Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-06-26
SOCIETY NOTES.
wSAr THEY WEAR AT THE FASHION
ABLE WATERING PLACES.
Society News in san Francisco-Some
Fashions-The ANGEL Reception
Wedding
San FRANcIsco. Jnne p. IsSO.

l look round the city IN Wonderinent ana
ask myself. SIS any one gomez This is
the time when every one IS supposed TO
take a country fitting, and one hears OF
hundreds of acquaintance off on pleas
uring, yet they are scarcely missed, and
the streets are thronged as ever. 1t is
true, now | sit me down to think, this
great man have not seen in a week, and
that woman, the keystone of the arch when
you mention society, to memory alone is
DEAR and one gets little shock to think
how merrily we exist without them.
IT SEEMS ODD,
| Too, to take run in any direction and find
any amount of familiar faces to come upon
coif'ures whose every trick of coil and curl
one knows by heart; to discover in camp
the eyelasbes hitherto sacred to converse
ton by gaslight TO see the limbs among
the climbing waves one never knew at
| home to surprise oneself and disconcert
the couple beside by continually interrupt
ing two people summing on beaches or
incoming on balconies-these two people
who were never afhnities at home. | was
never more astonished in my life than
when, In travelling gear, | entered the
hotel at one of our watering places and in
the hall encountered a regal mamma and
her charming daughter, both gotten up re-
gardless, whom | knew from daily travel
In the street cars. Our start of recognition
was mutual, and then had you seen how
we recovered ourselves and sailed upon our
several ways in sublime indifference, the
! grandeur OF
WHAT IT Is TO BE A WOMAN
Would perhaps have dawned upon you. 1t
is just that way wherever you may go now.
There you will find the merchant, the
stockbroker, the young man about town,
the woman of fashion, the woman who
apes her and the woman who draws the
sweet out of lie in her own simple, sweet
way, and yet we don't seem to miss
a soul of them from the city. Notwith-
standing the fact that, take it the year
round, home is the most comfortable place
of places. it does make the mouth water
to hear the echoes from wood and water
| side, from Yosemite, from Monterey,
and the widest spots among the mountains,
of open air revelry, free air reaching miles
and miles away among the clouds. and the
murmurs from the trees. A great many
people have gone and are going to Yosemite,
one pleasant party forming circle round
wealthy lady who furnishes the trip to
| half-dozen Young friends. Another is COM
posed principally of ladies from the East,
and to this company is joined Mrs Moore,
wife OF the well-known artist of that name.
| Mrs. Moore shines not only by the light of
her husbands, fame, but has the most
charming manner imaginable. She is a
! Spanish lady, with beautiful dark eyes and
! lashes, and hand whose soft clasp is per-
lection. L saw a pretty yet inexpensive trav-
cling suit the other day which may be a
suggestion to some one. The dress
was cape au lait made with
basque and overskirt plain, and skirt
trimmed III box pleats. The gloves We're
Isle thread, to match. The hat seemed
| like a gorgeous affair, and its effect was
striking. 1t was of coarse, cheap straw,
dropping at the sides, and ornamented
with three large crush roses, varied
in color, which come, permit me to say, at
| ten cents apiece. A cafe au lait silk vail
| Ia Partisan vail to which all cannot aspirel
was brought round the crown and tied in
| knot under the chin. AS first beheld, in
| full, the cashmere seemed too grand to be
wasted on rocks and trees, but its pretti-
ness, its completeness. and its cheapness so
grew upon me that it seemed to have a
fitness by and by. l have seen SO much in
praise of the simplicity of
THE WEDDING DRESS
Worn by Nile. Dumas, daughter of the
eminent French novelist. a young lady
here this last winter created sensation,
in my admiration at least, by appearing in
a dress of heavy white silk made perfectly
plain and without touch OF "ilIumina-
| ton" of any sort She is of beautiful
| figure, and the dress fitted like a glove,
| falling to the floor in long. rich train. |
never saw.anything so graceful and at once
so exquisite, though few figures and few
compilations could have borne the trying
severity of the costume. But when SIM
plicity becomes woman, how well 1T does
become her The "spring hat" of the
lady (if one may mention spring hats in
connection with such divinities without
irreverence) was a white chip, with
a turn down brim shading the face,
surrounded with a wreath of the
simplest and loveliest roses just on
the turn toward pink in color. Miss
Emile Melville does some gorgeous costum-
ing in the opera of Boccaccio." sat near
| two ecstatie J0ung girls of about IA at a
matinee, and listened much amused to
| their raptures about Miss Melville. They
wound themselves up to such pitch that
they finally exclaimed with emphasis,
I q L.
were silenced because they had then com-
passed the superlative IN exclamation, and
language could go no further The at
traction to me in 8 Boccaccio is little
Oracle Piaisted (Mrs. Lancaster), the
tinest mite of woman that ever had a
! baby at home to coo a welcome at her re-
turn. She is one of the Mills Seminary
girls, one of then many finest singers you
viii remember nay mentioning them before.
On Sunday, in one of our unpretentious
churches, | listened to snatch of duet
which seemed just to fit my mood. 1t was
SOMETHING CALM,
Yet joyful, about heaven and Jesus and
angels, and was sung very sweetly by
Mrs. Stubs and Miss Annie Kelley.
Such modest singing in old-fashioned choirs
comes often nearer to the heart than the
best paid music. l wonder if people gen
orally have an idea of the number of
musical instruments women play upon now
adays. 1t is becoming qnite common for
young girls TO practice upon the cornet and
violin, and goodness knows it is time, for
they have banged the piano to death.
Some one tells me that Camilla Urso
trained Joy Wandesford's sweet voice by
the violin, playing a note or strain
upon the strings for the voice to
copy or follow. If not true, it is
at least not bad idea. On Saturday
notable Jewish wedding took place. The
bride was the daughter of the President of
Synagogue Emanu Ell, and the recent sill
yer wedding of her parents was marked by
the presentation of nearly every article
that comes in silver, by that society and its
members Individually, as tokens OF the APP
probation with which they regard the SER
vices of their officer. ! do not know the