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TUESDAY
COMMENT AND OPINION
GOVERNOR JOHNSON reached Sacramento, on his return
from Chicago, Saturday morning, and within five minutes was
mounted on a baggage truck and talking. The governor is an
industrious talker. If he would work at the job to which he was
elected with half the zeal he gives to the job of talking and doing
politics the tax payers might not have to go so deep into their
pockets to pay the state's bills this year and next.
With his usual sonorous phrasing the governor praised himself
and his new party, in which, it appears, are congregated all the
virtues—including Hiram Johnson, in the front row. What positions
Bill Flinn and Dan Hanna occupy in the Angel Band the governor
did not saw But doubtless those eminent purists will see that no
guilty dollar of the harvester trust's contributions escapes.
Among other things, the governor said:
"The main basis of the campaign will be social and industrial
justice and the political reforms with which we have become so
familiar in California."
It is pleasing to learn that the governor has been reading The
Call. In making the people familiar with the political reforms of
Messrs. McCabe, Xeylan, Stetson, Richardson, Pillsbury, Tom Finn
and other dear—not to say expensive—reformers of politics, this
paper has had the governor's own enlightenment in mind quite as
much as the information of the tax payers. A governor who has
been in his office only in the few intervals of constant political cam
paigning during eleven months certainly needs a little information
as to what has been done to the state during his absence.
If he has time, before he goes away irom the state again to
campaign for his own election to another office, it is to be hoped
that the governor will look into the affairs of his office. Mr.
McCabe is really overworked in the triple role of deputy governor,
ringmaster and chief clerk of the pie counter.
Besides, Governor Johnson, there is an increasing number of
plain, hard working folks who can not figure out how it profits them
to elect a reform and retrenchment administration which costs them
hundreds of thousands of dollars more than the former administra
tions, whose extravagance you so eloquently denounced from every
stump when you were running for office on pledges of economy
and saving.
These figures, governor, these talking figures, are making a great
impression on the chaps who have to foot the bills.
MEYER LISSNER has been appointed a member of the national
campaign committee of the bull moose party.
He still retains the chairmanship of the republican state
central committee in California.
He does this in order to betray the organization, the plans and
the campaign strategy of one party to another.
Mr. Lissner, you can talk all the fine talk about pure motives
and clean politics that you want to talk, but you are a political
crook, when all is said.
The sorriest tinhorn gambler would be ashamed of such methods
as you use in politics. They are precisely the tactics of the racetrack
tout. They won't win you anything, Mr. Lissner.
A FEW months ago Folsom penitentiary needed a supply of j
leather, and bids were asked. The contract called for $4,000
worth of leather. The two lowest bidders were a California
fi rm —the Wagner tannery at Stockton —and a Chicago firm. The'
Chicago bid was $8.17 lower than the California factory's bid. The
state board of control, under the direction of Governor Johnson's
lackey, J. F. Neylan, awarded the contract to the Chicago firm—
though there were circumstances of quality, home supply and the
like which made the domestic factory's bid really the lowest.
Four thousand dollars of the tax payers' money went to Illinois
to stay, in order to make an apparent ridiculous saving of $8.17.
At the very same time in which the state board of control was
thus showing its zeal for economy the governor of the state was
sending daily and hourly telegrams concerning his private political
affairs, and not in any way connected with the state's official busi
ness, and the same economical state board of control was cheerfully
ordering the cost of these messages to be paid out of state funds.
The pettiness and contemptible meanness of these transactions
are sharply emphasized by contrast.
And this is exactly what was to be expected when, instead of
placing men of business experience and standing in control of the
immense business of the state, the governor paid a political debt by
putting the expenditure of millions of your money, tax payers of
California, in the hands of an employe of the San Francisco Bulletin—
a man with no business experience at all, and who had never before
handled as much as $5,000 at once in his life.
It is for such sen ice as this that you tax payers are fleeced for
salaries and expenses of these incapable job holders, to the amount
of $160,000, when the same work was always done prior to this
reform administration by the governor, the attorney general and
the secretary of statf, acting ex officio as a board of examiners
without extra pay.
Neighbor, it may amuse you to' hear and to talk about the
present administration's reform and economy, but when you come
to dig down in your pocket to help PAY for it, it's a safe bet that
you are going to stop talking and do some thinking. Those dollars
the tax collector will ask you for come pretty hard, you know
- mmm "
THE play war now raging about us is irresistibly attractive to
the joke makers, and great is the self-restraint of the paragrapher
who does not sharpen a lead pencil or unlimber a typewriter
with fiendish glee lighting up his cadaverous countenance—to employ
the thrilling style of Old Sleuth, the Three Toed Tracker of the
Tomales Trail.
But play as the war is, these maneuvers are serious enough and
will set some of us to earnest thinking. It has often been said that
San Francisco has more military bolts and bars on her front door
than will ever be needed to keep out an enemy, and that meantime
the back door stands wide open. These maneuvers are meant to
find out whether this is so or not.
If the result of the fighting between the Blue and Red armies
proves that an enemy can disembark a heavy force on this coast and
march upon this city from the rear, capturing it and its fortifications,
that result becomes a matter of the highest import and should engage
the serious thought and the earnest action of sensible men until the
fatal weakness in our line of defense is strengthened to meet any
attack.
The nation is at peace and no Avar cloud in sight. But we have
all seen such a cloud come suddenly to overcast the sky, and not to
be prepared for such a storm is the surest method to invite it.
THE state of California has ceded the control of their water fronts
and tide lands to Oakland, Los Angeles, San Diego and Long
Beach. San P'rancisco asks a similar cession of its water front.
The request will not be granted while Governor Johnson and Meyer
Lissner of L<os Angeles can hinder it.
Do you want to know why?
Read the answer in last Sundayjs Call,
The water front here, under the pure and righteous manipula
tions of that apostle of reform, Mr. Tom Finn, just about pays the
expenses of pure politics in campaign seasons. Give Apostle Finn
thirty days in which to get busy and he can make the water front
the most productive garden for the growth of "voluntary" campaign
contributions known to current history.
Just as long as the Johnson-Lissner machine needs financial oil
to keep its holy wheels running smoothly, just so long will San
PHIL FRANCIS
EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE CALL
Francisco ask in vain for possession of its water front. The only
possible chance to get the water front is to smash the Lissner Los
Angeles machine.
CHESTER H. ROWELL on the subject of the bull moose
platform:
The first draft was drawn by Gifford Pinchot, William D. Lewis
and myself. * * * There never was a platform which came from such
high sources.
Pecksniff has acquired the most noticeable bull moose charac
teristic—a coy and shrinking modesty.
THE San Diego Tribune very sensibly observes:
A family quarrel may be bitter, but that does not argue that the
warring factions will take up arms against their household. When
Hiram Johnson was stumping the state on behalf of "progressive reform"
he stated explicitly that his sole object \vas to "kick the Southern Pacific
out Of politics." In no expression or explanation at that time did he
intimate that it was his ulterior purpose to destroy the party as an organ
ization or to carry it over bodily to an independent party organized
solely to give Theodore Roosevelt a third term in the presidency. If he
had so intimated there wouldn't have been a grease spot left of him. And
as matters now stand there is every indication that the grease spot con
tingency is still imminent.
Every word of that paragraph is trye. The Johnson-Lissner
Copartnership assumes that the votes given to Johnson in the guber
natorial election were given to him personally—to Hiram Johnson,
instead of to the candidate of the republican party. Lissner expresses
this belief in his refusal to resign the chairmanship of the state
republican committee. It is a cheeky assumption—very much in
line with the colossal egotism characteristic of the bull moose and
his bull calves.
PERSONS IN THE NEWS
CHARLES 8. LVSK. secretary of the l>ur«au of
Catholic Indian mission*, Is at tbe Pala-o with
his eon, Rufua S. Lusk. Tb« son bas been In
the treat ns one of the Indian reservations for
his health. Luak has a directing influence over
100 Indian missions and To schools, which are
attended by more than 5,000 children. Ue
makes his home in Washington, D. C
A £~ M
MR. AHD MRS. T. L. PUTNAM, Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Rau, Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Strauss, Miss
I. Jacobs, Isaac Blumentha! and Mrs. Cath
arine Jarek were among the passengers from
this city who sailed Saturday from New York
in route to Europe on the George Washington.
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MAURICE LEON, representative of several French
newspapers, is at the St. Francis with Mrs.
Leon. He lias come west to study San Fran
cisco and to write of the etposition. He makes
his home in New York.
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SHERMAN 3. HEDGES and Mrs. Hedges of Los
Angeles Georgs H. Bisbee of Forest Hill, A.
L. Cowell Of Modesto and Mr. and Mrs. T. M.
McNamara of Bakersfleld arc guests at the
Manx. ■
* * *
1. C. DREBCHER, a wholesale grocer of Sacra
mento, is at the Palace with Mrs. Prescher,
W. E. Kleinsorges, Mrs. Kleinswges and Miss
Richardson.
0. GIROUX, a wholesale grocer of Montreal, is
at the Union Square with hie son. TBey are on
their «ht home after a trip through the south
ern states.
* * #
C. GEORGE KROGNESS. an advertising man of
Chicago, la at the Palace. He came west to
witness tbe jinks in Bohemian grove.
* * *
JXBSE POUNDBTONE, a mining man of Grimes,
Is at the Stewart with Mrs. ivundstone. Mies
Rose and George Paundstone.
£ at m
WILLIAM T. JETER, former lieutenant governor,
is at the Palace. He is engaged in the bank-
Ing business at Santa Cms.
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THDRLOW X. GORDON, special assistant of the
attorney general, is at tbe Palace. He Is here
on a vacation trip.
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S. N. FELDHEIM, proprietor of the Union hotel
in Orovilie, is at the Bellevue, accompanied by
Mrs. Feldhetm.
* * *
t. L. GAUDETTE of the South Bend Lumber
company, South Bend, Wash., is at the Belle
■vuc.
# * #
T. H. KEWIN, a merchant of Modesto, and fam
ily are among tbe recent arrivals at the Turpin.
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DR. FRANK W. SAWYER, director of tbe
springs in Paso Robles, Is at the St. Francis.
# * *
W. D. WILSON, an oil operator of Lac Angeles,
is among tbe recent arrivals at the' Palace.
# * #
W. CLAYTON, manager of tbe Spreckela inter
ests in San Diego, is at the St. Francis.
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DR. AND MRS. T. O. McSWAIN of Vlsalla ar
rived yesterday at the Union Square.
* * *
HENRY S. VAN DYKE, a prominent attorney of
Los Angeles, is at tbe Palace.
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HENRY WINDBTXNE and wife of Boston, Mass.,
are registered at the Coort.
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J. H. HAMLYN and Harry Pratt of Butte, Mont.,
are registered at the Sutter.
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A. B. JACKSON, a banker of Colusa, Is at th*
Stewart with Mrs. Jackson.
j
His Choice
f. ?. BLACK, a confectioner and caterer of Santa
Maria; P. T. Murray, a dealer in agricultural
implements in Merced; T. L. Finch, a Jeweler
of Covina; G. M. Churchill, a dry goods man
of Livermore, and W. H. Sampson, a prominent
merchant of Corning, make up a group of re
cent arrivals at the Argonaut.
*' * *
T. W. PATE, a freight agent of Los Angeles; J.
H. Keeney, a freight agent of La Grande; A.
A. Nickel of tbe Southern Pacific at Albany
and W. Merrimau. secretary of the Freight
Agents' association, arc guests at the Stewart.
They are. here to attend the annual convention.
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THOMAS E. NEWLIN, vice president of the
Farmers" and Merchants' National bank of Los
Angeles, is at the Palace with Mrs. Newlin,
Miss Helen Newliu and Miss Mary Burnhara.
* * *
GSORGE BAYS, Who was formerly associated
with the Fairmont hotel, is down from his
ranch at Norato and is at the Manx. He Is
accompanied by bis family.
*■ # *
WALTER M. CATLIM, purchasing agent of the
Santa Fe in Los Angeles, is at the Palace with
his family.
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MR. AND MRS. B. E. SANFORD. H. N. Sanford
and R. Naylor of Portland, Ore., are at the
Bellevue.
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WILLIAM M. GARLAND, a well known real es
tate operator of Loa Angeles, is at the St.
Francis.
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G. H. BRADLEY, a manufacturing agent of this
city, and wife returned recently from a trip to
Europe.
— * * *
B, E, JERGINS, a real estate operator of Loa
Angelas, is at tbe St." Francis with Mrs. Jer
gins.
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CAPTAIN WARWICK SYKONDSON of Los An
geles is at the St, Francis with Mra. Symond
soa.
* * *
CHARLES DORCHER of Brooklyn Is at the Fair
mont with Mrs. Dorcher.
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PRESTON MORRIS, an attorney of Los Angeles,
is a guest at tbe Court.
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0. K. HENNIKG of Dlcklnson.N .Y., is regis
tered at the Yon Pom.
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MRS. T. EVANS and daughter of Denver, Colo.,
are at tbe Columbia.
* * *
T. T. HOWELL, a broker of Omaha, is regis
tered at tbe Turpln.
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MISS C. M. DOUGLAS of Vancouver, B. C, is
at the Arlington.
* # #
S, 0. McDELL of Battle Moautaln, Nev. la at
the Columbia.
* * *
B. H. BURTON, a banker of Colusa, is registered
at the Sutter.
* * #
W. H. HeELROY, a realty man of Merced, is at
tbe Stanford.
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R. G. BOND of Portland, Ore., is a guest at the
Yon Dorn.
* * #
P. P. XSRNOUGH of Bishop is registered at the
Stanford.
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R. L. TISHER of Eureka is a guest at the Ar
lington.
* * *
E. S. OLINER of San Diego ia at the Baldwin.
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H. D. MELONS of Uklafc la at tbe Setter. .
ORATORY
Author Of "At Ovod Old Slwaah"
ORATORY is the art of talking
with the hands, feet, shoulders
and mouth and sometimes with
the brain—all at once.
Oratory was first made famous by
Demosthenes, a Greek boy who lived
many years before Chauncey Depew's
stories were first invented. Demos
thenes became an orator by filling his
mouth full of pebbles, thus compelling
himself to be brief on pain of choking
to death. This plan has fallen into
disuse, however.
Oratory Is as hard to learn as avia
tion. The speaker must get astride of
his theme in a low resonant Voice and
then glide rapidly up Into a loud
shriek, pausing only for breath and
wateri He must feed his remarks with
similes, metaphors, apOftrophles, word
paintings, aphorisms and epigrams
while so shrieking and the orator who
stopped while in full cry to claw for
an adjective would meet as disastrous
a fate as the aviator who let go of
the steering wheel two miles from
land to arrange his necktie. Cautious
orators therefore make up a full
stock of figures of speech and keep
them ready for Instant use so that
when they are surprised hy a personal
friend at a public meeting with a de
mand for a speech, they can go on the
platform totally unprepared and can
rise 7,000 feet in a few hoarse whoops,
coming down afterward from patriot
ism to peanuts In a beautiful spiral
glide.
A talented orator is also a great
athlete and can use both arms vio
lently for hours at a time. Swimming
is a good preliminary training for ora
tors. If a man can swim a mile he
can expect to go through a long and
eloquent oration without getting weak
in the shoulders.
A fine orator has a wonderful effect
on an audience and can make it be
lieve whatever he wants to tell it
about the tariff or Andrew Jackson.
Webster was one of our greatest ora
tors. He could begin* a talk in a low
dispassionate voice as if tired of life
and in ten minutes could yank his au
dience up on its chairs and make it
yell "as if it were calling for the life
boat. Hypnotists do the same thing.
(Copyright. 1912. by George Matthew Adams) j
ANSWERS TO QUERIES
PLAYING CARDS—A. S. When and where
did playing Cards originate?
It Is known that playing cards are
of eastern origin, but when or by whom
first introduced has never been ascer
tained. It is, however, tolerably cer
tain that they originated in Arabia
and were brought into Europe during
the crusades. In an ancient "History
of the Garter" there is an extract from
a wardrobe account of Edward I, dates
1577. in which a game called "Four
kings" is mentioned. As Edward, be
fore his accession to the throne, re
sided for some years in Syria, he may
have learned to play cards in that
country. They were Introduced in Eu
rope in the fourteenth century, and It
is said that they were brought to
Viterbo by the Saracens In 1379.
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DEGREES OF HEAT—Reader, City. On May
31. 1012. wad on the weather bureau chart In
Lnlon square ttrtt the temperature was 00 degrees
plus, while In tbe newspaper* on tbe following
day the, reports of tbe weather bureau showed
tbe highest to be 87 degrees. Why this differ
euce ?
This, because of the difference in the
location of thermometers; that at Union
square being near the ground, where
it is warmer, and the other on the top
of the Merchants' Exchange building,
where It la cooler. The figures fur
nished the newspapers are from the in
strument at the Merchants' Exchange
building.
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GOVERNMENT LAND—A. S. T.. City. How
shftll I go about obtaining Information aa to gov
ernment land that may be taken op?
If you will advise thia department
what part of the country "you would
like to locate in, you will be advised
as to whom to apply.
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POG MUZZLE—C. E C. City. Was the last
ordinance relative to the muzzling of dogs with
basket muzzles signed by Mayor Rolph V if so,
when?
Mayor Rolph approved and signed
that ordinance July 3, 1912,
Popularity
the POET PHILOSOPHER
WE all desire the 'world's applause
and for it strive and strain; it's
lab*or in a worthy cause, but often
done In vain. Reverses come and come
again, and* kindred bitter pills; you
can not win the love of men,
unless you pay your bills. One fellow
cultivates his voice and sings like
golden lyre, and hopes to make the
world rejoice or set the same on fire;
"and," say the worldly rubbernecks,
"he'd fill our hearts with thrills, and
be a credit to his sex, if he would
pay his bills." One follows up Demos
thenes and binds us with a spell, and
much he hopes the world to please,
and please it passing well; but man
kind hears this guy orate, and says,
in tone that chills: "He'd be the glory
of his state, Jf he would pay his bills!"
No matter tq what heights you go, or
how you conquer fame, the story of
the scads you owe will cling around
your name. And so it's better far to
climb the low and humble Mils, and
leave the shining heights sublime
until you've paid your bills.
flbnrfhft*. BH. fey
tom mamm ifam
An Experienced Hand
"So you think you would make a sat
isfactory valet for an old human wreck
like myself, do you?" said the old sol
dier to the applicant for the position
of body servant. "You know I have
a glass eye. a wax arm and a wooden
leg that need to be looked after, not
to mention my false teeth."
"Oh. that's all right, colonel." said
the applicant, cheerfuily. "I worked
five years in the assembling depart
ment of the Squeegee Motor Car
works, and there isn't a machine on
the market that I can't take apart and
put together again with my eyes shut."
—Harper's Weekly.
In Boston
Talkative Shopper—Don't you find
that having to wait on so many fussy,
disagreeable people has at least one
compensation—that of making you for
get your other troubles? .
Cultured Saleslady—Oh, yes—it acts
as a counter irritant.—Judge.
GEORGE FITCH
"A few deft calliope-like remarks"
but they use their arms more quietly
and do not melt so many collars.
A skillful orator can talk magnifi
cently on any subject, using the same
Words, shuffled up a little. Bob Inger
soll had two great orations, one on im
mortality and the other on his old cob
pipe, the latter being, if .anything, the
more beautiful.
Oratory is the most profitable of all
gifts. Men have orated themselves
into thrones and into presidential
chairs. Starting with nothing but a
strong flexible pair of arms and a
deep, durable voice and acquiring noth
ing else on the way. a youfig man can
even how talk himself into congress
and «if some one leaves the gate open
a little can leap into a national con
vention and transform it into a shriek
ing mob of frenzied admirers with a
few deft, calliope like remarks. Ora
tory acts 'on an audience as whisky
does on a man. It takes away its
brains for the time being. But it does
not leave a headache the next morning,
which accounts for the fact that it is
still regarded with favor.
For many years America hired ora
tors to do all its public business. Then
It began to find that when a man is
orating he Is never working and is
seldom thinking. So now the orating
and the thinking are done by separate
departments of government and neither
is allowed to interfere with the other.
GENERAL MACS—C. S.. When and
when* was General Marlon P. Ma us, U. S. A.,
born? Is be still in the army?
General Marion Parry Maus was born
in Burnt* Mills, Montgomery county,
Md„ August 25, 1850, He 19 still in the
army with the rank of brigadier gen
eral, but is glated for retirement
August 25, 1914.
Abe Martin
I'm afraid Gov'nor Wilson won't be
tble to save much In four years with
hree daughters. O' all th' four flushers
'A' feller that crosses his legs in some
>uddy else's tourin' car is th" worst.
AUQ UST 13, 1012
Ferry Tales
WHEN Henry
Kunz left
hig home
across the hay the
other morning his
svife spoke to him,
for the third time
In three days,
about the ham he had forgotten to
order.
"I'm sorry, Henry," she told him.
"but you've put off ordering that ham
so long I am afraid I must ask you to
bring one home with you tonight."
Sure, Henry would. He tied a string
on his finger, wrote the word "ham" on
his shirt cuff, drew a sketch of a ham
on his commutation ticket, and then
put little slips of paper with "remem
ber to get ham" written on each one
in every pocket.
Having taken every possible precau
tion, he dismissed the matter from his
mind and never thought ham again
until he found himself that evening
on the 5:45 boat, homeward bound—
and hamless! }
He was collaborating with his con
science in designing a suitable name
for himself when he spied Phil Teller,
and (blessed sight!) under Teller's arm
was a package that, from the shape,
could be nothing but a ham. Kunz lost
not a minute.
"Hello, Phil!" he said. "That's a
dandy ham you have there."
"Who told -you it was a ham?"
Queried the former harbor commis
sioner.
"That's easy." Kunz saw the end of
his troubles. "What's ham worth now,
Phil?"
Teller told him.
"How much does that one under your
arm weigh?"
".Look here, Henry," and Teller held
the package so that Kunz could see it
plainly, "you're such a good little
guesser today, suppose you guess the
weight."
"Tell you what I'll do." Kunz was
1;ot going to be sidetracked into any
guessing Cbntest "I'll give $3 for it."
The bargain was closed on those
terms. Teller took the money and put
it in his pocket and Kunz became the
owner of two small wild geese, part of
a kill that Teller's partner had been
trying to give away for two days.
"It wouldn't hftVe been so bad," said
Kunz next morning after telling his
troubles on the train, "if Geerge Mas
tick hadn't telephoned to my wife be
fore I got home and told her that I
had traded a ham for some wild game."
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"When does the next boat leave for -
San Rafael?" *
She was a tall, dark woman, and
aS she asked the question she patted
nervously On the WihdOWSlll of the
ferry ticket office.
"Two forty-flve," and the Clefk
reached over to his ticket rack.
"How long will it take to get there?"
"Fifty minutes,"
"Will the marriage license bureau be
open when we get there?"
"Don't know, ma'ani!"
"W r ell, I'm going to find out before
I buy a ticket. Something seems to
go wrong every time I get married,
and I'm just determined that there
won't be no hitch this time!"
* * #
Two small boys # were comparing rela
tives as they leaned over the rail of a
Key Route steamer.
"Gee!" said one Of them, "but my
brother's a dandy watch maker. Father
forgot his watch when he went to New
York. Bud took it to pieces. And,
say! He got it all back 'cept two
wheels!" A)iaUmif!m
* * *
She's the daintiest little matron In
all Marin county. If you know her
you'll reoogniae her by this descrip
tion. When she decided that she
wanted a tailor made suit she also de
cided that it would have- to be made
by a tailor, and in due course she was
making frequent trips across the bay
to keep Appointments for the numer
ous "fittings'* that are part of the price
a woman has to pay for simplicity In
dress. The tailor fixed the time for
these appointments and always set the
hour at 5:30 p. m.
"I'm afraid," she told him one dai\,J
"that you will have to give me some
other hour. I find 5:30 very incon
venient."
"I'm very sorry. Miss," the tailor re
plied, "but I've been making it late
to suit you. I thought that would just
about give you time to get here after
school."
The tailor smiled incredulously when
she stamped a dainty foot, frowned a
most matronly frown and said:
"School! Well, I want you to know
that I'vft been married four years!
School, indeed!"
* * *
it pays even a transportation com
pany to be polite. When the Southern
Pacific, made its recent unfortunate apd
short lived attempt to limit the inter
changeability of its commutation
tickets by marking those sold to men
"male," and the other kind "female."
it was not so much what it did that
angered its patrons as the way the
thing was done.
For proof of this let us turn to the
commutation tickets issued by the
Northwestern Pacific. The ticket agent
gives a man a perfectly plain ticket.
There are bands of color across the
face of tha commutation tickets sold
to women, in small and unobtrusive
type on the plain tickets is the inscrip
tion, "gentleman's ticket," and
striped tickets bear the legend, "lady's
ticket."
The "males" and "females" are pro
testing yet.
The "ladles" and "gentlemen" have
never _ i G. L. C.