Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-09-03
WHAT SHE SAW.
THAT GIRL IN BLACK-HoT wkFFLEs-
SToEIACHS.
Some of the Odd Things at the Fair, and
Some of the Odd People There
kindergarten Schools.
SAX FRANCISCO, August 81, 1851.

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lovely night in reality, but those sky
lights, the moon and stars, paled and
dimmed in the CLEAN of the baleful electric
burner that shines before the Pavilion like
an eye that never winks. Within there
was the same brilliant scene, the moving
lines of people furnishing it with life and
gayety. A great quantity of very young
girls seemed to hover about the strolling
groups like butterflies. They were with
mammas, with each other, with the oppo.
site sex of about their own years, and the
most of them, as some one remarked, were
quite 80 too too, which is the deepest slang
one can indulge in at present. They had
all apparently aimed at the esthete's dress,
and the most of them had approached it
nearly enough to have achieved a plain
and pretty appearance.
THEIR DRESSES
Hung in straight folds, after little shir-
ring near the waist, they wore the old
fashioned girdle, folds of soft wash net
round their necks, and little poke bonnets,
mostly of light material. It is very be-
coming costume when limited to this
description, but some will exaggerate any
style and carry it into the ridiculous.
There was one girl who circled the gallery
round and round eating candy. Her face
was as white as the wall, and she was
dressed entirely in black, not mourning
Directly under the outside corner OF one
eye she had placed little round piece of
black court plaster, and her eyebrows were
slightly accented. Her bonnet was large
black poke unreheved by any strings what
ever, and she wore thinking bangles upon
her waists, which clashed and rung con-
stantly with the movement she gave her
hands. a young man had her by the
arm, and thus she went again and again
round the gallery,
THE TARGET OF ALL EYES,
Chewing her candy, shaking her bangles
and creating whisper generally. BY and
by she sat down near me, and some young
girl friend called her "Stella." | felt like
saying to her, Well, Stella, if you only
could see yourself At any rate you
wouldn't chew the caramels." In the
cloak room was line of young ladies TAX
ing checks and going into the dressing
room, and here they were again, looking III
the mirrors and fixing in hairpins, pinning
flowers in their girdles and bands of white
net, and giving themselves pat and
shake generally. Looking in through the
window of the cafe, there they were, nib.
bling at lady fingers and feasting on ices.
By the way, at church entertainments
lately, instead of using plain cream for
coffee tablespoonful of ice cream is put
into the cup, the egg making the rich
froth which is considered such an adj
dition to coffee There is coffee
pot on exhibition at the fair which its
exhibitors claim as great improvement.
The berry is ground as fine as dust, boiling
water poured over it, and the drink is
ready, the essence, it is said, being entirely
extracted by that one percolation. Yet |
heard old housewives declare, after trial,
of many expensive patents, that mixing an
egg with freshly ground coffee and boiling
in the tin coffee-pot in the old way, makes
as good cup as any OF them.
Up IN THE GALLERY
The manufacture of old.fashioned rag car
carpet, shit or miss, a good quantity OF
it is, attracts great deal of attention.
An old man sits in his shirt sleeves at the
loom, and with his shoulders bowed and
and his eyes intent upon his work, he
keeps industriously at it as though alone
and working for wages. Very pretty rag
carpet is exhibited with bright red stripe
in it-pretty and cheerful enough for
anyones sitting.room. Nearly opposite the
old man and his loom is the silk winding
wheel, the exhibit coming from Amador
county. An elderly gentleman stands
ready to answer all questions, and
woman sits at the cocoon basin, with a
brush or with her hands dabbling in hot
water and keeping the bobbing cocoons in
order, while the fair threads of silk wind
off them and are carried to the wheel. 1t
is an interesting exhibit, and crowd of
attentive spectators is always about it. Its
cases show fine specimens of cocoons,
skeins of silk, etc, the new interest in
seIiculture just now awakened making
this valuable stand. / would not be
understood that this is by any means the
first exhibition of the sort at our yearly
fairs, but unusual serious interest is mani.
tested in it, since the industry is recon-
mended to US as peculiarly profitable
home work. 1t will prove a blessing in
deed if it can be source OF money max
ing to women who have families and can
not go outside them to find the longed for
penny. Further round the gallery you will
find woman seated with square of carpet
under her feet, and now and then from
number under her hand she gives paper
to some one passing. Various articles of
industry hang ON the wall near her, and in
large gilt letters | see
THE LETTER
Written three times. / find it means
Social Science Sisterhood, and that this is
Mrs j. W. Stow, President of the same
The S. S. S. is a woman's exchange. lect-
ture bureau and a school of industry, seri-
culture receiving attention among other
practical work. 1t has free singing classes,
embroidery classes, art classes, etc., etc.,
and lectures upon these subjects relating
to moral, physical and intellectual ad-
vancement are delivered frequently by
women whose names are prominent among
US. Mrs. j. II. Smyth is committee on
silk culture Mrs. Knell is to be referred
to for employment and protection Mrs.
Stow is enthusiastic on the subject
OF colonization and Mrs. NJ. L. Bell takes
charge of the lecture bureau, furnishing
dramatic performers, singers, elocutionists,
lecturers, etc., for public or private enter
tainments. Mrs. Thomas s. Hittell re-
Gently lectured before the Association on
the subject of Practical Culture of the
Silkworm in California" Do you remem-
Der mention of a large and beautiful woman
who drew all eyes to one of the stands in
last years fair? Well, when this fair
comes round she is dead. 1t is odd to see
how stolidly the people in the booths re-
gard the passingcrowd Thelooker- on seems
to be to them a log of wood for all the note
they take of his separate being. A woman
in the interest of certain yeast-powder
makes biscuit as calmly and unconcernedly
and with no more sign of furry or confu.
sion than if the great Pavilion were her
own private kitchen. She mixes and rolls
and bakes methodically; then the spectator
takes one, finds it hot, small and light as
needful. The biscuit always comes out
right, | am bound to say; but it is the