The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-09-29
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
From our regular correspondent.
New York, Sept, "a, 1883.

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York. That it will be a gay one
may be predicted with certainty,
az society is too wealthy now to
suffer from anv of the chance
changes which formerly governed
the social world. That great
many will be absent, who have
hitherto, played a conspicuous part
is already well known, but others
will step in to take their places,
and the gap will be filled almost as
soon as it is made. An epidemic
of renting luxurious houses and re-
moving to other luxurious houses,
and removing to other cities for a
few months seems to have seized
upon many young married people,
who, either from restlessness, idle
ness or ennui, long for change,
without the trouble of an ocean
voyage, whichis becoming in these
days little monotonous.
Now that summers frivolity lie
over, and we are all ready to be
dressed for the autumn. Our lawns
are bedraggled, our slippers are
down at the heels and our hats
knocked into the condition called
cooked. We need thorough do
ing over. Frcckles and tan are to
be got rid of, hands and feet must
be compressed size or two below
their hot weather expansion, and
our manners require as much
smoothing as our appetite. | have
a good look at the new things in
the store. Let me whisper to hus-
bands and fathers. Prices are low
er but you won't get the benefit
of it. Your wives and daughters
will spend dollar less this fall
than they did last. They will sim
ply make the money 90 little far
ther. Expenditures don't go back
ward with this progressive sex.
The allowance for wardrobe slides
up easily enough but mighty hard
the other way. The willy m-r-
chants have taken that solid view
of the matter, and their stocks are
richer il Just about the proportion
that the rates are lower AS | was
conducted through the various de-
partments of a great house, l could
but conclude that those lmporta-
tons already received are indeed
superior to those of previous years,
and marked by an improvement in
design, material and effect.
John Cockerell has finally NOV
ed his family from st. Louis, and
become managing editor of the
World. In St. Louis, although he
had to kill an obtruberous Rebel,
he was highly regarded man.
Possessing an abundant nervous
organization, he can suffer and love
strongly. Being a bachelor, he
has given much of his time to the
compensation of bachelors, and is
one Of the founders of the order Of
Elks, and goes long distances to
organize new lodges of that order.
During the war he was drummer
boy from Ohio, and l think that
his father was the Colonel Of a reg
iment. Although Democrat, his
experience has not led him to put
the deepest faith in mere rebels !;
he war a Union boy, and is n I'm
ion man.
The material prosperity of the
city finds apt illustration in the
number of plans for new buildings
recently filed in the Building De
partment. The official figures from
January 1st to July 1st call for
t,472 structures, at total cost Of
S26, 9O7, O64 Since July lst plans
for about 700 more edifices, at an
estimated cost of about sc, 900, 600,
have been added to the number,
bringing the total up to 2,172
buildings, at a cost Of about, S33,-