Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-05-23

rich red and gold sunset light, is by s. P. Hodg-
don; large, warm picture of Gibralter by S.
Colman; Edgar Parker exhibits a beautiful head
of a child a dark-eyed and fair-haired boy, one
of the loveliest pictures at the exhibition; an
other very pleasing is ]. w. Champney's "Cas-
tie Buildiug;" young girl carefully building a
house of cards; she leans forward, intent on
making the top cards stand; her expression is
natural, and her face and figure beautiful; only
the delicate hands with taper fingers do not be-
long to child, they are mature; this seems
the only fault in the picture. Rhode
dendrons, painted in Miss Stetson's pecu'
liar and effective style, are brilliant and hand
some; aud landscape called New England
Hillsides, by F. d. Williams, is very good. AT
Eliot's formerly A. A. Childs) an auction sale
of oil paintings is advertised; at Williams and
Eyerett's two of Dore's pictures attract atten-
tion: and Doll and Richards, in their new store,
where Devries and Ibarra used to be, have
great many nice things. The remarkable, and
think very fine, painting of Margaret, with
Martha and MephiStophies, is there and shows
TO much greater advantage than in the smaller
room on Summer street, where it used to hang.
There, too, is a cabinet decorated by Miss Rob-
bins, in the style of the thousand dollar cham
Der set that she sold last Christmas white flow.
ers, or rather flowers the natural color of holly
wood on polished black ground The sombre
effect which many persons disliked in the cham
Der set, is avoided in the cabinet, by double
border of deep red narrow bands encircling
each panel, and increasing the effect of both
black and white, while it adds to the beauty of
the cabinet, which is one of the most elegant
pieces of furniture that ever saw.
1t is strange to feel how much of
lovely Sunday quietness creeps into even
the heart of busy city. This morning the
old graveyard on which we look out was as
sweet and still as any country church-yard;
birds were singing; the carly soft foliage is
| thick enough TO hide the houses on the other
side; the singing of the choir in neighboring
church came, softeDed by the distance, through
our open windows; the air was fragrant with
the first blossoms of the lilac, that most country
like of perfumes, full of remembrances Of old
gardens and peaceful back-door steps, where we
used to sit for hours and make dainty ornaments
by stringing the sweet blossoms; and the illu-
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when child's voice, full of delight and desire,
said, "Ohl there's laylocks, did you know itP
What playthngs the trees used to fling down to
us and the flowers used to offer us in those old
gardens what wonderful little oars and knives
dropped from the great trees shading the front
door! What mine of delight a balm-of-Gilead
tree wasl How the horse-chestnuts daily pro-
yided fresh ornaments for our roomy baby
houses in the great, mysterious garnet;
how we furnished our dolls tables with
beautiful and fantastic tea-sets made of
peoples gone to seed and our dolls themselves
with dainty mirrors which grew abundantly in
the thick border of "Devil-in-the-Bush;" how're
gathered cheeSeS from the luXuriant Robert
Runaway that with its exquisite blue flowers
covered the bank where the sweet briars
had their roots how we found everything we
wanted, fresh every day and ours without money
and without price; how we wasted, and exper-
imented, and flung away, yet miss d nothing
rom our generous fstore; and how the scent Of
he lilacs has stirred the old memories!
A few unsophistcated babies come, with their
nurses, on sunny days to play among the graves.
The grass is now long enough to be serious
obstacle to their little feet; and the boro mounds
are a trifle hard for them to climb over, but
they fill their chubby hands with dandelions
and stagger about supremacy happy, sometimes
stopping to rest their curly heads against the
CHASTITY emblems of mortality that adorn the
old stones; or to hide conspicuously where the
nurse has to try not to see them. They luxu-
riate in dandelions, but are still to young to
know the delight and pride of skilfully
splitting and curling the stems; and before they
grow old enough for that | am afraid
they will wear high heels, Roman sashes, and
real lace, will be transferred to the public gar
den, and will learn not to walk on the grass, and
not to soil their hands or their clothes. Or per-
haps their playground will be taken away, and
Pemberton square will be cut through to Park
street; and the old graves will be levelled and
paved; and this one little corner where country
peace still fingers will be desecrated aud
ruined. Let me offer it my tribute of graft
tude now.
The town of Duxbury, so long shut out from
the world, for want of railroad and hotels,
makes her debut this summer as an attractive
place of resort. A railroad is now finished, or
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on Captains hill, where brave Myles Standish
lived; and a company of Boston men have
bought a large tract of land at the foot of the
hill, known by the name of the Nook, which is
to be laid out in a village, by r. NJ. Copeland of
this city, who laid out Oak Bluffs at Martha's
Vineyard. Here pretty and inexpensive Gotta
ges will be built, and the situation offers great
advantages for fishing sailing and driving There
are fine pine woods in the neighborhood and
long beaches land for those who care for historical
associations, there are, within few miles, Ply
mouth, Clark's Island, and Daniel Webster's
place at Marsh6eld, not to mention Rouse's
HummOek, the terminus of the French cable
In Chevaler's book on the United States, one
reads of "the glorious days of Charles v, when
the sun never sat on the Spanish dominions"
Did the misprint of one letter ever so change