Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-02-02
TRIPPING IN GosskMERs AND TRUNp.
LING IN CARRIAGES.
The Archbishop's lecture-Emily Faithful
A Queens Ruse-soms General
NOTES.-The.
sax FRANCISCO. January 80. 1851.


on rainy day. These light india.rubber
circulars, with large hoods that cover
the hat and all and pucker around tie
face-the ladies call them gossamers-are
quaint little nun.like garments, as becom-
ing and expressive on small pretty face
and figure as they are incomplete sad
ridiculous on severe and uncompromising
young person. Never shall l forget the
independent lady with red "bang" wetted
of into three or four distinct. locks by the
atmosphere, the hood of her gossamer work
ing back farther aad farther and the cloak
part OF the same too short for purposes of
protection to her costume. From the Sc
we're scrutiny which she bestowed on the
passer-by inferred that she was wearing
the waterproof for the first time and detied
criticism.
ANOTHER SIGHT THE WET STREETS
Afford is the descent of Mrs. and the
Misses Million from their carriage. drawn
up IN front of one Of the large dry-goods
house. No gossamers, if you please. Over
them the obsequious footman holds huge
umbrella, and they much complain that
their paper soles must come in contact with
the three or four yards of wet sidewalk
that intervenes between the carriage stem
and Mr. Nelyet's establishment. 1t look
very luxurious, and the cynic might draw
invidious comparisons, but it is more than
likely that next day the carriage will be
lent to the Flower Mission girls to 90
their hospital rounds, and the Misses Mil.
ion give up going to Sheridan's opening
night, because a sense of duty impels them
10 go 70 swell the numbers at
THE ARCHBISHoP's LECTURE.
That lecture, by the way, was one of the
most successful ever given here. His grace
gave the Catholic view of Luther and the
Reformation, and he was given the Grand
Opera House in which TO deliver his lect.
ure. The Grand Opera House, which seats
nearly 1000 people, was once considered
capable of annihIiatiDg any thing given in
1t, but it would seem that Archbishop
Rlordan has broken the spell. The rain
was falling IN torrents Monday night, and
yet the Opera House was lterelly packed.
Any other sect or denomination night
learn of the Catholics in respect toward
their dignitaries and the enthusiasm for the
IL L lecture
was given for the benefit of the Children 8
Day Home, and every Catholic in the city
not only took tickets but went to the lect.
ure. We are promised lecture from
Emily Faithful,
THE GREAT ENGLISH WOMAN REFoP8IER.
l had the pleasure of meeting that famous
woman. She is here on the impors ant
mission Of finding out the adaptability of
California for a colony, and for English
emigration. She is not oppressively Eng.
lish, has not the Euglishwoman's nickel.
alarmclock- going-otf way of talking. She
is immensely fat, and yet she is tall enough
not to appear unwieldly. Her head looks
like a mans, partly due to her
short hair, which is not shingled, but in
locks about her neck and ears much as
Henry Ward Beecher wears his. Her
features are masculine too, not in the sense
of being coarse but of being powerful a
woman with such forehead couldn't care
much for bonnets and love-she simply
couldn't. She could advise the countless
thousands who do, though, and advise
them well, and console, too, with that gen.
erous tull-lpped mouth OF hers, and look
all the Stiffness out of one with her soft
penetrating eyes. She is an impressive
looking woman without particle of beauty.
except that OF character and good sense.
which always express themselves in the
face more or less. She has a Secretary
with her, Miss Robertson, also short,
haired; a very tall young lady with head
which looks small fof her hight, and con.
siderable awe of Miss Faithful. What a
charming name that Is for woman philan-
thropist, and q clergy mans daughter in a
novel it would not seem natural at ALL
a QUEENLY RUsE.
It was a usual but successful ruse that
our other distinguished woman visitor,
Queen Marau. of Tahiti, practised upon
us, that of having it given out that she
was but the sister of the Queen, and that
the royal consort herself had not come at
all She is most frankly disguised with
San Francisco. | saw her when | did not
know she was the Queen, and thought her
a splendid specimen of semi. barbarian,
tall and large, naughty, very dark, her
black hair doubled two or three times at
the back of her head and secured with a
bright silk kerchief that knotted on the
forehead, and dressed in the loose flowing
robe of her country.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
The Pomeroy German was one of the
prettiest small things of the season. Some
of the favors were serious and some comic
among the former were the hand painted
satin bags, and among the latter the red
TOW balloons that children affect. The
ladies attached these to their hair, and one
permitting her novel couture to come too
near . gas burner was considerably startled
by the explosion with which she seemed to
be in some way connected, though for the
moment che could not imagine how. We
have had our fill OF explosions, having just
passed through the fiery ordeal of China
New y ear, that most movable of feasts,
which the Chinese house servant vainly
endeavors to explain annually to his
mistress, only making Ineligible that the
event has to do with a full moon of some
date, an astronomical effect which he ex.
presses with many grunts by the words,
1.-The moons fool" She takes his word
for it and dismisses MIN to become full
also-of sam chu. Chinatown was one
blaze OF bombs and fire.crackers, the ex.
tinct bodies of the latter lying in the
streets thick as leaves in Nalombross.
Yesterday evening Mrs j. b. HaggIn
gave a farewell reception to Miss Mary
Smith, sister of Hamilton Smith, the
President of the Hydraulic Miners Asso.
ton. Miss Smith goes East-that is, to
st. L9uis-on Thursday.
You hear by telegraph that the squat
tiers on the sea beach have been warned to
depart, and that they mediate organized
resistance. 1t is thought that the i'm
mortal Denis Kearny will be licensed to
keep a coffee stand out there because his
influence will be used in persuading the
rest to go away pesceably-a sort Of
States evidence proceeding, apparently
the usual thing among the Irish. 1t is
very funny to read in the New York pa
pers that Denis Kearny is defying aristoc,
rscy by selling pies at California health
resort. PHILIP SHIRLEY.
FRANKLIN ITEMS.