Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-11-24
SAN FRANCISCO LETTER.
:HR NEW FERRY BOAT PIEDMONT AND
BAY SCENES.
Miss corson's Cock schooI-Eotes Of Art
A House-warmtng Given by Bach
elor-Loring Club Concert.
SAN FRANCISCO, November 81, 1888.

II the California pioneers who make
their homes in Sacramento should chance
to visit San Francisco this week they would
find the bay like what it was in the I'M
mortal days of 40 Really there are said
to be more ships in the harbor than have
ever been congregated here since those old
good times. A number IT whaling vessels
that happen to be in port add to the resem-
blance. The ferry boat, the Piedr ont,
which has been lying white and shining IN
the second slip on the Oakland side for SC
long, made her trial trip on Tuesday, tax
ing a pleasant party around the bay and
little beyond the heads. She Is very
pretty boat, narrower in the beam than
those that ply now, and therefore more
graceful; whether more swift therefor, is
vet to be tested. Plenteous study of the
bay has been afforded those living on this
side who have boldly intrusted themselves
not only to the bounding blllow, but IN
Oakland, to attend
MISS CoRsoN's COOKING SCHOOL
In the Church of the Second Adventists ;
that is, in the lecture-rooms of that church,
where gas range and long table have
been set up on a platform, where daily
Miss Corson delivers a lesson, with Illus
trations in kind, ON cookery simple and
intricate, and nearly hundred ladies sit
about the room and take notes of recipes
and instructions. 1t is the most unique
thing in the world. The interest amounts
to enthusiasm, and Miss Corson herself is
a genuine artist. First and foremost, she
tected by an apron in white linen cuffs.
which she does not remove even While cut
ting soup meat free from the bones, and
those cuffs and that dress are as immacu-
late when she steps down from the plat.
form as when she first mounted 1t. Second,
her neatness in all matters connected with
her subject is a model for the consideration
OF everyone 1t is not second nature, but
first, SO to speak, with her to carefully
wipe every utensil, every dish, every tool
that she picks up, and she often washes the
tips of her fingers as she turns from one
matter to another All drops and drippings
are wiped from the table.
IT Is SIMPLY MARVELLOUS
To see her work with such large materials
in such limited space with so little contu'
sion and untidiness, and, so far, absolutely
no accident or failure. Her method Is to
read the bill of fare and select, to begin
with, the dish which takes the longest to
prepare. This is usually roast, a soup or
sweet breads. She shows the ingredients
lust as they come from the butcher s hands,
and takes the class every step OF the way
to the serving of the article which Is
passed about among the hundred, when it
comes smoking from the range, until it is
cold or eaten up by frequent sampling on
its progress round the room. Many of the
dishes, most of them indeed, are cold. A
salad that she made to day, Russian
salad, to be accurate, a perfect symphony
in colors, white turnips, green peas, ma
gensa beets, and golden carrots, cut by an
instrument into inch long bits the size OF
girls finger, was so captivating that Miss
Cors9n was obliged to meet the outburst Of
enthusiasm with the moderating intelli'
gence that the dish had been sold before ii
was made. She brings her own pots,
kettles, saucepans, baking pans, Harding
needles and tools at large, with her from
New York. All the pots and pans are
copper, timed on the inside, and her
knives are of wonderful point and edge,
which she does not hesitate to increase,
when necessary.
BY SCIENTIFIC APPLICATION
Upon an oil.stone. She had, to assist her,
a woman who washes dishes and all the
rest of what is used during the lesson, and
young lady who waits upon Miss Corson
in the thousand and one ways in which an
other pair of hands can be useful TO lect-
urer who is suiting the action to the word.
Miss Corson is patience itself in debating
her excellent recipes, and is educating her
class to like California oysters and Callfor-
lnia oil, which, she afiirms land surely this
Is a case of appreciation by Sir Hubert
Stanleyl are the best she knows A few
people are anxious that San Francisco
class should send for her to deliver a course
on this side, but the movement is not or
ganiz9d yet. For the present we content
ourselves with rickety attempt 20 revive
the old walking match furore, but the sue
cess is very problematic thus far. Morris
mas brought
CHARMING GALLERY OF PAINTINGS
Back from the East with him, of which
Mrs. FAIR has bought one, BoDguereau-
esdue picture of blonde child on a stone
step, almost too sweet and waXen to hold
ones love as long as so costly a picture
should. Another, less excellent In tech.
nique, is more interesting-a little brunette
face under blue-lined black velvet bonnet,
the small, pearl-g loved hands clasping a
| white pigeon Those values that art
lists dilate upon are strikingly illustrated
here, for the child holds the white bird
against her own white-fur cape, and both
whites being equally lighted still show the
metallic brightness of the feathers in high
relief against the soft surface of the fur.
The face and expression bear striking re-
semblance to the youngest child Of the
Hon. j. S. Cone, of Red B uf-a strange
coincidence, since the picture was painted
by Rpel, in Paris. A panel painted on
porcelain is a beautiful feature of the col.
lection. 1t is the single figure of lady
in the angular but attractive dress of a
Hungarian of rank. The texture of the
velvet is triumph. Tne work is done in
what are called La Croix oil colors, suita.
bic for being burnt into the porcelain
with great smoothness of effect. A rather
unique entertainment was given last week
in the shape of
\ HOUSE WARMING
When the master OF the house is bache-
lor 1t is no question of house built to
receive chatslalne who will be presently
forthcoming there is no lady. gentle
man very we'll known in the circle where
one likes to be known, always intended,
when the moment arrived, to build himself
house, partly because he prefers his own
house to rented chambers, and partly be-
cause he is collector of pretty things, and
he wishes an ample and appropriate set
ting for them. Therefore, he built an
Eastlske house, modified his own ideas,
and having arranged it, invited one of his
lady friends lady by the by who was
the belle of Washington when he was a
boy living with his family In that city her
he invited to chaperon his party, and in.
vited his friends to music and coffee and
chat at his new abode. Stained glass made
the hall beautiful the three rooms en-
suite-parlor, sittinS-room and dining.
room-displayei his bric-a. brac TO the best
| ADVANTAGE and the dInino-roon1 esnecially