The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-01-02
Letter From Boston.

capped unless you happen to be comfortable
| millionaire. For what pray, is left one after
complete drainage of holiday funds, but high
way robbery mot so safe a pastme as murder,
though more dashing.( or the Immediate with
drawal to country where after certain point,
presents would be looked upon as positive in
| suits? Such myrads of temptations as DO as
sail you the only safety lies in flight or sudden
blindness, Or a hardening Of the heart But its
impossible to make a Vi nu 7,,,,,a without
growing mellow, and this ossificalon is moi we'll
developed until you add up expenses in the
| bosom of your family, where after being charged
! with extravaganza You are obliged to be penn
| tent and say blandly, "Oh, yes, but Christmas
comes but once a yearp while feeling in your
very marrow how unmtagngly economical
YOU will to be to pay for that trite little sent-
ment. There is one store in Boston, however
utterly regardless of such petty considerations
| assecOnomy and where the whole year round,
but especially at this season, impecunious Gus
toners are regarded with supreme Indifference
d The atmosphere there is as gided as the gorge
Gus stock, and the service thereof is as cool an(
slippery as crystal; vet more fascinating spo
time. The rich man whom we are glad t
hear finds some places of entrance as difficult a
the eye of needle, walks in here with i'm
punity if he has a reputation for lavish expenli
ture; but those with incomes among the teI
thousands are often snubbed if they venture
f. demur and carry their patronage further
~-1"" f. =" "onple not gifted with tha
total disregard Tor eXlo..-s =. =,
general American character, if their rrepressipie
love of the boautifG! earrias them into these
sacred pastures with nc intent to purchase!
What is left the poor mi>creantS but to walk
out again and fatten their noses against the
plate glass windows, wherein may he family
deserted the gIolie- of Seyres and the riches of
Ind: We who are bold, if pennileS>, have
made many rapid tours through this gold
dollar store," so called because nothing IN the
whole establishment costs so trivial a sum, un-
less it be two inch china dog. This tiny speci-
men of a Bill Sykes eur has been admired with
a respect tempered with surprise; for had we
chanced to meet him III amy other shop he
had been considered dear. However, we have
been too often parulyzed with ecstacy and then
crushed by the cold reality of ebrll prices IN this
same "god dollar store 10 mind if the pup
had been valued at 4 round fifty. After Il
time numerals have no more effect on the
tympanum than many cipherS. We know
that connosseurS of art frequent the place. that
coy uncertain senator's in their hours Of ease,
nger among these fragile rareties, and that
patricians garniSh their homes and tables with
the costly wares glittering on the shelves; amt
| while agents ransacked Europe 70 md The roc'~
na.r IL nn.silAn M some choice mt ot iina2lna-
| tive perfection, the most wonderful pieces OF
| hreakabe art are constantly arriving tu lure
/ people Of taste to that fatal corner familiar to
| all good Eost ,nians. And yet, knowing all
this, we gently brave public opinion by saying
we have not @woontd at the sight of Il at teato
that came over in the MHyhower, or ten it a
privilege to pay forty dollars for 4 modern cup
ana saIcer. Vases there are cost one hundred
and fifty dollar. Of such exquisite painting, 50
thoroughly artistic. you think Them cheap.
Lovely designs for anything you please, flowers
or matches, in the shape Of 4 fun blown pond
| lilly floating in circles ct rich green pads. Only
imitation majolca. you are told and Of course
after that YOU wouldn't give L button for it-oh
| no. You have heard of the Englishman who fell
| mady i'll love with miniature wax figure OF a
/ perfectly beautiful woman that was exhibited At
| the Crysta Palace more than twenty years ago?
| The poor fellow ended his days in 4 mad house,
| because this my creature, unable to return his
| passion, was not to be sold by her Pygmalion.
| Well, this "true story was recalled to me the
| other day by oyerhearing at this engaging
| shop, some masculine observations regarding
| a couple OF figures for ornaments that have
| lately been imported. They are of the Old
| shepard -shepardcss- pattern, only on Il
grander scale of great physical charm and in
| their toilettes worthy of ii romantic comedy.
| The remarks that attracted me, were to the
effect, 'If he looked any longer at the htte
| witch (the little witch is making ewes at Sire
phon from under a mask held by the loyeiest
| of hands, he shouldn't be able to get home
But these are only Christmas toys that the more
costly and curious specimens of china set al
| nausht. | might add I-to that substantive
| after seeing the exquisite Venus Graded on the
| half shell,in the apartment above only many
persons would prefer her to full Sevres dinner
service. | modesIly refrain, and say cmphati-
cally she is 4 lovely piece Of cremaic ant. And
such s one way the money yani>he>. The
chdren'S toys, the holiday books, carry it in
another, and The poor, that this year should
leave no room for anything else, absorb the
| surplus.
| Time was you could tell who was Governor
after election. Bat that exercise of the franchise
for city officers in 1873 came off here before
| December was in its teens, and yet there's d
doubt as to mayors chair January /. The can.
| didates were such that the voice OF The people
would raise for either, or both, if the town
could afford pair of mavors. The present in
cumbent was said to have led the poll by I;
couple OF hundred. "fraud" was cried, and a
new count puts him out by little eighty
| Mayor Castor is shrewd and able lawyer, OF
French extraction apparently by name and ap-
pearance, with reported practice in the neigh
borhood of 200 year, and in every way 4
scrupulous and highminded gentleman, well
worthy the seat of the best Of his predecessors
Fault is found with him, of course. as will
| be with the saints when in the coming mil
lenium they take civic office. But his term
| has been full of trial, and we should
| have TO look up thousand men to see
| if nine hundred and ninety-nine would have
passed AS we'll through like ordeal. Mr.
Pierce, his competitor, will be known in Maine
| as well as California, that he is OF ''Walte:
Baker and company of chocolate making fame
| He is as much as ever citizen, living on the
| outward wall almost of the last anne Xed country
| ward, sixteen, 4 few months in the year, and
| doing some very elaborate gentleman farming
in an adjacent town during the rest of it. Rich
| and liberal, and bachelor, his heart would be
single for his city's good. The trouble is that
he is quite unlikely to accept any such reluctant
gift as an office at eighty majority. But who
may penetrate another election? Both gentle
men have been and perhaps still are aspilants
to Congress.
Our Phoenix is quietly Matching in the snow
and puddles of water dottlng the bosom Of the
burnt district. It's fun to see the editors and
other writing people try to dodge this trte title
for our brick and mortar desert, that the re,
porters have fixed upon them and the public
Such cleaning out you've not dreamed of since
your last sea-sckness. Every horse and cart in