The San Francisco call., 1906-03-25

miniature OF Nneit -dll4S-i ie-io a.
their new home.
Just how many Of these miniatures there
are here YOU may know by knowing how
many natiOnaiities make San Francisco
cosmopolitan.
There are among them the Scots for
example, and the Scots, as all the worid
knows, have in their hearts love OF
country as fierce as it seems un-eason-
able, for TO US OF this ''safter fairer land
Scotland seems but grudging stepmoth-
erly parent little calculated to excite eter-
nal devotion ana everlasting homesick-
ness.
Yet no true Scot ever gets so far away
from nome, or stays away 50 long that
he gets the smell Of the heather out OF
his nostrils OF the burr from of his
tongue To him the bleak Scottish moors
are always the most beautiful OF land
scapes, the marrow-congeaiing Scottish
mists the finest Of weathers. the gritty.
cultural Scottish conversational exchange
the most beautiful Of spoken words
Every true Scot, whether or no ne has
taken out naturalization papers, prays in
his heart with Stevenson:
Be il granted to behold you again in dying,
His OF home. ana TO hear again the cali;
Hear about the grGres OF the martyrs the
pewees crying,
And hear ~ ulre Fl all
Shines the California sun ever so
brightly. blows the wind Of the Pacific
ever sc softly. it does but serve TO stir the
heimweh. and he sighs 10 himself
Blows the wind today. and the sun and the
rain are flying
Blows the wind on the moors today and now
Ny heart remembers how.
So II Is no wonder then that there IS
right here il San Francisco. somewhere
between the ferry building ana the oces
beach. a complete and perfect bit Of Scot
tish Hfe reproduced for the enjoyment
and soiace Of ''the hairy sons Of Scotia. "
BY investigating a map Of Ge.den Gate
PARK OF asking the first Scotehmsa yo.t
meet. you can find out exactly what and
where II is.
Failing in that. YOU can 20 out on a
street car to Golden Gate Park. 90 in by
the Halght-strect entrance. skirt the chill
dren's playground, passing the corral
where stubborn donkeys and slow tran
sit goats burn UP MANTLE nickels. turn
10 your left, dive through a clump Of
scrub oak and come upon it yourself
And when you do it will move you to
an extended 'Ah-h-h," ot real admi-a-
tion and pleasure and surprise. for this
BIT OF Scotland in Golden Gate Park is
one Of the prettiest bits in that domain
Of beauty.
u Is the bowling green Of the S. F.
e. B. C., which stands for San Francisco
Scottish Bowling Club, and ii is the one
place IN all the city where the Scot may
&c and make believe he Is "at me"
Here. on little paralieiogram Of living
green. shut on all its sides by a close.
thick heoge that here and there has a
name Of gorse in il. e lays aside his coat
and his homesieknes1. takes out his Guilty
pipe and his beautifully polished bowls,
both from home claps his Scotch cap
on his head, which is often white and SCI
dom bald. casts his grizz,ed Scottish
whiskers 10 the breeze. and pays the an
cient Scottish game th.t his forebears
have played through many generations
and hundreds Of years-and he plays 1t
strictly and faithfully according to the
Scottish rules. You may be sure that no
impertinent American innovations creep
hedge.
There is nothing American in the little
hedge-trimmed inclosure set apart for the
ancient gaDe-nothing whatever except
the little fluttering silken stars and stripes
that are used In graceful compliment TO
mark the ''rinks." and the curious en-
lockers who drift over from the adjacent
driveway and lean on the fence at a gap
in the hedge 10 make laughing sharp
eyed American comments and ask leading
American questions OF the "Scotchies" in
side.
That they are ''Scotchies' is patent to
all the world that has ears TO hear with.
for the Scotch brogue is rolled back and
forth as swiftly and as vigorously as the
Scotch bowls. and listening for ten min
utes is as good-and as bewIldering-as
reading a chapter Of J. II. Barrie.
II is pretty game, IL a somewhat Sc
date and measured one. is this ancient
game OF bowling on the green.
The green" Itself adcs much to its
prettiness and charm, for it is the