Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-10-06
FROM BOSTON,.

BosToN, Sept. %, 1882.
The entertainment courses are already out |
with their announcements and certainly each |
has done its best to rival the other but with |
so much genuinely good material available, |
none can possibly be the very best. Monday, |
Tuesday and Thursday evenings are given
over to these courses. The Star course has
Monday nights, at fremont Temple; the
Roberts course Tuesdays, at Music Hall the
Old Bay State, on Thursdays, at the same
place. 1t WIS difficult matter to decide
which course to attend, there was 90 much in
each one wanted to hear; and it was not easy
to decide which to forego. Some people set
tied the difficulty by buying tickets to ala
pleasant way, certainly, if one has plenty of
time and money at his disposal.
l don't know whether it is the reflex action
of the Concord school of philosophy or not,
but II is "the thing" this autumn TO be study
ing something Age makes no difference
mo one is too old to learn" has passed already
into a practical maxim, aud mothers and
grandmothers are brushing up their Latin and
Greek, digging into the sciences, and dabbling
in philosophy and metaphysics, while good
teachers are reaping right royal harvest. l
have recently heard of number of ladies
who are studying Greek with Prof. Watson
Smith, and are having delightful mornings
over hexameters; and another class under
Prof. Harrison, the brightest of all the Tech
nology 'profs," is considering modern Ger
man philosophy in charming afternoon con-
versations. You see, with so many girls TAX
ing honors at Cambridge, getting the benefit
of Oxford and Leipsic lectures, graduating
from Boston University, Vassar, Wellesley
and Smith colleges, and having the best of
Harvard instruction at the Annex, the mothers
must do something or they will be left behind,
and that, l assure you, the present generation
of mothers do not intend to allow. So they
rub up their old knowledge and get a store of
new and the young ones never suspect it's all
for their benefit or rather that they are the
cause of this sudden ambition.
With the return to town and the setting in
place again Of the familiar house. Did goods,
comes the labor of renovating and replacing
much that is past with things new and fresh.
! Every housekeeper knows that there is always
something to be done and a certain amount
of money to be spent no matt. how great
care has been taken to save and -void wear
The one thing that always awakrs despair is
the thought Of new carpets to buy. l really
think the choosing of carpets is more of a
"vexed question" than that of rill papers,
and we can grow thin and wild-eyed over the
latter with only one room to paper. The
selection of a carpet involves so much 1t
must harmonic with, and be a l.ting back
ground to, everything in the room. Furni-
ture, walls, and even the light, must be con-
sidered. The carpet cannot be bought indie
pendent of them; it is moral law of the
nineteenth century that nothing in ones house
shall be out OF harmony. So you can readily
see-those of you who have not had the expe-
rience-what an arduous undertaking carpet
buying is. The proper way to do is, in the
first place, to take plenty Of time and get an
idea of what best suit, the room in which you
will place your purchase. Don'tlook hurried
ly. And when you have found What seems tC
be the thing don't add to your trouble and
bewilderment by looking any further but
shut your ear to the tempter, "charm he never
SO wisely" and refrain from trying to make
better what is already as well as it can be
You should also have in your mind an idea o.
the quality of carpet you will wans, and don
look at Administer when you really mean tC
buy tapestry, nor waste your time over vii
ton when you can only accomplish an ingram
Referring to Messrs. John II. Pray, Sons d
Co., the oldest and most reliable dealers il
Boston, find that more carpets are sold il
Brussels, tapestry and ingram thaA any othe
quality. Indeed, the proportion of these I,
the Administers, Wiltons and moquettes i
much greater than ten to one. But the differ
ence in quality is not SO distinctive now, whel
the effects of color and the designs of til
more luxurious carpets are reproduced in tn
less expensive qualities. have this very sea
son seen pattern carried down from a vii
ton through Brussels, tapestry and ingram, s
that the latter was an exact reproduction O
the former. A few years ago this would hav
been impossible in tapestry, for the looms o
which the carpets were woven would only &C
NIT of a certain style of design; but an An
1 ercan manufacturer--I wish could remeu
t ber his name, for would like TO give it to yo
invented a loom on the jacquard principl,
! which will weave all possible designs III
low toned carpets are still considered in Ii
e best TASTE artistically viewed but this seaso
q shows a number of innovations A good de-
= of Gcru and old gold and the greenish- yello
? tints are seen in the groundwork, aid moresqr
g effects are made by yellow thread that hi
c the brightness and almost the sheen of golt
/ In some cases the figures, which are orienta
as suits the coloring, are only outlined wit
this thread in others the whole broundwoi
is mottled with it. Terra Gotta Il also used
groundwork, especially in carpets that sho
an Indian design in dull blue-the characte
istic Indian shade. Chintz aud Persian Fl
ures have come to the front again, and a
Just the thing for any one who !.kes brig
colors in carpet. The old-fasLioned SCI
colored carpets with contrasting borders a
among the ''new" fancies of the season. The
are seen in crimson, green, peacock blue al
French grey, having an arbesque or scro
like figure in a darker shade of tine color, al
border of golden yellow. These are repr
duced in stair carpets; for the old-time traC
tional stair-carpet is coming in again, SO th
once mere the edge of the stair will be see
Japanese designs are growing beautifully lei
and some of the carpets of two seasons q
look bizarre and out of fashion now. Orie
- tai figures in rugs are much in vogue, a
where natural designs are used they are mu
conventonalized. The ingram rugs, knov
commonly as Woodstock carpets, are nov
ties well worth mentioning. They are in
dian figures and colors, coming in terra cot
Indian blue, old gold and dead'ieaf brow
The sizes vary from small rugs to quite lar
carpets and they are extremely pretty q
help to furnish wonderfully.
SALLE JOY WHITE,
A SAMPLE IRISH AGRARIAN OUTRAGE.-O
more criminal concerned in the Irish agrari
outrages has been convicted and sent to
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