tone and utterly de-
void of individuality. Exceptions, natur-
ally enough, go without the saying, but in
lump, these women, young and old, mar
ried and single, tall and short, dark and
fair, are all singularly alike. They do not
carry themselves or their clothes with the
degagee air of women sure of themselves,
and they do not walk. They golumph.
l watched ten women successfully as
they left the dining room of the Hotel
Rafael on the night of the ball. They all
made exactly the same order of exit
With chin uplifted and head thrust well
before, with arms driven stiffly back and
shoulders hunched to the ears, they stood
prepared to lunge with the whole upper
torso at cruel angle with the hips. Then
they lunged. Across the floor, through the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07

swift launches, bright with awnings and
the flying colors of the club, dainty sklffs
and wineries and craft of every sort.
Up end down the trim drive whirls
stream of smart traps, fine horses and ire
proachable liveries. Back and forth surges
brilliant crowd, perfectly clothed and, it
is safe to say, thoroughly acquainted. On
the veranda it is hard to find a rocker
yawning for an occupant, well nigh i'm
possible to find a tete-a-tete table not al
ready appropriated to conversation and
cool drinks. Through the swinging doors
and opened windows come the click of
balls, the tinkling of silver, the ring of
glass and porcelain, the murmur of voices
greetings, laughter-life. The band plays
from rosy morn till dewy eve and on again
till daylight.
People arrive, depart, move, speak, smile,
look amused, hopeful, content. Whether
they really are all of this or not is no affair
of mine. Perhaps they keep skeleton
cupboard in town, but they lock it de-
Gently when they go pleasuring, at all
events, and the bones do not rattle at
Westchester. One would say there that
no man had troubles of his own-nay! nor
woman.
But it is an affair of pleasure, tennis
tournament
Over on the courts, where the sun beats
hot and hard-and what is there in tennis
if it is not played under sun fierce
enough to fry?-the game goes on with an
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energy that could not be more impassioned
if life, as well as honor, lay in the bowl of
the Westchester cup.
Dripping brows, alert and anxious eyes,
scorched noses and wild disheveled
heads, disdain the power of the sun. Be
flanneled legs course wildly in pursuit of
vicious balls and frenzied rackets beat the
air, guided by bare and sun-browned
arms. A cheer or groaD comes swift on
the heels of every play. The spectators
are for or against each ball with passion
and with pride.
Wagers are winging about from group to
group; wine is up, and dinners at Del
monico's, suppers at the Waldorf gloves by
the dozen, flowers by the box, chocolates
from Huyler's, hats from Dunlaps' and
cigars from anywhere.
But it is an affair to get interested over,
the tennis tournament
And yet it is said of the effete East that
it knows not enthusiasts, and of the
woolly West that it is prodigal of gush.
Oh, male, ale
There was good play in the San Rafael
court this year. One or two lithe-limbed,
brown, athletic youths, with the youth of
them emphatically in evidence, sent some
of the most difficult balls have ever seen
clear q net-and sent them continuously
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shoes and such quaint, peculiar ties. He
has his shirts polished up to celluloid
pitch and he wears any sort of hat about
the hotel, with his compromise coat. He
is an earnest, sincere person though in his
particular line-which is obviously to hang
on girls much larger and richer than him
self and to snub people he does not regard
as useful or those he feels perfectly sure
of, as the case may be.
| met Brownie at the Tennis Court on
Wednesday. He was talking with one of nv
friends and his, woman who had enter
tanned him on many occasions Indeed,
he visits her on what may be
termed society soupticket basis. He
presents his card at the door at a pro-
pitious hour and is straightway asked in
to dine. She is a woman of culture, of
family and of no wealth. She is fifty-five
and trifie old-fashioned in the way of
frocks. She is not in his set, and
he is not and never could be
in hers. stranger in San Rafael, she
ingenuously called upon him for little of
his time, and he yielded it grudgingly
and withdrew it ungraciously. When
some of his particular little gilded gods
wheeled into sight, he began to melt away
from her by perceptible degrees, and later
in that same day he passed her on the
hotel porch without lifting his hat.
But when he runs out of dinner engage
ments-as even professional diner-out
sometimes will-he will be at her front
door with his soup ticket, and nine chances
out of ten she will let him III.
/ discussed Western society in the abb
stract with one of its acknowledged leaders.
I did this for two reasons-frst, with the
laudable intention of obtaining some in
formation from the sources of social wis
dom, and, again, because he is the clev-
crest man I have met in many moon,
and enjoyed talking with him. He said
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TEARING
DOWN
SALE!
SALE NOW GOING ON!

The erection of new building at Third
and Market streets by Claus Spreckels
will neceSsitate our moving, as the store
occupied by US will be torn down.
Notices have been served on the tenants
to vacate by July Is, and the shortness of
the time compels us to begin at once our
Monster Clearance Sale.
The Inauguration of our tearing-down
sale has filled our store with customers,
and since Monday we have been crowded
to the doors. We have reduced the price
of every shoe in the store, and our Gus
toners are taking advantage of our low
prices. We have to reduce our stock that
is compulsory, so that now is the time to
take advantage of our low prices. The
following are few of our reductions:
Infants Dongola Kid Button, with patent
leather tips, sizes 1 to OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. so
Chids Dongola Kid Button, patent leather
chids Patent Patent Leather s' Button, cloth or kid
tops, spring heels, sizes TO 1013:;....;.;;; $50
Misses Patent Leather Button cloth or kid
tops, spring heels, sizes IL to 2............. 40
Misses Dongola Kid Button, plain toes, heels,
Misses s3 Dongola Kid Button, plain toes, spring
Misses ss's D e5a Kid Button, patent leather
tips spring heels, sizes II 10 2 ............. 100
Ladies' Cloth or Kid Top oxfords. pointed or
Lad es''1 Russia ss Calf Southern Ties pointed
Ladies' Dongoia Kid Button, pointed toes
and patent leather UPS. 1 10
Ladies' Dongola Kid Button, cloth or kid
tops, pointed square toes. ............... 90
u pointed or square toes 80 y . .or So
Ladies' Dongola Kid Butcher Lace, pointed
Laird. Schober and Mitchelrs Fire Shoes, all
styles, handsewed turns welts. so
w. L. Douglas Boys Shoes, all styles, reduced
W. |. Douglas Mems Shoes, ali styles. re-
QuCeu ITOIu % 10 Z 90
w. i. Douglas Mems Shoes, all styles, hand
welt n
w. l.. Douglas Mems Shoes, all Styles hand
sewed, reduced from Observation-Disclosures to so
Houghton's Mems Calf Shoes, lace or Con-
gress, all styles Observation-Disclosures. 40
Cutter, Lyons & Field Mems Heavy Top Soled
Shoes, Congress or lace. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 80
Reynolds Mems Light Calfskin Shoes, Con-
gress or lace, all styles Observation-Disclosures. 80
HS- Country orders solicited.
BD- Send for New illustrated Catalogue.
Address
B. kATCHiNSKI,
10 Third Street, San Francisco.
PHILADELPHIA SHOE co.
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1t is not the new aspirant for place in the
set who threatens the purity of the atmos-
phere in which the local high world lives,
moves and has its being
No! 1t is her mother
He tells me that the aspirations of I'M
known and insignificant mothers are prac-
tically unbounded. They will not be re-
strained, guided, directed or adjusted.
They have to be put down by force. They
have to be stamped on and obliterated,
annihiIated and made to disappear into
nothingness before he can consent to pilot
the prettiest daughters through the troubled
seas of social distinction. He says that
new fathers are not so bad, new brothers
are often even desirable. new cousins,
aunts, uncles and relatives-in-law are easily
subdued and made to feel soothed by the
crumbs from the social feast, such for in
stance, as the privilege of reading about
the new bud in the papers and being per-
mitted to claim the relationship in q
modest way.
But mothers Oh, that is a different
affair When you come to consider the
matter seriously, the relation is rather a
close one and it must require great tact
and delicacy of Enthusiastically on the
part of the daughter-to sever it COM
pletely and finally.
Is this the end of our century? I
bethink me that it is the dawn of the
new. Until quite recently it used to be an
absorbing question with mothers, how
best and most successfully to introduce
their daughters. Now, forsooth, it is
the daughter who is confronted by the
problem of how not to introduce her
mother.
The evening times., 1895-08-17
Philippians Preparing for an
Interesting Event.
OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE
These Enxlishmen win Come Over
to Try Their Skill Against the
Germantown Team-The Contests
VIII Take Place Next Month, II
Nothing Happens to Prevent Them.

Philadelphia, Aug. 1.-THE one thing
that was needed to insure the success Of
the recently completed arrangements for
the international cricket matches this fan
was supplied yesterday when the manage
ment OF the Germantown Cricket Club re-
ceivsd a cabiegram from Mr. Kenneth
MeAlpine, in which the latter expressed
his willingness to cancel his engagement to
bring team to this city in September.
This clears the way for carrying out the
programme TO three games against Mr.. F.
Mitchelrs Oxford and Cambridge Past and
Present team. and accordingly the Asso-
ciated Cricket Clubs, of which organiza-
tion the Germantown Club is now a MEM
Der, authorized the following official an
nouncement yesterday afternoon:
Mr.. McAlpine has acceded 10 the request
of the Germantown Cricket Club, ard has
agreed to withdraw his team. The Oxford
and Cambridge teams will play three
matches in Philadelphia this fall, the first
against the University of Pennsylvania
Past and Present. on September 13, Il,
and 16, at Wist ahickOn; the second against
the Gentlemen Of Philadelphia, September
90, 21, and 23, at Mannheim; and the third
against the Gentleman of p Philadelphia
September q, 2s, and 80 at Haverford.
A further Official announcement, it is IN
will be made next week. The
team that viii represent the University of
in the match at Wissahickon
should be n very strong one, as a very large
of Philadelphia's ableet crick-
eters are graduates Of old Penn.
The evening times., 1895-08-17
CoRBETT,s UNpopULARITY
A Correspondent Tells why Wash

a Correspondent Tells why Wash.
ington Sports Do Not Like Him.
Pompadour Corbett has Lot been popular
at Washington since he buncoed a crowd
Of spectators out of an admission fee at
one of the theaters under the prctense that
he was going TO give sparripg exhibition,
says a correspondent of a weFtern paper.
1t was Just before he went South to fight
Sullivan; but when the time arrived IN
stead of sparring, as promised, Corbett
punched tie bag. His excuse was that he
might injurc his chances for doing John L.
When the news of the recent bar-room
meeting ut Philadelphia between Jim
Corbett and Bob Fitzsimmons reached here
the only regret expressed was because Fitz
had not given him a licking just for luck
There is sentiment here that Corbett is
afraid OF lanky Bob, and recognizes the
fact that he is going up against worthy
foenlan, if he is out of his class. When
the big fight comes off, If it ever does,
il good wishes count for anything, Cor
bett will not be in IL so far as Washingtoni-
ans are concerned, and nothing would please
them more than 10 learn of bis defeat by
the Australian. Among the sporting fra
ternity the opinion prevails that Corbett
had g job put up on Fitzsimmons and
wanted to do him by fair means or foul
to prevent the Dallas bout. 1t is claimed,
however, by those favorable to Fitz, that
he showed his good sense by keeping out
of the affair until hemmed in, when he
knocked Brady down with a water bottle,
Joe Corbett with a butt in the mouth, and
might have fIoored the champion If per-
mitted to get at him. Altogether the spoils
Of war seem to be on Fitz's side, according
to the views of the sporting fraternity here.
The evening times., 1895-08-17
PLANTS AND FLOWERS.

A rose geranium is a good winter plant.
Besides its delightful fragrance, 1T is one Of
the most desirable Of geraniums.
During September and October is the best
time 10 put bulbs in the ground II they are
to be grown in pots in the house they can be
potted later and at different times TO in
sure a continuance of blooms
Not many varieties of fern are adapted
to house culture. The sword fern is one Of
the hest. The maidenhair ferns are far more
difficult 10 succeed with. They require
moremoisture and q agreenhouse atmosphere.
The Gamma lily Is coming into favor as q
plant for the window garden The foliage is
handsome and of the tropical order, while
the bloom of some of the new varieties is
wonderfully beautiful.
Oxalis still holds its own as plant for
a hanging basket. It's delicate pink and
white and yellow flowers are graceful and
pretty. The nasturtiurn Is being grown by
some In window boxes.
Juice from the paw-paw tree will soften
any tissue. A piece OF tough beefsteak
wrapped for a few hours IN a leaf from the
tree will become tender. 1t is suggested
that boarding house keepers would do well
to SOW few paw-paw seeds.
The green tops OF piheapples viii grow IL
planted.
The evening times., 1895-08-17
STREET EXTENSION SUIT
Commissioners Complete Their Re-
ply to the Tingle Injunction.
Important Points Involved in the Out
come and Their Effect VIII
Be Shown.

The reply of the Board Of Commissioners
to the application Of Mr.. A K Tingle, filed
In the District court, for an Injunction to
restrain them from placing the street exten-
sion plats on record was completed to-day,
and is now in the hands OF Attorney Thomas.
who Will present it to the court on Monday.
More Importance is attached to this suit
than would appear at first glance Should
Mr.. Tinsle succeed In njoining the Commis-
sioners upon the state OF facts alleged the
work OF street extension, upon which so
much thought and care and labor have al
ready been expended, will be practically
at an end.
The Commissioners Will endeavor to show,
as they unanimously believe, that Mr.. Tin
gle's property will not be damaged by the
proposed street extension, but that, ON the
contrary, IL will be greatly enhanced in
value.
The streets which 1t 10 proposed to ex-
tend, the board asserts, will only be con-
tinued when the necessity therefor is
shown to exist, and that necessity is to be
determined by the courts and not by tie
Commissioners
Should Mr.. Tingle be damaged, the Com
missioners contend he Will haveanple REM.
edy under the street extension act.
The Commissioners are obliged under
the terms Of the act itself TO prepare the
plans of exteRsion ,>and to proceed to the
conclusion, as directed,I which Is to perfect
the system, pass it to TIE highway commits
sion, and upon the approval OF it by that
body to send the plat forward for record.
Mr.. Tingie's petition was filed April 27,
and alleges that the proposed extension
through his property of the streets on a
line with 1t, as projected, will leave him
but small portion OF the original plat,
leaving tie residue in such shape as to
render IL vaiueless and practically destroy
ing his improvements.
He asks that the Commissioners be per-
petually enjoined from recording the plats
as approved by the highway commission
The evening times., 1895-08-17
Royal Dairymaids.

Probably the most ideal dairy in exist
ence is that OF the Princess of Wales, in
which not only she, but her various daugh-
tiers have learned to make the most perfect
butter. The walls are covered with tiles
presented to them by the Prince Of Wales,
who placed them there as q surprise to the
royal dairymaids. They were made in
Bombay and are of a deep pea cock blue,
the rose shamrock and thistle being inter-
twined with the motto 'Ich dien."
A white marble counter running around
the room holds silver pans Of milk from
the Alderneys grazing without. Above
this, OH broad bracket shelves OF marble
is q collection, in every imaginable mate
rial, of cows, bullocks and calves-Italian
and Partisan marble, alabaster, porcelain,
terra Gotta and silver-all gifts.
A long milk can, painted by the Princess
Louise to match the Indian tiling, stands
in one corner and opposite the head of the
princess pet alderney, with silver plate
recording her virtues. Here the princess
some times churns in q eilver churn and in
the next room the butter for the family is
made and sent up fresh every morning when
they are in London. The days supply is
made up in little pats. Not grain Of salt
is allowed in them and they are made the
three, with either the crown, the coat-of-
arms or the three feathers stamped ON each.
boston Traveller.
The evening times., 1895-08-17
Romance and Socks.

few weeks ago a Maine young man
bought a pair OF socks containing a note
saying the writer was an employe of the
Kenosha, Wis, knitting works and wanted
a good husband. She gave her name and
requested the buyer, II an unmarried man,
to write with a view to matrimony. The
young man who found the note considered
the matter in all its phases and decided
to write to the girl. He did. Awaiting
the answer with considerable anxiety,
he was at last rewarded with a curt let
ter stating that the girl was now the
mother of two children and had been mar
ried four years, and the letter he had an
swered had been written ever so long.
1t was sock dolager, and the young
man hunted for a solution. He found it.
The merchant of whom he bought the socks
doesn't advertise.-Gardiner Reporter-Jour-
nal
The evening times., 1895-08-17
A LUCKY ACCIDENT.
why blackstone" Maker Turned
His Attention to Puzzles.

why a blackstone" Maker Turned
His Attention to Puzzles.
AS an example of how a remunerative
speciality in hardware forced itself on
receptive and appreciative Yankee, the
following incident will be of interest,
says Iron Age:
Among manufacturers small castin gs
are often put in revolving cylinders with
pickers or stars made of cast-iron, hav-
ing usually six points, the extremes Of
which are about an inch apart.
They are also familiar to toy dealers,
who sell them to children as "jac X
stones" The pickers, together with the
small castings, are put into the tumbling
barrels, SO that any particles OF sand ad;.
herring may be removed and a better fin
ish given the castings.
A large and well-known New England
concern, which, in addition 10 the other
lines, manufactures screw wrenches large
ly, formerly used peculiarly shaped mall
leable iron ferrule, with irregular openings
at the four sides and circular openings at
the two ends, weighing about an ounce.
Some of these ferrules chahced TO be
part of the contents in one of the tumbling
barrels
When the barrel was opened the attend.
ant noticed, what to him seemed almost in
credible, that the picker with all its prings,
was inside the ferruIe, the openings Of
which were very small. The observant
mechanic logically concluded that as 1t had
got in IL could be got out again.
The phenomenon was brought TO the at
tention of parties who decided to apply the
idea to puzzle, and the result is that tho
original manufacturers are now making
the parts under contract, in ton lots, while
the first order is said to have netted a profit
to the promoters of 81 700. This is known
on the streets as the Trilby puzzle.