Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-14
CALIFORNIA GIRLS
An Eastern Man Tells What Be Knows
of Them. and What He Doesn't.

Va Ahciu- ana W nat He Doesn't.
i Beginning with May and lasting until
September the California girl holds forth
in New York City, says writer in the
Sun. She is a bright, vivacious and gen.
orally pretty creature, with breezy way
of expressing herself and very often novel
manner of looking at life. There is some
thing in that glorious climate of the
Pacific slope which gives yerve and dash
and originality that make her easily dis
tinguishable from the girl of the Atlantic
region when the two are met in company
and conversation is had with them for an
hour or more. The California girl comes to
New York at the end of May, passes two or
three weeks seeing the city and comparing
it with San Francisco, and then settles
down TO work This is the chief object of
her visit to New York, for although she
does not directly admit it, it is neverthe-
less true that in her home in the Golden
State, she cannot obtain many of the
courses of study in which she desires to
equip herself
There are various schools out there
where, within the last few years, courses in
elocution, painting and others of the stud
les that belong to young womens seminal
ries have been established, and many Of the
California girls now in New York are
teachers in those institutions For exam
pie, there is one young lady here who
came from San Francisco some two months
ago to find out more about the Delsarte
system Of elocution. The course had re-
Gently been introduced in her school, and
she was assigned to teach it. She managed
to get along very well for while by study
ing the text books alone, but finally con-
cluded that 10 prepare herself to do first
rate work in it she must come to this city
and engage competent teacher. She did
so. Every day now she gives eight hours
to the work. Some OF her studies consist
in visiting the east side and observing the
younger children there. She sees in their
free and untrammeled movements that dis
play of grace of motion which is nature
Itself, and upon which the Delsarte system
S founded
The California girl is clannish. Her
friends are all from the Pacific coast, either
those who, like herself, are studying here
for the time being or those who for pleas
ure are visiting in the East. She has only
them to call upon her, and il is they only
whom she goes to see. No sooner has she
settled in her temporary home in the me-
tropolis than she writes to her friends in
the far West that if perchance any of them
happen to come East, and the Calilornians
are great people for travel, they must be
sure to find her out. 1t happens in this
way that California girls become ac-
quainted with New York city life in only
slight degree. They see very little of
New York's young men, 10 fact, of any
sort of young men, for so far the youths of
California have not had as many reasons
to bring them to New York for study as
have influenced their sisters. The result
is that the California girls form colony
by themselves. 1t is constantly changing,
and although it gets great deal from the
city, it leaves little of whatever impress it
may be able to give.