The San Francisco call., 1910-12-18

sent out by some malicious Los Angeeno relating
how the Pasadena girls had fatfootedly refused to
dance with the officers of the visiting Japanese
warships. At once the liberal air of Pasadena
filled with indignation and sets of resolutions de-
nouncing their envious and slanderous neighbors.
1t no such thing said the girls, and their
fathers and brothers, in meeting assembled, swore
they would lick the editor who started the story
If he did not give retraction OF as wide scope as
the original aspersion" This should be quite a
job, as the vile SANDER has been printed in nearly
every paper in the United States
BUSY NOW
AS for the Pasadena ball that did not come off,
we are only accorded an obscure intimation that
the failure of promised festivities, international in
character, due only to 'lack of time and op-
porunity." had idea the girls of Pasadena were
SO busy, or had so much their minds l sus
pect that General Homer Lea, who lives IN that
neighborhood and has the brain in its most
acute form had something to do with this wicked
slander calculated strain relations between two
great and otherwise friendly nations
NEITHER TURKEY TRoT NOR GOOSE STEP
These balls that don't come off appear to be max
ing lot of trouble There is peace at Sacramento
because of one and war in the south because of an
other but peace has her troubles no less than war
The peaches of Pasadena abjure the two step with
the happy Jappy because of '1ack of time and op-
portunity,' while the gilt edged staff colonies Of
the north must forego the goose step to embrace
the horrors of the simple life.
The Bakersfield Californian tells good story
about Theodore Roosevelt Jr., of San Francisco,
which is to me:
"The trouble with father" Teddy Jr. is quoted
saying, is that he insists upon being the bride at
every wedding and the corpse at every funeral
OUR BEST GIRL
The New York Sun makes wicked fun of Ham
1.
Luisa Tetrazzini, arriving by the Mauretania as a
professional orphan child, who for nobody
Though many care for she) is likely to provide
opera and the operators thereof during the coming
season. Those lordly impresaros who present
sitting on one OF their most valued pieces OF literary
property Tetrazzins contract with the former Oscar
Hammerstein, profess to see no way in which the
own high permission; yet Luisa breaks into hmpid
laughter whenever she hears that sort of talk. She
purposes to sing in and perhaps in opera.
II her California manager can drum up company
to support her, and unless somebody gets arrested
. Very we'll our Luisa is here with twelve pack
ages not counting Doc Leahy The dozen trunks
are full of gorgeous gowns and Doc Leahy IS full
of prunes. The Sun goes on:
She drew the New York public to admire her
Delsartean proficiency in singing high fiat at the
tail of her splendid costume This is what every
body remembers and when she away her
NOT MUSICAL
1t is an odd thing that opera does not draw IN Los
Angeles that neighborhood. The excellent Be
vani company did not draw there and read in the
Pasadena Star:
Donzetti's opera, Lucia di Lammermoor,' was
presented last night by the Bevani grand opera
company before audience of 500 people at the
Norton theaer. 1t the largest crowd the
theater has drawn for any professional engagement
the house represented S423 last night and that the
company played to 5000 in Pomona.
But Pasadena is looking forward with pleasure
bic anticipation to visit from Mrs Wigs.
SAN FRANCISCO UNIQUE
The St. Louis Times, cordially congratuIating
San Francisco the census figures, showing the
citys remarkable recovery from disaster, goes on to
describe the unique status of this community:
The city by the Golden gate has occupied special
relation to the remainder of the country since
founding
1t has had its own world its own customs
Isolated from the east by forbidding miles it has
turned this fact from disadvantage into an ad-
vantage.
That region lying east of the mythical desert has
looked toward New York its metropolis-for
tdings of what people in the world of art and
finance doing.
San Francisco established its own standards IFS
own pace; and in many ways it has done extraordi-
nary things It has exerted strange influence upon
the gifted minds of other lands-Madane Modieska
Henryk Sienkiewiscz Robert Louis Stevenson Kin
ling and others
It has staged the ancient fable of the phoenix
and has arisen from its ashes with shout of energy
almost of defiance. and has reconstructed its owE
world upon hrmer foundations s..s
On behalf of San Francisco, thanks Dosus one
more favor and stop calling this splendid city
Frisco, barbarous nickname born Of vulgar.
hurry slattern laziness