, 1873-03-30


cpal masastns are heaped with bewildering
profusion OF costly and delicate fabrics. The
variety OF shades is something marvellous to
the uninstructod mind. Every hue in Nature
secms to be repeated and called by it's name.
We have tho green Of the fowl and of the ser
paut, Of the iceberg and the western sage
grass the blue Of the aky and Of the peacock's
plume; the gray Of the rain-c1oud, OF the birch
tree. and OF tho beetles back. Among the IA
yorites are those charming neutral shades,
variations Of olive and green, and gray, SO in
termingled that it is sometimes difficult to select
the truo word which describes thom. The deli
cate reseda shades are also much admired
THE BONNET or THE PERIOD
is thing fearfully and wonderfully made. No
oae can look at it without recalling Petruchios
scornful description:
Why, this was moulded porringer,
NV. lis u.st q cookie or walnut shell,
kuact, toy, trick, baby's cap!
Away with til! Come, let mo have 3 btgseri
But the fair Wearers, ono and all, reply With
Katharine:
III have no bigger; this doth fit the time,
And geutIowomen wear such caps as theae;
and who shall dare to dispute their taste7 It is,
however, pleasant to observe that, in the matter
OF ornamentation, delicacy and daintincss arc
taking the place Of the too prononce modes Of
past eeasons- Flowers are small, and perfectly
initiated from Nature. Clusters OF vio1ets,
heaths, mignonette, OF my-of-the-valley dis
place the shoWy asters, ETC., which have ragged 80
long.
ONE OF TIE MOST DISTINCTIVE FEATURES
OF Boston life may be in it's clubs. OF
course do not mean the fashionable mems clubs,
which are precisely like those found in any other
American city, maintained at great expense, and
patronized chiefly BY young men, who, as & rule,
tire OF them after very few years. Such as
these take no very firm root, because they sup
ply no deaNy-felt want. They are the resource
Of elegant id1oness, and our American life is
mainly too busy to need them. But the clubs I
refer. to are OF different kline, d,-associationB Of
scholars, thinkers, or workers, united by their
kindred interest in some special subject or
cause, which they take this method Of studying
or OF advancing together Persons familiar with
German life know this sort OF clubs we'll they
ca they seem to find their best development in
Boston Conspicuous among these-most i'm
portant, indeed, from the weight of intellectual
Influence it carries-is
THE RADICAL CLUB.
It's members include some OF the best minds IN
New England. They meet to discuss an infnlty
Of questions, social, POLITICAL ethical, and theo-
logical, in spirit Of fearless trlth-seekinG
which has not too many parallels. II you wish
to hear things called by their right names, to see
sh.ms and ;nteectn,l conynntionalitas. this is
roo1 nlaca tn aniov TINT nriyilere. There is
~o n,ma 7noro ,,;s.nnlic7 Than TINT Of t.Radi-
~ ~ T. 80 o,1, " ,ns.n in Tho n,,nda NJ nnost
nersons al extremist. whose views arc
esimn1v c1accersted. and who differs from ordi-
mr. ftinkers msre1v in hia incanacity to ner-
cniye the nroner mean in ANYTHING. This il q
yerv unfair estimate OF tho men Composing the
najc,1 C1nh They ara extremists only
IN their rcso1uts reprobation Of everv-
tIinr which can fetter freo thought, or
ranroaa ;ts ho1ast a1nroasion. Thar RadcaIism
cops;sta in dns;re tn "a to the root Of tLiuCs-
~ .aw al tonic. in their relation to rst nr1nci-
.,1as s,J =. f.r a. nnss1b1e in the white leht Of
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- nm ~ ,ha;r -acaat neat;nrs F;rst there in
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