The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1879-08-13

tFrom u Regular Correspondent,


LONDON, July 90, 1879.
The town is emptying rapidly ; the
season il almost 1t IN end. There
has been. again. In the course Of the
now practically moribond season, .
much larger average than usual Of
court mourning. One sinister event
after another has thrown royalty into
sables the fashionable and middle
class society being both highly int
tative bodies, mourning as prescribed
by the court circular, has meant more
or less modified black garments 10
many grades Of the social scale. The
energetic proprietors Of "msgssins de
denilr may well have profted from
The circumstance OF there having been
what physicians and undertakers
used &c call - nice sickly season !"
but their feelings Of complaeency may
not have been shared by the MERGERS
and milliners who paryey the new
est spring fashions" and ''the latest
summer novelties The coal mer-
chants again may rejoice when they
remember that the keeping up Of
roaring fires in May and June this
year has been, under stress of wealth
er, by no means uncommon and the
umbrella manufacturers may con
graduate themselves on the long se-
ries of sloppy victories achieved by
Jupiter Pluvius over the "Lord of
the Silver Bow" Still tailors and
dressmakers have had little reason to
be pleased with q summer at the
height of which gentlemen were fam
to walk abroad in last winters ul-
sters, and ladies, instead of appearing
in those radiant and diaphanous cos
tunes which Mr. Absolon and Mr..
Tissot paint 80 deftly, have crept to
and from their carriages clad in wa
te%r-proofs or in fur-lined nantes
when they have mustered up cour-
age enough to go shopping. The be-
neficent Fates, on the other hand,
rarely shut u door without opening
another.
Amid all the social woes with
which we have been afflicted, there
has been in many directions compen-
%sation. Those spirited and skillful
confectioners who minister to the
comforts of residents and visitors,
must have done on the whole, remark
ably well, and the worthy West-end
butcher might join hands with the
estimable West-end fish monger in
gratitude at the close Of. q session,
during which, despite many depress-
ing circumstances, their commodities
have been in considerable demand.
The position of the green-grocer has
been most pitiable, for owing to the
absence of sunshine and the SUPER
fluffy of rain, he has scarcely any
thing to sell except water-ssturated
potatoes, insipid strawberries, puny
peas, and cherries composed mainly
of stalks, skins, and stones. The for
lists, especially those with o large
command Of Conservatives, are less
to be commiserated. Their profits
this season should have been very
big, indeed. The modern love for
flowers in fashionable London society
is attaining the proportions OF q
mania. A splendid profusion of the
~fairest gifts of Flora, is visible where
ever society congregates. On the
h%ymeneal altar and on the dinner ta-
bic, on the ballroom staircase, and in
the palace vestibule, in the button
hole of the dandy, and on the shoul.
der of beauty, in bouquets, at operas
and theatres, and on wreaths and
crosses, the lid of the cofin, and the
verge of the tomb, flowers are uni
versally present. 1t is q very sweet,
tender, and beautiful usage, and o re-
markably good thing in the way of
business for the fashionable florists.