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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-02-04
A FEW WORDS WITH tie
LADY @ He1HOUSE

clear soup. bit of fish. couple
of little entrees and a nice little roast
That's my kind of a dinner-Thack-
cray.
little Stilton cheese brought up
the rear with a nice salad. This made
way for a foolish, trif1ing dessert of
muscatel grapes, guava jelly and divers
kickshaws diluted with agreeable
wines.-Char1es Reade.
q q q q
The Daily Menu
BREAKFAST
Cereal, Top Milk
Smoked Halibut Fish Balls
Chopped Beets (reheated and buttered)
Bread Crumb Griddlecakes
Cereal Coffee
DINNER
Roast spareribs of Pork Apple Sauce
Mashed Potatoes. Squash
Cabbage Salad
Steamed Prune Pudding
Cooked Prunes in place of Marmalade)
Hard Sauce, Coffee
SUPPER
Hot Boiled Rice, Milk
Bread and Butter
Cottage Cheese, Apple Sauce
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"Wear" is nothing but rubbing"

Wear is nothing but rubbing.
Every time you hard rub your clothes
against anything, little PARTICLES are
rubbed away.
Boiling softens the fibre of cotton,
linen, silk and wool, and when rubbed
hard on the washboard they wear away
faster than at any other time.
Try to think how many days of wear
are represented by one trip to the old
time washtub.
Fels-Naptha requires neither boiling
water nor hard rubbing.
And there is no washboard wear on
the clothes washed the Fels-Naptha way.
Fels-Naptha is made to do away with
boiling and hard rubbing; therefore If
you use it as an ordinary soap, you cause
yourself unnecessary work.
Use Fels-Naptha in cool or luke
warm water and it will do all we claim.
1t will cut the washday in half, sum-
mer or winter, and do silently and effec-
lively all the real hard work.
If you follow the simple directions
on the red and green wrapper, you will
never return to ordinary soaps and the
old-fashioned way of washing.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-02-04

thus adjusted consists of three thick
nesses of gauze.
Worth Knowing Gillian Savage, San
MateoS-Pork is the best substitute for
chicken. Soil the loin; when done put
at once in cold water, and it is impos-
sible to tell it from chicken in salad,
patty filing or any dish where 1t Is
cut in small pieces.
Meat Pancakes (fOr breakfast)-Chop
any kind of cold meat up fine; season
to taste; make a pancake batter as US
ual; put spoonful of batter in CREASED
pan. then q spoonful OF chopped meat.
then another of batter on that; let
brown: turn carefully and brown on
other side. Very fine for breakfast
An Economy Hint-Intsead of using
your bar of soap until IL is so thin ii
breaks take a new bar, soak it a little
In hot water, put your thin bar on IL
and let stand till hard and you can use
1t all up without having small pieces to
bother with or waste.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-02-04
PRESIDE PRISONER
LEAPS TO LIBERTY
Edmund Brown EIudes Sentries
and Escapes

The escape OF Private Edmund
Brown. a, member Of the hospital corps
at the Preside. from his guard and his
subsequent leap from the window Of
the hospital to the ground. 90 feet he
low, was the cause of a sensation at
that post yesterday afternoon. A gen
eral alarm was sounded, but Brown
escaped from the reservation. He is
still at liberty.
Brown was arrested while strolIinr
up Lovers lane with Private b H
Corbin. He carried a large package
under his arm which appeared sus-
picious to Sentry Martin Wheeler. The
package caused the arrests.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-02-04
BROTHER OF THE HAINSES
COMES AS POSTMASTER
Major Expects to Be Stationed
On Coast Several Years

Major John P. Hams. whose family
name came into notoriety when his
brother, Captain Peter C. Hams, shot
and killed William E. Annis in New
York last August. arrived in this city
yesterday from his post in Chicago to
take up berth in the local department
headquarters as paymaster.
Hams registered at the St. Francis.
Speaking of the tragedy in which his
two brothers are involved, the major
said:
Being brother, you could hardly
expect me to give an unbiased opinion.
Thornton has been acquitted as inno-
cent. I believe that the captain Is de-
ranged or was deranged at the time of
the shooting. I know nothing about the
plans of the newly elected district at
torney, or when the captain will be
brought to trial. expect to be sta
toned on the coast for several years"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-02-04
Anty Drudge Joins the Union.

Miss High5roar-( visiting the Teamsters Unon(-"so
you have made my friend, Anty Drudge, an Honor
airy Member And why, may l askP
Honest Mike"Wel, you see, it's this way man: drive
coal wagon and Gerry there drives for a
wholesale butcher. We get terribly dirty all
sooty and Gerry all grease and stains It's the same
with all the boys. Anty Drudge told about
Fels-Naptha-how it dissoves the CRIME and grease;
and you only use lukewarm cool water Saves
money and makes wives happy"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-02-04
URGE ELECTRIC LINE
IN GEARY STREET
Democrats of Thirty-ninth Dis
trict Ask Change by CITY

At its meeting on Tuesday night the
San Francisco democratic club of the
Thirty-ninth assembly district adopted
a resolution calling for bond issue
for the construction of an electric line
by the city in Geary street.
1t was proposed that the city install
conduit system to run from Market
and Suffer streets up Market street to
Geary, along Geary street to Point
Lobos avenue and the Cliff house with
spur on Fifth avenue between be-
tween Point Lobos avenue and Fulton
street.
committee was appointed as fol-
lows to place the matter before the
board of supervisors: c. w Eastin.
Henry Colombat, James V. Fitzgerald,
William z. Petition and John w.
Howard.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-02-04

See the Page for the Modern
House Keeper" which appears
regularly in the magazine of The
Sunday Call. Cash prizes are given
each week for best household ideas
and kitchen recipes. Send in your
choicest ones to Modern House
Keeper Page" the San Francisco
Sunday Call.
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LIKE CALIFORNIA pRoDUcrs

A marked copy of the London Daily
Telegraph. sent to Arthur r. Briggs
OF the state board of trade by H. "
Ramsdell, a Californian now in Lon
don, shows an unusual amount of in
terest is being taken in California
products by the British public. More
than a column of space is devoted to
the fruits and produce of California
in the London markets, and the receipts
from this state are catalogued daily
and featured in the advertisements as
California products.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-02-04

Writings French Organdie-Whit-
ing's Woven Linen-Whiting's Or
Candle Glace = Writings Bond:-
These are a few leaders among the
great variety of papers for Fine Cor
respondence that make up our con-
tinuous output of
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-02-04
BLACKSMITH KILLS HIMsEI.r

Despondent because his wife had left
him, Ernest Kimme, so years of age.
q blacksmith with a shop at the en-
ing the noon hour concealed himself in
vacant lot at the end of Fillmore
street and sent a pistol bullet through
his head. Policeman Joseph Flynn Of
the north end station heard the shot.
He found Kimme dead. The body was
removed TO the morgue. kimme lived
at 24l4 Hilbert street.
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Modern House Keepers Exchange

Cooking Tough FOwI-(Mrs. Morton
Lindley, 1441 East Sixteenth street,
the housewife has delivered from the
poultrymap a tough fowl or 1t may be
that one undesirable for use in her own
poultry yards she would find 1t neces-
sary to utilize in some way To dis
tinguish an old fowl from a young one
examine carefully the legs and feet. If
rough and hard, especially the under
A more certain test is to examine the
breastbone. If rigid and stiff the fowl
is old IL young this bone will yield
like gristle, to pressure. However, the
old chicken can be made quite as edible
as the young one If the cooking is un-
derstood.
or receptacle a piece of butter about
the size of an egg, half a teacupful
of boiling water, according to the size
of the chicken, putting in the fowl last.
Place over steady. hot fire, cover tightly
with tin cover, fitting inside the kettle.
and place on top weight Ga fiatiron
will dol and steam until partially
cooked: then haste as when roasting
The fowl will be tender and can be
served hot from the oven as IL roasted.
Mrs f. Bradshaw, 1911 Octavia
street)-Cooks imagine that lump of
soda in the water is absolutely neces-
cary. This is mistake it is true that
pot be not quite clean it will often
soften the dirt and make it adhere TO
the vegetables Instead of adding soda
to the water try adding two teaspoon.
brown sugar This is far more whole
some than soda. softens the water and
helps to keep the vegetables a good
color.
Came Cap for Scalp Dressing--For
the retention OF an application or
dressing on the scalp a gauze cap may
age and. for children especially, it will
be more comfortable and less apt to
gauze (cheese cloth) about yard long
and 2s inches wide (for an adult head)
is Folded on its length. The gauze Is
then laid on the head. with the long
fold next to the scalp and the folded
end a little below the occiput. the
free end Of the long fold thus hanging
Snort fold is brought to a Convenient
position, and its ends are tied snugly
lifted back over the short end and tied
snugly beneath the occiput. The cap
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-02-04

Israel Ovenstein. junk peddlsr.
charged with murder for striking
Borab Landau on the head with a
shovel. fracturing his skull. in a yard
at Twenty Seventh avenue and .
street January Is. was held for trial
before the superior court by Police
Judge Weller yesterday afternoon on
a charge OF manslaughter. The Judge
hxed the bonds az 81 600 or $500 cash.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-02-04

is on his way east to confer with the
fGctOry oficials TO see IL il IL possible
10 get a larger lot OF tires for the local
trade, and the sales have increased TO
necessity
A. c. Leonard OF the ". d. Neverf
rubber company agents for the Good
year tires. will leave today for Los An
geles. where he is to hold conferences
with the heads of the company.
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100000
Pounds a Day

What more ample proof could be had
of the superiority and marked popu-
Iarity of the Whiting Papers than the
record noted above? Ask for them
at your stationer's.
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FAST TRIP FOR
WHITE OFFICIAL
Sales Manager c. A. Eastman
Will Cover Considerable
Territory in Six Weeks
Intends to Visit the Eastern
Shows Before He Returns
to the City
By K. K. PH0nfmedieU

A week at Chicago to attend the
automobile show; a week to visit the
factory of the White company at Cleve-
land; four days to reach Butte. Mon;
two weeks TO tour by automobile to
Spokane, Davenport. Walla Walla. Sc
attic, Tacoma, Puyallup and Portland:
a week at the city of roses for another
automobile show and three days to
travel from Portland TO San Francisco.
That is the itinerary c. A. Eastman.
Pacific coast manager OF the White
company, has mapped out for the next
six weeks. He will leave on the over
land limited this morning for the windy
city.
'I would like to motor the entire
distance from Chicago to Portland and
then on down to San Francisco, but
my time is too limited said Eastman
last night. However. ] look for ex-
periences worth relating on my tour
through Montana. as the roads in that
part of the country are none too favor
able for automobiling at this time of
the year"
Eastman has never been a visitor at
any of the important automobile shows.
He was at the home of the White sew
eral years ago, but has not seen the
new White factory, one of the largest
and most complete in the world. East
man will make arrangements immedi-
atel upon his arrival at Cleveland TO
have a five passenger 40 horsepower
White steamer shipped to Butte, and
from there he will drive it overland
to Portland, visiting various agents en-
route.
Norman de Vaux reports that he has
held a reception since the four. cylinder
s.. auburn arrived last
.,hu ryI;n,h. Saturday. There
Very steep Hin have been many
e. v sit tors to the
sale sro o m, and
many demonstrations accordingly. The
car has been continually sent over the
California street hill. which it has taken
taken this week for early deliveries for
this car.
The wet weather does not seem to
stop the buying of automobiles. ]. w.
Leavitt & Co, re-
Ieayitt Makes port nice bust
Many sales ness this week. The
-. company has sold
StoddGrd Dayton
50 horsepower four cylinder roadster to
Frederick A. Fallon of this city; a 10
horsepower one cylinder REQ runabout
to Captain Mckinney, also of this city;
power has been sold 10 A. e Cooper of
Salinas, and a Stoddard Dayton As
horsepower four cylinder roadster to
Edward Dalton of Sacramento
The specially designed Stearns car
arrived in the city yesterday. The car
is Tor walter Ho-
1uoh.r.,. Ste,rr.f bart of Burlingame.
Arr;ye. a. Citv 1t is to be delivered
= = today. Hobart or
dered o Y a T
heavy tourist tires on the car. The Re-
lance auto company has received word
that the Stearns exhibit at the New
York show was very popular. one OF
the sales recorded being TO John Jacob
Aston. who bought three cars. a road
ster being delivered at the show. c. 3.
Warren, coast sales manager of the F..
3. Stearns company has returned from
his visit TO the Los Angeles show. He
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-02-04
Ca. Users. Ga. users.

Gas pressure regulated. pipes and
burners kept in order, light improved
Rental by the month. Gas Consumers
Association. 346 Haight street. Phone
Park SAG.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-02-04

was most enthusiastic over the event
and believes that San Francisco should 1
hold a show.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-02-04
Society Hears Miss KembIe

Miss Kemble's interpretative study
of a 'Pelleas ano Melisande" last
evening IN the colonial concert hall
at the st. Francis was a society event
as well as a musical event of unique
interest The affair attracted several
hundred guests TO the white and gold
auditorium, while a number of dinner
parties preceded the concert.
Among those who entertained at din
ner and afterward at a box party was
Mrs Eleanor Martin and among those
in the Martin box were the following
guests:
AIr; and Mrs. Horace D. Mr.. Balfour
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis Martin
vS Carol aow,.,a ]. pOwney Harvey
Colonel and Mrs. J. c. Kirkpatrick
had as their guests Suzanne Kirkpat-
rick, Arthur Brown and several young
people.
Wilberforce Williams was host at
an elaborate dinner party and attended
the concert later with his guests
Among those in the party We're:
Mrs. c: o; Alexander Melville Bowman
Mis- Harriet Alexander Samuel Hamilton
Miss Newell Drown
Mr.. and Mrs. William G. Irwin had a
box with their daughter. Miss Helene
Irwin, and several friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Stetson Wheeler
entertained number of friends in their
box, and Templeton Croker had several
guests IN his box. Mrs Emma Shafter
Howard entertained friends. Miss
Genevieve King was in the audience
with guests. Mrs. James Ellis Tucker
had a number of friends with her at
the concert.
The patronesses and patrons for the
event last evening were as follows:
Mrs. William G. Irwin Mrs Isaac L. Requa
Mrs. Walter S. Martini Mrs Oscar Fitzalan
Mrs. George A. New Long
hall Mrs Frank c. Ravens
Mrs. Rudolph Spreck- Mrs. Charles Egbert
els Mrs. Walter MacGaTfn
Mrs Charles Stetson Mrs Eugene Lent
Wheeler Mrs NJ. c. Sloss
Mrs james Ellis Mrs William Fries
TuckerO lC. Templeton Croker
Mrs. George II. Mendel R. NJ. Tobin
Jr. lDr Harry Teyis
Mrs. Eleanor Martin Henry T. Scott
Mrs. Phebe Hearst J. Downey Harvey
Mrs. Gertrude Atherton
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-02-04
HIS DISCORDS ARE
SOUL DISTURBING
Miss Margaret KembIe Explains
Musical Setting to Maeter-
Iinck's Eosteric Drama
Critic Hears That Composers
Music Needs a Guide and
Believes 1t
By Walter Anthony

Chasm leaping rhythms, soul disturb
ing discords, inharmonic combinations
of notes whereby G sharp becomes kin
to D fat in the twinking of an eye and
without an apparent diatonic relation
in the world were the subjects of Miss
Margaret Kemble's discourse last night
at the ST. Francis hotel, where. in the
concert room, she did her best with
three pianists and Arthur Weiss eel
list to explain Claude AchiIle Debussy's
musical setting of Maeterlink's esoteric
drama. "Pelleas and Melisande.''
To the symbolism of Maeterlink' s
drama Debussy has added a deeper fog.
Perhaps an orchestra of so players
might make plain his meaning, but no
grand piano, however eloquent under
agile fingers. could be expected to ham
mer the musical thought home. Miss
Kemble said in the course of her lee
ture that Debussey had renowned
Wagner and had foresworn his scheme
OF q leading motive 1 believe il. De-
busy is undoubtedly great composer
and we are in debt TO Miss Kemble for
giving US a chance to hear him. but his
music needs guide. He is like a trav-
eler VINO takes you into strange land
and shows you places and things you
never heard of and in which you never
had the slightest interest.
This" says he, sis a minor ninth
chord suspended. 1t indicates irreso-
luton and uncertainty. 1t is very fine.
I struggled hard to proceed against the
laws of harmony and I arrived at this
point with great effort. Is it not a
most unusual effect?"
Then you wonder why Beethoven
does not need a guide, and why all the
lecturers on Wagner are futile before
/ his passionate music. Debussy on q
grand piano with pretty lecturer in
a well fitting blue gown to introduce
it is not music though many may think
/ il is worth enjoying. It is, doubtless
much better than ii sounds.
! However, I am willing to admit my
debt to Miss Kemble and her pupils
the Misses Ethel Keshishyan, Laura
/ Anderson and Ester Deininger, for Civ
( ing me a chance TO hear even the faint
echo vibrated on piano strings from
/ Debussy's big orchestral score.
Maybe, well never hear the opera. ]
think it viii not survive the transcon-
tinental trip, and that its indifference
I however well studied and contrived
viii prevent it entering the lists with
Lucia Die Walkure,' ''Otello,'
/ "LOhengrin," I'll Trovatore," "Caval-
leria' and other operas with a musical
! backbone and a definite key
The opera, 1 believe, was first pro.
duced in Paris in 1902, and judging
! from the score. as Transcribed for the
piano, and well played last night, II
/ has all the faults of Wagner. Strauss
and the rest of the modern dissonantal
composers. 1t only lacks their melody
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-02-04
NOTES. ora THE AUTO

Another shipment of Thomas and
Oldsmobiles arrived yesterday at the
salesroom of the Pioneer automobile
company Included in the shipment is
one of the new models of the Oldsmo-
bile This is the first of this style Of
this citv
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-02-04

d. z. Whitman reports that the first
carload OF Regal ears have been Il days
on the road and should arrive soon
Whitman reports that he has booked
80 orders for Regal cars
G.. E. Johnson. coast manager OF the
Fisk rubber company. has written 20
the city from Seattle that business in
that territory is exceedingly good. He
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-02-04

The wet weather does not seem
stop the buying of automobiles. ].
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-02-04
Auburn Climbs
Very Steep Hill

many demonstrations accordingly. The
car has been continually sent over the
California street hill. which it has taken
easily A number of deposits have been
taken this week for early deliveries for
this car.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-02-04

Norman de VauX reports that he has
held a reception since the four. cylinder
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-02-04

thus adjusted consists of three thick
nesses of gauze.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-02-04
Leavitt Makes
Many Sales

35 horsepower four cylinder roadster to
Frederick A. Fallon of this city; 10
horsepower one cylinder REQ runabout
to Captain Mckinney, also of this city.
Another REQ of the same model and
power has been sold TO A. z. Cooper of
Salinas, and a Stoddard Dayton As
horsepower four cylinder roadster to
Edward Dalton of Sacramento.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-02-04

The specially designed Stearns car
arrived in the city yesterday. The car
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-02-04
Hobart's Stearns
Arrives I'm City

heavy tourist tires
lance auto compan.
that the Stearns {
York show was w
the sales recorded
Aston. who bought
ster being delivered
Warren. coast sales
3. Stearns company
his visit to the Los
New-York tribune., 1909-01-17
BOOK III.
The Crucial Moments
CHAPTER XII.
Mrs. Haldane Is Surprised

THE Ha1dane family usually partook ot uncn51I"
together. Breakfast an irregular u..~srrs rg(
and dinner usually brought many enS17 S'7'. liter
which widely separated them. te" d1zS over
the nro}osrd orntine to the Gotham FreiSht
Traction Company of tine New York StI5f. STfl md
Company franchise still at its heighl. ting
Mrs Haldane and their daughter, Alle1 y i-,v-T.
sometime for the arrival OF Livingstone ~
to luncheon without him 81 - the
The conversation turned. it usually Ill q -,
campaign Haldane looked worried wen nc st -,-7
be- The action of Gormlv his adroItneSS III VIZ ~
inc the pledge he had got from the Mayor I ll9
fact that the city was Thoroughly IiL4r{ a. so
as never before to the situation, were cl~ the
increase his anxiety, which had grown "''
Cgrfrzs1 on Page II
New-York tribune., 1909-01-17

VET there is another thing / ought % say. lol--
tiuued Gorrnlv- " You have spoken OF my career.
| am not altogether worthy OF E5ur J'i-lie10V.
What dc YOU mean,
Ever since | have been IN New '-a mere Is 10 10
act of my life that could not tel, YOU my SELL '''
before that :rr-
You were a boy then. said the woman 4l'CNll.
But l mingled with life IN an ugly way .-,r
That ride IN the snow she "Hist tc.-.l, S-1---7
at him in turn. ...-,,
1t did not occur to him To lay an. y-l -i'S,' UE
draw any inference from the tact ina. S-9 - -
remembered his remarks OF several months -1--l
And that other woman was It she -'i "Io--- W.
rode" she went
Yes" said he L,.
Did You do anything that makes yoo unworthy
the respect Of .,- dis
Not a thing that of itself was III any way ~
honorable" answered GOrmly. lHI "Il-'l1 = -
was. have repented of II long since anu ",'- ~
made amends if | could have done ~J- -dl
if | ever should come to YOU with that .t"esS'- -
shall tell YOU all about It rs It Is d'i- L ~" 1s
even the fantest shadow of pretense about i-E 7o-
where YOU are concerned 80 .>,r,-' %
You were only boy as YOU SAY Alr- OIIl-,-
said Miss Haldane after long pause -
know what it is nor do | wish 20 now. ~, ~,
what YOU are the world knows what \o" nav 80
since YOU have been here. and sGt . ,-orI
her hand TO him trust YOU. would UUS' ~
with ANYTHING. , -s
The man took it in both his own Ihey W. w.
stretching out bevOnd the city. No one "''9 - -
The two in front were busy about the" Own ''
Germs He bent over 1t and kissed It ierE chlIE.
i thank YOU for that he salt Sr1iN 10 III ~
leased It.