Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-02-03
FREEHAND NOTES.
tbs CONTINUED GAY SEASON AT THE
BAY.
The Homes of Social Gatherings-From
Pulpit to Bar-Musicsl Projections
- Jerusalem Egyptian-Etc.
SAY FRANcIsco. January 81, 1855.

once it is started. Added to Mrs. Hop
kins' costuned german and Mrs. McMullin' 3
domino party, is the fancy-dress ball to
take place in the music and billiard room
OF the Grand Hotel-Rhich has been the
scene of much party giving this winter
on Monday evening, the 5.h Of February,
the dancing to begin at o'clock Just the
evening and hour. by the way, of Mrs.
Judge Wallace's ball. The latter invita-
tions have Just been Issued, and Mrs.
Wallsce's house, on Van Ness avenue, Is
excellently adapted for entertaining, while
Miss Wallace understands rather better
than most Of the second generation OF San
Franciscans how to share with her mother
the duties of hostess, this being one of the
few houses where the guests are brought
together for their better cheer, and not for
the purpose of amusing the householder.
Mrs. John Norton P0neroy, who has been
extremely i'll with heart and lung Difficult
ties ever since November, is at last conva,
lescent, and her good spirits are further en-
livened by the approaching return of her
daughter, Miss HAily Pomeroy, who has
been absent on loGg tour through the
Eastern cities. Il was thought best not to
inform Miss Pomeroy of her mothers i'll.
ness, But she learned it from other sources
than home letters and immediately made
all preparations to return. Miss Bessie
Sedgwick and Miss Platt will also soon be
in San Francisco.
DIP. W. H PLATT,
Who went to Rochester shorb time ago
te fiji vacant pulpit, is said to contem-
plate returning to this city, with view 10
practiciDg Law here. Either Rochester is
too far north for DR.. Platt, or the docsor is
too far south for Rochesber-im impossible TO
determine just which. Miss Lou Wilcox,
chatellany over at Angel Island before the
reign of Mrs. Ksuz, has left General
Wiilsoxs new, or comparatively new, bride
In undisturbed possession IN the Arizona
home, and has betaken hersslf TO that
great magnet for new talent, New York
city, where she has opened studio for the
betteremploy of herdays, and smudges
on color right merrily. Mrs Breeze, whose
pretty house on the corner OF Suffer and
Franklin streets is the scene OF many
agreeable and homslike Inequalities, en-
tertains a dozen friends at dinner this
evening. There is movement sim
mering in the musical world. Music
ID thought to be, ike the little Jslla5Ys,
"in devil of state. a select coterie
of her votaries, in council assembled, have
sworn by the gods of Stuttgart and the
demi gods of the Berlin Conservatory that
certain leaders and directors and sol disaHt
Tausigs, now summing themselves In the
approving smiles of an ignorant world as
all musioslly- DESTROYS public could wish,
have falsely secured this comfortable posi-
ton through benevolent but undiscrim-
mating patronage, and that they-the CO.
terie of votaries-sre in fact the people
with whom the wisdom of harmony shall
die, unless they succeed in awakening the
dormant interest of a city TO which SUIT
CART ia a sealed book and the Berlin Con.
servatory as if it were not, and concen-
trating the public ear, so to say, upon the
correct thing as expounded by the coterie.
The benevolent but undiseriminating
patronage is lounging joyoualy through
Europe on
THREE YEARS BRIDAL TRIP,
But he is to be addressed, to be reasoned
with, to be shown how un.Stuttgsrted,
how I'm. Berlin Conservatoried his protege
really lie, and therefore how unworthy to
stand before an unsaught but teachable
public as the free and accepted baton.
waver OF the coast. A frank appeal is Ia
be made, begging that the generous boy.
bridegroom shower his golden favors on the
coterie, and the Golden Gate shall hear
music that is music, by the MEANS An in.
terestiDg but belligerent musical family, as
discordant of character as IL is harmonious
by profession, has left the city and orches,
tras poorer in talent by the means, but il
is hoped this lack may be supplied when
music is established on working Berlin
Stuttgart basis, Meantime there is Away:
the Tivoli.
There is a sample room on the west side
Of Kearny street, the only one In the city
and in It's vestibule rather good looking
man, with mournful gray eyes, and who
wears a red skull cap. presides for the last
three days behind a red baize table OF
which bis wares, mostly knick- knacks il
mother of-pesrl, lie exposed for sale. These
things are very pretty, especially some lit
tie nacre egg spoons with carved handles
about which the crowd always in front o.
the stand cares little compared with the
carved necklaces (rosaries perhaps), snC
crosses. The large audience that usually
witnesses all the purchases gives the mourn
ful-eyed vendor a chance for some cleve
extortions with weak minded buyers. Al
unfortunate being bought rosary, anC
even paid for it, when the merchant placed
il, as it were, regretfullY, into pearl box
into which it slipped like 8 necklace a
home, and extending the whole with tt,
tips of his brown fingers as if he ha(
merely put wrapping paper on it, muir
INJURED, This = another dollar" Tn
crowd with prieked.up ears seemed bettin,
with itself on the result. Hash Baz Bel
got his dollar. On the strength of thi
somebody asked him his nationality, ano
was requested to formulate the sentimen
In the French language. He said he wa
AN EGYPTIAN FROM JERUSALEM.
That didn't sound just right, and Blondin
said it was because Jerusalem is not il
Egypt, still he might be an Egyptian JUS
hailiLg from Jerusalem, as Alfred de Mus
set in his celebrated poem asks the reade
if he has seen at Barcelona an Andalusial
with tanned complexion. It's very goo,
of this man to wear red cap and sci
pearl sgg-spoons and speak French with
Jerusalem accent and have a servile roll il
his ewes, and do all this on full kearn,
street and draw a crowd. l hope he vii
sell ell his things. He is boon, not a
the stammerer echoed, b-boon, but
grateful break in the landscape of tn
commonplace.
A tall, stiff English boy. who is jus
growing up to swallow-tails and razors
and love affairs, and all tine ills that fes
is heir to, was standing with his friends o
wharf the other day, trying to enjoy tn
prospect, but much deferred therefrom b
miserable Teuton, who was engaged i
hurting a poor, wee, shivering pup int
the water from the hight of the wharf, 70
the ostens;ble purpose of teaching the lit
tie beggsr to swim it was hardly oil
enough to lap. He called it Brince, . tn
animals name being presumably Prince
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