The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-11

By THE OUTSIDER

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your own best friend who thinks more
1 OF her complexion than she does of
| tennis honorS.- Let us divide these
| tnings and be generous to the heroines
! who cannot also be beautiful as well as
| famous.
1t is interesting and perhaps a bit
amusing for the old friends of Edwin
Markham to read how and why he
mad his portrait painted by real
princess. This is what we read in the
I washington Post on the subject TT
( mas fallen to the lot of the author of
/ The Man With the Hoe 10 De painted
by a princess. Edwin Markham
never looked more the poet than he
does in his latest portrait which was
shown Thursday in the temporary
studio of the Princess Lwoff- Parlaghy
IN the Plaza hotel, surrounded by
hanglngs of delicate shades and old
tapestries from her castle in France
The artist came nere a year ago
with the intention of painting % of
the brainiest Americans she could find
she was long in making her choice of
subjects, and in the selection passed
] oy mighty hunter who is now in
African wilds. She has been in Europe
since and quite recently returned and
! has made her first portrait that of
! Mr.. Markham
J The painting is three-auLe1e lGlgth
and reveals the author of the lyric of
labor seated on Louis XIV chair up
holstered in delicate pink and in his
right hand is a red bound book The
! likeness is excellent and almost photo
graphic in its fidelity. Several friends
of Mr.. Markham as we'll as himself
who saw the picture yesterday, were
delighted with it, The same sentiment
was expressed by D.,niei O'Reily
who, on account of his devotion TO
the poetry of Mr.. Markham, was espe-
cially interested in seeing the present
ment on canvas.
1t does not fall to the .appy lot of
the American portrait painter TO give
view of his latest work under such
conditions as obtain al the studio of
the princess, where a retinue of liv-
cried servants was in attendance and
major domo was at hand to supply
the visitor with full information con-
corning the pictures which were shown
The princess expects to begin shortly IL !
portrait of Mr.. Anthony Fiala, arctic
explorer, who is TO be shown in his
costume of furs.
=" He will, of course, said the prin-
cess archly, only sit for nee ~ short !
periods in this attire, for l appreciate
that at the present season New York
is indeed warm; nest &c pas"
The Markham portrait ,.ill be pre- |
scented to one of the European mu-
seums.''
Mrs. Lloyd Osbourne is to begin a !
! lecture tour later in the season, her
| friends viii be interested to learn. and
in fact will start with the cities on
the coast within few months. There
viii be widespread interest attached TO
the announcement that she will lecture
upon Robert Louis Stevenson, the Adj |
venturer and Explorer" The excuse for
taking this view of the writer is given !
in Stevenson's own words who once
said of himself: First. / suppose came
letters. then adventure; 0.6 of me is
artist, o. adventurer, and since | have
INDUCED the second the formula be- |
gins to change-0.55 of an artist, Ola
of the adventurer were nearer true
And if it had not been for my small |
strength | might have been different
man in all things"
1t is generally conceded that few peo-
pie could speak of the life of Stevenson
with better authority than Mrs Os- |
bourne. 1t is said too that her lectures |
contain many new facts and new con-
ceptions and that the Samoan reminis- |
cences are matter of personal |
knowledge.
and Horace Sisson took place last
Wednesday afternoon at Culloden park, /
the home of the brides parents. Mr.. I
and Mrs. Clarence Thayer. in San Ra-
fael. There were no attendants at the I
simple ceremony, and the officiating
clergyman was the Rev. Lynn White.
Only the relatives of the couple were /
hidden to the intimate service at the I
home, and after an informal breakfast |
H. H. - g.
will reside, since the bridegroom is one (
of the wealthiest men in the islands
and has a beautiful home for his bride
in that picturesque place. While the
ceremony was attended with gerat sim
plicity, it is an event of unusual inter-
est, owing to the prominence of the
family in social and business sense.
Mrs. Martha Gielow. who has been
wintering in southern California, is
again with her daughter. Mrs Charles
Willis Fisher wife of Naval Construc-
tor Fisher, at their home in the Mare
island navy yard. Mrs. Gielow is a +
writer and lecturer and is the founder
of the Southern Industrial educational
association of Washington, ID. c., for
the uplift of the mountain whites Of the
Appalachian range. The word white"
in the last sentence has a grewsome
sound, but the horrible title has be-
come sort OF official name for peo-
pie much the same color as ourselves
and other Europeans, yet 1t would be
a joke to call these people who are to
be "uplifted' by any other color, since
they are manifestly of the white race
Can any one, we wonder. suggest
savory and appropriate title for Mrs
Gielow's pet philanthropy? Not that she
has requested the change but in the
name of truth and euphony, can there
be a betterment of the spectral title d
of these poor whites. who are to be ,
assisted in their industrial develop Il
ment?
The aftermath of the holiday gossip
at Del Monte is summed up in the
following letter, which came during
the week and has some comment of in
terest to society in town:
r. j. Woods of San Francisco spent
the Independence day holidays at
Monterey with his family and took adj
vantage of the opportunity of going
around the Del Monte links several
times. II
Miss Fox is visiting Miss Warner at