Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-09-18
VOL. XLVIII.
NEW SERIES, VOL. XXI.
FEMININE GOSSIP.

Three or four letters of Burns hitherto un-
published, so far as We know, have Just ap-
peared in The A:heaa1na. One of them
contains some advice to young lady in the
stilted yet genial style of the time 1t Is
not so very inapplicable now, Mesdemoisel-
les. NOW" says the kindly poet after his
professional brOcaded compliments are paid
let me add few wishes which every man,
who has himself the honour of being father
must breathe, when he sees Female Youth,
Beauty Innocence about to enter into
this much chequered S very precarious
world. May you, my young Madam, es-
cape that Friyolity, which threatens uni
versally to peryade the minds and manners
Of Fashionable Life-To pass by the rough
er, still more degenerate sex mob of
fashionable Female Youth, what are they?
are they anything ?-they prattle, laugh,
sing, dance. finger lesson, or perhaps turn
over the pages Of a fashionable Novel bat
are their minds stored with any information,
| worthy Of the noble powers of reason az
| Judgment or do their hearts glow with
sentiment, ardent, generous u humane?
Amid the crowd of Nothings, may
| you Madam lie Something May you be a
Being - Burns's estimate of fashionable
Female Youth" in that tea-drinking time in
which he wrote agrees perfectly well with
Mr.. RuSkin's opinion in modern days; but
the Oxford Diogenes has passed beyond the
gracious giving of advice, and has nothing
left apparently but sad and bitter criticism.
What is home without a mother The
Allentown (Pa.) Chronicle says: \ story
comes to Us about mother whose child was
buried last week, and who STAYED from the
funeral and washed, remarked that whoever
pleased might attend the funeral, she wasn't
going to be bothered with it, The family
live in the northern part of this city, and her
heartleSs conduct has created quite a scnSl-
ton in the ncichhorhood where she i
known.
There IS a young woman in Marshall
county, Kansas, said to be heiress to an es-
tate of $4,000, 600 in England. The yarn
runs that she was brought to this country
by gypsy, having been stolen from her pa
rents-that she Is n member of one of the
noblest families of Great Britain-that the
old bag who brought her here confessed to
these facts upon the bed of death. The
Young woman has received letter from an
English lawyer who asks her TO 20 over and
take possession. And she i going over. to
the great grief ofall the marriageable young
men Of Kansas.
Marie Zoe, an actress of The French
Spy" and other half-naked 7roles, has been
figuring in the Chicago police court. The
Tribune mas traced her early history. and
found that she was member of an ari>to-
cratic indianapolis family, and once
reigning belle Driven from her home by a
cruel and unfounded report affecting her re-
putation, she embraced the stage As a pro-
iession, sank lower and lower, and finally
became the leading attraction at low va
riety theatre in Chicago. where she now
j.
e How beautiful is the flial love which
brings its bearer to obey, uuquestioning,
the commands Of a mother In Tribodaux.
La, an eight-ycar old cheruh was pestercd
time and again by al eighteen-ycar old
and complained at home Of the
treatment. The cherub's mother gave him
a knife, and told him when the monster
came again to cut him open. The monster
came again. the cherub obcyci his mother,
the monster sleeps in the valley, and his
murderer Is in Jail.
1t was in Albany. The man was strongly
in favor of the eight-hour movement. and
the woman was avcrSe To the new-langlcd
notion. So when he went home the other
evening for his supper, he found his wife
not in the best OF tempers, sitting in her
best clothes, on the front stoop. reading
volume Of travels. How : this?'' be ex-
claimed. where's my SUPPER Il don't
know. replied his wife II began to get
your breakfast at six O'Clock this morning.
and nv eight hours ended at > p m