Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-05-28
OUR GIRLS.
SOMETHING ABOUT GIRL GRADUATES Of
HIGH SCHOOLS.
Observation-Disclosures on the Verge
Of Marriage-some Comparisons-
Saucelito.
san FRANcIsco, May 26, 1881.

der public notice Just about now every.
where. There comes the dainty senti-
ment of essays and the soft rush of their
white dresses, the Whit of the graduating
bouquet, and the girl smile in the very air.
1 wonder where all the boys are the air
doesn't seem to blossom with boys some.
how. The boy graduate isn't regarded by
the general public as ga thing of beauty
and a Joy forever" and nobody seems to
talk much about him. But have great
interest in him; want to see him brought
out l should like to have him praised and
petted as an experiment one season, be-
cause have a fancy that ne would open
out under the treatment. 1t is possible he
might, with his essay on Cicero, be found
as interesting as his sister who writes
about flowers. In going about
AMONG THE BOYS
OF this generation, the average boys of from
fifteen to twenty, l note certain gracious
way they have, courtesy that sits natu-
rally upon them, quick eye and ready
hand for little service, though lady be
beyond the young fresh prettiness of girl
hood. We feel that, we that are getting
passe, and it is a fine thing to see a boy
rendering such courtesy, and giving it
gracefully, as having had much practice.
Then l go out of an evening, and l see
young men from twenty to twenty-seven or
twenty. eight, and even thirty, and one
disparages them by the side of the young
ladies they escort. The latter are so bright
and pretty, they talk on so charmingly,
they dress so attractively, they are so at
ease and l look at the escort and see such
difference. He is not good looking, he
can't talk, he doesn't seem to know any,
thing to say, he looks just like some other
fellow-in fact he does not impress
the observer as being real wholesome.
At least that's the way it is here l have
noticed it so many times. But, taking
thought of the men over 81, you have
something to think about They have
gained presence and they seem SO full OF
the worlds battle. They are brisk and
alive, and carry themselves so well, and it
is just as if they had had time with the
measles when they were going through the
twenties and came out of the disease with
clear skin and eyes. A little age has given
them such flavor of the man, and they
are twice the parte they were five years
before. The girl graduate accepts atten.
ton from younger men, but her heaven OF
a man is 80 and more, and her impressions,
being fresh and new, are valuable. We
have just, with much eclat, turned
from school large force of young ladies,
shut the book, erased the figures, closed
the desk. 1t was
OUR HIGH SCHOOL,
After repeated attacks upon it, dear to us
as the apple of our eye, and the deed was
done in the Grand Opera House to accom-
modate the throng of friends. l looked al
the stage with an anxious eye. There were
so many girls of them and tomorrow they
would be women. There are such a lot Of
women everywhere that it seems like {
common everyday affair to be one, but il
isn't You have to be so careful, If you are
woman. 1t is a worldly advantage that
man has-he can be careless, if he likes.
as to what people say and think, but it
gives him such splendid chance to be bad.
In the end it isn't an advantage at all, fol-
people seldom refuse first class chance.
looked along that line of girls with q
friendly eye, too. l knew so many Of
them personally, but these seemed just
as strange to see as the rest. They were
somewhat etherealized, and l thought il
was appropriate to bring them forward In
the month of Mary, that woman who is to
us the type of the pure. l think the time
didn't seem as solemn to them as it did to
the older people in the audience, for saw
several SO affected they shed tears, just one
or two tears dropping silently, while the
girls were all pink cheeks and glances.
When they came down to the foot
lights they seemed like swans float
ing forward and pausing in a grace
full poise, and then voice came
forth from the dress somewhere, treble and
young and from a distance, and the girl
didn't seem like fellow-creature at all,
but something set beyond our daily asso
citation. The gentleman who introduced
them said, gushing as prettily as any
scholar among them possibly could in an
essay, &c Let me present to you this bouquet
of flowers, Califorhia's heiresses, the grad
uating class of 1881" Following out his
thought looked among them for the rose
which should give its bloom to the world,
for the flower which should open and fade
in day, for the blossom whose daily
fragrance should exhale like an incense to
purity and goodness, for the thrifty and
healthy glow of petals which like the flush
of health on the cheeks should show the
hardy mother blossoms destined to droop
their loving faces over handfuls of little
flowers springing up in their side shadows.
But in vain looked l could not separate
the one from the other, and it seemed after
all just
MERCIFUL THING
Not to know their future. | have asked
myself so often who thinks of all the tax.
ing subjects Of graduating essays? l read
over such list of them in the RECORD
UNION week or SO ago, and it seemed
like looking down vista of pleasant
things to read them. These essays of ours
were On Thought Repeats Itself :" then
A Noted Trio-Carlyle, Disraeli and
George Eliot )" after that Z" Hundred
Years Ago; y and then followed g Houses, -
g The Poetic Side, and Through Diff
culties to the Stars" the last by Olga
Josne. can fancy all bright and unusual
things as being done by Olga Josne, be-
cause her name suggests such possibilities
as being SO far out of the common.
Were her name yours or mine it
would not be suggestive; yet, "what's
in name % Was not George Eliot bap-
tiled Mary Ann? By-and.by we had
another essay on "One-Horse Shays, then
another called Mountain and Plain" and
then the valedictory on "Spectacles. - One
always likes to know about the valedictory
girl, because she must be so proud to be
herself and not the others. This one was
Miss Annie McCone, andshe read her essay
so nicely. When was little girl | used
to read the Sacramento Union, and when
it came the season for graduating exercises,
l was in a culver of interest about all the
girls the paper told Of. That is why
thought someone else might like to know
about our girls. remember two names
with which used in my own mind to claim
sort of acquaintance, and to say them
over Familiarity to myself as though 1 had
been friends with the girls who bore them.
They were
TWO SISTERS,