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The San Francisco call., 1909-12-11
COUNTRY REAL ESTATE

SMALL RANCHES
SANTA CLARA VALLEY
Improved unimproved 10 and 20 acre ranches
on OUR BEAUTIFUL SAN MARTIN RANCH.
only hours from SAN FRANCISCO; can be
bought on MONTHLY PAYMENTS. If you want
a small ranch for HOME and for PROFIT do
not fail to look at the SAN MARTIN RANCH.
16 acres Alameda county; orchard. garden and
grain land: including $1.00000 worth Of fur
niture and chickens worth $4,000; well fenced
with 800 feet of chicken fence; good we'll,
unlimited supply of wafer; electric motor. three
horsepower: shingle house wear and half
old five rooms and bath. modern in every way,
hot and cold water in house: cement laundry
tubs; large cement cellar; electric lights. etc
Good barn. good shed. 100 foot brooder house.
fully equipped. Ten chicken houses. others
being built. Livermore valley. Very easy
terms. Only half mile TO railway depot
If you ARE LOOKING FOR RANCH PROP,
ERTY. IMPROVED OR UNIMPRONED. IN
SMALL OR LARGE ACREAGE, CALL OR
G. NJ WOOSTER COMPANY,
702 Market st.
NovATo ORCHARDS AND GARDEN LANDS
MARIN COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
The famous De Long ranch. of 10000 acres.
at Novato, now for sale in acre farms and
larger: 90 minutes from San Francisco; 50 cent
freight rate 10 San Francisco
Grows anything; produce from vegetable gar
dens. orchards and vineyards finds ready and
profitable market in San Francisco: acres can
be made to yield 81, 500 yearly; best poultry and
dairy section the coast; rich alluvial soil.
easily tilled climatic conditions ideal, never too
hot nor too cold: sheltered by hills no fog nor
high winds; inexhaustibe supply of fine pure
water for all purposes; average rainfall 81
inches.
You can buy apple. pear, peach orchards or
vineyards in full bearing. or rich virgin soil:
good roads. churches schools stores at Novsto;
established community bottom land $100 to
$500 per acre. choice hillside acreage $50 to S1OO
one-fourth down, balance on easy terms, which
the produce of your farm win easily earn. Send
for our illustrated booklet. free. Go 10 Novato
Sunday via the a. M Sausalito boat; 90 cents
round trip See it all. Our agent viii drive you
over the tract without expense to YOU j. p
Francisco. Cal.
The San Francisco call., 1909-12-11

SALOON s. 000 on best corner in san Fran
cisco; always busy; this license IS worth AZ
least 81 OO0; the saloon is doing never less
thsn $40 day; II you want good life
long saloon proposition call and get the de
tails Of this NOTlCE-NO attention paid
fo curiosity seekers you must show me that
you have the cash to handle this first before
I WILL GIVE EOU THE DETAILS.
GEO. A. HERRICk. 1905 MARKET ST.
NX
RESTAURANT doing $50 day business: rent
S2o MONTH old established business. price
$3.50 VIII clear never less than $50 month.
SALOON OK MARKET STREET; SWELL;
worth ar lesst so 600 twenty thousand dol
larsl; on account OF certain unlooked for
circumstsnces 1 viii sell FOR $4,000 II sold
81 once: see my agent. Mr.. HERRICK, 1908
MARKET STREET.
SMALL RETAIL BUSINESS FOR SALE-Win
clear $50 month and more II the owner
uIfl attend TO business; this bus mess does not
require any experience. the seller viii
stsr several days aud show You the bus-
ness: I can guarantee this 10 be just as
represented.
cEO- A. HERRIcK. 1898 MARKET ST.
INVESTMENT BROKER. ESTABLISHED 1870
The San Francisco call., 1909-12-11

DEyISADERO AND GEARY SIS.
Fine, well improved property. 1435 Devisa-
dero ST., west line, S2:6 TT south of Geary
6 room fiat and stores; total rental $S6 per
2T:11xSO IT.; terms 4 cash, bal 6 per cent net.
The San Francisco call., 1909-12-11

GOLDEN GATE Av. AND LAGUNA ST.
FINE IMPROVEMENTS; A GOOD INVEST
MENT: zoos 1OOSA-100SB Golden Gate av.,
north line S7:6 IT. west OF Laguna ST. hne
story building. modern in every respect; lot
25x95 TT; contains 3 fine fats of 6-S rooms
and bath each; total rental S110 per month ;
mtge. of $500 remain at per cent net
The San Francisco call., 1909-12-11

FINE LOTS, BUENA VISTA AVE. NEAR
CORTLAND.
East line Buena Vista av.. $50 # south OF
Esmeralda ST. being lots 623-625- -627, gift map
No. s. almost in line Of southern extension OF
Goth St; lots 25x70 IT. each, or total Of 75xT0
feet.
The San Francisco call., 1909-12-11
SANTA CLARA co. REAL ESTATE

20 ACRE prune orchard IN its prime; "a mile
from electric railroad. fine location; would
exchange for bay county property, price
$4,000: co acres Of land in hills; good road
$500; ; TO - acres fine vegetable land adj
joining San Jose only $3.50 an acre for a
few days: big snap: leaving. story
room house in Willows; corner lot; mill
aud tank. exchange for bay county property.
40 acres. four miles from town. only SlC0
acre; acres; house. barn. mill and tank:
snap; need money: $2.000
J. W. HARRENSTEIN.
l. y. lat ST. San lose. Cal
The San Francisco call., 1909-12-11

FOLSOM AT TWENTY SECOND ST.
Five houses 2207 to 2223 (inclusivel Folsom
T.; fine, large lot. 90x122:s IT.; east line, %
t. south of 22d St: improvements; 3 story
wellings of s rooms and bath ea.; total rem
al $3.50 per mo- bIdgs insured for $4,000.
The San Francisco call., 1909-12-11
GAS ENGINES

.tNGLNES- stationary. portable; mining boists.
gas distillste, crude OIL producer gas. WEST
EhN Gas ENGINE COMPANY. <sl Market 1T
The San Francisco call., 1909-12-11

SANTA CRUZ REAL ESTATE
81. .25O-Suburbs OF Santa Cruz: 2 acres. mostly
fruit: spring. creek. house. barn. yards: terms
or trade. +. III. PARKER. Santa Cruz.
HOMES. ranches. acreage, exchanges; list.
DAVID l. WILSON. Santa Cruz Cal
The San Francisco call., 1909-12-11

MISSION AND 18TH ST--3 FINE FLATS
That well Improved property situate in west
line OF Mission ST., HOS II. south Of 18th St;
lot 25x1O0 IT.
022-o4 Mission ST., fine flats. Z rooms
and bath: each renting for $100 per month.
The San Francisco call., 1909-12-11

SEVENTEENTH STREET FLATS
1924 18th St. north line. so II. east OF
Serpentine road: lot 2jxST fl: fats renting
for SIG and SIT month. We can arrange
terms of payment il desired
The San Francisco call., 1909-12-11

ARMSTRONG & CO.. IsT Market St. room 134
List Your Business With Us to Buy, Sell,
Exchange Real Estate See Us.
sIoO--Bakery; established years; So per day;
living rent $50
800 acres improved RANCH vineyard; orchard
house rooms; . barns plenty water and
timber: 81 500 cash; $2.500 at your terms.
Cleaning dveng office: nets $3.50 per month.
ARMSTRONG & CO.. 7SI Market room Ia
The San Francisco call., 1909-12-11
RURLINGAME REAL ESTATE

FOR sale-An attractive home just completed: IN
Burlingame district; artistic and modern; broad
sun porehes, paneied walls. hreplaces, side
board, book cases; large garden plot all city
cOnveniences; close to stations terms can bo
arranged. BURLINGASfE BUILDING COM
PANY 225 Mills building.
The San Francisco call., 1909-12-11
srAN1sLAUs REAL ESTATE

STOCK and grain ranch OF II. 600 acres; cattle.
hogs teams and farming outfit; price St20, 900:
write for particulars. MAZE & WREN, Mo-
desto. Cal.
The San Francisco call., 1909-12-11
CITY REAL EsTATE-continued
]. W. WRIGHT & CO..
125 and 127 Sutter street.

At OUR SALESRoOMS, 125 SUFFER- ST.
DECEMBER IA, 1909. at 12 O'Clock. PER
UNDER THE PERSONAL d.
OF MIR. WENDELL EASTON-
The San Francisco call., 1909-12-11

Elegant and modern home. southwest corner
Fillmore st. and Pacific av.: lot 30x1O0 II. /;
beautiful mansion, with every Improvement.
comprising Il rooms and bath, all in perfect
order; terms one-third cash, bal per cent net.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-17
SUNLIGHT COLLECTORS

1t isn't often that you find man
whose regular work it is to carry sun
light; the sun generally holds down
that job. But in the city of Boston
you will find men whose duty it is to
do that very thing, says the Path
finder. Of course, you don't see them
going around with a bucket and scoop,
trying to get load of sunshine; but
you do see them supplied with mirrors
by means of which they throw the
reflection into dark places. The idea
is one that has been seized upon by
the sewer department. and it makes
use of it when an investigation of the
dark sewers is going on. A man with
a mirror faces the sunlight and re-
fleets it to the mirror of another man
who stands at an open manhole and
reflects the light diwn the hole to an
other who stands at the bottom with
a mirror. This last operator throws
the light along the passageway of the
sewer and the place is lighted almost
as we'll as if the sun were shining
directly into it. OF course, this works
only on days when the sun is shining;
on cloudy days the ordinary oil Ian
tern is used.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-17
SHE GOT a FARM

May L. Mesler a school teacher OF
Kennebec, N. D., was on hand when
Uncle Sam recently opened a tract OF
800 900 acres on the Rosebud Indian
reservation. in Trip county, South Da-
kota, which is said to be a very de-
sirable country. over $4,000 persons
registered for the right to select a
farm, and it is estimated that the sum
of 50, 900 was laid out for doing
so. Only 5000 persons, however, were
successful. Farm No. 1 in the allot-
ment of Uncle Sans fine lands was
drawn by Mrs. Mesler. And every
other land claimant cheered her to the
echo. Right there on the spot, too, she
was offered $4,000 for her rights. The
presumption was that spectators
wanted the land for a town site. But
this plucky little woman told them
that she wanted the tract as home
SO she completed the formalities neces-
sary to make it her own property and
she will give up her profession and
enter earnestly into the business of
farming.
No sooner had the land SPECTATORS
turned their backs than gentlemen who
wanted to marry her became trouble
some. Aspirants for the hand of the
owner of one of the finest farms in
Dakota began coming from all direc-
tions. Some arrived by train, some
walked in, while others wrote. And
some, more prompt than the rest, tele-
graphed their proposals. One or two
even came and woke her up in the
dead of the night to press their suit.
But the owner Of farm No. 1 only
smiled and said: zone speculation at
a time is enough; thank you"
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WORTH KNOWING

A GLACIERS knife will be found an
excellent thing with which to scrape
and clean the bottoms of pans and
kettles.
Much time is saved if paper Innings
for cake pans are cut in quantities and
kept ready for instant use in dust
proof box with a tight lid.
A little muriatic acide added to the
rinsing water after a blue and white
fiber rug is scrubbed with soap and
water will help to restore the color.
A clean cloth dipped in hot water,
then a saucer Of bran, will speedily
clean white paint without injury to 1t.
The soft bran acts like soap on the
dirt.
The easiest way to clean a cereal
cooker is to turn it upside down in IL
pan of boiling water and steam it I'M
til the sticky mass is soft and loosened
from the sides of the pan.
A good silence cloth for the dining
table can be made with a double thick
ness of white flannel laid with the
soft side on the inside and quilted on
the machine; edge with a binding Of
white tape.
A sticky cake or bread pan should
not be cleaned with a knife or any
thing which will scratch the surface
and make sticking more probable
thereafter. For this reason the crust
of bread often advised as a cleaner is
desirable
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-17
cHILDREN's GARDENING

Dig bed as early as possible, foot
deep.
Mix with the soil, rich earth, well
rotted manure or leaf mold from
woods.
Rake beds frequently and keep soil
fine and lumpless.
Choose sunny spots for your beds.
Never plant in wet soil. Begin plant
ing early in May or after danger of
frost is passed.
Do not overcrowd plants. Thin them
when two or three inches high. Do it
on a cloudy day. when the soil is moist.
Take up a little soil with each seed
ling and transplant to another part OF
garden, or give away.
Disturb roots as little as possible in
transplanting. Use a small trowel or
thin, fiat stick in lifting.
Water morning and evening, never
with the sun on beds.
Among plants that have proved sue
cessfuI for childrens gardening are
acters, bachelors buttons, or corn
flower, China pinks, candytufts, cal
endula, four o'clock, larkspur, French
marigolds, golden glow, sweet alyssum,
morning glory and wild cucumber as
climbers, pasturtium, petunias, mixed
annual phlox, portulaca, scabiosa or
pincushion flower, mixed verbenas, zin-
mia and sunfloWers.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-17
E{JONAN rs - g - 81 VI
+, "a BEAUTIFULLY

the peroxide of hydrogen, just enough
to make the mixture ''fuzz" a little on
the tip of the finger. Apply this very
sparingly, and do not repeat the opera
ton too frequently Once ought to ac-
complish the result while two applica-
tions, a day or two apart, will surely
get rid of the most obstinate dark line.
Some women have found lemon juice
effective in Kidding the throat of this
linen collar mark. The acid whitens
the skin and cleanses it thoroughly at
the same time.
After this treatment the throat
should be gently massaged with good
cold cream, one containing very little
perfume and no animal fats.
Then there are wrinkles behind the
ears which are trying to the woman
who wants to wear low, youthful look
ing collars. These are due to the large
millinery which has been fashionable
for two or three successive seasons,
and the growing tendency among young
women to hold their heads tipped down
instead of lifting them up with chin
out in regal manner and looking the
world square in the face. Not only
does this ducking of the chin cause
wrinkles to form in the sides of the
neck but it encourages double chin,
that tragic sign of lest youth. A double
chin is almost as incongruous with a
low round collar as hoop skirts with a
directoire gown.
You can take five, yes, ten years off
your age, or the age of your throat at
least, just by the way you hold your
head Try it if you are skeptical. Bare
the throat so that you can get good
view of it's column from ears to base of
neck, and then, with hand mirror,
tip the head down until the chin is
quite low. Now look at the mass OF
wrinkles which have formed in the side
of the neck and under the chin. Do
they not add years to the appearance
of the throat, spoil its rounded lines, its
graceful poise and make the barring of
such a throat in the broad light of day
an utter impossibility?
In order to see for yourself the diff
ference that the position of the head
makes. tilt the chin forward. Give the
head that queenly poise about which
poets rhyme, and then if you do rot
decide Immediately always to carry the
chin up you do not understand how a
woman can add to her charms and al
lurements and at the same time keep
herself young looking in spite of the
years that are piling up behind her.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-17
Los ANGELES HERALD: THURsD MORNING JUNE H. 1909.
NURSERY is IMPORTANT

No part of the house comes in for
more attention nowadays than the
nursery. The children's rooms are no
longer considered the dumping ground
of cumbersome tables and unwieldy
cupboards, to be supplied with squares
of Brussels ca .et stretched and nailed
till perpetuity on the boarded floor,
and enlivened solely with pictures IN
the form of cheap framed oleographs.
Every nursery is, in fact, model
no-.'adays. The modern mother re-
cognizes the fact that an artistic eye
is better trained by good engravfngs or
mezzotints than by glaringly colored
pictures, and that children are more
Interested in historical scenes, illus
trations of stories they know, and IN
pictures which appeal to their imagln-
atoms, than pert little damsels dressed
up for children's party.
Picture Friezes
Picture friezes, representing a set OF
nursery rhymes a Noah's ark and AMI
mails, or fairy-tale figures in procession,
are always a boon to small children.
Instead of placing it high up in the
room, the frieze should cut across the
plain wallpaper a little above the emil
dren's heads, so that it comes well
within their sphere of vision.
The new rocking chairs, in a form oil
"Caran d'Ache" horses, are a novelty
which are safer than the old-fashioned
dapple-gray horse of a generation ago,
and are proving very popular at pres
ent.
Playing Pens
Playing pens are useful invention,
of which the baby of the day is nothing
10th to take advantage. If it is fur
nished with good hair mattress and
Quilt, it forms an ideal rolling
ground" for the baby who is beginning
to become lively and is apt to roll and
crawl in dangerous parts of the room,
in the path of the older children. The
wooden railing forms, besides, a capital
support for the child who is learning to
stand, and an isolated territory for an
older one, whose game of blocks can be
carried on within its four walls with
out danger of interruption.
Few modern articles of furniture for
a day nursery are more attractive than
the little semi-circular tea tables.
Small chairs are pushed up to the out
er circle, and plenty Of room Is AFFORDED
for several mugs and plates, while the
fact that the feet rest firmly on the
floor and there is no danger of falling
out of the low chairs makes them
great improvement on the old-fash-
toned nursery table.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-17
SPRING COLLINS

The butterfly II catch you If you don't watch
out
The iinnet and the robin and the whole fine
rout;
The bumblebee II bite you, and first thing
you know
The dainty. sanity snowdrop will peep through
the snow!
All kinds OF mysteries moving in the air
Shadows of a golden girl on bloomy stair;
Must be Lady April. with her smile and her
rain, 80
Hiding where the wind blows down the lilac
lane!
Hyacinth II catch you as you walk through
the dell:
Funny kind Of folks about-you never can tell
Just when a dandelions going to make a
Right across the meadow where the bluebirds
sing;
Violet II see you when you come along the
way;
Everything is ready just to start in and play
Buds II soon be bursting. and I'm sure as
can be
A daffodil is nodding in the garden bed to mel
-Bentztown Bard in Baltimore Sun
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-17
IN CASE OF FIRE

A compact and efficient fire-fighting
apparatus that is big improvement
over the old-fashioned system, that re-
ouired a string of buckets hanging
along the wall, has been designed by
a New York man. This apparatus con-
sists of tank, inside of which Is a
device for. centering the buckets as
they are lowered into it, so that each
bucket fits into the one below it, and
they are thus "nested," series of
them occupying little more space than
one would take up. The tank Is filled
with water or with some specially
prepared fire-fghting fluid. and holds
enough to : insure each bucket being
filled as it is drawn out. There is no
time lost in Selling a bucket and run
ming to another place to fill 1t, and
every one knows that speed is an es-
sential feature in lighting flames The
apparatus not only does away with
an unsightly row of buckets, but ex
pedites the work of combating the
blaze to an important degree,
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-17
Doctors Orders Kept Her Busy

A prominent physician of Baltimore
tells the Newark Star of an amusing
experience of the early days of his
practice when he was residing in q
small town where by far the majority
of the workers were coal miners.
IT was greatly distressed by the IN
sanitary conditions prevailing in their
cottages" says the doctor, land among
other things tried to explain to each
household the Importance of maintain
ing a wholesome atmosphere in the
sleeping rooms. I laid in stock OF
thermometers, which were distributed
to the households where they were most
needed. I took pains to point out to
each family in turn just how the ther-
mometer would indicate the proper de-
gree of temperature.
LAS was making the rounds one DAY
I inquired of the woman at the head
of one establishment, wherein 1 OBJ
served my thermometer proudly dls-
played at the end of string, whether
she had followed my instructions.
Yes, sir answered she. Tn very
careful about the temperature. I watch
the thing all the time as it hangs up
there -. .
What do you do when the temper
ature rises above 6S?'
81 take it down. sir, and put 1t out
side till it cools off abit.
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VIZ OMEN hate to admit it, the blow
wv to their vanity is so great, but
" the truth is few >of them are
able to wear the fashionable, low,
round collar without first going through
a course of treatment to improve the
lines and texture of the throat The
woman who has stepped beyond the
boundary lines of girlhood is the one
now wrestling with the problem of how
to make her neck look as attractive as
her face, so that she can don cOllarless
blouses without disclosing the fact that
she is no longer as young as she used
to be-
How does she accomplish this? the
skeptical one asks. Faces can be beau
titled, but the throat is different, they
say. It has been throttled all winter
long in stiff high linen collars, which
must have left their stamp upon the
delicate texture of the flesh as we'll as
it's coloring. You cannot bind the
throat in starched linen for six months
and then leave it absolutely free and
expect to have it come through the
ordeal and still look soft and alluring.
The prettiest throat in the world can
not survive such treatment without
showing q dark mark where the top
of the rough linen collar comes, and
another one at the base of the throat
where the stiff edge rests on the soft
flesh.
But this blemish is a minor one to
obliterate. The secret of getting rid of
discoloration is found in the bottle of
peroxide of hydrogen, which has now
become a necessary part of the toilet
table accessories. A little of this liquid
applied with a bit of absorbent cotton
to the dark line on the neck will cause
the discoloration to disappear after a
few applications. Diluted peroxide Is
considered by some authorities an ex-
cellent skin wash for occasional use
Where the line is unusually obstinate
add a few drons of toilet ammonia 70
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-17
up.To.pATE METHODS

The largest Sunday school in that
section of Missouri is claimed by the
First Christian Church of Mexico
whose record attendance one morning
recently was 1888 Rev. Walter NJ
White is the pastor and John w. Dry,
a local hardware dealer, is superin-
tendent of the Sunday school.
Both the pastor and Sunday school
superintendent attracted considerable
attention about year ago, when they
began carrying advertisements in To-
cal papers for their Sunday school.
Their plan was a success, however. and
the leaders in Sunday school declare
that newspaper advertisement has
been the principal cause Of building
up the large membership.
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SHADES OF BLUE

LET me explain said the particular
young lady to the obsequious counter
clerk. 'I want something in blue
taffeta silk; but not as dark as navy
blue, nor as light as cambridge blue,
but darker than eton blue, yet not
quite electric blue nor sky blue-more
like a robins egg blue, but not SO
light not as dark as indigo blue, of
course It's quite a new tint. think
they call it Morning Glory blue, which
is something like a turquoise blue-a
shade between acquamarine blue and
baby blue. Now" she concluded, "if
you have anything in the shade I have
described to you. please show it,"
The ready assistant, instead of him
self looking blue, unrolled a beautiful
length-a cross between cambridge
blue and the deep sea.
"This is the latest shade of blue,
madam" he remarked, 'it is called
London Milk