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The San Francisco call., 1910-09-11

bank is located, is the property of the
bank.
Another prominent bazaar to which
all tourists and visitors flock is that
of the Sing Fat company. This concern
occupies it's own building of unique
and oriental design. 1t is at the south
west corner of California street and
Grant avenue and is the most striking
example of Chinese architecture in
America. This house is one of the
best, largest and most favorably known
in the United States. 1t has branches
in various coast cities. IT carries
most complete stock of Chinese and
Japanese articles of every description.
The value of the stock is estimated at
over $1,000,000 and embraces race
works of art in ivory, china wares,
furniture, fine hand embroidered bro
cades, relics from famous temples,
bric-a- -brac, hammered brasses, urns of
rare Chinese stone and thousands of ar
highly priced for their art and novelty
by Americans. Visitors are always
welcome and are not urged to buy
The linen house owned and conducted
by the r. Komatsuzaki company is To-
Gated at 615 Grant avenue. The firm
deals exclusively in linen goods and is
direct importer of oriental art, dry
goods, hand drawnwork, embroidery,
kimonos and other articles of lingerie
and decoration. The firm is one of<the
largest in it's line and enjoys a good
patronage among people of taste and
refinement.
A review of Chinese institutions in
San Francisco would be incomplete
without reference to the Chinese doc
tors and their methods of cure. Among
the best known is DR.. Chuck Sal of
1914 O'Farrell street. Because of his
increasing American patronage he has
his location outside of China town
among the Americans. He is grad
uate of the best schools of China and
practices the pulse method of diagno-
sis, treating entirely by the use of ma
tive herbs. His success has been phe-
nomenal.
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ALL west FAVORS
EXPOSITION in 1915
People Back Up San FranciscO's
Claims and Realty Men
Think Fair Assured

with Characteristic vigor and true
western spirit the entire country from
the Rockies to the coast is boosting for
the proposed 1915 exposition.
The west admits no failure" said J.
E. Green. manager OF Baldwin & How
ellis country land department Every
exposition that was ever held on the
coast was a success. The Lewis and
Clark at Portland. the Alaska-Yukon
at Seattle and the Midwinter fair at
San Francisco all prove this"
Expositions should be held during
the summer months" continued Green.
for the reason that 80 per cent of the
people take their vacations IN summer
They look naturally for a cool com
Portable climate. which San Francisco
can guarantee. In New Orleans the
summers are so hot and unhealthfuI that
they plan to open their exposition in
September. but no fall attraction ever
succeeded. because school children.
teachers and vacation spenders are
barred. The last New Orleans ex-
position received a million dollar loan
from the government which II never
repaid, In addition to a $35O,OOO appro-
prtation to pay debts.
AS soon as the exposition is a Ger
tainty ii will be felt in the real estate
market In fact. the possibility of get
ting it has stimulated the market We
have had more calls for farm lands in
the last 10 days than during the pre-
vious six weeks and our city depart
ment has been equally busy. Another
thing that is going TO help business is
the coming of a competitive railroad,
the Western Pacific. For years San
Francisco has been the only large CITY
on the coast without conpetitfv trans
continental services. Seattle Portland
and Los Angeles were years ago the
objective points Of rival Transportation
companies. but San Francisco was long
handicapped by single line. Then the
Santa Fe came in by a circuitous route
and now a direct competing course Is
opened over the rails of the Western
Pacific.
The whistle Of the Western Paofac
locomotive and the call of the governor
for exposition bond legislation is the
writing on the wall for San Francisco's
immediate prosperity, which I expect 10
exceed in net results any similar Ave
year period in the history of the cities
of the United States"
Every member OF the Baldwin q
Howell organization shares this enthu-
siasm, with the result that their conn
try lands, suburban home sites. nenfn-
sula properties and city Hstings are be-
ing aggressively developed and rapidl,v
sold.
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The date for the exhibition of Miss
for Monday, October 81, and will con-
tinue for two weeks. 1t will be held at
the Vickery, Atkins & Torrey galleries
in Sutter street and will include Miss
Carlysles miniature work, as well .as
her recent pastel portraits and garden
sketches in color AS she has done
choice bits of the Crocker De Saba.
Hobart, Blanding Boyd and Hooker
gardens, and a score of others, as well
as some odd corners around the grounds
of the Hotel del Monte, the view will
be most interesting and we'll worth the
seeing.
Miss Carlysle left a week ago Sat
urday for Mexico, where she will paint
until the middle of. October. In spite
of the fact that an exhibition of her
sketches was planned for December in
the Macbeth galleries in New York, she
may have decided TO remain a little
longer on the coast than. was at first
intended. as her commissions may de-
taip her here until well on into the
spring.
very pleasing exhibition, which is
going on at present in the Vickery, At
kinS & Torrey gallery, is that of a
number of Japanese prints belonging
to the famous Blondeau collection, the
work for the most part Of the well
known Japanese artist, Zen Hokusai
I-itsu.
Every phase of Japanese life. in all
Its innate picturesqueness is repre-
sented in these prints, some so in all
in number. Actors, merry making with
geisha girls; Japanese women in bright
kimonos. at tea or reveling in simple
country pleasures; cherry blossom fes-
tivals, religious ceremonies-all have
found place in these interesting sam
pies of the unique oriental art
The Garden at Naka jima," showing
a group of houses on the edge of a lake,
The San Francisco call., 1910-09-11
VAST EXTENT OF
IRRIGATED LAND
Figures for Last Year Show
Immense Growth

There is probably no other sectfoy
OF the world possessing more natural
advantages for successful frrigatfon
projects than California It is estimated
that the available streams of. California
have sufficient acre feet of TOW -
cover $4,000. 900 acres to a deptb Of 2S
inches. which is more than sufHcient
for any requirement
In 1903 about 2.500. 600 acres wara
irrigated in this state" said ] = C.raa-
manager Of the country land depart
ment of Baldwin & Howell. cot iris
ABOUT 100000 acres were taken up in
orchards and vineyards with a s-ro,s
yield of approximately SOC. 0oo 600 q 80 -
approximate average of $3.50 per acrs
The balance of the irrigated lands 49,
0uced alfalfa, vegetables And eana-,I
crops TO value OF about S45. Ooe ooo =
There were actually 3.s75. OO0 acrss
under canals and bitches durins tb5s
period. continued Green. ssbut onIv
ABOUT two-thirds of it, or $500 .O0o
dsies' were Drought within possibility
or the highest results of productivft,,
Practically all of this .deveIopment 49,
oeen accomplished by private snte~
prise or by associations of farr,a-s
When you stop to consider the ae1,s-..
OF the professional irrigation concer-,s
Wmcn nave accomplished such wonders
In other states. and figure thA v,41Iso-S
of available acres and the c,,.-.s.lp .l.ilols
water at hand, you can not heIn b,,t -
a great future for California .,
Green stated that Baldwin a ~,
were doing a very satisfactory 49,,
land business. both in the wbo1asaIa
and retail departments. Thav - az le
receipt or many inquiries from easta~,
operallns concerns regarding large
proJectS and are working on
magnit,As~ eoAs
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Miss Helen M. Carlysle's Art
Exhibit to Be Held October 81
Miniature and Garden Sketches in Color Will Be
Decided Features Of Unique Display
By Margaret Marshall Doyle

u a. SAAdAA OOJA(
and with distant rounded hilltops ris-
ing out of the low lying mist, is one
of the best shown. The Bamboo
Grove" the views of the Loochoo ISL
ands of the Sumida river and Of the
bridges of the various provinces, are
all equally good The view will con-
tinue until Saturday.
A new painting, and one that is at
tracing considerable attention, has just
been added to the collection of local
talent at the Park museum. II is en-
titled Pines Of Pacific Grove" and Is
by Lester d. BOrOnda, the young Call
fornia artist who arrived from Europe
last spring and opened a studio in Mon
terey Many Of BorOnda's smaller cam
vases, mostly scenes done in Europe
were shown in this city shortly after
his return, and five of the most am
bilious of these were recently pur-
chased by p local capitalist.
Ranking among the best of the work
we have seen from his brush, his Pines
of Pacific Grove stands, and is but
another drawing card to the room de-
voted exclusively to California art at
the museum. The picture is an inter
esting study of the weather beaten old
pines lining the shore near Point Joe.
Montei ey, and not the least remarkable
part of the work is the effect of cloud
and sky. a wonderful mass of creamy
white. fading into marvelOusly deep,
rich. vapOrOus blue
Boronda has been painting steadily
all summer in mis- attractive studio.
sending few of his canvases east and
to this city Two or three are also hung
in the Del Monte art gallery. but San
Franciscans will also have the pleasure
of broadly judging OF his art for them
selves, as his collective display of oil
paintings at the Rabjohn and MOrcOm
galleries in Post street will be one Of
the largest and most interesting of the
early fall exhibits
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Attractive Offerings in
China and Art Ware

"HE newest designs in china reveal
lavish use of gold. not only in
the border of the dishes, but in
large floral and conventional designs,
and som metimes combined with the flow
ers. in colors, that may decorate dish.
The patterns for the most part are
simple. but striking. Among the de-
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The Silver Horde By B sss Re- Beach !s:.a
v Rex Beach

Copyright 1903
By Harper a Brothers

enough. His reserve vanished, his
silence gave way to a confidential
warmth which suffused his listener and
drew her to him. The overpowering
force of his strong nature swept her
out of herself, while her ready SYM
pathy took fire and caught at his half
expressed ideas and stumbling words,
stimulating him with her warm UNDER
standing. Her quick wit rallied him
and awoke echoes of his past youth,
until they began to laugh and jest with
the c~amaraderie of boy and girl. With
their better acquaintance her assump-
ton of masculinity fell from her, and
she became the "womanly woman
dainty, vivacious, captivating.
Fraser, whom both had forgotten,
looked on at first in gaping, silent awe
staring and blinking at his travelling
companion, who had undergone such a
metamorphosis. But restraint and
silence were impossible to him for long.
and in time he ambled clumsily into
the conversation 1t Jared, of course,
but he could not be ignored. and grad
ually he claimed more and more of the
talk until the young couple yielded to
AiAV IiOAAOiC6 Nv oAAAAiAh6 at ~
in mutual understanding.
Emerson listened t~olerantly, idly run
ming through the magazines at his
hand, his hostess watching him covert
ly, albeit her ears were drummed by
the others monotone. How much bet
ter this mood became the young man!
Suddenly the smile of amusement that
lurked about his lip corners and ave
him a pleasing look hardened in a queer
fashion-he started, then stared at one
of the pages, while the color died out
of his brown checks. Cherry saw the
hand that held the magazine tremble.
He looked up at her, and, d~isregarding
Fraser, broke in harshly:
"Have you read this magazine?"
Not entirely. 1t came in the last
mail"
"rd like to take one page out Of It,"
he said. MAY II"
why certainly" she replied. you
may have the whole thing If you like"
He produced a knife, and with one
quick stroke cut a single lea out of
the magazine, which he folded n
thrust into the breast of his coat
Thank you,'' he muttered; then fell
to staring ahead of him, again heed
less of his surroundings. This abrupt
relapse into his former state of sullen
and defiant silence t~antalized the girl
to the verge of anger, especially now
that she had seen something of his true
self. She was painfully conscious Of
a sense of betrayal at having yielded
so easily to his pleasant mood, only
to be shut out on an instants whim,
while a girlish curiosity to know the
cause of the change overpoWered her.
He offered no explanation, however,
and took no further part in the con-
%versation until, noting the ~lateness OF
the hour, he rose and thanked her for
her hospitality in the same deadly in
different manner
1.-THE music was a great treat, he
said, looking beyond her n holding
aloof-"a very great treat. | enjoyed
it immensely. Good night"
: CTo he Confined Tomorrcw.)
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What kind do you prefer" Again
the adventurer outran his companion to
the reply:
MY favorite hymn is the Maple Leaf
Rag Let her go, professor"
Cherry settled herself obligingly and
played ragtime, although she fancied
that Emerson stirred uneasily as If the
musical interruption disturbed him; but
when she swung about on her seat at
the conclusion, he was still lax and in
different.
THAT certainly has some class to 1t, "
"Fingerless' Fraser said, a~dmiringly.
"Just go through the reperchure from
soda to hook, will your I'm certainly
fond of that coon clatter." And realiz-
ing that his pleasure was genuine, she
played on and on for him, to the
muffled thump of his feet, now and then
feeding her curiosity with a stolen
glance at the other. She was in the
midst of some syncopated measure
when Boyd spoke abruptly, please
play something"
She understood what he meant and
began really to play, realizing very
soon that at least one of her guests
knew and loved music. Unde her deft
fingers the instrument became a me-
dunn for musical speech. Gay rounde-
lays, swift. passionate Hungarian
dances, bold Wagnerian strains fol-
lowed in quick succession, n the
more utter her abandon the more GER
tainly she felt the younger man re-
spond.
Strange to say, the warped soul of
"Fingerless" Fraser likewise felt the
spell of real music, inc he stilled his
loose-hinged tongue. By-and-by she
began to sing, more for her own
amusement than for theirs, and after
a while her fingers strayed upon the
sweet chords of Bartlett's "A Dream" a
half-forgotten thing, the tenderness of
which had lived with her from girl
hood. She heard Emerson rise, then
knew he was standing at her shoulder.
| Could he sing, she wondered. as he
began to take up the words of the
song? Then her dream-1lled yes wild
ened as she listened to his voice
breathing life into the beautiful words.
He sang with the ease and flexibility
of an artist, his powerful baritone
blending perfectly with her contralto.
Fol the first time she felt the
mans personality, his magnetism, as If
he had dropped his cloak and stood at
her side in his true semblance. AS
they finished the song she wheeled
abruptly, her fac flushed, her ripe lips
smiling, her eyes moist, and
looked up to find him marvelously
transformed. His even teeth cleaned
forth from a brown face that had be-
come the mirror of a soul as spirited as
her own, for the blending of their
voices had brought them into a similar
harmony of understanding.
"Oh, thank you" she breathed.
THANK you," he said. 'I-I-that's
the first time In ages that I've had the
heart to sing. / was hungry for music
l was starving for 1t. I've sat in my
cabin at night longing for 1t until my
soul fairly ached with the silence. I've
frozen beneath the Northern Lights
! straining my ears for the melody that
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ought to go with them-they must have
an accompaniment somewhere, don't
you think so?"
Yes, yes she breathed.
"They must have; they are too glori-
ously, terribly beautiful to be silent.
I've stood in the whispering spruce
groves and tried to sing contentment
back into my heart, but / couldn't do
1t. This is the first real taste I've a
in three years. Three years."
He was talking rapidly, his blue eyes
dancing. Cherry remembered thinking
at dinner that those eyes were of too
light and hard a blue for tenderness.
She now observed that they were
singularly deep and passionate.
why I've gone about with a comb
and a piece of ~tlssue-paper at my lips,
like any kid. | once made a banjo out
of a cigar-box and bale wire, and while
1 was in the Kougarok I walked ten
miles to hear a niger play a lar
monica. / did all sorts of things to
coax music into this country, but 1t is
silent and unresponsive, absolutely
dead and discordant." He made a
gesture which in a woman would have
ended in a shudder.
He took a seat near the girl and
continued to talk feverishly, unable to
give voice to his thoughts rapidly
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Halloween Games.
Wv Dear MISS Doom

WY OOdT NiSS DOOh'
Kindly let me know through your
valuable column a few nice games that
can be played at a Halloween party for
young folks, their ages ranging from
20 to % years. And oblige, A. I.
A jolly game for Halloween is as
fellows: Take a wedding ring and at
tach it to an elastic, which is fastened
on the chandelier and set it in mo-
ton. Each guest is given a small twig
and e~ndeavors to spear the ring as 1t
swings. If he or she is successful dur
ing a given time it is a sure indication
of marriage to come. II a player fails
his or her marriage is doubtful or UNI
certain. To learn the initials Of ones
future life-partner try this: Take a
dish of water darkened with sepia, and
another of clear water and several
sticks Of sealing wax-one-half the
quantity white, the other black. To
ascertain the initial of the Christian
name the maiden lights the white
wax and holds it over the pan Of dark
ened water until a drop OF 1t falls, and
the youth does the same with the black
wax and the clear water. The wax,
by a little stretch OF imagination, will
indicate a letter. Remove the wax
from the water With a spoon.
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II Asst Halloween a clever little ste
- ~nographer conceived the idea of
inviting a number of business women to
a unique party.
When the guests entered the house
they Were confronted by the usual
traditional decorations. There were
black ats and jackie Lanterns n
green-shaded lamps shed a spectral
light through the room. The hostess,
In witch's garb, stood at the door of
the living room, and, as each woman
entered, bent over her hand, and gave
the countersign, which later admitted
the guests to the dining-room. The
mystical word was Success" and this
formed the keynote Of the evenings
entertainment. Fortunes were told and
palms were read, but, instead of the
usual medley of love, and romance, and
matrimony, of light-haired rivals, and
of dark-haired lovers. the girls were
told of promotions and of professional
n business progress. In witty sem
fences the witch promised the brown
haired ~bookkeeper that she should meet
a blonde man-who would double her
salary The red-haired school teacher
was to get a letter from a brunette
hero-which would inclose a circular of
cheap personally conducted trips to
Europe!
In the dlning-room the favors were
black c%ats-but they We're office cats,
b~edraggled and weary. On the name
cards were inscribed such notices as
seen on the desk of busy people: DO
1t Now" and Don't Worry"
The menIl was written in chalk on
a blackboard such as is seen in cheap
restaurants, and seemed anything but
appetizing: Boiled eggs, ham sand
wiches. hard crabs, vegetable soup,
Coffee But the reality proved de-
~licious. for the soup was served in
bouillon cups and was made after a
creole recipe; the crab was faxed,
heaped in the red shells and Drowned
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in the oven; h eggs were stuffed
with nuts and green peppers. combined
with the yolks and mayonnaise; the
sandwiches were delectable %triangles
of homemade bread Int sugar-cured
ham, and the coffee vas fragrant and
steaming and perfect.
After supper apples were peeled n
mirrors gazed into by candle-light, but
the tests were held to decide not senti-
mental futures, but financial n COM
mercial problems.
1t was all very charming and orig
inal, but toward the last, as the guests
gathered around the fire, they demand
ed that which their feminine souls
craved. Tell us whether we will love
and be loved? whether we shall
marry? Are we not women, even IL
we are wage-earners? Do you think
because we work. that we do not cling
to our dreams and ideals?"
The witch laughed. She had laid off
her pointed cap with its concealing
frill. Her eyes sparkled as she said:
IT am glad that you feel that way. 1
have been afraid we might lose some
thing of our woman's birthright OF
sentiment in the hardness of our daily
grind. Do you think that a woman can
hold on to her desire for hearthstone
happiness when she lives her life in
the workaday world?"
DO II" a charming journalist caught
up the question. Shall I tell you
what the editor of a successful house,
hold magazine said to me the other
day? / was trying to bring him to
my point of view about a certain story
and then III shot his bullets. He
claims that writer's do not I'M
derstand the tastes of the home-keep-
ing woman--that we get divorced from
domesticity, as it were"
"How about the women who don't
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have to work, but who leave their
homes to play bridge, who haunt the
department stores, who take part in
tennis and golf tournaments, who eat
restaurant lunches, and who idle away
hours at matinees?" was the eager
question that came from the shadow.
And then and there the argument be-
gan.
1t was held:
First-That the majority of business
women would exchange whatever they
havc OF success for the love of a
good man and fol an encircled hearth
stone. However much such women
may protest, it will be found that 1t
has been some force Of circumstance,
some necessity, which has made her a
~wage-earner rather than any actual
choice.
Second-That those who have the OPP
portunity to live protected lives and
who do not take advantage of 1t can
know nothing of the heart-hunger of the
woman who must leave the shelter of
her own domicile and face the problem
of wage-earning.
Third-That the business woman,
when she marries, is a helpmate In the
truest sense. She has borne the weight
of difficulties and of trials, and she
can bear others without murmuring.
She is not made simply for softness
and for case, and she will fight by a
mans side rather than hamper him
by clinging to him. Such a woman is
the product of q new civilization. But
is she any less desirable than the
dropping maidens of "Ye olden timer"
Fourth-That as a wife she Is more
systematic and more sympathetic than
the purely domestic product. Her
knowledge of the real world of effort
makes her understand better the fight
which her husband must put up to sue
coed. On the other hand. the woman
who knows nothing of the struggles
with adverse conditions has no con-
ception of the deadly WEAKNESS which
comes with continued labor, hence she
fails to provide the comfort n the
consideration which are due the tired
man, says the writer in the Philadel-
phia Press.
| am not sure that all the problems
of love and of marriage were settled
that night, but the earnestness with
which they were discussed, the revela-
tons Of yearnings for a woman's do
main showed that here, at least, there
was no lack of rea femininity.