Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-07-28
FREEHAND NOTES.
A LIVELY MEDLEY UPON SOCIAL AND
OTHER TOPICS.
Golden Cate Park Improvement
Theatricals-Etc.
SAN FRAsc1sco. July o.. 1854.

meIo as lauitieSS az Ine Qay, 1nere can De
very few variations in the established order
of wedding paraphernalia, but on this oc-
casioD everything was the prettiest that
could be. The wedding bell of white hot.
house flowers had sealloped edge ont.
lined in blue violets, and the use of a pro-
fusion of sprays of the flower of the lemon
verbena gave the look of q misty vail
thrown over the bell itself. Ooals and
much fine exquisite lace were among the
gifts; one odd device also was large but.
ton-hook of wrought silver in the pattern
of snake, the head making the handle
and the tip of the tail the hook. Neither
was there wanting those gifts that Emerson
says are the only ones properly so-ealled, a
portion of the giver's self ''The poet
brings his poem, the painter his picture,
the sailor coral and shells so is every
mans biography conveyed in his Gift, y
writes the sage of Concord, and this young
bride numbered poet among her friends,
one who was not slow to sing her praises in
verse, ingeniously using her
MUSICAL NAME IN A VARIED REFRAIN.
The young people have not yet decided
whether they will visit the Yosemite for a
wedding journey, and meantime are spend
ing their honeymoon in their country
house. One of the most accomplished
among our amateur musicians leaves the
city tomorrow for Europe, to spend year
in BIitsiI-s lady whose cultivated taste
and wide reading fit her admirably for en-.
joyment of her tour. Oae of the favorite
army officers has gone to imperil his exist
ence on the northern frontier on a survey.
ing expedition. He takes an escort as pro-
lection against possible Indians, and set
tiers may be asked to move on and all sorts
of woes be evolved before the matter is ar
ranged. It is said that Mrs. Governor
Stanford has been suffering from trouble
with her eyes, and was compelled to be in
dark room for several days while in Lon
dop, distressing occurrence on pleasure
journey. The California boys are at home
from Harvard, glad to be in Frisco, and
not spoiled bit. By the way, the rising
novelist, Marion Crawford, whose two sto.
ries, "Mr. Isaacs" and CDR. Claudius, {"
have made and are making such sensa-
ton, ia a relative of Mr.. Hall McAllister's
family. l wrote you about
THE MID SUMMER HoNoRs
To ST. John Nepomuk by the Bohemian
Club. Fred Yates has just finished a
painting in black and white of the scene in
the redwoods at the burial of Care, one of
the ceremonies of the occasion. The statue
of st. John, with its inscription, "Sticho"
-silence-on the pedestal, the high priest
conducting the procession of the burial of
Care, huge bonfire, lines of lanterns and
the torches of two frisking demons, are the
whites of the pictures, standing out boldly
amid the glooms of the redwoods and the
dark figures of the mourners ard specta.
tors. At the base of this principal scene
are two smaller sketches framed in as it
were by the roots Of the redwoods of the
foreground of the larger-a mock pugilis-
tic encounter, with well known club
member as umpire, giving the time of the
fall, and, at the other side, dining scene.
The picture has been successfully photo
graphed, the effect almost eGualing pen
and ink for softness.
OUT AT THE GOLDEN GATE PARK.
They are progressing admirably with the
pedestal for the Garfield statue. to be IN.
vailed next month as they hope. There
was an hour when it seemed as if this hope
would be deferred, for the pedestal, as
first constructed, was so extremely friable
that the experimental walking stick could
make the deepest impression upon it with
but little exertion on the part of the direct
ing hand. Now it is being solidly and
symmetrically built of brick, and the mound
on which it stands is being levelied and
shaped and prepared for the sod, which is
to have a surface like velvet before the
l55h of August. A surplus of 4th of July
celebration funds is to be devoted to buy.
ing colors to add to the triumphal festiv.
ity of the occasion. Conservatory valley
is quite the amphitheater of the handicrafts-
man just now, as a generous subscription
has made it possible TO rebuild the burned
dome of the hos-house and the new, yellow
beams Of the framework are speedily re-
placing the old charred fragments. TIE
new dome, while following the plan of the
old one, will be higher, for the better &C.
commodation Of the tropical plants it is to
contain the banana will no longer cramp
it's broad leaves against resisting glass, and
the seeding cocoanut palms presented to
the Park by the King OF the Sandwich
Islands-the royal gift just escaped the
conhagration in January b. being in pre-
paratory, arboricultural bsth-shall have
space to expand its plumes like palm at
home. The charming Ada Rehan and Au-
justine Days
MUoH.TALKED-oF COMEDY COMPANY,
Hold the boards at the California Theater.
They are really treating US very badly. II
is said that the cloud" patterns and crude
colors in the dry-goods that come to New
York commercial houses are laid aside
"for the Western market, and in like
manner these well,drilled actors have
broadened, coarsened and generally vul,
CARRIED the charming, graceful little play,
1.-THE Passing Regiment, which was the
| delight of New York two winters ago when
it was first played by this Eelf-ssme cast,
ostensibly for the better pleasure OF a
Western audience, for assuredly they never
played it in New York as they did Monday
night. When say coarsened do not
mean in fhe least causes for bringing q
blush to the cheek of the young person,
| for that the play itself does not admit, but
tumultuous lesping about by digni6ed
characters et catastrophe (; OVERRIDING OF
| serious emotion that makes it farcical and
apparently dssignedly so ; exaggerated EN-.
phasis Of delic.te points, that make them.
selves in refined and intelligent acting. Nc
matter how funny the situation, we know
that there would never be uproar in the
parIor of Winthrop of Nsrragapsett Pier,
and the piece is a comedy, not farce. In
| Justice it must be said that Miss Rehar
does not join in this "gyring and Climb.
ling"-Lewis CAROLS phrase-but acts the
IMPULsIvE YOUNG RUSSIAN GIRL
With spirit and consistency. When che
dons "young Mr.. Hoffmeister's" white hal
and runs away with it, the prank is played
in trolicsome, grlish fashion she is never
hoydenish. She has beautiful voice, alto
in quality, speaks firmly from the chest q:
man does, and enunciates beautifully.
fear she is wearing out her old clothes or
us, but she couldn't possibly leave in beI