Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-07-01

OUR NEW YORK LETTER.

OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
Perfect n.;,, p,ays-s're't see"ery-F"'h'o"s
PERFECT DAYS.
Now or never, as the poet says,
they come, and this June deserves
special mention as being the best
OF its kind. The mortal who wants
anything better than this cool, half
shady, sunshiuy weather, ought TO
60 to Philadelphia Oh an excursion.
He would come back ready to ap.
preciate his blessings. The city has
not had so healthy and clear an at
mosphere in summer since the
Tweed ring was in power.
STREET SCENERY.
The street vendors are not behind
their brethren in Philadelphia in
taking hold Of the Centennial. They
show their patriotism by selling flags
of every size, tri-colored neck bows.
and badges, and small cannon, and
air guns, to celebrate the Fourth
chcaply; but the last notion is the
Centennial pocket-handkerchief,
which is nothing more nor less than
a brilliant United States flag. with
stripes and Union fairly blazing, OF
a size to carry in the pocket, This
is the elimination Of patriotism.
The idea of wiping ones nose on
the flag is the very last way of show
ing respect for it that could have
entered the head Of mortal, and no
one but a very smart Yankee, with
the essence of three Jubilecs and
CentennialS concentrated in his DO.
som, would ever have invented.
FASHIONS.
The new coaching hats are awak-
ening the astonishmcnt of our coun-
try cousins, and no wonder. These
enormous editices for the head be
'ong to the time when everybody
went in coaches, that is unless they
did like most every one in those
times and stayed ut home. Coach
ing hats are the toughest of rough.
and.ready brown straw, with the
brim and high crown about the size
for convenient beehive. The brim,
edged with silver cord and turn
ed up at the side, with two long
feathers shading the crown. They
are worn OFT the face, as one sees
them in old English pictures, and a
fresh young face looks very piquant
under it's load, but it takes mira
Gle of deicacy to wear one without
looking fast. All the summer hats
have followed the Gainsborougb
lead, with shady brims turned up,
and dropping plumes, and branches
of flowers hanging at the back.
Ready.made clothing was never
so cheap or so good as now. Wo
men can outwit the dressmakers,
when they can go to any store and
buy the trimmest, prcttlest of per
Gale morning dresses, with .jaunty
basque, overskirt in the latest style,
and flounces complete, and what is
more, made as neatly as any woman
would make one for herself for,
what do you guess? just 81, ali
told. An embroidered linen suit,
of newest pattern, only costs from
SS to $40, and what is the use of
people sewing their eyes out this
lovely June when such prices rule I?
Chow can they be SO cheap? ?" every
woman asks, for our dressmalers
will not make the goods up for that
money. The secret lies in the di-
vision of labor and in system, mad
am. Girls who will not do decent
work if engaged independently to
sew in private family, find that
they must keep to the mark under
the eye of a skilled superintendent,
who knows how to get work out Of
hands. And fifty girls working to.
gether, Systematically, will do three
times what they would working sep
arately the same length of time.
The only way to get decent per-
Torrance from city work hands is to
put them into factories, with over.
seers and forewomen, engaged to
turn out a certain amount daily,
and responsible to the head of the
establishment.
And, by the way, does it occur to
you that everything in the way OF
dress goods is down below the prices
before the war? 1t is true, and glad
am | that it is true, though therein
lies the secret of so many failures
among the merchants.
The nomination of Hayes and
Wheeler at Cincinnati was received
by the Republicans of the city with
the widest enthusiasm, and by the
Democracy with tho most intense
disgust. Both sides concede that
the ticket is the very strongest that
could have been made; and both
sides-one openly and the other pri,
vately.-concede it's election. The
World and the Express, the princi-
pal Democratic papers of the city,
are frantically endeavoring to find
something against them, but in vain,
the Tribune, which has been Glib.
eral" since the Greeley campaign,
gives it fair support; the Times is
enthusiastically supporting it, and
the Republicans, without a dissent
ing voice, are throwing up their hats
for the coming men. There never
was q ticket nominated which so
thoroughly united the party, nor one
that commanded more earnest {
The decent portion of the !
Liberal Republicans have come out !
squarely for it, and thousands of !