Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-01-11
Lciter from Boston.


she takes possession Of our houses chooses
our carpets, arrangcs our dnpery. dictates
the stvle of furniture ott,nds to ,l,o oio, aud
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'l'0''''' "'"b' '"i Ii''"'o'
anu IIuIBes our orhainehts' Selects the pat
tern of our table linen, and lays down arbitra-
~ rules regarding table decoration. Just at
present she is interesting herself worry oreotlv
In this last mntter and She has olreodV inst
tuted n new departure Our china closets oro
TO be revolutionized CHANGED almost bevond
Il chance of recognition All the suddenly
revived interest i'm notterv has been product.
i've of good in more WAYS than one. and not
only do we feel this accelerated interest in
decorative art in our ornaments and odd hits
of ware, but in our table furnishing AS well
10 Won know my, door that l,o ola t,si,
lin,
''"ou 'i"' VIM" ""'c 10 'ic present l"Be'
ana tI"t II IL last taking the place OF the
white china which has 50 long held the place
of honor on our tables. Doesn't your heart
,y,,r, to,y,r1s ;t. ,l,t Quaint oil chino ,1,,t
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bi''i'''.'" i.'7l ''''"'' '",'i' "u" 'i''
she cluhS lohdIy 10 III spite OF all modern IN
novations Has ever anything tasted so good
since, as the dinner did. eaten of from those
ammo bluc ,l,t,s with thoir ,,,oo,. ,o,,odos
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N.ii'i,''S "s"'''i''' o''' iooAiHS DOu'S'
ana iliprohable trees covered WIN Impossible
foliage. | wonder if you've studied these pic
lures. with their utter DISREGARD of perspec-
tive ne bovo dopo Tho, voro a dal;obt to
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NV III '"' O"'i'''.''" u'! Dc 'i'iiiA my "ii
he quite as mU'h dehght TO me now. It's
no new fashion attracting by its novelty, but
a revival of one of the dearest old fashions
That over WINS full nf srg,..tinu mud ro,nonca
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nm" " 'ii'' "'''i" was i''''', III
LnBl'hu over h'uur'u years ago ana III
Canton long before that know roony old
house in New Hampshire in one of whose
closets is cherished set with only few
pieces missing. That set Of china travelled
from the Massachusetts colony. long years
ago, into the very heart Of the wilderness
when New Hampshire and Vermont were
provinces of New York in the days Of the
I II ana indian war before the famous
,,,ti;,i,t1 "''on '', i ui''tioi w. J..
the mass Of neo,,le. who bnJ nnyrr tbonobt
of throwing oil allegiance to King George
What stories that china would tell If it could
Spe"A oi long u'3 ana nights IN the wilder
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BRUSHING Of laof was listenaJ IN with ar5,re-
henson, for it might be followed by the wild
war whoop OF the sayagos; of the building of
tie now nome, OF the gradual growth Of clvi-
i'A"tiun' VI 'iie iIili! 'n"' gre" UP ana went
s.Ivas. of tbo co,,i,,,, lo,,,.. t rI,rts,,;,;,,
when the old house was once AGAIN thronped
with children; the old walls echong to child
lsh woes and the Old floor r,sounding with
.lu l'".'.' "a .,i'i''7n i'e'i anu %L"' an IN
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have looked natural without them Is il nny
wonder that one of the grandcl ldreu. who is
now grandmother herself, should cherish
"Ia' leIt ana hoiu '"-iI ~, something sa-
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urrs. INV is ysr,. ro,,,t,,,,1rt tbs Other
day at Jones. McDuilue a. Strattou's. holding
place oi honor in this museum Of pottery,
Aob-nubbIAs with Dresd u, tlho"ng Sevres,
and asserting its artistic merit in the face of
painted Fnlcrcc. ! asked one Of the men,
bers of the firm, If il, too. Lad q story, ID
learned that 1t was only modern copy of the
old original made for the benefit Of those
who haven't precious hcirlooms in the shape
Of grandnamG' dinner sets This ware
has always been in universal rIse in England
house, which sets fashion in crockery for the
West rs well as New England, to import it for
their customers, and you have no idea how
eagerly 1t has been received. It has almost
entirely superseded white ware, and Is found
on all the best appointed tables. White china.
lovely as 1t IS, Is snare and deiusion, and
hol TO De INDUCED IN unless one Is prepared
hi,, 70 ug It i'i'isiiins H. se"A rom
in lis tirsi ,e,rr,.. Inst aIa., H.. d,iItInHss
and purity does not last. especially when it is
turned over TO the teu1er morcc- of Bridget,
dretohen or Oman, VINO rules over the kitch-
en- anu EXTENDS Aer sway 70 uinlhs room ana
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0i'N" WIN. "'' 4''''' uei''"'e
white French china. had everything com
plete. My cups and saVcer7 were daintiness
itself. They were so trausparcrI; tina, the
oelor IS ,l,, 60, ~. ,,ra. ,i,,,.,.,1 +,.u,.,,,,i
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