Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-02-27
Correspondence of THE HERALD
A Festive Occasion at Port Henry

Correspondence of THE HERALD
A Festive Occasion at Port Henry.
PORT HENRY, N. Y, Feb. 90, 1878.
Editor Rutland Herald =
s'Now I'll tell you without asking;
My master is the great rich Capulet; and
If you be not of the house of Montague,
pray come and crush cup of Wine"
Romeo and Juliet.
For the last few days our commercial
ly staid and all absorbed business village
has been convulsed from centre to cir
conference by an affair which was de-
signed to be the grand gathering of the
season; in fact festival of such magni-
tude as to satiate the most devoted lover
of fashionable frivolity and dissipation
before the Lenten days came on,
To this end some one hundred and
fifty invitations were sent out, of which
the following is copy:
PoRT HENRY, n. Y, Feb. II, 1873.
Mr.. - The pleasure of your COM
pany and lady is solicited at the Peoples
Reunion, Wednesday evening, at Mr..
Doctors Hall.
GeT OTucE OF OODlnlIIlCC.
What delightful dreamings this pre-
cious note inspired in the heart of the
honored recipient, and who shall not say
that all these souls were made happy in
waiting and longing for the coming
Wednesday evening.
.sTime hath my lord, wallet at his back,
Wherein he puts aims for. oblivion,
A great sized monster OF ingratitudes:
Those scraps are good deeds past: which
are devOured,
AS fast as they are made, forgot as soon as
dOne.'
-[TTodus and Cressida.
Almost simultaneous with the above
invitation, the following reception card
was addressed to some fifty of our citi-
zens outside of membership:
Home Social Club,
Sixteenth Reception,
Wednesday Evening, Feb. 10, 1873.
At the residence of
Mr. G. B. Pease
The invitation of the club is extended
to yourself and ladies.
w. F. PEAsE, President.
A. S. GooKIN, Secretary.
Here truly was dilemma. The Re
union represented the democratic masses
and all sorts of protesting Christians
The Home Social Club, on the other
hand. smacked of shoddy, creme de In
creme of society. Therefore, an an
tagonism existed, as marked as between
oil and water. The one was of the house
of Montague; the other of the house of
Capulet, without the Juliet. or we should
have heard that plaintive voice sueng
for reconciliation and union.
30, Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou
Romeo?
DENY thy father, and refuse thy name:
or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love.
And I'll no longer be Capulet
'Tis but thy name. that is my enemy;
Thou art thysef though. not n Mon
What's Montague? it IS nor hand, nor
foot
Belonging to man. O, be some other
What's in name ? that which we call
BY any other name would smell as sweet
Il Romeo and Juliet.
Well Wednesday evening came at
length and with its advent elegant cos
tunes were donned and the mysterious
wonders of fashionable toilet exhausted
TO grace the quadrilles of the Reunion
and the German of the Home Socials.
Mr. Simon Doctors Hall, in which the
Peoples Reunion was held was elahor-
ately decorated Strcatched across the
entire hall were three arches of ev,-
greens interviewer with tiny flags, and
festooned in the centre ct each with
bows and streamers of red, white and
hlnn Tho ciIac Of no ho1 Il.
covered with flags elegantly looped and
adjusted, while the three columns sun
porting the ceiling were wound with
wide bands OF red, white and blue cam
brio. Hogan's Band, from Cheever
Ore Bed, discoursed sweet music. while
from table in the northeast corner of
the room, cake and ice cream contribut-
ed to the gastronomic wants of the COM
pany.
Among those present we noticed Mr..
E. d. Barnett and lady, Mr. G. w.
Baldwin and lady, MIR. Edward Hughes
and lady, Mr.. A. Solomon and lady, Mr..
VIM. Finn and lady, Mr.. Simon Doctor
and daughters, Mr. Leroy Collins, Miss
Lizzie Finn, Miss Kate McEnarey, Miss
Mary Carr and many others.
We noticed some elegant dresses.
But pardon us, dear HERALD, for
a depression. 1t is a trite saying,
but nevertheless a true one and worthy
of being often repeated, that lady is
never SO well dressed as when no one
can tell what she has on. Dress should
be so judiciously chosen as to enhance
the personal appearance of the wearer,
not the wearer be mere lay figure for
the display of costly dry goods. If high
coifferres are the rage, it does notfollow
that lady with long neck and narrow
face should mount all of her hair above
her forehead, thus depriving herself of
the natural grace impaired by dropping
braids, or such arrangement of the hair
as shall give width to the face and divest
it of angularity. AU coaatraire, if the
hair is dressed low in the neck, what an
awkward appearance a lady presents
who follows the sparkling style despite
of short, chubby waist, high shoulders
and short neck.
Again, tall ladies should never indulge
in stripes, while short ones may wear
them to advantage. Any number of
puffs or ruffles will do upon the skirts
of a tall woman, while. la petite would
look smaller than ever in them. Long,
flowing garments are preferable to tight
fitting ones for very slender people,
while for short persons the long skirt
and tight polonaise, with but little trim
ming, is in the best taste.
80 in colors, one cannot be too careful
In their selection, since SO very much de-
ponds upon it. The pale, delicate tint
now in vogue are very becoming for
fair, spirituelle faces, with the faintest
Hush OF color in their cheeks; but those