Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-02-24

bc acquiescence in it, no matter
which way 1t goes.
Lent is on us, and fashionable
New York mortides the flesh iol
forty days. During that time the
fashionable woman is expected to
get down into the valley and shad
ow of humility, and this she does
by eating no meat, and abstainlne
from wOrldlincss altogether. This
is accomplished by dropping all
high colors in dress, by res0lutelA
refusing to dance, and letting par.
ties severely alone. They humilate
themselves in dark velvets at Sl5
u yard, and black lace to match.
and in that humble garb-dark col
ored, mind you-dance in the after
moons. In eating they distinguish
themselves. The good natnrcd biSh
OPP generally gives all who can tell
a white lie n dispensation to eat
meat, but those too conscientious ia
ask it manage to drag cut IL hungry
and notifying existence on soups,
fish, eggs, and a thousand Other
preparations. Potted and spiccl
meats not coming inside the restric
tion, they manage very well. Nurs
ing mothers are allowed meat, to
give them strength, and so every
mother whose child is nourished by
a wet nurse escapes the prohibition,
and INDUCES in steaks and roasts
as usual. She probably eats meat
to give the nurse strength. Lent is
y good thing for a fashionable wo.
man. After q seasons hard dane.
ing and theatre.gOing it is well to
have forty days of quiet, in which
to mediate on her sins, and decide
what she shall get for Ter spring
and see that they are prop.
erly made up. Then there are the
art galleries to 60 to, and the shops,
with quiet card parties in the even
ing. The services in the churches
make a very good substitute for the
opera, especially as only opera sing,
crs are employed in the cho:rS.
Fashionable religion is a very salts
factory thing. The yoke is made
very easy.
There are fifty thousand men in
the City of New York out of work ,
with every prospect of remaining So
I'LL Spring opens. There was but
little building last summer, there
has been none doing this winter.
and in all the mechanical pursuits
has been the rule. Every.
body wears their boots and clothes
il month or two longer than they
did, and nobody buys anything in
the way of furniture or furnishing
who can + POSSIBLY avoid it, and con-
sequently heavy per cent. of those
formerly employed in these pursuits
are sitting still, and many Of them
You can get men by the
hundred for so cents a day, and
strong men are willing to take office
boys places at 81 a week. The wa
ges that are paid are fearfully small.
A car.lriver, exposed to rain and
frost, standing on his feet from five
in the morning till ten or eleven at
night, gets Sl.SG day. "Its hard
imes," said Que to me; "but villa,
ire YOU going to do? If | should
luit, there would be a thousand ap-
Dlyin' for the place in an hour. Pm
glad to get even this" And wo-
men ! why an advertisement for
woman to do anything, at any price.
will bring u thousand answers bv
'oon of the day it appears. The
are overwhelmed, and pri.
individuals are beset. The profess
'ional mendicant, with a thousand
different lodges, takes away a large
art of what the really honest poor
'ught to have, and so half fed, and
'ot clothed at all, they exist some.
low waiting till the Spring opens.
md some kind of business com
ncnces.
Begins to show slight improve.
nent. There are a great many Ter
lants in the city from the South
nd West, and they are buying
lore literally than for some time
he resumption of business by the
manufacturers of New England is
Ding something to make a better
ceiling, and the indications are that
here will be good business for
lese times in the Spring.
PRAYER IN WALL STREET.
The most curious phase of the
eligious feeling now prevailing, is
he prayer-meetings daily for the
Vail Street gamblers. The bulls
nd bears have been finally touch
d, and the place of meeting is dai
7 thronged with them. And they
how great deal of feeling. Let