Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-06-17
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
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THE CENTENNIAL.
Everybody is advising everybody
else to stay away, in the CONSTANT
manner of human nature, but no.
body seems to take the advice TO
heart. 1t is true that all the depart
ments are not In order, and proba-
bly, will not be much before the 4th
of July. There is enough now to
see that is of interest, but it will
not be advisable to visit the exhibi.
ton till after the middle Of this
month. Till the summer heats are
over, Philadelphia is one of the
hottest cities in the Union. 1t is not
on the coast directly, as is New
York and Boston, with sea breeze
of it's own to cool it each afternoon,
but is inland, and lies shut in from
the ocean winds, so that it lies bak.
ing in airless heat all midsummer.
The parties of country people com
ing from the Centennial are apt to
be cross and wiltcd-lo0king already,
their linen busters soiled and strin.
gy, their money used up pretty
closely, and the whole party foot.
sore, and tired of being crowded
and stared at by fine people. If
there are children along, they are
fractions with fatigue and excite
ment, their mothers wild with try
ing to keep them in order, till every
woman of them is willing to give
bonds, if she can only get home
again, never to leave it for score
of ccntcnnials. This is picture of
not few groups one sees leaving
the exhibition. | would advise hav-
ing all the children of neighbor-
hood boarded out by the stay-at'
homes in turn, while their fathers
and mothers 60 to the Centennial.
1t is no use trying to see it with chill
dren in tow; they don't see enough
to pay them for the trouble of 60
ing, and their room is wanted for
older folks. The young ones will
probably live to have centennials of
some sort when they are old enough
not to be nuisanceS. Let their pa.
rents 60 without them, and take
what comfort they can from the big
show; they will in most cases be
glad enough to get home, but will
have enough to talk about to last
them the rest of their regular lives.
NEW IDEAS.
The very change will do people in
the country good, by bringing them
face to face with the last produc
ton of civilization, and giving their
ideas friction with those of other
nations and classes. 1t takes such
occasions as II Centennial to bring
out the very folks who need to visit
fairs and expositions, the stay-at.
homes who hardly leave the town
they live in once in twenty years.
They are apt to carry home some
notions that astOnish the neighbors,
not so much with the novelty of
things themselves, as with the
strangeness Of seeing so and-so
adopt anything fresh, 1t is pleas
ing to see the alteration that pas
SEES over some groups as they grow
familiar with new modes and Gus
toms. They walk about the first
day awkward and old-fashioned
enough, the observed of all observ-
ers, or would be if there were not
so many old-fashioned to keep them
company. The next day the girls
have Il new necktie, the boys drop
The turn down collars for standing
ones, and they buy the old lady a
veil to cover her bonnet which isn't
the latest style. Then as the linen
busters get soiled and wrinkled, the
young men take courage, and find
ing how cheap clothing is in the
city, come out in a ready. made suit
of neat style, and while they are
about it, a fancy straw hat that
transforms them into very pleasant
specimen Of intelligent young Amer.
lean gentlemen, that is, presuming
them to have good manners to start
with, which most boys brought up
by good mothers, have, whether
they belong to country or town.
The girls, not to be behind, study
The way the city girls do up their
hair, and when they find their home.
made poplins growing too warm.
venture Oh an embroidered linen
lress or two, ready-made, and a lace
scarf to soften the effect round their
lecks. They get fresh gloves of
lice color and pin their dresses back
ike other folks when the brothers
INIT that they would like to see
hem look more like other folks
wen the old lady, by the time she
las a new polonaise, to keep her
ong veil company, looks quite re-
pectable, and when the whole par
J goes home, they take back a no
ion of living and appearing better
hat will do them good all their
ives to come.
A TRANSPORTATION.
One lady tried the virtues of city
hops in very satisfactory man
er. She was quite plain, with that
and high -brOwed
lainness which forms the most
opeless sort of bad looks. She
urnt her hair off frizzing it, and it
7Ould not disguise the severity of
er face. Even her devoted friends
'ished she could do something to l
1ake it easier to endure her looks.
While in the city one day she des- |
erately went to a Broadway ma. !,
ician, | was going to call her, but
really is a hair-dresser and cos
letlc artist, who understands the
TT of making the most of faces.
he plain lady sat down at the Golf ,
eur's glass and told her "Do what !
on can to make me look better.r =