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Evening star., 1909-01-10

EDITORS NOTEI supposed that the author of this article
- would designate by the that chosen Edith
Lane Miller Why Have Never Married. but he had his
about the title and bachelors notoriousy their fuy
stand And his be
pretty good title. "Mr. Wood' pen
be brilliantly clever what he Miss Miller but
wider understanding being apparently of mildly phosophc
1or habit of selfish weakness. Like
we'll
things article satisfaction he will thinking
folk for smashing his
Evening star., 1909-01-10

vice of Punch 1t can be summed up in a single
word selfshness" That also explains why most
people do get married. Each of is trying to get
the best out of life. The difference is in the view
point.
1t seems to that the attitude of the girl bach
elor is that she is too good for matrimony, which
sounds like pleasantly while the attitude of the
thinking bachelor is that he is not good enough,
which sounds like afectation
All of believe that marriage is the finest thing
in the word-for the other fellow.
Many marry for the same reason that they
put their best clothes Sunday. 1t is the
ventional thing all the best people do it; habit
almost universal We all of raised on the idea
that shall marry when old enough, when
reach the age of discretion. Most people accumu
late family long before they reach the age of dis
cretion
/ never had any prejudice for matrimony l
never looked forward to the time when | should
have a gentle, loving wife, with children playing
about my knees. I've noticed in these gladstone
pictures that the stress is always laid the wife
and the children. Apparently the man expects to
do nothing but enjoy the blessings of their devotion
In me the natural instinct seems to have been
dormant, if not missing altogether. Neither have |
ever known the satisfaction of meeting woman who
made feel that, without her, the rest of my life
would be dreary waste. The fault lies with 1t
shows my limitations.
Evening star., 1909-01-10

hold of purely imaginative one, she endows it
with reality through her highly trained imagination
and then she cngs to it with pertinacity that has
parallel She rings hundred changes it,
each more exasperating than its predecessor dis
playing uncanny intuition that fights with her
feminine logic. And in the end all the fuss doesn't
amount to blessed thing as rule.
Those experiences make peaceful bachelor pause
A Question of Regard
nNCE knew grown up man who fell in love
with lovely girl about the time that his fnan-
cal circumstances warranted matrimony. Their
gagement advanced in the most commonplace bliss
fulness, until day she evolved a hypothetical
question: If he had to choose between her and his
mother to which would he turn Inasmuch as his
mother had been dead for ten years, he couldn't
any in the question, and he said SO; which
was of course, crime in her opinion. She per-
sisted in demanding He truthf,lly
Piled that he couldn't the question, because
it would depend upon the circumstances
Whereupon the young woman arose to joyous
abandon in pressing the matter. He had refused
to give direct reply to a simple and important
was pleased to consider corollaries and deductions
from his stand, all of which proved conclusivey how
little he really cared for her. ending up with the fat
announcement that the engagement was broken.
After what she considered a proper interval, she
consented to take him back-on probation She
dead of him that she was bound to have
him that fool question to her satisfaction,
and she worried him half to death Finally he
summoned up sufficient courage to assert himself.
If you don't admit your question and your at
Evening star., 1909-01-10
Drawing by
Joseph Clement Coll

know that in the big things good woman
is almost never found wanting In her
capacity for self sacrifice and devotion she
rises far above the average man. But the
big things don't come along very often
And in the little things she is-well, differ
ent 1t is the attrition of every day life,
the eternal duet, that is fearsome to me-
For. take it day in and day out, the
capacity of most women for hunting trouble
hasn't any limit that can discover 1t seems
to be as true of the good one as of the bad
one If she hasn't any trouble of her own
handy she will appropriate trouble of
others. She finds an unholy joy in trouble
in its infinite varieties When she gets
Evening star., 1909-01-10

u EYOND the casual curiosity of an inn
ID mediate circle of acquaintance, and
the pleasure afforded mated couples
for enjoying the human passion for mis-
sionary work. playing the part of the
poor. benighted heathen,-there can be no
particular interest to the world at large in
knowing why | or any other individual has
never married But if l represent type,
if my reasons are characteristic of numeri-
cally large class, then what | shall say has
a certain significance. I'll try to be as
honest as l can without being caught at it.
When you get right down to it, there is
only one reason why and the other matri-
monial sidestenners haze followed the adj
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-08
HOTEL ON TIE SITE
OF OLD COLUMBIA
Construction of Modern Hos
telry in Powell Street
Is Started

Work has been started on the con-
struction of a modern hotel on the site
of the old Columbia theater in Powell
street, and it is understood that it is
to be finished as speedily as possible.
There has been much speculation as
to the ultimate fate of this lot At
one time it was reported that the
shuherts intended to build a theater
on the premises. and again that Ed
die Graney had his eagle eyes on the
lot, on which he meant to build the
most unique resort in the United States.
Graney is of the opinion that roof
garden with swimming tank, ball
room, an aviary and a ring would do
well under one roof in San Francisco.
He was so long making up his mind
what he would do that before it came
to the sticking point the Powell street
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-08

is now in direct touch with Alaska. We
had this trade before the fire, but re-
Gently it has been slipping away from
us, and Seattle gradually has taken
some of our business. What we had
to do TO be restored to favor was to
give the north a direct and quick con-
nection. The transcontinentaI lines
took hold of the matter, and now ship
ments can be sent from the Atlantic
seaboard straight through TO Alaskan
ports.
The Importance of this is manifest.
When a merchant or a miner in Alaska
begins to look to San Francisco as
the point of departure for his goods,
and not Seattle, he begins insensibly
to evince an interest in our city. His
thoughts turn naturally toward San
Francisco. and he looks for the arrival
of the vessel from San Francisco from
day 10, day. San Francisco is photo
graphed on his brain, and what then?
When he goes on his vacation he comes
to San Francisco. He thinks that this
is the only point of debarkation. He
makes San Francisco his home-in
other words, he adopts it. Then he be-
gins to look about for investments.
and San Francisco is where he will
invest
Already businessmen from Spokane
are purchasing real estate in the down
town section of this city. Spokane is
one of the best places on the conti-
nent, and has one of the greatest fu-
lures of any inland town in the Unit
ed States. It is in the center of a
rich agricultural country. and nothing
can prevent it's xpanding-still the
shrewdest and richest of Spokane mer-
chants invest their money in San Fran
cisco real estate.
What better proof can be given that
San Francisco is one of fhe best places
in the United States for pleasure, profit
and a home?
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-08
SALES IN APRIL
TOTAL BIG sum
During Month S2,432,S6S Worth
of Real Estate in City
Changed Hands

according to the San Francisco real
Estate Circular. published by Thomas
Magee & Sons. there were 7O1 sales
recorded in April for total Of $2,4S2,-
eos.
Considering the fact that there were
no sales recorded for more than $50
600 during the month, the total ousi-
ness of the month was satisfactory.
During April 6SS mortgages and
deeds of trust were recorded against
San Francisco real estate, for total
of $2,7S3 ,602. During the same Pc
riod 440 releases and recOnveyances of
deeds of trust were recorded, the
amount of which is not Obtainable
from the recorders office interest
rates remain at per cent gross at
most of our savings banks, and many
loans are made at the corresponding
rate of 51s per cent net.
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-08
MARION COOPER SELLS
HOTEL TO HOLSTER MAN
Property in O'Farrell Street
Near Fillmore Changes Hands

Among the sales reported yesterday
was the transfer of three story hotel
of "a rooms by Marion Cooper to John
o'connen of HOLSTER for $4,000. The
property is on lot 45x1s7H feet, and
is in the south side of O'FarreII street.
137 feet west of Fillmore. 1t was sold
through the office of Joseph III. Fucker.
Another sale through the same office
was the transfer of a lot 25X60 feet
and four story brick building by B.
p. Bose to a client of the office The
property is located in the east side of
Bartlett alley, 112 feet north of Jack
son street. The sale price was S32,o0O-
Last day to procure those free tickets
to DeaIey's auction sale of the old picnic
field in the city of San MateO. Office
open until O'Clock. 129 Sutter st.
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-08
SAN FRANCTSCO Oaddi5sEREAL ESTXT d

investment company made lease with
the Younger estate company for the
lot.
The property has frontage of 20
feet in Powell street, with depth OF
IFS feet and go feet in Anna lane. The
hotel is to be six stories high. with
225 rooms and a basement.
The ground floor will be used for
stores. and the hotel will have an
ornate entrance.
1t is tosbe modern in every respect
This deal was put through oy the
Pringle brothers.
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-08
LETSCONTRACTFOR
FINE APARTMENTS
Alfred Newman VIII Erect a
Modern Building at Union
and Montgomery Avenue

Alfred Newman has let the contract
Tor the erection of three story and
basement frame building in the gore
lot on the southeast corner of Union
building is to have three stores and
four apartment flats, coting $4,000.
and will be finished in the most mod
ern style. Charles j.. Rousseau is the
architect.
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-08

Homestead realty company TO Francis W. HUI
Ter. lot at corner of Moscow street and Russia
avenue, NE 100 by Sc 100; SO
Frank Martini to Enfrusina Martini. lot IN SW
line or Sixteenth avenue South 22o SE of l.
street, Sc so by SW 100: $40.
Paul Bnrnum to Sarah II. Barnuin, lot in ;
line of Cumberland street. 20 W of Guerrero, w
20 by 81 g. gift.
Francis \. Mettmann to Cole investment com
pany lot in NV line of Jessie street, $50 SW
Of Sixth, SW % by MY IS; $40.
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-08

Elsie II. Scribner, deceased (by administra
trixl, to George A. Sturtevant lot in SW line
Of Belmont avenue. 2173e Sc of Sunset S 81.
E 81. H. E 23.17. SW 1885, \ %, w s, NE
105. SO. and one other pieces $4,000,
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-08
Will FLOCK FROM INTERIOR

When our vineyardists, horticultur-
lists and farmers make money they
spend it literally, Nand the man who
lives in the country finds his principal
pleasure in travel There is no other
city which can give him so much
amusement in the summer. There is
no other city where he can get so
much for his money. There is no other
city where the theaters produce such
fine plays and by such fine players in
the summer. In other cities great act
ors leave because OF their being de-
serted, but San Francisco is never
deserted. and this gives the man from
the country an opportunity to enjoy
some of the finest theatrical produc-
tions put upon the stage.
Within the last few months a group
of enterprising citizens have been pros
ecuting quietly great work. 1t has
already borne fruit, and San Francisco
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-08

there was cry that the city was short
of hotel accommodations. This is not
the case now. Before the end OF the
year the Palace viii be added TO the
list of big hotels. and at a conservative
estimate. IL is said. the city can house
without the slightest difficulty 10000
strangers in its hotels. And this
within three years after not one hotea
was left standing.
Shrewd real estate men like Gov
ington Pringle would not be adding
10 the list of hotels, as he and his
associates are doing by building in
Powell street on the site of the ola
Columbia theater. if they were not
convinced that San Francisco would
be the greatest tourist city on the
continent
Attractive hotels, comfortably fur
nished. and with good service, are the
best advertisements a city can have,
and this is what San Francisco has
What other city can boast of hotel
in so unrivaled a situation as the
Fairmont? This is one OF the hand
soonest hotel buildings in the world,
reminding one of the palace OF
some opulent potentate rather than
a hotel for the housing Of the public.
Take the St. Francis. There are
so many and varied a list of attrac-
tions in this splendid caravausary that
the mind is fairly bewiIdered and
when the Palace hotel is opened we
are told that we shall be surprised
even beyond our most exalted eXpecta-
tions.
OTHER FINE HOTELS
This list does not by any means
complete the number of hotels to
which the tourist can go There are
several smaller ones, well furnished
and first class, which may possibly
be preferred by tourists who are look
ing for quieter surroundings. In fact,
the builders of the city are taking
all these matters into consideration,
and are making the boldest bid of any
city on the continent for this trade.
We are taking definite steps to make
this a carnival city and the Portola
festival win start the habit Of our
friends from the country coming to
visit the city. Previous to the fire,
hundreds of people from interior cities
summered in San Francisco, and unos-
tentatiously advertised San Francisco
as the possessor of the best summer
climate in the world.
This is what our hotelmen are realiz-
ing, and there can be no possible risk
run by our property holders in build
ing hotels down town. Other cities
depend on transient trade, lasting
for the space of a few months. Here
we can look for this trade the year
around.
WILL FLOCK FROM INTERIOR
When our vineyardists, horticultur-
lists and farmers make money they
spend il literally, ,Nand the man who
lives in the country finds his principal
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-08-20
Ek(M2> Science
EEseffhivesSStion.
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u takes 1882 cubic feet Of air to
Weigh q pound.
Alectrlc power Is used on 2.286 miles
" street railways in Great Britain to
- miles operated by other means.
PROBABLY the worlds swifest battle
.'p is the British Bellerophon, which
sCsn'ly made 25N knots in an oficial
MI, me total pig iron production of the
u'eo States last year was 1886, 01s
lo ss IONS as against 25,7S1, 1861 tons
Hecent additions to the FRI
~. ) field equipment were a
S'VIoDlle refrigerators for I'll
"ation of fresh meat.
M. Sp to a certain point exi
S@ rays stimulates the
Il VI seeds, but If that point
'ne growth is stopped.
IVORY which has become yellow
NJ. ueached by dipping 1t in sos
mil, MI. several times and exposing It to
snt after each dipping.
s,a,i new instrument for use when
MAJ Sp'ng razors includes a guide
hn,,. prevents the blade slipping and
ing itself or the strop.
match box containing a cigar cut.
lb,' inch clips off the end of a ciray
h,...' the box is closed, is the recent
'iOn of a New York man.
u IID' slOck Of The tower of Column
NJ University, New York, is said r.
mia OF the most accul ate in the
Narying but six seconds a year
n. ~ G Davidson points out that tbs
Asasina earthquake haA three
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-08-20


number of studying in institutions for higher
education would be quite half the tale of men, while CO.
educational institutions would be facing the danger Of
being swamped by the horde of women clamoring for
admission?
Taking Obern, the first coeducational institution
and therefore, the best for comparison one finds
the number of graduates divided into AIS men against
1851 women. Women now outnumber the in va I
ous other Western universities Stanford has had
arbitrarily to limit the number of admitted lest
1t should be overwhelmed. In the East Tufts College
has been forced to decide the segregation Of Its
women after the fashion of Harvard for they
Ing in so fast as to upset the mems department
So to the music of June note has been added
the sound light yet solemn thousands girsh feet
marching down the college aisle and the COM
stage and out into the great wide world 1t
was thoughtful Of the to choose the month
this fine flower Of civilization road-minded, too,
for she faces serious rival The girl graduate
the of the stage and If poets have not be-
gun to rhapsodze over her 1t is merely because the
tistcan has not yet finished with her.
1t Is not easy to figure out that more than 80
cent Of college marry, and 1t is hard struggf
to get that far Some colleges have pretty full figures
as Bryn Mawr and Smith.
Since 1879 out of 967 students Bryn Mawr 224 have
married Out of 1854 students at Smith 1926 married
Dr. Mary Robert Smith, who studied for the Ameri-
statistical Association, drew the conclusion that
the average age Of marriage would be between 26 and
years, two years later than for noncOllege wom
The average age at graduation is probably about o.
goes back five years to look at the figures the
number of marriages does not show up very we'll Be
Ing generous and going back ten years. gets 80
per cent in Smith, less in Bryn Mawr. DR.. Smith
made careful and important study but one Is inclined
to think from these figures that college girls, in the
East at any rate must marry rather later than the
she gave. Prof. G. F. limerick writing in the current
Political Science Quarterly remarks that the marriage
rate for Vassar jumped from 53.5 per cent for
those 40 years of age to about 60 per cent for those
A. Cupid is not always, apparently, hasty boy.
Why women colleges should be "touchy" the
subject of matrmony it is not to understand There
Is certainly disgrace in remaining unmarried and
doing share of the worlds work in ways other than
domestic
Although she marries later and probably marries less
man other women of her class the college has
nearly as many children. She has more in proportion
the number of years she is married But this is
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-08-20

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purpose s1norium produceasl
thorium. and from meso-thoriuI
forth radio-thorium. Itsactiyt
permanent, like that of radiu
would last for many years,
most purposes would be as M
as radlum.
Just as the British Associates
the Advancement of Schemes mas.
cepted invitations to hold ssssis
Canada and South Africa, so ID
lean association bearing a sind
is now Seriously considerin
visibility, of1 -
OF Hawa
islands.
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they were simultaneously In ACT S
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seated connection between the
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miles. In the San
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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1909-08-28

act OF Assembly, which the Associa-
ton claims iorbids such sales. The
defendants will claim, il is said, that
any such act would infringe upon
their personal rights. The first two live
near the camp grounds and erected
stands where they sold ice cream and
fruit, som OF which they had grown
themselves. While no ice cream could
be sold on the grounds this year, the
defendants allege that it was given
away there last year, provided cake
was purchased. Much interest will be
aroused by the suit and its outcome.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1909-08-28
Gala Time 1t Conowingo

.Nbout two thousand residents OF up
per Cecil and Hartford and nearby
Pennsylvania sections gathered at
Conowingo on Saturday to celebrate
the opening OF the restored bridge
over the Susquehanna, The bridge
was illuminated, and gala time was
had. The Oakryn Band furnished
music for the ball held on the bridge
AT night. Previous to the transfer OF
the new structure by tn. builders to
the Bridge Company, a procession
marched over il led by John McVey,
riding a white mule, followed by the
band The festivities closed with a
feast served az II p. m, which the
gathering fully enjoyed. The new
bridge is an open one with guard rails,
affording fine view OF the surround
ing splendid scenery. The toll-taker's
stand will be located between the two
sections Of the bridge, and he will thus
he able To prevent teams and autos
meeting on the eighteen feet OF drive
way, The bridge is now regularly
open To travel
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1909-08-28
Hied To Newark To Wed

\ wedding, out OF the usual order,
though quite en- reggie in most respects,
came off in St Thomas Church, New
ark. on Wednesday of last week. Mr..
Francis Gibbs Lamotte and Miss Hilda
Seeford Hungerford, of Mt Washing
ton. a Baltimore suburb, eloped to the
Delaware town, where Rev II. NJ. G.
Huff was prepared to perform the mar
riagc ceremony A number OF New
ark society folk were at the church and
witnessed the nuptials Mrs. Della
ware Willis played the wedding march.
and supper was served at the Deer
Park Hotel Mr.. Robert II. Ger
mand and Miss Louise Gill had ac-
companied the couple from Baltimore,
planning a double clopement, but Miss
Gill baked at the last moment Mr..
Lamo,te is 20 and his bride rs years
old. They announced their wedding
on Sunday, TO the surprise OF relatives
and friends.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1909-08-28
TOO MUCH TALK

wy HAT does Ex-Governor War
" field mean by saving the man
who handles the cash has the
whip hand in the primary He GER
tainly does not mean that the political
machine. which he says handles the
primaries under the present arrange
mcnt To SHIT itself. would think OF such
a thing IS handling cash in those pri-
maricS, under the present superb Cor
rupt Practices Act And yet, il is
strange how MANY Democrats were
anxiou>ly asking whether the Corrupt
Practices Act applied to the primary
election, and how many such Demo-
Gratis openly aver that unless "corrup-
ton funds can be cut out, the fellow
has little show who is not backed by
the organization. How illuminating il
all is. Nhat way truth has OF COM
ing To the light in the long run. How
wildly all this talk reveals the TACT
that our Democratic friends have had
long experience OF the dollars in
ilucnce in political battles, despite
their presen; proicsscd devotion TO a
Corrupt Practices Act. We hope their
devotion is sincere; that they have
been truly and soundly converted. But
it would be less disturbing TO not hear
them talk so much and so loudly about
It" Mcthinks, he doth protest too
much