Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-06-25
BAY GOSSIP.
no, FOR THE coUNrRY-DELIaHTFuL
RETREATS FROM TIE CITY.
Some Personality Weddings Age and
Youth-Curios- Decorative Art
Woman's Opportunities.
SAN FRAsoIsco, June %, 1881.

| SAN Francisco, June %, 1881.
just about this time in the year the
world would have us believe it had gone
into the country. Here, there and every
where, upon the highway and in the by.
way the gay world is gone pleasuring,
and yet the streets are just as busy and
as many people go up and down in day
as ever. There is just as much style
handsome men and beautiful women,
though the places of resort at the seaside
aud springs are crowded, and not to be
rural is not to be fashionable. One won
ders at it all. and inclines to think that
shadowy seconds have filed the vacant
places and move and gesture and talk
just as the people themselves would
have DONE Yet when so many are
gone the strange thing is that
one continually and Unexpectedly runs
across acquaintance with the mutually
surprised exclamation of "What, you in
the city p and making solitary stampede
to Oakland, San Rafael, Alameda, Sauce
Ito and other suburbs, meets other mutual
surprises of like nature. You can't go
anywhere without meeting someone you
know. The various boats and trains all
carry people you have met. The
PICTURESQUE LITTLE PLACES
Up the North Pacific Coast Railroad have
an unusual number. San Jose, San Mateo
and Santa Clara have their guests, and
Santa Cruz and Monterey are filled with
them. On the line of the North Pacific
Coast Railroad, which in itself is quite as
dainty as the narrow ribbon lady loops
round her neck, is the little place built by
Milton S. Latham. In English books they
are always talking about boxes and
+" lodges" and | fancy this has boxy APP
pearance. 1t is small white house, built
on something of an eminence and looks
directly over il to the Russian river, where
the water lies smooth and still,
and it seems so still and quiet and clean
and green about, and one can fancy being
beguiled into lazy romance there. Farther
along, at Duncan's Mills, Alexander Dun
can has fine modern residence, but it is
not an ideal at all, being the usual front
doored and two-bay- Widowed plan we
meet so often here. But a charm for the
eye lies about Latham's simple and taste
full little place, and it seems as if people
ought to go honeymooning in it-one couple
at time-or for that matter 4 dozen
couple, since each would be oblivious of
the other. In the spring young mans
fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love )"
but the summer months of popular resorts
are usually regarded as
MATCHMAKING SEASONS.
It must be piquant love which is made
to the accompaniment of breaking waves
or running rivers, and rustling branches,
with spice and tang to it like
the little beads that march up
glasses of champagne but 1 believe
after all homemade love keeps in fashion
longest and makes over best as the years
90 on. However, it would be something
to hint of to your daughters, and boast Of
TO your grand daughters if, you could go
to, say Monterey at the Del Monte, for a
month, with beautiful stockings, rides
cent beads, pompous and charming para
soils, one to costume suddenly turn into
a lovely woman with soft, ring fingered
hands and magnificent eyes and face like
an opal, or pearl. or rose, or something
else very sweet, and so enchant the Prince
"a creature who, much too gorgeous for
reality, exists in a woman's Imagination
alone. He rides with you and glides with
you, and when he isn't riding or gliding he
follows you with his deep, clear gaze, and
every one behoids his devotion. In face of
this romantic and alluring state of things,
it seems you go home and marry :" father,
who had to wait over plowing to do ms
counting, or honest, homespun grand
father" who really in his wrinkled and
bald condition doesn't look as if he ever
had any honey and sweetness about him.
No, fear the story wouldn't So wash any
better than some Of the calicoes III, new,
this summer and the daughters and grand
daughters will giggle disrespectfully, SO
better not tell the tale at all. Yet so many
mothers hint mysteriously of the charms
of their young days, charms which it seems
impossible could ever have existed, dear IN
their old age though the mothers may be,
think, to old people,
ALL THAT Is YOUNG IS BEAUTIFUL.
If they could once more have fresh,
girlish skin, young teeth, good hearing
and bright sight, what change it would
be to them, and so they think they must
have been pretty when they had these
things. They forget how very green
sweet sixteen is. If one could but have
the experience of 40 in the gay young
teens what enhancing young girls We would
have. Can you fancy 1T a 1.-the, light,
buoyant, quick-eyed and cared, fresh
voiced, smiling-hpped, tripping footed
young girl with knowledge of people and
an acquaintance with herself, knowing the
best use of all her intricacies and sub
tleties ] fancy those queens of French
society knew themselves that well, and
thus impressed themselves upon history,
vet not till the first blush of beauty was
flown had they power. On! the rosebud
just unclosing is so much sWeeter than the
rose, old as the sentiment is, and there Is
nothing after childhood to a woman's eyes
half so fair and dainty as young girls
check. The past week has witnessed the
WEDDINGS
OF two young ladies, who, outside of them
selves, claim our affectionate interest
through the memory we have of the father
of each. The recent death OF Judge Cowles
was largely felt in community where
so few public men cling to the traditions of
their fathers and openly profess and prac.
tice religion which nowadays has fallen
greatly into disuse. He was a strong, firm
pillar among the Congregationalist OF this
city, and his church and his house were
alike dear to him. His daughter, Miss
Myra Cowles, was married to Jos. d. Red
ding, son OF b. B. Redding. last
Wednesday night, in the First Con-
gregational Church. She is a pretty,
dark-eyed girl, inheriting something OF her
fathers nature without his personal APP
pearance. a host of friends wish her all
happiness. The other young lady is Miss
May Fourgeaud, married this last week
to Lieutenant Haskell at the Grand
Hotel. Her father, Victor j. Fourgeaud,
deceased some years since, was long
one of the tirst-esteemed physicians OF
San Francisco a man known to thou