Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-04-14
FREEHAND NOTES.
A VISIT TO THE EEW CALIFORNIA
SUGAR REFINERY.
Kate Castleton and Fer Jaunty Head
Gear-styles of women-A New Mass
-Kettledrum-A Reception.
SAN Francisco, April IL, 1888.

Friday and bemused myself in an intricacy
of engines, tramways and figures, com.
pared to which political machinery is the
merest child's play. Like little Paul's
made a Remus, or three times four was
Taurus a bull, in his first struggle with
knowledge under Miss Blimber's tuition,
it was an open question at last whether
they spent S45 an hour in drying the under
side of cube sugar, or the centrifugal ma.
chimes held 1000 pounds or tons, or made
$4,000 revolutions a minute or cost 81, 200.
Bat sparing numbers and dimensions, the
twelve.story brick building, full to over.
flowing with mighty, magnificent ma.
chinery, each piece as necessary to the pro-
cesses to be gone through as the parts of
puzzle, is monument raised by wealth to
industry which only awakens admiration,
for without sugar existence would be un-
illumined by ray of Joy, and to think, as
we half-absently suspend the sweetener of
our cup in the sugar.tongs, that it has been
previously suspended in a rose. colored
vacuum pan 40 feet high and II feet at its
largest diameter, is to arouse US to proper
respect for an edible of such experience,
and give dignity to the comparatively I'M
meaning acts of life calculated to throw
"Mr. Barlow" into ecstasies of delight.
KATE cAsTLEToN AND STYLES.
Did Kate Castleton visit you in Sacra.
mento? She is sweet lady, full of quips
and wiles, and her head-gear in her
Quaker character is beginning to be seen
on the street, to the admiration of small
urchins, who follow the wearers of the
tons song. They are only to be worn by
a particular type of face. Rather pretty
woman, in other hats, chose to wear one of
these Quaker affairs to the theater the
other night, and completely "uglifed "
herself by the means, to borrow a word
from Lewis Carroll.
By.the-way, how little women here
study their styles. A young lady of the
dimensions of the famous "massa -" Six
foot one and tree foot t. udder," with
"coat so big he couldn't pay the tailor
will ignore the bovine-statuesque, for
which nature manifestly booked them, and
put the antic disposition on of some little
thistle. down columbine, whom you will
meet anon solemn as an owl and quiet
as a marsh, and mute as fish. That
other girl has got possession of her man.
ner. Oh, that they could meet, and ex-
change back again And those much
abused words, naughty and languid, there
have been no opponents of them in society
for many moons. They should teach at
sc finishing schools" that hauteur is not
insolence, nor lsnguor stupidity. Mrs.
Halleck Mrs. General Cullum that now
is), was an admirable example of naughty
woman.
THE GOODNESS OF HER MANNER
| Was comparable to the sudden evaporation
of certain spirits, but her intelligence and
knowledge of the world made every one
about her admiring and contented. There
is an adorably languid woman in society to-
| day, or should be. She has somewhat
| Withdrawn herself from the giddy world of
| late, believe. She has the Heaven.sent
| gift of putting that flavor into her remarks
which makes one remember them. She
has lived in South America, and moves as
it were against half.suggested background
of creole Incidence, which that circum-
stance of her life explains soon you
become acquainted with it, She is very
witty withal. Look for thorns on suave
orange tree, they are nearly sure to be
there. And tonight Miss Edith Banding
becomes Mrs. Carleton Coleman. Her sis.
term. law, Mrs. Gordon Blanding, gives
her a reception after the ceremony at Grace
Church. 1t is her wedding present. Gu
riously enough there are SO many ladies in
the Tevis, Haggin and Blanding families
that the invitations issued will be almost
exclusively to gentlemen.
Saturday evening Mr.. Mssten had re.
hearsal of his mass, which he has called
the
MASS OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION,
And has dedicated it. to Father King, of
Oakland, at whose church it will be sung
in the latter part of May. The rehearsal
Saturday evening was in the hall over
Gray's new music store. Miss Thibault
played the accompaniment, and Mr.. Mas
ten directed. Miss Dollbeare sang the
solo in "Kyrie," and Miss Sibyl Sander
son the Incarnatus." Charlie Platt and
Alfred Wheeler were among the gentle
men who sang. The mass has been en-.
tirely rewritten since Mr.. Masten pro-
duced it here year ago, and shows much
improvement and maturer method and
surer handling. The authors Paris study
has not been fiction. To the last move.
ment, the Dona Nobis Pacem," it was
Mr.. Masten's idea to give meditative and
prayerful spirit and form, but the conven-
tional "Dona Nobis, it appears, must be
of a triumphant and exalted character, SO
that the last impression upon the congre- |
cation shall be strong and vivid. So, in |
rewriting it, Mr.. Masten has bowed to GUS
tom and concluded his composition with a |
strong, full and brilliant chorus. The au.
dience was extremely appreciative. All |
the music-loving people in the city seemed |
to be present the families of the com.
poser and the singers made goodly mum.
Der in themselves. There were, besides, |
Miss Berreda and her sister, Mrs. Newton,
Mrs. Llewllyn Jones, Miss Holiday and |
her sister, Miss Brummagin and a score of |
others. Monday evening
KETTLE DRUM
Was given at B'nai Birth Hall by the la.
dies who rally around the charitable socie-
ty for the Boys and Girls Aid. If the
charity prospers in proportion to the care
thoric with wealth and success. All the
gentlemen were pressed into the service to
nail up wreaths and flowers and flags for
decoration, and were expected to appear
later and buy cakes and ale and bouton.
nieres to fabulous amount; and it is fur.
Their recorded of them that they did their
duty as San Francisco expects, and that
the hall was more crowded, and more
FOL in ~ he !
affair of the sort given some time last au-
tumn. Friday evening is to be an event.
full one. Mrs. Ashe gives q reception at
her Sacramento-street house in honor of
her son, Mr.. Porter Ashe, and his wife.
The young ladies of the Zsitska Institute
give reunion, where music, reading and
dancing are the order of the evening. On
Friday also Henry Heyman gives concert
in aid of his pupil, young Landsberger,
who wishes to go to Germany to study the
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