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IN WOMAN'S WORLD The Smart Set Vlte car"; because Joe was a Pullman porter strayed among the waiters. One morning Mr. Blank investigated the prophecy. "Why do you think I'm going to have a private car?" he asked Joe. "How do you think I'm ever going to get it?" he wanted lo know. Joe looked wise. "Oh, brain work,'" he said, sweepingly—"brain work and technicalities," and implied in his tone an easy rise for Mr. Blank through the necessary details of his elevation. He is always a serene philosopher, the Pullman porter. Vagaries of the race en tour are nothing to him. A certain vaguely amiable response is altogether external. The soul of the Pullman porter is untouched: remote as the soul of Socrates from the wear and tear of human stupidity all about him. The really gentle tolerance he gives men as they are, not to speak of. women, is beautiful at times. When he is moved to comment it is always philosophic. • If he seems to take the esthetic sense it should be remembered that that scenery passed constantly in the pursuit of his vocation has not the thrill for him that it has for those aboard expressly to be thrilled. There was once a transcontinental porter who dusted window sills through the grand canyon of the Rio Grande. ''Nothing but rock," he would say with cheerful indif ference to the usual enthusiasm expected and accepted if not understood. One of his kind on the coast line was especially tried last week. A woman began her rapid fire questions at Santa Barbara and only stopped at Third and Townsend. She asked for a glass of water and the latest news of the Titanic and everything between, including the time, every 15 minutes. At Valencia street the porter of unfailing patience spoke his mind. "Some people," he told a man whose coat he brushed while the lady of questions worried the conductor, "some people when they travel just think they natchelly got to make born fools of theirselves." Which is doubtless the most extreme remark a Pullman porter ever made, being provoked to it. * * * Mr. and Mrs. At.hol Mcßean and their -mall son will go to Auburn for the summer. They have taken an at tractive place in the foothills of the Sierras and plan to spend three months there, entertaining at a number of in formal house parties. ir •* * Miss Ramona Hamburger will be 1 ngtess at a tea to be given on the aft ernoon of May 1 in honor of Miss Es telle Jacob and Miss Madeleine Cum mings. Assisting her will be Miss Marie Payne, Miss Marian de Guerre and Miss Gertrude Mitchell. AMUSEMENTS MATINEES WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY Werba &. L_esc_er present ALICE LLOYD la tbe Musical Hllaritr. "LITTLE MLSS RIX-IT.»* v\ th the Original N. Y. Oast, including LIOIVIrIL WAL-»M > Po.»n Uoj-- S«n- Hits—A Hundred Laughs PRICES—SI.SO to _se. NEXT MONDAY—BLANCHE BATES. In -NOBODY'S WTDOW." W -"io_-S: __*_fi_ifl 3*MBM_rK«r 130 _Jj)^^P M^mm *^'^ J2322 SECOND BIG WEEK: Every Night at 8:15. KOLB « DILL PRESENT THEMSELVES and a S_pporti_g Caat of 50 High-Class Musical Artists in THE POLITICIANS Matlne-a Saturday and Sunday. PRICES—SI.OO to _■>. ; ♦-♦-_♦ ♦♦--♦♦ ♦»»---»-*- ---»--- --_■■»- ---»--♦*♦ I 4ln3w[_i-B_-_-_-. : : gg gg THE utV(L j j AND TOM WALKER ~ \ : JiPOLLO TRIO j ♦ MI'MFORD & THOMPSON I : CARVER & MURRAY j t OTHER BIG FEATURES J + ♦»♦■».»♦♦ ♦ ♦ ♦■»♦■.♦ » - ♦"»--♦-♦-»---»♦ MARKET STREET, OPPOSITE MASON. AN AMUSEMENT REVEL! LANCASTER SEPTET. "Voices in Gypsy Land' ; ERNEST CARR ft CO.. Presenting "The Grafter': RITA LAXSEN FAKILY, Phenomenal Gymnasts; BERRY and Wuk KELMI. Character Singers and Iraperson atora; COL. O. C. HACK ft CO., Farceur*: CARY. DE GRAY and FRANKLIN O'FAB EL L. Instrumentalists and Vocahata: NEW. HOFF and PHELPB, "Juat Pals," and SUN LIGHT PICTURES. Mat. Dally at 2.30. Night*. 7:15 and 8:15. Price* —100, 20c and 30c Corar_p_cing Sunday—MONS. AFTRE, the French Caruso. ' LURLINEI^ BI'SH AND LARKIN STREETS OCEAN WATEE BATHS sTdmmlaic and Tub Baths Salt water direct from tha ocean. Open eT*rv day and eTenlus, Including Sundays and holiday*, from 6a. m. to 10 p. m. Spec tau-ra' gallery Crae. April 1 to October. incluelTt. batha open Natatorium reserved Tuesday and FYlday mornings from 9 o'clock to noon for women only. « ••Filtered Ocean Water Plunge" COMFORTABLY HEATED Constantly Circulating. Hot air hair ory-era. Eltctric Curling Iron* and 6__mp<x) Boom for Womea B_thera free. BRANCH TUB BATHS. _1M GEARY SI. NEAR DEVTSADERO. rROM the point of view of a Pull man porter life is made up of berths, drawing rooms and pri vate cars, and these are the three social gradations he recognizes. The private car class is the aristocracy, of course, an aristocracy of money, intel lect and power. So it was the highest compliment Joe could pay his patron at the old Palace when with grapefruit and coffee in the morning he would serve the pleasant assurance: "You all goin' to have a private car, Mr. Blank. .Some (lav vou-all coin' to have a pri- ; * ♦ # Mrs. f'harles Hind was hostess at a bridge tea given at her home at Fort Scott Saturday afternoon, when a num ber of guests from the Presidio and town were delightfully entertained. The rooms were decorated with lilac and fruit blossoms, and among those pres ent were: Mrs. Euclid Prick. Mrs. Knowlton. Mrs. Charles B. Clarke, Mrs. William Powell, Mrs. F. A. Grant, Mrs. EL E. Johnson, Mrs. George Connolly, Mrs. Frederick yon Schraeder, Mrs. W. C. Davis. Mrs. J. P. O'Neil, Airs. Jacob "VVeick. Mrs. Welch. Mrs. Porter. Mrs. Ganner, Mrs. W. C. Knight, Miss Danna Crissy. Miss Mary Grant. Miss Gibbons, Miss Fulton and Miss Troup. * # * A number of guests went to Burlln game yesterday for the luncheon given by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clarence Breedon at the Country, club. The af fair was in honor of Mrs. Breedon's sister, Mrs. E. Walton Hedges, and among the guests were Mr. and Mrs Henry Foster Dutton, Mrs. W- S. Por ter, Mrs. Miller and Mr. and Mrs. John Drum. Mrs. Hedges, who is visiting the Breedons. will leave shortly for the east, but will return next winter to her Santa Barbara home. * # # Mrs. Gilbert Curtiss was hostess at a tea at the St. Francis Saturday after noon in honor of Mrs. William Brey fogle of New York, who leaves for her eastern home on April 28. The guests were 40 in number and were received by the hostess, assisted by her dangh ter. Mrs. Lawson Adams. Among those AMUSEMENTS *>««»- T%-_--- B. 1 mwwm e_l_« * marktt \ __._> P-onaa—Setter MM , Hem* ClO6O Ihia "Week and Naxt—Mats. Wed. and Sat. WM. A. BRADY Ltd. Presents One Imus, Lingering Laugk, OVER NIGHT By Philip H. Bartholomae Prices—soc to $1.50. Wed. Mat. Pop. Trices A I P A 7 A D °' fAttai ■» POwai ! ••_■• -•» HOME Phona C 4455 \ BEI-VSCO _ MAYER. Owners and Managers. TONIGHT—THIS WKF.K ONLY—TONIGHT Florence Stone, Wilson Melrose And the Alcasar Company In SEVEN DAYS Punnl«>(»t nf AH Am»r!esn Farces. ITS FIRST PRESENTATION IN STOCK. PRICES—Night 25c to $1. Mat. 25c to 60c. MAT. THURSDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY. NEXT WEEK "THE VIRGINIAN"; «• -fcjMOBUi %___rtOCaV-OH4_. PtiNHIVX I Bafe«t and Most Magnificent Theater In America I MATINEE TODAY AND EVERY DAY If STANDARD OF VAUDEVILLE! BLANCH! WAL9B in "The Jhpilsc God-; lED BI.ONDELL AND CO.: GBBTRUDE VAN I DYCK TRIO; MANKICHI JAPANESE GO. 'this iweek only): SEUMAS McMANUS IRISH PLAi iERS: STEWART SISTERS AND ESCORTS; WORMWOOD'S CANINES AND COMEDY >!o\ KFAS. New Daylight Motion Pictures. i week, LUCY WESTON, the Charming English Comedienne. Ere. Pricea —10c. 25c. 50c, 75c; Box Seats $1. ! Mat. Prices (except Sundays and Holidays!. 10c, j 2."-. 50c. PHONES: DOUGLAS 70. HOME C 1570. |"TheFLONZALEY" WORLD'S GREATEST STRING QUARTET Scottish Rite Auditorium TOMORROW EYE. AT S:l.> FRIDAY AFT- APR. 2fl, AT S:l5 SUNDAY AFT„ APR. 28. AT 2:30 TICKETS $2, »l-50, $1, NOW ON SALE AT SHERMAN. CLAY * CO.B AND KOHLER & CHASE'S. Comlnig—Helnemann. Ueder Slnser THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1912. An Odd Hat of Black Now the Proper Thing A N odd liat of black tulle trimmed with rows of black pearls and covered _rl with a huge drooping bunch of Bird's of Paradise feathers, is the latest creation of Ok Paris milliner. The feathers are placed in such a manner as to fall gracefully about the side of the wearer's face. present were: Mr?. Frank Moffltt, Mrs. Percy Hink. Mrs. W. J. Laymanee. Mrs. California Newton, Mrs. Raymond Russ. Miss Mabel Pierce. Miss Florence Block and Mrs. John Russ. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sharon are enter taining a house party at Menlo Park in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Fermor Hesketh of England. The Heskeths will spend only six weeks in California, dividing th#ir time between Menlo and San Francisco, where they hava apart ments at the Palace. Miss Sally Maynard has returned from Coronado, where she was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. James Flood and Miss Jennie Flood for a week. Mr. and Mrs. Frank - tringham are among the Californiums who will sum mer abroad. They will visit friends in New York before sailing for England next month to be absent until August. * * « F.yro Pinckard and Richard Glrvln have returned from a motor trip to Uel Monte, on which Cyrus Pierce was their guest. Alexander Carnefrie Ross, British con sul In Pan Francisco, is anticipating ti!f arrival of Mr?. Ross and their two chilrlren, who sailed last week from England en route to California. They will occupy a residence in Fall street. 100 WOMEN COMING TO AID FRIEND'S CANDIDACY [Special Dispatch to The Call] NEW YORK, April 21.—T0 advance the campaign of Mrs. Phillip Carpenter of Yonkers for the presidency of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, the biennial convention of which will be held in Pan Francisco June 12. 100 of her supporters will be taken from this city to the coa*t by special train. Miss Mary Garrett Hay, president of the New York state federation, who Is In charge of the campaign, feels san guine of Mrs. Carpenter's success. Not only in her capacity as a lawyer, but as a member of women's clubs, Mrs. Carpenter has filled an Important place In the women's world of the city. Mrs. Percy Penny Packer of Austin, Tex., is the only other candidate for the of fice of president. Mrs. Carpenter has been president of her state federation. On the special train will be Mrs. Wil liam Tod Helmuth, Mrs. Carpenter. Miss Mary Garrett Hay, Miss Florence Guernsey, Mrs. William Grant Brown, Mrs. May Riley Smith, Mrs. John Lewis Chillis. Mrs. Elmer Blair of Albany, Mrs. John W. Ford of Waterford and Mlbs Helen Varlck Boswell. SANTA ROSA BANKER IN A MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT [Specie/ Dispatch to The Call] BAJJPTA ROOA, April 21.—Cashier Frank A. Brush of the I'nlon Trust Savings bank and the Santa Rosa Na tional bank, while riding a motorcycle to his ranch north of this city this morning, struck a chuckhole in the road and lost control of the machine. He was thrown to the ground with much violence and suffered a dislocated left hip. He is resting easily at the Mary Jesse hospital. He is an extensive real estate owner in this county. TUESDAY CLUB WILL HOLD FLOWER SHOW LINDSAY. April 21.—The Tuesday club, composed of prominent women of this city, is busy arranging for the flower show to be held in this city on the afternoon and evening of Friday, April 26. Large delegations from the surrounding towns will be present for the big parade and grand auto parade ;In the evening. Mrs. Wallace S. Cairns, president of the club, and nu merous committees have charge of the affair, which is for the purpose of rais ing funds for a new clubhouse. WIFE BOOSTS INSURGENT A\rs. La Toilette to Speak Here Mrs. Robert M. La Foilette, wife of the republican candidate for the» presi dency, will speak before the California Civic league, 220 Post street, Wednes day afternoon at 2:50 o'clock. This is the only address Mrs. La Fol- I lette will make here until after her . return with her husband from southern 1 California. Her subject is entitled ; "Twenty-five Years of Progress," a non political talk concerning the progress made by women during the last quar ter of a century. The J,a Foilette party leaves here for the south on Thursday and will be gone for some weeks. A large gathering is expected to hear the wife of the dis tinguished Wisconsin senator. On Thursday evening at S o'clock in the same hall, 220 Post street, there will be a discussion of the principles of democracy by Judge James <_. McGuire and Frank Gould. On Friday noon at the Palace hotel a Taft luncheon will be given, the second of the series of candidates' luncheons being held for the consideration of women voters of the merits of the vari ous candidates. On this occasion Thomas B. Dozier, formerly chairman of the county republican committee, will preside, having been selected es pecially for that purpose by Colonel Charles Mifflin Hammond, chairman of the Taft campaign committee. Another speaker will be Mrs. Abbie E. Kreba, president of the Taft Women's club. "BUD" FISHER MARRIES VIA ELOPEMENT ROUTE Cartoonist and Actress Bride Believed on Way Here [Special Dispatch to The Call] NEW YORK, April 21.—"Bud" Fisher, the cartoonist, is a benAoMok. He em barked on the sea of matrimony via the elopement route. The young woman with whom Fisher ha 3 booked passage for the life trip was Miss Pauline Welch, a pretty blonde vaudeville actress. The wedding took place Friday night, and while neither of the elopers told any body where they were going on their honeymoon, it is believed that they are on their way to San Francisco. Mrs. Fisher lived with her mother. Mrs. Welch knew nothing of the plans of her daughter to marry, and the news came as a shock to her. Mrs. Welch seemed greatly concerned about Fisher's first name. She said she did not believe It was "Bud," but she did not have any idea what it was. The plans for the elopement were so care fully laid and carried out that even the most intimate friends of the pair did not know tonight where the marriage ceremony was performed. BODY FOUND FLOATING IN WATERS OF HARBOR The body of an unidentified man ap parently about 35 years old was found floating In the bay at the f oo t of Fol some street by Frank Flynn, a boat man, about 1 o'clock last The man was 5 feet 9 Inches tall and was dressed in a blue. sweater, dark coat, brown trousers and a soft shirt. • "■-- SHRUB EXHIBIT TO PROMOTE INTEREST Reward Offered To Planters Of Trees BERKELEY, April 21.—The Hills side club of this city will close Its season with a unique and Interesting display of a large variety of ornamen tal trees and shrubs, the display to be for tha encouragement of beautiflca tion of homes and gardens. A prize of six fine trees will be given to the person planting the most trees in thai Hillside district during the last year. A limited number of flowers from gardens of Berkeley will also be on exhibition. The clubhouse will be open to the public Sunday, April 28, from 10 to 5 o'clock and on Monday afternoon, April 29, from 2 until 5 o'clock. Mrs. Jay Dwiggins is in charge of th« exhibition and Is being assisted in arranging the details by the fol lowing committee: Mrs. Augusta Porter, Miss Dora G. Ruch, E. A. Blockinger, David Dickie, Mrs. Arthur Bolton, Mrs. O. M. Robert son, Dr. Albert Schneider, Randolph Monro, W. R. "Wright, Miss Dora James and Mrs. Albert Smith. A short business meeting will be held by the club on May 6. At this meeting officers for the new year will be elected. The club will then adjourn for the summer months. SPAIN AND FRANCE ABOUT AGREED AS TO MOROCCO Army of First Nation tp Be Reduced 20,000 [Special Cable to The Call] MADRID, April 21.—The Spanish- French negotiations regarding Morocco are considered virtually terminated. IThe government may be able to com municate the result to the cortes at Its reopening May 1. The army of 175,000 will be reduced to 155,000. The Riff and Kabyle tribes are becoming more pacific. According to a telegram received at the Portu guese capital, the natives of Macau and Timor, Africa, have revolted- In this state the situation is serious. Punitive expeditions being organized will cover $1,000,000. The government is exchanging notes with the Dutch government, which is j making representations in reference to the revolt. A committee of naval offi cers proceeding to England will en deavor to buy a ready made fleet. The government believes this scheme will prove cheapest. AVIATOR COOK FLIES OVER HUMBOLDT BAY Birdman Narrowly Escapes In jury When Landing [Spcci'a/ Dispatch to The Call] EUREKA, April 21.—Humboldt bay was crossed twice this afternoon by Weldon B. Cooke, the San Francisco aviator. Cooke circled over the city at a height of 2,000 feet and dropped a mail pouch containing a letter. At the conclusion of one flight Cooke had a narrow escape from injury. His machine hit the ground with great force and damaged It to a considerable extent. A rush of spectators over the spot upon which Cook had planned to land caused the spill. STOCKTON BIDS FOR B. OF L. E. CONVENTION [Special Dupalch to The Call] STOCKTON, April 21.—Stockton is endeavoring to secure the national con vention of the Brotherhood of T_ocomo tlve Engineers in 1915. Engineer Stapp and wife, Chief Engineer McPeek and Engineer W. E. Wudrue have left for Harrlsburg, Perm., to attend the convention which opens there May 8. Secretary J. M. Eddy of the Chamber of Commerce has received word from Fort Worth, Tex., that that city will work to bring the next convention here. FORMER BENICIANS ENGAGED — Benlcia. April 21.—Announcement has been mails of the engagement of Mlas Rose Durner and Dr. Melyln A. Shade of Benicia, both former resi dents of Benlcia. The wedding will take place early in June. W W Every \M VM* mr) from i m H ' 11:30 Nif i to 2 I ?4 you will find p %&. a jolly crowd >JM m at Tail's, ffl tM enjoying- the m : /m music along . j£o \M\ with their ||$ I Luncheon 1 mm le est i§ §M in town for I||£ i Sflf If |H JUL ll Memory's a Sieve in Need Of Patching << T Tis only now and then that a man lcr.rns something, I but he forgets the whole day long. Our memory is like a sieve that with time and use holds less and less. * * *" —Schopenhauer. How long is it since you have 'visited school"? I have always believed that it is every mother's bounden duty to visit, at least once a term, the school where her children are spending almost half their waking hours. Lately I have been convinced that it would be a mighty good thing if others besides mothers "visited school" once In a while. For what purpose, you ask. Well, partly for the pleasure of the memories and associations which such an experiment would arouse. But more for the interesting and instructive purpose of discovering how little we really know after all, how much more than we, even the little pig tailed and freckled faced boys and know. Perhaps you think I am overstating that. If you do. It is all the more reason you should accept my invitation some day. Believe me. no group of college professors will make you more aware of your colossal Ignorance than a class of grammar school youngsters reciting their freshly learned lessons. Say the class is in geography and they are going over the capitals and principal cities of the various countries. How often do you know the answer before it is given? Unless you are over 50, and thus of the old school which really learned things like geography, you will probably be amazed to find how litle you know. Not long ago 1 went to an evening party where the hostess surprised us by substituting a geographical game for the conventional entertainment. There were a half dozen questions to answer, such as the capitals of all the country, questions which should have been comparatively simple to all of us. but I assure you there was no trouble in selecting the prize winner. He was a man considerably over 60, who had learned those things in the good old fashioned way. The only difficulty was to decide among the candidates for the consolation prize. • Suppose the lesson is in history, and the dates of some of the big events in our history are called for, will you be any better off than you were in the geography class? Or suppose the class in spelling holds the floor, do you think you would stand at the head of the class if you entered into competition with the "It is only now and then that a man learns something, but he forgets the whole day long." How much we have forgotten, and how very little we really know, after all. Truly it is a most humbling and instructive lesson which the litle scholars will turn teacher to teach us! Don't think this is all just talk, hut some day when you have a chance, try "visiting school." I am sure you'll learn quite as much as the scholars, and yo_V lesson will be about that most improtant of all subject's—yourself. SAN FRANCISCO GIRL HONORED BY SORBONNE PARIS, April 21—Miss My Ham De roxe, a San Francisco girl, the 22 year old daughter of Mrs. George Derouxe, living- at 913 Eddy street this city, has been granted the highest honor that the Sorbonne can give to French scholars. She has been studying in Paris for some time. Miss Deroxe has become so classic ally French during her few years' resi dence in Paris that the critics of the Sorbonne, which is admitedly the high est intellectual Institution in the world. have elected a native daughter of San Francisco to the position of official in terpreter of the great French writers. Her many gifts have made her the pet of Paris and have earned for her the title of "La Petite Myriame," ' On settling in France and taking up her professional career Myrlarn dropped the "v" of her paternal name for fa cility in stage publicity. CATHOLIC LADIES' AID TO HOLD WHIST TOURNEY OAKLAND, April 21.—A whist tour nament will be given by the Catholic Ladles' Aid society, branch 35, in Wood men hall, 507 Twelfth street, Friday Quality the Great Essential In Our Pianos Every piano shown on the floors of our stores is the highest possible standard of quality at its price and the product of a factory that has earned distinction for the excellence of its instruments, the sincerity and earnestness of its managers and pro prietors. No piano that is not good enough to bear an unqualified guarantee for quality and true musical worth is good enough to find a place in our establishments. Possibly lower priced pianos are offered than we sell, just as shoddy goods are sold by low class tradesmen, but dollar for dol lar the intending purchaser will find that quality is the real essential in our pianos and that his dollar will buy more in quality, service and musical satisfaction here than elsewhere in the West. Here you will be shown pianos at prices as low as you can safely afford to buy—as low as good pianos can be sold, allowing a nominal profit for the dealer and insuring the permanent satisfaction of the buyer. Our installment contract is more liberal more pleasing and our terms more satisfac tory than elsewhere, and your complete sat isfaction is our first and highest considera tion. By all means investigate most thor oughly before buying. VICTOR TALKING MACHINES—SHEET MUSIC TWO ENTRANCES: 135.153 Kearny and 217-225 Sutter Street OAKLAND—6IO TWELFTH AMD 1106 WASHINGTON. SAN JOSE—II 7 SOUTH FIRST ST. Ruth Cameron I KO-ZKY- H__L« I » ♦ evening. April 26. Many handsome prizes will be played for and the re ceipts will go toward the relief fund Mrs. E. F. Garrison is chairman in charge of the affair. i_jo not neglect your health — laxatives are necessary sometimes as an aid to Nature and a pre ventive against disease. Hunyadig Janos J_k Water ■ Natural Laxative g[ Recommended *!§£ by Physicians lor %■_■! M CONSTIPATION 7