The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-03-23
COMMON SENSE.
The British Minister'S Family Setting a
Good Example
But she's stil

The British ministers Family Setting a
Good Example
The Washington correspondent of the !
Cincinnati Gazette writes that Sir Ed
ward Thornton and family set a NEST
excellent example, in the matter of dress, |
TO Washington society, and one that
Americans generally might heed to ad-
vantage This declaration is called out
| by an incident which occurred on the
avenue a few bright days ago, when all
of fashionable life here that could get out
was on the promenade. The matinee at
| the principal theater was just pouring
out its crowd, made up largely Of young
| ladies dressed in all the agOnies of the
| STYLES, to swell the tide, when the En-
glish minister and two daughters ap-
peared upon a crossing which led dag
| Onally along the line of the five hundred
| bedecked American women. As if by
| common impulse the whole crowd caught
the sight, and all caught themselves
| taking a look at once. Sir Edward
! Thornton is known to all in Washington.
| His is a striking figure, and he walks and
rides so often that every one recognizes
him. 1t was not his appearance, how
ever, that drew such sudden attention
from this crowd of silks, laces, feathers
and iewelry but the dress Of the two
daughters walking one on each side of
him. There was the titled minister of
one of the greatest nations of the earth,
living here in the largest mansion of the
city, and giving now and then such en-
tertainments as eclipse all Others for their
elegance. His establishment Is a shrine
where all fashion which can obtain adj
mission wOTships. But for all this here
were Sir Edward and his daughters out
| ~. -,
review before hundreds of American wO-
men tricked out in all that the fashion
plates prescribe; and being out for a
walk, these high-bOTn young ladies were
setting their American cousins a lesson
which should have put eve~y one Of
them to the blush.
The En- glish ladies had on heavy boots
to begin with, so heavy that it was en-
tireIy unnecessary to dodge around the
damp spots in the avenue crossing
! Next, their arms were free, and not en-
gagged in holding up their trailing
dresses in which American female idiots
2 will persist in sweeping through the
filth of the streets. Their skirts not
only did not touch, but they were not 50
I low that every step spatteTed them with
concentrated nastiness. The skirts were
, plain, and of plain material. There was
Y also an absence of the intricate hump
= ing-up, reeing-in, puliing-bacE, and
l bunching-Out which distinguish those
q whom Americans adore. But instead of
= all this each wore a plain, comfortable
. and decent walking-skirt. Each had
: on substantial cloak. but, horror of
4 horrors, they were cut in the style OF
i two winters ago. The chances are that
n the cut was that Of three seasons since.
E At any rate, that was the prevailing
- opinion in one group of Americans that
), di cussed the question with that eager
# ness which its Importance demanded.
L "The hOrrid things" said one, as she
a stepped into puddle and splasPed her
IS white stockings and the whole side of .
! white lace skirt she displayed as she was
' trying to hold it out Of the mud the
5 horrid things, those cloaks and skirts arc
n four seasons old, as Pm alive. And al
n the money they've got, too -
y Abominable ~ gaspcd another, il
= an under tone, as her own trail OF sill
D5 swept off the curb and into the gutter
,e where it soaked a moment, AbOmina
j. bleI What can the queen be thinking
about, If she knows what guys her i'm
E mediate representatives. make of them
selves in the capital of America
ls And 50 the minister and his daughters
~ all the pictures of health and vigOr0u
in | lie, moved along lle front OF llldl crow
III quite unconscious Of the universal atten
of ton they were exciting or Of the yaluabl
as lesson they were giving those who chose {
S learn it. But few Of those who did la
~ the lesson to heart will care to practiC
ne it, and probable not one who moves j
C the fashionable life Of Washington wi
in have the courage to initiate the good eH
to ample of these English ladies Of RAM
ed For if they did, you see, the young ger
e tIcmen who give the Germans-geHtl'
- men Hhc would at any time cNChang
&c their own number seven heads for nun
al Der four feet-wOuld never be seen wit
ir. them on the street, or at the opera, an
re. would never invite them to those ''diyir
ed dances" " And then what would Ii
mt mt be?'
ire DWELLINGS OF THE LAPLANDEIsS.-
10, The Lapland dwellings are constructe
''s on the simplest plan they raise foI
pieces Of wood, which support the bull
iS' ing; these are Joined to another plank
re- the top, which serves as a support for
~ number Of other planEs, giving TO q
he hut a figure shaped ike a bell ArouT
1iH the whole frame Is wound a coarse clOt
ate The rich employ a double covering
so cloth the better 10 preserve them trO
the the rain and the wind, while the 20
'ag employ turf The fire is in the midd
,Isu ,eu Of the hut, and the smoke goes out at
the hole at the Top. This fire Is continual
ill, burning The pot-hanger descends fro
in the root above the FIRE; sometimes {