The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1876-02-24

tOgetner IN their pest DOnnetS, 70 lain
over the latest of the Brooklyn scan
DIAL. 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 . desire to
be managing something, aud who are
stirring their scauaintances upon the
momentous question Of having a wo.
mems banner at the Centennial exhi-
bition, as if it were the original mat
ter of difference with King George.
They viii get what they want; there
isn't one of their friends who wouli't
give them subscription for a banner
for the moon, to get rid of them.
Besides these, few young men, who
are at leisure because they can't get
anything to do, and parlor philoso-
pher or two will drop in to be the
lemon in the tea. You know the
fashionable profess themselves unable
to drink tea without slice Of lemon
in it, in the Russian manner.
OLD CHINA.
Fine ladies are getting as fond Of
old china as they were in Addison,s
day. But the difference is, that, in
stead of filing their rooms with Chi
nese monsters, and dragon tea cups,
they have taken to making historical
collections Of the various porcelains
and potteries of the world. A plate
OF real Maiolica, or q cup and saucer
of royal sevres gives one esteem
among connoisseurs, as one who "has
the right feeling for art" in this di'
rection, but one who would win re.
nown among amatuers must have at
least one broken nosed specimen o.
all the wares from the time of Solo
mon down. Cabinets, carved and
velve1-Iined, are consecrated to these
treasures, where the royal blue and
gold of true seyres and the splendors
OF Dresden are surrounded BY gaudy
Hungarian ware, in red, green and
yellow. Hideous Madonnas in Ma o-
lica, ugly as the painted plaster par
rots Yankee pedlers used to carry
round, together with every species of
old English deli known to the top
shelves of kitchen closets. Alive to
this increasing passion, an enterpris-
ing Spectator has been securing New
England villages and South Carolina
homesteads for treasures of this sort,
of whose value their owners never
dreamed before. The sight at the
Somerville auction rooms where they
were sold this week was very funny.
1t looked as if all the property of a
country village was there for veniue.
Sets upon sets of blue Eas, India
china, and odd pieces of cracked
cream.colored wedgewood with black
tracings, fragments of old English tea
sets of pretty chintz patterns, scara-
mouch Holland painted ware, and
English blue dinner services, rehears.
ing the history of DR.. Syntax on their
pictured sides, or scenes from the
war of Independence, including por-
traits of George Washington, where
in sort of indigestion Of
china. The ugliest old pots and ba-
sins were there, with some really
superb Staffordshire and handsome
bits Of Flemish pottery, long-necked
straigh.-sided pitchers and jars EN-.
bossed in indigo blue. was shown
a yellowish wedgewood pitcher, as
common looking as the cheapest
kitchen ware of to-day, the mate OF
which brought $500 at yesterdays
auction. Let me warn all readers who
think of selling their grandfather
furniture, or their grandmother's
crockery for old rubbish, to be care
full what they are about, for they may
be throwing away small fortune. l
the man who had half a dozen sill
Washingtons to sell happens to have
any old tea sets or odd pieces, 1.-THE
more forlorn the better, he wants IL
trade, l will be happy to talk with
! him.
BUSY WOMAN.
If any of the girls who read this
have an ambition to dabble in litera-
ture, | hope they may prove as capa-
bic of work and have as pleasant