Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-02-09

day Morning. Mr. Woods other piece, represents
a very old colored woman with her hands folded
pacidly on her knee listening intent to her little
granddaughter as she reads from the good Book.
The figures are excellent and the face Of the aged
negress is particularly worth study while in color
the picture Is rich and effective"
THOSE who braved the cold Of Wednesday
night to attend the Donald Grand Star concert
were richly paid for their hardihood. Very rarely
does concert Of such general excellence visit our
village. Madame Donald has voice Of great
power, and very favorably impressed her audi
ence as well by her fine presence and unaffected
manner as by the sweetness OF her music. Her
numbers were heartily encored. Miss Shepard
sons playing Of the violin, though not character
lied by great power and brilliancy, showed skill
and accuracy In execution, with q refinement Of
expression that won for her sincere praise and re-
peated calls to the platform. Madame Chatterton-
Bohrer delighted her hearers with exhibitions Of
the rare melody and power that can be swept
from the strings OF the harp But the attraction
of the evening, that set the audience wild and al
ways evoked storms of applause and insatiate en-
cores, was Levy's cornet An audience is quick
to discern and appreciate the fact Of complete
mastery whether Of voice or instrument. Every
one Of Levys numbers was Implicated by an i'm
perious demand that nothing but his reappear-
snce on the stage would satisfy. The familiar
airs, The Last Rose Of Summer, Yankee Doodle
and Robin Adair, were played as no one but the
cornet emperor of the world can render them.
EX-CoSeREssMAS WApDELi of North Carolina,
who so pleasantly preached peace and good will
to the people OF Vermont during the last presi-
dental campaign, has the following dattering
words in a review Of his New England travels:
" II there Is one characteristic more universally
apparent than another among the New England
people, it is self-dependence in everything 1t is,
to southerner, more observable in the women,
because less expected there, but the woman who
does not display this characteristic is the excep-
ton in her neighborhood 1t may be said with
entire accuracy that IL any person in that country
wants anything done that person does it, unless
1t requires more than one, and the rule holds
good with all ages, classes and sexes Whenever
help is employed 1t is needed. There are no
supernumeraries, and there is absolutely no waste
One family in the south, Of given condition as
to means, will waste more than ten families Of
like condition in Vermont. OF course there are
exceptions to these general statements, but they
are not numerous. The absence Of male walters
at the hotels and eating-houses in Vermont is one
Of the things that first strike stranger Unless,
perhaps, we except an occasional superintendent
Of dining-room, 1t is questionable II there Is a
male hotel waiter in the state, and, what still
more forcibly strikes a southerner, is the fact
that, in many instances, the handsome young
lady who waits on him is a graduate and very
possibly the daughter of some prominent citizen
of the village, as most of the towns are called,
which accounts for the slender appetite OF young
men from the south upon their first arrival in the
Green Mountains, and its phenomenal develop
ment, as illustrated by their prolonged stay at
table ever afterward Cleanliness in household
matters is a sort Of religion with the people, and
if a man should confne himself strictly to the
food served at his own home he would have to
live very long time before he could eat the ira
ditonal peck Of dirt"