The San Francisco call., 1906-06-28
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q risht snirit within me-" is now being
answered at least on the nrSt CUM
by the surgeons of the day. Surs,oa
skill in Los Angeles has just Idhen
out washed and put back asain .
mans heart with good results 70 the
patient. and a couple of days ago, Dy
an operation upon a special portion
of a criminals brain he was mace 20
excIaim: Il feel like an honest man,
whereat he was hidden TO go ana slls
no more. The far-reaching dement's OF
this increasing efficiency OF surgery
must re apparent to all Optimists. IhlS
is undoubtedly the logical elimination
recently referred TO by a visiting lee
turer. What now seems the douDtlul
and difficult process of generations OF
care on the part of state ana or
ganized reform work may soon be at
tended to in the operating groom of the
City and County Hospital every
Wednesday and Saturday morning
From such small beginnings as have
been noted there may come expeditions
and painless operations by Government
officials which shall remove that par
ticular pressure upon the brain which
induces the trust habit as well as the
specialized irritation Of the heart that
produces labor agitation. The systems
may become so sensitive as 10 be un-
able to endure the process of adulter-
ating foods or preserving invalid
meats; by the logical elimination of
obscure LESSONS in the moral fiber the
rebate in any form may cause moral
nausea to those exposed. 1t is diff
cult to see the limitations OF this pro-
gress in the surgery of the future
when we realize that this very week
a splendid step forward has been taken
in the fact Of a practical change OF
both heart and mind
A change Of heart in Los Angeles
will be of advantage in those sections
which produce Illustrations and de-
scriptiOnS of San Francisco. There is
now exposed for sale a book of earth
quake pictures which has for a cover
design an interesting view of the Cliff
House on a dark and stormy night II
the point of being struck by a wicked
looking flash of fOrked lightning. This
may be a form Of sympathy expressed
in the design of making the fastener
feel that San Francisco will seem like
home to him in this respect, but. we in
cline to the belief that this is the same
sort of generous advertising that
speaks enthusiastically of our beauti-
full bay and the sunlight flashing back
from the tcebergs that fioat about Us
during the winter months.
A Mr. Bradley Of Milwaukee adver-
tises for a girl for general housework
and stipulates that no one who has
not had her appendix removed need
apply. This seems wise requirement..
In the ordeal of answering the innu-
merable personal questions put by the
kind angel who is considering coming
10 cook for us we shall have an op-
portunity to ask one ourselves The
ancient custom of requiring references
or a written character has long since
/ fallen TO disuse. but now. after we have
patiently told the story of our life
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only one intimate personal detail we
may demand to see the evidence in
alcohol. And it might be well TO insist
further, should occasion arise. that the
girls appendix be removed from the
kitchen. even though above his capable
stomach should shine the starry symbol
of law and order.
Eviction of one kind and another is
the order of the day locally We need
not mention the everyday instance Of
the heart1ess landlord who raises the
rent because he has one Of the few
business locations in town. thus com
/ pelling the unfortunate tenant who
thus far has lived remote from the
business centers because of the lower
rental to seek again the smaller op-
/ portunities at prOpOrtiOnate expense
although the tide OF life has turned in
/ his direction through no fault of the
owner In Oakland last week the iron.
/ hearted intention of a grasping land
owner compelled lady who was camp
4 ing with her six children to find a
tenting ground elsewhere crowd
| gathered in the vicinity. we are told
/ with the expectation that a sensational
/ scene would be provided by the evic-
tion Nothing stirring took place.
/ probably because the whereabouts OF
/ the husband and father seems 70 be
/ unknown to the family These are
! iY1O aNQ Ias
/ Eviction Scene in which the ladies Of
/ the Century Club put the Grand Jury
out upon the sidewalk OF Franklin
street The multiple fndeiieacies Of the
1 politicians were too much for the minds
that had carefully thrashed out in those
sober and serene apartments the first
! second and third best guesses as to
/ Brownings meaning in many poems
/ The Supreme Court might stay for
each lady member sensed the poets
thought in the phrase of Artemis:
/ Goddess of the ambrosiaI courts"
but to the Grand Jury she turned re-
/ lentless and spoke as from the Span
/ ish cloister'':
'G-r-r-r. there. go. my hearts abhor-
| rencer
1t is the rain that falleth alike upon
the just and the unjust. This impair
/ tiality was noted also in the fire thar
swept US without the least respect of
\ persons. 1t is with an abiding sense
of this lack of prejudice that a num-
ber OF accused persons have walked out
/ into the dusty air of freedom because
OF the destruction Of the evidence
! against them. and with streaming eyes
of gratefulness certain other free citf-
zens have learned that Jacob Rauar
lost many papers of indefinite value
The poet has put US a question rhet-
/ Orical:
What's in a nance" We might mt II
to proof
And render an answer well worthy an
oracle
If Rufus p Jennings were shortened
| to Ruefi