The San Francisco call., 1896-03-26
Oakland High School Girls Not
Allowed Time to Robe
Properly.
woMAN's CONGRESS CoNvENEs.
Fathers and Brothers Can Bring
About Dress Reform Quicker
Than Anybody Else.
OAKLAND OFFICE SAN FRANCISCO CALL
908 Broadway. March 25.


90S Broadway, March %.
The question of schoolgirls wearing cor
sets came up before the Alameda County
Branch of the Pacific Coast Woman's Con-
gress at their meeting to-day and as re-
suit three fashlonably dressed and trim
figured young ladies left the room.
DR.. Alice Bush of this city was on the
lisi of speakers at this afternoons session,
her subject being "Hygene in the Public
Schools In beginning she spoke of the
great improvement in the construction of
school buildings at the present day over
that of ten or fifteen years ago, but held
that there was yet large room for i'm
provement in many things about the
schools and grounds. The smallness of
the grounds with the building on the
south side, making the recreation grounds
in the shade of the building, was objected
to strongly.
The fact that young man swept foul
rooms, 26x44 feet. in twenty-five minutes
was held as being injurious to the health
of scholars who ha ad to occupy them. Then
she objected strongly to only having the
windows washed four times a. year.
She advocated the use Of adjustable desks
and strongly condemned the present sys-
tenn of ventilation by means of a fan in
the cellar of the building.
DIR. Bush then turned her attention to
the physical culture class in the Oakland
Hich School. Il find" said she, "that
girls are expected to almost completely
change their costumes and don .gymna-
sium suits, but they don't do it. however.
They do not have the time. They have
only six minutes to make the change,
twenty-five minutes instruction and then
six u-inutes to change back into their
street apparel.
"In consequence of this lack of time
these young girls go into the gymnasium
with corsets on and their waists pinned to
their bloomers. The result is that 1 saw
girls with their arms put up at an angle,
their heads ducked forward and their
shoulders stopped, instead of their arms
put up straight, their head and bodies
erect, as they would have been had the
evil corset been absent 1t must not be
expected that girls can do the work re-
quired and do 1t properly in corsets. 1t is
a sad mistake of mothers to put their
growing girls into corsets.
Fathers and brothers can do N ore than
mothers to do away with the corset evil
They must admire the broad. generous
waist as it is admired in the growing boy.
When they do, then you will see the girls
ready TO quit corset-wearing. The men
must admire woman as God intended her,
as nature has planned her, and If they
don't then the physician will get the ben
etit. found few girls, however, in the
gymnasium who were properly dressed in
this respect, but they were few.
II do wish our fathers and brothers
would do more to make the girls decide
not 20 be so shamefully distorted, but to
allow themselves to grow IN proper
tion."
Several stylishly dressed young ladies,
who occupied seats near the door, seemed
to be offended at the speakers plainness in
referring to ladies' wearing apparel. They
arose and left the room as the speaker
closed. The paper was received with con-
siderable manifestations of approval by
the ladies present.
Miss Darrah of the Stanford University,
Mrs. Griffin and P. M. Fisher also spoke.
Billiards. Standing.
OAKLAND, CAL, March 25.-The de-
cision of the Supreme Court in the case of
the County of Ventura against Henry Clay,
treasurer of that county, and Z. HI. Brad
lev, to enioin Clay from paying Bradleys
claim of $240 for collecting license taxes,
will have the effect, according to the opin-
ion of certain members of the Board of
Supervisors, of knocking out the position
of County License Collector, now held by
James w. Ballard, and requiring the work
of that Office to be done by County Tax
Collector Barber
S. P Siedentopf was appointed as
License Tax Collector, but the Supreme
Court held that the Supervisors, in ap-
pointing him to that position, had created
an office which they had no power to do.
The board then evaded the law by agreeing
to pay him Is per cent commission on all
amounts which he should collect. Two
wears ago the board replaced him by
naming J. W. Ballard for the position,
which pays nearly 5000 month.
"Don't Shoot, Catti.''
OAKLAND, CAL, March 25.-The city
narrowly escaped having one less practical
Joker to-day than it had Yesterday. 1t was
about 1870 last night when man entered
Baptista Catti's saloon at Thirteenth and
Center streets and thrust a couple of re-
volvers into the proprietors face and
demanded his money. Catti was naturally
enough badly frightened, and told the
fellow to help himself to anything he
wanted.
One or two loafers about the place were
intimidated, so that nc one dared to offer
the slightest resistance to the outlaws
demands. Catti was ordered to pass out
the coin and 10 get a move on himself in
doing it. Catti dropped behind the counter,
presumably to get the money, but instead,
he grabbed his revolver and aimed at the
strangers head. Before he could shoot,
the man dropped both hands and cried
out: Don't shoot, Catti; 1 am Casey"
With the remark, Casey pulled off his
distiguring beard and explained that it was
all a joke Cattl declares he wants no
more Jokes played on him.
Assemblyman Collins Buried.
OAKLAND, CAL, March 25.-The fune-
raj of the late Assemblyman II. n. Collins
vas held this afternoon from the Chester
street Methodist Church. Rev. l.. w. Beatty
officiating. The services were very simple,
and were under the auspices of the Odd
Fellows, of which order he was member.
The casket was covered with beautiful
floral offerings from the family, friends
and orders of which be was member
The remains we're taken 10 Sixteenth
street station, and sent to Placerville this
evening for interment. On arrival there
the remains will be met by the local lodge
CT Odd Fellows, and taken to the cemetery,
where services will be held. The family
and few intimatefriends accompany the
remains to their last resting place.
Reducing the Attendance.