Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-12-01


Woman first tempted man to eat he took
to drinking on his own account.
Talking Of dress reform, the Worcester
corset Company produces 10000 dozens Of
sewed corsots year.
Linen cambria handkercbiefs, embroidered
heavily in cardinal red and navy blue, are
among the latest imported novelties.
Pretty tinted.edged rufus and lines col.
lars are Ia mode for morning wear, aud
for travelling. This style is recherche for
morning driving.
Among the more recent novelties of dress
are "Gwendolen" bonnets and "Deronda"
cravats. So much for the elevating influence
of woman or literature.
A new style Of stationary exhibits colored
rebus instead Of the usual monogram, and
this, after little study, is found to read,
al expect reply from you"
Don't como to sec me Just yet, John
father has had his boots half.soed, with two
rows Of nails around the toes" wrote
guileless girl to her adorer.
Boston girls generally write poems on the
Immortality of the soul until they are old
enough to swing on the garden gate with
young man Of honorable intentions.
The wife is very anxious to stop taking
her medicine because il is destroying her
voice. The husband sympathizes deeply,
but tells her it is not safe to discontinue it.
Velvet cloaks are not considered fashion
able this year myrtle green is the fashiona-
BILE Of invisible sAades. 1t is good taste to
be married in the dress you will wear on
your journey"
Number SIX" is the favorite size in
ladies gloves, "number eight in gentlemen's
boots Glad of it, number eight, just III.
tie enlarged, is our size for boots. Nothing
like being in fashion
For the convenience of visitors, the guest
chamber in every house should be supplied
with writing facilities, as often a visitor
would like to write n note or letter when it
would be inconveient to ask for writing ma.
terials
When Boston girl breaks her engage
ment with man, and her friends expostulate
with her. she has only to say that his views
on the theosophic doctrine Of cosmogony are
false, and at once realise the peril of marry.
ing such man
A woman came slowly along the Main
building. She was in great perplexity, but
being wise woman, she stopped to ask
for information, and this is what she asked
Can you tell me, sir, is this the other end
of the buiIdng?"
doctor" said lady to her physician,
don't you think the small bonnets that the
ladies wear nowadays have a tendency to
produce congestion of the brain ?" "No,
madam where you see one Of those bonnets
there is no brain to longest"
| donald" said Scotch dame looking up
from the Catechism, to her son, whats
SANDER ?" "a SANDER, guide mither "quoth
young Donald, twisting the corner of his
plaid. "A.weel | hardly ken, unless it be
mayhap an overture tale which one guide
woman tells O. anither."
Charles Dudley Warner says his observa-
ton in the east affords conclusive evidence
against Mohammedanism as it shuts woman
away from all culture, intellectual social or
religious. Any system Of religion or morals
which ignore woman's equal worth with man
is Of necessity false.
A maiden lady said to her little nephew :
Now, John, you 60 to bed early, aud al
ways do so and you'll be rosy checked aud
handsome when you grow up" Johnny
thought over this few moments, and then
observed "Well aunt you must have set
up good deal when you were young
1t seems to US it would be a matter OF
mutual benefit if farmers wives and daugh-
ters would ask more questions, and answer
more inquiries through the FARMER Even
So ask all the questions you wish and we
will do our best to secure satisfactory re-
plies. Bacon said, ale that asks much shall
learn much"
Tiffany, the great New York jeweller, dis.
played at the Centennial, arranged on one
tray, about eighteen inches long by twelve
in width, 100000 worth of brilliant and
costly jewels. Two sets of eardrops were the
size Of marble each An ornament for the
hair, shaped like peacock's tall contained
briliants about the diameter of lead pencil,
interspersed with pearls and emeralds.
The Albany Journal says: The follow
ing colloquy between a loving pair was over
heard on Pearl street Sunday night is il
so, that Tllden's president ?" quoth she. 'Ye
may behave that, Rosie, an I'm to be letther
carrier Are ye, Patrckr Yes re-
spondcd Patrick, AN then I'll bring yc a
love letther livery day 20, ye jewel !"
There are not many changes in ladies fur
hats. A new and very jaunty shape is the
coaching. 1t has high crown aud broad
brim, which rolls on one side aud droops OF
the other. Another is the military. Thil
turns up quite high on one side, with very
narrow brIm. Another is the close-fttng
shape, similar to those shown in felt, called
the boulevard
Seal.skin also has the preference for sets
For more choice goods otter is preferred
Boas are made two yards in length, muff
are the medium size of last winter. Ameri
can sable still meets with ready sale, con
tinung the iavorte OF those who prefer quail
ity to novelties. A novelty in cheap good
is the black hare. These are shown in plar
sets, while others have white hairs sewed ii
at intervals.
Col. Higginson, whose opportunities ar
such as few enjoy, has reached this concu
sion respecting the hollowness aud practica
uselessness of what is by so many regarded
as first class society, which frequent watering
! places and similar resorts. He adds: at,
be at the head Of normal school, or to be
professor in a college where co.educatiou pre-
walls, is to be a sway over the destinies o.
: America which reduces all mere social pc
stion' to a matter of cards and compliment
and pages buttons"
Cardinal red ladies' morning wrapper
trimmed with bands Of white India cashmere
wrought with India needle work are tn
i latest in fashionable circles. Wrappers