Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-11-17
SAN FRANCISCO LETTER.
A FULL HAND OF VARIOUS MATTERS,
SOCIAL AID PERSONAL.
on wheels-Miss corson's Cooking
school-Toothsome Dishes.

SAN Francisco, November IA, 1888.
The word "holidays" is beginning to
float in the air already, and "our fall
stock is superseded by "our winter open.
ing" in the advertisement. The great
plate. glass windows show velvets and
brocsdes, and the displays OF bric-a.brac
are fuller and smarter. We have had the
two or three days of sunshine, the Indian
summer that early November always gives
US, and now the cold has grasped US in
earnest. Last Friday was one of the bright,
soft days-just the day for start on jour
ney-and it was SO utilized by the Flood
party, which started overland in the Di.
rectors' car Friday, at o'clock. Their
slipping away was the neatest thing i'm
aginable no one knew when they were to
start, and even after they had gone all the
papers announced that they went Satur-
day, except the Record UNION, which
correctly registered them as passing through
Friday afternoon. The ostensible reason
of their trip East is to place Miss Maggie
Follis Mrs. Floods niece), whom the
family have almost adopted, in Nine. Da
Slva's school in New York. Nine. Da
Silva succeeded as the head of Mis-. Ogden
Hoffmans famous school in 1872.
PLEASANT WAY TO TRAVEL.
The Directors car in which the trip is
being made has solid, substantial look
outside, and inside it is a perfect house, or
lat rather on wheels. On first entering
you find yourself in what is called the par.
lor, and although for greater convenience
the trunks of the ladies had been placed
in it, comprising the luggage of a young
demoiselle on her way to New York
boarding. school, there remained room and
to spare for party of eight to be comfort
ably seated. A narrow space runs between
the left.hand side of the car and the parti-
toned rooms, three in number, two bed.
rooms with the kitchen between for the
sake of warmth. Beyond was aspace cor.
responding to the parlor, which they called
the dining-room. The dining.table was
arranged to close up like a telescope, but
would pull out far enough to seat twenty
people. But, oh, those bedrooms. They
were as large as the Captains stateroom on
Pacific Mail steamship. The beds were
wide and white; there was room to stand
up and to turn around, and wash-stand
was in each room. 1t was luxury of
sleeping car travelling that only people who
have gone overland in the usual thing can
fully appreciate. The kitchen was won
derfully concise, ship, shape little snuggery,
and the three travellers were in high health
and hearty spirits to enjoy everything.
Mrs. Hopkins went East on Saturday, &C.
cupying the special car California, :"
which is also model of beauty.
VARIOUS MATTERS SOCIAL, ETC.
The Cricket Club party came off duly
Friday evening. at Miss Eyre's house. The
parties are immensely popular with the
gentlemen, because they break up SO early
that last cars can be caught, and busi-
ness attended to next day without incon-
venience. They say Miss Eyre's wedding
is put off on account of the serious illness
of Mr.. Pinkard's mother, but that's as
hereafter may be. Another engagement
rumor is absolutely the funniest that sane
San Franciscans were ever asked to give
credence to. Impossible to divulge as
yet. Archbishop iordan's first sermon in
the city, delivered at the Cathedral, was a
great event. Scores of people were turned
away from sheer inability to get standing
room even in the great building. Arch
bishop Alemany, being Dominican, is
obliged to perform all priestly offices in
white robes, but Archbishop Riordan
wears the appointed vestments of an al CHI
bishop not belonging to any society or
brotherhood. The robes are royal purple,
and as the coadjutor is handsome and
mpressive.looking man, his appearance in
the chancel and pulpit was extremely fine.
After the services he held sort of infor-
NAL reception in the vestry room, where
his friends were able to congratulate him
upon his first effort in his new field
Speaking of the Roman Catholic service re-
minds me of the illness of Alfred Kelleher,
for long time the tenor. at this very
cathedral, and clever man and lover of
good music withal He has been so i'll as
to make it necessary for him to discontinue
all occupation.
THE CULINARY ART.
Last Monday was Miss Corsons first ap-
pearance before her classes in Oakland. 1
wrote you that an association had been
formed, called the Oakland Ladies' Cook
ing School Society, under the presidency
of Mrs. Hunt. Mrs. Sarah E. Henshaw is
Secretary, and Mrs. CHM, Treasurer.
These ladies sent for Miss Juliet Corson to
come and deliver them q course of lectures
on cooking, and on Monday she appeared
before an enthusiastic audience of nearly
300 ladies, gathered in the First Congrega-
tional Church in Oakland. Of course the
first lecture was chiefly preliminary. Miss
Corson told how her system was divided
into demonstration classes and practice
classes, and what the programme would
be, how supper dishes would be treated
one day, and warmed. over dishes another,
and wonderful salads and entries another.
These last she is to teach about on Wednes-
day. remember just how she said it,
SHE SPEAKS MOST wINNINGLY.
While she has the gentleness and sympa-
thetic quality of voice and accent that we
associate with New York bred women, she
has that keen understanding, capableness-
for capability doesn't quite express it-of
a New England woman. She has an intel.
ligent brunette face, an earnest manner,
and graceful carriage, full of repose. She
is a woman somewhat more than thirty
years old, and her laugh is the merriest
that could be. One would have the greatest
faith that she could do anything she set
her mind and will to do, and since it is
teaching to cook delicacies-one day was
given up to dishes for children and In.
valids. by the way-why it will not be her
fault il any Oakland lady fails in present
ing her husband such table that he will
forswear the clubs and rotisseries forever
The Bohemian Club, by the way, talks of
changing its quarters. The present rooms,
though consecrated by time and tasteful
fitting up, and many good time, are, I'M
fortunately, situated over the largest mar
ket in the city, and hence the ascending
odors are not always of Araby by any
means. The rooms above the Nucleus
building, on the corner of Third and Mar