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ELEVEN DAYS
HOLD RECORD
BUILDING PERMITS KEEP IN
ADVANCE
EXCEED LAST YEAR BY ABOUT
$150,000
Negative Quantities Seem Not to
Hamper Steady Growth —218
Permits Amount to Nearly
$300,000
Eleven days of February, despite rains, a
holiday and other negative quantities, main
tained the excellent building record enjoyed for
the past several months. In that time were !
issued 21S permits, amounting to $296,718, as
against 208 permits last year, amounting to
1151,343. The report shows one class A frame
•tructure, valued at $18,950; five class C struc
tures valued at $32,850; eighty-eight class D,
one-story structures, valued at $106,055, and the*
other Items show up well and strong in com
parison.
The report of Chief Inspector Backus, as
segregated by Chief Clerk Cohn, follows:
Permits. Value.
Class A, steel fram« 1 J15.050
Class O 5 12,88)
Class D, 1-story 88 106.088
Class D, Hi-story 16 36,760
Class D, 2-stary .. 14 63,353
Ciass D, 3-story 1 lioWO
Sheds 15 1775
Brick alterations 13 5,fi28
Frame alterations 63 16,196
Demolitions 2 125
Totals 218 $296,718
From Feb. 1, to 11. 1908 20S 101,343
Following is report by wards:
First ward 23 $14,890
Second ward 13 16,788
Third ward 17 32,753 j
Fourth ward 29 81.670
Fifth ward 79 105,906
Sixth ward 34 31,451
Seventh ward 4 3,325 1
Eighth ward .*. 5 1,787 1
Ninth ward 14 8.14S
Totals 218 $296,718
Principal Building Permits
Helen street, 1409— J. W. Phelps, owner; H.
D. Becker, builder; 2-story flats; $3100.
Fifty-second place, 530 West—David Grunt,
owner; C. I>. Brewer, builder; 1-story 5-room
residence; $1500.
Jeffries avenue. 2SJ2—J. H. Jeffries, owner;
B. 1... Fullon, builder; 1-story 7-room residence;
$iaoo.
Turner street, 610—Anna Scharff, owner;
Gardner & Bonell, builders; 1-story stores;
$1000.
Twentieth street. 22T9 West—Jennie M. Conk
lin, owner and builder; 2-story 8-room resi
dence; $2500.
First street, 3300 East—Margaret A. Curtin,
owner; C. H. Curtin, builder; l-Btory 5-room
residence; $1000.
Fiftieth street, 1307 West—H. Parlee,'owner
and builder: 1-story 6-room residence; $1600.
Twenty-ninth place, 2101 West—E. J. Sher
brook, owner and builder; 1-story 7-room resi
dence; $2500.
Boylston street. 309 North—Anna and Rosa
Eckerly, owners; Edw. Chapton, builder; 1-
Etory 5-room residence; $1000.
Fifty-sixth street, 326 West—G. Swanson,
owner and builder; 1-story 5-room residence;
$1000.
Seventh street, 2810 West—Jane I. Wren,
owner; Milwaukee Building Co., builders; 2
story 8-room residence; $5000.
Third street, 2959 East—W. H. Workman,
owner; I. H. Day, builder; 1-story 5-room resi
dence; $1200.
Wisconsin street, 3910—A. Barnes, owner; J.
M. Ackerman, buildef; 1-story 6-room resi
dence; $ISOO.
Walton avenue, 4022—Vale-Crane, owrfßr and
■builder; 1-story 6-room residence; $1700.
street. 420 West—Walter J. Poole,
owner; J. A. Myers, builder; 1-story 6-room
retidence; $1500.
Second avenue, 3420—E11a Krool, owner: C.
C. I^etyr, builder; 1-story 6-room house; $1700.
Olive street, 609 South—Louise Y. Prate, own
er; F. R. Dorn, builder; 1-story store; $3500.
Hobart boulevard, 2912— H. C. Smith, owner;
California Bungalow Co., builders; 1-story 7
room residence; $2000.
West Fiftieth street, 1230—5. Milner. owner
and builder; 1-story 6-room house; $2000.
Hoover street, 131 South—A. V. Perkinson
and A. G. Polsom, owners and builders; Hi
story 8-room hesidence; $3000.
Alameda street, 2010 South—National Lumber
Co., owner and builder; 1-story storehouse;
$500.
Alpine street, 124— J. Murrieta; alterations;
$425.
Walton avenue, 4056—Vail & Crane, owners
and builders; 1-story 5-room house; $1500.
Forty-ninth street, 1802 West—Henry Babel,
owner and builder; 2-story if-room house; $25u0.
Orpheum Theater Rumors
According to report, work will begin
soon after March 1 on a new theater
for the Orpheum circuit. Martin Beck
and Meyerfeld, jr., who are managers
of this circuit, have been in Los An
geles several days conferring with
architects, and are said to have se
cured a locatftm for the building. Local
architects will furnish the plans and
loeai labor is expected to be employed
entirely. The expectation is to get the
house ready for use by September. It
is also said that the expenditure will
be close to $150,000. ' '
Ranch for City Property
The exchange department of the Jones &
Ryder Land company reports the exchange
for Harry C. Gleason of h!s fourteen-acre
ranch three and one-half miles west of Ful
lerton on Orangethorpe avenue, near Al
mond station, improved with a five-room
cottage, large barn, corrals, packing house,
well, windmill tank and family orchard, for
the property at 944 Birch street, Los An
geles, on lot 216 of the Alexandre "Well
tract, formerly owned by Salvatora Bonura.
Total valuation $9100.
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With Riverside Architects
Architect S. R. Pillar of Riverside has com
pleted plans for the manual training school to
be erected at Riverside, and bids are now be
ing received by Lyman Evans, chairman of
the board of education, to be opened Fabruary
16.
Architect S. L. Pillar is now receiving bids
for the construction of the Freeman building,
to bo erected on the- corner of Eighth and
Lemon streets. It v.ill be a three-story and
basement brick structure.
Purchases Claremont Block
Dr. M. B. Campbell of Los Angeles, for
merly of Claremont. has solii to Dr. iF. Geer
of that place all of block 1 of the original
Claremont tract. Thir, property lies between
Dartmouth and Columbia avenues, between
Ninth and Tenth streets, and was originally |
tha nortbeabst corner of the town of Claremont. |
At present the land is planted to orange trees, j
an,! comprises about three acres. Dr. Geer
will probably divide it into lots, as in the ori
glnal survey.
Pays $3250 for Lot
The Jones & Ryder Land company reports
through its sales departmeni the sale of
property located at 2424 West Twenty-ninth
place. The lot is 41x130 feet on the south
side of the street, between Second and Third
avenues.
The \pt is improved with a room mod
ern bungalow. Bought by William R.
I'rampton for an investment -from E. R.
Powers. Consideration $3250.
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$56,000 Sale at Covina
At Covina the sale is reported of a
twenty-acre orange ranch facing Ba
dillo street, just outside the town lim
its. A modern residence and other
good buildings were included. The
seller was »). L. Peters to«an eastern
man who is to make this his home. Re
ported price, $56,000.
SETS NEW POLE VAULT RECORD
CHICAGO, Feb. 13.—Claire Jacobs,
the University of Chicago pole vaulter,
broke the world's ' indoor record for
that event today in practice by making
a clean vault over the stick atWwelve
feet and one-eighth of an inch, actual
measure. The mark will not stand,
however, as it was not made in com
petition. Jacobs holds the present
world's record of 11 feet 8% inches.
Exquisite Type of Swiss Chalet Now Being
Built for James Murray at San Bernardino
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THIS Swiss chalet is now being built
at Seventh and G streets, San
Bernardino, for James Murray,
from plans done at Ye Planry, Los An
geles. It will'cost $8000. The exquisite
lines of the true Swiss chalet type will
be wrought throughout, including bat
tering gable ends. The outside will be
plastered to window sills, above which
will be shakes. The design shows a
long porch across the front, with a cov
ered porte cochere at one end. The
windows are all to be of leaded plate
glass. The color effect is artistically
arranged, so that the chimneys, porcli,
porte cochere and columns will be of
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Problem 2, Section 2
Double dummy (that is, each player
knows the cards possessed by the oth
ers). Hearts are trumps. Six tricks
have been played. V leads the 6 of
spades. How can A and B play so as
to win the seven remaining tricks
against the best play of their oppo
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Solutions to Problems Published Jan
uary 21, 1909
Problem 1, Section 1
The correct declaration is no-trump.
The hand possesses sufficient strength
to justify diamonds, but the rule is, "If
a hand equally justifies more than one j
declaration that should be chosen
which has the greater value if the hand
be strong and that should be 'chosen
which has the lesser value if the hand
be weak." To this rule the only ex
ceptions are due to score, and in the
problem the score was omitted.
Problem 1, Section 2
The leader, V, should be governed by
the following inferences in determining
his opening lead. The double by his
partner demands a heart, ordinarily
the hihgest in his hand. The redouble
practically informs him that A expects
I to stop the heart suit, ergo A must hold
'at least 3 to the queen. If this be so,
, the only means whereby V and Z can
win all the heart tricks is for V to
open with the 2 of hearts, so,that upon
return of the suit by Z he can with his
i king capture the queen held by A.
Nothing can be gained by first open
| ing the ace of spades and there is a
long chance that A may hold the king
of spades, in which event two tricks ir t
spades must be won by V and Z.
Correct solutions in the first section
were received from "Subscriber,"
! "Reader" and "S. H. H."
In the second section only "Sub
| scriber" was successful.
| Section 1
Continuing the discussion of the deal
! er's play at no-trump begun in the
| last article, let us first consider
Playing for Long Suits
The leader should consider his two
hands with a view to determining in
which suit he has the most likelihood
of making tricks wtih small cards. Al
ways remember that after the high
cards are played the small ones take
tricks which are just as valuable, anj
that anybody can take tricks with
j acea and kings, but it requires some
skill to take tricks with small cards.
Also remember that length is strength
at no-trump. Therefore select for your
main attack that suit which contains
five or more,, cards in one hand if you
have any high cards therein with
which you can either win tricks or
force the adversaries to play their hign
cards. For instance, if you have a
choice between two suits, one of yfhicn
contains three to ace, king and the oth
er five to queen-jack, the latter
should first be led, for the following
LOS ANGELES HERALD: SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 14, 1909.
cream colored plaster, the walls and
trimmings of stained brown, with a
frosted roof.
Inside, across the entire lower front
wil be a large living room with built-in
seats and Roman brick mantel. At
the end of living room will be a stair
way, leading to. a circular bay with
window seat at landing. Back of living
room is designed the dining room, with
buffet across outer wall. The buffet
is to have leaded glass doors. Back of
dining room is den, entered from the
former through plate glass doors. In
the den is to be a small fireplace, with
built-in bookcases at either side.
The den will open to a sun porch.
The kitchen will be modern in every
respect. From screened porch is to be
reasons: In the former you :an only
take two tricks, and these you are sure
to win, whilst in the latter, if you
cause the adversaries to play the ace
and king, you will be able to'make the
three remaining tricks, which you
would have lost had you first played
your ace-king, thereby establishing the
small cards of that suit for your oppo
nents. -
Establishing a Suit
A suit is said to be established when
you either hold the highest cards not
played or can catch the high cards
held by the adversaries; in short, that
you can win the remaining tricks in the
suit. The winner at no-trump is usu
ally he who first succeeds in establish
ing his long suit. Therefore the dealer
should devote his energies principally
to this end. It is apparent that If you
are successful in establishing the long
suit the better the results, as there are
more small cards therein which become
trick winners.
Some prior consideration must be
given, however, to the planning of the
hand, as it often happens without this
caution that after you have succeeded
in establishing two or three small cards
you are unable to get the lead in that
hand, which is not only vexatious but
liable to be accompanied by levity and
derision on the part of your opponents.
It is very important that your plan
should embrace the retention in that
hand of a card of
Re-entry
A re-entry is a card whereby a hand
may regain the lead whenever desir
able and a sure re-entry is the highest
unplayed card of a suit.
If you have in the combined hands
all the high cards necessary to estab
lish a suit there is still care to be ob
served, for careless players often
| block themselves. In such a case
it is usually sufficient to begin by play
ing the high cards first from the hand
which contains the smaller number and
taking the lead in the long hand after
winning all the tricks you can In the
short hand which might get in your
way.
Should the opponents hold one or
more tricks in your long suit look far
enough ahead to see if when they are
played you will still be able to put th&.t
hand in the lead, as otherwise it is
useless.
From the beginning therefore you
should determine in which hand you
will need re-entry cards and as far as
possible keep winning cards in that
hand. For instance. If you hold a long
suit in dummy and the ace of clubs
and also hold in your own hand the
king of clubs, and the opponents should
lead clubs, it is best to win the Wick
with your king so as to leave the ace
as re-entry for the long suit in dummy.
In the following problem please state
what cards should 3"ou play from your
own hand and from the dummy and
which suit you should endeavor to first
establish..
Problem 2, Section 1
A- deals and makes it no-trump, hold
ing the following cards. Hearts, ace,
king, 9; clubs, ace, queen, 7; diamonds,
ace, 8; spades, queen, jack, 10, 6, 5.
The leader opens the 3 of diamonds
and dummy lays down the following
hand: Hearts, 7, 6, 5; clubs, king, jack,
19, 9, 6, 4, 2; diamonds, king, 7, 2.
Section 2
Owing to the usual luck which fol
lows innovations the problem of last
week for this section was printed with
out sufficient explanation to make it
clear to readers, therefore it is reprint
ed in this issue under the same num
ber. During the week the writer ha 3
offered the problem to several players
and has been seriously asked if it is
really possible for the dealer and his
partner to win all seven tricks. Read
ers may rest assured that no problem
will be inserted in this department that
is not "solvable, although some may re
quire some study. This problem in par
ticular is very simple if care is exer
cised, and it is hoped many of our
readers will send in solutions.
An innovation of comparatively recent
date and which may prove interesting
to experienced players who are not fa
miliar with its practice may be con
sidered under the heading
Cards of Encouragement
The opening lead being blind the
leader's partner, who has the advan
tage cf a sight of dummy, is frequenf
ly better able than the leader to deter
mine whether the suit should be con
tinued or a new suit opened. This, of
course, applies only when the leader
holds the first trick.
It is more applicable to a declared
trump than at no-trump, as in the lat
ter case It is usually best to continue
the suit opened-
At declared trump, however, there
are many occasions upon which much
better results are likely to be obtained
if the suit is switched. It is now a
common practice of the dealer's part
ner to inform him by his play to the
stairway to cellar, where a furnace will
be installed. Also from screened porch
will be entrance to a modern garage at
end of house. Oak floors, slashed
grained Oregon pine wainscoting and
ceiling beams will be used throughout
first floor.
Upstairs will comprise three large
bedroomß, a small servant's room, open
balcony and bathroom. The front bed
room "will have three closets and
boudoir. The bathroom will have tiled
floor and wainscoting. The entire up
per story will be finished with white
maple floors and enamel white wood
work.
There wil be a barn in the rear, built
in same type as the house. Adjoining
the barn wll be a large corral.
first trick whether he considers it best
to continue the suit in the following
manner. If it is desirable to switch
the suit he plays his lowest card. If
he considers it desirable to continue
the suit he plays a card higher than
his lowest. The most serious objection
to the play lies in the fact that the
cards held are not always such as to
enable the dealer to know positively
that the card played is or is not the
lowest held by his partner, but experi
ence has demonstrated that in a vast
number of cases it is successful and in
the remainder nothing is lost if nothing
is gained. The various reasons which
may determine the third-hand player to
advise his partner to switch the suit
are too numerous for insertion in so
brief an article, but the mention of a
few will serve to direct attention of
the readers to the benefits to be de
rived.
If, by an examination of the dummy
and hia own hand, it is apparent that
the adverse hand which is short In
trumps will rough, or if it is apparent
that a king in dummy may be cap
tured or that he will be forced when
this is not desirable it is evident that
he should play his lowest card.
Conversely, if the contrary appears,
or if at any time any player desires to
show strength when not in the lead he
may do so by playing a higher and then
a lower card. This is, of course, con
trary to the rule of discard advocated
by Elwell, whereby weakness Is shown
by an echo discard, but as in all other
respects it is in accord with all the
best authorities and forms part of a
uniform rule that the play of a higher
card, followed by a lower card, Indi
cates strength, it has been generally
adopted as soon as understood.
The great benefits which follow a
rule of general application more than
overcome the few cases in which it
is not approved. The danger of gen
eral rules, however, is instanced by
the following incident, if readers will
pardon a slight digression.
No-trump having been declared the
leader opened diamonds in which he
lost the first trick to the ace, but re
gaining the lead in which he won the
next four tricks. His partner having
only one diamond discarded the ace,
king, queen and jack of spades, where
upon he led a small spade only to dis
cover she had no more spades. After
the hand was finished he mildly in
quired why she had so discarded and
was answered witheringly: "I am a
pupil of Elwell and he advises discard
from strength. I thought even begin
ners knew that."
It is needless to say that he did not
pursue the discussion.
Having adopted the general rule that
high the low means strength it is re
markable how many and how varied
are the occasions upon which it is use
ful and how many games are thereby
saved which would otherwise have
been lost. As a signal that you have
a' winner in the adversaries' suit it en
ables your partner to discard to better
advantage. As a signal that you will
trump the third trick it enables your
partner to determine when he should
play his ace to the first trump lead
in order that he may let you rough
before your trumps are exhausted.
Upon your partner's opening lead it
encourages him to continue the suit
when otherwise he might switch in
juriously, in the end game when it is
necessary to get your partner in the
lead and there are two suites between
which you must choose in one of which
you held the ace, by leading the ace
you can determine by the size of the
card he plays whether to continue that
suit or try the other. In fact after a
little practice a good player can gen
erally determine by the card his part
ner plays to the first lead of a suit the
general nature of his holdings therein.
A few games played under this system
is usually sufficient to insure its adop
tion.
To those who are satisfied that the
standard game is sufficient it may not
appeal, but to those who feel that
every opportunity for the exercise of
ingenuity is welcome it will prove very
satisfactory.
Among many of the best players of
all sections it is considered the greatest
trick winner of the game. As between
four players of equal ability two of
whom use this system and two of whom
do not it is estimated there is a differ
ence of at least 10 per cent in favor
of the former.
Leaky Valve Trouble
A gasoline engine will often have
good compression when cold and have
next to none at all after it has run for
some time. When an engine acts in
this way the trouble is usually due to
leakage past the valves on account of
the small amount of clearance between
the valve stems and the tappets or
push rods. When the stems and valves
are cold the latter seat properly, but
when the former are heated, and, of
course, expandefl, the valves are pre
vented from seating by the stems rest
ing on the tappets.
Calexico Cat Club .
Los Angeles and San Diego have "cat
clubs." We keep one handy, too, for
the pestiferous felines will taken us
from our troubled slumbers now and
then.—Calexico Chronicle.
$1250 for 5 Acres
With Water Rights— Easy Terms'
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Lands with an Established Present, and an Assured Future Value
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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
IS GUIDED BY BIBLE
HEALING AS PRACTICED BY
GALILEAN FOLLOWED
Mrs. Eddy's Adherents Consider
Health as Important, but for
Spiritual and Not Mate.
rial Reason
Every one who has ever read the
Bible must recollect the story of the
day when Jesus, coming to his- house
at Nazareth, went as he was wont into
the synagogue, and after having read
aloud a passage from the book of
Isaiah, rolled the scroll together and
turned to those present with the words,
"Ye will surely say unto me this
proverb, Physician, heal thyself."
The entire incident is worth remem
bering in the light of criticisms so often
launched against Christian Science, of
being an entirely selfish religion which
Inscribes immunity from illness and
physical inharmony upon its banners.
To listen to the people who hold such
views speaking it would be natural
to conclude that there was a positive
virtue in being ill, and that their neigh
bors, who are well, were being neglected
by God, who in omitting to chasten
them \v,ith illness or sorrow, was for
some inscrutable purpose deliberately
permitting them to roam, without
warning, down the broad road which
leads to destruction.
When one of their friends dies they
thank God for having taken him to his
rest, ignoring the fact that they have
for weeks and months striven with the
aid of all the resources of the medical
profession to defeat the beneficent pur
pose of the Almighty. When they are
ill themselves they pray that God's
Kingdom may come and his will be
dons, forgetting that to this prayer
Christ Jesus added the words "in earth
as it is in heaven." Now there is most
certainly neither sin, illness nor death
in heaven. ,*So that when they pray for
God's willito be done in earth as in
heaven, it 4s manifest, that their prayer
can only be_ answered in the overcom
ing of their evils. Yet this is the very
thing they find selfish and material in
a Christian Scientist.
Bible Is Chart of Life
It is the inevitable fatwof all critics
of Christian Science to find themselves
sooner or later committed to criticism
cJ the teaching of Christ Jesus, for the
sufficient reason that, in the words of
Mrs. Eddy, the Bible is "the chart of
life" and Christian Science is steering
by that chart. If there was one thing
made more clear than another by
Christ Jesus during his ministry it was
that it was the duty of all those who
claimed to be his followers to repeat
his deeds of healing. But in order to
heal others it is necessary to be able to
heal yourself.
The critics of Christian Science re
alise this today as thoroughly as the
opponents of Jesus in the first century,
and when they see a Christian Scientist
whom they regard as ill, take up the
cry, "Physician, heal thyself." Then,
the next minute, they turn round and
reproach him for considering his health
a matter of importance.
The Christian Scientist does consider
his health a matter of importance, but
for a spiritual and not for a material
reason. The flesh he knows profiteth
nothing, but he knows also that if like
Job he is to see God in his flesh, it will
only be because he has learned, as Mrs.
Eddy says, to "follow Jesus' sayings
and his demonstrations, which domi
nate the flesh."
A man with so little belief as Mat
thew Arnold in the historical truth of
Jesus' miracles has admitted that his
therapeutics were purely spiritual.
Without going the length of entirely re
pudiating the gospel records it would
dp impossible to question this. He had,
indeed, one universal prescription, "Re
pent, for the kingdom of heaven is at
hand." The word translated repent
means literally to come to a conviction
afterwards, and so to change your
mind. Consequently when a man
changes his mind from a belief that
sin, disease and death are God-sent or
God-permitted —a case of a distinction
without a difference, if ever there was
one—to somp understanding of the fact
that these things are, on the contrary,
nothing but a negation of divine Love,
he touches the hem of the seamless
garment of Christ's divine Science, and,
to the extent of his knowledge, is "in-
dued with the spirit and power of
Christian heading."
"Whether is easier to say," Jesus
demanded of the scribes, "thy sins b«
forgiven thee; or to say, arise, and
walk?" That question does not imply
that Jesus thought that all illness was
the result of conscious or deliberate
sin. The disciples seem to have thought
that it did, and so to have been led to
ask the famous question about the man
born blind, Christ Jesus, however,
knew that there was a broader defini
tion of sin than the disciples seem to
have suspected. A definition which in
cluded sins of omission no less than
sins of commission. He knew, in short,
that, speaking absolutely, it was sin to
believe in anything but God. And from
this standpoint he defined eternal life
as a correct knowledge of God and
Christ.
Heaelth Comes Spiritually
It is, consequently, perfectly clear
that a man must enjoy permanent and
complete health in proportion as he ac
quires the mind that was in Christ Je
sus. And this is sufficient to explain
the desire of the Christian Scientist to
demonstrate his dominion over the
flesh, and to show that, through re
pentance, he has learned that the king
dom of heaven is not afar off, for "the
Kingdom of God is within you/
This being so, is there any reason
why the healing powers of Christian
Science should not be proclaimed? The
very critics who object that this is
teaching the world to seek Christ for
physical benefit, talk persistently of ill
ness and death, which, inasmuch as
Paul says, that by sin death entered
the world, can hardly be said to have
much in common with Christianity.
Apart from this, however, these critics
are, as usual, criticising the teaching
of Jesus no less than that of Mrs.
Eddy, for there can hardly be a better
way of preaching Christianity than the
way Christ Jesus preached it. And it
is, of course, indisputable that the way
Christ Jesus preached it is the way in
which it is today preached in Christian
Science.
When John the Baptist sent his disci
ples to Jesus to demand whether or not
he was the Christ. Jesus replied with
n simple recital of his deeds of healing.
That was, indeed, always his final
word. He came preaching to the world
the stupendous meaning of the omnipo
tence, omniscience and omnipresence
of God, and when the materiality of
his listeners shrank from the very spir
ituality of his message he fell back on
the miracle or object lesson, telling
them if they could not believe for the
sake of the word they must believe for
the very work's sake. "Now, as then,"
writes Mrs. Eddy, "signs and wonders
are wrought in the metaphysical heal
ing of physical disease; but these signs
are only to demonstrate its divine or
igin—to attest the reality of the higher
mission of the Christ-power to take
away the sins of the world." —Christian
Science Monitor.
Art Review
KATHRYN RUCKER
KATE T. CORY, a painter of Indian pic
tures, hehl an exhibition of her work
during the past week at the Kanst gal
lory, South Spr+ng street, and received
visits personally, explaining the meaning of
?ome of her subjects not familiar to those who
have not made this tribe, the Hopi, a study,
as several of the paintings portray customs and
ceremonies peculiar to them. Miss Cory was
an art student in a New York school, and
I came west to live among the Indians and
I thoroughly acquaint herself with their life that
she might faithfully record these interesting
scenes and faces with her brush. This collec
tion of pictures proves that she has worked
assiduously to carry out her plan. There are
some forty oils and one water color, the most
pretentious one being "Feather Ceremony to the
Kun," a large canvas with many figures in
line of procession to a rude altar decked about
with feathers, messengers to the rising sun,
where prayers and sacred meals are offered to
effect the return of the sun and spring.
The exhibitions of paintings by Margaret
Jordan Patterson and James E. Mcßurney will
open Monday. February 15, at the Steckel gal
lery. Mr. Mcßurney has been ait instructor
of L. A. high school the past two years. Miss
Patterson will be remembered by her Holland
pictures in pastel shown here last year.
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Through the efforts of F. W". Blanchard and
the curator of his art gallery, E..C. Maxwell,
the first annual exhibition of the work of wo
men painters of Southern California has grown
into a reality and will be opened on Monday
evening, February 15. with a reception which
is expected to be one of the successes of the
season, in that the interest and patronage of
numerous persons of position and Influence have
been enlisted. There are several committees in
charge -to insure a perfect arrangement in
every detail, both artistic and social. Xeil
Huntington Gere, Mary Gay and Marian Wil
liams constitute the jury. Nanette Calder,
Teresa Cloud and Lillian Drain form the hang
ing committee; F. W. Bianchard, E. C. Max
well and Mrs. William Cole are the executive
staff; Leta Harloeker, chairman refreshment
committee, and Mrs. Spada in charge of the
music. The patronesses are: Mmes. Cornelius
Cole, George J. Blrkel, Charles F. Lummis
Randolph H. Miner, D. M. Rlordan, H. C.
Lott, John Bigelow and Misses Olive Percival
arfti Cora Foy, who will assist in receiving.
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At the February meeting of the Painters'
club F. C. Coburn was elected as an active
member, and arrangements for their spring ex
hibition were begun, C. A. Rogers and Martin
J. Jackson being appointed to secure a gal
lery for that purpose. The members received
complimentary membership cards from the
Ruskin Art club, a courtesy which expresses
the good fellowship existing between the two
clubs, and It Is thought that a permanent ex
hibition room may be maintained between
them. The next meeting of the Painters' club
will be held at the Majestic, 700 West First
street, March 2.
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William Wendt has returned after a most
successful exhibit of his work at the Art insti
tute, Chicago, where the public and critics
alike admired and praised the forceful and
vigorous paintings by this artist. Mr,, Wendt
is accompanied by his friend, William Vaughn
Moody, well known to the literary world as a
poet, and author of "The Great Divide," who
will be his companion on a sketching trip
which he is about to make. Mrs. Wendt will
remain in Chicago for some time to execute
recent commissions.
The Los Angeles Camera club held an inter
esting exhibition of pictorial photography at
their club rooms in the Blanchard building last
week. Many good and most artistic pictures
were seen, and three prizes were awarded, the
winners being R. T. Crandall, first and second,
for "Our Water Supply" and "Road to the
Valley," respectively; and Mrs. Hattie Bus
kirk, third, for "Song of the Leaves."
The Natural Arts club, New York, which now
has but one member in Los Angeles, issued
invitations to the opening reception and pri
vate view of the International exhibition of
pictorial photography held the early part oC
this month, at which the evolution of modern
pictorial photography was discussed by promi
nent representatives in this field of art Color
photography was an ipteresting feature of the
exhibition.
At the monthly meeting of the School of Art
and Design Palette club sketches by the stu
dents were shown, the selected subject being:
"Home." Memory sketches are to be exhibited
at the next meeting.
Ho-ward S. Hill of Garner having earned the
everlasting gratitude of all epicures by evolv
ing: a combination of cucumber and orange, it
has now remained for another disciple of
Luther Burbank, C. A. Wintzer of Bridgeport,
Conn., to produce a duck without a breastbone.
—Boston Globe.
"We once saw a conjurer produce a woman
without a moment's hesitation. —Houston Post.
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