Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-04-08

may ever venture within these pre-
cincts, and charming ghosts no coward will
ever wish to ''lay dit in all tbs shadowA.
Two OF the most modern ones are the
Ausocrot Of The BredkflSi Tasls and his
little schoolmistress. Theirs is certain
diagonal across the common-"ws call it
she long path" he says. land we
are very fond of it" On certain
morning he asked-her to walk with him.
having first secured provisional
SOFAS passage to Europe. He goes on II
felt very weak indeed (thouga Of toler-
ably robust habit as we came opposite the
head of the path ON that morning. | think
| tried to speak twice without making my
self distinctly audible. az last I got out
the question, VIII you take the loag path
with me = Certainly, said the school
mistress, with much pleasure. Think,
| said, before you answer. If you take
the long path with me now / shall inIerpret
it that we are TO part no more Use school
mistress stepped back with sudden move
ment, as if an arrow had struck her. One
of the long granite blocks used as seats was
hard blythe one you may sdll see close
by the GiHko tree. Pray sit down, |
said. No, no, she answered seftly. l
viii walk the long path with you. Aud
there they walk still
THE CITY CHARTER,
Which makes wonderfully few restrictions
upon the city government, he's imposed
two wise ones. The City Fasaers may
neve, ALLEVIATE any portion OF th.s homely
but delightful common, and they may never
sell or lease the Cradle of Liberty, Faneuil
Hall. Whenever sufficient number of
persons, following certain regulations, ask
to have the ha,l used, they may nave 1t
without price. The great halt is essentially
mans place, and is only suited to great
popular meetings. Il has fine acoustic
qualities, bat no seats When women get
the franchise, there'il have to Be = new hail
Tor the mass meetings, for what political elo-
quenoe would ever entice women TO spot
where they must stand in = jan three or
four hours at a streSch7 Il sJsnd-up
party is barbario enough, bat = stand
up political meeting! Wome1'u never
be educated up to that. The
Hon. Cakes Ames left in his viii a be-
quest of $50, eco for the benehs Of the
children OF North Eastou. il this State Ii
has lately become available, aEd from it
| are to be given able scientific and descrip-
tive lectures weekly. Probably the leot-
ures are not amiss (; at any rate perhaps
the future American citizen cannot be too
early wonted to his countTys scourse; but
the world does move, for really euchaBt-
ing thing has come out Of sAst fund.
SOME INFLUENTIAL TRUSTEE
Either remembers how it was biluself, or
has put himself in the chiIiren's place and
imagined what, being there, he would like.
The result is that a copy a children's
magazine, "St. Nicholas, or Oar Little
Ones" is to go into every family of
school children in the village. Oae hun
bred and eighty.eight families get the
"St. Nicholas" and as the subscription
was only this month sent, aud vas 10 date
back to November $40 numbers were
delivered at once at North Easton, Do you
suppose there'll ever be such smother mail
distribution to those happy children
"The good that men 10 lives after
them. II the evils equally tenacious, let
us down with it from mention end memory,
and exalt the good. Another bis of that
good is that Mr.. Ames' son promises 30 do,
in this matter of magE2 Des, Tor all she
children in Easton town Whist il done from
the legacy for those of North Easton vii
lage.
Gloomy days of March wind and snow
squall Bat it is the time OF opsnings and
BOSTON woMEN
Are by no means too intellectual to crowd
streets and shops in defiance Of e's5 wind
and pasty streets. The sunaower'5 rampant.
That poor stork might rest himself by
standing on two legs for biz, for all
eyes now are not fixed on him. Despite
the suuAower, and esthetic tea-gOwns, and
Oscar Wilde's recognition, Bostous yet
long way behind the esthetes Of London.
But here, if anywhere in America, the
new cult will flourish.
Miss Kate Field says that because OF the
new meaning put into costume, English
women now dress better than American
women. That is no doubt trUa of the
| esthetes, and those who follow them tim
| idly in coloring, and so on. And nowhere
on earth did women need more new gospel
of dress than in England. The c1t, Che eolors
| dragged together, the dewdyisbness, the
betrimmedness of English feminine costume
in pre-esthetic days no tongue or pen
could adequately describe. Lilies and
sunfowers, peacock's feathers anu artists
| lnes, are not the end Of existence, bat
estheticism will do its work. II that were
no other than to make the world forget
aniline dyes, it would be something to be
thankful for. MISTRESS MAygLowER.