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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-19
About Designing

= HE girl who has just been grad
uated from some school or course
OF study usually begins to think
about what she is going TO do next
One girl who is very much interested
in clothes says she wants to be de-
signer-not a dress maker, but a de-
signer. and wishes TO know how she is
TO set about learning that business
To become a designer. however, is
not exactly question OF lessons 1t
depends entirely upon the pupil whether
she Will he a success or not. A
life time of lessons will not produce a
designer unless there is talent that can
be brought out As an instructor In
designing once canGidly remarked, 1T
is impossible to teach designing. One
can explain principles and teach the
why and wherefore. but after that the
ideas must come from the pupil, and
II she does not possess originality then
she is, OF course. failure. A teacher
can do no more for her" The best
thing for an ambitious girl to do would
be TO originate a pretty garment and
show the sketches TO those people who
are likely TO be interested in such a
subject, as the heads of dress making
departments, either In large stores or
private establishments. II the sketch
showed originality these people would
be quick 20 see 1t and a chance for
submitting other ideas would surely
follow.
Schooling or training is all very well
as far as it goes, but some of the most
successful women are those who have
not been trained theoretically, but have
put their ideas into practice and have
gone on improving by experience.
One dress maker just retired upon an
ample competence says she never at
tended a school for dress making or
designing in her life. and yet she is an
expert in both branches, and one hears
the same thing among any number of
women employed in different occupa-
tons.
AS with designing. so it is with mil
linery. Girls can be taught how to
cover hats. make frames, bind, fashion
bows. etc, but trimming can never be
taught 1t must be Unborn. One young
woman who learned the trade OF a
milliner may still be making hats at
only a little higher salary than when
she started while another who never
paid for a single lesson may be re-
ceiving an exceedingly large salary as
a trimmer.
girl can be taught to trim one hat
or design one gown. but after that
everything depends upon herself.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-19

lawn. 1t was her dolly. She waited
no longer and started across the street
It all happened So quickly no one
knew just how IL was. An automobile
whizzed around the corner There was
a mans ..Oarse slrshut--a sickening
thud-a wild scream from an upper
window-and a child's limp form and
white face framed in sunny curls lay
in the road. They raised the little
blood streaked figure. but her in her
mothers arms. and the automobile
rushed to the nearest hospital with it's
precious burden There was rapid
consultation and the child was hurried
to the operating table. while a white
faced woman moaned softly In the
anteroon1
TT is serious" the DOCTOR reported.
Her head is badly bruised and the
machine ran over her right leg. But
if there are no internal injuries she
will probably recover. And she did
Her mother. pale and anxious. stayed
with her daily as long as the doctor
would permit. lowering over her baby,
hungrily. thankfully
The child, though out or'danger. con-
valesced slowly and was restless and
fretfuI One morning she was asleep
when her mother arrived and the trim
white capped nurse raised a warning
finger The curly bandzged head
moved restlessly and the soft little
cheek on the snowy pillow was flushed
with fever.
she had a restless night" said the
nurse. she called frequently for a
Mrs. Murphy. Is she her Nurse
Mrs. Scotts hands clasped suddenly.
a light came into her eyes, and as
quickly they filed with tears
sOh. why didn't think OF IL before.
she whispered In distress. Mrs. Murphy
is her doll. She was going for her
when-when this happened. Has she
asked for il beforee
only once or twice. didn't know
who Mrs. Murphy was. You know the
rule is strict about visitors" said the
nurse. smiling.
The mother smiled, too. through her
tears.
II viii go and get il before she
awakes," she said softly.
Half am hour later Wiggie stirred
restlessly and opened her eyes with a
little fretful cry. Then she felt some
thing in her arms and looked down.
Her blue eyes opened wider. My
dolly she murmured drowsily. M
dolly and she Rugged the precious
treasure rapturOusly.
A few minutes later she was again
asleep. Her sunny curls rested low
ingly on Mrs. Murphys battered head.
her arms clasped tightly the pOrtly
form. and on her baby face rested a
happy smile of supreme content
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-19

Paper, LADY," sang a voice in her
ear, and small. grimy fist stuck a
dsily In front of her. The very thing:
I'll take one" she said. hastily
selling the first he offered her and
wrapping it around the doll The boy
watched her with wide open eyes.
Gee" he commented, II amt stuck
on the kid"
Mrs. Scott eyed her awkward news
paper parcel with almost as much
disfavor as she had shown to the dofi
itself, and suddenly decided to post
pone further shopping and take the
first car home. Now, why didn't I
give 1T to that little newsboy? He
may have a little sister" she pondered.
Then she smiled whimsieally. She
knew she would not have dared TO
offer 1t. We'll" she said, mentally
addressing the object of her disfavor,
I'll have to take you home. 1 sup
pose, and then FL dress you nicely
and send you to one of the orphan
asylums for Christmas Perhaps you
won't look so bad when you are
clothed"
But closer inspection Of Mrs. MUIR
phys ephemeral charms decided her
fate. She was declared too unbeauti-
full even for an orphan asylum. and
was consigned to darkness and Oblivion
But Wiggie's dolls-those enjoying
the air-invariably enjoyed also but a
brief earthly existence. and one after
another came to the usual untimely
end
So when Mrs. Scott found Wiggie
weeping disconsolately over Betty. the
colored doll, whose woody black head
had not been proof against concus-
sion with the floor, tradition notwith-
standing, she bethought herself OF the
abandoned and neglected Mrs. Murphy.
Don't cry. wiggie," she said cheer
fully. There's ahother one.> You
haven't seen it yet"
SO Mrs. Murphy was restored to the
light and fell heir to her predecessor S
clothes-those that would meet across
her portly straw stuffed form-and to
all the love that had been bestowed
upon the others. now defunct. Wiggie
thought the whitewashed complexion
beautiful-perhaps in contrast with the
ebony one of the late Betty. She
gazed fondly, too. into the watery blue
eyes that stared insipidly back at her
and found no fault with the little
black stub that bore so slight a re-
semblance to the nose it was intended
to represent.
You must be good and careful OF
that doll. Wiggie,'' said Uncle Harry
with twinkle in his eye. she doesn't
look very strong" And Wiggie, hug
ging her close, raised her trustful blue
eyes to his.
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"She's doin' for walk with mamma
and me. She's dom to wear a shawl,
she. said proudly.
In time new dolls were added to
Wiggie's collection, but though Mrs
Murphy's charms continued to fade
with alarming rapidity. and she lost
leg and an arm in the battle of life.
Wiggies loyalty never failed. Per-
haps love made her bnnd-it does,
sometimes
The neighbors all loved Wiggie. with
her pretty, happy face and air OF sweet
shy grace, as she looked at them
through her tangle of golden brown
curls. Her unspoiled. friendly little
ways, too. made her a pet with the
children, who, when not otherwise en-
gagged Wed with each other for the
honor of playing with Wiggie." Only
to Hernnie Winters. however. the 9year
old daughter of Mrs. Scott's friend
across the street, was awarded the dis
tinction, which she found to be not
without It's responsibilities.
You may have her for little
while" said Mrs. Scott one afternoon
Take good care OF her. Hermie. and
bring her home yourself Don't trust
her TO any of the other children.
So Wiggie became the social center
of group of little girls gathered on
the pleasant lawn OF Mrs. winters
house.
II got dolly" she said shyly. hold
ing Mrs. Murphy up for exhibition. She
also proudly showed them the new red
shoes and sox on her fat little legs,
and even allowed them to curl her hair
So engaged were they that they did
not notice the first few heavy drops of
rain that had been threatening all
afternoon. and they came down in a
smart patter before the children re-
allied that It was raining. Then they
scampered wildly for home.
Hermie, mindful of her duty. seized
Wiggie's hand and hurried her across
the street. deaf to that young persons
walls and protestations.
''Hermie, my dolly, She'll dit wet
I want my dolly" she cried.
You can't have it now" said Hermie.
detsfminedly. rushing her young
charge along the garden path and de-
posting her on the lowest doorstep
go right in the house, Don't you see
how it's raining? I'll keep your dolly
for YOU" Having fulfilled her duty
as she saw it. Hermie turned and fled
precipitately homeward
Wiggie. still weepfng-angry in her
childish fashion-stood mutinously q
moment. then turned and ran, needless
of the rain, after the fleeing Hermie
For a moment the childish figure hest
tated on the edge of the sidewalk
Through the blurring rain her blue eyes
glimpsed a scrap of white on Hermie's
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-19
The Popular Girl

-TLL girls want 10 be popular II il
Il were possible 10 lay down rule
fon how 70 be popular" IL might
Include the ability 10 be good, funny
and amusing. without showing any vul-
sEsrity OF ever displaying any sign OF
bin nature This combination does not
FSeem difficult 10 acquire on hrst con-
fsideration- but analysis shows that TO
bschieve q disposition including all these
qualities requires the tact and self
control Of a diplomat; for a girl who
talks much is likely 20 make speeches
kberter left unsaid and she who is
---bri ght~ 700 often has a two edged
tongue People may laugh at her
@ssliest as they are uttered, but they
are afraid OF her The temptation TO
be smart al the expense OF another
s. FAULT that should be controlled by
the remembrance that the maker Of
such witticism IS never popular
A girl who is Jolly by nature is i'm
menseIy attractive as long as she does
not give free rein to spontaneity- Often
a little reserve is necessary 10 keep
her from Xulgarity for the Jolly per-
son is always healthy mentally, and
usually physically. and this very fact
may prevent q certain delicacy, the
lack Of which is offensive TO others.
Tor instance. every one agrees that
object 10 a little OF II in the I'M
affected conversation OF young girls on
informal occasions 1t is only when
the use of it might become unre-
strained that IL is vulgar, and a girl
must bear IN mind that certain col
IoQuial words which her brothers or
boy friends may interject into their
conversation are not permissible for
the girls themselves.
Tho rvfr II MIN se T4s~a llv iO11s- some
times provokes criticism by loud talk
ing and attracting attention. She is
such a spontaneous individual. bub-
bling over with Inconsistencies, that
loud or is conspicuous She simply
doesn't think. but it is necessary that
she should. IN point Of fact, a small
sized safety valve for repression must
be used by the thoroughly joiiy girl.
and. like the man in Doctor Holmes
poem. she must never dare to be as
funny as she can
The rock on which q bright girl fire.
Quently wrecks her popularity is that
az being too clever. Her bright re
marks are taken as sarcasm. or her
comments are TOO shrewd for the COM
fort OF others. II once she permits
herself 10 see the things in people
shat may be criticised or TO dwell
upon their faults she is, indeed. lost
Tor the very truth OF her comments is
a boorneran that hurts herself most.
she sounds iii natured. even though
she does not feel So
Her salvation lies in seeing the good
there is in others and avoiding turn
ing IL 10 ridicule. the latter an almost
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-19
The House That Jack Built

Al OW that great many of the
IN juniors are going away with their
families for the summer and set
ting down into temporary quarters
in the cottage or bungalow, here is an
idea from which an energetic girl can
get up a unique ewarming''
party.
First get your brush and paint and
prepare a big poster to hang over the
entrance door, This Is the House That
Jack built" and under it the old Eng
fish motto. THE Ornaments of House
Are the Friends Who Frequent It,"
Just outside the front door have a
big bowl garlanded with vines ana
above it the printed legend, This Is
the Malt Plat Lay in the House That
Jack Built" The contents of the bowl
may be simply lemonade. Just beyond
the bowl you can have a plate of choc-
olate mice. large one having the in
scription This Is the Rat That Ate
the Malt etc.
If you have a family Table and can
confine her to her basket or cushion,
tie a ribbon round her neck labeled
This Is the Cat" etc.
Follow this with the Dog" real or
papier mache, sand the Cow with the
Crumpled Horn" For this YOU can
probably borrow a picture from your
butcher. Next, naturally. would come
the Maiden All Forlorn,' character
you might assume, dressed in a pretty
milkmaids costume of pink lawn with
frilled fichu and apron of white lawn
Carry on your arm small milk pail
and possibly a three legged stool
Your brother or a friend could pose
as the Man All Tattered and Torn.
Another guest might represent the
Priest All Shaver and Shorn," while
a big cockerel, borrowed from a
neighbor. if you have none of your
own, might be eonspicuously picketed
and labeled on the back porch.
After the inspection of the house
which will be accompanied by much
hilarity, adjourn to the living room; II
you have there an open fireplace. and
after the priest or other selected guest
reads little poem from Longfellow, :
Hanging of the Crane" start a Are
upon the hearth. each guest being
furnished with a little bunch of twigs
a nice fat pine cone or bit of drift
wood to throw upon the blaze accom-
panying each addition with some ap-
propriate good wish for the happiness
of the house. IL you have no fire.
place. the same rite can be observed
over the kitchen cook stove. for is not
the kitchen "the heart of the house"
Follow with refreshments, simple
ones that you can prepare yourself,
and let the boy friends help you in
waiting on your guests.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-19
The Money Seeker

What has he in this glorious worlds
domain?
Unreckoned loss which he counts up as
gain:
Unreckoned shame. OF which he feels
no stain:
Unreckoned dead he does not know
were slain.
What things does he take with him
when he dies9
Nothing of all that he on earth did
prize.
Unto his groveling feet and sordid
eyes
How difficult and empty seem the
skies. A Masque of Poets.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-19
The Kneeling Camel

The camel at the close OF day
Kueels down upon the sandy plain,
To let his master lift his load.
And rest TO gain.
So thou. my soul. shouidst 20 thy knees,
When daylight draweth 10 close.
And let thy Master lift thy load,
And grant repOse.
Else how canst thou tomorrow meet,
With all tomorrow's work TO do.
If thou thy burden through the night
Dost carry through.
The camel kneels at mornings dawn.
To let his guide replace his load.
Then rises up, anew.
To take the dusty road.
So thou shouIdst kneel at mornings
dawn.
That God may give thee daily care,
Assured that he no load too great
Will make thee bear.
Anna Semple.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-19
A COY CORNER CHAT WITH THE GIRLS

Irresistible temptation TO some persons.
A sense or humor, uncontrolled, is one
Of the most dangerous gifts a girl can
have The possession of It may help
her all through life, but II viii in
5ure. unless she constantly restraints
It People. as a rule, can stand any
thing better than the consciousness Of
being laughed at and the girl who does
IL can not hope for popularity.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-19

pasty white, and her nose had been
rubbed and iattened to a black stub.
Her watery blue eyes stared meaning
lessiy out upon the world, and the few
wisps Of fiaxen wool which still adorned
her head were entirely inadequate to
cover that organ. Further investiga-
ton revealed the fact that she had lost
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-19
AN INTERESTING PART OF SOUTH AMERICA

The lake OF Maracaibo Is often
though enormously described as an
arm of the sea. This description only
applies TO the gulf of Maracaibo,
which is in reality a portion of the
Caribbean sea. The lake itself is al
together different, and is a true fresh
water lake, separated from the gulf by
a narrow neck or strait. Within this
strsit-called "boca," or mouth-the
salt water does not extend, except dur
ing very high tide or after long con-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-19

- HE valley Of Nara caibo, South
America, is one OF the most inter-
esting portions OF the globeinter-
esting not only as terra incognita,
but on account of the diversified nature
az its scenery and productions. 1t pos
sses a fauna Of peculiar kind, and
q Is fora is one OF the richest in the
world. not surpassed. perhaps not
eouaIed. by that Of any other portion Of
the torrid zone.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-19
MuciIage

Dissolve the best gum arabic in hot
or cold water until of the consistency
of cream. Add few drops Of essential
oil Of cloves or wintergreen to prevent
its souring and about so drops OF gly-
cerin to a pint OF mucilage to Pre-
vent cracking when dry.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-19

a leg, also an arm, and that the straw
was bursting from her ungainly body.
Worst OF all, about her hung decid-
edly dissipated air-as of one who had
waded through the seamy side of life
and on whom Its traces were plainly
discernible.
But she was Wiggie's, and that young
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-19
re PANTHEON
RESTING Place Or The DISTINGUISHED DEAD IN FRANCE

The Pantheon and has retained this
name ever since. In plan it forms a
Greek cross OF about 225 feet in width
and length exclusive of the portico in
front. The dome over the intersection
is 20 feet in diameter and rises 2ss
feet in the air.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-19

BY ELIZABETH EWING
NNF IGGIE'S doll was certainly not
a beauty. Even in her paimy
w days She could have had no
prebensions in that direction.
Her complexion. presumably once
pink and cream had long faded 10 a
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-19

~ Pantheon. at Paris, where many
~ the distinguished dead Of France
arc buried. was originally the Church
Of saint Genevieve. II was erected
1E64-I7SI During the revolution il
was dcsecrated and dedicated TO the
great men Of France L was called
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-02-25
500 Reward, 600.

The readers of this paper will bs
pleased 10 learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all It's stages, ,adi
that e Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cur
Ia the only positive cure known to
the medical fraternity. Cstarrh be-
ing a constitutional disease, requires
constitutional treatment. Halls
Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act
Ing directly upon the blood mucou,
surfaces Of the system. thereby de-
stroylng the foundation OF the jis-
ease. and giving the patient stren~.h
by building up the consultation and
nature in doing its work.
I he PROTECTORS have 20 much faith
In It's curative powers that they onsr
one Hundred Dollars for any case
that Il fails TO cure. Send for list Uf
Address F. J. Cheney & Co.. Tole
10. o.
Sold by all druggists. 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for Con
.tipation.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-02-25
JAPS DECIDE THEY
WILL BE GOOD

Toxic, Feb 25.-Reconsiderins
their recent action in presenting a
resolution against participation in
the Alaska-Yukon-PacIfc exposition,
the Ashikaga and Kiriu weavers to-
day cancelled the resolution and TOOK
steps to send a large representation,
and great exhibit to the Pacific
coast.
The change in sentiment was
further shown today by a request by
the government to the Diet, asking
large expenditure for the Anglo
Japanese exposition next year, In
which good will toward America was
expressed.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-02-25
KING JAMES DENUNCIATIoN
OF TOBACCO AND ITS SEQUEL

Within two centuries after the dis
covery OF tobacco. the Indian and
American in 1892, tobacco had con-
quered the world. But its part OF
progress has been beset by we'll
meaning zealots at every stage.
Perhaps none of its opponents'have
been more bitterly antagonistic than
those of the fifteenth Gentry, when
It was struggling for a foothold in
the old World The famous "Coun-
terblaste to Tobacco" of King James
was only an episode in a crusade
against the habit that he carried on
persistently during his lifetime. Be-
sides his "Counterblaste, here are a
few apothegms which history accred-
It's to James:
Tobacco Is the lively image and
pattern OF hell. for It has by Illusion
in Il all the parts and vices OF the
world, whereby hell may be gained.
to~wit:
~ irst, 1t is smoke; so are the
vanitles OF this world.
Second. II delights them who take
it; so do the pleasures OF the world
delight the men or the world.
Thirdly. It maketh men drunken
and light in the head so do the vani-
ties of the worid-men are drunken
Herewith.
"Fourthly. he that taketh tobacco
saith he cannot leave It, Il doth be-
witch him. Even so the pleasures
of the world make men loath to leave
them; and further. besides all this. II |
Is like hell in the very substance OF
L, for II is a stlnklng, loathsome
hing. and 80 is hell"
II is amusing 20 know that in the
after years OF his life King James
himself succumbed to the allurements
" tobacco, and. though he pig-head-
dly continued TO denounce It. smoked
labitually In secret
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-02-25

Their crusade against tobacco has
been continued ever since. Uncon-
sciously, and with the very best of
intentions this army of zealots have
disseminated a great mass of misin-
formation which has no basis of fact
and which was conceived in the fertile
and imaginative brains of trio of
Park Row space writer's. Take, for
instance. the sacred fiction that the
dark colored oil which lodges in the
bowls Of pipes and stains the fingers
OF cigarette smokers is the deadly
poison nicotine. Chemical scientists
know, of course, that this substance
Is not nicotine, but simply tar, to-
bacco tar, distilled from the tobacco
Just as coal tar is distilled from coal
and pine tar from pine wood.-Carl
Werner, in The Bohemian Magazine
for February.