Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-11-04
FREEHAND NOTES.
TIE POWER OF rAsHIoE-LAsr OF
THE CsRSIvAL.
What to do with the "Things "A
Nesting Of Women-Its
Results.
Correspondence of the RECORD. UNION


Frank Stockton's sketch in the November
Century Magazine, haunts everyone who
reads il, or possesses him with the wish
to make guesses and forge chains of rea-
soning to uphold an adopted hypothesis.
It is curious that most ladies reply that it
was the tiger, and most men, the lady.
Another question often heard just now is,
elf Mrs. Langtry should come out here
(meaning to San Francisco). would you go to
see her?' 1t is rather hard to tell the me-
tives of this popular query, or what the
Judgment behind tits, for those who ask seem
to have settled the opinion they will in
stantly form of you according to your
answer. They probably mean that the
lady has acquired more fame by the al.
legged beauty of her face and filtration
with the Prince of Wales, than by the
more spiritual graces of intellect and en-.
noDling hard work at her profession. This
desire to see what is
THE FASHION,
However, is go deep ingrained in the civil.
lied human breast, that not to go TO see
Mrs. Langtry If she should wander TO
Western ahores, would be set down, like
Benedick's melancholy, to the too.hache OF
lack OF money.
The Carnival is in it's second week, at
its close, and making money. When they
are thoroughly tired with rehearsals and
tableaux, and stretching of gauze and
soothing OF fretful participants whose
charms have not been sufficiently indicated
in the papers," then the ladies alldeclare
az one woman, we will never give anothe,
Carnival while the world stands" Also,
when the ticket receipts are reported aud
found to be somewhat Simmer than was
expected, judging from the throng that fills
the Pavilion every night, the ladies grow
Respondent, and say, "San Francisco i:
sick of Carnivals. The public won't stand
another Carnival under five years. Why
do l limit myself? Five? Ten-twenty
years hencs alone will an Authors Carni
val he appreciated or even endured"
THE NEXT MINUTE,
However, they are saying of some tTifing
disorder in the machinery Of mana cement,
That will all be remedied next year. u
Wednesday morning there was meeting
of al the managers of the six societies tina.
compose the Authors Carnival Association.
They met ct II o'clock st the Pavilion on
the grand stage, and eat in a dense semi.
circle on these remark able black chairs,
with peach and two cherries painted on
the cross. piece OF the back. which has been
the pattern of the cheap chair for twenty.
five years, and promises go to continue fer
as many more, The scene was an amusin 9
one. It would be hard 20 tell just the
reason why the spectacle of sixty women
in debate is go supremacy ludicrous, 5ut
TIE fact remains.
4 CONTRASTING GROUP
Was il the wings looking on with iiunior-
Gus curiosity. Big, jolly Harrington,
the stage carpenter. whose black eyes
arc always twinkling over some stu
pendous joke he has within him
self thin, psle-faced Frank Marcus, the
property man, the strength OF whose con-
stitution one might question, but never his
cleverness Mr.. Ambrose, the stage man.
ager, appreciation, like all experienced
stage attaches, OF the ridicules and heavi.
nesses and limitations Of things; and last
young errand boy, with fine, healthy,
blonde face, ready to rush to North Beach
should the ladies so command, but glad
the men were around until such travels
should be marked out for him. The ladies
met 90 consiier whether they should keep
the stage properties they had just acquired
at SO mucl expense. They looked around
ct the scenery of the grand stage where
they sat 1t represented a mass Of blue.
green foliage barred out by marble rail.
ing II extended IS feet,up in the air, the
stage was 100 feet across and 80 feet
deep, and it belonged to them. Oh, If
the weak, watery, sunshine that was
shower. One lady, looking
UTTERLY BORED
Aud discouraged with the size and unman.
ageableness Of the joint property, suggested
selling the whole grand stage as it stood
to the Mechanics Institute. They had to
do with big things it would be such re.
lief to know that the grand stage was in
the hands of kind masters, who yearly
wrestied successfully at the fair with en-
gines weighing tons. On the other hand,
the Mechanics Institute, as a body, has
not met the Authors Carnival Association
with that gushing spirit Of fraternity which
should exist between great corporations.
Gin body meet a body going to give q
Carnival for charity, need body claim g
huge rent. and go for to talk down the lit.
tie Carnival into the bargain? The motion
TO sell so much as a rag of taristan to the
Mechanics Institute, though it were for
untold gold. was lost. The discussion il
aroused was long and vehement however,
and one lady plsjntively Eoaned, "Blt
If we don't sell it, what are We to do with
it," And the hInegr Italian garden
looked higher and tie great big stage more
uucompromisingly nnpsckable as she gazed.
BIG VOICE
From the wings suddenly suggested, "Fold
it up aud pus it in a box!" Here was
water in the desert A box? Fold? Il
sounded small, reduced, store able, A
murmur ran round the circle. "Mr. Har.
riugsoa says we can iold up the cares tina.
infess the grand stage, and put the result
in box" just here the hands of the big
clock in the gallery opposite the stage
pointed to ] O'clock. IL was well known
that the oyster frotto serves Just as good
lunches as 1t does suppsfs, but it was jus:
as much fact thss the real question FOL
which the meeting had been convened had
not even been considered, and after lunch
everybody would go hCme, though the fast
of nations waited for decision. TIE ques
ton was promptly submitted To sell OIL
not to sell ali the properties belor ging tc
the Carnival Association and to the sly
societies composing it. There was
ONE DEAD CERTAINTY.
Whatever the Pacific Dispensary Hospita
voted the San Francisco Female Hospital
would as promptly negative. Il remained
to see which would get the largest follow
ing in the short recess that followed the
putting of the question. The discussion
was rot carried on in the usual excited
treble sacred to such occasions, but in the
deep accent of persuasion. Order wal
called, the societies voted by name. The
Pacific Dispensary had only captured on,
charity for selling. The San Francisco
Female Hospital led four, triumphant, fol
retaining tho stage properties and giving
countless SUGGESTIONS of future Authors
Carniyals. The molten TO adjourn was il
order. We lunched.
PHILIP SHIRLEY.
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The King OF Floor Cloths.
Tha raw and artistic designs brought on