The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-06

have it employed to equip hospital
Here is a gem. I have quoted from
the same singer before, but in this in
| stance his Muse seems to have been
Fingered up anew:
A RESTLESS CHAP.
Behold him as he struts about
With hands stuck in his pockets;
And note how his eyeballs do squirm
About within their sockets.
I cannot forbear calling attention to
the nicely of thought, construction and
phrase. The third line particularly is
a thing of beauty and would be joy
The poetry in the idea Of eyeballs
which so squirm, gets into the soul.
They accomplish this squirming in
their own sockets, too, which is the
only seemly course. If they were, for
instance, to pop out on the floor and do
their squirning act there, they might
not only startle beholders, but get
stepped on and spoiled
Now that the campaign is nearly over
there will be the possibility Of speak
ing of the Examiner not as the sworn
enemy, but a journal to be admired. I
am glad that it has outlined the ma
tional policy, so that the administration
can know what to do. The Examiner
has annexed Hawaii, undertaken the
building Of mighty navy, secured
strategic bases in the West Indies,
started Annapolis on the way toward
being a great university, contemplates
doing the same for West Point, and
intends to dig the Nicaragua canal.
These are not only large schemes, but
the modesty of their announcement by
the author and editor of them is
marked by becoming modesty, for he
controls larger type than he uses in
king There oinS he
regret that the public Is left in doubt
as to what the Examiner contemplates
doing with the Philippines, it's instruc-
lions to the Peace Commission, and
whether it will bounce Alger. Not only
is 1t modest but sweetly mild. 1t has
permitted Shafter to stay In the army
The running of the United States is
no inconsiderable task. I do not join
in condemnation of the Examiner that
1t should have allowed Europe to be
worried by a war cloud, and VesuviuS
to spout to the discomfort of the
worthy peasant and the cooking Of his
ungarnered garden truck. No doubt
when the war cloud shall have van
ished, and the lava streams cooled, we
will learn that the Examiner did it all.
1t is not the sort of sheet to be loot
Ing Its own horn In advance.
A writer In Good Health has had the
SOOOucSS To consider at H1uCQ leHSlH
the stomach as a factor in evolution.
She remarks that primitive man lived
on raw fruits, nuts and simple grains,
and In this characteristic seems to find
something to admire. Primitive man is
also to be admired that a prehensile
tail enabled him to dangle from a limb.
It may be that we should envy the
state where he had advanced suft1-
GENTLY to wear a breech clout on full
dress occasions. AS a matter OF fact,
primitive man ate what nature, unas-
sisted, provided, simply because he had
not sense enough to prepare anything
else. For man to go back now to the
diet he endured while emerging from
monkeyhood would be as idiotic as for
him to climb tree and chatter. be-
lieve that writer's who tell other peo-
pie what they should eat are guilty OF
more absolute and inexcusable Stiffness
than any other writer's in the world.
Let them regale themselves on berries
or moss. craunch the succulent Dark,
distend their inwards with the grass OF
the field as another crank did; but
can't thew attend to their own business
and allow a person Intellectually so
equipped that a monkey bill Of fare
fails TO appeal to him swallow In peace
that which suits him? The writer here
| inbefore mentioned says primitive man
had no tuberculosis, appendicitis. tooth