Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-09-11
New York Correspondence
New YORK, Sept. 8, 1868.


fully come, the town puts on IA livelier
look. The summer wanderers are re-
turning, and their presence here, COM
ing as they do with the bright tints of
the woods and meadows, ADDS vastly
to the sprightly look of the principal
promenades. Gay Broadway, especially,
j. bright with all the colors of the Au-
tumn. SO blooming with beauty and
fashion that it is n kind of luxury to
walk that magnificent street on n sunny |
afternoon. Itisa wonderful street, that |
Broadway, and particularly now, in the
early flush of the Fall fashions, and don't
we New Workers feel proud oft, though?
There are any number of women and
men who would rather loose their din
ners than loose their walk in the after
noon on the West side of the great prom
enade street. We speak particularly of
Broadway, because Broadway is New
York, and the gay and freshened look
of the street shows that the city has full
~ passed from the somewhat sleepy
moods of the Summer.
We have not had time to ascertain IL
these watering-place people bring back
any alarming quantity of the Grecian
beard and others of the ridiculous fash
ions which have so stirred up the
laughter of common sense people during
the Summer. We presume they do,
however; for this matter of fashions is
worse than the measles in running Its
course. a woman-men do not have
the Grccian beard, do they?-a woman
once taken with a severe attack of the
Grecian beard can hardly get through
with the nonsense of the thing in one
season. Some harsh things might be
said ofthis Grecian business, it is SO con-
summatcly, so ridiculously and stupidity
silly-but there, pshaw what would be
the good? What excellent wives and
mothers these women will make, who
are liable to periodic attacks of the Gre
clan beard Bah! We, of course, ought
not to write this paragraph, but some
how the pen will wag in just this same
way for only few hours ago we saw,
O! such q representation OF this most
incomprehensible of fashions!
The perfect Stiffness of some of the
watering-place journalists is shown by
; the report that a young lady up town
: who has just returned from Saratoga,
= has eighteen newspapers containing des-
t criptions of her different toilets at the
chops" The utter bosh of all this Jen-
kensisn during the past season, afl1ict-
ed some Of our best journals. Even the
: dignified Tribune, describing the toilets
of ever so many Flora McFlimseys. In
r the name of common sense we would
like to know who in the world cares a
: fig or rush for what was worn at hop
, by Miss somebody whom nobody ever
. heard of? Possibly, however, it is all
= of vast importance. We wish some one
e would point out the importance to us.
= Until this is done we doubtless shall IN
: sist on declaring that the long, sweeping
e pole of journalism ought not to be de-
voted to the knocking off of such small
t persimmons
Fashions are rafting along at such a
rapid rate that already we have pub
i lished here, long descriptions of the De-
tober styles. You will not expect us to
wade through them all and give them
0 to your readers, for you may remember
: that we have not renounced our bachel-
: orhood consequently are not given tC
0 the study of fashions-and couldn't mas
ter them if we tried. We only know
l that the bonnets are to be fully of the
size of an ordinary thumb nail. AS fol
chignons, we don't know yet whether
they are to be twice or thrice the size Of
s the head, or whether they are to be worn
'. on the neck, or on the top of the head
! or carried in basket. And as for the
rest of the fashions, we must confess
something of our Ignorance, however
& deplOrable.
e Everybody is plunging heels ovel
. head into politics. IN ad as Marcel
hare" don't begin to describe the condi
ton of these dreadful politicians. Don't
come here now if you have the slightes
predisposition to insanity. The politi
II cal madness is wonderfully catching
4 If / should take all day for it, l SHOULD
hardly begin to tell you of our political
" doings-our mass meetings, our speech
Il making, our professions, our clubs, anc
u drums and flies. 80 that night or Blu
u cher would Gomez [VideWellington''
= speeches. And so, many brain-rack
), ed man here feels like saying 40 tina
= these spouting politicians would dry up
~ orr In ot NOVQn her wOulI come "
. The "Wickedest Man in New York ;
you have heard all about him. HI
has heeu about as much talked of rs i