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The San Francisco call., 1913-11-18
window Smasher" Has
Pupil, Thief Captured

Policemen Jurgens apd Ruggles
early today saw a man throw a brick
wrapped in newspaper through the
show window in the store of /. Gold
man. second hand dealer, 713 Howard
street, and attempt to steal several
articles. He was captured and gave
the name of Henry Miller. The police
are of the opinion that Miller is not
the much sought window breaking
burglar, but only a novice.
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-18
COULSON TRIAL is
DELAYED TILL DEC. z

Arthur r. Coulson, slayer of George
Kovack and William Archer in the
Atlas garage. September 49, appeared
before Superior Judge Dunno this
morning for trial. As the Widney
case was still being heard the Coul-
son trial was postponed to Decem-
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-18
Bank Cashier Ends
Life in Coffin Box

DERBY, Conn, Nov 1S-Samuel H.
Lessey. cashier of the Birmingham
National bank, committed suicide to-
day in a public vault of the Oak Cliff
cemetery. Lessey stretched himself
out upon a coffin box and then fired a
revolver bullet into his brain. Worry
over financial affairs at the bank, over
the fact that check raised from $25
to $2,500, had been honored by the
bank, Is believed to have led to the
tragedy. The bank officials said Les
sey's accounts were all correct.
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-18
New Haven Road to
Borrow Many Millions

NEW YORK, Nov 1s.-It Is de-
clared in financial circles that the
New Haven road has made arrange
ments with bankers to borrow be-
tween s45.000,000 and $4,000, 900 on
short term notes from three to six
months at per cent interest. The
bankers who will finance the notes
are the j. p Morgan company, the
First National bank an the Ma
tional City bank.
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-18
Flood in England, 1914,
Prophecy of Seeress

PARIS. Nov. 1S.-Madame de Thebes,
the famous seeress. issuing her pre-
dictions for 1914, says that the year
viii be fertile in scientific discoveries.
that there will be serious threats of
war in Germany and terrible flood
catastrophe in England, and a new
monarchist government in Portugal.
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-18
Stefanssen Safe, Is
Report From Arctic

LONDON, Nov. 1s.-Fears that the
America, with Vilhjalmur Stefanssen,
the arctic explorer, and his entire ex-
pedition have been lost in an arctic
storm are believed here to be ground
less. Government officials on Novem-
ber received advices from the ex-
plorer that the expedition had safely
reached winter quarters on Hersehers
island.
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through the tunnels nearing San
Francisco.
We have descriptions of the lone
gunman in the three cases from a
dozen men, Kindelon said They
tally as closely as descriptions can
tally. There is no point where the
conffiction is so great that a question
of different identity might be raised"
GUSMAN Is RECKLESS
"The recklessness of the gunman
is identical in every case. His calm
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-18
McCOmbs Declines to
Lead Democratic Clubs

NEW YORK, Nov. 1S.-william Me-
Combs today refused to accept the
presidency of the National Democratic
club. an old Croker organiza tion, be-
cause he felt his other affairs would
not permit him to give the needed at
tention to the club. Judge Edward
+. O'Dwyer was then nominated for
the position to succeed Supreme Court
Justice Thomas F. Donnelly.
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-18
PRISON REFORM LECTURE

Modern prison reform will be dis
cussed by the young ladies' social
service club of the First Congrega-
tional church at a meeting this after
noon at 1913 Myrtle street, Oakland.
Captain William Day, superintendent
of the state prison commission. will
talk on The Redemption of the
Criminal"
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-18
AUTO OWNERS PROTEST
AGAINST TAX LEVIED

SANTA ROSA. Nov. 1S-A mass
meeting of automobile owners has
been called for this city by the Cali
fornia Automobile association in their
statewide campaign against the new
auto tax. The meeting will be held
at the Chamber of Commerce Friday
night. November IS.
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-18
Power Pleads Not
Guilty to Charge

When arraigned before Judge Dona-
hue this morning. Thomas J. Power,
attorney and politician. pleaded not
guilty TO the charge of having mur-
dered Charles Quinton, an Irvington
undertaken. in the saloon of Ed Rod
eriek in Irvington three weeks ago.
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-18
BURG BROS, Inc.
LAND co.
street

Telephone
kearny Id
Branch Office
23rd and Macdonald Ave.
Richmond

23rd and MacdonaId Ave. kearny
Richmond
November II, 1918
San Francisco Call
San Francisco, Cal
We wish express herewith appreciation Of Sun
days excursion introduce nearly thousand San
Franciscans the great opportunities offered by Richmond
particularly by the Ncho Macdonald Business Center
Tracts
While of our opening days we have sold over
SlOOO0000 worth of property consider Sundays sales
which exceeded S3o00000 quite substantial record
breaker beginning for the additional sales which have
been booked.
The San Francisco Call is to be congratulated for
enabling people the wonderful money making pos
sbilites offered Richmonds business the Nicol
Macdonald and in future years when Sundays buy
ers are reaping the fruits of their wise investment
will be Glad remember that the cooperation of the San
Francisco Call with Burg Bros instrumental in laying
the corner Independence
Wishing the Call the it deserves for its public
spirited undertaking, are
Sincerely yours,
BURG Bros INC
E. J. BURG,
Secty.
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-18
Run Down by Autoists;;
Injuries Are Serious

SAN JOSE, Nov 1S.-Suffering from
serious injuries. the outcome of which
are problematical, John Perez. a Camp
bell motorcyclist, was brought to a
local hospital last night for treatment
by unknown automobilists who ran
him down on the Los Gatos road.
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-18
Officials to Discuss
Congestion at Ferry

Mayor Rolph and the supervisors
have invited the visiting directors of
the United Railroads and the local
officials to attend a conference to be
held at the mayors Office tomorrow
evening on the subject of relieving
the traffic congestion at the ferry.
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-18
DRUIDs HOLD BANQUET

Retiring delegates to the San
Francisco general board of relief of
the Druids were guests last night in
the eighth semiannual banquet of the
board.
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-18
Citrus Fair at Visalia. Dec. to IS
TuIare County Orange show

Reduced round trip tickets via South
ern Pacific, from San Francisco, Oak
land Alameda. Berkeley. Sacramento.
Banning and points between. On sale
December to 13. Return limit De-
cember Advertisement.
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-18
. Cold in One Day

To Cure Cold in One Day
Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Tablets
Druggists refund money IL 1t fails to cure E.
W. GROVES signature Is on each box. 25c-
Advertisement.
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-18
Recent Holdups Of
R. R. Trains Near
San Francisco

OCTOBER 14-Masked man
holds up mail clerks on
Southern Pacific passenger
No. % at Burlingarne. Safe
rifled.
NOV BER i3- Two
masked men hold up South
ern Pacific castbound freight
train at Oakland, robbing
train crew. Two masked
men hold up Melrose cleo
trc train at Seventh street
and Broadway, robbing con-
ductor.
NOVEMBER 15-M ask ke d
man holds up FIVE passen-
gers and FIVE trainmen on
Southern Pacific overland
No. S near Richmond, taking
$500 in money and valu-
ables.
NOVEMBER 1s-M a ke d
man cows three mail clerks
on Shore Line Limited,
Southern Pacific, and while
train is running from San
Jose to San Francisco rifles
registered mail, securing
many checks and much cur
rency.
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-18
TRAIN ROBBER OPERATES ONCE. MORE
LOOTS MAIL CAR OF S. P PASSENGER

photograph detailed robbery phh the third mail CLERK bind
ninth
registered letters
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-30

She is 43, nearly an old womani She
knows how hard it is to find "a place =
She goes downs on her knees begging
to be given a trial The other girl
does the same and the house mistress
refers the problem to her husband He
gratefully accepts both women's sery-
ices that he may have more of mis-
wife's society. and SO the Immediate
question is decided. But burnt, etched
with acid into the readers mind is
the picture Of two capable women
begging for the privilege of having a
roof over their heads, quarreling and
scheming and competing with eaen
other for the paltry wages paid to a
nurse grill Capable both, but un-
trained.
1t would carry me too far afield to
tell what only yesterday a large en-
ployer of girls and women said to me,
here in our city, of the impossibility
of finding persons who can do the
simple duties of saleswomen and book
keepers. This lies outside the pale of
the normal home making functions of
women. My point today Is the Jet of
light that falls equally from the first
and the second story which 1 have
summarized.
Homes broken or imperilled be-
cause the home-malker does not bring
training to her task Women looking
death or shame in the face, going
through humiliating miseries and mis-
cradle humiliations to obtain the
crumbs that fall from a rich man. 5
table, because they have no trained
skill! No recognition by parents or
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-30

other half of the firm. Ineffieiency is
the name we give to that sort of mis-
management which leaves a vague dis
satisfaction In its wake. A real mental
equipment, a sweet variety of personal
force, tnseparab1e from intellectual
and moral culture, must be the MAIN
stay of a wifes efficiency. Women who
have IL will not often lack home.
Now, it may be that in another phase
of human evolution the duties of tho
sexes will be readjusted. In the mean
time, however. womanhood must hold
its own by preparation and training
even more careful and eXacting than
a mans training for successful busi-
ness career. When girls come to see
this, they will be prepared also for
any crisis that may arise before )r
after marriage. thrusting them. per-
haps, among the bread winners. TIL
they do see it, the story of the Misses
Smith will get repeated, with added
horrors of outer darkness. or else after
marriage husbands will follow the lura
of other and more brilliant or more
satisfying society. The era of things
that die will thus be long perpetuated,
as the destiny of homes. Meantime 1t
is in the power of American woman-
hood to introduce in every American
city an era of reading. thought and
the culture of the inner life, built upon
solid foundation of physical we'll
being for every member of the home
Clearly 1t is a social crime to let girls
grow up untaught. undisciplined, un-
ready for the possible storm, unready
even for a calm voyage.
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daughters of the fact that wages and
salaries, homes and positions, imply
not only capacity but training, effi-
cheney
l am aware that the same sort of
thing may be said of husbands as o'
wifes, that they often have failed of
preparation for the profession" of
home maker and father. Nothing is
more true than that any mans best
capacities are taxed If he is to dis
charge this high business. On the 9TH
er hand, so unequally is the burden of
the home distributed, it is on the wom-
an, not the man, that the chief re-
sponsibility must long continue to fall
She must know both how to keep her
husband, how to enlarge his reverence
and loyalty for her, and also how to
.dren may come to it. In these days,
when divorces are almost as common
as marriages, the way of relief de-
serves to be sought with the utmost
For life is getting more
and more complex, more and more diff
ficult for women and men.
There can be no doubt that the
greatest single difficulty in the path of
wives is the financial task: How 30
keep up a decent home on relative
ly small income? A few women are
freed from the one side of this diff =
Guilty, because they marry rich men
and can afford to be careless. But no !!
They least of all can afford to be
careless For all the sweeter personal
values of the home depend on the
strong and capable handling of its
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-30
The Banana

Just because 1t Is cheap and common
yes. hopelessly common-the banana In
this country is too often neglected as al
agreeable and regular article of diet in
fact 1t is hard to disassociate II with
unpleasant nights, colicky pains and a
general feeling of bored repulsion whom
we brush up against the bunch as II
swings complacently in the doorway of
the green grocer's shop, says the Ladies
World. And all this unhapplness because
we cannot seem to realize that there is
anything else to do with the yellow
fruit, except to eat it raw, and then,
more than likely green or over-ripe
The banana is one of the few fruits
that contain distinct nutritive qualities
II is really food fruit" and from the
standpoint of its food value can be placed
in the same class with potatoes, rice and
bread. In fact, its composition Is almost
Identical with that of the potato, and
when properly prepared is equally diges-
tible and nourishing, If not more so. Ba-
nanas should not be eaten raw unless
thoroughly ripe. ripening being a process
similar to that of cooking. II softens
the fibre. makes the starchy part more
digestible and brings out the natural
flavor.
The chief source of nourishment IN the
banan is carbo- hydrate. or starch AS
this particular food element furnishes
heat and energy for the body. we can
look to the banana as heat and energy
producing food. and as such give II .
place on our daily menu.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-30
WOMANS PROFESSIONAL EFFICENCY-By George Eaves D. D.

as a high profession, duty, deserv-
ing and obtaining her utmost care.
The story stands side by side in
nay mind with another. just culled from
a Scottish or English writer, Marjory
Royce. This is entitled THE Misses
Smith," l have not space to give de-
tails, but it is enough to say that the
first Miss Smith is "a years old, in a
London boarding house, her father and
mother recently dead, her money near
ly gone, no profession or business
known to her, her advertisements and
answers to advertisements unacknowl-
edged, and the awful question, how to
live, waiting for her like a foul and
threatening monster. In such a crisis
she gets telegram, evidently intend
ed for another Miss Smith on the same
street, calling her to take a situation
in another county. She accepts it as
though it were, an answer to her agon-
lied prayers, and rushes off to the
place appointed, learns that the tele-
gram is meant for woman 43 years
old, but persuades the employer to
give her a chance.
And what is the task? To be nurse
for rich mans children She gladly
assumes this function, but next day
the other Miss Smith arrives, As years
old, angered to find her post taken.
since a letter. following the purloined
telegram, had warranted her coming.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-30

them, for there's a tramp on the place"
1t must have been 1870 o'clock before
the talking in the rooms entirely ceased.
All the lights were eXtinguished except
two, the hall lamp upstairs and one in the
hall downstairs. From one years end to
another these lamps burned at night. |
had been quite excited by the talk about
burglars during the evening, and was so
nervous that I opened my eyes a number
of times expecting to see the tramp
creeping along the hall, for I had left my
door open. My room was next to grand
mothers.
1t must have been about o'clock. when
my nervousness was greatest. l arose
from my bed and went to the window,
but all was quiet outside. / then tried TO
reason myself into serenity While / was
thus arguing with myself / was alarmed
by hearing light footsteps in the hall. 1
crept to the door and saw white figure
pass into the reception room, and in an
instant return with the buckslxin bag of
jewels. 1t was Miss Emily Royal. She
passed my door, descended the stairway.
In amazement I followed. She opened
the drawing room door. and in an in
slant returned. I hid behind a portiere
till she was passed She entered her room.
Not till about o'clock did I fall asleep.
Long before the guests We're downstairs
grandmother was stirring about and di-
recting that things be placed and the
house put to rights. The portrait that bad
been removed was hung up again, and
the drawing room was ready for the re-
ception of the guests. All were present at
breakfast except Miss Emily Royal She
sent her excuses She had taken cold and
would not be down to breakfast. Later
in the day she appeared. I, supposing
that she was playing some practical joke
in appropriating the jewels, said nothing
about what l had seen.
About 12 o'clock grandmother proposed
that they begin work on her ecuros and
clean them. She went to the room where
they We're kept, and a cry of alarm
startled the house-the jewels We're gone.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-30

value. namely i'm the business of
charming and keeping charmed the
earth with half the technical difficulty
that besets hers. The woman who can
fulfil II perfectly is rare indeed. Man
Is stomach as well as soul. digestion
as we'll as love.
Here and there are men and women
who enter wedlock with no more
worldly pelf than Bunyan could boass.
a few pots, a chair, and some old book s
on religion. Here and there is a cou-
pie who had not so much as that. |
am not sure that the practice is al
ways harmful Much depends on the
intrinsic capacity of both parties to
keep out of debt and to maintain their
mutual devotion. But the pinch comes
when children arrive, more clothes
have to be bought the most made of Il
little; and perhaps the light of life
goes out in a little coffined child.
For Poverty often holds open the door
for Death to enter.
Hence 1t is clear that the most ordi-
nary home demands of the wife that
she have a business head, to use the
money wisely, a sl1ilful hand to make
the most of the clothing and the cook
cry, and a modest heart, to subjugat e
the longing for more beautiful habiI-
iments than are within her reach and
to keep the soul uppermost among
things sordid.
3. Plain natural endowments may and
often do avail to put inexperienced
girls on fighting terms with life. Yet
a reasonable schooling is essential 10
her of the average mind. All women
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-30

management For the sake of her own
personality, that the home Itself =
mot defrauded, the richest woman must
| also face her professional duties. Be
ing matron, she Is purchaser nurse,
chef and all the other officers In
cluded in the captaincy of the home.
If she is not house mother, what Is
she? A toy? An accident? A shining
and irridescent bubble of beauty and
grace? Though she may even be child
less, still she must mother the home
or pay the penalty And what is the
penalty of not being "on the job ~
Thousands of beautiful homes have
answered that question with the wreck
age that has strewn thousands and
tens of thousands of human lives. 1t is
the finer things that count, not bread
alone.
@ AS for the homes of the working
obliterated by the moral agonies of
the money question. Certain tempta-
tions proved Irresistible, and honor
went with trust in a gigantic ruin. The
need of increased comforts, the COM
petition with others of larger means,
the greater cost of dress, and all the
problems of home beautifying have had
their part in the final cataclysm; but
the radical trouble was the wife's In
ability to cope with her department of
the business. She had no professional
efficiency. For there is no calling on
are superhuman, but some are less so,
others more. Where natural endow-
ments are trusted most securely, pre-
ciscely there they are of the least
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-30

In a recent story a husband falls
under the influence of an act
ress who. however does not de-
sire his attentions. The wife, fur
iously indignant electrical with bitter
wrath, faces the actress, but is
checked by the others calm and con-
vincing manner. Briefly stated, the
wife's misery. is met by the pungent
questioning of the artistic lady, who
demands to know what preparation she
had made for her profession Her
'profession?P Is wifehood to be con-
sidered a calling? At first the idea
seemed absurd, but under the lumin-
Gus judgment of the other woman the
wife learns that the new view is the
true one While actresses and singers
and business women put years of hard,
persistent work into their equipment
for a chosen life task, she, the wife,
had lazily and selfishly and blindly as
sumed that her task required no more
than that she should perch upon q
throne and expect her husband to do
her homage. He, poor fool, had grown
weary of so one-sided a bargain, and
was surrendering to the flashing splen-
doris of this other and more intelli-
gent woman.
What else could be expected? In q
chastered mood the wife went home to
take up the duty of wifehood more
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-30

THE gathering at Eastwood would
now be called "house party" but
\ in those days, when l was IA years
old. do not think it was so designated.
Yet, that is what is was. For about six
young ladies' and four young men had
been invited to come to us and spend 10
days in merry idleness. In addition to
these there were present Aunt Mary, of
whom l have written before in these col
umns, and her husband, Colonel Drum
goold.
1t was in the early summer and East
wood was looking its very best. The
flower gardens were full of early roses,
and graceful vines were mantling the
fences. The wild honeysuckle was just
beginning to open it's fragrant blossoms,
and the box lining the yard-paths had
assumed a fresh, glossy green. The old
trees forming the grove around the house
were not in fullest LEAKAGE yet, but the
foliage was dense enough to cast a
shadowy veil and softening aspect over
the surroundings of the old house.
The days were passed in boating on the
river. or in woods parties, while the even
ings were made happy by music. dancing,
old fashioned whist. Indeed, my grand
mothers idea of hospitality found express
sion In having no plans for her guests.
She let them do what most pleased them
selves as the occasion arose. Everything
was an impromptu suggestion, and merri-
1y the hours passed on lightest wing
One evening as everybody passed from
the dining room into the long drawing
room and were seating themselves as
their pleasure dictated, Miss Pocahontas
Rose, addressing my grandmother, asked,
'Cousin Mary, is Eastwood the Oldest
house in the county?"