Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-05-14
Governor Stanford and Charles Crocker
loaned what seemed to me the
LARGEST NUMBER

Governor Stanford ana Charie5 Cr0ckef
loaned what seemed to me the
LARGEST NUMBER
or fine pictures, perhaps as having the
larges collection. Mrs. Geo. Hearst has
great taste in such matters, and Mrs. Dan.
Cook possesses collection OF merit Mrs.
Wascott, Louis McLane and A. E. Head
loan some good pictures, and many others
offer one, two, or three. A great many
miscellaneous articles are valuable only as
curiosities, such as a pair of Egyptian ear
rings, Chinese, Japanese and East Indian
incense burners, Hindeo toe ring, some
curious carving of ivory figures owned by
Bishop Kip, carved rhinoceros horn, and
an inlaid elephants tusk, cross from
Bethlehem and chain of olive pits from the
Sacred Mount, vase for ottar of roses,
miniature of Napoleon presented by his
own hand long ago, ring containing
WashIpgton's hair, pair OF old Damascus
scissors, jewelry made from Japanese bird
bebks, some Hindoo gods, old shoe and
knee buckles, single pieces of old and bat.
tered silver There are tankagds, aud a
necklace and cross of moonstone which
looks like sleepy eyes, General Washin. :
tons punch ladle. old Isaak Walton's silver
spoon, Louis XVIII. tea kettle and lamp,
the spoons and knives and forks of Ma
polean the Great, beside his autograph,
the cup and service he used at Sc. Helena,
his mothers silver knives and Joseph Bona
parties watch.
THE BoNAPARrE RELICS,
As well as Angelica Kaufman's miniature
painted by herself. are loaned by Mrs
Maillard. Then there are autographs of
Aaron Burr, of Farragut, OF Ben Franklin,
of Maximilian's poor Carlota, of Edward
Everett, and letter of Daniel Webster's
beside another in an especially plain and
even hand from Washington. A dentist in
San Francisco has a mania for canes, and
there you may fiud canes of every size. de.
scription and nativity. Other people have
rage for coins, and similarly great many
ladies make collections of fans, those
beautiful, airy, costly, fragile nothings,
which from between their old sticks seem
to watt down to us the whisper, the
sigh, the echo, the sob OF the years they
flourished in. Mrs. Geo. Derby Welles
loans fine exhibit of the fans of the
bIiilCo VI bDNiS ME A4JN Has
old japanese fan, covered with autographs,
porcelain upon It. Miss Hastings loans
an old Spanish fan inlaid with gold, and
Mrs. KIP one of tortoise shell. Mrs.
Davidson, an inlaid wooden one, and Miss
Ludoviei one of isinglass and tortoise
shell. In her display, Mrs. Dan. Cook has
two beautiful fans and the loveliest
painted
BANNERS AND SCREENS.
The exhibition is particularly rich in
porcelain, though beyond admiring it in q
general way l am not equal to it. The
Sevres ware, however, / thought beautiful,
and most everyone able to own piece had
some on exhibit. Two small busss of
Sevres attracted my notice, through their
remarkable purity of outline. They were
of Bernadotti and Napoleon, and were
loaned by Mrs. r. G. Harrison In the
decorative art room | found two plaques,
by Rosina Emmett, of two cunning and
fudgy ehildrens faces, besides tiles and
vases, and beautiful screens and draperies
and partieres and tapestries A magnificent
piauo-cover of crimson plush, with corners
OF border deliberately embroidered at the
Kensington Art School Of London, was
placed in this room, and provoked great
admiration. In remembering the many
beautiful things | am troubled as to
whether l have remembered best those
most worthy of remembrance. People who
possessed articles of interest loaned most
generously of their possessions for the sake
of the charity in question, ignoring the
risks that must be run. The result was
an exhibition of great value, and one which
financially will greatly advance the good
cause. KATE HEATH