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ton-beautiful as 1t is, yet realizing its de-
ficiencies-to plan for public i'm
provements. ]. w. Burnham, the
architect, Augustus ST. Gaudens, the
artist, and others co-operated in this
labor of love, and their work, the
New Washington" made in relief may
be seen as an object lesson in the Cor
coran Gallery; and it is understood that
on the lines laid out the future WASH
ington will be revised and improved.
San Francisco, to be made beautiful,
needs first to have its topography cor
rected. Telegraph Hill is a good subject
for artistic treatment, because it COM
mands the city from the bay and is the
most conspicuous object on entering the
port, and from its heights, now inaccessi-
BILE and neglected. superb panoramic
view can be obtained
Roads around the water front and the
bay shore to the Cliff House should be
projected; and then chain of bouleVards
should be made, which would enable
visitors to drive, uninterrupted by
street cars or traffic teams in comfort
and safety around the city. These should
connect with our parks and the Presiu4o
and the park itself should, of course, be
extended TO the center of the city or to the
ket street, in order that its use may be
cultivated and the people, with little or no
expense, may have an opportunity Of en-
joying the sunshine, which is so necessary
and invigorating in this latitude.
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lAN FRANCISCO ne PACIFIC CABLE

cable lines were controlled by foreign cor
porations and in the interests Of foreign
trade. nothing could be done.
AS We understand the tarir by cable
across the Pacific will be very much less
than the tariff blythe former system we
naturally look to a much larger use OF
this means Of communication, which will
undoubtedly result in an increased busl-
ness between this city and the Orient. IA
cility for communication and transpOrta-
ton always resulting in increased trade.
AS San Francisco stands at the front
door Of the United States on this ocean.
and as this cable enters our door, we nat
urally will be the entrepot Of all Oriental
news destined to the United States. We
expect to see the newspapers throughout
the United States in their reports Of Ori-
entail matters state by Way OF Gable to
San Francisco" thus more than ever will
we be brought before the public and asso-
cfated as the connecting link between our
country and the Orient
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ton of it covered by the Pacific Ocean
one cannot but be struck by the position
of this city in regard to the trade routes
crossing that vast body of water-rOutes
which cover such an immense eXpanse
and which serve to unite nations the most
dersely settled in the world and whose
aggregate population amounts to such
enormous figures, containing over one
half Of the people of the entire globe. and
whose yearly commerce is upward of the
enormous sum of over s. 400, 0o0. In
these estimates we have not included the
United States. but have merely referred
10 the countries facing US across the Pa
cfic. Since the Inauguration and the de-
velopment Of ocean submarine cables
during the last thirty-fve years their use
has become an essential part of the COM
merce and trade of the world.
When we look again at the map we see
the enormous gap of the Pacific Ocean,
on one side of which is our city, on the
other side the teeming co~~'~o"c0 o. =
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Simply longing to be at the top will ac-
complish nothing. Brilliancy without
study Will accomplish nothing. Study
without briIliancy Will accomplish moth
ing. You must have the talent, then ap-
ply yourself all the time.
It's the hardest life in the world. that
OF the stage There Is no glitter about IL
except to the onlooker. There Is only
steady work.
For the one who succeeds there Il the
reward OF knowing that you have reached
the goal you set out for. Whether that
pays or not is a question that there
is no use trying to answer. Whether II
pays or not you viii achieve II II you
have the talent. for that talent must by
all the laws Of nature, work itself out,
just as plant must spring up II seed "a
planted.
There is no chance for a girl on the
stage. There is surety. That IS, II she
has talent. And II she Is one Of the
tremendous majority who has not-then
remember what said about cooking.
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cisco by reason Of its remarkable climatic
advantages would assume the position Of
the most beautiful city IN America and
its population the most artistic and pleas
ure-lovtng, drawing to it's realm myrlads
Of strangers from year TO year
The influence OF beauty would not be
lost on the rising generation. and whereas
we might at first have to import talent,
thereafter our native population would bs
educated to such degree Of perfection
by reason OF It's environment that artists
and musicians and men and women OF
taste would be a distinguishing part Of
this now cosmopolitan but then American
community.
We are far enough away from the great
cities Of the world to develop an indi-
viduality and that very remoteness makes
it incumbent upon US to work out our own
salvation.
San Francisco will ultimately be beauti-
fed. but 1t should proceed upon an intel
ngent plan, and the plan once made the
minds Of our citizens will be directed IN a
proper channel and they will be encour-
aged by contributions and gifts and lega-
cies to aid in it's realization II a museum
is needed. or a monument, or library
building, the city or the citizens will. I
am sure, be ready to respond and the
citizen should feel honored by the prtvil-
ege to make his individual contribution TO
such a plan for the adornment and the
advancement Of his city.
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ness of his aim He borrows with conf
dence. knowing his ability to repayI he
surveys the field in which he Is to make
his operations, and satisfies himself that
it will yield abundant returns.
The old merchant, who has slowly accu-
mulated his own capital like some OF the
older cities, has no need to borrow money.
nor any occasion to make extraordinary
expenditures. After him, the deluge.
It is said in England that national
debt is national blessing. I do not
know what that means, unless 1t be that
the proceeds of the debt are invested IN
public works Of all kinds, by land and
sea, and the pride OF the people is excited
Ny the beauty and strength Of their coun-
try and they will therefore make sacrt-
fees for its preservation and defense.
To fight for ones country is only SEQ
ond to making ones country worth fight
ing for Anything that can wed the peo-
pie to the soil is a distinct national ad-
vantage; anything that will awaken the
pride of the people In their city is price
less boon.
The city beautiful would bring business
and profit to every industry, for we know
that the great capitals Of Europe vie with
each other in physical attractions and
that beauty has a marvellous money-mak-
ing faculty.
Then would follow museums, monu-
nents, galleries of art-fine and ne
chanic-theaters, parks-untn San Fran
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A museum of art should be erected
where the people will find both recreation
and educa ton, and examples of the
worlds greatest works in copies and
models, easily procurable, should there
be seen, so that foreign countries will
have no advantage in technical and artis-
tic education over our own city, whose
sons and daughters cannot all go abroad
to enjoy the advantages of observation
and travel
The public library should be housed In
structure worthy Of its high purpose and
the site should now be carefully selected.
The United States Government has bun-
dered into the erection of a magnificent
building, the new postofice, costing sever
al millions of dollars. on site where it
adds nothing to the artistic betterment OF
San Francisco. Art in the streets should
be cultivated. Every European capital is
beautifully adorned with fountains. stat
ueS and groups commemorative of men
and events. These monuments lift men
out of themselves and divert them from
their daily grind by recalling, the glory Of
their country and the achievements of the
great. They serve the noble purpose of
awakening gratitude and exciting emula-
tion.
with the monument in Union Square in
honor Of the American navy and in COM
memoration of Admiral Dewey's victory
in Manila Bay, and that the sculptors are
now at work also upon the statue o. Nc
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success was due to the accident of sick
ness"
1 say it isn't luck. Opportunity is the
word. If the obscure actress hadn't had
the stuff in her she would have played
that role for the one night and then have
stepped back into obscurityN again when
the principal was well. But the fact is,
the girl had talent; opportunity to show it
came along and she took advantage of 1t.
If it had not come in the form of sickness
it would have come in some other form.
II you think that she would have re-
mained in obscurity except for that acci-
dent you are very much mistaken. She
was built to succeed; she had talent and
real talent always asserts itself. You
can't kill il.
If you have talent, the only thing to do
is to prepare yourself for opportunity and
be ready TO take advantage of it when it
comes along But if you have talent there
is no need for me to tell you tlts. You
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TIE FADNANTAGEysDIl sDIlAD\ZANTAGFJ j
OF CLUB IFF, l.. Los>Er<BERo

The Disadvantages are that the fash
light Of the world IL on womAn's actions.
and bit Of that charming modesty OF
the lowly violet. with which she has bean
so chivalrously compared, has been blown
away now she Is the Wild rose, Chamber
Ing wherever she can gain a foothold and
inebriadng the senses OF man as of yore
The average man will see the value OF
the club-not clubs-aS an educational fao-
tor, II he does not have to eat too many
cheerless dinners and spend too many
lonely evenings in consequence OF the wife
porlng over encyclopedias, taking notes
for her own invaluable paper or attend
ing an evening session for the beuixht
heather In Mashonaland
The Disadvantages now ana than
threaten destruction, but the advanta rs
are surging out In great waves, Carving
with them a oenencence and q broaden
ing, humanizing influence that nothing
can check
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Kinley and on the monument in praise Of
the California Volunteers-the gifts of our
citizens to the city.
There are those, however, who cannot
see the utility of beauty. There are citi-
zens utilitardan in their lives. as well as in
their aspirations, and this class must be
educated to an appf9eiat ton OF the peauti-
full before they q will give their
vote and support to any move
nent whose endF is beauty. This
is no easy task when it is known
that San Francisco cannot be metamor-
phosed without incurring municipal in
debtedness, and that tWo-thirds OF the
electors are required by law to give their
assent to the issuance of bonds.
The rough work of the building of city
has been successfully accomplished in San
Francisco. The forest, it werei mas
been cleared, the land has been titled, the
promise Is abundant. We must bank on
that The circulation of the medium of
exchange if wisely directed. is mot neces-
sarily waste anoraextra xagance. but new
woalthls thereby made and prosperity in
Vited. Il - gs -,
San Francisco must act on the theory
that the future is, on her side; there is no
good reason to doubt it, and DO progress
can be made withoutyit.s -
Capital is tinid,'' but success comes
only Of couraget5 San francisco is In the
position of theyoung merchant. whose fu-
tl1re depends on the clearness Of his vision,
the boIdness of his enterprise, the steadi-
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know it yourself. You have convictions
and the courage of them. You are al
ready working and waiting.
To the great mass of girls who want to
go on the stage / have just one piece OF
advice: go home, learn to cook we'll and
sew well, then get a husband and let him
be your audience. If you can hold his ad-
miration you are doing the best thing you
can do Home Is the best place for you.
Your vanity is what's the matter with
you. You have not talent. you merely
want applause. You want to be noticed.
You want to see your picture in the paper.
You want to be talked about and called a
beauty and a hit You have no more tall
ent for the stage than all the other mil
lions of pretty girls in the world.
Do not mistake wish for genius. No
doubt you will do so and my advice is
thrown away. But in the end you will
reach the place where you belong. In the
steady process of sitting you will be dis
covered if you have talent.
How? That is the unanswerable ques-
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tion. Suppose a girl is the one in a thou
sand who has the real stuff in her and she
asks how to begin, how to make herself
noticed, how to get a chance. 1 can't an
swer that question. Opportunity never
comes twice In the same way.
Amateur theatricals are a good thing.
Many of our most successful actresses
have begun as amateurs. The instinct to
act is so strong In them that they have
TO keep at It. BY and by somebody no
tees them. some theatrical man hears of
them, the attention of a manager is at
tracted. Many an actress has been dis
covered and professionally launched by
this means.
Sometimes talent goes begging from
door to door Two hundred girls may ap
ply at our door and be turned away be-
cause there is no vacancy The two hun
Gred and first is taken because she hap
Dened at the exact moment when there
was vacancy. Maybe she is worthless.
In that case she soon disappears. Mean
while one of the two hundred was the girl
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Orient and not alone the cable business
of our city with them, but their cable
business with the entire United States,
was obliged to be transacted by the long
indirect method, following nearly the cir
cult of the globe When we follow the
course of this long route we find that it
traverses many foreign seas and crosses
many foreign countries, which at any
time might be in the throes of political
disturbance or be adverse to the interests
of the United States, and hence could at
any time interrupt or stop communica-
tions which were of vital interest to US.
Then, again, the long and interrupted line
made delays more possible and errors
more frequent.
Two reasons may be suggested as to
why this cable was not built before. The
first, we think, was that the importance
of the trade of the United States with
the Orient was not thoroughly i'm
pressed upon our people as during the
last few voars. h"nin owing 70 tho vast
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we wanted, but we didn't know 1t. She
is still looking for work, while the worth
less girl is being tried out. But that
won't last. Some day she will happen in
at the right moment and once she is en-
gagged and found to be of value she has
nothing but progress ahead Of her.
And she will be persistent If she has
genus. Genius never gives up 1t is sure
OF itself. 1t has a driving power within
itself that forces it on to it's ultimate
goal.
Net a successful woman the stage
to-day but fought her way there Adver
tlsiEg and wirepuling had nothing to do
with it. Talent is what a manager wants.
Lock at Margaret Anglin, who came un-
known from Canada and was given small
parts, then tried in bigger and bigger ones
and never found to fail She is only one
of many. The same is true of every one
Of the great singerS-NCrdica, Melba, all
of them. The rounds of the ladder are
always there, ready to be climbed, if you
are ready to do the climbing.
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beautiful. not only for the sake Of
the beautiful but for the ''utiI-
ity Of beauty" Beauty is the conquer1ng
power Of the world. and when Pericles,
possessing the treasures Of conquered
states, desired to confer some benefit
upon Athens. he built temples, museums,
amphitheaters and erected monuments to
heroes and to the gods; and Athens be-
came for more than one hundred years
the seat Of the artistic and Intellectual
life Of the world. Beauty was the at
traction and brought population and con-
ferred cheerfulness and cOntentment upon
the people, and the beautiful environment
was the inspiration Of noble works of art,
Of literature and the pleasures of the i'm
aginatiOn. The children reared amidst
such surroundings became the Attic
salt" Of the earth, and il would be strange
that We, who have inherited much
from those olden days, should deteriorate
with such noble examples before US.
San Francisco should employ a commits
sion, as did recently the city of Washing
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and disadvantages Of some clubs.
Clubs create community of interests,
and, though individualism may be exag-
gerated. yet community interests should
never bar out the ideaIism that clusters
around the hearthstone.
Though the clubs have made women
more restless, they have made them more
self-reliant. The clubs have made women
gossip less than formerly; fewer charac-
ters are torn into shreds to lie bleeding
and crushed. Now woman has, of sup
poses she has, larger questions to deal
with, which quicken her perceptions and
keep her mind on the alert. The asser-
tions of Schopenhauer and Huarte are no
longer supported by evidence that wom-
ans mental capacity Is not the equal OF
mans; on the contrary. she invades his
territory, secures his positions, reduces
his salary and is his successful competi-
tor on all mental lines. Clubs have not
revolutionized but evolutionized woman.
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War the incopvenience and expense IN
CURED by our Government in cOmInunieat-
ing with the Philippine Islands made II
apparent that an American Pacific Ocean
cable was necessity for strategic and
military purposes aside from commercial
Importance.
Our possessions in the Orient and our
increased trade, not only with them but
with the other countries in the Far East,
made it more than ever evident that we
should have a more direct cable under
American control, which we are about to
see .consummated in the completion Of the
Commercial Pacific Cable AInon% other
difficulties which we have had in COM
muhicating with the Orient through the
Old World line has been the strange fact
that it cost about 60 cents more 0er word
to cable from San Francisco to Manila
than from Manila to San Francisco. The
Chamber of Commerce cO-operated with
the efforts made from time to time to
have this difficulty remedied, but as the
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soft light is not twinkling by reason of
woman's strenuous work for the whole
that is one of the disadvantages and the
lone for all and all for one loses some
thing Of its potentiality and something
Of its efflcaciousness.
Nordau calls Nthese fin de steele liter
ary and artistic tendencies evidences of
hysteria and degeneracy, but 1t must be
admitted that though women are emo
tional their instincts are artistic sympa-
thetic and more largely human than those
Of man. The clubs develop these senti-
ments Of mutual helpfulness and woman
stands triumphant in the province that
the poets and writer's of the world accord
her. Mungo Park, the famous explorer,
when In the wilds Of Africa, always felt a
degree of security when a woman was In
the hut.
The philanthropic clubs have multiplied
with marvellous rapidity, having taken up
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ness of the Pacific Ocean, cable line
would necessarily be of a longer length
than had hitherto been laid in any part
of the world
We must not, however. forget that in
the early sixties great efforts We're made
to establish a line of telegraphic commu-
nication to Asia, but not by the Pacific
cable, the object being to follow the Pa
cific shore of Alaska, cross BERN s/Strait5,
and then follow the shore line down East
ern Siberia to reach telegraph lines al
ready established. Surveying parties were
already at work laying this line and the
work was progressing when the success
of the Atlantic cable caused the projectors
of the Siberian line to abandon their at
tempt as they thought that the compile
ton of the Atlantic cable would prevent
their undertaking from being successful
commercial venture, since communication
was being established by way of the At
lantic to the Far East, although in a very
-rndabOut ";-'- '''--'0 spanish
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MEOMy OF a NTTYa HH2$E 49, .

Never trust a man or woman who can
not win a child's love.
1t takes pretty accomplished liar to lie
and look you straight IN the eye at the
same time.
Shy of from people who make you dis
satisfied with yourself. 1t Is bad enough
to be dissatisfied with other people.
When people bore you avoid them
Later they may make you unhappy.
Learn to read faces. The fellow with a
very long nose Is the fellow who pokes
his nose into everybody's business
People who are always apologizlng are
very trying to entertain.
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the colors of Joseph's coat, were tugging
away at an elder sisters dress on the
edge of the sidewalk within hairbreadth
distance of the wheels of a runaway wae-
on. When asked, in commiseration for
their condition. who they were, what they
were and where was the maternal
parent, all three replied snaiveIy and with
degree of pride, 'At the Mothers
Club" Horrifed to think that the. IL
rectors of this mothers club We're respon-
sible for this beguiling of maternal in
stincts, the on-looker hastened to the
busy directors, reproaehing them for such
dangerous results. and the plausible an
swer was given thatEthe mothers lived
in uncomfortable surroundings, were un-
happy and irritable from overwork; that
coming into the warm. well-lighted club
room, with refreshments they were
cheered and went home with nerves sooth-
ed and wills strengthened to brighten
their homes. Such are the advantages
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every conceivable object Of pursuit. from
the promotion Of the best interests of
man, woman and child to the protection
of the birds in the air, and animals do
mestic and wild, so 1t would appear that
vice, destltution and misery must vanish
from the earth. Possibly many well-mean-
Ing women take up these seeming duties
neglectful OF those nearer home. 1t can
not be repeated too frequently that 1t is
only the woman of leisure who can con-
stantly respond to a club's-stil less
clubs'-call. To the woman of family
without abundant means the club should
be only a diversion-smoothing out wor-
ries and composing the nerves-so that
she can take up home duties with fresh
activity.
The following anecdote would be ludf-
crous If 1t were not pathetic: On a murky
afternoon two small children Of uncertain
age, with misf1t and torn clothing having
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woman who would go dnto her hu.-
bands pockets would feel little scrupIa
In going into any one else's
don't object to people lying to me. hut
I hate to find IT out when I was not srnart
enough to detect 1t IN the beginning.
Martmony kills some people as dead a..
Pontius Plate. There Is no chanca for
them to rise again.
When you hear woman abuse the men
you can gamble on 1T that she Just ached
some time or other for the fellow sbs
couldn't get.
The fashion-plate woman Is generaI1v
too vain and thoughtful OF herself to care
for any one else. Some trihing flaw is
rather to her credit.
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A g1ddy young chaperon Of an elderly
spinster is often one of the funny incon-
gruitieS Of society.
The husband OF q great woman Is often
so absent-minded that he loses his own
identity.
A steady diet of grievances needs Cor
oner to do his duty.
There Is nothing so exasperating as the
fellow who always tries to patronize you.
A real swagger prosperity bluff often
proves free transportation to the real
thing itself.
A dead passion Is about as unresponsive
as a tombstone on a winters night.