The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1876-03-01

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has at heart
Fun. is il? You never saw such
fun as when the packages are opened.
and he Wall Street man who bid i've
dollars for tissue paper parcel finds
that il contains 6sligua SAUSAGE.
bought on the way up town by tuu
loving mstrop, or the stiff bachelor
bids If Il girls powder aud rouge
box or a frisky young married W.
man fnd- pound ei SUI king tahac-
co in hers Not vefv great or high.
tened amusement, Ike the informal
onierieS, upon Park avenue, where
The elect decide the movements of
powers and parties in the interval of
serious firting and composing serene
epigrams.
LEAP YEAR PARTIES
are discreetly INDUCED in. with the
name of two or three married ladies
of the highest standing at the head
of the invitation cards. a. vouchers
for decorum, and be chic of the at.
fairs.
The centennial had nearly put ii
out of peoples beads that this is leap.
year, with its perils and privileges.
But since the cabinet young ladies"
in Washington have-set the example
of honoriog the occasion by a ball.
leap-year Germans will vary the mo-
potonv of kettledrums and the glare
of public balls.
A KETTLEDRuM IN NEW YORK
Did hear a quiet old ladv mot to
mention a young one) saw that she
would like to know what is meant bv
a kettledrum? With all the pleas
ure 10 life. II is the English custom of
inviting ones acquaintance to fash
iouable FIVE O'Clock tea, to which the
ladies go in their bonnets, tn gossip
an hour with cups of tea in their
hands, served with verv thin wafer-
1t is essentially a city institution bv
which n good many persons who see
each other often are got together,
and an hour is made TO do duty for a
good deal of civility For the coun-
try, the old fsshi,ned tea-drinkings
are in better taste. and are given with
zest by ladies' of suburban towns,
who like to play at being neigbborly
in the old wav.
ness. will not hesitate to probe for
truth in whatever direction it lies.
II is possible that Plymouth Church
has counted too libcrallv on Or Ba-
cons support in the Council. Al
ready, shrew questioning has drawn
out the order nf action in Mrs Monl-
toms case, 10 which the ingenuity of
Plymou'h Church msneuvring ap-
pears TO better advantage than it's
honesty by long sight 1t didn't
propose to go on with the Cnuncil in
spite af it's own protest, till it was
sure that Brs. Ssorrs and Buddington
we're pretty certain not to come.
Plymouth Church and its pastor are
always maguanimous when there is
nothing to lose All the social arts
of the society are brought to bear on
the delegates; they are kept supplied
with flowers, and the latest papers
to read, and ready for moline A
handsome lunch is spread for them
in the church parlor all the time, and
carriages are at their command. But
neither DIR. Bacon nor the Andover
Did | ever mention the friend who
used to call bis wife's kettledrums
Beecher parties, for be declared their
sole purpose was to get her friends
together 10 their best bonnets, to talk
over the latest of the Brooklyn scan
dal. That was long ago however.
At kettledrum to-day, like that TO
which my pretty neighbor has gone
this afternoon, one will meet dozen
magazine people, with their best man.
ners on, and their prettiest things to
say, two dozen handsome rich women
who pet the literary ones, and laugh
at their nice things, one or two lead
ing women afflicted with q desire to
be managing something, and who
a,e stirring their acquaintance up
on the momentOus question of hav-
ing a wonsn's banner at the Centen-
nial exhibition, as if il were the orig
inal matter of difference with King
George. They will then get what
they want there isn't one of their
friends who wouldd't give them u
subscription for banner for the
moon, ~ get rid Of them. Besides
these, few young men, who are at
leisure because they can't get any
thing to do, and parlor philosopher
or two will drop in to be the lemon
in the tea. You know the fsshions-
bles profess themselves unable to
drink tea without slice Of lemon in
it. In The Russisn manner
OLD CHINA.
Fine ladies are getting as tond Of
old china Is they were IN Addison's
dag. But the difference is, that in
stead of filing their rooms with Chi
hese monsters, aud dragon tea cups,
they have taken TO making historical
collections of the various porcelsins
and potteries OF tfe world. A plate
of real Msjolica, or cup and saucer
Of royal sevres gives one esteem
among connoisseurs, as one who has
the right feeling for art" in this direc-
uon, but one who would win renown
among amateurs must haze at least
one broken-n0sed specimen Of all the
wares from the time Of Solomon
down. Cabinets, carved and velvet
liued, aye consecrated To these treas
ures, where the royal blue and gold
of true sevres aud the splendors Of
Dresden are surrounded by gaudy
Hungarian ware, in red, green and
yellow. Hideous Msdonnss in Ma
joiica, ugly as the painted plaster
parrots Yankee peddlers used TO ear
ry round, together with every spe-
cies of old English delf known to the
top shelves vi kitchen closets. Alive
to this increasing passion, an enter
prising speculstor has been securing
New England villages and South
Carolins hvmesteads Tor treasures Of
this sort, of whose value their own
ers never dreamed before. The sight
at the SvmervilIe auction rooms
where they were sold this week was