The Republican journal., 1872-10-10
Letter From Boston.
Correspondence of the Journal.

CHARMING WEATHER-GOSPEL AND GOOD
CLOTHES-DECORATIONS OF DEADLEAVES
THE FRUCTIFICATIONs OF FASHION-A
BELOVED PASTOR wITHDRAwN-A NEW
ENTINGUISHER
BOsTON, Oct 6.
Yesterday was summers own child, or
rather autumn rejuvenated by a freak of
nature not at all uncommon at this deli
cious season. The entire female popula-
ton turned out to do honor to the brilliant
sunshine and the new millinery, and such
a perfect day to exhibit new clothes was
never seen before. Men are really to be
pitied for their bonnetless condition, when
such soft winds blow and such cloudess
skies lure the world out of doors. What
are new suits, fresh gloves or the latest
style of silk hat, compared with the ex-
citing toilettes of their wives and daughters
on a fine Sunday2 Nothing. of course
All the churches are now we'll patronized
and the popular preacher is welcomed by
crowded and devout gregations--each
respective flock fastening to hear the Cos
pei and display its fall finery. killing two
antipodal birds with one telling stone. A
fashionable church door after service is
oyer, with the organ playing the congre-
CATION out to airs from "Martha" is
Kaleidoscope sermon, and one capable of
the severest moral application. There
hny fyjr f,11 In
ton. over-reaching and double dealing.
the frivolous and mercenary chatter, the
gossip and scandal of the week dressed in
purple and fine linen. Sometimes you see
a face drifting out of the stream of church
going life. that bears the reflection of
some spiritual good gained by the morn
ing's worship; but the simple devotional
duty Of our forefathers has passed into a
species of sensational orthodoxy or mag
nificent oratorical display, the hearing of
which is given to craving audiences at
Sunday matinees during the ''religious
season." Not that | blame or reprove
the Inherent love OF wearing a new bonnet
to church. | would do it myself if | got
the chance-but it does strike one with re-
newed force coming back to city church
after quiet summer in the country, to
see the gala it is, regular circus of mil
linery splendors-all crisp and fresh with
the latest fashions, or the very last APP
pearance of some choice summer costume.
that merciless winds week hence will
drive into dark secluson. To walk through
the Common last Sunday you never would
suppose we had been shivering over fires
two days before, or that winter had seemed
disagreeably near. The grass is like
the greenest velvet, and down the long
walks of trees one sees only now and then
signs of decay, dashes of flaming scarlet
or sottening masses of brown aud yellow
that render the springlike foliage only
lovelier, and the sunlight more vivid.
In return for all this beauty we have
been nearly drowned. Rain, rain. rain,
that will spoil the brilliant autumn leaves
for the collectors. Already the forage
for rare NAPLES. ferns, oaks aud ShumaX
has begun in the suburbs, and the out
ward trains from many of the city depots
carry parties in quest of these simple
| means for interior house decorations
Coming into town from Readville, on th,
Boston and Providence railroad, YOU will
see both ladies and gentlemen waiting a
! the way stations with their arms tilleC
| with gorgeous hued branches, and care
fully covered baskets containing delicate
nosses white ferns, mitchella, the lovely
clematis and blackberry vines, and bits OF
| choice wood greenery that will make the
| loveiest winter gardens" in some taste
| at all attractive, has her share in this anC
| the artistic effects, produced by combina-
| tions OF pressed autumn foliage last sea
| son, has led many people into a more in
| innate communion with damp woods
stone walls and overowed marshes this
! fall than one would dream possible They
would never have thought of wreathine
| their pictures or pinnng garlands of early
shaded leaves on their lace curtains ant
| newly cleaned paint hadn't it been the
| fashion, Mrs. Wildrose made her house
| Il perfect little bower last winter, and so
| Mrs. Veneering means now to sacrifice
her tinted walls to natures liveliest wood
| land paintings, and exercise an uncuti
| waited taste upon that most difficult of as
| smiations. French upholstery with New
England foliage
We have had seven days of openings
| ons-houses-and all the private
| schools, not t. mention lectures, concerts
| and theatres. now fully under way. II
would seem as though one might be mer-
ry with so much to amuse, SO much tC
| improve, and above all so much to see
| that is neither one nor t'other-and | dare
say every body is-on the SUI face. Last
| week there were two openings Of Paris
millinery that sent thrills Of delight thro
1
Openings" if millinery is merely wh;s-
pered, the proprictors of the large houses
build q little wall of ceremony around
| their exhibitions, and without a card nc
| one is supposed to be admitted on that
first day, sacred to only the cream Of so
ciety. The cream is allowed the first
choice, and the skim milk takes what il
can find on the succeeding days. But fol
this complimentary invitation, your win
ter bonnet or hat might be tried on by
your cook, and the delightful mystery
that ever surrounds the new fashions lose
much of its prestige. The new bonnet is
lovely OF course. 1t always is, no matt er
in what outrageous shape it appears. For
this winter it is a high crown with or
without coronet front, simply hat with
strings, and fearfully - becoming, to
youth and beauty. What is to become of
elderly thin haired neODle If constrained