The record-union., 1897-05-02

Miss Pearl Jackson and Edna Smith;
recitation, George Purnell; quartet.
Miss Reeves, Mrs. McFarlane, Messrs.
| Week and Barrett; accompanies, Miss
Gertrude Gerrish, Miss Martha Col
clough land Mrs. Reavis.
| A delightful affair was the reception
given by Mrs Frances Moeller at her
residence on Tenth street yesterday
afternoon, in which the Saturday Club
were invited to meet Madame Geneva
tombstone Bishop and her pianiste,
Miss Cook. The house was tastefully
decorated for the occasion with flowers
and plants, and the air was redolent
with the breath of roses. Not only the
Saturday Club but many of Mrs. Noel
ler's pupils and friends were present,
and everyone was charmed with the
lovely cantatrice. Nine. Bishop is d
splendid woman to look upon OF COM
manding figure, large, mobile and noble
features, charming of speech and man
ner, everyone carried away mental
picture of her that will be pleasant to
think upon after she is far away. She,
in her turn, is charmed with our lovely
California, and says that in San Fran
cisco, when she returned to the stage in
response to an encore, she entirely for
got what she was going to sing in her
delight over the lovely flowers which
had been heaped upon the stage before
her. Her carriage. she says, as she
drove back to the Palace Hotel was
filled to Overlooking with floral offer
ings, among which the lilies in partic-
ular seemed to have touched her the
most deeply. You cannot appreciate
what you have in such quantities." she
said, as she toyed witha La France rose,
held carefully, and of whose fragrance
she took deep breaths now and again,
but to us it is a marvel, and l shall
never be satisfied until 1 have visited
California again." She will, she says,
carry away with her an exceedingly
pleasant memory of our Golden State,
its perfect climate, its beautiful flow
ers and generous-hearted people. The
criticisms have all been so kind" she
said, II shall keep them with me wher-
ever [ go" The announcement of the
carriage broke up the little company of
music Worshpers, and as the great
singer, carefully wrapped in her great
cloak and hood, stepped down to her
carriage, she turned and laughingly
said, 1T is a life of self-denial-no cake,
no pickles." But when the result is the
preservation of so lovely a gift as this
c charming woman is possessed of, we
can but feel, all Of US, that the sacrifice
is well worth while and not in vain.
Madame Bishop left on the II O'Clock
train, directly after the concert. She
goes first to Spokane, where she will
OILY baY, +o1
Many Of our young people have been
pulling Wry faces because of the dubi-
Gus prospect of no dancing at the May
festival on Tuesday. There is a mis-
take somewhere, as I have been told by
one in authority that there will be am
pie opportunity to trip the light fantas-
tic all the afternoon, free of charge, and
to their hearts content. Dancing is so
innocent a pleasure if properly INDUCED
in, it is a sad pity it is SO maligned
But let US say with that good King of
old, to whom is due the order of the
Garter" one most valued by English
nobility, Hon e soft qui NAL pense, -
and not be the first, any of us, to de-
cry evil where none exists.
POLLY OLIVER.