Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-01-02

Sunday, and all other days that he chooses,
does the German devote to holiday, to pic
mic, to beer, to family, to the music, to the
waltz, to the grand march-on cobble-
stone toward the ferries. Passionately
fond of music and dancing, you will find
him taking his evening pleasure at the
opera, at the theater, where he eDcores the
orchestra at the Tivolis and Weiner Gar
tens, and at the various balls held by asso
Citations composed of bis countrymen. At
&c rman mask ball recently a lady took
the first prize for originality of dress whose
costume was one of the most delicate in
design and most beautiful in effect ever
worn here on like occasion. She was
called Lady Smilax," and the ground
work OF the design was network of shining
green smilax, in which was woven fragrant
and freshly gathered flowers whose colors
were so artistically blended as to form one
of the loveliest costumes imaginable. Many
people, from motives of curiosity and often
of interest, take part in these pleasures.
but they cannot enter into them as to the
manner born. To no one but the German
can the German holiday become perfect
one.
THE IRISH
Make glorious showing on st. Patrick's
Day; they are not ashamed of their colors
they issue proudly forth at early morn,
stepping to the tune of Wearin' of the
Green" whether the music plays or not,
and the Irish girls come out and look with
admiration at the procession, then wind up
with a rollicking dance at night, which
leaves them unfit for service for q week.
But nobody reveres St Patrick but the
Irish, and there's nobody will be proud of
the brogue on his tongue but the Irish
tongue, which cultivates the brogue on the
18th of March, though it found speech,
maybe in the north of Ireland, and knows
naught but pure English the rest of the
year. So does the Scotchman drink to st.
Andrews SO does the Englishman keep
the birthday of the Queen so does the
Russian celebrate to the new Czar-yet it is
the Scotchman alone, the Englishman
alone, the Russian alone. But would you
see them all united :? Then witness
Fourth OF July; see how every man re-
members 22d of February come to the
funeral of Garfield /; bark to the voices
from every land in the world, shouting in
soul-reaching chorus:
's'Tis the star-spangled banner,
Oh, long may it wave,
Der the land of the free
And the home of the brave"
In like manner the holidays which close
the old year and begin the new, have uni
versal observance, all people, for the very
Joy of giving, falling into the general custom
and making and receiving greetings. To
those who choose to bear in mind the
event which Christmas commentaries
there is all inducement for holiday
those who consider il the anniversary of a
mere day of history observe it perhaps
with quite as much of outward ceremony,
and others who give no thought to It's date
are as thoughtlessly and heedlessly merry.
The religionis5 makes penitence at his
church, and here once more is all the
mysticism of ritual and robes, of music
and incense and acolyte, and priest chant,
and again, whether it be true or whether
it be not true, there is a wonderful soul
rest in believing it all on your knees. A
well-known writer among us processes
Catholicism, not because it has taken hold
on his reason, but because he likes to be-
lieve it. ''Oh, it is so beautiful % he
cries. "Why, you do not know its
woNDRoUS PoEsY P"
And so while he does not care to confne |
himself to its penance he revels in its
stained windows. in its affairs, in the gor.
geousness of its robes and above all in its |
Virgin Mary. He regards the Church as
he would an effective high light or fake of
sunshine upon painting, and In trans
port rushes forward and embraces it with |
an ecstasy he loves to experiences. II is
during the Christmas holidays that the
thought of San Francisco seems most
turned toward charity public charity
private charity, neighborly charity, and
that best of charity which seems to dis
solve into vast sympathy with all human
ity, as silently but as surely as that old
pearl of history melted away in the cup.
Men who usually give short, curt nod,
smile then and exchange merry Christ,
mas women, too overburdened with daily
cares to have more than one holiday in the
year. cast eff their loads and sweeten a
depending On them fer happiness
time and the great day is like the chime
of great bell, dying away in the lesser
holidays that follow IN successive rapid
peals of joy, and tinklings, and finally
echoes, that seem like far away farewell
children of all the civilized world, thou
sands and thousands and thousands,
and all in shining row. As time wakes
and the year grows, smile like a ray of
light falls on TIE lips of Scandinavia,
blossoms ont among the English children,
and running down the long, long line like
flash, touches up our children
THE SAN FRANCISCO CHILDREN
God bless them Why, there, among the
gamins and the children in silk, down
there-now rejoice. my heart II see my
little child and there also-down on your
knees, my friends your child |
Oh what a line and every face a
star Shoulder to shoulder and toes
to mark, expectancy fitting like butterfly
among the ranks, what are the children |
doing, l pray? Looking forward, the long
months through, to Christmas, and each |
right hand holds in its grasp an empty
stocking. Fill the stocking fill it, and |
when you have a surplus pass to the |
next, and the next, for would you
have one child disappointed now?
And as the year wanes and is almost |
gone, see the faces turned backward over
the shoulder while a golden CLEAN as from
the sun that sets eliminates the line. The |
shouts and murmurs that rise and die away
as the children bid farewell to the great
glad day, chime or, chime Oh, to ears that
listen, as sweet and as still by and by as
the melodies the flower bells fling out in
perfume when June days are long and
heavy. As for public charities, what
demands have we not had? There is
one for old women-what friepdless, JOY
less sound that has E. lone old woman -
and for its benefit many workers held
bewildering dolls fe.e, at which every kind
of doll was on exhibition. There were
kitchen scenes, with cooks and maids at
work i; nurseries of boys and girls dinner
parties seated at tables receptions in par
Tors, where was crush of full dress;
wedding parties, with bride and BRIDE
groom, bridesmaids and best men, CON-
plete in bushes and favors characters of
all sorts in life costume from Mother
Goose; Kate Greenaway dolls; and talk
ing dolls and walking dolls big dolls and
infants; dolls holding walking matches
dolls making calls. and dolls on the prone
made. This was the charity for the Old
Woman's Home, out On Market street, and
yery nicely it made its appeal when