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The San Francisco call., 1908-08-13
CHANGES AT MARE ISLAND
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL

VALLEJO. Aug. 12.-At 10 o'clock
this morning Captain Robinson was re-
ieved as commanding officer of the re-
ceiving ship Independence by Captain
Milton, formerly captain of the Mare
island navy yard. Captain Lucfen
Young. at present president OF the gem
eral court martial board, assumed the
duties of captain Of the yard Temporal
ri1v -
The San Francisco call., 1908-08-13
NAPA TO VOTE ON BONDS
FOR SCHOOL BUILDINGS
Trustees Call Special Election
on September 10 to Decide
on S55.OOO Issue
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL

NAPA, Aug. 12.-The school trustees
of Napa district today issued a call
for a special election for the purpose
of voting on $4,000 bonds. The cleo
tion was set for September 10. The
money will be devoted TO four projects
$4,000 for new high school build
ing. $4,000 for new grammar and pri-
mary school building, $500 for reno.
waiting the present Central, Lincoln and
Franklin school buildings, and $4,000
for purchasing a lot on Polk street
upon which to erect a new grammar
and primary school building.
The San Francisco call., 1908-08-13
SCHOOL FOR EAsroN

BURLINGAAIE. Aug. 1e.-After meet
ing with considerable opposition from
the Millbrae section OF the district
Easton. a suburb of Burlingame. is to
have school of its own. The Easton
children have had to attend school ar
Millbrae, nearly two miles distant.
The San Francisco call., 1908-08-13
SUSPEND CABLE LINES

The United Railroads announced last
night that the cars of the jackson,
Powell. Sacramento and Washington
lines will not run from Saturday night
until Monday morning All of the lines
are to be closed to enable the company
to make general repairs.
The San Francisco call., 1908-08-13
INCREASE IN sTupENrs-Rerk

12.-More than 100 more students are regis
tered In the Berkeley schools this year than
last. according to report which superintendent
OF Schools Frank r. Bunker has rendered the
board Of education. The increase. In the high
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-01-03
COMPLAINT is NOT NEW.
Other Ages Have Said "Thcre is Nj
Time for Leisure"

Leisure" a woman declared the
other day, lis neither fact nor a pos,
sibility-it is scarcely even an ideal.
1t is a word that in the dictionary
should be marked obsolete"
Whether or not the majority of PEG.
pie would agree with her in consider.
ing leisure no longer an ideal, it can
not be denied that leisure is a rare
possession in the first decade of the
twentieth century. The common the
DRY seems to be that we have hartered
it for telephones and automobiles, for
speed and society and business.
Fifty years ago, we say, or a hun
dred or hundred and fifty, life was
much simpler and less hurried. Yet,
as matter of fact, hundred years
ago exactly the same complaint was
made. 1t was in 1897 that the famous
Mrs. Grant, of Laggan, wrote of that
Unsuitable love of change-that rest
lessness, which is. think, a great
and growing evil CT the age" and com.
planned that the hours of her young
friends were so "engrossed and di.
vided' that there was no time for
reading and conversation. Doubtless,
could we but look back, we should
find the same complaint made in the
eighth century as in the eighteenth.
So far from leisure being less pos
sible now than in past years, the aver
age woman, as a recent economic
writer has pointed out, never before
had so good an opportunity to enjoy
it. Gas and electricity, ready-made
clothing, prepared foods and number
less household inventions have re-
duced her work to a fraction of that
done by her grandmother Instead of
candle and soap-making, spinning and
sailing down the years meats
and making her husbands shirts by
hand, she spends hours each week in
amusements, study, fancy
work or society. according as incllns'
ton and opportunity dictate.
Yet-she has no leisure. After all,
is it not frequently because she does
not desire leisure so much as she
wishes for some other things? The
simple life" is an achievement, not
a chance gift, and leisure, to quote
another woman's definition. is merely |
he art of having time. Youths Gem.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-01-03
The Revolt of Betsy.

Twoscore years ago there lived in
a Pennsylvania town an ill-mated cou
pie, both as to size and compatibility.
The wife was much the larger and
stronger, and, in the words of their
narrator, "the husband, though a small
man. was a nagger and a pesterer."
He always provoked the quarrel, and
when he went too far his irate spouse
would revolt. She would retaliate with
such splendid vigor that the husband
would call in the neighbors as ar
biters. and when they began to take
evidence he would invariably thus ex-
plain matters: Il struck Betsy in all
pleasantness and she got mad" or Il
poured water down Betsy's back in ali
pleasantness and it made her mad"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-01-03

expensive hats. One of the twain is
made in cinnamon brown satin brim,
soft full crown in chine silk, finished
off with the chou of cinnamon satin
and the new ostrich mount. This is a
hat which can be worn with any cos
tune and can be made in any color
desired, and made in black satin I'M
derlined with velvet would be very
striking.
The second hat shown in the illus
tration is of an equally dainty crea-
ton. 1t is made in a dead shade OF
mauve satin underlined in velvet in L
darker color with a charming wreath
of two shades in velvet flowers fast
ened in front with a bunch of deep
rich cerise silk roses. This lovely hat
would go we'll with a rather colorless
gown. 1t can be made in all colors, and
would have very smart effect.
DEATH" l would cry most gladly
to the cloche hat, though l would by
no means Danish from recognition the
mushroom hat which was the orig
inal germ of these modish monstrosi-
ties, which have already exceeded all
the bounds of good taste, to say moth
ing of common sense, upon which /
should be sorry to insist as a pivot
for fashion, but, again l repeat, the
mushroom hats by all means.
These are made in felt or beaver,
wreathed with autumn leaves, or
with colored velvet choux.
They are easily achieved at home,
these chouX Only select the colors
which contrast well, and buy three
eighths of a yard of velvet on tho
cross, each of three different shades,
gather them round together at the
back, place them on the hat, and in
dent them with your finger wherever
you think likely to look well. The
more carelessly this is done the bet.
ter the effect
One hat which was made after the
above directions was of a dark purple,
and the three colors were peacock
blue, sage green and heliotrope. The
rat was of the mushroom shape.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-01-03

There is nothing new under
she sun. unless it is in dress,
land woman-that is, fashionable
woman is constantly on the
qul vive to catch the latest hints of
fashion, and to accommodate them to
her peculiar needs and her pocketbook.
Perhaps the newest novelty for the
winter season is the Beau Brummel"
,&ie. 1t was first introduced across the
water, and was instantly taken into
feminine and fashionable favor with
an enthusiasm easily to be understood
land certain to be shared when once
you see for yourself just how convent
~ent and how charming it is. So as such
knowledge will increase both your
comfort and your smartness this win
ter we show above the faithful por-
trait of the new tie for all to study
and admire, and l may tell you that its
fastening is most simply and success
fully effected by the mere passing of
zone end through loop of the fur,
while by the same means it can be ad-
justed to fit the neck as closely and
'NOSlly DIS you VIII. IL is lHueeu Il WOu-
derfully protective little affair, and
will be most welcome addition to
The collarless coats which continue SUI
preme in fashions favor, while then
according to your mood of the moment
or the style of your accompanying
headgear you can either let it's ends
Zoe piquantly poised at one side or
more demurely folded in front, the
scharm of variety being thereby added
TO its account.
The more 'dressy" tailor-made coats
are for the most part of half-length or
TO the ankles. Very few short ones are
seen in cloth or serge, though there
ARE exceptions made in fur sacques
and boleros; in fact, at any minute
the little sacque coats may be re-
vided, but for the moment let us con-
tent ourselves with the long graceful
asemi-fitting coats which are so becom-
ing to most of womankind.
In our illustration we show one of
rie latest tailor-mades. AS can be
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-01-03
seotsmen Wanted.

Scotsmen are immigrants of h
finest quality, and they bring atlnd
ant cash in the pockets as well as
begin to accumulate cash as soon a.
they arrive This is the type of imml
grant Australasia needs, and as boti
New Zealand and Australia can offa
vastly more than Canada. we ought
sooner or later. to see a stream z.
canny Scotsmen with the hardy
bodies. shrewd brains and the well
lined pockets OF their race setting g.
our Observation-Disclosures Life.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-01-03

herself looks at us out of the pas
with an impressive silence. Nor t
dwell upon the East Indian woman
who, with her seductive charm ant
romantic, poetical nature, conquered
great conquerors and ruled through
them.
We pass down the centuries and en-
ter, at last, into our own land to bt
Immediately confronted by dark
| skinned maiden whose name and his
tory are familiar to every schoo
child.
Was there in all this newly discover
cd country but one Pocahontas? She
happened to be the one who fell in love
with a white man, and, thus, moved
to save from destruction the little
white colony, has become immortalized
Whether or not this is to be regarded
as meritorious act on the part of this
Indian maiden depends upon the point
OF view, whether that point be In
dian or English. But there is no
doubt that she was intelligent and at
tractive and of sweet nature-a very
ioveable creature. If you find a we'll
nodded and decorated vase standing
in tie midst of crude ugly pottery OF
past age, You may be reasonably GER
tain that further diligent search will
reveal similar vases. And so, while
Pocahontas may have been somewhat
more highly gifted than the other
young women of her tribe, she was of
their kith and kin and not solitary
figure. There has arisen no Cooper
for the Indian woman
1t is probable that the Indian tribes
in the east with which the early set
tiers were familiar were less cultured
than those found on the Pacific coast
at a later date. Among these their
subject and inferior of course
were of much Importance. They had
so improved the comforts of existence
by quite range of culinary prepara
lions. clothes and blankets for warmth
and various devices for increasing the
happiness of their lords. that they had
won a position of some dignity and
exercised a large and beneficent inhu-
ence, not asserted and probably not
publicly acknowledged, but farreach-
ing in its effects in clvilizing their
race.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-01-03

striped material is cut in different
ways so as to supply their own trim
ming, as for instance is seen on the
the skirt. Bands of plain cloth in har-
monizing color and lace yoke CON-
plete the design. The hat is of white
felt with fancy plume.
AS for the newest things in millinery
we show below two very pretty but in.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-01-03

Coming down to the Christian era,
we find one of the most interesting
studies of womankind of any color or
any age in the Arabians. Those dark
skinned women, with no possible way
of cultivating intellect, the women Of
a brutal race of men, in a degrading
environment, fenced in with customs
hostile to them. changed the face of
the habitable globe and founded a
great religion. Mohammed himself
declared, persistently and often, that
he would never have been able to
achieve success but for his wife Cad
ijah. This plain, faithful. sensible
woman never faltered in the darkest
hour. encouraging in weakness and
restraining in excess. And when the
creed he taught was accepted by the
Arabs all the women threw themselves
into 1t with such energy that nothing
could stand before them.
They even organized companies of
women soldiers and, leading them
into battle, fought with a savage cru
city that might have been expected
but also with heroism most surpris-
ing. And all through the MohaTlo-
dan conquest women are prominent;
sometimes like unto the judicions Gao
ijah; sometimes like the beautiful and
wicked Ayesha. who came near divid
ing the armies into hostile campT:
sometimes like the savage Henda
drinking the blood Of the ernm,ss ~
the faith. 1t is all wonderful And.
as the Christian woman reads the rec
ord. she marvels how it was possible
hat so much good and evil purpose.
80 much that is noble and heroic.
could have been expended with such
energy on a religion that does not
END in any way to exalt womanhood.
I lave not space to tell Of the
Chinese woman whose story we CLEAN
from legends and glimpses into the
Histories OF their dynasties. while she
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-01-03

readily seen 1t is of the most graceful
design of the very latest and most
gashion-favored coat and skirt cos
tune 1t is made up in fine face cloth,
which comes in all the newest shad-
ings. and is finished in a most effective
device in broad and silky braid. Its
exceeding smartness is too obvious to
need comment, but the long, graceful
Zines of the coat and the full skirt
will be found very becoming to most
figures.
In our other single column picture
we show the latest treatment of the
popular stripes. In this costume the
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-01-03
The Dark
Skn1nedWon1an's
oAhtevements
BY Marion E. STOCKTON

DV INdTTOH e. Of0CR[On
Womans Share in Early Art
Even the Primitive Woman Had
Certain Rights Brilliant Dark
Haired Heroines OF the Past
Women Aid in Founding a Re-
ligion-Some Interesting Facts !.
About What Has Been Accom-
plished by the Sisters of the Pale
Faced Races The Important Part
they Played in Early Civilization.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-01-03

long before with the fingers and 1t was
only necessary to steady the threads
on wooden rollers.
And this brought about woman's
share in early art. So many plants
yielded beautiful-colored juices; hence
the dyeing, and later, the painting of
cloth and skins. Some of these savage
adornings may be seen at the present
day with colors still vivid and with
attractive designs.
And so | might go on through all
the industries that have come down
to us-all suggested by dark-skinned
women
1t has never been decided by the
learned whether fire was direct rev.
citation from God, or whether man dis
covered it accidentally. In the alb
sence of any authentic information
on the subject l venture the opinion it
was discovered by a dark-skinned
woman. AS she was the one who had
the most use for fire it i3 reasona..o
to suppose that she it was VITO Glanced
Tin a fit of temper, perhaps to rub
two Of her stone knives together with
great violence and velocity and was
surprised with the divine spark.
However this may be, it was woman
who Immediately availed herself of
this all-important discovery. and being
tired of meat and fish dried in the
sun, conceived the brilliant idea of
laying it on the hot Goals. And thus
she started in long career down the
ages the roasts and ragouts and chow
ders and fricandeaus that have given
pleasure and dyspepsia to millions of
her descendants of all colors.
There is literally no end to this
branch of the subject, but l have said
enough to convince any rational NOR
tai that creature capable of all this
could not have been held in utter con-
tempt by contemporary man. In
ferior she was considered, as matter
Of course, and she was, to a great eX-
sold; but, running through all the
savagery, there is found strong
thread of respect for women. Even
IN the lowest tribes they had some
tights which they were not at all back
ward in enforcing; and among the
more advanced peoples they had many
rights which no man
,ould in any case take from them.
The men privately sought their advice
o take the council and exploit it as
heir own wisdom; they were admit
ed to some of the solemn feasts; and
they armed themselves and |
vent to the battlefield. This, however
eems rarely to have occurred in the |
'ery early ages.
Such was the dark-skinned primitive
woman and such were her achieve
nents.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-01-03


So much has been written about
women of the fair-skinned races, of
their part in the making of the his
tory of the world, of what they have
done and ought not to have done, of
what they are doing and ought not to
do and to what they should do, that
it may be of interest to catch here and
there in this worlds history what
their dark-skinned sisters have done
in. bringing about the conditions of
the life we are now living and the So
cial, religious and geographical dis
tinctions which prevail at present.
1t is not my intention in this article
to exploit the famous dark-skinned
women of recorded history-we will
glance at them in their proper places
They were types, it is true, but they
could not have been and have acted
their great parts had not the wom-
en- whom they represented been
endowed, in some measure, with their
gifts. Such women do not spring full
fledged from a sordid environment. But
they were exceptional and individual
in their careers; and, after ALL it is
from the ordinary women of race
or nation that progress comes.
The portraits the ethnologists give
us of the primitive woman are not
captivating but the poets represent
her as being almost divine, floating in
ethereal beauty fresh from the hand
of her Creator. Whether the scientist
has arrived at the truth through long
and laborious stages of investigation.
or whether the poet has OWNED the
truth through inspiration, | do not
pretend to decide. But they are both
agreed upon one thing-that her COM
pleXion was of a "sun-kissed" hue ac-
cording to the latter and of dark
pigment" according to the other.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-01-03
Copyright, by Joseph b. Bowles.)

marian L. Stockton, widow of the late
popular story writer, Frank r. Stockton,
was closely associated with the work of
her gifted husband. Any reader of the
'Rudder Grange" stories, for example,
will realize that she was valuable as
sistant to him. She was joint author with
him in writing The Home" one of his
earlier books Mrs. Stockton is a member
of prominent South Carolina family)
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-01-03

Drifting down the long stream of
time, we suddenly come upon the bril-
liant vision of the queen of Sheba.
Out of the darkness of the dark con-
tinent she energies, robed in splendor,
invested with power. endowed with
wit and fancy, moved by an intelli-
gent curiosity-a woman capable of
approaching not only the glory of Sol
ONION but his wisdom also. She daz-
zes us for brief moment and then
disappears into the darkness whence
she came and leaves no trace. But
it requires no imagination-simp
common sense-to follow her into that
mysterious land and find a nation of
women, not so exceptionally endowed,
perhaps, as this great queen, but wom-
en- of strong character and vigorous
intellect, capable of dealing with the
there could have been no queen of
Sheba.
In the twilight of history we note
the appearance of a remarkable AS
syrian queen or, more plausibly, several
queens, who were new types
In that olden world. They were not
only successful warriors, but they were
engineers, mathematicians and archi-
-ects. They turned the courses of
rivers, spanned them with bridges
md confined their waters within
they raised great monu-
nents and built temples and public
,difices. The name Semiramis is
with every kind of great
less.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-01-03

From the investigations of science
and the reports of explorers, and from
other sources we have good deal of
information, if not in relation to this
very primitive woman to her not dis
tant descendants in a state of saw
agery. And even in the very lowest
Of these primeval races we find that
women played an important part.
They were slaves. it is true, because
they knew nothing better. If they had
had the least glimmering sense of
woman's rights they were quite capable
of asserting themselves even at that
period of time. And here it may be
well to correct a Misrepresentation.
Men did not make slaves and beasts
of burden Of their women merely be-
cause the man was wicked or lazy. or
both-they had affection (of a sort)
for their wives. But they realized
with great force that man was a SUI
perior being, the lord of the earth and
all it contained, including woman, and
that she was an afterthought of the
gods created for his benefit, and
therefore made of very inferior ma
terial. Consequently it was consid-
cred as degrading in man to do wom-
ans work as it is now for him to wear
petticoats. If it CHANGED that it came
into mans mind to relieve his weary
wife of some part of the load she was
carrying on her back, he would reject |
the thought instantly, not so much be-
cause he did not want the burden, as
because by so doing he would make |
himself the laughing stock of the |
tribe.
And what did these mighty lords of |
creation do toward the improvement |
of the world they claimed? Absolutely
Fishing. hunting. trapping,
fighting, the necessities of the pres
emit; the implements to accomplish
these purposes. and there the record
ends Meantime. as the years went
on and generation succeeded genera
ton, the women were using their
brains and improving social life with
all sorts of inventions to assist them
In their manifold labors and to add
new comforts to rude existence
Sewing Consider how patient they
must have worked to get a thread
from a rawhide and the cleverness of
evolving a needle from a bone. Tan
ming and dressing leather. To turn
a dirty, hairy. tough skin into a
clean and soft material suitable for
Fashioning with deft fin
gers this clothing to their special
needs. Agriculture Of the simplest
sort, but mostly the experiments of
Spinning. The records of the
human race 90 net back to a time
When the spindle was unknown. worked
Tut from a woman's brain which
srasped the idea that the long fibers ,
II the fax she was cultivating ought ,
u some way to be made more adapta-
lie for thread than the unwieldy skin !
With its slow and painful process.
Hence, the stick twirled in the fingers.
Weaving. Not a long journey to the {
DOM after arriving at the spindle and
10th, so muca easier than skins TO {
work into clothing Besides, the birch I
ark basket weaving had been done |
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A Lie; Who Told Its

1t has been circulated around by
some parties that | have worked
i'll the capacity of Il CT ARD. |
want to state that this is absolutely
false. Some men who are not very
particular how they handle the
truth and jumpt at conclusions
and healSay, then after putting
the subject through Il magnifying
process, repeat it for facts, when
in fact they do know they are
telling something for facts that are
not facts. have refrained from
making this statement as long as
possible, knowing that Il dealer in
lies as well a dealer in any bust
ness. profession or calling should
have an opportunity to advertise
the same, but I object to paying
for his advertisement.
j. r.. JONES.
EAST BANK, w. Va.
10 15.lt