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The San Francisco call., 1909-04-25
A Journey in Holland

uTlHOSE dam towns in Holland are most
damnably confusing to foreigner" re-
marked Phladelphan who was waiting on
a steamship pier the other lay while his baggage
being brought from the big liner On which he
had just arrived
i mean, of course, the places whose names end in
dam, he continued, "and they seem to be in the
majority on the map of Holland | got two OF them
badly mixed up, and, result ! held up and
hned tor something of which was innocent, sub
ccted to such delay and inconvenience that it cost
me days pleasure, and besides fell so low in nv
wlfes esteem that it cost pretty big bill at
Paris dress makers to square myself with her
After some travelling about my vile and | de-
cided, the day before we were to leave The Hague
Tor Paris, to pay visit to the island of Marken
That IS the place, you know where the natives make
good living by posing for artists in their grand
parents clothes and selling souvenir postcards to
gaping Americans. To get there you have TO go by
train to Amsterdam, and there catch steamer
i bought two round trip tckets--as thought to
Amsterdam-and getting into compartment my
wife andl opened our Baedeker and the time table
and settled back identify the along the way
and drink in all the information could
After the train had gone about half dozen OF
those cuss word places suspicion crept into my
mind. Had asked for tickets for Amsterdam after
all pulled the bits of pasteboards from my pocket
and I'll be hanged if they didn't read Rotterdam
That town, you may know, is below The Hague
instead of north, as we going. I showed them
to my wife She-we won't say what she said
However, didn't worry, | felt sure | could
straighten it with the ticker taker at Amsterdam
by paying full fare and getting drawback for the
extra charge the usual price of the tickets as
could have done over here. | mistaken
w were among the first off the train. Passengers
had to go through long tunnel, in the middle of
which stood the ticket taker stern individual of
military appearance. He looked at my tickets and
his eyes cleaned He grunted something that
sounded like Hal and motioned us to one side I
tried to explain the situation in English No re-
sponse Then | tried French. Only growl | mus
tered UP few words in German. Nothing doing
Well, he held us up while the crowds from five or
six trains passed by. Then he motioned to pre-
cede him, and we went up long stairway to an Of
hce -Four or five clerks questioned in turn, but
they spoke Dutch, and Sanskrit would have been
just as good for us to understand. Finally another
came in who had slender English vocabulary
i attempted to explain the situation The ticket
taker jabbered something in rebuttal, and my Ia
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-25
Some Dinner Gowns

..xT OUR charming New York women as rule
dress better than the women of any other
great city in the world" said an English
who is familiar with society in the different
European capitals; yet there few criticisms
might make which to to be pertinent
Why do insist on wearing hats whea
dining in restaurantss Is it sort of cropping up OF
the ancient church law that must remain
with her head covered in a place of worship
don't know whether restaurant could aptly be
termed such, but certainly in London it is place
where pretty woman is apt to come in for lot
of admiration.
"Why not here? Well it is because your women
not be seen in your restaurants. Their hats
make it impossibe-those total eclipse affairs that
efectually woman from observation when
she is seated, matter from what standpoint you
regard her
Il went last Sunday evening to dine with some
friends in OF your ultra-fashionabe restaurants
beautiful room we'll lighted, it meant TO show
and their toilets to the best advantage But
it failed in this respect The hats OF the womea
made each table look as if had hedge fence
around it, and the general effect was thar OF lawn
covered with groups of shrubbery, sometimes re
ieved by flowers.
Now, why do not New York women take to low
necked frocks and coiffures that viii stand the abb
sence of hat? Certainly the dining room OF tne
Ritz the Carlton or the Savoy in London, presents
prettier and livelier scene than any OF your res
taurants here Your New York women, when they
go over there readily fall in with the customs and
certainly their necIs and shoulders appear tovan-
tage.
Society women of New York are not given 20
overdressing. but what lot OF overdressed women
one sees in your restaurants and theaters and on the
streetsr'
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have to enter the smoking cars unless they wish
Nevertheless you will find many of them preferring
the smoke to forcing escort to go into non
smoking
1T is great nuisance for a smoker to have to
throw away cigar he has just lighted, and if it is
really on account of the women that smoking
are provided, then think your gentler sex ought
to be made to feel that men entitled to some
rights as well they"
"Of all the ridiculous laws and customs you have
over here, the one that forbids to smoke IN
restaurants in New York is the most absurd" said
an English woman who has just left for London
after visit to New York
you preach about your liberty and all that sort
of thing and here is little item that shows JUS
where you stand in regard to the freedom of the
individual Why, there isn't little tuppenny
ha penny nation in Europe from which you corA
not learn something in this respect.
Smoking is apparently regarded here
thing immoral-when a INDUCES in it. Why
should it be- How many men who are addicted to
the habit would submit tamely if told that after
hearty meal they would be deprived of the pleasure
of a cigar a cigarette? Yet a may be
just fond of a cigarette, and may look forward
just much, and still she has to go~without.
Many English women smoke and admit it. Quite
many American do it. and try to keep it
profound secret In the case of a married woman,
her husband certainly the best to judge as to
what sue sHOulu VI onOuu HOt uO, anu NY HuSOdHu
permits smoke, what business is it of any
other man?
Anybody who has ever dned at the Carlton or
the Savoy, in London, knows that there it is CON
sidered mpropriety. Quite the contrary. 1t is
done gracefully; it doesn't give the who
smoke appearance of wild abandon their
friends TO conclude that they the straight
road to perdition.
1t is really amusing English to
learn that over here the social regulation orbiddng
women to smoke in public is dictated by saloon
keepers and low politicians. In England society
makes its laws"
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-25
The "Man Proof" Girl

Why most of ali your light heartedness, the
plucky way you talk up matter who's around, like
equal and woman The rest of no dare
call souls than the machines work
You're the most popular girl with the men in the
Office, and the way you hold your own makes US all
envious, honestly. What's the matter with you?
You're not going to quit and get married?"
NO, I'm not?'
Rose. you in love with any in the
Office Yous1
No, that's what bothers me-"
The other stenographer, who was beginning upon
her daily wedge of apple pie dropped her fork and
looked the astonshnent she felt.
Say, what's the matter with you9 Are you crazy?
Maybe maybe l crazy The wild rose deep
ened in the pretty ones cheek, but she went on
sturdy-~Any girl who can meet We do
every day. and not fall in love, and not be in love-
must be crazy something else ought to be in
love with of those men, you ought to be, all of
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WHAT | WOULD TELL A MAN.
IF | DARED
BY A PRETTY GIRL

Then this man came into my life. We were thrown
together great deal during summer, as his
country home lay next to He was only 50,
but was already surfeted with all that the world
had to offer. His knowledge attracted my ignor-
ance; and to him l sure l simply an unwrit-
ten upon page on which he might scribble some
of his pernicious epigrams.
He was an iconocast of the most dangerous sort.
He laughed at all my girlish fancies; made fun OF
my poor little castles in Spain which described to
him. l did not realize that | was casting pearls
before swine H made me feel like unhsdged
fool, and his sophistries all but upset my whole
belief in the ultimate good of things
The work of tearing down not accomplished
in a minute 1t performed slowly and subty
that my whole life was undermined for the time
being; | still feel the effects of it, and longer
possess the clear, unbiased view of things which
my birthright. My salvation came when we
moved, after few months to neighborhood
and | was out from under his influence. My little
look became broader and ] that although
my rainbow fancies indeed foolish ones the
world far better and brighter place than he
had painted it
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sons l spoke to told it was on account of the
danger from fire. Do you know, this strikes me as
absurd for all the stations this railway are sup
posed be quite ireproof, the are of steel with
concrete floors and 1t could only be- by the most in
excusable carelessness, not to stronger ex-
pression, that such thing fire could start
Smoking cars the London underground rail-
ways are plainly labeled as such, there is always a
plentiful supply of other coaches and women do not
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-25
AS Others See Us
Foreign Visitors Tell The Call
Just What They Think
of the States"

uIAT HY IS NJ asKed a Lond0neT who was Just
trains have no such thing as smoking car?
Your men are great smokers, and when they
crowd on the rear end of a tram-I mean sur
face car-they hang to their cigars like grim
death 1t appears to that it would be sensible
move on the part of your underground railway
officials to provide especially for the benefit of
such,
"All the trains underground railways, in
cluding tubes provided with such cars.
Some trains are half made up of smoking cars. and
they are regarded as so much of necessity that to
abolish them would draw a howl from the British
public
Even in your newest tune, the that to
HoboKen, there are no smoking cars Several per-
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nation wouldn't go | was told l had broken the
law by attempting to pass the wrong tickets and
must pay for two fares to Amsterdam and fine of
six gulders ($240) besides | expostulated. 1t was
of avail They threatened to turn me over to
the police if | didn't pay up. So | did as was told.
when we got outside the railroad station and
reached the wharf in front the boat for the
island of Marken disappearing around bend. There
was other scheduled until late in the afternoon.
After council of war-I SO term it because my
wife had assumed attitude that threatened to be
belligerent, and confined herself to monosyllables-
decided that the only thing do to pass the
day driving about Amsterdam. And that ended the
excursion to Marker for
After reached Paris tried through friend at
The Hague get some satisfaction for the indgnity
put upon us, but he wrote after several weeks
that the RAILROAD officials maintained it clear
of breaking the law, and that being ignorant
American excuse, and he advised me to drop
the case.
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-25
TASK YOUR FATHER."
Jack Finds New Friend Who Has Puzzllng Effect
on the Paternal Mind
BY TUDOR TENKS
BY TUDOR JENKS

II THINK he's horridl' Janet's remark.
Is That answered Jack, coolly, 'is because
he's the softy silly, mind your mamma,
fraid 60 in the rain kind OF a young
paper doll you like Your idea is that
sweet J. Randolph Wintergreen who lives
on the next block"
His is not Wintergreen," said Janet, with
dignity. Anyhow, he isn't common, like Peter
Rawdon"
How is Peter common?" asked Jack
why, look at his nameP
"Humph" said Jack q spose Peter the Great
was 'common-ust a plain emperor. And Saint
Peter, he was hardly even folksi-course notl"
Jack Janet asked syly, you know what Peter
means, don't your"
Sure" Jack answered at means rock
well, rock is common, isn't it?"
Jack stumbled this rock for moment and
then said, Talk fair now What have you got
against Peter? He's my most intimate friend
He isn't nice He doesn't look nice"
That is because his father is poor locksmith,
so Feter can't get new suit every week like your
Wintergreen."
But he says hadn't oughter'"
so did old nurse" said Jack, "and you just
loved Nora"
Well Janet urged "she was awful kind to u.s.
Awful kind is just bad as hadn't oughter', /"
Jack responded. Teacher said SO"
Not Mothers Darling
Then Peter is a common sort of boy" Janet
went on. Hes rough, and he talks loud"
NO harm in that Jack broke in Hes plucky,
doesn't bully the little fellows, always plays fair,
and all that"
Mother says he's not the right kind of boy for
you to play with, Janet insisted. Not that he's
bad, only just common. She said she wished you'd
80 with nicer boys
Pm going to ask her. said Jack
Mrs Townsend and the dress maker were hounder-
ing in Of dry goods when the children came
in. Jack wasted time in bringing up the ques-
ton.
Mother" he asked abruptly, why shouldn't /
play with Peter Rawdon?"
~Hc isn't just the sort of comrade l think best
for you. l wish you'd choose your friends more
wisely"
Peter is straight a string. He's always right
on deck and he's bully"
But" said Mrs. Townsend, Il should Judge OF
his grammar and appearance"-
DO you think you pick out my friends for
me-" Jack asked.
well, yes That is-no. The fact is, John, I am
busy with Miss Winton this afternoon, SO l shall
have to beg off Perhaps the best way is to ask
your father"
At the dinner table Jack brought up the latest
question Father" he inquired, is it good thing
TO teach schoolboys the Declaration of Indepen-
dence?"
Excellent Mr.. Townsend remarked, nodding his
head Even grown folks know far too little Of it
Do YOU learn it, Jack!"
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-25
A POINTER FOR YOUNG MEN

used to strap her skates, what next
To tell my heart forbids;
| used to strap her skates, but now
I have to strap her kidsl
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we had KIND OF lecture on II. 10 people
really believe it?"
"Certainly-in its main principles.
Well" said Jack, Il thought one of the main
ideas that all of Americans equal
Quite right, my boy. We have here no nobility
to lord it over their fellow men"
"Yes, father" Jack said eagerly Il thinking
that American boy just like another"
Certainly Any one of them may be president" !"
Gould Peter Rawdon get to be PRESIDENT"
"Of course" Mr.. Townsend said, smiling
Say, father" Jack went on IF Peter Rawdon
should become president, wouldn't he be the equal
of anybody"
Eyes. In fact, he is now,' Mr.. Townsend ex-
planned carefully. 1--WE all the level.
There no peasants in this free country, Jack"
His Place in Society
Then why" Jack came out suddenly, does
mother say l shouldn't play with him because he's
common?"
"Ah-hl Yes, yes-I see," said Mr.. Townsend Il
didn't quite get the point | suppose your mother
had in mind that as you grow UP you will wish to
hold certain place in society"
But" said Jack in turn, "if l wait to find out
what kind of friends I'm going to like, then won't
have any now"
you can be guided by advice" Mr.. Townsend
suggested
You don't know the boys at ALL" Jack objected
You might pick out the worst of the whole lot
just the kind that act nice when grown ups are
around, and good, really
1--WE know their families" said Mr.. Townsend
"and their station in life. You wouldn't expect me
to invite lot of bootblacks to dinner"
NO." said Jack, mot if they hadn't been properly
cleaned up and introduced and all that"
"Well," said Mr.. Townsend in parting you must
try to improve Peters grammar, and you may be
his friend long he behaves himself"
"It be awful to be of those peasants,
said Janet.
$50 it is' Jack agreed. Il read the other day
that the peasants in Russia marching about
smashing things. That's why they shoot 'em. The
noblemen often invite their friends out to shoot
peasants"
Janet looked Mortified, and then began to laugh
"Oh, you gooseP she exclaimed. ITS not peasants
they shoot It's pheasants-a kind of bird. Uncle
George told me about shooting them in England"
Maybe" Jack admitted. But, anyhow, Peter
Rawdon may be president"
$50 lik>ly" Janet laughed.
"Just likely your old Creased Trousers, any
how" Jack insisted; and selecting the largest maca
room he left closely followed by Janet with the nex
to the largest.
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-25

have been very much interested in articles
Studies in Discomfort" The other day, when In a
restaurant I overheard the conversation am SEND
ing you took down n shorthand The girls
were entirely unconscious of my eavesdropping
hope that you will n this account a "hu-
document" worth publishing Very truly yours
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-25
The San Francisco Sunday Call !
TUDIES IN DISCON II IN L
BY AN EAvEsDRoPPER y

!, ~h+ % he h,+ none Of us is That is the worst
symptom about all of us I'm getting nervous about
mvself. honestly We're man proof, which is worse
than being men haters, to my thinking
"I don't know what you mean' Rose, dear are
YOU sure YOU are feeling quite wels" inquired her
companion.
Louise. Tess up! DO you feel as much satIshed
with this business life as you seem? Does lifetime
in an ofhce-any ofice-at any salary, really and
truly satisfy you? Don't you sometimes teei sort OF
lost in it-vour real SELF mean? The voice OF the
rose checked girl quavered BIT
"At least we're independent We don't have to
lean ON any man We can call our souls our own
A Lot of Machines
~But, you see, Louise. don't want to call my sow
INV own. / don't want to be independent Deep
down Pm scared when think OF being left all alone
with my independence and only my salary to lean
upon. I'm beginning to get frightened as the busi-
ness habit grips me, this way OF looking at men
impersonally l can't find myself sometimes behind
that veil OF impersonality and l wouldn't wonder II
men begin to think me hard Honestly Louise.
wouldn't you like feel thrill OF Joy run through
you when Blk Jr. comes in mornings, or an icy
GOODNESS of despair pierce your marrow when Jlnks
decides suddenly on six months tour OF Europe,
instead Of thinking only Glad he's here time for
once or Glad he's gongsone less to keep me oSsShe
jump N
"You queer kid You'll get into trouble some tinnsf
saying whatever comes into your mind, SAID the
other But you're right, girl We are lot OF ma
chimes We've shipped off everything that makes US
personalities and just don't dare be simple nat
ural women Business life is not the finest thing IN
the world for a woman Get out OF it, that's my ad-
vice if you can, and you can. Did you see Annette
Magruders little boy this noon? Her mother brought
him down so that Annette could help select has
winter coat"
Wasn't he a darling?" answered the pretty ono,
with new note in her voice, as she picked up her
check and pushed her chair back. "Say, If had a
baby I'd be willing to work myself to death for 1t!
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-25

Good heavensl" replied the other; you must
have been drinking some of this raspberry lemonade
we've been regaled with. You quoting poetry and
speculating on the workings OF young girls mind!
You'd find nothing more in her mind than lot of
silly rot which season or two will change into
something less boring to a fellow.
And It went I never wanted to be an actual
fshwife and use "langwdge' so much in my life
as at that moment. All | could do, however was
TO try to wther the two with look i
passed them. These light words ridculng youth
hurt me the quick because of personal expert
ence which is still bitter to me-
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-25
Look Out for the Cynicl

If men of this stamp were rarity would not
speak of intimate phase of my life, but, alas!
they are a common and garden variety of the male
species and generally flourish in drawing rooms by
night and in club windows by day.
Some day ! shall confront this and look at
him with eyes which no longer blinded by gno-
rance. l shall tell him that the meanest on
earth is the one who his experience to tear
down young girls house o dreams he did mine.
The laugh that not laugh, but sneer; the
shrug of the shoulders, the sarcastic smile at my
ignorance, his weapons-weapons which cut
deep into a sensitive nature Yet he thinks because
he is so worldly wise, clever and blase, that he
appeals to light to the moth.
| know thai there is a great deal written, by So
called clever persons, the effect that all women
prefer rakes to honest men, but they not make
me believe it. In fact, l know it is true. I
look about me and my friends marrying fine,
clean fellows who believe in love and honesty and
who are oftentimes simple minded children.
/ would like to cry out from the house tops that
the man who is most TO be feared by girl is the
cync who, blind to all truth and goodness would
lead those who really see into his darkness If
l dared l would tell such that his wit is
despicable and his wisdom pernicious.
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: :: =: = 60 = :: : :: !: ::
"N HEY were two stenographers, both dressed
business woman, one youthful and exquls-
itely pretty, the other not much so, and
hurry-up food dispensaries in the downtown
district
I'm SO blue today sighed the pretty one, mourn
fully taking bite of sandwich.
you said the same thing in the very same way
only the other day. What's coming over you, Merry
Sunshine?"
Il don't know-dissatshed all around"
"Dssatished-you? What have you to be dissatis-
fed WITH Got everything that girl could want
brains, beauty and wit. I'm always envying you
honey-all the girls do at Bixs."
Don't see what you can find to envy"
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-25
And Still Be a Sinner

] know a man whom the world calls "a gentle
nlan'-vich, by the way, is the most flexible phrase
IN the English language. l call him cad because,
TO my mind, a man may keep all the ten command
ments year in and year out and still be great a
sinner as if he had broken every of them daily.
] met this mana well known writer sociologi-
cal questiOns-when 1 was young girl as the one
whose tea I speak of attending. ] just as un-
sophisticated, too and ardent believer in the
romance of things l know her to be. He a
fine looking chap, magnihcenty educated, travelled,
polished and talented, so that it is small wonder he
should impress girl who just at the age which
Germans so poetcaly describe in the phrase Elm
keiner Blick in die Wef'-rudey translated, "A
little look into the world" Yes, was just looking
over the walls OF girlhood into the roseate world
Of society.
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T A dcbutantc's
tea the other
afternoon | ov-
eraeard som e
sckaps of con
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tween two well known
society men which made
my blood boil with in
dignation. Said one, re-
ferring to the white
frocked young girl who
was their hostess:
Daisy looks mighty
pretty tonight, doesn't
she? Er-whats that
oouplet about youth
that its a book of be-
ginnings, story without
end, where each maids a
heroine and each mans a
friend, isn't it? l wonder
what she thinks OF US all"
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THINK he's horrid!v was Janets remark
Is That answered Jack, coolly, is because
4 he's not the softy silly, mind your mamma,
'fraid 10 go IN the rain kind of a young
paper doll you like Your idea is that
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.tTTS ALL rot to talk about the danger of insult
American woman in France" said a
Baltimorean who returned few days ago
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-01
RULES GOVERNING THE
Six co. School Teachers from
Los Angeles County

Three from the city of Los Angeles and three from
the county large outside the citysix in all from
Los Angeles county.