Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-06-08

WHen M man, Wnat lotS 70 you Ill bring
A horse and carriage, and a watch and ring.
All grandmas are SO nice
Just here he kissed her twice)-
"And grandma gives O boy most everything"
Before his dear old grandma could reply
The boy looked up and, with a roguish eye,
He whispered in her ear,
That nobody else might hear,
"Say, grandma, have you any more mince pie ~
PREPARE YOURSELF.
No, it is not wrong, Miss Rosebud, to
dance upon your stems, to bloom as gaily
and sweetly as rosebuds may; but that you
must do, and something else. If you have
taste for music, or painting, or modelling,
or even that much-abused art, elocution,
get teacher and insist upon having the
best that the town affords, and devote
some time daily to the development and
perfection of the talent. If you have no
taste for any of these things, practice your
self in elocution, in essays, story and verse
writing. If after long study of the best
literary models you find no kinship in
your heart with the great tale-tellers and
song-singers of the world, there is still
much you can do. Sooner or later in every
woman's life-George Eliot's and Mrs.
Browning's, as we'll as Mrs. Henderson's
and Marion Harland's-there arises the
imperative need of housekeeping lore, not
of theory, but of practice. No woman
alive can remain ignorant of household
economy and tested receipts without re-
GREETING it. The health and comfort of a
family depend SO largely upon the cuisine
excellence that even the greatest ladies
are unwilling to trust entirely to careless
servants. Put on an apron, bouton de-rose,
and learn how to weigh and measure and
mix, and rise above the perplexities that
beset the Ignorant housekeeper OF course
you will learn to sew. Even Miss Reve-
nue., recognizing the fact that by making
herself her simpler dresses she can afford
more costly toilets, bends her snub nose
over patterns and cutting boards for few
hours every morning. And you, my dear,
are not Miss Revenue. Between your
sewing and reading, and housekeeping, the
study of your art and the daily exercise
that is the most important of all, you will
have no time or inclination to 90 about
hunting for swans nests and dreaming of a
true knight, who, when he comes, if he
comes at all, will love you all the more for
cooking as well as his mother, and dress
ing better on your small allowance than
his sister, and playing, painting and read
ing better than his pet cousin or any other
girl he ever saw in all his life. If he
never comes, so much the better; you are
happier without him than you are likely
to be with him.
FOUR INTERESTING WOMEN
Are Henrietta Russell, Louise Lawson,
Frln. Bottle and DIR. Emily Gregory. Hen.
rietta Russell, the Delsartean, carries her
art notions SO far as to advocate inviting
dinner guests of harmonizing compilations
SO as to be able to spread the table with a
cloth that shall compose well with the
compilations of all who sit down. She was
celebrating this plan with foreign lady
of rank the other evening. "Indeed,'
said her listener, "in this democratic coun-
try shall not rest satisfied until / have
eaten off the top of a barrel without any
cloth at all"
"a newspaper really makes the best
CLOTH" rejoined Mrs. Russell, "for you can
fold it up and burn it and the crumbs"
Which shows that even Delsartean is not
incapable of the comforts of Bohemianism
Louise Lawson's statue, "The Origin OF
the Harp" attracted considerable atten-
tion when exhibited at the Lennox Lyceum
in aid of the Woman's Exchange. Miss
Lawson's father was for a long time a Pro-
fessor in the Ohio Medical College at Gin.
cinnati, and she herself is young and
promising artist, whose studio is a rem
devious for art-loving people.
Frln. Ida Bottle, late art instructor at
Wellesley, and who sailed from New York
last week to marry German Baron ol
Posen, is very attractive and vivacious
woman, who will be missed at the girls
college. She painted fine portrait oi
Mrs. Lucy Stone. Vassar Professors seem
susceptible to the darts of Cupid. There
was Miss Num-, the preceptress in biology
of whom Huxley prophesied great things
She married Harvard Professor. Then
Alice Freeman married another, and now
Frln. Bottle will become the Baroness Won
Voss of Posen.
Speaking of college Professors brings ur
DR.. Emily Gregory, the one woman in
structor of Barnard College, who is slen
der, brown-haired enthusiast in charge O.
the botanical laboratory up under the
roof, and who is a recognized authority ir
certain departments of science.
THE EARRING.
There is a certain pleasure in watching
the decline and fall Of the earring. Had
been writing Looking Backward"
should have inserted somewhere a remi
niscence Of the first woman who bored hole,
in her flesh to permit the fastening of ar
ornament. The attempt to revive the
creole, or hanging earring, has utterly
failed. The faintest suggestion of weight
attached to the ear now displeases mos
well-bred women. Occasionally you see 8
face of such shape that hanging earring.
are temptingly becoming. Nettie Hooper
the pretty daughter of Lucy Hooper, the
Paris correspondent, is said to have worn
large cheole earrings set with small pearl.
at a recent reception. Even the stud ear
ring is less worn. Fine Jewels are les
frequently set in earrings, and many which
have thus been used are going back to the
jewellers to be reset as pendents or In
brooches.
COMMON SENSE AS MEDICINE.
Every summer brings with it whole
sale slaughter of the innocents, and the
grim reaper's scythe goes whizzing among
the youngsters with merciless energy
said prominent physician the other day
But if people would only imbibe grain
or two of common sense they could fright
en- the old fellow off in hundreds of in,
stances. To begin with, soothing syrups
cordials and sleeping potions, instead o
being, as is alleged, the children's bes,
friend, are close allies of death. There
are thousands of infants every year who
die from the effects of these poisons. They
will often quiet fretful child, and SO will
2 stick of candy; but both alike tend to
rob it of long series Of years. One thing
to be considered is the child's diet. A
mother should nurse her own babe when
ever that is possible, but under no circum-
stances should an infant be given any
other kind of food than milk during the
hot season. Until the little ones front
teeth have been cut, all such truck as ar
row root and sago, as well as bread, pota-
toes and crackers, should be strennously