Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-12-30
HOLIDAY MATTERS.
SOME REFLECTIONS BY AN OLD COR
RESPONDENT.
Happy Children = Odd Christmas Pres
ents-Return to
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| N-- ~HS ASoiS oh o bCaSOns OPcuS, IIpeuS
and falls in the fullness of glory into star
lit night as lovely as itself. 1t seemed a,
II joy-bells rang through the city, and tin
horns know shouted stridently by the
score. Yet I have no doubt there was
misery enough had it been uncovered
Turkey rose to % cents per pound, and
prime beef kept pace with it. There was
ONE PLUM PUDDING
heard OF made of thirty eggs. fruit, and
Just flour sufficient 10 hold it together.
The echoes from the chants on Sunday
sung IN commemoration of the coming day
still changed solemnly when the sun
dropped, and little girl standing in the
front door bent her ear to catch the sound,
which ever eluded her. st seems to me
hear something" said she, sit isn't peo.
pie and 1t isn't things, but hear it - She
heard 1t, and so have you and /. but what
IL Is, falnt and uncertain, yet clear at mo.
ments, not one OF us can tell. It seems,
sometimes, as if it might be strain drift.
ing In from the space which is filled with
harmonles. A lady whose soul is attuned
to melody, in speaking of Missions singing
SAID " Il was so exquisite it made me
FAINT; Tor moment or two I was delirious:
l felt myself hoatiEg away as if her voice
had given me wings" And yet a certain
music sharp thought he had attended just
as good concerts for dollar. Perhaps it
was the thought that he only paid dollar
for these latter which helped to his enjoy
ment. 1t was mistaken notion Of mine
that great people are great in character,
dlgnitied, lotty-minded necessarily. It is
comfort to me to find that Nine. Nilsson
is very breezy, good natured person, who
doesn't by any means dwell
ON THE Nights
Forever; that she comes down to be a gen.
uine woman, delightful-hearted, but very
likely given to her tempers occasionally like
the rest of us. A young Swedish girl who
went back to Stockholm for her education
speaks so atfectiopately OF Nilsson--really
as she might be one Of us. She says the
great singer is beloved in Steckholm, and
that she has much sympathy and interest
IN those who have musical aspirations.
Also her people were poor till she had the
means to lift them from that condition, and
oaS S"'O SoSh VI Lei SSNtu q IafTQ.
She visits them whenever she can, and
then she goes racing over the cou1try on
horseback just as if she did rot sing di.
vlnely and give such exquisite pleasure to
thousands and thousands. | have been
reading Metternich and Nine. de Remusat
lately, and declare it struck me to learn
how that great Napoleon used to go round
plnchiDg the ears of the court ladies', tell.
don htfnl Oh vi IL y
DEFYING ETIQUETTE
On all occasions when il suited his master.
fnl whim. And this beside things that
were very great deal worse. Is il not =
comfort to say, as you read of Lodi of AR
cola, Marengo, jena, Austerli.z that if
you didn't distinguish yourself there, at
least you never could be SO bad as Ma.
poieon? Why, yes, it is. Now comes
some one who says that Washington-our
own dear George" swore like q troop
er j. Nothing was ever so like JUNCTION to
my soul as that. Is he not a saint by com.
mon consent? Whoever was held in ven-
GRAFTON like unto Washington Doesn't
every one know he is gone to heaven?
Well, at least, if am not the patriot of
10 you know l never "swore like a
trooper, and ii the gates unclosed for the
sinner who did, perhaps also they will not
reuse to stand al jaf while /, who have had
anotker sin, enter. A physician declares
that Washington was as surely the victim
OF ASSASSINATION as Lincoln and Garfield,
Tor the first was the victimsS the man whc.
though wise as that DAY and generation.
doctored him to death. 1t is now posi-
ftHely asserted/that Washing on died of
di ththeris, then not suspected and not uu.
derstood He was bled repeatedly, as was
the custom then for all disease, and while
the General exhausted was sinking to his
death the physician took up the lance to
bleed him again. Bleed me no more, {"
ehtreated Washington family, "let me
die in peace !" When say
DPHTHERIA,
1t sends shudder through me, and /
think of all the children dear to me, woe.
dering if it be possible they will all escape
when each one seems in danger. met a
woman bereft to-day, and because she can.
not bear to stay in the house she wanders
about that way, with her remaining two
children. | could have taken her in nv
arms and cried with her, but how is it best
to show ones sympathy? A simple gar.
gle, highly recommended in the beginning
| of sore throat, is a tumbler of vinegar in
which ia dissolved q tablespoonful of salt
and half teaspoonful of soda. tried it,
and 1t cured mine, but it mightn't yours.
One OF our homeopathic physicians says
that no child need die of diphtheria when
it can be taught to gargle its throat with
alcohol. diluted to half strength with wa
ter. Another physician, well along in
years and therefore of long practice, says
he never lost case of pneumonia, and he
never gave medicine for it he gives bran
| dy, brandy, brandy. There did | not
hint OF misery moment ago. and have
I o. now lifsed the edge of its covering? 1t
is just as well to speak of trouble and hap
piness in breath, for they always march
| side by side. "You must dake de bitter
NIT de shveet, as the old German quoted
to me to-day, leaning over the fence and
blowing aureoles of smoke round his head
| think | never saw happiness done up in a
| bigger lot than at Woodward's Gardens on
| Christmas Day. As money was paid at thu
| gate numbered ticket was given and this
presented to Santa Claus at the huge tree.
| gave present from off the laden branches.
HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF LITTLE
| FOLKS
Were there, and all the little BOYS had
tiny trumpets and the girls small dolls or
pretty mites of baskets. OF course these
articles were bought by the quantity, and
the management made money but was
it not pretty way to make little money :?
The twenty-five ostriches passing through
are detained here as an attraction for a
short time. They are ugly, bob. tailed,
! two-toed birds, with faces like animals,
and as they go about their pen they sort of
teeter along like . woman in sick. room,
stepping softly and easily to make no noise
| But when in bit of hurry they lift their
wings little and give them fluff, and
| then yeu see where the lovely feathers
| grow. One little girl stood explaining to
her companion about the ostriches. "And
they're going to take them down to Los
Angeles to make an orange grove" she
concluded, with an air of having told quite
| all there was to be told about ostriches.
Quite the prettiest present have seen this
| year tor girl was that provided for the
little daughter of one our large hardware
| dealers. 1t was small stove, not itself of
home manufacture, but perfect In every de.
tail. Its hre-pit was intended for wood Of
a hands length its oven had an automatic
shelf /; heating ovens were at the back, the
hampers and draughts were in perfect work
ing order. Its furniture was made here,
and probably $50 would not cover its cost
in material and labor. The spider was
niekel-plated, the other utensils being Of
copper, even to the hos.water holder on
the back, which had a shining little faucet
about as long as the first joint of your
thumb, which turned and let out the water
jastkke
GRe~ss--9P- -RAgGKT.-
What delight to any little girl such a
possession as that would be! Bat il is like