Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1881-04-21
OUR LETTER FROM BOSTON.
Some wholesome Changes I'm the
Divorce Laws Of the Bay 6tate-A
Hatch of New Rocks.


Batch Of New Books.
Special Correspondence Of State Journal.
BosToS, April ia nasty, miserable
sleet and snow storm rules Boston to-day
the April shower OF poets fancy,
perhaps, warranted to bring forth the
usual May flowers on Easter bonnets next
Sunday. 1t doesn't look much like new
millinery, and that's fact However,
Easter is bound to come, and so will the
millinery. And so will Easter cards this
year, showers of theml The rage tor
cards is really growing into something
enormous. The most exquisite things
imaginable are in the shop windows; it is
perfect treat Just to stand with nose
against the pane, ''little Mabel fashion,
and gaze at them. All possible designs
are represented, and the taste and in
genuity which must have been exercised
in inventing them is no slight matter.
Employment of the most graceful kind
has been given this season to hundreds of
young ladies', in making and decorating
the various fanciful egg-shaped bonbon
boxes, with which the windows OF the
fancy goods and confsctioners' stores are
filed. All sizes and numberless designs
are shown. Sill, satin, plush and velvet
eggs eggs, SulDTOlutreu duu eBSs
painted, big eggs and little eggs, real
eggs, pasteboard eggs and sugar eggs.
One arrangement, very pretty and ''cute,
but which deRed one to guess whether the
eggs were natural or artificial, was little
wicker basket, filled with dried grasses
and packed with most real-looking eggs
all exact imitation of the big baskets OF
eggs as sent to markell wanted to know
whether those eggs Were made OF
sugar, or OF yolks and whites, but | felt q
little ashamed to 20 in and ask. Among
the more common designs are eggs just
| broken at the end, with Il wee chicks
head peeping out, while from others
| peeps the most comieal, mischievous
pussys head, and yet others, decidedly
ugly, are apparently just Matching pug
dog.
| Some of the mammoth eggs open, and
the inside is painted to show pretty
| landscape. In one is pictured New
| England winter scene, and i'll the fore
ground is a little boy in efigy, mutlled
up to the eyes, and dragging after him
IN empty sled, while sprawled Oh the
snow in the background is a little girl,
and beneath the picture is inscribed the
motto, "The girl | left behind mel"
Another such egg is painted to represent
the Sad sea waves" and standing on
the beach are two little figures, the
familiar boy and girl, with what are
the wild waves saying ~
One of the subjects which is puzzling
our Legislature Just now is the petition
for the amendment Of the divorce laws,
which are of such a nature in this COM
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l"ise nutlpeI vi oIei6S ihoii anu I.'ei .
pray lhs ila' tiie la"s eo,iosIl1'ls ul'oige
n'sNt oe greatly iilo'tiheu anu ies'iiG.e'
hearings were gwen uelo'e 'ir Commute.
70 MAoii Tue mater was leierle.'' an y,
c""rse great ue"i uiore ""9 HsNe" 'o'
N th,s" "ouli-pe 'eioinitis INA" "ns
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pfobably iookt" 70 Haln' pu' 'he COM
mittee nave Med understand on some
thihg OF q COMPROMISE ana WIN RECON-
mend IN their report 70 NE ieiiaere' SOON
some important changes Among lheu
Is one that an atereea Siial D' only h'S''
70 froiAt ahsoluIe ~ SIN months 'la'
III" party against whom thH decree Is
Sr"u'ed shaII Aut marry WITHIN yeai
afterwards, but may theh marry without
ieaNe ot Court NWhlch must now Dc
obtained IN certain casesl mat the courts
may cause any llbsl 10 u" continued n
IT'S discretion ana most severe OF AL and
: probably most elective, that every decree
granted for criminal ot"nse shall To-
followed by criminal prosecution by tht
district attorney
Mcssrs. James Il. Osgood Y Co. are
Publishing some OF the best literature tina
/ is given ~ the public Of late. 1t is alnos
SAFE to assam. that vou have read Mrs
Frances Hodgson Burnett last story
brought out by this hons-, "a Fair Bar
| baran,' for ii is quite the novel of III
, aa;son, but didn't read it till last night
1t deals with that puz4ling couundrum
the American girl abroad, in the daint
, and pure, hut bright and sparkling man
/ uer that is ST. characteristic Of this writer
A who has the rare gift of understandin
and depicting character in its mor
: natural, possible phases, instead of ri,
i ing those cold, spectral amatvses Of utterl
- iinpossihle, imaginary beings, such II
Henry James, Jr., delights in The stor
itself i, wonderfully bright. alive and tn
r ginntfnp.
l. The first o! new series of anony,nor
A stories. 10 be called the Ground Rob-
g.; Series, is lust ont-or rather will lie OF
= in dav or two-aul tn. initial lolun,
l. "a Na,neless Nobleman.' il well Gale
ie lated to give the new SERIES an excellel
II send off. 1t is a well-written, finely co
ceived story. laid in France during Il
'e reign OF Louis XIV. and in New Eupiau
lie Life in the gav, dissolute court. in beau,
lie ful Province and in III. new uniform,
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