Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1883-11-06


old lady sat there with bonnet and shaw
still on, ready for another start, but Pc.
ter kept guard over her with the air Of q
triumphant husband. Scarcely we'll
known story from those old melodies that
was not here illustrated; while an audi
Ience of fashionably dressed dolls within
the window looked on at the shifting
scenes, and dense crowd Of people, old
and young, jostled each other upon the
sidewalks, in their eagerness to get q
good view. Next came the Fairy win.
dow, where the crowd WAS almost as
great; and then the window which held
the great ocean steamer loaded with doll
passengers, "Of for Europe" Farther
up town, at Ehrich's store, one might
see " Uncle Toms Cabin in miniature
the principal events Of the story being
illustrated by doll-pictures which were
continually shifting. Tifanys," by
electric light, at the holiday season, is
ablsze with jewels, and one fingers over
the display of sparkling gems and costly
settings--they are SO beautiful
The elevated railroads may seem a
nuisance to the people along whose ave-
nues they run, but the question Of time
which is the all important one to most
New Yorkers-aside, they are decided
Improvement upon horse-cars in cold
weather: it is such q comfort to find
ones self in warm car, where cold
blasts are not rushing ssvsgely through
and chilling the very marrow in ones
bones.
Some heroism is required to 90 from
Jersey City Heights to New York of
cold evening to attend lecture-never-
theless We went to Chickering Hall and
heard Miss Emily Faithful whose etforts
in behalf Of the working women of Eng
l,nd have kiven her reputation on both
sides Of the sea. Col. Fred Conkling
presided at the meeting. while the bull
dog countenance Of Boss Kelly, 1.-The
man who made Garfield President" was
conspicuous in the parquette. Miss
Faithfull's subject was 1.-The Improved
Condition of Woman in the Nineteenth
Century" We confess to little disap-
appointment in the lecture, which she
read in monotonous manner, and which
contained nothing with which her audi
ence were not perfectly familiar, unless
it be an account Of the attention which
the Queen had at various times gracious
ly vouchsafed to the lecturer and her
work. A gentleman who had not been
present endeavored to console Us with
the thought that " It's worth something
to be able to say you've heard Miss En-
lily Faithful" Perhaps if he had taken
the pains which we did to 90, he might
have found the question Did it pay"
evolving itself from his inner conscious
ness.
One can accomplish so little in the
way of sightseeing in three short weeks
of wintry weather, when the 6reside seems
more attractive than the biting cold of
the street car, that the time for folding
our tent once more, comes ere we are half
prepared for it, and it is not without re-
greet at the necessity Of leaving so much
unseen, and of saying our good-byes
once again, that we embark on the mag
nifcent CITY Of Worcester" realizing
as we steam down North River that at
last we are truly" Homew.rd Bound"
1t is too cold on deck for a prolonged
vigil there, but we tsrry till we round
the Battery and glide beneath the great
Brooklyn bridge, and then the early dusk
of the winter evening closes around US
and we flee TO the light and warmth Of
the saloon. They call it rough night
on the Sound. but at midnight We reach
New London, and after four hours of
waiting leave the tost for the cars. BY
daylight we are in Worcester, where an
other change is necessary: all the fore.
noon the cars seem to creep so slowly
through a most uninteresting stretch Of
country. 1t is not till we are on the
Grand Trunk Road that we begin to look
for familiar way-marks, and, 0 how the
heart out-runs the swiftest railroad train
as we draw nearer and ever nearer to the
dear old home With what delight we
at length give up our last K. r. ticket,
and then-whst then, but Homet
YANKEE GIRL.
Buckfeid.
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