Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-03-31
FREEHAND NOTES.
ANOTHER BEvY OF TIE REAL ORANGE
BLOSSOMS.
Another too Good to Tell-The Thomas
concerts-women's Educational
Hint for Party-Givers.

Maggie Eyre's wedding, from half-past l
to l, so that the most superstitiously ap-
prehensive friend the little lady has could
not augur anything i'll for her future on the
score of rainy wedding day. As much
cannot be said for Miss Lita Ogden's we'd
ding to-day. The bridegroom in this mar.
rage is Richard Pease Miss Ogden has
always been called one of the beautiful
girls of San Francisco. Her features pos
sess not only the purity of the Greek out.
line, but Greek serenity of expression.
Morris Newton, brother-in-law of Mrs
L. Henry Newton, of the Palace Hotel, is
also to be married soon. His fiancee is a
Miss Crooks. There is one more engage.
ment that should have been noted last
Week.-Mrs. Isabel PARROTS. She met a
Mr.. Douglas Dick, rich Scotchman, here
on his travels, or, as some say, established
here as a commission merchandise riches
and the Scotch remaining invariable. She
met this gentleman during a stay at Mon.
terey, and when the hour came for disclos-
ing his dearest wishes to Mrs. Parrott, be-
hold the lady was voyaging abroad with an
elder sister Of Mr.. Dicks lady-love. Moth
ing daunted, Mr.. Dick took shipping,
sought Mrs. Parrott in the south OF France
or north of Italy, or some one of the worlds
saDitaria, obtained her sanction and re.
turned to San Francisco, when the engage.
ment was announced-per telephone dit on.
There is the rumor of an engagement, in
which everyone is deeply interested, but
of which no one presumes to speak, nor
will until the wedding cards are out, for
reasons which are matter of San Fran
cisco social history. And yet it will be
rich match, and satisfactory in every way
if the rumor be true but no one dares to
gossip about it-yet.
VARIETIES ON THE WING.
The Thomas concerts are proceeding
splendidly: boxes and reserved seats are
being disposed of with the most encourag.
ing celebrity. Miss Thursby is to sing, and
musical happiness will be ours in June.
We always keep fraternal eye OF Califor.
mans who have gone to seek their fortunes
elsewhere, SO it was gratifying to see men.
toned, in glori6cation of the musical ad-
vantages of the city Of Leipsic, among
American musicians who had been educated
there, the names of Ernst and Louis
Schmidt. It is much more distressing to
learn the novelist Hawthorne's views on the
civil war. At late college supper of old
graduates of Bowdoin. Commodore Horatio
Bridges, lifelong friend of Hawthorne,
read letter dated 1851 from the dead au-
thor, in which he says: 81 don't quite
understand what we are fighting for, or
what definite result can be expected. Even
if we subjugate the South, our next
step should be to cut them adrift, if we are
fighting for the humiliation of slavery. To
be sure that is the only object which is
consistent with a future union between
North and South. Whatever happens next,
/ must say that l rejoice that the old
Union is smashed. We never were one
people, and never really had a country
since the Constitution was first formed" It
is a question whether he uses the word
"old there as term of half playful dis
like, or in antithesis to new Union that
might be formed on the basis of annihilated
slavery. Our distinguished visitor, Charles
A. Dana, is said to have left his son Paul
Dana in charge OF his journalistic duties
during his absence. Paul Dana is gradu.
ate of Harvard, and an enthusiastic press
notes his possession of muscle, black eyes
and handsome face.
GIRLS EDUCATION AND DRESS.
What breeze that reverend gentleman,
DR.. Morgan Dix, has contrived to create
by his Trinity Chapel lectures on women's
education. His views are economical, at
least, and are fitted to rejoice fathers of
families, for he seems rather to lean to the
conviction that girls are better off without
education. Everyone with anything on
hand to throw Immediately, threw it at
Mr.. Dix, who, unless his imperviousness
reaches the confines of the miraculous,
must be persuaded by this time that he is
either behind the times or unspeakably un-
popular. Apropos of educated women,
Stenats Yamakawa, the Japanese girl who
studied at Vassar and was President of her
class there, has gone home to Japan, and
In resuming her former ways of living,
writes that the only thing to which she
cannot readily accustom herself is the ap-
proved fashion for arranging the hair. A
great deal of pomatum is used, and as
japanese ladies only dress their hair
once in three days, they sleep upon
wooden pillows, which one accustomed to
the luxurious sleeping arrangements of
America would find uncomfortable. The
girl graduates in England wear gowns pre-
cisely like those worn by University men,
and made by the same tailor. They have
only attained to the Bachelor of Arts and
Bachelor of Science robes, which are re-
spectively black and brown and yellow and
black. Gorton must be in some sort a
realization of that institution over which
Tennyson's "Princess Ida presided.
Much less rigid are the five dresses that
Frank NIillet, the artist, has just finished
designing for Mary Anderson, the actress.
They are said to be made with absolute
fidelity to the best Greek models, and to
be the first genuine classic costumes worn
by woman on the stage. The toga of the
French tragedian, Talma, was tolerably
correct Mr.. Millet admitted, but added
that very few of our American tragic actors
come anywhere near the true thing Miss
Anderson's dresses were not only designed
by the artist but manufactured under his
personal superintendence.
ENTERTAINMENT INNOVATION. SUGGESTED.
Now that society in San Francisco is be.
coming better organized, shaken together,
as it were, SO that people of settled posi-
ton dare to be a little independent and do
not feel themselves compelled to give the
same stereotyped dancing party each time
they are inclined to entertain their friends,
it would be a pleasant innovation if they
were to have readings by competent elo.
cutionist interspersed among the music.
Everybody does not like music even those
who profess TO be fond of it for fashions
sake get surfeit OF ballads and nocturnes
before a musical evening is over, and
good poem or character reading, SO that
we are spared Poe's "Bells and some
body's 1.-THE Cnrfew shall not toll to-
night, that appeals to more precise
thoughts than music awakens, would be
very welcome and interesting 1t should
be done by trained reader or actor, not
a trembling, self-conscious, mumbling
amateur, and for precedent, it has long
been the usual thing in England; is -four.
fishing in New York, and rapidly coming
into favor in Boston.
cARNIyALs-A RUBESs-osTRIcHEs
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