The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-04

The spring, however, is long and very delight
full. Even the autumn is not bad. Oh, you
will like it."
"How are the domestics? Can get compe-
tent and faithful servants?'
eyes, but you must watch them. They will
steal most anything in the culinary line they
can get their hands on
"Is it possibleI" exclaimed the new Consul,
elevating his eyebrows and locking incred-
ulously at his informant
"You bet it is possible They do all the buy
ing and most all the eating. You will have to
standit. 1t is the custom
SWELL" answered Mr.. Connolly, sinking into
a comfortable attitude, "custom is custom, and
I suppose it must go. By the way, what kind
of place is Hiogo?"
"One of the healthiest in the world. 1 believe
there is no spot on the glone where the climatic
conditions blend SO perfectly as there.'
"GoodW exclaimed the gentleman from New
Jersey. "That's the thing have been leading
up to. If the climate is good and a man can
retain his health l am satisfied" He rubbed
his hands with absolute delight and seemed
greatly overjoyed at the prospect of a pleasant
cline, even in the face of an army of pilfering
servants.
Presently the man from Japan asked the
Consul if he had ever been in the Southern
States.
eyes, have. I tramped through them when
I was boy Is years of age with the Northern
army, and received a bullet wound in the alb
domen from which have suffered ever since.
That is one reason 1 am particular about my
health now in my old age"
"Do you think the North and the South will
ever be united?"
''My dear boy" answered the Consul, laying
his hand on the questioner's shoulder, "that is
question which is not worth discussion. The
war is over. All of the men who went to the
front were sincere. We understand each other.
When the last gun was fired the rOuble was at
an end. Do you understand me? We are all
friends"
Mr.. Connolly leaves this afternoon on the
China One OF his sons, Is years of age, weighs
2S3 pounds and is nearly feet tall. His father
is little dubious about the lad riding
around in rickshaws, and says he will tell the
japanese that when they carry him they do it
at their own risk. When he went through
Egypt year ago there was not donkey on
the desert big enough to carry him half mile.
He is piling on flesh at the rate of fifty pounds
year, and says it doesn't annoy him one
whit.
Colonel K. B. Brown was in an unenviable
frame of mind as he rested his feet against the
empty stove in the What Cheer House last
night.
al have just been reading. about that pert
young actress, May Yohe, and her carrying on
in London" said the colonel. 'She is all the
time talking to reporters about being straight
out American, and said that her mother is an
American Indian, and all that. don't know
as to her genealogy. but can give her a pointer
about one thing, that she doesn't know how to
talk the American language, dead straight.
She had considerable to say about q
play that is called 'Hoss and Hoss, ,
and British reporter wanted to know
what that meant '"Hoss and Hoss,"'
said she. ooh, that's piece of American
slang. 1t is the Yankee equivalent to ga Roland
for an Oliver" When a fellow tells another
that trick has been played on him, he says,
"That's boss on you, old man.
Now, want to say to Miss Yohe," continued
the colonel, "that she has secured only the
secondary meaning of that expression. 1t
comes originally from the good old Missouri
game of odd Sledge,' where it is played by
rubbers or horses. In Missouri they call it
hosses. When man loses rubber then they
say, That's boss on YOU The application OF
this expression to jokes and pranks is very far
fetched, and according to my opinion is not
genuinely American"