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The San Francisco call., 1905-01-12
FROM GIRLS STANDPOINT PROPOSAL
MARKS THE BEGINNING OF C0URTSHP
BY DOROTHY FENIMORE.

Wv HEN does courtship begin? Does
!" young man commence to court
his affinity when he first meets
her, or when he recognizes her as his
affinity?
This interesting question was raised
a few days ago in the English probate
and divorce court, when the validity of
certain Scotch marriage was ques-
toned.
When the witness on the stand hesi-
tated over her answer to the query,
How long had your husband been
counting you when he proposed?" Sir
Francis Jeune, who was on the bench.
came to her rescue by the decision that
a man does not himself know when he
begins to court a girl.
SAYS oliver Wendell Holmes, through
his "Autocrat" as mouthpiece: The
court of nature assumes the law to be
that all men love all women; and the
individual man therefore is bound to
show cause why he does not love any
particular woman"
Now, if the Autocrat is right ABOUT IL
the decisive moment which fixes a
mans fate is the one when his sponta-
neous gallantry toward the other sex
changes into a readiness to state why
he does not love any woman on earth
except one. This would make real
courtship date from the proposal.
A distinction should be drawn be-
tween gallantry and courtship. Every
pretty girl knows the difference be-
tween the two. She has had dozens or
men who are willing to confess that
they prefer tandem to double harness,
tell her that she is adorable, that their
suffering hearts are beneath her dane
ing feet. But they are too generous by
far to be trusted.
They ask for nothing in return for
that picturesque f-abnegation which
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:THE SMART SET:
BY SALLY SHARP.

Payne's tea on Tuesday were Miss
Florinne Hunt, Miss Eliza Kline. Miss
Isabel Brewer, Miss Marie Brewer and
Miss Mary Wilcox.
Mme Inez Carusi, the harpist, was
the guest of honor at the Sequoia Club
on Tuesday evening. Those attending
were charmed by whistling solos given
by.Mme. Carusi- who accompanied her
self on the piano. Miss Grace IAeweily.-
Jones read prologue of the solos,
making an interesting explanatory note
of the musical rendition. Nine. Carusi,
who is to play here with the grand
opera, will be given reception by the
Press Club on January 81.
Mrs. w. s. Leake will give reception
IN honor of Mrs. ]. J. Spieker and Miss
George Spieker next Saturday after
noon at the Palace Hotel, from to
s o'clock.
Vladimir de Pachmann will give
Chopin programme before the st.
Francis Musical Art Society on the
evening of January 26.
Miss Irene Sabin is having her hours
well filled. for this is her final week
for some time among the pleasures OF
her charming set Of friends. She
leaves with Miss Pearl Sabin on Sun
day for Fort Smelling, where new
gayeties await. and no one will ex-
tract more real enjoyment than this
young debutante, who is thoroughly
appreciating her entrance into So
ciety's realm. OF the many recent
affairs given in Miss Irene's honor
none has been prettier or more sue
cessful than a luncheon yesterday, at
which Mrs. Squire varrick Mooney
was hostess. Red was the prevailing
shade, evidenced by rich American
Beauty roses, candelabra and place
cards. The other guests were: Miss
Pearl Sabin. Miss George Spteker,
Miss Jessie McNab. Miss Jessie Fill
more, Miss Alice May, Miss Bessie
Bates, Miss Nell Rose Baggett. Miss
Bessie Wilson, Miss Rachel Hovey,
Miss Huffman, Miss Edith Manning.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. W. Foulkes, who
are residing at the Colonial, will re-
ceive after January 81.
Miss Paula WolH was tne guest VI
honor yesterday at a luncheon given
by Miss Edith Muir.
Jack London will speak before the
Council of Jewish Women at their next
meeting.
Lee L. Gray is at the Palace from
Fresno.
Lieutenant Sypher has been enter
tanning Mason Terry at the Presidio
for several weeks. Mr.. Terry leaves
this week for his home in Washington,
D. G.
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with open amusement a handsome man
who was leaning over the oebutante
presiding at the coffee urn. He was
saying something which made the
child's face flush daintily, and her eye
lids droop. My neighbor. whom knew
intimately. turned to me-
"I know just what Jim's saying to
Mabel she said. You know, / came
out last year, and he used to stand by
my side in exactly that same way, and
well, you know him, don't you?--he is
always rushing madly to the very end
OF the pier, but he never jumps off,"
Know him? Indeed l knew him. He
practiced on me years ago, and even
now he has the magnificent nerve to
tell me whenever he meets me that I
have always been to him the one wom-
an In the whole, wide world
Up to the moment of the actual pro-
posal, my dear, mans attentions are
worth only what they cost him in ef-
fort, or in hard cash. You can Justly
sum them up as follows: This man
loves me so many dollars worth Of or
chids or so many boxes of candy. That
mans devotion is worth box party at
the opera or an automobile ride Don't
deceive yourself by believing that his
gallant performances are courtship
until he has asked the momentous
"Will you?"
l think, however. that it is worth
your while. after the die is cast, and
the newspapers have announced your
engagement. and you have begun to
order your ltrousseau, and your fiance
has put his surplus Of worldly goods
into diamond solitaire, for you to be-
lieve, and to convince-if you can-the
man whom you are going to marry
that you both have been dead in love
with each other from the very first
moment you met, that If fate had not
felicitously thrown you together
neither of you would ever have entered
matrimony.
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The wedding ceremony of Miss Lo-
leta Mcconnell and Robert Stockdale
Grayrigge drew large number of
friends to Grace Church yesterday af-
ternoon at o'clock. Easter lilies.
with palms and other green's, were
lavishly used in decoration. The bride,
who Is a winsome and pretty maid,
was exceptionally charming in her
bridal robe of fine old mousseline and
rare lace. Beautiful in itself, the robe
was also an heirloom, having been
worn by three brides before this fair
one donned it. She carried lilies of
the valley. Miss Dorothy Chapman,
maid of honor; Miss Alice Eloesser,
Miss Jeanne Gallois, Miss Avis Sher-
wood and Miss Lillian Hodghead at
tended the bride, who was given into
the groom's keeping by her father,
Chalmers Newton Mcconnell. Walker
Bours served as best man, with Alan
Dimond. e. Thirkell, Newton Andruss
and Warner Sherwood as ushers. A
reception was held at the home of the
brides parents after the ceremony.
A wedding trip through Southern
California will precede the voyage to
Europe. Mr.. and Mrs. Grayrigge will
make their home in England.
Miss Irene Sabin will be entertained
at a luncheon given to-day by Miss
Beatrice Fife.
Miss Marie Wells is to be enter
tanned to-day at a tea given in the
Palace Hotel by Mrs. Fremont Older.
Mrs. Leonard Chenery and Miss
Ethel Patton were hostesses at lunch
con yesterday at their home on Clay
street. Among the favored guests
were Miss Marie Wells, Miss Gladys
Deal, Miss Jeanette Deal, Miss Maye
Colburn. Mrs. Farquharson and Mrs.
Ralph Hart.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Kohl enter
tanned sixteen guests at dinner one
evening this week. The affair was in
honor of Mr.. and Mrs. Horace Blanch-
ard Chase.
No home is more popular among the
younger set than that of Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas VAIN Morgan Draper. They
entertain delightfully."-, though informal
ly, on Sunday afternoons, and the merry
beaux and bellies are fond Of vending
their way toward that hospitable home,
where there is always q welcome. This
coming Sunday young visitor from
Vancouver Barracks will be an addi-
tional attraction. She is Miss Johnson,
the guest of General and Mrs. Coolidge,
but will be honored on this occasion by
Mrs Draper and Miss Elsa Draper.
Another pleasant Sunday tea in pros
pect is to be given by Mrs. Frederic
Spencer Palmer to Miss Agnes Buch-
anan.
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(, has sat at your feet and held out his
| little tin cup for aims, but you have
been blind to his presence and deaf
| to his plants"
Francesca smiled maliciously.
rs he ragged and dirty?' she
asked. Would 1 know he was beg
gar just to see him?"
You would know he was beggar
just to hear him. he returned.
rs it money he begs?" she inquired
sweetly.
NO." he said, tits not money he
wants. He has enough OF that him.
, self. He begs for interest and SYM
pathy and love-"
'And suppose / dropped some
love-er-that is, sympathy 1 mean
in his cup, what would he do? Would
he grind me a tune on a decrepit bar
rel organ?"
He'd give you lifelong devotion In
return he said earnestly.
Perhaps he's as big a humbug as
the blind man." she unused. Perhaps
he's picked the metaphorical dimes
and nickels out of his cup and slowed
them in his pockets and only let's me
see the three pathetic pennies
"Fancescaw he said In hurt sur
prise.
She laughed rather uneasily.
II said perhaps she reminded
him.
II see," he said, somewhat mollified.
There was silence between them for
a moment
Hes an honest beggar," the young
man said.
He's most persistent one" she
laughed.
You say you give aims to every
ragged mendicant who crosses your
path. You wouldn't pass him by,
would you?" he asked.
IF l thought he really needed
aims" she began.
He does! 1 assure you he does!"
he said earnestly
Then, just to stop his begging" ;"
said Francesca, looking at a cornice
on the other side of the street, 'I'll-
I'll give him what he asks
On his way home they passed the
old man with the barrel organ again.
Hollander tossed a half dollar into his
cup. The old man touched his hat
and mumbled a Thanks, SIR
Crafty old party" Hollander
chuckled as he walked up the street
with the girl.
"All beggars are crafty she said,
turning to him with a bewildering
smile.
Copyright, 1905, by T. c. Mcclure
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rHE little old barrel organ whined

"HE little old barrel organ whined
away monotonously, it's squeaky
drone all but drowned in the roar
of traffic in the street. It's three tunes
followed one another in ceaseless sue
cession; the jerky strains of after the
Ball. were supplanted by THE Last
Rose of Summer and this in turn
gave way to Lead. Kindly Light"-a
rendition which was unique in uneven
breaks and phthisicky wheezes due to
complications in the internal mechan-
ism Of the dilapidated affair.
Huddled on the bricks of the side
walk, his back resting against an iron
fence, an old man with rusty gray
beard patiently ground the crank; in
the little tin cup beside The organ were
three pennies; and suspended from the
old mans neck was a tin sign with the
time-worn announcement, Il Am
Blind"
AS Francesca West and young Hol-
lander came down the street, the or
gan was in the tFroes Of Lead, Kind
ly Light" and the spasmodic snarls
it sent out seemed somewhat in the
nature OF a protest. Francesca caught
the young mans arm, and they halted
before the organ.
"Oh," she said under her breath,
what horrible old mani" And fish
ing a quarter from her purse, she
dropped 1t into the tin cup.
The old man touched his hat, grunt-
ed a stereotyped Thanks, num-. and
the hymn squeaked along its uneven
way Hollander watched the proceed
ing with a grim smile.
The old humbug!" he commented as
they continued their way down the
street.
why do you say that?" Francesca
asked.
Well" said Hollander, perhaps you
noticed he suffixed his thanks with
a mum instead of sir l was watch
ing closely and saw the old codger
covertly open the eye nearest the cup.
Rest assured he saw the quarter and
its donor as well as I did"
Anyway" she said. he earns the
pittance he gets. Imagine sitting there
all the morning grinding that organ
and listening to it's drone, all for
three pennies"
Don't let the pennies deceive you,"
Hollander protested. He puts the
nickels and dimes in his pockets. 1t
cup look too prosperous. By this
time your quarter is safely salted with
the rest, and the three pennies make
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-12
THE AGENT DIDN'T KNOW.

For instance. an agent was trying
to insure an editor on some new plan.
The editor had theory that any fact
could be put into plain everyday Eng
lish, If the man. behind the fact really
knew what he was talking about. After
listening to an involved flow Of pre-
miums,' deferred dividends" cash
surrender Values and optional
choices he said gravely:
See here. 1 don't understand what
you're talking about. But I'll tell you
what I'll do. If you'll write that
proposition out in ordinary English,
SO that an ordinary man can under
stand it, I'll not only take the policy,
but I'll publish the explanation as an
article and pay you 500 for it.
''Will I? Sure. WILL exclaimed
the overjoyed agent, thinking he had
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-12

ILLUSTRATING the frequent ignor-
ance of his own wares displayed by
u the selling agent, the following
(true) story is told by H. w. Lanier in
January Worlds Work:
There are to-day some thousands of
varieties of life insurance policies,
each of which has technical name
and is capable of being made quite
uninteliigible to the average man.
Some unscrupulous agents trade on
this; many do not really understand
the meaning of terms themselves, but
have learned their lesson, parrot-like;
and most of them apparently find 1t
unnecessary to describe in plain Eng
lish to those about to insure what they
are contracting for. The result is
mass of misinformation and confusion
about the whole subject.
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indeed struck an easy job. And he
departed, adjuring the editor not to
forget.
A week passed by. The agent called
up on the telephone to say that he
was working on the thing. There was
less exultation in his voice.
Two weeks more elapsed. The edi-
tor had forgotten the whole thing.
when the agents card came in one
day. 1t was followed by the man him
self.
Well" said the editor. Got my
article?'
"N-no." said the agent, sheepishly.
THE fact is. 1 guess l can't do it the
way you want it, after ALL Let's call
1t off,"
1t is hardly too much to say that
this is typical.
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lifting Of her pretty eyebrows. When
have you noticed such oversight on
my part?"
There is one beggar in particular" F"
said Hollander, IAN honest beggar,
too, whom you utterly ignore. He
needs your aims far more than your
pseudo-blind organ grinders
Where is this neglected beggar ?''
she asked. When have ] seen him ?''
He has dogged your steps for the
last five years" he said gravely. He
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-12
Injurious Effects Of Smoke.

An interesting discussion has been
going on in Utah to determine the ef-
feet of the smoke from smelters upon
crops, as many of the farmers near
Salt Lake City claim that they have
suffered damage by the injurious
fumes given OFF from such establish
ments. Inasmuch as the annual value
of agricultural products in Utah
amounts to sl7. 600. 900. while the metal
lie output is practically twice as much,
it is Of Importance, says Harper's .
Weekly, that conditions should be reg
ulated so that neither industry Ii In
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Explained at last.

Why" asked the man who wanted
to know. do laundrymen always
change the marks on collars when they
get them for the first time, even If the
old laundry mark is perfectly plain?"
Each laundry" answered a patient
sufferer, has private mark; by this
means they know when they have had
a collar three times, and at the third
time they are enabled to put a saw
edge on 1t. cleveland Leader.
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HLrS AND THE NAN
BY EORRFS DWIGHT
BY FORBES DWIGHT.

their pathetic appeal to other tender
hearts,"
Francesca's brow wrinkled in disap-
proval.
I'D hate to look at the world through
such green goggles of cynicism." she
said. Il always give something to
every beggar in my path.
Allow me to take exception to that
statement" said the young man.
Some of the beggars' pleas you don't
deign to notice.
Indeed" said the girl with slight
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-12
Five Million Life Policies.

An expert statistician figures that
there arc to-day some 100000 of adult
males dhat Is, one out of every three)
in this country who carry life insur-
ance. outside of the fraternal orders
and the like. There were, at the end
of last year. nearly 10000. 600 policies in
force. There are only a little more
than twice as many adult males TODAY
as there were forty years ago.
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ANSWERS TO QUERIES.

DES MOINES-Sub., City. Des
Moines, Iowa. was laid out in 1S4s. in
corporated as Fort Des Moines in 1851
and in 1857 1T became a city and the
capital of the State.
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has led them to make rugs of them
selves beneath the ball slippers of
beauty. No girl of common sense could
believe for moment in these days
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-12

Kleptomania ID disease for which
the victims are always taking some-
thing.
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lectures and instruction in the manipu-
lation of torpedoes. The members of
the class are chiefly officers and men in
the torpedo service, though the lectures
are designed to correspond with all the
branches of naval Improvement and ad-
vancement. This course was established
by the Government at Coaster Harbor,
Newport, in 1S89
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Special information supplied daily to
business houses and public men by the
Press Clipping Bureau (Allen'sl. 50 Cali
fornia street. Telephone Main 104z.
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Store Wanted.
we must move Feb. /. Townsend $
California Glace Fruits, 715 Market st.
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Townsend's California Glace fruits in
artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 Market st. .
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jured, either by direct effects or by
restrictive legislation.
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-12

PRESIDENT-F. s., City. There is
no law that declares that man who
is eligible to the Presidency of the
United States shall lnot be elected to
the office for a third term.
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profesh,

Weary-Wot is your profesh.
Fagan?
Frayed Fagan--I'm caretaker.
Weary-What do you take care Of?
Fagan-Dat 1 don't do any work, of
course.
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NAVAL WAR COLLEGE-w. H,
Trinidad, Cal. For admission into the
naval war college at the naval station.
Narragansett Bay, r. l., address a let
ter of inquiry to the president, Charles
s. Sperry In this college there is a
course Of three months each year of
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-12

Among the guests at Miss Maud
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-12-07

According to Geo. Slosson, an in
ternational billiard tournament for
tn enew Brunswick Bake Collender
trophy, representing the world's
championship at 1872 balk line, will
be held in New York this winter.
with the leading players now in
Paris and America as competitors.
Private advices from Paris are to
the effect that the academy games
will soon close, in which case Cure.
Sutton, Hoppe and one or two 9th.
ers will Immediately come over.
Slosson also has in view a tourna.
ment for the leading shortstops. in
which Professor Mclaughlin. Al
bert Cutler. Harry Klein, of Phila.
delphia; AL Taylor, of Chicago. and
one or two others may enter.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-12-07

At 8 o'clock the diners stroll in
like guests at a house party. Be
tween $50 and 10 the diners move
into the foyer, huge room decor
ated in green brocade, carpeted
with thick pile, with handsmoe
paintings on the walls, and statu
airy scattered about. Heller coffee
is served, the men light cigars and
smoke, and there is music by the
Neapolitan string orchestra.
A dinner such as the following
costs, with wines, $3.50 for one
person, with tip of IS, and 81
more for coffee and cigar, making
the total expense $3.50.
Each course from the cavaiar tc
Caviar d'Astrakhan
Hortue a la Savoy
Supreme de Sole Suchet
Natives a la Villeroy
Escalopes de ris de veau au beaurre
Noisette
Veloute Palestine
Selle de pre- Sale Cumberland
Pommes peroillees
Riz la GGreque
Timbal d'ortolans a la Royale
Y pehir de queues d. Ecrevisses
Frappe pOrientale
Granite au Kuemmel
Canard de Rouen au Sang
Salade Mlrka
Asperge Vertes Mousseline
Orange Souffle a l'Infante
Croustades fin de Steele
Corbeille de Fruits
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fellow citizens. The devil was his
undoing.
When Menu unveiled his devil in
front of his modest home at Stan
turned out to gaze in wonder on the
horned monster. The people came in
street cars, in carriages, in auto
mobiles, on foot They filled the
intersecting streets to overlooking
and the police had to be called out
to preserve order 1t is estimated
that 10000 people visited the scene
in one day. With the commercial
instinct of a frugal German, Menu
at once removed his statue to a shed
near his home and charged the curl
Gus 10 cents each to view the devil
at close range.
His receipts were 5000 the first
day. They were almost as much
the second day, while over 500 was
realized on the third, and then Menu
suddenly removed the devil to his
sitting room, barred the door to the
curious, and said he had no future
plans for his image of the bad old
fellow.
Menu is a free thinker. He denies
that he is an atheist, but in his
broken German can draw no dis
tinct difference between the two.
Mrs. Menu is an English woman.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-12-07
Up-to-Cate Foot
ball, Fighting,
and General
Athletics

fought all the time.
Tonight and tomorrow night at
the Spokane theater will be seen
the first good moving pictures of
a fight ever taken. The Britt-Nel-
son fight from start to finish with
the minute rests. The knock
downs and winning blow are plain.
ly seen just as they happened in
Colma.
j. w. Coffroth, president of the
Colma club where the fight occur
red, is the owner of the films.
@ o @
Miss Day, coach and manager of
the Spokane high school girls bas-
ketball team, has made arrange
ments for a game with the Cheney
normal team for Dec. Is. The game
will be played in the big gymnasi-
UNI of the high school.
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They GO HOME
FOR HOLIDAYS

(Scripps News Association.)
NEW YORK, Dec. 7-As usual
at this time Of the year, the out
going steamers are carrying a large
number of Swedes, Norwegians and
Danes, who make their annual pill
grimage to their fatherland, to
spend Yuletide in their old homes
and surrounded by their old
friends. The custom has been
growing in recent years and the
number of Scandinavians going to
their old fatherland over the
Christmas holidays is increasing
from year to year. Practically all
the excursionists will return to the
United States after the holidays
and many of them will bring mem
bers of their families and friends
with them.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-12-07

When Britt and Nelson appeared
at rival theaters the same week in
Cleveland, extra police were on
hand to see that neither of them
did any sparring whatever. Cleve-
land is so painfully good that by
and by sneezing on Sunday in that
burg will be looked upon as a penal
offense. The two fighters showed
themselves to the audience, made
schoolboy sort of a talk about
the big fight" and backed solemn
ly into the wings. The audience
applauded, and may be it was hap
py.
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waiting for word from Salt Lake.
Now | am ready to fight him for
anything. | am willing to bet every
thing have | can beat him"
Scaler and Harrison were to be
matched before the Twentieth
Century club, Kerns. the man
ager of the club. stated he waited
three or four days for Harrison.
and the Salt Lake boy would not
come to terms.
q ~ .
Tonight in Washington hall, the
Twentieth Century club will hold
its second amateur meeting and
promises one of the best cards ever
put up in the city. They have ar
ranged for nine fast four-round
goes. Last week the clubs enter
tainment was of the best. All the
boys went into the ring to win and