Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-05-05
SWEPT UP THIS MORNING.


SWEPT UP THIS MORNING.
Hindoo cashmere, hair-line plaids, Linn
CUISINE, cheviot and Vinogne are the most
popular of fine wooden goods.
Satin boots matched to the dress are
preferred by many ladies to the satin slip
pers with ball toilets. They are made with
the Louis XIV. heel.
Lace sleeves of Spanish, Languedoc or
vermicelli can be purchased already trimmed
and ready to be sewn to the bodices of
ce-trimmed costumes.
A Tennessee mountain girl who went as
a servant to family in Knoxville, said
she had been converted, and, as an evil
dence, said she now swept underneath the
rugs.
Horseback riding is to be still more ia
Vored as an exercise this season thar ever
before. Some OF the habits for gallop on
the boulevards are very distingue in ap-
pearance.
The st. Louis society columns describe
the toilets of the ladies at balls, and con-
cludes the paragraph by naming the gen.
tlmen who complete the list of the ladies'
ornaments.
Yards of diaphanous drapery are wound
round the throats of fashionable young la
dies. The ends of the scarf are fastened
with a cluster of flowers, which is now
preferred to lace pin.
Many handsome bodices, to be worn with
cream.white toilets, are made of colored
brocaded satin, fitting the figure very
snugly. They are usually cut high in the
throat and laced down the back.
Il have found in my years of life, says
Alexander Stephens, that four men ex-
aggerate where one man tells the plain
truth" Not in telling how boil hurts
when it's hit, Mr.. Stephens Boston
Post.
Rouge Adrianopole, the old Turkey red
OF years past, is now the rage in Paris.
Fashionable ladies wear dresses, skirts,
silk woven underwear, bonnets, hose,
boots, corsets and gloves of this brilliant
color
a traveller of the most familiar type to
seedy old gentleman in a railroad car
But why. sir, do you not answer me
when / address you?" "And you, sir,
why do you address me when 1 do not
speak to You?" (No more conversation
Have you given electricity trial for
your complaint, madam ?" asked the min
lister as he took tea with the old lady.
Electricity T" said she. "Well, yes, l
reckon has. was struck by lightning
last summer, and hove out the window,
but it didn't seem to do me no good.
Bergh is always getting up something
new in the philanthrepic line. 1t is under
stood that he offers large cash prize for
the best essay in answer to the question,
How shall we make outdoor life attrac-
tive to the mosquito:' We've got it ::
% Go out doors YOURSELF Remit by reg
istered letter, postoffice order or draft
Genevieve Ward is shocked beyond all
expression because men and women are
compelled to sleep in the same sleeping
car. It is dreadful. We have often
worried over the same thing, and been
afraid to go to sleep lest some woman
should chloroform US and kiss us in our
dreams. No man is safe in mixed sleep.
ing-car.-[ Burlington Hawkeye.
After a short visit two ladies are about
TO pay their compliments to the Countess
Santa-Grue and take their departure.
Pray" she says graciously, remain a
little longer" "Indeed," answers one of
the ladies in her most winning way,
were to stay another five minutes
should never be able to go Whispering to
the other lady, for should be fast asleep 3
Paris Figaro.
The dainticst piece OF sweetness that know
Is standing now behind that curtains lace
Withdraw the curtain softly from its pace
And you may see the sweet it screeneth So.
The sunuiest head that ever caught the glow
OF sunshine omit the most fiower-lise face
That ever made You dream minutes space
OF orchards when the apple blossoms blow
Petite, piquaut, and all a sad coquet
She makes you plead for kisses times untold
And at the last denies yuu, and will fret
And purse her mouth and bride il you scod.
She is my queen and her slave, and get
This same coQuet is only two ears old.
In the parlor of Mrs. Sargent where the
Boston Radical Club have 60 long met, the
front windows are curtaiued with tapestry
which passed through the French Revolu-
ton of 1889 the brass chimney set used
TO belong to a Roman palace; the furniture
is covered with an antique embroidery of
.Esop's fables; there is large gilt-frame
throne chair from the palace of Louise
Philippe; bust of Wendell Phillips
harp, and the walls are covered with en-
cravings from the paintings of Lsbrun.
The only Cabinet houses where there are
young people now are those of Secretary
Blaine, who has sons and daughter in So
= ciety OF Secretary Window, whose wife
has young girl, Miss Norton, of Mime
sofa, with her; and Secretary Hunt, whose
wife is still young, and who has daughter
in society, and in addition young lady
guests of the latter. Mrs. Hunt regularly
has four or five young ladies to receive
with her, and evidently enjoys her new
mode of life and likes to have Others en-.
Joy themselves in her house.
Mrs. General Gaines, the great litigant,
now wears deep mourning for the daughter
who died over a year ago, but her face is
still CHEEKY. She wears red wig, curled
IN front, and looks more youthful than
would be supposed possible for lady who
has so long engaged in lawsuits. She had
a little speech cut and dried for Mrs. Gar
field when she approached her at her first
public reception. After grasping the
President very cordially by the hand, she
turned to his wife, saying "You made a
favorable impression on me the first time
/ ever saw you. | said at once. Here is
pure and noble woman. -
" Come little pet " the o d bird said,
In most endeauns term,
" You must be carly out OF bed
II YOU would catch the worni.'
The smallest Of the fea;hery herd
plny little thing
Out sprang the tender baby-brd,
To grub for worms ard sing.
And, 10 she found an early worm
It was monster too
She ehirped, oh, may writhe and squirn
tut viii gobble you :"
That br6lings chirp, the rest affirm,
Was never after heard.
And it issurmised il tho worm
Tint caught the early bird.
at reception in London recently one
of the aesthetic dressers wore a bronze
green silk, brocaded aud faced with gold.
The lines of the dress wse all straight and
stiff, like the Gabrielle dress of few years
ago. The waist was extremely long and
was laced down the back. The fraiz
around the neck was held upright by a
wide collar OF the same material as the
dress, lined with gold colored satin. The
pulled sleeves reached the elbow, just
meeting the tops OF the long yellow gloves
Of undressed kid. A green satin bag en-.
hroidered with Golden butterflies and