, 1877-12-16

! have gained in weight. When an additional
| inch OF waist1and and m extra fall or two OF
| companions regard her With lnelablc pity but
| a sparkle of satisfaction. When she falls away,
/ they look upon her with keen envy.
| They ask each others weight with pretty
adcctntion Of interest, knowing it to be i deli,
| cate question In return. the one questioned
lies with beautiful fcarlcssncss.'
| They exchange all sorts OF rcclpes amongst
] each other for getting thin. Ono takes to
Banting, another tries the Hamulam baths. A
| third takes to violent horseback exercise.
FAvOEfTE DOSE
| is gulf-wecd, with which one lady is reported to
have reduced herself some sixty pounds.
Immediately the drug stores were bcscged
by groups Of round, healthy, rosy women, all
anxious to take the nauseatIny dose aud su1ler
all the agonics of an offended stomach il it
would but thin them.
But it is Of no use. The glorious climate OF
California is stronger than any or ill Of these.
1t will exercise itself on female lovclincss.
She may be as lean and scrawny as she likes
until sue is 25 Then the glorious climate BE-
gins 70 Gil the hollows in her check. 1t builds
additions on her chin, expands her chests, gives
an extra size to her shoes and stockings, and
leugtlhcns the dressmakcr's waist-ulcasure.
She becomes ample.
Hanting makes her bilious.
Sseafu-baths make her weak.
Horseback exercise makes her puff aid blow.
Gulf-wecd makes her yellow, and green, with
cred.
1t is infinitely better to be fat.
1t Is q psychological study to observe a fat
woman When she says that word.
ADJUSTMENTS.
The theatres langl1ish. There is almost moth
ing doing excepting at Baldwin's, where the
I" Pink Dominos" " is having q most successful
run.
This success is entirely due to the play itself,
and not to the acting.
The change from the beautiful play Of "The
Danichetfs" was too sudden aud violent to be
advantageous to tho company.
In the case of Mr.. Charles r. Thorne, it has
most ostctfectually succeeded in dcposing him from
the pedestal to Which his powerful persouatiou
Of Osp had raised him.
The two Thorncs, Edwin and Charles, are
playing here as leading men of the rival thea
tres.
In melodrama they arc vastly aissimilar. In
comedy they are Enthusiastically chips from one
block.
They arc as like as two peas in situations
Which resemble each other.
Both brothers incline TO bufroonery and
burlesquc in the representation of comedy, aud
make their points by III amount of grmnastic
action that would be crcditablc to Iautaioon
or Harlequin.
THIS is strange, indeed, when VIC consider the
rerressed power with which one plays, while
little flash of carnestncss in hk Dart lifts the
other tar above his ordinary seeming.
THE TnoREE FAMILY
Is pretty well represented III California. Beside
The two brothers, we have Emily Mestayer.
their aunt. in one theatre, William Mestaycr,
her son, in another.
The OLD folks left here not long ago, and few
lhornes not in the profession are often seen
1oing the theatres.
:: Besides these, a young step-lauehtcr Of ,lr.
Charles Il; Thornc has made a mild and unob- |
rus1ye first appearance OIL any staye'' III the |
>lay Of "The DanicheiTs." She was riyen an |
:1ceedlngly minor role, and did not create SUI
lcient sensation to make any one ask who she |
Tas.
An announcement has been made in the rrccn-
oon Of the California Theatre to the effect
hat the season closes on the ed. This hardly
means closed doors, but it means REDUCTION of
alarie5 and very grave change In this fayorite
heatre. It has been doing ruinous business
yer since the Crane-Robson engagement. Uu- |
apply, when it began to lose
JOHN MCCULLOUGH
ed at the first signal of disaster, and lett the
1fns entirely In the hands of Mr.. Barton Hill.
name was host within itself;
opular gentleman, and accounted an admirable
businessman, be has not been able to stay the
dc of i'll luck.
Tue closing Of the California would strike
:nuine disnlay among the thcatre-goers. Its |
andard has always been so high, its attractions |
I've always been so strong, and its stock conf
my for long time SO admirable, that an idea
'erailcd that no matter how many theatres
ere were, there WIS, after all, but one.
They are going to give the *Black Crook, |
r Christmas spectacle, That seems but a
rrv resource in desperate strait.
Every one hopes they will tide over the
oublc in some way, San Francisco without
G California Theatre would be like q village !
thout post-otiice. JAssARTu.