Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-11-10
SAN FRANCISCO LETTER.
SOCIETY EVENTS AND PERSONAL MEN,
TroH AT THE METROPOLIS.
The silk-Ieeling School The woman,s
Christian Suffrage society-True
Inwardness Of Things-Rtc.


lnwardness Of Things-Etc.
SAN Francisco, November 7, 1883.
The winter season has fairly begun, and
Is as busy as winter city life in the tenn.
perate zones always is. All sorts of schemes
languish in summer, but zeal comes in hot
with the first fires. Mrs. Tevis' ball in.
augurated the dancing season. Hers is a
house to which dancing folk are always
glad to be invited, and the party was a CAV
one. winding up with huge " Centennial"
quadrille of thirty-two couples, and still
later some favored friends gathered about
the piano to hear Mrs. Breckenridge sing.
Yesterday evening Mrs. Schmiedell gave a
ball in honor of her daughters debut. The
parlors on the second floor of the Palace
Hotel were used for the entertainment
and out of $50 invitations but thirty re.
grets were received, SO that there was no
lack OF guests. Flowers and supper were
arranged with equal taste and prodigality,
and it was voted a great affair. To.mor.
row Thursday evening Mrs. Richard
Lounsberry, formerly Miss Edith Haggin.
now on visit to her parents from her
home in New York city, gives
THEATER PARTY.
The Romany Rye" at the California
is the play selected, and the guests are
Miss Rita Haggin, Mrs. Louis Haggin,
Mrs. Louise Breckenridge, Miss May Smith
and Miss Flood. Winfield Jones, Henry
Janin, Harry Tevis, Fred. Sharon. Mr..
Sheldon and Mr.. Twiggs are among the
gentlemen. After the play the party re.
turns to. Mrs. j. B. Hsggins for supper.
On the same evening Mrs Otis gives ball
in honor of the debut of her eldest daugh.
ter, Miss Lulie Otis, and every one is look.
ing forward to gay time. Friday even
ing is the first of the Cricket Club parties.
The Cricket Club is great institution. A
few winters ago it was Lawn Tennis
Club, last summer it was the Buckwheat
Club, and now it is the Cricket Club 1t
is composed OF 50 members, large major
ity being gentlemen, and is to convene
every two weeks at a party given at the
house of one of the members. The invita-.
tions are all issued by the Secretary of the
club, Miss Katie Jarboe. and the device
which takes the place of monogram upon
the invitations is very clever it repre-.
sents the fable of the ant and the cricket,
where the latter, upon her demand for food
and shelter, is asked how she spent the
summer. She replies, "In singing" and
is told by the ant to go and dance all win
ter. Miss Eyre gives the first party of the
series. On the same evening
MR.. zECH GIVES A CONCERT
With charming programme. Beside the
overture to Mendelsshon's "Fingaps Cave,
and Beethoven's seventh symphony, there
are to be produced larghetto of Mr..
Zech's composition, and pretty moroccan
for strings alone, composed by Mr. Kelley,
In which he figures, as far as music may,
the joining of the Rhine and Moselle riv.
era. He calls the piece Confuentia, :"
which mischieveus friend persists in call
ing Influenza, not at all to the detriment
of the composition, however, which is
charming. Mrs. Small, of whom l wrote
you when she sang at the Blankart invita-.
ton concerts, has very pretty song in the
second part, which is interesting from be.
ing wholly a San Francisco production.
The words are by gentleman of this city.
who might disclaim so ambitious a title as
poet, but who is the author of many grace.
ful verses, and in the stanzas under consjd-
Grafton presents lyric full of tenderness
the lament of girl for her absent lover,
a Cornish sailor. The music is by Mr.
Zsch. Apropos of the Blankarts, the staff
there is practicing for Schumann quartet,
in which Mr.. Kelley plays the piano part,
the knelles father and SOM the viola and
violoncllo respectively, and Professor
Blankart the violin.
THE DoNoHoE PARTY
Has sailed from Europe, and Baron Won
Schroeder and Mervyn Donohoe have
started overland to meet them in New
York. The wedding of Miss Donohoe and
the Baron takes place in New York, and
the party returns to San Francisco, when
the wedding of Merwyn Donohoe and Miss
Belle Wallace will take place. Upon Mr..
Donohoes departure for the East, he sent
his fancee a large and very beautiful
horseshoe of flowers. The arrival of the
Rev. Father Riordan yesterday to take his
place as coadjutor, to assist Archbishop
Alemany ia the discharge of his duties,
made all the sensation among the Roman
Catholic families that such an event might
be expected to create; and still another dis
Roman Catholic visitor is among
us in the person of Father Healey, ex-Presi-
dent of the st. Ignatius Jesuit College in
Georgetown, Maryland. Father Healey
came to this coast for his health, and has
just returned from a trip to Stka. He is
at present under the care of DIR. Dupuy. |
His illness is defect in circulation of the |
blood, which often causes him severe pain
in head and feet Father Healey was
formerly an intimate friend of the late Eu- |
gene Casserly, and has been spending sew
eral days with Mrs. Casserly and her fam
lily. Last Thursday was the formal opening
of the State Filature, the -ree.ing |
school of the State Board of Silk Culture. |
Ii ever society deserved subtitle
THE SILK CULTURIsTs
Deserve that of the Earnest Workers. Ev-
cry one who has anything to do with the
Society is an enthusiast, and if genius is
mainly an affair of energy, why, they are
genluses too. The steam reel was what |
interested everybody at the Filsture Thurs.
day. Commercial street is not the most
inviting thoroughfare in the city, and the
room is upstairs besides, but there was a
throng of people around the reels all day,
and sort of class OF SIX or seven girls took
chairs ard planted them beside the opera
tors at the steam reel, and fairly hung upon
their every motion Sicnnr p AMI Consonno
the Superintendent of the Filature, walked
nneasily about, as if he felt nervous about
having his delicate machinery at the mercy
Of SO many curious inspectors. The steam
reel, built for two operators to work at,
cooked like a combination of wash-stand
and clothes horse, the operators sitting at
The wash-stands, with the clothes-h horse
behind them. 1t was pleasure to see
Madame Josephine Salverini, the teacher,
lit down at one of the basins and show