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The San Francisco call., 1907-01-06

all, a farewell dance on board the
Charleston. the polished deck offering
a tempting surface to the dancers, and
some hundred guests enjoying the af-
fair. the list including all the more
prominent visitors and residents, with
the officers and their wives. An hours
dance, with a very ter 7pting collation.
In the Ward-room below, completed a
delightful afternoons pleasure, and IL
was dusk and after before the last re-
luctant guest departed, and so ended
the weeks Of feasting and frivolity
that have held so much pleasure.
Quite colony of northerners en-
joyed the gayeties, among the San
Franciscans and the people well known
about the bay who were stopping at
the Potter having been Mr.. and Mrs
Silas Palmer, who spent a week end
and the beginning Of the new year
there. as did Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Will
son and Miss cluff; Mr.. and Mrs.
Homer King Miss Genevieve King
and Miss Hazel King, Mr.. and Mrs.
J. II. T. Watkinson and Miss Pierce,
Mrs. Moore and her son, Pierre Moore.
Mrs. Linda Bryan, Miss May Reis,
Gratz Brown. Dr. and Mrs. Edwards.
DR.. and Mrs. Breyfogle, Harry PEN
dleton. Captain and Mrs. Winslow of
New York and their charming children,
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Drysdale and Ar
Lowndes Scott
Lieutenant and Mrs Niblack and
Lieutenant and Mrs. Leahy are in the
south and have been chaperoning Miss
Eleanor Phelps of Oakland.
Mrs. Wenban, with her daughter
Mrs. Shaw, and her grandson. Mr.
Mills. are wintering at the Potter.
Mrs. Walter Magee and Miss Ethel
Dean are planning TO Join them there
within fortnight. Among the other
guests are Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Den
man, Mrs. Charles Brown, Frances Col
ton OF Washington, d. c. and the
Misses Cotton, who have been quite
the bellies OF every function; Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Rossier Mr.. and Mrs.
James Bishop. who have divided their
time between the Potter and their
attractive ranch: General and Mrs
Auman. u. S. A. Cretired); Mr.. and Mrs.
Horatio Livermore and Miss Beth
Livermore and several others
News Of Del Monte
From Del Monte comes the follow
ing news:
The holiday season at Del Monte has
been a very gay one. There have been
family reunions private dinners. chill
dren's parties and all that goes to
make Christmas and New Years a
household festival. The custom Of
spending the holidays out OF town be-
comes more popular each year, and
II is 9 mistaken idea that with the
advantages Of a finely appointed hotel
one must lose the touch Of home life.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Stetson Wheeler
and their interesting children came
down after Christmas.
The young people have had a jolly
time. as q number Of their boy and
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girl friends were here. There were
days of in a tallyho. horseback rides
and excursions of all sorts.
Pretty Miss FIossie Cluff is here with
her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. William Cluff
Miss Alice Warner, who is spending
the vacation with her father and
mother, Mr.. and Mrs. Holden r. War
ner, has visiting her two fellow pupils
from Miss Heads school-Miss Alice l.
Doe of San Mateo and Miss Dorothy
Kincaid of Berkeley. n
Miss Ernestine McNear and her sister
and brother add TO the interesting cir
Gle of young people. The G. W. Nc
Nears remained until after New Years.
Loring G. Pickering, William A.
Campbell and D. Seibert of Stanford
University spent the holidays here.
Young Pickering took out a jolly
crowd of boys and girls in a tallyho'
one day.
Mr. and Mrs. C. s. Aiken came to
spend New Years. 1t is the first time
Ednah Robinson) has been down to
Del Monte since the arrival of Douglas
Sedgwick Aiken. The little fellow, who
is now three months old, received much
attention from his many admirers and
he smiles up into their faces from his
nurses arms in most friendly
fashion.
with her son, Miss Helen Gray and L.
W. Westcott. Mrs. Hancock is a beau
tiful woman and makes most charm
ing chaperon to her young friends, to
whom she gives many good times.
Mr.. and Mrs. William c. Henshaw.
Miss Grimes, Miss Henshaw, Miss Flor.
ence Henshaw, Tyler Henshaw and
Harry Chickering spent the holidays at
Del Monte. Mrs. Henshaw is as beau
fffll as ever and she and Miss Grimes
wore some stunning gowns.
Many Holiday Visitors
Miss Bertha Munro Rickor, Miss Ella
d. Smith. Mrs. P. G. Galpin and Miss
Julita Galpin of Berkeley came down
for the holidays.
Mrs Margaret Irvine and her son.
J. w. Byrne. have been here for fort
night. Callaghan Byrne came up from
them. Saturday brought a number of
the Burlingame set
Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander Lilley, Mrs
Walter Hobart, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Coleman. Mrs. George r. Grant. Spencer
Grant. Mr.. and Mrs. r. c. Bolton, Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Poett, Miss Eyre. Miss
Carolan, Miss Smedburg, lbawrence Nc
Creary and A w. Foster Jr. made up
a jolly party at one big table.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard Chenery also
came in on Saturday
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. B. Coryell. Miss Jes-
sup and Mrs. T.fB. Darragh were down
to see the old year out.
Miss Ella Morgan, who came to Del
Monte soon after her return from the
East. went TO the city to spend Christ
mas, but is back with her friends Mrs
Low and Miss Flora Low.
Mrs. Thomas Breeze and Miss Breeze
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Other Events

Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas B. Dalton take
pleasure in announcing the engagement
of their daughter, Miss Esrae L. Dalton,
to Edmund. Adair Peiser. The marriage
will take place in the spring.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. B. Keesing announce
the engagement of their daughter LIZ
zie to Monroe Jacobs.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lambert Hayman an
nounce the engagement of their daugh-
ter Juliet to Martin S. Meyer OF this
city.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. schwarz announce
the engagement of their daughter Sill
via to Michael Strauss.
The wedding of DR.. John Irving
Beattie of Santa Clara and Miss Hilda
Mayer. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Mayer Jr., will take place next
Saturday. January IL, in the Outdoor
Art club in Mill Valley. Miss Mayer
graduated from the University of Cal
ifornia with the class of 1906. and is
a member of Phi Beta Kappa. DR..
Beattie is graduate of Cooper Col
lege, and has just returned from
abroad. where he continued his stud
les. He is member of the Omega
Upsilon Phi fraternity.
Mrs. Melanie Jewell announces the
marriage of her daughter, Charlotte
G. Jewell, on January 1 to Nestor
Kaufman. They will be at home on
Sunday, January 6. and will be pleased
to receive their many friends at the
home, The Regillus. 1850 Pacific ave-
nue..
At Holy Cross Church on Sunday
evening Rev Father Ryan united in
marriage Miss Alice Schmitt and Frank
j. Sullivan The bride was attended
by Miss Annie Howard. niece of the
groom and the brides brother, Henry
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Schmitt, was best man. After the
ceremony reception was rendered
the young couple at the home of the
brides parents. Mr. and Mrs. Sulli-
van iived formerly in San Jose.
A very pretty wedding took place at
the Fourth Congregational Church.
Ihlrty sixth and Grove streets, Oak
land. on New Years day, when Miss
Edith Goldsworthy was united in
marriage to DR.. R. II. Dunn of Tre-.
monton, Utah. The ceremony was Wiz
messed by about 200 invited guests. The
pride was attired in a handsome gown
or white chiffon over white tafreta
The ribbon bearers, the Misses Hettie
and Minnie May and Florence Dunn
and Ethel Irving were dressed Il,
white silk and led the way to the altar
Immediately followed by the brides
maids, Miss JAMIE Goldsworthv ana
Miss Annie Dunn, who were rowned
alike In blue silk. The maid Of hono~
was Miss Sophie Goldsworthv. ard tha
ring bearer Miss Helen Letter. They
were met at the altar by the eroo-.
attended by his brother Bert D,,pr
and his classmate DR.. G. l. Tvnch
where. under beautiful weddinr
bell, the Rev. f. H. Maar performed
very impressive ceremony. A re-
cept1on and banquet were held At the
home OF the brides parents. after
which. amid a shower of old shoes
rice and good wishes from their MANY
friends, they left for their fut,,ra
home at Tremonton. Utah.
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A very enjoyable Christmas partv
was given by Mr.. and Mrs. A. G. Knil
TO the childreR Of Sunset District ~
their home 1870 Eleventh avenue
The San Francisco call., 1907-01-06

Rev. and Mrs Fl. Samuelson 49, -.
mother and sen have arrived II tbts
city and viii be pleased to see their
friends at the home of d. Cohn ax7
Devisadero street, where they are tenn
porarily located.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-20

tain amount of respect for the club
women, individually and collectively.
Now. however. though the row was
caused by some of the women adopt
ing mems politics to elect their candi-
date, a change of sentiment has set in
and the club woman is again openly
derided and ieered at.
The trouble is with the professional
club woman. The club woman who
belongs to one or two clubs from
which she derives benefit and inspira-
ton. and who occasionally attends a
federation meeting, is not the one at
whom the jeers are aimed. But it is
at the one who belongs to half a
dozen or more clubs. is always after
Office. either for herself or a friend,
who puts the cause of club women in
an unfavorable light. She travels
through the length and breadth of the
land, giving Beautiful Talks on The
Home-Its Sweet Inf1uence-while1
the neighbors all know that the Home
sees her but rarely. and that in those
brief visits to her home she has a
nervous headache most of the time,
and snaps the heads off of the chill
dren when they speak to her, and
plainly shows her Henry. who remains
at home to dress the children. wash
their faces, comb their hair, and battle
the bruises, that she is of superior clay
to him. for she has temperament, |
while he is only a piece of common
pottery. And usually the home atmos- |
phere clears and the family breathes
more freely when she has repacked |
her suit case and hied her to the |
next federation meeting there to ex-
pand on the Joy of Motherhood-Its
Precious Privileges.
1.-The woman who claims that she
can perform all the stunts required of
the professional club woman. and still
be the exemplar of all the Lovely Talks
she gives on Home and Family, is
oh, we'll. no matter"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-20
THE CLUB WOMAN.

1t is not always safe for a Mere
Man to say much of a critical charac-
ter about womans clubs. There are
divers degrees and kinds of danger,
some of which it is ones duty to brave,
but duty calls in vain when it asks the
average man to criticise the club
woman.
It may, however. be compa ratfv ely
safe to quote such an authority as Mrs.
Myra Williams farrell on this subject,
and to remark incidentally that Mrs.
farrell has the situation sized up
about right as a politician would say.
In speaking of the recent little furry
in club POLITICS at Kansas City. Mrs
FARRELL says in the Holton Signal:
1.-The club woman scandal in Kansas
City has given a backset to clubdom,
which it will take time to overcome.
A few years ago the men folks We're
inclined to smoker at the club woman
and have lots OF fun at her expense
But the amount of philanthropicaI
work accomplished through the clubs,
and the broadening effect upon the
lives of many women whose environ
ment was narrow. has created a GER
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-20
JAYHAWKER JOTS

Goodland boasts that IT has fifteen
automobiles. gem. f1isss esq. r
There are 1000 dogs Leaven-
worth, yet taxes have been paid on
only rs.
A Cloud county woman has $50
young chickens, and she did not hatch
them with an incubator. either.
The Holton Recorder remarks that
while Pocahontas never belonged to a
mans club. Many another woman has
done the same.
A Yates Center man considers it a
strange coincidence that he passed
three men recently, one just behind
another, and their names were Brown,
White and Green. That's nothing. A
Topeka man saw a patriotic combina-
ton of three men this morning. One
is something of a topper and his nose
was red; the second is a mighty fine
white; while the third had got on the
wrong side of the wheat market and
looked blue.
Now that it is all over Bent Muir
dock offers this personal testimony in
the Arkansas river case: I'VE pulled
off our boots. rolled up our breaches
and waded the Arkansas river at a
point where the old Santa Fe wagon
trail came I'D to that stream from the
east, which is near NickersOn. a little
AFTER Qdyl12nI, the month OF June,
1860, and shot our first buffalo bull
on the south bank of the stream. A
week later, and on further west to the
mountains, the river was bank full.
In the month of October, the same
year, we camDed in the bed of the
Arkansas river at the mouth of Cow.
creek near Hutchinson. There was
no water in either stream-that is
there was none IN evidence-but by
digging about eighteen inches in the
sand, water in abundance was found.
When we crossed to the south side of
the Arkansas, the next morning, we
found a long pool of underf1ow water
close up under the bank. 1t was two
feet deep in places. was clear and cold
and swarming with catfish, suckers,
buffalo and red horse. There were a
dozen men in the party, with four two
horse wagons, dogs. guns, ponies and
everything else necessary for a buffalo
hunt That was what we were out for.
We put wagon sheets together and
'seined' the pool. capturing possibly
an hundred pounds of fish. which we
ate along with the buffalo meat, that we
got that evening on the North Fork
of the Nenescah river. Kansas had
its great drouth in 1860, and that the
south wind kicked up a dust in the
bed of the Arkansas river. that year,
was to have been expected. This is
printed to show that the Big river
went as dry as a bone twenty years
before irrigation bitches in Kansas or
Colorado were even thought of by the
Oldest inhabitant.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-20

forming. In addition to being the
senator from Edwards and seventeen
other counties, and also a we1l-known
lawyer, Senator Smith is editor of the
kinsley Mercury. He has inaugurated
reform as an editor, which he de-
scribes in the following: For some
time the Mercury has been contem-
plating a change of personal pro-
nouns. The writer owns the Mercury
individually and the Mercury does not
owe any one a dollar. The writer is
solely responsible for every editorial
utterance that appears in it, and
writes all the editorials that are not
clipped and credited. Why then
should 1, the owner and editor say we
think so and SO. This attempted
anonymity in a dinky country weekly
like the Mercury when everyone
knows who is doing it is absurd and
herefter the editorial we will no
longer appear in our editorial col
umns. 1t will be Il and My instead
of We. and Ours If any one wants
to lick the editor for what he says
they will know where to go, second
floor, turn to the left"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-20
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
[From the Philadelphia Record.

TFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Gets up in the air-The tenor.
In the fat woman's dress good deal
of material goes to waist
A new hat may not exactly intoxi-
cate a woman, but it goes to her head.
1t would take more than yeast to
make some fellows rise to the occasion.
Any man might raise whiskers, but
his wife would probably raise objec-
lions.
The people who are in a peck of
trouble don't always ask for good
measure.
Seek and We shall find,' says the
Good Book. This applies particularly
to trouble
Nell-"I told her she looked like 80
cents" Belief suppose that is the
reason she hates you like CO."
BIobbs-''Why should the sIuggard
be told to go to the ant? Slobbs-
Because If he doesn't he may be
forced to go to the uncle"
"You are a hypocrite!" Kissed the
beautiful maiden. The man with the
black moustache recoiled- Explain
yourself" he demanded. you told
me your love for me vas undying.''
went on the maiden. land the words
were scarcely out of your mouth when
you went off and dyed your NOUS
tache."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-20
THE CROP-KHLER.

Softly caressing his Dubious abdomen,
lined with fat capon and irrigated with
Mumm's extra wet, he fareth forth to
Kansas on his trusty Pullman, and at
eventide desolation and threatened
famine stalk where morning saw the
smiling plain basking all unsuspicious
in the sunshine of prosperity, promise
and peace; the countryside from Alma
to Wamego has been laid waste by such
bug or bosom as the killer deemed most
suitable to his season, and the morning
and the evening journals tell of the
wrack it hath wrought
On the morning of the second day his
pals, disguised as bulls with fierce
horns, rush into the pits where are
bears, and by loud beIlowings and
fierce demeanor become possessed of
the large portions of juicy meat upon
which the bears fain would feed, even
to fairness, the winter through
In good time the killer putteth out to
sea; not in a cattle steamer, but in a
sumptuous yacht, wherein he continu-
ously maketh merry, with music and
maidens, and chortles at the newspaper
chumps who wasted their substance in
spreading his poison exactly as he
would have 1t spread-at their own ex-
penSe, In turg1d type, on the front page,
top of column.
About the selfsame day the farmer,
knowing the heat and burden of the
season so near at hand, calleth about
him his men servants and his maid SER
wants and telleth them to prepare for
a bigger job of harvesting than they
have ever tackled before, while he
goeth in his automobile at dawn seek
inc IN 1eaaa the highway for n stool
yard and the court house as an addi-
tional granary. And his latter end shall
be worse than the first, when he
gnasheth at the railroads that their
sidings are too short for the cars he
needs. and the worlds grain prices get
baggy at the knees because Kansas
has again. as is her habit, raised the
biggest crop ever.
And it was ever thus.-F. D. Coburn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-20
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News. ]


Much socalled love is only lip deep.
After turning to rubber Lots wife
turned to salt.
You may have noticed that foolish
people are always happy.
Don't get into the habit of going
around with your bristles up.
A lot of unnecessary sympathy is
wasted on old bachelors and spinsters.
No man ever lost his reputation or
his friends by acting on the square.
1t takes a good deal of fortitude to
follow the dictates of a clean con-
science.
A boy shaves that he may look
older: a man shaves that he may look
younger.
Most men put in a lot of time try
ing to do things that are detrimental to
their own welfare.
During courtship a man doesn't
realize how dear a woman is to him
but when he begins to pay her bills
after marriage he gets wise.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-20
A WHEAT COUNTY.

The assessors returns in Pawnee
county this year show a farm population
in the county of 1925; that is, there are
that many people outside the city of
Larned, which has about 1900 popula-
ton. And this is the county which will
probably stand second this year among
tie wheat-producing counties of the
state!
The same assessors figures show a
wheat acreage of go, S17 in Pawnee
county this year. The condition of this
wheat three weeks ago was reported to
Secretary Coburn at SO, which would
indicate yield of a little more than is
bushels per acre. Since then there have
been both rains and green bugs, and re-
ports are conflicting as to whether the
crop has improved or deteriorated. Sup
posing, however, II has deteriorated I'M
til the yield will be only Is bushels per
acre, the aggregate wheat crop of Paw
nee county will still be 8, 1925 bushels,
or a trifle more than 700 bushels for
every man, woman and child in the
county living outside OF Larned.
AS a matter of fact, it is likely that
many If not most, of the business men
of Larned own wheat lands. The ma
ture of the crop is such that they can
look after sowing it in the fall and har-
vesting and threshing 1t in the summer,
and have ten months Of the year to de-
vote to other business.
With such returns per capita as this,
is it any wonder that western Kansas is
prosperous. 1t Is not at all unlikely that
Pawnee county will yield 500 bushels of
wheat for every person within it's Dor
ders, including those in the city of
Larned. This would be $500 bushels for
an average family of five persons. With
wheat approaching the dollar mark, it
is not difficult to see that the average
Pawnee county family will be able to
keep the wolf from the door with wheat
alone, not counting the income from
other sources.
And there are other Kansas counties
like unto Pawnee, differing from it only
in degree, or in variety of products.
Pawnee is only a sample.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-20
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[Frorn the Atchison Globe. !

IFrorn the Atchison Globe
The finger of seorn is more effective
with most people than the Big Stick.
r. What has become of the old-fasb-
toned man who removed his boots with
4 boottack?
We all know what to do, so far as
temperance is concerned, but the trou-
BILE is in doing it.
What a lot of consolation we old
folks get in the thought that so many
young folks are wearing glasses.
Heaven will be unsatisfactory to
some men, unless they can OCCASIONALLY
be sent somewhere as a delegate.
There are lots of people who put up
with things all their lives that other
people wouldn't stand temporarily
About all the decollette gown does
for thin woman is to start an ar
gument about which looks worse: col
lar bones, or elbows.
OF course it's a good business but
it is always something of a shock to
learn that big, fierce-looking man is
travelling for millinery house.
A store keepers idea of feminine
consideration is for a woman to price
something without telling him how
much cheaper she can buy it else
where.
What has become of the old-fash-
toned boy who throw a dipper of water
into the air over the head of a girl
and said: "All that goes up must come
DOWN."
One neighbor woman who comes in
the back door right from her own
kitchen, any old time of day, is worth
a dozen who dress up and make their
calls in the parlor.
1t isn't recorded that any great heart
throbs of joy originated when the
members of a woman's club decided to
hold an OPEN session and entertain
their husbands.
Trouble comes natural to some peo-
pie, just like freclSles, or curly hair.
A woman may be in a great hurry
to go home from the neighbours, but
she gets over it for awhile as soon as
she begins to hold the door OPEN
Ever look up the past history of a
man who has gone wrong. and see
what started him? A certain Atchison
man who has gone to the dogs was at
one time a promising child. Bright,
obedient and precocious, he was a great
favorite. But, alackaday, his sister got
married, and the family decided to put
Billy, the boy, in the parade. They put
his name on the bills as William AL
gernon, dressed him in the white satin
suit of a page, with a big girl-hat on
his head with long white plumes. When
he walked from the carriage to the
church door, a lot of his playnates who
had gathered around, saw him. They
didn't do a thing to William AIgernon
for the next three months, and at the
end of that time he had become sullen
and a fighter, and cigar
cites and drink soon followed his efforts
to show the other boys that he wasn't
a sissy, If he did wear a white suit and
a girl-hat and walk in a parade There
Is warning in this which we hope
mothers and sisters will see: Don't ruin
a boy for life by making him take mart
IN a wedding parade.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-20
JOURNAL ENTRIES

This department can not understand
why they call Jackson T. Moore, the
new Republican state chairman,
DOC" 1t would seem more natural
to call him Jack"
You know the old saying about none
being genuine unless the brand is
blown in the bottles or words to that
effect. Well, there are plenty of men
looking for a chance to blow in the
bottle these dry days.
= ~
John w. Gates is going to leave Wall
street. So far as we are concerned
John can take it with him.
-
1t doesn't look gentlemanly to win
all the games, anyway.
=
The season has been rather tough
on the straw hat crop thus far, but it
is now time for those that were
planted last year to blossom.