Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-06-15
THE ABILITY TO SWIM

Has grown to be as much a part
of the fashionable New York
girls equiment as the fencing, dane
ing, riding and tennis upon which she
| spends so much of her energy in order to
make herself perfect at each one of them.
| What the result of this athletic training
is was lately shown by little incident at
| Newport. A certain well-bred New York
girl, who is good all-around athlete, and
can swim, ride, play tennis and sail boat
! against any man between the two seas,
| was being prosecuted by a frolicsome youth
of that class which is vulgarly called under
the slang term of dude He had not gone
into athletics himself, and had far too
| great fondness for cocktails and cigar
cites to have his muscles in good condition.
The girl had borne his assiduity as long
| as she could. Finally her patience be-
came exhausted, and one day on board of
| yacht after he had fatigued her to death
| by declaring that he was consumed with
| passion for her and pleading for kiss,
she called to the rest of the party, and
when the twenty or more had collected
| around her she said: "Mr. Saphead has
been begging me to kiss him, and l am
going to do it only on one condition, and
| want you all to witness that the bargain
is carried out. | am willing to kiss him
if he will permit himself afterwards to be
hugged by me-" This was received with
shouts of laughter and the embarrassed
Saphead found her firm, rosy cheek turned
toward him and nothing left for him to
do but put his lips to it before the whole
crowd. The instant the deed was done
the young girl turned like flash and
threw her strong arms about him and held
him in SO iron clasp that in three sec
onds he had turned purple in the face and
was helplessly begging for mercy. He
struggled to unfasten her grasp, but was
absolutely helpless in her hands, until she
chose to let him 60 in half fainting con-
dition, and it is needless to say that during
the entire season no man ever dared to be
lmpertinent to that girl again.
RATHER A NOVEL PATTERN
For screen, whose frame is of ebonized
wood, is large plate of glass with pho
tographed head in the center, partly sur
rounded with delicate maple leaves. The
leaves are natural ones, dried and fastened
to the glass with mucilage and then care
fully covered with silver paint. The head,
which should be large, must be detached
from the card board, unless an unmounted
one can be procured, and have all the pa
per cut away. 1t is then coated with col
orless varnish and pressed down upon the
glass. After the varnish has dried per-
fectly wet sheet of biotting paper is laid
over the picture till it is thoroughly damp
ened, and carefully and gradually all the
paper should be rubbed away and only the
black and white impression left upon the
glass. The inner frame which surrounds
the glass should be made of grained wood,
silvered or good effect may be gained by
covering the inner frame with folds of pale
blue India silk, ornamenting each corner
with metal leaf, silvered to match the
natural ones. A beautiful panel for brass
screen is made by arranging ferns, after
pressing and bleaching them, between two
squares of dark red glass.
NELLIE B. WARD.