St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-12-31
Letter from Boston.
boston. Dec. D. L

unprecedented season of delightful
weather and excellent travelling foI
more than tive weeks, so old and young
have been able to shop to their hearts
content. Owing to the favorable wealth
er and the new impetus given to husi-
ness, larger sales have probably been
made here before Christmas in holiday
goods than in any previous season, and
shopkeepers wear a most bland and
happy look on their cOuntenauces.
AS you pass up and down the streets
among the throngs of people, YOU al
most forget that you are in good old
Puritanic Boston, if it were not for GER
tain unmistakable landmarks and its
narrow streets, for the brilliancy of col
oring and variety of styles worn 10y the
ladies and children transform them ln-
to Orientals, and you find it easy to JIM
agine yourself in ConstantinopIc, or
some cosmopolitan city.
Dame Fashion has decreed a marked
change this year; people dressing IN
black and the more subdued hues for
so long a time, must rush into the op-
posite extreme, and the brilliant scarlet,
crimson and golden shades are the fa-
vOrite cOlOIs, and no longer pronounced
loud, but Oriental. However You never
expected to see poke bOnncts and ''shy-
scrapers" adorn the heads of fresh young
faces, and are fOrcibly reminded of Ger
tain visits of exploration to the wonder
full old garnet or attic in youthful days,
when you amused yourself with the
quaint old bonnets and articles worn in
Eye Olden time" never dreaming you
would live to see those styles revived.
But you notice the handbills, posters
and signs on the streets also harmonic
in colOring with the gay attire of the
people. Every season brings new de
signs in fancy and useful articles. APP
pealing to your aesthetic nature, until
you often find it difficult to find the di-
viding line between useful and Orna-
mental. There are always two classes
of purchasers the first, practical peO-
pie, who select useful articles for pres
ents, and the second, those who prefer
fancy articles for gifts. There is always
an uncomfortable crowd of persons in
front of Whites dry goods establish
ment; men as well as women and chill
dren seem eager to see the display OF
dolls in the windows. The scene repre-
sentS Il fashionable summer resort by
the Beach. Upon the high cliffs and
rocks on the right, covered with MOSES
and gay flowers, you see the fashiona-
bles in silks and satins out for econ
stitutional; :" young gentlemen in high
hats and waxed mustaches engaged in
t6tea-t6tes with interesting young la
dies, children coming in from surf bath
ing with attendants, either picking up
shells and MOSES by the sea shore, OF
issuing from the lighthouse on the left,
while above all, ETHEREAL looking dolls
with gOssamer wings are gazing down
upon the scene. Zinn's new bazaar, sol
Washington st, reminds you somewhat
of Macy's in New York. In one window
you see represented the unmistakable
head of Santa Claus thrust down the
fireplace, peering up, with grin of sat
lsfaction on his face, at fiaXen haired
little girl in stocking feet and robe de
mutt, standing in front of the fireplace,
in the act of taking out toy after toy
from stocking and placing upon the
mantsl in front of her; the mammoth
doll looks so wonderfully life-like that it
attracts the attention of all passers-
by.
One new feature connected with Jor-
dan & Marsh's store is the nice new
Reading Room opened for the sewing
girls in their employ. Joseph Cook ag-
itated this matter quite fully last year
in one of his lectures it is hoped other
firms will follow such a good example.
1t is a real pleasure to the lover of the
beautiful to visit picture galleries and
bookstores this season so many pic
lures, new styles of Christmas cards and
attractive books illustrated, have APP
peared for the holidays, and it seems to
be an established fact that books high
ly illustrated are as pleasing to the old
as to the young, and this new method
of object teaching is becoming as uni
versally popular and essential to the
sale of many books as the stereOpticou
is to the lecturer.
Upon Christmas day music of higl
order was rendered in the EpscOpa
and Romanist churches. AT the Immac-
ulate Conception, Carl Zerrahn and the
Germania Band assisted in the morning
The two new candelabras were used fol
the first time; the festoOning of ever.
green was unusually elaborate, and the
church when Illuminated in the evening
at vesper service had a fine effect. Sab,
bath day was opened in many of the
orthodox churches with Christmas music
and appropriate sermons. u.
Our New York Letter.
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