Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-04-17
VOL. XLvII. NEW SERIES. VOL. Xxx.

! | waiter Is OF the right s0rt-respectiul to y0u
because reverent of the almighty quarter
dollar. low-voiced and quick to his part
smiling meckly at your thinnest Jest, but
hopclessy grave while dealing you the last
bit of intcrdomestic humor-then do the
boarlers, and some of the transient guests
too, become a grand moving diorama to you.
; Mrs. Newrieh and daughter sweep into their
places at table to the Sono rocc movement
of their own history. Miss Peagreen can
not quench the hazy loyelight of her eyes by
a smple-in fact, a very simple-drooping
Of the lids, any more than she can suppress
from you the rumor Of the triplicate. disaster
She has wrought for you have it from your
waiter, and your waiter has it from the
clambernaid of her floor, who has it from
the assistant house-keeper herself, that Miss
kS'cagreen Is engaged to two young gentle
Isnen and to one old gentleman, all at one and
the same time. No; Miss Peagreen is tax
ing the preliminary measure of matrimony
by triangulation, and you know it. That
restored antique with the peculiar wrinkles
IN his neck-traccs of the long suicides of
his lost youth and middle age-the old fel-
low with iron-gray hair and black-very un-
naturally whiskers. who wipes his
brow with his napkin and stares impressive
| ly at the ladies. well, he has lately struck
OIL at Petroleum Centre. You will not
need your waiter to point you out members
ol that class OF young men who seem to exist
Tor no other object than that OF supporting
Inc pis hotel These are the youth wnom
You may consult over the top Of your bill Of
fare for the very latest thing in crayatS and
IN the eombing oi the hair. These are the
youth also VINO Loaf about the entrances ana
halls, the wig-hlockS and general dummies OF
the httcr-day ho-telry hat ol their
means l. iclt by the tailor and barber goes
toward paving their ornamental board
ASan, and inally, these are the youth
Whose p'cnnary places m the world are
Ike certain artic.c- IN Mr. Vents e"llec-
tl"n, Human, Various they may L'~e
| their situations, or the intellect wnich
| ho"er~ in those smooth heads "i haIt may
| mi>caicnlate ON Change. or the breasts GOV
| cred ly those INFINITE hHe-doIlar tleS may
! rloi fraud ami thus yon see the heSt oil
t'e young gentlemen who 1--we o.tenSiniy lor
| thc single purpose oi supporting Inc hiS
""trl q" about charged Wlih P"~>''' e'rlh-
| quake L" landlords and tahorS-
Oithi- class of boarlerS there Is inyari-
| adv the complement in certain of the lady
| guests. regular or trau-icnt-a class of wo-
men. of various ages, who may he termed,
hy the most catholic use of metaphor, the
Ncstal- of the modes And vet they man
age. somehow. more than most ol the sex, 10
throw di-illu>ioning daylight upon the
theatrical -ccnc-uaintinr effects of the latest
fashions. by which the sufficient realities of
the female form are exaggerated. | once
boarded for months at great hotel where
iis fashionable millincr of the city came to
t,lr bc, ,pc,1s In all t5at time never
kp.,, her f.. sneak "a ,vorl to man. woman
~ .I,;iI ev.e,it ~ sb, ordered her disbe, |
M t.lf. Sbc ,.,- ,,.4 ,,,p., She ,v,. not
,,r.t,, l.,+ IN. ,r,,,Il ,,,,t b5y, Lecr nr,.i-
Ill ,.,l,. lc;, I,,J mot Loon c,r tI i,r,nd
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i,r.,inr..5 She oonrl na, Lays brcn a w,-
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IA. -Ir ieI I have .f.cn ltcn her in the
i,,li.-. ,.,l,. fer t,, a,,norcn;lv di,iJinr
b... i..,-eI,.. lo,,.,in.,- brfwccn the riann
,,ii.iy- ~. ,o,.r t,n,bcI and the TnDij
fl-r-,ti,n ,l.a vontbtul ,rair ou thc nearest
-,r, III. II, his ,lrrr-t,, mood tbat
,l,,a,.- r,,.,lI her Indeed fear she is in
Ji.-,inlIr linked in INV memory with those
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