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same pursuits and she must be careful or
something might give away. Therefore,
) let me- prescribe rule which, if lived up
to, will keep you out of danger: Never
exert your muscles until they strain ;
never exert your legs antil you feel ex-
haustion creep over you; never try TO do a
little more when you already feel ia
otigued.
'Kudimentary exercise can be taken in
different forms. Skipping rope. the
wands, good walks, light dunn bbells, run
ming, bicycIing-in fact, many such pur-
suits can be INDUCED in, provided care is
used. Nest women and some men never
show their ignorance and lack of sense
quite as much as those parents who refuse
oto9permit their child TO continue exercis
ing because by some accident careless
c ness or ignorance the beginner has been
somewhat Injured. 1 hope 1 have more
reason than 10 insist that child who has
poor instructor, or who displays want
Of ability to take care of himselfor her.
. self, should continues before at the risk
and likelihood of still greater injuries. If
a toddling baby slips and falls while cross
ing the floor for the first time, humping
his nose severely, must the little one be
confined inehis cradle all his life? g
If circumstances are unfavorable to
your taking exercise in a Gymnasium
under proper instructor much cane be
accom- plished at home. We will suppose
that you have room suaa Bile for the pur-
pose-a garrett, a store-room, a dry cellar
or an out house. Almost any place will
do provided it is roomy, without gas
fixtures or posts to bother you, or likeli-
hood of annoying other people by your
hopping around.
If you have suit of bloomers, so much
the better; if not, remove ali the clothing
you can without catching cold, and have
your muscles and limbs free and I'M
frammeled. You can now take wand
and by the examples set forth in a book
that you cam procure for the purpose, gain
considerable hexibility and grace, and
some strength there by. Light dumb
bells can also be used, working the linn BIS
in every conceivable direction, aiming to
bring into play every possible muscle.
Then try the skipping rope for change.
II you like dndian clubs. l would advise
that you not only use them but aim to be
proficient as possible. There is little or
no danger of OVERRIDING this particular
exercise unless IL is kept ppotoo long; and
it is graceful, invigorating and fascinating
to some. A young lady who would become
an artist at this branch of gymnastics
would be star attraction at stage enter
tainments. These Implements are to be
recommended as an excellent form OF
exercise. They bring about every muscle
into play with little if any danger TO be
feared by the most timid. AS one becomes
accustomed to their use, they can be SUBJ
siitut I'd by heavier ones, or If they are OF
little monetary value. they can be bored
around the circumference and at the base,
and the holes filed with lead. Indian
C. ubs give strength and grace to the one
who uses them with perseverance.
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ON FEMALE ATHLETICS
Baird Contributes Some Excellent
and Valuable Suggestions
Different Forms Of RudImentary Exercise
The Home Gymnasium---Running,
Rowing, Swimming

Having reflected upon female athletics
in general in my last letter andconsidered
the possibilities of female development IN
particular, we will turn our attention
to specific dorms of exercise. Now there
are different degr ees of gymnastics and
athletics, as there are. grades in school
or a university, only they have not been
. dictated by competent authority. There
are no faculties or boards TO prescribe the
courses and the curriculum. 1t might be q
good thing if there we're; however, we
must get along without them as best we
may.
Letous see how q young girl or lady not
at all strong should begin. Let me warn
them in the most solemn manner that the
. human constitution is of such peculiar
composition that it is possible to do a GER
tain act. in defiance of nature hundred
times with impunity, and then wrench
something tina; might send you to bed for
year. In other words, do not be rash
Because some one else is rash. Be con-
tent 10 go about your exercise gradually
and patiently. Avoid being hasty.
A womaH is a strange piece Of ma
chinery.s Women are queer cattle" a
friend once remarked to me, and I guess
he was about right. Let young man not
particularly strong enter gymnasium or
step on a cinder-path and it will be a
strange and unusual thing if he strains or
over-exerts himself; but let girl who is
sadly in need of exercise engage in the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-11-29
a QUESTION OF EYES.
How Defective Vision Among Chill
dren May Be Remedied
New SchooIbook Types ard Half Tone
Illustrations Tend to. Strain Even
Well-DeVeloped Eyes

During an hour spent the other day on
the Children's Playground in Golden Gate
Park noticed a dozen or more children
wearing spectacles.
BY spectacles do not mean the blue or
dark colored glasses that our merciless
glare OF drab sidewalks, drab houses and
treeless streets render necessary, but spec
tacles worn with an air of requiring them
as remedy for visual defects. There
were tots OF five and six solemnly survey
ing the world through concavo-convex
lenses, and older youngsters watching
their playmates through big. round Cog
giles. "he sight of two specialized lads in
rapt enjoyment of the merry-go-round's
giddy whIrl would have been funny had it
not been pathetic, and might have smiled
over the girl of twelve who checked her
donkey in its mad career across the lawn,
the better to just her pince-nez, had l
not felt little jusiifiable wrath at the
stupidity that allowed her TO wear such
thing. II the vanity of spectacle.needing
grown-ups leads them to wear these sight
destroying contrivances, why, the conse-
quences be on the head and the eyes, as
the Moslems say, but the children should
be better protected. 1t is only by careful
taking thought that an adult can keep
eyeglasses so adjusted as to look evenly
through each lens; child cannot do it.
In the excitement of play they will shift;
they get bent; the undeveloped nose does
not afford them sufficient support, and,
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hension may be inferred from the fact
that, being asked the nature OF the proto-
p'asm concerning which she was dis
cours:ng so glibly, she replied, unhesi-
tatingy. 'Why, protoplasm is a.bug."
B .ackboards and States are capital sight
destroyers. 1t is possible, by he aid of
colored crayons. to avoid good deal of
the evil attendant upon the use of the
first-named but the slate and pencil in
co mmon use are without a redeeming
feature. One of these days, when we are
wise, we shall give our little children tab
let's of thick ground glass and soft black
'leadpencus 10 use in their first attempts
at writing. We are already learning not
to let them print their early lessons. 1t
used to be thought that the babies must
learn to print "a laborious. eye, brain and
hand-troubling process) before they could
be trusted to write. Nowadays they are
taught to write at once with satisfactory
results. We are also coming to see the
folly of slanting letters, hair lines and
shading in penmanship, and the introduce
ton of the vertical writing in our schools
will doubtless prove a great saving to
youthful sight, but we shall never attain
TO the best results until we have consigned
the school slate TO limbo.
Little children are given entirely too
much writing work at school. 1t seems
pity that so much should be required to
satisfy the demands OF modern education.
The work of sight-destroying which We
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-11-29

While in the rud imentary stage little
running can be indul red in provided care
IL used. For example. take walk TO the
sea beach; then take run on the sands,
but do not run over 100 feet at first. and
even then do not strain yourself. When
you feel an inclination 10 stop, do so at
once, remembering that you are not
strong, and any severe exertion might do
more harm than good. Bear in mind that
you cannot run as you could when girl;
not because you are out OF practice, but
for the reason that your physique has I'M
dergone a change since your girlhood.
The nature o. this change is net in my
province to describe, as 1t comes under
the head of medical discourse. Suffi-
cient to say that the bones of the pelvis
have been transformed to an extent that
robs woman OF tie agility and speed
that she formerly possessed. This should
not prevent your running for pleasure and
exercise; aud no possible harm can result
if proper care is used and thought given to
the particular needs and weaknesses of
your own system.
Another step that can be taken is BIZ
cycling. woman would indeed be very
weak if she could not take short turn on
the wheel every day, riding up and down
a smooth thoroughfare few times. The
exertion is commonplace, and as the linn
tation can be half dozen blocks each
way there is little danger of in Jury. Long
trips should be avoided until the fair ath-
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beautiful pictures, and then, with that
deep, rich red vine weaving in and out
and up, the effect is magnificent.
A low hillside covered with scrub oak
and manzanita has been a Joy to look at
for two months. TIE manzanita keeps
its rather pale green and the oaks have
outdone themselves in effects OF yellow.
Yellow and brown combine with nything.
Against the earth color of the hill or
against the green OF the manzanita the
oak leaves seem just the proper thing;
snd against the purple of more distant
hill the same brown yellow seems as
beautiful. Against gray sagebrush an
oak looks like cameo, and even against
the gold of sunset sky they are in per-
feet harmony.
The lighter trees, the poplar and the
cottonwood, are leafess now. In early
autumn they turned to gold-their stand
ard-and then one morning, when the
oaks and NAPLES smiled brighter than
ever, their mass of gold lay gray aud sad
at the loot of the naked tree, and the rude
wind tore them and scattered them afar.
From my window 1 can see a barren,
rocky hill, whose naked sides grow soft
and lovely in the magic air. In the re-
lentless summer light 1 could see the bare
rocks and the SCARED ravine, but now it is
one purple hillside, except when sunset
turns it an indescribable color as of pur-
pie dashed with pink. On that hillside OF
mine there is one tree. Ali summer [
guessed what kind, blu: could not be sure
while the leaves were green. In the first
autumn days l thought it might be cot
tonwood, so yellow it turned, but now,
while the pop.ars point their bare
branches to heaven, my solitary tree is
yellow still. growing each week shade
darker. 1t is an oak-I know now-the
most lovely one in view, because it stands
alone on that purple steep.
1 watch it grow darker, 1 watch the
nearer hills grow duller, and / know how
soon the beautiful leaves will lie on the
cold earth. 1 watch the snow, which all
summer lay on Shasta's crown, creeping
slowly, surely, silently down = covering
the tops of the high mountains, then their
lower slopes, then the higher foothills
creeping ike a foamy tide each night a
little nearer. And soon, very soon, the
SNOW will lie cold and white in the valley
and autumn will be winter.
Does it seem sad? Not so. Autumn is
the season of promise. Never except then
do the forest trees openly aaunt their
beauty; never except then does the sun
go down in such blaze of level golden
rays and leave such glow after; never
except then is the magic air so full of re-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-11-29
AN IDYL OF THE AUTUMN TINE
Olive HeYdens Poetic Picture Of the Season Of Bright
Tints in Northern California

wonder if some Of those who come
from the Eastern States do not miss in
the balmy sunshine of Central and South
ern California the crisp beauty OF frosty
autumn. No wonder the softest and
sweetest words of the language have been
used TO family describe this loveliest sea-
son of the year. 1t is Indian summer,
indeed; the crown of the year. the time
when the lotus-eaters might feel at home,
the season of dreamy lights, bright iints
and smoky distances.
But autumn is not her real self unless
the leaves turn, unless there is snow in
the far distance, unless the air of early
morning sparkles with dry cold. Does the
Fastener long for this even in the midst
OF roses and under cioudless SKYE Let
him board the. Oregon express and ride
just one night north ward. He will awaken
in the midst of the glorious autumn of
Northern California.
The distances which in summer were
blue are now purple exquisitely shaded
from lavender to almost black The
nearer mountains rise tall and seemingly
more steep than before, because the I'M
dergrowth has cast the leaf and the brown
earth ows through. The pines stand
here and there like green-coated sentinels
whose uniform cannot change, but the
other forest people have put on the new
fall styles. They have perfect taste, the
fashionable foresters, and com bine colors
in way that would drive French MILL
ner wild with envy. Watch an oak tree
to see how, from pale yellow, the shades
run up the scale to deep brown without
ever striking a false note. and for witching
com binations of pink and red sit down
and gaze at maple.
There is one picture I go to see every
autumn, and l would paint it, if / could,
paints it for me every year anew, but she
draws her brush filed with dull brown
over the canvas when winter comes. 1t is
two trees, an oak and a maple, side by
side, and around both, like a tie of love
binding two lives, there twines wild
grapevine, spreading around and up nearly
as high as they.
tie, but when the frost comes, like love in
adversely, the vine CLOVIS cord of deepest
crimson. There is nothing more lovely
than a FROST kissed wild grape. II turns
one warm red, red asdark blood, from root
to tendril. The oak is yellow and brown,
with touches of pink, and here and there
spot OF blood. The naples half-drooped
leaves glow blushing pink. deep red and
rich wine color. Standing so close, these
trees have mingled their branches until
the mixture of colors is like one of.Keith's
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-11-29
Nelson's FLAGSHIP and Her Sails.

British officials have been inquiring the
whereabouts of the sails of Nelson's old
flagship, the Victory, totally oblivious OF
the fact that twenty years ago they were
discovered in the store at Chatham, where
they were placed after Trafalgar when
the Victory was paid off. When
they were unrolled and stretched out
they presented a4remarkable sight. The
main topsail was riddled9in 315 places by
the leaden balls of m usketry, and even the
foretopsaiPs bolt rope was completely
shattered. while spots and streaks of hu-
man blood were discernible on the center
of the sail. Now these sails are packed
away on the Victory at Portsmouth, but
they will be brought out and shown to Wis.,
itors. -Westminste Gazette.
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pose, never the mind so ready to hope. to
begin again.
The trees are not sad. See how they re-
loice before they drop their robes and
begin their season of rest. They know
without doubtinr-oh wiser than we
that after the winter of death comes
another. life in spring, and yet another,
Without end.
Go to the forest for a lesson in faith, in
duty we'll done, in death without annihila-
ton; breathe the air of ar autumn day for
strength, for resignation and for trust,
and watch an autumn sunset to see how
each time the sun OF life should set.
OLIVE HEYDEN.
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Influence of MOSQUES.

The mosque is not merely house of
prayer As its name, "Djami," indicates,
it is also a center.of attraction and place
OF meeting. Djami brings together the in
dividual Moslems, and by grouping multi
plies the forces OF Islam. AT sunset a
great silence falls with the night on the
Eastern city; all noise is hushed, and one
hears nothing but the resounding voice of
the Muezzin calling the faithful to their
duties. Additions and prayer are but
sym bolic publications of the body and the
spirit in preparation for a duty even more
noble and more civic-tnat is for public
deliberation on the affairs of the country
The ceremony of the Selamlik-the visit
of the Sultan every Friday in great state
to the mosques spectacle which much
interests, and indeed amuses strangers
who pass through Constantinople. But
this procession, which closes nowadays at
the threshold of the mosque, formerly
went on, with even greater majesty and
significance, into the interior of the sane
tuary. There the commander of the faith
full, after presiding at prayer and pressing
the hands of his fellow believers, gave a
public account to the assembly of the
more important acts of the government
This splendid institution gave opportu-
nifty to all the great personages of the en-
pire 10 take part in the deliberations ana
TO exercise influence over the conduct of
affairs. Monarch and private subject,
linked together by common faith,
worded tog ther for a common interest.
Islamism furnished the direction and the
bond of union; the object OF all was the
pursuit of truth and justice. The citizen,
whatever his social position, was thus
trained in the art of administration, and
it was this school which produced the
great men to whom we owe so much I'M
portant progress. So soon as the Govern,
ment failed to recognize their worth and
their service. the decadence of the East
set in.-Contemporary Review.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-11-29

Bananas grow wild in Asia and America.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-11-29

1t, estimated that twenty-five acres of
land are necessary to sustain one man on
fresh meat. The same space of land, if
devoted to wheat culture. would feed
forty-two people; if oats, eighty eight;
potatoes, Indian corn, and rice, 176; and
ii to the plantain or breadtree, over 6O0O
people.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-11-29

The apple crop OF the United Stat and
Canada last year was estimated to be from
100000 to 100000 barrels, or from
100000 to 10,0O0,0 900 barrels more than
were ever produced in any previous year.
This years crop will equal if not surpass
that oflast year
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-11-29
Deserters From the German Arnu.

The mum Der of deserters from the Ger
man army who have escaped into France
this sum mer is greater than usual. They
one and all give as their excuse the harsh
treatment they receive at the hands of the
officers. very con-
sidera BILE proportion of these men volun-
teer for service in the French Foreign
Legion.-Army and Navy Journal.
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A house well built of first class brick will
ontlasr one constructed of granite.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-03-08

Tho superintendent and Board Of Man.
ayers of the Richmond Industrial Home.
desire TO return thanks TO the following
friends of the home who have kindly
made donations to same: Whittett d
Shepperson. a. Saks & CO.. w. s. Bugg,
r.. r.. Carter. A. y. Blankenshlp. II. c.
Poor. A. j. Straude. J. T.. Ford. j. a.
Duffey Mrs. Ann Tyrrell. H.iB. Taylor.
p. II. Donohoe. ]. r. Brown, j. i. Rankin.
C. III. Hagan. Cohen's Bakery. Mrs. Lu
Jourdan, Woodson a. Brown. w. II.
Turner & Co., j. Doc Sears. Il. II. Poor,
]. Grady, r. Donohoe. Mrs. Hagan. Nj.
J. johnson, Brown & Bradley. James
McGraw. d. T. HARDWOOD Baldwin &
Brown. James Vaughan, j. Bagby. n.
j. Smith. b. Wasserman. NJ. Bosquet,
]. Overman, All Right Store, j. r. Tay-
Tor. A. Clllio. Messerschmidts Bakery.
New York Bakery, w. A. Lambert, Myer
Son, George Tobin. j. II. Wayne. ].
Stansbery. C. Chamberlain. DIlrs To-
bacco Factory. Brauer's Market, r. X.
Padgett, ]. u. Beveridge. T. w. Wood
& Sons. A. Bou.dng. Mrs. NJ. NJ. Archer.
A. Watteneyer, c. r.. Willis, Drinkard's
Bakery. Chapman a. Johnson. Stout &
Co., G. W. Saunders. T.. w. Kelley. II.
C. Parkinson, p. Blenner. A. f. Duval.
Mrs. Kirsh. Moesta's Bakery. Blair's
Drugstore. Lattimore's Drugstore. NJ. T.
Page. C. Unge. John N. Burch. Mrs.
Bass. l. d. Briggs Bakery. Warner
Moore. DIR. Frazier's Drugstore. DR.. W.
A. SCOTS Drugstore. 7. w. schaap.
Park Place Market. J. A. McCready,
Hermann Schmidt. r. s. CottreIl. Henry
kirsh. Jacob Kirsh, Ed. Schumaker, w.
A. Gordon, A. II. Robins's Drugstore,
Mrs. Charles Fromer. Pugh & Ander-
son. ]. Kranitsky. Mrs. p. Huffman, q.
Boden. J. p. Ford. Jim Balm. w. A.
Bass. J. Rankin.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-03-08
SONS OF VETERANS.
Young Esu and Boys Of This Generation
Wearing the Gray.
history OF n. e. LEE CAMP.
Has Passed Through Many struggles,
Nat IL Now in Fine Condition--Its
oHeers and Observation-Disclosures
Organization.

Perhaps nothing marks more plainly
the love Of southern people for the Con
federacy than the organization of camps
Of tho Sons OF Veterans. Richmond Is
credited with the first Of these young
organizations in Virginia, and Manchester
IL entitled to the credit Of having the
youngest.
The history OF the Richmond camp has
been q stormy one. and at one time
Reorganization had TO be effected to re-
store order In the ranks Of the Sons.
The cool heads In the organization soon
brought about harmony, however, and
peace and prosperity took the place OF
diseord, and now the camp is in a most
gratifying condition.
Scarcely q month ago the Manchester
camp was organized. largely through the
help OF representatives from the Rich
mondy organization.
Though the history OF the Manchester
Organization Is brief. II has been fun OF
life and vigor. and the camp is now in
most prosperous condition, promising,
within the near future to rival its Rich
mond brothers.
BY zeal and determined effort on the
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-03-08
NEWSY NOTES.
Plumbing Firm Makes an ASSIGN
ment.

A deed of assignment was filed IN ,he
office of the Chancery Court yesterday
afternoon by Messrs. John SnahKs ana
George c. Ruskell, partners DONG Dust
ness under the firm name OF SnanKs q
Ruskell. plumbers. at No. JOB Governor
street. Mr. G.. r. Tabb was MADE trus-
fee. but was later in the day made re-
ceiyer upon motion Of the Planters nd
tional Bank, one Of the creditors. Inc
liabilities of the firm are placed at ABOUT
q Coo. There are three classes OF credit
ors. The first provides for the expense OF
settling the estate. In the second class
are mentioned notes for $50. 500, S2OlZ5
and 81. 600, respectively, being payable AT
the Planters National Bank. The credit
ors of the third class are numerous per
sons and firms holding claims OF from
s60O down. A few Of the largest debts OF
this class are the following: Merchant az
Co. OF Philadelphia, sllS.3l; the james
Robertron Manufacturing Company, Bal
timore, si9i.6s. slsO.95, and sis.S7; III. Huber
81 Co. New York, sl370l; Henry NC
Shane Manufacturing Company wash
ington, ID. c., s243.59; G. & A. Bargamin'
OF Richmond, 5000; John Bowers, Rich
mond, sli0.53; John III. MCGOWAN. Rich
mond, 1851; Old Dominion Iron and
Nall Works, s36i.lS; II. Burton, Rich-
nond, $3.50.