The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-12-30

nOWs ike water, ana the air qulVers
with the charming babbling of bellies
with the most coquettish costumes and
brightest of holiday faces. The stores
are filed with things of beauty, and
the very windows have this year been
decorated with wonderful elaborateness
of artistic display. Some of the COM
binations would do credit to the most
renowned scenic artists. One establish
msnt, for instance, has an enormous
model of Niagara Falls, with hacks,
visitors, &C., moving about In the most
natural style, and water flowing too.
Another has three enormous windows
each framing scene in the yearly ad-
ventures of Santa Claus. In one the
good old gentleman, with frosty pow
and simmering heart, is disclosed in his
workshop, packing up the results of his
loug years labors to delight the good
little ones. In apother, he is discovered
in full career, urging on the traditional
reindeer to where alight curl of smoke
betrays a cottage half buried in snow.
In yet another, is a lifelike scene of little
automatons discovering the treasures
left by the saint. Great, ever-chsnging
crowds are attracted by these devices,
aud the sample of what is to be seen in
side draws the majority inward, and
then they buy-with a vengeance. The
with basketful of some one toy each
more attractive than the last seen, and
all so cheap that nickels and quarters
are irresistibly impelled to part COM
pany with their quondam owners in
exchange for them.
Nor is charity forgotten, The great
fairs of churches are thronged, and
purses melt like ices before the fasciba-
tions of the fair s;lesla1ies with their
winning ways. At one Hebrew bazaar
not less than 1000 was realized in a
single night. And the hospitals are to
have two "bospital days" this year,
when the casual penny may find its way
into boxes set up everywhere. One day
brought SAG, 900 last year, when the idea
was new and little understood. 1t
wouldn't surprise meifSlOo, 900 shoul d
be gathered in, in the two days this
time.
The staid Puritans of New England,
and their kin from OHIO, have been
going off their base with the most Iol-
licking abandonment. They have been
bound to have good time and to fol-
low the old political precept IN the days
when politicians played tricks-how
long is that ago?-and if they don't vote
early and often, go in for early and
frequent banquets. They have got the
start of Xmas with Forefathers' Days,
the new Brooklyn New England As
sociation claiming that, by some newly
discovered evidence, Plymouth Rock
was picked up-is that correct ?-naut-
ically or otherwise, n day earlier than
has generally been held. So they led
off with an immense affair in the Brook
ly Academy, with Grant, Hayes. Sher-
man, Sheridan, Beecher, and pretty
nearly everybody else and all his rela-
tions, when speech and song and story
kept the rafters ringing with mirth till
almost daybreak. The next evening
was the New York celebration, and
Grant made speeches which very much
surprised AMI delighted those who
thought of the old-;ime reticence of
that once very silent man. Hayes, too,
had previously put in a good days
work, flirting with the girls at Packer
Institute, actually kissing two of them
Qiitle ones), and then metaphorically
patting several hundred boys on the
head ut the Polytechnic, winding up
his educational iaunt with n confab
with the mixed classes ut the Central
the inner man, in company with a
select crowd of stupendous bigwigs, at
Il comfortable little spread given by A.
a, Low, the China merchant, whose
board groaned under royal service of
pure gold, while a band played, and il
Illuminated conservatories threw their
tropical fragrance on the brilliant
scene, which was rivallod by the tou-
quet of the priceless wines which were
brought forth i'm honor of the occasion.
1t was indeed a notable feast.
Have you seen the illustrated holiday
papers They can't be got here now,
for they're all sold. Huge consign-
ments of the London Graphic and II
Illustrated News have gone off like hot
cakes with their immense chr omos real
ly suited for framing and adorning al
NEST any room, and some of our own
people here come forward with equally
ambitious publications. Our Graphic
perhaps falls short of its English name
sake, though quite credirable pro-
duction, but the Art Interch inge rub
ricated, and with four chromos in eX-
quisite taste, is simply elegant. It's
worth having, and 1 only wish L could
get one now. RADIx.