The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-12-18
THE COAST METROPOLIS.
Preparations for the Holidays
Hocdlums-The Reciprocity
Tresty, etc.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. u, 1881.

ures and rOck-paYed streets there
is much transpiring to notice and
more going on than can be recorded
and a brief communication will nsi
suffice to contain what your CORES
pendent would like to tell you.
In the first place, the general as
pect of the business houses and
marts of merchandise, on every
hand and side, announces the ap-
| preach of the holidays. 1t is act
ually bewildering to take stroll
along the sidewalks IF the princi-
| pal thorough-fares and take in" the
sights presented TO tempt the buy
erS of holiday presents" The
windows Of the extensive dry goods
establishments. with the varied as
sentiments OF material for wearing
apparel, toilet articles, gentlemen 5
linen and underwear, and bric-a-
brac, are dressed in elaborate and
costly style. and nearly everything
surmOunted with Il hastily printed
reminder that it Is an excellent
holiday present" and cheaper than
the cheapest" The jewelry stores,
! Of which there are Il great many
large and tirSt-claSs ones, display Ii
marvellous variety of rich and costly
articles in gold and silver;
| dazzling diamonds, precious stones
| and lHky jets, set and worked into
numberlesS fantastic and exquisite
shapes by clever artists: watches of
every grade, make and value from
| So to $500, distributed about, with
| trinkets, such as bracelets, sets Of
ieWelry cuff buttons, studs, etc, etc,
cause one to Illuminate upon their
aggregate cost and to say, with Der
mudas, Il didn't think there was
SO much money in the world" The
empOrIumS for the rising genera
ti0n-commonly called toy shops
have on exhibition some of the
finest. as we'll as some of the tiimSi-
est. articles for the amusement and
entertainment of the best crop"
that your Informant ever saw:
everything, from I'VE cent whistle
10 a twenty dollar doll and from a
liVe-fOr-a cent marble to a twenty
five dollar cook stove. The book
and picture stores amaze indeed
the very faculty of eyes, with
their vast and apparently endless
varities OF everything in their lines
but most noteworthy are the Christ
mas and New I ear cards; their
combinations are beautiful, unique
and in the highest degree artistic
The sWeet-t0Othed rambler can be
accommodated with candies of any
conceivable shape and fiaYOr-and
what tlckleS a yOungster more thanl
to find some nice, painted, sweet |
confectionery in its stocking on a |
Christmas morning? Old Santa |
Claus IS secretly thanked by thOus-
andS Of innocent little ones for his
of them In giving
them taffy. In all conscience. it is
to be sadly regretted if there is any
thing that can be wished for that
can not be purchased iii this big
place
These exhibitions and displays
are not all that remind one that
Christmas comes once a year" and
hat the one that comes this year
S almost here. The four-year-olds
nave been down town and seen the
oy displays and ''teased and leased
md leased and leased" their NAM
mas for ter. cent trumpet. Their
lame is legion and their occupation d.
5 annoyance. There's one cOnso-
alton: we'll be used to their i
queaking and sqUawking by the s
inc they are tired of it. If there a
we're only couple of hundred or so
n the whole extent of the city one O
light get along, but, as | said G
efore. their name is legion. Well a
Merry Christmas" Y
TIE SAN FRANCISCO HooDLUMS. q
This city is cursed with class Of d
reatiOn called "ho0dlums." Who
yer gave them that whether
was their godfatherS and god
lOthers or tire malicious news
aper scribe-matters not: it ap- 4
ears to be an appropriate appella- 4
on and everybody knows who TO
Dply it TO here, for q hoodlum is
noWn by his makeup. You can Il
Ill him wherever, YOU see him b.
lost Oh the corner where the gro Il
,@y is-2lld wheR you do tell him, Ii
ind you don'J tell him anything b
'asSy.' lie is distinguished from C;
learest of mankind, first by the cut \
his iib, which is singu!ariy ex- al
'eSSiye of Jenny Twitcher's" il
Ot-of-it" impudeHt phiz; al
.c0ndiy by his dress-and here | @
u.s. say that in point Of apparel Il
2 IS passaJly decent: the hood il
ms toys come nearer being a uni ii
nm than anything else, and that's 81
ny they can be told SO readily. OF
hey all, we'll, nearly all, wear hats pi
18th stiff. straight brimS; white
-irts with tUrn-dOwn collars; black be-
ats padded at the shoulders very V
uch. to give them "SqUareneSS' b;
ey do not otherwise have: vests it
at seem to rave been made Tor nt
else. and probably have, 81
i'd been appropriated; pants that lii
tight around the hips and legs N
It'll they reach the feet, where
ey spread out like an inverted OF
ushroom. and cover two thirds of
cir pedal eXtremities. Their
OWser bottoms are economical in =
e end, for, if they did cost a few =.
mes more for cloth, they save a n
cd many dimes in boot backing.