The Republican journal., 1875-11-11
LETTER FROM BOSTON.
GOrreSnnnGancp of the Journal

are delicious, and those fortunate creatures
who have sound minds and sound bodies need
nothing to make them happy but vigorous
walk in the semi-rural suburban precincts, or
i'll the crowded streets which are now full of gay
life and sunshine. 1t is on these days that hu-
manty seems so fair. Its face is neither red
with intense heat or blue with disfguring cold,
but there is that pretty flush on the cheek and
sparkle in the eye that Il bracing air imparts so
artistlcally. AS to costumes, the ladies are like
so many hummng birds. The brilliant plum
age seen on every side would almost persuade
one that he had been magicay ushercd into
mammoth aVlary. The women seem to feel
that it is their duty to supply the color to the
landscape which nature has just finished strip
ping from every twg and bough and bank.
Where do they learn it? ] am sure it is not
acquired, but an artistic instinct, and the same
that prompts them to shun every thing ugly and
disagreeable, Ottentimes to the extent of COM
hitting acts of great injustice and intlicting
great mental pain.
But to come back to people-who after all
and with their innumerable imperfcetions, are
the most fascinating objects of interest in life.
A city is the centre of attraction towards which
at certain times exceptional persons are drawn.
And this is one of those jolly times I've count
ed the past week dozen or more prominent in
dividualS on the street. will tell you about
them. First there is 'riticrs who may be seen
i'll the morning alightng from her carriage in
Music Hall Place for rehearsal. And such n
mountain is she is, tlwarng all who come in
contact with her to mere children. Fuller and
larger than Parcpa in every way she has not
the sweet, fair face that redeemed the latter
wholly from suggestion of grossncss. Titiens
face is broad and thoroughly German, and con-
scquently TO our American eyes, lacks that look
of dclicacy we consider the essential accompa-
niment of refinement. No one, however, can
doubt for moment that She has Il heart in pro-
portion to her great size. The expression OF
her face is kindly and generous, and you feel
sure what is said of her is true, that she has
never had Il jealous thought of rivals, or har-
bored for I'M instant any of the littlenesseS that
characterize so many of her profession. In the
street Titicns dresses richly. but plainly ON
the platform her toilcttes are elegant, but they
are made in accordance with the English fash
loil toitldttS lul w ultsScS
but the low corsage and almost invisible sleeve.
Such a style of dress is wholly unsuied to IL
ITEMS figure, at least according to American
ideas of propriety. Her diamonds are magn-
ticent, and great fortune in themselves, and
represent the favor with which she is regarded
by foreign nobility. Thursday night Madame
Rudcrsdorf gave Il reception for Titcns, with
whom she ntjnlatp in ENGLAND
both having lived as neighbors III st. Johns
Wood. Titiens is staying at the Revere House,
and has for Il companion her only unmarried
niece.
Miss Kellogg, who has been singing here in
opera the past week, is another person who, as
she passes along the street. always attracts at
tenton. She is handsomely dressed, and walks
a bright, Independent, sef-assurcd way with
her. that tells plainly that she feels She has
done well in making her way in life. And so
she has. One remarkable thing about her is
that with all her youth, beauty, and public life,
no whisper of scandal has eyer tainted her re-
putation. She and her mother are able iinan-
ciers, and no manager can boast of getting the
better of either of them in a bargain. 1t is said
that the elderly lady is too sharp, and Operates
the talents Of Clara Louise; but what mother
does not think her only child the brightest and
the best?
Then there is General Fitzpatrick, cXuberant
over the success of his new lecture, ''The Irish
Soldier in the Rebellion" and rushing of to
the depot to fill engagements i'll some of the
| towns hereabout, before starting west. No
body i'll the lecture field appears more in love
with the peculiarly hard work of his profession
than Gen. Fitzpatrick. He loves three things,
tive audience and his farm, which latter when
he is on it, and busy with drawing and build
ing fish ponds, he hates to leave even to write
Il lecture. one habit the General has Which he
acquired in the army, and which gets the bet
ter of him occasionally, and that is the use OF
| forcible language. lie tells the story himself
of how this habit cost him, Il while ago, some
rcmuneratiye engagements. Moody, the noted
| reviyalist, was Il few years since connected with
| Il successful course of lectures. He had twice
engaged Fitzpatrick. who. on both occasions
gave great satisfaction. But one day the Cen
eral, fresh from a farther western campaign,
met Moody and rushing up to him, shook the
reyivalist's hand heartily and exclaimed, slow
are YOU? I'm d--tl glad to see you" The ar
dent religious brother drew himself up, and
said reprovingly, ''I'd rather you wouldn't be
quite so glad, General" And he never asked
Fitzpatrick to lecture for him again
Mrs. Scott Sid,ionS is back again. looking even
more handsome than usual by reason of some
additional flesh which the summers rest has
given her. She stops at Parker's, too, and is
admired by every attendant in the establish
ment, because of her gracious bearing. She is
the most popular person on the platform, with,
perhaps, the single exception Of Cough. She
commands $3.50, and never less than 5000 for
a single reading, and is engaged almost six
nights in the week throughout the season. But
still she is not rich, nor even on the road to
wealth, for she has husband who does moth
ing more than appreciate, probably, the means
of his support, and prove his wiie's greatest
trial. Their hotel expenses are enormous,
which, it is said, is by no means due to Mrs.
Scott Siddons. The other evening at this pop
ular woman's first appearance here this season,
she wore rich and very becoming dress Of
garnet velvet and brOcade silk, trimmed with
fine wax beads, Stimulating seed pearl embroid-
cry. Mrs. Sidtlons has many personal friends
in this city, and all admire the brave spirit
with which She bears up under constant care,
prompting her to affect not to see what others
see all too plainly.
Lillian Edgarton was another imposing and
notable figure in the past weeks gay panorama
She is Il large handsome blonde, and, like most
all large people, is generous, and moreover,
credulous to Il fault She dresses plainly, wears
no jewelry, and yet is very snowy. Not many
years ago she ran sewing machine in one Of
the ready made costume stores here, but now
she earns Il handsome income, and spends it
literally for the benefit of members of her
family. She is very popular in the West, and
is growing rapidly in favor here. She has had
to contend with the opposition of her own sex,
and the sneers of the women sullragsts, who,
it is sad to have to say, are not always charita-
HE or even inst with those whose theories are