Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-07-12
CONCERNING WOMEN

While mistress of the White House
Mrs. Hayes has caused a'considerable share
of the money annually appropriated for the
White House to be expended in permanent
improvements. She has given special at
tention to the garden and conservatory.
Princess Mary of Teck was called upon
to christen new steamer, the other day,
and handled the bottle of port used in the
ceremony with such sturdy vigor thatwhen
| it burst the generous liquor deluged the
| front OF her dress and the coat of the
prince, her husband.
The Countess de Noe, widow of the
| famous caricaturist Cham, who went mad
with grief over the death of her husband,
after lingering for only few months, has
just died in the asylum. She threw her.
self out of a window soon after his death,
and the injuries received at the time at
last proved fatal.
| Among the Jewels sold by Miss Nelson
on Monday were some gifts from admirers
who probably did not expect at the time
they gave them that these tokens of appre-
citation would be put up at auction, at least
unless the popular actress should be i'll
greater pecuniary stress than she is now.
New York Sun.
The young lady who is afraid of pretty
little mouse and who will aim to save her
| life by jumping on a chair and trying to
| get her dress braid as far from him as posi-
| BILE, will afterward go out and deliberately
eat two plates of clam chowder (bedizened
with thyme) and schooner of ice cream
| without the least fear.
As the happy couple were leaving the
IL, I,,si
his welded life Marriage must seem a
all of tremble and one could hardly hear
courage and say it louder the next time"
said the blushing bride.
| Az actress recently sewed $3.50 in her
corset, At Holly, Mich, she found herself
in need of new corset, and cast the old
one into the waste basket of her room. She
| had been away week when she discovered
/ her loss, and sent messenger to Holly,
! who was fortunate enough to find the
corset upon the ash heap in the hotel yard,
with the treasure undiscovered.
| The superior moral sense of women is
conclusively shown by the fact that a
dressmaker, after promising FIVE women
that she Will DO their gowns first, so that
they may start Tor the country, never losses
up cent or "shakes TO see upon which
she shall go to work, whereas a tailor ire
quently yields to the temptation to resort
to these immoral and illegal ways OF solv-
ing a problem.
A modiste in Fourteenth street has on
| exhibition an elaborate satin gown, whose
history can be traced, without a break, it
is claimed, to it's original owner and wearer,
| Queen Marie Antoinette. 1t is of pale vel
low, or rather it was, for age has mellowed
it to an old gold hue; it is richly embroid-
cred in clusters of flowers of natural colors,
which still retain their first brilliancy.-
New York Times.
! It is told of the King of Greece who re-
Gently visited Paris, and is now in London,
that when at the French capital in the gay
days of Louis Napoleon, he greatly shocked
imperial etiquette by his reply to the EN-
press, who, askinghim who he thought was
| the most beautiful woman at one of the
| Tuileries balls, was told "Pardon me,
your Majesty, [ am barbarian, a Cossack.
| only know one beautiful woman in the
world, my wife. !"
! Mile. X, of one of the Partisan theaters,
asked leave of absence for few days She
wished, she said, to mourn for her mother,
who had just died. The congo was granted.
The next day the director of the theater
met the actress in ravishing toilette of
fresh, bright colors. sc 1t was very bad OF
you to abuse my confidence in this man
ner, . he said. "Your mother is just dead,
You say. and here find You in the gayest
costume Monsieur" responded the
| young artistic, '' [ declare did not deceive
you Maman is certainly dead, but then,
you see, she died in Bretagne, and you
ought to know that custom does not COM
pc! one to wear mourning for distant
relation"