Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-09-28
PaEEHANp NOTES.
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FREEHAFD NOTES.
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San Francisco, September &c, 1883.
The hower.beds are doing their best to
provide us with blossoms to console US for
the short-lived beauty OF the autumn roses.
These fall away and shed their petals
when they are hardly more than buds, as
if the vigor of spring were exhausted in
the bush, and it could only produce the
semblance of roses without strength to
be-a most distressing fact to decorators.
The season gives US the sturdy, many.
hued asters, the red pennons of the SALIVA,
myriads of lilies of every variety, the pink
lily with its faint odor of muskmelon, and
the crest scornfnl, curled, white japanese
lily, the eucharist with golden sacramental
cup about the stamens, and the pure lily
of st. Joseph. The tuberoses abound now,
with their waxen petals and heavy per-
fume, like nuns with pure faces and warm
souls. The first azaleas of the season were
on view at the fair Monday night, and
some of the single dahlias that are the IA
vorite flower in England just now. Did
you have incubators at the State Fair?
THOSE ARTLEsS CHICKENS
Coming out from under that umbrella
looking contrivance over the lamp, are
calculated to rouse enthusiasm in dispo.
sition made blase by the possession of
countless broods of chickens. From the
art gallery Miss Nellie Hops has with
drawn her pretty screens and decorated
mirrors to add them to her collection at
the art rooms. Never was there such an
industrious little painter. The great gal.
lery of the art rooms CLOVIS with her can.
vases. One spirited picture of an Indian
encampment at Mount Tallac is called ex-
cellent by critics, and her screens and
panels have the subtle, indescribable quail.
ity of being taking they strike the
fancy as well as the eye. The little lady
has quick feeling fer what is beautiful,
and delicate chic-that word belonged
exclusively to the studio at tirst-in re-
producing effects. She is reader, too.
Beauty is in poetry as well as line and
color to her, and one interprets the other,
as they should. She has placed verse
on msny of her landscapes, such as "With
narrow moonlit slips of silver cloud p
"Queen Hollyhocks with butterflies for
crowns ;" or, "a league of grass washed
by slow, broad stream "-in each in.
stance most appropriate to the scene it &C.
companies. She has
VERY HAPPY HAND
With flowers. An orchis and tangle of
which decorate one of her
diamond. shaped mirrors, the white roses
aud lilacs on a second, the brown and or.
ange stains of the nasturtiums on third,
lift themselves on their stems with the airy
lightness of life. A study of gold of
Ophir roses was good, and some strong,
thorn girdled artichokes stretched them
selves lawlessly across the panels OF fold
ing fre.screen, like big tramp trying his
muscles. Wherever the thistle appeared
it was well done, though why did thu little
maid label one picture, "The thistle's pur.
pie bonnet and bonnie heather bell, when
those particular thistles are distinctly in
the sere and yellow leaf, and their autumnal
down, though handled as cleverly as posi-.
EiSy bblit Is y s1O"y hOb q
purple bonnet. The picture l liked the
best was the last of series of three pan.
els, called, prosaically enough,
"MoRNING, NOON AND NIGHT"
1t was not night, but the last stain of
winter sunset in q narrow, snowy noun
tain gorge. The amethys. glow brimmed
the little canyon as purple wine might
crystal vase-it was luminous and rich and
still. Everyone wishes the young artist
all the prosperity and success her talent
deserves and will command. She is to
marry Julian Rix, the well-known Califor-
MIA artist. and their common interest should
make the marriage in every way suspicious
For even Robert Louis Stevenson, in his
wbimsically cynical essay "On Falling In
Love-" while he says that wife who
wrote would be an abomination, because a
few hours of concentrated competition re-
duces any human being to csptious macs
of nerves, propounds that painting on the
contrary, is calming in its effects medita-
ton may be INDUCED in while at the easel,
and en- artists lie is conducive to
oPEN-AIR wANDERINGs.
Mrs. Charles Crocker's reception to Miss
Miller, at which Lady Waterlow was also
present, was the occasion of the debut into
the dancing world of Miss Maggie G~in, a
niece of DR.. William NJ. Gwin. The young
lady has recently graduated from one of the
well-known schools of the city, and now
begins her season of bellehood. On Tues
day evening Mrs. Judge Sanderson gave a
dinner of twenty-five guests, all married
people, Mrs. Judge Field and Judge Deadly,
Mr.. and Mrs. A. n. Towne and Mrs.
Ashe being among them. The table ap-
pointments were unusually pretty, the
bouquets for the ladies being of white Mar
shall Mel buds, confined n tiny baskets
hung upon easels. Miss Lee, an own
daughter of General Robert Lee, has re-
turned to our coast after an absence of two
or three years, during which time she has
visited
NEARLY EVERY CIVILIZED COUNTRY
Of the globe. Miss Lee is an interchangeable
traveller She il now at the Yosemite,
and ON her return from the valley designs
a visit to friends in Colorado. Miss Lee
is a cousin of Mr.. Winfield Jones and Mr..
George Upshur, of this city. Miss Alicia
Morgan, whose father has long been at the
head of department in the First Ma
tional Gold Bank of this city, goes over
land on Monday to visit relatives in
Louisville. In spite of her youth, Miss
Morgan stands in the place of little
mother to a houseful of girls and boys,
her young brothers and sisters, and will
doubtless enjoy q few months of liberty.
Tomorrow (Thursday) afternoon Judge
and Mrs. Field return to the East over
land. Judge and Mrs. Sauderson also
start for the East the same day. There
is talk of q musicale on grand scale to
be given by Mrs. George Hearst. All the
local talent of the city ia to be engaged
for piano, violin, violoucelio and voice. In
the much farther future an art loan ex-
hibition is in contemplation by the ladies.
It will be in December, and on a much
more popular and consistent basis THAI
the art loan of 1881, which, with all its
beauty and success; was something of an
experiment, that fret step which costs,
and by which this second venture viii
profit. PHILIP SHIRLEY.
DIED.