Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-06-25

day crushing small woman which was
of quite as large size. 1t also was all oil
white, large white ostrich plume wreath.
ing the crown In front, and white ruch.
ing edging the face. 1t was worn by
A PRETTY FACED BRUNETTE,
| And when you find brunette that can
really wear white beeomingly, how pretty
she does look in it. l visited French
lady recently who is in possession of
valuable curios, one being painting by a
Brussels master, which is SO old that the
frame is aged beyond all beauty; yet she
refuses to modernize it in this day, when
all that is old is valuable. She has also
two fine old English line engravings and
several small paintings, adiudged as rare,
set in brilliants. One of them is by cele-
brated French artist, and is Venus. She
possesses a gold and porcelain snuff. box used
by one of the Loulses, and meurns the loss
OF other valuables, stolen by burglars. |
suppose these are Of more worth than the
wedding bonnet, but the bonnet seemed to
me quite as curious. / did admire a bowl
of flowers, however-just cultivated bios
SONS of 10 great rarity, bnt they were ar
ranged so artlstically as to compel atten.
ton. | found the arranging was done
by the young daughter of my hostess,
girl OF about 10, who has
natural aptitude for such work. Nova
days such tastes are praised and cultivated,
but which OF US cannot remember when a
woman whose hands weren't busted at the
broom, the rolling-pi or the needle, was
thought to be frittering her time away.
Many artistic fires were quenched in those
days, and many spirit broken that might
have 'ssoared to nights unknown" Eliza
beth Stuart Phelps has a pretty poem
touching on this subject perhaps, in the
Californian for July. 1t is called. "In-
completion. La Scribner,s, for July, many
women are given prominence in the article,
1.-The Younger Painters of America. "
What an incentive toward the higher walks
women have just now, and how strange
that any human being should have it to
say she was not permitted once to give her
mind and talent scope.
THE SOCIETY oF DECORATIVE ART
Has modestly opened business in little
cottage on Suffer street, where it has
articles on sale and provides instruction in
various branches, though the instruction in
the beginning is necessarily limited as to
quantity and quality. We must walk be-
fore we run. BY the way, what sin it
used to be for woman to lecture. Scarcely
week passes now when the daily press
fails to speak politely and in terms of
praise of valuable paper read before the
Social Science Society, a subject intro
duced for thought before the Eball So
ciety, lecture on the rearing of silk
worms at the meeting of that association,
an extemporaneous discourse at some free
thinkers meeting, public prayer-meeting
or service of song ably conducted, and to
the edifieation of hearers, and it has been
woman each time who appeared before
the public 1t doesn't seem at all i'm.
modest or out OF the way now, and yet
Anna Dickinson had bad eggs thrown at
her. Wei, this world is all change, and
nothing seems to be wrong except while
we think it is So The trouble always is
to know the fine lines between right and
wrong. The man who defined heather as
s. a person who doesn't believe as you do, y
hit it about right. KATE HEATH.