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IN WOMAN'S WORLD The Smart Set "T""* IE latest news from France last week was that Dr. and Mrs. Wil- I liam J. Younger had given a musicale at their home in Paris, week the domestic history of William Ellis Corey is cabled to a waiting American world. Foreign cor respondents thus keep their country men at home au courarrt with affairs in Europe. Usually the progress of the Coreys is followed from week to week, but the coronation so soon after their ball rather overshadowed it. If one thought of it between reading about Toha'Hays Hammond and Mrs. William H. Crocker at the coronation, it was to suppose they were resting quietly on the laurels of the fete. It seems, however, that William Ellis Corey was not. He is said to be restive, bored at the butterfly existence of a French gentleman, longing for the clash of steel in the battle of American finance. Also to be desirous of a reconciliation with his former wife, one of the original Reno divorcees. This, however .is not the point. In iate bulletins Mrs. Corey the second is called a chorus girl, who won her first recognition in San Francisco. It is no more important than anything else about the Coreys, but it is still inter esting that she was a student at Mills college a few years ago. where ,?irls who are now living in the Greenway set were her classmates. She was pretty and clever, and had a voice ior grand opera, rhey say.* if it had been de veloped. She was only 16 when she came across the bay from school to sing "Ben Bolt" in "Trilby," quite thrillingly. at the old Baldwin theater. She sang behind the scenes', while Virginia Harned posed before the footlights, and it was a well guarded secret whose was the really beautiful voice in the wings. Not a stage appearance exactly, but Mabelle Gilman's first profes sional venture. In the excitement of later events the Mills college career and "Trilby" seem to have been forgotten, and are not referred to in chronicles of the Coreys. Miss Harriet Pomeroy, who has been visiting her sister. Mrs. Thomas Scott Brooke, at her home in Portland, *is expected to return to San Francisco next week. ■ ■ ' ■'-'~ -/ ■: ■■ ■ ______ AMUSEMENTS 1. I l l" on I if £ L oS, /^ B * Jin /U. r d Sy •; v-J r 8 % Other c ?I Features RI IT P and 'ifi DAY Military -_■ DL.UC the VJK/^I Spectacle ■ Take FREE—Every Night—FßEE ||| Keyßoute Also Aft FERULUTS Italian ■ Key Route And Night rauuub Ban<l v ima —» ■ Wagnerian Program ■--.-■ H%l I fl [ill A Tomorrow Afternoon K^f IUUtIK MONS. AND MME. BEGUE, g^f • ;■' -Vocalists. .♦"•'■ mk'l DADS/ Be? Next Sun. Aft" Egg iHfill Lambardi Grand Opera Co. »'J ■ nun Pr i C e S : 35c, 50c 75c. $1 In- ■ yAIAI eluding Park Admission. Kj,| KlrVf Sun. Mat. Cavalleria Rusti- ■ 11 ** " cana and Pag:liacci:Sun. Eve. ■ Caltland Kiroletto; ■ Mon. Eve. Traviata, ■ j_f2lf!l2- SEATS NOW READY AT fei^ Pr man Clay & C<S. Oakland;-Tupper W| & ' Rp^d Berkeley;--AUmeda County In- ■ formation Bureau, 657 Market St., San |p Francisco. . - ■■•■■■- \■ - * ■ _.'*___i___ have a I COLUMBIA JOY RIDE I , THE LEADING • — m PLAYHOUSE _■■■■■■■■ GEARY and MASON The GIRL TAXI THE * ** -*^- * Exceeding the ; Speed. Limit V THIS and NEXT WEEK Every Night. Matinees Wed. and Sat. Price* 25c to $1.50 \ ',» '■;'<; r ARLE IS ■■-•.". I «C PHUTG MAID" Doming • I:--:-:.. »JOON Safest and Most Magnificent Theatre in 'America. MATINEE TODAY AND EVERY;DAY TBE STANDARD OF VAUDEVILLE NANA, Dans Ses Danses. Temperamental,- Tem pestnous and Beautiful; CONNELLY and WEBB, In "A Stormy Finish";' DEIRO, Piano Accord ionist; MORNT CASH. "The Lancashire Lad"; ; Last week "SCROOGE." Tom Terriss' Adapta tion of Charles Dickens 1 "A Christmas: Carol"; ORIGINAL . FOUR . LONDON'S; >-» LOU ,"-; ANGER New ' Daylight Motion Pictures: Last Week AMELIA STONE and ARMAND KALISZ, in the. Miniature Operetta, "Mon Amour." . -; '. Eve. Prices, * 10c, 25c, 50c. 75c.: Box Seats, $1. Mat Prices (except Sundays and Holidays), 10c,'25c, ■■ 50c. Phone* —Douglas .70; Home C 1570. A I r A 7 A DSUTTER & STEINER ALL ALAR rhone West 140° . ***J T*.~T** • * - Home Phone 54242 BELASCO & MAYER. Owners and Managers TONIGHT ALL THIS ,WEEK>——TONIGHT : MATINEE SATURDAY AND SUNDAY Farewell Appearances of ' RICHARD BENNETT and MABLE MORRISON -y THE LION AND THE MOUSE ' i 'J.'^-l Charles Klein's Famous Play ■ PRICES—Night. 25c -to |1; Matinee 25c ito 6Oc Seats for sale at -Box Office and* Emporium NEXT WEEK OPENS NANCE S O'NEIL ... •:;...;. SEASON. • - "- ...\ . . ; "THE SORCERESS" LURLINE r. BUSH AND LARKIX STREETS OCEAN WATER BATHS Swimming and Tub Baths , ' Salt water f direct from the ' ocean. -Open - - every day and j evening, . including ; Sundays -and holidays, from 6 a. m. to 10 p.' m. Spec tators' = gallery free; : - 1,-'- ■':'■ .'- •■:■•- -■■-'<-:^--'-.-..: "■;; Natatorium reserved Tuesday and =Friday • mornings * from 9 o'clock to noon' for ' women' only.' ■---•;<■.,:' ■ -.'_•-' -■'-.; •■ ; '-'i- '.'v:' ''-.': ~ * ''Filtered • Ocean Water Plunge" -.-. -: ;-. COMFORTABLY HEATED. \ a : Hot Air Hair Dryers v for Women Bathers. x ■ The '■ popular ■ report '■ for. a summer's \ day ■.or/ pvenlng. - Temperature of building adjusted ; to suit weather. • •:---'-- *'' , ■■■..;■::/•.:-■. ,"•*■,:,..-'.. ■<•:''.. BRANCH TUB - BATHS.; 2181 GEARY ST., > i ..vV'v r^|HEAK?DEyiSADERO.-.;:.'r;^:..H=:^.; " The informal dinner dance en masque gTiven last evening by Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lilburn Eyre in compliment |p their son, Ted. at their home in menlo Park, is said to have been the jolllest affair of the summer. Only about 30 guests, most of whom were from the peninsula cities, were bidden to the party. Among them were: Mr. and Mrs. Richard (Mips Frederika Otis Glrrin 'Ward Mailliard Mr. and Mrs. Perry iTheodore Eyre i E-rre Atherton Eyre Mr. and Mrs. Carleton jJoseph Donohoe Mullen Harry Evans I Miss Ethel Crocker Arthur Evans Miss Lee Girvin I William Crrx-ker f Miss Myra Josselyn Austin Tuhbs I Miss Dorothy Page [Robert Hayue [ Miss Constance Me- . Robert Eyre Laren Evan Brans I Miss Dora Winn • Loyall McLaren Mies Katharine Donohoe William Duncan Miss Christine Donohoe Robert Sharon Miss Evelyn Cunning- Austin Moore ham Gteorga Howard Miss Genevlere Cun- Eyre Plnckard nlngham n.!w;ir(l Lyman Miss Evelyn Barron William Griffith Miss Cora Otis Clement Miller • • • Ensign and Mrs. James Laurence Kauffman are rejoicing in the arrival of a son at their home in Coronado. Mrs. Kauffman was Miss Elsa Draper. • • • The engagement is announced of Miss Georgiana Jones and Robert Ke! sey Walton, a young attorney of New York city. The wedding will be cele brated in Switzerland the latter part of this month. .Miss Jones is the daughter of former United States Sen ator John P. Jones of Nevada an.i is well known in social circles both here and in Los Angeles. • • • Mr. and Mrs. John B. McNear have taken a cottage In Miss Valley, adjoin ing that of Mr. and Mrs. John Rossiter where they will be domiciled for the remainder of the summer. • • • Mr. and Mrs. John G. Kirchen, ac companied by their daughter, Miss Florence Kirchen, lefft their home in Tonopah last Saturday on a two weeks' automobile trip through the state Dur ing their stay in this city they will be the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Bronte M Aikins at their home in Pacific avenue. • • • Mies Patricia'Cosgrave, who has been visiting her sister, Dr. Millicent Cos grave, at her home. »n Octavia street, will leave during the early part of September for New York, where she will live with her brother, J. O'Hara Cosgrave. • • • Mrs. "William Landers and Miss Eleanor Landers were the guests of the former's daughter, Mrs. Jack John ston, recently, at her home in Blythe dale. After Mrs. Johnston's return from Loa Angeles, where she will visit during the lattet part of this week, Mr. and Mrs. Johnston will open their home in this city for the winter. AMUSEMENTS Industrial Fair NOW OPEN AUDITokuM AUDITORIUM Urfder'the Auspices of : Retailers' Protective Association INDUSTRY!; ■ MECHANICS! ART! Most ; Magnificent X ; Representation l' Ever Seen in the West ."' * Opens 7:30 P. M. FILLMORE ~" AND ? PAGE .STREETS r Admission 25 cents ; Music by Prof.- H. von,der Mehden : ' '■'■■'■ - ■■•-••j-:;V.---."." -.V: r:..:.- •» .:■■■■•. *b2±*isM -sr fc^sasUflß CMS. H. MUEHLMAN. Manager ONE WEEK ONLY, Com. San. Mat. Matinees Sun., Than., Sat. MAX DILL and Company, in -. THE RICH MR. HOGGENHEIMER •" H-; '.« 50—PEOPLB--5O - WOM ifSirort Prices JNeVsrj Change; Night $I,to Mr. Special j Price Thurs,, Sat. Mat., 25cj mil s 00c. SEATS NOW, THEATER AND EMPORIUM. ■■• next ;, ::■;-;,;< ROBERTS BERGEN & ROBERTS THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1911. Banners and Flags to Fly For Suffrage Oakland Streets to be Decorated by Equal Rights Women OAKLAND, Aug. 16. —Permission has been secured by the College Equal Suf frage league for the decorating of the streets with suffrage banners and flags. Pieces of bunting reminding th# voters that the amendment election is to be held October 10 will be hung up in the various parts of Oakland, and it is probable that other Alameda coun ty cities will be similarly labeled. Walter Ma earth ur, the labor leader of San Francisco, will be the principal speaker at a meeting to be held Mon day evening, August 21, at Lincoln hail under the auspices of the Oakland Suffrage Amendment league. Mrs. Agnes Ray. president of the league, will preside. Mrs. A. L. Eastman, vice president of the Oakland New Century club, will be the speaker at the equality tea to be given Friday afternoon, August 18, at the headquarters of the Buffrage league in the Albany block, Fifteenth Street and Broadway. ALAMEDA. Aug. 16.—There will be a meeting under the auspices of the College Women's Equal Suffrage league Saturday afternoon at the home of Mrs. George W. Emmons at the south end of Union street. The program la being arranged by Mrs. T. H. Speddy of the local section of the league. On Saturday afternoon, August 26, the Clubwomen's Franchise league of San Francisco will cpnduct a meeting at the home of Mrs. Frank Otis in Sant* Clara avenue. The speakers will Include Mrs. Elinor Carlisle and Miss Chase. HILLSIDE CLUB WILL INAUGURATE SEASON BERKELEY, Aug. 16.—The Hillside club of North Berkeley will inaugurate its social season Tuesday evening. August 22, with a Wagner program, engaged in by the charter members of the organization. The guests of honor will be Miss Mary. Andrews, violinist, ; pupil of Madam Eileen Mitchell O'Moore, ! and Frederick Maurer, pianist, who i w.ill entertain the members and guests with several selections from the operas of the great composer. Mrs. Oscar Maurer, the first president of the club, will give some remin iscences of the Balreuth festival in Germany, while Mrs. Frederick Searby, also a charter member, will address the organization upon the "Legends of the Wagner Opefas."' Mrs. J. M. Pierce will act as hostess of the evening and will be assisted by the other charter members of the society whose names appeared upon its rolls October 5, 1898, the date of its organization. Mrs. Oscar Maurer, Mrs. Edmund S. Gray. Mrs. J. W. Pack, Mrs. F. W. Searby. Mrs. C. H. Breck, Mrs. Olivia Wripht, Mrs. C. S. Preble, Mrs. Guy Hyde Chick. Miss Victorine Hart ley, Mrs. V. D. Moody, Mrs. Earll H. Webb, Mrs. George M. Robertson and Mrs. Perry T. Tompkins are the charter , members. BASKET BALL CIRL TO, MARRY ATHLETE [Speci'aJ Dispatch to The CalH SANTA ROSA, Aug. 16.—Mr. and Mrs. X A. Griffith of Vine Hill have an nounced the engagement of their youngest daughter. Miss Nell Griffith, and Ned Wilson of Windsor. Both are graduates of the Santa Rosa high school, the former with the June class of''oß and the latter with the June class of '06. Miss Griffith was captain of the girls' basket ball team for several terms and Wilson was manager^of the athletic team and dne of the best all round ath letes. He is not associated with his brother in business at Windsor. The wedding will take place early in the winter. G. A. MORLOCK MARRIES MISS NELLIE V. CASEY MENLO PARK, Aug. 16.—1n the Church of the Nativity at 8:30 o'clock this morning Miss Nellie V. Casey, daughter of William Casey of Menlo Park, became the bride of George A. Morlock of San Francisco, a confidential employe of Miss Jennie Flood. The wedding ceremony was per formed by Rev. W. Lyons, pastor of the local church, assisted by Father Lacombe. Mr. and Mrs. James L. Flood and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Donahue were among those who witnessed the wed ding ceremony. After a short wedding? trip. Mr. and Mrs. Morlock will reside in San Fran cisco. RETAILERS' FAIR HELPS WOMEN VOTE SEEKERS The Retailers' Protective association has set aside a booth for the cause of suffrage in its annual industrial fair being held in the Auditorium rink. Page and Fillmore streets. Mrs. Grant Taylor of the California Equal Suf frage association has taken charge of the booth, which will contain great quantities of suffrage propaganda, and will be assisted by Mrs. Augusta Jones and a number of other women of the thirty-ninth assembly district. MARGARET HALEY % ON TRIP TO, HELP S&FFRAGISTS Miss Margaret Haley, the prominent Chicago teacher who revealed that $235,000,000 worth of property belong ing to corporations was not being taxed, and Mrs. Robert Dean of the College Equal Suffrage league are making a speaking tPor of'the towns between Truckee and this city. The suffragists will speak on suffrage and organization in Truckee, Colfax, Au burn. Nevada City, Grass Valley and a number of other places en route. The •, Lurllne , Ocean ; y "Water » Baths, Bush and Larkin streets, supply free to women % bathers elaborate shampoo rooms, ;■ hot air hair dryers and electric curling: irons. ' • • ■ ■■■' ' ..^. .... ~--~*~~^ tf *~f tmt .^\7^'t£:?:.£• FAMILY IS & REUNITED •" Greensburg. Ind., Aug. 18.—After mourning; each : other ;as i dead ';; for,, more 3 than g 301 years, g Mm. O. L. Creath |S of i l-'1 thin *S city* and 5W her mother. Mr«.% Sarah f,% Scott of X Pekin, 111., were recruited 1 today jjf The -daughter * taken when two yean old '0 by * I grandmother to ) raise I and I only recently, learned through some old letters that her parents were living. Aspiration' Hat, Reaching To Heaven, Is the Latest The New "Aspiration" Hat % — Photograph by rnderwood & Underwood. N. Y. It may be the height or the upward effect of this chic arid daring creation that has given it its name; but in either case the title is appropriate. Here we have the narrow brim and the tall trimming that characterize the fall fashions in millinery. The hat .fs of black velvet, the brim surmounted and the crown surrounded by a niass of soft curled ostrich plumes, from which spring a dense cluster #f straight, tall feathers. Plumas County Women Organize at Quincy an Equal Suffrage League [Special Dispatch to The Call] QUIXCY, Aug. 16. —Mrs. E. V. Spencer, - state * organizer of;; the > Equal Suffrage league, s has just completed or ganization of the Plumas County Equal Suffrage! league ■ here ; with the follow ing 'officers:";, ;'-." \ '*. '-^-■;■". '"-'.'■ ."'"■',.-."'•.; %i Mrs. > Mary ■F. = Watson. l president; Mrs. M. A. Hnli. tUm>,». prpsidpnt: Mrs. !><-. Mcßeth.; secre tary; ' Mrs.' Olive Stephan. assistant ft secretary; tor*. •Su-tla>C»te,*.trpa«m-r;-jMrs."". Cecilia Chain iirrlin. ; * press .«agent:';" committee^ f Mrs. AbbSe DorschrMrs. Flora'Flournoy,;;Ml« LenalGansher, Mrs. CltHI« Royle. .« vy ;> >- . The membership includes: I- ' , • Mrs. Mary iF. Watson. Mrs.- M.'. A. • Hall." Mrs. Leo : Mcßeth. Mrs; Stella ;' (ate. Mr?, Cecilia Chafnberlin. Mrs. Abbie Dorse h. Mrs. 1 Flora Flonrnoy, Mrs. .'Callier: Boyle. Mrs.. Sarah L. Kellogj?, iMrs:;! Mary Huston,«Mrs*-BerthaS Mon pur. Mrs. Margaret Miller, Mrs. Lena S Haun, Mrs. \ Glayds ', Cameron. Mrs.'; I/eon 7 Stewart,** Mrs. Mary 4K. I^eavitt. Mrs. Flora : fate, Mt?.-.«Olive Stpphan. " Mrs. R. J. s McKeowen, : M»s /. Alu Aldridge, Mrs. LiizieNeal. r \ WOMEN'S SELF-DENIAL TO HELP CALIFORNIA CHICAGO, Aug. 16.—The campaign for woman suffrage in California will be the beneficiary to the extent of sev eral hundred dollars Jf present plans for one week of self-denial and absti nence from feminine frills and amuse ments are carried out by the Chicago political league. "Of course," said Mrs. Catherine Waugh McCulloch, a lawyer, yester day, "with Chicago suffragists prac tically every day is one of self-denial for the cause. "We are all willing to go without a new hat or modish gown if as a re sult the cause will be aided. We shall be happy to aid California." AMERICAN BISCUIT GIRLS FORM A CLUB The young working women employed by the American Biscuit company who are in tMor of suffrage but who have not much time to devote to the success of the movement are not going to J?e kept out of the fight. At a meeting held by them on Tues day night they organized into a club and are ready to pitch into the cam paign. At the meeting the girls were ad dressed by representatives of the Col lege Equal Suffrage league. As be ginners in the efforts to secure the ballot the girls are wearing the "votes for women" buttons, with which they were furnftshed yesterday. ,—__ » GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS TO ORGANIZE The teachers of the girls" high school will hold a meeting for #he purpose of discussing plans for themselves in aid ing in the suffrage campaign at noon time tomorrow. The teachers have se cured the promise of Dr. Adelaide Brown and two other members of the College Equal Suffrage league that they will address the meeting, which will be held in the girls' hig\ school. Placer County Branch Busy Circulating Votes For Women Petitions Dispatch to The Call] AUBURN. Aug. 16.—The Placer county branch of the Club Women's Franchise league is flourishing and an active campaign will be carried on to secure a good vote in this county for the constitutional amendment giving women the'right to vote in this state. The Auburn club will establish branches i n Lincoln. Roseville and other towns and will circulate petitions among business men to get supporters. The officers of the local league are: Mrs. H. M. Power, chairman and vice presl rtpnt; Mrs. ,T. K. Lukens. membershfp committee; MKs Pnris Chase, button committee; Mrs. J. F. Whltp. literary eommittpe; Mrs. V. Bell pptitlou committee; Mrs. J. D. Meredith, county orpanizer in charge of the meetings, in. Placer i-ounty. MISS BERRY THF RRfQE OF PROF. HILLEBRAND PALO ALTO, Aug. 16.—Miss An toinette Berry, daughter of "Mr. and Mrs. John F. Berry of 345 Kellogg avenue, today became the bride of Prof. William A. Hillebrand of Stanford uni versity. The ceremony took place in All Saints Episcopal church at 4 o'clock this after "noon, Rev. David Evans officiating. Only the relatives and closest friends of the yo\ing couple were in attendance. After a short honeymoon in the south Professor and Mrs. Hillebrand will make their home in Oregon, where the former will become the head of the electrical engineering department of* the state universfty. Mrs. Hillebrand is a sister of Frederick Berry, assist ant district attorney in San Francisco. Opens August £2. College Work Only. Twenty-two departments. The entrance and graduation require ments equivalent to those of the University of California and Stan ford. Laboratories well equipped. Modern gymnasium. Faculty of forty. Opportunity for library work, home economics, music, art. Grounds comprise 150 acres. Out door life. Those intending to en ter should communicate with the Registrar promptly. President, Luella Clay Carson, A. M., LL. D. For catalogue address Registrar, Mills College P. 0., California. How Quarrels Are Started By Lovers ■ • SAID the girl in love to the man she loved: "I don't think you care so much for me as you used to. Just think! You were in town all day yesterday and you didn't call me up. You know you would never have done that six months ago.'' Said the man in love to the girl he loved: "Why. dear, I thought I just told you that I was with Rushworth every single minute. You know I was trying to put through that big sale, and that I didn't dare let him get out of my sight for a minute." Reiterated the girl in love: "I think you would have managed somehow six months ago before you were so sure of me." Retorted the man in love: "You didn't use to be so abominably unreasonable. Are you always going to be like this?" Flushed the girl in love: "Yes, when I have so much cause to be. Why? Don't you think you can stand it?"' * And there they are with a perfectly good quarrel on their hands and unkind words on their lips and heartbreaks in their hearts, for "to be wroth with one we love doth work like madness in the brain." And all for what? All just because the man in love didn't realize that what the girl in love wanted when she said he didn't love her as much as he used to was reassur ances—fond, foolish, reiterated, convincing reassurances. And because, in stead of these, he gave «her cold, logical, sensible reasoning. Is there—l wonder —was there ever a couple who did not have at least one quarrel along these lines? I doubt it. Can't you imagine Eve saying to Adam, "When we lived in the garden you used to be with me all the time, and now I seldom see you except at meals. I don't think you love me the way you used to." And of course Adam answered, "But, my dear, you know I didn't have any work to do then, and now 1 have to work for my living. I think you are unreasonable." And poor little Eve, who just wanted to be told that he loved her quite as much, if not more, than ever, went off into the nearby glade to cry her heart out at the coldness of his tone, and Adfcm went back to his work be rating the unreasonableness of woman. All of'which might have been avoided if Adam had just taken Eve right up in his arms and said, "But, dearest, you know I love yo\i more every day. You are the one woman in the world to me." m mm . And now, you people who still think I'm a man masquerading—can you doubt any longer?. Would I have known this if I weren't a woman? Suffrage Pennants Fly From Tamalpais 3,000 Feet in Air Suffrage penants fly, nearly 3,000 feet high, from the top of the weather bureau station on Mt. Tamalpais. The flags were placed there last Sunday by Mrs. Berthold Baruch of Los Angeles, who was a visitor yesterday at the headquarters of the women's suffrage party. Mrs. Baruch, who is an enthusiast of enthusiasts over the right of women to vote and who is a member of the executive committee of. the political equality league of southern California, said she could not resist the temptation, when on Mt. Tamalpais. of asking per mission from the weather officials to place the penants on the building. When the request was granted, Mrs. Baruch managed, w<ith the aid of friends, to place two suffrage emblems upon the little station which caps the mountain. DRESSMAKER BRINGS SUIT FOR DAMAGES OAKLIND, Aug. 16.—Suit for $15,500 damages was begun today against the Oakland Traction company by A. M. Stewart, a dressmaker, for injuries al leged to have been sustained March 26. She said that she was crossing the track at Grove and Twelfth streets when she was run down by a streetcar. Her right arm and the thumb of the right hand were broken and numerous severe bruises inflicted. SOCIAL * CLUB : PICNIC—The twenty-first / an- S nual picnic at jthe Comity Leitrlni: Social club ..will be 'held Sunday at Schuetzen'"park, % San C* Rafael. s r^'. "'","■ '"■■' •:"-- ■ ;.'.-.:.':* -„■-'; Adeline Francis at the Empress in Clever Novelty Entitled the "Graphophone Girl" The most entertaining novelty at the Empress-Theater this week Is un doubtedly Miss Francis and her graphophone. It is one big surprise and a rare delight. Graphophones, phonographs and singing tables have been in existence for several years, but Miss Francis (the originator of this clever Idea) is the first to come forward and employ the instrument to give the public-what it Is always clamoring for—something unique; something new. In creating this act, Miss Francis has delivered a most entertaining and original novelty, which must have required the patience of a Job and a very considerable quantity of gray matter besides. The act is, protected by copyright and consists of a clever duet and recitation, the graphophone enunciating both questions and answers, as well as songs and accom paniment. Miss Francis' own voice was used in recording the records used in this act, and at the Columbia laboratory in New York, it is said that her recordings are perfect specimens of tone quality and enunciation. Miss Francis addresses her other voice as "sister," and between the two one hears dialogue, duet and comedy numbers, the whole forming an act that Is most entertaining and which abounds in versatility and refinement. . In trying out all makes of machines and records, Miss Francis finally decided, after exhaustive tests, that the Columbia instruments are superior to all others because of the evenness with which the motor operates, and be cause of the tonal qualities and the durability of the mechanism. Columbia machines and Columbia double disc records are sold in San Francisco by Kohler & Chase, fifth floor, at 26 O'Farrell street. Ruth Cameron I RUTH CAMEEON =1 "■♦ "'■ . -♦ Society Woman Invades Saloon In Suffrage War A prominent society woman from, across the bay discussing suffrage In a saloon in one of the small towns of Contra Costa county! Now what do you thinfc of that? It all came about through enthusi asm for suffrage, but the suffragist, for such she is, does not. mind it now, as she secured the promise of the saloon man, an old admirer of Susan B. An thony, to help in the fight in his town. The information of the incident was conveyed to the league, of which the , society woman is a member, in a letter, of which the following is an extract: * Curious things happen to us when we are out on our organizing trips. Last week I was in a little town in Contra Costa county. We felt that our meeting had not been fully enough advertised, and the four of us who were there divided the village street, beginning at oppo site ends and going into every shop to talk with the men who kept telling them of the meeting and asking them to take an Interest in the suffrage cause. One of the first stores I went into was that of a cheery old Frenchman. Almost as soon as I began speaking to him of my ob ject his withered face kindled and he cried out with enthusiasm: "Why, I have heard the greatest speakers in the world talk on that subject. I heard Dr. Anna Shaw and Susan B. Anthony. I believed in it for years." I urged him to come to our meet ing at the Presbyterian church and give us the benefit of his experi ence, and he acquiesced with a slightly amused expression, and just then my eyes fell upon two great whisky barrels in the back of the store, each with a glass on top, and I realized that I had pene trated a saloon! _^__^__ 5