The record-union., 1896-09-06

Minnie Elmer has been visiting at the
Bay. Miss Jennie Birdsall has also been
away, visiting friends in San Francisco
and vicinity.
Preston Lykins of the Sacramento
Bank went last week to join Mrs
Lykins at Pacific Grove, Monterey.
1t seems that I owe an apology to
Miss Schubert concerning her present
position in ST. PauPs Church choir,
which offer freely, and sincerely hope
will be accepted in good faith. One
does not always hear things straight.
or sometimes perhaps the fault is in the
telling. However this kind of mistakes
often occur, and if 1 were misinformed
am really sorry I repeated it in that
wise to the public.
Vaugn Tomlin of this city, who has
been spending part Of the summer at
'1dlewild," Lake Tahoe, has gone to
Shasta Springs, Siskiyou County, to
finish his vacation with his parents.
How many things strike one as
peculiar and outlandish when away
from home! One is so awake to every
thing going on about and so keen also
to peculiaritieS of every sort or kind.
There is a grand opportunity to study
character in every phase, so many
studies are met at every turn, display
ing human nature in all it's vagaries,
and doesn't it seem as if people re-
laNed more and more into natural ten
dencies at such time, especially when
among strangers whom perhaps they
never expect to meet again? One thing
that always impresses me more forcibly
perhaps than anything else is the man
ner In which person eats. / think it
tells more of the amount of refinement
possessed by that person than anything
| could name from personal observation.
There is no better position from which
to study table manners in all their va
riation than hotel dining ROOM which
serves as sort of illustrated lecture
on the theme What we must and must
not do at table, 1t is there one realizes
most forcibly how it appears to on
lockers when the food is carried to the
mouth with a knife, dipping bread in
the sauce inserting the point of your
soup spoon into your mouth instead of
merely carrying the side of it to your
lips; to drink before your mouth is
empty; to wipe your knife on your
bread, or laying it aside after cutting
your meat and eating with your fork
alone. AS to what may be carried to
the mouth with a fork or spoon and
what with the fingers reminds one of
the fact that the Hon. Mrs. Malet, now
one of the ladies in waiting to Queen
Victoria, is entitled to distinction for
the pretty bracelet which she wears all
the time, and on which is inscribed in
diamonds and rubies the word Dirty"
When Mrs. Malet was little girl of 3,
SO the story goes, she was a great fa-
vorite with the Queen her mother, Lady
Biddulph being one of the most trusted
members of her majestys household.
On one occasion the child was with
the Queen when the latters lunch was
brought her in the tent at Frogmore,
where she is accustomed, they say, to
spend the mornings, and to work at her
papers when in residence at the Wind
sor. The Queen suggested that the child
should join her at her meal, which COM
prised birds among other dainties, and
the little missile was therefore perched
high upon some cushions on chair op
posite to her sovereign. The latter pro-
ceeded to take the legs Of the small
quail that were served in her hands and
w
her attention was suddenly attracted to
the little girl opposite, who was gazing,
with her big eyes and rosy mouth wide
open with amazement. Well what is
it, nissie?' inquired the Queen. "Oh,
dirty, dirty" was all the little mite,
who had often been admonished about
the impropriety of eating with her
fingers, could find to say. The Queen,
who had keen sense Of humor, en-
joyed the joke hugely, and few days
later presented the child with the lovely
bracelet above described as souvenir
Of the occasion.
Mrs. j. H. p. Sheets and Miss Mae
Cleary, her sister who have been rus
ticating at Upper Soda Springs, re-
turned to this city on Tuesday morning
last after enjoying a most delightful
visit in the mountains.
POLLY OLIVER.
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