davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-26
SMILE OF THE INVITATION TO THE MARD1 GRAs.

D. Phelan, William Keith, Edward Bosqui,
Louis Sloss Jr., Fred W. Zeile, Henry ].
Croker, Joseph B. Crockett, Arthur
Rodgers, Henry Reyman and Horace G.
Plat.
A general committee consisting of the
following named patrons and patronesses
has been selected:
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel W. Backus, Mrs. Car
cline L, Ashe, c.. G. Hooker, Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph B. Crockett, Mr.. and Mrs. William
Keith, Mr.. and Mrs. George II. Howard, Mr. and
Mrs. George Whitten, Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel
Blair, Mrs. John S. Hager, Mr.. and Mrs. David
Bixler, Captain Fl. i. Howison, U. S. n,
Mr.. and Mrs. A. P. Redding, Mr.. and Mrs. Har-
old NJ. Sewall, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry ]. Croker,
Beverly MaeMonagle, Mr.. and Mrs. R. J. Bush,
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward L. Potter, Captain and
Mrs. A. II. Payson, Mr.. and Mrs. Clinton Day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Evan J. Coleman, Mr.. and
Mrs. Irving NJ. Scott, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
/. Dodge, Major and Mrs. J. A. Darling
MIR. and Mrs. Frederick W. Zeile, Mr.. and Mrs.
E. B. Pond, Mr.. and Mrs. Mountford S. Wilson,
McAllister, Colonel and Mrs. g. II. Burton, DR..
and Mrs. A. II. VOORHEES,, w. F. Goad, DR.. and
Mrs. Henry Gibbons Jr, Mrs. Thomas Breeze
Mr.. and Mrs. James A. Robinson, Mr.. and Mrs.
C. A. Spreckels, Mr.. and Mrs. A. E. Head, Mr..
and Mrs. Edwin Goodall, Mr.. and Mrs. J. S. To-
bin, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert J. Woods, Mr.. and
Mrs. George Fl. Lent, Mr.. and Mrs. J. C. Stubs,
Arthur Rodgers, Mr.. and Mrs. J. f. Houghton,
Mrs. II. Mclean Martin, Mr.. and Mrs. 4. II.
Pease, Mr. and Mrs. William NJ. Girvin,
Mr.. and Mrs. J. DoWney Harvey, Mr.. and Mrs.
William Greer Harrison, Martin kellogg, Mr.
and Mrs. E. f. Preston, Baron and Baroness J.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-26

issued invitations for the wedding of their
daughter, Miss Isabel Grant and Edward Pond,
son OF Mr.. and Mrs. E. 3. Pond, which will
take place on Monday evening, February 3,
at hali-paSt o clock. at ST. Luke's Church.
the engagement is announced of Miss Mat
tie Whittier, daughter OF W. +. Whittier to
William i. Weir OF New York. Tie wedding
will take place in Mr.. Wbittieris new residence
at the corner OF Laguna and Jackson streets.
which is near completion.
Announcement has been made of the en-
gagement OF Miss Leah Gerst TO Ignatz Lowen-
CART Both OF the parties are prominent in
local social circles. MISS Gerst is the eldest
daughter OF Mr. and Mrs. Garrison Gerst OF this
City, and granddaughter OF A. Anspscher,
president OF the Temple Emanuel and well
known Tor his benevolence. Mr.. Lowengart is
here and in Portland. The couple will receive
to-day and Thursday at the Gerst residence,
northwest corner of Pierce and MeAllister
streets
The engagement is announced OF Miss
Georgia VI. Wightman, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. John Wightman JT., to Doug lass B. Crane
OF the Occidental and Oriental Steamship Com
pany.
The engagement has been announced of Miss
tie, TO Charles FarQuharson, son of David Far
qunarson.
The engagement is announced of Miss Jen-
ME Stanford Sanderson, daughter OF the late
Judge s. W. Sanderson, to Roy DuIand Her
rick, son OF Edwin Herrick OF Minneapolis.
Dr. and Mrs. l. Sanger, formerly OF San Fran
cisco, announce the engagement OF their
daughter Edna TO ]. ReInusat, an attaehe OF
the French Consulate at Shanghai, China
make an extended European tour, going to
Paris first.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-26

companions. He asserts that an English
dinner is as rule a funereal rite OF taci-
turnity. and that his countrymen reserve
all of this talk for the political platform and
sessions of Parliament. The writer IN the
Sneaker contrasts this habit of the English
with that of Americans and Frenchmen,
who he maintains are loquacious at meals.
So far as the latter are concerned he is cor
rect, but his assertion in regard TO the
former is only partly true.
8 To those who have given attention 10
the subject the habit Of our people VINO
take their meals at hotels or more notable
restaurants is, during their repasts, one OF
timid hesitation in INDUCING in converse
ton. Men and women seated at the same
table are more than sparing OF words.
Each separate group appears to De OPP
pressed with fear of the others. ODi1que
looks and an occasional sentence uttered
in low tones take tie place of animated
talk. Those who are eating have an air OF
furtive apprehensiveness. The writer IN
the Speaker has probably drawn his con-
illusions in regard to the vivacity OF Amer
leans at meals from experience at minor
French and other foreign restaurants In
this country. In those the funereal
taciturnity that Expresses our men and
women who take their meals at preten-
tlous establishments collapses under the
inspiration of example and unconven-
tlonal environment, and with almost
bo1sterous gayety they give free impulse to
a natural love of conversation.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-26

H; H. yon ms SCHROEDER, Mr.; and Mrs. D. W. Earl, Mr..
ana Mrs Thomas B. Bishop, Mr.. and Mrs.
Vanderlynn Stow, Mr.. and Mrs L. S. B. Sawyer,
Mrs. Isaac n. Walter, Mr.. and Mrs. E. w. Hop
klns, jacob c. Johnson, Mr.. and Mrs Robert
oxnsrd, Mr. ana Mrs; William g. Stafford. Mr..
and Mrs: Louis Sloss, Mr.. and Mrs H. E. Hunt
ington, Mr.. and Mrs Alfred L. Tubs, MIR aud
Mrs. w. Alyord, Colonel Charles F. Crocker,
Major and Mrs. ]. L. Rathbone, Mr.. and Mrs.
Adam Grant, Mr.; and Mrs; S. c. Bigelow, Mrs.
Eleanor Martin, Mr.. and Mrs. t. c. Van Ness,
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. NJ. Cunningham, Mr.. and Mrs.
John l. sabin, Mr.. and Mrs. A A. Watkins,
General James W. Forsyth, Frederick R. Web
ster, Mrs. Peter Donahue, Judge and Mrs W.
W.. Morrow. Mr.. and Mrs. Amedee Joullin,
Judge and Mrs. Joseph McKenna, Mr.. and Mrs.
Horace Davis, Gordon Blanding, Mr.. and Mrs.
Rruttschnitt, Mr.. and Mrs. William NJ. Bun
ker, Mr.. and Mrs. J. OBJ. Gum, Mr.. and Mrs.
Claus Spreckels, Mr.. and Mrs. E. A. Bruguiere,
George T. Bromley.
From the foregoing general committee
there will be subcommittee on tickets
and invitations, reception, decoration,
music, floor and wise. All of the COM
mittees will be publicly announced in due
time except the last mentioned. The
event viii occur Tuesday, February IS.
1896
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-26

His native habitat is New York, and he
is only to be seen in London as bird of
passage. He may honor us with his COM
panY for few days when on his way to
the Riviera or the Upper Nile, but he
would be making himself too cheap if he
were to recognize such thing as business
when he chad only run over for a short
holiday" His work here is done vicarl-
ously through sympathetic agents or pub
hc-spirited committees. He has also COM
mittees in New York, and nowadays he
finds 1t necessary to have syndicates and
underwriters as well.
A playful professional fiction assumes
that these committees have been elected
by the reorganized bond and stock holders
to protect their interests. Another pleas
ant illusion gives the syndicates and the
underwriters credit for stepping into the
deadly breach to save the reorganization
scheme from imminent peril. And they
have to be paid accordingly, or, in pro-
fessional phraseology, compensated. -
Saturday Review.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-26

Movements Of People Who Are in the
Swim.
Mrs. Leland Stanford will leave Washington
in few days for this City.
Gerr1tt L. Lansing has gone to Santa Barbara
Tor the benefit of his health.
Mr.. and Mrs. John w. Mackay sailed from
France for New York last Wednesday on the
steamer La Touraine with the body OF their
dead son.
Isaac L. Requa of Piedmont arrived in Wash
ington, d. c., last Monday.
Mrs. William J. Younger arrived in Paris on
January Is.
Nine. Alphonse CART has left unexpectedly
Tor Paris with all her children, having been
summoned there by her husband, who is dan
gerously i'll.
Captain Henry C. Coehrane, U. s. NJ c., who
has been for five and g half years on duty on
the Pacific Coast and as feet marine officer on
the stan OF Rear Admirals Irwin, Walker and
beardslee, successfully, has been detached
from the flagship Philadelphia at San Fran
cisco and ordered to Washington: 1t IS under
$1,000 mat he Will be assigned 70 the naval
war college, as lecturer, also to the command
OF the marine barracks at Newport, r. l., and
1orego the leave usually granted to ohcers re.
turning from cruise.
Chief Engineer A. L. Broadbent o S. R. G. S.,
has been ordered to report TO the Treasury De-
partment In Washington, D. G.
!
with Mr.. and Mrs NJ. H. de Young, ]. D. Red
ding and George E. P. Hail.
Mrs. B. w. Paulsen will leave for New York
on the sunset Limited next Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel T. Murphy have re-
turned from prolonged visit to New York.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Bouvier have returned
from an Eastern trip.
Mr. and Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs sail from
New York for Europe in March,
Mr. and Mrs. William +. Bowers have re-
turned from the East and are residing at 500
Suffer street.
Edward NJ. Greepway has been confined to
his rooms during the past week with severe
attack of congestion of the lungs. He is i'm
proving, and will possibly be out in few days.
o GenersI Dleklnson, Fish Commissioners Bah, Bah
passed Sunday and Monday last at Casa del
Mar-the clubhouse on Tomales Bay-with
number of the members. A fine lot of ducks
were bagged, and the visitors were greatly
pleased with the future prospect for both hunt
ing ana fishing. General Dickinson intends to
build steam launch and put 1t on the bay,
ana he and some of his friends will erect
roomy mouse about opposite Casa del Mar.
Mrs. g. Wood of Portland, Or, is visiting the
City. and is stopping with relatives at 1412
Larkin street.
Miss Susie A. DenVir has sailed for Honolulu
on two months visit.
James ]. Jacobs will shortly leave on an ex-
tended trip through the Southern and Eastern
States
Miss Estelle Meyer of Los Angeles is visiting
her sister, Mrs. Emanuel Davis, 2s1S Pine
street. At home Tuesdays.
Herbert, the youngest son OF Mr.. and Mrs.
ID. Kramer, was confirmed yesterday, and
reception will be held to-day at 1880 Pine
street.
Mrs NJ. N Lettunieh and daughter are here
on visit from jacksonville.
Mrs. b. w. Paulsen will leave on Tuesday for
New York.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. w. Aldrich and their son of
Minneapolis are the guests of Mrs. Joseph de
Lano at 70S Golden Gate avenue.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-26

the tn reatening, weather gray-bearded and
venerable argonauts, accompanied by younger
wives, children, grand sons and daughters.
filled the chamber at an early hour. There
was nothing formal about the gathering, only
Jolly free and easy time. reminders of days
lang syne.
In lieu of literary exercises dancing was in
dulged in to the strains OF YANKEES band. OF
course. K. Vandercook, the veteran manager of
all the terpsichorean entertainments of his
pioneer associates, judiciously and satisfae-
torily arranged the various numbers. and until
midnight the merry throng unWearily tipped
it on the light fantastic.
The efficient services of ]. I. Spear, secretary
and Marshal J. F. Pinkham contributed ma
terially toward insuring the success of this
memorable anniversary jubilee. Throughout
the entire evening a cold collation. was pro-
yided in the lower banquet-hall for the refresh
ment of the hosts and guests.
Besides the officers and senior members of
the fraternity the following named ladies hon.
ored the occasion by ioyously participating in
the festivities;
Mrs II. n Tilden, Mrs. H. Bouton, Miss L.
Bouton, Miss Carlotta Bean, Miss A. Noonan,
Mrs. J. !. Spear, Mrs. NJ. sehloss, Miss Ada
George C. Perkins. Mrs. Lizzie Bigelow Miss
Maud Hoyt, Miss Jennie Hamilton, Mrs. George
F. Sharp, Miss Maud Burke. Miss Mary Ne
Miss Mabel Beebe, Mrs. E. w. Morley, Miss f.
Lathrop. Mrs. c. B. Hudwall, Mrs. j. r. Girls
void, Mrs: E, F. Tway. Mrs. E. E. Der
1lOAOf Nn4sS SCOllu, MISS Myra spear,
Mrs. E. B. Vreeland, Mrs. George Lilly, Mrs F.
Lilly, Mrs. .. G.. Knapp, Miss Knapp, Miss Eva
Williams Miss A; Otis, Mrs. F. H. Rooney, Miss
A. Rooney, Miss T. Rooney, Mrs. DR.. Cleveland,
Miss Rhein, Mrs. NJ. L. Wentworth, Mrs. Anna
Wentworth, Miss R. Owens, Miss n. Burke, Miss
n. Root, Miss Mae Evans, Mrs. Jacob Swart,
Mrs; M. c. Hughes, Miss Maud Josselyn, Mrs.
c. Short, Miss E. Short, Mrs. K. Kennedy, Mrs.
+; Short, Mrs. J. 1. Spear, Miss Edith Bernay,
Miss Edna Scobie, Mrs. E. B. Cooper, Mrs. E.
Maule, Mrs. ]. J. Lernam, Miss M. Sullivan,
Mrs. NJ; J. Finley, Miss L. Gille, Miss Wadham,
Mrs. Wadham. Mrs. George S. Graham,
Miss Grace. Mitchell, Miss A. Hamilton,
Miss L. Cousins, Mrs. W. Cousins, Mrs. E. o.
Haskell, Mrs T. Henderson, Mrs. George H.
Wallace, Miss E. Mayer, Mrs. K. Cooley, Mrs.
S: FerTe, Mrs. NJ. Ponersekke Mrs l. SchoIl,
Mrs. w. T. CARAT Miss F. Kitchens. Miss E,
Kitchens Mrs. G. Phillips, Mrs. A. Lackey, Mrs.
S; E. Ward, Mrs. Fl. T. Croker, AlissI. Croker.
Miss frankie Howell, Miss Nettie Davis, Mrs.
A, Suffer, Mrs. C. ]. King, Mrs ]. P. Beering,
Miss B.; Beering, Miss G. Beering, Miss
Minnie White, Miss Daisy White, Mrs. L. w.
Moore, Mrs. George P. Moore, Mrs. w. L. Moore,
Mrs. j. V. Collins, Miss Carrie Murphy, Mrs.
G. S. Scott, Mrs. C. C. Moore, Miss NJ. B. Spear,
Mrs, 4. Martin.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-26

change in the alimentary processes of that
race. A writer in an article in the New
Review calls attention to the rapid if not
total disappearance OF most of the national
dishes OF Scotland. Tartan, pansowdie,
scGdl1ps, brochan and drammock are gone.
Even haggis, an awful concoction, consist
ing OF minced leg of mutton, suet, bread
crumbs, spices, mushrooms and red wine
enclosed IN can and baked in a quick
oven, is becoming a thing of the past
Moreover. 1t is a dangerous dish, for If
the caul be not well pricked before
being put to cook, to admit of the escape
OF steam engendered in baking when
punctured at the cable, it is apt to explode
and throw its contents over the diners, a
matter OF small inconvenience to some
Scotchmen, but somewhat disheartenine
to visitors from over the border CARLYLE.
Scotchman of the old school, even after
long residence in London, always chung
to the culinary processes of Scotland The
meals served at his house in Cheyne row
are described as awful examples of old
Scotch gastronomic methods. No cook
would remain with him for any length of
time, and the revelations of these func-
tlonarles when they left his employ ap-
palIed even natives of his own land. Car
lyle thought he knew something of cook
cry. A rice pudding. however, that he fire.
quently corcocted was the cause of many
arrangements between his friends and
himself.
Tailors in Spain earn 81 80 a week. in
Italy "a, in England 81 40
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-26
Extensive Preparations in Prog.
ress for the Fes-
tiyities.
TO BE a BRILLIANT AFFAIR.
The Executive and General Commit
tees Named at the Mark Hop
kins Institute.

The pleasant duty of preparing for the
Mardi Gras ball keeps all hands busy at
the Mark Hopkins Institute. According
to the plans adopted, all the guests, afoot
or in carriages. will enter the broad drive.
way ct the Mason street corner of the in
closure. The cypress hedge on either side
OF the driveway will bear electric lights.
1t will be easy enough for two carriages
to come in abreast, and when the occu-
pants alight, the carriages can drive on,
emerging at the Stanford gate on the other
side Of the institute grounds.
An executive committee consisting of
the following has been appointed: James
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-26
IN THE FUTURE.
Interesting Events That Give Promise of
Lively Week.


Lively Week.
The next and last cotillon OF the Friday Fort
nightly Club will be given February ID, and
will be a leap-year affair. Miss Alice Hobart
will lead.
The Friday Night Club has postponed Its final
meeting Of this season, an assembly, until after
Lent
Colonel and Mrs. George H. Burton, o. g. A.,
and the Misses Burton Will give a leap-year
dance to the young people at the Presicio next
Wednesday evening. The ladies will appear in
dominoes and with masks.
Cards have been sent out for the leap-year
cotillon to be given February at Lunt's Hall
each is to invite her partner and escort him to
the dance. Among the members are: Miss
Gertrude Church, Miss Romola Bigelow, Miss
May Ayers, Miss May Lowell Miss Mabel Estee,
Miss Anna Fisher, Miss Anna Wainwright
Miss Edith Bishop, Miss Belle Van Vlack, Miss
Grace Sa bin, Miss May Sharon and Miss Addie
Jewett.
George Almer Newhall will give dinner
dance next Wednesday evening at his resi-
dence on Van Ness avenue. Dinners viii be
Crockett, Mr.. and Mrs. w. Mayo Newhall, Mr..
and Mrs. j. R. K. Nuttall and Mr.. and Mrs.
Mountford S. Wilson. Afterward they will all
meet at Mr.. Newhall's residence and the cotil-
lon will be danced.
The Entire Nous cotillon win give a fancy
dress leap-year german on next Friday even
ing at the Palace Hotel. Miss Nancy Place
will act rs leader, assisted by Mrs. Frank L.
Platt and Misses Charlotte Gruenhagen and
Mae B. Ludlow. 1t promises to be one of the
most successful and brilliant gatherings of the
season.
The younger set, the members of the Alameda
Cotjllon Club, will give a leap-year party next
Thursday evening at Harmonic Hall. The
young ladies expect to make the occasion a
memorable one. Miss Florence Z. Mason, who
Is the manager, will lead the german.
Mrs. H. S. Robertson and Miss Spinney will
give q musicale st their residence, 80 Haw
thorne street, on Rincon Hill, next Thursday
evening. About 100 invitations have been sent
out. Professor Volmer Hoffmeyer and Henry
Bettman have arranged the programme.
The Ohabai Shalome Auxiliary Association
announces leap-year domino party to be
given February 81.
The Young Mems Hebrew Union will cele-
brate the coming festival of Purim by giving
their tenth annual prize mask ball on Sunday
evening, February 10, at n. S. G. w. Hall.
The pupils and friends of R. K. Love will give
complimentary leap-year dance in his honor
tCalltornla Hall next Friday evening.
A fancy dress ball is to be given by the Elks
shortly after Lent. This is an innovation that
was decided upon only Thursday night when
the executive committee of the order held a
special meeting. 1t is promised that the new
event VIII have the same artistic excellence
which makes the annual masquerade of the
Elks an event OF the year.
Britannia Lodge No. z, Daughters of St.
George, will give q leap-year social at st.
Georges Club, BIT Mason street, next Tuesday
evening.
The Mystics have issued invitations for their
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-26
ENGAGEMENTS,
Weir-Whittier, LOwengart- Gerst and Far
nnharsnn-C Cattle Rntrn+ha1n

Weir-WhittierI Lowengart-Gerst and Far
quhsrson- Castle Betrothals.
The wedding of Miss Kathryn Jarboe, daugh-
ter of Mrs. John r. Jarboe, and Jerome Case
Bull of New York viii take place at noon on
Thursday, February 6, at St. Lukes Church
Rev. William Moreand will oficiate TIE
wedding Will be followed by breakfast at the
residence of Mr.. and Mrs Paul Jarboe, 1899
Taylor street. Only the bridal party and rela-
tives wiz be present. The maid of honor viii
be Miss Charlotte Wilson, the little daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Russell ]. Wilson, and the best
The ushers will comprise Z. NJ. Greenwey,
Samuel H. Boardman, Richard Harrison, Frank
L. Owen, DR.. George NJ. Richardson and Addi-
son Miner
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Watson Grant have
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-26
PIONEERS ANNIVERSARY.

The date of the discovery of gold at Coloma
by Marshall having been, after years of con-
troyersy, incontrovertibly fixed as on January
"a, 1S4S, the Society Of California Pioneers on
Friday evening commemorated the forty
eighth anniversary by enjoyable social festivi-
ties in their spacious assembly hall. Despite
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-26
A GENTLEMANLY PROFESSION.
The Advice Given by an English Bust
ness Man.

A city man was lately asked to recon-
mend a nice gentlemanly profession in
which quick fortune could be made with
out risk. He replied that he knew of only
two such professions, and they were both
rather hard to get into. They were the
professions of Kafr millionaires and
American railroad organizers. The Kair
millionaire is not entirely unknown to our
readers, but perhaps they are not so well
acquainted with the railroad reorganizer.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-26
CONVERSATION AT MEALS.

It Undoubtedly Acts as an Aid to
Digestion.
A writer in the Speaker of London calls
attention to the value of conversation at
meals as an aid to digestion. He says with
truth that the frugal repast eaten in silence
is more harmful than copious one en-
ioyed in the society of gay and vivacious
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-26
SCOTCH DISHES.

Those That Were Once National Have
Disappeared.
DR.. johnson never tired of ridiculing the
gastronomic methods, if that term can be
applied to them, OF the Scotch. One hun
dred and thirty years have effected great
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-26

A letter was received recently at the
Water" 1t was sent to Cripple Creek.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-26
PERSONALS.

seventeenth party to be held at the new N. S.
u. W. Hall on Tuesday evening, February Is.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-26

Tailors in Spain earn 81 80 week, in
Italy "a, in England 81 40
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-04-14
National Airs,

Richard Wagner has somewhere said that
tho first eight bars of "Rule Britannia"
contain tho whole character Of the English
people. And IL this bo true of our famous
national song, similar remark might
with equal truth be applied to many airs
Of tho continent which at different times
have summed up tho hopes and aspirations
of a whole people. Many of these gathering
around them in process Of time wealth
Of associations, have become part and par
Gel of the national life to a greater extent
than in our own country. More especially
has this been the case in France, whose an
cient government is said to have been alb
solute monarchy tempered with songs.
Many of these gained fame out Of all
proportion to their intrinsic merits as q re-
suit OF some historical association Thus
the simple ditty .'Vivo Henri Quatre,"
with its threo verses came to be Of royallst
Importance after its introduction into
Colle's play, ola Partie do Chasso de
Henri w. In tho year 1865. During the
revolution it formed one Of the many prn-
hibited songs, but took q fresh lease Of life
at tho restoration of tho Rourbons, and
was performed amid great enthusiasm at
the opera In tho presence Of the Emperor
Alexander and tho king Of Prussia on the
evening of their arrival with tho allied
armies at Paris.-Chambers Journal