Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-10-13
FROM BOSTON,.

THE PRACTICAL JOKER ADRoAD-or INTEREST
TO HoUsEKEErERs YOUNG AND oLD-ApPRE-
chT1vE WORDS WITH A LOCAL APPLICATION
THE BoDLEYs IN HoLLAND--orHER NEW
BooKs-THE NEW FALL BoNNEIs A COUPLE
OF PARAGRAPHS TO DELIGHT THU FEMININE
HEART.
BosroN, Sept. 70, 1882.
The advertising joker has at lAst reached
Boston, and the victims Of his prnuks are the
Journal, the Post and the Chauncey Hall
school. Somebody or other-whether for fun
or malice, it is not known-put in the two pa
pers mentioned above an advertisement stat
ing that the Herdic coach company had been
engaged to carry delicate children from out
of town, who wished to attend Channcey Hall
school, to and from the depots without charge.
The advertisement was headed Delicate Chill
dren, and had a genuine flavor, although
persons conversant with the school wondered
at this action very much, since It was well
known that there was not a spare seat in the
school, but that every one was taken before
the session opened, and most of them, if not
all, engaged for the year. By some accident
the advertisement was not seen by Mr.. Ladd,
the principal of the school, until 1t had run
some days, and then his attention was called
to it by an outsider As you may imagine,
things were lively about the two Offices when
explanations were asked, but in the mean
time the rascal who inserted the advertise.
ments had got out of everybodys way. When
Chauncey Hall feels obliged to resort to any
expedient of this sort to obtain pupils, it will
cease calling itself school and become hos
pital in dead earnest; but that will not be in
this generation.
l want to call young housekeepers' atten-
ton--and what I'm going to say won't hurt
the older ones, either-to an article in the
supplement Of the October Wide Awake, the
first of a series of articles on Gamma Maria's
Housekeeping. 1t claims to be written by
''The Next Neighbor, and from certain ear
marks I have found out pretty positively that
Anna Maria's next neighbor is no other than
Mrs. A. NJ. Diaz, the mother of William Hen
ry and Lucy Maria, the same woman who
peeped into the schoolmaster's trunk and told
the public all about its contents. Mrs. Daz
is one of those women who can not only write
books and run a woman's industrial union, but
can keep house practically, as well as tell 9TH
er people how to do it. Anna Maria is one Of
those nice, lovable, ambitious girls of whom
our country is so full; atyPical American girl,
with fine sense of duty, which makes her
regard quaint old George Herbert fashion of
making "drudgery divine, and she remem-
bers in all she does that
"who sweeps a room az by Gods laws,
Makes that aud the action fine"
But she doesn't like even divine drudgery
when it comes in monotonous routine and
so her next neghbor tells her how to reduce
her work to the lowest terms" And it is a
lesson everybody needs so, my dear little
housewife, wearied with taking unnecessary
steps and doing everything in the hardest way
because you don't know the easiest, cease re.
garding the Wide Awake as belonging exclu-
sivey to the children, and read-yes, study
the next neighbor's ways, and you will find
how to do ever so many things that you didn't
know before.
Apropos Of Wide Awake, I want to quote
right here the exquisite little poem, written
by Mary L. wilkins, which opens the October
number. don't know Miss wilkins except
by her work, and that is remarkably good :;
but as for her personality, l give it to you as
it was given to me by Miss Farmsn the edi.
tor of the Wide Awake that "she is a smart
rosebud Of girl from Vermont as dainty as
her own verses" l don't often quote, and
the little poem is my best excuse for doing it
now. 1t is called "Sweethearts Lesson, " and
here it is
Out OF a window Of Heaven came
Floating on dove-wings like silver fame,
little saint seeking one blade Of grass
In the meadow which shone like a sea Of glass,
Which the good God had forgotten.
$50 many children on earth are sad
That even in Heaven am not glad
He sang; so I'm seeking the meadow thrO'
For a grass-blade less its drop Of dew,
To see If God has forgotten
Little sweetheart, he sought till the gplendid
Was high In the east hut he found lot one.
Now run out, little grl-laugh and play;
But, dear, you'll like to remember some day,
Not one had the good God forgotten.
There is a new Bodley book. After a ears
interval, Mr.. Horace l.. Scudder has brought
that perennial family again before the public,
only in that time the Bodleys whom we knew
SO pleasantly have grown up. Nathan and
Phippy have married into an old Knickerbock-
er family, are living in the "court quarter" of
Second avenue where all the old Dutch fam.
ilies live, and have each of them a child
whom they are taking to Europe, and this
gives the title to the book-"The Bodley
Grandchildren in Holland" l think no one
knows SO well as Mr.. Scudder how to mingle
history and good time, and if every one Of
his readers don't know more about their own
country and its beginning it certainly won't
be his fault. The publishers, Houghton, Mif-
fin & Co., have taken great pains with their
part of the book 1t is daintily bound and
very fully illustrated, and is of uniform size
with the other Bodleys
Roberts Brothers publish next week the
Jean Ingelow Birthday Book, which is pretti-
ly gotten up and will prove as attractive as
any of the numerous books of the kind pub
lshed. 1t contains very good portrait of
Miss Ingelow and twelve engrayings, each ap-
propriate for the month it typifes. At the
same time they will issue "The Wit and Wis
dom of Don Quixote," small volume OF
bright sayings out of Cervantess wonderful
book. The book season has really opened,
and the publishers are promising all sorts OF
| good things. There is to be a third series of
"No Names" and it will open with story
called "Her Crime" The holiday books will
be more elegant and artistic than ever before,
and there will be a number to select from. ]
will tell you about them later.
The present week has been made endura.
BILE for the women who don't like a perpetual
atmosphere of politics by millinery opening
at the house of Henry NJ. Burr on Washing.
ton St., one of the largest importing houses
in the city. There is no peace of mind foI
the average woman until she knows what her
winter bonnet is to be. Till then there is a
terrible uncertainty about life that is moi
pleasant to endure. The fashions for this
venr are brilliant In the eyIreme not only I'm