The San Francisco call., 1896-11-22

EASTERN OFFICE:
Rooms 81 and 49, "a Park Row. New York City.
DAVID NJ. FoLTZ, Eastern Manager.
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
Make your plans for Thanksgiving.
Don't forget that charity is in season.
Everybody ought to have turkey this
year.
This will be a busy week for house
keepers.
Spread your Thanksgiving table with
California delicacies.
This week the Popocrats may lay aside
thair crow-Uncle Sam has turkey enough
for all.
1t will be a genuine National Thanksgiv-
ing this time, and all the people will have
reason for rejoicing in it.
Senatorial fights in some of the States
are beginning to get hot enough 70 be
luminous all over the country
Sound-money Democrats in the East are
said to be making their organizations per-
manent but for what purpose it would be
hard to guess.
1t is asserted by a critic that if it were
not for the Hebrews orchestral concerts in
New York would perish utterly. but the
Fcritic lives in Boston.
The newspaper which goes into the
home and is read by the whole family is
the best per in which to do your adver-
tising for family trade.
1t is noted in the East that football
games this year have been remarkably
free from slugglng. The country seems to
be improving in everything.
The Texas people are boasting they will
lead the Union in progress during the
decade, and it remains to be-seen whether
we will permit them TO do it.
Philadelphia complains that her water
supply has too much coal in it to drink
and not enough TO burn, and it would
seem it is not even passable as irewater.
1t is asserted by a New England paper
that the girls of New York have quit
chewing gum. We re ret TO say il is
added they have begun chewing tobacco.
1t is said there is not blade of grass left
in McKinIey's front yard, and it may be
added there won't be any grass left in the
streets of trade wien he becomes Presi-
dent.
In the general rejoicing of the time there
is only one official voice ont of tune. The
Thanksgiving proclamation of Governor
Stone of Missouri was very low-spirited,
and didn't sound happy.
Illinois is boasting of the recent compile
tion of what she calls the finest prison for
women in the world and overlooks the
fact that she should be ashamed of having
SO many women that need it.
Boston was attacked by one-half the
people because her Art Commissioners re-
jected the Dancing Bacchante' and is
now being attacked by the other half be-
cause her library trustees show signs of
accepting it.
The people of Kansas do not regret
Bryan's defeat very much, but what
grinds them is the fact that the Mis-
sonrians are continually congratulating
them on having come over to the Mis-
souri, side of politics.
Harvard men are accused of conducting
their correspondence on crimson paper,
across the top of which, in letters of Yale
blue, are inscribed the words ''To hell with
Yale" and thus does higher education i'm
prove the manners and refine the TASTE
1t is said some of the most cordial let
ters recently received by Mckinley are
from men who declare they voted for
Bryan, but are convinced by the rauid re-
vival of business that McKinley's elec-
ton was essential to the welfare OF the
country.
The people of Berlin, who have Just
closed an exhibit of the artistic and indus
trial productions of that city alone, are re-
ceiving the congratulations of all Europe.
1t is said no city in the world, except
Paris, could rival the exhibit, and it is
doubtful if even Paris could equal it.
Boston has been little bit disturbed bv
the discovery that in her most aristocratic
ward, where the residents boast of a
superior intelligence and the highest
brand of citizenship, there were the largest
est carelessness In counting the vote.
1t is singular how cheerful and con-
tented the whole country has become
since the election. Every city we havs
heard from Is SO well satisfied with the
bloom and the beauty of its own chrysan-
themum show that it does not envy the
chrysanthemum show of any other town.
Attention is called to the curious fact
that our law makes no provision for noti-
tying President-elect of his election.
Even after the electoral vote has been
counted Congress sends no official notice
of the result to the successful candidate.
He has TO get his information from the
newspapers and rely on it.
Away over in Budapest is a critic who
proposes sure means OF deciding whether
Shakespeare or Bacon wrote sKing Lear
The play was recently presenta6 IN ~ "a