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The San Francisco call., 1896-06-28
IRE THE
MEN OF SIN FRANCISCO
RUDE TO WOMEN9
Is the .Modish Woman Dressed Conspicuously2

peaceful bovine. From the expanse of her
shoulders her waist slopes. in, to the en-
tire exclusion of her liver-a liver is not
good form nowadays; she either strides or
tiptoes along, carrying on her dome of
reason (?) a fluff of impossible crinkled
hair, and perched on one side of it mass
of dead birds and feathers that might be
taken for taxidermist's sign.
Some male cynic dares to gaze at her in
sneering woncer as to which extreme of
society she belongs. He is rude starer
and should be given barred window to
stare through.
Circus posters are put up to be stared at.
Are respectable women never wantonly
insulted?
They are. There are men whose very
glance is pollution. The only way to
purify them is by fire, and that is prohib-
ited at least in this world. They are of
feather with the females whose existence
we ignore; and with eyes that see not we
may pass these male animals by. They
have no smirk for the woman who never
knows they are near. An angry look is as
much satisfaction to them as an answer
ing smile, but complete oblivion is frost
that kills them.
There is always the possibility of little
encounter with The youth tottering under
too heavy load of the rosy. He is too
imbeciIe to be taken tragically. If one
could only take him to a nice clean pig
pen!
There is golden mean between a smile
and a slap in the face or police court. A
few quiet words or a grave glance of pity
does more than all the publicity and scan
dal of an arrest.
Something in the face and the air of a
girl or the lack of that something deter
mines the attitude of men and other ami
mails toward her. What it is l will not
undertake to explain; it is an ineffable
something that resides in the personality,
not put on and off to suit the occasion.
Thousands of bright, busy working-girls
daily and nightly pass up and down our
streets in perfect freedom and immunity
from danger, while few are ''lnsulted'
time after time.
Draw your inference.
The men of San Francisco are civil
For such a motley company gathered
from the corners of the earth they are
more than civil. In the frequented streets
a woman is just as safe as in the bosom of
her family; in the darkness of the Super
visors' intelligence she is at least as safe
as her young brother; more so.
l know whereof [ write. At 18 a girl
Just out of school came alone to the big
city and, with a lively curiosity and a
rustic independence, showed herself the
sights, studying all sorts of queer places
and people, knowing no chaperon but
self-respect, no limit but her own judg-
ment.
Expecting neither worship nor persecu.
ton from men-in fact not considering
them at all-she received what sne ex-
pected. Growing older, year after year
she has travelled the streets of San Fran
cisco at seemly and unseemly hours with
face that never yet stopped a clock, and
the first rudeness has yet to be offered.
When you want helping-nand, bit of
information or a direction, 10 whom do
you turn? The nearest man.
And you get what you ask for.
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! / always bow to him as we pass, and he
raises his hat with a grace some much
younger men would do well to cultivate.
There is young matron who, like my
self, is often compelled to be on the street
| late, sometimes to cross the bay at mid
night 1 asked her one day if she had
! found the men of San Francisco rude.
NO" she said, "I have always gone on
my way unmolested, but only yesterday
Mrs. x. and her sister omplained to me
that they are Swallowed every time they
go out together in the evening. Don't you
think they imagine some of it?"
Knowing Mrs. x. and her sister Lopined
that it might be true and yet be no evi-
dence of rudeness in the men.
"Once something happened that dis
turbed me-" went on the young matron.
at was in Oakland one night; very tall
negro smiled famlliarly and raised his
hat"
| laughed as L pictured Major Waters
going from a successful cake-walk, full of
the milk-punch of human kindness, scat
tering smiles and bows like blessings right
and left When 1 explained, the young
matron laughed too. 81 am so glad you
told me. was afraid 1 had somehow
made myself conspicuous.
Conspicuous.
That is the key to half of it.
If we make it the study of life to look
striking how can we hope to escape COM
ment? Given a cause, an effect must
follow.
know by sight girl. I call her the
black and yellow girl. l pick her out in a
crowd, meet her on this side of the bay
and the other, in the center and in the
suburbs, and 1 never mistake her. She
may be good, modest girl. If she is she
should sue her clothes tor libel.
There is one "woman's right" that is
not yet taken advantage OF by the masses,
though it is conceded even by the Demo-
crats-the right to dress quietly, modestly,
naturally.
A woman is going down the street in a
dark dress with vivid plaid sleeves, which
MAKE by far a larger hole in the atmos-
phere than the person herself, and which
would drive into frenzy any naturally
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was very low but it was all that she could
then afford to pay, for even with economy
the demands upon her purse were consid-
cradle considering her resources. The
man started in on the hou se-painting job.
At the end of the second day he took his
pay. Mrs. Christy insisting upon paying
him daily, and went away not to return.
He assigned no reason.
This left the house in condition where
Mrs. Christy was compelled to go ahead.
She saw no reason why a woman should
fall from ladder. She had no idea that
a woman's muscles were incompetent or
that her eye fer colors was poor. More
over, she was aware that if she personally
applied the paint it would be well rub bed
into the wood. Perhaps it was just as
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them from the Chinese peddlers, as so
many others do. The prophetic poet who
told about 'tickling the soil with hoe,"
that the land might laugh into harvest"
could not have imagined any one better
calculated to WELD the Doe faithfully than
the brave lady who IS the SUBJECT of
this article. What she has put her hands
to has been done with all her might. The
thoroughness which has characterized her
in one enterprise has made her successful
in all. Her garden patch is not only
pleasing TO the eye because of its thrifty
looks but also it is very productive.
Thrift and economy suggested that soap
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HOW
Il TUL4RE
OVERCEME
THE WOLF

Mrs. G. G. Christy of Tulare has blue
eyes and strongly marked features which
indicate courage and force. Four years
ago her husband died, leaving her with
six small children and little money. All
at once, therefore, the problem of how to
support large family was thrust upon
the widow. The young Christys had lusty
appetites and strongly marked propen-
sity to wear out shoes and clothes, and in
them also inhered the certainty of outgoes
for choolbooks, for doctors bills and the
thousand and one miscellaneous expenses
which aggregate a considerable annual
total.
'They who face battle bravely," says an
old proverb, "have the spirit of conquerors
within tn en-" Mrs. Christy did not
bother with proverbial sayings of course,
but Immediately went to work in practi-
cal way. The skill which had enabled
her to turn things to the best advantage
in her family when Mr.. Chrsty lived
speedily was applied on broader lines.
There was some life insurance mon ey
coming in, but not a very large amount,
from the policy, upon which her husband
had paid premiums. Her first invest
ment, made after lot of careful consider
alton, was in home in pleasant quarter
of the town. Her new home was not
palatial nor very pretentious, but it was
comfortable and Mrs. Christy saw that it
could be SO improved that it would be ais o
very attractive to the eye.
There was cellar to be dug. What
money remained was not to be expe nded
for paying for help. No, prudence
prompted that this should be reserved as
far as possible, for ''rainy day" might
come when ready money would be indis-
pensable. But there was the pressing
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truction of the eyes. The PROBABILITY is
that man was once a one-eyed creature,
and the anatomical sympathy between
the two eyes is still so perfect that they
act together always. Thus, blind eye.
though ii sees nothing, works just as hard
in its vain effort to see as does its perfect
mate It looks Just as constantly, even
when Shut as the good eye, and needs
rest at night Just as much. The constant
strain upon eyes distracted and teased by
such an object as an occasional dot on a
light veil is an active brain irritant suffi-
cient to produce marked mental effects. l
might tell YOU tie exact effect if | thought
you would remember it, but it has grown
so fashionable of late for physicians to
hurl big technical phrases at their pa
tients that our pet terms are beginning to
run off the chronic cases like water off
ducks back. 1t is the truth, though, that
we women are hurting our brains and our
ewes. and lining our faces with premature
wrinkles by wearing dotted wells"
wrinkles" is always a dread word in
feminine ears, and it remained in my
mind as | went forth, haif-doubting, but
determined to make note OF the wells
worn bv nv sister women. 1t was hardly
possible that these trif1es light as air could
be productive of such serious mischief.
The first woman met was yelled with a
wonderful creation in delicate white iilu-
sion, edged with lace and dotted with
black pattern of the conventionalized
fieur-de-lis, each design more than half
an inch long. 1t was striking III effect,
but / felt sure I should not have noticed 1t
hut for the doctors little lecture.
Curionsly enough there was the redoubt-
able vertical wrinkle between her brows,
and at the corhers of her eyes were faint
crowsfeet. Palpably, the lady was squint-
ing, and, equally, it was apparent that the
cause of her visual obliqulty was par
ticuIarly fetching feur-de-lis exactly upon
the ridge of her nose. where both
eyes could catch tantalizing half
glimpses of its beauty. A few mo-
ments later L met a friend, full
of enthusiasm over new. movement for
the elevation of the race. She was earnest,
dignifed, eloquent, and the subject upon
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-28

need of cellar. There was no way to
dodge that. The oldest child, Otto, aged
when his father died. could help some,
but was not strong enough to accomplish
much. Very well, then, the mother would
dig the cellar herself. Selling the pick
and shovel and barrow she went at the
work with a will, and the dirt flew i'll such
way that the neighbors from pity turned
to admiration, and the talk of that part of
the town began to be about ''plucky Mrs.
Christy"
Attached to Mrs. Christy's home is suffi-
cient landsto make up good-sized garden.
She did not permit this land to lie idle,
but dug it up, raked and hoed it over with
her own hands, planted seeds and raised
her own vegetables, instead OF buying
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Dropping in the other day for a chat
With my friend, the doctor, found her
sitting at her desk gazing, With frcwn
tetween her bFows, at the door through
which an outgoing patient had just passed.
"What is going TO become of our
9omen?" she asked by way OF greeting.
Easily answered." 1 replied, as l took
stethoscope from chair and seated
myself "They are going to vote. After
that-the deluge."
The doctors frown deepened. My levity
was evidently i'll timed. 'If they're not
careful" she said, "they will have neither
eyes to read the ballot nor brains to under
stand its meaning"
1 understood then that the doctor
wanted to talk, so waited, and presently
she continued:
''That woman who just went out is the
eighth who bas come to me this week
with practically the same set of symp-
toms. She complained of feeling sleepy
all the time, OF sIight-very slight-dizzi.
ness. AS one of the eight expressed it,
She wasn't exactly dizzy, but she seemed a s
if she would be if she made quick move
They sll have something of this sensation
and all complain of d peculiar headach
way back inside the head, and all have
pain, with tendency to tearfulness in
the eyes. Every last one of them is de-
veloplng tiny, vertical wrinkle just
above the nose and bunch of little fine
ones at the corners of the eyes"
at all sounds alarming, commented,
selng something i'll that line was expected
OF me. "How do you account for all these
symptoms2"
''By this" and she reached across to
where her bonnet lay upon table and
plucked therefrom bit of net studded
with occasional round, black dots.
We're all wearing these things and
they're putting our eyes out" why do
you do it?" 1 replied, full OF conscious
rectitude, for my veil had no dots. "Have
TO wear this. The girls do my shopping.
1 take what they bring me, for I've no
time to do anything else. But you have
no such excuse" "Oh, yes''-as began to
demur-"but that coarse mesh you have
before your eyes is nearly as bad as the
dots.'
The doctor was fairly launched now.
HAS it ever occurred to you" she
asked, ''to wonder why you meet so many
more women than men who are wearing
glasses ?"
murmured something about the we'll
known studious tendencies of the new
woman, and the doctor lapsed into inele-
gance. "Studlous grandmothersW she
snapped. at isn't study; It's folly that
perches spectacIes upon the noses OF our
women. If men covered their faces with
black, or white, or red, green or blue net.
speckled all over with dots, dancing in
front of the eyes. they would soon be COM
ing to the doctors with the same chain OF
symptoms these women describe. The
dot need not be directly IN front of the
eye to do the mischief. In fact, it does
almost less harm there than on the side
of the nose, for instance. Such an object,
visible, yet not directly within the range
of vision is always distracting object to
the sight. Not only the eye on the side
where the dot is is strained in the
effort to see the thing, but the one on the
opposite side partakes of the effort. This
is a popularity growing out OF the con-
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well, she reflected, that she should do the
work. Anyhow there was no other way
out of the dilemma. Mrs. Christy put on
old clothes and wspt for that house in
dead earnest. She applied more than one
color, for pleasing effects, and then stood
off and admired the contrast. When she
had finished the job and the ladder was
put away she had the proud distinction of
being the only woman in Tulare who had
furnished ocular demonstration that she
can actually paint house from top to
bottom. including the roof and tankhouse.
Her children are bright, well dressed and
well behaved
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was something new for her to attempt,
and she turned over the problem in her
mind as TO how she could get the work
done at least cost. She finally decided
that she would buy the paint and hire
some one who was out of work to put the
paint on the sides of the house.
1t will probably please and amuse the
disciples of the "new woman" relf-reliant
and competent, to learn that Mrs Christy
driven by the force of circumstances, dem
onstrated that woman of the present
day can do this sort of work. She hired a
man who applied for employment TO do
the painting. The price she offered him
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-28
Il COUPLE OF
SUMMER JOKELETS.

The man with the vegetable wagon stood
o the front step.
"Want an ything in my line ?'' he asked.
NO." was the reply. DE lady of de
house says she don't want no mo- dealin's
wifi you"
"Why?"
s'She says yer Is too inharmonious; dat
yoh strawberries amt fresh 'nuff, an yoh
is altogeddah to fresh. Washington
Star.
He prded himself on speaking twelve tongues
he could trace to It's root any word you might
name;
But he read, twice through, baseball report
And then couldn'tt tell what they did in the camel
Chicago Record.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-28

MRS. c. C. CHRISTY.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-03-26

10 him, there would be, in passing
through these tubes, suppression OF
all nervous trepidation, thanks to the
interior surface being of finely-polished
steel; equality Of temperature secured
by means of currents of air, by which
the heat could be modified ac-
cording to the seasons; incredibly
low fares, owing to the cheapness
Of construction and working expenses
forgetting or waving aside all con-
alterations Of the question of gravita-
ton and OF wear and tear.
All that now came back to my mind.
SO, then, this utopia" had become q
reality, and these two cylinders of iron
at my feet passed thence under the At
lautic and reached TO the coast of Eng
landl
In spite Of the evidence, could not
bring myself to believe In the thing hav-
Ing been done. That the tubes had been
laid ! could not doubt; but that men
could travel by this routc-never!
"Was it not impossible even to obtain
current Of air Of that length ?"--I ex-
pressed that opinion aloud.
"Quite easy, on the contrary" pro
tested Col. Pierce, ITO obtain IL. All
that is required Is q great number OF
steam fans similar to those used in
blast furnaces. The air Is driven by
Them with q force which Is practically
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-03-26
THE ART OF DARNlNG.
1t Should DO Taught as an Essential Part
of Home Training.

1t Should BE Taught as an Essential Faro
OF Home Training.
The proper darning of rent in cloth
is an art that cannot be easily picked
up and should be taught to girls as an
essential part of their practical home
training. The expert darner OF wooden
cloth will make rent practically in
visible by weaving together the torn
edges, matching them as carefully as
possible and afterward pressing tho
rent. A fine sewing silk is used to darn
wooden cloth in preference to any wool,
which would not be strong enough UNI
less the thread or raveling was too
coarse. Where the cloth is thick enough,
cndeavor to conceal the silk thread be-
tween the face and back of the cloth.
Begin about half an inch from the
edge of one side of the tear, and run tho
needle the same distance from the other
edge, concealing the thread carefully
and drawing the edges closely together,
but not so they overlap. II there Is
any nap on the cloth, brush it back
while you are darning, and then brush
it down again. Lay damp cotton
cloth on the wrong side OF the cloth,
over the darn, and press it down once;
then remove the cotton cloth and press
next the wooden surface, being careful
that you do not press it perfectly dry,
but that very little steam arises after
the iron is removed. II the cloth is
pressed perfectly dry, the work OF the
iron will be shown on the right side.
A piece of cloth is usually darned with
vertical and diagonal stitches running
with the threads of the cloth. The up
and-down' thread is usually the strong
est way of mending bias darn. Use
no piece of cloth under the darning UNI
less the cloth is thin. In that case, q
piece of silk of the same color is less
clumsy as backing to the darn than
wool, unless the wool is sheer.-N. Z.
Tribune
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-03-26
PirH AND POINT.

--Wiggles lin love)-"Why, man, her
very feet are poem" Griggs "a cyni-
cal friend)-"No doubt, but isn't
poem Of only two feet rather shortP"-
n. Y. Tribune.
Sunday School Teacher-"What
nre we to understand by THU rassage'
'Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask
amissT" Precocious Boy-"Ought to
ask widow."-Credit Lost.
Young Doctor-"Do you have much
difficulty in making your patients do
what you want them to do?" Old Doc
tor-"Yes; particularly when send in
my bills."-Philadelphia Press.
-Bobby-"Popper, what do they
have to have man to pray for congress
for?" Mr.. Perry-"They don't. He
takes look ut congress end then prays
for the country" Cincinnati En-
quirer.
--Patient-"Doctor, do you think I
will recoyer?' DR.. Sooner-"Yes; am
sure of it. You are the 10th. One in
40 RECEIVERS from your disease, and the
50 that have treated are all dead."-
Texas Sitter.
laura" said the fond mother,
"what IRE the intentions of that young
man you are permitting to call on you
so oftcn?" "Never mind that, mother"
answered the maiden; 81 know what
lay intentions are."-Cincinnati En-
quirer.
Trouble Ahead.-"Is that De Fitz
coming here again tonight, Ethel?"
eyes, papa, and hope you'll be nice to
him, for he's real SWELL" "All right,
but II he stays as late us he did last
Eight he'll be bowling SWELL
-"And the name is to be-?" asked
the suave minister, as he approached
the font with the precious armful OF
fat and flounces. Augustus Philip
Ferdinand Codrinton Chesterfield Liv-
ingstone Shocks" "Dear, dear!"
Cunning to the sexton): "a little
more water, Mr.. Perkins, If you please
--!Tit-Bts.
-Chattie-"I hear that old De Cash
IL dead" Chinnie-"Yes, died yester'
day, and his widow has retained me to
contest his will" Chattie--"Eh?
always understood he intended to leave
his young wife his entire fortuneg'
Chinnie-"So he did; but it was on con
fiition that she should not marry
pgain."
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-03-26
LEARNING SPANISH.
Mexican Newspapers Criticism Of Text
Books In General.


AnAmerican journal advises the more
general study of the Spanish language
In the United States, on the ground OF
commercial utility. We believe that in
San Francisco and Kansas City and In
few other places instruction Is given
In Spanish, but it is likely that 1t does
not go very far and is not entirely prac-
tical for most language teachers in the
United States are either tiresome ped
ants or charlatans who sadly waste the
time of their pupils; and the makers
of instruction books in the modern
language almost always omit what is
colloquial and therefore useful, and
give mass of boolSish words and "ele-
CANT" constructions, with the apparent
idea that only dilettantes and future
poets are 10 be educated.
We have before us some Spanish
gra,nmars and correspondence books
which, while filled to repletion with
impracticable instructions, and always
insisting en- elegant" constructions
and usages, are disfgured by awkward
explanations, and offer the most as
founding grammatical blunders in
their examples. Most authors of text
books are Cabling asses who copy
from all previous ones, and the result
Is that lot of ill-digested grammars
and "new methods" are imposed on the
credulous public. One much-advertised
grammar for English learners of Span
lsh we submitted to most scholarly
gentleman of this city, who noted over
II thousand grammatical errors and
threw down the book in despair. A
manual of Spanish correspondence
which has an extensive sale Is so
crammed with faults of grammar that
1t Is no more useful than the English
as She Is Spoke" was to the Portuguese
students for whom it was prepared.
A very popular Spanish grammar Of
wide sale both in England and the
United States was, in it's earlier edi-
tons, so blunderingly written that it
might properly have been entitled "a
Method for Inducing the Learner Into
Sailors Spanish, with Unexampled Fa-
cilities for Making Fool Of the Stu
dent"
The American paper that we have
mentioned asserts that Spanish is not
only child of the Latin, but that its
construction is Latin. Spanish has a
broad Latin base, it is true, but it has
been greatly influenced and modified
by the Arabic and by the language of
the Wutonic conquerors of Spain; a
vast number Of everyday words in use
are from the Arabic, and the construc-
ton, although far more flexible than
the English, resembles more that tongue
than the inverted Latin construction.
It is valuable and noble language
which Is not to be mastered in n week
or month, although fair working
knowledge Ct it for business purposes
may be acquired in few months by
any diligent Standardization Herald