Litchfield enquirer., 1879-05-08


 saved three dollars besides, can now attend P. ITS circus, 'just to see the animals, that's ali"
 "Wednesday, the ladies met at D. Burn hams Hall to make the church carpets The carpets were not quite finished and will have to be attacked again, but the news was con- pletely exhausted.
 -Business must be revivng if signs of the times are to be relied on. MT. F. E. Jenks, has opened dry goods and grocery store in the northern part of E. H. Beardsley's leather and harness warerooms.
 Some improvements are in progress at the parsonage, formerly known as the Deacon Hatch place. Rev. J. V. Griswold, owner of the place, has purchased of Miss Fanny Ack- ley the ''Rockery," a small piece of rocks and briars which joined the premises, cleared off the brambles, and is building new fences, &c Jesse Barden superintends the carpenter work.
 Noble Bolles and Henry Gillette have been transplanting elm trees before their resi- dences to take the place of the fine old naples destroyed last fall by the hurricane. That street must now be called Elm Street -Hurrah! Another temperance worker ad- ded to the list And there's one good thing about him, too; when proposition or action is not according to his ideas of proprety, he straightway lets everybody know that he doesn't like it. He'isnt afraid to let his voice be heard, and the president of the temperance union, E. H. Beardsley, at whose house he is stopping, stands ready to tell you there never was such fellow. All we can say is, ''Born, May 3d. 1879, son to Mir. and Mrs Edwin H. Beardsley!"
 Mir. Lawsons lecture came of, Saturday night, as was advertised There were not SO many present as we expected to see on such beautiful moonlight night. Probably agricul- turlsts were too much used up with their en- deavers to prepare for harvest to come far to a lecture.
 Miss Julia Averill came home Friday, from Maplewood Institute, sos to be present. at the celebration of the anniversary of her grand-mOther's, Mrs Betsey Averill's ninety second birthday, which occurred Monday, the 9th inst. This old lady rode one mile to church, last Sunday, and although 92 years of age, walked up the aisle with more alacrity than many of half her age. She retains all her faculties to remarkable degree: Her memory is as bright as ever, her eyesight and hearing good, and she still likes to engage in conversation.
 J. T. Whittlesey, we hear, is very sick with lung fever. Truly this family has been visited OCT much. Within few weeks they have lost their three children, and now both MT. & Mrs. Whittlesey are sick, though Mrs. Whittlesey is slowly recovering.
 At the regular temperance meeting, We'd nesday night, the officers of the Union for the coming year will be chosen.
 -"Variety is the spice of life," is an old saw that holds good in missionary meetings as we'll as everywhere else. The exercises, Sunday night, were varied by the reading of ''The Missionary star," paper very well ed tied by Miss Carrie Bolles and Freddie Will Hams. Miss Bolles read the first half; Mr. Williams, the last. It was interesting, espec- ially the story of "Rev. Jonas Hepson and the Tramp" and the HI. Family" Suppose we have another issue.
 -"Plymouth Sketches says, in his opinion, our communications contain an average of too much masculiness to be the production of any ordinary woman.' Now that is rather vague, and will be, till he explains what he means by masculneness. Perhaps where, in speaking of Harwinton and New Preston cor- respondents, he says, Ready, bold, free, full of dash and gossip prolific in news items, with ideas we'll expressed" etc., may serve as 8 key to the mystery of that word We never suspected those qualities were the outgrowth of masculineness; and if they are, we wish more and more women had masulineness It seems to us that the world has fallen into a bad way of speaking of every woman who has robust health, a vigorous brain, and sharp and retentive mental faculties, as masculine" |" just as if she couldn't be womanly and possess these qualifications On the other hand, those lack-brain, lackadaisical, valetudnarian we- men who sit in the window, work mottoes and fancy edgings, read novels necessarily, and wouldn't walk two miles to save themselves from death; wear trails two yards in length, contract their waists till they faint in church, use French complexion powder, never discuss anything but spring bonnets and the latest bias-cu who haven't the ability nor inclina- tion, ne matter if "matters don't go to suit" to ''make things lively in any sense,-these are called delicate, refined, feminine" Car oline Herschel was feminine, we warrant, even if she did know more about calculation, the stars and astronomy, than her brother. And a good many know Gail Hamilton" to be 8 ready, vigorous, sharp, acute, and, when need full, cutting wielder of the pen. When "things don't go to suit'' she doesn't shut herself in dark room, and pout and weep her eyes out, and have mysteries for a week. Never! She pretty quickly ''makes it lively" for some body. Is there ''too much masculineness' in her productions? If it was not for making this so long that t'would get into the waste basket, we could mention many other women i troubled with mental masculineness of this same worthy sort. Graceful women dazzel every mortal," saith the poet, and Emerson says, 'It requires great many cultivated wo- men, saloons of bright, elegant reading wom- en, accustomed to spectacles, pictures, sculp- ture and poetry, in order that you should have one Madame de Stael," and there seems to be clinging to her shadow. of masculinity, if ''boid, tree, vigorous" are synonyms of that word The Mahometans aver that God gave Eve two-thirds of all beauty" which we be- lieve, and further, we believe He would never do that, and not give her mental faculties equal to mans, with the full privilege of using them. Anyway, in the garden of Eden, she seems to have both ''worn the brooches" and made it lively" for Adam for Adam didn't have gumptlon enough to pluck the apple, and xl~o