The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-01
The CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL
The SIMMER MONTHS.

THE SUMMER MONTHS.
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Welcome, Mayday.
Merry picnics for everybody.
Society will now recognize spring, ard
cut the usual caper.
The Pure Food Congress has started
well, and we may look for good work.
The woman question of the time is how
TO turn the Easter bonnet into the picnic
hat.
The Greeks have snapped horses while
crossing a stream, and let Us hope they
will profit by it.
Leave orders for THE SUNDAY CALL, and
assure yourself OF all the news and good
reading for the day of rest.
The new Prime Minister of Greece has
the significant name Rail-" and if all
the Greeks will rally they may triumph
yet.
1t now looks as if the tariff bill would
be set up for every Senator to take shot
at, and we are evidently in for a summer
siege.
The congress woman" has become a
feature of our social life hardly less con-
spicuous than the matinee grip and is
almost as attractive.
There is possibility that the storm CEN
ter of European discord may be shifted
from Greece to South Africa almost before
we have time to say Jack Robinson"
There is no reason at all why any
adulterated fruit food should be sold in
California, for we have quantities of the
best fruit in the world going to waste
every summer.
It is all well enough to call Kaiser Will
liam crazy, bat as long as all Europe al
lows him to have his own way it is evil
dent there are potentates in other nations
craZier than he.
to the interior counties, and the work on
the coast road promises equal benefits to
those along the seaboard, so that all Cali
fornia has bright outlook.
The Greek invasion of Epirus has be-
come a mere side issue in the war. 1t
might have been made great thing, but
somehow it went awry and there is very
little chance of profit from it now.
Now that the Senatorial fight is over
Kentucky can give her undivided atten-
ton TO the toll-g&te war, and open up
everything from highway to the State
Capitol to bypath to distillery.
Rhode Island has decided to increase
the mum Der of the Associate Justices of
her Supreme Court from five to six; but
where in the State there will be found
room enough to put the extra seat is not
revealed.
1t is said that Senator Jones of Nevada
holds the balance of power in the Senate
Finance Committee, and, as he stands in
for thorough protection on lead, wool,
hides and citrus fruits, the West seems to
be in luck.
The vehemence with which Mr. Har-
court of England denounces Mr.. Chamber
lain of England for laying plans to gobble
the Transyaal may be taken as a measure
of Harcourt's longing to De in Chamber
lain's place.
There is an opinion in this country that
England should save Crete, and there is
an opinion in England that we should
save Cuba. There are also opinions on
these subjects in Crete and Cuba, but it is
hardly necessary to describe them.
The appearance OF the army worm
among the vineyards of the State is an
other evidence that California will have
to face every evil of older civilization. We
cannot bring to our elysium the good of
other lands without bringing the attend
ant pests with them.
The hill passed by the Legislature OF
British Columbia excluding American
citizens from taking up mining claims in
that country, will hurt their mining IN
terests more than it will US. II enables
British Column bia. however to boast of a
fool Legislature that beats Kansas.
The action of the Grand Parlor of Native
Sons in indorsing the movement of the
Grand Army of the Republic toward the
erection of q monument to Lincoln in this
City was gracefully and periodically
taken. The movement is one in which
the Native Sons can well afford to cooper
ate, and it will be an honor for them to be
associated in the enterprise with the
veterans.
A friend of the late Billy Birch, the
negro minstrel, quotes him as saving that
he once spent month with relative in
the country, and cleaned there more ma
terial for good jokes than at any other
place in his life. 1t is to be regretted that
the particular spot in the country was lot
named. There are quite a number of
prominent ajokers in these days to
whom the public would gladly recommend
iha place for a summer vacation.