St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-12-01

amusement. But, as Emmeline said,
even if we had had nothing left, the
change would have been complete, the
vacation from housewOrk Especially
the care of coal fires) would have been
entire, and there was IL vast amount to
be seen in the city without any money
at all.
In point of fact, what did we do to
| amuse ourselves : We both love mu-
sic, and hear none in our country vii
lage. Clearly, the Henschel Symphony
| concerts must be our first cOnsidera-
ton. The seats in the second gallery
were then but twenty five cents for the
Saturday evening concerts, and that
was the price for the Friday afternoon
rehearsals. Therefore, for two dollars,
we attended eight of the finest con
certs we had ever heard.
That was "A good beginning, but we
sOrely wanted some of the expensive
pleasures in the way of theatre and
| opera. However, as we have no scru-
pies about taking modest seats in the
family circle when the play or opera is
really fine one, and as BOstOnians are
not much Mortified at seeing ladies i'll
public without escort, we counted our
money again, and this is what we
achieved in four weeks for the sum of
four dollars and half-that is, the six
entertainments averaging seventy-tive
cents each:
We heard Booths Hamlet, Barrett's
Man of Airlie, Janauschek's Medea,
Patience, Lohengrin by one opera com
pany, Fidelio by another. In the mean
/ time came the OratOriO of Elijah, for
which we each paid our dollar. 1t was
surely worth that to hear Miss Cary,
but it was the oratoriO itself we cared
, for. far more than her voice, perfect as
it is and eXpressively as she renders
the passages she sings.
We had in the meantime heard two
: distinguished lecturers at fifty cents
5 each. So our funds were exhausted
Not so our fun. Next to music we love
pictures. We spent morning after
morning in the picture stores We
, learned every painting they held by
heart, and actually, crude country wO-
men as we are, began to have SOME
i, idea of the characteristics and peculi-
arities of the artists. But partic-
n ularly we studied the engravings O
= pictures We could never hope to see
2 and many an hour sped away as W,
= sat in Soule's little room high up under
$ the caves, studying his wonderful pho
d tographs of all the great pictures o
e the world. On free days we went tC
t the Art Museum.
t 81 don't know that it is mean to tax,
+ advantage of the free days" said En-
5 incline. | should like to pay if could
= but | suppose the free days are mean
!, for just such people as we are, wht
| 70 tI l.,
e have no money"
k We both decided, however, to &,
y one day when we should be obliged t,
e pay; therefore, ut the end of tin
month our expenses exceeded our esti
& mates by twenty-five cents.
OF course we have friends and evel
e relatives in Boston. Those whom w
e liked best came to see lis and wOnderet
how we ever found such Il "cubby" q
4, a room. Some of them invited us T.
Y dinner, and Millicent's father, nice oil,
gentleman, went so far as to drive u
out to Cambridge and point out tn
residences of all the distinguishe,
men.
at is as interesting" said Emmeline
"as going through the Lake district i
England and seeing where WOrdswort
=. or Southey or COleridge lived"
,e We tramped about on similar eXcur
= siOns by ourselves all over Boston, an
70 | can assure you we saw some inter
h esting places. We took hand-bOo
a of Boston. and followed its histOr
If from the beginning. One day friend
.o journalist, showed us the whole pro
\ cess of getting up a newspaper
Dt Another friend explained all the pro
% cesses i'll glass factory. Some of til
W women we know are leaders in certai
" charities, and we had chance to in
n vestigate the workings of these, anC
rs indeed, to learn of some auxiliar
n work which we could do at home.
ye OF course we enjoyed the wOnderfu
nr sights in all the shop windows, and, {
course { strange juXtapositiOn y, W
~ went to church three times each Sun
2. day and heard splendid and stirrin
er words from men we had lOnged all OF
er lives to hear, besides music almost {
G. noble as the OratOriO.
as ave have not done all there was
ms do nor seen all there was to see" sal
as Emmeline at the end of the mOntl
ed ''but if we had had a million don
RI think we should have had time
d. crowd more delightful things into
month";"
Us "And oh, what il good breakfast :"
n said, the morning after we reacht
ty home, contemplating the golden ON
AS let, delicious rolls, crisp flied potatO
we and fragrant coffee.
ar But, in spite of bread and milk f
m. breakfast, we had enjoyed our vac
ali ton Anna II. Wayne in Bost'
IT Journal.
" A Great TeIegraphic Feat.
cd A wonderful fuat aven for this a