Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-08-06
SAY FEANcIsoo, August 8, 1881.

In z blue dress, not pretty, not
even very interesting, but Just about
as we would seem in picture. And Vic
toria, the Queen, too, with not much of
the queen to her look. quite "overblowp,
my lord" and smileless The Prince of
Wales looks like a Jolly good fellow" as
they say he Is, indulgent TO a fault with
himself and Others. He has full, brown
beard, good eye and high fore
head but Alexandra, the Princess of
Wales, his wife. in form and feature is
such a lady, and possessed Of real, deli.
cate and refined beauty. have heard her
called the first lady in England, and to
compare pictures, she ranks ahead of every
one of the professional beauties. If 1t be
not sacrilege to liken any lowlier born to
royalty, it may not be altogether shocking
to say that a San Francisco lady (Mrs j. C.
Stubbs) very much resembles Alexandra In
are we not all prncesses of the blood
Three very slender and peaked little girls
are the Princesses Alice, Maude and Mary,
daughters to these last and two very
pleasant boys-much like our boys-are
shown as their sons, in the dress of young
sailors.
PASSION FOR BOYS.
have before spoken of the Rev. Mr..
Githins' fondness for boys, Of which species
there is large colony at the Church OF the
Advent, Mr.. Githins, rector. Some one
asked him once why he had never married,
and he replied soberly that he was waiting
to find widow with nine boys Most
men would run from such woman, but
Rev. Mr.. Githins is hunting for her.
Strange hunt Nine boys The selling
of photographs of celebrated persons is al
most a business of itself nowadays, and
there is scarce an actress of any merit
whose fac smile you cannot purchase on
the payment of 25 cents. You and |, per-
haps, have not and do not care TO have an
actress picture which any one else az well
as ourselves can have for two bits, but
you will see that very great
many others do desire it. On the occa-
sion OF NELSON'S first visit to this city her
beauty and her acting created a perfect
furore. Even women bad alteration fer
her, and it was a discomfort to attend the
theater, the building was so crowded, 1t
was at that time that the late Rulofson, of
firm OF photographers, paid the beauti-
full and popular actress $1,000 for the
privilege of taking and selling her pict-
ures, and he made money by his bargain.
Every one bought picture Of Nelson,
and yet the demand seemed never to have
exhausted the supply, for even to-day the
show windows have copies of that very
same print, though later poses were taken
on the occasion of her other visits Some
of the pictures On exhibition are fairly in
decent, and while the observer wonders
that the powers that be allow of such ex-
hibition, he must wonder still more how
any woman can bear it to pose before q
camera barely escaping state of nudity.
ABOUT EYEBROWS.
I can remember time when / knew
women without any eyebrows other than a
thin line of light down but l never see
one now. In looking over the pictures of
a great many women I find the eyebrows
in each pronounced, and in some exceed
ingly marked 1t must be that the old
faint eyebrow still exists, but so accented
by art that it has lost its own appearance.
Ore would scarce think what difference
brows and lashes make in persons looks
till lack of them shows the need. | ride
very often in the street.car with a young
lady whose cold, peculiar stare always
gives me shudder. / studied her face for
some time before l discovered it's strange
imperfection She has no eyelashes. In
" Erema, or My Fathers SIN, Black.
more has the popularity of womans
eyebrows discover her identity, and re-
marks that other features change, but
these never. Miss Jeffreys Lewis,
who is now playing with the Wal
lack company at Baldwin's Theater,
has brows particularly marked, and it is
these which render or help to render her
face so oddly striking. She is Welsh.
or another of her tigerish characters, such
as Geraldine Calthorpe, just played with
us, a certain Pickering flame of wickedness
seems to CLEAN across her eyes and through
her peculiar brows. The woman seems to
bear sort OF diablerie with her upon the
stage and to have nothing in her of the
tender and gentle. l saw her once in
"Won at Last" take the part of young
and confiding bride, but it was bad at
tempt. She looked as if ready to pouncs
upon her bridegroom and claw him heartily,
when she should have been most winning
and lovely. Yet, by paradox, she may
be, perhaps is, all that is most amiable and
affectionate by nature.
The FAIR.
Now that the Fair is open we shall have
a fine opportunity to observe the different
types in faces. After all it is the people
one goes to see, having still an interest in
other attractions. An audience is quite as
attractive as an actor, and one studies
crowd of observers as much as the pictures
all have come to see. A great many people
went to the Grand Opera House yesterday
afternoon to witness the inaugural exer-
cises of the Mechanics Fair. The very
old and the very young were there. One
old lady came out just in front OF me
whose face, in its age, had fallen into the
peaceful expression, and her hair shone like
silver. l heard someone say in low
tone, evidently referring to her, "When
an old lady is lovely she is SO very lovely y
Babies cries signalled each other from
one side to the other, and young mothers
came together bringing infants who
must have had whooping cough. Think
of the cool disregard for "other peoples
children" thus exhibited.
BABIES ABROAD.
During the late revival mothers were ex-
horted to bring their babies to church
rather than stay away. remember one
morning when they were especially invited
to services in suburban church, the little
ones to be taken into an inner room.
Well. the babies cried, and one instigated
another. and they were afraid of each