The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-02
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1t was glad Mayday.
:. To- day we can help the farmers pray fol
: rain.
Crop prospects are frightening beauti-
fully.
Now, as for frolickers. the woods are full
Of them.
Park extension is becoming popular,
and new plans are coming out fast.
The Turks are finding that Greece
doesn't-melt under fire so easily as they
expected.
The. change of the Cabinet in Greece
doesn' signify that they are tired of the
war. 1t is only,a habit they have.
: Now that the wheelmen are giving heir
to the Balboa avenue fund we may expect
to see the end attained with scorching
finish. re
. The project for girdling the City with q
series of parks is worth consideration.
II we-ever carry it out we can give Chi
cago the ma ha.
-. A New York policeman distinguished
himself recently By srresting eighteen
sc0rchers in one evening, and we may now
consider another bicycle record broken.
If it be true as reported that Russell
Sage has bought himself a spring suit for
So IS, he must be in the ha bit of dressing
according to his soul rather than to his
purse.
= 1t would hardly be proper to say that
D.: the colors of the dress goods in fashion
this spring. are loud, but all the same
their harmonies are strikingly suggestive
ola Wagnerian opera.
The fears OF damage to crops of various
kinds, which were so prevalent at the be-
ginning Of April, have now nearly all
vanished. The farmers feel like picnick-
ing and have good reason for it.
One of the war correspondents at Ath-
ems asserts that the Greek women are not
SO beautiful as the poetry about them
p but perhaps he hasn't read any of the
poetry that has been written since Byron.
The Massachusetts Bar Association
made Richard Olney Its guest of honor al
its recent banquet, and it appears that
while these Cleveland Cabinet fellows are
out OF pie for the present they are getting
enough cake. and wine to make up Tor il.
.. 1t will be good if We can prevent the i'm.
portation of adulterated foods into Cali
fernia, and it would also be good if we
coulq devise ameams of preventing Eastern
manufacturers from putting California
labels on the authorizations they make
there.
The. German officers in the Turkish
the skill with which that army is doing its
work, but the British officers in the Greek
army are having hard time, and if they
do not look outthey may get the reputa'
ton of hoodoos.
In replying TO an address of welcome or
. his return to Cape Town Cecil Rhodes re-
ferred to his contest with President
a Job boa
been fairly played. As Kruger took all
the tricks and has the stakes, this may be
considered an honest confession.
The Democratic delegation in the House
of Represe is now divided not only
into gold men and silver men, but into
Baileyites and anti Baileyites, and it is
no longer accurate to speak of the various
fections as "wings of the party" for there
are SO many of them that each counts for
hardly more than good sized tail feather.
=. 1t is announced that the women of Bos-
ton have in large numb been attending
lectures on the virtues of the onion, and
the saying is now current in the city, Eat
onions in May, and all the year after the
doctors may play" The next thing we
may look for, therefore, is ar onion fad,
and those who have tears to shed may
shed: them then.
=: 1t is asserted that a syndicate OF Eng
~,lish capitalists has. arranged with the
King of Belgium for the establishment
in that country of gambling place in
tended to outshine Monte Carlo. 1t is
against-the Belgian law TO maintain gam
bling places, but the King has pull with
the police. and mas lost so much money
in his Congo enterprises he can hardly be
blamed fo- nterng upon a sure-thing
game TO recoup his losses.