Show it iti LILS i ll tl r By A A. A H H. H FREDERICK N NEA EA Service Writer SAN FRANCISCO Dec 3 This 3 This city now takes its place as the home of ot grand opera In the West Recently the San Francisco Opera association brought here as a test of ofSan ofSan ofSan San Francisco Francisco's s receptivity a ten- ten performance sEason season The answer was packed houses at every performance This means much when it is considered considered considered consid consid- ered ered that the Civic auditorium in which the op opera ra was was pres presented seats The success both financial and artistic artistic artistic ar ar- ar- ar ot of the test season has lent stimulus to plans for tor building a opera house hOUfe as a permanent home for tor good music and at the same time a memorial to veterans of ot the world war S e S Superstitions of the Chinese are not confined to the hours dedicated d to tomah tomah tomah mah tan fan or other of the celestial gambling games Recently Chin Louie Loule year old Chinaman was charged with particIpating participating participating in a lottery Chin with characteristic Chinese stoicism accompanied the arresting officers to the city prison Nor did he make objection to being booked But when he was led to the elevator which carries prisoners aloft to the tho cells ho he balked he howled he tous-nt tous he pleaded lie He made it plain that he Jail housie housle but that the descendant of ot his ancestors would never ride in an elevator At length the detective in charge acceded to the old man mans man's s requests and climbed the five long flights lights with him S C S e eThe The mah jong fad tad has brought an increased number of ot white er era en into Chinatown Recently an Eastern visitor whose hose knowledge of the Chinaman apparently apparent apparent- e ly yn consisted t of magazine ar reading e en entered a store with his wife Mah game all aU samee you jou in China you here he queried while his wife beamed approval jf Qt her husbands husband's profound knowledge Mali Mah Iah Certainly replied the Chinese manager Last aisle to your right One of ot the clerks will wait walt on you jou ou The Chinaman was na a graduate of ot Harvard with a post-grad post course at Oxford to his credit The question of how straight a man shoots In his work life ambitions was I answered 50 GO by a recent unusual gathering here September 24 1913 four youths were talking over their ambitions as they sat out the evening hours in one of ot the parks parka here The They decided to hold a reunion and wrote on four cards We agree 10 to meet at this same spot at 7 30 in tho the evening ten years from tonight Each kept one card The Tho four then separated and except except ex ex- for two who were brothers lost all track of ot each other But on the date designated the four tour fourmet fourmet met each coming from a different i m direction cU f Two lived ve ro in San Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco one in Santa Barbara and one in Calaveras Two had fulfilled their stated am nm- to be a Jeweler and a painter respectively The other two had both said they would be bankers but one had a chauffeur and the other an accountant |