Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-04-07
FREEHAND NOTES.
SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS EVENTS AT
TIE BAY.
That Honeymoon voyage-Dry Goods Bills
Fracture an Engagement-Musical,
Society and Dramatic Noles.
SAN Francisco. April 4, 1883.

San Francisco, April 4, 1883.
l was at st. Mary's, the Roman Catholic
Cathedral, on Sunday, and, besides some
good singing, heard the priest expouud the
scope and purposes of the Society of the
Immaculate Conception. There are sew.
eral Circles within the Society, as a
Choral, Library, an Altar, Catechist, a
Gift Circle, to each of which young girls
over l6 may belong. Protestants may be
honorary members of the Choral Circle,
where many voices are desirable and, by
the way, at the benediction service, which
takes place in the afternoon of the first
Sunday in the month, the fresh, light
voices singing the Latin litany of the Vir-
gin sounded very medieval and devotional.
Venus, Helen, Cleopatra, the berhymed
women of the whole world, did any of
them ever get such beautiful epithets as
the early Church devised for the Madonna I!
Venus is laughter loving" but Mary is
''cause for JOY" and Helen, golden =
but Mary, an "ivory tower )" Cleopatra,
triumphant" and "the eastern star y
but Mary, "the refuge for sinners, morn
ing star, gate of heaven, mystical rose. !"
contrasted the enormous difficulty with
which Protestant churches start and main.
of their congregations, with the apparent
ease in the organization Of this Society.
About fifty new members went to kneel at
the altar rails to be enrolled, and each re-
ceived some symbol to hang about her neck
and large photograph of Murillo's I'm
maculate Conception" and each will per-
sonally try to live up to her necklace and
her Madonna, and the Society will flourish,
and do work and grow rich. What is the
secret of it? Miss Sybil Sanderson is one
of the honorary members of the Choral
Circle of the Society.
INCIDENTS ON THEIR VOYAGES.
Speaking of the Roman Catholic Church
reminds me of story they are telling of
a pretty young matron who designed enter
ing the Romish communion with much
pomp and circumstance at Easter time.
She had invited many of her friends to see
her take the important step, when one of
the fathers exhorted her to further study,
retirement, reflection and sell. examination,
not hiding from her his conviction that her
change of faith was to her nothing but the
occasion for worldly display, and for the
present the Church could not receive her.
Two more choice little tales the first of a
legal light he even adorns the bench of
an exceedingly neighboring State, as
Bah hath it. This gentleman voyages
hence to England, having in charge his
young sister. There sails with them one
of the joyous fraternity of the brush. He
is devoted-not too conspicuously-during
the voyage to the young sister of the legal
light. An hour for explanation comes in
London, when the artist and his lady-love
confess that they were secretly married be-
fore they started upon the high seas, and
all is honeymoon and happiness, the legal
light being too amazed to be Indignant.
The second narrative is the two hundred
and sixteenth explanation of the fracture
OF an engagement in which everyone was
deeply interested while ago. There was
a buxom maiden, and she had a pedigree,
but no gold and there was stalwart
wooer, and he had gold and no pedigree
and these twins were affianced. The stall
wart wocer, in a moment of expansion,
runs the present version, besought the i'm
pecunious loved one to HE her to Lord &
Taylor's, in New York, and provide her.
self there with such outfit as she should
desire, and he would pay the bill. The
maiden consented to cloth herself in the
garments of Gotham at the expense of her
betrothed, and even condescended to take
her many fair but ill-attired sisters with
her on her Eastern journey ; and they, too
were sumptuously clad, and the equivalent
charged to the stalwart. The wardrobes
were said to be most choice and fashiona.
BILE. The rash lover contemplated his bills
from Lord L Taylor's dry goods establish
ment, and remarked that he would pay
those, but no more, bills of that fair lady's
contracting and they meet as strangers.
THE MUSICAL
At Professor Blankart's parlors, on Geary
street, was particularly brilliant on Wednes-
day evening, and large audience of ap-
preciative people was present in spite of
the wet weather. A trio of four move
ments, composed by Mr.. Zech for the
piano, violin and cello, was the most elab.
OIhLc HuulDcIs AlT L7Cu LUX IU6 piano
part, and gave many exhibitions of his ad-
mirable skill in piano playing. The octave
passages he played as no one else in the
city understands their rendering, and later,
In some piano solos, the grace and elasticity
of his execution were remarkable, particu.
larly in mazourka by Chopin. Professor
Blankart played two violin solos-a very
interesting piece by David, in the last
movement Of which there was more
sonorous fullness than is usual from the
violin. The evening ended with splendid
fantastic on airs from Tannhauser by Raft,
arranged for the violin and piano. Nh.
Blankart and Mr.. Edgar S. Kelley were
the performers, and played with discrimi-
nation and enthusiasm. Very advanced
Wagnerian devotees profess to care nothing
for Tannhauser, regarding it as composed
at time when Wagner was still more or
less shackled by conventional ideas of
operate structure, but to less progressive
spirits there is a feeling of freedom and
wildness in Tannhauser music that not
even the Flying Dutchman equals. Mr..
Kelley has special sympathy with Wag-
ner's works, and plays them better than
anything else that he attempts. He is
going on with the composition of his
Macbeth music. 1t is a symphonic
poem er melodrama, the music illustrating
the play of Macbeth, as Schumann has
interpreted Byron's Manfred" The
greater part of the introduction is ready
for the instruments and will be rehearsed
soon. Mr. Masten, who is going to Oregon
in a few days. intends to give a rehearsal
of his mass on Saturday evening at Gray's
music store. All the best known amateurs
of the city are to sing in it. There was
SALE OF wANDEsFoRD's PICTURES
At the Art Rooms on Thursday evening.
The sale brought about 80. 900. The paint
ings were all in oils except two small water
colors of a Scotch landscape and an old
English mill, that were offered after the
regular sale was ended. The flower pieces
were, without exception, exquisite. a little
bunch of periwinkle, wall-hower and Taurus.
tine was pretty and natural the rich
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