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Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-14
VOTING THAT WILL COUNT

The rottenness 6here is no other
word) of many of the shows" on the
American stage today, particularly in
New York city, affords an opportunity
for the women of America to cast eff
fective votes, in fact decisive votes, on
one great moral question without wait
ing for permission from the legislative
halls of men.
New York city is to the United States
what Paris is to the world. the play
ground. Good people, people called good
in their home towns, when seeking
something a little risque, just a wee bit
devilish, must needs visit New York.
Or, again, if other things bring them to
New York, New York times inspire that
wee bit devilsh spirit; and the result is
the patronage of shows the reputation
of which has been spread everywhere
by newspapers that must seize upon
and exploit everything immoral or bor-
dering thereon. And what New York
has demanded travels in more or less
varied form from end to end of this
great country. And the women of this
country, women that are good, are to-
day thoughtlessly yet most harmfully
patronizing these very Shows"
Charles Burnham, president of the
Association of Theater Managers, be-
fore the Entertainment club recently,
speaking on this subject gave utter
ance to a statement that, bald as it is,
cannot be but most unpalatable to
every good woman. Yet it is true He
is reported to have said "a manager
to be successful must cater to the aud
fence. Every self-respecting manager
would like to be an Irving or a DAILY,
but New York is a town of sensation.
1t runs wild after a reputation. Let
but the word be passed that a play is
broad or indicate, and the town runs
wild about it, while some play of merit,
bright and entertaining, is laid on the
shelf. Women are more to be blamed
for this than men. No play can exist
that is not patronized by women" The
DelineatOr
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-14
DEADLY DRINKING CUP

When a good water supply has been
secured the battle is partly but not
wholly won. Safe means of drinking
the water in public places, particularly
in schools, must be provided. Among
these means the common drinking cup,
hanging by a chain from the MIGRANT
NAV not be included. Unless very
great precautions are taken it is not
only dirty but dangerous. When such
a cup is used it should be boiled very
frequently-once a day at least. rms
task should not be entrusted to an ig-
norant person who docs not believe in
germs" but to a person who knows
that most of the diseases OF children
can be transmitted from one to an
other.
The Individual folding cup enclosed in
n case is sometimes recommended, but
this has few practical advantages over
the common cup and it is anti-social.
1t means that few parents know the
dangers to which children are SUB
jected in school, but are not soclallzlng
their knowledge and not protecting all
the children of the community. A pub
lie water supply should be publicly and
effectively guarded. 1t should repre-
sent the highest wisdom of the COM
munity placed at the service of the
weakest member of the community.
But the folding cup is really no
panacea. The child that is selfish
enough to refuse his cup to his neigh
Dor is not the stuff out of which good
citizens are made and he should not
be encouraged. After the cup has been
shared it is much safer if hung up on
the wall in the light than shut up in
n metal case. We may therefore re-
iect folding cups except as temporary
expedients. The only sure way is to
abandon the use of cups in public
places. The best substitute is probably
bubble drinking fountains.
first saw these fountains in use in
Saranac, N Y, a town which had been
literally scared into protecting itself
because of the large number of con-
sumptives coming into it for treat
ment. says a writer in LaFollette's.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-14

In the easements of the schools are
long soap stone troughs. In each
trough are nine or ten small upright
tubes from which come jets of water
about three inches high. OF course l
experimental with these new drinking
fountains and / found that it was Just
as easy to drink from the bubble as
from a cup, that the water tasted Just
as good, if not better, and that the wa
ter did not drip down the front of my
gown as 1 expected it to. l was con-
Verted on the spot That was many
years ago and yet up to this time pu
pills in enlightened townsville clean
and the dirty the sick and the we'll
are encouraged to use a common cup.
Some one raises the question of eX-
pense. He has probably been studying
the catalog of a firm dealing in plumb
ers' supplies, and has discovered
kind of fountain which resembles a
baptismal font and costs twenty or
thirty dollars. That kind is beautiful
Gt might be very much more beautiful
if some artist would supply a design
but it is needlessly expensive. The
Saranac plan is much more practicable.
Or better still, in old buildings, the
direction of the inlet pipe of an or
binary hydrant may be changed and
a tip attached to it in such a way
as to throw a small jet of water. If
the water rate is high a stopcock may
be used which will shut off the water
when it is not needed. Our illustra-
ton shows hydrant of the old kind
which has been converted into a con-
when it is not needed.
One word more about the rural
schools. The dirtiest of all water sup
plies is a pail into which a cup is re-
peatedly dipped. For this a pitcher
or a covered ever should be substi-
tuted. This change and the frequent
boiling of the cups remove part of the
danger
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-14

r INQUIRY into the causes of the pres
ent economic status of women is
Il necessary and wholesome, and also
fruitful of theories for betterment; but
while commissions investigate, by
nainstaking. scientific methods, the peo-
ple are confronted by conditions which
are immediate and pressing, ana can
not be referred to a committee. so,
while the homes commission works out
it's stupendous problem, the general
movement to improve the condition OF
working women, under the leadership
of Miss Ann Morgan, is worthy OF at
tention and cooperation, and 1t is espe-
cially gratifying that the committee on
the Improvement of the condltloh OF
the women employees of the government
is headed by the intelligent and pupllc-
spirited wife of our president MIS-
William II. Taft.
The nresent seems to be suitable
time to call general attention to fact
which not only affects the woman work
err but nullifies the law enacted by men,
in good faith, to improve and equallze
the conditions which formerly existed
in the civil service.
The conception of the original civil
service law was equality of advantage
passage of the act both men and Wo-
men sought places under it's provisions.
Women received in many cases, as the
result of examination, the highest
rating and were appointed. Whereupon
politicians found it expedient to pro-
vide a way practically to create test
of fitness outside of the examination
and not contemplated by the law, and
to prevent the certifcation of the names
of those who received the highest
rating.
This was accomplished by securing a
presidential rule-which, having been
approved by the commission, under the
language of the act becomes part of the
law-to the effect that a bureau officer
may ask for certification of names of
men or women, as he shall elect. Now
bureau officers are all men, and gem
orally politicians. The consequence is
that they ask for men, and the sole test
of fitness is, in actual practice, one of
sex If ten men are examined and re
ceive a rating of n to 50 per cent, and
ten women are examined and are rated
from IS to 80 per cent, the men may all
be appointed and the women ignored.
Thus is the law effectually nullified.
AS a result of this rule there have been
almost no appointments of women to
clerical positions under the commission,
and the number of women in the execu-
tive departments is gradually dimin-
ishing.
Large numbers of girls are appointed
as unskilled and skilled laborers on a
low grade competitive examination, at
a very small salary or with compensa-
ton as piece workers. The money coun-
ters in the treasury department are al
most exclusively women, frequently en-
tering the service by the road of APP
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-14
CHILDREN MUST R0MP
TO DEVELOP BOTH
LUNGS AND MUSCLES

The mother who wishes her boy or
girl to be a pink of propriety, who
rates good clothes and repressed man
nors above healthful romping and nat
ural noisiness of childhood is laying
up for herself disappointment. Either
her children fall short of her foolish
ideal, or meeting it she learns too late
she has reared Miss Nancies and in
Valids.
An old doctor who lived next to a big
primary school was asked if the noise
and romping of the children at recess
did not annoy him.
Not half so annoying, madam, as III
they were a set of silent little prigs, for
I'd know that the parents of those chill
dren would be botherlng me with their
ailments. Youth needs to romp to keep
we'll"
There is an old saying: at is better
to wear clothes than blankets" If you
do not banker after nursing, let your
boy and girl romp to their hearts con-
tent What il it does tear their clothes
to wrestle, to roll down hill or jump in
the haymoW? Bodies cost more to re-
pair, than frocks, and doctors bills
come higher than worn out shoes and
stockings.
There is nothing more pitiable than
the child who Is under constant re-
SlGdlllI. "A
to the mother of an active and naughty
child: 1T is refreshing to hear of her
pranks. Most children nowadays are
Sc repressed with governesses tagging
after them with constant don't that
they have all originality destroyed"
Let your children romp all they will.
Choose places for their rough play.
Let the children understand that romp-
ing in the drawing room or in the pres
ence of company is not to be tolerated.
but the rest of the time permit play,
though it verges on boisterousness.
What if rough play is hard on the
nerves of older people? 1t is excellent
to prevent nerves in the Riddles them
selves. Less restraint of children is
needed than most mothers will be-
lieve.
The old cat can teach a lesson to-
many a human parent when she linn
bers herself to play with her kittens
string.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-14
The Government and
Its Women Workers

pointment as skilled laborer in the bu-
reau of engraving and printing. When
the wearisomeness and health-destroy-
ing nature of their employment are con-
sidered, and their responsibility for all
losses by error and counterfeitS, their
average pay is ridiculously small. Yet
an effort has been made to reduce 1T
far below living wages, because the held
is solely occupied by women.
Success in any attempt to reduce wo-
mems wages in the service seems prob
able. If one appeals to history for prec-
edent and prophecy. Forty years ago
the, minimum wage for men engaged in
clerical work in the civil service was
$1,000 per annum; for women, 5000. The
official hours were from 9 a. IN. to 3
p. m. Afterward a grade for women
was established at $720 per annum, and
an hour was added to the clerical day.
Following in rather close succession,
grades were established at $1,000, at $S4O,
at $780, at $3.50, at $3.50, at $3.50; a year
or two ago a grade of $500 was pro-
posed, but failed of enactment. Mean
time another half-hour was added to
the day, and the hours are now from
8 a. m. to 4:30 p. m.
1t is thus made apparent that while
the present clerical grading is said to
have been established in the early
fifties, the standard of wages has been
reduced by the institution of seven
lower grades, through which women,
and sometimes men, must climb to
reach living salary, and by two addi-
tions to the length of the official day;
and this has occurred during a period
when the cost of living has been con-
stant1y advancing.
In 1904 the force of federal employees
numbered 150,3S3, Of whom 1892, or be-
tween 8 and per cent, were females.
OF this small proportion 9519 received
less than 5000 per annum, which was
the lowest salary at which women were
appointed forty years ago. This well
illustrates the attitude of the govern
ment toward women.
In pausing to glance at the anomalous
retrogression of wages, I do not wish to
divert attention from the subject of this
article-the Punishment of women from
the service.
This question was asked of a certain
bureau officer: You have said many
times that your women clerks are more
faithful, more accurate, more conscien-
tious than the men and equally COM
petent and hence entitled to promotion.
Why, then, do you always ask the COM
mission for men?"
This was his answer: "Women are
entitled to the appointments under the
law, and by reason of their equal eff
cheney. They are also justly entitled
to the suffrage. But they have not the
suffrage, and so they cannot have the
appointments. The voters must have
the places. If you women want posi-
tions in the civil service you must first
secure citizenship through the ballot"
There is the situation in a NUTSHELL
Ruth G.. D. Havens, in Harper's
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-14

w OMANKIND has heard and
w known of sewing bees almost
w ever since the ark was built
and f1oated. but the embroidery bee"
has lust come to town. Though in
some features practically the same
thing as the "buzzer" which produces
merely useful garments, there is pleas
ing variation in this needle spree, ana
many a time the Individual worker
thereat builds exquisite needleWork
that will be treasured by her descend
ants for generations.
This present epidemic for embroidery
has resulted in at least one great pen
eft Old and exquisite designs are the
ones which are being most copied and
new ones need to be very choice to get
any notice from fingers of taste. SO
this bee has aristocratic traditions and
a family tree. The grandfathers ana
grandmothers of stitches are known,
and each worker vies with her neigh
Dor for perfection of result.
For an embroidery bee of actual ele-
gance, then, one must know something
of the history of stitches. SO ask for
a book on old embroieeries at the pub
lie library and astonish your frlends
with your knowledge of the art.
A smart embroidery bee has stamp
of antiuuated elegance. Invitations
recently issued to one were printed In
old script on long, narrow cards ana
framed in a quaint outlining of red
and black. Two dozen women were
invited and the request for their So
ciety on the day specified read as fol-
lows:
Sweet Madam: You are hereby bee
seeched to bring your tapestries and
linen shifts to our home for an en-
broidery bee The day is the second
Thursday succeeding holy Easter, and
the hour is of the afternoon clock.
Sweet Madam, you are beseeched
also not to forget your housewife and
excellent appetite.
THE RED HOUSE"
When the guests arrived each one
took off her hat and wraps in dressing
rooms and appeared in the room of
sweet stitchery wearing a little ribbon
trimmed apron, finished at the bottom
with a deep pocket. Low chairs were
supplied for the comfort of the stitch
ers and after a little work and merry
talk each guest told some story on en-
broidery.
one lady's tale included a ghost
which haunted house with woeful
cries until the piece of embroidery
which was left unfinished was found
and laid out. The tale ended, of course,
with the solemn declaration that this
actual piece of needlework, finished by
the hand of the dead. was in some
body's family. Ghosts and embroidery
go together famously. but if there are
suueamsh guests who object to them
they need not be raised.
In the middle of the room in which
the guests were assembled was table
streWn with the conveniences of work
needles, bodl1ins, scissors, piercers,
otc Ar half mast four a bite was
served. this consisting of sandwiches
of several sorts, tea, chocolate and fruit
punch. And when the guests went
home each looked as if she had beer
having very good time, you may be
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-14
FORTUNA

The wind blows east, the wind blows west,
And the frost falls and the rain;
A weary heart went thankful to rest,
And must rise to toll again, again,
And must rise to toll again.
The wind blows east, the wind blows west,
And there comes good luck and bad;
The thriftiest man is the cheerfulest-
IT'S a thriftless thing to be sad sad,
IT'S thriftless thing to be sad.
The wind blows east, the wind blows west,
Ye shall know a tree by its fruit,
This world, they say, is worst to the best,
But a bastard has evil to boot. boot,
But bastard has evil to boot.
The wind blows east, the wind blows west,
What skills 1t to mourn to talk?
A Journey l have, and for ere I rest,
must bundle my wallets and walk and
walk,
I must bundle my wallets and walk
The wind does blow 1t lists Away,
Canst thou change this world to thy mind?
The world will wander Its own wise way,
1 also will wander mine. mine,
I also i'll wander minea
Thomas CARLYLE.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-14
Happens Sometimes

eve have a jewel of cook now"
"So?"
"Yes when she's offended she mere-
ly growls and smashes things, where
the average cook would leave. KAN
sas City Journal.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-14
RETTINA,s MANDOLIN

Her hammock swings low in the branches,
AS the mandolin tnkles its song;
Bettina's sweet fingers are trilling
The strings and my poor heart along.
Bettnas conquettish young gances,
When the mandolin whispers an air.
Are. Yes" and then NO" both together
Oh, pity, two instruments there
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-14

Welsh residents of Seattle will hold mu-
steal contests at the Alaska Yukon Pacific
exposition opening June l. The program is
ton
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-15
Byron Many Indofsed by the Independent
Republican Clubs Gives His Views
lReproduosd from The CAN for Saturday. July g


Here facts about the life and personality of Buon
Mauzy. candidate of the league of independent clubs for
The republican nomination and his
Of the campaign They given By Mr. Mauzy ansper to
questions put by a representative of The Call:
Fortynine DID, born Indiana California years married
children
Educated high schools started Francisco
Is years ago.
Embarked for himself as manufacturer OF pianos and dealer
has been successful and still conducts that
Has been actively interested politics
Francsco attended several
ican before candidate for public ohce
league of
republican clubs.
Hech Hetchy Municipal Water Pojche
rights and develop needed supply
has been granted by government practically expense
while other being filed private corporations
a exorbitant prices
Gas RatesGas should be fixed
actual value Dividends should asked paid
stock
reason of the consequent elimination of competition"
United Railroads Attempt Monopoly
Il believe honest should be
right of lower Market and believe
should make fight the settlement
Resubnssion of Gey Municipal Railroad Project
should be submitted the
The people them be heard
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-15
MACKENZIE GORDON AND
MISS COOPE MARRIED
Service Performed in Home OF
Brides Mother

Mackenzie Gordon and Miss Ethel
EgertOn COOpe were married at the
home of the brides mother. Mrs. Bertha
COOpe, in EeavenwOrth street yester-
day afternoon. About dozen friends
of the young couple were present and
the service was read by Rev. George
c. Adams. The bride was given away
by her grandfather 5. W. Billing.
There were no attendants.
The bride wore a simple gown of white
lace over satin and carried a shower
bouquet of lilies of the valley. In
stead of the conventional veil the bride
wore a semiwreath. of lilies in her
dark hair.
Mrs. COOpe, mother of the bride
wore gown of black lace over satin.
and assisted after the ceremony at the
informal reception. A. wedding supper
was served. after which Mr.. and Mrs.
Gordon LETT on a honeymoon trip. They
will return to reside in this city at
1850 Leavenworth street, where Cor
don Will establish his studio.
Gordon is a popular member of the
Bohemian and Family clubs. while his
bride. has a wide social acquaintance.
She is a daughter OF the late j. F.
Coope of Santa Cruz and passed her
girlhoOd in this city.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-15

sonal gum shoeing, but his fight has
been left for the most part in the hands
of the regular organization.
WRITE HENEY,s NAME
The name of no candidate for district
attorney is printed on the democratic
ballot. The anti-McNab democrats
have passed the word to their followers
to write in the name of Francis J.
Heney- The same thing has been done
in organization circles, but less sys-
tematically.
The union labor county committee
has instructed the followers of Nc
Carthy to write in the names of
Charles M Fickert for district attor-
ney, Thomas +. Boyle for auditor and
E. p. Shortall for police Judge.
San Francisco's first direct primary
campaign has differed in many respects
from the characteristic direct primary
campaign in those states which pre-
ceeded California with direct nominal
ton statutes. The first and most radj-
cal difference was shown in the mat
ter of Endorsement of candidates and
slate building. In eastern direct pri-
mary states candidates for partisan
nominations learned quickly to fight
shy of formal. Endorsements nv fac
tionaI organizations. They learned
from most unpleasant object lessons
that with the direct primary law as a
weapon of attack as well as defense
the people were prone to resent anv-
thing like organized interference with
their right to choose their partisan
nominees.
In San Francisco organized move
ments in each Of the three parties
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-15
William Croker, Favored by Businessmen
Committee, Expresses His Views
oRsprodnesd from The Cali for THURSDAY. July %

Reproduce The all for Thursday a
Here facts about the life and personality of William
CrOcta candidate of the buscsmen committee for the republican
and his of campaign
They BY Mr.. Crocta questions byd
representative of The Call:
Fone DID, born in England has resided years.
San Francisco "a years.
Learned rad the planning
became of the leaders in that industry; n
Seeks Office money personal sacrifice in
Difference wishes advice of
something for the city.
Knows nothing politics; attended
affairs
Hetch Hetchy Municipal Water Project
familiar enough with
should have good
for its acquisition l prepared say"
Gas Raes have
fixing be
find what be made sold
United Railroads Attempt Secure Monopoly
That purely law, which qualified answer
entitled to what the law allows
Projecs long
recently had subject people expressed
their opinion there questions vital for
salt auxiliary protection sewers sidewalks
schools and the rehabilitation of the ciys buildings"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-15

which figure more than nominaliy, have
put up in whole or in in part what they
are pleased to call tickets. Personal
letters addressed to voters, newspaper
advertising, personal solicitation and
public meetings are the accepted direct
primary methods in the past The
public meeting has been an insig-
nificant factor in San Francisco's first
primary campaign and newspaper adj
vertising has not been used.
The signs of the time indicate that
in at least one respect the first primary
election in California will closely re-
semble the primary elections in the
eastern states. The indications are
that the people of San Francisco are
going to vote in record breaking mum
bers. The most conservative estimates
place the total vote at from 10000 to
$4,000, with probable republican vote
of $4,000 to $4,000: democratic, from
$500 to 10000; union labor, $500 to
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