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shortly be produced at the Casino.
Miss Payson Graham whose retirement
from the stage early last season caused
much comment among her many friends
and acquaintances, will leave next week
for a two weeks vacation in the country.
l promised in my last letter to give my
gentle readers some idea of the pretty
things / have had the pleasure of seeing
at private openings during the past week.
Well, fear set task for myself far too
exhaustive for my limited space here
Suffice to say, never before have dress
goods, gowns. millinery, hosiery and bric-
a-brac seemed to be so perfect in color, de-
sign and grace as the coming seasons
fashions promise.
Adolphe, the milliner, came in from
Paris on Saturday guarding dozen i'm
mense wooden boxes with big black let
tiers, France" painted across the sides.
The tariff is a big item on such goods. but
as Adolphe expresses it, "Mon Deu! The
ladies must have the prettiest things in
all the world. mon anil The price
Voilal Pouff!''
He says brown, brown in all its wonder.
ful shades, will be used in everything.
Finely cut steel ornaments will be used !;
long dropping plumes called the Amazon
plumes; birds of all kinds, pheasants,
doves and big gray ard brown pigeons
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1t is generally notable event when a
play by q local writer is placed on the
boards. 1t is more notable when the
woman who has won distinction for her.
self in the histrionic art. and knows
whereof she speaks in q dramatic way.
The presentation of ION to the klon-
dixie" in Oakland last evening was full of
interest TO those of the older generation,
to whom the name of The author con1ures
up many bright and pleasant memories.
1t is not so very long ago that Alice
Kingsbury Cooley was a particularly
bright and twink,ing star in her special
constellation in the dramatic armament.
A dainty little creature, almost faiTy-like
of figure, with a sweet. grlish, Brightly
expressive face, unique STONED dramatic
ability and an airy grace OF movement
which made her dancing famous all over
the country, Alice Kings bury's career
was a marked success from tbs time she
made her first appearance in the National
Theater in Cincinnati until she played
"Fanchon," for the last time. in the
Colum bla Thea.er of San Francisco six
years ago.
She was watching the play last night
from a retired seat; watching it with
eager brilliant eyes which anticipated
SITUATIONS" followed every movement of
the players who were making the crea tions
of her active brain live before the public
and noting with quick approval or disap-
proval every bit of business introduced.
She is thin little lady now and the
many emotions, real and ieigned. which
her mobile face has expressed have left
some lines here and there, but hers is a
bright face still, and a pleasant one. and
her smile is sweet and winning. Can you
imagine Fanchon as a ssdate mother of
a family with ali evening bonnet tied un-
der her chin and a conventional silk gown
decorously covering the figure which once
expressed all that figure could express
of grace and beauty in the famous
Shadow Dancer" If you can imagine
such a Fanchon, then you can imagine
the Mrs. Cooley of the present time, for
she was the ideal Fanchon OF the past
ana she is Fanchon still, though made
bit older and graver by the passing years.
She watched the play sharply last night,
for although playwriting is by no means
new field tor her, since during her stage
life she starred in no less than four plays
of her own author.hip-"TheG Great Ira
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Goodfriend in private life, and this season
she will return to the stage, having been
absent from it for a number OF years.
Mrs. Gooifriend is an officer OF the
popular and worthy Professional Woman's
League of New York.
Mrs. Ada Levlck and her bright young
son. Master Gus, foated into the city on
Monday. They are both very we'll and
happy, and think We are having dread
fully warm weather here. Mrs. Levick
may sign with Charles Frohman for next
season in one of his new English plays.
She is talented actress and student,
therefore she cannot fail being successful
in securing an excellent engagement in
the East.
Darrell Vinton, for so many years asso-
ciated with the theatrical profession on
the Pacific Coast, will be the leading sup
port TO Thomas Keenc next season. Mr..
Vinton begins rehearsals with MIR. Keene
next week. The season opens the latter
part of September.
w. L. Jackson Of Oakland has been in
town during the past two weeks. He is
here to pu: through some important
mining deals.
Harry Davenport with his wife and
pretty ba by girl are costly settled in town
for the coming season. Mr.. Davenport
will soon appear in q new play which will
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Here is the Latest News
Of What CalifoPnians IRE Doing in the
Metropolis of the East

Frederick G. Mason and Miss Mason are
guests at the Gilsey. They arrived in
New York on the 10th inst.
James Russell of San Francisco is put
ting up at the Fifth Avenue.
Mrs. Harry E. Hayes, recently arrived
from San Diego, is here on q short visit
She has apartments at the Fifth avenue
Hotel.
At the Hoffman /. Nathan is the only
arrival from California within a week. He
does not anticipate remaining in the city
any length OF time.
Dr. Agnes Sparks. for many years a
well-known ply sician in San Francisco is
meeting with success most hattering in
Brooklyn. She and her two sons, Freder-
ick and Harlow Sparks, are spending
their vacation at Cornwali-on- the. II I'D.
son.
Frederick Sparks is a law student in the
New York University and Harlow is
studying music seriously and am mbitiously.
He is a very good musician ON the piano.
forte, and if his enthusiasm continues he
has a brilliant future as a concert per.
former.
S. S. Goodfriend, for a number OF years
connected with the San Francisco daily
press, has been re-engaged by Charles Froh-
man as advance press agent for one OF his
best companies. Miss Ida Jeffries is Mrs.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-22
Famous Portraits.

General G. w. GUSTS Lee, just before
leaving Lexington, presented Washington
and Lee University with portraits of GEN.
eraI Washington and General La Fayette,
each three-quarters length of life size,
which for years adorned the walls of
Mount Vernon and which finally were in
herited BY General Custis Lee.
Both portraits were executed by Charles
Wilson Peale, the noted portrait painter
OF colonial times. Peale also painted the
portraits of Jefferson, Hamilton, Jay.
Franklin, Nelson, Stenber. Knox and
others of Revolutionary fame.
The portrait of Washington is especially
interesting from the fact that it was the
first painted of him, and was done when
he was in the prime OF vigorous manhood,
in 1772, he then being 40 years old.
The portraits were at Mount Vernon
un til taken to Arlington by George Wash
lngton Parke Custis, a grandson of Mar
tha Washington.
During the Civil War they were re.
moved from Arlington, the home OF Gen.
eral Robert z. Lee, and concealed, with
other valuables. within the Confederate
lines to prevent their capture py Federal
soldiers.
General Robert E. Lee brought them to
Lexington on accepting the presidency OF
Washington College. afterward Washing
ton and Lee University. since which tim 9
they have adorned the Lee home at Wash
ngton.-Richmond Whig.
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like to have woman brave all the while.
l think womanly weakness is so appealing.
That is the reason why object to women's
dressing after the fashion of men.
Although it is becom ming to some, still I
couldn't bear 1t myself" and she shrugged
her shoulders. II like the touch of lace
and silk and the daintiness of ribbons"
! could as we'll imagine Mrs. Carter with
sm oothly brushed hair and devoid OF laces
and softly rustling silks as l could fancy
Juliet searching for Romeo, with her
dainty throat en- cased in the stiff-starchi-
ness of collar like unto that which the
venerable Father Capulet would have
worn in these days. There is fitness in
all things, and it is pleasing to find one
who understands that which is tit.
And so | left her with the feeling of her
ioyousness upon me. Whatever Mrs.
Carter was yesterday, or what she will be
tomorrow. as an artist or a woman, / cam
not help-nor methinks can she-but
certainly to-day she hath spirit that God
gave her. MURIEL BAILY.
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bids, while Miss Alcott, with her Little
Women" and Little Men" standing a very
high first on her list. is the girls favorite,
with the exception of "Aunt Joe's Boys, !"
which received only one vote out OF 1900.
The Elsie Books" by NJ. Finley, come
next, although they seem to maturer
minds scarcely deserving of the reputation
given them by their young readers.
1t seems strange that Kipling's jungle
Book had only the votes OF three boys
and one girl; that Stevenson's juvenile
works are no more popular than kiplsng's.
and that the Brownies OF Palmer Cox
seem to have outlived their charm.
Colonel hnox's personally conducted
Boy Travellers in different countries, Cof.
fms and Captain Kings tales of patriots
and National events, Kirk Monroes sto-
ries of adventure at home and abroad, the
sea stories of Mollie Seawell and w. j.
Henderson and the cowboy and Indian
tales of W. o. Stoddard, all have many
stanch friends among the boys, and an
occasional girl testities to her delight In
the stirring scenes described in these vol
umes Jules Verne is not as much read
as formerly, although he is still favorite
with some, and Trow BRIDGES later books
are quite popular.
"Black Beauty" is we'll liked, but num-
bers four times as many boys as girls
among her ad mIrers. Little Lord Faunt-
leroy" pleases more girls than boys, but
not many of either. 'Alice in Wonder
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Taken in the Libraries of San
Francisco bya Special Mind Photographer
for "Sunday Call Readers

land" is still read with interest by the
smaller children.
The list obtained. however, shows that
the favorites of the children are not al
ways found among distinctively juvenile
publications. The wide range OF reading
INDUCED in Is very noticeable. as Is the
fact that the age of child, after it has
learned to read with intelligence and
pleasure, does not seem to limit its choice
of subjects and authors.
In the fourth grade of the Dudley Stone
rim ary School near the park, the Court
ship of Miles Standish," "Uncle Toms
Cabin" the Last Days of Pompeii, J"
"Gulliver's Travels" the lives OF Column
bus, Washington and Lincoln, Dickens
works, rip Van Wink e" and Henry
E,mond" share the honors with "Mother
Goose" fairy tales, "Tom Sawyer, Rob
inson Crusoe' and the "Swiss Family"
In the high grade of the Winfield Scott
Primary, at the Presidio, outside of Amer
ican History stories the life OF Washing
ton. and tales from Shakespeare. the chill
dren's iavorites are Miss Alcotr's books,
stories of colonial children, and the dear
old tales before mentioned.
The most advanced pupils of the Gar
field School, which is situated in the Latin
quarter and includes representatives OF
nine nationalitIes, are very patriotic. The
lives of Colum bus, Washington and Lin
coin are much admired here. II like,
writes one haxen- haired German boy, ito
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With scarce a warning they are sitting
into town, the hundreds and hundreds Of
men and women who but few weeks ago
LEFT the crowded city for silvery beaches
and feathery surf or lofty mountains and
peaceful valleys.
The disting uished author and play
wright, Archibald Clavering Gunter, is at
Nar-agansett Pier, the companion seaside
resort of dear old Newport. Mr.. Gunter
has grown very stout since his younger
days in California. However, why should
he worry about it? His bank book has
grown in proportion with his adipose
tissue, he has a legion OF devout ad-
mirers, and as he is now on the last pages
of new novel which IS to be launched in
the early winter his smile is serene and
his bearing becomingly benign. Long
may he wave!
Californians have not been greatly in
evidence during the past two months.
At Newport Mr.. and Mrs. George
Crocker and family have been enjoying
the summer and mixing very little in
society.
There is probably no more popular
young lady in the exclusive set at New
port or Narragansett Pier than Miss Vir-
ginia Fair. Miss Fair can scarcely be
called Californian now. as she has been
so long considered New Yorker, and has
become one OF the bellies of the ultra set in
Gotham society. However, Miss Fair is
at heart loyal to her Western birthplace,
and it is said that she would make her
home in San Francisco were it not for The
desire of being with her siste-, the hand
some Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs. Mrs. Gel.
richs and Miss Fair have appeared at every
social function OF importance given at
Newport this season, which in itself be-
speaks their popularity. Individually the
Oelrichs do very little entertaining.
The Long Branch Horse Show at West
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Mrs. Leslie Garter as
Woman Viewed in the Atmosphere Of
Private Life by NurieI BaiIy.

great seas, with the dashing of she waves
and the sparkling of the sunlight, and the
COOL dim silence OF the woods, and 1 an
swered, ''Yes."
81 am glad.' she made answer, "for to
love is so womaniy. Does it not make
you feel tender toward a woman to know
that she has heart warm toward some
thing which is good and takes it into itself
and makes both pure?''
But suppose it is not good?'
"Oh," she said, and her spirit OF love
was infectious. at must be good, because
there is good in all. Isn't there always a
tiny bit OF white even in the blackest
spots2 Isn't there, truly?'
$50 they say" And l may have spoken
dubiously, for she answered quickly:
ut may not be-and perhaps it is best
that it is not-always visible to US, but
and that is all that saves the life from be-
ing too awful to endure.
''It isn't easy to live in the world" she
went on. II know that. 1t is q hard
place for women 10 live in we'll and sue
ceed, and yet, why. what is there that il.
worth anything that doesn't call for
effort? And the more difficult the greater
the success | am glad to lave succeeded
as well as l have. ! love 10 think of it.
At night after the curtain goes down and
the house has been crowded and they
have SHOWN that they liked us l feel like
a child, so glad and joyous, and in love
with even the dark corners and the old
boards and dusty scene backs. the
staring flies above are dear to me and l
feel like pressing my lips to the dinginess
because it has all been with me and part
of the ioyousness of success"
"And since you love so much what do
you love most of all p asked.
But / knew her answer before she gave
ii, for they have said that whatever we
love most we shall be. "a woman!' she
replied. Aud l did not blame her, look
ing at her then.
III" she SAID, II had my choice of all
that l would rather be In the world, to
take the position and live the life of what
ever l would wish, l would say, Let me
live girl again, with all the sangu ne
hopes and the dear. beautiful thoughts
and the lender impulses of true girlhood.
/ would like to be girl always. But
aside from that l would be what l am.
Nv work is my life. ! come to my room
from the theater ana l go again only to
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decorate the whole side of hat. Side
effects OF the most pronounced style will
be all the rage this fall in headgear.
Jockey Club blue is new shade, and all
the shades of castor will be popular.
Antique velvet is another Partisan
fancy, and what dainty, beautiful
trim ming it does make!
Coming i'll with the fall styles comes the
edict direct from Paris that the "Fasso
figure" will be the only recognized one in
the world of fashion. 1t derives the
name from peculiar corset of that make.
l believe, anyhow, to be quite la mode
a woman must have what is termed the
low -ous-straight- front and sudden-h ip
figure. II looks lovely. in the acce pied
term OF the fashionable world, and al
ready is being accepted by the ultra set.
The corset has to be m ade in such way
as to leave the bust free, causing low
bust effect. while the waist line is lessened
and the sudden spring in the sides of the
corset causes the hips to look full and
round. One thing sure, ladies inclined to
embonp point will find that this new style
will do away with the abdominal promi.
nence, which mars many an otherwise
perfect hgure.
Dress goods are very pretty this year.
Among the silks and velvets what is
termed as Bayadere stripes will be used a
great deal. The stripes run across the
widths.
Mousseline brocEe. sort of fancy grena-
dine, will be worn during the fall months,
over heavy silk Innings.
Tinsol poplin in lavish brocade patterns
come in the delicate evening shades.
Purple will most likely he placed on a
top shelf in the future. as very few shades
of it are shown in the imported cloths.
Brown will be very popular.
The news that The CALL had changed
management was quite surprise to its
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way of getting at the facts OF the case,
although the fscts in some instances were
scarcely what had been expected.
OF course it is we'll known that fashions
change in chiIdren's literature, as we'll as
in the literature OF their elders. The
"goody- goody" publication of former
davs, which told, with divers variations,
the story of the bad boy-who really,
viewed from the standpoint of to-day, was
not so ferociously bad after all-and the
preternaturally good youth whose short
wasted jacket certainly covered budding
wings. and how each received his deserts.
has long since disappeared even from the
shelves OF Sunday school libraries.
They have been succeeded by stories of
more exciting nature, which have
aimed, however, at being truer to life than
their dull and stilted predecessors. In
some cases these newer books have re-
ceived an enthusiastic welcome from
their young readers; in Others they have
fallen fat and been dead loss TO pub
fishers and authors. The "why" OF this
has not so far been accurately ascer-
tanned. Children ara severely critical in
their own way, but their criticisms are all
of the black and white poster variety.
There are no lights and shades in their es-
timation of the reading prepared for
them. a book to them is like an egg in
one particular-it is either good or bad,
and no gradations are to be considered for
a moment.
Moreover, a child is Influenced more
strongly by the opinion OF another child
than he is by all the recon- mendations of
older persons. Let one bright boy or girl
indorse story and every one OF their
companions will be eager to read it; but
the good books" presented to their notice
by teachers and Librarians are not always
so enthusiastically sought after.
The investigation made, besides show
ing the status of modern books. proves
something that it is pleasant TO know, and
this is that certain iuvenils classics which
made happy our younger days are still
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rehearsal and then again at night to the
theater. / have no time nor heart for
anything aside from it. | do not need
anything else.
And it is not that | am satisfied with
myself entirely. Not that l would not be
greater artist or the best that earth could
know. 1t is simply that think it Is lovely
to be able 10 do any ything, and there is
something SO beautiful about Joy TO me
that l always want to be joy ous."
Some have said that Mrs. Leslie Carter
is not beautiful, and some nave said that
she had no natural art, and others-but
what does it matter what words are
spoken. Looking into the face all
wreathed with smiles and hearing the
tones of her voice, quite filled with the
love that she so loves, l knew that she was
none and all of these. Hers is the beauty
of the limpid stream that flows through
cool places down the mountainsde and
sparkles itself in to the beyond, and her art
is the nature of it, and her life is as it's
life, and where it began / cannot say, nor
where it ends.
For | take it that the highest in art or
nature is to make one feel the truth of all
and to realize idealism, and the highest in
human nature is to bring one to the reaii-
zation of ones best self.
As she sat and spoke of these things and
of life itself and OF the world that is sell
dom just, there seemed to be nothing but
soul and thought about us. 1t may have
been sim ply that magnetism OF which Mrs.
Carter has superabundance or it may
have been in the atmosphere. Anyhow
there it was, and 1 felt it and grew to love
it, too. as she did.
~ WISH" she said, "that 1 had been on
the stage since childhood. l think
would have less to learn now. l wasn't
born to it. you know, nor bred to it. l
just-well. l just took to it. This is really
the third part have played. and 1 think
it is beautiful.
'1f | were given my choice of all the
plays on the stage to-day l would choose
The Heart of Maryland OF course it
was written for me and saw every line
that went into it, and it seems a part of
me. Of course it would be natural for
me to think it a perfect play if liked it
at all. Somehow the character that was
made for me is the kind of woman that
appeals to me mos: strongly. She is
thoroughly modest and retiring and yet
brave when necessity requires. l wouldn't
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and one boy declares his partiality for
"Trilpy."
The eighth and advanced grades OF the
Crocker School, as well as the similar
grades of the other schools visited, show
decided preference for grown up lit
erature. Miss Alcott retains her popular.
ity here, however, and Dickens is WELL
beloved, the favorites being David Cop
perfeld" and Little Dorrit." 'Quo Va
dis, Jane Eyre" John Halifax, THE
Mill on the Floss" "Romola" "At the
Mercy of Tiberius" and The Rose of
Yesterday" are read by some with pleas
ure, and the poems of Longfellow. Bry-
ant. Tennyson ana Whittier seem familiar
friends.
Ihe eighth grade of the Lincoln School
is rather an exception to it's class. The
average age of the boys is about IA years,
ana the majority are still loyal TO their
juvenile books. Dickens. Fenimore
cooper and Longfellow are. however, in
excellent standing, but only two boys ex-
pressed liking for Miss Alcott.
Inc FRANKLIN eighth grade range-out-
sloe OF the usual iuveniles-from Than
atopsls" and "The Newcomes" 10 Marie
Oorrell and Mary Jane Holmes. The
general selection is excellent, however
though the field is rather wide for such
young minds and so few agree upon their
favorites that list of those named would
De IKE the catalogue OF a small library.
1t was at first intended to visit the hiph
schools as well as the other departments.
but the highest grammar grades show so
plainly that the pupils in even these
classes have for the most part put away
childish things" that it was decided that
information from those sources would
scarcely come within the scope of this ar.
ticle.
Taken altogether we have good reason to
be proud of our San Francisco children, for
if their choice of book friends is not always
wise it proves that they have quick brains
and warm hearts and are full of loyalty
TO their country and its heroes