Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-21
BAY GOSSIP.
ABOUT VALENTINES AND THE LATEST
CONCERT.
Art WorksLThe King-Refections On an
Ambitionless Woman - Dom
Pedro-The Dead.

majesty of the Sandwiches, or st. Val
entine But the hutter of each has been
among two vastly different peoples-the
one in society to which greater luster was
added by the presence Of real King; the
other wherever there was child old
enough to dart about, beg for five cents
and ring a front.door bell, snickering at
his own mystery. There used to be ten
der romance clinging to the name OF val
entine when grown folks sent them with
of the sentiment, but they
have lost all touch of passion now, when
YOU can buy four-all gimcrack, giit and
Doetry-for five cents. 1t has become
simply compliment of the season to send
4 valentine as it is to send Christmas
wish or New Year greeting. And Just
as the Christmas and New Year cards
were exceptionally beautiful these last
HOLIDAYS. valentines were this year equally
works of art, though ugly and offensive
ones loaded the market also.
DELICATE CHRoMos
Came within the reach of almost every
purse beautiful figure and flower designs
with line or word of Remembrance
lovely one being grouped blossoms of the
Lady Washington geranium, so natural
they almost breathed perfume. We
speak so much in exaggerated language
NOWADAYS that the hand. on heart senti-
ment of the average valentine scarce pro-
ANY
new or scarce twist-abOut OF words seems
to be sought as something that may catch
the eye or ear, and perhaps retain the at
tention for a moment Thus the old fare
well concert, time-honored and patronized
since concerts were, has become the "Con-
cert d'Adieu," and such an one is to be
given by Oscar We'll, an accomplished
musician, whose fingers hold scathing
pen when it dips itself in criticism. l
somehow feel that this concert, since it is
" d'adieu, ought to be something grander
than simply farewell" A lovely picture
(panel is on exhibition at one OF the art
rooms. 1t looks as though it were an old
fence corner, such as we who know the
late springs of colder regions sometimes
happened upon, but rarely just when we
were hungriest for fresh wild flowers. 1t
is a tangled growth of wild roses, round
and pink as plump and blushing cheeks,
old mans beard and wild vine. There is
another picture, whose foreground of
broken ice is fine study, and Marriott,
whose canvases usually reek in vivid colors,
has a weird, neutral tinted creation, filed
with martial figures of men with
AWE STRICKEN FACES
OF women, with little children holding up
branches in alteration, and all with pale
and mystic light as of the hidden radiance
of an unknown morning cast over them.
a woman in flowing draperies with a
stringed instrument of music in her hands
stands upon the pyre of faggots as sacrifice
for her people, and the flame of the lit
torch CLOVIS beyond her. One could sit
before the picture for an hour. We have
had with us for some time a picture which
will be viewed in Sacramento with much
interest, containing. as it does, the por-
traits of some of California's best-known
men. refer to Tom Hil's-pray excuse
me, but we never call him Thomas" Last
Spike" or the assembled company who
were present at the driving home of the
golden nail which gave the finishing touch
TO the railway. 1t is picture which aims
to draw no whit upon the imagination, but
presents, true to nature, the general features
of the scene. We are presented with
PORTRAITS
Of Governor Stanford, who holds Nevada's
silver hammer, A. A. Sargent, Charles
Croker and E. B. Crocker, Stephen 7.
Gage, General Dodge, NJ. S. Latham, Mark
Hopkins, S. S. Sandersop, B. B. Redding,
I. G. Phelps, c. P. Huntington, w. E.
Brown, and many others whose faces are
Uaknown to me. The precious nail was
presented by Frederick Marriott, and
many of us fully expect to congratulate
the same gentleman ere he dies upon his
triumphant navigation of the air by means
q the coming
AIR SHIP,
The AVIATOR. l have spoken of his Maj
esty, Kalakaua, or, as some will irrever-
emily persist in calling him, King Calico.
He came incognito, but everybody insisted
IN recognizing the king in him just for the
didn't seem at all averse, either, to the
satigues of dining and reception, but, lit
tie more good naturally than we could
have expected of bona tide king, he went
about to families and receptions quite as
though he were private man. But then
his Kingdom is such q little one, and per-
haps he holds himself little cheaply on
that account. He looks like "gemman
OBJ color very much so, if you please,
with Just the same thick lips and shine be-
hind the dark of his skin. If he weren't
a king-oh heaven forgive the thought
one might offer him job at white
washing or wood-sawing, and haggle
with him over the price. But l daren't
mention this above my breath for fear of
being tasked with something equal to a
desecration. Very much liked the demo-
cratic, eager, modest ana plain Dom Pedro,
who spoke with common folks, remem-
bered face he liked, no matter where it
belonged, and yet never abated one Jot
of his dignity. Without any retinue or
escort | saw him 20 up the aisle of a
crowded pavilion in Philadelphia one day
of perspirations aid sun-strokes, and he
had his stout plain Empress upon his arm,
and she tanning herself for dear life just as
hot as the rest of US. En- but we all
shook our bonnets and stood up on benches
and hurrahed and forgot the dreadful heat
for minute, just to see the Emperor come
in as unaffected as any old farmer might
with his wife, and yet there was a royalty
that hedged them round, and we were
as happy as we could be to recognize
it. After they were seated what did
the great Dom do but calamity turn out
glass after glass of ice-water from COM
mon porcelain pitcher, wherewith to serve
the ladies of his party. 1 vow, could I
have had my way, the service should have
been of silver and gold for his use. l never
see great people but the CHASTITY thought
fits through my mind, "We shall all, high
and low,
BECOME THE DEAD"
In closing his remarks upon the death of
John W. Dwinelle, James Mem. Shafter
gave speech to a sentiment it will be hard
to forget Z" In thinking of our dead COM