Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-17

/ And even poets must be quite alive
To all the little drawbacks Of the season.
| I love Fair Spring, and yet I have TO own
| She's-well, to put II mildly, she's capricious;
At times l may say she has really shown
tendency to be plain, downright vicious.
Gentle Spring. my tuneful Tyre
| T. perfofce am etrummng,
= Undsmayed by token dire
That attend thy coming
1t is often said that we Americans
are too hurried to pay any attention
to the fine arts. A man cannot cut his
lunch hour to look at pictures, nor can
he give up many evenings to concerts,
and as for architecture, he is too much
occupied with what goes on inside of
his office to give any thought to what
the outside looks like. Still there is
one art a business man need not in
terrupt his work to enjoy, that gives
as much pleasure in the daytime as at
night. and the educational effect of
which is unconscious and cumulative.
| That art is sculpture. If statues and
scuiptural ornaments, beautiful in
| themselves making beautiful the
squares and streets in which they were
|
they would not only be a pleasure and
an inspiration in themselves, but they
would help enormously the growth Of
the American public toward a more
enlightened cultivation and a truer
sense of the worth of that side of life
which is not valued in money.
rr,l,o boo o,,tifx,i,,cr of nc eanrna
| to have been overlooked by public bene-
factors, who in bestowing gifts, have
been blind to the fact that a public
fountain or two would be great ac-
QUESTION to the wayfarers comfort,
as we'll as to the appearance Of certain
rather plain looking squares.
The matter will no doubt go un-
noticed until taken up by the faction
which knows no defeat and is repre-
sented by the women's clubs.
At meeting last autumn Mrs. j.
w. Hendrick, an authority on art,
practical and otherwise. called the at
tention of the club women to this fact,
and no doubt her advice on the matter
will bear fruit.
When woman wills she wills, but
when five thousand clear-minded. clever
women will-well, then.
Mrs. z. Brodbeck and Miss Adele
Brodbeck of West Seventh street, who
have been visiting in the east for the
past four months, are expected to re-
turn about March 23. Mrs. Brodbeck
and her daughter went east for the
| st. Louis fair, and have been spend
| ing the time remaining with friends
and relatives.
Miss Belle Willitts of Chicago, who
is visiting Miss Juliette Phelps Of $50
Westlake avenue, was guest of honor
last evening at meeting of the E. Q.
| T. club, held at the home of Miss Pearl
| Teetzel of 932 Lake street. Other
guests included Mr.. and Mrs. William
Conklin, Mr.. and Mrs. John r. Mat
thews, Misses Grace Fuller, Lizzie
Newkirk, Juliette Phelps, Clara Flem-
ing and Cora Fleming, Carl Carlson,
Dr. Charles Bonynge, DR.. John Cur
ran and DR.. Wherry Neel.
| Mrs. John F. Ellis and Mrs. James
| Foord of Hotel Melrose, who were to
have entertained a party of friends
with a trolley trip to Casa Verdugo
and luncheon at the cafe yesterday,
have postponed the affair one week.
| Miss Bessie Drake, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles r. Drake, is visiting
friends in Tucson. In Miss brakes
honor a coaching party and supper
were given recently.
For one blessing man is enviable-his
pockets. Woman occasionally has a
pocket, but she can't use it. Put in
pocket" she pleads, and the dressmaker
sends home the new skirt with a
pocket slowed away in the recesses of
hoolI-up placket hole. 1t is not Il
workable pocket for three reasons:
First, it bulges if there is even
handkerchief in it, destroying the SYM
metry of the outline.
Second things aimed at it rarely sue
ceed in forcing an entrance, but fall
alongside, downward, with a whack on
the floor.
Third, who could tumble through a
whole row of hooks and eyes, placed In
the center seam at the back? AS a
trilng object in the way of blind
manipulation it may be mentioned that
such hooks are usually of a tricky
patent, or they would not stay fastened
at all.
At the hem of the garment, under the
Foundation" frill, pockets like a tiny
crescent-shaped pouch may also be
found lurking A handkerchief can re-
pose in one in safety, merely involving
some suppleness in the owner who
must execute a kind of dive in with
drawing and reinserting it, A silk
foundation sometimes accommodates
ouite a practical-looking receptacle, TO