Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-11-24
FROM BOSTON.
MAGAZINE LITERATURE AND NEW PUBLICATIONS
-wINrER AND WINTER FAsHIoNs.

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arc not as wise as you thought you were.
This is apropos of Anna Maria's housekeep-
ing. told you that was sure the next
neighbor' was Mrs A. NJ. Diaz l was mis-
taken. It is Mrs. Susan Dunnng Power. who
is well known to the newspaper fraternity as
Shirley Dare, one of the brightest and most
versatile Of our magazine writer's. She it was
who wrote the charming articles on behaving
| that we're published in the Wide Awake FIRST
aud afterwards in book form. There is no
| popular writer who uses the English language
80 exquisitely-it is purity itself. Speaking
of the Wide Awade, Mrs. A. ,. T. Whitney
is to have a school story next year in that
magazine entitled, "Buttered Crusts," and
Mrs. Power is to write some of the unpub-
lished legends that she has gathered in re-
cent trip to California and New Mexico. Mrs
A. NJ Diazs new Christmas book the
CHRONICLES of the Stimpcett Family just
! published by Lathrop q Co., is one Of the
most absurdly amusing stories ever written
even by that amusing writer. It is whimsical
to the last degree and provocative of many a
burst of hearty laughter. The reader grows
very interested in Mr.. and Mrs Stimpcett
Grandma, little Ora Cordelia, Moses, ODE.
diah, and the summer boarder, whose adven-
lures are even more thrilling than those OF
any other member of the family. Another Of
Lathrops recent publications that will be
sure to prove very popular is Margaret Sid
ney's story of "What the Seven Did" THE
Seven were group of girls who constituted
the Wordsworth Club, and the book gives
history of one summer Of the clubs exist.
ence. 1t is bright original, and above ALL
helpful teaching in an unobtrusve way the
lessons Of patience, self denial, and true be-
nevolence. 1t ought to be read by every
young girl, and parents might do much worse
than in making ahoiday gift of it to their little
daughters. Another juvenile which will give
pleasure to either boys or girls as well as con-
yeyng much information regarding. their own
country, is Mrs Ka.o Woods's "Out and About,
or the Hudson's Trip to the, Pacific This is also
published by Lathrop, who always has no end
Of good things for the little folks Just here
| want to call the attention of mothers who
desire to teach the little ones at home to
Lathrop's Home Primer" which is one Of
the best books of the kind have ever seen.
1t has the alphabet in printing and in script,
and also has easy sentences in script by
which the little ones may be taught to read
aud write without difficulty. The sentences
are usually descriptive of some picture, and
this picture is drawn in outline, that it may
be reproduced by the little student on slate
or paper 1t reduces the new method" to q
system for home training, and is great help
to mothers. l know little yellow haired
damsel who will be quiet al hour at a time
with her primer and slate, and the charm of
it all is, she is so happy and so absorbed that
she never dreams she is doing what under
old methods would be called task, and she
learns without any conscious effort.
The first snow storm of the season, which
came on Thursday, has made people think of
winter. There had been very little previous
ly to bring the season to mind the grass
was still green in the parks and on the COM
mon, and the sun shone with genial warmth;
sometimes it was too ardent, as, for instance,
the Wednesday two weeks ago, when the
Thermometer registered 20 degrees in the
shade and made everybody who had put on
winter lannels temporarily tired of life. But
the snow came and The shops were thronged
with people who had put off their purchases
until late. Do you know, judging from my
experience with people, the writer of the
parable made great mistake when he made
the number of wise and foolish virgins
equal-the foolish ones ought to have been in
the majority. Happening in at the fur es.
tablishment of Edward Kakas, on Washing
ton St, the day after the snow fall, found
A,,.;lb l.,
in for garment, hurried by the weather,
and each one of whom wanted her cloak right
away" Now each and every one of them
knew three, yes six weeks ago, that this need
existed and that inevitably some day, when
they least expected it, the need would be i'm
mediate. Why in the name of common sense
didn't they give their orders when they could
be attended to, and not wait till the rush be-
gan Old weather prophets predict that the
winter will be an open one, and at the same
time fashion DEGREES that fur shall be used
both in garments and in trimming Indeed,
some of the loveliest Paris street costumes
that have been imported this season have had
on the skirt just above the founce, and on the
jacket, bands Of sable or chnchilla muf and
collar Of the same TO accompany them, and in
some cases the bonnet is trimmed with fur
also. Another Partisan fancy is to trim the
Russian and Hungarian shaped garments with
the fur of the Persian lamb. Mr.. Kakas had
some very beautiful skins of this lamb. 1t
will not be common, as it cannot be obtained
in large quantities, and the price is high
but it will be one Of the choicest and most
stylish furs of the season. The use of this
fur probably indicates a return to astrachan in
the course of another season or two. Seal
skin is, If possible more in demand than ever,
and great many dolmans will be worn.
These will be trimmed with the unplucked
beaver fur-not the pointed. for that has too
many limitations and has grown too cheap and
too common, besides not wearing well-but
the natural fur with the long hairs left in. Dol
mans are much more expensive than sacques
but the people who buy them do not seem to
mind the one or two hundred dollars extra,
as the garments are so much richer and hand
somer 1t need not be supposed, however,
that people who can't have dolmans turn up
their noses at sacques that would be foolish
indeed, especially when these garments are
SO much more graceful and stylish than they
| ever have been before. This year they are
fitted into the figure, not closely, but sug-
gesting the outlines, and are from 80 to 40
inches in depth. Both the cloaks and dol
mans arc often lined with plush in some rich
color, either crimson, old gold, or brown, and
the effect is very lovely, while the garments
are lighter in weight and fully as warm.
While on the subject of seal, it will not do to
| PASS by the hats and bopnets of seal skin
which are now made in all the popular shapes.
There are Toques, Turbans, English walking
hats, Coralies, Derbies, Capotes, Cottages,
and English pokos. They are trimmed either
with ostrich plumes or with bright colored
wings and breasts. There have never been
| SO many stYlea before nor snch nrofuRon in