Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-07-29
III A STREET CAR.
THE KIND OF WOMEN CORE
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All sorts Of styIes-Beautiful womsu aud
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and goes to match it, though on Sundays
the riff raft is also abroad. But on COM
moner days the majority wear ordinary
clothing. and the public is costumed for
business. You viii understand, then, that
Il was something Of an extraordinary cir
cumstance when yesterday a one. horse
street car was comfortably filed with style
In the first place. there was a lady with
child which was very strikingy attired.
It's hat was entirely OF light blue and was
very large, the strings 10 large bow IN
der the little chin causing it to stand high
above the forehead and afford not a parti-
Gle of protection to the eyes. 1t was a
small and dainty face under the great hat,
with teathery bangs upon its forehead, and
eyes that Just matched the blue above
them.
A FUNNY, sH0Rr-wAIsrED GOWN
OF Pompeiian red cashmere, with yoked
neck AMI bands at the wrists braided in the
same color, blue stockings and sandals,
white silk uitts anl bag. completed the
ensemble OF the quaint little body, who
looked about her quite gravely, the large
hat turning slowly with the minute head
to which it was attached. Calm and COM
posed she sat with her feet hanging half
way to the floor, as if her primly closed lips
were saying silently. "This is just the way
grandma looked and did Soon the car
ssouped again, and We two and the child
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tering one in navy blue silk and velvet and
the other in black silk and passementerie.
These two studied the child while we ex-
amined their costumes, noticed whether
tine trimming was well made, and made up
cur minds critically as TO the fit. Pres
emily another navy blue silk, trimmed in
pulls Of the same, came 10. | could see at
once that if there had been war these two
silks would have taken opposite sides, on
account of one's having velvet and the
other only puifs. However, putfs Of the
came had the best of her opponent when it
came TO hats crInky and spreading
brimmsd cardinal hat
COVERED WITH FLOWERS
That dropped over beautifully at the sides,
against nobby little turbsn with hum.
Ining-bird poised on its rim. Happily
diversion was created by tie entrance of an
elderly woman who would have been lovely
in black velvet and her own gray hair but
she wore q blonde wig with water waves,
and her lips aud cheeks were tinged with
red. She wore 4 bronze silk suit with
poke bonnet to match, and nodding berries
of the same color over her face, and rib
bons Of bronze tied under her chin. She
looked at the quaint and sweet little one
and smiled as If to say, "I am grandma.
veneersd, vanished and upholstered to
seem Just like sweet sixteen A black
silk with Spanish lace overskirt. and
shoulder-cape and hat smothered in Span.
ish lace, also came in and sat by the child,
whose eyes rested wonderiugly on the
Bernhard gloves lying about the crossed
wrists like folds Of loose skin. A young
lady il dregs. Divine velvet and satin,
with ecru hat and p'umes, was the next
passenger, and, to any but a woman,
it would have been amusing TO see our sur
veillauce Of her. She could afford to
BRAVE THE GAUNTLET,
However, for she was pretty and luscious
as peach, the dark, rich velvet of her
basque bringing out the brown softness OF
her eyes and the bloom of her cheek. I
presume grandma thought she looked just
like her. We rode thus for half dozen
blocks, covertly taking notes for some
dress in the future, or resolving upon
dressing our hair and fixing our neck scarfa
as Miss Dregs.o Of Wine or Miss Navy Blue
had hers arranged. when we were disturbed
by the entrance Ct a passenger who at once
suggested the equestrienne. Her gloves
were finished with long gauntlets and were
embroidered on the backs, her tight fitting
basque was finished with coat tails, and in
front rolled over in revers. Il was cut
double breasted, and large buttons in double
rows ran down the front. To complete the
suggestion a brown vail wound round her
hat and fioated over her shoulders. She is
perfectly good woman, but the wife OF
noted gambler, and ID slowly, despite her
husbands profession, finding her place
among church people. She was probably
unconscious that her costume had horsey
air, though for all that it was very respect
able sort Of horse, perhaps, to which the
mind at once adverted. With the sddi-
ton of two more passengers our number
was complete. 0ne was woman of mid
die age, grizzly gray as to hair, shabby and
slatternly as to dress, and misersbly wild
and sunken as to eye. Her finger mails
were black with dirt, and now and then she
muttered to herself and busted the tips OF
her fingers together as if carefully brushing
something off. She returned to the busting
again and again, as ii involuntarily, and
then as the foulness of
HER LIoUoR-LADENED BREATH
Filled the car, she observed the ineness Of
the dress about her, and as if not yet IN
mindful of the ruling passion, Strengthened
her shoulders, smoothed her hair behind
her ears, frightened her old shawl and busted
her fingers with miserable attempt to be
fine also. The child shrank closer to it's
mother, and as with one accord, and filled
with sentiment Of pity and horror, we
looked at one another in our good clothes
and responsibility, and shuddered as We
thought that we were just all women to-
gether. The last passenger was singer,
and an accomplished singer, too, az the
Tivoli, where she is playing row every other
night IN Der FreischutS. She wore an
English walking hat close over pair of
small black eyes, and in her arms she car
ried white poodle, attached to her hand
by ribbon. Her costume was OF COM
paratively inexpensive material, but it was
worn with great effect. You would look
at the wearer twice among handsomer and
better dressed women. The little daugh-
ter, aged about ak, of another actress
often passes our door, with very neat and
common bingham aprons on. bat the child
has the twang that is caught from associa.
ton with the stage, and with all our skill
with scissors, and all cur genius with the
needle, we at home can never make ging-
ham aprons look like hers. We say it to
ourselves with sorrow, for we would make
Our little girls
LOOK DISTINGUISHED
Ii we could. Love of dress, they say,
has brought ruin to many woman; but
it must be something in the nature beside
that, for the love of it seems ingrained in
US all. Out of our car full they all seemed
properly good women, save the poor Great.