Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-08-21
At THE BAY.
TIE STORY OF HOW WOMAN NUBsED
A BABY.
Lectures and Amusemsnts contrasted
and How the Public Patrontze
Each-Adelaide Nelson
sAN FRANCISCO. AUGUST Is. 1850.

San FRANCISCO, August Is, 1850.
When l think of it can only sit and re-
peat, 1.-The most beautiful woman in all the
world is dead, for she was the most beau.
tiful woman that ever came into my world,
though the great world is large and may
contain many beautiful women. See how
small our own world is and must be always.
Into mine there came once slowly, like
vision and with artist pose, woman who
as first seen snatched my breath. She was
wound about with vail of film and dust
like woven cobwebs, and with her
face set in perfect repose she danced
the minuet, so graceful and stately figure,
it blought tine tears to think that anything
so beautiful could live She came upon me
as star shoots through the summer night
"a thing SO high, SO lovely, so pale, so far
away could but gaze and, startled, won.
der. l know not what the star is, has
been, or is to be, its beginning, its habit,
its end l only know that it flashed across
my sight and the view exalted my thought.
Peace to thee
RADIANT NELSON
Thy great ashes and mine SO humble shall
be as like as one handful of dust to an
other-leveled each Thy beauty and thy
genius vanished, that smile of thine gone
and only spirit shall shine. Oh, wondrous
change Oh, dread change Oh, DEATH
at whom shudderl The victory Is always
thine. And oh, to think that any thing
so beautiful could die!
told you, letter or so ago. of how |
had seen a woman nurse baby here l
should like to tell you of another whom l
did not see myself, but whom friend saw
and told me about The man in the car,
travelling with five children, had come from
the Michigan lowlands, and they had all
been sick with chills and fever. They
were little group plainly oppressed with
poverty, the man himself and all the chill
dren were dressed SO poorly. And besides
they didn't always get out to meals,
though they carried no lunch basket
The mans wife had but Just died
in the lowlands of Michigan, and
he was trying to get the children
to her mother somewhere in the State of
New York. She left nursing baby, a
little, sickly baby, and on the cars it kept
fretting, fretting, sometimes crying out
right, but oftener just fretting. Some
times the man got it milk as the cars
stopped, but it didn't know how to feed
very well, and he looked so worried. As
he travelled along the passengers from i'm
patient grew interested and sympathetic,
and some offered assistance with the baby,
but the man was obliged to them and he
guessed they couldn't help him any. By
and by, near the close of THE second day,
at large town, lady
FASHIONABLE LADY
Entered the car with her maid Her dress
fitted beautifully, and her bonnet was
very stylish one. Very soon her dark eyes
fell upon the fretting baby, and it wasn't
long till she had worked the problem out
for herself. As sherose and wake along the
aisle the passengers looked after her. She
stopped before the troubled children and
they viewed her wonderingly. ssGive me
the baby" she said, and when she put out
her hands the diamonds flashed upon her
fingers. She took the child, and laying it
over her shoulder nestled its cheek in her
neck as she carried it to her seat, and the
pdssCH5cio HdtCueu W STE Nnat sue WOuJQ
do. Her maid drew shawl round her.
the little head disappeared under it, then
there was a low, and glad little cry, and the
baby ceased to fret. The women passen-
gers wiped their eyes, the men looked out
of the windows and the father shed his
tears openly. BY and by the maid said,
81 am afraid there won't be enough for
our own baby" The answer was, " Never
mind, Mary, never mind" and by and by
the baby's head fell back and It lay on
her lap fast asleep. 1t lay there long
time, placidly sleeping, and after while
she took it up tenderly in her mother arms
and carried it again to it's father. When
the cars stopped she went out and her
maid saw to the wraps and the satchel.
Whatsoever is done to 'one of these lutte
ones" floats aloft like incense to the very
hottest heaven.
LECTURERS.